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Darien Timber Gazette.
VOL. 7.--NO 40.
Darien Timber Gazette,
PUBLISHED EVERY FRIDAY MORNING,
.IT IWR/AVr, GEORGIA,
CORNER BROAD AND NORTHWAY STREETS.
RICHARD W. G-RU33.
Editor and Proprietor.
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RICHARD W. GRUBB,
Timber Gazette, Darien Georgia.
City Directory.
‘ ~~ Bounty officers.
County Commissioners —James Walker, Chairman;
A lam Strain. John M. Fisher, J. A. Atwood, T. H.
CLgnilliat, James E. Holmes, Joseph Hilton.
C\erk Hoard of County Commissioners —Spalding
Kenan.
Cierk Superior Court —L. B. Davis.
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. R. Poppel.
Coroner —Philip Maxwell.
The Commissioners hold monthly meetings on
the first Wednesday in each month.
CITY OFFICERS.
Bx-Officia Mayor —James Walker.
Lz-Otiiciu Aldermen —.Joseph Hilton, J. A. Atwood,
Adam Strain, J. E. Holmes, Thomas H. Gignilliat,
John M. Fisher.
STANDING COMMITTEES.
Committee on Finance— Messrs. Strain, Atwood
■nd Hilton. „ ,
Committee on Accounts— Messrs. Holmes, Giguil
iiat amLFisher.
Committee on Harbor— Messrs. Hilton, Ho mes
and Strain. ~ _ ,
Committee on Health and Cemetery— Messrs. I isher,
Atwood and Holmes.
Committee on Paupers —Messrs. Atwood, Holmes
md Gignilliat. ,
Committee on Jail—Messrs. Fisher, Hilton and
Atwood. ~ TT ,
Committee on Streets and Lanes —Messrs. Holmes.
Strain and Fisher. ,
Committee on County Roads— Messrs. Atwood.
Gignilliat and Hilton.
Coiiunittee on Public Buildings Messrs, Gigml
liat, Fisher and Strain,
Committee, on Police— x Messrs. Holmes, Hilton and
Strain. „ . .
Committee on Ordinances —Messrs. Atwoou, Strain
and Holmes.
Clerk and Treasurer —Spalding Kenan.
City Marshal —Charles H. Hopkins, Jr.
Deputy Marshal —Alonzo Guyton.
Harbor Master— George Crane.
Port Physician— Dr. James Holmes.
Inspector General of Timber—George W. Fanes.
Port Wardens —Isaac M. Aiken, John H. Burrell.
and Janies G. Young.
Jailer— Charles H. Hopkins, Jr.
Hoard Pilot Commissioners— Dr. it. B. Harris.
Chairman, It. K. Walker, W. C. Clark, Arthur Bai
ley, W. L. Fulton, James Laohlison.
Mitchell. Lewis Livingston. Secretary.
MASONIC.
Live Oak Lodge, No. 137, meets first Wednesday
night in each month at their hall near the Magno
lia House; James Walker, Worshipful Master; M.
<L O’Neil, Secretary
UNITED STATES OFFICERS.
Collector of Customs, Brunswick District— John T.
Collins. Headquarters at Brunswick.
Deputy Collector of Customs for Fort of Darien—
Charles H. Townsend.
Inspector —Edwin C. Davis.
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 and
Bryan County—Second Mondays in May and
November. _ _ .
Chatham County—First Mondays m December
March and Juno. , . „ ,
Mclntosh County Fourth Mondays in May and
Nooember. ... , ,
Liberty County—Tuesday after third Mondays
in Mav and November.
UNITED STATES MAILS.
The mails arrive from Sterling, No. 1, Macon k
Brunswick Railroad, every morning (Sunday ex
cepted) at 10 o’clock a. m., departing every atter
noon at 3p. m. Mail closes at 21s P- n*.
Side mail for No. 3, Atlantic A Gult Railroad
■departs 8 o’clock every Tuesday morning and
•arrives at 8 p. m. every Monday, touching at
-lticeboro and South Newport both ways.
RELIGIOUS.
Religious services at the Methodist Church
■every Suuday morning at 11 oelock, and evening
at 8 o’clock. School at the Ridge every Sunday
afternoon at 3>i o’clock*, Rev. H. E. Harman, pas
-4 Religious services every Sabbath at 11 a. m. and
3p. m at the Methodist Church, colored, Rev.
L. H. Smith, pastor.
WTO $6,000 A YEAR, or $5 to S2O
i day in your own locally.
