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Xoftlj MeorgiaTf, PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY » • —AT - BELLTUN, GA. BY JOHN BLATS'. Terms—sl.o > per urnu ;60 cents lor six months; 25cents fbr three mouth l . Parties away from Bellton are requested to send their n* ncs, with such amounts of money as they can spare, from 2cc. to sl. SBEvtsivin have cuhvim; et n. The bright red you was retting on the egg of mnr row’s dawn. As a Vassar girl strollel, pigeon-toed, adown the level lawn, And the fading rays with roses wreathed the hair of one wli*’ lay In the gath’ring twlight lonely, fjllerl with terror and dismay. “She may'cry. and howl, and kluk up; but she wouldn’t do my sum, And I’ll never, never, never let her chew my chew ing gum!” “ Teacher,” Bessie’s . white lips faltered, as she pointed to the niatd, “Do hear that horrid creature? Do you know whs’, ahe has said ? Id her dark and gloomy pocket she is carrying her looee Boarding-school companion much as twenty sticks of spruce, And she says that 1 tdtail have none—l! her only friend, her chum;” And she spoke in husky whispers, “ I must have her chewing gum!” “ Bessie.” calmly spoke the teacher (every word froze in her ear), ” For years I’ve taught at Vassar, and I will not in terfere ; I know the regulations, and respect the rules and laws; I am hcie to educate your mind, and not supply your jitws. 1 have done my duty ever; I’ve l>een cool, discreet, and mum; But I can’t make Bertha Underwood give you her chewing gum.” Wild the girl’s eyes, pale her features, as she totters up the stair. And the dews fall in soft pity as the stars see her despair. Not a moment stops the maiden till she gains the u;»- l>er flight. And standh uwt in the darkness like an angel carvod in night. Now she enters Bertha*® chamber, and pants, “ Now let her row;” b'tills. her frightened heart's wild beating, “I must have her chewing gum!” Far out, the distant city sceuis a tiny, sparkling speck, Whereshe well rememliers often buying spruce gum by the peek. Above, the throbbing heivcns seemingly reflect her soul, In which the sphere* of vengeance their mighty music roll. Shall she rtin their diapason? Shall she smite their anthems dumb? She cruahea swiit the feeling; she must haveth.it chewing gum. Quick she strips the lied of clothing; quick she wmjw. her in a sheet, And the garment, winding tenderly, clothes her from twad to feet. Then in a darkened corner, like a member of the host Who sometimes wander back to earth, she stands, n rigid gtioat. And, panting, still she listens till she hears the faily drum Os Bertha’s fairy footate|*, bringing up that chewing gum. Sm'hayell! A quivering figure lies trembling on the floor; The very wind* atop sighing ns they shrink ba* k from the door. Swift the ghostly Bessie steals from where the gath ’ring shadows curl. Arid bends in flattering triumph before the prostrate gin. V Ith trembling hands she searches in the pocket of her chum, And Cries out in her madness, ” I mu at have her chewing gum.”> The pale, soft moon rose slowly; ewch bright star bent her head. As the patron orb of Vassar tha*w her rays around t he dead; And, jik* another moon, the teacher climbed the Winding stair, To find fair Bertha robed in death, and Bessie kne< 1- ing there, With no remorse on that pale face, as she whimpered softly, •• Come? Jhr angels bare* got Bert ho, but /"re £Vf her chew ing gum!” - Brooklyn Eagle. DO AS YOU'RE 810. " Mind a man?' These words were uttered in a tone of splendid scorn; but au unseen auditor round the corner of the piazza only smiled; and yet he was a man. “ But, Doll, you will have to mind your husband,” responded a gentle, drawling, exaspera'ing voice. •‘Shall J?” returned the clear and spirited notes of the first speaker. "He has not appeared on the stage yet, Grace. When he does, it seems to me, it will be time enough to contemplate submis sion.’’ The gentleman on the piazza amiled again, but he rose qu etly and walked away; he did not like to be a listener, however involuntarily, for he was a gen tleman. lie did not altogether escape that presence, however, by his own ab sence. He carried with him a vivid picture of the tall, slight figure, grace ful asa deer; the dark, tender eyes, that could be full ot lightning; the proud, delicate, sensitive face; the abundant brown hair, shot with red rays, like a ripe chestnut skin. He had studied this portrait many days, for he had known Dorothea Schenck as a child ; and though for years they had not met, this summer they were together r.t a quiet little tavern in the hills of Vermont, Mr. Horton for rest from a year of hard work in a city parish, Dora io be with her invalid m-ther, who could not bear her usual round of New port and Saratoga. Dorothea Schenck wasaspoiled child. The idea of obedience was as distaste ful to her as bit and bridle to a wild horse. Her outbreak this morning was excited by s .me careless gossip of (-race Hamilton’s —a girl of her own age who had come with them to Addis, partly be cause Dora had coaxed her, partly be came it was cheap end Grace was not too rich. The subject of their discourse had been the sufferings, publicly paraded, of a certain little lady known to this party, who had been very—and, indeed, absurdly—extravagant, and brought her husband to the brink of failure; so near that he had been compelled to ac cept a sudden and severe retrenchment Grace’s aunt, who was also staying the .Saltash House, had blamed Mrs. Blake severely,, and Dora had not ob jected till Grace affirmed that she did net at all sympathize with Mrs Blake, ar her husband had been very open with her in regard to his business aflairs, and had long since told her she must give up certain habits of lavish expense, or expect him to fail—a fart which the natural levity and folly of the woman's nature led her to treat as a threat; and so the end came. The North Georgian. VOL. 111. “And I’m not sorry for her; she ought to have minded!” Grace said. “ A woman’s natural duty is obedience; she ought to have known that it is our destiny to yield to cur superiors,” whined Mies Hamilton; and this, which seemed th Dora superlative cant, had brought out her sharp exclamation. She herself was utterly undisciplined; a blind indulgence had' set her adrift in life without an idea of duty, and she had yet to learn any law but her own will, or any restraint but her own ca prices. Poor child! life is the sternest of teachers, even with all the prepara tions that can be made for its encounter, and a merciless pedagogue to the willful and ignorant. Mr. Horton was be witched with Dora against his judg ment, and her very insurgent way of action and speech, captivated him; he knew with painful clearness that she was unfit for a minister’s wife as a woman could be, but he knew also that with out her his life would lose its savor, and become routine of the dullest order, per haps misery, though conscience warned him not to be so weak as this, while his work remained yet to be done. The next day there was to be that resort of country boarders in lack of all other amusement, a picnic to Glen Falls, a wild ravine in the heart of the through hills, which a rapid brook tore its way, plunging from one precipice to another, at no one spot to be seen in full beauty, but reserving its coy sur prises for those who had skill and strength to climb upward to its source —a clear mountain pond that slept amid dark woods, fed by hidden springs. The day was warm, yet fresh with the wonderful freshness of mountain air; and when the long wagon of Saltash House arrived at the foot of the ravine all the younger members of the party were unanimous in their resolve to climb to Clear Pond, while the older ladies and one white haired bachelor, who cared little for scenery and much for his ease, remained quietly on a broad rock by the lower pool, where thick pine boughs sheltered them from the sun, and the cool odor of dripping water seemed to disperse whatever heat the July weather threatened. Two couples had already gone upward, when Dora and Grace, attended by Mr. Horton and Ned Schenck, a cousin of Dora’s began the climb Both gentlemen had been sufficiently accustomed to forest paths to make the matter easy as far as they were concerned, but to feet only used to the walks of the city or the smooth turf of the croquet ground, this rough yet slippery ascent looked fearful enough; nor were kid boots the best prep aration; for sharp rocks and moss strewn with pine needles. Il seemed all but impossible for Dora to attempt such a task, but her pride forbade re treat, while Grace, in despair, suffered herself to be half carried up the steepest