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Darien Timber Gazette.
VOL. 7.-NO 37.
Darien Timber Gazette,
PUBLISHED EVERY FRIDAY MORNING,
vfT DARIEAT, GEORGIA,
CORNER BROAD AND.NORTHWAY STREETS.
BICHARD W. GRUBB.
Editor and Proprietor.
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RICHARD W. GIIUBB,
Timber Gazette, Darien Georgia.
City Directory.
~ COUNTY OFFICERS.
County Commissioners —James Walker, Chairman;
Adam Strain, Isaac M. Aiken, J. A. Atwood, T. H.
GiL'niluat James E. Holmes. Joseph Hilton.
Curk Board of County Commissioners—Spalding
Kenan.
C\erk Superior Court— L. B. Davis.
Ordinary —C. H. Hopkins, Sr.
Sheriff—l. Butler Blount.
Receiver Tax Returns— W. McW. Young.
Tax Collector —O. C. Hopkins.
County Treasurer —M. C. O'Neil.
County Surveyor —W. R. Poppel.
Coroner— Philip Maxwell.
The Commissioners bold monthly meetings on
the first Wednesday in each month.
CITY OFFICERB.
£§K A M.OM,
Adam Strain, J. E. Holmes, Thomas H. Gigmlhat,
Isaac >L Aiken.
STANDING COMMITTEES.
Committee on Finance— Messrs. Strain, Atwood
on Accounts— Messrs. Holmes, Gignil-
Harbor —Messrs. Hilton. Aiken
anii Cemetery—Messrs. Gignil
d Atwood, Holmes
on Streets and Lanes— Messrs. Aiken,
Booth Messrs. Atwood.
Strain,
“-Messrs. Holmes. Hilton and
1 Committee on Ordinances— Messrs. Aiken, Strain
nd Atwood. . „
Cterk and Treasurer— Spalding Kenan.
City Marshal —Cliarles H. Hopkins, Jr.
Deputy Marshal —Alouzo Guyton.
Harbor Master— George Crane.
Fort I’hysician —Or. James Holmes.
Inspector general of Timber- George W. Faries
Port S'ariteut—lsaac M. Aiken, John H. Burrell,
and James G. Young.
Jailer —Charles H. Hopkins, Jr. rrarris
Board Pilot Commissioners— rD. H. u. “arris,
Chairman, R. K. Walker, W. C. Clark, Arthur gal
ley, W. L. Fulton, James Laohsison and Robert
Miteuell. Lewis Livingston, Secretary.
MASONIC.
Live Oak Lodge, No. 137. meets first Wednesday
night in each month at their hall near the Mag o
lia House; James Walker, Worshipful Master, M.
C. O'Neil, Secretary
UNITED STATES OFFICERS.
Collector of Customs, Brunswick District— John T.
Collins. Headquarters at Brunswick.
Deputy Collector of Customs for Port of Darien—
Claries H. Townsend.
Inspector— Edwin C. Davifl.
Postmaster —D. Webster Davis.
Deputy Marshal— Joseph B. Bond.
SUPERIOR COURT—EASTERN CIRCUIT.
Hon. Wm. B. Fleming, Judge.
Major A. B. Smith, Solicitor General.
Bulloch County—Mondays in April and October.
Effingham County—First Mondays in. May ana
November. , .
Bryan County—Second, Mondays m May ana
November. , . _
Chatham County—First Mondays in December
March and Juno. . . „ „ ,
Mclntosh County-- Fourth Mondays n May and
County—Tuesday after third Mondays
in May and November.
UNITED STATES MAILS.
The mails arrive from Sterling, No ' *
Brunswick Railroad, every morning (Sunday ex
cepted) at 10 o’clock a. m., departing ever* attc
noon at 3p. m. Mail closes at 2>g p. in-
Side mail for No. 3, Atlantic & Gulf Railroad
departs Ht; o'clock every Tuesday morning and
arrives at 8 p. m. every Monday, touchmg at
Riceboro and South Newport both ways.
RELIGIOUS.
