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VOLUME 111.
SEW TEAK.
“There i* joy in heaven over one sin
ner that repenteth."
If it is lawful for a layman to oehj
scene of the impreeeion* aroused in his
mind by the sentiment of this verse,
then he would say that no man will ever
find a better time to commence anew
16te. than on the first of anew year.
The eucftxaeucement of such new life at
any &m, involves what is so often
preached, and so widely known m repen
tance, and which is to feel sorrow for
iMJOMIhinK done—-generally, for some
thing whiv'h is acknowledged to have
bhiJU wrongj and this is the foundation
of that Joy alluded Ut io the verse.
Genuine courage is always called into
requisition whenever a wrong Is volunta
rily oonf4feP<3- It umler-lies the first
ami tho last step' in repentance, and
nothing short of moruJ will sus
tain in attempting to do right,, snder the
ten thousand antagonistic oirouwstannes
that will arise in and about VUu pathway
ut life.
U Wc fiouid roll oblivion over all the
bad things in the past, and treasure up
alone the things we have done which are
good in themselves, the reooxd would be
seaos and small, and yet, if shorn of
everytt&auf &b>£>, how beautifully will
such a Character skill* at some time in
the and how glorious would jrcpeu
iMWu #cf gny sort of wrong, either of
btwingss, infiusn;.*# or directly against
owmsSves or otliers, tbpn begin to ap
pear.
The language quoted is some of the
erneouvsfing words of Christ—doubtless
they we*# intended to constitute a part
of the history of every man, they come
pt; to us and should be oat rind home
andfstsihed in the mind. If there Is
dkutb in tjha announcement (and who in
Christendom can bs found able or willing
to deny its verity) then it becomes im
gxsn*nt for all men to consider, us fur' an
they uvy be able to do so, this grand
and pleasant question in all of its bear
ings. And wJUUo we AMD lay no claim to
a full understanding oi all tU4 is paeant,
jt ill if is poaaiUe to Hud in the con tern
platoon *4 those words, surcharged as
they are with guißcrtal thought, solid
grogfiji for the sublime** emotional feel
ing, * wall as for the purest political rr
ff aotiouand both £* which are high above
the profoundest earthly philosophy.
Where can the human intellect 2nd a
more beautiful theme foa valuable and
oonsofeng reflection than that authorized
by the JUnes we have quoted, that every
individual possesses for himself not only
the power to distribute happiness among
aU that surround him here who are wil
ling to think aright, but in connection
with this,'every one possesses the grand
er capacity of weuding a thrill of joy
through every intellect that dwells in the
abode of the blessed, all turning upon
lh slugi# point of individual willingness
to repent and to do right in the sight of
God, and to take the greatest of all re-
W*id*- And so it will certainly follow
that the |>ew#r is also individually held
of sending an unwelcome wave of despair
and woe through the dark regions of the
lost, turning likewise upon the single
point of refusal to acknowledge and obey
the Voice of our Qod.
The very terms of the sapo^^ment
wow being considered, would indicate the
Converse of joy in be&veo, if rtpuAktw.* w
rif*und. If it ia true, that the repenting
of one sinner sends joy to the whole land
of eternal deliverance, it myt ho true also,
Urif constant, individual and wickod r?-
k4liw> wrrifW anguish to the dark BhfldeA
of the opposik Wd#l4, U the I’mw tyrus one
way it meets the smiles of heaVQJP. the
other the frowns of hell.
Jit cannot be disputed that tho doctrine i
U found is the pacred record, that the lost
aleo, are is position to understand, to see,
to jTeej, and to lament over tho con.se
qusnee? e$ $ failure to repent on tho one
band, while tfe ?yed *£ yoaj
tioa to hold immortal jobii***, upd
sing hosannas over the bleeped prospect
n the other—and who is able to deny
that ih* view of this grand moral contest
which is going on is this world is the
thing at last, that tills one of the future
Wuild# s>f ¥•>)', then if our action in this
t/anwtory life 4efoyipe# wr own mental
state forever and has so much to do with
the condition of the lost and the saved,
where does responsibility begin and where
will it end, and who can name a limit.
