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Cross-Tie Tom. A TAIE OF TWO THAMES. BY BRIDGES SMITH. •How’s work ?’ Goodness gracious, bow many more times that brace of words were to be tbiown at rue that day ! It really setmed as if all tbe tramp ing printers ol the whole country bad suddenly rendezvoued in May town, and were determined on baviDg work. Nearly every ten minutes some ragged knight ol tbe cross-tie would drop word of praise for his pard. I wondered if I at any time should ever fall so low as to tramp and steal my way through life ! And*that ^partner claimed a share of my thoughts. Why ? How many hundred of young printers on the tramp have I seen ! Why should this old man’s pot awake such an interest in me ! Worn out with fatigue the old man dropped off to sleep, and I went home to my babies. How nice it was, thought J, to have a home, a steady situation and an appetite that did not crave liquor. There upon that hard floor, with the icy wind whistling dismally through broken panes, slept a man old enough to be my grand father. And more, he had walked two hundred miles in ragged clothes in the coldestof weather; aDd still more, he was without a cent or any thing to eat. Should I take him to my home, feed him, and give him abed? No; because if I performed this one act of goodness, my home RELIGIOUS DEPARTMENT. Non-Sectarian—All Churches and all Creeds. in and ask the status cf trade. _ r o , These tramps- these baggageless gentlemen of j wou ld soon become an asylum for tramps, and ireless leisure—belongto that strata of printer- t jj e p re tty picture* that I was wont to admire of careless dcm which underlies the more respectable ot the cralt, and we look upon them as a merry, characterless crew, without principle or the least claim in the world to respectability. We who are better off give them work as w e would so many machines, simply because they can set type as well as if they were paintully respecta ble. And when they drop in on us ana pro pound the usual question, it depends upon the humor in which we are in whether thej are an swered gruflly or civilly. But on this particular day of which I write, there setmed to be an over-supply and of course such a shower cfirauds could not he expected to put a man in an amnLle Lv.mor. 1 lad been visited by ail sorts and sizes that morim g, hut only, one of iLtnt interested me. And when 1 heard a heavy, noisy shambling on the stairs, 1 imagined a new comer was on his way to my tkj-parior, as the hoys called my cilice n«xt to the roof. And sure enough 1 saw an old vote- lan pause upon the top steps and blow. No wonder. >He had completed a journey ot two hundred miles on that top step. Such a curious little lellow he v as too ! A little shrivelled up face, straggling gray beaid, and just a thin, narrow tnnge ot w hite hair around his head. His age was certainly some where in tLe seventies, lor his form was bent, and there was a dullness growing over his eyes that usually appears w hen old age creeps on. An old bread cloth coat of the shabby genteel older was bnitoned acicss his breast, and al though his shirt was of the blackest flannel he wore a paper collar fresh from the box, put on and adjusted, I suppose, when a few miles from His shoes were mere shells and the rag- pretty picture that I was wont to admire of home comfort would soon be marred end spoil ed by the ingratitude of vagabonds. No; it was all his own tanlt—let him reap the reward of his own waywardness. When I reached home my thoughts were still on the tramp. I told my wife about him, and by my earnestness she soon became as deeply interested in the unknown ns myself. Togeth er we wove a web of romance about the boy whom the old man thought tbe ‘squarest man on earth.’and pictured liis past with colors as bright as the tints ol the rainbow'. Tbe morrow came, and when I got down to the cflice the veteran was still snoring away as contentedly as if he was on a bed of down. rath- i r than on the bare floor with an old specimen- book for a pillow. Finding that there was no work in the city, he shuffled about the streets examining the buildings and points of interest. Printers, you know', are intelligent people, and although they have some very hard cases among them, can appreciate art or science as readily as savants, or scholars. I longed to see his compagnon du. voyage. I bad learned in a few hours to regard him more in the light of a distinguished arrival rather than an expected tramp ; and whenever the street door opened I found myself starting to tbe door as if to meet some old iriend ; but the unknown did not appear. So far did I carry my interest that I even asked the veteran con cerning his non-arrival. ‘Ob, he’ll he along after a w’hile. Maybe they put him iff the train, and he had to tramp most cf the way. He said he’d meet me here, and if he lives he’ll keep his word.’ I felt relieved. He icas coming, and sooner What a tower of strength is Bishop Dogget! How keen his observation. How the ardor of youth again illumes his finely featured face when he explains to us the office of the Holy Ghost. How he loves to rehearse the Pentecos tal demonstration. Why cannot greatness and goodness survive the wreck of other perishable matter? but alas! it has to fail. Bishop Kavanaugb a veteran in the cause of revivals. Where was the sinner so brazen in the depths of degradation, that his persuasive powers could not induce to turn away from his evil ways? or the defiant infidel that his argu The Moffett Register. This ingenious arrangement has attracted much attention, and its success as a financial plan has overshadowed the moral principles in volved in its operation. We pronounce it one of two things, viz: an intolerable injustice or merits were not silenced before the majesty and a means whereby the State winks at crime. ! °. f ^mhoan ar * es “ in thundering tones T „ J . ..... i he proclaimed the sin of unbelief as the most If selling liquors which intoxicate is a legitr j ^ amn i n g in the category. mate business, then the State has no right to The versatile, untiring, energetic Dr. O. T. impose upon it a tax.which it does not impose Summers, so merry and yet so sad, like the an- .. T , .. s oa t„ r cient Roman when he wants his hearers to upon other avocations. If the liquor-dealer is lftngh he laughs himself> and when their engaged in a profession which is no loe to soci- j sympathies are to he aroused, ah ! who can ery, then he deserves the protection of civil government, and does not merit its discrimina ting and UDjust taxation. But says one, the liquor dealer’s business does antagonize the best interests of society. Then we reply the States’ duty is not taxation but suppression. If it is an evil, then civil government is not to wink at it, but it is to eradicate it. All those other pop- ! ular laws of license, whose purpose is similar be more sympathetic ? He is always equal to any emergency, whether nearly ob scured by piles of ‘proof,’ in the publishing house, or lecturing his young men at the uni versity, lest their feet should slip, or in the crowded church speaking words of cheer to the pilgrims as they journey heavenward, or words of warning to the wicked while pursuing the paths which lead to endless death. Who could | preseive that uniform good nature as secretary of the grand Sanhedrim of the Methodist church NEW ADVERTISEMENTS. WIGS—TOUPEES. Established 1849. Established 1345. 0. Practical Wig and Toupee Maker, Hairdresser, and Im porter of Human Hair and Hairdressers’ Materials. Wigs and Toupees for ladles and gentlemen a speciality. All kinds of first-class Hair Work, Switches, Cnrls, In visibles, Saratoga Waves, etc., on hand and made to order. 44 East Twelfth Street, New York, Between Broadway and University Place, 137—6m KNOW A new Medical Treatise, ‘‘The Scibncb op Life, on Self Preservation,” n THVQFI fbook for everybody, Prioe SI, sent by I n I uLLl mail. Fifty original prescriptions,either one of which is worth ten times the price of the book. Gold Medal awarded the author. The Boston Herald says: “The Science of Life is, beyond all comparison, the most extraordinary work on Physiology ever pub lished.” An Illustrated Pampnlet sent free. Address I)It. W. II. PARKER, 4 Bnlfinch Street, Boston Mass. 137-ly HEAL THYSELF but whose effectiveness is smaller than the Mof- j now convened in Atlanta, from whose decisions there is no appeal, as he does? Who could si- $2500 $3 A TH AR. Agents wan tod. Busi ness legitimate. Particulars free. Addresi J. WORTH & CO., St lid MOLD PtATEDWATCFRS. Cheapest in the known world. Sample Watch pree to 'Agents. Address, A. Coulter A: Co., Chicago. fet register are to he catalogued in the same con demnation. The fact in the matter is, drinking is a crime, and civil and municipal authorities who license it—who for a consideration permit it—are not less criminal than they would be in licensing a ! stairs, man to carry concealed weapons. They are worse than Esau. He for a consideration sold his birthright, which was his own. They for a consideration make merchandise of the birth- j right of society—which has been entrusted to i them. We repeat it—drunkenness is a crime. We have felt this very puDgentiy, and as we think lence the question whether they should leave the basement of the new church and hold their services in the auditorium by simply saying, ‘Brethren I see tobacco juice and other things on the