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DARIEN, GA.
CITY DIRfcTtIRY.
County fibers.
County Commissioners— P. Pease. Chairman. ,T.
P. Gilson, James Walker James IJacklison, K. L.
Morris, L. Mclntosh, The as Gignilliat.
Clerk R C. U.— and alter . Way.
Clerk Superior Court— l ac M. Aiken.
Ordinary —Lewis Jacks i.
Sherif— James R. Beim ft,
Deputy Sheriff— Alonzo uyton.
Receker Tai Returns— adison Thomas.
Tax I’ollector—S. W. VV son.
Corny Treasurer— E PChampney.
The ummissiouers mu (list Wednesday in each
month
Municipal Officers.
Ex-tf- Mayor— T. P. Ptise.
Ex-tf . Aldermen —Jae. Gilaon. James Walker,
James-ackiisou, R. L. Maris, L. Mclntosh, Tnos.
Giimilat
Clftrand Treasurer— Walter A. Way.
(>h)larhal —Robert E Carr.
Hatir Master —James A In*!! j
Insftor General —E. i£ Barclay.
Pole Court every morning at 12 o'clock.
U. S. Off.cers.
dol'tor of Customs Bnintuick District— John T-
Colli'. Headquarters at Bitmswick.
Dtty Collector of Customs for Port of Darien—
Thots Wheeler.
Bcding Master Rort If Darien— Chug. H. Town-
Bent l • *
--—— •*(j^Sans.
Postmaster —I>. W. Davis.
The mail leaves Darien every W ednesaayann Snt
urdav at 9 o'clock A. M.. for Mclntosh No. 3. A. k
G K. li., inn King clot*© connection t* with mails going
The urn'il'a’-rives from Mclntosh. No. 3. A. & G.
R R every Tuesdav and Fridary evenSnes at 8 o'clk.
Mails close every Wednesday and Saturday at 8%
o’clock.
Religious.
Them are religious services at the Mcthoclist la*
Church every Sabbath eviutr at 3 and 8 o'clock—
Rev. K. M. Lockwood, Pastor.
Religious services at the Episcopal (dutch every
Sunday moining at 11 o'clock. Rev. R, t. Clute,
"Religious services every Sabbath at. 11 A. M., 3 P.
HI. and 7 P M.. at the cnihred BaptistChdich— Rev.
R. Miflin. Pastor. ,
Religions services cvefy Sabbath at 11 A. M., and
3 P. M , at the Methodist Church (colored)-Rev. S.
Brown, Pastor.
Masonic.
Live Oak Lodge No 187 meets first Wednesday in
each month at their Hall near the Mastnolh House.
E. P. Champney, W. M. A. E Carr, Secrrary.
CHANGE OP SCHEDULE.
GKNE'L SUPERINTENDENT’S OFFCE, 1
ATLANTIC AID GULF RAILROAD. V
Bavainah. October 11 183. )
ON AND AFTER SATURDAY, OCTOtER 12.
1873. Passenger T-iitts on this road wit run as
follows:
EXPRESS PASSENGER.
Leave Savannah dailyit 4SO P. M.
Arrive at Jesup daily it ®IS P. M.
Arrive at Bainbridge dily at 8:5 A. M.
Arrive at Albany dailyat. 9:0 A. M.
Arrive at Live Oak tiaiy at &5 A. M.
Arrive at Jackrouviledaily at Hhg A. M.,
Lrrive at Tallahassee diiiy at 10:5 ' M-
Leave Tallahass e duly at 250 P. M.
Leave Jacksonville <4l ly at 2;f) P. M
Leave Live Oitk daily',it 9:5 P. M.
Leave Albany daily at 3:0 P. M.
Leave Bainbncge darlHM 4:0 P. M.
Leave Jesup daily at 5:0 A. M.
Arrive at Savannah daily (t 3*o A. M.
Sleeping Car rnns throujii to Jacksonvill.
