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Darien Timber ( Ja/,ette
VOL. 6.--NO. 21.
Dariin Timber Gazette,
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Timber Gazette, Darien, Georgia.
City Directory.
' Bounty officers.
County Commissioners —James Walker, Chairman;
Adam Strain. Isaac M. Aiken. J. A. Atwood, T. H.
‘Giiniilli.t, James E. Holmes, Joseph Hilton.
Clerk Board of County Commissioners— Spalding
Kenan. , „ , „ .
Clerk Superior Court— L. B. ivis.
"Ordinary—C. H. Hopkins, Sr.
Sheriff —T. Butler Blount.
Receiver Tax Returns— W. McW. Young.
Tax Collector —O. C. Hopkins.
County Treasurer— M. C. O'Neil.
‘County Surveyor —W. B. Poppel.
Coroner —Philip Maxwell.
The Commissioners hold monthly meetings on
the first Wednesday in each mouth.
CITY OFFICERS.
tx%Z tt^r M p“n,l. A. Atwood,'
Strata, J. E. Holmes, Thomas H. Gignilliat,
Isaac M. Aiken.
BTAKDIHQ COMMITTEES.
Committee on Finance—Messrs. Strain, Atwood
on Accounts-Mossrs. Holmes, Gignil-,
' U 'commin* U on Harbo r-Mee*rs. Hilton. Aiken
™Com T Juttee on Health and Cemetery-Mcssrs. GiguU-
Atwood. Holmes;
Jail —Messrs. Aiken. Hilton and
on Streets and Lanes— Messrs. Aiken,
Roads Messrs. Atwood,
* D o H & Buildings Messrs. Strain,
"ToZmti*™ Holmes. Hilton and
on Ordinances-Messrs. Aiken, Strain.
And Atwood. ~,
Clerk and Treasurer— Spalding Kenan.
City Marshal —Charles H. Hopkins, Jr.
Deputy Marshal —Alonzo Guyton.
'Harbor Master— James Abeel.
Fort Physician-Vr. James Holmes^
Inspector General of Timber— George W. Fart.
Dort Wardens —Isaac M. AdkOO. John H. Burrell,
’hbd James G. Young. T ANARUS, ,
Jailer— Charlw H. Hopkms, „ T __ lon
Board Pilot Commissioners— Charles 8. Lang ,
Chairmam, B. K. Walker, W. C. Clark, A '! Li h '
ley. Dr. R. B. Harris, James Lachlison and Kobt.
Mitchell. Wm. L. Gignilliat, Secretary.
MASONIC.
ri.Av t n d o Ho. 137. meets first Wednesdsy
night in each month at their hall near t *J''
41 Houso: H. S. Rarenel, Worshipful Master, K.
\T. Grubb, Secretary
UNITED STATES OFFICERS.
Collector of Customs, Brunswick District— John T.
Collins. Headquarters at Brunswick.
Deputy Collector of Customs for Port of Darten—
'Charles H. Townsend.
Inspector -Kdwin C. Davis.
Postmaster—V. Webster Davis.
Deputy Marshal —Joseph B. Bond.
SUPERIOR COURT—EASTERN CIRCUIT.
Wm. B. Fleming. Judge.
Major A. B. Smith, Solicitor General.
Bullock County—Thursday before first Mondays
in April and October. , ,
Effingham County-First Mondays in April and
Bryan County— Thursdays after first Mondays
in <Tiath*m Country-Second Mondays in February,
*Mc Intosh County — Tuesdays after last Mondays in
"ty-Tnesday after second Monday,
in Mav and October.
UNITED STATES MAILS.
The mails arrive from Sterling. No. 1, Macon &
Brunswick Railroad, every morning (W‘l™
■oeptfecl) at 10 o'clock a. m., departing every after
Boon at 3p. m. Mail closes at ty, P™_ .. .
Side mail for No. 3, Atlantic & Gulf Railroad
■decarts o’clock every Tuesday morning and
arrives at 8 p. m. every Monday, touching at
Jiiceboro and South Newport both ways.
