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VOLUME V. 'I li AT Will. OK >1 I N !•:. Slie mot me at the d®or last night, All dainty, fresh and smiling, And threw her plump arms around me tight, . In manner most beguiling. Then in her sweet impulsive way, She hugged m as she kissed me, And ffie told me how the livelong day] She’d thought of me and missed me. She helped me off with coat and hat, And led me, still elose clinging, Into the dining room, and sat Down at the table singing. Tin* meal was perfect; fresh cut flowers, The fire light warm and rosy, Made all seem bright; swift flew the hours And we were, oh ! so cozy ! Then, after dinner she and I Sang the old songs together VVo used to sing in days gone by, My heart was like a feather ! Our happiness made earth a heaven, And now, as I review' it, i recollect twas eleven Almost before we knew it. We there on the sofa then, She nestling close beside me, Softly she smoothed my hair, and when 1 kissed her did not chide me, She fondly pinched my cheek, and so, Her dimpled hand upon it, She whispered : “Darling, do you know 1 need anew spring bonnet ?” tiii: vai.uk ok ai>\ kktising. ll.imli. U-i of Mon Getting Uioii, While Olliers are .Struggling for Kxistenoe, The following sensible article is from the able columns of the Savannah Morn ing News, What it says of the merchants of Savannah is equally as applicable to the merchants of all other places. It is the business man who advertises in his local paper that secures the trade where there is any. The News says the best known men of to-day, with comparatively few exceptions, are those who have been liberal and persistent advertisers. It is not necessary to mention the names of those who have acquired wealth by the use of printers’ ink : In some lines of business her interests are being slightly represented, it' at all, in its daily press. Drummers are a mces sity to all kinds of business which depends upju terribly beyond the city of pat ronage, but those valuable adjuncts to 1 r ule could do much better it' the names of the houses they r* present were kept e mtinuully before buyer.- through the me dium of their daily .newspaper. The ad vertisement constantly reminds them of the articles which they really need, but which would never be thought of until the drummer came again were it not for the advertisement. Some merchants pre tend to think that they can get along without advertising, or that to advertise looks as though they were not doing ag well as their competitors. The fact is that the houses which advertise freely are, as a rule, the mist prosperous, is all the answer they need. Those who don’t ad vertise gradually lose their business. To say nothing of the retail business, the Morning News can point t. the thiee large cotton and commission houses in this city as persistent advertisers for years. They are at present the leading and the wealthiest houses. There are, however, hundreds of business men in this city who are seeking trade. They have yet their fortunes to make. To such, newspaper advertising offers the sure road to success, provided that in ad dition to judicious advertising they give their cUse attention to their business af fairs. WON I>KK KIT. CM A NO KS. There L nothing in life more touching than to see those who have reached the acme of human positions standing again almost abjectly at the foot of the hulder ln Washington there is a Mrs. McNeil Potter, a niece of Franklin Pierce, whose portrait she wears in an elegant brooch a 1 tier throat, the last of many valuable heir ooms. During his administration % she visited most of the time at tiie White House, where she assisted Mrs. Pierce in the arduous duties of hostess, then con ducted with all the pomp of ante-Avar days. Now she is old, poor and almost friendless. She has been in Washington during the past winter, securing a pen sion due her from her father’s gallant ser lcts iu the war of 1812, and several In ffiun wars. General Scott said of him, concerning his action in the battle of Chippewa : “Major McNeil deserves everything which conspicuous skill and gallantry can win from a grateful country. The sell-posse.-si on of McNeil, under lire, was unequaled.” We are happy to say that she will now have a pension of thirty dollars per month for the remainder of her lonely life, li is phasant to hear this forlorn woman talk familiarly' of the White House, pointing out the changes and im provements since “when we lived here.” Of one apartment, now occupied as an of lice, she S lid: “ This room Ave used for family prayers. 