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— ■ 1 ! . • - - - . -. 1 ' i SCHOOL BOARD IDYL. mdUUll Gazette.) Jto^the best thing wot ever oof* for Jim imd never, been •^ihS'hr tie viziton, end be wu un- •".MTiiroudof the learning which fout01 > W w *7“ v - e» the Bible” on’ them gheritl on 101110' me yerna out o’ Si?."S.'v™^s hfA f* “you hear her about Noah *idj& 'It’a»U• treat,’zaysahe—her ^*ha wnrtls wroncr. don t-cher- ^ like, ill the wonis wrong, don't^her* iSr-Nmh wai gpiu’ down the road and b 10 * +*--0* and he tayi: “Como in the **2P *8 they went in the tram, ‘“ft*™ Motes W»: “Como on, Noah, fj coto the park and throw atonea ^^ chalnuta.” Then Noah saya: SJft hare a donkey, M»a, n and a M5£ “™ C *Thcn S ^m would Mrofalm I?«t to make you die.” Totty was evi g£"Aginative girl and her gift. ”■‘ ■’1 i, pr father ao greatly that he some- wearied Els friinds by talking SS the child. In the morning. Mra, Stan curled Totty acroaa tho road to KdSool, and tho little girl laid her on her mother’, shoulder, and mur- ~~Ja jotm Of trifling talk. In the even- Sjlmtook the child on hia knee, and 3d Questions with solemn gratification. •Vdv ait on an' tell me all about itaW " the proud parent often said: tote enjoyed tho dramatic force ja „hlch the movements of the lions „ represented. Then Jim Mked about ilt „mt\ and Samson and Joseph, and •mother things; then he put Totty SSzndisid. “Go through them there Hereisct” This performance delighted Mm 10 much that ho could hardly keep J. nine slight for chuckling at the comic Htions which Totty went through with lersnus, and he always left the “exer- he* to form the last stage of his evening's euitslnment It is thought that London laborers aro mtly sharp wltted roughs, but that la iot sa Jim Ellison waa a bit of a rough a his way, hut he waa as simple as a Mi lie was grateful to the teachers iho were to kind to Totty, and he touched h tap to them clumsily when he met hem In the lane, generally completing the date after the lady whom he honored u half a dozen yards past him, then Totty mado her Brat visit 1 that “park” which she imag ed as the scene of Noah's dep- dations—(Jim had been used to the men Helds of Surrey, but Totty had net seen a field In her life before)—her fluttering talk of the day’s delights filled e; father with rapture. He called at the hool two days after tho outing and asked a Totty’s teacher. When tho young dyome out Jim waaattackcd by apaln- il dt of sheepishness, but he managed to ijr: “You’re a good sort, mum, to take 1 much care o' my gell, and I was think- 1’about askin'you to take this, if you oat mind!’’ Before tho teacher well sew what he was about he put sixpence 1I0 her band and scuttled away; she went itdl the head teacher, and the two ladles mfbed till the tears ran down their taU It was funny, no doubt, but I urdly laughed when the story was told to Khool, for there is no living creature to shorn life is made pleasanter than it la to a chilli la a good Infants' school, before the baby stage Is passed. Totty was a flump and attractive child, with all kinds of queer, coaxing ways. She was never beaten at home, so she had learned to trait grown up people. Some little chil dren fir low neighborhoods are so nsedto he'ue thrashed that they Jerk up their hands by Instinct to protect their heads rtenever you happen to go near them. That unconscious action lacerates ay hetrt when I see It; there ; such a long atory told by It. 5# Totty waa quite forward with her men, aud the teachera soon learned to “fie her out as tho droll child of tho wool. Tho reply which sho made when “was found alttlng on the floor making Jrang attempt! to twlat her foot to tho jck of her head was long remembered by as teachers; she said: “I'm goln’ to match my head like the pussy. ” She Jaa much grieved at her lack of a supple ™ foot. Totty’s recitations wore ad- “table. She gravely told tho adventures « Urn little cock sparrow who dodged Jnous sportsmen, and her pantomimo jo comic that she was generally sought out in front of the class as a show Totty J»8» bappy tlmo ended. 1 J*®<d the alphabet without trouble, ouu icon afterward she was ablo to per- Jbe feat which Jim described as .