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V ' nr ~ n '< > I Ii *'* ■ lB PHOFH!8SIONAL rAUDP.I D R. S. ROBERTSON, PHYSICIAN & SURGEON, Tenders his professional services in the practice of medicine in all its branches to the citizens of Dallas and surrounding country. JflTOftice No. 5 Ac worth street, near court house. W. K. PIHLDBB. ORO. II. ROBERT.. J1IELDER A ROBERTS, ATTORNEYS AT LAW, Dallas, Paulding Ciunty, Georgia. Practioe in .11 the couri". Prompt otton Hon Riven to looking utter wild land claims. Collection, a specialty. 1 ty convict, in the Georgia penitentiary. Pan) B. Hayne was paid $500 for hi. ide read at the Savannah serqul-centen- nial celebration. A rkansaa ha. doubled ita population In ten years. It is now the fourth cot. ton State. J M, SPINKS, ■ATTORNEY at law, Dallas, Paulding County, Georgia. Prompt attention given to collection. In anr parted the State. Will land* looked after and iatradtr* .Jtettd. C IlT |^ds*nA It with 10 drew Risiepstsd U I wo wilt Bond one s.iroule ist of 0 new ftyl* T UICr M Y n,e ” * r iP ,e piste'* Tfsipoons. Cop* H lO tn'.m v ra#\ wnrmitod pcnutno, rc,un) nut In H PP p n>snco to three dollar *tx>on* 11U I lOusrsntood to plow, or money refundfd. Only ono set unit to tntioduco A goof* wanrd enr good par. (Rrm'sis free. ArlrtrrM the mtnufae • urers, A WMUTrtll.VKB PLATE CO., R3 Broom field street, Baiton, Yam. YOU 0 AN HAVE ANY KIND OF Sewing Machine Kcpiired. BUY All Kinds of Needles, Attachments, Parts, Etc., Etc. —OF— I». McCOBMACK. 51 S. Broad St., Atlanta, Ga. gQT'Ssnd Machines by Erprew. #37.35 FOR #1. Music for the Million.—Vienna Eolian Labial Organ. Sweetest un i most delightful music Know Popular in Europe. Any tune can b** Played on it, from Old Hundred to Yankee Doodle Even those “with no ear” while away de lightful hours with this instrument. An? one can play it. Children play it in nn» evenincr. Costs but one^tenth as mtichs$ the Orgsnette, Orgnnins, eto., and is fa' sweeter and need? only common music. Tr introduce our new music we will send a f am ple Organ, with bound book containing fu” words and music of 06 new and popular songs, which in sheet form sell for $26.35, prepahl to any addross for ONLY $1. 0. O. F>.—As a euarantee that cvcrv one will receivo all they pay for, we will send on a sample book end orcran by express C- O. D„ $1-00; two for $t 60; three, $2.20, ot more at the rate of *9 per doien. We can not prepay goods sent C. O. D. C'rmlar free. Address MONADNOCK MUSIC CO , Lock Box 780, Hinsdale, N. H. H e. smith & co., . Dallas, Georgia, Dealers in Family Groceries, Plain and Fancy Confectioneries a specialty. Fvery- thing fresh and nice; Just from the factory ! We desire to eay io our friends and th* public in general that having opened out i stock of groceries and confectioneries, w» propose to sell them as cheap as the cheat est. ‘ Small Profits and Quick Sales” sha^ be opr motto. Come and see us and convinced. THW ’’ORIGINAL,, STAR SPANGLED BANNER. The oldest, most popular, best and cheap, eet Family paper, hei?ins its 21st yea-wit! 1883. His a larRC 8 pn<-e, tOooilimi illn« trated literarv paper, size of the “He '|?er. Cram rail of splendid stories, stele - ' ", po ems, wit humor Rnd general fun. Haems' and mast popular paper published. Estate lished 20 years, read bv 60,030 persons. I ii solid, substantial, reliable. Only 50 cent. a year, 5 copies, $2; or 75 cents a yci r with choice of set of six triple plated sllvei «pnon«, no bras., new style, retail price *1. 60; or Am. Diol’.o lerv, 700 pages, lllu drated defines 30,000 word", numerous tame" bound in cloth, gilt, better than usual *1.60 book", or wonderful ‘‘MttUiim- n-Parvo knife, a dozen tools in one handle, sells a one to three dollar", buck handle, name plate, etc., or superb bell harmonics, Bwee' e«t musical instrument known, prior r 1.50 Either of above premiums and Banoe ons year sent free, for 25 green stamp.. Sub- scriba now. Satisfactio. guaranteed o> money refunded. Trial trip 3 month Hr on'. 