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| The Gainesville Eagle. lIIBLISHED EVERY FRIDAY MORNING. I J - IB - HED W I IST E , Kdiftii an<i Proprietor* ■ JOHN BL ATS, Publisher. ri ; Year, in. Ad VBBD6* OFFICE Uf stairr* iu Candler Hall buiMing, north-west corner Public Square. Agents for The Eagle. | I. M. Ri< H, lilairevilie, Ga.; J. D. Howard, Hiwas ■•e®. Ga.; W. M. Sa.ndkk-ion, Haysville, N. C.; Da. N. IC, Osh.hn, llutord, Ga. * luc above named gentlemen are authorized to ! make '-.die. tioiiH, receive and receipt for subscription I to The Eagle odice. M Ha ( on of AdvortiHiiigr. Ox- i11..:.u [jit square for flrt insertion, n<i fifty csuts for each subsequent insertion. .Marriage notices and obituaries exceeding six lines will b* * barged for as advertisements. Personal or abusive communications will not be iaverted at any price. Communications of general or local interest, under ; a genuine signature respectfully solicited from any •ource. 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Advertisers who desire a specified space for 3, 6 or 12 months will receive a liberal deduction from our regular rate c ttF* Atl bills due after tirst insertion, unless special contract to the contrary be made. GK \ERA I. DIRECTORY. Hon. G. ige 1;. Kico, Judge 8. C. Western Circuit. I Emory Speer, Bolicitor, Athens, Ga. COUNTY OFFICERS. J. fl. M. Winburn, Ordinary. •I. 1.. Waters, Sheriff. .1. J. Mayne, Clerk Superior Court. N. 11. ('lark, Tax Collector. J. H Simmons, Tax Receiver. V. Whelchel, Surveyor. Edward Lowry, Coroner. Samuel Lesser, Treasurer. CHURCH DIRECTORY. Pbkhuytkiiian Church —lter. T. P. Cleveland, Pas tor. Pr- i lilng every Sabbath —morning and night, except the second Habbath. 8u day School at 9a. m. Prayer meeting Wednesday evening at 4 o’clock. Mkthodiht Church Rev. D. D. Cox, Pastor. Preaching every Sunday morning and night. Sunday School at a. m. Prayer meeting Wednesday night. liapt Ist Church Rev. W. 0. Wilkes, Pastor. Preaching Sunday morning. Sunday School at 9 a. m. Prayer meeting Thursday evening at 4 o'clock. FRATERNAL RECORD. Alleghany Royal Arch Chapter meets on the See ond and Fourth Tuesday evenings in each month. A. W. Caldwell, H. P. Gainksville Lodge, No. 219, A.-. F.\ M.\, meets on tiie First and Third Tuesday evening in the month R. Palm our, Sec’y. J. K Rkdwinb, W. M. Ani- Link Loner., No. 04, f. O. O. F., meets every Friday evening. C. A. Lilly, Sec. W. H. Harrison. N. G. Gvininvillb Granqk No. 340, meets on the Third Saturday and First Tuesday in each month, at one clock, p. in. J. E. Kkdwlnz, Mastoi. r. 1). CIIKSHIRK, Sec. ' Morni.no Star Lodge, No. 313, I. O. G.T., meets ev ery Thors lay evening. Claud Esj W. S. J. P. Caldwell, W. C. T. North-Eastern Star Lodge, No. 385 I. O. G. TANARUS., meets every Ist and 3d Saturday evenings, at Antioch Church. J. A. Smith, W. C, T. R. F. Gittenk, W. S. GAINESVILLE POST OFFICE. Owing to recent change of rchodule ou the Atlanta and Richmond Air Line Rail rood, the following will be the schedule from date: Mail from Atlanta [fas ] 5.11 p. m. Mail for Atlanta [fasti 11.20 a. m. Office hours: From 7 a. m. to 12 m., and from 1 p. m. to 7p. m. No office hours on Sunday for general delivery window. All cross mails leave as heretofore. MAILS close: Dahlouega (Stage, Daily) - . - 8:30 a.m. Jefferson, (Stage, Wednesday ami Saturday) 9:00 p. in. Cleveland, (Stage, Monday and Friday) 8:00 a. ni. Hoiuor, (Horse, Friday) 12:30 p. ni. Wahoo “ " 5:00 a.m. Dawsonville, (Horse, Saturday) • 7 30 *• MAILS AHIUVK: Dahloiioga, 3:00 p.m. Jeih rmin ( Wednesday an 1 Sat rday) (1:00 p.m. rievelaud, (Monday and Thursday) - 6:ou “ Homer, (Friday) - - 12:00 m. Wahoo •* 0:00 a.m. Dawsonville, (Friday) - - 0:00 p. in. M. R. ARCHER, P.M. Professional and Business Cards. A. .F. MHAFFER, PIIVHICIAIV A N ]> S I It G EO N , Giiinc.svillc, Ga. i Jil. r mid Uuoms at Uaiuox' Hotel, Gninesville, Ga. jHirtl-ly CAMPBELL IIOUHE, (Corner ot Donator and Ivte Streets, uear Car Shed,) A tlniita, Or a. MV FRIENDS from Gainesville ami Toccoa City • nmptv.tt'ully invited to rail OU lue at thin plui’B. I guarantoo satisfaction. lanJS-ly THOMAS LITTLE. irVFIHMAUY, FOR THE TREATMENT OF DISEASES OF WOMEN, AND OPERATIVE SURGERY, At tho Gaines’ Hotel, Gainesville, Ga, by jan iS tf A. J. SHAFFER, M. D. V. S). UKKH.VRT, M. 1).