£*% out of a book, tame as nothin’, ” S"***being a tiny primer, of course. found that certain words from E '"usjions which the had learned with- P* hook could be found on tho printed WJ then she took to puzzling out IE? “* berielf from the great cards ou w waa. la abort she conducted herself 1™**™ youngsters generally do. I“®Totty waa about 5 yean old the ~™* determined that her pet should standard and sure enough “1* girl began to learn orith- *ua She alto learned sewing and "““areattempts to knit Tho board I!*™ f« the district liked to seeln- .. .-Z 0 ? ohlldren pushed on and he of pmtln* "fancy" tests In E, 1 ® out who were really the best K™ mistresses In lit district As his S®? 1 was greatly Valued by the school , committee, It was £. S2* 1 fb* 1 school-mistresses 2*. “"d •?, be placed on his •““.merit ihi, » n d children were 2"“-*eatly In setae cases, clumsily in "*-*2*hat advauced results might be Inspector always said! “Bo 7m»y with the children who are pro- ,uu w,u » those who u “ ,w “ 4 ' w °*.S* tB :the Inspector’s visit ana uaon nTwt.a his mouth to awe when fllheto va me canuic IU1 EttsaweotmUofhls idoL Totty. SuStMLoother tongue and Imbued *Hh Ink. and dangled her and figures, at wonderful, Why.sbrtBi.’^tto'^f’a than no time at aU. and ■ t SS r w’ n “ neat aud correct One rightiSe said (0 Jim: “Look here, my boy” (Totty was sadly irreverent in her mode of addressing her father), “you got fo make yourself clever. There's Sally Brunton up the court, her father floes her sums for her on the door, and she copies. ” Jim felt deso late. and his sense of mental deficiency had never struck him so painfully before, and he humbly said: “Lor. my gell, I can reckon up my coins Saturdays, but no* body can’t gpt them things Into my head. I should go on doing of ’em all wrong, an thon your teacher would round on me proper.” Then Totty, with increasing Irreverence said: “Silly old bov. I didn’t want to make you sorry." The lessons were dono every night, and as they became more abstruse, Jim ceased to take his pint of fourpenny ale at night “Can’t do it no more, Charlotte, ” he observed to his wife; “that kid’s gettin’ on amazin', and we must save the beer money for her togs." Mrs. Ellison answered: “Oh, the 14-pcnce a week don’t hurt so long as you keep inside that ” Jim struggled hard to find words to express his exact meaning, and at last he managed to say: “But what I want to be at is this, don't you know?—her togs has to match her learnir.’. Them old socks don’t m> tah the ’rithmetic, someway. See?” So Jim dropped his beer, and saved a cup of tea to sip with his pipe. the So matters went on fir a long time, and Totty’s “learning” new quite beyond her father’s powers o\ description. Tho head mistress of the school gradually put more and more pressure on the “Stand ard” of which sue was so proud. The school had been specially mentioned in a Blue-book, and this supreme honor fixed a towering poiut of attainment below which the mistress could never let her pupils fall. One evening Totty said: “Oi class got to go hack to fcebool again, tr. boy, so I’ll make you carry me." “line to school again, ” said Jim, whose habits and thoughts were apt to move in grooves “tha»’s a rum start, old lady. Wot’s up?’ “Teacher wants us from 0 to 7, very partickler, and all the class S ot to have sweets." Jim had argained to have Daniel and Moses ana the exercises all over again when the home lessons were done, but ho carried putting a sweet into his mouth, but he did not mind; ho would have accepted bitter aloes from the same hand. He heard the story of a naughty girl who always meddled with things, and who met with distressing retribution through opening her grandmother's snuff-box, and after this improving tale was told Totty went to bed. Jim always kissed the child be fore he went out at half post 3 in the morning, and on one day during the time when the spell or extra school work was in progress, he said to his wife: “Totty ain’t the thine to-day. Her breath ain’t right, an’ I seed her a-twistin’ her face funny ways in her sleep. Better cart her .round to the chem ist's. ” But the little girl was so merry at night, and teased her father