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THE WEEKLY GWINNETT TIEKALI) L ' {L i.l -1. i* d t!l PLK S, ) •« »>r * I** >pntnfOfi. ( mm" nun f.'®.!*" SE-X- y TUKfcnAl KT ;VJ.e\ PEEPLES St. BOWLES. SUHStKIPIiON BATES: t copy 12 t:os . *1.50 in advance. I copy v-nioh .To id advance. Loopy t ;nos.. ’ .50 in advance. Low Enough for Everybody AS i % An Ailvertisuit/ MtHinth T>\4 iIKK.'LU i* unhjVttMAy reason of it* trtrnstve circulation unit mnurkubl}, low rates, fanhiem mt i shmltl tnneruhtr this BLANKS BL/'. ’■ ELAM 1 5 (*•1.1. KIND* NK A Ft. V rStMTKD) FOR SALE ATTHE 131 HA P .JOli OFJ 1< J MISCKI CANY- r:ir A STONY OF JUTV Itfivm Eveiy Other Saturday.) fn >.he mil 11 0 of a dark r ight Joel, u boy of nice ytarsold.luard his name c alled by a voice which, i Irrcnjfh his sleep, seemed miles awuy. Jo. 1 ha,i been tired enough when he wen o bed, and \e‘ he ha t not gone to sleep for some - cart beat ho at the idea of TTis mot.her being very ill. lit well remembered his fathc i s death and liis mother's illness n r.v re vr.ed some fielings which he had almost forgo.ten. His bed was merely eoiuu clothes spread ol the floor, and covered with a rug; hut ne did rot mind lhat; and he could have i>e[ at once but for the; )*r that had come over him. V, lieu lie del sleep, his sleep was sound; so t’ at his mother’s feeble voice calling him seemed like a call from miles a way. In a mil ute Joel was up and wide uW ik“. ‘‘Light the candle”he could just bear the voice say. He lighted the txmdl#, and his beating heart seemed to stop when lie saw his motheis fa< e. He seem ed hardly to know whether it was his mother or no. ‘ Shall I call “ Call nobody, my dear Couie here.” He laid his cheek io hers. “Mother, you are dying,’ he murinurod. “Yes, love, I am dying. It is no use calling any oi.e. llieselit tie ones, Joel” “I will take care of them, moth er.” “You, my child! Wow should Uat be T” f “Why not V' said the boy, rais ing himself, and standing at his bes l height. “Look at me, motli er. 1 can work, I promise _ you His mother could not Lfi her hand, but t he moved a finger in a way which checked him. ‘Tromise nothing that, may be to > hard afterward,’’ she said. “I promise to try, then,” he said “that little s.s ers shall live at home, aud never go to the work houss. He spoke cheerfully, though the candle light glittered in the two streams of tears on his c eek “ ILe can go on living here; and we shall be 80 —’’ It would not do. The sense of llieir coming dessolation rushed over uim ihJi way too teirible to bit borne. He hid hi* face bes.de her, murmuring • “Oh, mother! mother! His mother Lund strength to move her hand now She stroked h?ns head with a trembling touch, Iwhich he seemed to feel r« long Ifldived. She #ould not say ato She told him she any of them. They Lt of. She ad. haLfeen the little light, anti try to sleep, when she I should he gone. This wav the last thing she said The candle was very low; but bt j fore it went out, she was goue.-- | Joel had alwryg done w hat his j mother wished; but he could not . obey her iu ibelast thing she said ! He lighted another candle when the rust went ( tit, and sat think j ing, till the gray dawn l ej. at .o show Shmngh the win low. When be called the neighbors, they were astonished it his quiet ness. He had taken up the chil dren and dressed them, and made | the room tidy, and lighted the tire, hefote he told anybody what .tad happened. Ai d when he opened the door, his little sister was in his arms. She was too yeais old, and could walk, but she liked being in Joel's arms. Poor Willy was the must confounded, tin. at cod with his pinafore at his mouth, staring at the bed, aud wondering that his mothei lay so still: If the neighbors were astoni.h \ed at Joel that morning, they might be more so at some tliisgs they saw uftet wards, but 'hey were not. Everything seemed done so t atural ; and the boy t vi olently considered what lie Lad to i dojeo much a matter of course 1 that leas sensation was excited than many smaller things. After the funeral was over, Joel tied up all his lumber's clotnts. He carried the bundle on oue arm i aud his sister on tlie oilier. He I would not 1 eve liked to take mon ! cy,for what be had seen his moth erweai;Lut he changed them away for new end stiong clothes for the child. He did not seem any help. He went to the factory the next merning, as uau 1, after washing and dressing the children, and getting a break fast of bread and milk with them There was '.o tire ; and he put ev ory knife aud other dangerous things on a high shelf, and gave them some trifles to play with, and promised so come and play with them at dinner time. And he did play. He played Leartily with the little one, and as if he en joy ed it, every day at noon