floor when you al! leave this room, which show that we are not decent enough to go up There is Dr. McFerrin, what a plain, grand, good old man, known and loved of ail. Where is he not useful? Who has joined more hands in holy wedlock ? Who could swell the number sm-stricken souls 'at our Tennessee camp- meetings more than he ? Who can sympathize most deeply with the bereaved ? Who is sent for more frequently to perform the last rites for the dead? Ah! who spoke words of com- „ ... fort to the dying on the battle field, when the pertinently, when we have seen the officers ol bullets were falling like hail, when the ground v-a was gta j ned w i t h the crimson current of ebbing life, who closed the eyes of many loved ones and , town. gtd toes of his dust-begrimed socks peeped out 1 or later I would behold the old man’s pard boldly. r Ihe weather was cool, and the day unusually Nestling sgainst one of the Blue Ridge moun- raw, and the old man betook himself to the tains, in Virginia, one of the Southern States, as glowing stove. Then he warmed himself, and ! if to keep out of the reach of the icy winds, when a leeling of comfortableness came over ' was one of those fine, old-fashioned manors, him his tongue began to wag, and in less than where broods ol aristocratic blue-bloods lived ten minutes he had pumped all necessary in- , and nourished in the good old days when chiv- lormation out of me. This done, his tongue i airy and hospitality were the cardinal features grew absolutely reckless and wagged me a com- 1 of the Southern gentleman. Great round pil- plfcteand detailed account of printers, towns i lars lent a grandeur to the long, broad piazza; and troubles with whom and winch he had been in any way connected Work being light, and having become deeply interested in the old man, I gave him on old box to sit upon while I listened to his yarns. Do you nse tobacco?' And when I handed him my pocket piece of Virginia leaf, he^ept off' wide oaken doors with the proud name of Hun tingdon graven on silver ; spacious yards and grandly towering trees—all betokened that the Huntingdon home had teen the retreat of wealth and refinement for years and years—be fore. Colonel Huntingdon was a proud man. His ,cp about three extra-sized chews, put one in hist pride had been inherited, and though it knew mouth and the other two in his pocket just as ^bo reason or limit, it was honestly transmitted cool)} as it it had been a condescension on his I'frolb one .generation to the other. Possessed of part to rob me of my tobacco. Then when the great wealth, the colonel planned for each of quid was properly and comloriably placed ] Lis sons a high station in life. Himself, the among Lis snags, he reseated himself on the , only son of a Huntingdon, he nursed the de- bex with a grunt of contentment, and unwound sire in his heart of hearts that as fortune had a story after this fashion. j smiled more tavorably upon him in giving him •Well, I got restless up there in Washington. ; three heirs, they should occupy such stations The boys weren’t making any too much wealth, , in life as would be in full keeping with the and the new administration of the government: 1 name and pride of Huntingdon, printing house beiDg awlul strict, 1 stood off'I Horace was the eldest, and he inherited none my bearding house, and me and my pard -it j of that pride which bad iru.de liis father’s uarna out. Travel was tolerable good south of Balti- i so great with his people. The other brothers, Luther and Ralph, were more of their father's inclination, and while they engaged in play Horace was busily mending broken gates and doing such work about the heme as he could find to do. It so happened that when he was about nine years old, he happened into the office of the Eagle, the weekly paper of tbe village, and then tor the first time saw how newspapers were made. He was so interested that before he went home he had made up his mind to be a printer. The work of setting type, of making a newspaper seemed to please him, and his dreams that night were full of presses and type. Knowing his father's aversion to labor of any kind, and how great would be his rage should he learn that one of his sons was learning a trade, Horace d< termined to learn without his knowledge, and when his father thought him at school the bi y was setting up the Eagle. Pos sessing rare intelligence and a quick, grasping mind the act of printing soon became no longer a mystery. He was correct and swift—two es sentials in a printer. Bat bis glorious work met with an aLslruction. The teacher one day mentioned the continued absence from school of the young typo, and when called to account there was nothing else to do but tell