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TOWN DIRECTORY.
Mayor—Thomus (4. Barnett. %
Commissioners—VV. W. I’nrnipseed, J. S.
Wyatt, E. G. Harris, E. R. James.
Clerk—E. <l. Harris.
Treasurer— W. M. Shell.
Marshals—S. A. Belding, Marshal.
J. W. Johnson,Deputy.
JUDICIARY.
Ji. M. Speer, - Judge.
F. D. Dismi kk, - - Solicitor General.
Butts —Second Mondays in March and
September.
Henry—2'hir,' Mondays in April and Oc
tober.
Monroe—Fourth Mondays in February,
and August.
Newton—Thin! Mondays in March and
September.
Dike—Second Mondays in April and Octo
ber.
Rockdale Monday after fourth Mondays in
March nnd September
Spalding—First Mondays in February
and August.
Upson First Mondays in May and No
vember.
CHURCH DIRECTORY.
Methodist Episcopal, Church, (South.)
Rev. Wesley F. Smith, Pastor. Fourth
Sabbath in each month Sunday-school 3
p. x. Prayer meeting Wednesday evening.
M stmodist Protestant Church. First
Sabbath in>ucb month. Sunday-school 9
A. M.
Christian Church, W S. Fears, Pastor.
Second Sabbath in each month.
Baptist Church, Rev. J. P. Lyon, Pas
toi. Third Sabbath in each month.
CIVIC SOCIETIES.
Pink Grovk Lodge, No. J 77, F. A. M
Stated communications, lourth Saturday in
each month.
DOCTORS.
J\R. J. C. TURNIPSEED will attend to
A* all calls day or night. Office t resi
dence, Hampton, Ga.
liR. W. H PEEBLES treats all dis
-» " eases, and will attend to all calls day
and night. Office at the Drug Store,
Broad Street, Hampton, Ga.
DR. N. 'l'. BARNETT tenders his profes
sional services to thp citizens of Henry
and adjoining comities, and will answer calls
day or night. Treats all diseases, of what
ever nature. Office at Nipper’s Drug Stote,
Hampton, Ga. Night calls can be made at
my residence, opposite Berea church. »pr 26
I" F PONDER, Dentist, has located in
” • Hampton. Ga., and invites the public to
call at his room, upstairs in the Bivins
House, where he will be found at all hours.
W arrants all work for twelve months.
LAWYERS.
JNO. G. COLDWELL, Attorney at I,aw.
Brooks Station, Ga. -Will practice in
the counties composing the Coweta and Flint
River Circuits. Prompt attention given to
commercial and other collections.
r p C. NOLAN Attorney at Law, Mc-
J- • Donongh, Georgia. Will practice in
the counties composing the Flint Circuit;
the Supreme Court of Georgia, and the
Uuited States District Court.
W.M. T. DICK.EN, Attorney at Law, Lo
cust Grove, Georgia, (Henry county.)
Will practice in the counties composing the
Flint Judicial Circuit, the Supierae Court of
Georgia, and the United States District
Court. apr27-ly
GEO. M NOLAN, Attorney at Law,
.McDonough, Ga. (Office in Court house )
V\ ill practice in Henry and adjoining coun
ties, and in the Supreme and District Courts
of Georgia. Prompt attention given to col
lections. mcb23-6m
JF. WALL, Attorney at Law. //amp
. ton, Ga Will practice in the counties
composing the Flint Judicial Circuit, and
the Supreme and District Courts of Georgia.
Prompt attention given to collections. ocs
EDWARD J. REAGAN, Attorney at
law. Office on Broad Street, opposite
the Railroad depot, Hampton, Georgia.
Special attention given to commercial and
other collections, and cases in Bankruptcy.
BF. McCOLLUM, Attorney and Coun
* sellor at L.w, Hamptoo, Ga. Will
practice in Henry, Clayton, Fayette, Coweta,
P.ke, Meriwether, Spalding and Butts Snpe
rior Courts, and in the Supreme and United
States Coarts. Collecting claims a specialty.
