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Jackson County.
Whereas, E A Borders applies to me in proper
form for Letters o( Administration upon the Es
tate of Enoch II Borders, late county, de-
ceased —
This is to cite all persons concerned, kindred
and creditors; to show cause, if any they can.xm
the first Monday in February, 1878, at the regu
lar Term of the Court of Ordinary of said county,
why said Letters should not he granted the appli
cant. Given under my official signature, Jan’y
‘2d. 1878 11. W. BELL, Ordinary.
( ! EOItLI.t —Jackson C’ounly.
Whereas, Matilda Sauls applies to me in prop
or form, for Letters of Administration upon the
Estate of G W Sauls, late of said county, dcc’d—
This is to cite all persons concerned, kindred
and creditors, to show cause, if any tliey r can, at
the regular term of the Court of Ordinary in and
for said county, on the Ist Monday in February,
1878, why said letters should not he granted the
applicant. Given under my official signature,
this January 2d, 1878. 11. W. BELL, Ord’y.
| OlOlttfl.t, Jackson County.
Whereas, Thomas Phillips applies to me in pro
per form, for Letters of Administration de bonis
mm , upon the Estate of Levi Phillips, late of said
county, dcc'd—
This is therefore, to cite all concerned, kindred
and creditors, to show cause, if any they can, at
the regular term of the Court of Ordinary to be
held in said county on the iirst Monday in Febru
ary. 1878. why the Letters, as applied for above,
should not be granted. Given under my official
signature, this Jan’y 2d, 1878.
11. W. BELL, Ordinary'.
Jackson Sheritt' Sales.
T\ T ILL he sold, before the Court House door,
M in the town of Jefferson, within the legal
hours of sale, to the highest bidder, on the tirst
Tuesday in February. 1878. the following prop
erty. to-writ: A House and lot in the town of Har
mony Grove. said lot containing two acres more or
less, adjoining lands of Chandler. Powers, Willi
ford, S. Segar. D. J. Sanders and J. N. Wood, and
fronting the Homer road. Levied on as the pro
perty of the defendant, by virtue of a ti. fa. issued
trorn the Justice court, 255th District Li. M., in
favor of I). I. Iloopaugh, plaintiff, vs. John K.
Wood, defendant. LevymadcbyE.il. Ingram,
L. L'., and returned to me.
W. A. WORSIIAM, Dep’y Sheriff.
Jan. sth. ($5.00) pd.
Administrator’s Sale.
\V ILL he sold before the Court-house door in
; ' the town of Jefferson, in Jackson county,
G.. within the legal hours of sale, on the tirst
1 uesday in February, 1878, the following property
to wit—One undivided half interest in and to the
tract of land in said county, whereon John Nixon
now resides, adjoining lauds of James M Varnum,
——- lluff, containing one hundred and sixty
acres (1(0) more or less ; 40 or 50 acres well im
proved. good buildings, orchard, &c. The other
undivided half interest is the property of John
Mixon or his wife. Sold at the risk- of the pur
chaser at the sale had on the first Tuesday in De
cember last. iSold as the property of Sarah Ann
' heely. dec’d, for the purpose of paying expense
°* administration and for distribution. Terms,
strictly cash. WM E. CIIEKI.Y, Adm'r.
QlvOßtili ) C ounty.
To till v'/iotn if may Concern:
" hereas. tlie reviewers appointed upon the pe
tition ofeertain citizens, to review, mark out, and
ri 'l>ort upon the pubic utility of making the road
' "imneiH-ing at the State road near 11. C. Apple
s house. iiK-ttee present, traveled route to a
t!u-neeto r.g it of said way up the fence
1,1 t>|i ol liili. thence present traveled way to sec
"inlhranch, thence around the hill in the old road
to far end of (ieorge Ilav-s" lane, thence the
track to near W. Hailcv's house, thence be
" . Hailey's horse-lot and new cabin into
1 Mountain road in front of his house—a public
r *i L and they having reported the same of pub
i" Utility, and recommending it to be made a pub
. r ft is Ordered, that unless legal valid ob
j olFcrcd within thirty days from this
T*order will be passed making the above
a- vcribed road a public road. (iiven under my
•••bctal signature, January 14th. 1878.