We are invited to remember, that Dives —
fife# man in this respect,
WAO gjifiVftdj httfe jpfeopcly concerned over
Jht; rufiectfob that feus fey# had
not repented, and might fall i?to the same
condemnation with himself, and so terri
ble was the horror which hung over his
ruined soul, on their account, that he
prayed in hell for one to he sent from the
dead to win them to repent.
w, a fait ÜBdSfataudmg of the his
tory given of this wP, wi# gp fcf \? es
tablish the stupid fallacy of the old idea,
thbtomisery really loves company any
whore, and specially, that a lost soul de
sires none of the companionship of its
ostq friends §#£ kindred while in this
world.
Have you a dead friend or relation whom
you believe from your knowledge ot his
Ufa to be lost, if you have, remember, that
no matter bow instrumental you may have
been in sending him there, that he also
WQttld send a dead messenger to yon, im
ptawf that 79<* repent this very day, and
turn and start toward & bettor land. Jt
would look doubly cruel to send a fresh
pang to his already ruined soul, by per*
niib*g la tefesai to turns a warning re*
quest which he would so gladly make.
If he would send such a messenger, it is
the same thing to you and me,ls that se
pulchral voice from the dismal home of
the damned was now .sounding in our ear’s
never to cease or ‘lie away—delay not to
repent. V
Have you a dead child, wife or hus
band, mother ©r father, that you believe to
be saved, would you their joy.
as well as add a key-stone to your pwg
earthly happiness, then by a change of
life from all that is wrong, to all that is
right, enable them to say, in that Jam!
where immortal youth forever bl<x>ms,
gnd truth forever reigns—-” behold ><-
penteth, piv pyyatory to removal here’
start to-day, wHitotii *d;j*febed ha.rsd? f
ready to tell them good morning, sod o**
a happy shore, when with them, you can
JvfjiW over *dl that will come.
Lay max.
LfcllUVt, TO CHMf TOBACCO,
When l was a small boy, I looked upon
b*t>a who chewed tobacco in my presence
as the luaatuM* of ifnp *U’t. I especially
admitd a man who could squjyt u atqa}]
stream between hie teeth and hit a dog
in the eye. To me Gcethe and Schiller
were rnero plebians compared with the
maa could do that, and I longed to
equal him in JJy father did
not use tobacco, and my jjuother always
pointed me to old Jake Lease, whose
UlOUlh looked like an exploded paint
bucket, aa a fearful of tobacco
chewing, and to old George Long, wncse
breath made four couuties too miasmatic
for lieulth, as a frightful picture of what
smwkiog wojjjfil 4 U f <>r a fellow.
But I set iny mark high ud ioy’4 not
be dissuaded by any such little episodes
as those. My ambition soared away to
fill? ‘pigai'-eaae and the caddy of black
plug tobacco, aui a*| |lje ur K it * °f m y
soul were concentrated ou tin* cud in
view. At last I found opportunity with
in my grasp. Father hired a hand who
ehewed, end on the following Saturday,
I was mounted upou to* busk ?f
sorrel mare, and sent to the village for
the week’a mail, half a gallon of kerosene
pjj and three large plugs of black navy
chewing U/bttwW,
When the merchant passed out the to
bacco, I asked him to cut a small piece
the end of each of the three plugs for
me. He imw >d sad, knowing
smile, and complied with my I
took a hearty bite off one of them and
then wandered over to the postoffice after
the mail, spitting between my teeth in
professional style. When 1 came from ,
the office, I realised or thought I realized
that tobacco will remove superfluous
flesh. I felt as light u# u feather, and I
verily believe I ©ould have been nbot<
through the heart without feeling jt.
Home men giggled as they assisted me
to climb on the back of the old sorrel,
but I 4id S?f ./i ar ? f <>r Ibat. I had so
muoh business to attend to, to kepp cay
dinner down that their jeen* did not net
tle me in the least, and when I wad on
the old mare, I triumphantly spit again
and started hoe at a limping canter.
As soon as I #¥s out of sight of the
men wlw bad seen me take it, I got rid
of my quid in a hurry. I reeled lu my
saddle and felt competent to vomit up
anything from a bushel of green apples
to the cargo of a Cunarder. I managed
to keep aboard my ship, however, though
it lurched
to believe I would reach home in safety,
when I met the object of my heart’s
wannest affection ou the road. I longed
to take another ehew and spit one of
those eharjaingly lovely spite in her pre
sence, and reached my pocket and
took out a piece for thst purpose. The
sight of it et me g*ggtu violently, aud
I put it baioa again, but the war had
begun, and up come my dinner. I felt
as if it would never stop eoming up until
U my diuners for six months would join
the innumerable caravan, and vaguely
suspected that I should throw up my
sweetheart's dinnst, too. J felt that I
could throw up all the dinners for miles
around, and had a sort of dreamy notion
fcj go into the business of doiug the dif
ficult emetic work of the neighborhood.