Religious services at the Methodist Church
every Sunday morning at 11 oclock, and evening
at "o'clock.’ School at the Ridge every Sunday
afternoon at 3>4 o'clock. Rev. H. E. Harman, pas-
Religious services overy Sabbath at 11 a. m. and
3p. m at the Methodist Church, colored, Rev.
L. H. Smith, pastor.
M I PAATO $6,000 A. YEAR, or $5 tos2o
111 17 I 111 1 day in your own locality.
\| III Vo risk. Women do as well as
111 |ll 11 | ueu. Many make more tbau the
l/JilUUU>mauut stated above. No one
" / can fart to make money fast.
Any one can do the work. You can make rom
50 cts. to $2 an hour by devoting your evenings
and spare time to the business. It costs nothing
to try the business. Nothing like it ever offered
before. Business pleasant and strictly honorable.
Reader, if you want to know all about the best
paving business before the public, send us y
address anil we will send yon full particulars and
private terms free: samples worth $5 also tree
you can then make up your mind for y •
Address GEORGE STINSON is. CO.. Portland, Me.
june 20 .
Garden Seed.
WE HAVE ON HAND A SUPPLY OF FRESH
Garden Seed, just received, consisting m
part of
BEETS, CABBAGE.
CARROTS, CUCUMBERS,
CELERY. EGGPLANT,
LETTUCE, OKRA,
ENGLISH PEAS,
WINS, TOMATOES.
SQUASH, OYSTER PLANT,
EARLY CORN, PEPPER, Etc.
W. H. COTTER * CO..
DWtgawtVltea AfMb KKiA'r
Professional Cards,
ALTER A. WAY,
Attorney-at-Law and Real
Estate Agent,
DARIEN, GEORGIA.
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. april26
■yy ROBERT GIGNILLIAT,
Attorney-at-Law,
DARIEN, GEORGIA.
Prompt attention given to all legal business in
the Eastern and Brunswick Circuits, and in the
United States Courts at Savannah, Georgia.
april2s-ly
e. b. Delorme,
Attorney & Counselor-at-Law,
and Notary Public.
DARIEN, GEORGIA.
Office on Broad stroet, near Timber Exchange.
July 2
jy. 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 Screven street, next
door to Mr. Wilcox’s dwelling house. augß-ly
jy. 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.
HENRY B. TOMPKINS. B. A. DENMARK.
rpOMrKINS & DENMARK,
Attorneys-at-Law r ,
No. 105 Bay Street, SAVANNAH, GA.
Practice in the United States Courts, and in the
Superior Courts of the Eastern Circuit. je6-tf
Miscellaneous.
LOOK OUT.
HOYT’S COLOGNE, CORNING’S COLOGNE,
LUBIN’S EXTRACTS, POMADES,
HAIR OIL, TOILET POWDER,
LILLY WHITE, PUFF BOXES,
ROUGE, TOILET SETS,
And in fact, a full assortment of Perfumery and
Fancy Toilet Articles. Soaps—toilet, laundry and
medicated. Give us a call.
W. H. COTTER & CO..
feb22-tf Druggists and Apothecaries.
3STOTIOB.
Wheelwright aiul Blacksmith
I AM NOW PREPARED TO DO ALL KINDs
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 all 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.
J ROBERT MITCHELL,
Second street, Darien, Ga.
Uf 1 IITI-n A LIMITED NUMBER of
IM n JU I | I laotive, energetic canvassers to
ff HI! I LiUeugage in a pleasant and
profitable business. Good men will find this a
rare chance
TO MAKE MOXEY.
Snch will please answer this advertisement by
letter, enclosing stamp for reply, stating what
business they have been engaged in. None but
those who mean business apply. Address
je'2o-ly. Finley, Hauvky & Cos., Atlanta. Ga.
A MONTH guaranteed. sl2 a day
at home made by the industrious.
