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BY BLI OMAL.
tithough my early Ute on'me conferred
Kich sense of swejt existence in s lend
where ofttlxnes bloomed bright flowers, where
every bird
Sang tome blithe aongg, where waved the potent
wand
0£ J 1 ° t ? t !'’ 8 a ?P l^ ng dream ’ yet now I stand
«***?“■ “ kful , eye®,“Prised to beavea, tor I
wave left the rale. Round me repose the grand
Bnow-crowned Sierras, while I acarce could sigh,
1,60 sky 6 * tO ieroe •towny, pathleaa
There Is s certain nerrow'path which leads
Down to a lane unfrequented by teams.
xon hopping robin’s chirp, chirp, quickly speeds
My memory to that dear place which seems,
moonlit summer nights, fit home of dreams.
Oh! when in seasons of the long ago,
Reviving in the sun's returning beams,
Earth ransomed beauty from her tomb of snow—
Beside that orchard path bird-songs ne’er conjured
woe. '
THE WAY TO WIN.
Edward Stone stood impatiently upon
the top step of Uncle Dan’s stately resi
dence. There was not the faintest sign
of life anywhere around—the whole
front part of the house was closed and
darkened; and having rang several
times without eliciting any response, he
was about to conclude that there was no
one within hearing, when a head was
thrust out of the upper window.
“ Young man, go .ound to the side
door.”
Considerably startled by this unex
pected address, the young man obeyed.
Upon the porch brushing away the
leaves that covered it, was a young girl
of fifteen. She looked very pretty as
she stood there, the bright autumnal
sunshine falling on her round white
arms and uncovered head.
Setting down her broom, she ushered
him into a medium-sized, plainly-fur
nished room which gave no indication
of the reputed wealth of its owner.
The young man took a seat, brushed
a few flecks of dust from the lapel of
his coat, ran his fingers through his
carefully arranged locks, and thus de
livered himself:
“Tellycur master that his nephew,
Edward Stone, is here.”
A faint smile touched the rosy lips,
and with a demure “yes, sir,” the girl
vanished.
A few minutes later an elderly gentle
man entered, with intelligent, strongly
marked features, and a shrewd look in
the eyes, which seemed to take the men
tal measure of his visitor at a single
glance.
“ Well, sir, what is your business
with me?”
“ I am your nephew.”
“So my daughter told me. What do
you want?”
“ I was thinking of going into busi
ness, and thought I would come and
talk it over with you, and ask you to give
me a lift.”
“What better capital do you want
than you already have ? A strong able
bodied young man wanting a lift! You
oueht to be ashamed of yourself 1 What
have you been doing?”
Edward’s face flushed with anger
at this unceremonious language; but
feeling that he could not afford to quar
rel with his wealthy relative be gave no
other indication of it.
“ Saved nothing from’your salary, I 1
suppose?” I
“ No ; its only five hundred; not more
than enough for my expenses?’
“ Humph 1 You are able to dress your
self out of it, I perceive. I have known
men to rear and educate a large family
on five hundred a year; and if you
have been unable to save anything, you
certainly are not able to go into business
on your own account. When I was at
your age my income was less than three
hundred do'lars, and I saved half of it.
What is the business you wish to engage
inf’
“ Stationary and books. Six hundred
aouars wiu buy it, m He owner is obliged
to sell; a rare chanoe. I don’t ask you
to give me the amount, only lend it; I
will give you my note with interest.”
“Young man, I have several such pa
pers already. You can have all of them
for five dollars; and I warn you that it
will prove a poor investment at that. I
can give you some advice, through,
which if you follow will be worth a good
many times over the amount you asked.
But you won’t do it.”
“ How do you know that?” said Ed
ward, with a smile, who began to feel
more at home with his eccentric rela
tive. “ I’d like to hear it, anyway.”
“ Well, hear it is. Go back to your
place in the store, save three dollars a
week from your salary, which you can
easily do; learning in the meantime all
you possibly can in regard to the busi
you wish to pursue. At the end of four
years you will have the capital you seek,
together with sufficient experience and
judgment to know how to use it. And,
better still, it will be yours earned by
your own industry and self-denial, and
worth more to vou than ten times that
amount got tn any other wry. Then
come and see me again.”
