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Tie Jesi SbdM Office in the Jesup House, fronting on Cherry •treet, two doors from Broad St. PUBLISHED EVERY WEDNESDAY, ...8Y... T. P. LITTLEFIELD. Subscription Rates. (Postage Prepaid.) One year $2 00 Six months 1 00 Three months 60 Advertising Rates. Per square, first insertion . . $1 00 Per square, each subsequent insertion. 75 J £S3TSpeeial rates to yearly and large ad vertisers. TOWN DIRECTORY. TOWN OFFICERS. Mayor—H. Whalev. Counoilmen—Dr. R. F. Ltter, jjJ. A. Eler bee, M. W. Surency, A. B. Purdorn,G. M. T. Ware. Clerk and Treasurer —G. M. T. Ware. Marshal—Wm. M. Austin. COUNTY OFFCERB. Ordinary—Richard B. Hopps. Sheriff—John N. Goodbread. Clerk Superior Court—Benj. O. Middleton Tax Receiver—J. C. Hatcher. Tax Collector —W. R. Causey. County Surveyor—Nosh Bennett. County Treasurer—John Massey. Coroner—D. McDith*. County Commissioners —J. F. King, G. W. Haines, James Knox, J. G. Rich, Ishara Reddish. Regu ! ar meetings of the Board 3d Wednesday in January, April, July and Oetober. Jas. F. King, Chairman. COURTS. BupeHoi Court, Wayne County—J no. L. Harris, Judge; Simon W. Hitch, Solicitor- General. Sessions held on second Monday in March and September. BMstor, Pierce County KEiirpa TOWN DIRECTORY. TOWN OFFICERS. Mayor—R. G. Riggins. Councilraen—D. P. Patterson,J. M. Downs J. M. Lee, B. D. Brantly. Clerk of Council—J. M. Purdom. Town Treasurer—B. D. Brautly. Marshal—E. Z. Byrd. COUNTY OFFICERS. Ordinary—A. J. Strickland. Clerk Superior Court—Andrew M. Moore. Sheriff—E. Z. Byrd. County Treasurer—D. P. Patterson. County Serveyor—J. M. Johnson. Tax Receiver and Collector—J. M. Pur dom. Chairman of Road Commissioners—llßl District, G. M., Lewis C. Wylly; 12 0 Dis trict, G. M., George T. Moody ; 584 District, G. M., Charles 8. Youraanns; 590 District, G. M.. D. B. McKinnon. Notary Publics and Justices of the Peace* etc.—Blafkshear Precinct. 584 district,G.M., Notary Public, J. G. S. Pattersou ; Justice of the Peace, R. R. James ; Ex-officio Con stable E. Z Byrd. Diekson?* Mill Precinct, 1250 District, 61 M , Notary Public,Mathew Sweat; Justice of the Peace, Geo. T. Moody; Constable, W. F. Dickson. Patterson Precinct, 1181 District, G. M.. Notary Public, Lewis C. Wylly; Justice of the Peace, Lewis Thomas; Constables, H. Preseott and A. L. Griner. Schlatterville Precinct. 590 District, G. M Notary Public, I). B. McKinnon ; Justice o the Peace, R. T. James; Constable, John W Booth, Courts—Superior court. Pierce county John L. Harris, judge; oirnen W. Hitch Solicitor General. Sessions held first Mon dry in March and September. Corporation court, Blackshear, Ga., session held second Saturday in each Month. Police ooart sessions every Monday Morning at 9 o’clock. lilPHoir Corner Broad and Cherry Streets, (Near the Depot,) T. P- LITTLEFIELD. Proprietor. Jfewly renovated and refurnished. Satis faction guaranteed. Polite waiters will take your baggage to and from the house. BOARD $2.00 per day. Single Meals. 50 ets CURRENT PARAGRAPHS. Southern News. Tennessee has nearly seven hundred more public schools in opeiation than it had last year. It is now estimated that Georgia’s crop of dried peaches will amount in value this year to 11,500,000. The Texas farmers are not complaining of hard times, as they ate but little in debt and have the finest crop prospects known for years. The B nos to capitalists who have pur chased the North and South railroad in Georgia, obligate themselves to complete the road by October, 1880. The Fish and Game Association of Alexandria, Va., recommends the exter mination of the English sparrow by any possible plan that may be suggested. Since the cotton factory and cotton seed oil mill were started at Natchez, every vacant house in the city has been occupied and there is a demand for more houses. A correspondent of the Charleston News and Curier, wiites of the voyage of the Azor to Liberia: The suffering of the immigrants were intense. Tney bad not been accustomed to practice self-de nial, and soon exhausted the limited daily supply of water. There was great waste despite the efforts of the officers. The fever spread rapidly, and before we reached this point, which is a colonial settlement on the west coast, belonging to Great Britain, twenty-three or four ill-fated emigrants had died. I have never seen a sadder sight than when their remains were committed to the deep. The names of the dead will go to you by the first