pitches by Ned Schenck, and lifted bodily over stones and logs that she de- j dared herself altogether unable to stir- | mount. Fortunately for her protector ; she was slight, and not tail; he could | easily spare all the strength necessary, ; But Dora would not allow herself to be more than guided, though the guidance ; was peremptory. “Put your foot here, Miss Schenck; | now the other on that stone. Give me ; your left hand, and take firm hold of j that bough to the right.” Dora obeyed with the most childlike ! confidence, for the abyss below her and j the height above were alike terrible; but | she had that best of courage which will ’ not turn back, though trembling with terror. Grace, from below, n helpless burden, \ saw with a sort of pique how well Dora endured the march, and caught Mr. Horton’s admiring glances at the lithe figure that was at once so brave and docile. To tell the truth, Grace had in- : tended the handsome young clergy man should be her own escort, and was not at all satisfied at being relegated to Ned Schenck’s care, who was strong and good icnipercd, no doubt, but neither good-< looking or rich. It was not from pure i desire to tease that Grace called out, in I her soft, drawling tones: “Doll, you are ' really a miracle. 1 never expected to | see you ‘mind a man’ m> implicitly.” Dora was indignant. She knew welt that Grace could be spiteful, but the spite did not hurt her as much as the answering consciousness that, in spite of her fine thecries, she had been most im plicitly submissive to Mr. Horton’s es cort. The girlish, silly pride that was her great fault rose in arms. She did not answer Grace, but, with a resolute look on her flushed face, sprang onward after her own fashion, stumbling and c inging as well as she could, every mo ment expecting Mr. Horton to advise or remonstrate, but bent on heeding his voice no more. She expected in vain. He said noth ing, and the smile on his face would not have pleased her; heoniy followed fast behind her till they came to a little grassy platform at the head of the stream, where the rocks retreated and the trees had been swept away directly in front of the last and highest fall, which descended here at right angles, with the rest of the stream, behind a clift that hid it entirely from the lower pool. Grace had stopped far below; she was heated and tired an angry too. Ned Schenck did not care for her; so he sat down on the other end of the log where she had seated herself, and profaned the delicate forest odors with a cigar. Dora stooped a moment to take breath and ad mire the beautiful fall before them, [ which dashed its white water down the sheer black rock, ana sprinkled with whitedew the luxuriant ferns and vines that fringed the bank on either side. Then she turned to follow the very slight BELLTON, BANKS COUNTY, GA.. MARCH 25, 1880. indication of a path upward. Mr. Hor ton was ready to follow; but the moment she set her foot on the rock which was her first step, and extended her hand to grasp a ledge above, which must be climbed, he cried out, in a loud, impera tive voice, “ Dora, stop!”. The voice was so decisive, so power ful, so full of that command which is the counterpart of obedience, that with out a thought of rebellion, Dora stood like a statue. In an instant Mr. Horton put his arm about her, swung her back, and began to strike rapidly and fiercely at something on the crest of the ledge; and in another minute he lifted a dead ratlesnake on his cane and flung it far down into the stream. Dora turned sick, and sat down on a stone, shuddering and pale. Mr. Horton only said, “ Excuse me, Mies Schenck; the danger was too near for me to be less imperative.” Dora shivered. “If you had not, I should be dead now.” “ Not at all,” laughed Mr. Horton. “ I know these tvoods too well to be. ever without the proper alleviations for a snake bite, but I never yet used them, though 1 have met and killed a good many. Rattlesnakes are dull creatures unless they coil to spring, and one blow with a heavy stick will kill them. Very few people die of their bites. I have only heard of one case in these, regions, and that was a child who had strayed alone in the woods.” He purposely lengthened his expla nation, that Dora might calm herself; he did mot know how it was still throb bing through her heart that he had called