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N »rtl| PDBUBHISO EVERY THURSDA BELLTON, GA. by JOHN BLATS. Terms—sl.ov per an sum 50 cent* for six mouths; 25 cents forthree months. rartiei away from Belltou are requested to send their names with such amounts of money a> they can pare, from 2ce. *o $1 IJI A TIKE OF TROUBLE, Ab an eagle, from the height, looking down upon the lands, On forests black as night, Fair field* and desert sands, Sees the traveler below Losing heart, as, league on league, Long wildernesses show No end to hi* fatigue, Bo faith, amid her stars, Beholding far beneath The bright or gloomy bars In the web of life and death. Sees weary hearts that deem The dark breadth is the whola, Sees happy hearts that dream The bright rays all their goat Ah! let this faith be ours— That even ’mid the pain, Above the present towers. And sees the nearing gain; While, breadth by breadth, appear*. As from the weaver’s band, The pattern of the years Which God Himself has planned. DR. DEDLING’S MISTAKE. “Os course,” said young Dr. Ded ling, “a man has his own fortune to look to.” “Os course,” said Judith; and, as she sjxike the words, a cold chill seemed to creep, like slowly-congealing ice, around her whole heart. “If you had consulted me as to your affair,” went on the young man, “in stead of taking this extraordinary step, entirely without advice or council—” “Yes, I know,” hurriedly interposed Judith ; “but it’s over and past now, so perhaps we had better not talk about it.” The red winter sunset was blazing with sullen fire above the cedar copse in the west; the leafless woods held up their black arms, in a sort of wrestling agony toward the sky, as the bleak winds tossed them to ami fro, and a solitary raven uttered his ominous croak in the woods at the back of the house. Dr. Dedling shuddered as he looked around him, and glanced out toward the dreary swamp that extended toward the east. t "Such a place,” he said, “for a lady to select to live in I” “It isn’t very cheerful," said Judith, ‘' but I have lived here all my life, you know.” “The more reason for wanting to get out of it now,” said the doctor, impa tiently. Judith was silent. She looked at the blazing logs in the old-fashioned hearth, and tried to keep back the fashrising tears. Dr. Dedling arose and took up his hat. “ Thon I am to consider that our en gagement is quite at an end ?” said the doctor. “Yes,” said Judith, in a very low tone. “Good-by !” said Dr. Dedling. “Good-by!” responded Judith. The next moment she was alone with the logs, and the crickets chirping on the hearth, and the strange, weird shad ows that came and went on the waiuseot ted walls. It was just a mouth to-night since they had buried old Miles Grey out of sight. Little Judith, who had worn herself out. in taking care of him, tad dionjx-d a few tears on the cheap coffin that in cased his remains, but no one else had semed particularly to grieve. Mrs. Pytchley, her eldest sister, who was married to a New York grocer, had noldly declared that it was high time the old man took himself off the stage of this world, and had made no secret of her disappointment when it was dis covered that SI,OOO in gold pieces repre sented all his hoarded wealth, with the exception of the cranberry swamp, upon whose dreary verge stood the house ; and this dreary property, by the terms of the will, was to be divided between his two nieces, Judith Gray and Martha Pytch ley, as they themselves might agree. “ I’ll take the, ready money,” said Mrs. Pytchley, hastily. “ What could I do with three or four miles of cranberry swamp ?” “ Or, what could Judith do with it, either ?” said Hobart Pytchley, who sat whittling a pine stick beside the fire. “I dare say she could manage very nicely,” said Martha. I’ve heard Uncle Miles say that he sold S6O wortn of cran berries one year out of the swamp.” "Humph !” grunted Mr. Pytchly. “And that’s legal interest on SI,OOO, you know,” added his wife. “ What do you say, Judith?” “It makes no difference to me,” said Judith, quietly. “It does to me, then!” said Mrs. Pytchley; “because, as you know very well, Hobart’s business is in the city, and we could do nothing at all with a lot of swamp land down here in the back woods.” So Mrs. Pytchley had taken the lion’s share of the old "man’s bequests and gone back to her city home, over Ho bart’s grocery ; and young Dr. Dedling, who had confidently calculated on at least SSOO, to buy surgical instruments to fit up an office in the village adjoin ing—gsoo as the dowry of his bride elect—broke his engagement in a pique that Judith should have so deliberately flung her fortune away. “ A set of sharpers 1” cried he, with disgust. “Stop, Dr. Dedling!” said Judith, coloring up. “ You forget that you are s;>eaking of my sister and her husband.” “ But they had no business to impose on you thus’!” exclaimed tit- doctor. "I agreed to the plan without remon strance. ” Dr. Dedling shrugged his shoulders. “In that,” said he, sharply, “you showed your lack of sense ! If you hail no good regard for yourself, you might have had some for me !’’ “Was it for my money you wanted me?” demanded Judith, stung to the quick. Dr. Dedling colored and hesitated. "A man must take monetary matters into consideration.” he said. The North Georgian. \OL. 111. And so it came about that the engage ment was canceled, and Judith Grev was sitting there alone in wintry twilight, silently, with clasped hands and head dropped upon her breast Doctor Dedling plodded home to the village, and as he passed the brilliant windows of the little hostelry he paused, remembering the bitter cold of the winter air, the frosty influence of the breeze. “ I may as well go in and warm my self,” thought he. Mine host met him with a cheery air. “ Walk in, doctor ; walk in!” said he. “Not that room,” as Dedling mechanic ally laid his hand upon the door-knob of the apartment he usually entered. "The Railway Committee is a sitting there. Tliis way, if you please!” "The Railway Committee I” echoed Dedling. “What Railway Committee ? You don’t mean that they’re actually taking any steps about the old idea of a railway between here and Glassville?” “ Yes, I do,” said the landlord. “It’s a committee of rich capitalists, as are building factories close to the Falls; and they mean to put up a row of tenement houses all along, and would lay down a line of rails; and don’t say I mentioned it, doctor, because I onlv caught a snatch here and there, when I was carrying in the plates, and setting on the fruit, and nuts, and wine—but it’s to go right through old Miles Grey’s cranberry swamp, the railway is! And the Chair man is going to offer Miss Judith SS,(MX) in good, clean, hard money for her share th itl” Doctor Dedling started 1 “Five-thousand dollars!” repeated he, slowlv. Could it really be a fact? If so—and there seemed little reason for doubting it—what a fatal mistake he had made in rejecting a bride who could bring the rich portion of a “cranberry swamp” as her wedding dower. If he" had known this half an hour—one little half-hour ago! “Don’t fret about him, Judith, dear, he isn’t worth it! ” urged honest Marma duke Redfield, who had stopped on his way to the postoffice to bring a message from his mother. “He was always a pretentious sort of fellow, all for outside show, with a heart like a stone, and a nature, as shallow as Deacon Doler’s brook.” Judith looked up at the clumsy, good hearted, hard-handed farmer, and won dered that she had never before seen what a true face, and what clear, frank eyes he hail. “ Forget him, Judith,” pleaded Red field; and she began seriously to think that she would at least make the trial. “ Come over to our house and stay with mother. It’s too bleak and lonesome for you here, for the present at least. Spring will be time enough for you to come back to the cranberry swamp.” Judith Grey looked around at ths sol itary room, and thought of Mrs. Rod field’s cozy kitchen, with its bright colored rag carpet, its window lined with blooming geraniums, and its shrill voiced canary bird hanging over the work-table. “Do you think,” she hesitated, “that your mother would be willing to be troubled with such a guest as I?” Duke Redfield’s face grew radiant. “Only try her,” he said; “dear Judith, you’d be as welcome as the flow ers in May.” And the next day Mrs. Redfield came over in the old farm carryall to claim her guest, and the swamp house was left to its own drean’ desolation and the driving snows of January. Scarcely three weeks had elapsed when young Dr. Dedling came to Red field farm in his new gig, with the old roan horse, that really made quite a good appearance when you did not hurry him, and he was free from a visita tion commonly known as the “ heaves." “There ain’t nobody sick here,” said Julius, the hired man, who was splitting wood at the side of the house, as he eyed the doctor rather suspiciously. “No, I know it,” said Dr. Dedling ; “but I have called to see Miss Grey.” “Miss Grey ain’t noways ailin’as I know of,” persisted Julius, feeling the edge of his ax, and staring hard at the medical representative of Glassville. “I have called,” said Dr. Dedling, with dignity, “as a friend.” “ Oh,” said Julius. “Will you be kind enough to let me in ?” persisted the doctor. “ ’Tain’t no use,” said Julius, rollinga prodigious pine knot down from the pile, and preparing himself for a stupendous effort; " there ain’t nobody to home.” “ Nobody at home?” echoed the doc tor. “ They’ve all gone to church,” ex plained Julius. “To church, man? Why, it’s Tues day.” “ Who said it wasn’t ?” retorted Julius. “ They ain’t gone to hear service—they is gone to be married 1” “ Who?” demanded the doctor. “Our Marmaduke and Miss Judith !” And down eame the ax upon the end of the pine knot with a crash that made the man of medicine start back. The new railroad was duly construct ed directly across the depth of old Miles Grey’s cranberry swamp, and $5,000 was placed to Mrs. Marmaduke Redfield’s account in the nearest national bank ; and Mrs. Pytchley thinks she