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VOL. 111. THETHOMASTON HERALD, PUBLISHED BY McMICHAEL & CABANISS, EVERY SATURDAY MORNING TERMS. On« Yoar Six Months I All payments INVARIABLY IN ADVANCE Tue paper will he st'<ppe*l at the expiration of the ime paid for, unleas subscription it previous renewed. It the addre-t of a subscriber it to be changed, we must have the old address at well at the new one, to prevent mistake No subscription received for a less period than three months. Berved by Carrier In town without extra charge. No attention paid to anonymous communications, as we are responsible for everything entering our columns. This rule is imperitive Any one sending us the names of three new subscrib ers, with s6.iHi, we will send the Hkrald one year FREK. An :'< mark after subscribers name Indicates that the time of subscription is out. ADVERTISING RATES. The so lowing an* the rates to which we adhere in all contracts for advertising, or wheie advertisements are handed in without instructions. One square ten lines or less (Nonpariel type!, $1 for the first and ftii cents for each subsequent Insertion. SQUARES IT.|l M. 8 M «M. lit M Tlhriar «•!•« 50 $ 7 00 SIOO j*lftoo 4 Squares 4 001 5 IH> 10 (HI t» 00 45 00 8 Squares 808 700 15 00 20 001 80 00 4 Squares . ... 4 Oil 10 o'> 40 00 80 001 40 00 V Column 5 oft! '1 Oft S<» 001 4ft 00| 50 00 Z I'olumn . ... 10 00 20 Oft! 85 00| fi.S 0(1' Bft 00 1 Column... ... 15 00 25 id)! 40 00 ! 70 00 180 00 Displayed Advertisements will becnarged according to the sraor. they occupy. All advertisements should be marked for a specified time, otherwise they will be continued and charged for antil ordered out. Advertisements inserted at intervals to be charged of new each insertion. Advertisements to run for aloneer period th n three month* are due and will be collected at the beginning of each quarter. Transient advertisements must be paid for in advance. Advertisements discontinued from any cause before expiration of time specified, will he charged only for the time published. Professional cards one square flft ftft a year. Marriage Notices $1,511. Obituaries $1 per square. Notices of a personal or private character, intended to promote any private enterprise or interest, will be charged as other advertisements Advertisers are roque ted to hand in their favors as earlv in the wee as possible Vita ><>re te m« will he etrirtly adhered to. LEGAL ADVERTISING. As heretofore, since the war, the following are the pricse for notices of Ordinaries, Ac.—to bk paid in ad vance : Thirty Days' Notices 5 (10 Forty Days’ Notices 6 25 Sales of Lands. Ac pr. sqr of tea Lines 6 Oft Sixty (lavs’ Notices ... ... 7 ftO Six 'tenths’ Notices H 0" T<-n Day-' Notices of Sates pr sqr. ... 1 Oft Salks —for these Sales, forevery fl fa sß:fto. Mortgage Sales, p-r square. $5 00 “ Let aside a liberal per centage for advertising Keen yon*self unceasingly before the public; and it matters not what busii ess you are engaged in. for, if intelligently an 1 industriously pursued, a fortune will be the resu’t —Hunt, s Merchants’ Magazine. “ \fter I begin to a 'vertise rav ironware freely, husinegs increased with amazing rapidity. Kor ten yea--* mast I have spent £BO.OOII yearh to keep -ny superior wares before the public Had I been timid in advertising. I never should have po-sensed my fortune of £850.0(10”. — McLeod Helton. Birmingham. “ Advertising like Midas' touch, tu>ns everything to gold. B> it. your .taring men draw millions to their ••offers ” —Stuart Olay •iVh it audacity is to love, and boldness to war. the skilTul use of printer’s i »*, is to success in business. Be cher. Witho it the aid of advertisements I > ou'd have done nothing iu my -p -culations. I have the most eomple>e fai h in “printers’ink.” Adve.tising is the “royal road to business ” —Barnum Professional pARDs. \\r X BE \ LL At* r PV ,♦* L .ve. Th ..... T f aston. Ga. Will practice Jr the Flint Circuit or elsewhere, and attend promptly to business, jin 13- ts. \A7 T WEAVER. A**orr.pv «t Law. t Thomaston, da., will practice in nil the Courts of the Flint Circuit, and t Isewh re by special contract