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YOL. 11.—NO. 35. ; v,s' ,(• 1 Vi’ O FK SSI ON A L. iiv. m.Harrell, |r n c y At Law ILuniikuhje, Geowiia. i found at McGill's office. All (•ntrusted to his care will receive (ten'ion- Collections a specialty. 1882-—Cm. MEDICAL CARD. J. Nicholson , d to Twilight, Miller coun- Office MEDICAL CARD. E J. Morgan 1 his office to the drug store, ipied by Dr. Harrell. Ttesi H - i j-nvet. sontli of SUotwell. Ills at night will reach him. ICHARLES C. BUSH, orney at Law COLQUITT, GA. I t attention given to all business en- |lo me. DENTISTRY. Curry, D. D. S., s found daily at his office on South roe', up stairs, in E. Johnson’s , where he is ready to ntlend to the If the putilic at reasonable rates. dec-5-78 McSILL & O’NEAL, orneys at Law. BAlNKltlDGE, GA. r office will he found over the post of- IIOSU.SON, BYRON B. BOWER. COWER & DONALSON, [neysand Counsellors at Law. i in the court house. .Will practice iatur and adjoining couuties, and pere by special eoutract. a-2o 7 |C T 0 R il 'C qITiTY, Dentist- over Hinds Store, West side Ihouse. Has tine dental engine, and nave everything to make bis office class. Terms cash. Office hours 9 | to 4 p.m. • jan.lotf J eff~d7t albertT - orney at Law, liuiuhridge. Georgia. 'ill practice in all the courts, and btisi- intrusted to his care will be promptly nded to. Office over store of M. E. tett A- Son. feb.23,'82. DR. L. H. PEACOCK, ’dfully tenders his professional serv- to the people of l!aiabridge and vicini- •ffice over store of J. D. Harrell & Bro sidence on West end of Broughton set, where he can be found at night. Vprit (i, 1881— 0U01A. Miller Gounty : To all whom it may concern : T. F. Jones ting made application to have the Clerk Superior Court of said county appointed ministrator of the estate of A. J. Miller, s is therefore to cite all persons concern- t > show cause if any they can within ihe te allowed by law, why said application )uld not be granted. This April 1 'J, 1882, WM. GRIMES, Ordinary. lSvautirol .Moon. Under the beautiful moon to-night, 8ileutly stands the crowded town; Tenderly, dreamily floats the light, t Over the wanderers up and down, In the busy crowded street, Moving figures constantly meeet; Plodding so wearily, Lonely and drearily, Iu vain the last, last hope to meet. Under the beantifnl moon there sleeps Many a sad, yet fair young face; Many, ah 1 many a mother weeps Bitterly over her child’s disgrace; Smiles be they false, tiU the sun is set, Under the moon may the cheeks be wet, Sighing tearfully, Sadly, fearfully, Many a heart would fain forget. Under the beautiful moon they go, Flaunting their shame in its holy light, Constantly moving to and /ro, Straying from purity far by night; Mercy and truth for the light of to-day, « Under the moon may the badHave sway— Ah, and the beautiful Ever be dutiful— Love might gladden their hearts alway. Under the beautiful mooD there rest, Vicious and pure as the hours go on. Hearts that in love and life are blest, Faces of wretchedness, pale and wan; Happiness under the moon may sleep, Missery under the moon may weep, Grieving and 6obbingly, Painfully, throbbinglv, Love may moan over sorrows deep. Under the beautiful moon to-night Some will dream of the lost and loved; Some live over with sad delight The hours they wept and sorrowed most, Sighs from the lost when the day is fled; Under the moon may their names be said, _ Joyfully, endearingly, Sever SiT-chcerjngly, Memory breathes of tho ^fTimllire-dead. —Doha. MACON mum am 'or special instruction in bookkeepin iniinship. business arithmetic, corres- idence, bill heading, telegraphy and 'end business routine. McKAY, * - PRNICIPAL 'or terms, information as to boarding •. apply to the principal- P. O. box \ Macon, Georgia. IViiniaen's flights. I send you the following speech de livered at a recent woiuaa’j rights con vention, by one of the honorable women thereof. As it has the true ring of womanly manliness, I request it be cir culated for the benefit of our down trodden sex. Yours truly, Araminty Jerusii. Miss President, feller wirnmin and male trash generally ; I am here to day for the purpose of discussing wo man’s rights, recussing her wrongs and cussing the men. 1 believe that sex were created per fectly equal, with the women a little more equal than men. I also believe that the world to-day would have been happier if man had never existed. As a success, man is a failure, and 1 bless my stars that my mother was a woman. [Applause.] I not only maintain the principles, but maintain a shittlcss husband be sides. They say that man was created first. Well, ’spose he was, ’Aint first experi ments always failures ?” If I was a betting man I would bet 82.50 they ar^. The only decent thing about him was a rib, and