with such vivacity that he lost all uneasiness, and surrendered himself to the pleasures of the slavery to which his learned offspring had reduced him. During the day he would often explode in iaughtet as he went on with his work, and when he was ques tioned, he was eager—ouly too eager his chums said—to furnish some witidsm of his daughter’s. No one could seo the poiut of the joke except himself, but that showed how deep the girl was, he thought. Jim’s intense pride indirectly tended to spur Totty on, and tho child would have cried grievously had sho been kept away one day from her adored teacher and the gay school-room. Buck continuous effort could not so go on without causing some change in little Totty’s appearance, and Jim at length grasped the fact that she was grownfn’ tluu. “Can’t make the kid out Her temper ain’t wot it used to he, and there's sommat up with her face.” This was Jim’s comment one Sunday, when his slow mind had greater scope than usual for sustained thought Poor soul, he did not see that his daughter was being quietly worried Into weakness. Sho was never punished even by a rough word; she loved the ground her teacher walked on; yet that kind, sweet-tempered, wearied teacher was inflicting hurt on the tiny folks who regarded their mistress as a be ing to he worshiped. In the night Totty never talked, or in- dulgcd in that habit of sloep-walking which is believed in certain quarters to re sult from over-pressure. But she dreamed much, and often told her mother odd things at breakfast time. Sometimes dur ing the day she felt listless fora miuuto or two, but sue soon brightened up at an en couraging word, nnd distinguished her self iu class as much as ever. Jim Ellison was thrown out of work just two mouths before Totty had to meet the government inspector. Like most laborers of his class, be nod saved hut little, and his money soon went. He half-starved himself to leave sufficient food for the child, and for a week after he gave up his tobacco he made a pretence of smoking every evening, so that Totty might think he was comfortable. It almost broke his heart when at last he had to spy: “Oh! my jewel, my little Tots, there aint no little school-mlstress. “No „ Jr you were dull, my poor little pet Come with me." Then the school-keeper was sent out for some bread and milk, and Totty was fed. She would not finish her small loaf, and asked timidly, “Please might I take this bit home for father?" “Why. dear, yes; and I’ll get you more.” “Then will you mind it for me, teacher? I might be hungry and eat it before we go noma if I put it iu my pocket. ” The plucky little girl passed her stand nrd very creditably, and received a pleas ant noa from the inspector—which atten tion overwhelmed her with pride. But after the excitement of tho examination she seemed to be less brisk, and one morn ing she was found to he absent—a thing which bad never happened since the days when she told her father about Noah’s visit to the park. Tho schoolmistress called in the evening of the day when Totty first missed the red mark; but Mra Ellison said: “Don’t come in, ma’am; better not come near. God help us aU! Doctor says as how she might a-got through if her strength wasn’t so low. ” Three days afterward Jim Ellison went to the school; he was dirty and drooping in appearance; be said hoarsely: “Take her name off, ma’am; we won’t see her no more, an’ you was very good to her. Sho says, says she, T want to be up early an’ answer my name, an* teacher idssea me,' she says, an’I must answer my name, she kep’ on a-sayin. And then she says: Bring my teacher here, ond seo how nice Ido my new ‘sum;’ and—Oh! damn— God forgive me, ma’am. There’s some thin’ bin’ an’ broken inside o’ me like," an Jim slouched out into the street. So that was the last of little Totty. Her father talks about her still, and ai tells her story of Noah and Moses os ofira as he can get any one to listen to him. Only about ono in 100,000 of our children dto from over-pressure, but the one is very precious to somebody. • An Eeeentrlo Englishman's Freak. [London Cor. San Francisco Chronicle.] Riding on the top of an omnibus down Oxford street one can hardly fail to