the facts. The Colonel was enraged beyond description, and considered the family disgrac< d beyond re demption. He whipped the truant uumerci- fnlly and set forth his fntnre course in no very pleasing colors. Bnt the boy was determined and upon every opportunity worked at his fa vorite occupation. And the fatal day came at last. By some means the Colonel discovered the boy's secret, and he was almost frantic with indignation. All the pride oi the Huntingdons was aroused and reason had flown in affright. The day was terribly cold. The snow was falling thick and fast, and all nature seemed decked out in white array. A pressure of work in the little printing office kept Horace at work later than usual. Darkness came, and he thought he could slip into his room without being observed. But when he had pulled off his jacket and dropped one shoe, the door of his room opened, and the servant carried him bodily into the presence of the assembled fami ly. The scene was one fit for a picture. The mother sat weeping ; the father walking to and fro with a countenance livid with rage ; and the children motionless, as if dreading some dreadful calamity. When Horace was carried in the Colonel's rage broke forth into flame. Seizing the boy as if he had been some ravenous brute, he laid the lash with a heavy hand, amid cries and sobs of his wife. Her piteous appeals for mercy were unheeded, and the lash cut into the flesh. And yet, the boy stood the torture nobly. The pain was severe, bnt his will was strong, and as he received the lashes with an air that bid defiance to even stronger infliction, the rage of his fath er increased. Exhausted by his exertions, and ertzed with the law arrest a drunken man after he had shot another, instead of before the murder was com mitted. Again we declare drinking is a crime, and that is an unfair statute of the State which taxes and fines the seller and permits the drinker to go free. It is not enough to reply that the dealer tempts the drinker to sin. So does the drinker tempt the dealer to sell. There is no allowance to be made for either. They are equally invol ved in a crime which merits and ought to re ceive not only the frown and contempt of soci ety, but the strong, punitive hand of the civil law. Stop the Moffett Register; stop license; stop selling; stop drinking; stop sinning. General Church News. out more ; but if }0U want to catch blue Muz. s just loot it aw hile on that Baltimore and Ohio rued. Cussed if I didn’t huv-) more trouble on that trip than I ever had in my life, and I’ve walked over every toot of the United States. It was fearful cold, and pard and me stood it like little soldiers. <Ve got along tolerable well in the daytime, but we caught thunder and light ning at night. Had to steep under water tanks, and come ding nigh freezing. Well, we drop ped in on the boys at every town we struck, bnt never got more than a day’s work. Got down here to Charleston and picked up some subbing but it didn’t amount to much. Pard got iD a week in Savannah and I came in on ahead ot him. He’ll be ’long in a day or so, arfl now it you want to see a real live whiteman with a soul in him, I just want you to drop y our eyes on that boy. He s the Bquarest man on earth, and you cant find his beat in the matter of sticking type in this country. He's stuck to me through thick and thin, and if 1 do buck against the tiger casionally and squander some ot my wealth drinking red liquor, its all the same to that boy, and he never fills me chuck up with this and that sort of Christian advice.— And st meitmes I have to stand off the landlady when 1 get short ot lands. Its wrong, 1 know, bnt yen bee when a fellow gets drink in him, and he loves liqnor like I do, there’s no telling w hen he'll stop, and the lucre that ought to flow into tbe till of the landlady who tarnishes me my daily hash, goes into the till of the whisky man—Well, that pard,—that boy who is on a tour with me, always settles those unpaid bills and squares me up to date. Of course you think it a ding shame for the boy to do it.— Well, row see here ; if you knew how charfully that boy pays ’em, and bow he don’t care a cent how big they are, yon’d praise him up juBt as much as I do.’ And tbe old man made me fall in love with his pard betore 1 had laid eyes on the generous soul. Now I’ve done seme tramping in my day.