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NO. 33.
DR.TA1MAGE ON SUICIDE.
•dS-seiMiMirnctioa LoakcA Upon
Bbooki.yx, Sept. 21.—The opening
hymn at the Brooklyn Tabernacle to
day was:
“Oar God, our helper in ages past,
Oar hope for yean to come.”
Dr. Talmage expounded the 11th
chapter of the Epistle to the Hebrews,
and preached on “The Cause ot Sni-
cide,” taking his text from Acts xvi.,
27 and 28.»**‘He drew oat his sword
and wonli have killed hiiiself, snppos-
ing that the prisoner had lied, bnt
Paul cried with a lond voice, *Do ihy-
II no harm!’ ” Dr. Talmage si-oke
folio-
Here is a would-be soic’uln arrested
bis deadly attempt. ^ is a Sherifl*
having prisoners in chargF. According
■-o the Roman law the bailiff had
inffer the pauishment that wasdnea
:ulprit escaping, and if the prisor
breaking jail was to have been
t that had twe
d the other for
ward fell dead
side, the ctnel instinroei
ballets, one for him at
the gunsmith who aftei
while examining it. vtuj
doubt the beatification of Hagh*Miiler
when his hot brain ceased to throb
that winter night in his study
Bello? Among the mightiest
*T B "
William Cow
clo»
alk v
author of “Ob, foi
rod!” “There
blood.” “What
tin filled
is hindrai
Cowper, who, with Isaac Watts
and Charles Wesley, wears the
u -Tiors of the sacred hymnoWy.
pochonuria \\ ilham Cowper rest
self-destruction. rode to the Thi
er for this purpose, hut found a
seated upon some goods on the bank
from which the sacred poet expected to
spring, and. so returned to his home, himself
and that night lay on the blade of a
u_.r. -.--v • ’ suspend-
bp
knife,
ed himself with
der when
ed three
four
udungooned thre
tal punishment. The Sheriff had re
‘ ed unusual charge to keep a clos
tout foi Paul and Silas. Ther
i something strange and snpernatna
about them, and the government had
much confidence in bolts and ‘
hold fast these two incarcerated
clergymen, aud, now, sure enough,they
loosed by miraculous power.and
• were to die for the crime of preac
the Sheriff supposed he
a die, and rather than
onld ha
under the execution*
J suffer public disgi
the sharp, keen,
the Sheriff was
rt halts at t
the unloosed pri
:ruel dagger w
iining at his
s command of oi
mere: “Do thyself:
In olden time, i
popular and considered
courage, v-operuosthenes jH*is<
Christ
ign of
ided that the Athenian orators be
endered. Isocrates,theorator,starved
himself to death rather than surrender
Philip of Maccdon. Cato slew him
self rather than submit to CVsar, and
after the wounds had been dressed
three times Cato tore them open and
Mithidates poisoned himself to
escape Pompey, the conqueror. Han
nibal killed himself with poison, which
he always carried in a ring, because he
thought life unbearable. Lacurgas a
inicido. Empedo-
:les ended his life by jumping into the
crater of Mount Etna. Zero, the great
philosopher, at !)8 years of age, passing
out of a school, fell and put a finger
out of joint, and, becanse of the acci
dent, banged himself. After his Mos-
preparation of opium for self-destruction,
and his servant one night heard him
rise and put something into a glass
and drink it, and soon after thero fol
lowed groans that awakened all his at
tendants, and it took utmost medical
skill to resuscitate him from the stupor
of the opiate.
So the crime goes down through
the ages, and modern society needs
‘ng upon the subject of sui-
ne ws paper
kill little David; ten feet of
ing four. This is the man who
consulted with the clairvoyant,the witch
of Eodor, completely whipped in bat-
e, instead of surrendering his sword
•ith dignity as hundreds of heroes
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rod misanthropy are considered sufli-
ient causes for absconding from this
world by Paris green, by bclladona, by
laudanum, by leap off an abutment, by
Othello’s dagger, by dagger, by fire-
Never so many cases of felo tic
any two years as in the last two
The crime is becoming common
by the day. A pulpit not long ago
issed a doubt as to whether there
really anything wrong in endiug
liie when it becomes too disagree-
And there are strewn through
the community, among respectable peo
ple, apologists for the deed that the
Apostle in the text arrested. I shall
* ow that it is the worst possible
ime, and will lift against it a warn-
g unmistakable.