10 cents. Sp#cim“n« free. Addra"" STAB BE ANGLED BANNER, Hinsdale, N. H. GENERAL NEWS. TOPICS OF THE DAT. _ ... ....... i Bobtbl, the new tenor over whom There arc twelve hundred and thirteen [ Enropclltt opera-goers ^ in eoeUaie., was formerly, like Wachtel, a cab driver. The lowest bid for plsoing tho now desks required in tho House of Repre sentatives nt Washhigton, is at a mod erate figure—only #1(1 25 for each. A Florida alligator cuiturist has over 1,000 little reptiles jn stock to flit spring The’’ Arkansas Legislature has passed I orders from the North, and ho laughs at stringent'law for the protection of | mon who waste tlioir timo in Congress at $5,000 a year. Imber. There are 40 colored Baptist church"" hi New Orleans, with a membership o' ,000. Thhe death Hat of New Orleans last week, want the largest since the epidenv o of 18878, heirp 172 from all causes.’ Deals™ in Athens, Ga.. report four a« many improved agricultural lm- DUNnnn merchants, many of whom carry standing credits in tho Uuiti'd Stntea of from $75,000 to $100,000, say they liuvo fewer bad debts in the United States (linn i;i Europe. fi em«ntft*nlj m lsst yew; Tt is- estimated that it will cost th" 8tn*e of Georgia $60,000 to sssemMe th" .ogta'atuTB this spring to count th" Tele fur Governor. South Ctnrnltna bas 9,078 manufacin' In# estahliahmcnts, with a cspital n .295.894 Invested. Value of product! 11 fi 738.008. On a deed which »** registered a 1 Oroden, Tenn., a few days ago, the sip. nature oljten persons was required, end iiit t;f this number nine mado their nark. A tract of land, 127 acre*, on Thun derbolt rnstl, near Pavannai., has ins* k een purchased for a fruit farm. It wll 1 he under the superintendence of expert need gardeners from western New York. There is more building of houses going m now in Columbia. P. O., than at any Ai,KX*Nr>BB H. Sr Keanus, Georgia’s deceased Governor, had longer obituary uptime in (lie Loud..u papers tho morning after his death than - nuy Apierioun wiui him dlddfuthop tit qnirtsr and leaving lieforo thorn a long tad- t A strand. Evtry twenty minutes thoy disappear from sight, and lira seen ns bu ns the oyo eon pencil coming into view- down tho dimly lighted walk, nenrlv n mile owny. Thirty or more trips make a wand and every wornl is a half mi'o, and every day enrh apfnuor walks fifteen milts aud spins soven miles of strands. The average rnto of oiinrgo on tho A moi l nn railways per ton of pasaengers for a milo is $3.20; tho average per mile or a ton of freight iB $1.29 [.or ton pier lido. Tito profit mado out of carrying ton <f passengers a mile is 80.8 tents; the protit out of carrying a lou if freight a mile is 0.58 cont. ———^ ♦ Tiik law library of tho,into Jhistloo JlilTord, of tho United States Supreme Oourt, is now offered for rale at Port- land, Me., and nn effort is being made o have it puroUavod ns a whole and kept in that oily ns a public litiiury. It is aid to he tlio largest law lllirm-y in New England except ono in Boston. Tiif. death of John Brown, the old Seot who Ims been llie devoted person al attendant of tho Queen, will m do an English sensation. This John Brown was one of the most obstinate and fanat ical of mob, and his attondanoe upon tho Quoou has be c# so j ersistent, and n times obtrusive, that it lim boon if- fenaive, ano takon as the basii of gossip not worthy of montiou. Brown was the favorite servant of Prmeo Albert, and he has boon for more thon twenty years Constantly on guard for the Queen's protection, rendy to givo his life ut any moment to defond her. His lloreo de- contury. votion has beau Hke that el a nah'e deny for a child. A ooMPMHSox of statistic" shows Now fork ns the third G -nnan city in tho vorld, o iming nftsr B .