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About The Southern sun. (Bainbridge, Ga.) 1869-1872 | View Entire Issue (May 25, 1871)
T he southern sun. Official Journal of Deca f ur County I Tow n and County Circulation —J. 11. HAY EB, Proprietor bates of advertising. y () Squares. 1 Mo. 2 Mob 8 Mob 6 Mos 12 Mos jf4 00 *7 oo| $9 noju 00U2000 «Jnares 800 11 00 14 jOO 20 00 $0 00 \ squares 12 00 15 00 ' 26 00; 26 (M 40 00 4 anaar es i 10 00 20 QQ 20 00 83 00j 50 00 ’squares 20 00 25 ©0 32 00 40 0 00 00 squares 24 00 31 00! 38 00 48 <0 7n . 0 - srjuares 28 00.37 00: 45 00 56 oO 80 00 g squares 32 00 43 00 62 00:64 Oo 90 00 •♦squares 30 00 49 Oo 60 00 72 00 <OO-00 ,n sqmyes 48 00 55 00 68 UOBO 00 110 00 jc-'unm 44 00 62 00J 74 001 89 00 120 0) Cate Hours. Henry Ward Beecher p eached recently on “bate Honrs and the Unfruitful Works of Dark ness. • If you want to make the ruin of a child 'sure him liberty after dark. You cannot do any t hing nearer to ensure his damnation that to let' bimbfve liberty to go where he wall without yastraint. A ter dark he will be sure to get into fommunication with people that will undermine til his good qualities. Ido toot like to speak to pireute abont their children. Their child cannot, ,rjjl not lie, when his tongue is like amended bow; jj, fl il not drink when there is not a saloon with amile of his father’s house where he is not as fe ll known a« one of hie own decanters; he never jpi iniquitous things, when he iejaekingia filth, jfjnetefu out of every twenty allowed perfect frttim at night will be wounded by it. There is nothing more important than for a child to be at tome at night, or, if he is abroad, you should be *ith him. If he is to see any sights or tajcs any pleasure, there is nothing that he should see that rou sh-rnld not see with him. It is not me rely that the child should be broken down, but there ir e thoughts that never ought to find passage into toman’s brain. As an eel, if he wriggle across vmr carpet, will leave his slime which no brush ing can ever efface, 60 there are thoughts that never can he got rid of, once permitted to enter ; and there are individuals going around with ob wene hooka and pictures under the lappels of ,»f their ci>ats that will leave ideas in the mind of your child that will never be effaced. There aro men here who have heard a salacious neng and they never will forget it They will re giet it to the end of their lives. Ido not believe in a child’s seeing life, as it is oalled, with its damnable lust and wickedness, to have all his im aginations set on fire with the flames of hell. No body goes through this fire but they are burned, burned ; and they cannot get rid of the scars. TwoYankf.es. —The following story is told of 51 Yankee captain and his mate. Whenever there *m a plain pudding made, by the captain’s or ders all the plums were put in one end of it. and that placed next the captain, who after helping himself, passed it to the mate, who never found any plums in any part it .tfter tliis game had been nlayep for some time th<> mate prevailed on the steward to place the plum end next to hi to, the captain who no sooner preceived the alteration than picking up the dish and turning it around, as if the Jliina, he said : “This cost me two shillings in Liverpool ” 11« thou put it down, as if without design, with tbepla m end next to himself “Is is it possible ?” said the mate, taking up the did: •‘I shouldn’t suppose it was worth more tl.tn a shilling.” iud, as in perfect innocence, he put it down the contrary way. The captain looked at the mate ; the mate look ed at the captain, and both laughed •HI toll you what, young ’un,” said the captain, "v. u’vc found me out ; so we’ll just cut the pud* ding lengthwise this time and have the plums fair distributed hereafter-” Door-Yard Ornamentation. We have made great progress the past few years in our style of gardening. Formerly pvery little door-yard, however small, was cut up into a rinth of narrow walks, carefully edged wiih dwarf box. '! his sort of needless and unsightly patch vork is fast passing away, and a far better taste is being shown in the smooth, soft capets of green nvos, with the the needful flower beds cut out vherever required. Flowers are like diamonds ; their sott ng should be of the inconspicuous order, t never the most prominent features of the two, ss often seen among the ‘shoddy itf.s’ in both fash ■sable society and horticulture Our florists and nurserymen still have a considerable demand for ‘box' foi edgings: and it is o pity although it is true, that we have so rnnch bad taste show r u in our abnrban gardens. Some times the grounds are cut up into walks 'enabling an old-fashioned patched bed-quilt of any color?, and the proprietor