~ I’olUvillc, Ga., XITILL I , BACTICEMEDIOINBIn all its branches, v V SjifH-lal attention given to Chronic Diseaßn of women and children. I'eblß -6m II 11. It. 11. ADAIR, DENTIST, CSuint-wville, Ga. janli ly MARSHAL 1.. SMITH, VTI'OBNUV AND COUNSELLOR AT LAW, Dawsoiu illr, Dawson coimty, (fa. ian 11 tf JOHN R. ESTES, VTTOKNKY-AT-LAW, Gainesville, Hall county, Georgia. u.J. WELLBORN^ VT TOR NE Y - AT-LAW, Blalraville, Union coiudy, Georgia. s tMVELG DUNLAP, VTTOUNEY AT LAW, GainttoilU, Ga. Ottice in (lie Candler building, lu the room occupied by the Eagle iu 1573. aprjtf. W. K. WILLIAMS, i TTOUNEY AND COUNSELLOR AT LAW, . V Oiccr\vhi, White < 'o., G'a., will practice in the Courts of the Western Circuit, and give prompt atten tion to all busineda entrusted to his caro. June 12, 1874-tf WIKU BOYD, VTTuKNKY AT LAW, Dahloncja, Ga. ! will Practice In (he counties of Lumpkin, Dawson. tiilmcr. Kannin. Union ami TownsoounUee nthe H!no liniso Circuit; an. Hall, White ami Ua'Htti in tiio Western Circuit. May 1, 1574-U'. B. F. WOFFORI), VTTORNEY AT LAW, Homer, Ga. Will execute promptly, all business entrusted to Ins care. March 21,1874-ly. BEY. A. MARTIN, VTTORNKY AT LAW, Dahloneoa, On. )nlj ai, lsri-if S. sv. CHRISTOPHER, VTTOIINEY AT LAW, llitvaeeee, Ga. Will execute promptly all business entrusted to liis care. novltitf THOMAS F. GRIER, VTTORNKY AT LAW, AND SOLICITOR IN Equity and Bankruptcy, ElUjay. Ga. Will prae t ice in the State Courts, ami in the District and Cir c nit Courts of the l'. S., in Atlanta, Ola. J Hue 20,1873-tf M. W. KIOEIM, ~ VTI’OK.N 10V AT LAW, Gainesville, Georgia. J ,\\\. 1, I{*To-Iy JAMES M. TOWEUY, i TTOKNEY AT LAW. A. Oainesv'ille, G-. .1. .1, TURNBULL., VITORNEY AT LAW, Hamer, Ga —Will praetiee ill all the counties composing the Western Cir cuit. Prompt attention given to all claims entrusted to his care. Jan. 1, 1876-ly. .1A >IES A. BUTT, \r FORNEY AT LAW'A LAND AGENT. BUurivilU Ga IVotupi givu lo all buiuß eutruste J tj bi- c tic. juue 2,1571 tl The Gainesville Eagle. Devoted to Polities, News of tle lay, Tl.e Farm Interests, Home Matters, and Choice Miseellauy. VOL. X. WHITTIER’S CORN SONIC Heap high the farmer’s wintry hoard, Heap high the golden corn; No richer gift has autumn poured From out her lavish horn. Let other lands, exulting glean The apple Irom the pine; I he orauge irom its glossy green, The cluster from the vine. We better love the hardy gift Our rugged vales bestow, To cheer us when the storm shall drift Our harvest fields with snow. Through vales of grass and flowers Our plows their furrows made, While on the hills the sun and showers Of changeful April played. We dropped the seed o’er hill and plain, Beneath the sun of May, And frightened from our sprouting grain The robber crows away. All through the long bright days of June Its leaves grew bright and fair, And waved in hot mid ummer noon, Its soft and snowy hair. And now with autumn’s moonlit eyes, Its harvest time has come, Wo pluck av-ay its frosty leaveß. And bear its treasures home. Then richer than the fabled gifts Apollo showered of old, Fair hands the broken grains shall sift, And knead its meals of gold, Let vapid idlers roll in silk, Around the costly board; Give us the bowl of samp and milk, By homespun beauty poured. Then shame on all the proud and vain. Whose folly longs to scorn The blessings of our hardy grain, Our wealth of golden corn. Let earth withhold her goodly root, Let mildew blight the rye; Give to the worm the orchard fruit, And wheat fields to the fly. But let the good old corn adorn The hills our fathers trod; Still let us for his golden corn Send up our thanks to God. Many young persons are ever think ing over some new ways of adding to their pleasures. They always look for chances for more ‘fun,’ more joy. Onee there was a wealthy and powerful king, full of care and very unhappy. He heard of a man famed for his wisdom aud piety, and found him in a cave on the borders of a wilderness. ‘Holy man,’ said tho king, ‘I come to learn how I may be happy.’ Without making a reply, the wise man led the king over a rough path, till ho brought him in front of a high rock, on the top of which an eagle had built her nest. ‘Why has the eagle built her nest youder ?’ ‘Doubtless, answered the king, ‘that it may be out of danger.’ ‘Then imitate the bird,’ said the wise man; build thy home iu heaven, and thou shalt then have peace and happiness.’ No moral culture is complete that does not include the determination which gives strength to character. A prize was once offered in a large col lege for the best answer to the ques tion, ‘What is the secret of success?’ The student who bore off' the palm merely wrote one word, “Determina tion. ’ This was tho thing in a nut shell. The lack of determination will surely lead to failures as determina tion will iusure success. In educating children, parents should see that they are not forming the habit beginning things and laying them aside before completed. Set them an example of courage and determination to begin a work and go through it resolutely. Measure their capacity and induce them to work it up. Spare no time and pains to teach them io have confi dence in tin ir power. Goethe was in company with a mother and daughter, when the latter, being reproved for something, burst into tears. He said to the mother: ‘How beautiful your reproof makes your daughter look? That crimson hue and those silvery tears become her much better than any ornament of gold or peals; these are never seen unconnected with moral purity. A full blown tlower, sprinkled with purest dew, is not so beautiful as this child blushing beneath her parent’s dis pleasure, and shedding tears of sorrow for her fault. A blush is a sign which nature hangs out to show where chas tity and honor dwell.' The ordinary injunction to boys is, be men; but wo would say, be boys. A boy has no business to be a man until he grows into one; besides, it is just as worthy a thing to be a boy—a true, heroic boy—as it is to be a man. Our duty is to till faithfully the places in which we are, knowing that the occupant adorns the place, rather than the opposite. If you are a noble boy, you are all that you can be ; for a noble boy and a noble girl are just as noble as a noble man and a noble woman. The bar-room as a bank ! —You de posit your money, and iose it; your time, and lose it; your character, and lose it; your health, and lose it; your strength, and lose it; your manly in dependence, and lose it; your self control, and lose it; your home com fort, and lose it; your wife’s happiness, and lose it; your children’s happiness, and lose it; your own soul, and lose it, GAINESVILLE, GA., FRIDAY MORNING. NOVEMBER 3, 1876. THE ADVOCATE’S RIGHT BOWER. It may be asked what we mean by putting a ‘right bower’ in such eon ! nection. It was Judge Lurlington’s own ex pression. Half a dozen young lawyers, fresh frem their studies, and just admitted to the bar were listening to his advice. The old jurist had a bottle of wine at his elbow, and was in a communicative mood. ‘YouDg men,’ he said, ‘whatever may be your strait, never take a case before a jury, or before any court, un less you have your right bower for a head.’ If the reader surmises from this that the old judge was fond of euchre, he will not have surmised amiss. The young men looked at him in quiringly. ‘I mean,’ he added, that you shall never advocate a cause into the work which you cannot enter with a clear conscience. You shall never accept a client whose cause you do not believe to be just - ’ ‘Can that rule be always adhered to ?’ asked one of the listeners. ‘lt can,’ answered the judge,emphati cally . It is a lawyers firm rock of foundation, and the only sure point of departure to the respect and confidence of his fellows. ’ ‘Have you always followed that rule, judge?’ ‘I was never tempted from it but once,’ he replied. ‘I will tell you the story if you would like to hear it.' Of course they would like to; and having laid aside his pipe the old man commenced: ‘One day I was waited upon by a man who gave his name as Laban Sar furt. He was of middle age, well dressed, and at first sight appeared to be a gentleman; but the illusion was dispelled when approaching business. He was hard and unfeeling, and natu rally a villain. Success in speculation had saved him from being a thief or a highwayman. I heard of him as a heavy dealer in the up-river lands.— He asked me if I was willing to under take a job, which would call me to Shireton. I told him I was open to anything legitimate which would pay.’ ‘Mr. Lurlington,” said he, tapping me with coarse familiarity upon the arm, ‘I want to secure your services.— You must not be engaged on the other side.’ ‘I told him if he would explain to me the case I might be better able to give him an answer.’ He bit an enor mous quid of tobacco from a plug, and having got it into shape between his jaws he went on with his story. ‘The case was one of ejectment. An elderly man named Phillip Acton, had died, leaving a valuable estate. There was nearly a thousand acres of land, with opportunities for developing im mense water-power, and ere many years the land would be worth more than a million dollars. At present, upon the estate, and claiming it as son of the deceased, was a man calling himself William Acton.’ ‘But,’ said Sarfurt, ‘lie is not a legiti mate child at all. His mother was Betsy Totwood, at one time a girl in Acton’s employ. Acton I know was never married. He brought the boy up and educated him, and now the fellow thinks he will step into his pro tector’s shoes. I can prove, that lam the only living relative of Phillip Ac ton. He was my uncle—my mother’s brother -and, to a lawyer as smart as you thero can be no difficulty in prov ing my title. I can bring the witness es to your hand.’ ‘He told me he would give me live hundred dollars if I would undertake his case, and an additional thousand if I gained. That was a big fae—far more than I had made in all my plead ing. It was tempting and yet I saw that it was not perfectly clear—not en tirely honest. The probability was that this William Acton was Phillip’s child; aDd it was not impossible that Phillip had married Betsy Totwood.