— tock an overland trip in California once, and it come mighty near settling my husk too. Went all over the West ctce ana bad the best sort ol a time, bcmetimes 1 rode, but 1 walked most ol the route. Struck the Shakers in Kentucky j cnce, tome across the Dunkaidsin Virginia onct on a long trrmp, arid they treated me like aj prmce. iactis, I’ve been everywhere, and my legs are jusi as good as anybody 's pegs. Pto- jlt are getting sorter down on tramps though. Polks don’t piance out with a big plate ol vic- tnls like they used to. You have to put up a mighty sight ol chin music and work heavy on their sympathies to get even a biscuit. The way we have to do now is to carry along a paper bEg ol ciacker6 and sausage. Can't depend on hospitality any longer, It’s a dead issue. Sleep! why 1 Laven’t slept on a bed in two months, I think I d feel queer on a bed with a nice suie enough sheets. We sleep in the printing offices along side ot the stove, and board at the same plaits. Y- s, it is a hard way to live, but a fel low gets used to it : 1 den t mind it. Give n>e another chaw of that tobacco, itB the best I’ve struck in a long time. Went to Canada once, there’s the ce untry for trouble. 11 a fellow gets strapped m Canada, God help him. The stations in Canada art about tilty miles apart, and the worst cold walking a man can tackle this side ol Alaska. Now, if that pard of mine comes along, I’d be proud if you’d give him a day’s work just to see how the boy can stick type.— You 11 find him square in any thing you put him at, and just the best boy in the whole world, or I’m the boss liar.’ And as I listened to the veteran rattle on with fcia glib talk every now and then putting in a Rev. Olympia Brown Willis, of Bridgeport, has accepted a call to the Universalist Church of Racine, Wisconsin. Ee< l'. P. .Newman, D.D., takes the pastorate of the Seventh Ave, or “Central,” Methodist Church, of New York. An exchange says there are thirteen distinct denominations of Methodists in the United States, aggregating a membership of 3,315,000. The Chicago Presby tery reports one thousand four huifdreu ftH iofcrtef-n received by its churches ^hiring the yew on profession of Taith, and that nine choreoesTiave rid themselves of debt, raising Sl‘28,‘200. The Appeal, Refcrmed Episcopal, edited by five or six bishops and as many more clergy men, says: “We have eliminated baptismal re generation, sacramental grace, sacerdotal func tions, and apostolic succession. We have less of these things than others, because we have none of them whatever. The Twentieth Annual Convention of the Sunday-school Association, of Illinois, will be held at Decatur, beginning Tuesday, May '21st, at 10 o’clock a. m., and continuing in session until Thursday evening, May 23. The general outline of the programme for the international Convention will be followed. A diamond ring, given by a blind young lady at the annual meeting of the Baptist Missionary Union in Providence, towards paying the debt, was sold and resold in the inteiest of foreign missions until it l^ad gained $1,100 for the cause. The Tabernacle Baptist Church then presented it to the original owner, with the re quest that she w’ear it as long as she lives. Rev. P. B. Morgan, of St. John’s Protestant Episcopal Church, Cincinnatti, has formally an nounced his withdrawal from fellowship in that church on account of its Romish tendencies, and his intention to unite with the Reformed Episcopal Church. Mr. Morgan is to become pastor of St. Paul’s Reformed Episoopal Church, Chicago, vice Dr. Hunter, who has returned to the Methodist Church. The General Assembly of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church will meet in Lebanon, Tenn., May 16. gazed on their brave, manly forms for the lust time? It was Dr. McFerrin! Give him the hand of friendship wherever you meet him. His virtues cannot be told in volumes. Atlanta has show'n the magnanimity of the Georgians in opening their houses to these del egates, thus manifesting the true spirit of broth erly kindness. Every one we meet says : ‘O, I have nice conference members.’ They are all so delighted it is difficult to decide who has the best. In reality the great Southern lumina ries of Methodism are flashing among us daily. Apparently, their lights are concealed by technicalities during conference transactions, bnt when their true status of eloquence is at tained under favorable influences, the South may well be proud of her talent in our midst. A Visitor. Man-ivifh-IIis-Iiegs-ri , oss' , tl. Although this creature is a savage, he does not inhabit the western plains, nor draw regu lar rations of mule meat or spoiled flour from the government. He infests the street cars of our cities. The inflexibility of the human joints is a prominently noteworthy feature in the make-up of this gentle savage. His knees are his strong joints. Entering a car which has a vacant corner seat, he fills the vacancy by- placing himself in an angular manner in such a position tJ^it when one leg is hoisted to its i place on trq^ of the knee-joint of the