“ You’d rather have my money than
advice, I daresay,” added Mr. Stone, as
Edward arose to go; “ but we’ll be bet
ter friends four years hence than if I
let you have it. Sit down, nephew,
the train you have to take won’t leave
until six in the evening. You must
stay to tea; I want you to see what, a
complete little housekeeper I have, and
make yi»« ■eqr«B».nted with her.”
“Polly!” he called out, opening the
door into the hall.
in prompt obedience to this summons
a ros) cheeked, blight-eyed girl tripped
in. Tne neat print dress had been
chant ?d for a wettv merino, but our
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VOL. 111.
hero rtM not tall t» recognize her, and
his fa SB flushed npinfully as he did so.
. “Pally I” continued her father, “ this
is yoi» cousin, Rd ward. He leaves on
the s’® o’clock train, and I want his
short stay with W 9 as pleasant as possi
ble.”
“ Polly is my little housekeeper,” he
added, turning to his nephew: “I hire
a woman for the work, and she does all
the rest. When she’s eighteen she shall
have all the servants she wants, but she
must serve her apprenticeship first. It
may stand her in a good stead; she may
take it into her head to marry a poor
man, as her mother did before her. tan I
my girl?”
Mary’s only reply to this was a smile
and blush. Our hero was considerably
embarrassed by the recollection of the
mistake he had made, but the quietly
cordial greeting of his young hostess soon
nut him comnarativelv at rest.
At her fathers request—who was very
proud of his daughter’s varied accom
plishments—Mary sang and played for
ner cousin; and his visit ended in singu
lar contrast to the stormy way It com
menced. Edward refused the five-dol
lar note tendered to him at parting for
hisjravelingfexnenses.
The old man smiled as he returned
the note to his pocketbook.
“ He’s a sensible young chap, after
all,” he remarked to his daughter, as
the door closed after his guest. “ It’s
iu him, if it only can be brought out.
We shall see, we shall see.”
“ A good deal for father to say,” was
Mary’s inward comment, who thought
her cousin the most agreeable young
man she had ever met.
Three years later Mr. Stone and his
daughter paused in front of a small
but neat pleasant looking shop, on the
plate glass door of which were the
words: “Edward Stone,Stationary and
Bookstore.”
It beimr too early in the day for
was the cheerful response. “ Curiously
enough it is the same business that I
wanted to buy then. The man who
took it had to borrow money to pur
chase it with, getting so much involved
that he had to sell at a sac ifice
•‘Justwnat you wan tea to ao."
Edward smiled at the point made by
his uncle.
“ It isn’t what I’ve done though. I’ve
saved four dollars a week from my sal
ary for the last three years; and so was
not only able to pay the money down
but had fifty dollars besides.”
“ Bravo! my boy,” cried the delighted
old man, with another grasp of the
hand that made our hero wince. “ I’m
proud of vou! You’re bound to succeed.
I see, and without anybody’s help. I
told your cousin Polly that when she was
eighteen I’d buy her a house in the city;
that she should furnish it to suit her
self. and have all the servants she want
cut ximers, they touna me proprietor
alone, whose face flushed with pride and
pleasure as ha greeted them.
“ I got your card nephew,” said the
old man, with a cordial grasp of the
hand, “and called around to see how
you were getting on. I thought it was
about time I gave you that little lift
you asked of me three years ago. You
don’t look much as if you needed it
though.”
“ Not at present, thank you uncle.”
ed, and ive kept my word. Come
around and see us whenever you can.
You’ll always find the latch string out.”
Edward did not fail to accept the in
vitation so frankly extended—a very
pleasant intimacy growing up between
the three during the twelve months that
followed. Our hero’s business grew and
prospered until he began to think of re
moving to a larger place. His uncle
had given him several liberal orders, as
well as sent him a number of customers,
but said nothing more about assisting
him in any other way until Christmas
eve. Entering the room where Edward
and his dauirhter were sitting, he said:
“ I mustn’t delay any longer the little
lift I promised you, nephew, and which,
you have well earned?
Edward glanced from the five thous
and dollar check to the lovely face at
his side, and then to that of the speaker.
“ You are very kind, uncle—far kinder
than I deserve —but—”
“ But what, lad ? Speak out I would
you prefer it in some other form 1 ”
Eaward’s fingers closed tenderly and
strongly over the hand he had taken in
his.
