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Xoftl| (leorgiaij, PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY —AT— BELLTON, GA. BY JOHN BL ATS. Terms— sl.o'j per annum ; 50 cents for six months; 25 cents for three months. • Parties aiay froiy Belltr.n are requested to send their names, with snch amounts of meney as they esn spare, from 2ce. to sl. Citizens of Warren, North Carolina have erected a monument to Annie Cur tis Lee, the daughter of General Robert E. Lee, who died whiie her father was facing McClellan on the Peninsula. Some popular actors and actresses have very homely real names. Bessie Darling’s is Carry Crump, Lotta’s is Charlotte Crabtree, Lawrence Barrett's is Larry Brannigan, “ Vente Clancy ” is Lavina Gardner. Henry L. Clinton charges William H. Vanderbilt $250,000 for defending him against Cornelius and Lord Scott in the will case, and in order to make it more binding has furnished a bill of particulars elaborately itemized. ■ There is a bill before the New Jersey Legislature providing that hereafter the officials now receiving fees shall have a fixed salary and no fees. Th.t is the tendency all over the country. The fee abuse is grievous and it should lie abol ished. 1 • Next June Mr. James Gordon Ben’ nett will launch a new steam yacht, which, with two boilers, three engines, two smoke-stacks, instead of one, and cut away at the ends to a sharp point, is expected to outsail any thing on the high seas. Edison’s luminous horseshoe will probably lie first put into practical use eu shiplHiard. the new steamship now being constructed in Cheater, Pennsyl vania, for the Oregon navigation com pany is to be fitted out with a three can dle electric light in each stateroom. An ingenious manager in Burlington, the Hawkey says, has made a drop cur tain representing an cnOrmous bonnet, with sprays of flowers and drooping plumes. This is let down on tire play early in the first scene, and is kept down all the evening, and the audience, see ing about as much of the play as it is accustomed to seeing, goes away de lighted. The gold-bearipg belt in Colorado is now producing more gold than any area of similar dimensions the world over This belt extends from the northern part of Boulder county, southerly through the little county of Gilpin, and the north eastern part of Clear Creek county—a distance of thirty or thirty-five miles, with a width of several miles. Three or four bills have been intro duced in the California Legislature to regulate the operations of gas companies, as to the quality and price of their pro duct and requiring the greatest publici to Ire given, at brief intervals, to the financial affairs. There is much feelin against the gas company in San Fran cisco, and the people are determined to have light at a reasonable rate. Among all the cities of Italy suffering from famine and misery this winter Rome bears the heaviest burden. The trade of the city has declined sine; the overthrow of the Pope’s Government, and the taxes are a hundred fold what they were;' they were almost nominal under the Popes, as the whole world contributed to enrich the city. Large capitalists from Turin and Milan have monopolized what has been left of the trade once po - sensed by Rqman merchants. A district has been selected in Cin cinnati for a test of the Holly system of supplying heat by steam. Ordinances granting permission to a company to lay pipes have been approved by the Mayor, but it is required that heat shall be sup plied the public buildings at SO j>er cent, less than the cost for heating them dur ing 1878. The company also agrees to furnish steam power where want d at reduced cost. If this system comes into general use the old-fashioned “ fireside,” about which so much poetry has been written, and which makes home in win ter look so cheerful, will be numbered among the things that were. SOME interesting experiments of ploughing by electricity took place the other day at Noisiel, in France, in the park of the well-known Deputy and chocolate maker, M. Menier. The mo tive power was supplied to the plough by a Gramme machine, itself set in motion by water power, which is abundant on M. Menier’s estate The plough did about the same work as if it were drawn by four oxen. It was a Fowler plough, with six shares. The motive power was supplied by a wire at a distance of nearly half ami e. To a profane looker-on it was amazing to see a plough propelled by an unseen agency without teams or The North Georgian. VOL. 111. steam. The Gramme machine employed was the same that supplied M. Menier’s manufactory with electric light. attention of Edison having been called o the doubts of some Parisian critics concerning the stability of the carborn horseshoe, and the claim that it gradually wastes awav by decomposition, he said: “A complete answer to that is the actual result. I can state that the oldest lamp in my laboratory, after burning 505 hours, had its electrical re sistance measured, and there was not a difference of one-tenth of a hair from the time when it was originally put in circuit. The surface of this carbon which burned 505 hours is as bright to-dsy as it was the day when first put in, where as oxidization makes carbon blank.” Edison says he has not sold a share of his stock. Save the Rags.