Capital not required; we will start
you. Men, women, boys and girls
make money faster at work'for us
than anything else. The work is
light and pleasant, and such as anyone can go
right at. Those who arc. wise who see this notice
will send us their addresses at once and see for
themselves. Costly outfit and terms free. Now
is the time. Those already at work are laying up
large sums of money. Address TRUE & CO.,
Augusta. Me. june2o-ly
Collat Brothers.
Perform Their Promise
New Inducements to the Purchasing
Public!
Drives In Every Department !
Driven from the Jobbers ! I
Special Driven tram our Duyers! ! 1
Solid Fact 1 Sohd Fact
Savannah Prices in Darien.
In Groceries,
Hardware,
Wood & Willow Ware-
Crockery,
Stoves,
Glassware,
Sadlery.
OFFER SPECIALITIES IN DRY GOODS
and Blankets. Shoes of all grades,in pegged ma
shine and hand sewed. We keep in stock a fine
selection of Ladies and Gents hand-made Boots
and Shoes. We are offering the finest line of Gents
FURNISHING GOODS,
Clothing,
Hats,
Trunks,
Valices,
which we carry in endless variety and constantly
receive from Nortnern markets only. Thanking
you for past favors and saliciting a continuance
of the same, we arc yours, •
n2? . W . COLLAT BROTHERS.
DARIEN, GEORGIA, FRIDAY EVENING, MARCH 5, 1880.
JUST OUT.
Hood’s Great Book
OF THE WAR.
Advance and Retreat,
Personal Experiences in the
United Stales amt Confed
erate States Armies.
By General J. B. Hood,
Late Lieutenant-General Confederate States Army,
puplished for
The Hoot! Orphan Memorial Fuud.
* —BY—
General G. T. Beauregard.
New Orleans, 1880.
The entire proceeds arising from the sale of
this work are devoted to the Hood Orphan Me
morial Fund, which is invested in United States
Registed Bonds for the nurture, care, support
and education of the tsn infants deprived of their
parents last summer at New Orleans, (the melan
choly incidents of which sad bereavement are
still fresh in the public minds. The book is an
elegant octavo, containing 360 pages, with a fine
photograph likeness and a line steel engraving,
made e tpressly for this work, four large maps of
battle fields, bouud in handsome gray
English cloth ihree dollars, or in a fine
sheep binding with marble edge, three dollars
and fifty cents—ln half bound Morocco, library
style, lour dollars, or in best levent Turkey Mo
rocco, full gilt sides and edges, five dollars.
On the receipt from any person remitting by
mail or express, 01 the amount in a registered
letter or by a postal order, bank draft or check,
a copy will be immediately sent free of postage,
registered as second-class matter.
The volume is published in the best style of
typography, on elegant paper, with illustrations,
executed at highest specimens of art.
The author, the subject, the purpose, all alike
render it worthy a place in every library,—on
every desk—or upon the book shelf of every
house in the country.
Agents wanted in every town and County in
the United States, and a preference will be given
to honorably discharged veterans from the army.
To the ladies, who feel a desire to express their
sympathy with The Hood Orphan Memorial Fund
the sale of this book among their circle of friends,
will afford an excellent way of contributing sub
stantial aid to so deserving a cause.
For Terms, Kales to Agents, Etc., Ad
dress willi tuli Particulars,
Gfn’l G. T. Beauregard, Publisher,
On behalf of the Hood Memorial Fund.
j3O-tf. New Orleans, La.
■' “MUFFIT.”
—THE—
Savannah Weekly News
Of February 7th will contain the opening chapters
of a charming serial story, entitled
MUFFIT,
BY MRS. OPHELIA NISBET REID,
of Eaton too, Ga.,
Author of “My Mother’s Daughter,” “Afterward”
and “Mrs. Dare.”
THOSE who have enjoyed the pleasure afforded
by the perusal of this gifted and accom
plished lady's grevious productions, will need no
commendation of this her last and most success
ful effort, to prepare them for the rare literary
treat that awaits them.
MUFFIT is a story of absorbing interest, and
its publication will run through some eight or
ten issues of the Weekly News and Sunday Tele
gram.
Subscripiion $2 a year, $1 for six months.
