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VICK’S Flower and Vegetable Seed are the best the world produced. They are (.lanted by u million people in America, and the result is, beautiful Flowers and splendid Vert tables. A priced catalogue vnt tree to all who enclose the postage-- aS cent stamp. VICK’S Flower and Vegetable Garden is the most beautiful work of the kind in the world. It contains nearly 100 pages, hundreds of fine illustrations, and poor Chkomo Platrh of Flowers, beautifully drawn and colored from nature. Price .‘ls cents in paper covers; 05 cents bound iu elegant cloth. Viclc’H Floral (initle This is a beautiful Quarterly Journal, finely illus trated. and containing an elegant colored frontis piece with the first, number. Price only 25 cents for the year. Address JAMKS VICK, Rochester. N. Y. THE ‘ PHILHARMONIC” PIANO. This entirely new instrument possessing all the esseetial qualities of more expensive and higher-priced Pianos is offered at a lower price than any similar oue now in the market. It. is durable, with a magnificent torse hardly .surpass ed and yet it can be purchased at prices and on teims with in the reach of all. This instrument has all the modern improvements, including the celebrated ‘Agraffe’ treble, and is fully warranted Catalogues mailed. WATERS’ StilTOl aibVAJI IfImSKDS are the best made. The 1 oueh is elastic, and a fine singing tone*, powerful, pure and even. Wai rv Concerto Organs cannot be excelled in tone or beauty; they defy competition. The Concerto Stop is a fine imita tion of the Human Voice. PKICEH EXTREMELY LOW for cash during this month. Monthly Installments received: On Pianos, flO to S2O: Organs, five to ten dollars; Second hand Instruments, three to five dollars; monthly after first Deposit. Agents Wanted. A liberal discount to Teachers, Ministers, Lodges, Churches, Schools, etc. Special inducements to the trade. Illustrated Catalogues mailed. HORACE WATERS & SONS, 481 Broadway, New York. Box 3307. Testimonials OF— Waters’ Pianos and Organs. Waters'New Seale pianos have peculiar morit. —New York Tribune. The tone of the Waters' piano is rich mellow and sonorous. They possess great volume of sound and the continuation of sound or singing powir is oue of their most marked features.— New York Time. Waters' Couterto Organ is so voiced as to have a tone like a full rich alto voice. It is especially human is its tone, powerful yet sweet.—Rural New Yorker. [jan2o-Jy] / ‘OMJ’AIi ISONS .NF.VEIi PEA KED * Compare this newspaper with any county pa per anywhere' It is bound to excej. it fs best Jwnits Z£v> fMrKMUUnrS'U' TIm C ' 7 /W.Z.nTr%rt Mom Mim / tefiM I-' ./ jt <jNT TIIK BEST. Webster’s Dictionary 10,000 Word# and Meanings not in other/Me tionarie*. 3000 Engravings; 1810 pages quarto. Price #l2 We command it as a splendid specimen of learn ing, taste, and labor, —Montgomery Lchjer. Every scholar, and especially every minister should have it. — WV#< Pre*b. % LouiscHle. Best book for evert body that the press has pro duced in the pretent century.- -fla/tlen Pea. Superior, incomparably, to all others, in its defi nitions — Ji. W. Mvlhnuihl, f*rta. < innh. I’niv'u The reputation of this wirk is not confined to Amorica. — Richmon*] Whi (t, Every family in the United States should have this work. -Gallatin Republican. Depository of useful information; as such it ■ ■ stands without a rival.— Xatthvilte Dispatch. “THE BEST PRACTICAL ENGLISH DICTIONARY extant.”— London Quarterly lici'inc. Oct. 1873. A NEW FEATURE. To the 3000 Illustrations heretofore in Web ster's Unabridged we have recently added four [ pages of COLORED ILLUSTRATIONS, engraved expressly for the work at large expense. ALSO ; Webster’s National Pictorial Dictionary. | 1040 Page* Octuto. 600 Eugrati ttys. Price $5. ' iW Tim National Standard. PROOF—2O to 1. I The sales of Webster's Dictionaries tbroughoua ; the country in 1873 were 20 times as large as the i sales of any other Dictionaries. In proof, we will send to any person, on application the statements i of more than lUO booksellers, from every section j of the country. Published by G. &C. ME Kill AM, Springfield, Mu . IT PAYS! IT PAYS!! WJiat Pav.- *.’ ll’ PAYS every Manufacturer, Mcrchsn.t, Mechanic, Inventor, Farmer, or 1’ro ! fessional man, to kaup informed on all the im | provements and discoveiios of the ago. IT PAYS the head of every family to Jntro ! duoe idto his household a newspaper that Is in j struetive, one that fosters n teste for:investiga tion, and promotes through and onconrages dis • cqaaion among the iacrnbi‘w. I rpHE SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN which lias JL boon published, weekly for the last thirty j years, does this, to an extent beyond that of any J other publication, in fact it is the only weekly j paper published in the united states, devoted to | Manufactures, Mechanics, inventions and Now ! Discovories in the Arts and Sciences, Every number is profusely illustrated and its j contents embrace the latest and most interest ing Information pertaining to the Industrial. Mechanical, and Scientific Progress of .the worldtl ! Descriptions, witfji Beautiful Hug ravings., of New j Inventions, N- w .imyh'nijsnts, Nt .c l j and I.mproven 1 Qjpfhst rW of **H- Muds' USoTtd, pNotefi, ffo' jp4gjt ,> stlor>s and An Vice, by Practical Writers, for Workmen and Employers, in all the various arts, forming a complete reper tory of New Inventions and Discoveries; contain ing a weekly record not only of the progress of the Industrial Arts in our own count ry, but also j oi all New Discoveries and Inventions t.< every branch of Engineering, Mechanics, and Science ] abroad. THE SCIENTIFIC AMEKIOAN has been the foremost of all industrial publications for the past Thirty Years. It is the oldest, largest, cheapest, and the best weekly illustrated paper devoted to engineering, Mechanics, Chemistry, New Inventions, Science and industrial Progress published in the World. Merchants, Farmers, Mechanics, Engineers, ! Inventors, Manufacturers, Chemists, Lovers of Science, and people of all Professions, will Arid the Scientific American useful to them. It should have a plan* in every Family, Library, Study, Office, and Counting-room; in every Reading Room, College and School. Anew vol ume commences January 1, INTO. A year’s numbers contain 832 pages and Several Hundred Engravings. Thousands of volumes are preserved for binning and reference. Terms, $3.20 a year by mail, including postage. Discount to Clubs. Special circulars giving Club rates sent free, nirigh l copies mailed on recipt of 10 cents. May be had of all News Dealers. Address for the Paper, or concerning Patents, I MIiNN & ( ()., 37 Park Row, New York. Branch Office, cor. F & 7tU Sts., Washing ton, I>. C. THE WHKKLYSUN. 1770. NKW YOliK. 1 H7O Eighteen hundred and seventy-six is the Cen tennial year. It is also tin* year in which an Op position House of Representatives, the first since the war, will bo In power at Washington: and the year of the twenty-third election of a Presi dent of the United States. All these events are suae to be of great interest and importance, es pecially the two latter; and all of them and everything connected with them will be fully and freshly reported and expounded in The Sun. The Opposition House of Representatives, taking up the line of inquiry opened years ago by The Sun, will sternly and diligently investigate the corruptions and misdeeds of Grant’s admin istration; and wiU, it is to be hoped, lay the foundation for anew and better period in our national history. Of all this Thk Sun will con tain complete and accurate accounts, furnishing its readers with early and trustworthy informa tion upon these absorbing topics. The twenty-third Presidential election, with the preparations for it, will be memorable us do aiding upon Grant’s aspirations for a third term of power and plunder, and still more as deciding who shall be tne candidate of the party of Re form, and as electing that candidate. Concern ing all these subjects, those who read Tins Sun will have the constant means of being thoroughly well informen. The Weekly Sun, which has attained a circu lation of over eighty thousand copies, already has its readers in every State and Territory, and we trust that the vear is 76 will see their numbers doubled. It will continue to he a thorough newspaper. All the general news of the day will be found in it. condensed when unimportant, at full length when of moment; and always, wo trust, treated in a clear, interesting arid instruc tive manner. It is our aim to make the Weekly Sun the best family newspaper in the world, and we shall con tinue in its columns a large amount of mincel laneous reading, such as stories, tales, poems, scieutiflc intelligence and agricultural informa tion. for which we are not able to make room in our daily edition. The agricultural department especially is one of its prominent features. The fashions are also regularly reparted in its columns; and so are the. markets of every kind. The Weekly Sun, eight pages with fifty-six broad columns is only 9 J .20 a year, postage pre paid. As this price barely repays ..he cost of the paper, no discount can he made"from.this rate to clubs, agents, postmasters, or anyone, The Daily Sun, a large four page newspaper of tweuty-eigh columns, gives all the news for two cents a copy. Subscription, postage prepaid, 55c. a month or 90.50 a year. Sunday edition extra. 