—The price of pape has advanced from 6.J to 10 cents all ove the country. If this price is maintained, the public will be compelled to pay more for their newspapers. Many daily pa pers have already increased their price from 20 to 30 cents per week, and weekly papers from $1 50 $2 50 per year. The advance in paper can be stopped if the people will save and sell their old paper and rags. Three months’ saving of rags and old paper by the entire pop ulation, and selling them in the markets, would check the advance in paper. Rags arc worth from 3 to 3!j cents per pound. Every newspaper in the land should appeal to the people in this mutter. And they should also economize in the con sumption ns much as jKissible. SOUTHERN NEWS. Louisiana’s sugar crop will amount to 185,000 hogsheads. Chattanooga is awakening to the im portance of good sewerage. Negroes are flocking in gangs to Tus caloosa Ala.,, to see a faith doctor. Wilmington, N. C., has one church building for every 650 inhabitants. The State Agricultural collegeof South Carolina w 11 be opened next July. Seventeen car-loads of mules were sold in Atlanta, Ga„ Wednesday. The losses by fire nt Charlotte, N. C., during 1879, did not exceed $2,000. Robert P. Button, Grand Master of the Odd Fellows of Virginia, is dead Seventy thousand bales of cotton have been received at Rome, Ga., this season. Newbern, N. C., has a hat factory and Hillsboro is to have a plow factory Vessels drawing seventeen feet of wa ter pass over the bar nt Wilmington N. C. A party from New Orleans is about to start a glass sac ory at Bay St. Louis, Miss. The city of New Orleans has appro priated $200,000 for police purposes this year. Very large walnut logs are being ship red from Southern Virginia to Phila delphia. One orange tree at Bay St Louis, Miss., produced a crop of oranges which brought the owner S3O. It is probable that there will boa re organization of the Memphis Water works company. The school population of Tennessee is 514|f>43; the value of public school prop erty in the State is $1,162,684 76. The water-works of Knoxville Tenn., are involved in legal difficulties. The contractors are financially embarrassed. The citizens of Macon, Ga., have sent S7OO to the Irish sufferers. It was most ly sent to Tuarn, one of the most afflicted districts. Miss Lizzie Hammond, a pretty white girl of eighteen years, has been sentenced to the Virginia Penitentiary for horse stea ing. In selecting a jury for a trial at Clin ton, Tenn. . last week, 491 men were ex amined before twelve suitable persons could be found. One hundred shares of the Langley Manufacturing Company’s stock, of Au gusta, Gi., sold recently in Charleston at $130.50 per share. One hundred telephones have been or dered by citizens of Memphis, and the system may be considered as thoroughly organized there now. A large number of the convicts sen tenced to the Tennessee penitentiary are employed in the Sewanee coal mines on the Cumberland mountains. The net earnings of the woolen mills company at Charlottesville, Va., for the past year, shows a return of over four teen per cent, upon the capital stock. A b 11 before the Senate of Mississippi : provides for the severe punishment of I railroad employes or officials and legisla j tors for giving or receiving free passes. Vicksburg Herald: We heard a far- I mer remark yesterday that the loss sus j tained by the spoiling of meat would al- I most offset the benefit from the big pri | ces of cotton. Donald McQueen, D.D., forty-three I years a minister of the Presbyterian ■ church at Sumter, S. €'., is dead, after an illness of many months.“He was sev enty years old. i Alex. H. Stevens is a puzzle to the I medical fraternity. He is stronger now BELLTON. BANKS COUNTY, GA., FEBRUARY 12. 1880. than at any time these fifteen years, and, it is said, will shortly discard his rolling chair and crutches. The State Immigration society of Ar kansas has decided to publish, for dis tribution abroad, 106,000 copies of a pamphlet of 200 pages descriptive of the resources of the state. Charlotte (N. C.) Observer: Almost every farmer who conics to the city re ports that his wheat crop is being badly injured by the fly. Cold weather and snow are being very badly needed. Nashville American: An immense amount of freight is now passing over ihe railroads centering here. Both the Chattanooga depots are crammed with all sorts of merchandise and produce. Charlotte (N. C.) Observer: Train loads of guano are passing through the city daily to southern points. It is be lieved tliat the shipments will be higher this year than they have ever been be fore. The first locomotive crossed the new and magnificent iron bridge of the Louis iana Western railroad, over the Sabine river, near Orange, Tex., Tuesday. The bridge is 400 feet long, with a draw of 20C feet. Constitution : There is a movement on foot to organize two good base ball nines the comingsummer. It is the intention of