After a tinjs ttyg retching ceased and I
felt as if it would igakc JittJe differ
ence to me what b*?ae of me. I
thought I was dying, and could see the
angels hovering around me, each offer
ing me a chew of tobacco. I slid off my
horse and asked Rosalie if she would not
smooth my brow while I died, fcfhe said
she would under ordinary circumstances,
but iost at that moment was on her way
to a neighbor 5 # Ui toU BtoP U
oould not stop by the way for triflea. I
assured her that death was no trifling af
fair, and that for several d.Y# I had only
lived to got a chance to die in her arms,
but she was inexorable. She said noth
ing would give her more pleasure than
to have me die in her arms, but I would
have to excuse her thin t, IM °P
must be produced without delay. The
old mare went home alone, and when
they went out to search for me, they
found my corpse in a fence corner, stone
dead,
Qaly a touch o?Tblizzard.
Come from the frozen North i
Only old Boreas sending
One of his cold winds forth;
Only a poor dude frozen—
Dying without a doubt;
Only an empty pocket-book
Tfet P&h’t i et ot
From where it hangs at his
Twketod “ up the *mA u
CAKTEKSVILLE, GEORGIA, TUESDAY, JANUARY <i, 18S5.
AH HISTORICAL I>l*CoYfck*.
sr Ksltimore Son.
Mu., December 28.—Some
ninths ago the record of a most important,
jatgeating, and we may eay, surprising
; pia<jis in American history was found
! in a box, hidden away in a
! cellaj connected with one of the oldest
houst* in Cambridge, once the property of
Ihe M( rra y family, and now belonging to
Col. BIUVb, Whose mother is
a Mur? B Fecoid U voutalbwd it
four volumes, and embraces a
corresporffeac® between William Vans
v-**-/, American minister resident aud
envoy extraordinary to the Netherlands,
and General Washington and Alexander
Hamilton.
rhe.te vllVj Ijllf
tie of Marengo bad made Napoleon the
arbiter of Europe, and they extend from
the year 1797 to the year 1799. This was
tbs Jbe J'oung American Tte
publlu was dividsd "hoiwet.-u feU4awsi|
and republicans, and when the destiny of
its future seemed trembling in the bal
ance. Washington was a federalist, and
S’HV with the greatest enthu
riafku b) ihe b.tiUan* wfcifi 22
the other side Jefferson the le%diug
mind. These parties were also known as
ihe English and French party, because
they were supposed to represent on one
sl4? conservatism and on the
other aids the toncu idea oi a
republic. The term of President John
Adams was drawing to a dose, and the
momemtus question who should succeed
hltu. to the position,
but Gen. Washington distrusted liim, tear
ing, if he became President, that he would
join this country to France in a sweeping
crusade.
At iiii* uim * ¥ i *#*?ss£} j|:
terest was whether Lafayette, the idol of
the American people, should leave France
and adopt cur country as his own. Ex-
himself Lafayette was of
all living men lUv u*ost hd ***♦.
most .beloved personage throughout the
United Statee.
Washington aud Hamilton joined in the
HiUiuu'i acclaim of eratifi cation which
followed the aunoanceuieut of
wish and purpose to cross the Atlantic
and to btMjome an American citizen. But
while they were making every demonstra
tipM wuiou iftyifvd coding §nd nro
miod a welcome, they as a matter of fact
were most strongly and resolutely opr
posed to his adopting any such action.
Tv jfyijTgp} the consummation of any such
design they opened apd
reaptmdeuce with Win. Vans Murray, the
American envoy to the Netherlands, who
*?# reprinted our country
with reference to fh|^
that every obstacle should be interposed
to hi coming, and every possible expe
dient be adopted. This CQiTWPbhdeucs
gives a history of this remarkable iptrigue
for such It must be characterized. It em
braces the letters written in connection
therewith. The devout and sincere pa
triotism of Washington was unquestion
ably the uiqfivQ inffuencGd Uis
duct. He believed that Jefferson’s politi
cal tenets would ruin the nation, and for
some reason he was convinced that if
Lafayette came to America he would join
hjcisejf (0 Jefferson, and that in such event
the balance of patties wohid Iri dwttdjf&d,
and the Freoahmeu’s wonderful populari
ty would carry Jefferson on a tidal wave
to the Presidency. To prevent this result
they devoted their utmost energies to pre
vent secretly what they advocated openly.