91.10 per vear. We have no traveling agent's. Address, THE SUN, NEW YORK city. PERTAT.VLY YOU CANNOT FIND v jn any other newspaper, no matter where it is ! published, or however large it may be. so much iof personal interest and local benefit as appears every week in The Summerville Gazette SUMMERVILLE, GEORGIA, MAY 18, 1876. Until Death. Make me no vows of constancy, dear friend, To love me, thongh I die, thy whole life long, And love no other till thy (lays shall end,— Nay, It were rash and wroug. If thou cans't love another, be It so; I would not reach out of my quiet grave To bind thy heart, if it should choose to go; Love should not be a slave. Mv placid ghost, T trust, will walk serene In clearer light than gilds those earthly morns, Above the jealousies and envies keen Which sow this life with thorns. Thou wouldst not feel my shadowy caress. If, after death, my soul would linger here; Men’s hearts crave tangible, close tenderness, Love’s presence, warm and near. It. would not make me sleep more peacefully That thou wort wasting all thy life in woe For my poor sake; what love thou hast for mo, Bestow it ore 1 go! Carve not upou a stone when I am dead The praise which remorseful mourners give Tu women’s graves a tardy recompense But speak thorn while I live. Heap not the heavy marble on my head To shut awar the sunshine ami thedqw; Let small blooms grow there, and let grasses wave Anil ruin-drops filter through. Thou wilt meet many fairer and more gay Than I; but, trust me, thou eunst never find One who will love and serve thee night and day With a more single mind. Forget me when I die? 4 The violets Above my rest will bloom just as blue. Nor miss thy tears; e’en Nature’s self forgets; But while I live, be true! A Kentucky riolo&'s Report. A letter from Columbia, Kentucky, to tha LouLville 1 ’omtuercinl reports as fol lows (accurately, it is claimed,) a speech delivered in that town on the 3(1 instant, by a returned member of the State legis lature: Gentlkmen: I hardly know where to commence in giving an account of my stewardship. 1 will first speak of the ' (finenil statutes, it is very imperfect. IVe i tried to repeal the whiskey law, but, the Nawycrs wore too strong fur us; said that | were all the way they had to make money. ; We came very near repealing the stuff ' outen Caiutucky. Then; is some conic plaint about u extending the session. You must remember that it taken one week to organize, aim then it taken two weeks to elect a United States Siuitor, and that make one third of the constitutional term of sixty days. And when the pro vision wore made the popolatiou were only half what are now, and of course we need twice as much legislation now as then, i The finances were in a very good eon- I ditiun. Tim State are outen debt, and I have $1,500,000. It’s true wo owe some money, but it aint due till 1890. And we ! have more money in the trea-utv than we ! ought to have, for when there Ti.s loom r 1 there, everyone in Frankfort! ‘jjr?' |at it. If we hadent a extended ■ session ! wo could linvo reduced the taxes ten per I cent. The. legislater passed the bill at ton cents, but the Sinit doffatet it and put !it at five, and we concurred in it. The ) librarion has had $30,000 to puss through his hands every year, and eouldont ac count for $lO of the money. Hvcryboby went there a :d backed eft all he wanted, and there was no account taken of it. We seed proper in our wisdom to investigate. We raised the jurisdiction of the magis trates to SIOO, and give them concurrent i jurisdietisu with the Circuit Court. Tho [ pleadings are to be oral. You don’t have j to employ a lawyer, you can write out yotlrown claim and put it in and demand payment. We made grand larceny $lO -i lie legislate!' put it at S2O, but the Sinit reduced it to $lO- Little petty larceny • anil miner offences are under ten dollars, ; and he can be worked on the street or in I the work-house for whatever his offence air. We extended the geological survey. The State have paid out over one million dollars and got hack nothing. We api>, - printed $44,000 to complete the survey. 