“ Yes, uncle—in this.”
The old man looked keenly from one
to the other.
“ You are asking a good deal, nephew,
roily, Pave you Peen encouraging this
young man in his presumption ? ”
“I’m afraid I have, father,” was the
smiling response.
“ Then go, my daughter. 1 give you
into worthy keeping; and if you make
your husbaud’s heart as happy as your
mother did mine during the few short
years that she tarried by my side, he
will be blest indeed.”
at an entertainment in Texas whers
there was a large company present al
the mansion, somebody, who was slow oi
speech,.from Nacogdoches, urged Gov
Houston to visit that place, saying
“ You ought to come to Nacogdoches
Governor. That’s the first place in
Texas you made your home. You hav«
hosts of friends there—Governor. You
really owe us—a visit. Why, Gor*rnor
you have a great many children in
Nacogdoches—named after you.” Old
Sam, w’ho had straightened up wonder
fully toward the termination of the re
marks, said: “My friend, put youi
words just a little closer together—ii
you please.”
-—w
The very latest style of female stock
ing is bound ’way up on the top side
with a little band of gold lace, and we
ain’t married either, and the late wet
spell had nothing to do with it. We saw
’em on a real bona fide I—ine.— New
I York Dispatch.
BELLTON. BANKS COUNTY, GA„ MARCH 4. 1880.
ABOUT BENNIES.
WIK-i c They Circulate and by Whom Wool
Used.
[From the Philadelphia Record.]
Pennies are scarce, and the Mint can
not turn them out fast enough to supply
the demand. Coins of this denomina
tion are turned out only at the United
States Mint in this city, and from here
the whole country is supplied. The
penny is a most important.factor in the
commerces of the country, much more
than most people imagine. The Mint is
six weeks behind in its orders for the
supply of these small coins, which is, in
part, owing to the fact that all the
available material is being used for
other purposes, and but a small part can
be put. to penny-making.
“ Where do all the pennies go?” asked
a Record reporter of a Mint official yes
terday.
“ Well, the horse-cat companies take a
good part of the supply, but WC limit
each company to S2O worth per day.
Then they are obliged to patch out with
three-cent pieces, of which they always
secure large quantities. But the mer
chants make the heaviest demands Upon
us, the great retail dry goods houses tak
ing all they can get, and then crying
for more.”
“Where are pennies most used?”
questioned the reporter.
“ Well, there is no part in the United
States hardly where they are not used,”
was the reply; “ but there are some sec
tions where they are strangers, and aS
rare as gold dollars are here. In the
South the penny is almost unknown,
the' smallest coin being a five-cent piece.
Recently, however, there has been some
demand for them from merchants in
Georgia and Alabama. Ih the far West
there is but little demand for the penny,
but when one gets to St. Louis, or east
of that point, then the penny becomes a
familiar friend. Wherever there are
six-cent fares on the street-cars then
there is a demand from that city for pen
nies. Now, Louisville seldom, if ever,
calls upon us, while Cincinnati is con
tinually crying for the one-cent piece.
New York consumes a big lot, and so de
the Eastern States. The two-cent piece
was a good help to us for a time, but
none of them been coined for text
years, and all that are sent in and re
deemed are recoined into one-cent
pieces.”
“ It is a somewhat remarkable thing,
but such is the fact,” continued the offi
cer, “ that competition in trade inducel
and increases the demand for pennies
Whenever trade is briskest, then the
penny is needed most—that is, retail
trade. When the banks take from us,
although large, dees not fluctuate like
the calls from the tradesmen. The East
ern States are the great penny centers,
audit is only xs the population of the
West increases that it wants pennies.
The five-cent piece is the standard coin in
the West, but the penny is making in
roads on it, and great ones, too.”
“ Are you making many Bland dol
lars?” was the next question thereportei
put to the official.
“Don’t call them Bland dollars, but
standard dollars,” replied the official, in
language which could not be mistaken.
“ They are not Bland dollars, and it is a
popular mistake people make to call
them by that name. Now, put that
back of your ear where you will remem
ber it. They were not created by the
Bland bill, which was for free coinage,
but under another act.”