RELIGIOUS.
’Religious services at the Methodist Church
every morning at 11 oclock, and evening
It 8 o'clcSk Sch.xil at the Ridge every Sunday
afternoonat 3o'clock. Rev. H. E. Harman, p.s
-toßeligious services every Sabbath at II *“ J
Bp. m. at the Methodist Church, Colored, Rev.
T^lLSraitlrpastor^^
Ji rtTO $6,000 A YEAR. Or $5 to S2O
4 rlllL day in your owh localify
1 1 111 Ho risk. Women do as well as
I 111 Illmen. Many make more than the
X a Uv Hamonnt Btated above. No one
7 can fall to make money fast.
Auv ne o*n do the work. Yon can make from
too ts. to s'2 an hour by di-rotihg yOUr
anti span; time to the business. It costs nothing
to try the'btisines*. Nothihg like it ever offered
fbefore. Business pleasant and strictly h<'n°rable.
Reader, if vou Want to know all about the best
■paying business before the public, send us your
address and we will send you full particulars and
■private terms free; samples worth $5 also free;
son can then make up your mind for yourself.
Address GEORGE STINSON & CO., Portland. Me.
June 20
Garden Seed.
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CELERY, EGGPLANT,
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fSRANS. TOMATOES,
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Professional Cards.
"yy ALTER A. WAY,
Attorney-at-Law and Real
Estate Agent,
DARIEN, GEORGLY
Will practice in the Superior Courts of the
Brunswick and Eastern Circuits. Also, in the
Federal Courts in cases of Bankruptcy, etc. Par
ticular attention given to the collection of claims
and the examination of land titles. april2s
’yy ROBERT GIGNILLIAT,
Attorney-at-Law,
DARIEN, GEORGLV
Prompt attention given to all legal businoss in
the Eastern and Brunswick Circuits, and in the
United States Courts at Savannah, Georgia.
april2s-ly
j e. b. Delorme,
Attorney & Counselor-at-Law,
and Notary Public.
DARIEN, GEORGIA.
Office on Broad stroet, near Timber Exchange.
July 2
JJR. SPALDING KENAN,
DARIEN, GEORGIA.
Offers his professional services to the citizens of
Darien and vicinity. He can be found at all hours
day and night, at his office on Screvon street, next
door to Mr, Wilcox’s dwelling house. augS-ly
JQR. R. B. HARRIS
Offers his professional services to the citizens of
Darien and surrounding country. All calls prompt
ly attended, both medical and surgical. Office
under the Masonic Hall, in old Custom House
building.
J J. ABRAMS,
Attorney-at-LaW,
Commercial Building,
june6-tf SAVANNAH, GEORGIA.
HENBY B. TOMPKINS. | B. A. DENMARK.
rjVOMPKINS & DENMARK,
Attorneys-at-Law,
No. 105 Bay Street, SAVANNAH, GA.
Practice in the United States Courts, and in the
Superior Courts of the Eastern Circuit. je6-tf
i, ■ , ii ii to I. J ]-!-■■
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Wheelwright and Blacksmith
Tam now prepared to do all kind*
of Wheelwright and Blacksmith work at Short
notice.
BUGGIES, WAGONS AND SIGNS
PAINTED.
Gorham's Patent Attachment for shafts (a great
saving of time and money to ail who use them)
are kept on hand.
All kinds of work done in first-class style. All
I ask of the people of Darien and Mclntosh
County is a trial. All work warranted.
ROBERT MITCHELL.
je6-tf Second street, Darien, Ga.
Ilf |L|Trn A LIMITED NUMBER of
UI ft 111 I ► I (active. energetic canvassers to
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TO MAKE MONEY.
Such will please answer this advertisement by
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business they have been engaged in. None but
those who mean business apply. Address
Je2o-ly. Finley, Habvey & Cos., Atlanta, Ga.
