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THE WEEKLY GWINNETT HERALD iHR M PEEPLES, 1 l)t av» Propristor. j ■ lISETT HERALD ■ ~, bv ®£PLES&BOWLES. K'tue*. .75 m advance. ■ 3uijß , SO in advance. ■ EBO ugd for Everybody I -AS— ■ ( ; ve rt i * i lKJ Medi nin . extensive circulation and , low rater, business wen tkit. ;BfKS BLANK d’.: i. KINDI NEATLY t-RINTKiq ■ r SAL E A T T H E ■jM l> JOB Oil 1( H Kl CO IN I Y DIRECTORY HbNCLAY SMITH, Mitor. COUNCIL. M«ire, E D Harritt, VV E Brown jHßrown Hiivi:. AND nsriKii an or train Sir from Suwannea. 5 f>o p. in lor Suwannee, 7 a- ui. AND DtrARTURK OF MAILS. Arrives 12 m, depart* 1 ■ Mtndny and Thursday. es Stork Departs 6am ur- Hgput Monday and Thursday. Mm»yii.le. —Arrives 10 a nr. de- Hl p n.—Daily. Huurr River.— Arrives 12 nr., de ■i i in,.We luesday and Saturday. ■ vv. h. Harvey, p. m. ■ (lURCHKS Btbodist— Rev J R King, Pastor. ■c«OD the Ist and 4th Sundays. Hadat School,— A T Pattillo, Supt Hr; Sunday at 3 p in Husitterian--Rev J V McClelland, Bor. Services on drd Sunday in each ■b H>uai School —T R Powell. Supt. H; Sonday at 9.30 a nr ■inri.ncevii.lk Masonic Lodo*.—-R H in, W M., S A Uugood, 8 VV„ ■Winn J VV. Meets on Tuesday ■ton or beta:e full moon in each A. i Vmnon Chapter, No 39, R A -J D Spence. H P, a T Pattillo, Meets 3rd Friday in each month. WINNKTT SUPERIOR COURT — N. L, tcbini, J ud?e. Couvenes on the lat da; in March and September. COUNT! OFFICER*. WissioNEßs—J D Spence, Chair. Lierk, N Bennett, Jefleraonßritt, J Hopiint, J E Cloud. hew—J M Patterson. J«niNiRT--J 'l' Lamkin. tWE S C—D T Cain, fit RECEivEa-.C W Pharr. Collector— C Lowery. ruAauiaa.—K N Robinson IbuLFower, Ml ■® t ' ill lS 'reontlT located in tiwiii- tenders his professional * s * Physician to tlie citizens ■?“P‘ Mt*utiou to all call* will he ■*“ V®I’* 1 ’* *ail iesidenoe a; the reel W A t'aiu on the Hurricaee Voili road. ■ wch Hth 181* tiuto ■ Farm Loans. I Fiv « year loans on improved ■jraiiiu Middle and Northern ■ tor ? la ' negotiated on cheaper ■ w “* tLan any one in Atlanta. Addres, i FRANCIS FONTAINE, I Fitter Building, . „ Atlanta Ga. ■ *Pnll9th.—lmo. BR rc IKpU/MEVILLE, GA ■ Un Monday the 26th inst., ihe [ ‘WKigned will open the Globe l.»° * '*! kawrenceville, for the ac ■wmmodatios of the * l hivm, W 'R prepared to offer first I it * * ccon Hflodations and prompt I Motion to all who patronize the House. .. A. J, l. BATES. 19th- ’BB—tf. grnf.] i Vj m .vinaac. MTSCEI T,ANY. Written for the Herald. SI ELLA S HUSBAND ry nom he plume. CHAPTER I. 1 here in something very unusu al disturbing the iniud of SirWal ter Aghner, as he paces restlessly up and down the garden path.— 3is quick dark eyes wear a puz zled expression, attd one land twirls the heavy silky mustache ; and he »■ muttering aloud in his vexation : “Have I done right in keeping him here, or should I have sent him away before Stella return ed, and so saved him any tempt a lion? I wish now, he were gone, it would be safer, far safer. A young romantic girl, with all her mother’s proud indifference to wealth, and all her fathers adtnjre tion for a brilliant intellect ? Yes, yes, I fear I have not been wise in allowing them to be thrown to gether. Hut Stella is a good child and knows what is due from a daughter of mine, and the future Lady Aghner, besides Walter will l>e bare soon. Ah! I will go at once and have Eugene Thornton write to him—-and in that way I can give Eugene a few hints." Sir Walter enters the house and goes into the Library where the young secretaiy sits, engage! in ooppying the manuscript of Sir Walter’s great book on the war, which the Baronet hopes to give to the world at a not fir distant day. Sir Walter approaches the sec retary and glancing at his work, says: “//ow do you get on to-night, Thornton, do the contractions puz zle you as much as formerly ?” “They puzzle me considerably to night, sir, but I shall get used to them in time.” The quiet handsome face of the young man is raised a few mo ments from his work, and thosmil ing blue eyes meets the dark ones, frankly and fearlessly. Sir Wal ter turn* away and begins pacing the floor. “Thornton,” ho says again, and this time there is an impatient sound in hia voice quite unusual, “Thornton, just write a letter for me, will you, to ‘Walter Aghner> Esq. Aghner Chase, Cheshire.