that went to make something better. And they throw into our faces about taking an apple. I’ll bet five dollars Adam boosted her up the tree, and only gave her the core. And what did he do when he was found out ? True to his masculine in stinct, he sneaked behind Eve’s Grecian bend, and said, “Twasn’t me—’twas her,” and woman has had to father everything mean and mother it too. What we want is the ballot, and the ballot we are bound to have, if we have to let down our back hair and swim in a sea of sanguinary gore. [Sensation.] —Little Rock Gazette. AT THE OLD iVar*field Store. ANEW SUTPLY OF oceries and Grain, Hardware & Wagon iterial, Paints, Oil and Putty, Gf*Agent for Sashes and Blinds. • < Thirteen Years Wlthont Sleep. * Thomas McElratb, of Malboro. whose case attracted wide attention three years ago, because he said he bad not slept a wink in ten years, is still living without sleep. He says he has not closed his eyes in sleep for three years, and in deed, that he has not slept at all for thir teen years. His neighbors say that they have been at his house at all hours of the day and night, and have iuvati- ably found him alert and wide awake. He is a member of the Presoyterian church of the place, and his word is taken by all who know him. He is in good health and weighs over 200 punds. He is over 7G, and does not work, ex cept on small jobs about his house. He says he takes ‘mo comfort” at all in life, but he has given up taking medicine, and waits for the ‘coming of the Lord.’ — Utica Herald. Reply to Y. II. Itaaglin by S. T. Morion. Colquitt, Ga., June 6th, 1882. Editor Democrat, Dear Sib :—In year paper of 25th May V. B. Baughn, Esq., has seen proper to reply to my an nouncement in The Democrat of May 11th as au independent candidate for the legis lature at the October election, which forces me, agaiu, Captain Russell, to aks of your geuerons nature, space for this letter in reply ts Mr. Baughn. Mr. Banghb says that on the whisky question, the measures advocated by me do not pt all accord with the sentiments and wishes of the people of Miller county. I say they do! and have proof thereof. To say the least Mr. Baughn is a man of short memory. As it is well known to the citi zens of this county, it has been but a short while since the Hon. Wm. Grimes repre sented Miller county in the legislature, and during his membership introduced a bill taxiug the sale of whisky in Miller county five hundred dollars. This bill passed both houses of the legislature and became a law, and was known here as the “Grimes whisky bill.” The increase of the tax from $25 to 8500 gave considerable dis satisfaction, as Mr. Baughn will remember, so much so that at the next election for representative in our county, Col. H. C. Sheffield announced himself as a candidate for the house, under a pledge that he would reduce the Grimes whisky tax from 8500 825. Col. Sheffield was elected and the county tax on whisky was by him reduced and no member to the legislature since has seen fit to increase it. and as we now have four candidates for the legislature all who are in favor of the sale of whisky, and no one aspiring for the position on the pro hibition ticket, is this, Mr. Baughn, not -sufficient proof that the majority are in favqr the legitimate sale of liquor in the county. Mr. Baughn seems to not under stand my position on the whisky queefioe 1 do not believe that prohibiting the sale of whisky in any one connty and allow it sold in incorporated inwi and adjoining counties will amount to any prohibition at all. If the majority of the people are op posed to the sale of whisky or iu favor of it, I do emphatically say. the wishes of the majority should controll in that as much so as in elections for our various officers; and in nothing, aud in no particular have the minority a right to controll the wishes of the majority. Now, Squire, before jumping upon this temperance hobby horse you should commence practicing what you preach and remember that it is just as in temperate to take whisky with sugar and an egg in it and call it ‘flips,’ as it is to take it straight. Mr. Baughn ask3 what is Judge Morton’s motive in announcing himself a3 an inde pendent candidate and says that there has been no convention in Miller to nominate a can idate aud that there is no cue advo cating such a cause and that he can not remember any one ever being nominated in this county for any office. The laws of Georgia give me a right to vote and to hold office too, if I can get it, and as there is but one party in this couuty I see no use of a nomination ; and when I say lam an independent candidate, I mean I am a candidate regardless of any trick, nomina tions, party, persons, or otherwise. Mr. Baughn is certainly not posted in political affairs of the