For Rent.
eight.room DWELLING house in the
City of Darien, formerly occupied by Mrs. Dun
wody, or Broad street. Possession given October
Ist. Apply to JOE MANSFIELD.
Darien, Ga., September 26th, 1872,
DARIEN, GEORGIA, FRIDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 14, 1879.
EMU. A. SCHWARi. NICHOLAS SCHWARZ.
Emil A. Schwarz & Bro.,
DEALERS IN
CARPETS & FURNITURE,
125 & 127 Broughton.St.
SAVANNAH, GA.,
Carpets,
Oil Cloths,
Matting,
Crum ClothS , Rugs, Jtiats.
FUBNITHRE,
In Variety and Style.
Curtains, Cornices,
WINDOW SHADES.
UPHOLSTERY SHADES.
AND
TRIMMINGS.
Wall Paper & Decorations
CHURCHES, OFFICES AND PUBLIC
BUILDINGS FURNISHED.
EMIL A. SCAWARZ & BRO.,
Oct3-tf. Savannah, Ctaj
Rule Nisi.
STATE OF GEORGIA—McIntosh County.
CLERK’S OFFICE SUPERIOR COURT, 1
July 30th, 1879. )
IT APPEARING BY THE PETITION IN WRl
ting of J. H. M. Clinch, Administrator of the
estate of John H. Mclntosh, Sr., deceased, together
with a copy in substance of the paper lost, or de
stroyed; that S. Harris, Tax Collector of Mclntosh
county, Georgia, on the twenty-seventh (27th) day
of January, A. D., eighteen hundred and one, exe
cuted and delivered to John H. Mclntosh, Sr., de
ceased. a certain deed of fifty thousand acres of
marsh land in Mclntosh county, Georgia, at the
month of the Altawaha River, and about Doboy
Island, granted to Edward Walsh in the year 1794,
which said deed is lost or destroyed, and the rec
ord of the same was destroyed by fire in Darien,
in said county; that said land is still tho property
of the estate of John H. Mclntosh, 8r„ deceased.
It is therefore ordered, that the said Sampson
Harris, then Tax Collector of Mclntosh county,
Georgia, and Edward Walsh, grantee, and the hairs
of Armand Lcfils, grantee, and W. Street, deceased,
and Sarah A. Thomas and Chas. 8. Langdou, claim
ants, show cause On or before tho next term of tho
said Court, why a true copy of the deed sworn
to, which with the petition'now on file insaid office,
should not be established fully and in lieu of said
lost or original deed.
Witness the Honorablo William B. Fleming,
Judge of said Court, this July 30th, 1879.
L. B. DAVIS,
augl-3m. Clerk Superior'Ct., Mcl. Cos. Ga.
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day.
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Ordinances, &c.
AN OUIMVVXCF,
Entitled An Ordinance to Protect the
Public Health of the Port of Darien
by Quarantine and Otherwise.
Section I. —The Board of Commissioners of
Mclntosh County who are exvjticio Mayor and
Aldermen of the City of Darien, in Council assem
bled do ordain and it is hereby ordained by author
ity of the same, That at the first annual meet
ing of this board for eaeh and every year, there
shall be elected a Board of Health, to be composed
of flvo (5) members, and also a Port Physician,
who shall be, by reason of his office, a member of
said board.
Sec. 2.—. 8e it further ordained, That said Board
of Health shall have power to visit and inspect,
at their discretion, any or all lots, enclosures,
yards, streets, lanes, thoroughfares or wharves,
and to require the same to be cleansed of any
filth or unwholesome matter found thereon, by
the owmers or tenants of such property, within
twenty-four (24) hours after notice is given; they
will also cause such gleanings to be forthwith
rendered or placed within reach of the public
scavenger. Upon neglect or refusal of the owner
or tenant of any such property to comply with the ;
foregoing requirements they shall be reported to
the Police Court, to be punished, as hereinafter
provided, and the said cleaning up shall be done
by the Marshal, and all expense thus incurred
shall be paid by the owner or tenant of such
property.
