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WAS IT AN AMERICAS DISH !
An amusing story is told, of which it is
averred that no less a personage than the
late George Peabody, the celebrated Amer
ican banker, was the hero. It appears
thnt Mr. Peabody had invited three Kng
lishmcn to meet two Americans at dinner,
and on this occasion, having received as a
gift ten ears of green corn, determined to
renew the recollections of his youth aston
ish his English ami please his American
guests lv having it served up in the well
known American style.
Accordingly, at a proper time, plates of
butter and salt were placed before each
guest, and the banker, with something of
an air of mystery, cnnounced that he was
now about to treat his guests to a well
known and delicious American dish of
food, cooked in the American manner. It
would bo no novelty to his American
guests, but the Englishmen must watch
how it was disposed of by them, and fol
low their example and manner in disposing
of it. Then, at the signal, entered a state
ly servent bearing a large covered dish,
which he deposited solemnly before Mr.
Peabody. In a moment more, in obedi
ence to the banker's nod. he whisked off
the cover, and there, before the astonished
guests, was displayed a pile of ten corn
cobs.
The banker gazed for an instant in mute
horror and dismay, and then found voice
to demand an explanation, which was fi
nally reached when the cook was summon
ed—a fellow who had never before seen an
ear of Indian corn in his life. He replied
that he had followed his master’s directions
to “ strip off the outside before boiling,”
which he had done most faithfully, not
only husks, as was intended, but grains al
so, so that the banker had only what is, in
America, the mute evidence of the feast to
indicate what were his good intentions to
his guests.
O, (■i.'orK'!'! What a Damsel.
She was young and fair, and a tear glis
tened in her eye as she laid her curly head
on his shoulder and exclaimed :
“<>, George ! I think if I found you did
not love me, I should die.”
“My darling,” he answered, passing his
hand gently around her dimpled chin, '• I
will always love you. Do you think 1
would marry you if I did not feel sure of
it? In a few flays at the altar I shall vow
to love you all my life, and 1 will keep my
vow.”
A lovely kind of beatific happiness
played for a moment like sunshine on her
lips, and then she whispered :
”<), George! 1 like to hear you talk
that ; you have been so good to me. You
have given me a diamond locket, and agold
watch and chain, and rings that an angel
might wear outside her gloves and not be
ashamed, and if I thought that one day
you’d be sorry you’d given me all these
nice things and want them back again 1
should break my heart!”
He held her gently against Ins manly
breast, and answered with a quivering voice:
”0, my own darling ! there is nothing
on earth that could happen that would
make me repent giving you a few tokens of
my love, or make me want them back
again.”
She sprang from his arms like a jo} r ous
deer, she shook back her sunny curls, and
with a whole poem in her hazel eyes, ex
claimed :
“ O, George 1 you have taken a load from
my heart. I’ve come to say that I can’t
marry’you after all, because I’ve seen some
body I like better, and I thought you’d
want your presents back again.”
Tory True.
Anderson Intelligencer.
We regret to see, in Governor Hamp
ton’s interview with a reporter of the New
York Herald , that he has thought fit to
express a belief that the great bulk of our
State debt is perfectly legitimate. AA'ith
out the Governor had personally examined
the details of this debt he should not ex
press any opinion concerning its nature,
while the whole subject is undergoing a
judicial investigation which he recommend
ed. Such statements are calculated to in
fluence the investigation. AVhat the peo
ple want now is the truth as founded on
facts connected with the creation of this
debt, and not the off-hand belief of any
person. The governor also makes a mis
take. we think, in supposing Mr. Ilayes to
he “ a true man, who understands the
wants of the entire country.” No one ran
be a true man who accepts an office which
he knows to have been stolen from the peo
ple. No one can be a true man who makes
such appointments as Stone for Distrct At
torney, or Dunn and Drayton for Collectors
of Internal Revenue in South Carolina, or
of Chamberlain for Solicitor of the Treas
ury. Governor Hampton is evidently over
gratified for the removal of the troops,
which measure Mr. Hayes was starved into
by the Democratic House failing to vote
money to support the army while it was
engaged in coercing sovereign States.