connty. lion. J. Y. Heard was once nominated for the legislature in this connty and was elected. If Squire I’anghn will take the trouble to ask Mr. J. Y. Heard, chairman of our County Ex ecutive Committee he will inform this knowing and well informed gentleman that a nomination is desired by several parties in the comity, and that he has already been requested to call a meeting of the people to take into consideration whether they will have a nomination. The Squire seems to think I am feeling for aid and comfort from the coalition movement or dingiDg to the tail of the radical skunk for assis tance. No, Squire, I am feeling for no aid from any movement, neither am I clinging to the tail of radical skunk, yon, or any other skuuk. I have simply put myself, at the solicitation of my friends, betore the people of # Miller county for election as their member to thejegislature, aud should I be elected, I will do all in my power to promote their interest. And believing that he who represents the wish es of the greatest number does the great est good, therefore, should I be elected and the voters of my county, should, by primary election, Ehow by ballot that a certaiu law was desired by them I would do all in my power to carry out their wishes. But never will I be controlled by a few one-horse village lawyers, at home or in the legislature. Squire Banghn gets off a verv good temperance letter though a por tion of it was copied from the Christian Index and the Christian Advocate, Now in conclusion I would suggest that Mr. Banghn step over to Cowart's saloon, as usual, brace up himself with an egg-flip, scan over his Advocate and give os a few more extracts from some old, well-worn and thread-bare temperance letters.—But don't, Squire, try to puhn them off as orig inal. Uow Young Ren Fail. “There is Alfred &ulton home with his family to live on the old folks,” said one nieghbor to another. “It seems hard after all bis father had done to fit him in busi ness, and the capital he invested to start him so fairly. It is surprising he has turn ed out so poorly. He is steady young man. no bad habits, so far as I know, he had a good educatiou, and was always codsidered smart; but he doesn't succeed in anything. I am told he has tried a Dumber of differ ent sorts of business, and sunk money every time. What can be the trouble with Alfred, I should like to know, for I don’t want my boy to take his turn.” “Alfred is smart euough,’ said the other, “aud has education enough, but he lacks the ODe element of success. He never wants to give a dollar’s worth of work lor a dollar of money, and there is no other way for a young mau to make a fortune. He must dig if he would get gold. All the men that have succe“ded, honestly or dis honestly, in making moDC-y had to work for it, the sharpers sometimes the hardest of all. Alfred wished to set his brain in motion, and let it take care of itself. No wonder it soon ran off the track and a smash up was the result. Teach your boy friend Archer, to work with a ill when he does work. Give him play enough to make him happy and healthy, but let him learn early that work is the business of life. Patient, self-denying work is the price of success. Ease and indoledce eat away not the price of capital only, but worse still, all a man's nerve power. Present gratification tends to put off duty until to morrow or next week, and so the golden momeuts slip by. It is getting to be a rare thing for the sons of rich men to die rich. Too often they squauder in a half a score of years what their fathers were a lifetime in accumulating I wish I cuuld ringit in the ear of every aspring young man that work, hard, work of head and hannds; is the price of success.—Country Gentleman. ' —, Parental CJoTernmeat. Gentleman busy writing. Children en ter. “Father, give me a penny.” “Haven’t got any ; don’t bother me - ’, “But, father, I want it for aomethlDe particular.” “I tell youl I haven’t one about me.” “1 mast have one; you promised me one.” “I did no such thing. I won’t give you any more pennies. Yon speed too many. It s all wrong. I won’tgive it to you—so go away.” Child begins to whimper. “I think you might give me just one; it’s real mean.” Child cries, teases coaxes. Father gets ont of patience, pnts bis hand into his pocket, takes out a penny and throws it to the child. “There, take it land don’t come back again to-day.” Child smiles, looks shy; goes out con queror, determined to renew the struggle in the afternoon, with the certainty of a like result. Scene in the street. Two boys playing. Mother opens the door, and rails to one of them—her own son: “Joe, come into the house instantly!” Joe pays no attention.” “Joe do you hear me ? If you don’t come, I’ll give you a good whipping!” Joe smiles, and continues