Passengers for Bruns- icl take this Train„rriving
at Brunswick daily at 10:3tP M.
Arrive at Brunswick dailyat 10:3 P. M.
Acnve Brunswick 2:3 A. M
Arrive at Savannah....; 8:3 A. M
Passengers from Maroi by M. and B. 8:9 A M..
train connect at Jesup wlh train for Elorita. Pas
sengers from Florida comect at Jesup vvi, train
arriving in Macon at 4:30 ?. M.
ACCOMMODATION TRAIN.
(EASTERN DIVISION.)
•
Leave Savannah (Monday, Wednesday and
Friday) at 6:# A. M.
Arrive at Jesup (Monday, Wednesday and
Friday) at ./ • 12:B P. M.
Arrive at lgiwton Monday, Wednesday and
Friday) at 7.3tP, M.
Leave Lawton (Tuesday, Ttuisday and Sa (
n rday at ■• ■ • fct* A. M.
Leave Jesup (Tuesday, TTn>day and batir
day) at! . I*4o P. M.
Arrive at Savannah (Tuesday, Thursday ad
Saturday) at P. M.
ACCOMMODATION TRAIN.
(WEt TERN DIVISION.)
save Lawton (Sunday excepted) 7:25 A. M.
r*ive at Valdoeta. ** 9:33 A M.
Arrive at Qaitroan, - '0:54 A.M.
Arrive at Tkomasville 2:40 p, m.
Arrive at Albany, 11 7:00 P. M.
Leave Albany, “ 9 ®'*s A. M,
Leave Tbomasville, “ 2:10 PM.
Leave Quitman, “ 4:15 P. M.
Leave Valdosta, “ 5:38 P, M.
Arrive at Lawton. “ v E M.
Connecting at Albany with Night Tr on Sooth
weetern Railroad, leaving Albany Sunils Tuesday
and Thursday and arriving at Alban Monday,
Wednesday and Frioay.
Trains on Brunswick and Albany Rallad leave
Junction (No. 9, A. and G. R- R) > Albany
on Monday, Wednesday and Friday, at 1X) A. M ,
and arrive from Albany Tuesday, Thiiday and
Saturday, 2:49 P. M
Mail Steamer leaves Baiabridge for
evsrv Thur May. at 3 A M.
H S HAINES Genl. apt
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The Stammering Wife.
BY JOHN G. SAXE.
I.
When deeply in love with Miss Emt'y Cline,
I vowed, if the maiden would only be mine,
I would always endeavor to please her.
She blushed her conseut, though the stuttering
lass
Said never a word, except, “You’re an ass—
An ass—an asa-lduous teaser!”
11.
But when we were married, I found to my ruth,
The stammering lady hid spoken the truth;
For ofteD, in obvious dudgeon,
She’d say—if I ventured to give her a j >g,
In the way of reproof—’ You’re a dog; you’re a
dog—a dog-matic curmudgeon I’’
111.
And once, when I saul. ’ We can h irdly aff >rd
This extravagant Fyle. with ourmoderatehoard,”
Alid hinted, wftought to be wiser.
She looked, I assure you, exceedingly blue,
And fretfully cried, ' You're a ju—you’re ajn—
A v :ry ju.dicious adviser I"
IV.
Again when it happened, that wi.-hing to shirk
Some rather uuplj sant and arduous work,
I begged her to go to a neighbor,
She wanted to knew why I made such a fuss.
And saucily said ’ You’re a cuss—a cuss—
You were always ac cus-tomed to labor I”
V.
Out of temper, at hist, with the insolent dame.
And feeling that Madam was greatly lo blame.
To scold me, instead of caressing;
I mimicked her a churl, as I am—
And angrily said, a dam—dam—dam —
A dam-age instead of a blessing !’’
