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F«» innottncinx candi'iatcs for ofllcc, 610.00 !
poetical
Make t!cm * Pkasanf.
M.*r<* tlr.tn buhling showy m n.ioi.j
M jv th;:*) dies** ot line array
Mure tl mi 1101*10 of lofty s’-ccjilo.- -
M it* than station, power.'sway;
Make your hoineH both nr.i! :uui tu-.U fa)
ULght and plcaaint always lair,
Where each heart shall real conteuaiJ,
flrateful lor each beauty there.
More than lofty, swelling titles
M re th >n iVuihinns hiring eltrc—
Mur* than Mammon's gilded honors- -
V c* ib -n thought can well compare;
»e tlmt h me is made at*iactive.
iiv snrreut.dingv pure and bright,
Ti com n) ratijrcd wi;h taste and order,
t owers wiih ell tlicir sweet delight.
Feel* to make your home most lovely,
L*a. it be ;» smiling spot,
Y- heic in sweet conturluniu resting,
i arc and ><un-w arc lor; • ;
\V!hmv the fiuwcrsuml iree.i arc waiving,
liiuls tv ill sing their ceU'hl feong,
V* Imtc the purest tb«M*gi in will linger.
Confidence and love bean .
Make yonr hr.me u little j and »n,
luiita'c her smiling br.wers -
I Let a m*at simple cottage
Sinful p.uftftg blight frees and flowers :
There wl.at fragrance and wbal biightu.'.-s,
W Where each bloming rose display !
f Weic i simple vine chid arbor
l i ghtens hr* >gh e*eh slimmer day.
N Ther each trill rest cont* nfed.
* .Tdoits wishing o’er to roam,
. Or if roaming Jrtall will clierish
t Mem Vie*' of that pleasant home.
Sr.eh a 1 tonic makes man the belter,
* \ weet ami lasting its control -
fluirm with pure and bright surroundings,
1 eaves an impress on the soul.
fHiSCcUaU&aitS.
MY R§EIIL
BY MAUI A oTOCK WELL.
Ido not think that I am.a cruel wo- ;
itriii iio tui ally th nigh I know tintt
if put Ernest Gregory upon the
■Tu-lc with ghirl raper hands. There
jaw-re reasons sufficient to siiti fy myself
wOlcli led tu ttie planning of such a
a? arse, and which drove mo to the. act
onmplishment of these plain when once
formed; hut whether the harboring of:
such feel in ' did not at lint react
npm myself with a hardening; bitter in
fluence I cannot sax. I did not care
til ‘TI.
Ttiis Earnest Gregory'had been my sis
tor's husband for two long weary years,
until she died, and was carried forth,
from his homo to her quiet blessed grave
When the ground was really ocerher
I breathed more freely than I had done
since I saw her sweet beautiful lace be.
side his dark selfish unfaithful one upon
tlteir bridal morning. At least shew as
out ot his arms, and away from his in
fluence, now, For that I thanked God,
while I nerved my-elf fur the work,
which I was at least free to perform.
While my sister lived I had borne all
lor her sake. Lot him lie ware now !
For every «r»uitig tender wo.d lie hud
dared to iusuit me with, he should re
ceive a hundred fold reward For every
moment of suffering his neglect had giv
en the being who was more than my
life to me, he should receive full .recom
pense at least. fs‘t him beware indeed!
r mean to make hirn fi-vo me as u
man lores whif he would die for. It
was not enough that ha should admire
and ask mo to He his wife; he niusj be so,
iouni up in my life, that to sever would
,: vfng deatb. I was a desperate
'.-111111 bound t i sing-’e purpose. I.it
t!t>‘ dang.i r l-ut 1 should succre l ?
: T •' v :■ Tv ,non: hi. l kept upiiii Ibe out—
r verge if his love eluding him here
and there as a butleiily choirs ymu'
; g«'-'sp, until he was liu.il' ready to grasp
Tfid I’.msb nit*, tffion 1 began to tighten
j chains. One dav 1 would make firm feel
all the love that 1 had might be his; the
: next that I was heights upon heights a
hove him.
j "I believe you bate me,” he said ns we
j walked together through a soft June!
j twilight.'