11. \V. HELL, Ordinary.
| jj.littKCil.i, .Im k-on County.
. Mrs. Aatanda 0 Thurmond, (her husband refu
' Ims applied to me for exemption of per
sulty and valuation of homestead, to be set
‘'pan at of the property of her said husband,
au, l 1 wisa pass upon the same at 12 o'clock, M.,
' (k i' °i February. 1878. at my
"ttice. (liven under my official signature. Jan'v
1878. if. W. HELL, Ordinary. *
QUOItCJII, Jii*lison Count},
To all trltum it may Concern:
'' keveas. the reviewers appointed upon the pe-
* HHt certain citizens, to review, mark out, and
r 'piirt upon the public utility of establishing a
pu die road commencing on the Academy road,
a >ov ’ c Mrs. Nihlack's, thence strait shoot through
‘ "rner of Thomas flruhh‘s field, thence old road
:? ‘aoiiias Trout's, thence to the right of old road
1 rough corner of Mrs. Long's field into the Hog
* fountain road, rejMjrting the same of public utili
) and recommending said road to be made public:
J s Ordered, that unless valid legal objections be
° w,^’n thirty days from this date, an order
''ill be passed, making the same a public road.—
" Ven under mv official signature. Jan. 14, 1858.
__ 11. W, HELL, Ordinary.
(^0 mA —Jackson County.
*'• H. Edge has applied for exemption of per
onaity, and I will pass upon the same at 12
" ' lock. a. in., on the f.th day of February, 1878,
at my office. Jan. 15th. 1878.
A . W. nm,. Ordinary.
THE FOREST NEWS.
The People their own Rulers; Advancement in Education, Science, Agriculture and Southern Manufactures.
To Contractors*
TV ill be let. to the lowest bidder, before the
r, ur , t-I * ouse door > n Jefferson, on the 18th day
of February, 1878, the building of the bridge across
the Mulberry river, known as the Price’s bridge,
under the following specifications Said bridge
to be built by spanning the river with one fifty
Teet swinging span, built with two arches, to be
placed in the river within two feet of each bank
on mud sills thirty feet long, well weighted down
with at least twenty two-horse loads of rock on
each. The uprights to same, to be 12x12 inches,
and 14 inches higher than the old bridge, with
peice of timber in center Bxß inches. Uprights to
be well braced with timbers Bxlo inches, extend
ing to within 12 inches of cap sills. Cap sills to
be 12x14 inches, morticed half through so as to fit
on top of tenants on uprights. King-posttoswing
mg span 10x10 inches s rafters Bxlo inches, and
five sleepers 10x12 inches, well bolted down with
iron bolts, and sweedsiron 3 inch thick, 3 inches
wide, to hold s\vingin*a*eli. Tva spans to ex r
tend irom each arch under swinging span twenty
five feet out. Five sleepers each to said arches,
Gxl2 inches; out ends to rcston mud sills. Floor
ing 14 feet long. 2 inches thick, well spiked down
with five inch stringers. Bannisters fastened to
uprights, made of three inch scantling three feet
high, eight feet apart, morticed through and key-
ed on under side flooring plank. Said plank to
extend two feet farther out than balance of floor,
planked on inside with inch plank. All sleepers
to lap well over cap sills, and all the timbers ex
cept mud sills to be all heart; ifliewn, to be well
and smoothly done. All work to be done in
workman-like manner, as it will, as well as any
peice of timber, be inspected before placed in the
water, by a competent person appointed for that
purpose, so that the bridge may be received when
completed. Full and complete specifications can
be seen at this office. 11. W. BELL,
j a n. 19. Ordinary.
POSTPOAEI) MALE.
Jackson Deputy Sheriff’s Sale.