made a mistake in taking the gold eagles instead of the cranlierry swamp ; but young Dr. Dedling thinks his mistake was greater still. ________________ Gymnastic Training. The Spartans were rigid in exacting a gymnastic training for youths. Then the girls were expected to be good gym nasts, and no young woman could be married till she had publicly exhibited her proficiency in various exercises. The horse-shoe doesn’t bring good luck when the horse applies it BELLTON, BANKS COUNTY, GA. JULY 8, 1880. SOUTHERN NEWS. Little Rook has an artesian well 600 feet deep. The orange crop of Florida will be fine this season. Bum-posting is forbidden on telegraph poles in Charleston, S. 0. The new court-house at Gallatin, Tenn., is a handsome building. Cider is made in Texas from tomatoes, and sells at $1.25 per gallon. Two more new factories will soon be under way on the canal at Augusta, Ga. Tira site for the Marine Hospital has been located at Fort Pickering, Memphis. The Star claims 20,000 population for Wilmington, N. C., under the new census. Mobile has received 350,000 bales of cotton this season, 10,000 short of last year. Flint River has just received a de posit of 100,000 young shad, at Albany, Ga. Cotton goods manufactured in South Carolina are being sold extensively in New England. The ladies of Little Rock have a build ing association, and $90,000 have been subscribed. The Lane cotton mill at New Orleans has been enlarged to 10,000 spindles, and is doing well. The stock of sea-island cotton at Charleston is nearly exhausted, only 510 bales remaining unsold. Great fears are felt everywhere in the cotton belt on account of the appearance of worms at different points. New cotton factories are springing up everywhere down South. One will be started at Chattanooga this season. Vicksburg is looking into her sanitary condition and is determined that Yellow Jack shall not catch her napping. Os the 1,000 convicts in the Virginia State Prison only two admit that they merit the punishment they are enduring. A correspondent of the New Orleans Ti mes, from Kansas, says he has never yet seen half a crop raised in that State. Galveston has confronted for an arte sian well, a,OOO feet deep and eight inches in diameter, at a total cost of $23,000. The Kansas exodusters are still slowly and sadly working their way back to their old homes in Mississippi and Louis iana. Cows are going blind in the neighbor hood of Jackson, Tenn., and no cause can be assigned for so remarkable a disease. The Board of Health, New Orleans, has adopted stringent measures for sanitary purposes, and seems determined to enforce them. A man at Helena, Texas, believes there will be another flood in November ; and this second Deucalion is building on ark for the occasion. A disgusted negro, returned from Kansas, says that “if Kansas should be roofed in it would be the biggest nigger poor-house in the world.” Point Cleab, near Mobile, is the New Port of the South. It is situated at the entrance of Mobile Bay, fronting both on the gulf and the bay. The princely ranche of Capt. R. King, of Nueces County, Texas, is inclosed by a wire fence 175 miles in length, inclos -253,000 acres of grazing land. The bullion assays at the Charlotte mint will reach 500,000 during the pres ent year. The mining interests of North Carolina are being pushed forward with great energy. A negro man in Pointe Coupee Par ish, La., pulled an old log out of the river the other day and found in it $l6O in old French coin, much blackened with age and exposure. | |Canning shrimp and preserving fresh figs for the general market is a successful industry of New Orleans; ri valine the famous canning establishments in Balti more and the North. Tint census enumerators have ascer tained that for the last ten years the mortality in New Orleans has been twelve in 1,000 per annum, an exceed ingly low death rate. The Columbia and Lexington (8. C.) Water Power Company will send their agents to different points South to com municate with capitalists with the view of inviting them to invent. A tarty in Jacksonville, Fla., has en tered into an engagements with a large London firm to furnish them with an un limited number of sticks of orange and other Florida woods suitable for walking canes and umbrella handles. Very few of the working men thrown out of employment by the failure of the Vulcan Iron Works at Chattanooga have yet found work. The Aurora Works re fused to employ some of them because they are “Union” men. The city council of Charlotte, N. have raised the whisky tax in that city to SSOO, and included druggists under the ordinance. The bar-keepers are indig nant, and say that the movement will give the large dealers a monopoly. There are at present twenty-three bar-rooms in the city. The New Orleans waterworks have achieved a grand success in being able to throw a supply of freshly filtered wafer to the rooms of the loftiest houses in the city, and will be able to supply water power for the purposes of operating ma chinery instead of steam