1 wonder if a prayer ever goes up from here now ?” Hhc was horn at Fort Dearborn, Avliere Chicago now stall Is, while her father commanded what was then an outpost of civilization. A dispatch published elsewhere under takes to show the great riches of the United States Senators. It D not their possession of riches that is objectionable, but the fact that most of them owe their election to their wealth and the influence that it gives them, tiie millionaires having, with only two or three exceptions, no eminent in tellectual qualifications for their official positions. BOTH \V KICK (.0(111 WI NS .John <>m- Hoot Off, hilt Nusan I)i*s V. ith HoSli On. One of die member* of the lied Ledge i camp, almost from the staid, has been ; Susan Gump. She came in with the rush, aid never weakened in her opin ion that there was richness here. That was six years u.o this spring. She look i and then as though she might have been 30 years old, and she never changed in appearance. She wore a man’s hat, and sometimes in severe weather, a man's overcoat. Her lmir was short, and it I was tlip general verdict of the camp Hud Susan would have made a good looking man. She had a trim, wiry figure, a oold gray eye, a merry mouth, and a nerve .that all the boys said equalled anything that they had ever seen. About a year ago an old fellow strolled in an announced that he was looking for hi wife. Nobody had seen ids wife and he got little satisfaction. Hanging around for a day or two, be at length hit upon Susan, and one day he announced that she was the woman that he had been searching for. When Susan her self confirmed tins statement the camp believed it, but it was iuciedulous at first. “Yes,” she said one day, “lie’s my old man. I married him in Luidville long ago, and jumped him there, too. I know he would be after me, and that’s why I came here. If he behaves him self, it’s all right. If ho don’t lie’ll wish he had. I don’t git up and git from here for him or any other man.” With that her hand rested on her le volver which she always carried in her licit, and a look came into her face which indicated that she was prepared for desperate work. They seemed to get on c nnf affably, however, and in the course of time the camp almost forgot that they had not always been together. Old John Gump lmilt himself a cabin, and the two mo\ ed into it. Gump bad some means, lut he worked hard. Sometimas he dra k. About Christmas it was report ed that he and Susan Avcre having lively times, but not much at tention was paid to tiie matter. Hasan appeared tlie-snme as site always had. A week ago she iold one of her friends that old J ill l was getting ugly, and that no o.ie need lie surprised at hearing < fa big row t up their, way. After that she was not seen. Yesterday morning ore of tiie men who hail bee.i out toward the Gump cabin came running i;i with the wry that Hus in and the old man were oil the war p ith. “It’s agu i light, too!” lie yelled. ‘•They’re at it now!” The words had hardly Uft his lips bef ;re a half dozen levulver shots were heart!, a id everybody in the camp start ed f>r the scene. A* the boys approach el they saw John and Susan, bare healed, with revolvers in hand, eye' mg each other closely. Anxious t i wiuess the fight, all hands crept around to asp it as they regarded as out of range, ami stood breathlessly awatiug developments. A moment later occured a simultaneous exchange ol shots, and Susan dropped, but was on her feet again in an instant. “She’s hit!” somebody said. And, sure enough, oil ihe i igld side of the light gray waist which she wore a crimson spot and was growing. “Hold on, there!” cried Foil Ileeker, one of the leading wen c f the camp. “Hold on, there, John, this thing’s gone far enough. Drop that gun or i’ll drop you.” Without taking her eyes from her adversary for a moment Susan said with a deliberation which surprised everyone. “You keep out o’ this tiling, all of you. It’s him or me, and I don’t want any help.” There was a quick motion o! old John’s pistol aim, followed quick as'a flash by a corresponding one on he-r part, aad both tired in rapid succession until their self-cockers weie empty. When tlve smoke lifted it was seen that the man. and the woman was