uotwishiug to be n done hi the way of variety, crowds a thousand H'v Wand varieties of plants into a space where a Wdted would be a far better number, and show to kitor advantage. This trying to see bow many •arictieseau V grown, has been ft curse to potn -I'H- and is rapidly ruining floriculture. A dozen •’• aa s well grown, show better taste and judgment t;una hundred, as far too generally seen. " e hope our readers will remember this when ~akißg their selections of seeds and plants this Choose only a few of the very best, and of species that will give a succession of bloom trough the season, and bestow upon these all the lr e that would have been given to many, aud see "greater satisfaction aud better results will not be drived therefrom. We know of a man who cultivated three hundred ''unties of Gladioli last summer ; but one-tenth C 1 the number properly selected would have fur “sked all the beauty and other merits found in the lot. To stri-e for the very best is commend but to seek to obtain everything is like try* to gjtin an education by studying every thing ‘“'i knowing nothing thoroughly. —Rural New Liker. or tub Printers’ Devil. — When Aldus set up business as a printer at Yenice, e vame in possession of a little uegro boy. This I *as know over the city as “the tittle black JtT 'i who assisted tire mysterious dibliofactor, I‘■* 1 ‘ ■* votnc of the ignorant persons believed him to j* uo other than the emlHKiiuieut of Satan, who -*‘Ped Aldus iu the prosecution of his profession. -' a * day, Maoutinue desiring to dispel the halluci- by publicity, displayed the “imp’ l ’’e poorer classes. Upon this .occasion he v‘ r <e this characteristic 6peech ; “Be it known : that I. Aldus Manutinus printer in the pyChmch aud Doge, have this day made pub- J/i ripotme of tho “printer’s devil. All those is tot flesh and blood may come d P'nch bim." ® ;—— - - ■— VOL. V. [From the New Orleans Picayune THE FIRE BRIGADE. »Y XABITTA. Wreath the cedar with the vine Laurei with the holly twine * ’ Arch the window, drape the wail. As for joyous festival ; Float ye flags and pennons gay, Heroes march oui streets to day. Not from bloody fields they come— Blaring trumpets and beating drum Heralding the heroes’ name. Trumpeting the conqueror’s fame— Theirs the pride that knows no price. Grand, sublime self-sacrifice. Theirs the duty, stern and hard, Knowing but its own reward ; Theirs to toil with all their might For another’s sacred ri”ht ; Theirs to meed the proudest won— Noble duty—nobly done. Theirs to beed the dusting bell, Breaking slumber’s silken spell ; Theirs to so low prompt and fleet Where the engines’ pulses beat ; Theirs to feel that t aught appals When the voice of Duty calls Kang on high the bright festoon— Sound on bugle and barsoon— Khout ye people, cheer on c eer, For the heroes are drawing near ; Bloom ye roses, we must lay Flowers at noble feet to-day. Where the Demons of the fire Flaunt their oriflanies of ire ; Where their blazing banners fly Toward the scowling midnight sky ; Where they chuckle, hiss and laugh, ■Over what their red lips quaff. Over what they kiss to death, With their suffocating breath— Where exulting, they devour Miser’s ho ird or maiden’s dower ; Where their scathing tongues consign Unto Ruin roof and shrine ; Where the heat, and flame, and smoke, Blind and dazzle, scorch and choice ; Where increasing horrors s cken, Where dismaying dangers thicken ; Prarnpt to do and brave to dare, Our heroic band is there. Wreathe the cedar with the vine, Laurel with the holly twine ; Arc h the window, drape the wall, Arf for jo\cits so tival— Float ye flags and pennons gay, Heroes march our »t«eets to-day. II 1. Kimball. Id a report of a 1 nibtmd meeting in Grib, fin, the Star s-.ys, ed.ioiially: The celebrated 11. I. Kimball next took the floor, u»*d showed Jhut he was as able to impart his views as he is to put his ini* mouse plans in successful operation. We are no worshiper of great men, nor will our columns ever be sided with fulsome adulation of utiy political or personal fa voiilej hut we feel that Kimball cannot he flittered. Although more talked about in tbe papers than perhaps any other nian in Georgia, yet the half lias not been told of his wonderful power? liaised a carriage maker, lie went through the grades of ap prentice, journeyman aud proprietor. He can make every part and parcel ot a car riage, including the painting, iu the very highest and most finished style. From cars riage-niaking he got to making railroad coaches, magnificent hotels, opera houses, and finally railroads, until now his monthly pay rolls amount to over one hundred thou sand dollars, or over three jhousand dollars per day ; and yet, in age, he would be call <*d by old men a mere boy, being about thirty-five years old! It may be imagined that a man with such comprehension, such power of making combination*, such indo mi table will and energy, would, if he could talk at all, interest a business audience, and he did. He even excelled Col. Hul bel t in clearness and terseness of expres sion. He endorsed and amplified upon Col. Hulbert’s views of narrow guage, and finally cheered our hearts by the statement that if we, the citizens of Griffin, anjl those upon the line of the road, would subscribe liberally to the enterprise, and glire to it our hearty and earnest support, his coin pan? would take hold ol the road and build it sharp and quick!