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The Democratic Candidate for Vice President at Leavenworth, Kansas - Immense outpouring qt Citizens General lilair wprm Segra Supremacy j and the Despotism of tlir Sirord- Issues of the , rending Canvass, die., its. At Leavenworth, Kansas, on I'riday, the 31st of July, General Francis I’. Blair delivered to the State Democratic Convention and the citizens of the town, in ratification meeting assembled, the following speech upon national topics : Fki.low-Citizkns or Kansu* : I con gratulate myself on my good fortune in having to address so large and enthusi astic an audience as 1 now behold. I do not assume to myself that .Ids i« a personal compliment to me. 1 am too well aware that on the contrary! your presence here to-night is rather due to your devotion to the great cause in which we are all engaged, and in that sense I accept it ns a greater com pliment than il it was a mere personal j ovation. The cause to which wo are do voted, and of which 1 am one of your representatives, is one worthy of your most, profound devotion. It is a cause in which the enthiisiam which I see here to night so far as I have observed has prevailed throughout the country. It is the cause of popular rights, the cause () fcivil government, the cause of eon.ti totior.al liberty. It is the cause, the 1 worthiest of all f.r which man has ai raved himself in times past : and it will become you—it will become i a || of ns to evince yourdevotion to that cause which has showered upon the naj tion so many blessings since its funmla-j Tins cause is in p»,-il ; this cause . has received from the party m power the i rn'-st violent shock ; it has been tin del milieu and is almost on the point of be in" overthrown But lie- poop e id the j country are rallying b> defend this cause ihe* holiest and beat i»> tin* worn., ami m their might 1 confide, in their strength 1 . will abide. They alone can rescue tlm nation from the impending peril, and it j 8 for yon and for all citizens of this country wiio love Democratic institutions to come up as one man and sr.stain tin best and holiest can e in the woiM. j Applause-] 1 do nut speak merely ! . mpiy rhetoric on this subject. 1 could advert and will advert, to the particular transactions by which this cause has been brought into peril. I Call your at tpntion to the aggressions which haw been made by the radical party, calling themselves Republicans upon the funds-; mental principles of our Government j those great underlying principles on 1 which all civil liberty depends. They have sangtot by various ntoasuies, wind* j the Constitution has prohibited to en trench themselves in power in this Gov - eminent. They, losing the confi lence of their own race,—losing the confidence of the white people—have sauglit to give the power in a portion of the States of this Union to another element—the black race—hoping after losing the confidence | of the white race t > maintain and perpet uate their supremacy by giving political; power in ten States of this Union to the i black race. [Applause and cries of; •Shame ! shame !j Now rny fellow citizens, I take the broad ground that the white race is the only race m the; world that has shown itself capable ol maintaining free institutions and a free government —[applause] ; that no where, in any country or at any time, have the black people shown themselves capable of establishing or maintaining a constitutional government or any other kind of government. [Prolonged ap plause.) Yet the people of the South ern States have been disfranchised and the ignorant blacks—the same people that the Republican party lias declared were imbruted by slavery—whom we all. know to be ignorant —w.iom we all know to be semi barbarous—whom we all | know have never been capable of creit ting establishing or maintaining a free government are made to predominate in all of those States. Not only are they made to predominate m the Southern States but the three or four millions of semi-barbarous blacks have the entire control of those States, and send twenty Senators to the United States Senate, while the four millions of I clpl'... ii I ll' it' ti §ptfiC| n i while people of New York send but two ; Senators. It would take New York, I’ennsylvani.i. Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, i Missouri, ami enough of the other grout 1 (States ol the Union put together con | turning twenty millions of white people 1 to counterbalance 11 e three or Idur mil lion blacks in the South, so that the ne groes are not only put above the white i people of the South but above the white I i people of the North, also, and three 1 four millions of blacks are made equal in the Senate of the United States arc i more than twenty millions of the free 1 white people of the North. | Cheers, and amt cries of shame.] Fellow citizens,! we all very well know that this is a po 1 litical trick to keep what is known as the Radical party in power. They don’t believe in iljiliemselves. They voted j it down in the State of Kansas by 10,000 ! majority, but notwithstanding the pe >p’e j I have voted down negro suffrage in this State, your two Sen itors and lleprosen- j ! tutives still insist upon sustaining the; I State Governments erected ou the ne ! gro vote of the South. You don’t under i stand the danger in which our institu- j | turns are from the ignorant blacks and j | vagabond car,ot baggers of the South. [Prolonged applause, and cries of ‘Yes, | we do; and we’ll save the count ly vet”] I The people have never assented to these ! so-called reconstruction acts. In the election of 1866, so far from presenting! that issue, they dodged it—they ptesen-j I ted an entirely different issue. The is I sue they submitted then was what is known as the i4tli amendment to the j Federal Constitution, which conceded to all the States the right to regulate suf t frage for themselves That was the is-; sue upon which the last Congressional election was held. After they attained power by admitting tlie doctrines on which the Democratic party always stood j they went to work to disfranchise the! while people of the South and enfran-j cliise tlm blacks, denying to the States ] Ihe rights which were contained in the | 14th amendment. As soon as they show- ed their hands the election of 1801 de-| dared against them In'New York,l I Ohio, Pennsylvania, Michigan California j ’ Oregon, Connecticut, and in enough States to carry the election, the people ! decided against them. But the Senators ! sand Representatives from those States j I refused to obey the will of the people.— | They put it at defiance and wenton with their reconstruction, and now declare they have fixed it, and that it is not in the power of the people to undo what they have done. And, because in a let-j rer I wrote pending the nominations in ! New York, I took the ground that tlm j j will of the people must be executed, they | I proclaim mo a ‘revolutionist,’ anxious to ! reinstate the rebellion. The idea that | | an y ~ne should undertake to undo what : has been done by this great Congress | I this Rump, this fragmentary Congress—j i [cheers] —who got into power by do- | i reiving the people on false issues, is men- j j stxotis in their virtuous- eyes. After I iheir aelion has b on condemned by 10,-I ! 000 iii K»uo»«, by 50,000 in New York, j bv as many in O no, by 30,p00 Mk-lfi gan, and by overwhelming majorities of j 1 the people wherever there has been an j expression of their will ,t*is revolutionary ’ to favor the execution of the will of the j 'people- Frank B.air is a ‘revolutionists’ ■ and wants to inaugurate another rebel-; | lion 1 [Cheers and laughter, | 1 say j i the Southern States were never out ofi I the Union ; that is tlm doctrine we held ; ; to and fought for for four years, but now ; the Radical party lias taken tlie exact I position that JeU. Davis and other laa I . ers of secession took at the commence j j meet of the war. [Applause and cries ( !of ‘lhat’s so.’] I tell you 1 have no aui i I mohity toward the negroS. and those who ; arc pretending to be limit friends arc i their worst enemies. Everyone knows, j from my history, that when the negroes j were in slavery, 1 was an advocate for! their emancipation. I advocated it at the worst times and in the worst places. ; I advocated it when the present pale-1 faced Radicals of Missouri did not dare 1 to lift up their heads. [Prolonged cheers.] . And now 1 say that unless the negroes i j submit to the intelligent guidance of the j powerful white race, their late will be t! at of tlie Indians, they will bo exlerniiu ated . The negroes can only be happy laud prosperous as long as they are mi M - jed by the intelligence of the white race.; i | Cheeis.] Whenever it is sought to dis- i i franchise the intelligence of the country i 1 and make it subordinate to the ignorance j of the country. Whenever it is sought; to subordinate the white race of the ; ! country to tiie black barbarism of tlie negro, the prosperity of the country is at an°end. [Applause and cries of “That's | so.”] But I come back to the proposi tion with which I started, that the Kaci cal pa: ty has done these things indefi-j arice of the will of the people. Have the people ever endorsed negro suffrage?