“D.i you? II vv absurd!'" I arswer- ■
e-.l ligiilly, though thu blood that bate
nuisea was boiling thiough my veins. I
lie l ent down, mid looked into my j
| face.
‘'Your eyes glitter like fire, but inch a ]
bard cruel look as they have ! Ob, Mari
oh ! will you i vor lie mine Y'
“'if the fates have so decreed,” I an
swered nonchalantly. "You believe in
Fate I think f” looking- into his eyes ten i
<!e rly.
I U b.ev, In anvtliliig that will bring
■ i
me nearer you
IFs voice was husky in its earnestness.
; and passion,
"We spoil the ij 11 lot of the night- -and
: besides I must go home- I have an en-|
gugoment,” I said turning about sudden l
i ly.
"Let me touch your lips once, Mar*
j ri;i.'
"Not for a thousand worlds !” I an-i
swered iju e:ly.
lie dropped my arm, and turned back 1
saying, "i will leave you then.”
"Very well,” I returned ns placidly as
i before,
lie came buck iu an instant.
“It is ot no use. 1 believe there was !
! never a slave bound by such chains as 1
!•”
1 Xonsi use 1 V oil would lbrgi tme in
n week Were 1 aw.iy.”
"For heaven's sake don’t tiy me. It
: would bo worse than tort mi t-i loose you '
foi that length of time in this uncertain |
ty.,’
How I remembered the other one he 1
had wooed and won then ; and how 1 I
reim-mlen-d atid thought of her tut into
lii it quiet night ! She who should have;
had only brightness and joy, to bo cheat
ed with dust and ashes ! Who should j
have had truth and right and boner to
guide her to be (meed to walk beside a
cowardly traitor ! A sweet gentle wo- ;
mau fragile as an autumn leaf tender j
and forgiven as an angel, vvliut she suf
fered who can te I t Just once she sai l
this much tome: "Marica, life looks |
dark very dark, and so different from
what 1 thought it once.” "Hut ,heaven ;
is yours," 1 sii I tin-owing my arms a
round! her, and trying to hide tho tears
upon my luce.
Hut. to continue.
The days wore on, the luscious autumn
came laden with its fruits and flowers.—
The maples dropped their crimson and |
scarlet leaves’, like wine drops at a feast 1
the thrush and woodpecker called loudly j
, irorn the choannt tops the earth’s high;
carnal would bo past. I looked arcuud |
with steady eyes, and said, “l’lic winter
is coming to me. It shall be spring no
longer in Ernest Gregory’s t eart.”
\Yo were far up from the mountain J
side, he ami I—lie radiant and happy, '
1 because 1 meant that he should ho thus ;
1 1, serene and—waiting.
“Let go over the top, and down
- through the .hollu-.v homo. You remem-'
I her the way V'
"Oh, yes, I rememh'er,” I answered.
1 “And you will say I love you, before
j the sun sets ?”
“I promised an answer true. Jt will
be whatever my heart says.”
“I am Hot afraid. I have road love iu
| your eyes all this golden day.”
"Have you ? ’ I answered, carefully
J ’ * i
modulated tones, smiling meanwhile into
his eager face. “Wait !’
"With yon I can wait for ever.”
We rode slowly up tlie steep ascent,
and then I struck into a hard, fierce gal
iop. There are times when one seems:
to fear nothing. That was such a day
;to me;,and the exhilarating air which !
, whirled around me see usd to fill me
with new dumg. Neither spoke a word
until we came into the edge of the vil
lage. Then I slackened my pace a little !
and turning Horn the road, said, “Come !