Office in Cheney's brick building, Southeast corner room, up stairs. jinl3-tf Dli II IK \ M PERDU E .vi>. *f nen’ly located at The Rock, tendershis professional services to the surrounding continuity, and promises to spare no labor or attention to those who mav patronize him. july22--6tno Mil SANOWIOn, A*' rnpy u <'"ir • sel’or at Law, Thomaston. Oa. Will practice In the several Courts of the State of Georgia, and attend promptly to all business entrusted to his care, novll- ts B‘ >Yi\ < >.V & •►l'sVf ITKK Vrr-.r. nf Law, Griffin, Oa. Office in A Imah Mall, next door Ito the Star Offick Will practice in the Counties composing the Flint Circuit, and in the United States District < ’ourt. Attention given to cases in Bankruptcy, may 13-1 y D<>Y \L A NUNN \ LLY A t n»H,s >,r Law, Griffin, Ga. Will practice in all the coun ties comprising the Flint Judicial Circuit, and in the I counties of Meriwether, Clayton, Fayette and Coweta. 1 Will practice in the Supreme Court of Georgia, and the District Court ot the United States for the Northern and South ern Districts of Georgia I A. 9. NUNN ALLY. [apllfi-ly] L. T. DOTAL. TY aLLEN. Attor pv n* L w Tn..m --• aston, Ga. Will practice in the counties com prising the Fiint Judicial Circuit, and elsewhere by special contract All business promptly attended to. ■ Office in Cheney’s brick building. mchll-ly DR !' K KENn VU, his pr •!• >»- •ional services tc the citizen- of Ihotnaston and surrounding country. May be found durin : toe day at the Drug jitore, at night at the former reside ce of |J- I Hall, opposite Rogers it Cheney’s Warehouse. jan.l4 ly TF REDD! N<l. \f ..r-.-v a* Lw • Barnesvil e, Pike co, Ga. Will practice in the Counties comprising the Flint Judicial Cir- uit, and •Newhere by special ontract A! 'msiness promptly •Mended to Office in Elder * building, over Chamber's Tin Store. ug6- y Jf J'MIO VI \S BEALL Attorney n» L<w. I Thomaston, Ga. Will practice in the Flint Cir cuit and elsewhere by special contract aug27-ly JOII N l. H vLL. Attorney »tml O uus.dl »• at Law Will practice in the counties composing the Flint Circuit. In the Supreme Court of i.eor ia, •nd in the District Court «>f the United States for the ■ nrthern and Sou hern Districts of <»eorgia. | Thomaston, Ga., June 18th. 187"-ly. NDEKSON & McCALL \ A r /V at Law. CovingC.n, Ceorcia. Will attend regu larly, and Praetice in the Superior c,, urts of the counties of Newton, Mutts. 11-nry, Spalding Pike Monroe, Upson, Morgan, DeKalb GwinncUe and Jas- P* r ' dec O-ly T' VVI K> M \l vlit EvV s A t r.i.-v t Laws, Taiboiton, Ga . will practice all the counties the h;itt ahoochee Circuit an<i elsewhere by •pedal contract decld-ly- T.\ 11U i\ I, A* ,*f L,|VV • ville, Ga will practice In all the counties of 4f'v* Flint Ircuit and Supreme Court of the State. MUtIOV BEI’IIUNK \■» -r... v at Law, Tilboton, Ga Will practice in all the bounties <»f the Chattahoo- hee Circuit, and Upson and Merriwether counties declS-ly VAR RO *ERS *vill o rifiniiM the i.ruftic*» I / of Medicine. Office at B. D. Hardaway’s Drug store. decl^-ly s walker A’tomov «t l-iw I aGjmge, Ga. Will practice in Circuit Courts of |9te State and in the United States District Court*. If deellMy . • LADIES’ FANCY STORE! OVER MESSES. FLEMISTEE & BEOOES, CORNER OF DILL AND SOLOMON STRKETS, GRIFFIN. GEORGIA, w OULD respectfully inform the good citizens of Thomaston and vicinity that we have now |n store, and keep constantly on hand a superior stock and very latent styles of LADIES’ FINK DRESS GOODS, LADIES’ Si CHILDRENS' SHOES, LADIES’ JEWELRY, LADIES’ HOSIERY, LADIES' NOTIONS, MILLINERY, & c. A thousand little tricks and trinkets that Men-Mer chant* know nothing about, to be found at our Store. MILLINERY ! The Choicest, Freshest, and SWEETEST, stock In the inaket. Goods manufactured to suit the tasta of customers. Orders respectfully solicited. Call on or address MRS. M. A. HIGHTOWER & 0., mayl3-tf Griffin, Georgia. ANDREWS & HILL, MANCFAOTPRICES AND DEALERS IN FURNITURE, COFFINS, Ac., Ac., AT J. & T. G. ANDREWS' Mill, Five Miles Southwest of Thomaston, Ga. WE would respectfully inform our friends ard the public