— Say I believe this to be the time he fixed for his return to England, and that we ate expecting him on his promised visit here. Remind him that my returned from Italy to-day ; and I think it high time he come to renew the intercourse which has been for so long personally suspended." “Is that all, sir f I have wvit ten it.” The Baronet’s eyes are fixed on the tire, jet his voice catches some thing of the pleasant brightness of the voice which questions him. “Yes, that is all, Walter will need no urging when he hiare that Stella has returned. For the last three years he has been in As rica exploring—a wild chimera’ that still as he has wealth and leisure he may as well indulge his hobby, whi/e he is free. “You have grown to be so thor oughly a part of my household, Thornton,” he goes on looking kindly if keenly into the pleasant face of the young man, “that I may tell you what is yet only known to ourselves. For many years there has been an engagement be tween my nephew [and namesake] a young man still, but now the head of our house, and my daugh ter, which is to be conaumated as soon as she is eighteeu, when by my will she comes of age. By this unioD, you see, the old estate which has belonged te our family for the last five hundred years, will revert,as it were,to my branch, without departing from its lawful inheritor. Then, too, my daugh ter will share the title which I wen and of which L am so justly proud” No answer—Thornton is busily sealing the letter, gazing intently it the arms of the Aghner s eiu bkzoned on the envelop. His eyes are fixed on the purple emblazon ed arms, yet he sees them not, for in their place there looks out at him the beautiful, bewitching face of the Barouet’s daughter, who Lawreneeville Georgia, Tuesday June 10. 1884 has only this day returned from a foreign boarding school. He has seeu her but for a few minutes, when on her arrival she entered the Library wiih ber hands clasped around her father's arm, and her joy at being at homn bursting out in ber merry laughter filling the old room wi'li the ’weetest music it has heard since she left home eignt years before. She had detected on her intro duction :o Thornton, that he was a dependent in her father s house and as such, Stella recognized in stinciively the claims he had on her courtesy. What a happy time ilia. Eve at the “Oaks" had been. And the secretaries blue eyes shown their owners admiration for the Baronets beautiful daughter. And Sir Waiter, happening to see that look of admiration and growing suddenly to doubt bis wisdom in not sending bis handsome and gifted young copyist away before Itis daughter’s arrival, thinks to put the young man on his guard, by telling of the engagement ex isting between Stella and her cous in, Walter Aghner. For tte Bare net cannot make up his mino to send the young secretary away— even yet, for he has grown to de pend so entirely on the young man that his presence is necessary to the old man's happiness. And then who els* could make such headway with his beloved manu script as Thornton, who is so car* ful and correct ? So the father silences his doubts and thinks to enjoy to the utmost having his be loved child with him once more. A few evenings after Stella's re turn, the Library is again occupi ed by Sir Walter and the secreia ry. Sit Walter eitting in his arm chair by the tire. Thornton busily engaged on the manuscript.? “When do you flunk I can prom ise my manuscript, Thornton, can it be ready by the first of May ?” “Hardly, Sir AValter ; I cannot promise any greater progress than 1 ant making at present, as I de vote all my time to it It would be safer for von to say the end of June.” “Verry well. Of course I will be glad when it is finished, alilio’ I shall miss yuo from your post there. What do you intend to do when you leave Oaks ?’’ “I shall try for similar employ ment else wli are, Sir Walter. But I need not think of that till the time comes.” “Well, Thornton, always remem ber that whatever writing I have which you can do for me, I shall like you to do i‘, especially after Stella has left me again in solitude The young man thanks him with a quietude which has a touch of pride in it. Then goes back to his coppying, and Sir Walter says no more. CHAP. 11. Two months have passed away since Stella came home to the “Oaks,” and she ie out among her fiowera, singing as she works in the beautiful morning sunshine. Sir Walter, going in to his late breakfast, misses her, and glauc ,ug through the open window seee her in the flower garden beyond. “Stella,” he calls from the win dow, “Come in, pet. I am wait ing for you to fix my coffee; and besides, 1 have good news for yon, he continues as Stella comes in through the low french window and takes her seat at the table. “Here Stella is a letter I have just received from Walter. He is iu England now and hopea to see us soon. But read his letter, for a more satisfactory one ho could not Lave written. Because he continues to hold the letter toward her, Stella takes it. her father goes on : “Yes, Walter may be here any day no w. I wish my book was done. Bu* it must be no drawback to Walter's pleasure, however. If he has your society, he will not ob ject to losing mine occasionally. Stella is bending over her eous j in’s letter, yet the only words which are plain to her is the name at the bottom of the written page. These teo words, Walter Aghner, which all her life have seemed good for her to see or hear until now. And as she’gazes at them now, all her brightness seems snd DE VOT’D TO NEWS, LITERATURE AND LOCAL AFFAIRS deuly to have merged into a quiet hopelessness. As some far off sound, she Lears her Father s voice as he goes on: “Walter cannot at any rate ar rive this morning, so we will not give up our ride, besides, Thora tou has promised to go with us* and he so sel lom gives himself au hours holiday. 