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JACKSON CO. PTJB. COM’Y, ) Proprietors. i VOLUME V. PUBLISHED EVERY FRIDAY. ROBERT S. HOWARD, Editor and Publisher, JEFFERSON, JACKSON CO., GA. JFKICE, n. e. cor. public square, up-stairs. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. One copy 12 months $1.50 “ “ “ - 1.00 “ “ 3 “ 50 JttTF or every Club of Ten subscribers, an ex tra copy of the paper will be given. RATES OF ADVERTISING. One Dollar per square (of ten lines or less) fr the first insertion, and Seventy-five Cents for each subsequent insertion. A square is a space of one inch, measured up and down the column. CWT-VU Advertisements sent without specifica tion nf the number of insertions marked thereon, will be published TILL FORBID, and charged accordingly. iSgr Dusiness or Professional Cards, of six lines er less, Seven Dollars per annum; and where they do not exceed ten lines, Ten Dollars. cCrpf Hileertisements. Jackson Sheriff’s Sales. AITILL be sold, on the first Tuesday in Novcm- M her next, before the Couyt House door in the ♦own of Jefferson, Jackson county, Ga., within the legal hours of sale, the following property, to-wit: The dwelling liouse, lot and premises now occupied by and in the possession of Peter Mc- Lcster, in the town of Jefferson, Jackson County, (ia., bounded on the west or front side by Wash ington street, in Jefferson, Ga., on the east or hack side by the back street, on the south by the lot now occupied by \V. A. Worsham, and on the north by cross alley, and containing one acre, more or less. Levied on as the property of Peter McLester, defendant in ti. fa., to satisfy a ti. fa. from Jackson Superior Court, in favor of L. and A. J. Gilleland, for use of F. M. Bailey, plaintiff, vs. Peter McLester, defendant. Said ti. fa. yon troled by F. M. Hailey. Said dwelling is a good two-story frame dwelling, newly finished and painted. On said lot is a good garden and small orchard, good well of good water, good kitchen, >Vc. Written notice given to Peter McLester, party in possession. Property pointed out by plaintiff. Also, at the same time and place, will be sold, one tract or parcel of land, situate and lying in the 245th District. G. M., of said county, known as part of the Hannah place, containing tifty acres, more or less, bounded as follows: Com mencing on the Lawrencevilie road, at the corner of F. M. Dailey's lot. thence along said road to IVter McLcstcr's Land, known as the Hat Duke place, thence along the line of said place to a branch, thence down said branch to J. E. Ran dolph's lino, thence along said Randolph's line to aline on F. M. Dailey's land, thence along F. M. bailey's line to the beginning corner. There is about twenty-five or thirty acres in cultivation, the remainder in old field. Said land is suitable fur a good cotton farm, and is within a half mile f Jefferson. Levied on by virtue of and to sat isfy a fi. fa. issued from the Superior Court of said county, in favor of Thomas L. Itoss vs. I’cter McLester; to be sold for purchase money, heed filed in the Clerk's office, as the law directs. Notice given to Peter McLester, defendant in li. fa. and tenant in possession. Also, at the same time and place, will be sold, one tract or parcel of land, situate and lying in the 245th District, (i. M., of said county, lying an the south side of the road leading from Jeffer son to Lawreneeville, adjoining the church lot of the colored people. Said parcel of land being a part of the lot now owned by F. M. Hailey, for merly owned by Mitchell Few, tyid is supposed to contain seven acres, more or less; the same being that portion of the said Few lot that lies on the east side of the branch that runs through the said Few lot. All of said tract is in cultivation. <bi said place is a log cabin. Levied on by virtue of and to satisfy a fi. fa. issued from the Superior t’ourt of said county, in favor of Thomas L. Ross 's. Wiley Hancock. To be sold for purchase money. Deed filed in the Clerk's office, as the law provides. Notice given to Willis Oliver, tenant in possession, and Wiley Hancock, defen dant in li. fa., as the law directs. oct a T. A. MuELIIAXXOX, Sh'tf. | .lsickson Comity. Fourt of Ordinary. Sitting for County Purposes October Ist, 1870. Ordered, by the Court, that two and one-half tenths of one per cent, be assessed and collected °n the taxable property of Jackson county, as per Oigest of 1870, by tlve Tax Collector of said coun ty, tax for county purposes for the year ending Beptomber Ist, 1880, as follows: Pne and live-tenths of one per cent., to pay