hour. Many a merry laugh the neigh bors beard from that loom whtn three children were together, anil 'he laugh was oftsn Joel’s How he learned to manage, aud especially to cook, nobody knew ; and he could himself Lave told Ltile more than tnut he wanted to see hew people did i , aud looked accordingly ai every opportunity. He certainly IV the children well; and himself too. He knew that every tbing depended on bis strength being kept tip. His sis ter sat on his knte to he fed until she could let d herself. He was sorry to give it up, but he said she must learn to behave. So he smoothedjher hair, and washed her funs before dinner, an It show ed her how tv fold her hands while he said grace. He took a 6 much pains to train her to good manners at the table as he had been a governess teaching a little lady. While she remained a “ba by’’ she slept in the middle of the bed, between the tw», that si e might have room, and not be dis turbed: and when sht ceased tobe a baby, he silently mads new ar rangements. He denie himself a hat, which he mttcu wanted, in order to buy a considerable quan tity of coarse dark calico, which, with his own hands lie made into a cur ain, and slung across a part of the room ; thus shutting oft' about a third of it. Here Le con trived to make a little bed for nis sister ; and he was not satified until she had a basin and a jug, and a piece of soap of her own . Here nobody but hitnself was to intrude upon her without le ive ; and. in lead, he always made her understand tha he came only to take care of hst. It was no only that Wily was not see her undress sd. A neighbor or two now and then lifted the latch without knock ing. One of these one day heard something from benind the cur tain, which made her call her hus band silently to lis'en ; and they always aft'-rward treated Joel as if he were a man, aud one whom they looked up to. He wa* leach le*,sleep on liyiobepged Lawrenceville Georgia, Tuesday April 16 1884 ing ihe child her little piayer. The earnest, sweet, devout tones by the boy, and ihe innocent, cheerful imitation of the little one were bountiful to hear, the listen «rs said. Though so vvtll taken exie of, i she wus not to be pampered; i there would have been no kind i ess in that. Very early indeed she was taught, in a merry sort of way, to put things in their places, aud to sweep the floor, and to wash up the crockery. She was a handy little thing, well trained and docile One reward that Joel had for his management wa?, that, she was early tit to go to chapel. This was a great point; as lie choosing to tend \\ i/ly regtilai, could not go till he could take the little girl with him. She was liev er known to be rentiers; and Joel was quite proud of her. WHIy was not neglected for Ihe little girl’s sake. In those days children went earliet to the sue o -y and worked longer tlmu they do now, aud by the time the sister was live years old Willy became a factory boy; and his pay put the littlfc girl to school. W hen site at seven, went to the factory too. Jo el’t life was altogether an easier one. He always had maintained them ali from the day of h is moth er’s death. The times must have been good—werk constant to.d wages steady—or he could not have dons it. Now. when nil three were earning, he put his sis er to a sewing-school for two evenings in th a wwek aud the Bat. urda.’. afternoons; and lis and W'tl iy a'tended an evening school as they found they could afford it. He always escorted .he lit lie girl witeiesver she had to go; into the factory, and home again, to the school cioor and home agaiu, aud to ihe Sunday-School; yet he was himself remarkably punctual ai work aud at worship. He w«s a humble, eariies 1 , docile pupil him self at, the Suuday-school-—quite unconscious ihat he was more ad vanned thau other boys iu the sub lime science and practice of du y . He felt that everybody was very kind to him. I linger on these years, when he was a tire growing lad, in a sae of high content. I linger unwilling to proceed. Bui the end must come; and it in soon told. Me was sixteen, I think, when be was asked to become a teacher in the Sunday-school. wLile wholly not ceasing to be n so! ollar. He tried, and made a capital teacher, and won the hearts of the children while try ing io t pen their minds. By tLi> he became more widely known thau hi fore. One day ill the next year, a tremendous clatter and crash was heard in the factory where Joer worked. A dead silence succeed ed, and then several called out that it was only tin iron bar that had fallen down. This was true but ihe iron bar had fallen on Jo e’l head, and lie was taken np d> ad! Such a funeral as his is rarely seen. There is something that strikes on all hearts in the speeta cle of a soldier’s funeral—the