WILL be sold before the Court House door, in
the town of Jefferson, within the legal
hours of sale, to the highest bidder, on the first
Tuesday in February, 1878, the following proper
ty, te-wit:—Two hundred and sixty-five acres of
land, more or loss, adjoining lands of Mrs. Martin
on the cast. Elizabeth 11. Ozment on the south,
and on the west by E. P. Clayton, and others ; on
said place is a dwelling house and necessary out
buildings ; thirty or thirty-live acres in cultiva
tion ; forty or fifty acres in original forest: and
about fifteen or twenty acres branch bottom ; the
place whereon J J Flournoy now lives. Levied
on as the property of John J. Flournoy, to satify
a li fa issued from Jackson Superior Court, in fa
vor of Charles Witt, dcc’d, vs. John J. Flournoy.
Property pointed out by plaintiffs attorney.
W. A. WORSHAM. Dcp. Sh'ff.
December 22, 1877 $5.00 pd
Also, at the same time and place, one tract or
parcel of land, lying in Jackson county, contain
ing fourteen or fifteen acres, whereon Jas Davis,
colored, now lives; said land adjoins the lands of
Osment, Anglin and others, and is all woodland
except three or four acres. On the premises is a
tolerably good dwelling and other improvements.
Levied on as the property of Jas Davis, col’d, by
virtue of a fi fa. issued from the Justices' Court.
242d dist.. G. M., Jackson county, A S Dorsey
vs. Jas. Davis, col.; ii fa now controlled by E C
Cox. Levy made and returned to me by T. S.
Smith, L C $5.00 pd
Also, will be sold, at the same time and place.
Eighty acres of land, more or less, adjoining lands
of T L Ross, on the south ; on the west by lands
of Wyatt Wood; southwest by lands of WM
Duke, and bounded on the east and northeast bv
the middle Oconee river. On said place is a dwel
ling-house and necessary out-buddings; forty
five or more acres in cultivation, the remainder
in good, original forest. On the place is a good
peach and apple orchard. The place whereon R II
Boon now resides. Levied on as the property of
A C Thompson, by virtue of a li fa issued from
Jackson Superior Court, John II Newton vs A C
Thompson. Property pointed out by defendant.
Notice, in writing, given to R II Boon, tenant in
possession. pr fee $5
W. A. WORSIIAM,
Dec. 29th, 1877. Dep’y Sheriff.
Q^EOKWIA —Jackson i'ounl}.
Whereas. Mrs. Elizabeth Lay and C. 11. Reeves
makes application to me, in proper form, for Let
ters of Administration upon the Estate of Richer
son Lay, dec'd, late of said county—
This’is therefore, to cite and admonish all per
sons concerned, the next of kin, to show cause, if
any they can. on the first Monday in January,
1878, in the Court of Ordinary for said County,
why the Letters prayed for' hy the applicants
should not be granted. Given under my official
signature, this Nov. 29th, 1877.
11. W. BELL, Ordinary.
I, Jackson County.
L. E Rowe vs. W. J. Rowe. Libel for Divorce,
in Jackson Superior Court.
It appearing to the Court that the defendant in
the above stated case resides without the limits of
Jackson county, and it also appearing that said
defendant resides without the limits of the State
of Georgia—
It is, therefore, ordered that service upon the
defendant, W. J. Rowe, be perfected by publica
tion in the Forest News once a month fur four
months previous to the next term of this Court.
J. B. SILMAN, Pl’tfTs Att’y.
Granted :
GEO. D. RICE. Judge S. C.
A true extract from the minutes of Jackson Su
perior Court. August Term, 1877.
oct2o TANARUS, 11. XIBLACK. Clerk.
Jackson 4’onnty.
Whereas, Sarah Wilson applies to me in proper
form, fot Letters of Administration on the Estate
of William Wilson, dec’d, late of said county—
This is to cite all concerned, kindred and credi
tots, to show cause, if any they can, at the regular
term of the Court of Ordinary in said county, on
the lirst Monday in January. 187 s . why said Let
ters should not be granted the applicant.
Given under my official signature, this Novem
ber 29th, 1877. * H. W. BELL, Ordinary.
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JEFFERSON, JACKSON COUNTY, GA., SATURDAY, JAN’Y 26, 1878.
SELECT MISCELLANY.
FACTS AND FANCIES.
