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VOLUME VII.
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OTIIEB MEN.
The golden precepts of our God,
The thorny path our Christ hath (rod
Settu meant for other men.
The pulpit, in its eloquence
Feels every word that drops fiom thence
Is meant for other men.
The sin it sees, the crimes unseen,
The outcast soul, the wretched, mean.
Are all of other men.
And so from pulpit down it goes—
Tlie list of sin our paper shows
Art* deeds of other men.
And all good Christians ns they read
ltest bati l.Y in their chosen creed
And sigh tor other men—
“Got) ..ave those souls ; but as to ours,
We do not fear tlie threatening powers
Which conquer other men.”
Ami yet, oh, reader, search your heart,
And see how little ’tis apart
From those ot other men.
How much of strength is due to chance
The happening of u circumstance
To you and other men.
7n prosperous days you fe ir uo fall;
put tickle torture changes all
Foi you and other men.
01i, how much betttg it would be
II' you could only -only see
Yourself as O-tlier jtyen.
,See all your meanucse, $m<J how siuall
\t best you are, and, rfter all,
How like those nttytg men,
B 1 . 1 1 E .
ny MILTON H. MA11DLE.
(‘Of all His colors ’neutli the skies,
Which one is fairest to thy e*vs ?”
‘Tve thought it over, and tell you true,
b,V favorite of aty ls the blue ”
“Your reason, sweetheart, give to me,
by blue so fair to you should be ?”
“ Tis not b‘cause the clear, broad sea
Is bine, that it is fair to me ;
“Nor yet because the violet
li blue, that thus my mind is set;
“And yet you cannot guess, you say,
"by 1 this color choose to-day.
“Itook iu the glass, my sweef, and view
'the answer in thy eyes ot'blue.”
MISCELLANY.
An Imlianu Curiosity.
liic tower of the couit-house at
breinsbtirg, Indiana, is 130 feet in
Lght. One hundred and five feet
fiom the ground is the wafer-sheet ot
fl> ( ! tower ; and above that is covered
With dressed stone, made to fit closely,
Jn si H>s two by five feet, inclining an
of about thirty degrees from
upright.
In the summer of 1870 a citiz“ti
flte pi ace was examining the tower
with gfa^s, when he observed spring
lU o f|, °m the third crevice about the
w *L<:r*8he t on tilt; east sitle ‘of the
t'Wtr, lio feet from the ground, a lit
' u The next spring, when sun
-" fl spring showers came on, it put
■ "t its leaves plentifully’, and grew
luxuriantly all the season. By this
time it was easily seen with tlie eye ;
fi'tt, as it could not ue approached in
1:| y ordinary munn<*r nearer than from
ifi* ioofs of buildings on the opposite
sule of the street, i ,s peci'‘S could not
fit* ascertained. The third spring it
l )Ut fi'i'di again wjfh renewed life, vig>
and size. Instead of dwindling
a fi li dropping from tin* effects of the
v ‘Otoe’s q ,k| „r t In* summer's heat and
‘“on'-'it, the atnjosphcie of justice
' 1,111 V ( 'fi ,v r gceiped to Ciiuse it to
-Hirisli extraqrdinaiily, To is season
it ' T *‘s decffled to be a silver m iple.
It is now mori! than twelve feet high
‘ Ul ^ is thought to be three inches in
ll ‘‘ruc*,te r. Tiie top is qu^ie busny,
i
l,u * in the summer season the leaves
‘ lro uuiuerqus and luxurient. It can
fie se' ii fpr many miles around, and
llle stranger, approaching, first sees
. Bie J (,>w er, and then this phcnqmcpon.
rapid growth pf the tree is forc¬
ing ily the stones ‘^part. This can read
l, e Sl *un with a glass. Ere long
*“fi tious maple wi^l have fb he
/ Ml ght lower or dmi ige li) the finffd
hud 'o'low. The sheriff f,i is
hnVers s ^veial applications from
to t ike it down ; but the
not permit their tree to be
t ‘ 0v, d yet.— Chicago Times.
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COX’S COURTSHIP.
Romance of Love and Elopement
Lons: Asjo,
I Ion Capt. Edward Cox Met Ills
Wife and how they Married -
Recollections of their School
Days in Delaware.
From the Philadelphia Times.