1 will tell him dear, that you will come by the li brary for him when you are ready. That will prevent Lis losing any time. Stella’s wistful eyes follow her father's form, as he quits the table and leaves the room, then they wanderjon beyond the open win dow, out among ihe sunlit, leaves but the brightness there is not what it was before she saw that leitev, on which her clasped hands are lying. With a start she comes back to the present, and rising, gees hur riedly up stairs to don her riding habit, and a few minuits later, goes into the shady library to sum mons Mr Thornton. “Please to come now, Mr Thorn ton ; we are ready.’’ Thornton is gtanding by the high secretary’s desk, one arm resting on the desk and his head on his hand. When Stella speaks he raises bis eyes till they rest en her face, and says quietly : “1 ara not going, thank you. I can take n<> more leisure till my work is done.” “Do you mean”—Stella’s face is whiter than usual, aud her great dark eyes burn with a restless light —“that you think we want this work over which keeps yon with us. be ’tittse —because my cousin is coining l" He is standing very still beside the desk, and Stella can see a lit tle of the stern, strong effort he is making to be halm. “Yes, Ido think so. Sir Wal ter is very anxious to be at liber ty, an l ' you—will feel the relief of my absence.” “Never,” she cries while she held out her hand to him, almost wistfully. “It will never be the same after you are gone. There is such a feeling of lest in the very thought that you are here.’ “But it is all unrest and misery to me.” The hand that she offered him is clasped iu his firm, white fin gers close and tight, while the words rush faorn his lips, but al most before she can comprehend lie looses her hand and turns away that she may net see in his fact that which it would be treachery to tell her- At the same moment Sir Walter call* he>- from the front steps, “Come dear, Thornton pleads business, and we must go aloae.” Stella leaves tbe room with a burning blush upon her clieaks, and all through that long ride is strangely silent and reticent. Her thoughts are all back with the two last meuths, and she kuows at last why she has felt so happy—con tented, that she saw no company but ber father and Thornton.— She who had shuddered at the thought of spending the time be fore her father - * book could be fin isbed, “hurried in the country,” as she had laughingly teld one of her school mates. So the two months havepassed and the cousin towhich Stella is betrotheJ can never recall them. {To be ( 'ontinueil.) I<|»> He was willing to Pay SSO, — “What is the charge against this man ?” asked an Arkansas Judge as tks prisoner was placed before him. ‘Killing an editor, your Honor.’ ‘H’m was the editor a resident of the State?’ ‘Yes, your Honor.’ ‘What have you to say, prisoner concerning this very serious charge.? Are you guilty are not guilty?’ ‘b’uilly, yea Honcr I murdered him in cold blood.’ ‘Well,’ said the Judge, ‘there is nothing left for me to do but to sentence you. The crime of mur der in this State is become much too common. You are charged with killing an Arkansss editor to which charge you plead guilty?’ ‘Yes, your Honor, I do; and I don’t care il it cost me sso.’ ‘Prisoner,’ responded the Judge solemnly, ‘you are fined S2OO, and stand committed until the amount is paid.’ The prisoner then swooned a wav.—Call. Hubert l.iu.ulu The Blaine and Arthur factions are dividing the Republican party pretty equally with small fractions for Logan, Sherman Ed muns and Hawley. It is hardly probablethat either of the leading candidates will the prize. Some dark horse will brobably be nominated. Among those mention ed as likelyto be brought in after the champious Lave mutually des troyed each other is Robert Liu colu, now one of Arthur s cabinet He is lepesented as possesing one great and very common quality of Republican statesman. He is a narrow, bigoted Later of the South and of its people. If elected pres ident it is believed that lie will do all that his official position will enable him to do in the way of annoying Ihe people of the South. NY* quo'e from a Washing ton correspondent of the News and Courier as follows : It was he who mined Mrs. Pick ett out of office here because she was the widow of a Confederate general, positively declined to re instate her, despite the earnest efforts of most prominent mem bers of both houses of Congress, including Democrat* and Republi cans. With his advent ilie blacks will rear tbeir political heads and imagine that the day of good stealing and incendiarism in the South has returned, and that “Mars Bob has returned and the C-ld man's son,’ has risin np to sup ply the long premised “forty acie* and imult.' 