After this kindly correction the
Record man determined that hereafter,
that if any of his friends come to borrow
Bland dollars of him they would not get
them-not by that name anyhow; per
haps not by any other.
This has been one of the busiest years
ever known at the Mint, and Colonel
Snowden has had his hands full. Most
of the time the machinery has been at
work night and day. The value of the
coins turned out for the calendar year
ending yesterday was: Gold, $9,744,-
645; silver. $14,815,235; base coins,
$165,003. The number of standard sil
ver dollars coined was 14,807,100. and
the number of gold one dollar pieces
3,030. The official year of the mint does
not close until the 30th of June.
“ The Kissing Bush.”
One of the gentle customs that has
been permitted to exist in English
homes since the time of the Druids,
finds expression in the “ kissing bush.”
It is generally a neat bough of mistletoe,
and when the household decorations are
going up it is rarely ever forgotten, es
pecially where there are yountr men and
maidens. It hangs in the hall, and the
charm lies in leading your fair friend
beneath it and kissing her. Among the
middle class this feature of the holidays
is never neglected, and at friendly and
family reunions it occasions much
merriment. In Elmira, however, the
tree has been discarded. The way to do
is not to lead your friend beneath a tree
and kiss her there, but to kiss her where
she is; for nine times out of ten, when
she gets under the tree, she’H change
her mind. Procrastination is the thief
of many such an opportunity.
— < ♦
A Bad Year for Champagne.
(London Tim«a.]
Not a bottle of wine has been har
vested in Champagne this year—a
disaster which has been unparalleled
for sixty years. It appears that the
grape did not ripen, and it has been
gathered only in order to prevent tres
passers from entering the vineyards
and damaging them. There is now a
stock of 72,000,000 bottles in Cham
pagne, of which 35,000,000 or 40,000,000
are in the hands of the great firms.
The remainder is of doubtful origin,
and even beyond the producing ar’a of
Champagne.
TRUTH, JUSTICE, LIR E R TT.
Newly-Married Couples.
It Is the happiest and most virtuous I
state of society in which the husband
and wife eet out together, make their
property together, and, with perfect I
sympathy of soul, graduate all their
expenses, plans, calculations and de- i
sires, with reference to their present
means and to their future and common
interest.
Nr thing delights man more than to
enter the neat little tenement of two
you-:g people Who, within perhaps two
or three years, without any resources
but their knowledge of industry, have
joined heart andlhand, and engaged to
share together the responsibilities, du
ties, interests, trials and pleasures of
life. The industrious wife is cheerfully
employing her own hands in domestic
duties, putting her house in order,
mending her husband’s clothes, or pre
parisg the dinner, while perhaps the
little darling sits prattling on the
floot, or lies sleeping in the cradle, and
everything seems preparing to welcome
the happiest of husbands and the best
of fathers when he shall come hbme
from his toil to enjoy the sweets of Jhis
paradise.
This is the true domestic pleasure.
Health, contentment, love, abundance,
and bright prospects are all here. Bui
it has become a prevalent sentiment
that a man must acquire his fortune
before he marries, that the wife must
have no sympathy nor share With him
in the pursuit of it—in which most of
he pleasure truly consists—and the
yoqng mafried people must set out
with as large and expetlsite mi estab
lishment as is becoming those who hate
been wedded for twenty years.
This is very unhappy; it fills the com
munity with bachelors, who are waiting
to make their fortunes, endangering
virtue, promoting Vice ; it destroys the
true economy and design cf the do
mestic institution, and it promotes Idle
ness and inefficiency among females, who
are expecting to be taken up by For
tune and passively sustained without
any care or concern on their part; and
thus many a wife becomes, as a gentle
man once i emarked, not a “ hslp-meet,”
buta“help-eat?’
—j- ——e o -s
Transmissibility of Hydrophobia.