Money can be sent by money order, registered
letter, or express at our risk. J. H. ESTILL,
30-tf. Savannah, Ga.
Singer Sewing Machine.
TyfRS JULIA CLARKE HAVING SECURED
the agency for the genuine and old reliable Sin
ger Sewing Machine, is now prepared to serve all
those who are in need of the best machine that
is made, and at very reasonable prices. Mrs.
Clarke is also actirg in Darien for Messrs. Ludden
k Bates music store, Savannah, and will be pleas
ed to take orders for any thing in their line. Give
her a call opposite Mr. Reuben Walker's offices.
Darien, Ga., December 26th, 1879.
“ The Best Agricultural Journal Publiahed in
the South.”
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pages, handsomely print
rmtFFed, filled with choice read
iug of interest to the far
mer, with an illustrated
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Address: J. H. ESTILL,
3 Whitaker street, Savannah, Ga
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moth &-}Mige newspaper, or of the “Daily Morning
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A GREAT SOUTHERN PAPER.
THE NATIONAL FAMILY PAPER OF the SOUTH.
48 Columns. Do you Take it?
The sunny south has been constantly
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perfection. The last issue came to us enlarged to
4S columns, is really a grand number in every re
spect, and everybody should send for it without
delay . In future it will combine all of the best
features of all of the papers of theday. and justly
be called the national family paper of the South, for
it will soon reach almost every family. It will con
tain every possible variety of reading matter.with
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Clubs of five can get it for s‘2 each, a year. A sin
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g Address J- H. *W. B. SEALS,
<J2ft.tr. Atlanta, Ga.
SOUTH. SOUTH.
PULASKI HOUSE,
SAVANNAH GEORGIA.
GOODSELL BROS.,
• PROPRIETORS.
This house is now open for the recep
tion of guests. It has been thoroughly ren
ovated, and is now being extensively repaired.
Liberal arrangements made with weekly boaders.
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nevUl-tf. Proprietors-
THE SUN FOR 1880.
The Sun will deal with the events of the year
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In its comments on men and affairs, The Sun be
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continue to praise what is good and reprobate
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purchaser for two cents. It hates injustice and
rascality even more than it hates unnecessary
words. It abhors frauds, pities fools, and de
plores nincompoops of every species. It will con
tinue throughout the year 1880 to chastise the
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These are the principles upon which The Sun
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The year 1880 will be one in which no patriotic
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tance of the political events which it has in store,
or the necessity of resolute vigilence on the part
of every citizen who desires to preserve the Gov
ernment that the founders gave us. The debates
and acts of Congress, the utterances of the press,
the exciting contest of the Republican and Demo
cratic parties, now nearly equal in strength
throughout tho country, directly and effectively
upon the twenty-fourth Presidential election, to
be held in November. Four years ago next Nov
ember the will of the nation, as expressed at the
polls, was thwarted by an abominable conspir
acy, and promoters and beneficiaries of which still
hold the officers they hold. Will the crime of 1876
be repeated in 1880 ? The past decade of years
opened with a corrupt, extravagant, and insolent
Administration intrenched at Washington. The
Sun did something townrd dislodging the gang
and breaking its power. The same men are now
intriguing to restore their leader and themselves
to places from whence they were driven by the
indignation of the people. Will they succeed V The
coming year will bring the answer to these mo
mentous questions: The Sun will be on hand to
chronicle the facts as they are developed, and to
exhibit them clearly and fearlessly in their rela
tions to expediency and right.
Thus, with a habit of philosophical good humor
in looking at the minor affairs of life, and in great
things a steadfast purpose to maintain the rights
of the people and the principles of the Constitu
tion against all aggressors, The Sun is prepared to
write a truthful, instructive, and at the same time
entertaining history of 1880.
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THE ATLANTA CONSTITUTION.
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stitution contains more and later telegraphic
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ticular feature will be largely added to during the
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This, the best, the most reliable and most popu
lar of southern agricultural journals is issued
from the printing establishment of The Constitu
tion. It is still edited by Mr. W. L. Jones, and is
devoted to the best interests of the farmers of the
South. It is sent at reduced rates with the week
ly edition of The Constitution.