Vo risk. Women do as well as
men. Many make more than the
amount stated above. No one
can fall to make money fast.
Anv one can do the work. You can make from
60 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
paying business before the public, send us jour
address and we will send you full particulars and
private terms free; samples worth $5 also free;
you can then make up your mind for your. If.
Address GEOBGE STINSON & CO., Portland, Me.
juue 20
Garden Seed.
WE HAVE ON HAND A SUPPLY OF FRESH
Garden Seed, just received, consisting in
part of
BEETS, CABBAGE,
CARROTS, CUCUMBERS,
CELERY, EGGPLANT,
LETTUCE, OKRA,
ENGLISH PEAS,
BEANB, TOMATOES,
SQUASH, OYSTER PLANT.
EARLY CORN, PEPPER, Etc.
W. H. COTTER & CO.,
Druggists and Apothecaries.
Professional Cards.
ALTER A. WAY,
Attoruey-at-Law and Ileal
Estate Agent,
DARIEN, GEORCxIA.
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,
Attorraey-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
T e. b. Delorme,
1 2.
Attorney & Counsel or-at-Law',
and Notary Public.
DARIEN, GEORGIA.
Office on Broad street, 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 Screven street, next
door to Mr. Wilcox’s dwelling house. augK-ly
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-La W,
Commercial Building,
jnnoO-tf SAVANNAH, GEORGIA.
HENRY B. TOMPKINS. B. A. DENMARK.
rjpOMPKINS k DENMARK,
Attorneys-at-Law,
No. 105 Buy Street, SAVANNAH, GA.
Practice in the United States Courts, and in the
Superior Courts of the Eastern Circuit. je6-tf
WM. GAIUIARD. P. W. MELDRIM. W. W. FRASER.
/ ARRARD, MELDRIM A FRASER,
U
Attorneys at Law,
DARIEN - - - - - - GEORGIA.
Office at the Magnolia House. Marlfi-Iy.
CAREY W. STYLES. | W J. WILLIAMS. | J. 0. VINCENT.
WILLIAMS & VINCENT, •
Attorneys & Counselors
At Law,
BRUNSWICK, - - - - GEORGIA.
Will practice in all the Courts of the Brunswick
Circuit. In the Supreme Court of Georgia, and in
the U. S. District and Circuit lourts for the South
ern district of Georgia. L/ id cases a specialty.
Office in Littlefield & 'l iso' new building, on the
ay. apr2-tf.
Miscellaneous.
ROOK. 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 k CO.,
feb22-tf Druggists and Apothecaries.
HI I MTf n A LIMITED NUMBER of
Ire A Hi 1 K g lactive, energetic cauvassers to
Wl nil I LLI engage in a pleasant and
profitable business. Good men will find this a
rare chance
TO 41 \K V. MONEY.
Snch will please answer this advertisement by
letter, enclosing stamp for reply, stating what
business they have been engaged in. None hut
those who mean business apply. Address
je'2o-ly. Finley, Harvey & Cos., Atlanta, Ga.
a A MONTH guaranteed. sl2 a day
at home made by the industrious.
Capital not required; we will start
you. Men, women, hoys 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 are 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
Now Inducements to the Purchasing:
Public!
Drives n Every Department !
Drives from tilt Joblirrs ! !
Special Drive* trom our Buyers ! ! !
Solid Fact! Solid Fact
Savannah Prices in Darien.
In Groceries,
Hardware,
Wood dz Willow Ware
Crockery,
Stoves,
Glassw re,
Sadlery.
■yyE OFFER SPECIALITIES IN DRY GOODS
and Blankets. Shoes of all grades,in pegged ma
shine and hand sewed. Wc 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 wc carry in endless variety and constantly
receive from Nortnern markets only. Thanking
you for past favors and soliciting a continuance
of the same, we arc yours,
n2£-t£. EKOTHESS,
DARIEN, GEORGIA, FRIDAY EVENING, MAY 7, 1880.
JUST OUT.
Hood’s Great Book
OF THE WAlt.
Advance and Retreat,
Personal Experiences in the
United Stales amt Confed
erate Slates .trmics.
By General J. B. Hood,
Late Lieutenant-General Confederate States Army,
puplished for
The Hood Orphan Memorial Fund.
