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YOL. II.
SANDEBSY.TLLE, GEOBGIA, AUGUST % 1873.
NO. 6-
J. M. Ct. WEDLOCK. JETHl'.O ARLINE. B. L. RODGERS.
iSv 5Iert!ocTk, Vrliate Si Rodgers.
Tue Herald is published in Sandersville,
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Iso charge for publishing marriages or
deaths.
POETRY.
RIVALRY.
Two cupids wooed a little nymph called Love,
A dainty thing— ’’
To vie in each immortal way they strove,
In offering:
The sweetest nectar lrom .the wild-ilov. ors
[brought,
And purest dews;
The powdered wings of buttertiies they caught
For fans to use.
Frail spider will weave a filmy veil,
And glow-worm bright,
To bum amid her golden tresses pale, ;
In halls of night.
aloss to make sandals for her dainty feet,
With ties of grass—
That no pursuing mortal, howe’er fleet,
Could hear her pass.
Hearts of red roses, for a pillow^soft, „
To rest upon; %
A call?, lily, swung on stalk aloft,
To screen the sun.
Lobes of pale-gray mountain-mist, to wear
With girdle blue;
Necklace of dew-drops,with sunbeams fair,
Glittering through.
Kainbows for scarfs, and “cloud for curtain
And bells to ring [hung,
Of gold-tongued lilies,notes of bird-song sung,
In early spring.
All dainty things to veil her fairy form
And crown her head—
To feed her with, were brought by lover-charm
And offered.
She smiled upon the Cupids with rare grace,
Feigning deep love,
In sacred bending earthward her fair face
Longing to rove.
One morn the lovers searched the wide world
For precious things, [o’er
Returning from the flight, the gifts to pour,
On rapid wings.
The misty veil was rent, the rose-leaves
With flying feet; [pressed
Love sought the earth below to be caressed
By mortal sweet.
Merle Le Baron.
SELECT MISCELLANY.
DAISY’S VISIONS.
BY M. T. CALDOR.
Daisy Brown had one pet ambition,
over which she pondered, and dream- .
ed many an hour. She wanted to be
a heroine—to do some great deed— !
to perform some noble action. Not i
that she cared to be praised, and * 1
talked about—for Daisy was a sweet
little modest girl of twelve—but that
she might feel herself something
akin to those wonderful boys and
girls about whom she read in histories
and storybooks. How many times
she followed the story of the brave
little Dutch boy, whose tiny finger
held the great flood at bay, and she
never failed to sigh, as she closed
the book, that some such glorious
deed might not have fallen to her
lot.
I must confess that theTittle maid
en looked upon her own everyday
life as a very humble and insignifi
cant affair. * There were never any
grand catastrophes upon which she
could rush, a generous saviour, or a
guardian angel. All things proceed
ed smoothly in her happy, well-or
dered home. Even Bridget was jol
ly and contented, and had no sorrow
to assuage. No business calamity
ever befell her father, to allow his
little daughter to shine like a sun
beam upon his trouble, restoring in
some childish way the fortune he
mourned. No cruel gipsey ever came
to steal away her baby brother from
his lace-hung cradle, so that the
brave, intrepid little sister might fol
low, creeping stealthily on the track,
amidst scenes of peril and horror—
(Daisy’s blood would curdle at the
very picturing of such a scene)—and
by some cunning stratagem rescue,
and bring him back triumphantly to
their weeping parents. Nobody’s
■life was ever in jeopardy where it
was possible for her to give help;
and so Daisy was a commonplace,
everyday sort of little girl, instead
of a beneficent heroine, very much
to her own disgust. Her friends
were, some of them, aware of the
feverish aspirations of the little girl,
but as she did not, like some others,
neglect the little duties lying around
her, while sighing for some grand
employment, they left her undisturb
ed by reproaches, save that, now
and then, her mother would gently
remark, that it required far more he
roism and true nobility of soul to
live, a peaceful, even life, than to
iush, in the enthusiasm of battle,
before a cannon’s mouth; at which
Daisy was rather incredulous, and
wondered very much how any one
could look at it in such a way. And
then she would steal away : to Jier
favorite retreat, a charming little
nook down below her father’s house,
between a gentle rise of pasture land,
and a tiny meadow skirting the edge,
of a noble pine grove, and perching
herself on a mossy.rock which might
have served a brownie for a throne,
she would lean her head on her hand,
and look down into the clear, dark.