I must stop a moment yonder,” pointing
towards toe burying ground.
| Ue suspected nothing yet, being who.
j ly tafceu op with his own blissful dreams
:At tbo gate I dlnuouuted, he doing the
i nao and we went into the churchyard
HSHH SIT ALL THE PRESS THE PE'JfLu'S RIO PETS MATKT.AIT7, I HAWED BY FEAR AN 0 UNBP.IBEI) HY 2.1113
QUITMAN, G HO., OCTOBER Iff, 1868.
together, and stood lucking down upon
my sisters grave,
j For a moment both were silent. Then
! * said slowly "Do you Want y.-.nr answer
Listen ? Long before tiiis grave was
eiikvr dng or filled y.-u dared to throw
• your smiles into my face ; and day by
day even while the heart loved you, ns
1 God forbid you should ever be loved a
gain, was breaking- inch by inch, yen
went oil your dastardly way, neither!
I knowing nor caring whether she lived
; or died. Above her dead Col I form 1
vowed'to have revenge. 1 meant that
! von should sailer as your white lips say;
you do. Know, then, t at while 1 smile
j into your eyes I loathed you with an ut-;
; ter loathing. Yon have your answer.;
| Go I”
I hurried out and mounted my horse, j
! rode swiftly homo. As I was entering i
; the house. Fi nest Gregory’s voice so 1
! charged 1 should scarcely have known j
it stopped me.
“V’ait, Marcia ! lam a wicked man;
I know bm your might have saved me. j
Remember that when you hear of rue a !
gain.”
Yesterday, who si oilbl ! see asccud ini
j to the pulpit of a West End church, but!
j Ernest Gregory’. The face 1 should,
I have known anywhere though there was
j an indescribable difference in it ami the I
j one 1 had seen so white and; pallid as it!
left me years ago.
I listened to the sermon like one in u
j dream, though more than a hundred J
( times I sent tip thanks to heaven that he j
. Ptood before me saved, and not ruined |
; us ! had hoped he would he in the long j
! ago. At the close of the service ho |
j ciitiic down, and pressing through the
crowd, touched my arm.
“You know me V he said in a wiiis-1
! i JOr - I
I b sved my head.
“Iim i ant.--yon remember when—-to!
liavo gam straight to ruin; hat I uni
striving for heaven netcud. , Can you
j forgive liie past?”
I pul out my band.
"Forgive me rather I have seen my
! wickedness since.”
| "1 Liii k she looks down from heaven,;
and helps me,” lie said his voice tremb
ling.
• After all there is something sweeter |
tliifn revenge, arid that is forgiveness, for i
j therein lies the way to heaven.
RADICAL BARBARITY.
Our city readers will remember that
the Augusta Foundry, on Jackson street, |
was used, subsequently to the war, as a |
Freeman,s Hospital under the auspices |
ut’the Freedineu’s Bureau After a while!
the hospital was removed to the opposite
side of the street, buildings having been ;
placed there for that purpose. In the old j
1 hasp tul, after its vacation, chains were 1
; found attached to the floor in one o 1 the
rooms, where the refractory negroes were j
' chained, and p< Siaps otherwise ptup
: fished. Hut worse than this, in the!
! “dead liour.e” some fhree orf< nr skeleton j
were found! anijfijio.’jes of dead negroes '
' are still lying upon the ground tlieio; and j
among those is the skelleton of an infant! I
This hospital was an offshoot or clfarg.: |
of the Free.linen's Bureau, a Radical in J
! sFlution; established ostensibly for the ]
j protection of the negroes, and yet the !
j poor cratues were allowed to perish and !
to go without even interment!
j This is aseuere commentary on Radi !
cal love for the negro. They love turn |
! enough to nse him, while living ; when
dead they had no nse for him —no res
pect for him.- -Anjgnula Chronele.
: Radical creed: I believe in moral ideas
; in a revenue colloctorsbip ter the pnplish
or of them, and the largest circulation,
for the edit.ir of them. 1 believe
that the radical whole duty of man is to 1
voteafie Radical ticket and, according to
his strength, to talk, writ'-, act and cant
in behalf of the same. And whoever does j
this though lie bt a drunkard a gambler,'!
a paramour of negro women, a father of
half Indian chil Iron, or a spoiler of fie ,
Bpoonsol the Egyptians, the sameiVloil” i
and worthy the fellowship of tin: saints; i
j but whosoever opposes this, though he
g e bis l oly to te burnt disa c p fie .and
an l a slant r. Ami let all Mod’people say, i
A aeii.- —i’.tr/y County Atua.