his play; his companion is alarmed for him,and advises him to obey. “You'll [catch it if you don’t go, Joe!” “Oh.no, 1 wont; she always says so, but never does. I ain’t afraid.” Mother goes back into the house, very much put out, and thinking herself a mar tyr to bad children. Tbats the way, parents Bhow your chil dren by your example tiat you are weak undetcided and untruthful and they learn aptly enough to despise ~yoor {authority; and regard your word as-uotbing. WIT AYR HUMOR' Respectfully, S. T. Morton. Scientific 3«r The entire number of species of the humming bird is estimated to be 400. A body raised to a temperature above 2,000 degrees emits all the rays of the sun. In order to improve the color of ginger it is frequently rubbed over with lime. ^ In plants a deficient diet results in an excess of males. M. Born has recently found that in tadooles a rich, nitrogenous diet favors the development of an excess ive uurnber of females. The province of Mendoza, in South America, contains au immense supply of petroleum of fine quality, so that the coun try need not long be dependent on the United States for her supply. It is argued by a recent writer that the art of music in pre-historic times passed through three distinct stages of develop ment, each characterized by the invention of a new form of instrument. A great number of analyses and experi ments conducted by Mr. A. Levy show that grapes ripened in sunlight contain 3,59 per cent, more sugar aud 1,237 less acids than those matured io darkness. A new geyser has been discovered near St. Etienne, France. A veiw of hot water was tapped at a depth of 5,000 feet and the result is an intermittent fountain throwing a stream to a height of nearly 100 feet above the surface of the earth. M. Blavier attributes the disappearance of the sardine from the coast of Brittany, where it was once the source of a large revenue, to a change in the direction of the Gulf stream. The question was deem ed so important by the Paris Academy of Sciences that a special committee has been appointed to investigate the matter. A Reckless Government. When Lee invaded Pennysyvania hay was $17 per ton around Chambersburg. One day a confederate forage master drove out into the country with his wagons, and halting at a farm house, he asked if they had any to sell. “1 might spare two or three tons,” replied the farmer. * “Wliat is it worth?” “Well, being you are enemies to the government, I shall have to charge you $20 a ton.” “All right. I’ll take all you can spare,” said the officer, and he loaded up and theu made out his receipt and an order on the rebel Quartermaster Geueral for the money. It was after the farmer had discovered that he cold get nothing that he explained “I don’t keer so much for the loss of the hay, but it “aggravates me to remember how raiebty reckless them rebs was when I tasked on $3.00 a ton, They didn't ever ask me to split the difference !” Scientific: “What did you say the con ductor’s name was? “Glass—Mr. Glass. “Oh. no!” “But it is.” “Impossible—it can’t be.” “And why not pray?” “Be cause. sir, Glass is a non-conductor. [Deafetdng applause' from the scientific passengers-] An Honest Man. One day in the years gone a stranger arrived at Dearborn, in this county, and inquired for a citizen commonly known as Uncle Ike. The old man was soon found in a grocery, and after the usual ’ how-de- do" the st ranger said : “Do I address uncie Ike Barow?” “You dew,” was the reply. “Well my name is Thornton, of Ann Arbor.” “Jess so.” “They tell me you are a great horse- trader.” “Well I do make a trade now and then. What ye got?” “I’ve got a horse I brought along on purpose to trade with you. Let us first understand each other. You are a mem- bes of the chnrch ?” “Yes, I expect I be.” “Then of course I shall expect you to be honest with me. I’ve been looking at your old nagjover there by the post. How old is he?” That ere boss,” slowly replied ■ uncle Ike as he puckered his lips and squinted his left eye—“let’s see—let’s see! Wall, now, I quite forgit whether he’s nine or ten years old, but well say ten’, “Uncle Ike, isn’t that horse all of twen ty years ? Come, now, as a member of the cbnrch, give me an honest answer.” Look o-here, mister, I never trade but ono way.” “How’s that ?” “When I’m buying of a hoss I’m a pret ty good member of the church. When I’m selling of a hoss I reckon on skipping about two prryer meetings. When I’m trading bosses then I calkerlate backslid ing altogether fo^ hull month, or uDtil I know the victim won’t begin ■ to lawsuit. Now’ stranger, that’s me, and if you have come here to trade hosses don’t reckon that Mathew. Mark, Luke or John ever writ a line advising a church member to come right down and give away the ring bones on his own animile. > A