1 was opposed to it, but the Sinit. was too hard for us. There were more intrust in tho fi.-hbill than anything else. I opposed it, think ing it, were not benificiaf. No man can imp, dip or seine for four years. Weap j preprinted S3OOO to get aigs and hatch I cm. it air a fine ol $0 and jail to violate | the law- The Sinit appropriated 31.25,000 to clean out Cnintuck river. Wo reduced ;it to SOOOO. If if, had stayed at the first stun $1,000,000 would have been required i and our children wouldn’t a seed the end of it. 1 tried to kill the bill by amend ment, askin’ for SISOO to build a bridge over Orcen river, at Neatsviile, but they I killed my amendment, and we then taken a square vote on it and killed it. I kept Ia copy of all the bills I passed, but for i gotten to bring them. 1 got two otlior l.ills put through—one from here pro hibiting the sale of liquor, it was the most easiest bill to put through I lied. This is what l got done while I were thar. i wouldn’t suffer my country to go info the dog law. It were too severe. A malt were to ho fined and jailed for failing to 1 git liia dog in—l put in a bill peryidin I that each bony lide housed wiper should I lie allowed one dog. If a hunter, three | hounds, but no more. If he kept any : more he was to be taxed one dollar on the head, and the money put into the jury fund, and go one-half to the owner oi tho sheep killed by dogs. I were iri a bad fix. I had no Striker to put in my hills. Mr. Iluffaker was a nice man and a republican 1 hut whenever he would git up in a bill they would raise a pint of order on him and down he’d sot. He couldn’t stand before a pint of order. And now gentle men we have a Siniter to elect, and we have .{wo candidates, Hr. limner and B. •S. MfcClue, and lei me advise you to elect no man, democrat or republican, who cant stand before a pint of order. Wo bad tlie reputation of beiri tho most soberest set of men that ever went to the legislater. W o had hut three regular drunkards —Capt- Shanks, Capt. Ford, and another man whose name 1 cant re member. I tdi.a ml you, gentlemen. From France lias come intelligence of a tragic encounter between two journalists, both of whom wore celebrated as marks men. The re.-nit was one of the moat re markable on record. They met at Bin ] the morning, and after the usual prelimi naries, the signal to lire was given. Roth the duellists fell dead eh the spot, each having received a ball in the region of the heart- -They were both married, and leave-large families. The affair took place near Toulouse. As the train stopped for ten minutes and that individual who goes along tap ping the wheels with his hammer, was passing rapidly by the smokipg ear, one of the windows was hoisted and a torrant of tobacco spit was ejected which completely deluged him. The machinist paused for a moment, and, wiping/ some of the streams from his person, said to the offender: ‘'Mister, what part of the country did you e-line from?” “Me!” said spittar, puckering his lips for another expectoration, “I came from Kansas.!’ “1 thought so,” said the machinist, “for if you had "lived jp Massachusetts or Connecticut, they would have had a water wheel in your mouth long ago. ” — Boston Bulletin. —.— • ■ > Mist^Jcen. Many a man lives with a woman half a lifo-litnc wit hout suspecting that the wife of his bosom has really forgotten more than he ever knew. Many a carpet knight who plume* himself upon his won 1 dentil skill in smashing hearts Js In'! mentally measured and intellect -rH turned inside put; by the smiling gu* whom he thinks he is captivating. Many! a veteran beau who nulls on his globes !