— (Never.] Did yon not condemn it in ; this state? Was it not condemned in all the States of the Union at the last elec tion? and shall the Radical party per sist in pressing it upon tlie people, that. ;it shall be the rule? And when, as Ij ! have already stated, in New York, thro, if j ! the Democratic party should carry these j ! elections; if the peoph- should elect a ! Democratic President, this pretended re j I construction should be undone; aud it; these miserable carpetbaggers in the i Senate were i:i the way of its being done, J i the people will fiud a way to execute ; tneir will; those miserable creatures who] j have undertaken to forstail the popular | will, say that any one who undertakes : II" iC SHALL TH3 PRESS THE PEOPLE'S RLIHTS MAINTAIN, UNAWED BY PEAR AND VNBRIBED BY CAIN. QUITMAN, GEO., AUGUST 21, 1868. ; to i-MTiitc tlm will of the people is a rev* i>! ut ien ist. [Applause.] Book at the at titude nf these men. Who are the two lionists ?• Who lias pul, at defiance line popular will? Who has taken away ; the powers of the Executive i.s granted to him by the ('oiislilulion ? Who has • enriailed the jurisdiction of the Supreme Court of the United States? Wh has I done all this t Why the Radical pa: ty ; |Ulmers and cries of Tiint’s so.”] Who i lias put ten States of this Union under martial law in time of profound peace ? ! The Radical party in Congress. Who j has taken away from the President the constitutional powers granted him as [ Commander -in-Uhict of the army mid | conferred it on their candidate for the I’ii sidency ? The Radical parly. Who ! hold eight millions white people of the ! South pinned to the eai tii with bayonets? | Tlm Radical party. General Grant was ! selected as tlie candidate of the parly j because they knew they were beaten on their principles, and because he alone, ( with h s great personal popularity, was supposed to bo able to at rest the tide that was about to overwhelm them ; be causa with the almost omnipotent power now given him in ten States of this Union, they Thought he could control the | votes to their own advantage. Is this ! man who has bayonets at the throats of | eight or ten millions of the people, the proper representativeof tin-people ? ( Not much.] And are those who seek to turn j aside those bayonets and give the law ] and the Constitution control, revolution ! ists tell you now all their attempts to | subjugate this people will be over— ] thrown. The success of the Democratic I party at the coining election is fore | gone It is ordained of Heaven. It is a thing already consummated almost, | because the people of tins country are j not the men to surrender their liberties. ! j Never, never.] Nor can the eminent services or piestige of Gen. Grant inis j lead them. (Applause.) 1 desire to | speak of General Grant with the great jest respect tor his services to his coun j try. I shall never allow myself to speak ! jof him otherwise than xvith the greatest j respect. I don’t think we gain any ad vantage by misrepresenting him or his services. ! A voice—We have not heard from him ! yet. General Blair—No, and you are not ] likely to hear from him—[applause] I but as he is a candidate for the highest position in the world, he is subject to » I fair criticism oil his conduct and lan j gunge I call your attention to the I report made by General Grant when sent j by President Johnson to the South to investigate the condition of affairs there. He then stated that the people of the ! South had submitted to the terms im , posed upon them by the Government, ! and that they were fitted to return to I tlm rights ot citizens in the Union.