The Man Who Wa3 Talked to
Df ,th
V
We though o con. Sense the follow
ing from j £ Lincoln (Nehntskti)
State J’q4- it would not bear
it. I'4 clear tlmough:
Ger “V reader, you have seen the
man who was talked to death. Above
yon see a picture of the tombstone
that marks his last resting place.
Poor Jenkins (for such was the name
of the poor unfortnuate gentleman)
was a faith I til worker, but m<-t a most
horrible fate at last., nicer fighting
bravely the battle of life- He lneil
•S' .u fi-'S.-cs.r. rt)W it; if,.i fZhfr-u ir*tl
carious subsistence by wnlituy for rim
papers. He worked early and late,
and tried to amuse and ins'nvt peo
ple, young aml old, by his chrouiclgH
of pa sing events.
Sometimes this little local editor
wrote things about some rough or
rowdy, and the next, day ho would
meet the rough, and get all battered
up, and go to bed for a week or two,
till the swelling came out of his no.se,
and the cuts in his face healed up.
One tune he to and some unpleasant
truth about the big money king of the
country, and the next day the big
money king came, and shot the unfor
tunate local through the right lung,
and lie hovered between life and death
lor several weeks.
Ano her time Je kins took occasion
to remark that Squire Tompkins, who
was c anity commissioner, had robbed
the county, and built his barn out of
bridge timbers. Then, ’Squire Tom
kins waited on the local, and gavi
him a cowbidiug so that he could
neither walk, run, sit, stand nor lit
ter three days.
Four times they put the local edi
tin' in jail for what he said, and twice
when he pitched into the police, they
arrested him when he was on Ins wav
Dome at night, put him in the caila
boose and next morning swore he had
been drunk, an I had him fined, al
thougli ite had never ili jink a drop.
An unite landlord, because he hao
s. id tiie ian nor ’s house was not well
k. p , kicked him around three blocks
one morning, and still he. recovt red
sufficiently to sit in a chair, and re
peat the charge, with more particu
lars, that night.
So eager was this little local editor
alter news that when, one time, lie
heard there was to be steamboat * x
cursiou, a ‘d that there w re a 1- >;
boiler and a Drunken enuiueer aboard
ami a tint prospect of an explosion
and a terrible loss of life, lie, went
along for an item, and the explosion,
took place, and the little looal was on
hand, and, althoug t he had one of his
eyes blown out, he saw enough with
the other to give his readers a four
column and a half account of it next
morning.
At another time he went up in a
balloon with a crazy aeronaut, and
the balloon lodged in the top of a
tree, and our hero couldn’t climb, and
would have starved to death if he
hadn’t eat the ropes of the balloon.
But he was rescue-1, and wrote -a
thrilling account of bis travels, follow -
ed by a dissertation on the healthful
propertiesjol rope as a steady diet.
At another time, wheu items were
very du I, and the readers were growl
ing at the scanty appearance of the
local columns, the local set fire to a
DARIEN, GEORGIA, SATURDAY MORNING, MAY 2, 1874.
livery stable, and got up a splendid
item. But alas! somebody saw him
do it. and iie was arrested, and s-nt
to jail, and if he had’nt had some
good friends he would have been sent
to the penitentiary. At another time
he climbed to the top of the dome of
anew court house they were building
and the scaffold, a hundred feet from
the ground, gave way from the care
lessness of those who built it, and
precipitated them to the ground.
Jenkins in trying to get his note-book
out, while on his way down, had hi*
arm broken and had a serious time
with it for many weeks.
Many more sad accidents befel our
hero because he was on duty, and
always enterprising in the pursuit of
news. But because he had a clear
conscience, a good digestion, a brave
heart, and a strong constitution, he
lived on, year after yea:, and got up
tlte best local department in all the
country around, for he was fearless
and brave, energetic and ready.