— undertaking to raise means upon such collaterals as our sub scriptions and bonds would furnish. The great candor and frankness, as we as perspicuity of Mr. K. was admired by all* He said he had cast his lot m Georgia. Here lie expected to live and die. His te*t was the honor and prosperity of Georgia firs’- and second, the interest of Kimball. He asked the co operation ot the citizens who are to be benefit ted by his operations and pledged himself to stand square to them, and to deal fairly, frankly and hon orably. With their co-operation vast things could be dune, without it, compara tively little. ‘ The Lilliputian Stale of Rhode Island has but 289,030 acres of impinved laud; ns farms are worth twenty-one millions; and its farm products nearly five^millions. -An Independent romm-at - I ~ ~ “ ! al r>ev otea to tjae Interests of GeoreiS: CAMBRIDGE, GA„ THURSDAY, MAY 25, 1871. Hon. A H. Stephens. A correspondent ui the Charleston Cour« ier, thus describes bis visit to the home of Mr. Stephens, near Crawfordvilic. He says ; Having a little leisure time this after ruxjr, I called to seo Geoigia's grea*.;st man Alexander H. Stephens—whom I <iad known in my boyhood. He is looking much older—disease ifi beginning to make its mark upon him. When I entered his ebarn* ber be was sitting in an arm chair, looking over and filing away letters* Handing the package to his nephew, saying, ‘here, William, are those letters,* be at once en tered in conversation with me, by etiquir ing ‘how are you getting aloug in Caroli na ?‘ I answered bad enough, but no so bad as people abroad seem to think. Said he : ‘The reform movement in youT State was a mistake. I never knew a map that ran from a dog that did not get bit. There was some in Georgia who proposed the forma tion of such a party, j opposed it, and I think I was instrumental in defeating it. ? As be piogressed and warmed up on the usurpation of the Radical party, straightens ing his frail form up in his chair, his eyes brightening, I was carried back in my im aginations twenty years when I heard him upon the stand, where he never had an equal before the masses. I will not repeat his views upon the political condition of the country, as expressed to me. He does not, however, think that the Tammany Ring 1 will lead us to victory in next Fresidental election. He is writing a ‘School History of the United States* I asked him if it was intended for the South. He s-tid no. It was for the whole county, win 'fever the people loved and wanted the truth. Mr. Stephens is able to walk about Jos grounds on crutches, being sorely af» fkneii with rheumatism. His works, ’Tit 1 ’ ‘History of Causes that led to the War,* should be ‘ pfaced in the hands of every child in the land. It js an nn ansvv* r.ihle vindication of the South, such as no othet living man could have written. CANT. The New York Mail denounces Every Saturday and Harper’s Weekly for re-pub fishing Charles Keade's new novel. The story, the editor says, is ‘soiling to the hitherto fair pages of Harpers Weekly.’ 0 ye gods ! has it come to this, tljat Readu can do sparsity what Curtis and Mast have hepn striving at for many years ? Readc's story is oneot love and passion, the world’s ;hrohs, and about which all men know so much and women as they should, and which occupy the thoughts ot all from youth to imbecility, is there no harm in love when it assumes the wildest and most reckless form ? Is their no immorality in slander ? Is there no immorality in hatred, in vengeance, in falsehood ? Does not love so monopolize all crimes of human kind that when its mad doing are sketched by masterly hands, the recital must soil the paper on which it is published ? Bah ! Harpers’ Week'y was soiled long ago wiih slime and blood. Up to the war rupture it was pro-Southern, but the Soutfi excluded it from instinct, and the publishers turned upon its former patrons and showed their teeth. Curtis, the editor, wrote mad appeals or vengence and continued slaughter ; he maligned and misrepresented the South held them up to the scorn of laymen and the anathema ot