To say the least of it, the.casuistry is start-
These letters are copied in four volumes
and the writing ia close, neat and perfectly
preserved. Col. Sullivan, to whom they
belong, presented them to the librarian of
congress to be valued. On his recoinmen
ggtiva ft been ap
pointed by congress to consider the pro
priety of purchasing them. This com
mittee has recommended that |S,O<)Q be
appropriated for their purehaee. On one
of the pages is a genuine, original auto
graph of Napoleon the Great.
Übfeylsfe vatkensg.
Special K> the St. Louis Kcpubhsan.
Washington, Deo. 27. —One of the
unfortunate results springing from the
pending of the Spanish and Nicaraguan
treaties before the senate is the assem
bling of a large lobby work for and
against both treaties, This lobby will
increase in numbers as the session ad
vances. The members thereof will have
liberal supplies of money, and already
there are unmistakable indications that
they intend to indulge in lavish enter
tainments. They will rival each other
in giving quiet dinners, extending far
jnfo the night, The &ity will soon be
full of stories regarding the proceedings
of the third bouse. The lobby pushing
the Nicaragua canal project will tell ter
rible talcs of how improperly the advo
cates of other Isthmian enterprises are
acting, and the latter will respond with
accounts of the prodigal use of money
gjad breakfasts and dinners on the part
of agents of De Lcssaps and others.
No matter what may be the out-come
ot the treaties in the Senate or the
Souse, the country is destined to be re
galed from d%>'Vitfe narratives of
the Italian hand performanoee of rival
ling corps of lobbyists. The pecuniary
interests involved are enormous and the
virtue of senators and represen
tatives will be put to au unusually severe
test.
The cradle Is the rock of ages.
■A >"
A great attraction—a magnet
Proswsi fruit—e nice seokel peer,
A LETTER TO HRS. HlYt>.
Mt Deab Mks. Hayes :
I notice that your letter of November
19th ia poet-marked December 3d. Thi*
leads me to believe that you sent it to
the poet office by Rutherford. He pro
bably forgot all about it and carried it in
his pocket for a couple of weeks, and at
last came across it while casually feeling
for a clove. Then he mailed it without
jfteutiouing (He Uttfo lapse of memory to
you. Married men do such things. I
know they do, my dear Mrs. Hayee, for
ray wife say a they do. Nay, more ; she
has gone into the pock tie of her husband
aid confronted him With the indisput
able evidence of Lis guilt.
I m happy to sav I do not share vour
)li ; ! t
alarm in regard to the efeet of the in
coming Democratic administration on the
chicken industry. Ido not think there
i the least ground whatever tor vonr
deep abo*t I hav^
taken some trouble to look over Gover
nor Cleveland’* utterance*, during the
late heated contest and since the smoke
of battle has lifted from the field, aud I
pnu Up&jng te ihfets VI Ul imk
lest degree that the hen and her malt
consort will not have, under the new
•tate of affairs, the fullest protection in
every right guaranteed her aud him by
the ouHtitution of the United States of
America.
If you have been * reader of news
papers during the past three or four
weeks, you have certainly observed that
*h* *oo*ter again gojp into aw
the Democratic bird of freedom, and I
have no hesitancy in pred cting that he
will be unanimously safe under Demo
cratic rule, and that his consort, the pR
t *nt, Btudloiu and sedentary ben, wifi
Cjntinue to carry on business with all her
pristine enthusiasm.
You say that you have already noticed
a poiriidei-abjc tuiliug off ja e gg
since tha news of Democratic victory
came flashing o’er the wires. While
this may be true, so far as your observa
tion reaches, my dear Mrs. Haves, I can
not nee that the nieiunatance augurs 8
general or long continued shutting down
ou the part of the liens. Ido not smell
calamity in the air. Borne bald-headed
ajargpsw may fol 4 ii#k thgu on*H, and
with corrugated brow# list to the rumb
ling of a mighty hdh revulsion as it
gathers itself in the Rear futurity and
comes sweeping onward with appalling
soonest*, bq), 140 puj.