Office uo stairs io the Mclntosh Building.
OU T OF THE GLOOM.
The day was dull ami dark and sad ;■
I sat beside my desk aijne ;
All verdure was in sombre clad ;
The birds to some retreat bad (town.
The threatening clouds hung dark and low,
And winds with angry, sullen sound,
Shook window-pane, while flakes of snow
In silence fell upon the ground.
Forbidding all things seemed to be—
No sign of cheer in all the land;
The forest moaned, and e’en the sea
Rolled angry waves against the strand.
I caught the strange contagion, too,
Ami sat in silent, sullen mood,
Debating in my mind if true
That ‘ evtry work of God is good.”
’Twas thus all gloom, when, quick as thought,
The sunlight flushed o'er land and sea;
The birds the tiee tops quickly sought,
And filltd the air with melody.
I looked nhroud—how changed the scene—
No gloom in all the landscape o’er;
A 1 nature wore a smile serene,
And waves made music on the shore.
If thus, thought I, one simple ray
. Of sunlight, sent athwart the gloom,
Can drive all sadness quite away
And make earth like a garden bloom,
What must ourfieight of rapture be
When passed is earth, and we, at home
On those celestial plains, shall see
The dazzling radiance of God’s throne
Leadville.
Leadville, the city of carbonates, is a giant
wonder. A year ago last August, it was un
old, desertid mining camp with not more
than 50 people. In 1859, as an outgrowth
of the Pike’s Peak excitement, the placer
mines of California Gulch, Stray Hotae
Gulch and lowa Gulch were discovered.
Front 1860 to 1863 sl3 000 000 were taken
lionn these mioes, and the population of tie
mining camp reached 10,000 During this
time it was one of the roughest and wildest
mining camps ever known. They mined only
for gold, and the carbonates, which have
since become so valuable, were then only
dirt and greatly in the way, getting into
their sluice boxes and making a vast amount
of trouble. They piled them up anywhere
to get them out of the way. In 1864 the
placer mines were practically abandoned,
and, ultbough since worked at intervals to
some extent, they have eaused no great ex
citement. Last year they yielded about
$70,000 in gold, and can only be worked
during tbe warm weather of the summer.
W. 11. Stephens, who was an old miner
during the gold excitement, knew that these
carbonates were there, but, like tbe other
miners, he considered them of r.o value.
About two years ago he conceived the idea
that they contained rich silver ore, and with
his partner, Mr. Wood, began prospecting
and locating the mines. But without money,
or credit, or influence, it was hard work, nnd
the developments hastened very slowly.
Everybody laughed at him, and report says
that for a long time he was unable to pay
the hands he employed to help open the
oiines. Now that he has become one of the
leading mine-owners, very wealthy, more
than a millionaire, with untold millions yet
unknown, he is naturally somewhat reticent
about recounting the history of his former
trials. Some .gne undertook to interview
him. and asked him how it was that he came
to discover such a rich mining district und
the value of these ores. His answer was as
laconic as it was non-responsive. He re
plied : ‘‘When I was hunting for it, every
body called me a d d old fool ; and now,
since I have found it, and struck it rich, they
call me a d d old hog.” Among others
he located and partly opened tbe since
famous iron mine. But it finally took
Chicago capital and Chicago enterprise to
develop Leadville, and but veiy little was
done until after Mr. L Z loiter bought out
Mr. Wood’s intciest for $40,000. From
that time new life possessed the mining
camp. Everybody seemed to think that it
so sagacious and prudent a business man as
Mr. Leiter, of Chicago, would at once invest
$40,000 in tbe mining interest, there must
be millions in it. And so it proved Mines
were rapidly located, rapidly developed and
as rapidly sold.