expenses Superior Courts, jurors, etc., amounting to $1,773 98 Pnc twenty-two and one-halfof one-tenth of one per cent., to pay repair and building bridges, amounting to 710 SO Pile twenty-three ami four-lilth of one tenth of one per cent., to pay Jailor's tees, etc., amounting to 100 00 Pne twenty-three and four-fifth of one tenth of one per eent., for support of the County Poor, amounting to JOO 00 Pac seventeen and three-fourth of one tenth of one per cent., to pay salary of County Treasurer, amounting to 300 00 Pne thirty-live and one-halfof one-tenth of one per cent., for contingent fund, to pay any lawful claim against the ■county, amounting to 000 00 Total, for current county purposes..Bl,223 78 It is further ordered by the Court that an extra tax of seven and one-halt’tenths of one per cent, he assessed and collected on the taxable property, a- per Digest of 1379. of said county, by the Tax ! ollector, for the purpose of paying for the build h'e of the new Court House of said county, now in course of erection, for furnishing the same and paying 'for, improving and enclosing the lot upon -which said Court House is being built. 11. \V\ HELL, Ord'y. A true extract from minutes of said Court. 11. W. HELL. Pet. Ist. Ex-Officio Clerk Court Ordinary. | HiOllUll. Jackson Comity. V\ here**, upon the petition of certain citizens, asking that the public road recently established, *'oimueueing at the rear of lane near Hr. DeLa perriereX, and ending at the Pederson and ..lon roe road, uear .Jack llanie’s residence, be discon tinued:. Reviewers were appointed, and having •nade their report to me that said road is one ol ln ueli public utility, and recommending said road to be coutittuVd. it is ordered, that if no good fau.se be shown to the contrary, an order will he passed dismissing said application on the sth day P Ayveuiber text. Liven under my official signature.. oct 3 H.. W. BELL, Ord'y. LIGHT JOB WORK, Executed promptly, at tins office. The People their own Rulers; Advancement in Education, Science, Agriculture and Southern Manufactures. Administrators Sale. By virtue of an order of the Court of Ordinary of Jackson County, granted in terms of law, will be sold, to the highest and best bidder, on the Ist Tuesday in November next, between the lawful hours of sale, at the Court House door of said county, in Jefferson, the following lands, to-wit : One lot or parcel containing two hundred and thirty-six acres, more or less, lying in the County of Jackson, on the waters of Deech Creek, adjoin ing lands of Jermimo Lay. lands of the Chandler estate, lands of Harp Arnold and lands of Green liowman. On said lot there is twenty-five acres in cultivation of bottom land, and about thirty acres upland in cultivation; balance old field and forest. - On said lot comfortable cabin and out buildings. One parcel containing one hundred acres, more or less, adjoining lands of T. L. Day, A. D. Walls, and the above described tract. On said lot there is about thirty-five acres in cultiva tion. all unland except three acres. On said lot comfortable cabin and out-buildings. One fifteen acre lot bounded by the above described lots, mostly upland and in a state of cultivation. One lot containing sixty-two acres, more or loss, bounded by the Dower of Mary McDonald and the two first described lots. On said lot there is about five acres of bottom land in cultivation, and ten or twelve acres of upland in cultivation, balance in old field and forest. All of said lands lying in the 240th I list., G. M. Sold as the prop erty belonging to the estate of William McDonald, deceased, for the benefit of heirs and creditors. Terms of sale cash. J. s. ay. McDonald, t. x. McDonald, Administrators. Administrator’s Sale. WILL be sold, agreeably to an order of the Court of Ordinary of Jackson County, be fore the Court House door, in Jefferson, on the iirst Tuesday in November next, the following property, to-wit: A tract of land lying in said county, adjoining lands of AYalls, Chandler and others, containing forty acres, more or less ; about 12 or 15 acres in cultivation, balance in woods and old fields. Said land sold as the property of \Y illiam Wilson, deceased, for the purpose of paying the debts of said deceased. Terms cash. SARAH AVILSON. Administratrix W. AYilson, deceased. oct 3 ( 4 120ISLSIA, .Jackson t oiuUv. vx Court of Ordinary. Sitting for Comity Purposes. September 29th, 1879. Ordered by the Court that the offices of the Ordinary and Clerk of the Superior Court and Shcriit of Jackson county, after this elate, be and the same arc hcreb} 7 removed from the rooms respectively occupied by each in the old Court House building in Jefferson. The Ordinary’s and Sheriff's office to be removed and kept over the store-room of F. M. Hailey, in Jefferson, and the Clerk Superior Court office to be removed and kept in the store-room formerly occupied by Stanley it Pinson, in Jefferson. 