drum, the march of comrades, and the belt and cap laid on the cofti 1. Bu; there was something more solemn and more moving than all such observance in the tunerul of this young soldier, who had so bravely tilled his place iu the con flict of life. There was the tread of comrades here, for the longesi street was tided from end to eud. Fur relics, there were his brother aod sister; and for a solemn dirge the uncontrollable groans of a heart-stricken multitude. “Investigator'' wants to know what is good for cabbage worms. Bit sa your heart, man, cabbages, of course. A good plump eab bage will last several worms a week. “Have you anything against Brother Watson ?” “Nuftin, bous ; not de lust thing. Only he’# a clergyman. But he may be an hones’ man for all dat.” Rattlesnakes have begun to make their appearance in the counties of Lower Qa. DEVOTED TO NEWS, LITERATURE- ANI) LOCAL AFFAIRS A Sad Virginia Korannce. THE TTU'R STORY OK A TOO PABSION ATt IN'!* UNFORGIVING FATHER, AND A PROUD SON. W liile visiting an old friend in a Virginia village a montb ago 1 at tenied worship on Sunday at the parish church, and was very much attracted by an aged and hand some couple who sat t*j the pew opposite me. The pastor preach ed a very affecting sermon on the “Prodigal’s Return,” which, I no ticed, effected the old lady to tsars and bad a marked affect on the gentleman. I mentioned the circumstance that evening to my friend, vvl eti site related to mo the so lowing sad, true story : The old couple were Mr. aud Mrs. Col l>. They were both of the most aristocratic, wealthy families f Virginia. Col. D. was an honorable, upright gentleman, but very proud and passionate.— He had one sou, “Cus,” his only heir —a warm hearted, generous, pleasant young man, just turning his twenty first year. He was well known throughout the coun try, and was beloved by all who knew him. He inherited his fath er’s pride, but not his violent na ture. About a mile from Col. Its resi deuce lived a gentleman between whose family and the Colonel’s a feud of long standing existed.— Col I) had frequently warned his sou not, under any circumstan ces, to visit any member of the gentleman's family. A daughter of the hated house, on her eigh teenth birthday, gave a large par ty, to which all the young people were invited, including ihe venera ble Colonel’s sou, Cus. On hear ing of the party,and his sou h in vitation to it, he sent for him and most positively forbade him to at tend. The sou promised he would not. The invitations were for four o’clock, as a supper on the lawn was part of the programme. About three o’clock on that day Gus call ed for his team, a splendid pail of handsome grays, and ordered the coachman tv drive him. Some time after his departure, Col D., who had been aw y sine# morn ing, returned, and, on asking lor his son, was informed by ot e ol the servants that he had driven Out two hours ago. The Colonel flew into a passion, called for his hunting whip, mounted his horse and rode swiftly towards his neigh bor’s mansion. As he dashed past he saw Ins son’s team under the trees and cured for by hiS own coachman. He kept on to a small shady lane leading in an opposite <liiection from lie house, when he suddenly came upon his son walking widi a young lady, and, withorr a word, he rode up, seiz ed him aud cut him several times over tho face and back with his riding whip. “You ungrateful scoundrel !” he said, “never cross my path agaiu !” Th# Colonel's face was white with passion as Le rode away. This happened over fifteen yearn ago, and, although thousand! of dollars have been spent and every effort made to find some traces of tho missing man, they have been ineffectual, aud not one person who knew him before has ever seen him Bine# that day. The sad truth was that the Colonel’# sou. it was found afterward—had not gone to that par'y, but loaned his team to a young friend is whom both his father and himself werff warmly attached, and who drove Gus as far as the lane wher his father met him and chastised him iu the presence of her he lov ed, and whom he had accidently m< t. Y. Richmond Va. 'lhe people around Scnll Shoals are in high hopes of having the river rendered navigable by the 6reueralGovernui«nl now,and will put on a small steamboat to ply between the factory and Georgia bridge, as soon as it is ready, 25,- 000,000 dollars will be amply suf ficient for the purpose. Toon Row ell says the Oeone », by making a few canals and locks, can be made navigable to Athens, and he ex pects to *e# the day when steam boat# are whistling on its placid wat#r* Bold Bank Robbery. Augusta to-dav records on# of the boldest, bank robberries ever heard bf, and the fact it occured in ope’a day light, and at the coun ter of one ot the principal banks of tho city, only increases the won derand dervetierc# of trauusetion. The per per* ter s evidently ate expet tS and are either members of x gang now doing the cities *of this sec |on or most brobably ihe indontieal pair ol knaves who ran through Macon hanks orF l’htirs day. Tha r. bbery wus swift and strange- enough, book keeper Richard D.