Water, slipping along through the
feathery hassocks, and dream, and
dream over the wonderful things she
would do, if only the occasion came.
One day she strayed on beyond the
brook, gathering flower after flower,
until her hands were full, and, tempt
ed by the brilliant berries shining
out from their dainty leaves of green,
where the darling little partridge-
berry trailed over the soft moss, she
entered the wood. It was such a
lovely, early summer day, and the
sky was so blue, and the birds so
happy, Daisy could not be sad, even
over "the lack of romantic incident
in her monotonous life. - So she went
oiynto the cool shadows of the wood,
her eye bright as stars, her'face gay
with smiles, and a glad song on her
lips. And there she found little
white blossoms, delicate as lacework,
peeping up from green, shield-like
leaves, and her treasures increased
so rapidly, she was fain tp tumble
them all into her brown-linen apron,
and, sitting down to sort them over,
she determined to make them into
bouquets, one for her mother, and
one for Auntie Nell.
The task was so absorbing and de
lightful that Daisy’s restlessness was
quite subdued, and she was so still
and quiet that a squirrel ventured
r to descend from the nut-tree beyond,
and skip hastily across the mossy
ground, and presently a wee brown
rabbit, came gliding through the
feathery brakes, paused a moment in
doubt, aware of the figure there on
the mossy hillock, but after a cautious
sniff, and gave an investigating glance
proceeded on his way, and Daisy was
intent on deciding whether a great,
cool-looking violet should nestle
against the golden petals of a cow
slip, or have a delicate lace ruffle
from the Solomon seal, that she dis
covered nothing of her shy, dainty
footed visitors. She did hear, how
ever, when there came a fierce, quick
step crashing along over the dry
branches lying beneath the trees,
and looked up in wondering surprise,
for it was very seldom that she was
disturbed in those quiet haunts.
It was a gentleman, a stranger to
Daisy, and she sat perfectly still, a
little alarmed at the fierce glitter of
his eye, and the deadly pallor of his
face. He did not notice her, but,
striding onward, flung himself down
upon the ground under a small
straight pine tree beyond, and, cover
ing his face with his trembling hands,
groaned aloud. Then he rose again,
in the same quick, abrupt fashion,
pulled out a small rope from his coat
pocket, threw one end over the low
er branch of the tree, made a slip-
noose, and dropped down again,
trembling from head to foot.
Daisy’s grave, attentive eyes took
in all the movements without the
least idea of the man’s desperate
intentions. But she saw the pale
face, so full of anguish, and heard
the bitter groans, and her warm lit
tle hearty was full of compassion.
She rose softly to her feet, one hand
clutching at the apron holding her
floral treasures, the other outstretch
ed in tendercst appeal, and stepped,
noiselessly as a fairy, over the mossy
ground, and, the first he knew, her
light touch was on his arm. He
turned as quickly as if a bullet had
come tlrurring through the pine
boughs into that sweet stillness, and
his eye was full of wild terror.
“Are you sick, sir?” asked Daisy,
all the earnestness of her generous
little heart beaming on her face, and
deepening in her voice. “I will do
anything I can for you.”
“Yes,” stammered the man, his
bps trembling over the words, so the
child could hardly understand them,
“yes, I am sick.”
"How hollow the tone was! how
full of terrible, terrible despair.
“I am very sorry,” said Daisy.
“Would you like some water from
the brook? It is very cool and
clear. A little tin cup is there, so I
could bring you some.”
He tried'to answer,'but the words
would not come, so he only nodded.
Daisy was satisfied with so much,
and ran as fast as possible, and came
back, her sweet face so full of solici
tude the. man could da no less than'
thank her, as he took the cup. He
dfd not leave a single drop. Daisy
looked at the empty cup with satis
faction.
“I’ll bring you some more, in a
minute, sir. I thought you would
like it, it is so cool and nice.”
“No, dear child, that was enough.
Now you may go home,” answered
he, still all a tremble.
“O no,” returned Daisy, promptly.
“I can’t go home till you are well
again. I’ll bring some more water,
and wet my handkerchief. Mebbe
your head aches ! Mamma always
bathes mine, and I rub yours as nice- ,
ly as can be.” .
