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VOL. VI. THE APPEAL. PUBLISHED EVERY FRIDAY, By J. P. SAWTELL. Terms of 4 Subscription. Onb Year. ...S3 00 | Six Months. . ..$2 00. INVARIABLY IN. ADVANCE. JSgT Wo attention paid to orders for the pa per un'ess accompanied by the Cash. Rates of Advertising : One square, (ten orless,) Sl’oo for the Vi rat and 75-cents for each subsequent inser tion. A liberal deduction made to parties Who advertise by file year- Persons sending advertisements should mark the number of times they desire them inser- or they willtbe continued until forbid and -barged accordingly. Transient advertisements must be paid tor at the time of insertion. If not paid for before the expiration of the time advertised, 2o per cent, additional will be charged. Announcing names of candidates for office, $5.00. GMi, in all caSfes . Obituary notices over live lines, charged at regular advertising ra f es. All communications intended to promote the private ends or interests of Corporations, So 'cietfos, or individuals, will be charged as ad vertisements. , , , . Jon Work, such as Pamphlets, Circn.ars, Cards, Blanks, Handbills, etc., will be -execu ted in good style and at reasonable rates. - All letters addressed to tlie Proprietor will be promptly attended to, The Parting Hour. Thcro ? s something in the “parting hour-’ Will chill the. warmest heart— Yet kindred, comrades, lovers, friends, Are fated all to part; But this I’ve seen—and many a pang 11ns pressed it to my mind— The one who goes is happier Than those lie leaves behind. No matter what the journey be, Adventurous, dangetous. tar, To the wild deep'or bleak frontier; To solitude of war— Still something cheers the heart that dales In all of human kind, And-they who go art* happier Than those they leave behind. The bride goes to the bride groom's home With doubting* and with tears, But dot# not llope her rainbow spread Across her cloudy tears ? , Alas ! the mother who.remains, . What comfort can she find, But this—the gone is happier Than one see leaves behind ? Have you a friend —a comrade dear? Ail old and valued Iriend ? -Be sure your term of sweet concourse At length will have an end ! And when you part—as part you will— O, take it not unkind, If he who goes is happier . Than you he leaves behind, God wills it so— and so it is; The Pilgrims on their way, Though weak and worn, more cheerful are Than all the rest who stay. And when, at last, poor man subdued, uics down to death resigned, May he not still be happier far Than those he leaves -behind ? A Truthful Sketch. Let a man fail in business, what au effect it has on his former credi tors ! Men who have taken him by the arm. laughed and chatted with him by the hour, shrug their shoulders with a cold —“Hdw do you do?” Every trifle of a bill is hunted up and presented that would not have seen light for moths to come, but. for the misfortunes of the debtor,'' If it is paid, well and good ; it not, •the scowl of the sheriff perhaps meets him nt the corner. A man that has never failed knows but lit tle of human nature. In prosperity he sails along gen tly—wafted by favoing smiles and kind words from every body. He prides himselt on his name Snd spotless character, and makes his boast that ho has notan enemy in the world. Alas the change ! He looks at the world in a different light when reverses come upon him. He reads suspicion, on every .brow. He can see doubt in every face. He hardly knows how to move; or do this thing or the other ; ther.e are spies about him ; a writ is ready for his back. To know what kind of stuff the world is made of, a person must be unfortunate, and stop paying once in a life time. If he has kind friends, then they are made manifest. A failure is a moral Reive; it brings out the wheat and shows the chaff, A man will thus learn that words and pre tended good will do not constitute real friendship. A Strange Case.—There is a woman now lying bet ween, life and death in* a Western city whose case has only been equaled once in medical annals. The pulse is regu lar at sixty, and all the bodily ac tions are perfectly, performed. The skin is natural and the eye presents no. unusual ‘appearence, except a certain fixity, and. yet this woman has bad for six days a bullet, fired from her husband’s revolver, em bedded in her brain. One of the most touching and pitiful facts is that the patient, in a sad kind of way, seems to be conscious, though unable to speak. She is incessant ly trying to get her wedding ring off of her finger, and at one time appears to have imagined that she had unloosed it, for she made a mo tion as though about, to throw it away, but apparently repenting, attempted to restore it. The ring occupies all her thoughts. She continually regards it, and will hold <ip her hand as long as her