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Address THE CONSTITUTION,
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ANNOUNCEMENT.
lI7E FEEL GRATEFUL TO OUR MANY
W friends and customers tor their liberal pat
ronage during the past year, and we have entered
anew year with the determination to deserve a
larger share of their trade. We do not keep cheap
drugs, but sell a GOOD AND PURE ARTICLE OF
MEDICINE as low as it can be sold. Remember
that we have constantly in stock a lull assortment
of
PURE MEDICINES,
PAINTS, OILS.
VARNISHES,
PATENT MEDICINES of all kinds,
HAIR DYES,
HAIR OILS,
HAIR BRUSHES,
TOOTH BRUSHES,
And the best article of No. 1 KEROSENE OIL at
lowest prices.
Prescriptions carefully compounded night or
day ‘ W. H. COTTER & CO..
feb22-tf Druggists and Apothecaries.
For Rent.
rpHE DWELLING HOUSE FORMERLY OCCU
piedbv Mr. Joseph B. Bond is offered tor rent.
Apply to the HILTON TIMBER & LUMBER CO.
Darien. Ga - October 31, 1610.
Do All For God.
How may we abide with God in the work
of our calling ? By t hrowing into the work
a holy and pure intention.
It is clear that intention is to our actions
what the soul is to the body; and that, just
as it is the soul and not the body which
gives the notion a moral character. To kill
a man in wrath, or malice prepense, is mur
der; hut fo kill him accidentaly by an ac
tion which we could not possibly foresee
would do him harm, is no sin at all. Again
a good and holy work, such as prayer, be
comes hypocrisy, if done in a false
pharasaical spirit.
The great bulk of work done in this
busy bustling life is not done with any in
tentions of complying with the will, or
furthering the services of Almighty God.
The many who run to and fro from morn
ing to evening in the work of their callings
think nothing of subserving His designs,
and are even unconscious, in many cases,
of the place they hold in His system.
The intention of some persons in their
work is simply to gain livelihood, more
abundant and more independent, they rise
up early, late take rest, and eat the bread
of carefulness, a perfectly innocent motive
nay, in merely moral and social point of
view, a commendable one, hut not a spirit
ual motive, such as glorifies the work and
redeems it from earthline6S.
Again, a better class of men work from
the high and elevating motivo of duty.
This motive exalts the character to the
highest pitch to which a mere natural
character can attain. “It is my work,"
says the man, “ and I shall not shrink
from it, however much of danger and
hardships it may involve.”
It is a fine mind which so speaks; per
haps we may admit that the owner of such
a mind is not “far from the kingdom of
God,” hut if the intention have no
reference to God’s will and service, truth
forbids us to say that it is a spiritual mind.
Cicero and Seneca might have worked
from a sense of duty; but they knew noth
ing of the living and loving Lord, who
appoint laborers to various parts of His
vineyard, endows them according to their
diligence in improving these talents. God
must enter the mind before our mo
tives can he supernaturalized.—Goldburn.
Scraps.
Words of love works of love.
An active tool never grows rusty.
Choose such pleasures as recreate much
and cost little.
Fill the world with good deeds and you
will fill it with your own glory.
It is something fino to be good; but it is
far finer to be good for something.
They are never alone who are accompa
nied with noble thoughts.
Seeming difficulties generally vanish be
fore faith, prayer, and perserverance.
The heart that is soonest awake to the
flowers is always first to be touched by the
thorns.
If we try to think more of others than we
do of ourselves we shall seldom have a
grievance.
As thrashing separates the wheat from
the chaff, so does affliction purify virtue
and honesty.
The actions of men are like the index of a
book; they point out what is moHt agreea
ble in them.
Act well at the moment and you have
performed a good action to all eternity.
There is no less grandeur in supporting
great evils than in perfoming great deeds.
Only what we have wrought into our
characters during life can we take away
with us.