her “Dora.” Her natively gen erous instinct demanded some thanks at least to be paid, but she could not speak yet; she. was shyly glad, yet angry with herself for being glad ; and trembling so with the sudden nervous shock, she could not for some minutes speak aga-n. Mr. Horton stepped down to the water’s edge, and seemed absorbed in looking at the fall, but his heart beat as wildly as her’s; in that moment of dan ger he had discovered what deen hold Dora had taken of his ii r e. He did not think of her unfitness to be his wife, of her scorn, her wild impulses, her quick temper. Like many another man in his case, he thought onlvof her beauty and its sweetness, and felt that she must love him or he would be miserable. Blessed < rdination of things! If men or women chose their mates as they flo their shoes or their books, with deliber ation and cool judgment, this dear, de lightful, naughty old world would come to a sudden end; it is wise they never do. It seemed an hour to both of these as tonished people, yet it was barely five minutes, before Dora looked at Mr. Hor ton* and said: “I don’t know how to thank you. I can acknowledge now it is good to mind a man—-sometimes.” There was a soft, arch look in the beau tiful dark eyes that contracted the quivering lips; hut the lovely, blushing face told what Dora never meant to tell. Mr. IL-rton knelt down on the grass be side her. “ Oh, Dora, I would not be a truant,” he said. And Dora dropped her headso low that it rested on his shoulder. Mrs. Horton also declared her hus band never as.xed her to marry him, which he indignantly denied as often as she asserted it; but however the union came about, it was true—for everybody said so—that no gentler, sweeter, hap pier minister’s wife everfilled that diffi cult position in the city of Ludlow, where Mr. Horton was settled; even Grace Hamilton could not find fault with this match, though she bad pr - dieted all sorts of jot rows from its "radi cal unfitness.” But time had not soft ened Grace’s native spite, though she controlled it during her brief visit to the parsonage. On the next Christmas morning a package came by express, di rected to Mrs. Horton: on the inner cover of the thin box was written, “ For Doll’s room,” and as the last fold of tissue paper was lifted, an elaborate il luminated motto appeared: ” Uome when you’re called, Do as you’re bid, Shut the door after you And yoll'U never be chid.” Her husband was looking over Dora’s shoulder, and they both laughed. Grace’s arrow was pointless for such trust and happiness. “I’ve only changed my mind,” said Dora, “and that is every woman’s privi lege.” “And I have only abdicated, and that any king may do,” retorted her hus band. “Have you?” said the wife, incredu lously The truth was that neither knew how to differ from the other with comfort. The New Kind of School. The dicipline of the Quincy schools I of B >ston astonishes the old-fashioned j teachers. While it was being explained by one of the committee the other day, i an old teacher objected, “ but—this is very noisy.” “ Precisely, madam ; this is I a workshop, mt a funeral. You can’t have a beehive without a buzz.” “ And.” continued the critic, “ that little boy in the plaid jacket whispered to the iittle girl in white.” “ Quite likely, madam; we can readily find an excuse, for bright-eyed, curly-headed, 1 rosy-cbeeked little boys will whisper to ; little girls in white. We once had a I tendency in that direction ourselves, and we do not see any occasion for pound : ing him or shaking him, or standing ' him in the earner, or putting him in a ! dark closet, or even appearing to notice jit all.” Teachers make a great advance j in school government when they learn I how not to see. SOUTHERN NEWS. The present State Librarian of Ten nessee is a lady. Oranges are shipped from Palatka, Fla., direct to England. The South Carolina cotton factories give support to 10,000 persons. A negro in Morgan County, Georgia, has trapped ten beavers this winter. Natchez, Miss., is building a yarn mill 48 by 100 feet in size. At Erala, Miss., J. W. Musgrove died at the age of 103 years. Savannah has contributed $2,178.76 to the Irish relief fund. The colored Good Templa Vrs in ir ginia, have organized a Grand Lodge for that State. The Mississippi legislature has fixed the compensation of its members