strength lasts, to look at it, For the Ctithb,-rt Appeal. A Tour Through Texas, OK Information for Emigrants. GENERAL REMARKS ON TIIE COUNTIES. . I shall now endeavor to give a short description of all the* counties of Texas taking them alphabetical Ly. It will be seen that the popula tion of the counties is sometimes given and some not, and when giv en, it is generally only approximate, as the census had been completed and published, in but few cases when I left. As far as the census returns have come in they show a large increase during the last de cade, the increase varies from fifty to eighty per cent. If this be taken as a criterian for the whole State, the total population at this time cannot fall much short of twelve hundred thousand It is estimated that the immigration to the State during the past year has been about two hundred and fifty thousand.— It has certainly far exceeded the immigration of any previous year; but, from present indications, the . immigration will continue to in crease from year to year for many years to come. . It ia only recently .that the great advantages of the State have attracted much attention abroad. But there is room enough yet*for hundreds of thousands of, emigrants. Ycpir readers will proba bly be surprised to see that so small a portion of the labor of the State Is performed by negroes ; in some counties negro labor varies from about one tenth to one half or two thirds in others. Though in fact the .proportion of negro labor •in the whole State is n’ot* probably over three tenths of the whole, and the proportion is becoming less from year to year. The price of farm products arc nearly the- same in all the counties, and’hence, I will omit giving them, except in a few’ instances, to save the repetition of the same figures. I- shall only give a general description of a few of the average counties so as not to bore your readers. The prices that I shall give of provisions, land, stock, etc., arc liable to fluctuation at dif ferent seasons ol the year and :fs emigration" - . increases lands are bound to be higher. Anderson County, "County Seat, Palestine —Area, 1098 square miles, population, 150,007,500 whites- and 7500 blacks. This county is two thirds timbered, acres cultivated about 12,000 in corn, and the same in cotton, and 15,000 in wheat and other' erops. Sugar cane can be raised well, and small grain, pota toes, sorghum and tobacco succeed Well. Average crop of corn oh iq> land. 20 bushels "per acre; of cotton 1,000 pounds; of wheat 15 bushels; ’ one hand cultivates usually 10 acres ’in corn and 8 in cotton. About sev enseighths of the labor*is done by fveedmen. §25 (coin) is the usual wages per mouth. The usual price of good farm lands is $2 to $5 per acre. Unimproved lands 50 cents to $2,50 per acre. Farms can be bought on a credit by actual setlers. The profits of a farm usually, with good management, will more than pay for it the first year. The prices of farm*producls are 50 cents for corn, potatoes the, same. Syrup ,§1 per gallon ; butter and lard 10 cents; bttcon 12} beef 2 cts. per pound ; mutton 3 ce lts ;. honey 10 cents; poultry per "dozen §1,50; eggs per dozen 10 cents; stock cat tle §5; milch-cows §10"; oxen SSO per yoke ; farm horses §SO ; mules $75; hogs, grown §5. Anderson is more devoted to farming than stock raising, but every farmer has his stock, which really costs him nothing but a little trouble. Any in dustrious farmer can make money, but few make the necessary efforts. The nearest railroad is 90 miles—to Bryan, they have navigation by the* Trinity -River to Galveston, about four months in the year. Freight to and from market §2 per 100 lbs. This county produced in 1870, 7,* 500 bales of cotton and -.probably 8500 last year. Iron ore is abun dant, and. was worked during, last year. There is about 20 churches and as many schools is this county. . ANGELINA COUNTY. County Seat,. Homes, Area, 1059 square miles, this county votes about 600, population about 2500, with about half as many negroes.— Petroleum is very abundant in An gelina, and in the South east part of the county it runs in springs from the surface called tar springs, companies are commencing to bore for it. This county has no prairies, and therefore is not a stock raising county. The prices of provisions, stock, lands, etc., arc about the CUTHBERT, GEORGIA, FRIDAY, JUNE 28, 1872. same as in Anderson county. The rivers are the Angelina and Neches, which are navigated b.y small steam ers, high up as Marion and darks ferry, all the winter and spring.— The market is Shreveport, La., dis tance 125 miles- by wagons; cost two cents per. pound for. hauling.— Cistern water is being generally used in. families, but few springs in this county. ARNHER COUNTY. This is one of the frontier unor ganized counties, it has but little good farming land,but ( is well adapt ed to grazing, having fine grass in abundance, and plenty of water.