—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 Umted States
Registed Bonds for the nurture, care, support
ami education of tbe ten infants deprived of their
parents las- summer at Now Orleans, (the melan
choly incidents of which sad bereavement are
still itresli in the public minds. The book is an
elegant octavo, containing 360 pages, with a tine
X>hotograph likeness and a line steel engraving,
made e cpressly ior this work, four large maps of
battle fields, bound in handsome gray
English cloth ihree dollars, or in a fine
sheep binding with marble eage, three dollars
and fifty cents—ln halt bound Morocco, library
style, lour dollars, or in besb leveut 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 ol postage,
registered as sec nd-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 an l county in
the United States, and a preference will be given
to honorably discharg“d veterans trom the army.
To the la lies, who feel a desire to express their
sympathy with The Hood Orphan Memorial Fund
the sale of this book anion:/ their circle of friends,
will afford an excellent way of contributing sub
stantial aid to so deserving a c*.use.
For Term-, Itiiles to Agents, Etc*., At!-
tire** willi full Particulars**
Gfn’l G. T. Beauregard, Publisher,
On behalf of tbe llood Memorial Fund.
j3O-tf. New Orleans, La.
Davis’ Brothers,corner of Bull and York streets
Savannah. Agents for Savannah and Darien.
3-EOR3-IA & FLORIDA
INLAND
STEAM BOAT (031 PAN V.
The Darien Line I
Savaimali.St. Catharine’s, Doboy,Darien,
Union Island, SI. Simon’s Drusmvick,
St. Mary’s and Fernandina.
Connecting at Darien with steamers for all land
ings on the Oconee and Altamaha Rivers.
■ghl;y;i# r J jrdt-F l^
DAVID CLARK
Captain P. H. WARD.
\ I7TLI, leave wharf, foot of Bull street, every
TUESDAY and FRIDAY at 4 p. m„ for
above points, connecting at Brunswick with Ma
con Brunswick and Brunswick and Albany Rail
roads for all points on the line of those roads, at
Fernandina with Transit Road for Jacksonville.
Cedar Keys, and all points on Florida Central
Railroad and Jacksonville, Pensacola and Mobile
Railroad, and with steamer Flora, Captain Joe
Smith, for all points on St. Mary’s river,
Through rates of freight to and from Northern
and Western ports.
Steamers connect at Brunswick with the up
ward and downward trains of the Brunswick and
Albany Railroad and with the Macon and Bruns
wick Railroad.
THOMAS WHITE, Agent, Hotel Wharf.
Darien, Georgia.
SPECIAL NOTICE.
CAPT. THOMAS WHITE, Agent, is authorized
to adjust, promptly, all claims at Darien.
W. F. BARRY, General Agent.
J. N. HARRIMAN, Manager,
sep’22-tf Savannah, Ga.
Singer Sewing Machine.
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 aetirg in Darien for Messrs. Ludden
& Bates music store, Savannah, and will be pleas
ed to take orders for any thing in their line. Give
her a caU opposite Mr. Reuben Walker’s offices.
Darien, Ga., December 26th, 1879.
A GREAT SOUTHERN PAPER.
THE NATIONAL FAMILY PAPER of the SOUTH.
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spect, and everybody should send for it without
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features of all of the papers of theday. and justly
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Clubs of five can get it for $2 each, a year. A sin
gle copv $2 Ml. Don't wait for agents.
Address J. H. k W. 11. SEALS,
d26-tr. Atlanta, Ga.
ANNOUNCEMENT.
\M; FEEL GRATEFUL TO OUR MANY
\ V friends and customers for 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 sella GOOD AND PURE ARTICLE OF
MEDICINE as low as it can be sold. Remember
that we have constantly in stock a full assortment
of
PURE MEDICINES,
PAINTS, OILS,
VARNISHES,
PVTENT 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 k CO..
feb22-tf Druggists and Arotheflcrics.
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throughout the conntry, directly and effectively
upon the twenty-fourth Presidential election, to
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ember the will of the nation, as expressed at tin
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EMIL SCHWARZ. NICHOLAS SCHWARZ
Emil A. Schwarz & Bro.,
DEALERS IN
CARPETS & FURNITURE,
125 & 127 Brerngh-ton-St.
SAVANNAH, GA.,
Carpets,
Oil Cloths,
Matting,
Crum Cloths , Rags, JUats.
FURNITURE,
In Variety ami Style.
Curtains, Cornices,
WINDOW SHADES.
UPHOLSTERY SHADES.
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Wall Paper & Decorations
CHURCHES, OFFICES AND PUBLIC
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EMIL A. SCHWARZ A BRO.,
AN ORDINANCE.