* WIDDKR OB KEN’S LAST WORDS.
“I’m going to and,” says the Widder Greene,
“ fcoing to quit this airthly scene;
It ain’t no place for me to stay
In such a world Ks ’tia to-day.
Such works and ways is toomuch for me.
Nobody can’t let nobody be;
The girls is flounced from tip to toe.
And that’s the hull o’ what they know.
The men is mad on bonds and stocks,
Swcarin’an’ shootin’ an’ pieken’ locks.
I’m real afraid I’ll be hanged myself
Ef I ain’t laid out on my final shelf.
There ain’t a cretur but knows to-day
I never was lunatic any way.
But since crazy folks all go free
I’m dreadful afraid they’ll hang up me!
There’s another thing that's pesky hard—
I can’t go into a neigKbor’wprd
To say. Glow le you?’ or borrow a pin,
But what the paper’ll have it in :
M c’rc pleased to say the Widder Greene
Took dinner a Tuesday with Mrs. Kocne,
Dr, ‘Our worthy friend Mrs. Greene’s gone
Down to Barkhanlstced tot see her son.’
Great Jeruselem ! can’t 1 stir
Without a raisin’ some feller’s fur?
There a ain’t no privacy, so to say.
No more than if it was Judgement Day.
And as for meetin’—l want to swear
Every time I put my head in there:
Why. even ‘Old Hundred’ ’s spiled and done.
Like every thing else under the sun ;
It used to be so solemn and slow,
‘Praise to the Lord from men below;’
Nowit goes like a gallopin’ steer,
High diddle diddle there and here.
No respect to the Lord above.
No more’n ef Tic was band and glove
M ith all the creators he ever made.
And all the jigs that ever was played.
Preachin’ to—but here I’m dumb—
But I tell you what! I’d like it some
If good old Parson Nathan Strong
Out o’ his grave would come along
An’ give ns a stirrin’ taste o’ fire —
’Tain’t all love and sickest sweet
That makes this world or th’ other complete.
But law ! I’m old? I’d better be dead
When the world’s a turnin’ over my head;
Sperits talkin like tarnal fools,
Bibles kicked out o’ dcestrict schools,
Orazy creturs a murderin’ round—
Honest folks better be under the ground.
So farc-ye-wcll! this airthly scene
No more’ll be pestered by Widder Greene.”
Baltimore Sun.
A GOOD HOG PASTURE.
Many farmers seem never to have learned
or to have forgotten that the hog is a grazing
animal, and that it can be kept cheaper and
in better condition during half the year on
grass and other green crops than on any
other kind of food. They keep their bogs in
pens, though they have a great desire to get
out, and feed them on corn, which requires a
large amount of labor to raise, when the hogs
show a marked preference for grass that
grows without cultivation. A hog is as much
entitled to grass during summer as a cow is,
and will profit quite as much from it. As
a dairyman studies bow to have a good pas.
ture for his milch cows, so a raiser of hogs
should study how to have a good pasture for
his breeding and stock hogs. Too many
farmers give very little attention to the food
their hogs receive till it conies time to com
mence fattening them, when they are impa
tient to stuff them with all they can devour.
They seem to think that it is only necessary
to give them enough to keep them alive up
to that time.
A good hog pasture should contain an acre
of land for every five hogs, taking them as
they come. Clover will produce the most
food and the kind of green food that is best
relished by swine. As it does not come for
ward very early in the spring, and as it is lia
ble to suffer from the protracted drought that
usually occurs in the midsummer, a hog-pas
ture should contain a plat of one of the true
grasses. Orchard grass is highly prized by
those who have raised it for hog-pasturage.
It 3tarts early, grows till late in the season,
hears frequent croppings, while it is exceed,
ingly tender. In Kentucky, hluegrass is the
favorite grass for hog-pasturage, as it is well
adapted to the soil and climate. Clover does
not do well in the South, owing to the open
winters and the extreme heat in the summer.
A hog-pasture should be sown so that the
grass will be cut one year before the hogs are
turned in, so as to insure a tolerable strong
soil.