A man with hydrophobia was brought
to the Lariboisiere Hospital, having
been bitten in the upper lip by a dog
forty days previously. He had bad the
wound cauterized two hours after the ac
ci lent, and had thought himself quite
safe till some of the usual hydrophobia
nymtoms appeared. The day before his
death in a quiet interval, he yielded him
self, with the best grace, to the experi
ments in inoculation which were made
with Ih blood and saliva. Theresultof
jj.. the ra bbit with the blood
*?»3SB ative ( 8S in £ reat majority of
previotjs cases of inoculation with blooijl
of animals under rabies). But with the
saliva it was otherwise. A rabbit inoc
ulated fin the ear and abdomen, on the
11 th of October, began to show symtoms
of rabies on the 15th, being much excited
and damaged the walls of its cage, while
it uttered loud cries and slavered at the
mouth. Then it fell into collapse and
died the following night. The rabbit’s
body (it so happened) was not dissected
till thirty-six hours after death, and fur
ther experiment was made by taking
fragments of the right and left submax
illary glandsand introducing them under
the skin of two other rabbits respectively.
These two rapidly succumbed, one on
the fifth, the othe? on the sixth day (bo
coming visibly ill on the third); neither
passed through a furious stage, however,
the predominant feature was paraplegia
(a form of paralysis). The important
practicle result is that human saliva,
such as caused rabies in the rabbit, is
necessarily virulent, and would prob
ably have corresponding effects on man;
so that it should lie dealt with cautiously,
and that not only during the life of the
person furnishing it, but in post mortem
examination.
The Scorpion’s Suicide.
[London News.!
Do animals ever commit suicide? A
dog is said to have done so by drown,
ing, perhaps on no stronger evidence
than that which authenticated Capt.
Marryat’s anecdotes. Doubts have been
thrown on the sanity of the cat which
hanged herself in the fork between two
branches. The suicidal character of the
scorpion, however, is reasserted by s
correspondent of Nature. We have all
heard how the scorpion, if surrounded
by a circle of fire, runs its sting into iti
own head and expires. Probably most
of us have classed this scorpion with
Benvenuto Cellini’s celebrated salaman
der, or with the barnacles who gave
birth to wild geese. Mr. Allen Thom
son, however, has a friend who hai
often seen scorpions sting themselvei
to death at Lucca. When the insect ii
caught, he is put in a glass tumble!
till dark. A light is then exhibited,
whereupon the scorpion first loses hit
head with excitement, and then “bringi
his recurved-sting down upon it, and
pierces it forcibly.” In a moment hit
sorrows are over and “ his excitement
amounting to despair ” ceases to vex
him. It is odd that the suicidal mania
should be hereditary in scorpions, be
cause, of course, the dead ones cannot
have reported to the survivors that ths
experiment is successful, while suicids
is far from complying with Darwinian
conditions, and favoring the persistence
of the species. The alternate theory
could be best put in the words of ths
Ettrick Shepherd, when accounting foi
the reported visit of a ghost to his
grandmother, “May be my grand
mother was an awful leesr.” But Mr,
Allen Thompson has no doubt about
the veracity of his informant.
NO. 9.
A Clock that Runs a Year on One
Winding.
I Pittaburg Leadet.]
On Chatham street there lives an old,
hoary-headed man named CloffPilquest,
who is the inventer of a curious and
somewhat wonderful piece of mechan
ism in the shape of a clock which faith
fully ticks and tells the time of an entire
year with only one winding.
A Leader man found the aged artisan
busily applying himself in his work
shop yesterday afternoon, when the old
gentleman in broken English related a
short history of his life, of the curiosity
in question, and explained the pecul
iarities of the time-piece.
“ I was born in 1892 in a place called
Broley, in Sweden. I learned my trade
with a workman named Persson, and
during my apprenticeship, in the year
1820,1 began making drawings for my
clock, and of these I made fully a dozen
up to the time when I began its con
struction. In 1346 I came to this coun
try and settled down in Pittsburg,
where I have lived and toiled ever
since.”
Here the old man took down a well
worn book, which proved to be nothing’
more nor less than a diary, containing
the number of hours and section of
hours and their exact position in the
day, which he lavished on the three
hundred-aud-sixty-five-day time-piece.
After carefully examining the records,
the hero resumed: “On the 18th day
of August, 1875, I began building the
clock, and devoted »U my spare mo
ments to its construction mntil the work
was completed ou the 28th Os December,
187’7, and there it is tunning just as if
started on 28th of December of last
year.” . .