in fu ture at S4OO per session. (During the last few months 4,300 dogs have been killed in Dallas, Texas, and the work still goes on. Atlanta has distributed among the farmers of Georgia this season 15,000 Kentucky and Tennessee mules. • The Texas newspapers are advancing their subscripton rates on account of the advance in the price of paper. The only colored school in Columbia, 8. C., has been closed from lack of funds. ’’’he Enquirer-Run says that there is not an available sleeping-room in Col umbus, Ga., unoccupied. The largest sugar mill in Louisiana is in St. Charles parish, and was erected in ninety days. A YOUNG lady in Vicksburg cowhided a "oung man who sent her a comic va’entine. Several young ladies are attending the medical colleges at Nashville, and will be graduated during the present term. At Martin, IGa., amatch dropped into some cotton and started a fire which de '■’* o red the cotton gin of R. D. Gow, and also a saw mill belonging to him. All the Southern Railroads are ship ping guano. The Observer says that whole trains loaded with it pass through Charlotte, N. C. In Henderson County, Tenn., a man only twenty-six years old, was married to a woman who has experienced sixty five winters. During the last four weeks at least 1,000 emigrants have passed through Chattanooga on their way to/Texas and the West. At the late special session of the South Carolina Legislature, fifty-nine acts and eight joint resolutions were passed. Chattanooga firmes during last month shipped 500 barrels of eggs over the East Tennessee and Georgia Rail road. • The Quitman (Ga.) Reporter believes that the farmers in that region have lost enough in spoiled meat to about offset the benefits of the rise in cotton. s.The Agricultural Commission of South Carolina has already turned over to the State Treasurer SII,OOO privilege tax on fertilizers. At Covington, Ga., farmers are buy ing largely of guano, and prospects are favorable for a large clipping of wool. Small grain is looking well throughout that section. The Gazette says that there are old gray-headed men in Hawkins County, Tenn., who have never seen a steamboat. The Holston river runs throngh Hawkins County. The Charlotte (N. C.) Observer savs that the demand for phosphates as a fertilizer is so great this year that the manufacturers will not be able to fill all their orders. A steam woolen mill is to be started at Charleston, Tenn. Three citizens have subscribed $9,000 to the capital I fund, and no difficulty will be experi ! enced in raising the balance necessary I to begin operations. Nashville American: The Commis ■ sioner of Agriculture, Statistics and Mines is now in daily receipt of letters making inquiries with a view to the purchase of farming, mineral and tim bered lands in Tennessee. An Ohio man who had a mortgage for $lO3 on the colored Methodist Church at this place came down last week to foreclose it, but the colored people raised the money Sunday and paid it off.— Winchester Run. Nashville American: Seventy-one : operatives from cotton factories South arrived here yesterday, and, with others, will begin work at the Tennessee Cotton Manufactory next Monday night. That i establishment is to be run day and night hereafter. The Chamber of Commerce of Char- I lotte, N. 0., will invite 2,000 merchants i on the lines of the various railroads , leading into the city to spend several days in examining the inducements the trade of the city offers. Railroad tickets will be enclosed with the in vitations. The United States Government holds $580,000 Virginia bonds as Indian trust funds, which will have to be redeemed out of any money that maybe coming to Virginia in payment of the advances she made the Government during the war of 1812.