<■- depart, feeling proudly conscious of ha v ing made a profound impression upon t he susceptible soul of the belle who has en dured him for an evening, would he won derfully enlightened, if not edified, could ho hear the sigh of relief which escapes her lips when the clang of the door an nounces his depart ure. A Conscientious-^Yoter. “ 'Rent dis livin' ’lection hizness, V/.o done laid down anew flatform!” said Pete to some other darkies. I‘VVbat sort of anew flatform is dat?” was :e I ed by another darkey. “W t duy niii’t gwine to fo'j me no more SSftt wlm I 'zo votinfor, <ln\- how!" mm ’L' k f * j “YVha l ! yon gw in a to k no’ fmut it? You aio’i.bin to skol since do las ’lection an’ cau’f t’bad nohow!” returned/ a third darker. “Nebber you mind Lout my readin’, nigger; dat don t 'splaino do pint. Rut I’m tellig’ of yer dat when 1 goes to a ’publican an’ gets uiy ticket, Tze gwinc to make him read it strait down from de top to de bot tom ” "Well?” t|hey said. “Den I ’zu gwinc to a Dimicrat and ax him to read it back’ards from de bottom up, an’ ef dat ticket don’t dove-tail at bof ends like a burn draw’, she don’t go inter de box, dat’s all!"— Suvuniutlt News- A Touching Incident. In flic graveyard at Albany, in this State, there is a solitary, unmarked grave. It holds the dust of a Federal soldier who died just after the surrender. When Col. Cary W. Style- was about concluding his Memorial speech on the 20th of last mmtii. he paused, and then said with much feeling, "hut my friends, in drop pipe the tear of sympathy on these hon ored graves around us, and covering them with the garland of lovs and tender mem ory, let its not forget the one Jorie spot, where lies all that is left of one who in war was not our friend. lie had no doubt, the same view of his duty that wc took of ours, lie, no doubt, felt tho same high impulses of a patriot’s heart which carried him’ into danger, and laid him in his untended grave. For him, no doubt, the same care of a mother’s love, the same tendernessol'asistflr’saffeetions, the same sacred associations of home existed, that have been so vividly and alfeetiugiy brought homo lo our hearts by the Scenes and exercises of the day. For that mother, and these si-tors I bespeak for the stranger in his final resting place a kindly notice. • •‘How sublime are exercise s of human fellowship and charity it is to forgive, and the deeper the soar, the holier the for giveness. - Here, to-day, let there lie no indulgence of feelings that do not sweetly liartuoni zo with the sincerest professions of peace, fraternity arid good will, which (led grant, may from this day. henceforth arid forever, mark our I bon as one people.” After the orator had concluded these remarks, whose noble spirit did hint so mush honor, a great many of tho company present came up to him, and gave hearty approval Col• Stylus’ words. They, in many instances, however, expressed their surprise to hear that a Federal soldier was buried in the cemetery, and asked to have the grave pointed out to them. The friond.whw gave us this incident in the day’s proceedings assured us that before the gathering dispersed the flowers on that lone grieve were piled up a foot thick. How glad we would be to know that the poor fellow’s mother could hear of t his. —A thin ta Common wealth. Professor (to Frenchman) —“What is a circle?” Frenchman (after much reflec tion) —“A rouhd, straight line, with a hole in the middle ” The Champion Liar. One evening when the winter blasts j moaned sadly aoross tbo street corners, j and the captains of the ferry boats wore anxious looks, soven or eight vessel own ers and “laid up” lake captains sat around a cheerful base-burner in a saloon near the river. After the usual amount of growling about tbo ono of them told a story. There might have boon an ounce of truth in it, but the crowd felt certain that the ounce was offset by twenty-four pounds of the “aw fulest kind” of lying. Therefore, a sec ond man told a story to beat it, and then a third man heat the second. When the fourth man started out lie said: “Gentlemen, I have also seen tough times. When 1 was sailing the schooner Fortune, forty years ago, two of us were swept overboard in a storm on Lake F.rie one black night, A hatch cover went with us, and it so happened that we both clutched it. It was not large enough to support two. I was captain—he a sailor; I had a family—he had none. I shouted to him to quit his hold, and when he would not, I reached over, clutched his throat and held on till his fingers loosened and he went to Ihe bottom of the lake! It, was twenty miles off Point Betsey, and with a shrill, wild shriek, which yet lingers in my ears, the poor wretch went to his death! May the Lord forgive me!” With his clmir tilted against the wall, ; lanky, sunttuwerish chap had been nod ding bis head right and loft, as if sleep ing. As the captain’s narrative was con cluded, the the stranger rose up and sol emnly said: , . * 1 H: am that man!” The crowd looked at him in astonish and lie continued i i ' j. l r.n Point. B&tncy next morn ing in ffme for br.vdf fast, and I swore a solemn oath t> jJ and link you for choking me, if I had to wait a hundred years to do it 1” “You can't bo the man,’’ replied the captain, looking suspiciously at the fel low’s big fists; “it was forty years ago.” “I know it was, and far forty years I have been aching to lick you out of your boots!' ’ ; The captain had lied, but he didn't want to own it, and he said: “That sailor's name was Pick Rick.” “Kerreut!” bowed the stranger, "‘that’s my name!” “Rut he was taller than you.” _ ajj “Ruing in the water so long that nigh fj' 1 shrunk just a foot!” was the cool re joinder. “Well, 1 Hfiow you can't bo the man,” replied tin; captain. “1 am the man, and now I am going to tnauld you to pulp! No man can choke me and then brag about it!” Jle sailed in and upset the captain, but v . L ii sot upon by the whole crowd, lie got into the eye of the wind and hung there for a time, hut presently lie paid oft' a little, got the wind on his quarter, and went at it to lick ten times his weight in old liars, lie was a very ambitious man and those who could got out doors got out, and those who couldn’t, offered him a gallon of whisky to come to anchor. lie furled his sails on this understanding, and as he set his glass down for the third drink he v ijied his bleeding ear and remarked : “When a man tries to sacrifice mo in order to savo himself, lie don’t know who lie’s fooling with!” J 1 u was the biggest liar of them all but lie made the most out of it. —-■ Grant Responsible. It, is not unlikely that the Senate will decide that it has no jurisdiction in the ease of Belknap. The broad argument that impeachment was estopped by the acceptance of the late Secretary’s resignation, lias been urged with effect by his able counsel, though the speech of Judge Hoar on the other side was ahio and impressive. Tho republican senators seem to be more than ready to accept a principle which will spare their party and the administration a serious disgrace. Asa private citizen Uelknap can be tried by criminal procedure. He lias been indicted by a Washington grand jury, but it is not safe to assume that the District •courts will do justice when a friend of Babcock and Grant and Jloss Shepherd is in the dock. If Belknap escape impeachment, the attention of the people will again bo di rected to the haste with which Grant ac cepted she resignation which shielded an official thief from the consequences of his crime. The President’s declaration that he know nothing of the charges against Belknap until after he had regretfully al lowed him to depart, may have weight with very young children and the ma rines. The vote which dismisses the Secretary from the bar of the Senate affixes a last ing stigma on the President. —New York Sun. -♦* ♦ *- Two Orphans’ Adventures. On Saturday last, Conductor Ben Colo discovered, crouched under one of the seats in a smoking ear, a boy and a girl. “Mi ster, is this the road to Haven?” said the boy, as he crawled out, and the girl said' "Mister, please don’t put us off, our folks live there, and we ain’t got any father or mother, and here’s a let ter,” at tiie same time drawing from her laded calico apron a crumpled piece of paper, and handing it to Mr. Cole. After looking at it a long time, for it was badly written, badly spoiled and blurred; ho made out this: “Ail good people: These children ain’t got no father or mother. They died here in February, and fs’e been tending to NUMBER 20. ’em. They ain’t got no ftilfcs here, and (heir folks live in Haven, Connecticut, fs’o a poor nigger woman, r.fd ctjtft keep ’em no longer, is’c got mysiuffljsijipport theysc a going back to their mSfe,, They in good children, and don’t dojpmn no harm. Jane Mai pwL” Mr. Colo sat down by the boy, -who was about thirteen, years of age and bright. He learned that in the spring 4 John Howell with his wife and two cliil- ’ dron left New Haven, Conn., for the west and arrived at Pueblo, but that both died and during their sickness the old negro, Jane Maupin, was (ho only attendant at their bed-side, and when the children were thrown out upon the world, orphans friendless and penniless, she cared for them as she would for her own children. Rut having learned from the father that they wore from New Haven, and that they had an undo there