both on tl\e ground, and the boys ran forward. Husau lay fiat on her face, her right hand still grasping her revolver. Old John had rolled over. Hue was stone dead. Two bullets had pierced her body and ope had entered her head. Julia had four or five wounds in the body, all dangerous. An effort was made to move him into the cabin, but it was useless. He gasped wiice or twice, and whispering, “Ain’t shea good om? I’m proud o’ tli and gir!, 1 am,” lu* relapsed into n:;consciousness, and soon seemed quite dead. Just as the boys had laid Hasan out in the Cabin they noticed old John raising himself on one elbow with a great effort. Tho struggle was a puii.ful one, but he succeeded at last in getting himself in a sitting posture. Then, with bis old eyes almost glassy, ai.d his bloody baud trembling, lie groped f>r his feet, and, with an exertion that was more than he could bear, be pulled off one boot. “Ifis boots!” came to every tongue, and us he foil back, Avitli his arms spread wildly over his head, and all of the spectators were at his side. Seth Park er seized the remaining boot aid bad it off in an instant, but it was too late. Onl John ii it gone with one boot on. Tne c imp buried them to-day sand by CAKTEKSVILLE, GEORGIA, TUESDAY, MAY 25, 1886. side, just back of their cabin, and in the clothing that they had worn at the time of the tight. As Susan had died with her boots on, and was so buried, it was the unanimous decision of the camp that old John had one of his taken off on a foul and that one was buried with him as a measure of justice to Susan’s mem ory. “►She Was the best man of the two,” said one < f the boys, as t lie crowd walked uwav from the new-made graves. “They were both good men,” several others replied, forgetting in thei: admi ration that one of them had been u woman who might in another spere have been a. heroiue. —New York Sun. S A l!M MOUNTS. 'ihe liu tigers to \V liiclt 'I hoy Are Suhjet-t in tlie ring. Idleness is the bane oi the average bum horse, fed us they generally are during the winter season. 'The muscles become soft, and there* is a general want of tone iu the entire sysbui, opening the way ( f getting overheated, and that opens the way of taking <*i Id. There is, during spring, an essential tendency in the high-fed, lion-exercised hoise, to perspir* profusely, and his unshed coat, holding this excess of moisture upon the surface, forms an important factor in whether damaging result follows. If the farmer could have the opportunity, at the beginning < i Has operations with the plow, to hitch in a stage or tiuch horse that has 1 ecu Avorked durii g winter, with one of his over-fattened and idly-wintered animals, he would speedily see the contrast to the manner of performance, and iu tiie condition of the two horses at night. The one would come from his stall in the morn ing fresh and limber, while the other would be sore in every muscle and joint, and if he had had a fair day’s woik put upon him fair for a horse in condition for work—it is quite likely that he would by the second day , be “off his feed.” Taking cold in such apli'ewonld be a very dangerous cold to take. The farm men and I ired men not ui.t'rcquent ly say: “We mo fawning the work horse at and feeding him up for the spring rush.” When the tush comes, a horse that has hud service to do, enough to “harden him,” as the saying goes, be ing, tit the same time, fairly fed, can go into the field with comfort and safety to his health. It takes u w iser hat and than the average farm hand to “break in” a fit ted, unused farm liorse, without get ting him on the sick list. —National Live Stock-Join nnl. SA M .JON MS VIMIICATKII. The Halt i moi ea n> Indorse His AA'nrds and Ills .Methods. In a sermon the other night to 5,000 people, at the rink iu Baltimore, Sam Jones said : “1 am abused, but, thank God, I can stand it. (Applause.) My Savior never got into so-called respectable society v bile lie was in the world. (Applause ) I read of him among publicans and sinners aud lighting the devil forty days,but never as sociated with the gay, giddy, godless ones of earth. If- I never receive any thing but cuffs and scorn from the leading society people in the town 1 can wait til! 1 get to heaven for my vindication. (Ap plause.) Thank God there will be no so called society people there to cuff me. (Applause.) What ever keeps my mind from heaven and its issues I banish from me forever. 