— It struck me that Laban Sarfurt was a villain, and that he fancied that he had young Acton so far in his power that he could eject him from the title. But what had I particularly to do with that ? If I accepted a client, I must serve him. I had no business but to serve his interest. I finally told Mr. Sarfurt that I would think the matter over, I should probably have business in Sbireton during the session of the court, and I would call on him there and examine more fully. I could not take his retainer until I had further light.’ ‘But,’ said he, ‘will you promiso not to take up for the other side ?' ‘I told him I would do nothing without farther consultation with him.’ ‘Because,’ he added, ‘if you are for me lam sure to win. Acton can’t find a lawyer that can hold a candle to you. I know them all. ‘No matter whether I believed him or not—l did not feel flattered.’ ‘Two weeks later I received a letter from Sarfurt, promising me $5,000 if I won.’ ‘The five thousand dollars is a stroDg argument. Was not law’ really a game of chance, in which the strongest hand and longest purse must win ? I told myself yes. Yes—and I sat down and wrote a reply, saying that I would take the case. But I did not mail it at once. That night I put it under my pillow and slept over it, and on the following morning I threw it into the fire. I would not make up my mind until I had seen other parties—until I had been on the grounds; and I wrote to Laban Sarfurt to wait.’ ‘Two weeks later I harnessed my horse to the wagon, and with my wife and child, started for Shireton. I had been married two years, and our 1 ttle babe, a girl, was a year old, our pride, our pet and our darling. Shireton was a distance of about thirty miles. W T e had been having rainy weather for a week or so, and it had now cleared off bright and beautiful. We stopped and took dinner at a wayside inn, four miles beyond which was a stream which must be forded. The inn-keeper told me that the stream was somewhat swollen irom the late rains, but that if my horse was trusty there could be no danger.’ ‘Arrived at the stream—the Wampa tuck river—l found the water indeed risen, and the current strong, but I saw that others had recently gone over, and I resolved to venture. I knew my horse and had faith in him. My wife was anxious, but she trusted my judgment. A third of the way across, the water was over the hub of the wheels. A little more and it would have reached the body of the wagon. I began to be alarmed; I feared I had left the true track. Presently my horse stumbled and staggered, having evi dently stepped upon a moving stone. The wagon swayed tipped, and the flood poured in upon us. My wife slipped, and in a moment more we were in the water. With one hand I grasped the harness upon the horse, and with the other I held my wife. I was thus struggling when a wild cry from her lips startled the air. Our child was washed away. ‘Oh, my soul! I cannot tell you what I suffered during those moments. I could not help our darling. If I left my wife she was lost. I clung to the horse and clung to my shrieking wife" shrieking to God for mercy for her child. The horse was struggling for the shore. In the distance, upon the bosom of the surging flood, I could see our little one, her white dress gleaming in the sun, being born swift ly away. A moment more and I saw a man plunge from the bank into the riv er. I saw thus much and then an in tervening point of land shut out the scene. The horse was now rapidly nearing the shore, and ere long my wife and I were upon dry land, with the horse and wagon. As soon as I was sure my wife was safe I left her to care for the horse, while I posted off down the river bank in quest of the swimmer and the child. You may well understand that all this time I was frantic. I was a ma chine being operated upon by a surg ing and agonizing emotion. How long or how far I wandered I do not know, but at length I met a man, wet and drippiDg, with my darling in his arms—my darling safe and sound. He told me that he had caught the child within a few rods c-f the falls, and then in landing had cleared the fall abyss by not more than two yards. He was a young man—not more than twenty five—handsome and stalwart. He said he had seen my wagon tip, and was coming to my assistance when he saw the child washed away. ‘I threw my life into the balance,’ said he, with a genial smile, ‘and, thank God! both the lives were saved.’ I asked him how I should ever re pay him. He stopped me with an im ploring gesture. ‘lf you talk of more pay than I have already received,’ he said, ‘lf you can rob me of the only solid reward I can claim mercy! if saving the life of such a cherub is not enough of reward in itself, then hard is the heart that can crave more.’ And with moistened eyes he told me that he had a child of his own at home—an only child—of nearly the same age. I asked him if he would tell me his name. With a smile he answered that his name did not matter—he was not sure that he had a najne. I then asked him if he knew me. He nodded, and said he thought I might be Mr. Burlington of Waldbridge. When I told him that he was correct he said that I must excuse him. He was wet and must hurry home, and with that he turned away. I was too deeply moved to stop him, and when he dis- appeared I started to rejoin my wife with a dawning impression that the man might be slightly deranged. But my darling was safe—her broad, fleecy cloak had kept her head above the wa ter—and I went on my way rejoicing, resolved that the preserver of my child should not be forgotten. I will not tell you of the emotion of my wife when she held her child once more in her arms. We reached Shire ton before night and found quarters at P comfortable tavern. < On the following day Ladan Saifurt flailed upon me and was about to apread his evidence for my inspection, when I interrupted him. I told him *' could not accept his confidence un til I had made up my mind to take liis case in hand. Something seemed to whisper that there was danger ahead. I did not feel comfortable in that man's presence. I felt as though he was trying to buy me. The court would sit iu four days. I told him I would give him a final answer in two W from that. f That evening I made a confident of my wife, and asked her what I should tig. ‘lf I take the case,’ I said, 'I am sure of five thousand dollars.’ She bade me do what was right. God has been very kind to us,’ she said. ‘Let us look to him for guidance.’ After this I called on the clergy man of the place, whose son had been my classmate in college, and whom I had once before visited. He received me heartily, and by and by I asked him about William Acton. The result of all he told me may be summed up iu his closing sentence. Said he: ‘I am sure that William Acton was Phillip Acton's child —in fact I know it —jmd I think the father and mother were married. Betsy died very soon after her child was born, and wo know Philip always treated the boy as a legitimate child; and that he loved him as such I can confidently affirm:’ On the following morning afier breakfast, as I sat by the window in the bar-room, I saw coming from the strSct the man who had saved my child. He was walking slowly like one in trouble. I pointed him out to my host, and asked him who he was. ‘That is William Acton. Perhaps you have,heard of the trouble he is likely to biave with Laban Sarfurt.’ I said I had heard. T hope he may come out all right,’ the host added; ‘but lam fearful. He has got a hard and heartless customer to deal with.’ I pjut my mouth and held my peace until Laban Sarfurt called for his final answer. I said to him: ‘Mr. Sarfurt, I have been consider ing all this time whether I could un uert;P;e your case with a clear consci ence! —whether I should be helping the side of justice and right in helping you. I had concluded that I could not do so before I had seen William Acton, to know him by name. I now know him for a man who nobly risked his own life to save the life of my child. For that deed I will reward him if I can. I have as yet accepted not one of your private disclosures, I have gained from you nothing that you could wish to keep from the public. I cannot take your case, but I tell you frankly, that if you prosecute, I will defend William Acton.’ I did not mind Sarfurt’s wrath. He raved and swore, and then he went off and engaged two lawyers to take his case. I called upon Acton and 1 told him I would defend him if he accepted my services as I had accepted him. He took my hand and thanked me. I have made a great many pleas in my life, but I think I never made a better one than I made to that jury on that occasion. By their verdict, Wm. Acton was the lawful possessor of the estate his father had left. From that day I never hesitated to refuse, a case to which I could not give my heart. Such a stand on the part of a lawyer becomes known, and the pub lic feels it; and what the public feels, juries are sure to feel too. Concerning William Acton, I will only add that he became my bosom friend. He alw’ays felt that he owed his title to his valuable propertj to me; and I knew that I not only owed the life of my child to him, but that I was indebted for the home that was mine for thirty years. He was vei’y delicate in the gift of that piece of property. He deeded it to my wife. The husband of my oldest daughter is I his oldest son. Nothing makes a young man so happy as to get around the post office after it is closed, and see a letter in his