Sec. 3.— Be it further ordained. That said Board
of Health are hereby empowered, in their discre
tion, to have any or all untenanted houses opened
for ventilation and the premises of the same
cleansed. And any expense so incurred shall be
paid by the owner of such liouae or lot.
Bec. 4. — Be it further ordained, That any person
resisting, by neglect or otherwise, any of the pro
visions of the preceding section of this ordinance
after twenty-four (24) hours notice is given him
or her by any member of the Board of Health,
shall be, upon conviction thereof, fined for every
such offense not exceeding $25 00 or placed on the
chain-gang for not exceeding thirty (30) days, and
tho Marshal or his assistants are hereby ordered
to obey all orders emanating from said Board of
Health, which may be given for the purpose of
carrying into effect the provisions of the ordinance.
Bkc. s.— Be it further ordained. That said Board
of Health shall meet monthly, or at the call of its
chairman, and report to this board their actings
and doings, and also examine into and recom
mend any measures which may be, in their judg
ment, necessary to preserve the public health.
They are also hereby empowered to fill, by elec
tion, any vacancy that may at any time occur in
their board.
Bec. 6.— Be it further ordained, That it shall be
the duty of the Port Physician to visit and inspect
all vessels arriving at this port from any point
(foreign or domestic) reported to him as infected
with contagious or malignant diseases of auy
nature, and if after investigation auy such dis
ease is found to exist aboard of such vessel, he
shall forth with order tho same to be removed to
quarantine grounds and the sick or diseased per
sons aboard said vessel shall be, at his discretion,
removed to the quarantine buildings, near Wolfe
Island, so that tho proper attention may be given
them. He is hereby empowered to employ, w here
he deems it necessary, sufficient guards to pre
vent communication with such vessel or sick per
sons, and to transport any necessary medicines
or sustenance to tho same. Also, to employ
nurses when required, reporting such action to
the chairman of this board.
Beo. 7.— Be it further ordained. That after the
required time of quarantine shall have been com
plied with by such vessel, the Port Physician shall
cause her to bo thoroughly fumigated and
cleansed, and two (2) days after such fumigation he
shall issue a permit for her removal, and all ex
pense thus incurred shall be paid by tho master
or owner of such vessel. And the quarantine
grounds spoken of in this ordinance are hereby
declared to be the grounds in Doboy Sound, to
the nortliord of Wolfe Island, known as tho lower
quarantine grounds.
Sec. B. — Be it further ordained, That the regular
quarantine term shall begin oil the first day of
April of each and every year, and end the first day
of November of the same year unless circum
stances should require other dates than the
above, and the Port Physician is hereby instructed
to issue, his proclamation, endorsed by the Mayor
on the said first day of April, to all pilots and mas
ters of vessels arriving from any South American,
West India, or Guff ports, requiring the same to be
anchored at tho quarantine grounds and reported
for investigation and fumigation, even though
they may have no sickness aboard. And in the
event that any vessel with sickness aboard of a
malignant nature, shall arrive at other dates
than those above spocified, it shall be the duty
of the Port Physician to proceed as during tho
regular term of quarantine.
Bkc. 9. — Be it further ordained. That it shall be
the duty of every pilot of this port l>efore board
ing any vessel either at sea or inside the bar to
make a diligent inquiry of tho master of said ves
sel, if there is on board any malignant, contagious
or infectious disease of any nature, and if there
should exist such disease he is hereby forbidden
going aboard, under a'penalty of SIOO and dismissal
from office.
Bec. 10.—Be it further ordained. That any mas
ter of a vessel refusing to answer the above in
quiries of the pilot, or deceiving him as to the real
presence of infectious disease on board, or as to
any death on the voyage from said cause shall be
fined in the sum of SIOO.
Sec. 11 .—Be it further ordained. That any master
of a tow or other steamboat violating the provi
sions of this ordinance as contained in section 9,
whether as a pilot or master of such boat, shall
upon conviction, be fined in the sum of SIOO for
each and every such offense.