Here the old man removed an oval
shaped c>aas case from the little object
and sspikiwed that the only advantages
it I Was simplicity and the
TScßlty eV jointing out the time of the
day through an entire year with but one
winding up, and it accomplishes this
feat in thfc way: Arranged in a semi
circle are eght powerful springs, each
on being wound up capable of keeping
the internals in motion for precisely six
weeks. These are encased in eight
brazen bands, and through their center
runs a shaft, at each end of which re
volves a wbuel, and there is a communi
sation between the wheel on the eight
shafts. When one of these springs have
become exhausted the apparatus is so
constructed that the next nearest spring
intrusts its force to one just weakened,
and so on for all the eight. A glance
through its work revealed that the con
struction was strikingly simple. The
ticking is hardly audible any where in
the room, and the inventor bragged
about the exactness with which his
clock pointed out the hour of the day.
Considering his time and value of the
material used in making the apparatus,
he claims that this marvelous piece of
mechanism has cost him, at the least
calculation, $632.35.
Spring Cultivation of Strawberries.
Mr. E. P. Coe, the horticulturist, in
his Scribner series on small fruits, writes
as follows of a mooted question in the
culture of strawberries:
I have now reached a point at which
I differ from most horticultural writers.
As a rule it is advised that there be no
spring cultivation of bearing plants. It
has been said, that merely pushing the
winter mulch aside sufficiently to let
the new growth como through is all
that is needful. I admit that the results
are often satisfactory under this method,
especially if there has been deep, thorough
culture in the fall, and if the mulch be
ween and around the plants is very abun
tant. At the same time I have so often
seen unsatisfactory results that I take a
decided stand in favor of spring cultiva
tion, if done properly and eufliciently
early. I think my reasons will commend
themselves to practical men. Even
where the soil has been left mellow by
cultivation, the beating rains and the
weight of melting snows pack the earth,
/ill loamy laua settles and tends to
grow hard after the frost leaves it.
While the mulch checks this tendency,
it cannot wholly prevent it. As a mat
ter of fact, the spaces between the rows
are seldom thoroughly loosened late in
the fall. The mulch too often is scat
tered over a comparatively hard surface,
which by the following June has become
so solid as to suffer disastrously from
drought in the blossoming and bearing
season. I have seen well mulched fields
with their plants faltering and wilting,
unable to mature the crop because the
ground had become so hard that an
ordinary shower could make but little
impression. Moreover, even if kept
moist by the mulch, land long shielded
from sun and air tends to become sour,
heavy, and devoid of that life which
gives vitality and vigor to the plant.
The winter mulch need not be laboriously
raked from the garden bed or field and
then carted back again. Begin on one
side of a plot and rake toward the other
until three or four rowsand spaces be
tween them are bare; then fork the
spaces or run the cultivator —often the
subsoil plow—deeply through them, and
then immediately, before the moist,
newly made surface dries, rake the
winter mulch back into its place as a
summer mulch. Then take another
strip and treat it in like manner, until
the generous impulse of spring air and
sunshine has been given to the soil of the
entire plantation.
e ♦ ■———
Mbs. Malania Brown, of New
York, has purchased the whole 1,400
acres of the historic island of James
town, in the River James. A dwelling
house and a paper mill are the only
buildings on the island, which is covered
with orchards
Xorth
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Half fare— a mulatto.
The amount of money a man leave*
in the kind of a funeral pile his relatives
take the most interest in.
An Irish farrier once sent a bill to a
gentleman with the following item.
“To curing your honor’s horse that
diedjGg.”, ,
“ Art must anchor in nature,’’said a
fashiouabie belle when she slipped and
sat down in a mud hole and stuck there.
•—Steubenville Herald:
The New York Exprete throws up its
hat and shouts “OurayJor the -Indians.”
Come, young-man, yoU-oughtrto be a lit
rle Meeker.^- Rocjdand Courier.
“Goingl” “This,” said an auctioneer,
Holding up a wellknown vblutae, “is a
book by a poor and 1 pious gizl at pool
and pious poems.” --f yj
“ Digby, will you take some of that
butter?” “Thank you, ma’am; I be
long to the temperance society— can’t
take anything strong,” replied Digby.
Gbant made the greatest effort of Ma
life at Pittsburg. He eaid: “I am
pretty good on the smoke myself, but
Pittsburg beats ine.” — Wheeling Leader.