those, interested to take these nines and go campaigning through the South. The Stille Superintendent of Educa tion, of South Carolina, is endeavoring to put in operation a plan by which the public s hools can be kept open for a longer period each year than they have been heretofore. , The city council of Richmond, Va. has deposed William L. Smith, keeper of Oakwood cemetery, as it is believed that without his knowledge »nd permission the recent work of the body snatchers there would have been impossible. Columbus (Ga.) Enquirer-Sun : Sex ton Odom exhumed the body of a young white woman yesterday that had been buried twenty-seven years. She was buried in a metallic case. The body was well preserved and looked quite natural. Selina ( Ala.) Times: We are afraid that the planting community is going wild on cotton. There is danger that food crops may be neglected and every thing devoted to cotton. If, in such an event, the cotton crops should fail, our people woujd be in a deplorable condi tion. Memphis Avalanche: It is a settled fact that the East Tennessee and Vir ginia road has secured the control of the Memphis and Little Rock road. It is stated that the new bosses intend to ex tend the line from Fort Smith to Texar kana, and then connect with the South ern Pacific. Shreveport ( La.) Times: One if the notaries yesterday informed us that he passed sales of five hill farms, ranging from 160 to 200 acres each, at an average, of about $3 50 per acre. These same lands could have been bought six months go at fully twenty per cent, below the figures paid yesterday. Memphis'Appeal: According to Sholes’ directory census, the population of the city is now 40,927, ns against 43,497 last year, a loss of 3,000. But against this we arc able, to put the fact of a greatly increased trade, our receipts of cotton being 50,000 bales more than last year and 6,000 more than in 1878. Columbia (S. C.) Register: The very first thing the plantation “ nigger ” did after ‘‘freedom come in,” was to get an old army musket and try to kill of! every little bird about the pl-ce, and he has kept up the practice. Is it, then, sur prising that our insectivorous birds should have so deplorably decreased? Charleston (S. C.): Hon. A. I’. But ler, Commissioner of A riculture, gives notice that he is ready to receive the privilege tax of twenty-five cents on every ton of fertilizer sold or offered for sale in this state, and warns those con cerned that failure to comply with this law will subject them to immediate pen alties. Nashville American : The blue suit for all the employes in the passenger de partment of the Louisville, Nashville and Great Southern railroad arrived herr and will be donned on the 2d of February. The next thing will be the uniforming of men in the same depart ment on the Nashville, Chattanooga and St. Louis. Atlanta Constitution : Plans arc now being drawn for a new court-house, to be erected at the corner of East Hunter and Pryor streets. The work of build ing will, we hear, be commenced the coming summer. The new court-house will be arranged in the most complete style, and will be one of the handsomest in the south. T Little Rock is to be a distributing depot for coal oil. In other words, an enterprising firm has arranged to have coal oil shippod to that point in special iron tank cars and emptied into a mas sive tank with a capacity of 30,000 gal lons. Here, it will be barreled and dis tributed, the saving effected being in the transportation of the oil. Cartersville (Ga.) Express: Middle Tennessee s rapidly regaining her old time prestige as a mule market. Maury county is in tile lead of all others in this respect, and her county seat, Columbia, is one of the largest markets in the world. Over SIOO,OOO worth of mules alone have been shipped from that point South within the past ten days or two weeks, not counting many droves that have been driven South on foot. TRUTH, JUSTICE, LIBERTY EVARTS’ SENTENCES. He PnrnffrnphM n Well Known Poem In Pointed Manner. Few poems have been more generally admired or paraphrased in the various tongues of earth than that commencing with the lines: Mary had a lit tie lamb, Its fleece was white as snow, And everywhere that Mary went The lamb was sure to go. _ Well, the story is now current at the National Capital that the distinguished Secretary of State, when recently in a jocular crowd of his friend's; was desired to condense into prose these immortal verses. Urgently solicited, Mr. Evarts yielded and wrote as follows: “ Mary, a female judged to be of the race of man, whose family name is un known, whether of native or foreign birth, of lofty or lowly lineage, and whose appearance, manners and mental cultivation are involved in the most profound mystery, which probably never will be fully ascertained, unless tlirough the most profound researches of a historian admirably trained in his profession, who shall devote the ablest efforts of his life to the investigation of the subject, uninfluenced by either pas sion or prejudice, and having only in view the sacred truth, at the same time being utterly regardless of the plaudits