—'*■ Its settlement Inis been delayed by Indian depredations. The popula tion is small, and cannot, be accu rately stated, for want of the census returns, area is 900 square miles.— This county is considered one of the most valuable iu the State for .its minerals. AUSTIN COUNTY. County Seat Bellville—popula tion 10,000 and increasing fast.— Area 1034 square miles, chief mar kets, Houston and Galveston. It wdl be seen by the map that this county is well supplied with rail roads, the Texas Central passing through it, and the Washington county road connecting, with it at Hempstead. It is also well sup plied with rivers, the Brazos.being the longest. Though this is a fine agricultural county, with , great abundance of timber for fuel and fencing, yet stock-raising is carried on to a large extent, some beards numbering 3000 or 4000 head ; and some flocks' of sheep numbering. 2000 of, 3000 head. The building timber is chiefly brought from the adjoining counties of Grimes and Washington, consisting of pine and cedar.- There are several high schools, and many common schools in this county, and churches of all denomi- are plentiful in all neigh borhoods. Cotton is the great sta ple product as in most all other counties, corn is abundant and cheap. r L'hp cereals are not raised to any gr*eat extent but all other products are easily raised. Farms in bot tom lands arc worth S2O to S3O per 1 acre, improved ; and upland $lO to sls ; uncultivated lands, $3 to §l2 per acre. Avei age yield of cotton in bottom lands one bale (500 lbs. lint) to the acre ; on uplands, about one half bale ; of corn 20 to 30, bushels per acre, of potatoes 200 to 400 bushels per acre, 15 acres are usually cultivated by one hand, most of the labor is performed by the farmers themselves. There are several malm factories at Hemp stead ; such as an iron foundries, a a cotton and wood factory, a pot tery, a wagon factory, a broom fac tory, a cotton-seed oil -factory, a larg#*tannery, etc. In fact Hemp stead is one of the principal manu facturing towns of the State, and reminds one of a northern manufac turing town. Any one that contemplates going to Texas should have a map of Tex as so as to enable them .to under stand the situation of the counties, as they will better understand-them, by -so doing, as I shall omit th'e boundaries, any one desiring maps can get them from me from 75 cts. to sl-,50, owing i6 the style, by ad dressing me at Cotton Hill, Ga. T. M. A. Superficial Education Real education is the formation and training of the mind. To train the mind requires hard, patient and independent thinking and work ; the mere crude teaching a youth a bundle of facts, which he acquires with no labor, and, only retaining, neither digests nor assimilates, is no training at all; they in no way nourish his mind, but, deposited there, are as utterly raw and undi gested as he swallowed them. He may be a full man, but it is theriull ness of a bottle, which "will pour out what has been previously pour ed in, whether vinegar or claret; he may be a/- convenient depository of other men’s thoughts—he- may have sufficient capacity for holding them —but to call such men edu? cated is-a misuse of terms, in the Strict sense of 'the word, and .to trust 'men to his superintendence is a misuse of humanity. He plunges into the arena of politics, the sea of literature, or the fury of a revolu tion, unchecked by any glimmer ing suspicion of his own folly, and hurls thrones to the ground,, sees the people massacred, and Europe ig conflagration, without feeling compunction or remorse. lie is as insensitive as a bottle or a bag, take away what it is filled with, and what remains '.—Cayley. Tlie False Edsscatiou of our Daughters. The English nobleman who sends tO Paris fo|his' daughter’s dresses, is reasonably certain that he, and his daughter’s husband after him, can continue sending, and that in the training of his child he is foster ing no habit which can not be right fully'indulged in. The American knows, if he knows‘anything,- that the habits of luxury iu which his child is reared, unfit her for the du ties Os life to which she will in all likelihood be called—that he can not hope that his family wealth can long survive him, any more .than that his daughter will love a man to whom that wealth will be unimpor tant. Experience and observation alike tell him that wealth, in this country, rarely continues in a family three generations, and that at any time lie may find himself a poor man again. Yethe regulates his life and that of his children as if his wealth and theirs were assured forever, and as though the habits of a lifetime were to be broken like wisps of straw. His daughters are not fit to marry any but the rich