T loo foil . v owing rom.mile * sketch , , , of
the love, courtship and elopement
Capt. Ed. Cox, Who was recently sen
to need to imprisonment for life for the
murder of Col. Itobt Alston, and who
, Ims been i . brought . so Very prominent . y
of late before the public, will, no doubt,
be ot interest to many of readers :
When Captain EG. Cox was a boy
he had a love affair that gives h his Ins
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murder of Col. A'slon, in Atlanta.
Georgia, is not an appropriate ending*
When Cox was a young man his father
died, leaving an estate ot considerable
value and three children to share it.
The eldest child, a girl married a law¬
yer in Atlanta, and her husband be
c unit the guardian of the affair*
E lw ard. At the beginning .if the fall
term id 1849 or Col. Hyatt's
wate Military Academy, at
ton, Edward Cox’s name appeared in
the roll of the lower class. On the 20th
of May he ceased to be a student
Col. Hyatt’s school and it was between
the d-oe of his arrival at Wilmington
and the 20 1 li of May the following
year that he added the roinantin chap¬
ter to his life’s iii-tory by eloping in
the most approved style with one of
the pupils of the Misses Grimshaw’s
select school for young ladi* s in Wil
Uiingtqn. Since (/apt Cox has be
come so prominent because of the
mup ler trail in which lie is the defen¬
dant, the s^ory of tiffs elopement has
been variously told, but th so vylio
drew it out of the past evidently had
the assist nice of others on
njenji'iry t!>e<iu-t of years had fallen not
lightly. From p-r»,na who w, iv
s ...ally associated with f.e ,|, c
st<rv herewith given was obtained,
and at 'east two of the gentlemen c . 11 -
cermd have reason to rom. w ber it
W( ,q
COX AS A SCHOOLBOY.
Wnon young Cox came to
ton he was nearly seventeen years
age. He was a great broad w sboulder*
ed fellow, with immense muscular de¬
velopment, and he distingui-hed him
........... .. .....nvd.at.ly lor his strength
by lifting 400 pounds dead weight to
the height of his shoulders. In man¬
ner be was quiet and unassuming, but
quick to auger when he felt aggrieved,
and reckless of consequences when
aroused. Cal. Hyatt at that time was
t}) 0 head Of a college in Delaw.ue,
such as he now maintains at Clu ster,
in this State. Cox was not farad
vaace.1 in I,is stu.li. s, in fact, beyond
bfii,g ab!. to tead, write and do a lit
tie in . len.entary matljemtitics, bis ed.
tication had been much neglected*
Nevertheless he was a manly fellow.
Taut self eo.didenee no natural to the
S mtliern youth ; and he was th< ; clio
sen companion and frien I of bis in
strnotor in French and Spanish, an ex
army officer, Captain Jefferson Nonis,
whose native State is Virginia. When
young Cox came to Wilmington his
younger sister, Mollie, came also, and
entered the select school of the M sses
Giimshaw, where she had for a room*
mate Migs Louisa VN atk ins, from List
Tennessee. Miss Watkins, although
not a beautiful giil, is described as be
ing o'»e ot those toward whom al pel
sons she came in conta t were im si>t
"’tv ofraalsd. ILisbt and wmy in
cmivi ■rs itmn, fftac-lul and plo»*««,
she formed acquaint me s >uly to
make friends. There seems to be on
ly pup bar between her and beauty,
and tlml was tlie presence on her taee
of a large mole—-so expansive, indeed,
that it destroyed the contour ot her
rigirt check and thcrclore, in form ns
well as color, was » blot on another,
wise lovely face, Louisa—or Lula, as
she waf more generally called — was a
ron .untie girl, and her Freach exer
oifes and in botany wore often
neglected that she might peruse the
novels that about that time fell so
abend mtlv from the pens of Mrs E
D u V N / ^ou th worth ’ Marion Ha.Dnd
and ; Catqbne •, Lee . Hoi.t m 1 p N v * Cor
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her room-mate wa*» also of a rom m
t e turn and a lady in this fity, now
iried ail th** rpaternal iiead of a
fiw. family lint who was a school
mate : in l c mfid mle of the two S mth
ern girls, relates that it was Miss
who tlie match between
THURSDAY. JUNE 5 1ST9.
brother ami her room-mate,
HOW HE MET HIS WI/E.