The largest rose bush in France is at
Toulon, it covers a wail seventy-five
■ feet long by eighteen iu height, and near
! the ro it measures two feet eight me
1 r mud. in the months of April and May .
it produces fifty thousand loses.
| ‘T’i! take the responsibility," as J uie
said when he held out b : s arms i
- baby.
From tlio New York Vlinlk-alor.
The Sitiiulion Moral and Politico I
the Mode of 10-ccpo.
During Hie recent lerrildy l otwi dther
j n parly <»f gentlemen in a small .Missouri
: town were di.-ousaitig th - pp.l able cans
as of S'l' li extraordimvy heat,
i One suggested the a-troiioiniblil opi'n
mn that the eaa'th is every*year approach
: ing no irei to the sun.
j Another, that Hip climate, like the court
try was becoming African Med.
; Each bad -iff.-red sor::c scientific. <>vj «•
ill nr explanation; when a burly, uncouth j
! stuttering lellow .from the country b: kc;
I out with: “G g g gentlemen, I can 'give :
| you n better reason than my’ of them!;
I It’s ’e c-i; cause' l!i<* whole country’s got '
'so much nearer h h hell than it used to'
j he!”
And lie was right!
j \\ bother his explanation was in accor .
j dance, or at variance, with the philoso j
i jiflios ot Hanvard and Yatfi, be affirmed i
a tearful, a lamcutable truth!
\\ here, when, since the sail day that 1
. Radicalism’s old papa, iu serpent shape, |
! tempted our venerable ancestress, Mrs. j
Adam, to “go in” oil the forbidden pip- ]
pi UN, was there ever a nation, ever a j
Coiintiy so near predition as ours?
Ob, America ! America! bright daugli j
ter of Freedom ! how art thou fallen !
Fallen like Lucifer !
Fallen like the lost jewel of Orion !
Down !
TANARUS) o fs II
L) O W X ! ! |
Once, the proudest, freest, most ghni -■!
' ons Republic that the sun, in all his wide j
j circuit of the Universe beheld and smiled j
upon
I Now, the vilest, must bitter, galling,
j degrading Despotism that ever cursed aj
I race of slaves !
j l)n yon whine about Austria, Turkey,]
Russia or Dahomey !
Lay your linger upon any damnable
j outrage that was ever perpetrated by j
! then- ferocious rulers, and we’ll point you !
j to a score of duplicates in our own un j
{ happy land !
Russia has fier Boland
A mei ica has ten >if them I
Austria has her Hungary— |
America has hern I
Boint us to t! e dungeons ol 01 mute
1 and Rrsth —
j And we answer with Lafayette and
Wair.-n, Delaware, Look Out and Old,
] Capitol!
Toll ns of their “finoule,” their “bow- j
] strings" and racks
And wo will tell yon of women, old j
! men and children subjected to ill! the
tortures of hell—tortured by fire ; tortu- ;
red by’ the lash and the knife; hung by
llie thumb* find Imng by the neck to !
i wring “confessions” from them, of tneas
; urt-s which they never owned or heard of,
jby 111 Din’d jay hawkers in Arkansas, I
i Hurst’s brutal troopers in Teuewsee, and j
! Sherman's vandals in Carolina!
Talk of the blood leasts of Dahomey— j
America has wallowed in human gore!
It drips from the hands ol her Soldiers i
j trickles from the ermine ol her Judges;]
I drabbles the togas of her Senators and !
crimsons liio very robes of her Priests ;
the altars of her Temples and the !logos
of her bibit f !