men they experience so much difficulty in finding; and a man -of moderate means is careful to avoid askfng them to change their habits of life. There are iew sadder pict ures than the one we see when some ’ such woman of braver heart than most of her sex chooses the portion of a'poor man’s, and vainly seeks to adapt herself to a life of which she lias hitherto known nothing. The habits of girlhood bind her . like .strong fetters, and ignorance of domestic duties weighs her. to tli e earth, the loss of social position, or the levered effects she makes to support it', wear out her life in bit. ter repinings, until her health gives' •way, and she dies, leaving her •faults to vex the world in her children, and her vitures undiscov ered save by the husband, who hides from "himself all else of her memory. —lip pi ncott's Magazine. . Story of a Sign." In Newport, R.'l., a groeer who kept a shop was noted for his grasp dog disposition. One day l.e nail ed up a salt cod on one of the. shut ters of his shop, and underneath it he wrote in chalk: ‘Cod-fish for sale cheap for cask here.’ Presently in came an acquaintance and said : ’ ‘What do you have ‘here’ ou that sign about cod-fish for ? You dont sell.cod-fish dr any other goods in any place but here. Anybody. wo*h!d know where you sold.them without that word.. ‘Tirat’s so,’ said the grocer; ‘boy wipe out the-word ‘here’ from the cod-fish sign. Tlie boy obeyed, and tiie next day another critic appeared. Said lie : ‘For cash! whoever knew‘you to trust for any goods ? Why do you say you sell cod-fish for cash ?’ ‘You are right, said the grocer : ‘boy, wipe out the words ‘for cash’ from the cod-fish sign.’ This was done, and shortly- after a third critic came to tfie shop, ob jecting to the word ‘cheap.’ ‘Who ever knew you to undersell other 'dealers ?’ said he; ‘you don’t sell any cheaper'than they. Your prices are just the same as theirs, and more,- if you can get it. Cheap! cheap ! what do you have that word for r ‘Well, it is not of much use, said the'grocer ; ‘boy, wipe out the word ‘cheap’ from the cod-fish sign,’ Again the boy did as his mas ter bade, and the same day. critie No. 4 found fault with the phraso, ‘for sale.’ Said lie: ‘Fof.sale ! no one ..ever knew yo£i to give away cod-fish. Os course you keep them for sale: there is no occasion for telling people what ev erybody knows.’ ‘There is something in that,’ said the ’grocer ; boy, wipe ouf ‘for sale’ from the cod-fish-sign. This left the salt ccd and the sin gle word ‘codfish’ beneath. It was but a few miuutes after that custo mer who came in to buy some goods remarked to the grocer : ; * . ‘What a funny' sign you’ve "jKrf out there: any one would know trm is a codfish nailed on your shut ter. . . , ‘So'they would,’ was the reply; ‘boy, wipe, out the word codfish from that sign.’ ‘The boy obeyed, and the fish re mained With no’ inscription.’ —The appointment by the Mor mons of ydssionararies to evange' . lize Europe and the United States looks very much as if the tail was trying to wag the dog. Tobacco. BY A SMALL BOY. Tobacco grows something like cabbage, but I never saw none of jt boiled, although I have eaten boiled cabbage, and I have heard men say’ that cigars that were given them on election day for nothing were - cab bage leaves. Tobacco stores are mostly kept by wooden Injuns, who stand at the door and try to fool little boys by offering them a bunch of cigars, which is glued in the In jun’s bauds, and is made of wood al so. Hogs do not like tobacco; nei ther do I. I tried to smoite a ci gar once am] it-made me feel like epsom salts. Tobacco was invented by a man named Walter Raleigh: When the people first saw him smo king they thought he was a steam boat, and as they never saw a steam boat they were frightened. My sis ter Nancy is a girl I don’t know whether she likes tobacco or not. There is a young man named Ho Roy who comes to see her. die was standing on the steps one night, with a cigar in his mouth, and he didn’t know as she would like it, and she said, “Le Roy, the per fume is agreeable.” But when my big brother Tom lighted " his pipe; Nancy said, “Get out of the house, you horrid creature ; the smell of to bacco makes mo sick.” " J ■ What is Life.— Life is but death’s vestibule and our pilgrimage on-earth is but a journey to the grave; the pulse, that preserves our dead march, and -the blood which circulates our life is floating it on ward to-the depths of death. To day we see some of our friends in health; to-morrow we hear of their decease. W-e clasp thq hand of the stranger man but yesterday, and to-day wo closed his eyes. We rode in a chariot of comfort but an hour ago, and in a few more hours the last black?chariot must convey us to the home of all the living. Stars die rnayhaps ; it is said that conflagration’s have been seen afar off in the other,, and astronimers have marked the funerals of other ■worlds—the decay of those lights that wc have imagined set forever in sockets of silver to glisten as the lamps of eternity. Blessed be God there is one. place where death is not life’s brother, where life reigns alone, and ‘.