I do not see disaster, as yon seem to
see him, strutting about amid the poultry
yarc|s of the nation. But, of course, we
look at this thing freto different party
standpoint-*, and it may be that I have
more trustfulness iu regard to the he*
than you have. It may be that Ido not
understand the erratic disposition of the
hen as thoroughly av yon do.
I must own that to me the ways of the
hen often seem past finding oqt. Scores
of times she has led me astray. I have
gone for a newly-laid egg when I have
heard her cackle with a joyoua enthu
siasm that I oould not believe to be only
a false alarm, to find nothing at all had
happened. And in thg matter of age th*
hen—even the deceased hen—has time
and again deceived me.
But you will ftr.d the heu thus under
any form of government, my dear Mrs.
Hayes, and it stands to reason that sht
does not fear a change of administration
with that absorbing fear whiph you seem
in a hurry to ascribetc her.
If, since the election, the hen has
shown a disposition to take a little vaca
tion, I am of the opinion that it is not
from alarm at the approaching transfer of
power from one oi the great parties to
the other, which has bo long been out in
the cold, but merely because she has de
cided to husband her resources prepara
tory to an active Spring opening.
You cannot expect a hen to go right
on peiiorming her arduous labpra and
wearing oiit, even m a good cause
without taking a vacation now and tnen.
And besides, there is the matter of over
production, which is an important one to
the heu. When eggs are down to eleven
cento a dozen, it is entirely proper that
hen should pause and think of fits pro
blem of demand and supply ; and they
generally do. They generally pause too
long. Rut I cannot think thar these
pauses, on the part of the hen, will be
any more frequent or longer continued
under a Democratic administration than
they have been during the past twenty
four years of Republican rule.
During your own eventful administra
tion, mv dew Mrs. Hayes, I well remem
ber quite a sudden and exceedingly long
pause of this sort, when I w as ci mpeiled
to pay forty-seven cents a dozen for the
product of the hen ; and yet I did not 1 y
the blame at your door. Neither did
I arraign the Republican party the
alarming stringency of the egg market.
I think, if you will turn back ta the flies
of the paper I was then editing, you will
And that I defended your administration
from every charge that you were per
mitting the deaieet privileges of the hen
to be trampled under foot; that the hen
was no longer secure in her inalienable
rights of life, liberty and the pursuit of
happiness. ffou will observe that I
spoke subject with no uncertain
sound j 'and I did so through no hope of
reward in the shape of a poet master’s
commission, but because I belipyed you
tQ be the honest friend of the hen,
I must acknowledge that the average
hem seems a little bit timid just at this
time. She in not operating with her
usual vim and enthusiasm. There ap
pear* to be something of a lack of confi
dence and ‘eclat’ on her part; aud yet,
after all, I think she is merely nerving
herself tor the active and arduous duties
of the Spring—for the time, in fact, when
every hen must be not ulnae an abund
ant producer or be looked upon with
suspicion and distrust, but must, as well,
hunt for a hole iu the fence ot the nearest
neighbor’s garden, and earn her living
by the sweat of her brow.
Indeed, ray dear Mrs. Haves, I hope
for the happiest results in the matter of
the hen industry of the country after the
fourth ot March. I see nothing ahead
bqt sunshine, and eggs, and Spring
chickeuon toast.
But while the hen is a patieut and
dutiful creature, and we naturally ex
pect much of her, she need# sooie caff
and uonsider-atue *oru-uieal dough to
keep her in good running order. Bhe
will need just as much care and corn
meal dough under a Democratic admin
istration as she needed und 4 pprghauQe
revived under your excellent adminis
tration ; and if you want your kens to be
fruitful and joyous and gay, you must
not forget the eare and corn-meal dough.
I would not advise you to force your
this- wintov, * |U indications are
that it will beau inelement season, and,
in consequenoe, severely trying to a hen’s
physical system. Let your hens gain
*ll the vigor they eau for tbf Boring, (md
when the time comes for them to take
up their work under the new administra
tion, I think they will surprise you.
Let Rutherford give them their dough
regularly, anal miry one of them at
tempts to set before the aocepted time,
tear a strip off one of his old red flannel
shirts, and let him tie it securely about
her tail. This wiff tu hei
that whilst it is a laudable ambition iu a
hen cf settled purpose and mature mind
to want to rear a family, it is not time
to do it when eggs are forty-seven cents
a do a i*n.