At the opening of my sermon let tut
say that some of the best Christian
people who have ever lived have com
mitted suicide, bnt they did so in de
mentia, and therefore were irresponsi
ble. 1 would have no more doubi
about their immediate entrance upor
.1 happiness than I have about
those who die in their beds in the deli-
i typhoid fever. While the
shock of the catastrophe is greater than
in ordinary demise,I charge those whose
Christian friends have in cerebral aber-
stepped off the honndries of this
have no fear about their destiny.
The dear Lord took them out of their
dazed and frenzied state into perfect
fety. If yon want to know how
Christ feels toward the insane
itment of the demoniacs of Godara
and the child lnnatic, and the potency
— : .th which He hushed tempests wheth-
Among all the grand and glorione
an of Scotland, the land prolific of
intellectual giants, no one grander has
lived than Hugh Miller. Great in
science and great for God. He came
from the best high and blood, and
icendant of Donald Roy,memorable
for piety and for the rare gift of second
eight. His attainments,climbing np as
he did from qnarry and stone-mason’s
wall, drew forth the amazed admira
tion of Dockland and Murchison, the
scientists, and Chalmers,the theologian,
and held nniversitiea spell-bound as be
told them wbat he had seen of God in
theOldRedSandstone. He did more than
any man that ever lived to show that
the God of tbe hills is the God of the
Bible; striking his tnning-fork on the
rocks of Cromarty until Geology and
Theology lifted their voices in the
same palsm of worship; his books, en
titled “The Footprints of the Creator.”
and “The Testimony of the Rocks”
proclaiming tbe bands of an eternal
1ID wonders 1
lift while he
ighteons
Chri
plunged i
allot
(ivopu
I declare that he
t of his ab
> that othei
al-av*
:oherence
), while in the pos
session cf his reasoning faculties, by
his own hand intentionally snaps the
bond between body and soul, goei
straight into perdition. Shall 1 provi
it? Revelation, xxi., 8: “Mnrdereri
shall have their part in tlio lake that
burueth with fire and brimstone.” Rev
elation xxii., 15: “Without onr dogs
and sorcerers and wheremongers and
murderers.” Don’t believe
New Testament? 1’erhaps, then, yon
believe in the ten commandments:
“Thou shalt not kill.” Do you saj
all these refer to the taking of the life
others? I ask, is not a man as much
isponsible iu regard to bis own lif
s the life of others? Yorir life is com
lilted to your especial care. You ar
-s costodian as you arc the costodia:
f no other life. God lias given yoi
teans for its defence, arms with which
» strike back
hich to watch invaders, and a natural
>vo cf life that was intended always
» be on the alert. Assassination of
thers is a mild crime as compared wit
isination of yourself, becaui
this lai
d with
foul with the
this satyr, this fifthy goat, this
rd of nations, this leper of
Stand np! then monster'
part panther, part vulture,
part reptile and part dragon, and take
the ;
II men against this unnatural
here hangs the headless trunk
a the wails of Bsthshan. This
: with the carnage in which thou
ashed, and thy feet crimson with
the human gore through which thon
hast waded. Go down, sentenced to
the pit and sup on the sobs and groans
f families whom thon hast blasted,
nd roll on bed of knives which thon
sharpened for others, and thy
ird who t
nd flin
inked bis
D kill
: declining, the
self
ipon
And then bis picture bangs in the
s’ gallery of miscreants. There
is Ahithophel, the Macciavelli of
Bible times. He betrayed David in
prospect of being prime minister to
Absalom, and joined that fellow in bis
ittempt at patricide. Whittrophel’s
change of politics not securing
of a disgraced lib
a short
have hi:
Yondei
t Samuel you
t mortem photograph,
s Abimelech, practically
flf-mnrdcrer. While he was bom
barding a tower,a woman took a grind-
ne from its place and dropped it up-
his head, leaving jnst enough life in
cracked sknll to say to his armor-
bearer: “Draw thy sword and slay me,
i say not a woman »lew him.”
And, thrust through at his own com-
md, ho was practically a suicide.and
his picture hangs in the gallery among
wardly imbeciles.