Point us "to the wiiolt-Kiile nrrests ol
; their defenceless subjects Oriental Dcs
i pots— i
Anil we point you Iti Seward’s “litlii.- -
■ bell” and to a thousand prison houses, ,
i made sacred by the groans and tears, of:
! helpless and inoffensive American cap- •
j lives —trembling grandsiros, timid mai-]
j dens, preachers, and Sisters ol Charily !
| Tell tm of military executions, by or |
j dpr of a barbarian Emperor, Sultan or
|(>,ar
] And we point yon to a hundred blood
j stained spots where American citizens;
] have perished at the will of any vile j
] shoulder strapped ex-scuilion or boot-]
; black I
; Go to Palmyra, tfhcrc ten of the no-j
' I,lest bravest martyrs, whoso heroic;
j bind earthen's green sod ever drank sat
! down on their rude board coffins and j
j died—shot to death by order of the trebly |
i damned, hnndrctlfoltl hell-deserving old
] butter of St. Louis John McNeil !
Go to Kirksviiie, where poor "Friz” j
McCulloch and his sixteen innocent com-]
j i ;eb-s were led oat like beasts, bute.lior
; ed, and buried in one trench by Merrill
! me] MoN<-il I
Go to Ptdnafeh. and survey the filty
six graves ofunofi.aiding cd.iz ms, dug
in eight days by the field surpassing;
monster l'aino !
Go to Lexington, and count the vie
: tiins of Bnrbridge ; go to Macon City ]
: and Midway and a hu-idred oilier pla
| ces we might mbnti n—
! And then tell us, where when was
s earths fair face po luted with a Despo- ]
lism more absolute mere brutal and
bloody than that beneath which Ameii j
1 can white Men have groaned for seven j
i years —are groatvng b> d.*y !
Not the respectable Tyranny of a beret)
itary Monarch ; i *t the tideeaUlc sw ty
of one Brut -of noble blood-1
! But Dm fed, cruel, blighting, blasting
shame ul, soul and body crus ling tloruiu ,
; atiou ot a horde of bu-et orn ii.famous
npsiar a— sh.ii ties* advcntaier.*--vermin
of the sillies and back alleys —t.i '-v.i of
tg i . and -genes a.i-l peuitoic
tiari. 1
; R giit ! leirit stutterer, right !
1 We are i esh-iig hell-wards, wifi, ti-e
speed of the ! under a f-'b : r. ■ .if
■ bra*c v 1 *'• Ui'<*:u ■;•- *• * ' • •*
: hv" th-- cii-.iv -a !
| Ev- . .eeessarV of life at stntvatifin
j !" -ic ' !8 -
; industry burdened wiilt sm-.h men- (
strous, inountaiii l'ke binds of tax efi.n as
- (i despot on earth ever dared luv uii the
hacks of his slaves.
And the debt Wldcli crushes ns daily i
and hourly growing taller vast< r and
tool hopeless,
Agriculture crippled; credit gone; linn
or gone; u nation of Bankrupts and k, rls.
; All the emoluments all the wealth in
the hands ~f the privileged few.
| The great masses toiling swotting,
, groaning and tlueatetiing.
Legislation which adds fuel to the
] smouldering flames, increases the liar
' dens, multiplies evils and deepens that :
mighty growing indignation and resent- 1
j intuit which if not appeased will yet burst;
: faith in terrible resistfi-s-' vengeance!
j Demoralization shaint-lesa dubaucherv
j brntafity', in'afiiy, everywhere in public,
i and private in bigdi places nml low.
! Go to our Gongressional balls, and Ha
! seats that were ynce filled by tVeluter. ]
j and Clay, Burgess, Marshall and Hal
! lioun are now defiled by bellowing black 1
guards like Wade ; ravine, pickle eat 1
1 ing shirtlail hornpipes like Yates; lit ml j
isli old ruvishers and graveyard pilla- [
gers like the Beast of Lowell; and cold •
blooded, sneaking widow murderers, like !
Bingham.
Go to enr gubernriteria! inr.iu’-ins and •
you find them polluted by drunken North j
Methodist Cor.lerei ce presiding Felons. I
Convicted Liars, Thieves, l’erjnret-s ami j
Murderers, like tom Ifi.teller ol Missouri;!
1 and howling hideous old Rtverend hye
nas -outcast spewings of dam-iatioii,
] like the palsied old miscreant of Tetmea-!
see.