mail steamer that touches at this place. Foreign News Items. The famine in India is slowly dying otit everywhere; the survivors are re covering health and strength, and the small quantities of food imported shew that the people have a sufficiency of grain. By way of a monument to Thackeray, London is to get out a superb edition o his works. It will be limited to 1,000 copies. The undertaking attracts much attention in English literary circles, as jn,i|| %iiJ VOL. 11. nothing like it in cost or excellence of workmanship has ever been attempted. The paper used will be made expressly for this edition. Real China paper will be used for the steel and copper plates, and the very best artists, engravers and printers will lend their aid in producing the finest set of books ever published in any country. All Sorts. Silver was first coined by Phidon, king of Argos, about 800 B. C., 140 years after the building of Solomon’s temple, the epoch of the building of Carthage. The oldest existing painting in Europe is a Madonna and child, painted 880. The oldest paintings in England are a portrait ef the poet Chaucer, painted on a panel about 1390, and a portrait of Henry IV. in 1406. Tea was first introduced into Europe in 1660. by the Dutch East India Com pany, and then only as a curiosity, show ing the nature of the herb to universal ly used iu the preparation of their so much-loved beverage. The custom ot wearing rings is very ancient. It was prohibited in Borne to all mechanics and men of low condition to wear rings oi geld, so that jiermission to wear a ring was a social distinction. The usage ef rings for sealing is also of great antiquity. The “ British interest” which has the largest representation in the present House of Commons is that of the man of war. There are two hundred and thirty-nine men in the present House of Commons who are either active or retired members of the army or navy. We have now in the United States two hundred and fifty firms engaged in manufacturing toys, the bulk of which is exported to London and Paris. South America, Cuba, Hamburg, and Russia are a'so our customers. The trade is rapidly increasing. It amounted last year to over a million dollars. Among the best known Americans, un used and scarcely understood in Eng land, are locomotive for “engine,” rail road for “railway,” horse cars for “tram way.” depot for “station,” switch for “shunt,” baggage for “luggage,” store for “shop,” bureau for “chest of draw ers,” clever for “good-natured,” boards for “deals.” calico for “prints,” corn for “maize,” dry goods for “drapers’ articles or haberdashery,” fall lor “autumn,” dress for “gown,” fix for “repair,” hold on for “stop,” guess for “think,” hard ware for “iron-mongery,” homely for “ugly,” loafer (or “lounger,” mad for “angry,” map for “post,” pantaloons for “trouse/s,” vest for “jacket,” quite for “very,” rooster for “cock,” sick lor “ill,” sleigh for “sledge,” stoop for “porch,” suspenders for “braces,” venison for “deer-meat,” and woods for “a wood.” 31 iscellaneous. Besides her permanent exhibition, the city of Philadelphia has a debt of £63,- 000,000. Seven out of eight giraffes imported last year for menageries in the United States have died. The climate does not agree with them. There is much distress in Fall river, Woonsocket, and other New England manufacturing towns on account of the shuttimg down of the mills, throwing thousands out of employment. According to the Shoe and Leather Reporter, nearly all the patent and enameled leather made in this eountry, amounting to £*,500,000 a year, is man ufactured in Newark, N. J., and it com pares so favorable with that made in England and France that ,t is exported to those countries. We hear of a tragedy enacted a few miles from the city, a few days since, that is so harrowing in detaii and so strange as to be almost incredible. But it comes to us from a source that would leave no room for doubt. It appears that a woman was killing chickens by cutting off their heads with an ax. Two of her children, witnessing the operation, took into their heads the notion of “playing” in a similar manner. The result was the little girl placed her neck on the block, while her little brother chopped off her head. The father of the children witnessed the terrible scene from a hay mow, and in his haste to descend to rescue the child fell, break ing his leg.