notice a curious object on the top of a veiy hand some residence some few hundred yards to the right after passing the Marble arch. As seen from the road it appears to be i framework of glass, some twelve feet long by six feet broad and four feet high. Through the gloss can plainly be seen i large oolong box, painted black, which looks for all the world like a coffin. This house, although under ordinary clrcum stances it would bring an enormous ren tal, being situated in one of the mort fashionable parts of London, bos been utt- tenanted for fully twenty years past. The story goes, andl have heard it from at least half a dozen omnibus driver j who daily pass the house, that the last tenant, who was also the owner of the property, was an eccentric and very wealthy old gentleman, who had served for many years under government in India. When he died he left a provision in his will that his body should not be buried, but should be placed in a coffin insldo the structure I have referred to, which he had built some years previously, and almost everybody believes to this day that the old gentleman’s bones and what ever flesh may be left upon them nre actually at the present moment lying in thisstrango receptacle. I have made inquiries of the agents of the property and they laugh the idea to scorn that tho old fellow Is really upon top of tho house, but at the same time they acknowledge that tho curious struc ture, whatever it may contain, will never be removed, and they add that although the house has been offered for years post at a greatly reduced rental, nobody could he induced to tako it whilst the glass box and its contents remain in their present condition. S&KSA3, grub for tbit moraiu’, an’ I'll go on my bleared knoct to you, I will, my dear, for bringin’ of you to tbit. No grubnnd hardly anythin’ to tell, but I’ll go an' bold bones, I wtU, my gell; 1 ain't got no Sun day clotbea now, and my tbop togs won t fetch nothin’. * “Don't you cry, my boy, 1 bad a good tea yetterday. There now, lie good, and lead me over. ” Sho was too big to bo co .tied now. At the dton«r- bour Totty stayed on tho reboot premises and lotto red about; next day ahe did the tame; and tbc third day alto. Jim man aged to terspe a few pence, and a loaf served the father and mother and Totty a long while. The schoolmistress talked pilvately with an assistant Just about thla tima. I won der what ails that dear little Totty Ellltonf She seems heavy and dull, ahe amliea when you speak, but It la not itko her old smile. "Very likely she'a growing teo fast She ■eema to be getting thin.’ “How de lighted the Inspector will be with her work! Why, rbelievel could pare her in Standard uL with six months They tell mo Mbs Burns baa tomo 7-ycar olds ready far Standard III 1 don’t see why wo shouldn't do as well. • Toitv was out to the cold playground thinking more •bout bread and milk and potatoes than about standards, while this talk was going on. She was much pinched, and she would have liked to pick ups blto! orange peel to eat If other children bad not been looking. The child's school fees were three weeks to nrrear, and the mistress was obliged to question her. Totty did te^sa. rttr The Chinese Huslcal System. [Exchange.] In the reign of Emperor Hoang-ti, who ruled over China in the twenty-seventh century before Christ, the scholar Lyng lun was commissioned to complete tin musical system which had been discovered 250 years earlier, and particularly to lay down fixed rules for making musical in struments. Naturally he had to com mcnce with the bamboo, which had al ready been long used to give the note for other instruments, He therefore betook himself to tho province of Siyung, in northwestern Chino, where, on the north ern slope of a range of high mountains, a species of bamboo grew, which, on ac count of its uniformity and its structure, being neither too hard nor too soft, was ex ceedingly suitable for a wind instrument. He cut one down and tried it. Tradi tion says that it gave tho same note os his own voice when he was excited by no emotion; and the rippling of the sources of tho great Hoang ho, or Yellow river, which were In tho vicinity, followed in the samo