* Crocker, of the com mercial Bank was relieved of $3, I 500 in much less time than it takes :to narrate the eircuiut truce. At' • ter collecting from the uptown ! banks and tuvnniug the money into tho Commercial Mr. Crocker went to the Georgia, railroad j bank, and in making his excange collected 5vt3.750.75. With this money ijn a little satchel he went next into the National Bank and jjwas preparing to col lect as usual from Hie toller, Mr. W. H Flynn. At this moment the aceunts, as gathered from Mr. Crocker, who is intensely ex cited and troubled about the mat ter and from Mr Flynu who ; s m distinciily observed the persons through the railing to tho counter report the entrance of two well dressed gentell looking men. One remained slight ly in rear, and the other, ahaavey stout nun with light red moustache aud whiskers of stout growth, uprouch ed Mr. Crocker aud holding out a check, asked him ii thui was the (Georgia railroad Bank. Mr. Crocker was <. pyetiing his satchel turned slightly from the counter, and toll him the Georgia Railroad Bank was two doors be low. The man remained aud ask ed one or two questions about the bank, etc., not pertinent to the check and this attracted Mr. Flynn's attention to him. The strangers then weui ou', aud Mr. Crocker turnning to h ; s satchel exclaimed “I have been robbed!” He rushed out to over take tho men if possible and left his sa'chel with Mr. Flyun. His search was | vain and returning he fount! 250,73 still in the satchel. He was thus robbed of $2,500, the robbers in their haste, not getting all the contents of the satchel Mr. Crocker is not certain whether he had oppened the satchel at the coanier, but it is pretty certain that the second man whom Mi Crocker did not see at all, and who Mr- Flynn says was a little taller and with yellow mous tache abstracted the $2,500, while his partner engaged Mr. Crocker in conversation. Mi. Crocker reported the loss to his bank notified I he police and rush ed to the depot to watch iheouigo ing train on the Georgia road, aad lie was assisted in his search by Cashier Taliaferro of the Com mercial and the police. The Constituiion conlains a spe cial of 201 h hist., from Macon giving the accou t of the shar pers in that city as follows ; “Two sharpers have been work iugin Macon banks to day. They operated separately. One was of light build, the other heavy make and did the teavy business. He weighs about 150 pounds had a red moustache, wore a Durby hat and was well dressed. Just befoie one o’clock, the hour for dosing business, when everything is rush and bustle, one of the sharpers entered the Central Georgia Hank and presentingto cashier C'hestney a #IOO.OO cer'itirate requested hint to chrrigc it askingjparticualar ! for two dollars and a half gold i piece* and the ballanceof the non ey iu'specie? “C'hestney did a* re quested. Then the sharper said: “This money is so heavy can you gws mi a fifty dollar bill for the half!” Chestney complied and passed the bill to the" sharper, fifty dollars in specie, and retained the other fifty dollars in specie in his pocket. While Hhestney was counting the fifty dollars in spe cie he had received, the sharper very blaudly said: “Weil, this money is so bulky, I believe 1 will not keep any of it so just take back this fifty dollar bill I have just given youJ»ud give me back nay one hundred dollar note ” This Chetftuey did, and the sharper hurriedly left the bank making fifty dollars by the trails action, t’hestuey very soon dis covered the trick, notified the po licemeo, and tried to keep the nitit'ar silent. I ! vas learned to night th.it the self same tri.k was perpetrated on cashier Wrigley, of It# fiist national haul, who lost fifty dollars. They tried also on TT-ller Cobb, of the Exchange bunk who does not know if it sue ceotlud He is busily balancing his cash and at nine o’elock to night findT himself *7 dollars •hurt, and when he balances his work uo doubt he will find him self fifty dollars loser. Other Ma con batiks may have suffered lliro’ it is not knewn. The sharper# work very cleverly. One would ask for change of ten dollars while the other would opperate the hundred dollar scheme. The police uro on the sharp lookout but nothing his been seen of the sharpers. The three discon. solute cashiers were at the pasen ger Main# to-night peeping into every mans face, but could find no of the successful opera tors.