But at last our hi ro met his fate,
and this is how it. happened. He had
written something about a lady of the
city, and the next morning the lady
came to see him. Siie a ked if be
was tiie local editor, and with a polite
bow-he said he was. She then said
she was Flora Moi’litusey. “In the
paper this morning, in your account
of the party last night, you said that
I was “beautifully arranged in a pink
silk dress with a white Swiss over
shirt. Now everybody h-ts been ridi
culing the idea of iny being either in
an over-shirt or under a shirt, and 1
have come to demand an explanation.”
And with that, Mrs. McFlimsey com
menced such a tirade us never'man
heard before. She swore that if it
took uiue tailors to make a man-, it
only took one local editor to unmake
one. She said it was well the local
had to do so much of his work at
night, for his dec’s were those of
darkness. He had to nose around in
to everything, and make even body’s
business his own. Had to study im
politeness and impudence, and make,
a regular nog 01 himself.” She kept
at him, talking louder and faster, the
longer she continued, until at the
end of tlm,-first hour, you could hear
her tongue snap like it whip-cracker,
■very time site articulated the latter
Now our lurt could have explained
the matter in a satisfactory matinee,
if he cord 1 have got a wor 1 in ode
ways, but he couldn’t do it. He had
written, “Miss McF i nsey was beauti
fully arrayed in a pink side dress with
i white Swiss overskirt,” and the
printer, proof-reader or somebody,
hadn’t, corrected the mistake.
At the end of the first hour, Jen
kins showed signs of being tired. Not
so with the lady. She went forward
with renewed velocity. In anotln r
hour Jenkins lay back in bis chair,
perfectly exhausted. At the end of
•another, he was gasping for breath,
and giving the Masonic signal of dis
tress. Alas! no help wtis near. The
lady seemed to be just getting warmed
up, and when she started on the fourth
hour, poor Jenkins feebly murmured
'lie words, “Hume,” “Mot-bar,” and
died. Flora talked to the corpse for
a couple of bonis longer, and then
sailed majestically out of the room,
and the outside world knew not then
the dastardly deed she had done.
Poor Jenkins was found dead in his
chair, the next morning, and a coro
ner's inquest being held, tin office boy
who ha I witnessed the murder, and
who had neatly lost bis st uses there
by, .testified to the above facts, and
Miss McFlimsey being arrested, c n
tVssed them. She was tried, convicted
and hanged.
A Beiutiful Tree. —The camphor
tree perfumes Hie air, ami its leaves
yield the finest, honey. It nfieu
readies a hundred feet in height, wiih
a guth of fifty feet. The precious
uuin is found sometimes in layers as
a rue as man’s arm, but more frequent
ly in small fragments, extracted with
sharp-pointed instruments. The wood
is exoenent tor house, ship-timber and
furiiiiui e, and except in ' the teak and
alambuco, is the only wood never
attacieJ by the mytia sot voracious
insects in the East Indies. The com
mon kin Is of camphor are procured
by distillation.
Good Language.— Young people
should acquire the habit of corn et
speaking and writing, and abandon
as early as possible any use of slang
words and plda-es. The longer you
put this off, the more difficult the ac
quiremebt of correct language will be;
and if ti e g ideu age of youth, the
proper season for tiie acquisition of
language be passed in its abuse, the
iinh rtmiLte victim will most proba* ly
be doomed to talk si,m for life. You
have mefely to ust the language
which yot read, instead of I f e slang
which yoa hear, to foini a taste m
agreement with the besi speakers and
poets in tie country.
Whit to Do for a Living.
Hen mnke a regular business of
walk'ug the streets of Paris at break
of day to pi ’k up the “inconsiderable
trifks’ 4 dropped by careless people the
nigm?previotiß. Here is a fellow who
pursues the same avocation in New
Yor . Being arrested on suspicion
of practicing some criminal ‘Mftdg*;”
for a’living, he “rises to explain” that
his emoluments arise from finding
tilings.