-rliti and Vienna. Ihic-nro, Phiiadeipiiia, and Bt. Louis vault close to Frankfort, Hamlm -g, and Ime since 1866; Within the past year I i) reg j uni Bjstou is th) only lnr (o oity sal estate hss advanced twenty-five per I j u tho country where G irmaus aro not isnt in some localities of the'clty. I found in largo numbers. A man in the Goldnboro district *' I- , "T ’,T ’ . A man in _ . A lawsuit to determiuo tho ownor- P'lltskl onnnty, Ga., is off g * | ihip of a large meteoric stone which fell ush fer 200 bead of geese. Ho wsn * I ,, Emmot, Iowa, is about to bo tried, he geese to run in his cotton fields an I pi 10 owner of tho land on which il fell Veep them clear of grass. I claims that it is hit for that reason, and Atlanta CVnstition : Much talk I" I tho man who saw it full a id dug it up sard just now of Gen. Gordon’a Elnr- | believoa tho court will hold his title per- ida road, and if completed, as orielnally ’ontemidated, to Augusta, It will make me of tho moat imnoitsnt railroads In the Routh. feet. The stono lias considerable value, for it weighs 600 pounds. A DAY lahtiror who wiw enipioyod dig- 'ing up frozen water pipes about tlio Mr. R. Hunter of Alabama, will p'anl I streets of Denver, Col., died recently, over one hundred acres in peach tree* I n his trunk were found a suit of broad- mar New Castle, not far from the Routh I -loth, white shirts nnd manuscript and North Alabama railroad - He in-1 Hermans, nnd tho story soon became tends to build a peach brandy mauufac-1 ttiowu Hint lie wna a well-kuown clergy- , I-jinn of the United Brethren donomitm- ory. | . , I tion. Savannah News: As the increase ot otton manufactures progresses at- the I It is claimed that ono reason wliy touth the solicitude of the Northern I Sergeant Mason, wlto allot at Guitcmi, | still remains in prison is liei-niiHO "Betty" doesn’t want him to come out | She has invested tlio money subscribed to “Betty nnd tlio baby" very shrewdly, and is not willing to pav tlio fees nnd ionrnals increases lest the capital inves- "d Jiere in that line he thrown awav. fhls friendly inlereet ie truly remarks Sle. TTenrv Clav Thurston, who was horn , , . , nenry out o*""’ • I other oxpenso.s wlncli are ncc -HHary h T n erreeirvWrr, f*. 0„4m* »— *- I B1s release. Hta lawyer iv.iuts a writ c. "Itn" county, Texas is roven feet and s I }i tp 4c hmont issued niminst her property, half inch in heltrht, hut has a foot thin - «sn inchca long, wears Nn. 15 shoes, an J I a hojourxku in Now York says: ds hst is reyen and one-eight, showlne I “The brotherhood of smokers I have - hat his head it small in proportion te { never seen morn forcibly illustrated. Insure Your PrnpertT Against I.os» by Fire. I Bin H2°nt for CinUnentaUmuranee Co»- n«oy, Wbloh is canflaed *6 the insurlniolfeiir property, dwelling*. cSurchei, sail ichoot hoaier. lor nne, three »nd fire yeerr. Eyery pruAent mm feels Bate when he koovi that If he ■hcnt l he a® m fortunate aa to net hla property .leatroyoi hy lire he will baye the great-r portion of hla,oaaeare placed. This ii a reliable company, and lnaur. for a low rate. Call on mo, andj will »nu fu explanations. A. FOOTE. bis height. Elder Morgan, a leading ii «ht of th Mormon church, is in Chattanooga, a-- sowing for the semi-annual inamlgratiof if Mormon converts to the Western col mle», to leave about the 16th, Mor nnnism is getting many converts in that The raggedest gamin . presents liiss cheroot for a light on Broadway alike to the laborer, tho hondoivner, and tho nice young man, ami has his claim ul- iowed by all with equal promptness. In the gTcat city ono toucli of lighted to bacco makes tho whole world kiu.” . There is in Loudon a Post-oflho taction constantly, nnd recently me* I 0rphans . Home, with 133 inmates, tlio with such encouragement that twentv I cB iij reQ 0 f deceased members of the idditionnl missionaries have been put to I j> OB tul service. Tho Association having vork in that field. I the Homo in cltarge lias a membership Mr. G. A. Pike, Secretary of the His- of over one thousand, all of whom wo orical Society of Louialnna, states that I connected with the Postal scrvtce. Sub- fTVf")'rriTj' Send to MOORE’S Business University, Atlanta, Georgia, For Illustrated Circular. A live ac'ual bus inees school. Entabliihed twenty years. A New York dispatch says that Henry Miner got an injunction in Hie Supreme Court to restrain Patrick Rooney, wh< had agreed to play five years in his tlica ter, from July, 1879, from acting in s company that the defendant had formed tmder'the