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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. SUBSCRIPTION RATES: For one year (in advance) $2.50 FOf six months “ 1.50 CLUB RATES : Five copies, each one year $2.00 Ten copies, each one vear 1.50 ADVERTISING RATES : Per square, ten lines space, first insertion 51.50 Per square, each subsequent insertion.. ; 1.00 Special Rates to Yearly and Large Advertisers Advertisements from responsible parties will be published uhiil ordered out, when the time is uot Specified on the copy, and payment exacted ac cordingly. Communications for individual benefit, or of a personal character, charged as advertisements. Marriages and obituary notices not exceeding four lines solicited lor publication. When ex ceeding that space, charged as advertisements. Bißs for advertisements due upon presentation sifter the first insertion, but a spirit of commercial liberality will be practiced toward regular patrons. To avoid any misunderstanding the above rules will be adhered to without deviation. All letters and com municatious should be ad dressed to the undersigned, 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. 48 Columns. Do you Take it ? rnilE SUNNY SOUTH HAS BEEN CONSTANTLY 1 improved till it has now nearly attained to perfection. The last issue came lo us enlarged to 18 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 Jamily paper of the South, for it will soon reach almost every family. It will con tain every possible variety of readiDg matter,with splendid illustrations,and everything to entertain, amuse and instruct a family. Make up clubs in every community and send right along for it. 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. THE SUN FOR 1880. The Sun will deal with the events of the year 1880 in its own fashion, now pretty well under stood by everybody. From January 1 until Decem ber 81, will be conducted as a newspaper, written in the English language, and printed for the people. Asa newspaper, The Sun believes in getting all the news of the world promptly, and presenting it in the most intelligable shape—the shape that will enable its readers to keep well abreast of the age with the least unproductive expenditure of time. The greatest interest to the greatest num ber—that is, the law controlling its daily make-up. It now has a circulation much larger than any other American newspaper, and enjoys an income which is at all times prepared to spend liberally for the benefit ol its readers. People of all condi tions of life and all ways of thinking buy and read The Sun; and they all derive satisfaction of some sort from its columns, for they keep on buying and reading it. In its comments on men and affairs, The Sun be lieves that tbe only guide of policy should be common sense, inspired by genuine American principles and backed by honesty of purpose. For the reason it is, and will continue to be, absolute ly independent of party, class, clique, organiza tion, or interest. It is for all, but of none. It will continue to praise what is good and reprobate what is evil, taking care that its language is to the point and plain, beyond the posibility of being misunderstood. It is uninfluenced by motives that do not appear on the surface; it has no opin ions to sell, save those which may be had by any 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 first cltss, instruct the second, and discountenance the third. All houest men with honest convic tions, whether sound or mistaken are its friends. And The Sun makes no bones of telling the truth to its friends and about its triends whenever occa sion arises for plain speaking. These are the principles upon which The Sun will be conducted during the year to come. The year 1880 will bo one in which no patriotic American can afford to close his eyes to public af fairs. It is impossible to exaggerate the impor 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 ol'Congress, the utterances of the press, the exciting contest of tin; Republican and Demo cratic parties, now nearly equal in strength throughout the conntry, 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 tin polls, was thwarted by ail abominable conspir acy. and promoters and beneficiaries of which still hold the officers they hold. Will the crime of 1870 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 arc 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 ol' life, and in great things a steadfast purpose to maintain the rights of the people and the principles ol'the Constitu tion against all aggressors. The Sun is prepared to write a truthful, instructive, and at the same time entertaining history of lHrto. Our rates of subscritions remained unchanged. For the Daily Sun, a four-paged sheet ot twenty eight columns, the price by mail, post-paid, is !? cents a month, or $ 5 a year: or, including the Sunday paper, au eight-paged sheet of fifty-six columns,the price is Om cents a month, or 16" "ft a year, postage paid. The Sunday edition of The Sun is also furnish ed seperately at $1 20 a year, postage paid. The price of the Weekly Son, eight pages, fifty six columns, is #1 year, postage paid. For clubs of ten sending $lO we will send an extra copy free. Address I. W. ENGLAND, Publisher of The Son, New York City. 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. AND TRIMMINGS. Wall Paper & Decorations CHURCHES, OFFICES AND PUBLIC B UILDINGS FURNISHED. 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.