1 This man really hates everything Southern, afid if he had his way would paint every Soutbernor black and every darkey white. The only claim he has of course is ancestry, but those who know him well say he is like his father iu nothing beyond his name. He is perhaps the most unpopular department ofli cer in Washington, and would etand little or nochanceMf his elec liot depended on bis subordinal eg. —Piedmont Press The “Mar Turtle A leading Boston Mechanical engineer, connected with the llinkly Locomotive works in that city, is at work upon a plan which when fully matured, revolutionize the methods of land fighting in war. He says that he has been at worl on his machine for ten years and tbat’it is in the form of a monster steel turtle, which ia to crawl over the ground at a rapid speed. Its traction will be so great that it will be able to accend steep hi’ls, and even make its way thorugh a bushy country, wbiledur ngiis progress,there could be eject ed from the bowels of the monster a shower es shot from machinery gune that would bring dismay to the stoutest hearts. No army could withstand its destruction. The engineer says his “War Tur tie” proplled by an engine located in its interior, and will run on very large and broad wheels, with rubber tires. The machine w.ll be fed with petroleum from tanks. Its hide or shell, will be of the best tool steel and of sufficient strength to resist the finest (held artillery The mo aster will be steered by appara'us placed in the head, to be controlled by two pilot*, who will be sheltered fromsharp shoot ers by a thick hood of steel. In the tail of the turtle will be a ma chine for throwing shells of twen ty five pounds each at the rate of .twenty a minute. These shells can be hurled with such force as to pass out of the range of the turtle itself, and their effect on an earthwork battery would be terri ble. The gentleman who propos es to construct such a machine ap pears to be in the full possession of all his sen es. A Brookland man who hit wheat for a few thousand dollars last week ruaned around and rented a brown stone front, and then sought the services of a furniture mover. “I’ll take it by the job and do the fair thing by you, replied the mover. “Well how fair?” “I’ll say SSO for the two.” “What two?” “Why, moveing this week into the brownstone and the mo»iog in about a month, from that intc a cheap frame houaein the surburbs I always job the two moves togeth er in the cause of a grain specula tor. - - His Wants Were Few and Sim ple.—“ Yes, sir,” said the politician to the caucus manipulator, “the office should seek the man, and not the man the office.” “Exactly,” answered the c. m. “But in this case when the offi ce starts out to seek tho man— u “Yes. sir.” •‘/ want you to fix it so that I ! will be the first man th&iit will find —Summerville Journal. Tradition* FUBUSHKD BV REQUEST 1 propose, as ■ promised, to con j tinue the subject of Traditions a i little further, ibe Lord being my helper. 1 classed Sunday Schools among the Traditions in my first article upon this subject aud I still so tnainlfiia, but as there are some brethren iu this country aud in Eng land who favor Sunday Schools of a certain sort, aud as simple Suu day Schools have never been dis fellowshipped by us in this coun try, but the Union Sunday Schools I deem it proper to briefly explain our positio* as I mulcts and it on this subject. I soy then if the object of the Sunday School be the teaching of children 'he elementary principles of education, no one would object especially if those children were de barred from attending every-day school or if the object of the school was the teaching of morality espe daily to orphan and indigent dul dren deprived of parental control md instruction none would ob ject j *o far from it, I would com mend such efforts. Nor wou/<l there bo barm t liougt if brethren should assemble the cbil Iren on Sunday to read and explain the scripture* to them, but the idea because ii is a Sunday--school, it is therefore a sacred school a church school, aud means of soul saving, it is to that I would object as a dental of faith The religious character giveu these schools is the cheif ground of objection, it is tnen they becoi e traditions. The washing of hands was practis ed as means of cleansing the hands before it was perverted to a rolig ious act, especially one used a* means of heart-cleansiug, then it