A Strange Story.
Paris has another strnge tragic love
story. One of the best surgeons in the city
was stopped in the street late at night by
men witlijdrawn revolvers, and with band
aged eyes taken to the room of a beautiful
woman, who was in bed, and compelled to
amputate her left hand. She herself begged
him not to hesitate, as it would save her
life. His eyes were then bandaged again,
he was led away and he found himself in a
street near his own home. The lady was the
daughter of a prominent General, who nad
given her in marriage to a wealthy Count,
though she loved another man, and after her
wedding, continued agaainst the wish of
her husband, to wear a ringwhich her for
mer lover had given her just as he was set
tin out to join an embass which he had
been appointed, and which she had sworn
never to take off the hand that “should
always be his.” The Count’s jealousy was
increased by 4 a letter from the lover, which
fell into his hands, and ,in which his late
fiancee was reminded of her promise, and,
wrought up to a pitch of madness by the
persistent refusal of his wife to give up
the ring, he swore that he would have her
hand cut off and sent to her lover.
Tempted by Degrees. —John Newton says
Satan seldom comes to Christians with
great temptations, or with temptation to
commit a great sin. You bring a green log
and a candle together and they are very
safe neighbors; hut bring a few shavings
and set them alight, and then bring a few
small sticks and let them take fire and the
log be in the midst of them, and you w ill
soon get rid of your log. And so it is
with little sins. You will be startled with
the idea of committing a great sin, and
so the devil brings you a little temptation,
and leaves you to indulge yourself. “There
is no harm in this;”“no great peril in that;”
and so by these little chips we are first eas
ily lighted up, and at last the green log
is burned. Watch and pray that ye enter
not into temtation.
How to meet a dog.— A gentleman gives
the following advice in relation to dogs:
“If you enter a lot where there is a vicious
dog, be carful to remove your hat or cap
as the animal approaches you, hold the
same down by your side, between
yourself and the dog. When you have
done this you have secured perfect immu
nity from an attack. The dog will
not attack you if this advice is followed.
Such is my faith in this policy that I will
pay all doctor’s bills from dog bites and
funeral expenses for deaths from hydro
phobia.”
A popular clergyman was greatly bored
by a lady who admired him w ithout re
serve. “Oh !my dear Mr. .” said she,
last Sunday afternoon, “there isn’t anv
harm in one loving one’s pastor, is there ?”
“Certainly not, madam,” replied the
worthy cleric; “not the least in the world,
co long as the feelling is not reciprocated.”
$2.50 A YEAR.
Contentment.
[By Bob Jlurdette.]
Be contented my son. You need not
he satisfied with what you are; you don’t
want to live withont ambition ; so long
as you live strive to be something better,
and higher and stronger to-morrow than
you are to day, but don’t fret. Wear your
ready-made clothes with the air of a prince,
until you can do better; eat your twenty
five cent dinner witirthe manner of a man
who is accustomed to fare sumptuously
every day on course dinners, and likes
this sort of a thing for a change. Keep,
the sunshine in your heart and it will
shine in your face. The worid is grateful
to a sunny-tempered man, just because he
is good enough and gracious enough to
live in it. Laugh my sou if your stomach
is so empty that you can not tell whether
your pain is in your liver or your back
bone; wear your hat jnuntly if it is so full
of holes that you can’t see the grease and
weather stains that cover it; speak cheer
ily, though you have to wear your over
coat every time your shirt 'goes to the
laundry It won’t be an easy thing to do
right long; the days will come when a
good indulgence in the “blues” would seem
like a paradise, there will he hours when
you would rather growl and wail than look
pleasant; there will be times when in spite
ef your strength and manhood and resolu
tions, you go away by yourself and groan
and bury your face in your hands and cry
like a girl. I know it, my son. But don’t
make a habit of it, and don’t let any one
see you do it. It is a dangerous luxury,
and should only be indulged in at very
long intervals and on rare occasions.