11. W. BELL. Ord'y. A true extract from minutes of said Court. 11. W. HELL, oct 3 Ex-Officio Clerk C. O. J. C. / AIiOKGU, Jnckson County. Whereas, /. T. Suddeth, Administrator of S. Cowan, late of said countv, deceased, represents to the Court, by his petition duly tiled, that he has fully administered the estate of said deceased, and is entitled to a discharge— This is to cite all concerned, kindred and cred itors, to show cause, if any they can, on the first Monday in December, 1879, at the regular term of the Court of Ordinary of said count}', why Letters of Dismission should not be granted the applicant. Given under my official signature, this August 20th, 1879. li. W. DELL, Ord’y. Stoves l Stoves 1 Larger Stock than Ever! 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For full particulars Address J. C. McCURDY fc CO.. Philadelphia, Pa. TNST'RITXTXT CATALOGUE. Our new catalogue of Band n Instrument?.Music,Suits, Caps, Belts,rouchcs.Pom pons. Drum Majors’ Staffs R !a> and Hats, Epaulets, Cap information for tn usicians. Mailed free, Address LYON & UK ALT, 162 State St., Chicago, 111. Liver invigor atoß is a Standard Family Remedy for diseases of the Liver, Stomach and Bowels.—lt is Purely Yege table.—lt never Debilitates. —it is Cathartic and Tonic. Tt has been used in my practice and by the public for more than 35 years with unprece dented results. Send for Circular. S. T. W. SANFORD, M. TV. 10*2 Broadway, New York City. Any Druggist will tell you its Reputation. JEFFERSON. JACKSON COUNTY, GA., FRIDAY. OCTOBER 24.1879. SELECT MISCELLANY. DICK. [continued.] “AYell, all this time I’d been drinkin* pretty stead}’. I took a drink that night afore I went to drive them folks. I always drank then, right along; didn't think T could do without it. But the next morn in’, when I got up, I went right down to the stable* and never look a drop—somehow I couldn’t. The first tiling I done, I went into Kit’s stall and petted her a little, when the boy 7 s wa’n’t lookin’, just as Dick hail done. Hanged if I didn't put my face right down against hers, just as Dick done, and felt myself blush clear np to my ears when I done it, too. I kept that filly for more'n five years after that, and I wouldn't ’a' sold her then, only I had to. “AYell, I didn’t drink nothin' for more'n a week, and I kind o' kept alone by myself a good deal. Two or three times I went up by the house whore Dick hail been, but I couldn’t get a sight of her. She told me afterward that she went home the next day. up into the country. Then the boys, they got to makin’ fun of me. You see I’d quit drinkin’, and gamblin’, and swearin’ mostl}’ —• though that was the hardest to get rid of; I haint got. quite clear o’ that yet. But the boys, they asked me when I got religion, and how soon I was goin’ to preachin’, and all that; Lord, they hadn’t no idea what really was the reason for my doin’ as I did, or I reckon they'd ’a’ just about run me out o' town makin’ game of me. When they first begin blowin’ I got mad about it, but I saw that only made things worse, so I finally give in, and went to drinkin’ again. “AA'ell, bv inquirin’ ’round I found out where she lived, and who she was, and all about her. So, along the next spring, I went up that way, sort o’ casual like, to buy some horses. * I rigged up in the best I’d got, and I could sling it on pretty thick them days, too, if I tried, for it was afore the war and times was flush ; I did a good business and owned all mv stock, I got up there, and met the old man and talked business with him for a blind, and laid low and kept an eye out for Dick. I saw her at supper, and then I staid all night and spent the evenin’ with the family. The old man had Dick play and sing for me. Lord, stranger, but she can sing ! Oh no, she can't go so high as some of ’em ; but somehow she’s got a way of getting off a song that just double discounts anything else I ever heard. “Oh, well, it's no use mailin' a story out of it! But anyhow, I use;! to go up there, off and on, for about two years, anti I got well acquainted with her; and the better I got to know her, why, the oftener 1 went to see her. And then, finally, I got to tailin’ that little team o’ blacks up there and goin' ridin’ with her; and