religion; and Nast, the sketch es drew such scenes of falsehood, such tableaux of lies as shocked even the most violent abettors of Coersoih. Brain Ga iwra —Persons who talk most do not always think most —that is, have mosi conscious thoughts pass through their minds nor necessarily do most mental work *Be aye sticking in a tree, Jock ; it will be growing when you are sleeping' So with every new idea tha* is planted in a think er’s mind. It will be growing when he is sleeping. An idea in the brain is not a legend carved on a marble slab ; it is an impression made on a living tissue which is the seat of active nutritive processes. Shall the initials I carved in bark grow from year to year with the tree? and shall not my recorded thought grotf into bew forms and relations with my growiug brain ? Daniel Webster told one of the greatest scholars that he had to change the sixe of his hat every four years. His head gfew larger as his intodect expanded. Illustra tratioiisof this sanje fact were shown me by a famous phrenologist of Loudon. But organic mental changes may take place in shorter spaces of time- A single eight »* i,t sleep has often brought a sober second thought which was a surprise to a hasty conclusion of the day before.-O. W. Bolxks. Hope. Hope is the angel that leads us through our infant days j and cheers us through our youth's gayest hours. Hope filants flowers of unfading beauty iu our inward world ; the only soil where they could flourish in unfading bloom and be come a garden of delight. And when the days of manhottJcoma, laden With cares and sorrow, then hope, that cheerful Angel of the skies, sits down beside us and cheers as with hope of better days. And in old age, when the weight of years and power of disease bend the frail body, and we trembling stand mi the verge of the tooinb and listen to the roaming of the distant ocean beyond, then hope whispers.of a time when we shall rise iu the image of him who 'is good uriip ail, and whose tender mercies are over all his works.* Yes, hope cheers us in joy and sorrow, in adversity and prosperity, through life ; au<J in the hour of death, and winds around us the mautle of his loye, an I through a resur rection introduces us into heaven, our final home, there to be the companions of an gels while‘life and health and being last, or i:nmortality endures. * Oh, blessed hope 1 thine is a noble work to cheer the desponding sonl. You cheer the pilgrim on his weary pilgrimage—and enable him to preach the gospel to the poor, and plant the standard of universal redemption in the hearts of men Robert Jones. Billing's Advice to Joe. —By awl means Joe, get married, if ypfi have a fair stow. Don‘t stand shivering on the bank, but pitch in and stick your bed under and the shiver is oyer. There ain‘t enney more trick in gettin mare<3;afteryou're redy than there is in easing peaiiqts. Menny a man has stood shivering on the shore till the river awl run out. Don't expect to marry an agel, them hev awl been picked up long ago. Remembei, Joe, you ain't a saint yourselfr. Do not marry for buty exclu sively ; buty is like ice, awful sl'pperly, and thaws dredful easy. Don't marry for luv neither ; luv is like a cooking stove, good for nothing when the fuel gives out. But marry a mixture. Aud let the mixture be some buty becomingly dressed, with about $250 in her pocket, a good speller, handy and meat in the house, plenty of good sense, a tuff constitution and by laws, small feet, a light stepper ; add to this sound teeth and a warm heart. This mix ture will keep in enny climate, and not evaporate. If the cork happens to be left offfor two or three minutes the strength ain't all gone, Joe. For heaven's sake don't marry for pedigree. Thar ain't much ig pedigree unless it is backed by bank stocks. A family with nothing but pedi gree generally lacks sence. Babies.— We love little babies, and love, everybody who does love babies. No man has music in his soul who dou't love ba bies. Babies vyere made to be loved,' es spepiallv girl babies; when they grow up. \ man isn't worth a shuck who hasu't a baby, and the same rule applies to a wos man. A baby is aspring day in wihter and if it is healthy and goodnatured. and you're sure it's yours, it is a bushel of sun shine, no matter how cold Uie weather. A man cannot be hopeless as loug as lie loves babies one at a time. We love babies, no matter how dirty they are. Babies are born to be dirty. We love babies because they are babies aud because their mothers were lovable and lovely women. Our love for babies is only bounded by the number of babies in thp world. We always look for babies; we do. We always have sorrowful feelings for mothers that have no babies and don't expect any. Women always look down-hearted