at fifty per cent, less cost than steam-jiower. The medium of this power is the Backus motion. An over-true story comes from “kussed Kansas” to the Little Rock Democrat. One good crop in eight years; no rain since last November and hundreds of farmers looking back toward Arkansas, and the negroes in Graham County liv ing on the buds and berries of wild roses, wild roots, corn bread and water, and no meat; hard work and no pay, are some of the sweets of that Eden of the West. The Tillandsia usneeoides, or Spanish moss, is an air plant and not a parasite. It feeds on the malarial exhalations of the Southern soil, and consumes enough of these noxious properties to render the country habitable. It grows everywhere in the lowlands of Louisiana, Mississippi, Texas, Alabama and Florida, and should be considered the salvation of the locali ties in which it js found. Atlanta is agitating the construction of a canal from the Chattahoochee River, so as to furnish the city with increased water power sufficient for manufacturing purposes. The length of the canal from the Chattahoochee River to the Sewanee Will be about thirty-one miles. The canal can be built at a cost of $18,090 a mile at present prices, making the entire cost of the work from $1,200,(MIO to $1 ,- 400,000. A good joke is related on one of the most prominent bankers in Lynchburg, Va. While marketing several days since he inquired of an old negro woman tin' price of strawberries. She informed him that they were fifteen cents per quart, but, “bein’ ’twas him,” if he’d take three ,q;iarts they might go for half a dollar. 'Be decided to take the three quarts, and it was some time afterward that tho thought struck him that he had been financiered out of five cente by a country darky. Chicken Breeding in France. Thanks to some singular statistics just published, for the authenticity of Which, however, I should hesitate to vouch, a mystery that has long hung over our dinner tables is cleared up. English travelers or residents in Franco must, like myself, have often wondered where all the fowls that figure daily in menus at every hotel, restaurant and private house in the country, at no mat ter what season of the year, can possibly come from. The supply appears to bo inexhaustible, and that it is so practi cally is proven by the announcement that France contains no fewer than 40,- 000, (MX) hens, which are followed by a train of 100,000,000 chickens, about a tenth partof these latter being destined for the duties of propagation. The 40,- (XX),000 hens lay annually four milliards of eggs, which, at the rate of 6 centimes each—a trifle over a halfpenny—the price paid to the breeder, realize a sum of 240,000,000 francs. If to this amount be added the proceeds from tho sales of fowis, whether lean or fat, and taking into consideration also the surplus value attaching to eggs and birds by reason of city tolls, the total arrived at is set down nt the almost fabulous figure of 550,(MX),- (XX) francs, or more than half a milliard, produced annually by French poultry yards. Neither ducks nor geese nor turkeys are included in these calcula tions ; if they were the gross sum would have been increased by several hundreds of millions of francs. So, accepting this census as tolerably near the mark, we may henceforth cense to be surprised at the vast amount of chicken bones daily picked in France. Tenacity of Vegetable Life. The duration and tenacity of public life, as seen in the length of time during which the seeds of certain plants will re tain their vitality, nre truly wonderful. We may cite the following example : Lord Lindsay states that, in the course of his wanderings amid the pyra mids of Egypt, he stumbled on a mum my, proved by its hieroglyphics to be 2,000 year old. In examining this mummy after it was unwrapped he found in one of itsclosed hands a tuberous or bulbous root. He was interested in the question how long vegetable life could last, and he therefore took that tuberous root from the mummy’s hand, and planted it in a sunny soil, allowed the rains and dews of heaven to descend upon it, and in the course of a few weeks, to his astonishment and joy, the root burst forth and bloomed into a beauteous dahlia. The roots of many plants retain their vitality under intense temperatures. Certain plants, also, may, by their roots, absorb some poisons which would be destructive to others. The seeds on which birds have fed will retain their power of germination during a long pe riod. Birds that feed on the seed of the castor oil plant have been known to bear them in their bodies from one country to another, where they have I grown and multipled. NO. 27. A Reminiscence of Early California Days. Away back in 1852 there was a dispute over a placer mine in Yuba river, at Park Bor, in California. Stephen J. Field was retained. Suit was brought before a Justice of the Peace for an alleged forcible entry and detainer, a form of action in vogue for the recovery of min ing claims, because the title to the laud was vested