A good hog-pasture should contain living
water. In the absence of it there should be
a well and pump. It is by r.o means essen
tial that hogs have mire to wallow in, but it
is an excellent plan to have a pool of water
in which they can wade during the warm
weather. If this can not be furnished there
should be a large trough from which the
animals can drink at anj 7 time. A good
shade is of great importance in raising hogs.
They can not endure the hot sun during July
and August without suffering from the con
sequences. Several large spreading trees, a
thicket of bushes, or spot occupied by bush
es which are covered bv vines will afford an
excellent retreat from the rays of the sun. It
is cruelty to put hogs in a pasture in which
there is no natural or artificial shade. If
there are no trees, rude sheds should be erected
and covered with poles and straw. In lay
ing out a place for a hog-pasture provision
should he made for shade. The sheds may
be erected for temporary purposes, but trees
should be planted for use in the future.
Cottonwoods will grow so fast that they will
afford excellent shade in a few years. They
| thrive well on any of our prairie soils, and
roa}' be easily obtained in any portion of the
! West. A grove of crab-apple trees affords a
; most delightful shade, while the fruit will be
lof some value to the hogs. There is nothing
I like a good run among large forest-trees such
on the bottom lands in the West for
the production of healthy hogs. Ir all the
reports of hog cholera that have reached us,
we have heard of no cases occuring on farms
where the hogs had a chance to run at will
through a forest and enjoy the advantages of
shade, mast, and the clear water of running
streams. Hogs raised in such situations
have none of the ills of hampered pigs, but
are as healthy as Sioux Indians on the banks
ofthe Yellowstone.— Chicago Times.
Children in Hindoostan.
There are thirty millions of children in
India. Think of it a moment, and compre
hend it if you can.
thirty millions of children—that is as
many boys and girls, who play, and laugh,
and cryq just as you do, as there were grown
people and children in all the United States
when the war began. Only three hundred
thousand boys and thirty thousand girls of
all those millions, go to school. Perhaps yon
think it fine fun for all those millions who do
not go to school, to have vacation all the
time.
If you could talk with those little boys,
you would not think they had much fun, for
many of them would tell you how they would
have to get up before sunrise every morning,
and drive the cattle, or sheep, or goats, to
pasture, and then stay by them all day, to
keep them out of the fields of grain, for there
are no fences in India. The poor boys do
not have a nice, warm breakfast before they
go. They have only a piece of black, coarse
bread, and for their dinner they sometimes
carry a little parched rice or grain, and at
night, they get black bread again and some
stewed vegetables.
Instead of pleasant stories and songs, and
prayers to the dear Saviour, in the evening,
they hear stories of frightful ghosts, and of
the wrath of wicked gods, and for prayers
they only repeat, over and over, the name of
God. Other little boys have to work all day
carrying brick, or baskets of earth for new
buildings. They get about three cents a day.
and with that they have to buy fool and
clothing, and little enough they have of either-
The poor little boys never have a Saturday
for play, or a Sunday for rest. They must
work, work, work, day after day\ from year’s
end to year’s end. Perhaps, once a year, if
they live near enough to the Ganges, or some
other sacred river, they go there to wash
away their sins, but come back feeling as
sinful as ever.
The little girls, if their parents are very
poor, have to help gather the grain, anrl grind
the wheat, and pound the rice. The most of
them are never allowed to go out of their
houses or yards. They have n i pleasant
pictures, or books, or pretty' toy’s to amuse
them. The only furniture in their houses are
a few low, light bedsteads, some brass and
earthen dishes, a wheel to spin thread, two
flat round stones to grind the wheat, and a
pipe for smoking. The walls and floors of
their houses are made of mud, and the roofs
of bamboos and grass. The3* are built round
a small court or yard, which seldom has either
trees or flowers. The women and girls have
to spend their lives in such homes, with noth
ing to do except to cook. The little sewing
which they require they hire done, and so
they spend their days in gossip and sleep.—
The Mohammedan girl sometimes learns to
read a few prayers in the Koran. The Hin
doo girls are supposed to have no religion
at all.