we used to ride, and talk, and have just the nicest times that two folks ever did have, I reckon. Well, one night we’d been a-ridin’ till pretty late, and we got back and found all the folks had gone to bed. We drove up, and a nigger took the little gals to the barn, and Dick and I went and brought some chairs out onto the porch and set down. Y'ou see it was along in the fall, and cool nights, and it was full moon, and the porch fronted the south, and it was just too nice to go off and leave. So Dick and I set down there, and didn’t say much for a good while—just looked at the sky and the hills and woods. It was about such a night for moonlight as it is out there now, only there wa’n’t no snow. Well, while we'd been ridin’ I’d been tollin’ Dick about my life, and what a rough time I’d had, and all that; and she’d said just the best things to me about it, and told mo how sorry she was for me, and so on : and sittin’ there on the porch, we got to talkin’ the matter over again ; and finally, the first I knowed, I'd said it—just asked her to marry me, fair and square ! Well, you just ought to ’a’ seen her, stranger. She was sit tin' in a kind o' low chair, and the moon was a-shinin' right square into her face, so that 1 could see her just as plain as day. She sat right still and trembled, and just looked right down at her feet, and that made her eyelashes come clear down on to her cheeks. And she's got the longest ami cleanest-cut eyelashes I ever sec. Well, she never said a word for more’n five minutes. Lord, it seemed like a young eternity to me ! And then she looked up, and her eves was brim full o* tears. She didn't really cry, you know, but just had her eyes full o’ tears ready to fall, and tremblin' life, there in the moonlight; and she looked right at me for a minute, and then she says,—and her voice kind o' shook a little when she talked, — ‘ hy, George ! What made 3*oll say that?' (You see slic’d got to know me so well that she just called me George without thinkin’.) ‘l’m nothin’ but a little girl, and 3*oll are a man grown. I never thought you conic to see me because you wanted to marry me, hut only because you liked me, just as I liked 3’ou.’ Now wa’n’t that a great speech to make to a feller? Oh well, I took it all back, told her to play I never said It, and all that; but somehow, after that night, she always seemed different. It just appeared as if she growed into a woman all in one night. “It was a long time afore I ever said anything more to her about it. In fact, I don’t know as I ever would *a' said anything about it again, if she hadn't 'a' give me a chance to. I used to go up there, just the same, and go rulin' with her, and all that.— and we used to talk just the same, only about that. But one night, I was sittin’ alone out on the porch, where I’d been smokin’ with the old man, and the first thing l knew she come and kneeled right down afore me, and put both her hands into mine, and she says, ‘George, l never answered that ques tion von' asked me so long ago. You haven’t forgot it. have you ? I’ve been thinkin' it all over, ever since, and I know now that I've loved you all the time. I don’t quite see hovv it is that you should love me; but I know }’ou do, or you wouldn't say so, and so I’ve eotne to say yes.’ AYell, stranger, may be you know a little how it is yourself about such times. But any how, right there, on that old porch, begun a little heaven below for me and Dick, and it iiaint let up yet, and we've seen some pretty rough times too, since then.” lie paused suddenly, bending forward and listening intently; then, with a slight nod. he said, “That’s all right. I was just waiting for us to strike a bad joint on this grade. But Jack is up to it.” lie then re sumed : “This was along in the fall. The old man give his consent, for I was gettin’ on fine.— reckon I was good for about ten thousand them times, —and we never set no time lobe married. But along in the winter I had a hard run o' luck. First I went on a note for a feller, and he broke, and I had to make it up. It was for somethin’ over six thou sand, and it run me pretty close to make the raise. That was when 1 sold Kit. Lord, but I did hate to see her go. But the money had to come. Then, after that, one Sunday night, when I was up to sec Dick, the stable got afire, and burned up pretty 7 much all I had left. Then in the spring the war broke out. and 1 always was a-hlowin’ round, talkin’ just what I thought, no matter who heard, till finally it got too hot to hold me in that region any longer, and so I sold out most o’ what I’d