Young Cox had frequent meetings
with hs sistw and had entree to the
strictly select scliool of the Misses
Grim-haw’s and was thus afforded an
o,.]> tnnltv of , meeting i.lss ... T\ atkins
n
as often as he chose \ He elmse to
meet her at frequent intervals. , u His .
sia[cr and the lady now in PUila lnl
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phia, * wno wishes her name withheld, . .
jedon.sly • 1 1 gnorded. , 1 fl these •
n,t™
l>om ..utmdo eyes and cur.oe.ty 1 hey
^r./enlirelY J successtul il
. ll charge.
l' r "‘‘ clm » ""ir
,ab ' t en staU ‘ ( am ptih ts icd
th lt Cox and Miss Watkins had a love
affair in the South before they came
North to school, and that Cox having
been scnt awa y to b,eak U P a P° 8sible
matcl., the true-hearted girl discover
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was sent North to school, to the v< ry
town indeed to which her lover had
been banished. Much as such an in¬
cident adds to the interest and ro¬
mance of the story, the faithful narra*
tor must pronounce it in variance with
f,r Ui * “ “ ml Mr - Edward
Wl ro str.mgei-8 to each other until
lll, '. v ' nlot tlle ! jai lul ' oi the select
s ** bo °' * 01 y' mil k ladies .vhicli ihe
M '* ,8C '“ Grinwhaw kept. Bat alter
that the course ot true love ran
smooth till one day—the 20th of May,
1860—young C ix, walking with Cap¬
tain Nouis, said : ‘I want to entrust
you with a secret, and 1 want you to
give me your word of honor as a gen¬
tleman that you will never divulge it.’
‘Well/ said tlie Captain, smiling at
the earm stm ss of his favorite pupil,
‘as I lake it for granted that you
haven’t murdered or robbed anybody
nor committed arson, I suppose I will
have to promise silence.’
‘On y*«ui word as a gentleman,
prumis •, insisted C<>x, and laughingly
Lite Captain promised and C<>x went
1,1 : T mi going to marry LulaWat
kins lo-day.
‘l?««*eaE< V you are not go'ug to do
Whimt ol the kin. Why, I shan't
P onl,lt >'" K 10 a lo " isil
st ' P~ * ««• Pfpostemus J*
oil, tp sloy mo y.m w ,ll l ave to
tell somebody^ and you are a gentle- !
man an 1 dare not break your \yord > ) 1
replied G >doggedly anil all expos
tnlath.o was useless to shake Id u from
jp s reso | vc
‘If you do try to stop m p # why I
will take her on the train to Fhiladyl
phia. Nobody can hinder me from doing
t||aV s0 the tl0 !.i.loode<J, imp,,!.
give young fellow went on.
A FIURXD INDEED.
His friend, seeing there was no use
,,f fyin^ to dissuade him from hi,.pur
P I,SC N "''•sidy concluded that if the
t bi »g »“»*t g-» on lie would see the
Coupb properly and legally married
before they left the city.
II ma >' be '»"••«••"-( '•«». as » h " w -
>"?. P e,l ' a P s . ' 1, " t Co * had »» <•«'
cnlly i' liidnci ijf Miss Lulu to go
with him tt;at she hid ha 1 expe- j
>*«..<* in eLpemeuts, oral least in »r.
rangiag them. Ttvicbefore her path I
crossed that of the young man site
presently married, had her affections I
centered up m annt.er young man in I
her native town. Twice, bud it been
arranged that site and her lover would
H .V “> a P laa " ' vi " re distance would
rend.-r parental opposition ineffectual,
but before that point of safety h id
b en rt acht I, mb th instances, toe
young uo.nan mi bren c ia\\. iiinch r
the domestic wmg and snugly detain
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"P tie t ’ tlt et 1 iat / a -L 111 a v > 86U ’
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////“ i i„-Yde»f .///a ^.T Vho bitam idcd
^ t lra a ear to all rc.on
st ranees ot the , older and . wiser man
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' ) - 8 pU. e 'of ;
». romance that m tins case was a Id-;
c ni f anfc ‘“ ,l J 1 m w ‘| IH 1
° 1H g S ,
!n ’’
the hcense ? queened^ . Cox I e a «« j
M>u tan gut it t eie, s.iu a pt.
lUL t ie j( ut to t <e pro,»ei o_
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nec, and pres *ntly, t le legal p iper be
"'J? produced, tne.couple strolled up
vui a . iett. - 'U « uitiei on t lej
1,l( t the >’ ou,, » lad v wh,J 18 U0NV a
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FhiladelpliU matron. Sue, t«>o, was a
P : * rt y »° ,l *° 8ohei,,e ’ |
‘You will be expelled for this/said
, n.