A Very Itiul Boy.
A bad boy thus describes his misdeeds
and their punishments in a letter to a chum :
My sister Em has got a feller who has been
coming to see her most every night for
some time. Night before last just to have
a little fun, I went into the parlor, and
crawled under the sofa, and waited there
till he an’ Em had got settled ; and jnst as
he was asking her if she was willing to be
come his dear partner for life, and trust to
his strong right arm for protection and sup
port, I gave three red-hot Indian war
whoops, and bumped myself up against the
bottom of the sofa, and tired off an old
horse pistol that I had borrowed of Sam
Johnson, and my gracious how that feller
jumped up and scooted for the door! He
never stopped to get his hat, but went tum
bling heels over head down the door steps.
As for Em, she was just that scared that*
she sot right down on the ffoor and screech
ed like blue blazes, till dad and mothe/'
came running in, just as they got* out of
bed and wanted to know what the matter
was. But Em only yelled louder and
pointed under the sofa, till dad got down
on his knees, and saw me there, and pull
ed me out by the hind leg. When he had
got me out in the wood-shed, he wrapped
me over his knee ; and then went at me
with an old trunk strap, and I haven't got
over it yet.
Slwn tlrllvral Jarknoii Jlnile Him *y.
Hartford Courant.
The keeper of a feertain boarding-house,
when Andrew Jackson was President,
waited on him. one day, and complained
that a Tennesseean who had been appoint
ed by him to clerkship in one of the de
partments, would not pay a board bill.
** Get his note,” said old Hickory, “for
the full amount, interest included, payable
in sixty days, and bring it to me.”
“ Thnt will be of no use,” replied the
hoarding-house keeper, “ for he never pays
his notes.”
“Doas I tell you sir,” said Jackson as
he turned away.
The next day the boarding-house keeper
reappeared at the White House, and handed
the note to the President. He took it, read
it, wrote “ Andrew Jackson” across the
back, in his well-known autograph, and
handed it back, saving :
“Take that to the Dank of Metropolis,
and toll them for me that, nt its maturity,
it will he paid by either the drawer or the
indorser. They will discount it for you.”
A few days afterward the man who bad
given the note met his creditor, and taunt
ingly said :
“ Well, I suppose you have been able
to negotiate my paper?”
“ Yes,” replied trie boarding-house keep
er, “I had no trouble in getting it discount
ed at legal rates of interest.”
“ Who in the thunder is willing to dis-
count my notes?” asked the Tennesseean.
“ The Hank of the Metropolis discounted
the one you gave me, upon the assurance
that if you did not pay it the indorser
would.”
“ Hut who would indorse my note?”
“ General Jackson. And he sent word
to the hank that if you did not pay the
note he would.”
It is hardly necessary to add that the
note was promptly paid by the maker.
An Answer to Prayer.
The Boston Traveler says: A well
known and much esteemed gentleman of
this city, who by a peculiar accident be
came impoverished, was one day not very
long since without food in his house for
himself and family, though bis acquaint
ances and friends never imagined that he
was brought to such distress. He went to
his closet and prayed for help, and that
very day he received through the post
office a letter containing a tcn-dollar bill.
He does not know to this hour, nor has be
the least idea where the letter came from,
and he implicitly believes God heard and
answered that prayer. The cloud that
overshadowed him has since been removed,
and he is now employed where he earns a
support for his family.
“She Knows Her Bl*. 1 ’
“ How noble ! AVhat a kind heart that
girl has !” said an enraptured spectator at
a party the other evening to a friend. “Do
you not observe.” he continued, “ with
what delicacy and devotion the beautiful
girl devotes herself to the homeliest of her
sex, who otherwise would attract no atten
tion?” “Mister man,” replied the per
son addressed, “ she knows her biz; if I,
who am her brother, says it. who shouldn’t?
She is there every time. AVhy. when she
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her look twice as handsome as she would
beside a pretty one. 1 tell von her head
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Rev. W. P. Smith. Pastor.
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