got left, and skipped out between two days, and got off to the North. I didn't get a chance to see Dick afore I left. Of course we all expected the thing’d be all over in a few months any how, and then I thought Dick and ine'd be all right again. So I come up here to Jackson, and pretty soon enlisted in the Michigan Cavalry, and went south again. For about a }’car we was with Ilalleck over on the Mississippi, but after a while I got transferred to Burn side's division, when he was over in East Tennessee after the Rebs, and went with him up to Knoxville, and you see when I got there I was on my old stampin’ ground. Lord, I never thought I’d come back to the old town that kind o’ way 7. “AA'cll, of course I was all the time think in’ about Dick, and when I got back to the ville I was going to go right to work to hunt her up. But you see old Longstreet got after us, —got in below us. you know, and shut off our grub, and it took about as good as we’d got in tlie shop to hold things level for a while. Pretty soon, we got a whack at the old devil down at Fort Sanders, and we just everlastingly cleaned him out. That let up the siege, and we went back into Knoxville, and a part of us boys was detailed to guard the city'. While the siege was goin’ on things had been runnin’ pretty loose all over town, and they looked kind o’ rough ; so. along about the middle o’ January, I was put in charge of a squad o’ men and teams to tidy -;, -the city. “All this time I hadn’t heard a word from Dick or knowed a thing of her. Yon sec, here it was more’ll two years and a half since I’d seen her. But bless 3'our soul, stranger, don’t you think I was afraid she had gone back on me—not much ! That aint her style. 'You see, when a woman does as Dick did that night out on the porch, she aint agoin’ to give up and take the first feller that comes along. Oh, I know there's plenty o’ men—and women, too, for that matter—that says they will ; but such folks haint never known such a woman as Dick. “Well, one da} 7 I was out witli my men clearin’ up, and I rode into a back yard—l was on horseback—where there was a big pile o' chips, kind o’ all scattered round. 1 got off 1113' horse, and went to the back door and knocked. A woman come to see who was there, and I told her that if she didn't take care o’ them chips I should have to, and if slic’d got a rake, I’d help her get ’em into shape ; and we talked awa3* there a while. She was kind o’ sassv ; some o’ them lleb women was just old business in goin’ for the boys, and givin’ ’em fits gen’ally. So I stood there talkin’ with the old lady, and kind o’ devilin’ her a little, and the door swung open a little more, and I saw there was another woman in the room. I saw her dress right through the crack between the door and the frame. I didn’t think much of it in particular, though I always did some how feel a little kind o’ red in the face and sink-hearted like, when I’d see a woman that I couldn't get a fair enough sight at to tell what she looked like, especially if she was about Dick’s size. “AVliile me and the old woman was talkin' there, this other woman somehow edged out, little by little, till the first I knowed l looked up, and as sure as shootin’, stranger, there stood Dick ! She was a little taller than when I saw her last, and looked pale and tired and anxious like, just as though she was a watchin’ and a-watehin’ for something to come, and was .all tuckered out waitin' for it. “ I tell yon, it was about as much as I wanted to do to stand still, for about a min ute. I knowed her as soon as I got my eye on her, but sbo didn't know me, for sure. You see I'd changed since she saw mo last. I’d been drinkin’ right along, and was red in the lace, and had a full beard.— I always shaved, as I am now, in the old days,—so it wa'n't no wonder she didn’t know me. But I just stopped short on my racket with the old woman, and looked Dick right square in the eye. I couldn't stand it no longer, and T just says, ‘ Dick !’ and then There it is again, stranger ! You see, when a fel low is talkin’ about such things as these, there aint no words good enough to tell all you mean. For, you see, that little old time out on the porch begun right over again, just as though it had never stopped, and three years seemed like no time at all. She’d been in the city all through the siege, but somehow I’d missed her till then. But after that, of course, we was happier than ever. “Her father had Inst all his property, pret ty near. llis niggers had all run off, and the old man was in a bad fix. He was up at the old place, doin' the best lie could to get along, and Dick was stayin’ with her aunt in the ville. Dick told me that, after I skipped olf north, her father said she should never marry that Yankee scoundrel; but that didn't make no difference. Yon see she’s quiet enough, Dick is, but she's got a will of her own. “But I wa'n'L in no hurry about gettin’ married. And so tilings run along for quite a while, till it got to be almost summer,— so noli me about the middle o’ May,—when things took a turn we weren't a-lookin’ for. “ You see. I'd been drinkin’ right along all this time. I never used to drink daj r s when I was goin' up to see Dick, but nil the rest o’ the time, I was pretty full. I used to gamble, too, for all that was out. “One day, it was the 1 Dili o' May,—l'd been playin’ draw poker all day long, and it seemed that day as though the more I drank, the better luck I had. Just about dark, I got orders to rig up a train o’ wagons, and go down the country, across the river, for forage, that night. So I got out. and was just about ready to start, when one o’ the boys come to me and says, ‘George, do }’ou calc’late to ever cage that canary o’ your’n up there on the hill ? If you do, you'd bet ter be about it; for I heard to-day that the old man was in town, and that he allows to run her off to night!’ It beats every thing, stranger, bow some such thing as that ’ll brace a feller up when he's full. I was as sober as lam now inside o' two minutes. I turned 'round to the feller that told me, and says I, ‘Charley, you take this train down the river, and get the boys to loadin’ up, and L’II be there sometime in the night, to come back with yon.’ Well, I rode right ofTto the house where Dick was stayin’, hitched my horse, and went in. As good luck would have it, the old man wasn’t about, and Dick come rnnnin’ to me as pale as a sheet, and tremblin’ like a leaf, and told me that it was true, her father was goin’ to run her off. Says I, ‘ Dick, look here. Do you want to marry me. just as I am. and tonight?’ And she just come up and put her arms around my neck, and hid her face on my shoulder, and says, ‘ George, I’ll marry you any time, and the sooner the better, for I can’t be parted from you again.’ Says I, ‘That’s all right, little girl ! Just you put on your sun bon net, so as the folks wont think nothin’ about it if they do see yon, and go down to head quarters, and I’ll go and get the chaplain.’ “ Weil, as soon as we got the thing fixed up, I took her down to the hotel, —they’d just got a little house started there. —and I give t! 10 landlord a hundred dollars ; told him that was my wife, and that he must keep her till I come back, for I'd got to go, and there might be some trouble ; but if there was he must see her through. Then I went with Dick to her room, took off her sun-bonnet, kissed the tears out of her eves, and then mounted my horse, and struck out. “ The old man come down after I was gone, but lie found out it was all over, and no use raisin' a row. so be just made the best of it. and give Dick Ids hlessin’ like a sensible old davy as lie was. Yon see, such old fellows hate to get beat, like the very devil, but just j*ou clean ’em out, on the square, once or twice, and they’ll come down as handsome as you please. “ Dick and I staid at the hotel for a couple o’ weeks or so, and then we went to keepiu* house. You sec, the chances was that we i TERMS, $1.50 PER ANNUM. I SI.OO For Six Months. should have to stay where we was for a good while, anyhow, and Dick wanted to keep house, so I let her. 1 was pretty flush for a while after my run o' luck on p< ker, and I nvide the most o’ what I got on that haul. We got a nice little brick, that I could rent cheap, and bought a lot o’ condemned Rch furniture, and set up in good style. The fur niture was some of it Al. We had a mating-, any bedstead, big high head-hoard, you know, and tall posts for curtains, and a rosewood dresser, and fine chairs, and all that sort o‘ thing. It was just nobby ; and the way Dick used to fix up that house was a caution, I tell you. I got a nigger woman to do the work, and the first thing we knowed, whv here wo was, all set up, as if for keep. “Hut you see I kop' on drinkin' pretty steady ali the while. That night when Dick and I was married, an 1 I went rulin' off alone, down the river there. I got to thinkiq* over this drinkin* business, and about con cluded I'd quit; but when I got back, of course the boys made me set ’em up for tlm weddin’, and that got me started again, ami when a feller gets started once, stranger, yon see it’s pretty