An Ordinance to require the owners f unoccu
pied lots to keep the same dean an f rbid the
planting of rice or the sobb ug or o' r wing of
lands within the corporate limits o. the city
of Darien.
Sec. 2. Be it ordained, that from and after the
passage of this ordinance, it shall lie the duty-of
the owner or owners of each unoccupied lot in
the City ol Darien, at his or their own expense re
spectively to keep the tame clean and free from
all garbage,rubbish, filth,weeds and undergrowth
and any owner of such unoccupied lot or lots who
shall fail or refuse after 10 days notice from the
city marshall, to comply with the terms of fids
ordinance: upon conviction thereof b< ore the po
lice court of said city, shall be subject to a fine not
exceeding dollars or imprisonment not exceed
ing days.
Sec. 2. Be it further ordained, that no person
shall plant rice or wet culture or prosecute sm
other business within the corporate limiis of said
.-it' bv which the soil shall be overflowed, or wa
ter soaked, or the drainage ot said city obstructed
and in the event of the violation of any uneorm te
ot the provisions of this act, it sDali Ite the duty of
the corporate authorities ot the city to abate and
stop the said rice planting or other injurious oc
cupation as a nuisance in the same manner as is
! now pr scribed l>y law.
Sec. 3. Beit further enacted that,all ordinances
in conflict with this ordinance be,and the same are
hereby repealed.
Darien, Georgia. April 15th, 1880.
J. J. SUTTON,
BUILDER and CONTRACTOR
DARIEN, GA.
Plans. Specifications and Estimates furnished.
I guarantee to my blends and the public to give
entire satisfaction to all work entrusted to me
No Wood Butchers employed.
june2T-ti 4 J* SUTTON.
Joe Parsons’ Adventure.
Joo Parsons was a Baltimore boy, and a
little rough, but withal a good-hearted
fellow and a brave soldier. He got bably
wounded at Antietam, and thus laconically
described tbe occurence and what follow
ed to some people who visited tbe hospi
tal:
“What is youj: name ?”
”Joe Parsons.”
“What is tbe matter?”
“Blind as a bat, sir; both eyes shot out.”
“At what battle.”
“Antietam.”
“How did it happen?”
“I was bit and knocked down, and bad
to lie all night on tbe battlefield. Tbe
fight was renewed next day, and I was un
der fire. 1 could stand tbe pain, but could
not see. I wanted to see, or get out of tbe
fire. I waited and listened, and presently
beard a nian groan near me.
“ ‘Hello !’ says I.
“ ‘Hello yourself,' says be.
“ ‘Who be you?’ says be.
“ ‘A Yankee,” says I.
“ ‘Well, I’m a lteb,’ says he.
“ ‘What’s tbe matter?’ says I.
“ ‘My leg’s smashed,’says be.
" ‘Jan you walk?’ says I.
“,No,’ says be.
“ ‘Can you see,’ says I.
“ ‘Yes,’ says be.
“ ‘Well,’ says I, ‘you’re a rebel, but I’ll
do you a little favor.’
“ ‘What's that?’ says be.
“ ‘My eyes are shot out,’ says I, and it
you 11 show me the way 1 11 carry you out,’
says 1.
“ ‘All right,' says be.
“ Crawl over here,’ says I; and he did.
“ “Now, old Butternut,’ says I, ‘get on my
back;’ and be did.
“ ‘Go ahead,’ says lie.
“‘P int ilie way,’ says I, ‘fori can’t see a
blessed thing.’
“ '.Straight ahead,’ says be.
“The balls were a Ilyin’ all round, and I
trotted oil and was soon out of range.
“ ‘Bully for you,’ says be, ‘but you’ve
shook my leg almost oil',’
“ ‘Take a drink,’ says be, bold.ng up his
canteen, and I took a nip.
“ ‘Now, let us go on again,’says be ‘kind
o’ slowly,’ and I took him up, and be did
tbe navigation and 1 did tbe walkin’. Al
ter I bad carried him nearly a mile, and
was almost dead, lie said: ‘Here we
are; let me down.’ Just then a voice said:
•Hello, Billy, where did you get that
Yank ?’
“ ‘Where are we?’ says I,
“ ‘ln the rebel camp, of course,’ says be;
and an my buttons if that rebel hadn’t
ridden me a mile straight into tbe rebel
camp. Next day McClellan’s army ad
vance and took us both in, and then we
shook bands and made it up, but it was a
mean trick of him, don’t you think so?”
A Eciuuikubie Preservation
‘Do you see that lock of Taair? an
old man said to me.