or censures of the world, we are in formed by one who, it has been stated, at one time while living in that part of the United States known as Massachu setts, whose flshermei? have frequently been involved in difficulties with the authorities of her majesty Queen Vic toria, Queen of Great Britain and Em press of Indies, whose domains extend over a large share of the habitable globe thereby endangering the peace which should so happily exist between nations of the same blood and language, had an infant sheep, of which there are many millions, of various stocks and qualities, now in our country, constantly adding wealth and prosperity to our Republic, and enabling us to be entirely inde pendent of all other nations for our sup ply of wool, now ample for the use of factories already busily employed, and for those which ere long will be con structed in all parts of our land, work ing both by water and steam power, and in whatever direction the said Mary traveled, this anima), whose fleece was snow white, even as the lofty mountain regions in the silent solitudes of eternal winter, as the ethereal vapors which oft float over ab autumnal sky, ‘darkly, deeply, beautifully blue,’ or as the lac eal fluid, covered with masses of de’icate froth, found in the buckets of the fairy dairy maid, whether meander ing through the meadows in midsum, mer, gathering the luscious strawberry strolling in the woodland paths in search of wild flowers, visiting the church with her uncles, cousins and aunts, to listen to the inspired words which come from the lips of the minister of the sanctuary, or when retiring to her bliss ful couch, to seek rest and enjoy sweet repose after the cares of the day, in fact, ‘ everywhere that Mary went’ this youthful sheep, influenced, doubtless, by that affection which is oft so con spicuously manifested by the lower ani mals in their association with human beings, was ever observed to accompany her.” It is stated that when the pause in the sentence came, the Secretary, who had read it without an inspiration, resumed his stolid diplomatic countenance, and all mirthfulness had departed from the faces of that once happy company. Beautiful Venice. [Worcester Spy.] Another favorite place of resort is the Giardino Reale, a little garden of the Grand Canal, where a small orchestra of stringed instruments play dance music and operatic airs every evening. There was a fair during our stay for the bene fit of a certain orphan asylum, and this garden was very prettily decorated with (iifferent colored banners, while the booths under the trees were brilliantly illuminated and hung with white, red and green flags. Two bands alternated with each other in playing for several hours, and every one who did not enter lße garden took a gondola and floated on the canal listening to the music. There is nothing so luxurious as the cushions of a gondola, and nothing so delightful as its motion. There is such a softening, quieting influence about this mode of navigation that every one speaks in a half whisper— And half auleep they seem, tho’ all awake, And music in their ears their beating hearts do make. The loveliest part of Venice is where the Grand Canal broadens out towards the lagoons. Here is the beautiful Church of Santa Maria della Salute, built in accordance with a vow to the Virgin, who was supposed to have caused the inroads of the plague to cease; the neighboring Church of San Giorgio Maggiore, with a graceful, slen der campanile at its side; on the oppo site side of the canal is the ducal palace, and a glimpse into the piazzi beyond; the wider waters, the sailing ships lying at anchor, and the steamers that ply be tween Venice, Trieste and Alexandria; here and there a black silent gondola moving noiselessly about with a single light in the prow; all along the shore, rows of gas lamps, and every where so many lights that it seems as if the city were in a perpetual state of festal illumination. Such is the aspect of Venice on a summer night. When you have left all this, what wonder that you find youself repeating: Could it, in deed, have been other than a dream 1 An old bachelor, who particularly hated literary women, asked an au thoress if she could throw any lighten kissing. “I could,” said she, looking archly at him; “ but I think it’s better in the dark.” Social Fallacies. We commit the still great error of plunging into ice-water every morning, then scrub all the skin off with a horse hair brush or a coarse board towel; sit down to breakfast of oatmeal sawdust; dine off a tablespoonful of wheat and two berries, and make a supper on cat nip tea, and then be put through a Rus sian bath of five hundred degrees; sleep under an open window when the ther mometer is at zero; wear long hair; dress the women in pantaloons; make all the property over to them, then sit down in tho kitchen corner and nurse the baby, and when it is asleep, wash up the tea-things, and go to bed at 9 o’clock, to be “out of the way.” What will become of us men 7 Surely we have fallen on evil time. A better and truer mode of life is to have everything that is good to eat and