—[Green Bay Gazette. Too True to be Joked About. They were in the parlor together. The light had gone out, and they stood at the window in the radiance of the moon. He had his arm about her, and was looking dreamily at the queen of night. Softly he spoke: “ Darling, lam thinking how happy we will be in our home when we are married. It stall he a pretty home, aDd you -hall be its dear little mistress. We will have a little parlor, ana a little dining-room, and a little kitchen for you to manage. We -hall be there all by ourselves, and we shall be happy, my darling.” “Oh, Henry,” she despondently uttered, “I thought we were going to board.” There were tears in her eyes for him to kiss away,bathe let her remove them with what facilities she could command.— 'Danbury New- JESUP, GEORGIA, WEDNESDAY, JULY 10, IS7S. eLAY or Ih£ PERIOD. BY ORrnKUS C. KEKU The lingering, last orchestral swell Along the crowded lobbies drifted, When, at the prompter’s sigual ball The curtain from the stage uplifted And then, the flutter if applause Was not that favorite might ha bolstered, But murmured through the house because to finely was the scene upholstered. A glowering husband strode and fumed, To think upon his wife unstable, While she in psnslve bewutv bloomed Besido a really lovely table : What time a certain young Alphonre. Whoee flirt ng caused connubial cholera, Btood leaning near a Btatue b onze Worth, easily, a hundred dollars. The general Htory pceuird to be Of marriage that had been too hasty, And run its round of miserv ’Mong chairs and sofas rich and tasty : “ I love you not I ’ the lady said; “And knowing that, ’tis nil you can know Then from her husband’s pleading fled, Aud fainted near the Grand Plano. From this ensued a meeting grim B -tween the husbind and the lover, Within a park of verd’.re prim. Where chaste settees were spread all over. A bullet idanled in his face Cut short Alphonse’s life of honey, And sprawled nim by a marble vase That must nave cost a pile of money. When next appeared the lady fair, She was declining with consumption, Unon a broidered lounee, so rare To guess it’s price would bs presumption A nd wheD, at last, f’om love ? he died. With hufbsnd. priest nod poodle rear her, The scene was greatly glorified By an Imported, spacious mirror. If such was not the plot exact, It seemed the meaning of the bathos, And Judged by any sober fact. Had #qnal want of pub and pathos 'Twas not in captious spirit rash That people, when the play was ended, Pronounced it immoral trash But ihea the Furniture was splendid ! THE STOLEN LOCKET. In the elegantly furnished drawing room of a wtst-end mansion sat a young man whose genteel bearing, broad, noble brow, from which liis chestnut hair was tossed back in graceful carelessness, and large thoughtful eyes bespoke him to be one of nature’s noblemen. He was evi dently waiting iinjiatiently for someone, for. aR a slight noise was heard on the landing, he would start, and fix his eyes eagerly upon the door. At last, apparently unable to sit still any longer, he arose, and, walking to the window, stood tapping nervously on the glass, and watched with listless eyes the chameleon-like crowd that passed. While thus occupied he failed to hear a slight rustle, as a girlish figure entered the room, aud softly to his side, touched him lightly upon the arm ; his quick etart, and the loving yet gentle manner iu which he gathered her to lilm heart, showed at a glance that they were lovers. While they hold sweet converse, let us pause a moment, while I describe my heroine. Bhe was ot medium height, of a slen der, delicate figure, and jawsessed a nameless grace of movement, which, added to her other charms, bail won her the name, among her many admirers, of “Nellie the Irresistible.” Her beauty was of the true blonde type, and, clad as she was iu a shining blue dress, she looked worthy of the name. On her arms gleamed with a tawny luster broad golden bands; and from one of these,sus pended by a small chain, hung a tiny heart-shaped locket, one Bide of which bore a forget-me-not sot of turquoise, with a brilliant diamond sparkling in the center. Guy Hartley, for such was our hero’s name, had called, glad of an excuse, to acquaint Nellie with some arrangement which he hadjust completed with regard to their soon approaching marriage; and, after a short time passed in pleasant con versation, he reluctantly rose, aud, bid ding a tender adieu to the fair girl, left the house with a firm, elastic tread. Hardly had he taken his departure when