‘to live,” is not the first sylable winch is to be followed by the next “to die.” There is aland where death knells ar@ never tolled, where winding-sheets are never wo ven, where graves are never dug. Blessed land beyond the skies. To reach it, we must die. Training Girls. —Training girls for household duties ought to be considered as necessary as instruc tion in reading, writing and arith metic, and quite as universal. We are in- our houses more than half our existence, and it is the house hold surroundings which affect most largely the happiness or misery of domestic life. If the wife knows how to “keep -house,’' if she has leaiyied how things ought to be cooked, how beds should be made, how carpets should be swept, how the furniture should be dusted, how the clothing should be repair ed,- and turned," and altered, and renovated ; if she knows how pur chases can be maje to the best advantage, and understands the laying in of provisions, how to*make them go furthest and last longest; if she appreciates the importance of system, order, tidiness, and the quiet management of children and servants, then she knows how to make a little heaven of home —how to win her children from the club house, the gambling table, and the wine cup. Such a family will be trained to social respectability, to business success and to efficiency and usefulness in whatever posi tion may be allotted to them.— Hall's Journal. Wise Words. —Foolish spend ing is the father of poverty. Don’t be ashamed to work. Be your own master, and do not let-society and fashion swallow up your individu ality. Do not eat up or wear out all you can earn. Compel the sel fish body'to spare'something for the profits saved. Bo stingy in jour appetite, but merciful to ne cessities. Help others, and • ask not help for yourself. See that you are proud, but. let pride be of the right kind. Be too proud to 'be lazy, too proud to be in company you cannot keep up with in expense too proud to lie, or steal or cheat; too proud to be stingy. —The quickest way for a man to forget all common miseries is to wear tight boots. * What Ihe Features Indi cate. We are told that the extreme of both largeness and''smallness of stature are not favorable to the strength -of intellect. Giants and dwarfs are generally deficient in this respect, and* excessive corpu lency or • meageruess is -seldom as sociated with'mental activity. Aris totle, and Bonaparte, however, were very short. Charles Janies Fox was exceedingly fat, Daniel Webster both broad and tall, and Lord Nel son a living skeleton. A large head is generally-the ac companiment .of a great intellect ; but a small one with a comparative ly extensive forehead is quite con sistent with mental capacity.— Raphael, Charles . XII., Frederick the Great and Lord Brougham were illustrations of the latter fact. It is. said any nose which is less than the bight of the forehead is an indication of the defective intel lectual powers. The eyes indicate character rath er by color than form. The dark bluo are found most commonly in persons of a gentle and refined char acter. Light blue and grey in tlie rude anj energetic. Lavator says : “Hazel eyes are the more usual in dications of a mind masculine, vig orous and profound ; just as a ge nius, so called, is almost always as sociated with hves of a yellowish east bordering on hazel.” Thp higher the brows rise the more their possessors is supposed to bo under the influence of feeling, and the better controlled by his character. Avery small eyebrow is an indi cation of want of force of charac ter. A tolerable large mouth is essen tial to vigor and energy, and a very small mouth is indication of weak ness and indolence. In a manly face, the upper lip should extend beyond and dominate the lower, and fleshy lips are often er found associated with voluptu ous, and meager ones with a pas sionate nature. The -retreating chin indicates Weakness, the perpendicular strength and tlie sharp acuteness of mind. The Widow's Wiles. —They tell about a blooming young widow who used to’ live next door to Mr. Smith, who was a widower and ‘a timid man, whose mild eyas beam ed blandly through his spectacles. The widow had a kindness for Smith and he reciprocated it; but he had barely enough courage to carry on the campaign. So at last the wid ow pretended to be terribly afraid of thunder and lightning, ahd whenev er she saW a gust coming up, she us ed to smooth her hair and rush in to Mr, Smith’s house. Then when she heard a peal of thunder, 'she