‘Y r es, but what of it ? It is, I suppose,
the curl from the head of a dear child long
since gone to God.’
‘lt is not. It is a lock of my own hair
and it is now nearly seventy years sinc
it was cut from this head.’
‘But why do you prize a lock of your
own hair so much?’
‘lt has a story belonging to it, and a
strange one. 1 keep it thus with care be
cause it speaks more of God and of bis
special care, than anything else I possess.’
‘I was a little child four years old, with
long curly locks, which, in the sun or rain
or wind bung down my checks uncovered.’
‘One day my father went into the woods
to cut a log, and 1 went with him.
1 was standing away behind him, or
rather at bis side, watching with interest
tbe strokes of tbe heav axe as it went up
and came down upon the wood, sending
off splinters in all directions. Some of
the splinters fell at my feet, and I eagorly
stooped to pik them up. In doing so I
stumbled forward, an l in a moment my
curly head lay upon the log. J bad fallen
just the moment the axe was coming down
with all its force. It was too late to stop
the blow. Down came the axe. I •set-earn
ed and my father fell to lie ground in ter
ror. He could not stay the stroke; and,
in tbe blindness which the sadden horror
caused, be thought he liad killed his boy.
‘We soon recovered; I from my fright,
and he from ills terror. He caught me in
his arms and he looked at me from head
to foot, to ffnd the deadly wound which
he was sure he had indicted. Not a drop
of blood or scratch could be seen. He
knelt upon the grass, and gave thanks to
a gracious God. Having done so. be took
up bis axe and found a few hairs upon its
edge. He turned to-the log which he had
been splitting, and ihere was a siugle curl
of his boy’s hair, sharply cut inrough and
laid upon the wood. How great was the
escape. It was as if an angel had turned
aside the axe, ac the moment it was de
scending upon my head. With renewed
thanks upon his lips, lie took up the curl
anti went home with me in his arms.
‘That lock he kept all his days as a me
morial of God’s care and love. That lock
he left to me on his death-bed.’
Living in Quilt. A rule for living Lapp •
ly with others is to avoid having stock
subjects of disputation; it mostly happens !
when people live much together, that they I
come to have certain set topics,, around j
which, from frequent dispute, there is such
a growth of angry words, mortified vanity
ami the like that the origonal subject of
difference becomes a standing subject for
quarrel, and there is u tendency in all mi
nor diputes to drift down to it. Again, if
people wish to live well together, they
must not hold too much logic, and sup
pose that ■ verytlung is to be settled by
sufficient reason. Dr. Johnson saw this
clearly with regard to married people when
he said: “Wretched would be the p.ur
above all means of wreteuedness who
should be doomed to adjust by reason ev
ery morning, all the minute details of the
domestic ■lav.”
The amount of postage stamps, stamped
envelopes in postal cards issued to post-*
masters upon requisition during the first
nine months of the present fiscal year,end
ing March 31, aggregate in value $23,079,-
j 335, an increase over the corresponding,
! issue for the nine months of the previous
fiscal year of $3,016,062, or about 14 1-2
i per cent. Tbe greatest increase is in the
I sale of postal cards.
$2.50 A YEAR.
’Sqiro Bray’s Courtship.
'Squire Bray, of Caswell, was hunting
another wife, but his son Bob, a wild
blade, knocked him out of it. In the ca
pacious breast pocket of the 'Squire’s
great-coat reposed a pint tickler, well fill
ed, that he only proposed using on his
way back from seeing the Widow Brown.
Now, just before he started, Bob slipped
the tickler out and put into its place a small
alarm clock, carefully wound up and set
for 11 o’clock P. M. The 'Squire sat the
fire out, and was well on with his overcoat
holding the widow’s hand at the door and
putting in his sweetest licks for the last.
“Yes, your fist husband, my dear, was
one of my best friends, and we’ll visit his
and my lost Hannah’s grave, won’t we
love?” “Ah, yes, for where vras there a
sweeter woman'than your poor Hannah?”
asked the widow.
“A good woman; she was good enough,
but there’s one living just as sweet," said
the ’Squire, and he was drawing her to
him for a kiss, when whizz wizz zizzer
wizzer-hizz-ting, whir-r-r-r,ting! bang!
the clock went oil' inside of him. “Oh,
Lawd !" screamed the w idow, “he’s shoot
ing to pieces ! It’s Hannah’s old peanny a
playing inside of him! She said she’d
haunt me !” “She allers told me so,” cried
the ’Squire, running in a stoop for his
horse, with both hands pressed to his
breast, and the clock striking, “ting, ting.”