the front doorbell again rang, and once more a young gentleman was usher ed into the drawing room. The new comer was tall aud slight, with jet black hair, and a piercing look in the black eyes that boded no good to an enemy. Ashe sank into a chair, something glis tening upon the floor caught his eye ; and as he recognized it he could scarce refrain from a shout of pleasure; for Fred Acton had long been the secret rival of Guy, each striving to win the hand of fair Neliie Pomeroy. And now, as he held in his grasp the tiny locket, which, by some evil chance, had become detached from the bracelet on Nellie’s arm, he felt that he possessed an almost certain means of revenge on Guy, and stood, perhaps, a better chance ef win ning the fair girl for his wife; for the locket, as he knew, had been Guy’s first love gift to Neliie, and was prized as one of her choicest possessions. At this moment, the footman entered the parlor, presenting Miss Pomeroy’s regrets, and a request that Mr. Ac-on would excess her that afternoon. The truth was that with her womanly intui tion she had long ago divined the secret which he had thought known to himself alone; and, having ever treated him with polite indifference, she felt less in clined now than ever to endure a tcte-a-tete with him. Rising as the footman entered with her message, and scarcely able to con ceal the pleasure it afforded him at this moment, when be was still trembling with the fear of having been seen as he hastily hid the shicing bauble in his besom.be left his compliments and de parted. Going directly to a jeweler’s, he pur chased a small ring, with which he fast* eued the locket securely to his watch chain, and then sauntered down the street, in the hope of meeting Guy. His wish was destined to be fulfllle4; for he was shortly gratified by seeing Guy ap proaching, with a serene, contented look on his handsome face. As they stopped to chat, Fred, as if anxious to conceal something, placed his hand carelessly on his. watch-chain ; but Guy, as was noticed the action, and Baid, laughingly: “What is it you that are bo jealously guarding. Fred? A love-token frem some fair lady?” “ Yes, but. for fear ;hi it might blight your ho es in < ..< :ly pe: haps I had better not show it you just at j present,” laughed false Fred, nervously. ! “Oh, never fear for me!” said Guy, “ for I have already edged my bird, and ho shall cot prove a dangerous rival to your suit.” “ Well, then behold !” replied Fred, removing his hand, and disclosing to view the tiny locket. Guy turned pale as death , but mas tering his emotion by a violent effort, he ' playfully insisted upon knowing the name of Fred's charmer. "Oh, come” said Fred, “you are feigning innocence ; for surely you must have often seen this trinket upon the arm of fair “Nell, the Irresistible,” who has this day bestowed it upon me as a pledge of her true love.” Guy had stood as if turned to stone while this flippant speech was being rat tled out, and then, with a few common place words, passed on ; hut his tread was not as free and elastic as before he met Fred, and his head, which then had been raised proudly, was now bent for ward dejectedly ; for a dark cloud had suddenly arisen, which threatened to overshadow forever the bright morning of his happiness. Fred watched him pass on with a sar donic smile on his handsome yet sinister face, and thought to himself, “Ah, my fine fellow, there’s many a slio ’twixt the cup and the lip, as you may find to your cost ; and then you will know the consequences of standing in the way of Fred Acton I” That evening, in her luxurious home, Nellie watched and listened in vain for the familiar footsteps she had lenruqd to know so well ; and she retired to rest at last, sad and dispirited, and with a dim sense of impending trouble, that was yet too vague to shape itself into con nected thought. The next morning, as the family were gathered around the breakfast table, a servant entered the room with a note ad dressed to “ Mlbh I’omeroy.” Grasping it eagerly, spasmodically, Nellie toro it open, and with blanched face read the following laconic note: Nei,lie: All is over between us. Thank Got), I have discovered your per fidy before it was too late. I had the fullest confidence in you, Nellie; but that is past now. I leave for F'rance to-morrow, never I trust to revisit this country, which would now be but a sad borne for me. Your once devoted lover, Guy Hartley. Mr. and