would scream, rush up and throw her arms around the neck of the mild-eyed Smith, and im plore him to protect her, and Smith always looked anxious and embar rassed and said he would. Then she would faint, and Smith feel half glad and half sorry. About six thunder storms settled the business; and now she is Mrs. Smith—lie is only sorry that her apprehensions of the lightning were not realized. He says, if ever there was a person who ought to have been torn to pieces by electricity, it is that widow. She has thunder storms every day now in Smithes house, and it is lively and vigorous for’ Smith around there. The Use of a Wife. —A brute of our acquaintance read the other day of the case of a man who ob tained $750 damages from the Mid land Railway for injuries sustained Jay his wife. He. has ever since sent his better half a daily trip by rail, and-says it will do her good ; but that even if it does, her harm, it will do him good, so it is all the same. He adds, that a wife who travels- about a good deal is likely to be a treasure to her hus band in case of accidents. — Fun % -—ln a recent debate, a member of the ‘ California Legislature ex claimed : “The honorable gentle man from Claveras County is un doubtedly a person of great abili ties, a man of talent, a natural born genius; but there is one thing I de fy him to do, and that is to bite, the bottom out of a fryingpan without smutting his nose.”- —A reporter who obtained en trance .to the studio of a noted young lady sculptor, states that she wus at work with “her arms bare to the should*?! and her ankles like wise.” From the Savannah News. . She Hi ever Cared a Snap Oh surely you have met her, At the park or on the street— She wears her hair in jaunty curls And dresses deuced neat. Iler Grecian bend's a bouncer, And her hat the merest scrap Os silk and straw and ribbons—but She doesul "care a snap.-"’ •She sports a Dolly Varden Os yellow, red and greeD, And skips along in bronzed bootees, The neatest ever seen. When she trips the crowded pavement l'ou can hear her flounces flap As she boldly swings her parachute— But she doesn’t “care a snap.” The boys call her ‘•stunner,” : And mauy a love lorn chap Tips his beaver as she passes— She doesn’t “care a snap.” And her epitaph will lie, When Death’3 cold hand shall rap Upon her varnished chamber door : “She never cared a snap” Something for the Girls. —ls a young man greet you in a loud, free and hasty tone; if he know pre cisely where to put his hand ou his hat; if he stare you right in the eye, with his own wide open; if ho turn His back to you to speak to another; if he tell you who made his coat; if he sqeeze your hand; if Tie eats heartily in your presence; if, iu short he sneezes when you are singing, criticise your curls, or fail to be foolish in fifty ways. every hour, then don’t fall in lovo with him for the world. lie only admires you, let him do or say what he -will. On the other hand, if he be mer ry with every ono else, but quiet with you; if he be anxious to see that your tea is sufficiently sweet ened and your dear person.well wrapped up when you go into the cold ; if be talks very low ; if his cheeks are red, and his nose only blushes, it is enough. If he .-romp with your sister, sigh like a pair of bellows, look solemn when you are addressed by another gentleman, and, in fact, if he be the most still, awkward, stupid, yet anxious of all your male" friends, you may “go ahead,” anil make the poor fellow happy. Popular Errors. —To think that the more a man eats the fatter and stronger he will becohie. To be lieve that the more hours children study the faster they learn. To conclude that, if exercise is good, the more violent it is the more good ia done. To . imagine that every hour taken from sleep is au hour gained. To act on the presump tion that the smallest room in the house is large enough to sleep in.— To imagine that whatever remedy Causes one to feel immediately bet ter is good for the system, without regard to more ulterior effects. To eat without an appetite ; or to con tinue after it has been satisfied, merely to gratify the taste. To eat a hearty supper for the pleasure ex perienced during the brief time it is passing down the throat,' at the expense of a whole night of disturb ed sleep, and weary waking in the morning. Diffuser's of Happiness. —Some men move through fife filling the air with their presence and sweet ness, as orchards, in October days, fill the air with the p'erfume of ripe fruit. Some women cling to their own houses, like" the honeysuckle over the door, yet like it, fill all the region with the subtle fragrance of their goodness. How great a bless ing it is to hold the gifts of the soul that they shall be music to some and fragrance to others 1 It would be no unworthy thing to live for, to make the power