And away she trotted for thfe
second dipper of water. On her re
turn she approached him in the
most motherly fashion, and, sopping
her cambric handkerchief into the
dipper, she lifted it to his head,
which she could reach, because he
was sitting down, his back against
the tree, and with patient persever
ance she bathed and bathed, until at
last, with a tremulous sigh, he said :
“Thank you, dear. That will do.
My head is quite cured now.” *
“And are you cured everywhere?
Are you sure yon are quite well
everyway ?” persisted Daisy, because*
there Was still that paleness on his
cheek.
He could not answer that question
with the truthful eye of Daisy on his |
face, so he asked another, instead of !
giving answer.
“What are you doing here, in this
lonely wood, such a little girl as you?”
#i I have been getting flojvers;
making a bouquet, you know, for my.
mother,” answered Daisy. “Didn’t
you get flowery for your mother when
you was a little boy?”
AVhat a question for that mo
ment ! - *
“Ah, my God, have mercy upon
me ! Yes child ; yes, I did,” broke
with sobs from his heaving breast.
“O, if I could go back—if; the world
could only be so beautiful again, and
I so innocent.”
Daisy did not understand his mean
ing in the least, but she spoke quick- [
ly from the thought the words gave
her: ' j
“I don’t think the world was any
more beautiful then. I’m sure it is
as beautiful as can be not?. Only
look up, and see how pretty the sky
looks ! And were your violets hand
somer ones than these ?” And she
held up the boquet proudly.
He looked at them wistfully. What
visions did they bring to him, those
blue wood violets, like the blossoms-
he had plucked in his innocent boy
hood ? Daisy never guessed what
rush of emotion stifled his voice so
that answer was impossible, but she"
saw the hot tears brimming in his
eyes
know what gockl deed you have done
to-day,” antjl kissing her again, he
put her over the fall, and went him
self, with great stndes, over the fields
toward the highway.
Daisy, with her one remaining bo
quet, ran gaily Home. She forgot
to tell her story upon her arrival, for
she found visitors, and among them
a favorite cousin, "with whom she was
directly exploring the attractions of
her baby-house, and busy in dressing
dolls. That evening, however, her
fc father called her into his library,
out'of which a stranger had just ta
ken his departure. He held out his
arms with a .plj/yful smile, but- ‘there
was something; bright _ glistening on
der, returning his caresses with in
terest
“Well, my Daisybud, what-sort of
a day has it been?” he asked.
“A very nice day, papa. Cousin
Nannie and I played all the after
noon long, and we had a picnic for
our dolls, and we read from the fairy-
book, and O, papa, I’m going to
spend a whole day at Nannie’s house:
mother promised that I should.’
How wide and bright the eyes
were ! and the red lips were so dim
pling in smiles, papa kissed them a
dozen times.
Well, pet, that was fhe .afternoon.
I’m a little surprised a young lady,
who has such longings for heroic
deeds, can find so much pleasure in
dollies, though I can’t say I’m sorry
about it. But Nannie didn’t come
fill afternoon; where were you in
the morning, Daisy ?”
“O yes; why, papa, I’d almost
forgotten,” returned ; Daisy, eagerly.
“I went down to my brook in the
You may have this boquet, sir,” T ineadoWj and then I hunted in the
said she ; “you may carry it to your
mother.”
“My mother ! Child, child, she has
been in her grave these twenty
years.”
“O,” answered Daisy, catching her
breath, “no wonder you cry. How
I pity you ! But she is in heaven,
isn’t she ?”
“Yes, yes, she is in heaven. She
is an angel, if any one can be,” he
returned, quickly.
“Then she loves you now, and sees j
you. Mamma says she believes the , she had told him all her impressions
angels watch us.” i of the scene.
The man shuddered, glanced up ! “What else ? we talked about his
at the rope dangling from the tree ] mother’s being in heaven, and then
just over his head, and covered his j he threw away the rope, and we
face "with his hands. Dear little j came home.”
Daisy for a moment was quite un- j . “And you did not know what the
certain what more she could say in t rope was for?”
comfort, but her compassionate heart | Eyes and mouth now were both
was not satisfied to go and leave him round as rings.