who have no babies, and men who have no babies always gamble, and drink whisky, and stay out nights trying to get music in their souls; but they ean't come it Babies are babie3, and notlrog can take the.r places. Pianos play out and good living plays out, and beauty plays out, unless tlisre's a baby iu the house. We've tried it; we know and we say there’s nothing like a baby. Babies are * prolific subject, and we intend to talk more about the babies in tbe future—Chicago Tribune. The portaits of sick prisoners were shown opon these ’spotless' pages, to rouse to greater heat the passion for revenge against the Sooth, and every means within the compass of a coward's pen or a bar’s pencil werednvoked to swell tbe rich river of hatred, and launch upon tbe floods lar ger fitets of desolation. —N. T. Democrat. SPEAK THE TRUm. Os all things which lower one iu the es<i timation of his fellows, nothing will more surely do it than falsehood. A single pre varication sometimes blasts one’s reputa tion forever, and causes meq to say, *He pannot be depended upon: his word is good for nethiog.’ seejps pitiable, indeed, when a young man gains such a name, for it will almost inevitably* folio*** him through life. Could anything seem nobler than the course of that noble Athenian, who was so scrupulous to his adherence to trn'.h that bis fellow citizens excused him from taking the customary oath in giving his evidence, saying, *VY e know this man will speak the truthl’ A strict adherence to truth, in all places and under all circumstances, cannot fail to aid one in keeping his heart and mind pure. It will exalt, him in the opinion of his fellow men, and smooth over many oth erwise rough places in life's pathway, rend eying success iu life more certain. ‘T<et all the ends thou aim'Bt at be thy country’s Thy God’s and truth’s; then, If thou fall’st, Thou fall’st a blessed irartyr." Breaches of promise have tbeir amelio rating circumstances. The woman who suffered from one recently, and afterwards refused to marry her promising young man because of his religious faith is declared judicially to have no further claim upon him, and must ‘hoe her own row' hereafter. Tips should be a warning for all future time to all confiding damsels. Let them be sure of their sweetheart's religious views before they confide in him too lar. It would not be a bad idea to have newly introduced beauxs make an avowal of faith at the first visit, or better still, to have the mutual friend who introduces him states his case, as thus, for instance: ‘Miss Smith,,Mr Jones, Presbyterian, or Mr. Thompson, Hardshell Bobtist.’ And Miss Smith, hav ing her own religious views, might, on the instant, dismiss any oqe whose religious views would seem to be inconsonant with the harmonious progress of a breach of promise dase.—New York Herald. Newspaper Consolidation. —T{io ifont gomery Mail and Advertiser have been consolidated. W. W. Screws and M. J. Williams are the proprietors of the con solidated paper. Seek wisdom rather than riches. Mary and Her Lamb. Parodies on “Mary Had a Little Lamb” have become quite popular of late. One of the best of its kind —a double parody, indeed, on “Mary” and “Truthful James” is the following : Which I wish to recite, And my language is plain— That from fleece that is white, And from schooling in vain, The Mary lambkin is peculiar, Which the same I would rise to explain. Ba-ba was his name ; And I hope I may die If Lknow what the same May express or imply : - But his voicie, it was plaintive and babe- IBce, As I frequently remarked to Mari. Jt was April the third, Arid quite nice was mint-sauce, Which it might be inferred Was on Ba-ba, of course ; But hejilayed it that day on the master and school Jn a way that I would scqri; to endorse. Which we had a day school, And Ba-ba choose to go ; It was reading, the fool Not the first word did know, But he frisked as fie went to his class With a frisk neither pensive nor slow. For tbe master grew mad In a way that I grieve,’ And my feelings were sad At his off and Nye sleeve ; Which were stuffed full of rattans and rulers And the same with intent to bereave. But the jumps that were made By that frisky white pet, And the pranks that he played * Took the children —you bes, Till at last he knocked down a big bottle, And the same spilled the iuk that was jet. Then eyes looked at lamb. And the school screamed “ha-ha," And the master said “D—n, Do you know where you are ? We cannot do wiite for this lambkin”— And he went for that frisky Ba-ba. Jn the scene that ensued I was absent, I think, * But the floor it was strewed Like nutmeg in a drink, With the fleece that rattan had been hiding Os the lamb that ran foul of the ink. Every leg of the beast W as a gamboling tool, So a black-leg at least Was the fleecy legged fool; And we found on his tail, which was taper, What is pulled over eyes—that is wool. Which is why I recite And my language is plain— That for fleece that is white, And for schooling in vain. The Mary Larnpkm is peculiar. Which the same I am free to maintain. [Albany Evening Journal THE SOUTHERN SUN Published Weekly by - JOHK R. If A Y Proprietor. • >X> tema m sm^clrlpUdu*, w*h« its ran..,.., »,„,r <..’