— i Since that time he has seen proper to j cnange his attitude on this question. I :do not impugn his motives, but we are ! nil at liberty to look at the facts. When the Radicals were keeping the Stales , ■,ut |,o recommended their admission I ] know very well from General Grant’s former position that he Inis no affinity for tlie negro. Neither has General Sher ir,s n nor General Sheridan. They have no hatred toward the people of the South. Look at the terms General Slier man gave Johnston at the surrender in Nr,rlh Carolina. It all goes to show that these military leaders, who are all now arrayed against, the Democracy, in their hearts believe ill the- doctrines of the Democratic Jparly. They did then and they do now. But I will tell you the secret—what has brought them to j the Radical party, it is their mil tary instinct, which tells them that the Radi cal party is in favor of a despotism in thts country, and without having any ! affinity for the nogrn, or hatred lor the 1 white people of tlie South, they felt that j the Radicals were in favor of erecting a j , despotism, and they knew full well that | would give add tiomil consequence to military im-u filial is the secret of these men arraying themselves against con stitutional liberty, and against the civil ] institutions of our Country. [Continued I applause.] We have honored these men ns no nation ever honored its heroes be- We have given them the loftiest position, but they are not content ; they : would make themselves dictators over I all tiie country. Arid new is the time i for you to show yourselves as ready and I capable of p ostrating these would be I dictators as ym were in prostrating the i rebellion. [We are ready.] I know you are read) . 1 know that while you ■ cherish the services they performed for I the Government, you are not inclined to I surrender your own birthrights—the : birthright of a citizen and a freeman.— j [Applause.] A voice— What about the Copper heads ? Genera! Blair—l think these Radicals ; have made the name “Coppereead” re-j | spcctable by their great treason against ] ] tfie Government. 1 think that whatever ] jof prejudice may have exisied against; ! those woo were called ‘ Copperheads” j during the war, because of their cympa- I thy lor a people who, however wrong, ] | have made themselves memorable lor aB j | time, wiii 1 ave been forgotten and their j ; sins will have been forgiven, when the j i Radicals, who have undertaken to des- I troy the liberties of the whole people, to subvert our institution, to put down the n-reat principles upon which civil liberty i alone can_ be sustained, who] sought to j perpetuate their power by appealing to j : the ignorance of a degraded race of be ing' , will be he and up" as examples for cim ■ tin mi I execration. [Applause.] |W Radical parly will be ovei’tlmwii. The | people are it; no temper to submit to the domination of a party who seek to main t: 'n’thoimelves by cn l ug te.their a drill's | ignorant and barbarous race ot men. | [Applause] I may be accused of up I pealing to your prrpidiees. Ido not | appeal to your prejudices. I appeal to history. 1 appeal to that which ought Ito guide every statesman. It is iiiipos : sible to make a nation prosperous by giving the reins of power into the he tills of a race ot people who are incapable of guiding any nation. You. have repudia ted iliat doctrine—[Yes, and will do it ! again] mid you ought to and it. forever.— [Applause.] A man is unworthy him self, il In- is classed as a white man, who will put the black man over his own ! race; and no one but a demagogue would ]do it. If the Radica’a flt si cure in tin ir position they would lie content t j appeal to their own race of people for support, to the people who created this Govern ment, who maintained it and carried it forward to unexampled prosperity. They would be content to appeal to tlie in tel 1i | gence of tlie white race. But no, they know they have forfeited the confidence of the white race. They are Conspiring agaii . the most cherished institutions of om country. They are giving the franchise to that ignorant race whom they know to be incapblc, and at the same time are disfranchising the intelli gent while people of (he country, and their doom is sealed. [Applause.] But, fellow-citizens, there ara others here ] Irotu whom it is your right to hear.