“Why, no, papa. I’m sure
woods for partridge-berries. And O
papa, there was a man there, and he
looked so sick—so very sick! and I
brought him water, anil helped him
to be better, and then I gave him
some of my flowers, and he seemed
pleased with me, and kissed me. ever
so many times.”
Her father’s face was gravely at
tentive.
“And what else, Daisy? Did you
understand" it all, my child ?”
The grave wide eyes showed him
yet.
“Mamma says, too, that if we are
good, we shall, one day, all of us go
to heaven, and find all those who
have gone before us. I shall see my
baby brother then, and you will have
your mother again. And that makes
it easier to bear, don’t it?” “
To her astonishment she was sud
denly seized, and covered with a wild
rain of tears and tremulous kisses.
“Child, child, I believe you. My
mother watches me from heaven.
She sent you to save me. The scales
have dropped from my eyes. It is
a beautiful world still, and I, who
was going to play a coward’s part, to
shirk a little trouble, and perplexity,
and disgrace, will go back to it, and
be a man.”
He did not seem to be talking to
her now, for, though his hands still
held her firmly, his eyes were lifted
upward where the deep blue of the
sky showed through the pine branch
es* That deadly pallor had gone
out of his face, a soft flush crept
over his cheeks, and the tears had
washed away from his eyes that
glassy, despairing look of fevered
desperation. Daisy was too much
awed now to speak, but she held up
the violets timidly. He kissed the
hand that offered them, and answer
ed:
“Yes, dear child, I will have the
flowers. I will take them to a little
girl of mine, and tell her that the
generous hand which gave them res
tores also to her a father’s love and
care.”
He put the boquet carefully into
his coatrpocket, the one where the
little coil of rope had lain, cut down
the rope from the branch, and with
a shudder flung it far into the under
brush. Then he turned to Daisy.
The child, without understanding
wholly, perceived what new resolu
tion had restored to him the dignity
of his manhood, how his form was
once more erect, and free from the
burden which had weighed it down,
how his eye shone clear and calm.
‘Come, my little deliverer, let us
go away from here. Let us return
home ; you, the dear lamb which
Has never strayed from the safe fold,
I, the penitent prodigal, seeking my
Father’s forgiveness.”
At the path which led over to the
highway he paused to ask-:
“Is that your father’s house up
above the meadow, little one ?”
“Yes sir; and I must follow up
the wall to the lane.”
“Good-by, then. God bless you,
my child! Sometime when you are
old enough to understand, you shall
couldn’t think.’
“Never mind, then. But my Daisy
was a brave, kind little girl. That
gentleman has been here talking
with me. And when, mamma heard
the story he came to tell, she made
known to me all the wild visions
which dance in this little brain
about doing good in some very won
derful and extraordinary manner.
And she hinted that this same little
girl held a rather disdainful opinion
of her present sphere of usefulness.
So I have called you, Daisy, to tell
you of something, which you will
never forget, nor cease to thank
Heaven for. This poor gentleman
had met with a great deal of trouble
—some which he could not help* and
some which he brought upon him
self. One false step brought on un
told misery; and at last it seemed
to him his burden was more than he
could bear. He was so very wretch
ed, so wild with his anguish, that he
formed a very wicked and desperate
determination. My child, had you
not come to him, that rope would
have executed its deadly mission.
Darling, darling, look upon your
hopes as blest with richest fruition,
for you have saved a human soul
from the most terrible of crimes.
You have restored to a poor little
child the father it needs and loves.
Best of all you have brought back
to the Heavenly Father’s forgiveness
an erring fellow-creature. My little
Daisy, put away your unreal dreams
of romance, and be glad and thank
ful over this true and blessed expe
rience !”
He kissed her, with something of
the gentleman’s solemnity of man
ner, and Daisy went away to her
bed in a tender awe, a sweet content,
which she will always remembefVsjmd
whose gladness was quite beyond
even the heroic rescue from robber
or gipsey about which she had
dreamed so much.
“Fifty.Dollars, or Fifty Cents?”