—A au a sla .V e ws. At* elderly gentleman from Wis consul, wearing a plug hat aud a gold headed cane, lias been pros peeling out in the vicinity of On t ai creek, eight miles from Aus ii* . He met the “Truthlul Jeem#” of Onion creek, a lorul granger, aud the following conversation took place : “The soil is very rich, and you seem to have plenty of uuk tree#. I should t Link you might raise hogs hero to a great advantage.” The granger -hook hi» head and replied : “Hogs do well iu dry weather but as soon as we have a wet spell they all die oft’.’’ “You don’t say so. How does the wet weather come to affect them so fatally 1 Does it giv# them pleuro-pneumonia ? “No, sir, I don’t think tlieii lungs are affected by the damp ness. The hogs die of sleepless ness.” “Hievplessuess, insomnia?” “Yes, si •; they perish of insotu nia, caused by th# richness and stickiness of ltie soil.” “My friend, your conversation is unintelligible to tut How does the eluvial fartili y of tho soil and humidity of the atmosphere pro duce inMoniitia among the #wine?’ “There is a very simple expla nation fur it. You see the* lie down when it is midday, and a li'tle mud adhere# to tho tuft of hair at the end of their tails. The i»ud continues to accumulate un til a largo ball is formed weigh - ing several—l say pounds, not several hundred pounds. “Proceed if you please. Imu yet in the dark as to th# cause of sleeplessness among the swine.” “Why, don’t you understand that tbejweigbtof the ball of mud pulls the hog's skin so tight lie can’t shut hi# eyes, and as he can’t go to sleep without shutting his eyes he dies in great agony.— Texas Siftings. “George, dear, do you know that papu doesn’t like you very well?” “Oli, yes, said George. “And he has suid that! mustn't receive you any more at the house.” “Good for him,” replied the young man, heartily. “And,” continued the girl with u blanched face, “I hear him now in the woodshed untying the dog." “Yes, I hear him ; but he is standing terribly in the dog's light. Does he hate the dog’” “No, dear George he hates you. But what iu the world will yon do! You will surely have an en counter with the ferocious animal when you go on*.,”| George smiled a superior smile and said: “My dear, as you know I am a book agent. My income is deriv ed solely from selling books. This afternoon I sold an editor of a daily paper an encyclopedia, a pro nouncing dictionary and a gazet eer of natural history. Ir took me ten minutes I shall spend five minutes with the dog.’—Phil udelphia Call. Our merchant friend, J. VV. At uold, jr., of Anon, has lately built him a sleeping apartment to his store, and bis sole companion in that sanctum of repose is Dr. Rev nolds ; but it seems that some earth ly or spiritual object wants to in tiude itself upon the privacy of these two kn ghts of ctlihrany. Not many nights ago, they were awak ened by audible footsteps upo the floor, of their bed chamber but up on striking a light aud lurking a diligent search, they failed to sieve vlie mystery.—Crawford Monitor. About eighteen months ago a little eight year oH gramts. ot ol Mr WhHsitt, of Rirggold, was bitten by a vicious dog. No spprsnenslors were entertained count-ruing the lute, and til* mat ter hail been almost, begotten, wlieu the child was taken sudden ly with convulsions. Medical aid waa immediately summons,! -I)rs Gordon ami McAfee, of this city, and seveaal of the Ringgold phy siciaus—but tne little fsllo v con tinued to grow worse until he ex pired, It is generally rnneeded that, the boy died of hydrophobia. —Dalton Citizen. The prisoners in the jail made un effort to escape oue night lust week, and would have succeeded, had not some oue passing the jail about ail hour before day heard them at work and notitie l Sheriff Alexander, who defeated their plans by looking them up iu more secure ##lls. They were endeavor ing to break a hole through the rook wall. Sanford tVoss, col., who was sentenced to the peuiteu tiary for twelve years court week for horse stealing, to-getl.er with judge Blackwell aud Henry Tate, col., who are under sentence to serve in the chain-gang for laree uy, are the parties who were wi den voting to make their escape. —Elberton New South. A remarkable discovery ha# been made in Chester county. For some time a rumbling sound has been heard ou the plantation of Nicholas Calvin, and two d*yg ago it wus found that the noise came from an opening iu the ground, from which smoke was is suing in a considerable volume, and for qui'e a distance the ground was heated. The inhabi tants are also unable to account for the phenomena. A parly of diggers worked with pick and spade to ascertain the cause of the incipient volcano, but were forced to desist in consequence of the intensity of the heat and the dense volume of