Religion is not thought to he a child’s
matter. Until they are fourteen, the3' are
taught but one prayer, and that has more ol
evil than good in it. A little Hindoo girl is
taught to dig a ti 113' toy’ pond in the garden,
to stick a branch of the Bel-tree in the mid
dle, and then worship the goddess Liliboo
tec—if worship it may’ be called—in words
something like these :
“ At holy tank with holy flower,
AY ho comes to pray this midday hour?
’Tis I ! O. Lilibootec, hear!
And save thy child the burning tear,
Which e’en must fall, should one be brought
To share my lord’s love—curse the thought!
And curse ill co-wives ! One more boon,
Make me a joyful mother soon !’’
The Mohammedan girl is taught that she has
no soul, and the Hindoo girl has no god but
the tree.—Boys and Girls of the South.
In northern China, people of all ages are
dying of actual starvation by thousands.—
The famine extends over a district which
includes at least 5.000 villages, and it is said
that at least 500 die daily. Houses are pull
ed down in every village to sell the timber
and thatch in order to get food. Those who
can get husk 9 and dry leaves, ordinarily used
for fuel, are considered well off. Most of the
poor young girls have been sold, old men.
middle aged men and }*oung men, and chil
dren die daily of sheer starvation and others
freeze. The dead cannot get a burial; they
are too many, and none can afford the ex
pense ; so they are cast daily into large pits.
The people at Shansi are said to be living on
the corpses of their fellow beings who die of
starvation. And the strong are killing the
weak for the sake of obtaining their flesh for
food.
“I’m afraid I’m sitting on your crinoline,
ma’am.” “Oh! never mind, sir, it’s of no
consequence; you can’t hurt it.** “No
ma’am, its not that; but the confounded
thing hurts me.”
HIS DOG AND HIS BRIDE.
A YOt’NO HUSBAND WHOSE AFFECTIONS 9F.EM
ED TO BE ABOUT EQUALLY DIVIDED.
On Wednesday night, a bridal party’ board
ed the train at Elizabeth, New Jersey. I
heard laughter and weeping, and I knew that
laughter and Weeping never went well togeth
er, except at weddings. I saw the bride
groom, happy, laughing, fussy as an old hen
with her last lone chicken, holding a black
and-tan dog tenderly in his arms, and clutch*
ing his bride by’ the elbow, to help her on the
car. The hrakeman shouted :
“Hold on; take that dog to the baggage
car.’’
Dismay, consternation, terror, came out
and sat all over that young man’s face, but
it brighteded up again with a happy thought.
He dropped his bride’s arm. and folded both
his arms about the dog of his heart.
“No you don’t,” he shouted ; “ no yon don’t.
I’ve got letters for that dog. I’ve got a let
ter for that dog from the superintendent of
the division. This dog goes with me.”
And he danced up and down the platform
with excitement,, while the hrakeman helped
his bride on the train, and then the young
husband followed, clinging to that precious
dog.
But when the party canw back into the
sleeper, then there was a scene. The porter
looked at the dog uneasily, and said he “al
lowed it was kind of onregular, totin’ dogs
into de parlor cars.” Whatever misgivings
he raav have had on the subject were speedi
ly cleared by a passenger, a testy old gentle,
man with a back as broad as a county atla9,
and a breath so short that he breathed three
times in speaking a word of two syllables, an
old gent with the baldest bead that ever
mocked hair oil, a head tnitli a fringe of up
right, bristly hair all round it.
His bare feet spread out on the floor, his
suspenders dangeled down behind him, his
feca glowed with rage, and lie roared out to
the porter:
“Out with that dog. No dog sleeps where
T do. I ain’t used to it, and I won’t have it.
Trundle him out.”
“ Hold on there,” cried the confident hus
band, “that dog’s all right. I’ve got let
ters—”
“Jllast your letters,” roared the old party.
* The whole United States Post Office De
partment can’t crowd a dog in on us. Tell
con. young man, it ain’t right, it ain’t de
cent. and by gum, it ain’t safe. Body of a
nan in do baggage car now, on this very
train, that was bit by a lapdog two weeks ago
while he was asleep, and died just eleven days
afterward. Country’s full of mad dogs.”