I hope by this your fears for the
chicken industry under the new admin
istration have flown, and that your miv.d
is no mv wor* af As 4 liuy before
remarked, I feel confident that during
the next four years the hen will go right
on in her good work with every right
carefully guarded ; that shs will, in
the past, jay wUru she fggl* like laying,
set when she has a mind to, and strike
when Bhe believes there is danger of
over-production ; aud that finally, when
the summons *ohl Uiy axe falls,
and Death aiaima her aa a shining mark,
she will die in the fullest confidence that
she will be passed off upon an unsuspect
ing public as a young and tender pullet,
gjWhenever you want the light of the 001
touts of my intellectual reservoir turned
upon any problem thftt troubles * .a, my
dear Mrs. Hayes, do not fail to take your
pen in hand and prod me gently till my
stream of golden thought begins to flow,
like the contents cfa long necked 1 ottle
down the parched throaA of a sad and
thristv pilgrim a prohibition dis
trict. Bcott Way,
THE BAD BOY.
“ Ah, a Merry Christmas to yon," said
the groceryman to the bad boy ( “and
berets a Christmas present, a eake of soap
fc r you, and another, a beet lor your
father,” and the groceryman handed the
boy a eake of red soap, and picked ft
large red beet out of a basket for the
boy’s pa.
“Well, I Bimm,” said the boy as he
looked sad, “ I don’t oare for this insult
ou my own account, for I am tuff, and
can stand it, but sending this emblem to
pa will break him up. You may think it
is smart to thus cull my pa dead bfeat, but
if you. po\hd to hi* bedside now, aud
see him, as he teara what little hair he
has got, and groans, you would not do it.
But I will take it to him,” and the boy
wiped his eyes on his eoat-sleeve, and
started to go.
“ Hold on, M said tU* grocery man as
he snatched the beet away from the boy,
“ I was only joking. What ails your pa?
Is he sick ?*'
“No, be isn’t exactly sick, but he is
mad,” said the boy, as he put the soap in
his pocket and sat down on a keg of Ma
laga grapes, aud began digging oftt
of the sawdust and gating Ahem. “ You
pa has ben buying Christmas pre
sents for three days, and getting them
together, and Wt night he gave me a
list of the places where they were to g>,
and I got my chum to go with me to de
liver them. Seems as though something
always happens to me when I try to do
anything vtfbt. Just as we were going
by the windy Corner at the court house,
aud my chum was wheeling the hand
cart, I locked at the list to ** which
package went to the minister, and the
wind Wok the list and blew it into the air
W the dome <4 the court house, and
then it sailed away over the lake. Well,
I didn’t knew what to do. Pa had gone
out somewhere to speud the evening, and
I knew I couldn’t find him, so we con
cluded. to deliver the presents piomiscu
ously. I knew all the places they were
to go, and I thought it wouldn’t ttUlk,
so very papch difference if they did get
mixed, so we went around with them,
aud then went home and went to bed.
This morning I got up early to see what
whh in my sock, anu|l heard pa and mu
having a quarrel It hhmu that pa hud
intended to give m a soul skin cloak, but
she found a pair of red corset#* in her
stockings, about five sixes too small, at and
ahe was giving pa fits. Pa explained
tuat ho had bought the Cornets for the
young woman who sings iu the choir, so
she could lace them up tight and make
her voice smaller so she could resich the
highest notes. He was going to do that
for a joke. While he was explaining it
to ma, the man who cleans oft’ snow from
the mit inter’s sidewalk rung the bell and
handed the girl a package for pu, ut.d'lie
opened it and found it was a pack of
curds and a lot of poker chips, with a
n >to from the minister to pu giving him
old hundred lor sending a minister of the
gospel a present of such tools of the devil.
The minister said he was prepared fur
insults in this world, but that was sotuv*
thing Usy;t> T 4ld Uvd aland, and he wouldn’t
be responsible for his actions when he
met pa. Pu called me in and asked why
I didn’t leave those poker chijw and
cards ut the club, and then I hud to tell
hinj about thy wind Uowetbing the list
where it listefh, and how we did the best
we could without it. Pa wanted to die,
and I guess he wanted me and my chum
to die also, but thy be\l mug (sq break*
fust U li d \yy Wyut down to thy dining
room. Ma was mad and poured out the
coffee as though she wished it was pizeu,
and pa tried to swallow something, and
omldu’t, and I tried ;to pray, I
thought pm would break my back after
breakfast. While we were at the table a
note came from the choir singer thank
ing pa and ma for the sealskin cloak, and
saying that jt tjjlyd u long felt hat, or
something, and that it was so appn>piate
and so thoughtful in them to so kindly
remember a poor girl who had nothing
but her voice with wiqdl td through
a cold world. Bhe said she hoped the
consciousness of having done a kindly
action would cause them a very Merry
Christmas. Well, when pa read that ltd*
ter to nja ] thought | would die. Pa
acted u* though he could slip through
one of the holes in the cane-seat chair,
though he Couldn’t, of course, and ma
she just, leaned right imq&, and hinted.