name of "The Pat Rooney New York Star Combination Troupe. The lawyer’s clerk who served the order on Rooney handed him the original in stead of a copy. Rooney took from tin- package flic agreement with Miner winch }!e sighed in 1879, and tore it up. Fn day a motion was made to punish Boouey for contempt of Court because of tins oot. Decision in iio matter mos re- Hived. ecriptions for tho maintenance of tho Iiome are received from tho general pub lic, hut tlio dues from members of the Association are usually sufficient, There are to lie a number of lawsuit it the next meeting, which is subject tn -,il by the Hon. Charles Gayanre, *' proposition will he made to excavate mme prominent Indian mouDd in tha* State for the purpose of ascertaining P the relics will compare with those from I growing ont of the Vanderbilt ball imi'ar places in Missouri and elsewhere. Dressmakers, after bciug sworn to so Mt. Pike is in favor of excavating the I orecy, revealed tlio costumes of then mound a few miles south of the coital. ^7 P* ™»; 8 ° t,iat dn P lu:atefl ; i I Borne oqqob triplicates,..appeared at tnc Thomasyille TiTnei : The yellow pin-I ball. In several instances Uio indie- -elt of southern Georgia is, perhaps, the I whose confidence had thus been he- argest and finest body or nnbroken, I trayed discovered the treachery -rimitive yellow pine lumber in exls- the boll came off, and refused to take Hu ence. It sweeps across the entire end fancy suits that they had ordered. It i if the SUte, reaching inland from the against those that the modistes have coast about 400 miles In view of the fought l* w suite to recover the value ol act that this valuable timber is being 16 e08 - ume8 - rapidly depleted elsewhere, it behooves Tnn disturbed slain of affairi in Paris 1b partly duo lo the fact Hint a great number of men nr-i out of work. The Paris correspond.! ut of the London Thuct o-linintcH tlio unemployed nt sixty thou enud. Under mioh clreuuintanocn it is to bo expected thntthoro will bo clem >nsl ra tions of a threat lung character. The dissatisfaction turns against the Govern ment for tho reason that a largo amount of pnblio work ims been stopped. B rioua disturbances have only been averted by a strong arm, which brought the sen ! 'es of the soldiery os well as of tlio police intoroquisition. Tlio eucooss of tho Gov- eminent in thus quelling tlio distil rbuuco seemed to strengthen it, btft M. Paul do C-wsagnae, in Ills spocoii in tliQCIinmhrr of Deputies, said tlmt while a riot had given the Government pow. r, liy a riot it would fall. To Frenchmen with sixty thousand hungry mon in tlio streets his words were full of moauing. The eon- traot’whioh has since been entered into for the erootton ot dwellings will have tho double effeot of reduoing riots and giving wnrklo a portion of thn.io out of employment It is much m .ro likely to sfford the Government perniannnt strength than any display of soldiery. Prof. Lkidy tins lately mado micro scopical examination of tho blood of tho lost victim in a herd of cows owned hy a farmor in Balom, N. J., where llur: had been soveral deaths. Tho animal was well to appoaranci, milked ai u-ttial at evening, ami died tlio next morning. Tlio blood from the spleen was found teeming with balcrle of the form known bacillus' antlirnx. They were inure numerous thau tlio blood corpinclou Tho first thought is that milk sent to market a feiv hours before such death must carry tho bacilli, onpable of giving contagion, to which a medioal journal adds: “If the fat from the carcasses of suoh animals Hods its way to the nearest oleomargarine manufactory—os this sub stance is rendered only nt o temperature under 120° by the patent now supremo— wo leave our readers to draw their own conclusions respecting tlio results when such uncooked animal produce in used as an srtien or aim—*u-* tho death point of bacilli is far above 120.” A Spelling Reformer. It was in a tobacconist’s shop that a painter waa at work lettering tho conn- xtr panel with tlio word “sogara." From timo to timo a customer would drop in, rend tho word and say