was to be repudiated as Such but not that it was to be repudiat ed as au ret of natural cleansing. It in our ordinary-day school reltgin should be (aught we would object as unu-Ii as we would to it being done in a sun day school. Moral schools would no doubt be benfical in teaching the using generation of blacks tnori bility, industry, honesty,and truth fulness and charity. Society would be benefited by them, and Primitive Baptist as members of society t would conscieni iottsly coop era 6 with oilier members of socie ty, let their creed be what it might or whether they have any relig ious faith at all or not, in building up such schools. If we believe that good morals are essential to be well being of society, and we certainly do, we are of course in terested in their being taught and enforced ; and so is every mem >er of society, whether religious or ir religious, the safety and security of his life, liberty, and properly depends npouil; and in such thing therefore we can all unite, unite as members of society, as we would in defense of our homes attd fire sides against au invading enemy; or as we would and do uuite in building up our common schools with men of all creeds or no creeds at all, as we do iD rolling logs, building houses, in vibiting and sitting up with the sick and bury ing the dead; in relieving the dis tressed and in the execution of the laws. These are our duties as members of society, and as Chris tian*; and wo are greatly assisted in these things by people of other religion and people of no religion jiifact without item we would not be ablo to maintain morality mote especially if they opposed us in stead of assisting us in it. These tli tigs we have got to do as Chris tians whether the world does or not and we should be thankful the world does not oppose morali \ tv, even if wu have to lament, their puling mor»!ity for clirisd- 1 anitv. It is our du yto do good l urto all men as we have opportuni | ty; ucr is it necessary that we j, in any ca L-l oui d secret sccie v,! (the catha and secrets being ihej chief objection) but if otLier men join such societies, it is uone of our business at all; nor should we open our mouths against their do ing so; but, he their motives what ! they may, they relieve to some ex tent the distressed, and though they do not follow u& nor we them, if they do good, let them do it; if their object be vain glory it does not matter to us. Wi/b us the prompting ; s a seuse of du ty to Christ; with them to their society. We should not join them because of their oaths, secrecy and semi religious character; but. we are not to forbid rneu doing good things because they are not chris tiaus and members of the church. Christ did not forbid certain men casting out uucleau spirits be cause they were not Christians, but rather ooinmeuded them; aud if I should see au irreligious man relieving the distressed, reproving the immoral or instructing the ig norant, I am sore it would not be a Christian spirit in nte that, would rebuke him for it; he is doing what I ought to do as a Christian and what I zliould be glad for oth ers to do, even if only for.buinaai ty’s .take. But if this unbeliever should offer to be baptized I should forbid it, unless be has faith in Christ; nor can we cooper ate with unbelievers in religions acts: these things like the sh»w bread which was for the priest only, are fnr believars iu Christ ou If. Schools of this kind are not ob jectionable: but when they assume to be nurseries of the church, or auxilaiiee of the church, then our faith forbids our aquiescence and requires our opposition; because they then set Christ aside atd usurp his place. But it is not to be infsred from any opposition; of ours to such institutions, that pa rents are absolved from their duty to their children, beca tse the pa rent is the natural instructor of the child aud the divinely appoint ed on*. It ia not said to the church, bring your children up 'in the nurture and admonition of the Lord, but to the parent. Ba rents may feel to lack wisdom, and if they are wise, they do feel it, but faith gives access to one who has promised to give liberally of wisdom for all necessary pur lioses. O Lord, help us to do our luty to our children by impress ing our hearts with it. Help us to Jo our duty to one unother, co our ministers, to society and to all men! Our duty to our children is none inability, or because we may have failed in our object after a l ull discharge of it. If our child is a Lad man we can’t help it nor blame ourselves with it if we have done our duty. Nor is our duty the less imperative because we can't save their souls; that is to t-ay, that fact should not prevent our carrying them to meeting and having meeting at our houses every opportunity. If Christ is anywhere in this world he ia in the church and where believ ers are assembled in spirit for his worship. The following simple precau tions, if strictly observed, would prevent a great many destructive tire*. The rules might be posted in every store, dwelling and facto ry with good results. The leading causes of fire are kerosene oil, matches and furnaces 1. Always buy the best quality of oil. 2. Never make a sudden motion with a lamp, either in lifting or setting down. 3. Never place a lamp on the edge of a table or mantel. 