The Gallagher brothers, two extraordi
narily poor and illiterate Irish boys, went up
ou tbe bill, sunk down a shaft, struck min
eral, named it Camp Bird mine, and in Jan
uary, 1878. sold out for $250,000. Lieu
tenant-Governor Tabor, of Colorado, fur
nished a “grub stake” of S6O to George S.
Hook and August Ritchie, two miners who
were strictly poor, and started them off to
prospect the Dew mining district, each to
HAMPTON, GEORGIA, FRIDAY, MAY 23, 1879.
soon opened the Little Pittsburgh, striking
the mineral at the depth of twenty-six feet.
In a short lime Mr. Tabor bought out Hook's
one-third for $90,000. paying for it out of
the proceeds of the mine, without advancing
u dollar, and subsequently he bought out
Ritchie’s interest for $265,000, paying for it
in the same way.
"Chicken Bill,” a well known lad of the
mining camp, thought he would try his luck.
So he went up on the kill, just below the
Little Pittsburgh, and sunk down a shaft
twenty feet deep, but being constitutionally
opposed to work of that kind, and not strik
ing it rich in that distance, he threw it -up
and abandoned the whole thing as a humbug.
Some lii-h boys, Pat and Dick Dillon, who
had more pluck but less money than “Chicken
Bill,” pitched into the bole he had l*lt, went
down thirty feet further and developed an
immensely rich mine, named it the Little
Chief, sold out for a good round sum. invest
ed their money in United States fonr per
cpnt bonds, and live at ease on the semi
annual coupons. In August, 1877, some
twenty shanties comprised the whole town
of leadville In June, 1878, it hud a pop
ulation of only 400. In October, 1878, it
numbered 6,000, and now it has a popula
tion of 12.000 to 15,000, wiih an additional
daily floating population of from 1 000 to
3,000, and “tender heels,” or “tender feet,"
as they are called, (new comers.) flocking in
at the rate of 300 to 500 a day, and seven
days in the week, for in a business point of
view, and for traveling. Sunday is considered
just as good as any other day and no better
It is true that in Leadville there are churches
and church services, and Sunday schools,
and those who desire “rtcreation” of that
kind have it, but those wtio wish to gamble
and traffic and trade nnd work on Sunday,
do so witliout'let or hindrance.
Business is the one important thing in h
mining camp, and anything other or less
than that is looked upon as a mere pastime
or recreation. Indeed it has been but a
short time since the business houses, the
s ores, the saloons, the gamtiling hells aed
•‘feeding” places were kept open and running
bn-ily all night, never closing or shutting up
from one month's end to another. They
thought they could not do otherwise. But
now they have adopted a new order closing
regularly nights, and have settled down to
that new way with all the diguity of an older
city.
Latrnt Forces.
A Kansas mule, ot the brindle denomina
tion. was standing in a pasture field, backed
np uncomfoi tably ciose to a mild-ey d Texas
steer. The mole was not feeling in a very
good humor. He had lost his railroad ticket,
or had a note to lift, or somebody had k'cked
his dog or something. Anyhow, he was
cross, and feeling just ready to do something
mean the first chance he got. By-and-by a
careless swish of the Texan’s tale gave him
the longed-for provocation, and before the
mule got his heels back to the ground, the
I’exan thought somebody had shot him with
a double-barrelled cannon. And then the
steer slowly turned his head, and opened
wide his clear, pensive eyes, and without
swearing or catching his breath or saying a
word, he lifted one of his hind legs about
eight feet from the ground und tapped the
astonished mule with his cloven hoof, rigid
where he lived. And the mule curled up in
a knot and gasped, ‘ Oh, bleeding beirt!"
And then he leaned np against a tree to
catch his breath, and sat down on the ground
and opened his mouth to get air, and finally
he laid down and held his legs up in t!>e air
and said, in a husky whisper, that if heeou'd
only die and be over with it, be would be
glad. But he got over it a little alter a
while, and as he was limping sadly toward
the lence, tiving to think just how it hap
pened, and wondeiing just where he was hit,
be met his mother, who noticed his rueful
countenance and his painful locomotion.