Sec. 12.— lie it further ordained, That it shall bo
the duty of the Port Physician to examine into
any cases of a malignant or contagious diseaae re
ported to him as existing wit hin the city of Darien
or its vicinity, and report the same to the chair
man of this board, who is hereby authorized to
cause the removal of such persons, at the expense
of the city, to some point designated by the Board
of Health, so as to prevent the spread of such
disease.
Sec. 13.— 8 eit further r/rdaified, That the loe of
the Port Physician shall be:
For every vessel boarded in Doboy Sound
for inspection S2O 00
For every vessel boarded in Sapalo Sound
for inspection 50 00
For every vessel boarded at or neai* Darien.. 200
At the Ridge 6 00
For all vessels boarded at night, with infectious
disease on board, double day rates, (S4O, SIOO,
$4, $10), and he is hereby required to make month
ly reports of hiR actions, and doings to this board.
Sec. 14.— 8 eit further ordained. That all ordi
nances or parts of ordinances conflicting with any
of the provisions of this ordinance be and the
same are repealed.
Read third time and passed April 11, 1879.
Spalding Kenan,
junel3-tf Clerk and Treasurer.
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luneJT-tf J J SCI TON,
A Ghost Story.
[From tho London Truth, October 2.]
In these days when ghost-loro seems to
be fast vanishing into space, it may inter
est some of my readers to hear the follow
ing story as it was told me by the individ
ual concerned, a rising diplomatist, in a
pleasant continental town that I happen
ed to visit:
“You will remember," he said, “that on
my return here after my marriage we took
asmall house inoneof the principalstreets
nor by any means an old building nor in
any way different from the ordinary run of
houses of the same size. It so happened
that after we had settled ourselves I was
obliged to be away in England, leaving
my wife here alone. On my return she
mentioned to me that she had dreamed
four or live times, running on the same
dream, and that it always took place when
she had been in bed about an hour. She
was not in the least nervous about it, nor
gave mo the smallest hint that she suspect
ed nnything uncommon. About three
days after our conversation we were dress
ing for dinner, and the door leading from
uiy dressing-room to my wife’s room was
open, when she called out to me: ‘ls it not
curious, I feel exactly as if there was some
one in tho room with me ? Are you still
dressing? I replied that I had left my
room. That night, shortly after going to
bed, I distinctly saw a little old man with
blonde cendre beard, come into our bed
room, and wulk through into my dressing
room; the lire was burning brightly at the
time, as also rushlight at tho further end of
tho room. I jumped quickly out of bed
and came behind the figure which was
standing at my dressing-table, and was
perfectly visible from our room, saying:
‘Come, I have got you now !’ As you know
I am a pretty strong-minded individual,
and have never had much leaning toward
‘spiritual fancies,’ even when a medium
has held most of tho spectators entranced
by his performances; but I confess I had a
bad moment when the figure, instead of
giving me a crack on the head or begging
for mercy, adopted the more unusual
course of vanishing altogether. I said
nothing to my wife about the affair, hut
tho next evening at very nearly the same
time in walked the figure again and stood
in the doorway looking at us. I woke my
wife and we both had a good stare at him.
I felt it was no good getting up after him,
and in about two minutes he walked leisu
rely through the doorway out of sight.
Personally speaking, I don’t care a rap how
often the gentleman comes. My wife also
is averse to leaving a comfortable house
on account of what she is pleased to term
‘a bogey, ’ so we have never moved, and
from time to time our old friend appears
and goes through the same performance.
I have made inquiries from some neigh
boring shopkeepers, and from my discre
tion they at once recognized the figure I
saw as the former owner of my house who
died some ten or twelve yeans ago.”
I reproduce the story in almost the iden
tical words my friend used, and leave it to
my readers to explain away or believe in
it, os the fancy takes them.
Man ted.
A man who will refrain from calling his
friend’b speech a "happy effort.”