Mrs. I’omeroy, occupied in their own conversation, had not noticed the sudden paling of their daughter’s face, as she hurriedly scanned the fa miliar writing, till, as she reached the fatal termination, her eyes closed, and, with a low moan of agony, she sank to the floor in a death-like swoon. * # a a * * For five years Guy wandered through Europe; for five years he vainly strove to find forgetfulness and happiness in constant excitement and change of scene; but, failing in this, he had at iast resolved to visit again the land of his birth, if only to mark the ravages which tinre had made among his old friends. So he returned to London. Not once bad a suspicion of Fred Acton’s treachery crosed his mind, for to Guy he bad always shown the better part of his nature; besides, the proof of Nellie’s duplicity I ad seemed too con clusive to admit of any lingering doubt his love might have suggested. And Neliie? Thrown into a nervous fever by the cruel note from Guy, she wavered long between life and death; but, finally, her perfect constitution gained the victory, and she again mingled in the gay world of fashion ; but a cer tain sadness was perceptible in her man ner, and a weary look in her blue eyes showed that her heart was not interested iu the gay scenes by whien she waa sur rounded. Vainly had Fred Acton sued for her nand. Feeling that he was in some manner connected with Guy’s mysterious benavieur, she had only scorn to give him. At first, she had hoped that some trivial act of hers had displeased Guy, and he would soon return, but as the i weeks rolled on and no word came from j the absent one, she finally ceased to ex : peet him. Fred Acton, after repeated refusals from Nellie, had at last given up all i hopes of winning h“r hand ; but loving her still, as far as his selfish nature was capable of loving, he attempted to drown his sorrow in the wine cup; and, with drinking and fast horses was rap- j idly eating up the haudsome property left him by his father. Oae day, while riding at break-neck speed, his horse, j frightened at a fluttering rag, allied, and I threw him. When the hastily summon ed physician had examined his wounds, he pronounced him fatally injured. Knowing, then, that for him all thoughts of revenge on Guy were use less, and that he must soon render up an account of his evil deeds, his thoughts turned to Nellie, with a feeble wish that he could undo the wrong he had dons her. So he dictated n letter, confessing his sin, begging her forgiveness, and containing the locket, aud diipatched it to the injured girl, who, true woman that she was, could not but pity the dy ing man, bitterly as he had wronged her, and, that he might not die thinking him- Belt unforgiven, sent a note to the hotel to which he hail been carried, but the messenger reached there only in time to hear that the unhappy Fred Acton had breathed his last. Guy had supposed that Nellie and Fred were long since married ; but hardly had he set foot in London when lie was recognized and accosted by one of hisold friends, who, among the gossip he had to relate concerning Guy’s old circle of acquaintances, mentioned the fact of Fred Acton's death, and also said that Miss Pomeroy was as beautiful as ever, but unmarried. At this Guy’s heart throbbed wildly, and his brain almost reeled with the idea that [lerhaps his own rashness had dashed tho cup of happiness from his lips. Could there have been treachery in Fred Acton’s conduct, and had he wronged Nellie nil these weary years? Wildly he asked himself these ques tions while on the way to Iris hotel; and by the time he had arrived there ho had resolved that he would at least sec Nel lie and have nu explanation with her. Once more he turned his steps toward the well known house wl ere he had spent the happiest hours of his life; once more he was ushered into the familiar room where even the pictures on the walla seemed to smile on him iu friendly recog nition. Bronzed by travel, the old family servant failed to remembor him, so he gave no name, merely requesting io see Miss i’omeroy. .Nellis soon appeared but bsrdly she crossed the threshold when the eyes of love recognized him, and with a wild scream of “ Guy, dear Guy!” she was folded to his heart. Long explanations followed. Nellie told of the loss of her locket, on (he day of Guy’s last visit, and how she had re gretted it, being his gift Bhe also told of the dying confession of Fred Acton, and his restoration