Bat the hero of this group is dndas
Iscariot. Dr. Donne, in his celebrated
book, calls him a martyr. And in onr
been his apologists.
And what wonder, in this age which
has a book reviewing Aaron Barr as a
patron of virtue, and which has amonu-
lent recently hnilt to George Sand as
benefactor of literatnre, and which has
ises of betrayal of Christ among his
pretended Apostles so black that in
contrast Judas Iscariot’s infamy
hite. lint there he is, after selling
Master for about $15, suspended by
)wn hand for tbe execration of all
centuries. All tbe good and honorable
i and women of tlio Bible li '
God the decision of their earthlj
And they coaid all hav
claimed with Job, who thought he had
good reason for suicide if any man
had, what with his property gone and
his body a llamc with insufferable
buncles, and nothing of his home left
except the curse of it—a pestife
wife and four garrulous people pelting
him with their comfortless talk, while
be sat on the ashheap, scratching his
scabs with a piece of broken pottery,
yet triumphantly saying; “all thodays
Notwithstandii
g all that the Bible
ide and all thi
by ghastly and
loathsome spectacle of th
ed themselves out of life, and the fact
that Christianity has always been
against it bv arguments and the useful
lives and illustrious deaths of its dis
ciples, the fact is alarmingly patent
that Buicide is on the increase, and
every Jody asks, why is it? I charge
the whole thing upon the infidelity and
agnosticism abroad. If there be nc
hereafter, or if that hereafter is blissful,
without reference to how we live ami
how we die, why not swing hack the
sliding doors between this world and
the next? Why not let all those who
find this world unfortunate pass right
over into Elysintn? Take this fact of
consideration: In every case of snicidi
that has ever been recorded, or ever wil
be recorded, the perpetrator was eithe
demented—and hence not responaible
—or an infidel. I challenge tbe n
verse, and I challenge tbe ages for <
exception. There never has been, th
never will he, a man who took bis o
life while appreciating the fact that be
is immortal, aud that this immortality
will be glorious or wretched, according
to bis reception of Jesns Christ
Saviour otthe rejection of Him.
_ Yon account for tbe increase of
ble, and bis brain gave way, and be cide by business misfortunes, by over
was fonnd dead with a revolver by liie work, by insomnia, by this, by that.
by the other thing. Go back
source and see that it is cither through
abdication of reason or through the
handsome and delectable work of infi
delity, which practically says: “I:
yon don’t like this world, get ont of it,
and yon will either go into annihilation
—where yon will hsvo no note
and no persecution to suffer
gout to torment—or yon will p
mediately into a world win
have everything glorions without pav
ing lor it.” Infidelity always has been
an apologist for suicide. David Hum
writes: "You admit that it wonld b
direct tbe Nile o
Danube frot
Whelk, theu, is the crime of
few onnccs of blood out of the
channel?” Hnme lent this t
ho, after reading it,
friend,
with thanks, and thi
Voltaire, Roussean, Gibbon,
Montaigne were advocates for suicide
under certain conditions. Infidelity puts
not up one bar to hinder people rush
ing voluntarily ont of this life into the
next. They all tell von that you will
land safely anyhow, either in nowhere
or a happy somewhere. So Infidelity
holds tbe upper end of the rope of the
suicide and tire* -oft the pistol with
which tbe man blows his brain
ind mixes the strychnine for ch<
'wallow. If lufidelity could carry the
lay and persnade tbe majority of peo
ple that it is right, and that bow
nen go out of this life they land
n the next existence, the East river
Hudson would be soon so full of
that the ferryboats would be
peded on their wky to Now York,
the crack of the suicide's pistol wonld
ble of a street
„ ies get bi
enough to render a verdict according to
se, and as in the irresponsible
they say, “While in a state of
insanity the deed was done,” in other
s eay, “While suffering from the
Its of reading Infidel books or bear
ing Infidel lecturers which destroyed
all idea of retribution, the deceased
took his own liie.”