A woman who remembers last Sunday'h
text, but ia unable to apeak understand-
of the trimmings on the bonnet of
■the lady in the pew next in front.
An editor who never feels pleased to
have his good things credited, or mad
when they are stolen.
A pencil that is always in tho first pock
et you put your hand into.
A man who has been a fool somo time
during his life and knows enough to keep
the knowledge to himself.
A married man who does not think all
girls the envy his wife the prize she has
captured.
A married woman who never said, "No
wonder the girls don't get married nowa
days; they are altogether different from
what they wore when I was a girl.
An unmarried woman who never had an
offer.
A man who never intimated that the
economies of the univese were subject to
his movements, by saying, “I knew if I
took an umbrella, it wouldn't rain," or
some similar assinine remark.
A pocket-knife that is never in “them
other pants.”
A mother who never said she “would
rather do it myself” when she should have
taught her child to do that thing.
A child who would not rather eat be
tween meals than at meals.
A person, age or sex immaterial who
does not experience a flush of pride upon
being thought what he is not and may
never hope to be.
A singer who never complains of a cold
when asked to sing.
A woman, who, when caught in her sec
ond dress will make no apology for her
dreadful appearance.-—[Boston Herald.
All Things are Now Ready.
The Church of Christ Rtands open to re
ceive you, to protect and to nourish you.
Her institutions, her examples, all, all are
ready for you. This is a want for which
the grace that rescues you has specially
provided. You are not asked to he saved
alone, though that were surely better than
to perish. You may bring as many with
you as you will, and you will find many
entered in before you. When we bid you
come you are invited to a feast, of which
many, thanks be to God, are, after all, par
takers; though many that are bidden make
excuse,or ne verventure to make lightof it,
the giver of tho banquet shall still be sup
plied wtth guests; for while the broard
way that leadeth to destruction remains
crowded with infatuated victims, another
concourse is seen streaming from the high
ways and the hedges to the table of the
Lord, where they shall sit down clothed
in their right minds, washed and beauti
ful, ennobled and refined, while many
who appoared to be hereditary children of
the kingdom are excluded, or exclude
themselves from any participation in the
banquet. Of the company thus gathered
and transformed you are invited to form a
part. The doors stand open to receive
yon; and yet there is room. If all obstruc
tions have now vanished from without and
from within, if atonement, and forgiyness,
and renewal are accessible, and if the
Church is ready to receive you into its
communion of saints, what remaining pre
! text for delay can be imagined ? “Come,
; for all things are now ready. '
$2.50 A YEAR.
Keep Dwellings Dry.
A warm and dry atmosphere is not un
wholesome, but when cloudy or rainy
weather brings a sultry air which dampens
everything aronnd us, the atmosphere
may be loaded with the germs of disease,
and fire is needed to destroy them. The
walls, the ceilings and floors of apartments
should never be allowed to become damp.
Sometimes when the warmth of the air is
oppressive, fire is more necessary to pro
tect us than in the cold of winter; and the
rooms of a dwelling should never be left
without the means of warming or drying.
Investigations have shown that many of
the most fatal diseases are caused by the
germs of vegetable and animal life, and
that a human atmosphere is most favorable
for their propagation. It is, therefore
neglecting to avail ourselves of the great
discoveries of the age, and failing to pro
tect ourselves from scourges which so fear
fully afflict families, when we ignore the
dangers which surround us. Apartments
exposed to the full action of the sun may
be less comfortable in hot weather than
those from which the sun’s rays are exclud
ed but they are more wholesome,and when
contagious diseases prevail in closely built
cities it is found that inmates of houses on
that side of the street exposed to the sun
aro less liable to be attacked, while the
greatest number of sick are always found
there is the least exposure to the great dis
fector—the sun.
He Admitted its Truth.
Secretary of the Treasury Gobb one da y
accidentally overheard a Pennsylvania
Clerk remark that he had injured his pros
pects in the South by entering Buchan
an’s cabinet—that Cobb was a poor finan
cier aiul unfit for the Secretaryship, but
had he remained in Georgia he might
have been a possible candidate for the’
Presidency.