other leg, ! the uppermost leg can swing either across the aisle, or lengthwise of it, or with a diagonal movement partly lengthwise and partly across, j By this method be can succeed in bringing his 1 extremities in contact with more people than he can reach if in aoy other position. Ho occu- j pies from two io four seats, according to the i amount of space vacant when he puts himself! in position. Sometimes he arrives in the mid- ; die of the car, as suddenly as if shot with great violence out of some distant cannon. Dumping himself down in any vacant seat, he hoists the offending leg and wags his gigan tic boot against all who may want to pass. After haviDg one boot thoroughly wiped off by the la dies’ dresses, he elevates the other to have it swept and garnished in like manner. He rea sons, if he reasons at ad, that ladies are habitu- T 1 HE SUBSCRIBERS ssfjii confiture to carry on the busi- • ness of ENGRAVING ON WOOD in ail its branches. Their facilities are such that they are enabled to execute all orders promptly and in every style of the art, upon the most reasonable terms All kinds of book illustrations, views of buildings, ma chinery, landscapes, portraits, societies' seals, druggist,? labels, newspaper heads, bill heads, etc., etc., drawn and en graved in themost approved manner N. ORR & CO, 52 John Street, New York TVT Y A TMICT 1 ATTORNEY AT LAW, Washington, Georgia. Will practice in all the counties of the Northern Circuit- Business solicited. Office Over firean Bros- Confectionery Store- W ill attend to business in any part of the Stale. 138—tt JOHN I). CUNNINGHAM, ATTORNEY AND COUNSELLOR AT LAW, Offices : 5 and 6 Centennial Building, No. 1 Whitehall Street. ATLANTA, GEORGIA, Will practice in the Supreme Court of the State, the United States Circuit and District Courts at Atlanta. The Superior Court and Court of Ordinary for Fulton county, and in the City Court of Atlanta Special attention given to Commercial Law. Collec tions promptly remitted. 1-31-ly $125. A MONTH AM) KXPEXSES to A {rents, .‘■end stamp for terms. S. O. Foster Co., Cincinnati. < >. feen oh ^language PROF. CHARLES F. GAILMARD, Having resumed his teaching of the FRENCH LAN GUAGE, in Atlanta, is now prepared to give Lessons to Ladies Gentlemen and Children, either at their resi dences or at his own, 58 W. Simpson street. Business men and others expecting to go to France for tbe WORLD’S FAIR, .to be opened, in Paris next sum mer, ought to take advantage of this opportunity to ac quire a correct pronunciation, which ca not tv ’earned but iro n a native. TUITION MODERATE, 141-3m Wanted-. A FEW Pupils, either in the Literary branches or Music, or both, by a lady who is thoroughly acquaint ed with the best methods of instruction, and who has had much experience in teaching. Highest testimonials car. be given of her ability as a teaehcr. Address M. II. S„ 147-tf No. 57 Marietta street. The celebrated Merck Trues is the best, most comfort able and most easily adjusted. The pressure can be regulated by the wearer. Send for testimonials from ,,,, .u... physicians and patients. All interested are invited to V, 1 ' 0 ’ V “" "**> 1 call and see this Truss, or order one by mail or express, ally given to tae practice of sweeping tne streets i Address W. G. BROWNE, Notes from the General Conference, A Brief Notice ot a Pew .of the Delegates. Among other remarkable events transpiring in the history of Atlanta, tbe General Confer ence connected with the Methodist Church South is now convened here. At this plaee are now to be seen the pioneers of Methodism whose lights have been trimmed and burning for more than half a century, yes some of them three-fourths. When we look at their venerable forma and think of their priva tions, and hear them talk of their Heavenly Father with faces illuminated by the beatific visions of those mansions whose builder and maker is God; do we aot feel that there is a re ality in the religion'they vindicate, for a life more fraught with toils combined ■■ with priva tions together with a prospect of less gain in worldly possessions, cannot be imagined than that uncontrollable pride, he the Methodist itinerancy, which has been the dragged Horace to the door, and in tones that could not be misunderstood, bade him never darken it again. With a spirit undaunted and by force of that will that makes more men than fortune, Horace bent his steps from the home of his youth. As he closed tire front gate, a gontle voice called him. It was his sister Julia, who had slipped out from the house and carried him her own shawl. With tears in their eyes, they bid each other good byo. (TO BB COHTXNUKD. ) Nothing maintains its bloom forever: age succeeds age.