“'.Yell, j’our Honor, you see the
tradare too lull—more into than
work—aud I don’t want to lay down
and itie. Sol, coming from a very
lucky family—don’t smile, it hurts
mv Yeungs —and having very sharp
eyes.^sip't out into the.street by day-j
break, ’ -r earlier, if there’s a good
moos, yuid examine the streets and
si Id •ihukia when people and horses
are a home and aslo- p. I walk mi e
befort breakfast, and always find
something worPlt picking up, general
ly dropped the night before. Say kid
gloves, Handkerchiefs, knives, pencils,
occasionally a hat, sometimes an um
brella, and now and then small par
cels, possibly a pocket-book, once in
a while a few stamps, and frequent
ly a horse-shoe.”
“How much money did you ever
pick nfs V”
[ -a- ■
“OtveTwo-dolbir bill, good money,
one five-dollar bill, counterfeit, but
no en 1 to ten-eent scrip and nickh-s.
People who drop gold watches are
scare ;! My best hold is small sums
like ten, twenty-five and fifty cent
scrip, and my best bold in goods is
knives, handkerchiefs, and small bun
dles. I have fluctuated down as low
as picking up a pin, but it. was more
for luck tbau anything else; and I
have gut as high as it five-dollar shawl,
several times dirk-knives, an I once a
revolver. What do I do with all these
things? Why, 1 pawnbroke ’em or
sell ’oil) in liar rooms, or sometimes
call rtt lonises and offer ’em cheap for
cash—‘stranger in the city.’ you know;
‘relics of a distant relative,’ want,
tnorey enough to get back to my good
home iti-tiie country. Everybody is a
strnugei /to a certain extent, and we
are all liiatives in Adam, and every
poor m, y would like to go to his good
vjii ( p t ji - v .a iif be only k:jew
where it m*hs.
‘Anybo ly can find things, but some
ari professional finders; and there are
specialties in the business, dog, horse,
wfg in, pocket-book, watch, and even
special cat finders, but they tire all
reward men. I am, however, I think,
M® only original, break-of day, mis
c4laneous, accidental finder there is in
tire city, or perhaps in the world, who
finds without hope or reward, excep
what l can fittd. Do I make rnyse f
understood ?” “Perfectly. You tire
a wandering philanthropist and polit
ical economist; and, as yon have man
ned to keep body and soul together
Dr ten years in this business, I think
1 won’t make you a burden to the
Jlate.”
An incompletely reconstructed
southerner moved to Vermont recent
ly, and soon afterward his family wa--
jncreased by a native Vermonter,
flis oiliest, son, a boy of four years,
jvas at first delighted with his little
brother, but after a few weeks began
jo tire of his crying, and got a little
jealous from fancied neglect. One
flay lie climbe i up into his father’s
In)), and asked him :
“Pa, which do you like best, baby
or me ?”
Th father thinking.to please the
itt’e prattler, answered that he liked
ilim the best.
After a serious thought the shrewd
youth sad :
“Pa, I know why you like me
best.”
“Why ?”
“O, ’cause I’m a Southern man and
he’s a Yankee.”
EsSF A good advertisement in a
newspaper is the best of all possible
salesmen. It is a salesman who nev
er sleeps and is never weary; who
goes after business early and late;
♦ lio accosts the merchant in his shop,
he scholar in his study, the lawyt r
in lor, office, the lady at her break
fast table; who can be in a thousand
plates a! once, and speak to a million
people every morning, saying to each
one the best thing in the best mau
per.
5 An old farmer once said :
“When I di , I am going to leave be
hind me, as a heritage for my chil
dren, the home where they were born,
made as beautiful as my means and
uneducated taste would allow; pleas
ant memories of home, fireside and of
the sunny summer days, ami a true
regard for he dignity and worthiness
of the calling which their father fol
” It jc g legacy.
To tho Tatrons of Husbandry
of the Cotton States.
The organization of the Direct
Trade Union has been effected. This
grand scheme is the conception of the
Patrons of Husbandry, and under
their fostering care it will be consum
mated. The benefits will not he
confined to them, but beginning with
the greatest amelioration of the con
dition of our farmers and plant rs,
tlte good of the organization will be
felt throughout our whole society.