smoke. Many of the residents believe it to be an uc lual volcano and others think it is a geyser, judging from the vapors and surrounding moisture. Great excitement #nd tome alarm prevail. Saturday night a black cloud huug over the city and the indiea lions were good for a blow. Mr. D A Mayo saw the signs and gath ered his family into a storm pit, which he had recently finished, and like \< ah entering the ark, pulled the covering over the door. The rain descended and t he Hoods beat upon that door, but the in mates of the pit slept securely through 'he night and ruin. Ear ly Sunday morning David arose in his strength, shook himself and tried to go up, but the trap door had swollen and related to budge Young David went to the assis tance of his father, but the door was too heavy for them The hours rolled by. The church bells called the people to meeting, but David and his folks were in a cave and could not get out. About 11 o'clock Mr. Will and Ben Mayo t ent over to see their father, and found the house shut up, and went around to see what was out. They could hear voices and at last located the place, where they pro* ceeded. Ge' ting an ax, with the assistance of the men in the pit, they prized the door up aud liber ated the family.—Sumpter Repub lican. A Toledo woman got up while her husband was asleep, took $3 000 from bis pocket and disap peared. In choosing a wife an editor can't be too careful. |Vol. XIV.—No 3 A. bill of injunoaon h«a been till'd iu llii lnu jLd cointy against tin enforcement of ike uo fe UPtl luw. Hislnj) Ka*Himugh ot the ,South eru Methodist church who has re cei. ly died i u early life *,* , printer. During the present century 1 ">0 0(»0,' 00 cooie# of die Hibles bare been printed in 02(1 different lan guagea. The ttuesiau army consists of Oenerole, stud' and superior ..fti cei H. 28,1(74; and men. 830.145; hi all. 864.210. I’lie jury in a murder case in Cincinnati were jeered and hooted at. for bringing in a verdict of man slaughter only. Six children were poisoned near MeadVdie, Pa, by tapping a tree and/h inking iu juice. Two of the little ones have died. Spanker Carlisle receives the l urgest mail of any member of con gi'ess Air. Morrison, Mr. Han dull, and Perry Belmont follow in ibo order named. An Alabama Judge has decided Ihai a man who puts his satchel on n sea' in tile ears reserves the seat—unless the man who movss it is bigger than he is C iv. Mi I,a is, of Maryland, has vetoed the bill redacting marriage licenses from #4.60 to 00 cents and the Senate, by a vote of 18 to 11, sustained the vote. An apple tree in Mercer county K v , Ims borne fruit for 00 season's without failing. Five f M t f n)ui die ground its trunk is 10 feet 0 inches in cocniufersnce It is not rsorsß To make a fool of yourself if yon can help it. Or to enter a drawing room wub your vest uubottoned, trying thereby to give the impression tlmt you have dined well. This habit is as old as the English lan guage. Or io hit your wife on the head, either with your cane or umbrella because she talks too loud. Prac tice economy. Use a steel poker, and she won't talk again. Or to say “ding it’ or “dot dern ill ’ when you mean “dash it.” Or to wish a brid# “many hap py returns” on her weddiug day Just kisa her. Thais enough. Or to ask which end is I is head when holdings Laly’* poodle Pick him up gently but firmly by either end. This gives the lady an opportunity to open the con versatiop. Or to sat soup with a fork It is more elegant to use a spoon, aud you cun get more soup. Or to drop your fork aft table. If you do, quickly secure it by plaeuig your foot on it, ihus liiii. dering all others from getting ahead of you. ‘‘Ma. I didn't know you lied eyes in the back of your head,” auid little Johnny Simeon to his mother lasi night. “Why t haven tmy dear, what put such au idea in your head ?” remind Mrs. Sons m in stir prise “Wall, I beaid pi tell nurse last uight to mu along, because you had eyes in the buck of your bead, mi' could ste through a tan foot wall,” replied Johnny. There is a new uurse up at the i Siumon mansion row, and the | new nurse is forty-six years old old has a mustache and one green l eye. “Hasn't young Mr. Slim offered | you his hand yet?' demanded a ! motlKlof ln-iytaugliter “lie’slong I euoug.j #1)0111 it.”, “Not quite, mother Aut lie came very near it last uight.” “How oi lbe come very near it. asked the old lady. “He offere 1 me liiiitim. Little .lack —“My mamma's new fan is baud painted Little Dick—“ Pooh! who cares? 'Our whole fence is Kli Perkins promises to will his prperly to the press clubs of the country when he dies. All righ', Eli; only hurry up that’s all. Mr. Samuel Shoemaker, of Balti more is the owner of the Jersey cow Princess Second. He values her at $50,000.