'Thank God for the faithful preachers. I want the indorsement ot the congregation'. Thank God they are not tiie hoodlums and rabble of Baltimore* They are as respectable people as ever as sembled in this city. Brethren (turning to the preachers on the platform behind him), as God shall judge you at the last day, don’t you believe I have stuck to the word of God, to the last interests of all t Ik* people of this city when 1 have denounced these wordly practices that are damning your city? Those av ho eau say it, stand up. (The an hole body arose.) Put those seventy-five preachers down as on my side. (Applause.) The wires last night carried the news to New York that the society of Baltimore was being outraged by the preaching of these so-called evange lists. 1 Avant all those who have felt out raged to stand up. (Not a person arose.) 1 Avant you reporters to say that five thou sand people in the rink to-night say it’s a lie—it’s a lie. (Continued applause.) WASN'T NT l IJ HO It N. “JITs blind,” said a gentleman to whom a negro was trying to sail a horse. “Blind !’’ repeated the negro, contempt uously. “Quit Liltin’ at his eyes dat way. He kin see as good as yeise’f kin, an’ wont wink his eyes ’lease he’s so stubbo’n.” “Well I wanted a horse, and had no objection to blindness; in fact, 1 wanted a blind horse for my children to ride around the yard ; but 1^ don’t want a stub born animal.” “B iss, dat boss is de hlin’est boss yer ebber seed, an’ 1 tole yer yhat I did to keep yer from pressin’ me inter lettin yer hah him, lease a man down e’e street sent alter him. Oh, yes sail, lie’s de blin’est boss l eber seed, but lie ain’t stubbo’n.” A woman went to a Providence Phy sician and asked for a lemedy for her hus band’s rheumatism. The doctor gave her a prescription, and said, “Get that pre pared at the drug store, and rub it Avell over your husband’s back. If it does any good, come and let me know. I’ve got a touch of rlie atism myself.’-’ IT AVKXT THROUGH HI M. A Shot (hat Killed a llrave Soutlirrii .Soldier. “See? That went clear through a man and caused lii.s death.” it was Dr. Roach speaking at At lanta. Wednesday, tun! as he spoke he held in his hand a grape shot of solid iron, about the size of a small orange. The shot was not rusty like many war relics, but was bright and clean. The shot has a history. At the battle of Malvern 11:11, soon after the seven days’ fij>ht, the Eighteenth Georgia, to which I Jr. Roach was attached, fell under the fire of some gunboats. The shot was fired from one of the boats and struck A. J. Hendry, a private iq Company B. near the left shoulder, and passed nearly through the tody. Dr. Roach, tin* regiment surgeon, cut tho shot out of Hendry’s buck, and as it dropped into bin hard he held it before the Avon tided mans eyes aLnl said : “This is Avliat went through yon.” Tbe wounded man took the shot in his ! hand, and, alter looking at it a moment, said: “Here, doctor, take it, and when I am dead send it to ruv mother, and tell her that this is what killed her soldier boy.” Dr. Roach took the grape allot and on tlie third day after Hendry died. Boon after his death the doctor sent the shot to the dead soldier’s mother. The old lady kept it until she died. Before her death she gave it.'to her daughter. A few days ago tine daughter sent the shot to Dr. Roach, with a note stating that it was the same one which had killed her brother and requesting him to have it at the next reunion of the Eighteenth Georgia. .VIICN AVIIO "WANT IT I*l RE.” 11 li.ii aii l |i-Tn ii Grocer Nays Concern ing; liie Adulterations of spices. “Give me a quarter of a pound of black pepper,” said a customer to an up town grocer recently’. “I want it pure.” The grocer look do an a little package done up in tin foil and adorned with a yellow label I earing the legend: “Pure Black Pepper.” “This is wind sells for black pepper, but seeing l know yon pietiy well ! don't mind tilling yt u tffere’s not a grain of black pepper in it. I worked for Jive years in tin* milling room of a spice-mill, ad 1 am on to tbo business fr< m end to end. Now, tLis part cnlar spice is made Ibis way: Take eighty-six pounds of fine groin and bran mixed with pulver i ;ed cliaicoal the last t • represent the black hull of pepoer grain; then add fifteen jk unds ■ f gn ni and cayenne pepper aud there you have 100 pounds of pure black