of her locket, which she showed him, worn on a blue ribbon about her neck. Guy, penitent, hut loving, was fully forgiven by his deeply wronged Nellie, who, iu the joy of such a reunion, had no heart to blame him. Soon after there waH a grand wedding iu the stately mansion ; and although the bride’s ornaments were milk-white pearls, there hung suspended from the centra! cluster of her necklace a tiny locket, bearing on it a blue forget me-not. Fasliion’K Foibles. A mere thread of gold supporting a j solitaire diamond is the favorite engage- I ment ring. Hliirred lawn collars and cuffsare edg' and with Valenciennes thread, or else very fine torchon lace. New fanciful parasols are of ecru pongee or foulard striped around with gay colors to match those in the cos tume. The finest lawns and French nainsook are used for white dresses, arid the trim mings are embroidery, lace and tucks. Young ladies have rosettes of narrowly folded satin ribbon of five or six differ ent colors to wear with white drtsses. The long slender searf pin is now the fashionable brooch, and is the most im portant article of jewelry. Antique styles are most liked. Blank velvet dog-collars now rival gold necklaces as a support for lockets. (Some are fastened by gold clasps, and others have a jeweled spray set on the I front. Laundried suits will be fashionable : this summer for dressy toilets. The ! costume linens in chamois gray arid blue j shades are garnished with bands of em- j broidery. Ladies of experience make up rich stuff plainly, tbeir freshness and beauty being enough for the first season ; after wards the; can be modernized by new trimming, etc. Buttons of real tortoise-shell arc shown for rich costumes. Home of these are inlaid with colored pearl to represent flowers and leave-;, and others have gold or silver birds or bees. For the hair are large ornumental pins representing stars, iotu< leaves, bucter flifs, a dove, or flower mounted on acurled wire that makes the ornament quiver as the wearer moves New cravat bows are long and slender, and are of embroidered or brocaded rib bon loops of very bright colors down one side, while the other half is of white !"■. either Valenciennes or duchesse. AN EXTINCT RACE. " The Private Soldier in the War of the Re bellion, ' ‘ The “ private soldier in the war of tire rebellion.” He is dead. Or lost. Stray ed or stolen, possibly. We do not know where he is, blit he is not here. He has gone away to some place. Perhaps he has ceased to be necessary. Perhaps if he were here he would be in the way. At any rate he is not around. He does not go to the legislature. We do not find him in congress. He is not eagerly sought as a candidate for anything. No body seems to know anything about him. Occasionally he appear* on the pension list with one leg, a wi e and seven chil dren, and eight dollars a month. If Hour takes much of a rise, he will not last much longer at that rate, and we shall soon be deprived even of the occa sional glimpse we now have of him. It is asserted, and quite generally be lieved, that at one time he was quite nu merous, and was even considered rather convenient, ii not, indeed, quite indis pensable. It was found that upwards of 100 ot him were necessary in order to se cure mere lines of commissions for three eminent and deserving men. When field commissions were wanted for three even more eminent and great men upwards of 1,000 private soldiers were necessary. One thousand ! It seems an enormous number now, when by consulting the congressional directory we llnd there arc none in all this proud republic. But 12 or 16 years ago even that, incredible ns it may appear to us to-day, was con sidered a small number. There were private soldiers and private soldiers. There were even hundreds of thousands of them. And they were useful. They dug trenches; they constructed long lines of breastworks, and then, when an enemy came within sight, they climbed over them and went outside of them to fight. They worked and watched and fought. Cooperating with great and eminent men who have since passed to their rewards in one oflice and another, these private soldiers sometimes rendered very useful service in winning great battles. Oh, they were useful. Borne historians have even gone so far as to maintain that without them the war could hardly iia/e been carried X> a successful termination. They were really quite useful. And now they are all gone. It - vie ms sad, looking back at