All classes will share in the grand re
sult; but to the tillers of our soil we
appeal to make this effort of the pa
trons of Husbandry in behalf of our
greatest interest., a splendid success
from the unnecessary burdens. Trie
time has cone for your release. The
way is direct and sure out of your
troubles. Millions may be saved to
the men who can ed them by hard,
honest work This may be done by
direct trade through otir own cities,
merchants and agents. The present
circuitous channels by which the pro
ductions of our soil and labor reach
the consumer are not the r suit, of
any necessity law of trade. They are
arbitrary, and are advetse to the in
terest of producer, manufacturer and
consumer.
Let ns resolve that what we raise
shall take the most direct r ute to
our final markets, and the sales re
turu through as few toll-gates as pos
sible to our pockets. We mean no
hostility to any man, class or section.
We only propose to protect ourselves.
Difficulties there will be, and discour
ugements, and much of hard work, in
the accomplishment of our object; but
the infinite value of the success will be
worth all that it. will cost, aud far
more than human foresight nut esti
mate.
Capital will be needed, and that
can be raised by the divided and gen
eral support which the grangers of
this State, and the Southern Stat'-s
should te 1 it their interest A
good amount has already been sub
scribed. More is required. Every
grange in Georgia should feel that
direct trade was of the last conse
quence to our success of tile euter
pr.se. A moderate contribution on
tf** part uj’-pv'pyy yr.* jujiifAya ake
uiv"%~uiou an assured • u ‘cess. V 1 !
look to our of other cotton
States for ai I tin 1 co-operation. Tin y
are no less interested than the farm
ers and planters of Georgia. Lend
.us your lie'p, brethren 1 Speaking
for the officers, directors, and all who
have taken part in ; his organization,
we pledge our words that what yon
entrust to us shall be used for your
good—for the liberation, redress and
independence of the planters and far
mers of the South, and fora commer
cial reform which will impart, new life
aid activity to our cities, and be re
flected in the prosperity of every de
partment of industiy.
Subscriptions will be taken by note
payable on the first of October next,
in cash or cotton. Bring the subject
before your councils—canvass for sub
scriptions to stock—urge all to heh>
the enterprise —communicate the re
sult to us, and apply for any informa
tion you may nee.i.
A. H. Colquitt,
Prest. Direct Trade Union.
Value of Sleep.
We do not propose to wear this
subject threadbare; yet, attaching the
importance we do to sleep as a re
cruitiug power, hesitate not in speak
ing a word in its favor at all times.
It must be remembered that sleep re
pairs not the vital functions only, but
simultaneously those Junctions which
we distinctively desciibe as mental tit
tributes, and of which the brain is, to
our limited comprehension, the or
ganic instrument. The intellectual
part of our nature taking the phrase
m its hugest sense, is exhausted by
its continued exerci.-e, in like manner
as the bodily organs, and requires the
intermittent periods of repose and re
pair. If other proof were needed (if
the great function which sleep fulfills
in the economy of life, it may at once
be found in ttie effects which follow
the privation of this repair. A single
sleepless night tells its tale, even to
tbe most careless observer. A long
series of such nights resulting, as of
ten happens, from an overtaxed and
anxious brain, may ofieu warrant se
rious apprehension, as an inuex of
mischief already existing, or the cause
ot evil at hand. Instances of this kind,
we believe, are familiar to the experi
ence of every physician. But here, as
in so many other cases, the evil of de
ficiency has its counterpart in the evil
Sleep protracted beyond tiie
me l of repa r, and encroaching habit
ually upon the hours of waking ac
tion, imp its more or less mo func
tions of tbe brain nd with them all
the- vital powers,
*2.50 A YEAR
The Prosperity of Your Own
City.