/ cant he p , it if 1 am. am going . j
see this wedding through. .
the knot tied.
1 resentb the two met Nuss W at- t
k ns and Miss Cox, and the quintette
thus formed proceeded lo the house of
an old and well-known Methodist ci«*—
cnit rider of that day, the Rev. WiL
Lam Barnes, irreverently called ‘Billy’
Barnes by the Academy bo\s, whom
he used to ex’" rt wherever and when
ever be could find them. Mr. Barnes
ex-moned ex m.ined the the license IM>» , pocketed 1 « his leo
Ded the knot in due form and so the
our P ,U1 were weic matt; Mr flir.ana and .uts, Mrs Cox v.
went at o-en to the depot, where the
I '*uso»na nsl> md " wrote ,olc a a note uolt * to 10 llu ti e aii-si \ii-r.es s
Grimsl.aw G .»ul ,tw of ..f « the e s-dect OU M ci.ool cc for I r
>”'<«- 6
Ladies : I was married this aft. r
wmu to Miss Louisa Watkius, one of
yonr pupils. My wife and I leave on
tl,e tlalu tai , tl,e S ,uth 0,1 0U1 weddl,1 11 : «
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Very rospectful'y,
Edward Cox,
This note fell like a bomshell in the
select Softool lor ... ladies, and
young a
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brought back the answer that Mr. and
Mrs. Cox had left the train at Havre
do Grace. The eftief of police of
Y\ ilmington who went after them has
b' Cii dead many years, but be*ore he
was laid away in final rest lie often
told the story of his meeting Cox at
the hotel in Havre de Grace. Tne
young couple had arrived about ’hree
hours ahead of the officer and had oc¬
cupied rooms at the hosllrie nearest
the d<*pot.
CoX responded to officer M >ody's
call, and with a smile on his face said :
‘You a> e ioo late; besides what business
have you got to interfere with me in
Maryland? You had better go li -me*’
Mo 'dy takes up the story : *1 couldn't
s iy nothing ; I 1 <oked at him and he
gave me a bad sort of laugh, so says I
to myself, says i f 'all right/ and I says
t * him, says I: ‘I aint agoing to inter¬
fere/ And I didn't and I come home.
In a day or »wo Cox returned to
Wilmington with his wife, and stopped
at Allmond‘s Hotel until he got money
from home. He then left fbr the S >uth
an I has never visited the North ex¬
cept cnee, and that was when, as a
Captain in the Confederate army, he
fought at G ttysburg. His nnrriage
is report' d to have been a happy one,
but all thexe who vcre intimate with
the ymy early history of his wedded
life notone knows anything definitely
of him or his affairs, except th • tragic
story of the fat'd shooting affray for
which he is now on trial f»r his lif*.
Too Late.
“Old Mrs. Griffin died yesterd »y.”
“Indeed ! I am sorry to hear it ; I
have b on intending to c -II and *;jy a
word of cheer to her for weeks, but
som ■tiling has prevented m *, and now
it is too late !’
This is a circumstance of daily oe*
currence all over the world. Every
day the light goes out forever for thou’
sands of weary eyes, and never until
it is loo late do friends remember to
be loving tender and sympathetic.
Everywhere the old and failing ones
may be found sitting quietly by the
windows watching,-the sunset and
thinking of the night shadows which
are fast closing around their earthly
fives. Working feebly at whatever
their hands find to dc feeling always
that they have lived long enough.
Men vvh>» have once been active bus
i:.ess men dropped out of the great
marts of trade, forgotten and neglect
ed ; women who have once'been the
shining lights of society, faded, >-i : ent i
and sensitive to the slightest neglect,
rp ^ lU!j j| u f the world is si swift that
there 8 ems no time to pause and keep
step w t l. following feet, and so they
must step aside or be overwhelmed.