Let brazen Infidelity stand up and
Its lips, blit
very blasphemy, and its cheeks
iry lust, and its breath
Toptiou of the ages;
t the ii
ticism with the crime
a nossessionof their
self-slaughter during
mnsic bo the unending
those thon hast damned,
fidelity and agnosticism
if all those who in nos6<
mind committed
the last century,
My hearers, if you ever, because life
by reason of its trials and molestations
unbearable, should bo tempted to
it it at your own behest, do not con-
inn yourself above all others. Christ
nself was tempted to cast himself
wn from the roof of the temple; bnt
he resisted, so resist ye. (Jhristiani-
comes in to medicine all our wounds
d give ns victory. People who had
worse than you have been songful all
the way. Reside that, God has arrang
ed with precision the chronology ol
l,f ‘ " ~ the chronology ol
i bo boi
le to die i
. yonr gra
rell as the
'ell as
The Egyptian: ...
Lgypt at precisely 12 o’clock
at night and the Israelites emancipated.
Why at 1” o’clock at night? Becanse
that hour. God
. out of earthly
bondage. By his grace don’t make
At ' bnt the best of things. If
take pills, don’t chew them,
■enly reward will correspond
. r earthly perturbation, as
Cain gave to Agrippa a chain of gold
heavy as once had been bis chain of
n. For the asking you can have the
ne grace that was given to the Ita-
n martyr Algerins, who dated his
ter “From tbe delectable orchard of
the Leonine prison.”
Above all, let us realize that there
around our earthly life a rim which
s rnoBt perilous for us to break. All
around this brief life a rim boyond
hich is eternity, and we had better
keep out of it till God breaks the rim,
thin but important, which separates
""o go out of present
this from that,
ills don’t rush
Don’t, to get :
{insects, plunge
n of t
a jangle oi
l here is a sorrowless
idiant that the noon-
llengal tiger.-
world, and s
day sun is b:
steps, and the Anrora that lights up
the northern heavens, confounding as
tronomers as to what it can be, is only
of the banners of its procession
church militant to church
And you and I have ten thousand
‘ng to go there.
mphant
ilain by the stroke of Him who .
A) do that and nothing else, we
o go in at the time divinely selected
and from a bed divinely spread. Ant
theu the clang of the sepulcbral gati
behind ns will be drowned ont by thi
dang of the opening of tbe solid pearl
before ns. O God! whatever oth<
may choose give me the Christiai
hope, and the Christian’s life, and the
Christian’s death, and the Christian’s
bnrial, and the Christian’s immortality.
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JACK.
“Greens! Dand’lion greens! greens!
shonted a child’s voice. And f heard
the quick steps of small bare feet pat
tering np the lane.
Presently a face appeared at the upon
window of my kitchen, where 1 wi
busy, superintending the “Saturday 1
Please ma’am, don’t you want _
ket of fresh greens all picked with
the dew ou ’em ? They’ll make a good
dinner, and only cost five cents.”
Poor little Mankin ! I thought,
vork so long and trndge so far, all
ive cents ! My dinner was provid
ud dandeloin greens were not included
n the bill-of-fare—bnt bow could I r
fuse him ?
lea. Jack, come in here and eat
;hnnt while I empty yonr basket.
» not slow to accept tho inviu.
and chattered like a magpie every
He while he eagerly devoured rc
eral doughnuts, and looking longly
»u of cookies jnst taken from the
Thank you, ma’a
makes a fellow awful hungry—this
daud’loin bnsiaasa does. I like to g
:n they’re fresh and cool, befoi
has been on ’em long, so I start
letimes earlier, and
don t have any breakft_.
heu it happens that a feller
had any supper either the night
> o’clock aud s
before, it makes him feel kind o’empty
like.”
All this was said withont a moment'-
pause, and swinging his bare heels to
gether, as ho sat perched upon the
window-sill, he langhed the merriest
laugh in the world, which brought to
the surface a great dimple hidden away
in each snn-bnrned cheek, and showed
all his pretty whito teeth.
“But you had your supper last night,
hadn’t you.”
“No ma’am. You see there
ly two potatoes to go round, and the
ronndthey had to go was mother, Susie
and me—a big round for two small
potatoes—don’t you think so ma’am?”
And he laughed, as if it was the fun
niest thing that he hail ever heard of;
instead of a most pathetic story.
“How did you manage?” I asked.