This was a lie about the dead man, but it
awoke everybody in the car, set all the wo
men to screaming, and armed public senti
ment against the dog.
“ But I tell you the dog isn’t mad,” per
sisted the owner. “ and he’ll have to stay in
here. I have letters from the superintendent
of the division—”
“Blast the superintendent!” roared the
asthmatic passenger, triumphantly. “ He’s
got nothing to do with the sleeping car. Take
the dog into a day coach and shut him up in
a wood box. Throw him overboard. J don’t
care what you do with him, but he can’t stay
here.”
“But my dear sir,” pleaded the young
man.
“Don’t wan’t to hear nothing !” yelled the
fat passenger. “ I don’t travel with a mena
gerie. Nobody wants your dog in here !”
“No. Nobody! Nobody wants him!”
came in hearty, fearless chorus from the oth
er berths, the chorus carefully keeping itself
out of sight, so as not to detract from the
power or the solo who was gasping out the
most terrific denunciations of all dogs in gen
eral, and especially’ this one particular dog.
“But my dog,” the young man would
plead.
“Devil take your dog, sir,” theoldpassen
ger would gasp. “What is your dog or any
man’s dog to m3’ comfort. I say I shan’t
sleep with him in this car. He can’t stav
here.”
Well, the upshot of it was, the dog had to
emigrate into a day coach, and it is a gospel
fact that the man. just married, with the pret
tiest brido that has been seen in this country
(since eight years ago) didn’t know whether
to sit in the day coach and hold his dog all
night or sta3 r buck in the sleeper with his
wife. He trotted in and out from one car to
the other until nearly midnight, keeping ev
er3’bod}’ in a fidget.— Burlington Hawltrye,
Mollygrumps; or, The King of the Nur
sery.
I’m the king of the nursery. Everybody’
says so, so I know its true. The other two
are girls, and, of course, they can’t be king.
I used to have a horrid old nurse, with brass
rings to her great ugly spectacles, and a big
book in her nose, and such a squeaking voice,
too, and the lumps that old thing used to
stuff down m v throat with the pap ! I onl3’
wish you could have seen them. But ma
sent her away, and I’ve got another nurse now,
a brand-new one, and very* jolly she is, I can
tell you, She knows the right way to put su
gar in vour food, and no mistake.
I'm just a year old. Mu calls me Millie,
and baby boy. and mother’s own pet, ar and a
lot more. Pa calls me Bill. I call that a
liberty, because my name isn’t Bill. But then
pa’s not a bad fellow ; he can pitch me up to
ceiling and catch me again, and he lets me
play with the drops on the chandelier, and he
gives me lots of goodies, and sweet stuff.
The other day when 1 poked my finger in
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his eye by mistake, he nfcver fowled one bit,
I should have had a jolly' roar if he’d done it
to me be by mlstakf, but he only said, “Oh,
Bill, Bill!” and handed me over to nnrsie.
I stuck ray thumb in ray month, and tricif
to look solemn’, but something tickled me, and
t set up my favorite song of “Gug, gug,
pap’m !” And pa began to laugh, but there
ytas a lot of water comih‘2 down his cheeks.
Babies can’t be expected to be sorry like
other people ; so long as we scream, and eat,
and drink, and sleep, I don’t see why we
should do anything else.
Ma makes such a fuss over fne —she dan
dles me up, and calls me her king of beauty,
and her brightest dove, and a heap more ;
but of course it’s all right. \Yhat are moth
ers for, if it isn’t to make a fuss over Us ?
1 say did you ever have a thing called the
mollygrumps? Because, If you haven’t, yoi<
ought to be a baby for one day, just to see
what it is like. Oh, it is horrid, I can tel’f
3’ou !
Just listen here, and I’ll tell 3*oll about my
first time of the mollygrumps. Well, 3*oll’
must know that pa and ma always have me
brought down stairs while they’re having
breakfast.
I’m iu my night-gown, of course, and then
I lie and kick about on the tiger-skin that
uncle brought home from some dreadful hot
place.