peppier. “It’s tbe same way with mustard.” tne gn cei cm.lit md. “Fd';< en to twenty* pounds 1 1 cayenne pepper, the balance of cheap wheat ii ur Colored yellow, makes one l ut died q>< unds < f genuine mustard. The bight st- grades, which arn’t < ften retailed, contain as much as one-half ( f real mustard. But cream of t .iter is the biggest swindle. A fifteen pound can if the loav grade contains one pound of taiffinio acid and fourteen of terra : Ilia. Terra alba is a mild alkali and ut nfiidizes the effect of the acid. Higher grades < f the uiixure contain a trille more turbine acid. “You probably think you’ve eaten some cinnamon in your time,” the gro cer went on. “Well, you haven’t. 1 don't suppose tin.r’s ten pounds of cin namon baik in tiie United Btutes. What passes for cinnamon is the cassia tree. This is aduiltndtd with a still coaser bai k, ki.oAvn r.s carsia \ era. The article is also mixed with peas t.i and roast bran, r lie, and not tell you about roast coffee; everybody knows about that. It’s jus the same way through the whole list of sp'ces. If you could smuggle yourself into the 1 nscmeiffi f some spice mill yon would find bins if bran, peas, terra alba, etc.” . Ol'lTK A ROMANTIC STuliV A singular story comes from the prov ince of Limburg, on the Dutch fiontier. The owner of a large manufactory’, who had married young and whs left a widow er, had an only daughter, to whom all the most desirable young men iu the neigh borhood w ere pay ing attention ller fath er noticed thai she treated them all with indifference, and showed preference for a young clerk of Lis, an orphan, with no means but his salaiy. As he had always given the greatest satisfaction in the per formance of his duties, and was exceed ingly well conducted, tin* father, persuad ed that lie would liuvt r venture to raise his eyes to his daughter, who evidently was sincerely attached to him, made up his mind to broach the matter to him. What w r as his surprise when the young clerk, after much hesitation, told him lie would be only too glad to regard the young lady as a sister, but he could not marry her, because lie was not a man, but a young woman in disguise—a disguise she had adopted when left an orphan in order to get a more lucrative situation The conclusion of tiie story is that,'instead of marrying tiie daughter, she is tiie w ife of the father. —Chicago Herald. It is cowardice to wish to get rid of everything Avhich we do not like. Sick ness and sorrow only exist to further man’s educatk n in this world. They will not be needed in the future. ]>ICINKS THAT KAT l I* IKON. JOSF.PU M’ooN A(> I.K. Corrosive banes that use up chains In such a summary way as this, , That liquor rings find handy things With Avhich to do cadi business! i To make tlicir grains, these mou put chains On those most easily bound they think, And that is on the men who fawn i Upon the Juggeruaunt of Drink! From the large crowds now making shrouds, Needed for victims of strong drink, More chains are found to be placed round I Men’s appetites than in “beer-sinks!” ’Twas one, perhaps, of rum’s -mishaps i That these two fetters came to be I Hi a still’s sink, where dregs of drink I Gnawed them both up so speedily! i ; For, when men hear that new made beer Has such a vicious appetite That links of shad scarce make a meal For this vile stuff, they’ll lake affright! And places yet, now known as “wet,” May, through this interm, by'-and-by, In language brief, turn anew leaf, And each, henceforth, be known as “dry!” We wish to say the Witness may, Ere long be made to see or hear Its ’’beer sink’s” prey lias “given away” The poison hid in.rum and beer! Let every youth ponder a truth, That is so plain and opportune, Who takes a “smile” on n e in a while, Inside of a well-screened saloon! m And, likewise, let those older yet. Emp’oy aright their sight and brains, And cease to “jiip” or take a sip Of what so soon eats iron chains! A PHILOSOPHKII. A merchant Avrofce as follows to an Ar kansawlman: “I am on my death lied, aud would like to have the money you owe me. My phvs’cian says I can live but a few days longer.” The ArkansaAV man replied as follows: “I received your letter a few days ago aid I expect you will lie dead by the time you lcceive this. If not I beg your pardon hr not sending the money. My experience teaches me that a dying man does not need money. If I was dying it. wouldd’l make