The Secretary tapped his bell and re
quested the Pennsylvanian to step into
his room.
“Well young man,” said he, eyeing the
Clerk askance, I heard you remark a mo
ment ago that I was no financier and un
fit—”
The Clerk interrupted him with a
staggered apology, but he was waved
aside.
“Never mind, sir. I don’t know but
wlmt you were right. I have myself come
to the conclusion that I spoiled a good law
yer by becoming a cabinet officer. You
may go hut let me advise you not to talk
so loud in future.”
The Mysteisious Glove. -A woman’s glove’
is to her what a vest pocket is to a man.
But it is more capacious, and in ninety
nine instances out of a hundred it is much'
better regulated. A man will carry two
hundred dollars worth of small change,,
four matches, half a dozen toothpiths, a
short pencil, and yet not be able to add a
nickle or a match or a toothpick or a pen
cil or a card wlieh he wants it. Not so>
with a woman. She has the least bit of a
glove, and in that glove she carries the
tiniest hand and a wad of bills and the
memoranda for her intended purchase of
dry goods and a car tickets and matinee
checks and maybe a diminutive powder
bag. We have no idea of how she does it
—how she manages to squeeze those thous
and and-one things into that wee space.
But she does it every time, and the glove
never looks the least discomposed or pleth
oric or ruffled. And when a woman wants
any article concealed about that glove she •
doesn’t seem to have the least trouble in
tho world getting at it. All that is requir
ed is a simple turn of the wrist, the disap
pearance of two fairy fingers, and the de
sired article is brought to light. It is a.
wonder that no savant can explain.
Qoift Girls.— The quiet girl, an observ-.
ant critic remarks is generally worth stud
ying, and will frequently astonish those
who pretend to understand her, by rising
to heights, when she is summoned thither
which are unapproachably to her compla
cent and courted critics. Yet it may hap
pen that quiet girls of the best type may
lack the wit, the adaptability to that which
they have no sympathy, the glibnese, and.,
that unlimited faith in themselves which
they must be possessed by those who de
sire to attract notice of the more' shallow
portion of society, who believe in noisy
girls. All qoiet girls are not endowed
with genius and virtues, for some are sim
ply fools who would be noisy enough if they
could find anything to say. But we pro
test against the habit which prevails of
slighting quiet girls and speaking ill of
them before they have been fairly tried,
and of paying sickening homage to the
conceited chatter boxes of little moral
sense and principle. While noisy damsels
will often turn out to be gaudy imposters,
many'quiet ones will amply repay the time,,
trouble and love which anyone may be
stow upon them.
It Never Comes. —We never have a to-,
morrow: it is simply a word of prophecies.
It has been said that two great plesures of
living are in having something to love and
to hopes for, and the last of these things is
ever before us in the promise of to-morrow..
To-morrow we may not know, and it is
well that it is thus ordained to be for, be
yond the invisible veil that conceals alike
its coming joys and sorrows, our fancy may
revel only in what is beautiful and fair,
nor see the gloom or shadow of coming
trials and worldly afflictions, that, could
we anticipate as fixed realities that were
certain to come, would mar all our peace
and enjoyment of the present. It is well
for us that we cannot withdraw the veil
which hides our future.
‘‘No felow citizens,” observes Corporal
William Almon Wheeler, “we will never
coil our skirmish lines, we will never
sheath our bastions, we will never dir
mantle our canteens' so long as the loy
al North Is mentioned by a solid South.
We will hurl our serried lines of rifio
pits on the brazen front of treason so
long as a single columbiad is left in our
scabboards. Washington Post.
When a man enters Church during the
singing of a hymn, and site down to heur
the sermon, only to see the contribution
box passed and find that the services are
just over, his feeling are only equalled by
the man who falls asleep in his pew and
in'a dreamy state calls to the minister Ux
set ’em up again,’