They live in the past, and who can tell
wliat visions fill their souls as they sit j
lh " fil " n S sbadows. They arc
•<> >L*cl that there is ih> ptaoc f..r
them, that they are of no use in the
. only . a , burden . to their , . friends. , . . |
root* withered hands that have toiled
tlirougli years of self-denial to bless
c ,, ilclre „ wll „ aru tl , a „ uk . s8
j Q r ike sacrifice. Some Line there i
conies a day when the corner is vacant, !
thu lna . chair Bnoocupit .a, t ',c specta
c j cs p„ t aiVfl y forever, for the eyes j
j iavtJ aw;»lcui»ed in tlie brightness and j
^ ^ of etc . n , a i yout h. Tueu unavailing,! when
eyery regret i 8 bitter and
what st:ibs of remorse pierce the hart
at remembered cruelties. Tiiey may !
h.ive been s'ight, but ihey were keen.
vMth all earthly n . ? v things, tbat ti,e the />'? hands s ai T d tor- ? ,,e |
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ever at rest what worlds would be
given to reead the past. Be tender to
them now, listen patiently to the old
memories of the youth so beautiful to j
them ; it wi'l not b. very long that j
iook „ pon tlie t ;, C( . wi|ich can brighten
no more at the token of l >ve you will
feel repaid t r all your devotiou.
How a Boy Captured a Deer
A correspondent telis the
stoiy of a doer hunt in Kentucky:
an hour 01 so we first heard the
bay of the hounds. 1’ rom the cry
il co " t ' n " <! ' 1 the due ‘' 8een,cd
cirdi b , „ 10und in the hills, / instca.i
making a straight . , run for _ the river,
«'• , "r „ T • el , , . . u
naui. «u,: 8 .
a 'y> ,lot knowing trl.teh Course the
w «»hl take, and the music became
^ ,, , w „ he „. d the , b
ol , lollM onlv . B „tto onr
i°- v t,ml “e*--"*** 1 lo b,!
our way. From the length of time
S amt ' had been afoot we
that the dogs had become tired
left the? trail, with the exception of
staunch o'd hound, whose voice
could occasionally hear a- he
iugly followed the quarry.
and nearer came the soon 1.
dismounted tightened giiths
waited Our hotses were as
excited as ourselves and we could
with difficulty curb their
We were stationed on the high
leading toward die village, and
deer was evidently running in
direction. At length lie came, a
bu> k - bounding through
woods in a line parallel with the road
and not more than a hundred
away from us. We put spurs to
horses and followed.
With the party was a boy sixteen
years old, who li id never before seen
deer in the woods, and was
craz‘d with ex .itemciit. As he
by iny side he said it looked 'as big
an elephant.’ On we drove, occasion
al’y catching a gliinps of the buck as
he dashed through the woods.
was very tired. The dogs l ad press
sed him h -rd, and he had probably run
twenty miles before he had arrived at
the point where we met him. S >on
the noble old hound came in sight, and
as tie saw us lie burst into such a mel¬
ody that we joined Him at the utmost
of our lungs, On wo pressed
rapilly approaching the village, dire
tly through which the chase seemed
fated to lake ns Soon we came !o a
large cornfield, wlvch was suit mnded
by a ‘staked and rid Ted’fence s x loot
high. We could not jump it, and look¬
to see where the deer hud gone
We found the plac *, and tearing
the top rail leaped our horses into
corn. Rushing through we arriv¬
at the oth'T extremity of the fi Id
in time to see tbe deer attempt
jump die fence. The dog was close
his heels and sprang upon him, and
him by the fl tnk prevente d
leap. The po >r anmal was evident¬
worn out with his long run, but lie
cffaiged the dog, and leaping
him ran gallantly back toward
point at which he had entered the
Id. We turned likewise and taking
furrows among the corn
our lioises to the top of their
My little friend rude between
and our companion. He rode lean¬
over Ins horse’s neck, gazing
ahead and ycdiiug lik * a mad¬
I thought of a raving lunatic.
* corn was high ami the dust so
hick from the trainpl ng of many an.
that at length I could see noth¬
bpt <*11 at once I hoard a crash,
a shou*:
‘I’ve got him! I’ve got him! Como
‘I rode toward the voice, and lo! the
lunatic on the ground was
with the deer. Fortunate
the animal was so exhausted by his
run that the boy • coul J pretty
handle him; but horns, ho.fi,
arms, boy, deer and dog were
promiscuously mixed in a cloud
dust that eveloyed them when I
insight. I sprang from my horse
drew my bunting knife across
throat of the animal, at the same
. seizing . . tie 4 , . boy by the collar ,, and ,
h.m away. After resting a
moments lie t dd me that, seeing
deer ms h past him, he could „..t
the temptation an 1 threw him,
off his horse upon the back of tiic
animal, clasping his arms
his neck. The shock threw the
to the ground. We put the dead
on one of the horses and rode
though the village, and our young
m was the hero of the
, r the i est o the season.