“Well, yon see, raa’m—haven’t
been to school long enough to learn
how to divide two potatoes among
three people so that each thail have a
whole one. So says I to mother: “You
take this one, and Snsie and I’ll han-
dy-spandy for the other. Then I held
it behind me, and said to Sufic; ‘Ilan-
dy-spandy, Jack-a-dandy, upper or
lived through now, and it grows more
beautiful—more tender and true with
every chapter.
Jack has proven himself to be the
hero I knew him to be.
He works early and late on a small
piece of ground which we allow him
to cultivate on onr farm; and he car
ries his frait to town in a basket strap
ped on his bac| r and he is as happy as
king—-happier than many kings, I
Little, pale Snsie is not half so pale
she was before she, too, had the
chance given her to “help.”
She haa free range in my flower gar
den, and makes np the dantiest “but
ton-hole boquets,” with which she fills
her small basket every morning for
Jack to take with him.
He never finds the least diflicnlty in
disposing of them all, and a proud lit
tle last she is when he drops the pen-
“ : es into her hands at night.
The mother, we think, is growing
1 aga : "— 1 —
hearted ways.
He is not thirteen vears old, bnt his
mother calls him the “head of the
house,” and he truly deserves the title. —
THE HANDY HOU8EWIFK.
T wish there was some way to keep
those children quiet on a rainy day or
when it is too warm for them to be
in plaving,” said a weary
mother the other day to her friend and
neighbor. “I always notice what little
trouble yon have with yonr children,
although you have three more than I
have; and I thought perhaps you could
‘ 'I me how yon managed it.”
“A very easy matter, my dear,” re
plied her friend. “Children must be
amused or they will become cross and
naughty; so wonld you or I. Suppose
i stay all day, c
•And lower, it was, to be sure,
use I held both hands even till she
.nd thon dropped the one
lower, which
'■rely
with the pot
asn’t cheating,’ ma’am, now wai
“No, ray brave little Jack, it g
as not cheating,” <1 answered,
g away, that he might not see the
ars in my eyes.
“Well, Sne, you see, didn’t like to
ke it; for sbe’s'awful generous, if she
poor, and she tried to get it back on
e by saying she thought ‘upper,’ and
’ only her lips that said low:
well—
upper’ all the tim
She
“She’s little and white, and o
n’t much of a supper for the
er, anyway. And at last I
r eat tho whole of it 1 . I told
have a good dinner to-day,
knowed somebody would buy
my greens, and 1 am going to spend
e whole five cents for one dinner,
'hat do yon think of that? I’m go-
g to get three herrings at a cent, a
ece, and the rest in potaters.” And
smacked his lips aB he thought o!
e treat in store for them all.
“I think,” he continued, “that yon
ve paid me pretty well for my greens
doughnuts withont any five cents at
!. Still as I look at it.” he added,
th a sly twinkle in his great bine
es, “dongbnnts is doughnuts, and
nts is cents, and the doughnuts is a
p?y”
t his
lensible and
aronnd. I want Snsie
•o have a glass of fresh milk. So yon
must carry this tin pail besides the
basket. Do you think yon can tnan-
them both ?
Well, ma’am, I guess you’ll see
whether I cau manage ’em or not. But
do jon think I can dig greens enough
to pay for all them things you’re put
ting in ?”
“No, Jack, I don’t; for they are not
to be paid for. I want to send these
to yonr mother—that’s all; and as you
said yourself, doughnuts is doughnuts
doomed
half a day, in oni
lowed to read, write, or sew, could
>n certain chairs and handle cer-
articles, and there was no one to
talk to or nothing but a game of soli
taire for ns to play. Why, we’d be
almost crazy. Any one, man, woman
or child, in good health, mnst have
something to do during their walking
hours. Y’et how few mothers try to
give this something to the busy hands
and active brains of the little ones.
notice children ont in the street or
garden. Are they ever still or qniet ?
No. It is true they find amusement in
trivial things. Now, I have
thought about all this, and I have
fixed np one room in the house, the
play-room, exclusively for my children.
>m is the large one on tbe
top floor. It ia all I had to spare and
aa I conld not afford a good carpet I
painted the floor and left it bare. A
poor carpet would be worn ont in six
months. In the winter the room is
heated by a little circular stove, and
over this is put a wire screen so there
is no danger of the children burning
themselves. . Tbe walls are painted a
delicate gray with a pale pink border,
«d I have a wainscoating that is one
if the chief charms of the room.