tone. At the same time the fabulous bird Fung-IIiang, accompanied by his mate, flew to the place. Both perched themselves upon a neighboring branch and commenced a song, in the course of which each of the birds gave six separate notes. These are tho notes which are called six male and six female tones in the scale discovered by Lyng-lun, and which correspond to the ancient doctrine of tho mile and female principles in nature, Asa matter of course, the deep est of the mule notes was the one already discovered by the philosopher himself. He now endeavored to reproduce the other notes with the help of bamboo pipes, and succeeded. “Tells The Onion Ilabtt. [Clara Belle.] I am compelled to inform Dora, of Cin< dnnttU, that I ftn aware of no cure for the onion habit in girls. The disease is a truly horrible one—infinitely worse, I think, than the appetite for rum, tobacco or opium. Happily it is rare. Its ravages are mostly in rural districts; and lyet 1 have known some awful instances here in New York. Its effects are deplorable. The sufferer becomes evidently an outcast from society, and dies husbandlesH and un loved. Beware of the onion, Dora, the awful onion! OU on the Water*. [Chicago Herald.] Captain Chetwynd. of the British navy, who has been pouring oilou troubled waters, concludes that although it may be •f great use to ships in an open sea. ft is of no practical advantage to lifeboats hav ipg to pass through large breakers. French lie porter*. The French repot ters are Irving tc catch the spirit of their American co- workere to the matter of Interviewing anc writing about dUlingtiUkcd visitors. Since the development of tree culcun the forests of Europe have increased from one-sixth to ^toe-fifth of the entire terri toiy. One oounty in Australia bit. this jcai paid the bounty os 25,840 dozen of cap tured sperrows'eggs. ymaM T^: Tb^y^ou where the i t=-*r-v THE PEOPLE’S Ratified by the People! Jas. Fricker & Bro. •RS IN PIANOS AND DEALERS IN THE PARTY OF ECO.YOHYi REFORM. WE BE-JPECT THE RIGHTS OF THE POOR. WE MAKE THE RICH RICHER. GOOD WILL TO ALL. PROTECTION VB. OVERCHARGE. NO DISTINCTION IN SEX, NATION ALITY OR COLOR. ONE LOW PRICE TO ALL. WIDE AWAKE AND BOUND TO WIN. REFORM Whereas, Many citizens of this community have heretofore subjected themselves to unnec essary expense and burdensome overcharges in the purchase of goods; Therefore be it Resolved, That the interests of the people demand the for mation of a new party which shall concentrate its patronage on one close-dealing candidate, and thus combining with cor rect principles, make still small er profits practical and result in the greatest good for all. To this end weannounce our self as the Barlow Block, - - Americus, G a We desire to call the attention of the publio to the foot that we have at last got settled in our new store on the PUBLIO SQUARE and have on hand a large and handsome stock of every thing in our line. Our stook consists partly of Watches, Clocks and Jewelry, of All Kinds! SOLID SILVER AND PLATED WARE, TABLE AND POCKET CUTLERY, GOLD PENS, PENCILS AND TOOTHPICKS. WALKING CANES. OPERA GLASSES, GOLD AND ANDBILVER THIMBLES, ETC. 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If we cannot do as well or better for yon than you can do for yourselves we do not ask vour patronage. The fact that we have soldPianosand Organs to dozeni of the best business men in Americas shows plainly that we aell aa low na any one, and when yon buy from us you have uo freight to pay tod save the tronbleof nnboxing the instrument, as we place it in your home and give you a FIVE YEAR'S guarantee. Wo also havo on hand a large stook of small Musical In struments, consisting of Violins, Guitars, Banjos, Tambourines, Aocordeona and* Harmonica*, and also keep Strings of the very best quality, Violin Bows, Tail pieces, Bridges, Rosin and all kind of Mnsical Instrument Trimmings. The Office of the Southern Express Company is in onr store and their Agent, Mr. S. G. COOPER is in our employ ns Book-keepet and Saleaman and will be glad to setve all who are needing anything in oar line. CALL AND SEE US IN OUR NEW STORE! JAS. 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