! Go to out ehmehes -temples of the
] Dying God, sancltmties of the meek and j
i lowly Saviour—where even a pagan ;
I might expect to find some truce of piu i-'
iy and good
| Eater the broad folding dooi ; have Hie j
] dandified usher show you to a pew; note!
! the wo fit tinted light which falls upon ,
costumes gorgeous and vulgar enough
i fur a fancy dress ball
i See the coquet I ing; the wanton toss
; jug of brnitth-ss beads; the alluring mo- i
lion of jeweled fans; the vvhiepei ing of;
; indelicate compliments and il na!tired |
] criticisms; the .smirking and giggling;'
! the stroking of scouted mustaches; and ]
i the nibbling ol licentious canehcatls. |
Hear the warbling of op< ratio airs, by j
i tenors and “prima •' unas.’ fr-'-h from a
j Saturday night’s debauch ; reeking with!
1 the fames of the “green room,” chain- ]
paigrie and tobacco smoke.
And lo ! iu the pulpit, some sanctified, ;
sleek faced whangdoocler ; sumo war 1
! howling black robed, political gymnast! !
,-l itter, like Beecher, or Bellows, 'l'yng, :
Vinton, or old Cox of St. Louis.
| I tear that whining, sniffling, droning I
j voice which has for years trumpeted I
| (firth hatred slaughter and and munition to;
- “rebels,” meekly drawl out, “Blessed are
the peace makers 1”
An l,
Then tell us if even Religion hasn't
become a burlesque ami her sanctuaries
j mere clap trap imitations of second rate ;
theatres anil Concert saloons.
| Honesty moralLy, religion, cumfton
; decency, all gone down beneath, the*
' flood of iniquity which has swept over ]
i the land.
Thu very women tin our streets the
] wives, m< liters an i daughters of “up j
! per ten dom,” with their hard brazen
; laces, enameled and painted and dyed;]
] with tin ir false hair false calves, false
! teeth aid false bosoms ; with their im- ;
stare and their loathsome lasoi-i
viotis ‘ Grecian Bend,” or Clmlernlic
! .Squat;”-pi oclaim in language stronger
than pen of man or angel, can cxpi-c.-H,
Hie degradation the debasement the do-;
; moiußzivthm of ib C‘»unti-y !
On, on, so predition f
] Is Hi ra no eye to pity no arm to siic-j
i cor?
To whom shall we look on, whom shall,
we call for salvation from the impending
doom?
Hell's ahead!
1 A bell political, financial, moral, social
j State and nauonai!
How can we crape it ?
Listen !
When did our woes begin?
With the triumph of Radicalism ? 1
JJ ,w long have the Jacobins been in
powei ?
Seven years and a half!
And ill tbit time we’ve had war, iisnr
| patiou overthrow of the Constitution tic
; ciimu'ation of debt unheard o! taxes, dcs
'traction til sovereign States, disunion, !
Military S Urnpacy, While DistVauohise
| merit, Nig jer Supmuaer, bankruptcy,
beggary, ruin and d'sgrace !
llow long iiud Democracy guided" the
country ?
For eighty years !
And for lour seme years, wo were the
fre.-st, i roa dost most honored, gloriuu <,'
prosp u on a and happy nation on the globe ;
—p -accfol at home and respected abroad
—a : i igo for thu oppressed of every
laud ; ncatb the suu !
] Vi c may, we cm be so again !
Elect seymour and Biair ; p!ac> the
old Bai ty of thu C-.uistitut'on, of Law,
0.<1.-r, Jiistico a milt ght, m.ce more in
power; and A.m ri a will again rise l
from her ashes and shine as of’yo.i- tin;
brigh'esVstar iu all the gaifiuy fa
tfons !
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NO. 3G
1 Ami pence, Cooteutjnent and Harmony
w ,i onco more reigu from toe St. L«W.