—[Cicero. - starting point with them all. They are here from the mountains of Virginia, the wilds of Texas, the shores of the Atlantic and Pacific, to consult on the interests of the Methodist Church. Do not the names of Pierce, Doggett, Kava- naugh, Summers and McFerrin call up a host of memories in oar minds ? Upon whose shoulders is the mantle of that zealous veteran, Dr. Lovick Pierce, now aged nearly a century, to fall ? Many souls have been born into the kingdom through his min istrations, and crossed the river in advance of their leader, now waiting under tbe Tree of Life to welcome him when the Master shall call. with their more or less expensive dry goods, and if they can thus sweep, they need have no objection thus to dust his number elevens. While loosely swinging liis legs and with bis big boots waving defiance at all who enter, this savage is apt to meet another savage of similar turn of mind and boots, who sits opposite him. Two such creatures at once blockade a car. When there are a dozen of them in one car, as is often the case, the aisle becomes like one of the old-fashioned corduroy roads with about half the logs knocked out. By stepping skil fully over the intervening logs, a slow and troublesome progress can be made. It seldom occurs to Man-With-His-Legs- Crossed to lift his offending members out of the j way. A request to change his position some* I times throws him into a towering rage. Some times a suggestion that he is occupying more room than his share causes him to lift his eyes in undisguised astonishment and to wonder if the conductor thinks he is an infant, that he must be compressed within a space of six inches. Again, on being remonstrated with, he inno cently expresses surprise and says that he was unaware of his having been an inconvenience to any body, but seeing that he seems to be, he will take down bis legs and sit squarely up right. From that moment to the termination of his ride he is a martyr, with mute appeals for compassion resting on every feature of his sad dened countenance. It i3 manifestedly unjust to ask Man-With - His-Legs-Crossed to ride in such a conveyance as a street car unless he is furnished with a whole one to himRelf. A being so unused to regarding the pleasures or convenience of his fellow travelers would probably like to have a whole car and to pay exactly six pence for his passage. Until the price of horse-feed reaches lower depths than have yet been known it is not likely that the car companies can meet his ne cessities. Meantime, the only coarse ot proceed ing which will avail is to get some of his rela tions, the Kickapoos. and let them foot up a settlement with him which will effectually dis place him from the cars. Habit, with its iron sinews, clasps and leads us day by day.—[Lamartine. Gold does not satisfy love; it must be paid in its own coin.—[Madam Deluzy. Happiness is no other than soundness and perfection of mind.—[M ircua Antoninas. Provision is the foundation of hospitality, and thrift the fuel of magnificence. —[Sir P. Sidney. He that is respectless in his coarse oft sells his reputation at a cheap market. —[Ben. John son. Where love reigns disturbing jealousy doth call himselt affection’s sentiment.—[Shake speare. 152-tf Whitehall st., Atlanta, Ga. Salary. Salesmen wanted tosefion? Staple Goods to dealers. No peddling Expen net* paid. Permanent employ menu address S. A. GRANT & GO^ 2, 4, C 4 a Home St., Cincinnati, O. $1209 Central Route. The Connecting Link Between the Trunk Lines of the NORTH AND EAST, and the Gnlf of 3Iexico on the South, FORMS THE GREAT THROUGH ROUTE AND Main Artery of Commerce and Trade TO ALL POINTS, and offers the best route, on quick time, with more com forts, better accommodations and greater security than any other Line. BUY YOUB TICKETS AND SHIP YOUR FREIGHT BY THE HOUSTONand TEXAS CENTRAL RAILWAY, Pullman Palace Drawing-Room and Sleeping Cars Run Through FROM HOUSTON TO ST. LOUIS AND CHICAGO WITHOUT CHANGE, and bnt ONE CHANGE to all prominent points NORTH AND EAST! Trains Leave as Follows s No. 3 St. Louis and Chicago Express Leave? Hoaf'-on daily at 1 p. >i.; Arrives at St. L.niis daily at 6 05 r. arrives at Chicago daily at 6.55 a. m. No. 1 Leaves Houston daily (except Sunday) at S 15 a. m., and arrives as follows: 10.00 r.: 10.45 a. at., “ daily (except Sunday) at 9 p j No. 4 Leaving St. Lonis daily at 8.47 a. m. “ “ Chicago “ “ 10.00 v. m. Arrives at Houston No. M “ In effect January 6, 1873. F. L. MANCHESTER. Eastern Passenger Agent, 417 Broadway, N. Y. A. ALLhE, Northern Passenger Agent, 101 Clark street, Chicago. E. K. SCOTT, Ticket Agent, Central Depot, Houston. J. WALDO, A. H. SWANSON, General Ticket Agent, •en’l Sup’t. Houston, Texas. 151—tf