good looking lass loves a good look ing-glass. A match safe: When all the old folks are willing. The man who was above board has got married and gone to keeping house. The straighter the whisky the more crooked the the walk. This is a real fact. A counter irritant: A woman who -shops but never buys. If “ignorauce is bliss” there are a great many happy people in this world. Candy pulls are in fashion again, but they are not called “glucose tensions.” A little boy, proud of his new jacket in formed his sister that he was six-button kid. After marriage the question as to who shall be speaker of the house is speedily settled. ‘A lawyer is about” the only man that ever made anything by opposing a woman’s will. Tho porters who handle kegs of silver in the treasury department are rolling in wealth. Why is a dead hen better than a live one ? Because she will lay wherever yon put her. Pastor—“When father and mother both abandon you, who will take, you in?” Scholar—“The police.” “My wife,” remarked Fitznoodle, “is fairly crazy over the fashions She’s got the delirium trimmins.” The Greubackers and Grangers should not be discouraged. Water can be held in a sieve by waiting till it freezes. Poser for a butchea who gives short weight—“If sixteen ounces goes to a pound where do you expect to go to ? Girl from the cou , * toU * rtoptevon tell ... . —man the people love . ,jpe ifj WJ8L.’" ■ ... tiam&J 0 ^j d g^® e ^ ake Born « his new quarters J your goods at Loeb’s People’s Store. BM ■ t ^ ** man the people lore to If Willing; to Divide. One of the New England regiments which went into the action at Second Man assas had been on shot ratioos for two days, and on that morning some of the compa nies hadn’t a single hardtack left. As the fight opened and the bullets began to sing one of the men rnshed op to his Captain and shonted out: “Say, Captain, can I be excused ?” “What for ?” “I want to go back and hurry up our pro vision wagons.” “Can’t spare yon—fall into line the wa gons are ten miles away.” “Yes, 1 know they are,” protested the soldier,” but I’ve got hold of a blamed fool who’ll bet two to one that 1 cant make that ten miles in fifteen minnetes! Lemrae go Captain, and I’ll whack np half the bet. A Brooklyn clergyman informs ns, upon what appears good authority, that nine- tenths of the redeemed in heaven will be women. After this announcement the man who wouldn’t set bis face heaven ward isn’t the man we take him for. swei ' \tb. °* n beat anybody in the seven- _making saddles, harness, etc. Tetter remarked ~ ««Ub e filled. Always send set of dies. - Gko. D. Qnirriy. Why Americans die” was a sermon by a New York preacher. Why and how some of them live is a more diffi cult problem. Beggar—“You will not refuse a few pen nies to a discharged tunnel laborer? I have nothing left in my pocket besides a few dynamite cartridges.” “Pat,” said a coarse, conceited fellow, “tell the biggest lie yon can, and here are two shillings for you.” “Faith,” said Pat, “yer honor’s a gintleman.” Spread of teetotalism : First individual (tosecond ditto): “Have a drink, old man ?” Second ditto (hesitatingly) “No, thanks ; but if you don’t mind, I’ll have half a pork pie.” “Now, Sammy, have you read the story of Joseph?” “Oh, yes, uncle.” “Well, then, what wrong did they commit when they sold their brother ?” “They sold him too cheap.” This is the way to arrange that Hindoo paragraph : When a Hindoo swears he takes hold of the tail of a cow. In this country, when a man takes hold of the tail of a cow he swears. A genius encouraged: Busy editor (to applicant who persists in calling)—“To day is Thursday, and I’m very busy. Sup pose you call next Thursday, and then I’ll tell yon when to call again.” (Exit, kind of puzzled.) “No, ma,” she said, “Charles can never be anything to me more. He came out io bis last season’s overcoat; and oh, ma, if it only matched my new dress, I wouldn’t care so much, bnt it doesn’t, and we have parted ?” The bustle is about to assume propor tions again, but, man alive, you mosn’t call it a bustle. The new fangled idea is “tor- nnre.” P. S;—It is made of newspaper, same as the old style. Send in your sub scriptions now. The other day the Rochester Express headed a batch of items “Our Corset De partment.” The foreman said he would try to squeeze the ‘Corset Department, in though he thought the proper place for it was in the waist-basque it. ‘ Sambo, whar yon git dat watch you wared to meetin’ last Sunday?" “How do you know dat I had a watch ?’