' rc-iicu to tlie if;u Qrtpide 1
Xor Help Kvi ron p a 1 'rkyee —Two
ruflSMnen wore cangl)* recently iu a big
blow on th, Mississippi, by which mutjy
. taftu wrn swamped mill many sti a.n
boats lost their sky rigging. The raft
; wnsjust emerging from Lake Pepin as
! the'equal! came. In an instant it was
| pitching ami writhing «s if suddenly
and ppeil into (Jharybdi* while tie ivtnis
broke over it with trotueridoUi Uprow,
Knil expecting instant destruction one of
the inert dropped on his knees and com
menced praying' will) a vim equal to the
emergency. Happning lu open his eye*
nn instant, lie observed iiis companion
! riot engaged in prayer, but pushing a
pole in the water at the. aide of the raft.
‘ What’s that yer doin,’ Nlike? »aid he:
“get and iwn on yer knees now, for therw
isn't u minuet between us aud pnrgato
j ry!"
‘lk* rosy Pat, said the other ns lie oonily
i continued to punch with liis pole;'* be
aisy, now, what's the use of prayin' when
a toiler can tech bottom vritli a polo?"
M.ke is a pretty good sp-ciineu of n
| largo class ofCln istiuns who prefer n>
, omit prayer as long us they cun "teih
1 bottom. '
Puts idea of ryinpulhy was a g oil
'o'. lie had long been trying to g*l
Bridget to give him a parting kiss. Fi
nn,!y us a lasi resort, are lie turned a—
was, saying ‘‘Good by, Biddy. Sir*
and ye huvtn’t any sympathy for me at
ail.” "Sympathy, is it ? Anl what
d’ye mane by that Pnliick?” "Come,
here, Baldy, hnd I'd tie after telling ye.
when I love ye so that I’d like to bite ft
pi'-ee right out of yolir svvate cheek, aud
yn feels as if ye'd *ike to have me do so
that's sympathy ho jnhers !*' "All Put
lick ? you know my weakness ! Take
a piece ; hut lie sure and lave it, so that
ye can take it again when you comet’'
I "Peter, what are y< u doing to that
bov ?" said a schi ulnuister. "He wan tod
| to know if you lake ten from seventeen
: how many will remain, so-1 took ten of
I is apples to show him, and now he
wants I should give them back.” “Well
why dont you do it then ?” C-'Z, sir ho
would then forget how many is Iclt.’'
Bob Brown, did you say that my fath
er had utit as much sense as IJdiy Smiths
little yellow dog? ’ "No ! 1 never said
! that your father had not as much sense
! as Bill Smith’s little yellow dog. All I
said was that Billy’s little yellow dog
had more sense than your father that’s
all I ever said.'' “Well, it's well you
didn’t nay the other, 1 tell you.”
Sho: t dresses will he in vogue for
; balls*, parties and receptions next winter..
Now one may expect some pleasure and
comfort in dancing.
Charivari has a school scene. “Why
don't-foii study your Human history ?”
says a schoolmaster to a lazy pupil. "I
am waiting lor it to be finished,” is tlua.
reply.
Funshux. —An honest blacksmith,
when advised to bring a suit for slander
i said lio’eotdd go into Iris shop- and haiu
-1 mer out a better character than all the
courts could give him.
An Irish lover has remarked that it is
a groat pleasure to be alone, especially
when your "swactheart is wid ye.”
A letter writer thinks witnessing Blon
din walk the tight rope, is almost as,
good as seeing a man linng.
When the day “breaks” what becomes
of the liagracuts ? ’Don’t know, do
you?
A Tennessee girl recently married a
si ranger a'ludging that she should have
plenty of time to become ac'puaiuitdt
with him afterv ar,ds.
A sailor who has recently returned
1 from Newfoundland, says ttiat the fog
is so thick there that he used ts driva a
nail in it to hung his hat on.
The meant it man in/the world live#
in London, lie buttons his- gbirtr wWfc
wafers and looks at bis money through *
magnifying glass.
Extreme ! meet. Civilization aud bat. ,
' bari in came to. et eg— Savage L idiua#
; and 'atbioflablo ladies nohit their faces.
t—w.
j The m.in woo js toi.d « pudding# and
pes, . hi; i ftarfjißy at tin
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