A' country PAger makes .the follow
ing correction: “Tor ‘lt’s a poor mule
that won’t work both ways,’ in yester
dav’s issue, please read, ‘ It’s a poos
rule,’ etc.”
It is very difficult to find fault wit*
a dear- little three-year-old who buries
g6es the weaPGl?’
The light of experience bai ihown,
’TH do more fathl, alas!, ,
For a man to carelewly blow in the gun,
Thau Mis to blow out the gas.
The betrayed dollar is one that finds
itself not able to pass for more than
ninety cents, after it hss been stamped
“In God we Trust.”— -New Orlecmt
Picayune.
Another American girl is to marry
a nobleman. Why is it that our girls
refuse to support theirown countrymen?
There is a lack of patriotism some
where. — Atlanta Constitution.
" Tins Is a hard, cruelly hard world,"
writes a cynic. Yes, it is, it is; and of
an icy morning one never knows how
Boon he’ll lone his footing and come
down on it.
“ Press me close,” said Kate but
“ ’Tin bliss to suffocate”—
Quoth George: “My pet, if you’d jua’
With thee I’U Butter, Kate.”
“Get out of this,” shouted an irri
tated merchant to a mendacious clerk,
“ this is the third lie I have caught you
in since ten o’clock this morning.” “Oh,
well,” said the new man, “ don’t be hard
on me. Give a fellow time to learn t>e
rules of the house.”
A great many boys and girls fall
desperately in love with eacn other,
and rave over disappointed hopes, be
fore they are old enough to tell the
diflerence between the heartache and
the colic. Very few such cases prove
fatal.— Steubenville Heratd.
A Danbury man sent a boy with a
bill for seven dollars, to be collected.
The boy got the money and came back.
The man gave him ten cents saying,
“ Here’s for your trouble.” The boy
took the coin and asked, “Ain’t you
going to give me something for my
honesty.”— Danbury News.
Hebe is a little domestic-economy
comedy from England: Clergyman—
“So I hear you’ve got married again,
Jacob’s.” Jacobs—“ Yes, sur ;'I thought
as how winter was coming on, and
Betty, she d got one blanket, and I got
t’other, we might as well make it a pair '
and be more comfortable like.”
Pbosperity, as the world goes, is like
a bar of hot iron. A great many grab
the thing, and some people finds it too
heavy to hold without spitting on their
hands.— Ortcego Record. We prefer to
souse the iron as a sure means to secure
the prosperity—of our fingers— Erratic
Enrique. Be sure to select pig iron if
you wish to make the souse a success.
The man gives in charity, from his
superfluity; woman gives when she has
not enough for herself.
They met, ’twai In a crowded ttrwt,
Their hearts were in a flutter;
He glanced into her eyea and thought.
There watt no fair rebutter.
She sent baok a responsive smile,
He knew at once he’d found hei
A mutual recognition cam*.
And forthwith aurrejoinaer.
They stroll along th* shady walk,
Their beings with fond love elate,
Until they reach the fair one’* home,
And halt besld* the garden gate.
“ Try not to pass,” the maiden *aid,
“ An ancient writ won’t calm us,
Should you essay to enter there,
You’d hear the old mandamtu.”
u Amazing Grace.’’
(Harper’s Magazine.]
The following is vouched for by oneol
the rnoet reliable Philadelphia aivines:
A young clergyman having agreed t*
supply the pulpit of an older brother
absent from home, escorted to church th*
daughter ol the pastor, and after seeing
her safely in her father’s pew, ascended
to the pulpit, unconscious that thia
natural attention to the young lady wm
sufficient to excite lively imagination*
and inquiries in the audience.
Upon reading the hymn to be sung,
the young clergyman was surprised to
perceive evident efforts in the congrega
tion to suppress laughter. The daughter
of his friend possessed the mellifluou*
name of Grace, and, all unsuspicious of
that fact, he had chosen the hymn be
ginning with the words “ Amazing
grace,” and proceeding with:
I»M tn-aee that taught ro, heart to fear,
1 And KTflce my fours relieved.
How precious did that grace appear
The hour I first believed!
5
r i Through many dangers, toil*, and *nare*
| i I have already com*;
! ’Tis grac« has brought m* safe thu» far,
And (frac* will lead me home!