.v.CA * * * ill (owflpl Op f 4'% m Wr ?*'' u •jM figflftre.ior the ***oi f-W Or 1 W n * wll be made on n y aft iW iagttfwfl 1 been«rgtd 4be gacre m ; :h^x jhV- inputs. f NO. 52 RrgAt Mat.—Varied hash, instructive, decidedly the best Agriculs tnraj monthly on our table. The handsome engraving of General Johnson Hagood, President of the South Caroling Agricultural and Mechanical Sotiely, is worthy of the Magazine and Gbnerol, Ha good is no Militia General, but a Confedor* ate officer, whq won r hTs spurs upon the field of battle, and in taking the lead in favor of improved agriculture, he following bis old habit of being always m the front. Dr. E. M. Pendleton of Sparta, Ga-, Dr. C: U. Shephard Sr., the oelebra* ted chemist, and B; Mason, of it la., Col. D, Wyatt Aiken, and a score of other well posted planters, make their contributions, to this number. A glance at the names of the various places at which correspondents dates their contributions is convincing proof of the wide, circulation and extensive influences of the Rural Carolinian. The only wonder is that such a Magazine can be supplied at the low rate of $2 per annum, and yet afford a reasonable profit to the publishers, Messrs. Walker, Evans & Coos« well, Charleston, S. C. r 1 llow xnE Laura Fair Jury Agrebdl— On the night of the day that the Jury in tho Mrs. Fair case lemlered a verdict, the case and the verdict were the subjects ofarima*. ted discussion in all tho saloons and other public places in San Francisco, Ttfo of the jurors in that case happened to be ip one of those saloons, sitting quietly and unobserved in a corner, where the verdict was being discussed and the case common-* ted on with much animation. After some time, one of these jurors arose and said: ‘Gentlemen, piy friend hero and myself were two of the jurors in that case, and I will tell you how it was decided. During the progress of the trial not one juror had spoken to his fellow-jurors of tho case. No one had opened his lips another in re* g.-ird to the evidence of any arguments; it seemed to be a sealed subject to us all, aud when we retirod to make up a verdict, nq o&e juror knew anything of tho pjpnicn of his fellow jurors. On entering ihp jurys room, the first thing done was to cut a piece of paper into twelve pieces, and to place a number on each from lup to 12. These were put in a hat and drawn, and the slip drawn was the number of the juror. On these slips each juror wrote hie finding in the case, and when his number was call ed put into the hat. When I wrote my finding, ‘Alurdcr in the first degree,' I hardly thought there would be another such finding on any of the slips but when tho slips were all deposited and taken out and read, to my great astonishment it was found that juror, on the fiist and ouly ballot, had voted just as I had, ‘Murder in the first degree.' We obtained the inci dent last niglU from authority wc consid* cred reliable. —San Jose Patiiot. ■ • -v Another Suicide. —A man named James McGarr committed suicide in East Macon on Saturday night last, by taking a drachm ot morphine. He was about 44 } ears of age, and came over fiom Columbus one day last week. He was recently connected with tbe police force of that city. He was found in a dyiug condition, and beyond the reach of medical aid. He had aliout him a vial of laudanum, which indicated that he was de« termined upon destroying his own life, No reason is assigned soi 1 his rash act. —Mes* seger. Cunning Sayings. —Our little four-year old remarked to her mamma on goin to bed ‘I ans not afraid of the dark.' . . ‘No, of course you arp not/ replied her mamma, ‘for it can't hurt you.' 'But mamma, I was a little afraid once, when I went into tbe pantry to get a cookie.' ‘What were you afaid of asked her mamma. . ,\ L ‘I was afraid I could’t find the cookie*/ * r* :« The late President Lincoln was somes what astonished one day while he was in** specting the prison at Washington. A prisoner said to him firmly, ‘How aro yoo Mr. President ? lam glad to see yoo. J believe you and 1 have been in every jail in the tJnion/ Mr. Liocoln replied that the jails at Springfield and Washington wero the only ones be was ever in. 'Very like* ly,‘ responded the rogue, ‘but I've been in all the rest.' JOB WORK executed with neatness AT THIS Office.