any difference h me if I had ten dollars or was in debt. I liave’nt been dying, you understand, and cannot speak from experiei o<*, but I am a man who can forecaste tilings pret ty well, and therefore do not speak in a hay-liazard way. Some fellow, I have forgotten who, said that a dying man can do nothing welj. Perhaps you know more about this than I do, but allow me to say that a dying man is a might}’ poor bill collecter. If I were to send out to find an efficient bill collectei I would never select a dying man, no matter what his stni ding in the commu nity might be. Let me see, I have owed you for some time. I regret this very much, but don’t suppose T regret it any deeper than you do. If I had paid you, I would not owev< u anything. At first this may not strike you as tiie truth, lint mature reflection has taugld me it is a fact. At one time after re ceiving the last letter which 1 shall doubtless ever get from you, 1 thought that I would immediately forward tiie amount I owe you, but then I thought thatjyou might be dead and never know it. When Ido a man a favor I want him to know it. Ingratitude is one of the roots of all evil, 1 would rather pay a man ten cents and impress him with the fact, than to pay him ten dol lars and know that lie would ever remain in ignorance < f the fact; IheV'.foie, 1 hope that you will understand my posi tion. But wlnit is the use (fail this? You may lie dead ly the time this reaches you, in this event you AVould never give me credit for all these ex pressions of sympathy. As I previously remarked, a dying m-n has no Meed of money. Material things are but little use to him. Well, I must close. If you are not dead when you r ceivo this, please let me know, and 1 will write you another one. SO M KIK11) V HIT. Under the head of “Don’t Learn a Trade,” tiie Rhea County News, published at Spring City, Tenn.,fires tins broad-side into tiie young men of the day: “No, don’t learn a trade, young man. You might soil your hands, swilt your shirt collar, and spoil your complexion sweating. Go hang your chin over a c> miter; learn to talk twaddle to the la dies; part your hair iu the middle; make an ass of yourself generally', and work for wages that wouldn’t suppoit a Chinese laundry man on rice and rats, and leave a big enough balance to pay his wash woman —just because it is a little more genteel in the ej es of tiie people whose pride prevents them from pounding rock or sawing wood, and wh >se poverty pinches Avorsc than your long-legged clothes-pin, if the truth were told.” A rousing speech made in Albany by a colored speaker: Jenemons, I made one j of tiie rousness speeches in Albany tiie | other day, what’s bin made dar since ! mancipation, tiie people dar was so looker 1 wid de contemplation ob dat speech till de ladies, day dess took and sent on o’ | cart off in de country artur flours to dek- I orate the stage wid and de ol’ ox curt it ! got no flours. And de jentlemens day’ dess took and chunked me up dar on de stage wid aigs, undone ofdem hit me right on de nose, an’ fo God Im’s got five dollars to Let dat de hen dat laid dat aig warnt well. A SHOW Kll OK HI RON. A strange phenomenon occurred at Chic igo during the storm of Saturday nig-ht iu the vicinity of the Board of Trade tower light. It \us none other than a shower of birds, Sunday when the watchman made his rounds he found the sidewalks and streets in front of the tower fairly covered with dead birds of ail soils. A little later the electrician came down aud, when he saw a great pile of liiuls, he said it was the electric light at the top of the tower. When he went up to the lantern with several members of the Board of Trade, tho ro< t was found to lie covered with dead birds, and each of the lamps iu tiie big circle of light was filled with them, oue globe having eight birds i if. These birds are ii every known vari ety, and many unknown, or rather uu familiar’speeies are. among the lot. All simian and colors arc* tlieie, scarlet, blue, pink, red Canary, mottled black and white, and there were some snipe and plovers among them. The theory is that they were migratory ilocks, going from south to north, and were attracted by the great light, which the moment they touched, killed them. The birds are of all the small species. There was a countless number of them, em ugh to trim all the ladies’ lints in Illinois. Many Bohemians were in the street with bags and baskets, and in less than two hours the streets were clear ( f every vestige of tins bird shower. 