box; to have his heart whisper that it is from her, to dream sweet and tender fancies, hallowed with love sacredness, all night, and to come down in the morning and find it a bill of seven dollars for his last year’s underclothes. A young girl, now living in the Rue Voltaire, in Bordeaux, France, who was born Avithout arms, uses her mouth in the most extraordinary manner. She can write Avith the greatest facility, can thread the finest needle, embroider, knit, do crochet work, mark linen, etc., with marvellous regularity, and can even with her mouth tie a sailor’s knot. An English or Irish gentleman, an amateur bull fighter, killed two bulls in the presence of sixteen thousand people, at Barcelona, in Spain. He was serenaded at night, and gave his share of the proceeds of the fight to the hospital of Barcelona. ALEXANDER HAMILTON. Hamilton was once applied to for professional assistance by a man of New York city, who held the guar dianship of several orphan children.— These children, then very young, would on coming of age, if they had their rights, succeed to the possession of a valuable estate. In the title deeds of this estate the guardian had discov ered material defects, and he thought he saw a way, with the assistance of an able lawyer, by which he could se cure the title to the whole property himself. He opened to Hamilton the whole business, exhibiting copies of the title deeds, and explaining how he would like to proceed. He promised to the great jurist a large reward if he would undertake the business. Ham ilton said he must give to a matter so important due thought before he deci ded, and set a time for his client to call again. The guardian called according to appointment. Hamilton put in wri ting the minutes of their conversation, which, upon his second visit, he read aloud. ‘I think,’ said Hamilton, when he had finished reading, ‘that this is a true statement of your plans ?’ ‘Ye?, sir,’ answered the client. ‘That is correct. And now, if I may ask, what have you decided ?’ ‘I will tell you, sir,’ replied Hamil ton, sternly; ‘you are now completely in my power, and I consider myself as the future guardian of those unfortu nate orphans. I have decided that you will settle with them honorably, to the very last penny, or I will hunt you from the sur face of the earth !’ It may be unnecessary to add that the false-hearted guardian did not pursue his nefarious scheme any fur ther. A DISGUSTED WIDOW. Captain W has just returned from the Warm Springs. The Captain is a widower. At the Springs was a widow who x’ather set her cap for the Captain. The girls told him to look out, and the Captain replied, well, he was ready. Sitting out in the portico, one even ing, the cool breeze fanning like a ten cent palm leaf, and thinking of his daughters far away at school, the wid ow moved up close by aud opened a conversation. ‘I hear, Captain, you have grown up daughters.’ ‘Yes, madam, I have.’ ‘How I should like to see their pic tures.’ ‘I will show you a picture of my eld est daughter,’ said the Captain, hand iny her one. ‘Oh, such a sweet face,’ said the wid ow, ‘and such a fine eye ; Isn’t she called like you, Captain ?’ ‘I don’t know, madam, that she is.’ ‘lt is a wonder to mo, Captain, you do not get married.’ ‘Well, ma’am, I never think of it; for the woman I’d have might not have me, and then, you know, vice versa. ’ ‘Yes, but what kind of a lady would suit you ?’ and the widow looked her sweetest. It was right here the Captain’s won derful nerve never forsook him, but, setting his eye steadily at the widow’s he hardened his heart and replied: ‘Madam, she must be ninety-five years old to a second, and worth two hun dred thousand dollars.’ ‘lt is getting so chilly out here I must go for my shawl,’ said the widow; and she looked frigid zones at the Cap tain as she brushed by him with a toss of her head. A maiden lady said to her little nephew: ‘Now, Johnny, you go to bed early, and always do so, and you’ll be rosy cheeked and handsome when y r ou grow up.’ Johnny thought over this a few minutes, and then observed: ‘Well, aunty, you must have sat up a good deal when you were young.’ ‘You see,’ said Uncle Job, ‘my wife’s a curious woman. She scrimped, and saved, and almost starved all of us to get our parlor furnished nice, and now she won’t let one of us go into it, and hain’t had even the window blinds of it open for a month—she is a curious woman!’ The San Francisco Chronicle has the exclusive information that England’s defense of Turkey is only make-believe and that a great empire is to be estab lished between the Bosphorus and the Adriatic, with the Duke of Edinburgh and his Russian wife (the Czar’s only daughter) on the throne. This solves the problem. The following notice is posted con spicuously in a Scotch office: ‘Shut the door, and when you have done talking on business, serve your mouth the same way.’ The stranger who bought a quince at a Detroit grocery, under the idea that it was a ‘Spanish apple,’ is red- I hot for a war with that country. SIMPLICITY IS BEAUTY. The late Fitz Greene Halleck once said: ‘A letter fell into my hands which a Scotch servant girl had writ ten. Its style charmed me- It was fairly inimitable. I wondered how, in her circumstances in life, she could have acquired so elegant a style. I showed the letter to some of my liter ary friends in the city of New York, and they unanimously agreed tiatit was a model of beauty and elegance. I then determined to solve the mys tery, and I went to the house where she was employed, and asked how it was that, in her humble ciicumstances in life, she had acquired a style so beautiful that the most cultivated minds could but admire it. ‘Sir,’ said she, ‘I came to this country four years ago. Then I could not read or write. But since then I have learned to read and write, but I have not yet learned to spell; so always when I sit down to write a letter, I select those words which are so short and simple that I am sure to know how to spell them.’— There was the whole secret. The re ply of that simple minded Scotch girl condensed a world of rhetoric! into a nut shell. Simplicity is beauty. Sim plicity is power.’ The western train which arrived at Camden station over the Baltimore and Ohio llailroad on Saturday after noon, brought a mother with two babes, ticketed from ludianopolis, Ind., to Crisfield, Md. The woman’s name was Kichardson, and when she left Indianapolis she was alone. Those babies were born on the fly. Mrs. Richardson left Cincinnati on Conduc tor Frank Harris's train. She occu pied a seat iu the ladies’ car, and had travelled a part of the night before from Indianapolis, and looked sleepy and tired. Mr. Harris saw she was troubled and on asking her the cause, was requested to please send some married lady to speak to her. Mr. Harris did so, and through the medi um of this third party was informed of the probable increase to the passen gers under his charge. The car was cleared, and half an hour afterward the passengers informed that two bouncing boys had begun life at the rate of thirty-live miles an hour. Mrs. Richardson is the mother of four other children, and makes her home on the eastern shore of Virginia. She contin ued a journey to her Southern home without delay. -Baltimore American. Grasshoppers are rather a novelty in Texas, and if you were to tell a Texan anywise familiar with the rail roads that grasshoppers could stop a train, he would laugh at the idea, aud think you were “poking fun at him.” For all this, the grasshoppers are stopping trains right here in Texas. Sunday night when Mayor Lord and Alderman McGowan were going to Austin, just beyond Giddiugs, the track was so covered with hoppers that it took the train two hours to make six miles. In places they were two feet thick ou the track. The wheels running over them mashed them so that the track became so slip ery the wheels revolved without going a head. The stench from the masa cred insects was so great and overpow ering that the windows of tho cars had to be closed.—Houston Telegraph. The Boston Post publishes a mastei ly communication from Conway liobin son, a Virginia lawyer, whose great genius for his profession and wonder ful legal knowledge have elicited em phatic commendation in England as well as in this country, demonstrating conclusively that the Southern bayonet order of the President, indorsed by h's cabinet, is a gross violation of the prin ciples of constitutional law as expoun ded by the ablest commentators. That ‘the military should be under strict subordination to and governed by the civil power,’ and ‘that elections should be absolutely free,’ are amongst those fundamental principles without a fre quent recurrence to which our free government cannot be preserved. It is a remarkable fact, but fact nev ertheless, that the greatest scarcity of good vegetables is frequently to be ob served in farming districts. Large cities are always well supplied with the best qualities, while the rural dis tricts are often suffering for them. This is probably owing to ignorance of the manner of their cultivation among our farmers generally, and is but a sorry commentary upon the in telligence of our rural population. Let us change all this. A waiter advertising for a situation says he can ‘fold napkins in three hun dred different ways,’ but what the boarding community wants just low is a waiter who tan carry a dish of soup without soaking the first joint of his thumb in it. The name Hell Gate, it now appears, is older than the Dutch settlement of Hi Id. In a very ancient map of this locality, found in the library at