‘ “Kase I seed de chain b&Dg ontde pocket in front. “Go ’way, Digger ! ’Spose you see a halter round my neck, you think dar is a horse inside ob me 1” Mr. G. A. Wight Replies to Mr. Wood. Mb. Editor :—In Commissioner Wood’s reply to Grand Juror I see the honesty of his heart, for which I greatly respect him ; but that he is too violent in defending his position, there are very few who will not admit. I know, as well as other citizens of the County know, that Grand Juror spoke the sen timent of a majority of the people of the county, and why ? because they do not understand the situation and can not see in themselves what they think they see in others, not that they are prejudice against the Commissioners as a body or as individuals, nevertheless they expect, and justly so, that every one should attend strictly to any and all business, especially public, that is entrusted to them, it is very natual and hutnan nature to pull the mote out of oar brother’s eye, when behold a beam is in our own eye. We are all too ready to attack and judge other men hastily and harshly. We lack charity. As to our defaulting Tax Collector all good citizens will agree that he should be punished unless he pays the last dollar that he is dne the county, both for the money he has negligently and criminally squandered, and for the expense of his arrest and return, attorneys fees, the expense of • extra sessions of the Board of Connty Commisioners, and interest that might be accried on the whole amount. When that is done, then let him go free and not before. Now ray opinion is, and I think the majority will agree with me, that the Board of County Commissioners cah be disposed with after the Harrell defalca tion is settled. When that board was created itjwas a positive necessity, and they have rendered us much valuable service, notwithstanding their neglect in the Harrell bond affair. We were then, and had recently been, under re publican rule in our connty with all its corruption and extravagance, but that rule is now past, giviug way in onr own county as it has already done in other counties, and honest Democratic •WBO fiST Dcen-tnlf^its place. twelve years, as a partner in my ousin«is»- and the business hereafter will be carried on under the firm name of J. Striningeg * Co, Thanking: the public for tfteir kind patronage in fne past, and soliciting, a continuance of the same for the new firm'; I Yours Respectfully, J. Steininokb. Bainbfiage. »TuitsiCu __ wu —The Radical majority in the House of Representatives at Washington have unseated three Democratic mem bers to make way for Radical contest ants, within the past two weeks. Dibble, of South Carolina, Finley, of Florida, aod Wheeler, of Alabama, are ‘he ones who walked the plank. Chalmers, of M ississippi, was ousted sometime ago, as a Democrat, and Lynch, negro, was seated in his place ; bnt since that time Chalmers has proclaimed himself an “Independent,’' which is only a delicate term for Republican. Qecdtur trasted aDd worthj Ordnrnrj-auu olerk, and I for one am willing to risk the selection by ballot of a few good honest Democrats, wei have such men, and we will put them in positions of trust and honor. Geo. A. Wight. Caito, Ga., June 6th, 1882, Oscar Wilde Paralyzed by a Youngster. A man who was on the same train with Wilde, coming fiorn Reno to Ogden relates an amusing experience. Wilde was lounging hack in his seat dreaming of the asphodel, etc., when the train- boy woke him np by punching him id the side and shouting: “Hoscar Wilde’s poems for ten cents ?” The poet Started np to a sitting po sition, with: “Great Gurod 1 Is it possible that my poems have reaohed such beastly figures ns that?” Three for two bits,” continued the boy. He offered the poet some copies of the Seaside Library edition in paper covers. Wilde grabbed the book and fixed his big eye on the boy— “Do you know, my dear sir, that you are lending yonr countenance to a helish infringement on the right of an English author ?” “Is that so ?” replied the boy slow-^ ly. “Do you ’spose the fellow who writ the book cares ad — n? Why, he won’t know it.” “Of course he will. How can yonr guilty acts escape his cognizance ?” “His cognnzzence ain’t anything td me. It ain’t loaded, is it ?” “I am the author of those poems.” “Ah, go away,” snickered the boy.- “You are wringing in for a commisb. ’Xwon’t work, Cully. Folks put up jobs on me every day. Here, take si wasted peannt and fill np. If I thought such a looking chap as you is writ them lines, d’ye snppyse I’d peddle em ? No, sir 1 I’ve too much blarsted professional piide, yon know. They’re cheap, d’ye see ? Blarst my pictures if I don’t feel like I was a footpad every time I takes a short bit for the rubbish.” The crowd roared, and.Wilde joined heartily into the langh. After the boy was assured that the man was none other than the poet, he weut to Wilde and offered him half a dozen oranges to cal) it.8qnare. Patrick (dressing for a party)—“Bedad now and I shan't be able to get on these! hoots till I’ve worn ’em atoii&e or two-/ i