If you have any pride in Hie pros
perity of your own city or village,
patronize i's merchants and mechan
ics in preference to those of any oth
er place. You cannot expect outsi
ders to be attracted to your stores
and shops, so long as you patroniz •
the traders and artisuus of other
places, to their exclusion. See to it
that your local and county papers
are well supported with subscriptions,
advertising and job work. Nowhere
does the public spirit of a place tell
so conspicuously as here. A well
supported newspaper gives a village
a good name far and wide. So long as
your own State supplies first-class re
ligious, political or literary papers, it
is the duty of public-spirited men to
support them in preference to period
icals, no better published in other
States. We are not speaking for our
selves iu this matter for we have no
cause to complain. But wo notice
some of the thriving villages of this
State are not taking the interest they
ought in their local papers, of which
little can be expected so long as they
are kept half starved. See how a lit
tle extra patronage will enliven them.
Nuda Veritas
Mrs. Debonnair. (urged by an irre
sistible impulse to ask a plain ques
tion) —“Tell me, Mrs. Verjuice, when
you come to see me, why do you so
persistently sing the paaises ot Mrs.
Whatseruayme V”
Mrs. Verjuice (urged by an irresist
ible impulse to answer the plain
truth) X am not fortunate, good-look
ing, popular, and beloved as you are,
and, consequently, hate you. 1 can
not tell you so in so many words,
but I can insinuate by , my extrava
gant praise of Mrs. Whatseruayme
(who, by the by, I hate almost as
much as I do you) that X rate very
low the gifts which you enjoy, and
which Iso bitterly envy you. If you
but knew how infinitely more your
possession of t ese good things pains
me than nay implied depreciation of
the same cau possibly pain you,
you woutd fe.-l , fcv 'Tutu" tornive
Wagner and Beethoven.
Wagner is not the only musician
whose failure to find sympathy and
appreciation among the muiiitnde
has reacted on himself and stimulated
in him what seems to a superficial
glance, a towering egotism, Beetho
ven thus expressed himself :—“I de
spise the world which does not under
stand that music is a more sublime
revelation than all wisdom and all
philosophy. As for me, lam the
Bacchus who crushes out the deli
cious nectar for mankind; it is I to
whom they owe frenzy of mind, and
when it is over, behold ! they have
flashed up a number of things which
they bring back with them to the
shore. I have no friends, lam alone
with myself, but I know that God is
nearer me in my heart tbau he is to
others.”
A Miserable Hypocrite.
A lady writes : “My husband know®
that I do not like his one bail habit—
smoking. I used to urge him to give
it tij); he replied that it helped his
digestion, but lie would give it up by
and by.” “By and by you won’t be
able,’ I answered; but he “pooh!
pool ed !” and so the matter dropped.
A few evenings ago, however, making
one of tlj< se “great efforts” that “lead
to noble ends,” he said to me; “I've
quit smoking, my, dear.” Of course
I was delighted, and hugged and
kissed him as any delighted little wife
would, and inwardly resolved to go
down he very next day and buy him
a handsome pair of slippers. Two
days, however, passed before I could
manage it, but the thiid day found
the slippers safely etowod away in my
bureau dtawer. After tea, when r
knew he was in tiie sitting-room, I
thought now is tiie time when lie will
be missing his accustomed smoke, to
surprise bun with “a token of Iris
wife’s appreciation of self-denial.” I
had been mentally preparing my little
speech all the afternoon; so with the
slippers in my hands, and my hands
behind my back, stole into the room.
Yes, there he was, poor fellow ! buried
iu his arm-chair, his leet very n ar
the top of the coal stove, and the day’s
p :per open before him. Tbe back of
tiie chair was toward me, so my arms
were around his rteok and the slip
pery in itis lap before he was aware
ot my presence. He started and grew
red, then recovering himself, he arose
a 1 coolly ’.-..oikeri the ashes off the
eo i of ins o.gar, and said : just
thought TV let you see l could stop
smoking.''