4. Never fill a lamp after dark, j even if you have to go without a light. 5. See that the lamp wicks are always cleau and that they work freely in the tube. li. Never blow out a lamp from the lop. 7. Never take a lamp to a closet where there are clothes. If neces sary to go to a closet, placo the light at a distance, 8. Use candles just as much as possible in going about the diouse and iu bed-rooms. They are ! cheaper, can’t explode, and for ma : ny purposes are just as good as | lamps. 9. Matches should be kept in earthen jars or lin boxes. ' A Savannah writer says Tcm ! Keene, the tragedian, has a mobile face It looks to be more of the j Atlanta type. 1 A sleepy head is often possess ed of a nod idea. • * {Vol. XIV.—No 11 Agricultural Hints This Dienth i* a good time to pay the interest on your mort gage aud renew the note* you gave a year ago. It is also a pret ty good time to take up the note* you unwittingly gave the light ning rod mau last Cbrintmae un der the impression that you were signiug a contract. < >ats thrive best in a crib. A farmer who bus three thousand bushels of oats iu a crib need not worry about the weather. Look after the bean poles you bad left over from last year. You will look a long time before you find any. They have gone pariial ly into the insatiate maw of the all devouring fire place, aud the neighbors have stolen the rest. Raise chickens. If you hare a nice little garden, by all means raise chickens. Your neighbor*’ liens ar* the best ones to raise.— You will find them from 5:30 a. m until fi:3o p. m. on your lettuce, onion, radish and flower bed*.— You can raise them higher with a shot gun than anything else. N. B. Always eat the hen you raise. P. S.—Cook the hen before eating. P. BN. Before eating the lien, that is. Crush egg shells and feed them to your own chickens |if you are foollish enough to keep any. If the whites and yolks are removed from the shells first they will crush more easily. If a good horse shows symp toms of going blind, and is devel oping a few first class spavins, it is time to sell him. Sell him out of the county, if possible. Be - ware »f the deacon who has a lit tle blaze-faccst “pacin’ mare” that he wauls to trade for “just such a hoas.” • O, it is just as different as can be!" said oue of my young friends “What is it?” I asked. “Why, being a Christian. Eve'y thing is so different from what I expected.” % “What did you expect?” “When you used to talk with me about being a Christian, I used to say to myself, ‘No I can’t now for I have to do so many hard things and I never can do them.” “What hard things ?’’ “Ob, 1 used to think, ‘Now, if I become a Christian, I shall have to walk just so: shall have to go to church and prayer meeting; shall have to pray and read the Bible. It is so different from what I thought!’ “Why, James, what do yon mean You go to church and te prayer meeting; you read the Bible and pray.” “O, yes; but then I love to do them. That makes all the differ ence. I lore Jesus, and I lovs to do a! 1 he wishes me to.” He was driving out of Blaine field the other day with such a satisfied look ou his face that an acquaintance hailed him with; ‘•Well Uncle Billy, what has happened?’’ “You know them five sous of mine ?’’ “Oh, ves.” “Wall they are alius buyiu’ an’ soilin' and speculating, aud not a day passes but some ore of ’em don’t asked me to endorse his note,” “And of course you do ?” “No, them boys are rather shaky you know. But I’m go to after this. Hang it I’m i heir own fath er, yon see, and it looks kinder mean to refuse ’em. I have been down here and deeded tne farm to the old woman, put a chattel mort gage on the stock, and said off most of the tools, and now if the boys want my name on their notes /can sit down and give it to them like a Spartan father. “Can you help a poor unforut nate man to a Title something?” pleaded a medicant. “You don’t look as though you needed cuari ty,” was the reply. “You are strong and hearty, and able to do a day’s work. “Yes sir; but I am a very unfort unate man. lam strong end my health is good. Vut / was bora la' Zy '” • A man in Texas raises goats for j their flesh, but when the festive creatures grow up they raise hun I just for the fun of the thing. —••••«■ — - /lens may be a little backward on eggs, but they never fail to come to the scratch where fiower ' beds are concerned.