hard to stop. Hut I took it kind o’ cas\\ and was careful never to get chuck full, and I got along so well, that way, that I just about begun to think I could do that thing, right along, just drink enough, and let the rest alone. ' Hut I tell you, stran ger. if a feller thinks he’s agoin’ to play that game, and win, he's fooled, sooner or later, you bet; it’ll beat the oldest man'that ever lived. “Hut everything went on smooth as a dollar for about three months, and Dick grew oetter and better, every day, and we was as happy as the day was long,—all only my drinkin’. [concluded next week.] How to Cook a Steak. There is no mystery about broiling a beef-, steak, and yet ninety-nine times in a hundred it is badly cooked. The simple art is to cook a steak without smoking it, and to retain the juices. When you rest your cake of Indian-, ink on a palette, happen to put your brush in your mouth and taste it, the peculiar savor is t hat of carbon. Now, carbon isono of the products of the imperfect combustion of hydro carbon, and the best lampblack is made that way. I f there is any taste of In-, dian-ink about a steak or chop, it is at fault, Tfie ait, then, is simply to broil without firing or blazing. No steak can be cooked with-, out watching it. The fire must be very hot, The outside must be well cooked in order tq keep the juice inside ; but the outside must, have scarce any thickness. The thing to do is to turn a steak from side to side, and tx keep doing it. Never pepper or salt a steak until it is on the dish. To pepper it might, not do so much harm, but to salt it is almost, a crime. Never use a gridiron with bio broad slats ; that scores the beefsteak through, and fries overdone, dry portions. Incline your gridiron. If there is a blaze from the melting fat, the flame will burn beyond the steak. It, is difficult to arrive at a proficiency with a steak which lias too much fat on the edges. Trim your steak well, and, if there he fat ot\ it, when your gridiron is inclined, let the fat, portion he up toward the handle at first. Good steak must be served instantaneously on a hot plate. Hotter is admissible on a steak, but only in very minute quantity. If the crude steak be of good quality cut aq inch and an eighth thick, and, the cooking artistic, the juice of the meat follows evory cut. We eat more beefsteaks butchers know how to cut them more artistically, and we cook them better in the United States thaq in England. This is in accordance with the latest testimony furnished by Mr. Richard Grant White in the Atlantic Monthly. — Ex-, change. The Bushman After the Lion. Capt. Aylward tells a droll story of a ren contre between a bushman and a lion. Tliq narrator was acquainted with the man, ancj has no doubt of the truth of tiie story. Tho bushman. while a long way fioin his home, was met by a lion. The animal, assured that lie had his victim completely in his power, began to sport and dally with him with a feline jocosity which tho poor little bushman failerf to appreciate. The lion would appear at q. point in the road and leap back qgaiq intq the jungle, to reappear a little further on. But the bushman did not lose Ids presence of mind, and presently hit upon a device by which he might possibly outwit his foe. This plan was suggested by the lion’s own con duct. Aware that the brute was ahead of him. he dodged to the ri"ht. and feeling pret ty sure of the lion's whereabouts, resorted to the course of quietly watching iiis movements. When the lion discovered that the man had suddenly disappeared from the path, he was a good deal perplexed, lie roared with mor tifieation when he espied the bushman peep ing at him over the grass. The bushman at once changed his position, while the lion stood irresolute in the path, following with his cyq the shifting black man. In another moment the little man rustled the reeds, vanished, and showed again at another point. The great brute was first confused, and then alarmed. It evidently began to dawn upoq him that he had mistaken the position of mat ters, and that he was the hunted party. Tho bushman, who clearly recognized what was passing in his enemy’s mind, did not pause to let the lion recover his startled wits. lio began to steal gradually toward tho foe, who, now in a complete state of doubt and fear, fairly turned tail and decamped, leaving the plucky and ingenious little bushman master of the situation. —Chnniters Journal. Many a seemingly prosperous business ! man lias come down with a crash, because j patrons were not required to come down with ithe cash. NUMBER 20.