the war, that none but the generals and colonels gnd ma jors and line officers should have sur vived its dreadful ravages. Provi dences, even mindful of the wants of a great am! growing nation, undoubtedly took special care of these great men, and in great anxiety that the country should not suffer from a lack of eminent men, kind of forgot the private soldiers and let them wander away. And so they are all gone. Borne of them got shot. Home of them got married and moved out of the world, to settle upon tracts of government land, where the Indians could get at them more easily. Borne of them went into business. Borne of them aro teaching school. Home oi them are driving dray. Rome of them went away and didn’t leave their present address. Put all the same, they are ail gone and it accms dreadfully lonesome without them. There used to he so many of them [Hawkeye. Not Modest llnoiigli. The poets arc primarily responsible for the delusion that (lowers are pre eminently modest. They jrri>etiially tell us of the morleet lily and the timid, bashful violet, and have firmly con vinced the public that with the possible exception of the peony, which in New England is considered to wear an in delicately healthy look, such a thing as an immodest flower does not exist. A very little unprejudiced observation will show that this is a gross delusion. Flowers, ns a rule, have no sense of modesty whatever. The lily arrays it “?lf in simple white and stands on top of a tall stalk to solicit public attention Would we consider a lady particularly modest who should dress herself in the simplest possible white garment and stand on the top of a barrel in the front yaid to challenge the admiration of passers-by ? The violet is compelled, by circumstances over which it has no control, to re-i lo very near the surface of the ground, where it is frequently hid behind bold and forward blades of grtss. That the violet is not of a bashful and retiring disposition is, however proved |by the fact that it is always ready to j display itee-1 f in the button-holes of j brokers and men about town, in whies j society a really modest flower would blush to Ire found. As for the morning ' glory, tire shameless way in which it j climbs to the windows of second-story | bedrooms, and peers into privacy as if it | were a disreputable elevated railroad, is | utterly incompatible, not merely with modesty, but with common decency. In short, the average flower does not know | the meaning of modesty, and although it may be ill-scented, crippled, arid con taminated by intimate association with depraved worms, it will rear its head and mutely asked to Ire plucked and laid ’ on the bosom of beauty. WALES AND WHIMS. Mr. O'Lurry, •'(roo*l-afternoon Mjb. O’Larry ; 1 t to fciine weather Bure, i ft-r the rsiala’. Too e} ’m dHiigr t r b gnn i tin;. to hul<l Ireland— I he i it?-head & I one, l’iu i.iaiitixj’ A rut n widely Ju-t Attain ye trn older N ij hlrnHpJl Brims to tfoiti’ *o marry, A (id his father Is *ild wit ibe ptuwloD—" “ lie to V" said Mrs O f Lurry. ‘ An’ Brown’s pIR g->t into Hmlth’s gartlin’, Mi lit** iiligaut c bliegea min’. An’, och but there rose* u srreat quarrel, ’O.ae -rnith Rave the crajtbur a batin'. An’ Mrs Mahoney lasi evenin' ( rhey’ve chrtoto iu <1 them Mike. Jack an’ Harry Had a tr nlfit, a.’l three iu a mliinlt—” " She did Y' Bald Mrs O’Larry. “ An’, whist I Mf.llie Mullins was coinin’ From theßrnc’ry, when Father Umirfee. rldin' 'Long the road, tpies he • out, an' he jumps from Hla horse to eee what aho was hid in . W iuppri up in her aprrffi; ’twas whisky. * An’ 1h that the stutf,’ he nays, * to carry To your home.’ An’ the bottle was smashed, dear." *• l! was?" said Mrs. O’Larry. “ An’ they say t’other uUht such a mlr’cln ruk plnce at Pat Mbaimbnesny's waktn*. The bv*s asir all (Linkin' when news came Of a fi<nt Jut leluw Id headsbrakin’. ' Och 1 u hat ehaM we lo V ►a\s Jim Hoonef. ' On my account none of yes tarry/ Bav the corpse, upakin’ up, quite polite like." *’Musha ! no?" Bald Mm O'Larry. “ A n' thin nlver a word more rayraarked he: P.d Hh>.uhn*-*y always was Oliver : But faith, ! roust hid ye irood-dny, ma’am. Or I 11 stand here cunvandn’ furlver. ’ 1 to alldom 1 mate one so pltolnt- Not at all like your cousin Jane Barry ; An I hope soon tohea'* inon* of your talk, ma’am." Arrahi now,” said Mrs O'Larry. NO. 45. ‘I nm speaking,” Raid a long-winded j orator, “ for the benefit of posterity.” “ Yes,” said one