There is, on the borders of Con
necticut, a small town, which, though
.weak and feeble, still, with the help
of the “Home Missionary Society,”
supported a minister, and maintain
ed regular divine worship. About
the time when it beaame necessary
to pay the minister’s salary, there
moved into the place a man who
gained his living by carting coal and
similar labor. It was noticed that
this man was very regular’fin his at
tendance at churchy and was never
absent from the prayer-meetings;
but in a pecuniary point of view he
was not considered a valuable ac
quisition. It was a custom, when
the salary was due, for one of the
deacons to collect all he could from
the people, and to obtain the bal
ance from the Society, (Home Mis
sionary Society.) In accordance
with this custom, one fine morning,
deacon A., a man of considerable
means and penuriousness, started
forth, subscription in hand, to see
how much he could squeeze out of
the parish for the support of their
minister. The first person he met
was the coal-carter moving along the
road with a load of that material.
The deacon considered within him
self that it might be jvorth while. to
try him, (seeing that he was a good
sort of a person, and every little
helps,) and so he accosted him with:
“Good morning, Mr. B., are you
willing to give anything toward the
support of our pastor?” handing
him the subscription paper. The
man stopped, stood thoughtfully a
moment, drew a pencil from his
pocket, and, with dirt—begrimed
hands, headed the list with fifty dol
lars. The deacon, was so taken by
surprise that he could hardly be
lieve the evidence of his eyes; and
thinking the man had made a mis
take, and not wishing to take advan
tage of him, asked him: “Did you
not mean that for fifty cents?” The
coal-carrier turned and drew km-
self np to his full height, and with
great earnestness replied : “X do not
value the gospel at fifty cents a year.”
This placed the case in a new light.
The deacon went immediately to the
pastor, related the incident, and said :
“If that man can givg fifty dollars,
I can give two hundred and fifty
dollars.” The same spirit actuated
the rest of the church, on hearing
thq story, and in a few days the
salary was raised by the church
without applying for outside aid.
Header, it becomes you to consider
the question suggested by this inci
dent. How much do you “value
the gospel at ?” for upon the answer
may depend your fate for eternity.
If by a whole-souled Christianity
you prove that you have conserated
time, influence, money, all that you
have and are, to the service of the
Master, at that dread hour all will
be well. But if not, then tills ques
tion may well startle you; for accord
ing to your valuation of Christ here
will be His valuation of your service
there.—Christian Index.
.A Young Woman Slating a Pan
ther with a Pine Knot.—On Thurs
day last a party of young women
went out from Queen’s Bun on the
mountain just back of the settlement,
gathering huckleberries. One of
them, Jerusha Bryan, advanced a
From the Chronicle & Sentinel.
Belief for Baltimore.
An Appeal from Hon. C. J. Jenkins. .
v The fire scourge has visited, in
fury, the beautiful Monumental <3ity.
Quite a large area of Baltimore is in
ruins. The devastations of this ter
rible element are always sudden and
appalling—opulence is often reduced
to poverty, and easy compietence to
entire destitution, in a few hours.
These calamities', befalling a popu
lous city, call loudly upon those
still enjoying exemption for liberal
and prdntpt relief, and such calls
among our warm-hearted people al
ways meet a generous response."
In this case, however, the sufferers
have a peculiar claim upon our peo
.pie. A few years since Georgia was
desolated by fire, and smoke, and
pestilence, and famine, which
fearful combination, always wait up
on war, and follow in the wake of
conquering armies. Then, with alac
rity and persistence unprecedented,
Baltimore aroused herself and came
nobly to the relief of Georgia. The
Ladies’ Southern Aid Association, of
Baltimore—under the impulse of
generous hearts, and the guidance of
wise heads, and sustained by the
open purses of fathers, husbands
and brothers—sent a flood of relief,
which, in its abundant outpourings,
pervaded our entire State, clothing
the naked, feeding the hungry, sus
taining the sick and the wounded
and the aged.
Let our people now show their
grateful appreciation of this noble
charity—let them heartily embrace
the first opportunity presented for
becoming reciprocity.
The writer is emboldened to ven
ture on this appeal in his own name
by the fact that} owing to the official
position occupied by him at the
time, he was honored as the chosen
almoner of the great charity, which
came with healing on its wings in
the day of our adversity. He, there
fore, knows well how full, how ample,
and how alleviating, the relief was.
He trusts our authorities will at once
take the matter in hand, and that
municipal treasuries and private
purses will be freely opened in so
good a cause—systematic movement,
originated by public authorities is,
in such cases, always most honorble
and most efficient.