generally, that we have estahed a FURNITURE MANUFACTORY at the r.bove named plaec, where we manufacture and keep constantly on hand superior Furniture of all kinds, varieties, and grades. We are prepared to fill all or ders (or COFFtNs, and do nil kinds of Cabinet work with neatness and dispatch. We flatter ourselves that we can please all that know good work when they see it. Our facilities and advantages in preparing our own Lumber and Vianufacturing our own Work enables us to offer any quantity, better varieties, and decidedly better bargains than other Furniture dealers in this section of country. We earnestly request all that are in need ot anything in our tine to c ill and examine cur stock, as we feel satisfied that we can give satisfaction in style, quality and price. All work warranteed to be as represented. Orders solicited. may2l-ly JAB ANDREWS & L S. HILL, CHEAPREADING THE ATLANIA NEW ERA. CLUB RATES. In order to place the WEEKLY NEW ERA within the r -ach of all. the proprietors have determin ed to to offer the following SPLENDID INDUCEMENTS: One copy, one year . $ 8 00 Ten copies one year, $1.50 each 15 Oft Twenty copies, one year. $1.25 each 25 ft© Thirty copies, one year SI.OO ea<-h 80 00 The Weekly Era contains nearlv twenty-eight col umns of choice leading matter each issue, consisting of Politics, Literature, Market Reports, and GENERAL NEWS. Makj up vour Clubs at once. Postmasters are authorized aud requested to act as Agents. Address NEW ERA OFFICE. july29-tf Atlanta, Ga. JUST RECUVEnT gQ BBL 9. BLUE GRASS RYE WHISKY. gQ BBLS. CROWES RYE WHISKY. 100 BBLB ‘ DITNCAN bourbon. 100 BBLS FAIRFAY bourbon. 100 BBLS COUN WHISKY * And a Large assortment of Imported and Domestic BRANDFIS AND WINFS, Which we offer extreflfely low. As we buy only from Distillers and firs class Importers and only FOR CASH, we can offer rare inducement. Give us a call and ex ami our stock. L. OHEN & CO., oct2l 3m Allnnta, Ga. CANNON HOUSE, (Recently St. James Hotel.l Marietta Street, Gate City Block, ATLANTA, GEORGIA. B >hH. Per D*»v, $2.00 ort2i-6m DR. THOS. A. WARREN, GRIFFIN, GEORGIA. OFFERS his services to the C'DZ'OS of Griffin and vicinity Special attention given to the treatment ot CHRONIC DIJSEAWEK. Those ai adistince can ran consult him hy letter. Office over George Beecher Jfc t o , • ill Street. april29-tf WATCH REPAIRING. r citizens of Upson and adjacent JL counties are respectfully informed that 1 have moved my stock to the store o Mr. Wm. Wallace, and j am now prepared to execute work in my line of busi ness, on the most fuvor.ubl terms. Hep (ring of all km<U done at the shortest notice ands i the neatest man ner. I have facilities tor turning out good work, and by strict attention to business hope to receive a liberal abate of patronage. Very respectfully, uprikb-tf WM. l, BRYAN. BYINGTON’S HOTEL, corner broadwat and hill streets, GRIFFIN, GEORGIA. THOMASTON, GA., SATURDAY MORNING, FEBRUARY 24, 1872. FURNITURE AND VARIETY WORKS, THOMASTON, GA. I WOULD NOTIFY nil who are in need of anything in the FURNITURE line, that I am now manufacturing large quantities of various styles at as LOW PRICES as the same goods can be bought in any market in Georgia. All work is warranted to give satisfaction. We are also pre pare to do all kinds of WAGON WORK, having secured the services of com petent workmen. Can also furnish NEW BUGGIES to suit the most fastidious, and will do all kinds of re pairing in that line promptly and in good order. We can furnish Sash, Doors, Blinds, and other BUILDING MATERIAL, upon short notice and as reasonable as they can be bought elsewhere. Can Dress and Match Lumber of all kinds, and having a large number of good Mechanics employed all the time, we are prepaired to take Contracts for Building of all kinds at low rates. Mr. J. J. INGRAM, who is in charge of the business, will be found at the Shop all times, and will be pleased to serve any one in need of anything in his line. MR. J. C. ZIMMERMAN, will also be found at this shop—he is making the BEST CHAIRS ever before made in this country, and will be pleased to supply all who wish SUPERIOR CHAIRS which he will fully