I felt oftui ut thy mistake, but when I
went to say I didn’t mean to mix tilings
up, pa took up the carving knife and
snaked green in the eyes, like a g-it Ui n t
is geared in § ami says, ‘M-e
--o-u- w,! |U a bass voice, and I sliet right
up and kept on eating my sassidge. We
hadn’t got fairly onto pm before
the bell rung a u tl thb old maul with the
gold specs, who lives next door, shy came
in and throwytk a paekiige down ou the
breakfast table, a*.d said shy would have
pa arrested for defamation of character.
Ma tried to get her to stay to breakfast,
hut she glared at ma as though the would
bite. Pa opened tiu pirakagy and it was
a pair or pa’s old pants and an old ttmnel
undershirt and a pair of drawers. Pa
turned pale *rhen he saw them and asked
me wheie I left the little of tooth powder
and the cologne,- and I told him to the
best of ii|y I left them at the
office of the Associated Charities. Pa
said it Wiiii just at be expected. He had
intended the pants and underclothes to
go there, to be given to the poor tramps,
and I had ruined him by sending them
to the old maiand. Pa
thought the °ld *uai<l wanted of such
1 things, and what they wanted cf uxith
powder and ©ologne for tramps. I coal l
not answer, and pa groaned and got up
•md went in the parlor, b*gan to
talk to me R,hp\\t thy muyesaity in a young
; man of being sure he was right before
| going ahead, and ma had ou her old
cloth ulster to go out., I think to snatch
that sealskin cloak oil 4 ,he choir singer,
i when the bell rung and the nainitdtiF was
showed in. Pa beg*\q to ,*poiogizy„ when
| the Enisle* stopped him and said. “Not
i a word, air. I can subdue my feelings,
|as far as the cards and poker chips are
concerned, and control my wrath, but
; wheu a man sends to my wify ft jumping
jack, a treatise ou evaey woman her own
dancing paster, wUb a can-oan picture
iou the cover, and a pair of tights such
| ns female minstrels wear in the theaters,
\ I tell you, sir, friendship ceases, and I
! must have gore, and the minister began
*to pull off his coat. Ma interfered and
; pa explained that he iuteuded the tight*
for a young fellew in his office who swings
clubs in the gymnasium, and that every
thing hud been mixed up, and I won to
blame, they all turned on me, and I
came away, while pa went to bed. I
I want to go away somewhere till New
I Years’. Do you know of some quiet
j place where I oould go and be, & ale ? and
the bad l>oy looked appealingly to the
grocery-man. “Go to the morgue, you
; little devil," aaid the. grocery man, and
- the boy went out, feehng that uocideuts
were liable to happen in thy best regu
lated families, and be pulled his roller
ykateaout from under his coat and started
tor the rink.
kf. Peru, a Parisian pianist, has offered
to play in a cage full of lions. At ben the
test is made the secret will probably be
discovered that he has been a lyin’ him
self. The question arises whether It would
be right to submit the poor bvaste to the
torture.
Moody and Bankey are said to have
made a million dollars on their hymn
book. ho wouldn’t sell his music for a
song if it was to the tune of million.
NUMBER 35.
ii K£f fiSUL
Oir di.vn t • tbr K ra> *,
Or likv miM-nit'K
Uftirn rttillinjr wind* nVr ib j lets,
Ttn*\ wiU with* r in nu bur.
How vain and empty ary thing* terres
trial Row void and vacant the whole
earth seems to him who buys a plug hat
for another man. W> guess we can read
the signs of the tiroes in the torch ligh pro
cession, but we cannot. He guess on the
general result, and then purchase anew
overcoat for s total stranger, while w
steer our own arms dowa into the mys
terious linings of our three-year-old coat
and feel sad.