Very respectfully,
C. J. Jenkins.
- A Traveler’s Beseue.
A traveler was crossing mountain-
heights alone, over almost untrodden
snow. When persbns are in danger
of being frozen to death, they are
overcome by the desire to-sleep; and
warning had been given to the travel
er, that if slumber pressed down his
weary eyelids, they would never
again open to the light of day. For
a time he went bravely along his
dreary*path. But when the dark
ness came, and with it blew thefreez- ■
ing blast of night, a weight seemed
to fall upon his brain, and ho could
scarcely keep himself from sinking
into that sleep which he knew must
He fatal. At this time of danger, big
fookstruck a heap thdt lay across
his path. He stoppeefto touch it
and found a human body half buried'
under the snow-drift. As soon as
he discovered what it was, he used
every effort to raise and restore the
fallen creature, against whom he
had stumbled; he chafed his chest,
and hands, and forehead; he breath
ed upon the stiff, cold lips the warm
breath of his living soul; pressing the
silent heart to the beating pulses of
his own generous bosom. The effort
to save another brought back to-
himself life, warmth, and energy. He
felt a man again, instead of being a
weak creature, ready to sink down
to sleep and die. He saved his broth-,
6i, slid was saved liimselT. If tliou
findest thy brother in peril, try to do
likewise, and the Lord God, the
giver of life,shall give thee strength.—
English Hearts and English Hands.
Perfect Boses.'—Peter Hender
son (in the Agriculturist )) in allusion
to the fact that all the good qualities
of fragrance, beauty, hardiness, and
constant blooming, are not to be
found in one rose, quotes the words
of a German neighbor, who came to,
him in great irritation, and said, : “I
have so much drouble wid de ladies
when dey comes to buy mine rose;
dey wants him hardy, dey wants him
doubles, dey wants him inondly, dey
wants him fragrand, dey wants him
nice gouler, dey wants him ebery-
dings in one rose. I have some
times say to dat ladies: Madau, I
never often sees dat ladies dat was
beautiful, dat was rich, dat was good
tember, dat was yonngst, dat was
clever, dat was berfection in o
ladies. I sees her much not.”
Good Cot&sel.—"Whenever any
Se furtheirinto^woodTth^ the | one s P? k ® ? of another in the pres-
others, when she was attacked by a f ce ° f J etar ’ Great, having hs-
huge panther. Her companions, I Jened attentively, he would say is
hearing the brute scream, sought j there not a fair side also to the char-
n„i-ivr;cc,tg..’™ _i acter of the person of whom you
safety in flight, but Miss Bryan, find
ing escape impossible, determined to ’
stand her ground, and seizing a huge
pine knot gave her enemy battle.
The contest was a close one for a few , .. , -, . - ..
minutes, but human courage, judg- , would perhaps be less unkmd enh-
ment and coolness goon triumphed C19 . m . and har ? k remarks about our
over brute strength, and the heroic Eei " llbors and fnends " If eacb one
you
have been speaking! Come, tell us
what good qualities you have re
marked about him. If all would
walk in the steps of this man, there
woman soon had the satisfaction of
laying the bloodthirsty monster dead
at her feet. Her garments were torn
into shreds, and her face and arms
badly scratched, but she walked
home with a firm step and the light
of triumph in her eye, and was able
to give a good account of herself.