in the United States. It was prosecuted solely as a possessory action. The constable who summoned the jury had received S2OO to summon parties named by the other side. This fact was ascertained beyond controversy by evi dence placed in the hands of Mr. Field. While in bed at Park Bar he overheard a conversation between a juror and one of the opposite parties in an adjoining tent. The juror assured the party that everything was fixed, and that the jury •had agreed to render a verdict in his favor. The trial was held in a saloon crowded with spectators, most of whom were favorable to the other side. In sum ming up Mr. Field addressed the jury for three hours. He showed conclusively that his client was entitled to a favora ble verdict. “Gentlemen,” said he, in closing his argument, “we have not endeavored to influence your verdict, except by the evidence. We have neither approached you secretly nor sought to control you. We have relied solely upon the law and tho evidence to maintain our right to this property. But our opponents have not thus acted. They are not satisfied to allow you to weigh the evidence. They have endeavored to corrupt your minds and pervert your judgment. With uplifted hands you declared by the ever living God that you would return a ver dict according to law. Will you per jure your souls ? I know that you (pointing to a juror) have been ap proached. Did you spurn the wretch that made the proposal, or did you hold secret counsel with him ? I know that yon (pointing to another juror) talked over this case last night, for I overheard the conversation, the promises, and your pledge. Canvas houses are as one here. Words uttered in one are voices in all. You did not dream that you were heard, but I was there, and I know the details of the foul bargain.” At this an ominous “click, click, click” was heard. A score of pistols were cocked. “There is no terror in your pistols, gentlemen,” continued Mr. Field, in a thrilling tone. “ You cannot win your case by shooting me. You can win it only by showing title to the property. You can never win it by bribery or threat’s of violence. I openly charge at tempted bribery. If it is untrue, let the jurors speak from their seats. Attempt ed bribery, I say—whether successful or not will depend upon what may occur hereafter. Jurors, you have invoked the vengeance of iteaven upon your souls if you fail to render a verdict ac cording to the evidence. If you are willing to sell your souls, decide against us.” The address was effectual. After an absence of a few minutes the jury re turned a verdict in favor of Mr. Field’s client. Some admitted that they had been corruptly approached, but added that they were not so base as to lx? in fluenced in that way. Witliin two weeks the owners took from the placer over $99,000 in gold dust A Curious Accident. A curious though awkward accident happened to a clergyman of this city who was being shown the points of in terest around the city by one of his parishioners. Among other places they visited a wharf commanding a view of our grand old river. The reverend gentleman became absorbed in contem plation of the prospect before him, and forgetful of the broken plank behind him in the dilapidated wharf. Suddenly stepping backward, he found himself falling, and instinctively grasped his friend by the shoulder with one hand and threw his other arm around his waist, and both fell into the opening, which proved to be too small to let them into the deep and rapid current beneath. United they filled the month of the yawning abyss, which gaped wide enough to swallow either of them alone. 'Die union of pastor and people was never better illustrated under any cir cumstances ; the two clung together like Damon and Pythias, and formed a suspension bridge across the horrid chasm with their interlaced bodies, un til, by the exercise of herculean efforts and acrobatic contortions, they struggled out of their perilous position and re gained their perpendicular, when the minister complimented his companion with the remark, “ Well, you are a good man to cling to. Are all the members of the parish like you ? ” “ Oh, yes,” was the answer ; “we are all bound to give our pastor a good support.”—Ports mouth (N. H.) States and Union. The Cucumber. The extent to which this vegetable is consumed by the inhabitants of Egypt and the Southwest of Asia, and also in European Russia and Germany, would scarcely seem credible to this country. You never see a Russian peasant at din ner but you see the lump of black bread and a encumber. The vegetable seems certainly a singular dish to be so na tional in a country with a climate like that of Russia. Seme writers say that there used to be a great annual fair at Leipsic for cucumbers, when the streets were heaped up a story high with that precious element of German cookery. In Germany barrels of half and also fuil grown cucumbers are preserved from one year to another by immersion in deep wells, where the uniform temper ature and exclusion from air seemed to be