— [Cries of "go on,” “go on.”] There are gent lemeu here who have been but re cently nominated lor high position in your State—gentlemen who 1 believe will be elected by the people of the State—and they have a fight to be heard, and you have a right to expect that 1 will give way for them. Having claim ]ed your attention for the length of tiirf I have, I now surrender it to men from your own State, after thanking you fur your very kind attention to me. The Little Newspaper Game. A cnrresporiden of [the Augusta Chronicle S Sentinel writes to that jour - nal as follows: In imitation of the infamous precedent established by General John Pope, whilst ho was in command of this State, and of the recent acts on the same subject pass ! e I by t’ e State Legis’a urc of Louisiana audjAlabama, the notorious carpel bag ger and miscegonator, J. E. Bryant, ed itor of tlie Loyal Georgian, supposed part owner of Bullock and Conley’s pa j p-r, in Augusta, and Representative in tlie Legislature from Richmond county, today introduced a bill in tlie House to give BulloC (part owner of a newspa per himself) tlie power and authority to appoint, or name one newspaper in each State which shall publish all the sheriffs’ and other legal sales, decree; and uuti-i cos bySull ordinaries, sheriffs, clerks, exo I cutors, administrators and trustees. Tin-'infamy which this bill seeks to] perpetrate is appear-nut on its face. It is mi attempt to give tlie Governor of the State, iiimsKi.k an interested parhj, the power to establish Radical newspapers in J lie different Congres ioual Districts of the Stale, ostensibly to do tin: legal at vertising, but in realty to serve to keep ; up the Radical party, a purely partizan i measure. . : It is a well known fact that m the] whole State, of Georgia, where they, they claim to have a registered vote of J between seventy and eighty thousand, ; I bat party lias only two newspaper or-| gans, and these meet with but little sup ] port from the decent men in the country, j ■ Tlm efibrtof this bill will bo to subsidize j seven or eight Radical sheet, to offer a; premium for infamy. 1 douol think, however, that the Leg- j latino will pass such a bill as this as it; is but a legalized robbery of the citizens ; of tlio State. A schoolmaster -Afn r giving one of Ids ; pupils i'y ouud drubbing for speaking bad j grammar sent him to tin other cml of the room to inform another boy oat lie wish ed to speak to him, and at the same j time promised to repeat the dose il lie ] spoke to liirn ungrammatically. The j youngster being quite satisfied witii j what lie got, determined to be exact and j addressed hisfeilinv pupil ‘Acommon sub | stantive of Ihe masculine gender, singu-; lar number] nominative case, and in an J angry mood, that sits perched upon the j eminence at the other end of the room, j wishes to articulate a few sentences to you in the present tense.” “Good morning, uncle. How do you , do?” “I am well, as you see.” “I'll bet ] ten dollars you don’t know what I came j :to see you for.” “Money, of course you ! never come for anything but that ” j “You’ve lost tuu dollars, my dear uncle. ! I came to ask you—how is aunt?” ► —•—-*•*■ i “Has the 'representative from your comity arrived yet?" Inquired a fodc-al officer of ageutlornan breakfasting at an Atlanta hotel a few mornings since.”— “Wait,” replied the gentleman, “until I get through my breakfast aud I will go to tlie kitcheft and inquire.” ELI WHITMEY. nv JAMES l AIU’OX. One day, iii the fall nf 1*92, when Washington was I’resiilent oi'the States, a company of Georgia planters happened to be assembled at the House, near Savannah, of Mrs. Nathaniel Greene, widow of the famous Geiu-ral i Groom-, ol the Revolution. Several of these planters had been officers under ] the General, and they bad cull and, natn- I rally enough to pay their respects to' his j The I unic 1 up ill the if' pressed of the Sou I hern States ’ ■since the close of the war. Thu planters weie generally in debt, their lands were i mortgaged their products afforded Iktle profit and many of the younger and more enterprising peoph- were moving away. The cause of this things, those planters agreed w ol rais ing cotton with to the great labor required in separating the fibres of j the cotton Rom the seeds. Many of cur readers presume have never seen cotton growing, {nor even a liolljor pod of cotton. This pod, j which is about us la'geas a lieu’s egg, bursts when it is ripe and all the cotton gushes out at. the top in a beautiful