to drink, which im parts nourishment and strength, and as much of it as you want. The idea of getting up from the table hungry is un natural and absurd and hurtful—quite as much so as getting up in the morn ing before your sleep is out, on the mis chievous principle that “early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise.” Early rising, in civilized society, al ways tends to shorten life. Early ris ing of itself never did any good. Many a fanner’s boy has been made an in valid for life by being made to get up at daylight before his sleep was out. Many a young girl has been stunted in body and mind aud constitution by being made to net up before the system had had its full rest. All who are grow ing, all who work hard, and all weakly persons, should not get up until they f.-el as if they would be more comfort able to get up than to remain in bed; that is the only true measure of suffi ciency of rest and sleep. But one who gels up in the morning feeling as if he “ would give anything in the world” to remain in bed a while longer, does vio lence to his own nature, and will al ways suftbr from it—not immediately, it may be, but certainly in later years, by the cumulative ill effects of the most unwise practice. In any given case, the person who gets up in the morning before ho is fully rested will lack just that much of the energy requisite tor the day’s pursuit. As a people, we do not get enough sleep, we do not get enough rest, we will not take time for these things; hence our nervousness, our instability, our hasty temuer, and the premature giving out of the stamina of life. Half of us are old at three-score, the very time man ought to.be in his mental, moral aud physical prime. Half of our wives, especially in the farming dis tricts, die long before their time, be cause they do not get rest and sleep pro portioned to their labor. Nine times out of ten it would be better for all parties if the farmer should get up and light the fires and prepare breakfast fol his wife, she coming directly from her toilet to the breakfast table, because it almost always happens that she has to remain up to see tilings right long after the husband has gone to bed. This is a monstrously cruel imposition on wives aud mothers. How She Served Two Masters. [Camp Meeting Correspondence.] The sweetest oratory that I have lis tened to on cliff O' - in forest was when I awoke from a twilight dream which had overtaken me as I sat leaning against the base of a monster tree. They weie upon the opposite side, and I could uot run. She said: “Since we were chil dren I have felt a deep interest and friendliness in your welfare, and since I came to know the blessedness of hope, I have longed to share my joy with you. Will vou give your heart to your maker? ’ He said: “ I can’t do that, Molly. I would if I could, because you wish it. 1 gave it to you last winter during our meetings of the ‘Jew ’d esprit,’ and if you really don’t want to keep it yourself, and really don’t in the least care for it, you may give it to whoever you like, for I shall never have any use for it. 1 would like, you know, to share a blessedness of hope, very likely much the same as yours if you would only arrange things so that I might have you all the. time to divide the joy with which I hope you mean; can’t you, Molly?” She said: “O John I” and then there was a fumbing, and if he didn’t kisiherand she didn’t kiss him, why “ Katydid ” and the woods are fail of them. Then she said: “You must tell pa how you feel; ” and he said: “ Isn’t it too soon , after getting a new heart to tell a fel- > low’s experience?’and she said: “Not at all. It is proper and lam very happy.” He said: “Not as happy, Mdly, as if 1 had given my heart to the Lord, arc you?” He asked his ques tion in a pathetic and apprehensive tone, and she replied: “It is all the same, John. I’ll see that the good Lord gets it at last.” Then they went off' to inform pa and get an earthly blessing from him, for John is in tho leather business and very prosperous. ‘•Conundrum! Guess 1t If you can, And tell me, John, the answer— Wherein a clumsy printer man Is like an honest dancer!” “ I have It, Jane’” “ You haven’t though?” “ I'd make a dozen bets— One of them sets the forms, you know, The other forms the sets!” “ Sharp answer, dear, but not the one Wrought by my mental caper— One of them pay the piper, John, The other pies tho paper!” Patent presses, mailers and feeders ' are all right, but what newspaper pub lishers are most in need of is a machine that will take hold of a delinquent sub scriber and make him nay up. The man who will get up such an invention will get up some morning and find a million dollars waiting for him oftl] Published Every Thursday at BELLTON, (G EORGIA RATES OF SUBSCRIPTION. One year (53 numbers), $1.00; six months (26 numbers), 50 cents; three months (28 numbers), 25 cents. Office m the Smith building, east of the depot. NO. 6. EVERY-DAY SPICERIES. Honesty is the best police, seel A matter of course—the lecture. Cannibals don’t like to eat a coward, because the bravest are the tenderest.