some- tiling about tho orthography. Why wasn’t it spelled “cigars?” “Sugars was wtong, and so forth. After per haps seventy-five or 100 had tlrns gratui tously aired their knowledge, a slim, iu- oflensivc-looking, middle-aged gentle man in cyo-glnssos wnlked in. No sooner hod lie crossed tlio threshold than that painter roso- up firmly hut orderly. Ho seized tho middle-aged gentleman with lioth hands and addressed him ns fol lows : “G-n-a-t, nat; p-h-t-h-i-s-i-c, tizik ; p-h-l-e-g-m, flora ; s-e-p-a-r-a-t-e, separate ; g-a-u-g-o, gaje; m-e-t-c-m-p- B-y-c-h-o-s-t-s, metempsikosis; s-c- g-a-r-s ! s-z-^-ti-r-s/ s-e-o-a-r-s 1" That was all lie said. Ho turned tho middle- aged man to the right-about nnd kicked lum into the street. Thon lie took up his brush nnd finished his work, while a serene look hung about his face and glorified it The Palm Tree. There are districts of Tinnevelly, tat 8louthern India,-wliero tlio soil is so dry and sandy tlmt it is surprising anything will grow. Yet whore tliii nowdory red aaud prevails for miles we have walked through plantatimiB of the stately Palmyra palm, the great stems rising to an immense height, aud tho trees in the most vigorous liealUi, Hero, ns else where, the sap Hows most freely at the hottest timo of tlio year, and when the soil is without vegetation and almost without substance, when the only shado is Hint cost hy these branchless trees from their narrow crowns of leavos, when the only olouds nro clouds of dust, “ when tlio streams nro dry tind tli<t»wells aro ex hausted, and the largest rivers nte only beds of glowing sand," there is the singular spootnole of those stately trees llowiug continually with their fountains of sweet water, [low is it passible? we often asked. Bishop Culdwoll, whose house lies oloso to such n desert, tried to answer Hint question for himself. Ha dug into tho ground to observe the course of tlio roots, but *s deep ns he dug " tha throad-like root* of the palm burrowed deepur,” nutil at last, “ when facte feet below Um surface hi, cum* trnted even further among gravel wnd> at' iiios, and Jiooould follow them no morn. Tho riddle won solved; and any one may feel what a new beauty it gives to tha comparison boro. Tho roots of tha GlirisUnn life sink down into tha living waters. They aro fad from tha peren nial fountains of the Spirit far out of sight. And the service and freshness of Hint life, nnd nil the influences that flow from it, do not depend on wlint we see, for the soil where such n life grows is often spiritually barren, Imt tlioy depend upon the roots striking down among the living waters.—Pood Worth, Favorite Hooks. “It lias boon laid that a man may bo known by the company ho keeps in ilia books. Milton’s favorite volumes wore Homer, Ovid nnd Euripides. Dante's At the rope walk in Rath, Me., the owners of unimproved pine lands in this I Bp j nnerg wind huge skeins of Manillr ection to properly appreciate the im-1 bemp arotm a them, catch a thread o ertance and value of their possession". I two c j npon the hook, and as lb Already specu'ato - s and mill men are I H piudle whirls, walk slowly backward dewing out the tend, J down tho length, spinning as they go *71 ivll JltWiB ui OWUWWHHHWII, which in all probability gavo him tho first idea of Ids ‘Filgrim's Progress,’ Tlio two hooks which most impressed John WohUi^wImui a young man, were the ‘Imitate of Uhrist’ olid Taylor’s ‘Holy Living and Dying.’ DoQuiueoy’s favorite few wore Donne, ChiUingsworth, Jeremy Taylor, Milton, South Harrow anil Sir Thomas Browne. Ho described those seven writers os ‘u constellation of sovoti golden stars, such as no literature can match,’ and from whose works lio would undertake ‘te btuld up un entire body of philosophy. ’ 'Napoleon never wearied of reading ‘Ossiau Poems’ awl tho ‘Borrows of Wertlier.' His rango included Homer, Vigil, Tosaq, novels of all countries, his tones of all times. Tho IxHik which makes deep impres sion on a young lanti's mind often con stitutes an epoch in his life. The hear ing of an oilo awakened tho genius of Lu Fontaine. Tt was Hie reading of tho ‘Faerie Queen' Hint first lit the poetic firo of Kents, liciithnm regarded ‘Telnma- elms' as tlio ‘foundation-stono of Ilia whole character.’ 