which we have within us the breath of other men’s joy; to fill the atmosphere which they must stand in with a bright ness whith they cannot create for themselves. Passing Round the Hat, —The incident related below didn’t occur in these parts: " The hat was passed arouud in a certain church for the purpose of taking up a collection. After -it had made the circuit of the house, it was handed to the minister, who had exchanged pulpits with the reg ular preacher, and he found not a eent in it, He inverted the hat over the pulpit cushion uud shook it, that its emptyness might be known, then looking toward the ceiling, he exclaimed with fervor: i‘l thand thee, O God! that I got my hat back froTh this congrega tion,” —“Come where my love lies dreaming,” says an up-country swain, ‘-‘and see how she looks with ttio paiut off.” NO 26. All Right. How many of us but uso the pression a dozeii times a week, arid have it stick in the throat, at least half of them ? It is coming to be a hypocritical appendage of business and a social intercourse. A sponge? goes behind the cotirt 1 ter, and cuts off a dime’s worth of tobacco or cheese, with an excuse that he wants “a sample” and tlie grocery man says, “that’s all right/ 5 A customer returns a pair of shoes to the dry goods man soiled and injured after a half day’s wear, grunting, “ they are too small,” and the merchant says, “that’s all right.” A church member put his name down for $25 to pay the preacher, and when calls lie pays only $lO, with the remark that “limes are too fo~al_”and the parson snys; “that’s all right.” A loafer makes a regular practice of coming into a printing office, and begging a copy of the paper, stating* he “just wants to read it,” a short time, and the editor groans with ghastly politeness, “that is right”" An extravagant debtor tells a patient creditor eVet'y in meets him that he intends pacing that account “to-morrow, certain,” and the poor dun turns off with “that’s all right.” And so it 'goes. It’s all wrong and we say it’s all right, and by our want.of spirit and independence en courage laziness, imposition, stingi. ness, and every other sin under the sun. A broom with a heavy handle was sent as a wedding gift to a bride, with the following senti* ment: ‘•This trifling gift accept from nic, ' Its use I would commend ; In sunshine use the brushy part, In storm the other end.” A Mother’s Holy Work.— Many a discouraged mother folds her tired hands at night, and feels as if she had, after all, done nothing, ah though she has not spent ah idle moment since she rose. Is it noth ing that your little helpless children have had someone to come to with all their childish griefs ahd joys ? Is it nothing that your husband feels safe when he is irtVay to bis business because your careful hand directs everything at home ? Is it when his business is over, that he has the blessed refuge bf home; which you have that day done your best to brighten and rfine ? O weary and faithful mother! you littlo know your power when you say, “I have done nothing.” There is a book in which a fairer record than this is written over against your name. —“lt seems that after the old folks had gone, he di.dti’t do noth* in,” but jest sot a syin’ and groan in’ as if he was in great distress; enough*to break the heart of a stone, till Miss Ofelia took pity on his sufferings and asked him wouldn’t he take some pepperrhent draps, thinkin’ he had the kawlick or maybe somethin’ wuss. And then dowp he went on his marfow bones, and told her it wasn’t the stomick ake, but the heart ake he had, and nobody but she could cure him. And then he swore a dreadful oth that he’d, do somethin’ desperate it she wouldn’t hare him. Wal, what do yoit think the gal done ? Blushed all maner of kullers, and said she’d konsider on it or told him she’d no idea of changing her situa tion ? No such thing. She looked him rite in the face and axes him, sez she Mr. Grub, does your moth • er know you're out. A man addicted to “ tangle foot,” having imbibed considerably more than was for his good, took a. seat by the fire, and soon “ didtft feel as well as be used to.” .Near the fire was a brood of young lings in a basket, that had been brought in, the weather being stormy. The heat made the sick, and the disposition was strong* within him to relieve his overcharge ed stomach. No vessel being* handy except the basket of gos* , lings, the load was quickly deposits ed there. Calling his wife he ex*-; olaimed, “ Phe-Phcfibe, where I (hie) eat those goslings?” , ' "’ . The following effecting query was addressed to his sweetheart a poetical lover in Egypt: " B f 4 If you was a dog and 1 was a hogs And I got into your master’syArd And your master was to sick yon on tM Would you bite me rery hard ? 'fa —Hong, slim eggs are males; short, round eggs are females.