Mu nich, Manhattan Island is represented as covered by Mohicans, but “Hello Gatte” is indicated in the East river. FEATHERS. He who fears death is not a believer in God. Empty pockets remind men that thej - should be economical. The power of honesty is so great, that we love it even in an enemy. Lost -the bottom of the pocket in which Carl Schnrz carried the German vote. The more dogs a poor man keeps ihe less able he is to drive the wolf away from his door. Make yourself an honest man, and then you may be sure that there is one rascal less in the world. Gordon will probably have a place iu Tilden’s Cabinet. Bring out the next Senatorial candidate. Love of truth shows itself in dis covering and appreciating what is good wherever it may exist. A liar begins with making falsehood appear like truth, and ends in making truth itself appear like falsehood. Ireland to the front, be jabers. A light house on the coast of Cork has a lantern of 20,000,000 candle power. “Let there be no disturbance at the polls, but be sure you vote,” is the ad vice of our wise and sagacious Gover nor. The hab.t of being always employed is a great safeguard through life, as well as essential to the culture of every virtue. NO. 44 Wealth, after all, is a relative thing, since he that has little and wants less, is richer than he that has much, but wants more. The people of the United States are now ready for a change in the admin istration, and that change will be made next Tuesday. Be constant in what is good, but beware of being obstinate in anything that is evil; constancy is a virtue, but obstinacy is a sin. There are 7’2G,341 German voters in this country, and nine-tenths of them are believed to favor Tilden and Hen dricks and reform. The pork men are anxious for the European war to hold off until they lay in a supply. The farmer prays for it to begin forthwith. She woke him up at three o’clock in the morning to say that she had de cided, on the whole, to have a dark green suit and a green velvet bonnet this winter. ‘Mr. , father wants to borrow your paper. He says he only wants to read it.’ ‘Well, go back and ask your father to send me his supper. Tell him I only want to eat it.’ ‘What’s usee play pokel?’ remarks a Nevada Celestial. ‘Me hold four klings and a lace; Melican man hold all same time four laces and a kling; whole week washee gone likee woodbine.’ ‘Last Sunday being a pleasant day,’ says the Norwich Bulletin, ‘most of the boys who attending Sunday school brought home a good many chestnuts, which a kind man had given them.’ Anew religious belief is gaining ground in Ohio. Its adherents are called Eternalists. They hold that the soul is immortal, and occupies a succession of bodies on earth—-both men and animals. The reporter of a Kansas journal suddenly realized wealth, and yet he wasn’t happy. Somebody asked him the cause, and he candidly asknowl edge that he couldn’t get accustomed to wearing a shirt. The “matrimonial repoterr” of a Georgia newspaper describes a bride as “looking a very lily, cradled in the golden glimmer of some evening lake a foam fieck, snowy yet sun flushed, crowning the ripplinga of some soft southern sea. A California paper highly recom mends charcoal for fattening turkeys, and says that it should be pulverized and mixed with mashed potatoes aud corn meal, as well as fed to them in small lumps. Others say it should be given only in lumps. The best way to clean the inside of tea pots, coffee-pots, or old iron pots and pans, is to fill them with water in which a few ounces of washing so da is dissolved, and set them on the fire. Let the water boil until the in side of the vessel looks clean. For the past twenty years the na tions have been building iron-clads. In the coming European war the test will be applied for the first time on a really grand scale. Our own fight of the iron-clads will fade into insignifi cance if German v, Russia, France and England are it. * ed. Sitting Bull continues to feel a deep interest in the Federal campaign in South Carolina. He compliments Grant for his kindness of heart in pre fering this field of army operations to the Indian territory, and adds: “Tbo mortality among the troops will not bo so great.”- Brooklyn Argus. Some of the scientists now argus that the moon, instead of being a cold orb, is in fact red-hot, so much so that no living thing known to our world could live there for a moment. This knocks the green-cheese theory into a cocked-hat, and puts the man in the moon into a rather warm place. When a crowd of jayhawkers start ed a disturbance in a Texas church the other Sunday, the preacher raised a shot-gun from behind the pulpit and said: “William Dellon, sit down, or I’ll make it painful with you.” Wil liam sat down and paid strict attention to the sermon, and so did his comrades.