— Richmond Commonwealth. An Italian woman in New Orleans, becoming tired of her husband and child, stole $2 800 of her husband’s money and eloped with a mulatto. They were found living together in style in another part of the city, and have been arrested on the charge of rob bery. The Legislature of Louisiana is con sidering the question of rebuilding the old Capitol structure at Baton Rouge, to be used for State purposes. A joint committee appointed to report on this subject is of the opinion that it will re quire §137,000 to place the building in a proper condition to be again used as a capitol. The Auditor of Public Accounts of Virginia, in response to a resolution of the House of Delegates, has submitted a report to that body giving the standing and the condition of the accounts of County and City Treasurers of the State. The report shows the delinquency dur ing the prfst. eight years to be over $331,000. Col. Octavius H. Gadsden died of pneumonia at his residence in Jefferson County, Fla., on the 13th inst., in the seventy-first year of his age. He was the youngest and last of the eight sons ot Gen. Christopher Gadsden of Revolu tionary fame, all of whom held high and honorable positions in life.— Charice ton (A. C.) News. Near Columbus, Ga., is the home of a rnan named Walker, now ninety-five years of age, who has not been known to wear a pair of boots or shoes for nearly foty years. One day last week he was thought dead, and was dressed and laid in the coffin, when he revived and demanded an explanation of this strange treatment. Montgomery (Ala.) Arlverticer- it has been discovered that the climate of California, Northern Georgia and Ala bama is just suited to the cultivation of the Cinchona tree, from which quinine is made, and it is proposed to introduce the cultivation of these trees in this country, so as to save the expense in curred in sending to South America for Peruvian bark. A company has been formed for the manufacture of salt in Sumner County, from a well on the Scottsville Turnpike, northeast of Gallatin, which, it is laid will yield from twenty-five to forty harreisevery twenty-tour hours. Uther wells are to be sunk, and the necessary furnace erected.— Nashville American. The Clarksville Tobacco Leaf says that a representative of one of the largest lumber firms in the United States, lo located at Chicago, is looking fora loca j Lion in the South suitable for saw-mills, i In company with Col. Killebrew, State Commissioner of Agriculture and Min a s, be has spent considerable time in pros* pec'inginthe vicinity of Danville and Nashville, Tenn. There is an iron boom in Southwest Virginia. The Brown Hill Furnace, of Wythe Count), will go into blast in a few days under the lease of the Messrs. Hendricks Bros., of New York. They have also bought the zinc property in that county, and contemplate ereciing works in the spring. The IzibdeJ Car Wheel Company are preparing to put the Walton and Paine furnaces in blast at once. Messrs. Graham, Robin son and McGavock will have their three furnaces in blast in March. A party of capitalists from the North are pros pecting for the location of two ten-ton charcoal furnaces. The owners of the Kadiord Works, I’ulaski, some of whom are Pennsylvanians, are having their furnace put in order, and will have it in blast as soon as practicable. The Amphioxns, a fish-shaped ani mal of a vary low grade of development, which affords Haeckel one of the firm est stepping stones in the lively work on evolution, has been the subject of very interesting observations on the part of Henry J. Rice, at Fort Wool, on the Chesapeake. He had the good fortune to find two malts, a ripe female, and twenty young. The animal stands on debatable greund between the verte brates and invertebrates, and received its name from its shape. Amphiorus is the Greek of Mr. Yarrel, for “ sharp at both ends.” Descriptions of the habits, 1 structure, and development of this I curious primitive animal are being is sued in the American Naturalist by Mr. i Rice. Where there’s a will there’s away: 1 and where there’s a won’t there's a I voman behind it. Nofth iarj, Published Every Thursday at BELIjTON, GEORGIA' RATES Ot' SUBSCRIPT [ON. Oaeyear(s2 (28 numbers)- 50 cents : three months (33 numbers) 25 cents. Office in the Smith build-ng, ea t of the depot. NO. 12. PASSING SMILES. “ Before the war ” —courting. Down in the mouth—back teeth. A misfitting coat is a lie out of the whole cloth. “ I think I’ll take something,” as the thief said when he mixed in.the crowd. Ihe best place to have a boil—in the tea kettle. It is easily drawn. A Miss-understanding when a young lady comprehends, of course. “ I tumble to the wreck it,” as the high wind said to the prairie hut. Brevity is the soul of wit, but it has to be stretched out a good deal some times to get enough for the uppers. An infamous old bachelor being asked if he ever witnessed a public execution' replied, “ No, but I once saw a mar iage.’ “Tennyson spends hours on a single line.” And so. by the way, does the washerwoman. And the line of the lat ter is the longest. If a big head denotes ability, it is an interesting sight to observe what a show ing of ability this town puts forth every Monday morning. A witness in court was asked if a party to the suit was a truthful man. “NO;” he answered, “he’d rather lie at sixtv days than tell the truth for cash.” The plethoric paste pot of an editor who clips more than he writes, is like his paper—seldom filled with live mat ter.—Hackensack Republican. Experience teacheth. Great men do hot consider them selves above everybody else; ’tis those ignorant little runts who wear standup collars and sport canes, and who refuse to pay their washing bills, that think everyone beneath them. No other incident can call to a man’s face such an idiotic expression of as sumed unconsciousness as the accidental fall of a bottle of whiskey from his pocket to the sidewalk on a Sunday as tornoon. Who wouldn't be a sailor? All you have to do is yell "aye, aye, sir,” at the top of your voice about once in teu min utes. The rest of the time you can look over the ship’s stern and watch the sharks. He saw a carpet liangiue'vui Upon the clothes-line in the rear (if that fine mansion, and he thought The folks are out, the coast ia clear, I’ll bag that BniraeK Isl can.” He did. and making no delay, Adown the Miley, in the dusk, The carpet-bagger tramped away. Leap-year.—She—“Are you engaged for the next German?” He(with eager ness) —“No, I’m not.” Shfe (with pity)— “Oh, that’s too bad! Good evening. See you later.” . j<> • Man wants but little ear, below, nor wants that little long. Mad wants but little ear bologna, wants that little long. Man wants but little leer; wants but litter here below; wants but little Leah below; wants but Little here below; wants but little ear b’low, etc. “John, what odor is that? ” “Cloves' love.” “ But that other? ” ‘‘Allspice, my beloved.” “But isn’t there another?” “Yes, apples, belovedest.” “Just one more?” “Raisins, my most belovedest.” “Well, John, if you’d only drink just a little brandy, now, I think you would make a good mince pie.” This being leap-year, a boarder at an up-town amateur hotel thought it fine fun to put a bent pin on each vacant chair, until one agile feeder leaped up four feet into the air and camo down with his great unwashed hand in the only bowl of bash in the bouse. There was a famine until supper time. Tub duli-cyed 4<>nkey droops bis bead. Wrapped in himself, With patent perspicuity, - And meekly follows where he’s Jed The cun Ding elf: But, when his heels begin to shed, His latent assiduity Asserts itself, —Hackensack Republican. “Is there any mail' for me?” she said to a handsome Ike. “ Certainly,” said he. “ Where?” said she. “ Here.” said he, with open arms. . “That’s my funeral,” sang the maid. Friends are invited to attend without further notice. So much for what the maid made by getting the male mail. Once in a while we glance from our office window and catcli sight of a girl of the period sailing along the streets, with her hands in the pockets of one of those jatin»y little coats which are now so fashionable, and yet the sight never presents itself that we are not reminded of a two-handled cream pitcher in action. Waterloo Observer. The better a man becomes, the stronger docs the hope of “ the glory of going on ” take nold of his nature. The instinctive expectation of life' beyond the grave strengthens with the increase of virtue in the soul. The man who lives best most keenly feels that life is worth living, most resolutely turns away from the thought of its extinc tion. ____________ A Whole Menagerie in Herself. A correspondent atStrikerville, N. Y., writes as follows to the Cincinnati Times: I am acquainted with a lady Sixty years old, hale and hearty, who was never forty miles from home. The stage goes by her door every day, and she was never in the stage. She never saw a train of cars and never was in a city or town in her life. If any one knows a person of her age who can say the same let us hear from him. Think nothing profitable which who ever force thee to break thy word, ta lose thy self-respect, ta hate, suspect, curse or deceive any one, or to desire anything that be covered with walls or veils.