The sight of a uw shining *iXh bat
brings the tears to my eye*.
The American people devote too much
thought r.nd too much time to politics. If
any man refers to politics in my houaa
hereafter, 1 -trill set him up in the reqai
eseat business. The following notice ia
pouted in the main hall, where visitors pre
sent their credentials:
* *
* Parties referring to the lat elec- •
* tion in a light or flippant man- *
*ner, will please state before*
* leaving, what site of coffin they *
* wear, uud whether they desire •
*to be buried inexpensively or *
* with pomp snd eclat. *
* Estimates of pomp and eclat*
* furnished on application. •
****,**#***•*•• *
I atu no politician, and never was. I
am a plain, unassuming, but talented
chap, with a tendency to converse freely
on subjects that he don’t know anything
about. That U the mason why the aurora
borealis wilt look down this season on a
tall, amateur politician in my ward, wear
ing the same underclothing that he wore
l have b objection to allowing apro&-
sion&l politician th* privilege of batting
on the election results, bat it’s poor busi
ness for a man of letter*. The literati
ought to abstain from I*. John Bunyaa
newt gueyaed on Indiana and got left, did
he? He was no guesser. He was a writer.
l,et every man attend to his own business,
I say, and shun politic*** he would the
deadly up*u trye.
! think the country ought to b saved,
and am willing to do what is right, but £
have gone out of the plug hat busiues*.
Parties who have countries that they
Wnftld iikv tu have aved will be attended
to if they will call during office hours, but
those who yearn fox aew ctehhes at tuy
expense will pleaye call while i am ia New
Qrkau* this winter delivering the ypening
address at the Cotton Carnival.
1 vif ited an intimate friend over ia th*
Stillwater penitentiary, the other day, a
friend named Younger, ami 1 said U> him:
M Cole,” said I, “ You think you ar* a lit
tle unfortunate and hampered, here, per
b9.pt, hut 1 think you are mighty fortunate.
Of comae, y*u can't go out much, and ya
h.u.v sth-r u monotonous sUne at it her*,
but you miss the cyclone* and the elec
tions. Your life is perfectly tab whilst
your sentence lasts.”
Aftey 1 had told him what I had pawed
through and had explained to him tb* po
litic* i outlook and the price of plug hats,
he wrung my hand and even smiled.
When I left him he was singing softly to
himself: —
“ Oh, what shall it* h*?vst he?*
hove is homesickness of the heart.
Freedwm shrieked as T*ay** wiete
about it.
Bleep U merely an armistice in the battle
ttf hi*.
A pedantic man is much given to a dic
tionary.
A mustard plaster may not he very ar
tistic, but it draws well.
Lacinee* i the mother of SedWesneee
aud the grand-mother of poetry.
w ould it be unkind to call an amatenr
musical entertainment, a seal; affair.
The cold weather suits the Clothing
dealer and the d-aler suite the customers.
Bong of the young women atthm season
—“1 fee) like ene for saeque in.”
The truly upright man may strive t m
walk straightly, but he would hard); de
sire to pt plumber.
Two physicians of different schools quar
relling over the merits of their diverse
theories, are an abetird paradox.
Matthew Arnold is going to write a book
about American civilisation. W hat done
Arnold, know about civilization*
This week there were four million dai
ries started. By next Christman them
will be about lout kept up.
The Boston. Bulletin, thinks GoStsckalk
t* a bad name for milkman. On the con
trary he would make a good one. Alt be
weuld have to do wotiki be to supply the
water, and he’d be fixed.
The Uepublieans think that there will
b “nothing but leave#" in the Govern
ment offices after Clef eland takes his seat,
w betber this is true or not, there will be
a Grower ’round the At bite House.
Private Dazell predicts that represen
tative J. D. Taylor, of Old©, will 1> the
next governor of that state.
The Philadelphia Times figure# ont
that tlure are in the Pennsylvania legis
lature 121 Cameron republicans, 51 anti-
Cameron aid six powible >siters.
A rumor is in circulation in democrat!#
circles in Connecticut, llat there are five
republican members -f the legislature
ready to vote for a democrat for govern
or, if enough more republican rotes eat*
be secured to accomplish his election.
Upon Cleveland* arrival in Washing
ton, President Arthur will give bias s
dinner in the White House, to whi*h
will l>e invited members of the diplomat
ic corps and representative* of all tb
executive departments, the judiciary an dr
the army and navy.