guarantee to give satisfaction. This is an enterpiise dependent upon the public for a support and though it may look small, it has cost a large sum of money to put it in operation. A liberal share of patron age is solicited. JOSEPH ALLEN, nov4-tf Thomaston, Ga. RO3ERS & CHENEY, WABEHOUSE ANCD COTTON COMMISSION MERCHANTS, THOMASTON, GEORGIA. "1 Y 7 E take method of Informing our T v fHcn«ls and the public eenerally that our NE W W A KEH* >USE is now completed and we are now pre pared to serve them in the Storage and Sale of Cotton. Our Scales are new and correct, and having secured the services of a competent and reliable Scalesman, we can safelv cuarantee to do justice to both buyers and sellers. LIBERAL ADVANCES will be made on COTTON in store. BUYERS IN THOMASTON will pay Barnesvill* PRICES for Cot ton. Insurance on Cotton in Warehouse one per ceut. oct7-6m FOUTZ'S CELEBRATED Horse aM Calllo Powiors, STlils preparation, long and favorably known, will thoroughly re-invigorate broken down and low-spirited horses, by strengthening and cleansing the stomach and intestines. It is a snre preventive of all diseases incident to this animal, such as LUNG TEV ER, GLANDERS, YELLOW WATER. HEAVES. COUGHS, DIS TEMPER, FEVERS, FO UN DER, LOSS OF APPETITE AND VITAL ENERGY, Ac. Its use improves the wind, increases the appetite— V r r gives a smooth and glossy skin—and M . Jw tran-foroAs the miserable skeleton into a fine-looking aud spirited horse. » . To keepers of Cows this prepara -3-JL^ Bon is invaluable. It is a sure pre m ventive against Rinderpest, Hollow Born, etc. It has been proven by I actual experiment to increase tho K tl quantity of milk and cream twenty per cent, and make the butter firm and sweet. In fattening cattle, it gives them an appetite, loosens their hide, and makes them thrive much faster. In all dis-ases of SwinY, such as Coughs, Ulcers is the Lungs, Liver, Ac., this articleacts as a specific. By putting from one half a paper to a paper in a barrel of swill the above diseases will he eradi cated or entirely prevented. If given •- 7L Ftl in time, a certain preventive and cum for the Hog Cholera. " DAVID E« FOIJTZ, Proprietor, BALTIMORE, Mil. For sale bv Druggists and Storekeepers throughout the United States, Canadas and South America. For Sale by J. W. AiWATER, Thomaston, Ga. novll-ly JA ISCELLANEOUS. Edwin Forrest. RKAN’b OPINION FIFTY YEARS AGO. A Washingon paper of a recent date flays: During one of Edmund Kean’* visits to this country, Edwin Forrest, then a boy of eighteen or nineteen years, was leading man at the Albany, New York, theatre. Forrest had never seen the great tragedian, and when, therefore, it Was made known to him that Kean was coming to Albany for a week, the young actor trembled at the mere thought of playing with him. The play was announced “Othello," Kean as the Moor, and Forrest as lago. Mr. Forrest called to see Kean on the day previous. After some preliminary flourishes Kean said: “Young man, I’m going to do you a great favor." Stepping to a table he took an old faded book. “This is my stage copy of ‘Othello/ You willfiod everything marked in it. Now. good day ; but stay, what will you drink? Nothing? Well, I will. Please ring that bell. Thank you. I will see you to-n ght." The theatre was more than crowded that night. It was literally packed. Seats had brought enormous pricts at auction and the house overflowed with humanity. Nor was it a quiet audience. They yelled, howled, fought and even shot at each other, but when Kean appeared the tumult was im mediately quelled. He carried everything before him. Forrest never before played better, and was frequently encouraged du ring the evening by Kean, who in stage whisper would say to him—“ Capital," “Excellent," “Well done, sir I" At the close of the third act Kean approached For rest and said: “Where were you born, sir?" “In Philadelphia." “In Philadelphia I—l am going there. I will act there, sir. I wile make your fortune, sir, your fortune, for yon are an actor—a real actor." K p an did go to Philadelphia, and while there was given a dinner. Kean was, of course, toasted, and, after replying