“Well,” she said, “and what’s the matter
with you ?”
“Nothing,” the mule said faintly. “Oh,
nothing I have just kicked a book agent.”
“Heaven save us,” said his mother with
derisive accent, “I tbnnglit you bail more
aense.”— Burlington Ilaukeije.
“You bachelors ought to be taxed,” said
a young lady to a resolute evader of the
noose matrimonial. “I agree with yoa
ma’am,” wag the reply, “for bachelorism
certainly is a luxary.”
An exchange says a wife will hardly ever
notice whether her husband has had his hair
cut or not, bat let him go home with a
strange hair-pin in his over-coat and she’ll
see it before be reaches tbe gate.
A competent authority says you must lie
with yocr feet to the equator. Eli Perkins
and G. Alfred Townsend will please take
Little Jolintiy'’B Contribution.
Once there was a opery man with hired
fokes fer to sing. He was a goin thru the
woods and a lion came along and luked at
him, and wipped itself with its tail, and
stickid its main up, and opened its mowtli,
and roared friiefle, yu never seen seeh beller
in ! The opery man he sed : "That’s ol
rite, consider yure self engaged for the
Iff ■' mi at ynre own terms, hut I got to be
cxca«cd now, cos seventeen barry tones is
waiting for me to here theirn.” And the
opery man he walked a wav mity li f ely, I'ke
he was trade the harry tone j wud bust their-
Sfrlfs a boldin in the sing fore lie cude git
there.
One time Franky was a snekin the end of
a nx handle wicli had been sawd off, and
Uncle Ned he see him a sucking it, and lie
holleffd to me : “Run quick, Johnny, and
pull it out, it’s too late to save the ax, but
the handle will do for to rebuke Muse with,
which is the cat, und exhort Bildad, that’s
the new dog, to.lead a better life."
Another time Franky was left asleep sick
and father he went in the rume for to luke
at him, and wen lie cum out mother she ast:
'Mias he got sech a hot fever like he had?”
Then father lie sed :
"No, not quite, but guess lie will have
agin purty soon, cos he is nsin the fire poker
mity vigerously in his inside."
And wen mother she went fer to ace,
Franky was a suckin the black end, but
lickerish is the stuff for me wer. it comes to
suekm sumthing.
Once a man who lived in the woods wuh
euttin down trees, and he hud so many chit—
dieii that Ins wife cndiuit mind ’em all nt
home, so he take the baby with him a«d laid
it on a stump wile no workt. The baby was
red-heded, nnd the wood-peeked there is
red-lieded, too, and one wa ra w ttin on a
iim. Pretty soon the to eri,
ar.d wen the wood-pecker see its mou'h
open and he d it u crine it tliot to itself,
poor thing, were is ynre ole birds, you must
tie nffle hungry ; He see if 1 can do anything
for you ; and wen the mnn came up to the
baby to say, gitehy, hitchy, giteby, he see
the wood pecker drop a long red worm in
tbe buly’s mowlb and fly back to tbe lim.
Then the man pullid nut the worm and
lnokt at the wood-pecker and sed, “My
gtiod feller, if yu keep a bqrdin house here
wot is your terms ?”
Uncle Ned be says one time there was a
king wich had a court fool, and one day wen
the king was to his dinner, lie had a real
nice ptidden, and the fool he sed :
“May it please Yure Majesty, I have got
a crime on my contience, und if yule make
that wrascle, the Prime Minister, eat that
pudden, He confess.”
But the King swore a wicked oth.an l
sed :
“You got to eat it yure ownsef, you notty
pizener!”
So the fool was made eat it every little
tiny bit np, and wen it was et, he patted
hisself onto the stumack of his bully, and
sed :
“The royal suspicions was unfounded.”
Then the king sed :
“Wot was yure crime, then ?”