4 ‘*
‘For what am 1/ lie said in a c >n
versati mal way to Iiis Sail lay school
of little boys. ‘What am I hit
something vile with a litt'e air?
„ u( it ]' c „ t M „ ot be-wo il.i
18 - ,n 8bo ‘L [ a n onl >' —‘ A bla U
was what the goo 1 little buy
cYss was a liotirne 1 sine lie.
Courtship of Savages.
Am mg the aboriginal blacks of
Australia, courtship as the precursor
,,f marriage is unknown. When a
young warrior is desirous of procuring
a he penerally obtains one by
& mn 0 in ,,, ex exuun , h m-e a e for iormi l,er asisiei a sister or oi
8i)m e other fem de relative of his own;
. hut tf .... there should . ... he no el.gd.le ,. .. . dam
se l disengaged 0 0 in the trib ; to which
he belongs, then he hovers around the
encampment of some other blacks u„
til he gets an opportunity of.souing
»"« ° r tlieir leuhras, whom, perhaps
he has seen and admiied when attend
ing one of the cot-robotics. His mode
of paying F his addresses is simple 1 and
efficacious. With a blow of a war
club he st’.ns the object of his affec
lions, and as she recovers her senses,
brings her home t > h s own gunyah in
triumph,
Another method with wifi-stealers
is t > ascerta n the camp-fire beside
which the girl whom he coV«*ts sleeps.
When he gains the knowledge lie re*
quires, lie creeps close to the camp on
some dark night, and, stretching nut
his spear, inserts its barbed point into
her thick flowing locks, turning it
slowly around. Some of her hair be¬
comes entang'ed With it ; then with a
sudden jerk she is aroused from her
slumbers, and, as her eyes open, she
feels the point of another we ipon press¬
ed against her throat. S.io neither
faints nor screams. She knows well
that the slightest attempt at escape or
alarm will cause her instant death ; so,
like a sensible woman, she tnak“s a
virtue of necessity, and rising silently
fol'ows her captor, to begin a life of
toil, from which there is no release till
death.
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One ot Camp-Meeting John’s
Stories.
Camp-meeting John Allen tells a
story about a tnau who came forward
for prayer in the early days jf his
ministry, with led fice and rum breath,
not sober enough to understand the
gravity of the occ is <*n, but still seri¬
ously in earnest about his salvation.
This man kept a little shop, and
among other things sold a little new
rum, but was his own beit customer.
Mr Allen went t<» his shop one day
and expostulated with him about the
matter, but he a lid he could nut afford
to lose what rum he had on hand. Fi¬
nally, Allen agreed to buy it if lie
would seek the Lord then and there,
kneel down and pray for himself.
tlmy knelt down the minister turn¬
the faucet and set the rum to run¬
ning Tlrs was too much for the pen¬
and lie cried out on his knees^
‘it’s wasting, it’s wasting ’ 'L*t it
waste/ said the old saint, as he kick¬
ed it out doors, and took a hatchet and
in the end of the cask. ‘It ain’t
said the man. ‘Guess at
and be sure to guess enough/ s iid
Thus the battle was won, and
the man b jcanie temp Tate and reli¬
gious Next day some of the church
members said they thought brother
Alien came to preach the gospel, not
to spend his time kicking out rum
barrels.’ ‘You can’t get the gospel in
till you kick the rum out/ said the
preacher.
Jf You Please.
Boys do you ever think how much
c mrtesy wifi Jo f.r you? Some
Uhe greatest men wore ever cautious
Biis respect. W hen the Duke of
Wellington was sick, the last lie took
WiW ® bule te; / 0rj 1,bs serVa "t
handing him it if to he him would m a h^ve saucer it, the and Duke as- |
replied, Yes, if you plea-e.’ lh f '*e j
were InsL.st words, ljow mudi kind.
them. “"L®"", He u ho / had /!* commanded ‘‘'"/T greq. ,/
amves ai me., an iml i was was lorn* iou e ac^us accustomed i io to
tone ot authority, did not overlook
the snyill courtesies o. Inc. . i, <t*
™ a "y »*oys do! What a rule tone of
they often use to rule their
btt.e brothers and sisters, an.l some.