in the usual terms, said : “I met a very extra ordinary young man in Albany the other day. His name is Edwin Forrest. He was bord in Philadelphia. He did lago to my Oth-110, and made the best lago 1 have played with for years. I tell you, cherish that young man. Watch him, for be will vet be the greatest actor on the American continent." Forrest shortly afterward played in Phil adelphia. This time the seats f(»r his “Othello" were sold bv auction, and Kean’s prophecy ha« been fulfilled »n the letter. Only Six Millions. —Toe late investi gation shows that in the stamp department alone, there has been a robbery of six mil lions of dollars. It is called a deficit, the agents defaulter-’. Now, it is simply rob bery. downright larceny of the most glaring kind. Can our people continue to hold up such representatives, can tbe honest masses con* tinue to support the radical party and force upon the nation a band of land pirates and a ring of the worst thieves ? The remedy is in the ballot. The entire nation i* quiv ering under »he peculations and rohberies, daily committed by our officers. We still have confidence ir. the principles which un derlie our republic. We believe that tbe people are yet capable of self government, if the tax*paver would assert and maintain his rights and vindicate his manhood. But when these gross steals are made in every department, in the highest as weil as the lowest offices in the lend, and then see and hear men advocating the continuance of the present administration, we almost despair. Never have so startling developments been made since the foundation of our govern ment, as are now being daily brought to light all over the land The Radical party t>ave had the power since sixty, and have succeeded in bankrupting the Southern States and robbing the N irthern ones. This is the ultimatum es their glory. A few mrtre steals and we will soon be a spiend'd nation of paupers. “Rule and rob ’em" is their motto, a *d they are living up to the letter of it. You who favor lar ceny, robbery and crime will prepare to vote for Grant —Kansas Democrat. Mercantile Failuke>—The number of mercantile failures in the United States during 1871 is reported at 2 915. the aggre gate amount of liabilities being SBS 252 000. In 1870 there were 3 551 failures nggregn ring $88,242,000 liabilities, and in 1809 there were 2 795 failures, with l abilities. Tbe maintenance of these high figures shows the demoralization subsisting in the commercial economy of the country, and which, in view of abundant crops and good average prices, with a steady develop ment of the general industries of the country, can be attributed only to an irre deemable currency. This pest subjects all commercial ventures toconringencee against which ordinary foresight and prudence prove unavailing Tne result is shown in the formidable list of business failures, of which each brings in its train a series of embarrassments and losses which it is diffi cult to estimate. —Biltimore Sun. Ell Perkin*—-Flirting Girts and Flirting Fellows. Prom tbs New York Commercial.] Fifth Avenue Hotel, February 10.— Those flirting Fifrh-avenuue fellows I Everywhere I go the young ladies are furious at the way Brown's boys are con ducting themselves this winter. Their chief aim seems to be to get a young lady •‘on the string” and then trifle with her af fections. They always talk, but never propose They fuse around three or four month* with a young lady and then plead poverty and the I-don’t-want-to-take-yoo from-your-nice-home dodge. Now, the girl* are willing to go. They are willing to live in a garret with a brave, handsome, working fellow, with a heart big enough to kill them with manly love. They don't like these timid, calculating fellows. They like a man who will rush headlong wher ever love beckons him, knowing that hap ness and wealth will surely follow after. The young ladies begin to get mad. They are tired of waiting. This letter, from a young Fifth-avenue belle, came yesterday, and it tells well the syren tale of love and flirtation. ‘•Fifth Avenue, February 9.