of the hearers, ‘‘and If yen keep on much longer your audience j will lie there.” . . A good character ish pretty much der same to a man ash a goot umbrella. Ven iargglouds dhreaten over his head, all be ish got to do vaa to hold him up, und der storm basses over, he is none der verse ..Mr. Mackey, of California, haa an income of |i36,000 per day, but what, good doea it do him? Ho can’t drink over ten glasses of soda water per day. and he’s got to die on his merits, the same as the rest of us. A man was writing an order for n lew things lie wanted, when the trades man, glancing at a memorandum, “ wnn 1 haf pond of schott,” said, •“ You don’t spell shot right.” “ That is so eaid the | customer, “ put on another t.” 4 Hmv rehto his head upon the lap of esitlv,” i he brvo younß man that rottolhn brinrile muls. He ton rued. whin incck Ammih h-iiat the girth, Tto late the lesson of Ilf. a hi: rah out school. Bread culture solid judgment, torrmlth of brain, i Thought that has drunk at the Phrinn spring; I Grand eiiith and h*lgM_£f culture he must yaln Who safely iHes the (rick irtuie round the rinß (Hawkeys. A gentleman observing a servant- I girl, who was left-handed, placing the knives and forks on lhe dinner table in ; tho same awkward position, remarked to her that sue was laying them left-handed. 11 Oh, indadel” said she, “so I have. Be pleased, sir, to help me.turn tho table, round I” To wliat base uses do we come at last Hostess (whispering to amateur)—“l want you to sing next.” Amateur (whoso voice is not quite what it used to be) —“ i thought 1 wasn’t to sing till quite at tiie end.” Hostess. — Yes; but there are not ices enough, and I want some of lhe people to eo ” • . . Waterford, N. Y., has tho champion absent minded young woman. Bhe was recently married, and a few daya after had her furniture insured, but the next day appeared tieforo the agent ami wanted the policy chanted, explaining that sire had forgotten that she was married, and had had her maiden name inserted in the policy. “ How did you come to know her ?” asked a mother of her little girl, as she saw her bidding good-by to a poorly dressed child at the church-door. “Why, you see, mamma, she came into our Runday school alone, and I made a place for her on my sent, and I smiled aud she smiled, and (lien we were acquainted," was the sweet answer. ..“Look at Texas!" proudly shouts the Bbreveport Sentinel. Ah yes, we see, we see; he has the drop on him, hasn’t he? Yes, indeed: there he goes. Now the crowd has caught him ; now tney are hanging him. Now the crowd returns; now they are—hut somebody has shut the saloon door and we cannot see what the crowd inside is doing. <• Look at Texas?” Oh, certainly. Nice place for a panorama.—[ Hawkeye. ..My friend, if thou wouldst have knowledge of men, take all thine earthly possessions, even unto the uttermost shekel, and enjoy thyself in the enter tainment of each and every one who will gratuitously partake of thy boun teous goodness. This,so long as thy purse shall last. T hen, when thou hast spent thine all, shalt thou have great wisdom, for thou shall have learnt that (or what thou gavest thou shalt find none to offer unto thee a dinner in return ; nay, not so much as a sardine.—[Graphic. . How to Do It. —A subscriber of a Hamilton paper wants to know what will atop hens from pulling out their feathers. There aie two effectual preventives of this disgraceful habit of the hens. The most thorough is to pull all the featherß out yourself. The hen don’t look as well after this, but she cannot pull out any more feathers. Another remedy consists in pushing her feathers through and bending them into a hook on tte other side. This is a clincher.—[Syra cuse Times. Burlington Hawkeye Ap intelli gent farmer, living in Des Moines county, has invented a henephone, modeled on : the principle of the telephone, by which one old reliable ben, occupying a centra! office in the hennery, (its on ail the nests about the establishment, leaving the other fowls free to lay eggs, scratch and cackle. As fast as anew nest contains the full complement ot *ggs, it is con nected with the central office by a copper wire and the business is settled. The only trouble with the machine is that it sits so hard that it hatches out the por celain nest eggs along with theothrrs, so that one chick in every nest is born with glass eyes, and the farmer has to buy and train a dog to lead it around. This makes it expensive.