by the name of Martin Howell, she conceived the idea that they ought to go back, and the thought, that the letter she wrote and gave them would be a passport to all the world. They started three weeks ago, taking the A. T. and S. F. train for Atch ison, and a conductor had put thorn off' near Pueblo. But they had started for Haven, and they resolved that they would go. Ry “stealing rides,” now in n freight car. now under the seats in the smoking car and now in the caboose among the pits of trunks and packages, and begging their food they reached Topeka, fifty miles from Atchison. They wandered around Topeka all day. and at night they hid themselves in a fiat car laden with build ing stono. In the gray dawn they reached tins city, begged a breakfast and dinner, and at 2 o’clock bid themselves under the seat in the Missouri Pacific car, where thej’ were found by Mr. Cole. Mr- Cole took the chi’dren to Kansas City, the end of bis “run ” cu t *or them there, telegraphed to Mart: . V. we!! at New Haven, Conn., and fcailv" in an swer to send the children in -r.’oofthe conductor to New Haven ant and aw upon him for the expenses of th : trip. They are on their way. A'*%son ( /Cunsas) Ratfiot No Mother. The other day, when a A,err an I dig nifiod judge ordered a prise ner i.> stand' up and offer objections, iflm bad any, to being sentenced to prison for a tong term of years, the prisoner rose and said: “I never laid a mother to shed tears over me." 1 His words entered every heart in the courtroom. He was a rough, bad man, in the middle age oflife, and he had been convicted of burglary, but every heart softened toward him as his lips uttered the words, lie felt what he sard, and tears rolled down his cheeks as he con tinued: “If I had had a mother's love and a mother’s tears —someone to plead with me and pray with me — I should not now lie what I am!” Ah! That’s it! There is power in a mother’s love, in her lqars, pleadings and prayers, whose influence is hardly to be realized. God pity the lad who has no home to go to—no mother to whom he can tell all his troubles and his griefs— no mother to put her arms around his neck brid beseech Heaven to put him in tho. right paths I There is no heart like a mother’s. Hor child may wound it again and again, yea, pierce it with a sword, and its last pulsations will still beat with love for tho ingate. It is the first to excuse his faults; the last, to condemn. There is no love like a mother's—none so enduring, so tender, so far-reaching. It is lavished upon tho child in the cradle, and it follows tho boy over the ocean. It calls up tiic wanderer the first thing in the morning, and it remains with him until sleep closes tho eyes. When a mother’s love for her offspring dies out, it is a certain sign that he had become a being too atrocious to longer live among men. There are no tears like a mother's. Nothing can so lighten the sorrows of a child —nothing so restrain a mind front wandering into evil paths. Tho man looks back over his childhood ami youth, and regrets nothing so much as that he has brought fears of sorrow ami sadness to a fond mother’s eyes. Every tear a mother sheds over a wayward child is recorded in. tho Great Book, and lie shall answer for it.. There are no prayer’s like a mother’s— none that reach so far, and none so earn est. The wanderer on foreign shores feels this in his heart, and he is thankful to Heaven that he can feel it. Kneeling at her bedside and asking the angel to guide tho feet of hor children in right paths, who can doubt that a mother’s prayers are heard in Heaven? “I never had a mol her to sited tears over me!” The sorrowful words of that burglar might be the words of many evil-doors. “No mother” means aching hearts, bur dened minds, deadly woes and paths which lead down to ruin. Heaven he kind to the lad who must battle through the world without a mother s tear, a mother’s prayers, and a mother’s boundless love to give him hope, strength and courage! A telegram from Ann Arbor, Michigan, says that Mr. Josh. G. Leland, a promi nent resident of that city, died on Thurs day from rite effects of the bite of a rat. Borne days previously lie attempted to kill a rat, and it bit him on the hand. The hand and arm commenced swelling, and continued to swelhmtil they reachu l an onoamous size. Death resulted i,t about a week. Mr. Leiand was seventy years old. O i ♦ +W— Tito smallest hair throws its shadow,