— My Dear Eli :—We Fifth-avenue young ladies got an idea. Tou know the New York flirting fellows have been going on dreadfully late ly. We never know when they are in earnest. They keep us waiting, watching and fussing, but they never come right square out and propose. They talk sweet enough—but when we get them right down to the proposing poiut they dodge or remain silent. ‘‘Why, only Sunday Digbt, Charley Brown, whom I lovs—really love too much for anything—ealied, and even fooled me like the rest. I'll tell you bow it was: “Pa and ma Were at church, and sister had gone up to Yassar to school, when Charley—the dear boy—came. Well, we sat on the sofa, where we always do. By and by he took my hand; then he told me be loved me. This made me blush—not because it was anything new, for the fellows all say that. “ *I)o you love me ?' he asked, leaning forward so that I felt his head against mine. “Yes, Charley, you know I do,” I replied, and then I—why I waited tor Chaley to say the rest, but he held my band thought fully a little while aud then dodged off by saying, “Well, Lizzie, I’m glad you love me, for I do like to be loved I” “Ob, the mean fellow I I could cry with rage, but I like him, and I like to have him come here, but I do think it was mean to make me commit myself so, and then he— why, maybe he’ll go right off and do the same thing to some other girl to-night.” lizzie's idea. “This is our new idea. All the girls have agreed to it, We call it the honorable dodge, and we are bound to put through every flirting fellow in New York on it. The idea is—but I'll tell you how I prac ticed it last night and you will understand it better. But you know it is a secret, and of course you are to be trusted. “Well, last night Fred Palmer called. You know he is an awful flirt. We eat on the sam- sofa where Charley and I sat be fore. The gas was low, and pretty quick Fred began to talk ‘spooney.' I pretended to be affected. Theo he said, ‘what a pretty ring you have, Lizzie.” The old dodge, you know.” “Yee, po so,” I replied. “Is that your crest engraved on it?” he asked, taking my hand. (Another old dodge, you know.) “It isn't half pretty enough for your,” be continued;” you should have a diamond solitaire. Would you like one ?” he asked, looking lovingly into my eyes. “Yes,” I said, “if it comes from the right one.” “How would you like one from me, Liz zie?” he asked, with a sigh. “Oh I I should be delighted, if I thought you loved me,” and then I looked down on his coat sleeve, “But, Lizzie, you know I do love you— I love you dearly. 1 —” “Do you love me enough to speak to father about it?” I asked, interrupting bim. “Yes, dear Lizsie, I will speak to him to morrow.” be said, kissing my hand. “No, Frederick,” I remarked, removing my hand from his convulsive clasp, “I'm glad you are willing, but I’m engaged to Alfred Smith, you know, and I was only seeing how far you would go!” So keep the idea a seoret a little while, my dear Eli. and we girls will fool every f How in New Y<>rk. Mum is the word ! Yours, Lizzie. Jo the lives of the saddest of os there are bright rays, when we feel as if we could take the great world in our arms. Then come the gloomy hours, when the fire will neither burn on our hearths nor in our hearts; and all without and within is dis mal, cold and dark. Believe me every heart has its secret sorrows which »he woild knows not, and ol ten times we call a man cold, when he is nnlv sad — Longfellow. First of ail, remember that the chief and great duty of your life should be to tend, by alt means in your power, to the honor and glory of our Divine Creator. Hemet Clay and th* Billx Ooat Formerly a very large, well-known, and formerly noted billy goat roamed dt large in the streets at Washington, and the rews spaper boys, bootblacks, and street imps generally made common cause against him, 11-nry Clay never liked to see dumb ani mals abused or worried, and on one- occa sion while passing down the avenue, a large crowd of these mischievous urobina were at there usual sport. Mr. Clay, with hit walking stick, drove them away, giving them a sound lecture meanwhile. As they scattered and scampered in every direction, Billy seeing no one but