Cultivate contentment; if you have no
gloves, put your hands in your pockets; if
your coat is out at the elbows, back up
against the fence; if yon have no hat, you
will never become bald. And when pros
perity comes—-not if, hut when—you,will
ho prouder of your good nature in the dark
days of adversity, my son, than you can
be of all the honors, and fame and posi
tion that prosperity and success can briii g
yon. Never worry, my son, don’t fret; it
will make your face thin and your hair
turn gray.
Hail, Wedded Love.
The Danbury News man remarks: You
know her. She lives on your street. Her
features are either pinched or full and
frowsy. Her dress, is wet, ill-fitting, and
of no particular pattern; her slippers are
broken down; her hair is uncombed, her
voice is either shrill or coarse. You have
seen her stand out in the back yard, and
put a bare arm up to her eyes, and under
it peer out to the fence or barn, where a man
in an ill-fitting coat is searching for some
thing, and have her shout—“ John! can’t
George bring me some water?” And you
have heard him cry back, “If he don’t get
that water I’ll take every inch of flesh from
his bones.” And when you have looked
at her again, does it seem posible that those
angry eyes have drooped maidenly reserve
or raised in coquettish light to the face of
the man in the ill-fitting coat. Can you,
by any possible wrench of the immagina
tion, conceive of his tenderly passing pep
permints to her, of his taking that hand
in his and bashfully squeezing it. But it
was so. Many a “God bless you” has been
uttered above that hare head, many a kiss
pressed on that uncombed hair. The
tightly compressed lips have lovingly
framed tender invitations to him to take
another bite of cake and pickle. The hands
that are now par-boiled ancl blistered and:
marked with scars from the bread-knife,
and scratches from the lrst setting hen,
were once twined lovingly about his neck,
and the nose which is now peaked and red,
and looks as if it would stand on its hind
legs and scream with rage, once followed
the figures of his new vest pattern or bore
heavily against his jugular vein. As little
probable as this seems to you, it seems
less to her. She has forgotten it. She
won’t hear it talked of by others. She can
not bear to see it acted by others. Two
lovers are to her “a rubbing his head, and
we turn aside while our passel of fools,”
And—but George is heroine readjusts her
slipper.
An Affable Manneb. — Much of the hap
piness of life depends on our outward de
meanor. We have experienced the charm
of gentle and courteous conduct ; we have
all been drawn irresistibly to those who
are oblidging, affable, and sympathetic in
their demeanor. The friendly grasp, the
warm welcome, the cheery tone, the en
couraging word, the respectful manner,
bear no small share in creating the joy of
life, while the austere tone, the rebuke
the sharp and acid remark, the cold and
indifferent manner, the curt and disrespect
ful air, the supercilious and scornful bear
ing, are responsible for more of human
distress, despair and woe, than their tran
sient nature might seem to warrant.
Pektinent Queries —What does the bullet
doux? What check did counter sign? Who
ever saw a hood wink? Who saw a pig iron?
What does egg plant? Why did the thun
der bolt? Who ever heard a foot ball?
Why did the dew drop? Where does the
clock work? What did plough share?
Who ever saw a wheel wright? For whom
did penny weight? Who did tin foil?
What did brandy smash? What did glass
plot? What was it grape shot? What did
the picket? Who did the goose berry?
Is it jokes that Jim cracks?
Never condemn your neighbor unheard,
however many the accusations preferred
against him; every story has two ways efi
being told, and justice requires that you
should hear the defence as well as the ac
cusation, and remember that malignity
of enemies may place you in a similar sit-
uation.
The Western lady who read in a news
paper that baking powder was a good thing
thought she would hake some, and her old
man, on arriving where the cabin had
stood, said he wouldn’t mind the affair so
m uch if she’d let the dog out before blowing
herself and the property to glorj in that
style. _____________
You never see a woman button anything
that she can pin, and you never see a man
pin anything he can tie with a string. You
would have trouble making some men be
lieve that they couldn’t tie a buttonhole
into a wristband with a piece of twine,
v ———————
Houston, Texas, has raised $2,000 fo r
the relief of the Irish sufferers.