The dead panther was soon after
ward found by the people of Queen’s
Bun, and proved on measurement to
be six feet and ten inches loug. Miss
Bryan is the lion (or lioness) of the
neighborhood, and she well deserves
to. be. We doubt whether an in
stance can be found on record of
would feel obliged to speak of their
own faults first, perhaps the faults
of others would seem so trifling in
comparison, that each would feel
that the wisest plan was to keep si
lent. ,
Music in a Family.—Music in a
family is a ineans of domestic cheer-
fullness. A musical family, in spite
of cares, perplexities, or even trials,
may be a cheerful family. Cheer-
fullness in that sense of the term
which plies good spirits, and in which
needless depression of mind and
morbid melancholy are kept
You can have the sunshine
About Mackerel—"When a wo
man puts three mackerel to soak
over night in a dish pan whose sides
are eight inches high, and leaves the
pan on a stairway) she has 'accom
plished her mission, and shouldYjo
hence. This was what a Division-
street woman did Friday night. Fill
ed the pan at the pump, and then
left it standing on the steps to the
stoop, while she went into the next
house to see how many buttons
would be required to go "down the
front of the^edingote. And a mighty
important affair that was, to be
sore. And there?, was her husband
tearing through the house in search
of a handkeicheif, and not finding
it, of course. And then he rushed
out into the yard, wondering where
on earth that woman could be, and
started down the steps without see-
ing.the pan, or even dreaming that
any one could be so idiotic as to
leave it there. Of course he step
ped en it; or, at least, that is the
supposition, as the neighbors who
were brought out by the crash that
followed saw a horrified man, and a
high dish-pan, and three very de
moralized mackerel shooting across
the garden, and smashing down the
shrubbery. And he was a nice
sight, was that unhappy tnan, when
they got him on lus feet. There
wasn’t a dry thread on him, and hi«
hair was full of bits of mackerel,
and one of his. shoulders was out of
joint, and his coat was split the
whole length of the back, and he ap
peared to be out of his head. He
was carried in thfe house by some of
the men, and laid on a bed, while
others went after a doctor, and six
teen women assembled in the front
room, and talked in whispers about
the inscrutable ways of Providence,
and what a warning this was to peo
ple who never looked where they
were going.—Danbury Neivs.
To Protect Sheep from Dogs.—
Dogs do not always kill sheep be
cause they are hungry and want
them for food, else a flog, would kill
one sheep, eat his fill, and be satis
fied for awhile; whereas, a single dog
will frequently kill20 sheep in single
night. They kill ^lieep to drink
their blood, and they almost invaria
bly seize them by the throat and
open their jugular veins. They some
times take hold elsewhere, but it is
only to stop the sheep, and enable
them to reach the throat. Sheep
may, therefore, be effectually pro-
tecteff by collars armed with spikes.
—N. T. Tribune.
more cool, heroic bravery and wise rfXeAlkess in your house the
most rainy, cheerless or wintery day
discretion, devloped by any woman,
even in tbe most historic and perilous
days of Pennsylvania.—Pittsburgh
Commercial.
Moses,Mendelssohn was. when a
youth, clerk to a very rich, but ex
ceedingly commonplace—in fact,
stupid—employer. One day an ac
quaintance commiserated the clever
lad on hb position, saying; “What a
pity it is that you are not the master,
and he your clerk!” “O my friend,”
returned Mendelssohn, “do not say
that. If he were my Slerk, what on
earth could I do with him?”
Grace Gi^enwood relates as an in
stance of the extravagance of New
England humor that when a young
farmer’s wife made her first boy’s
pants precisely as ample before as
rehind, the fattier exclaimed, “Good
ness ! he won’t know whether he’s
going to school or coming home,”
that ever was if you can have music.
Music provokes good nature mani
fested in a thousand ways, and in
the family sometimes, as well as else
where, anything which will promote
good nature is to be prized. Who
can fret and scold when the very air
■ around is blended with soft harmony?
An editor in a neighboring city
has been redding one of Dr. Hall’s
“Health Tracts,” in which the doctor
To Drain LANDS.-r—Drink whis
key. and spend your time in the sa
loons. This will drain you of all
your lands in a short time.
Life is like a roll of cosi
passing swiftly through
and we must" embroider our pattern
on as it goes. We connot wait to
pick up a false stitch, or pause too
iong before we set another.
has been married three
Kind words are the bright flowers
of earth’s existence; use them and
:specially around the fire-side circle.
They are jewels beyond price, and
powerful to heal the wounded heart
and make the weighed-down spirit
glad.
A farmer in Union county, Ken
tucky. had his fences whitewashed.
An old no-account cow of his went
around and consequently licked all
the whitewash off. That cow now
giVbs twp gallons of milk a day. The
moral draws itself.
Witty sayings are as'easily lost as
the pearls slipping off a broken string;
but a word of kindness is seldom
spoken in vain. It is a seed which,
even when dropped by chance,
spring® np a ^flower.
■A white garment appears worse
with slight soiling than the colored
ts when-mueh soiled; so a
times, and yet he knows a balbhead— fittle fault in a good man attracts
ed bachelor who is twice as old as he
is. Msa&i : •
more attention than great offenses
in bad 10 :