1 ut Hie roof of the Board of Trade is i.„ w covered and the janitors will lenn.ve them to day. A ST It AMi K lIIIJ A M. A Tin Toddler Secures a Fortum- for It was only 12 or 11 yea is ago that a queer thing happened near Medina Ohio. A tin peddler who was driving a wagon f*r a firm in Cleveland was taken sick one day in summer, as he was driv ing' on the highway, and lie sought shel ter in a farm house, lie had a run of fever (or seven or eight days, and when able to get out again, lie said to the farmer: “I am satisfied that there is a sum of money buried on your farm. I have seen the spot several limes in my dream.” “Oh,” replied U e homer, “if you can find any treasure heie, you are welcome to it.” “How much will you take to w aive all claims?” persisted the peddler. “Fixe dollars’ worth of milk pans.” “It you will go to tow n and get a law yer to draw up the paj ers in due form, I will give you twenty-five dollars in cash.” The- farmer tried tw laugh the peddler out > l’hia notion, but tiie man was so earnest in wishing to buy all rights to what, he might find, that a paper was drawn up, the $25 paid over, and he was told Hi go ahead, lie leplied that lie was in no hurry, and mounted his wagon and drove home, hut in about a fortnight he returned with a horse and wagon and a companion. Giving notice that i.e had come to claim his own, he proceeded to dig in a corner of the front y’ard, and be fore the hole was three feet deep, lie hud unearthed a small stone jng, tightly corked. It was broken bn the grass plat, and lying among the .'fragments were three thousand dollar:- in gold and silver coins. None of the pieces had. been coined within less than fifteen years, and the then owner of the plat e had occupied it for nine years, and knew that m body could have buried the jug there mean while. The peddler said that a very fall, dark complexioned man, having a sear on lbs forehead and a limp in his gait, had re peatedly come to him in his dreams aud pointed out Ihe spot. The description exactly answered thut of a hard case who had been in the county jail for horse stealing, and who had sul sequi ntly died in the penitentiary at Columbus. How ever, the peddler Lad been so careful to purchase all right in advance, and had walked so directly to tLr* treasure that the officers of the law made up their minds to investigate him. His find was seized and his record was lroked up, but when nothing could he shown against him, lie got possession of the treasuie and used it to buy an inter.st in the bouse lie worked for. IIKAI.TII NOTES. Put five drops of chloroform on a little cotton or wool in the bowl of a clay pipe, then blow the vapor through tiie stem in to an aching ear and instant, relief will be a fib rd id. ihe French method of administering castor oil to children is to pour the oil into a, can over a moderate lire, bn ale an esrg into it and siir up \\ lieu it is dune flavor with u little suit or sugar, or currant jelly. It'any person who is liable to poison with poison ivey w ill take pure olive oil after being exposed to it. lie will feel no bad effects, and the oil will neutralize the evils of the poison if a tew doses be taken even after the j c-ison has broken out. Alexander 11. Stephens’ grave is still unmarked, out above the grave of Harry Stephens, his colored aeryant, a stone has j been erected bearing the legend : “He Was for many years tiie faithful, trusted and beloved body servant of Alexander H. Stephens. Like him he was distin guished for kindness, uprightness and benevolence. Asa man be was honest and true. Asa Christian he was humble and trusting.” NUMBER 3 MM. WAS IN DKKP TliOl KI.K. A voting woman, befurml and eye glassed, ?it near the stove weeping. It was not a hearty, yard-wide weep, but a furtive dropping of half-expressed tears upon the corner of a scented handker chief— merely a bit of a thaw in a cold wind. In trouble, miss V” queried the gray haired and sympathetic passenger.. " \ e-ves,” was the sniveling reply. May T inquire the nature of our woe young lady ' l’ossibly 1 can comfort you.’