white tloek. If you examine this flock closely you w-ll discover that it contains eight or more large seeds, much resembl ing in size and shape, the seeds of u lem on. The. fibres of tlie cotton adhere so tigldy tto the seeds, that tojgct one pound of clean cotton, without wasting any, ns to require a whole dap's labor. It was this fact that rendered the raisinj*of Cot toll no little profitable, and the Southern States from sliring in the pros perity enjoyed byt.be States of the North after tlie close of the Revolutionary war. W hen the gentlemen had been con versing for some time the idea was star ted that perhaps this work Could be ilony by a machine. Mrs. Greene then red* [liuiked : 1 f ‘Gentlemen, apply to my young- fi ic-ifl i Mr. Whitney; he can make anything.’ Few words have ever been spoken on this globe, that have had such important and memorable consequences as this simp e observation of Mrs. Nathaniel Greene. Eli Whitney of whom she spoke was a young Massachusetts Yankee, who had conic to Georgia to teach, and, having been taken sick iiad been invited by this hospitable lady to reside in her house till he should recover, lie was the son of a poor farmer, and had worked his way through college without assistance —as Yankee boys often do. From c uly boyhood lie had exhibited wonderful skill in mechanics, and in college ho use to i repair the philosophical apparatus with { remarkable nicety—to the great admira tion of professors and students. Duringg his residence with Mrs. Greene he liu« Hindi) for her an ingenious tambour frame on anew principle us well as many curi ous ti-0 s for her children. lienee her ] advice: “Apply to my young friend, Mr. ] Whitney he can make anything.” She now introduced Mr. Whitney to [ her friends, who described to him the dif | licitltics under which they labored, lie | told them he had never seen a pod of cotton in his life. Without giving them any promises, he resolved to procure some raw cotton forthwith, and see what he could do with it. Searching about] the wharves of Savannah he found at] ! tenet isome unclean cotton, and taking ; j home a bundle of it in his hands, lie ! shut him:.elf up in a room in the base j ! incut and set Lo Work io invent the marh l j inc required. _. _ j All tlie winter he labored in his solita- j iy cell. There’ were no proper tools to j lie had in Savanna!-, lie made his own | tools. There was no wire. He made j Ids own wire. The children, the servants the visitor, at the l ouse, wandered what ; fie could be doing in the basement all ! ] alone. But l.e said nothing and kept on ' tinkering and tinkering, till early in the ! spring of 111)3, he had completed his wo k. Having set up the mysterious j machine in a shed he invited a number (if planters to conn: and witness its opera ! atiuii. Its success was complete. Tins ] gentlemen saw with unbounded wonder; land deligut, that one man, with this] young tCMfem’.-) engine could clean as much cotton in one (lay ns a man could ] clean by band in a whole winter. The | cotton grown on a lar.. <: plantation could ] lip separated from the seel in a few ! days', which before required the constant labor of a hundred hands fur several I months. | Thus was the cotton-gin invented j ! The principle was so simple that the won j der was tiiaL rio one had thougllJkjif it ! before. Tli; cotton was put intoAparge ] trough, the bottom of winch was formed | ol wires placed in parallel rows, so close ! together that the seed could not puss ] through. Under tics trough saws ro : volved, the teeth of which thrust tliem ! selves between the wires and snatched the cotton through, leaving the seed be hind, which ran out in a stream at one end of the trough. The simplicity of the cotton gin had j I two effects—the one good the other bad. j ] The good affect was tuat in the course ! ot a very few years it was introduced all lover the cotton states increased the val ;uc of all the cotton lauds, doubled aud ] trebled tlie production of cotton, and I raised the Southern States from hopeless [depression to the greatest prosperity, i The effect was as lasting as it was sud- [53.00 per Annum NO. 28 ■ 'l' 11. In 1 733 the whole export of cotton I from ilic Unitoil States was toil thousand I’.ilon. In 18;VJ tlio exports win four j millions of bales. Mon acquainted with ktlio subject mo if opinion that that