Ma heaps my toys all around me. and that
stupid old lamb that I used to be frightened
of. But I ain’t such a goose now. I was on
ly a bit of a baby then.
I used to have rattles and rubber rings and
bells, but I'm ever so much too old for that
baby stuff now.
Well, while I was rolling about, and I had
a good suck at the top of the poker (it was
so nice and cold), something like pins got
into my stomach all in a minute, so I set tip ft
3’ell as loud as I could bawl.
Ma tumbled all her coffee on the cloth, and
pa upset the gravy over his legs; but that
didn’t matter. I screamed till I got a3 black
as I could, and ma said : “What’s de matter
with the petsy-wetsy ? Come to mu mm3',
de ’it.tle darling, then.”
And pa said : “ Why, Billy boy', what’s de
matter ? Come to papa!”
But I only kicked. The pins went on
sticking Into me. and I howled away.
Pa rang the bell the for nnrsie, and tried to
hold me on his lap till she came. Then ma
said :
“He’s hurt his darling little
and know he has.”
But T knew I hadn’t.
“ Has he bunlped his heddy-weddy with the
naughty old poker-woker ?” Said pa.
But they* never thought about pins in my
stomach. Pas and mas are so stupid !
Ma rolled me over and over, and kept on say
ingr
“ What is it mama’s own boy ? Tel l mama
all about it, then.”
But how could I tell, and the pins sticking
away all the while ?
Then nnrsie came. The minute she saw
me she stooped down and took me frp *, thei¥
she said to ma:
“ Mollygrumps!”
I never knew what “Mollygrumps” was
before, but I suppose ma and pa did ; they
set up a howl, and pa said :
“Brandy—brandy!” and he ran to the
sideboard where they kept the sugar and
nice things. And ma said :
“No, no! Hadn’t we better send for the
doctor ?”
But. bless you, nursie knew all about it,
and she said :
“No, no ; we’ll soon cure the little beauty*'
bov.”
Then she turned me over, and ma made
her sit down on the rocking chair by* the firc,-
witli me in her lap, and she rubbed some
stuff all over where the pins were sticking
in, and the pins went away.
Then I left off yelling, and pa chmrkcd my
chin and said :
“Hallo, Bill! how’s the bread basket now,
eh, old boy ?’*
And ma said :
“ Dere, den, dc ’ittle sweetie, dc pain all
don away ! Bless him, sweetie—let mamma
tiss him, den !”
And nursie cuddled me up warm, and I
kept still. I sucked away at my thumb, but,
if the pins came again, I meant to make
another row.
Ma stood by us, and she said:
“Hadn’t he better have something to take,
nurse ?”
So I began to sniff, because I thought
she’d say—“ Yes. give him a lump of sugar
but she didn’t.
So I began to kick again, and they thought
it was more pins. Aiuf ma nearly cried, and
nurse went on rubbing, and I kicked out
every way ; and pa had gone to his office,
am! he had to come back to me.
And ma got my drum and beat it ever so
hard, and pa pulled the strings of my new
dancing-jack ; but I shut my eyes tight, and
oh. the hullabaloo there was !
Ma thought I was so bad ; they coul 1 not
hold my legs hardly.
And the while they never thought of
giving me the sugar I was howling for.
And the doctor came. I made a face atf
him ; but be didn’t care. And he poked his
nose close to mine, and said I must take
gome stuff.
Bnt I wouldn’t, and I sputtered it all out,,
and he gave me some more. Then I kicked
him in the face, and knocked his spectacles
off.
The stuff was alf greas}*; but they made
it go down,
I hate the doctor. When I’m a man I
shall fight him.
I was so sick, and they made me lie still.
I hate to lie still. I always want to kick.
When I’m a man 1 shall kick as much as I
like.
I can’t bear to get out of my batli. I can’t
bear lumps of sugar that ain’t big ones. I
can’t bear to have my hat tied under my
chin. I hate the doctor. I hate to havo my
clothes put on in the roomings, and I hate
someone to blow my nose forme; but there’s
something I hate ever so much more than all
these horrid things, and that is—Molly
grumps.
N UMBER