* And for an answer, she snuffled up two or three times in her nose, reached into her dress pocket and pulled out a crum pled telegram, saying, “Read that.” The sympathetic passenger adjusted his spectacles, hummed and hawed, turned half round in bis seat and cautiously held the ominous missive to tin light, lie read : “Come home at once. 1 our doggie is sick.” A man’s character is like a face—you cannot strengthen it by whitewash. Augusta wants the next Gubernatorial Convention to be held either there or at Macon. Their is not. a particle of satisfaction in telling a man he is a liar; for if lie isn’t who does the lying? It may be healthy to takp a walk on an empty stomach, but we pity the man who furnishes the stomach. The fear that our kind acts may be re ceived with ingratitude should never deter us from preforming them. “Mother,” asked a Philadelphia girl, ’* what is a heroine?” “A woman who don’t squeal at the sight of a rat,” was the prompt reply. A surgical journal tells of a man who lived five years with a ball in his head. We have known girls to live twice as long with nothing but balls in their heads. “I never know what to do with my feet when I’m in a parlor,-” said the embar rassed man. “Did it ever suggest itself to you that you might steer them toward the door!” was the amiable reply. A Gentleman rode up tu a public house m the country ami asked: “Who is the master of this house?” “I am, sir,” replied the landlord, ”my wife has been dead about three weeks.” A lightning rod was recently removed from its place. To the lower end was attached a lump of iron ore weighing ninety-six pounds. The surrounding earth was ferruginous, and attracted to the Vod by tke action of electricity. Wife—“You ought to step in and see the doctor, Henry, and get some medicine tor your throat.” Husband—“ What, when there are several bottles of medicine not yet Half taken in the house. We must be more economical. As one man that runneth in haste and leapeth over a fence may fall into a pit which he does not see, so is a man that plungeth suddenly into an action before lie hath considered the consequences thereof. I’he Bible, which is m official use in the United States Supreme Court at Wash ington, has been in use there for taking the oath of office since 180 y. It was print ed at Oxford, England, in 1709. It is a small copy and much worn, especially where the firgers grasp it. The longest coffin turned out by any factory is a nine footer, in Which the dig nitaries of the Catinlic church are buried. Such a colli in was used at the burial of Cardinal McCloskey, the ex Ira length be ing required for his crown which he wore in death. About twenty four hours were taken to put his coffin together. Anew rival brass band was hired to play at the funeral of a Conneticut dea con. Tlnty were playing a slow and sol unin dirge at the grave, when suddenly the trombone man shot out a blast that startled the liearse horses and broke up the entire l procession. The leader turning upon him asked him what be was doing that for. He answered with a smile: “Gosh, I thought it was a note, and it was a liosstly; but I played it.” “I’m not a sprint runner,” said Charley, “but I made fifty yards once in remark ably quick time. It was just that far from the front door to the gate, and my girl’s father held the dog and allowed me ten seconds to clear the distance.” “I grasp the situation,” replied Gus,” but lily yards in ten seconds is not fast time.” “No, but when 1 reached the gate, I bad eight seconds to spare.” Twohty-three years ago Mr. Lobscheld, a. Geriran physician, married Bertlia von Bieberstin. Six years later she became insane and was placed in an asylum in Silesia. The doctor soon after quit Ger many, and after extensive travels, settled in Youngstown, Ohio. Recently he was surprised by his wife, who walked into his office. The doctor says she is still insane, but this she denies, insisting that she is looking for her son, whom her husband kidnapped. A lady entered a Broadway car holding in her arms a rather bony terrier. She sat j down by the side of a good-natured-looking | Irishman, toward whom the dog began to | struggle. The mau edged away as lar as he could, when the lady to assure him said i sweetly: ■ “Don’t be afraid,sir. lib's very I gentle; he’ll not hurt you.” “I know it, | ma’aiu, sure I know it,” replied he; “the reason I moved, ma'am, was because I thought he might hurt a sandwich I Lave in mv pocket. ” TLe other passengers laughed, but ti.e lady poutiugly seemed to feel that the prominent ribs of her pet had I been satirized.—Aew York Tribune.