sin— Pgle inuuition Ims been worth to the j Snith one thimsnd millions of dollars, j How in ui* It (Till Ii io inventor gain by it \nt one (lo '.ir ! Associating himself with n linn! and cupitnl ho went to Oonnec ! liciit to si't up u ni.i lluHue tmy of cotton gins. lint llio .simplicity of the machine | was such that any good mechanic, 1 who j saw it could make one ; and long before j Whitney was ready to supply machines . f his own making, there were a great number in operation all over tire cotton Stall's. His patent proved to be no pro— i lection to him. If lie brought a suit for | its infringement, no Southern jury would I give him a veidiet. lie struggled on a j gainst adverse influences for fifteen years | in ISOS, when his patent expired, he i gave tip the contest and withdrew from j l lie business a p Hirer man than lie was n the day when he went with his hand ful of cotton pods, into Mrs. Greene’* ! basement. Thousands < f me i were rich, who, but for bis ingenuity and labor, would have remained poor to the end of their days. Tlie levees of the Southern seaports weur heaped high with cotton, which, but for him, would never have been grown.— Fleets of cotton ships sailed the seas, which but for him would never have be n built, lie, tins creator of ho iiuigh wealth returned lo bis native Stare, at the age of forty-two to begin the world anew. Mr. Eli Whitney was a thoroughbred Yankee—one of those unconquerable men who bulked in one direction, try another and keep on trying till they succeeded, lie turned bis attention to the improve ment of fire-arms particularly to the old fashioned musket. Having established a manufactory of fire arms, in New Ila he prospered in business, and was bled at length to gratify his domestic es by marry ing the daughter cf Judgo ■pout Edwards, with wiiom he lived appiness the rest of his life. Some in improvements he invented are pro served in the celebrated Springfield mus ket with which our soldiers are now cliidly armed. It was he wlk> began in fire-arms, which CcirWnd many others have continued, and which have given the United States the best musket the best, pistols, and the best cannon in the world. Eli Whitney died in January 1826 in his sixtieth year, A good story is told of Dr 0 W. Ilolmes who having been culled on and consider ably bored by a gentleman who had de voted himself to lecturing in New Eng land without much ability for doing so, inquired,‘What-are you about at this particular time?’ The answer was *Lec- KJring as usual. I held forth this even jg at ltoxbury.’ The Professor clap ping his hands together, exclaimed, ‘f am glad of it; I never liked those liox bjry people/ Wh it is the difference between a marksman who hoots wide of the target and a brute of a husband who blackens bis wife’s eye. The one misses his mark, and the other marks his missis. A pleas mt style of suicide—to hang upon the notes of a pretty lady whilu she is singing. A thoughtful man suddenly mvlo g ly may be properly called expensive. Sheet music -the cry of children in bed. Smuggling nutmegs is not a stnill crime, but it might lead to a grater. ‘Do yon believe In the apprrraco of spirits father?’ asked a rather fast young man of his indulgent, sire. ‘X i, To:n, but 1 believe in their disap pearance, since l missed my bottle of I! mrbon last night/ replied thejold gen tleman. - . ——— ‘Am I not a little pile?’ inquired a lady who was short and corpulent, of a crusty old bachelor. ‘You look more like a big tub,’ was the ldunl reply. Why are dmgs the mist intclligmt things living? Because they “nose” cveiy tiling. Why is a boy chasing a chicken like a collision tit sea ? Because lie’s run ning a fowl. Women are generally in quest of some i tiling ; but conquest seems to suit ’em' about as Well as anything. Wf scon sinners is as good a deriva tive name as Nasb,villiana. Stealing molasses is most emphatical ly suggestive of a syrup titus act. Youtt, in his book entitled 'TiieTlorSe/ says this animal will never drink hard : | water if soft is within his reach; that lie' 1 will leave dear, transparent hard water | lor a pool or stream of soft, even though’ | the latter be discolored with mud. Very cold water from the well will make the hair rise up and not unfreqnenlly causa an attack of the gripes. Give soft wa ter when practicable, especially if tbad ! animal bo ailiug.