“What is it ? Well, I collected all
the pictures I conld ont of magazines,
illustrated papers, etc., and pasted
them on the wall from the floor almost
as high as the mantle. Pictures of
birds and animals and those of child-
i, of coarse, the greater uumber.
I put the colored prints down near the
furnace, so that the smaller children
:ould enjoy them, and they are pasted
>u so nicely that tearing them is im
possible.
“Then,” continued this nice little
mother. “I have five boxes in the room,
all of different sizes. These boxes
covers that fasten down, and are
padded on the top, with a flounce
mnd the edge, so that when the box
closed they have the appearance of
little ottomans. • Each child keeps his
‘ t -*— and it is his
.... nursery mg
with all kinds of animals cut ont of
cloth, with the name embroidered un
derneath, is among the furnishings of
My children amuse themselves for
hours in that room, with only exenr-
lions now and then to the kitchen for
lomething to play’tea party’ with, and
I flatter myself that they learn con
siderable from the pictures, as well aa
neatness and order with their play-
know
’ be added,
vith
good,
sigh.
While I filled the basket, ho told
me their little history, never realizing
how fall it was of the deepest pathos
—the struggle of the poor mother to
keep her family together after the
death of her husband, a good, kind
man, who had left her one morning,
full oflife. and strength, to go to bia
work iu the great iron foundry, and
was brought back to her a few bonra
later, having met his death while toil
ing for those he loved.
Ho did not realize, either, how his
ovu self-sacrificing spirit shone ont
through his words, proving to mo the
strength and sweetness of his charac
ter. What a hero he was, this little
twelve-year-old Jack !
“Mother has worked so hard for
Sue and mo that she hasn’t much
strength left. And don’t yon think,”
he added, straightening himself np
proudly—“don’t yon think I’m big
enough to take care ot these three?
Leastways, I’ve been lncky this morn
ing, for I’ve sold my greens and fonnd
you.”
I told him that henceforth
be the very best of friends, and that
happier days were in store for him and
tho:e at home; that 1 conld find
for him to do which wonld certainly
help him to the support of all three.
happy Jack as he was when
April morning
and 1 wish
with tho heavy baskt
a pail of milk*on tue
I could tell yon—for I am snie yo
you wonld like to bear—what plensai
days followed for Jack and those i
dear to him; bnt it wonld make such
long story we should uever come 1
the end of it. Indeed there is no en
to it. It is a story which is being
HUMOROUS.
the feeblest mustache, as well
as the sickliest child, that gets the moat
fondling.
sign in Cleveland reads: “Ise
lvream Sallnne,” which is positively
the worst cold spell of the season.
No,” she said sweetly, “I don’t
object to the smell of a cigar; it’s the
irnell of the smoke I -don’t like.”
Lambkin says the only snre prevent-
ve against Western rivers rising wonld
be for him to own a few shares in ’em.
Care will kill a cat. The care mast
be exercised in taking aim. It is ex
tremely difficult to hit one in the dark
with a bottle.
What age am 1? said a lady to a
gentleman, the other evening. He re
plied gallantly: “I don’t know, but
you don’t look it.”
The titrable with the United States
navy is that it is a little too small for
a navy, and a little too large for a boat
club*—[Philadelphia Call.
There ia a woman in Detroit who
ia not allowed herself to be teen by
len for twenty years. We gness it
Did yon pat it in with tacks or
potty?” asked a merchant traveller for
Pittabnrg glass house as he gazed iu
a absent-minded way at the hotel
clerk’s diamond.
In Bnrmah, an editor receives ele
phants inpayment for subscriptions; in
this conntry he doesn’t; in a great
many cases as soon aa he starts a paper
he has an elephant on hit hands.
Epitaph copied In a French cemetery:
I AWAIT MT HUS BAUD,
"10th October, 1820,”
And below:
"7 th February, isuo.”
“I’ve got a pencil that will mark all
oolors,” said Stompleg to hia wife.
“What color do you want it to write?’
Hia wife suggested red, and with one
foot ready for a jump.Stumpleg calmly
spelled ont “r-e-d” with his black pen-