He rode as if Old Nick was after him, and
never knew the racket till he felt for his
tickler and pulled out she little clock that
Bob bad bought at auction. The widow
believes to this day that old man Bray is
a walking volcano’
Women’s Mental Imagery.
I have been astonished to find how su
perior women usually are to men in the
vividness of their imagery, and in their
powers of retrospection. Though I have
admirable returns from many men; I have
frequently found others, even of the high
est general ability, quite unable for some
time to take in the meaning of such sim
ple questions as these. “Think of some
definite object, say your breakfast table, as
you sat down to it this morning, and con
sider carefully the picture that rises before
your mind’s eye. Is the image dim, or
fairly clear? Is its brightness comparable
to that of actual scene? Are the objects
sharply defined? Are the colors distinct
and natural,” Ac. ? On the other hand, I
find the attention of women, especially wo
men of ability, to be instantly aroused by
these inquiries. They eagerly and care
fully address themselves to consider their
modes of thought, they put pertinent
questions, .they suggest tests, they express
themselves in weighed language and with
happy turns of expression, and they are
evidently masters of the art of introspec
tion. Ido not find any peculiar tenden
cy to exaggeration in this matter either
among women or men; the only difference
I have observed betvreen them is that the
former usually show's unexpected amount
of intelligence, while many of the latter
are as unexpectedly obtuse. The mental
difference between the two sexes seems wid
er in tme vividness of their mental imagery
and (be power of introspecting it than in
respect (o any other combination or mental
faculties of which I can think.
To-Day and To-Morkow. —To-day we
gather bright and beautiful flowers —to-
morrow they are faded and dead.
To-day a wreath of leaves shades us—to
morrow, sere and fallen, they crumble be
neath our tread.
To-day the earth is covered with a carpet
of g r ceo—to-morrow it is brown with the
wit he red grass.
To-day the vigorous stalk only bends be
fore lie gale—to-morrow, leafless and sap
less a child mUv break the brittle stem 1 .
To-day the ripening fruit and waving
grain to-morrow “the land is taking its
rest after tod.”
To-day we hear the sweet songters of
meadows and forests, the buzz and hum of
myriad insects—to-morrow breathe softly;
all nature is bushed and silent.
To-day a stately edifice, eoinple in finish
and surrounding, attracts the passer-by—
to-mociow a heap of ruins marks the site.
To-day there are cattle upon a thousand
hills—to-morrow they fall by slaughter.
The fashion of the world passeth away,
hut let Christ dwell within us, and tho’
we pass away like the faded leaf and shape
less stalk, we shall arise to newness of life.
“Where everlasting spring abides,
And never witheringflowers."
Make Friends.
Life is very critical. Any word may be
our last. Any farewell, even among glee
and merriment, may be forever. If this
truih but burned into our consciousness,
if it ruled as a deep conviction aud power
iu our lives, would it not give anew mean
ing to all our human relationship? Would
it not make us fur more tender than we
sometimes are? Would it not oftentimes put
a rein upon ourrash and impetuous speech?
Would we carry in our hearts the miserable
suspicions aud jealousies that now so often
embitter the fountain of our loves? would
we he so impatient of faults of others?
Would we allow trivial misunderstandings
to build up strong walls between us and
those who ought to stand very close to
us? Would we keep alive petty quarrels
year after year, which a manly word any day
would compose? Would we pass neighbors
or old friends on the street without recogni
tion, because of some real or fancied slight
some wounding of pride, or some ancient
grudge? Or would we be so chary of our
kind words, our comfort, when weary hearts
about us are breaking for just such ex
pressions of interest or appreciation as we
have it in our power to give?
A Big Foot or a Big Story. — A young
lady iu Sandusky can probably boast of
the largest feet in the world. A Detroit
gentleman, who was in a shoe store in
t at eit ■ w . n the lady left an order for
a pair of shoes, brought Lick a “chart” of
the foot that was taken to secure proper
lasts. The young lady is 17 years of age,
feet high, and weighs 100 pounds.
There is nothing remarkable about her
except her feet, an idea of the imensity of
of which can be obtained by thofollowmg
accurate measurement: Lengh, 17 inches,
size around the heel, 29 inches; around
the instep,lß4 inches; around the smallest
around part of the ankle, 16} inches; a
round the ball of the foot, 19 inches. The
feet are not unsymmetncal, and the only
diseomfort the lady experiences is from
the muscular exertion required to carry
them around.