tin, ts to ,b ir mothers! They ord r so
Tnat is ilibred f and shows, to say the
l« a *t a want of th night. In ail your
home talk remember bf you please/
To all who wait up >n or sereve you,
b'fie^c B» a t ‘if you p ease’ will nptke
you belter served them all the cross
words or ordering in the wh »le dic
tionary. Do not forge three little
words: ‘If you pi -a.se.,
‘A mandamus/ says the Alb my
Argus, ins b *e 11 served up m Sjcrrta
rv of S ate, B. acb ' Pshaw, a day
scarcely passes that we don’t have
mure tfia i one mandamus for something
we have published.
m. 23.
pfSHUMORk 'C ST %
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\1 "il
Beware of dried apples; they live
not wisely, but to swell.
The cucumber is getting ready to
take a twist at the inner American.
Let us be always cheerful; if life is
i burden, let it be the ^burden of a
There is no happiness in life there
is no misery like that growing out of
the disposition whieli^ consecrate or
a home.
Sickness turned a Western man’s
hair from white to a dark brown.
Probably the sick man d yed.
Rdse a chil 1 in the way lie should
go,’ar.d when he gets old enough to
draw threes or two pairs he will ‘raise
/
It takes a pretty smart woman to
tin- sparking, when triplets strike
upon tin anvil chorus about midnight,
don’t you forget it.
About tne guiltiest-look dig people
this world are a man accused of a
of which be is innocent, and a
newly-married c mple trying to pass
for veterans.
‘How dare you say ‘damn/ before
severely inquire 1 a clergyman of
loafer. ‘How dil I know you wan
to sayMamu’ first?’ retorted this
man.
‘Little boy/ said a w •mau to a boy
who had been impudent, to her tl*e
day, ‘have you a mother?’ N o'
but pap wouldn’t tn irry you if there
wasn’t a lions keeper in the whole
land.’
A gentlemm was disturbed from
rest in the middle of the night by
line kn eking on thr street door,
there?’ In* asked. ‘A friend/
the answer. ‘What do you want?’
I want to stay here all night.’ ‘Queer
stay there by all means/ was
benevolent reply.
A Western tailor advertised:—
or three girls to put on
Dr Mary Walker ealle l the
m truing and said:—‘Now bring
your pants and don’t look.’ The
explained find she left with *
air vowing that she would
him agt anmver as soon as she got
E. C. Stedmmi sings, in Scribner,.
by should 1 fear to sip the sweets
each red lip?’ Why? B cau-e,
Sfcedaiau, you have a eonviotio i
the gloomy-lo >kmg o! I gentfemtin
the b ickground, with blood in his
and a cane like the angel of de ;th
his hand, will make a poultice of
if you do any such sampling- white
is in reach.
‘Is Miss Blinking at home?’ asked
S m lets of the Irish girl who an-.
the ring at the door.
‘Yes, b’lieve she is, sir.’
‘Is she engaged?’
An, is it engaged, you say? Faith
1 can’t tell ye sir; but she kissed
Vincent last evening as if she
not seen the like uv bin, aa’ its
I b’lave they are, sir.’
A youn^lady Teceiving of Des Moines Iowa
wag attention from two
recent 1 v married
; nrefern'd J, but in so ntiiet a s vV
it WM Kcnen g|, known> xh e
alter the wedding the other
: n . on a v.sit ; ana . iri( j g0 sei : mg r{y the t j
#
j Ta j , M . li determined to stav
„ |lt w .„ ,,early midnight when
, . . vonll w ma „ ' wag ! “ ■ ,.f urme ”* d
^
^ vounr , i lf j v a s their
i„ t j on9 ’ toward each other had le ml
cl , a ,
Cotton — Droop ng 6 to 8.
Whisky—Brisk, $2 straight.
Bacon—Steady, 6 to 7.
Sngap—Prime, his reached 11.
Flour—Unchanged, 7 to 10.
Butter—Finn, on iee, or when*]
Tne weather’s cool enough, and then
It rates ju lots at 25.
Eggs 15 if n it alive.
Cheese is lively—crawling up.
Coft e weak and inclined to droop.
L ‘id slips up to 7 to 8,
Just where ’JMdeu slipped —
Bat wu are slipping into politics,
uni cauij 't pr Cecil auy further,