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Qeofgiai), PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY BELI/roN, G-A-. Sy JOHN BLATS. miSth^V* 1 ’ 00 p ? r anDnm ’ 50 cents for six months, 25 cents for three months, to .end’?.,"* 87 from Bellton are requested m „ n “ d th .t‘ r nanH8 > wit h eueh amounts of money as they can spare, from 2cc. to sl. improvisations. 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 The North Georgian. 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 Published Eveby Thursday at BELLTON, GEORGIA,' Rates of subscription. One year (52 numbers), $1.00; six months (20 numbers), 50 cents; three months (23 uum'iers), 25 cents. Office in the Smith building, east of the depot. EVERY-DAY SPICERIES. 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!