'A love of books,' says Thomas Hood, ‘preservo me from moral shipwreok.’ The, great scholar Erasmus says, ‘I can novel - read tho works of Cicero on ‘Old Age’ or ‘Friendship’ without feiventlv pressing them to my lipe.' "—Saviucl Smiles. A Deg Whip* a Hear. When Dr. W. M. Clark lived with his family in the Sixth District of Davidson .To. 11 ™ remarkable dog- (in one occasion lie WIT ATP WISDOM. A Philadelphia paper "ays that eof- fee is a failure In -Ceylon. This is traveling a long ways to get an Ucm which could havo been furnished by any Philadelphia boarding-house. — Di- Voii l‘o*t. —The meanest mnn on record la the ane who prontisod his boy a pair of skatos if ho would not ory for a week, "int when the time was nearly ap, and the boy felt cortain of tlio skatoa, look Inn Into tho shed anil thrashed him- —A- poor Irishman olfored dll old saucepan for aalo. His children gath ered around him and inquired why hu parto l with It. “All, my honors, an- Mvcred lie, “I would not bo a'ther part ing with it hut for a little money to buy auniothing to put 111 it," —Did you get any order"?’’ asked tho boss of tho druntmor, who had just iclurnod from his first trip. “Any or der.! " echoed tho tyro; "that's tho Iroublo; that's all l did get. 1 was or dered out of evory shop I wont into be- Torn 1 could soli a thing. Oh. yes. or- doi a enough, if that’aall a fellow wmte.” —Jioston Jijlt. A otfloyyyouthjteka the^ it. It's "nnele s. ^ doe-eft know where to nnt a kiss, ha should keep it in his head, if it doesn’t make too much noise rolling round In tlio viinuum.—orrtatoum licraid. —" Cnn you tell mo," sa'd a frugal wife to the head ol the family as she linn led him n pair of trousers of her oivn miuiu acturo, “call you tell me the di 'oroiteo bstweon your wife end an Irish piporP’’ "Goon dear," was tho ro-ilvj "proceed, and do youf worst." “Tho dilrerenue 1» that one mate s the daddy's pants and the other makes the Paddies dunce. 1 ' ’J ho man fled.—fill)- burgh Telegraph. —••Como," said Brown, •‘you must give something for our fair. Why, even Btodkins i anio d>wn handsomely. 1 didn’t oxpoot anything from him- Ho has a very bad name, you kqow, but ch'.rllv coveroth a multitude rtf sins. Conte now, what shall I put you down for?" • Wall,’’ repled Fogg, “J guess I don’t care to have my sins Covered tip: no livpocrito about nil! Day-day, old boy, —Boston 'Iranicript. . —An Austin clork is in the hnhit of drawing his salary for sovoral months in a lt once. A few mornings ago ha came down to tlio store half an hour later than usual. “What makesyou so lateP’’ askod tlio proprietor. "It was so cold, I didn't llko to got up.” “I don't see hoiv you come to find it cold," growled tlm boas. “You drew your salary for next Junpyestordoy."— 1’ctus Hillings. Fashion Items. The drapery of drossoj, or rather of skirts. Is to undergo a material change next spring, nnd olfl Greek models, wo nro told, aro to ho followed. This te well, for modern Greek e umples would bo too muesli like the Irish. hong hanging strings of let beads _.uw ornament tlio front of black silk dresses, and sparkle nnd glitter fn sun or gns-Ught very effectively. The Idea is said to have originated with Eugenie in the days when Franco was her foot stool. Important revolution! in tho stylo of arranging tho hair nro Impending. The hair dressers hint a great deal, but none commit themselves. Meanwhile It Is not advisable that any young girl of the poriod should hove her head shaved. Practicing F.conoiny. « Would you mind standing here till I go in and get a oigar?” ho asked. “ Of course not, she replied; “hut don t yon think, Henry, that smoking is of fensive, and that it will he easier prac ticing economy after marriage if it is practioed during courtship ?” “ Yon’rc right,’’ he said; “ I shan’t smoke any more, sweet," and she looked unuttera ble love at him ns they resumed their stroll. Just then they come to an ico- cream saloon, and he said • # ** There, now. I meant to treat you to ice-cream, but, as you say, it is best to practice economy during courtsliip. Ten cents for a cigar, 30 cents for two ice-creams —40 cents saved in a single night. Let’s go over to the fountain and toko a drink of water. ” They went, M she was mod enough’ to bite her own best! oflL killed ono liunilrod rats, and when ho camo out of the pit was hardly recog nized by his friends. His cars were gone, and Ins logs and throat were as raw ns a piece of uncooked hoof liver But lie killed the rats, and won a wager. On another occasion Jack had a light with a coon and oomo out victorious, killing tlio coon in the third round, lie hail numerous lights with fighting dogs much larger anil older than himself, but ho always caino out victorious. His manner Of lighting a dog was to watch his chances anil seizo him by one of his cars. Once his teeth ivoro fastened hero, there was no getting him loose until his antagonist squealed enough and started on a dead run for homo with his tail stored safo’y away between h s legs. Whenever this would happen Jack would ot up on his onemy and wli nc for other enemies to conquer. But Jack’s chef triumph was when bo whipped a liear. A neighbor of Dr. Clark owned a petbearof ordinary size. One day while visiting his neighbor. Jack and the bear fell out, nnd each squared himself for a fight. Jack held himself off until he found an opportunity to catch him bv tho car, and then he wont in. J nek was a great jumper. In til s instance lie made his jgreatest leap nnd landed on the baok ofhis enemy. Quickly seizing him by tho ear. the dog kept ins body out of reach of the boar, and inserted his sharp teeth for all they were worth. The bear fought with spirit, and made vigorous efforts to send Jiick to gross, but all in vain. That dog would not let go. Finally the bear, almost exhausted, gave up in despair, and as plain as a bear can speak ac knowledged his defeat. It requ red every man on tho place to pull Jock olt, and it is believed he would have killed the bear if loit alone. —Nashville Danner. Tub death of two centenarians is an nounced. Mary Welch, 107 years ol one, died at Seymour, Ct. William Bolster, who died at Oppenheim, Fulton county, N. Y., would have reached his 102d year next Christmas. icomo handsomer, richer HIIBSS l’iu{n gran . tioas being supurb. Yet there ore peo ple who soy brocades aro going out of fashion; but it is to be info.xcd that anything they aro unublo to possess is “common.” Somebody lisa risen to remark that real lollies nowadays are distingu'shed hy their p ain and very unpretentious ityln of dre alng. Th's statement is calculated to carry joy to the house maid and tho female who looks after the chi'dren. In •rentlemen's fashions the three or four buttoned cutaway ooot, short Waist coat and tight tr users prevail for ordi nary wear, and tho alleged "lords of creation” aro satisfied. In the matter of dress it mny be said that men are easily pleased. Street dresses would seem to become shorter and shorter, and visions of Muud Muller’s skirts loom up when ono thinks of Hie fashions of the future. But the shoemakers are happy, for with short skirts one must needs have "nice-look ing shoes." At a wedding this week, the bride couldn’t get her glove off when it was timo for the ring feature of tho core- ( mony, and so sne asked "her br de- groom” for his penknife, and deliber ately cut it off. Women, os a rule, are equal to say social emergency. Something new in toaoups is a tiny china tea chest with handles. It holds only enough to make you wish you bad moro, hut us a table ornament may be said tq bo a marked success. In this age of oddity nnd novelty, one never stops to think of the utility of thing*.— A. Y. Mail- anil Express. —Yesterday a boy about sixteen year* old got a tumble on a coal-holo ana wok evidently pretty badly hurt- On get ting up ho swore lluently and a clergy man. passing, paused nnd asked him why he discoursed so irreligiously, to which the lad replied that he was too big to cry, and, by hokoy, he’d got to do something.—Boston Yost.