the preserving agents, Xorth Cfcofgikq, Published Every Thursday at BELLTON, GEORGI A, RATES OF SUBSCRIPTION. One year (52 number!), $1.00; six months ( 6 numbers) 50 cents; three months (1$ numbers), 25 cents. Office in the Smith building, east of the depot. WAIFS AND WHIMS. The hotel keeper lives on his inn come. Ten cente won’t make a mill between pugilists. Two heads are better than one, but not on the same pin. The battles of the union—fight between husband and wife. Did anybody ever see a little “pig lead” out by the ear? Does not a farmer become a cannibal when he eats his own kine? Since the foot produces ache-corns, what kind of fruit will the negro. The addage must be changed. Bread always falls oleomargarine-side down. Man can not add one cubit to his own stature, but he can make a horse stall. “ Please pass the butter,” as the man remarked when he sent his goat by rail. An apple threw the first man. Since then it has sort o’ let the business out to the banana. Men with deaf and dumb wives possess some advantage over their more unfortu nate brothers. “This farm for sale, subject to mort gagesand cyclones,” is the way they now hang out signs in the Southwest. If the Government wishes to keep colored cadets out of trouble, it should plant watermelon patches at West Point. An Ithica man lost his wife and a yel low dog by one stroke of lightning, and he tried for a half a day to revive the dog. The Japs study political economy. Ah, yes; we know what that is. Five dollars directly to the voter is worth $25 spent on fireworks. Two church socials at Topeka, Kansas, led to five divorces, one violent death and several fights. Seems to be a good place Topeka quarrel. Two French Senators meet: “I have just come from the Senate. The sitting lasted three hours.” “What passed?” “Three hours.” James H. Gallup and Emma Canter were married at Grand Rapids a few days ago. Give ’em time and they’ll make a ■spanking team. A young Darwinian: Jack (to his mar ried sister) —“ Hi ! Polly ! ! Look !! ! Here’s your baby trying to walk on ita bind legs ! !!! ” “Plant no flowers on my grave when lam dead,” she said. They didn’t, but a sul flower came up of ita own accord. Wasn’t she foolish? In the midst of life some men do all the evil they can, and when they die the papers tell lies about them at the rate of fifty cents per line. Wrinkles are not always the sign of age. Look at the calf’s neck. Or at a corrugated stove-pipe elbow. Or at a badly ironed shirt bosom. Apothecary—“ You want this pre scription filled, sir, I understand?” Pat rick— “Divil a bit of it, surr! It is the bottle I wud have filled. ” It is only the female mosquito that bites, but when a man gets a chance to belt one with a towel, he’s going to do it without stopping to inquire its gender. Ralph Waldo Emerson keeps two cows and milks them himself. Some of his brightest thoughts have come to him while being kicked half way across the stable. , When you see a man sit down in a barber’s chair, pin the newspaper round his neck, and begin to read the towel, you may put him down as absent minded. “Well, Miss-takes will happen in the best regulated families,” as the old gen tleman remarked upon hearing that the tall and slender young man had stolen his child away. The young Englishman, just over, read to his wife the heading of a medicine ad vertisement—“ Gained eight pounds in ten days,” and remarked, “Hexcellent wages, that, Mary.” “Household art decoration is what takes with my boarders,” said Mrs. Gil dersleeve, as she made a bread pudding and called her eldest daughter down stairs to paint raisins on it. A line in a Welsh poem reads: "Mi ganabi chwi ganu amfy rwyrtn Pete." We advise Pete to do nothing of the kind. It would be injudicious. —Norris town Herald. A medical,.writer asks: “Does posi tion affect sleep?” It does, particularly if the man is holding the position of night watchman. He is liable to be dis turbed by the police. He Rose to the Occasion. Nowhere excepting in this free and beautiful country of ours could an inci dent combining the humorous and prac tical have occurred like the following: It was between Mr. Bliss, a conductor on the Chicago and Rock Island rail road, whose height is five feet, and Mr. Henry, a passenger, who stood seven feet in his stockings. Mr. Henry put* his ticket in his hat band, and stood himself up when the brief conductor came along. Mr. Bliss could not reach the ticket, even when standing on his toes, and his unavailing efforts to do so made all the passengers “ laugh con sumedly.” But he rose to the occasion. Without changing countenance, he brought a step-ladder, leaned it against the elongated Henry, climbed up to and picked off the ticket, and went on as though nothing had happened. Rather good, 'and very American.— Harper's Magazine. A cold application to the bore feet, such as iron, water, rock, earth or ice, when it can be had, is an excellent rem- I edy for cramp. If the patient be seized in the upper part of the body, apply the remedy to the hands,