Mr. Clay within rcsch made a charge on him. Clay drop ped his cane and caught his goatehip by the horns. The goat would rear up, being nesrly as high as the tall Kentuckian him self, and the latter would pull him down again. This sort of sport became tiresome, and be could conceive of tho way by which he could free himself from his two-horuad dilemma, so in hi* desperation, he sang out to the b-»ys to know wbnf to do. One of the smallest in the croud shouted back : Lot go and run, you fool I” Clay always maintained that though, he signed the treaty of peace at Qbent, that ragged boy knew more than he did. Taman The Effect or not Taki.no a Pater Some time ago. a lady noticing that a neighbor of hers was not in her seat at church, one Sabbath, called on her return home, and was surprised to find the family at work. As she entered friend ad> dressed her: “Why, la! where have you been to-day; drepcod up in yrur Sunday clothes ?” “To meeting.” *' Wby, v* hat day is it V* “S*bbatb-d»y.” ‘ Sol, stop washing in a minute, it's Sun day I Well, I did not know, for tny bus band has got so plaguey etingy he won't tuke the papers dow aod we know nothing. Well, who preached?” “Mr. W ” “What did be preach about f” “It was on the death of our Savior.” ‘Why, is he dead? Well, all Tbomaston might be dead, and we know nothing about it. It won't do, we must have the Herald agaiu; for everything goes wrong without that paper, tlill ha* almost lost his read ing and Polly has got mapiah again, be cause she has got no poetry or stories to read. Well, if we have to take a cart-loed of potatoes and onions to market, I’m re solved to have the Herald ” Rotal Etiquette.— The following illus tration is given of etiquette in the time of Louis XV. : In the Queen's apartment thers were two chamber*. One day the Queen saw a speck of dust on her bed and showed it to Madame de Lujnes, her maid of honor. The latter sent for the valet de chambrc, bed-maker to the Queen, that be might show it to the valet de chambrt , bed-maker to the King. The latter arrived at the end of an hour, but said that the dust waa none of bit bueiDeas because the bed-makers es the K.ng made up tbe common bed of the Queen, but were forbidden to touch ths state bed. Consequently the dust must be removed by the officers of the household. Tbe Queen gave orders that they should be sent for, and tvery day for two months she a*ked if the dust had been brushed of£ but they had net yet found out whose duty it was to remove the little speck. Finally the Queen took up a feather duster and brushed it off. Great was the scaiidal thereof, but no one dreamed of blaming the absence of the officers; they only found that the Queen had been wanting in etiquette. Fite Little Onlyr.— Only a stray sun beam ! Yet, perchance it has cheered some wretched abode, gladdened some stricken heart, or its golden light has found its way through the leafy branches of some wild wood, kissed the moss-covered banks where tbe tiny violets grow, and shades of beauty to adorn its lovely form. Only a gentle breeze! Bat how many aching brows has it fanned, how many hearts hath been cheered by its gentle touch f Only a frown ! But is left a sad, dreary void in the child's heart, and the quivering lip and tearful eyes told how keenly he felt it. On!y a smile ! But ah, it cheered the broken heart, engendered a ray of hope, and cast a halo of light around the unhap py patient; made the bed-ridden one forget his present ngony for a moment in the warmth of the sunshine. Only a word of encouragement—a single vord ! It gives to the drooping spirit new life, and the steps press on to victory. A lady school teacher in Omaha, having an inordinate dread of the small-pox, sent home a little girl because 6he said her mother was sick and haJ marks on her face. The next day the girl pi seated herself at the school house, with her finger in her mouth and her little bonnetswinging by the strings, and sad to the teacher: “Miss , we’ve got a leetle baby at our house; but mother told me to tell you that it isn't cat chin'." The teacher said she was very glad, and told her pupil to take her sett. NO. 12.