— Cincinnati Saturday Night. “ This is a high-handed outrage,” as the boy remarked when he found that his mother had put the cookies on the upper shelf. “MY darling,” said he “ what a de licious taste your lips have.” Then she sprang up and yelled, “Goodness, John, have you been eating my lip salve?” There is a county in Texas in which there is no saloon, aud in which a murder was never committed. Its only existence is ou the map.— Chicago Timet. Young men, if your girl keeps look, ing at your feet every time she meets you, don’t let it embarrass you in the least; she is simply taking your measure for a pair of slippers. It has been demonstrated in Paris that when a man pounds his thumb with a hammer he is twice as mad as when he strikes his elbow on the doo* frame.— Detroit Free Brest. The effect' of jet on satin is very elegant.— Bangor Commercial. This does not refer to a jet of water. — Boston Poet. Why not? Watered silk is considered very handsome, and when made into a dress, is frequently sat in. “ Bully ” is not an Americanism. Some of the streets of Paris have been called Boulevards for a long time. — Seth Spicer. And yet any New York politician cun post you on the bully wardu.— New York Newt. Some wise man remarked, “Nomw is hurt but by himself.” Did that man ever visit a dentist? Did he ever play shinny with ‘a mule? Finally, did he ever “sass” his Wife?— Oil City Derrick. John Bright’s son is hunting out West. His aged father is hunting in England—for office. — Free Press. A good many people down this way are sufferinE from Bright’s disease.—Rich mond ( Va.) Baton. A woman who was called as a witness in an assault case tried in the Edinburgh police court recently, on being asked by the magistrate what was the profes sion of her husband, answered, prompt ly, “My husband is a bankrupt, Hr looked as wise as an owl, - His tricks were well adjusted He declined to advertise, you see, And in a year he busted. —N. Y Hotel Mail. Ebenezeb Stone and his wife Flora, out West, were divorced not long age, but afterwards they came to an under standing, were remarried, and are happg together as far as we know. It was «) case of Eb and Flo, it would seem; at any rate, they are tide now. One of our Boston preachers said Sunday afternoon: “Ths little good any of us can do must be done with our hearts thumping against the hearts of sur fellow man.” And every young woman in church looked at every other young woman and smiled approvingly. “Maria,” observed Mr. Holcomb, as he was putting on his clothes, “there ain’t no patch on my breeches yet.” “I can't fix it now, no way. I’m too busy.** “Well, give me the patch then, an’ I’ll carry it around with me. I don’t want people to think I can’t afford the cloth.” Matron, to her boy, screaming: “Willie, how long are you going to keep my toothbrush?” “I’m through with it. mammy; Sallio’s using it now.*'’ “Tell Sallie to bring it here immedi ately; that girl won’t have any teeth left if alio keeps on scrubbing them.’’-8- Tjouisville Courier-Journal. Professor—“ What does that expres sion represent?” Student—“ That is khf, sum of the moments of the elements.'’’ Professor—“ Say it again.” Student re peats. Professor—“ That’s it. I’m going to have you say that over until I impress it on your mind as they brand U. S. on a mule. — Acta Columbian. They met, ’twas on the street— “Oh! such a bonnet!” thought the one— The other thought; “ Whgt feet!” Yet they did talk- Togcther walk— And kissed each other’s ebooks, and chalk. —Detroit Free Prut. A very beautiful young lady was hurrying through the streets of Balti more, turned, and in pathetic accents, asked a gentleman walking beside her to knock a pickpocket down who was following her. The gentleman oblig ingly complied. As soon as she saw the fight fairly begun, she chuckled gayly I and skipped away. The man knocked i down was her husband. They met, ’twee In a crowded atreet, Their hearts were in a flutter; He glanced into her eyes and thought, There was no fair rebutter. She sent back a responsive smile, He knew at once he’d found her, A mutual recognition came, Aud forthwith surrejoinder. They stroll along tha shady walk, Their beings with fond love elate, Until they reach the fair one’s home, And halt beside the garden gate. “ Try not to pass,” the maiden said, “ An ancient writ won’t calm us, Should you essay to enter there, You’d hear the old mandamus.” —Keokuk Gale Oity. The Toronto corset makers are on a strike, their employers have pulled the strings too tight for them, and the girls won’t be solaced, but have instituted a stay of proceedings, declaring they won’t waist their time; and of corsets too much to expect that they will bona down to work without proper pay. Hip! Hip! hurrah! for the girls. Ministers are paid to work, and ' originality in sermon writing is the 1 leading part of their work. If a con- I gregation merely wished to listen to an old sermon there are thousands of ad mirable ones in print which could be read by any good elocutionist in the congregation, and the minister’s salary be entirely saved for distribution among the poor or other uses. — N. Y, Com. Adv.