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VOL. 1-NO. 2. gamn Simte PUBLISHED EVERY SATURDAY MORNING, BY RICHARD W. GaUBB office in phillip’s budding. Subscription Rates, in advance. For one year *2 50-Foi * months. .$1.50 Club Rates: Five copies, each one year J W Ten “ or over, each one year l oh Advertising Ra'-es: PEIt SQUARE, 10 lines space. Art insertion. .$1 50 i. •* Each snbsequentinsertion— 100 jy Special Rates to Yearly and iMrge Advertisers. Advertisements from responsible parties will be published until ordered out. whet the time is not specified on the copy, and payment exacted accord ingly. Communications for individisl benefit, or of a personal character, ajjarged as dvertlsements. Marriages, and Obituary pftices not exceeding four hues, solicit J for free puilication. When ex- Csen.ng that space', charged aeidver'isements. dills tor advertisements and e upon p-esentation after the first insertion, but,; i spirit of commercial i mrality will be practiced tlrardregular patrons. To avoid any misunderspfdtng, the above rules will he adhered to Without aviation. All letters and communiciions would be address ed *° Ridferd W. Grubb, 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 TT—i f * v- - 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.''