And the fool lie sed :
“A tieesinible ambition for to eat my
master’s pudden my ownseft.”
But you j.-et ot to see me and Billy cat a
raisn pudden !
A man wicb had been put in the pen
tenchery cos he stole a horse he got out and
run away with his stripy close on. And
one day wile he was a runnir. away he met
a zebry. So the man he luked a wile aston
ish, and then he sed :
“How long was you put in for?”
But the i.' bry it dident say enything, and
after a wile the man be sed agin :
“How did you git out?”
Then the z. bry it dideot say nothiu a
other time, so the man he said :
“I have ben tole there is a place were they
put fellers in the pfntcnchery wich steel
borseg, but here I gess they put horses in
wich are stole, and I hope it ain’t no offense
for to say 1 think that’s jest the way it ot
to be ”
One time I been was a man had a cammle,
and the cammle it was a show, and the man
wich bad it be was a ridin it to a other
town, and be met a other man wich wa9
pushn a wheel barro. Then the wheel barro
man he was a s'.onish, aid he luked up to
the feller onto the camml’s back, and he
said :
“I gess you wude be safer if you wude
put a liteniu rod onto yure horse.”
Then the cammle buck feller be sed :
“Yes, and I ge.-s you wude ride more
comftable if you put a scat in jure waggen.”
Solomon was tbe fiisi man to suggest
parting tbe heir in tbe middle. Tbe sugges
tion was made to two women in a famous
Burdette Among the Farmers.
Bob Burdette, of the Burlington Hawk
eye, paints this pretfr pastoral pictured
It is Spring, ami die annual wnrfaie be
gins. Early in the morning the jocund far
mer hies him to tbe field, and hunts around
in the dead weeds and grass for the plow he
left out there somewhere some time last fall.
When he finds it, he takes it to the shop to
have it mended. When it is mended, he
goes back into the field with it. Half way
down the first furrow, he runs the plow (ably
into a big live oak root ; the handles alter
nately break a rib on this side of him, and
jab the breath out of him on the other, and
the sturdy root, looking up out of the ground
with a pleased smile of recognition, says
cheerfully ;
“Ah, Mr. Thistlepod, at it again, eh ?”
Fifty feet farther on he strikes a stone
that doubles up the plow point like a piece
of lead, and, while the amazed and breath
less agriculturist leans, a limp heap of hu
manity, across the plow, the relic of the
glacial period remarks, sleepily :
‘‘Ah, ha ; spring here already ? Glad you
woke me up.”
And then the granger sits down and pa
tiently tries to tie on that plow point with a
hickory withe, and while he pursues this
fruitless task the friendly crow swoops down
Dear enough to ask :
“Goin’ to put this patch in corn, this year,
Mr. Thistlepod?”
And, before he has time to answer the
sable bird, a tiny grasshopper, wriggling out
of a clod so full of eggs that they can’t be
counted, shouts briskly :
“Here we are again, Mr. Thistlepod;
dinner for 580,000,000,000 1” .
And then a slow-moving, but vpry posi
tive, potato bug crawls out into tbe sunlight
to sec if the frost Ims faded his stripes, and
says :
“The old-fashioned peachblow potatoes
are the best for a sure crop, but the early
rose should be planted for the first market."
'Then several new kinds of bugs who
haven’t mole any record yet. climb over the
fence, and comp up to inquire about the
staple crops of the neighborhood, and, before
he can get through with them, Prof. Tice
sends him a circular Stating that there won’t
be a drop of rain from the middle of May
till the last of October. 'This almost stuns
him, but he is beginning to feel a little re
signed when a disputch is received from the
Department of Agriculture at Washington,
saying that all indications j oint to a summer
•of unprecedented, almost incessant and long
continued rains and floods, and advising him
to plant no root crops at all. While he is
trying to find words to express his emotion,
a neighbor drops in to tell him that all the
peach trees in the country are winter-killed,
and that the hog cholera is raging fiercely in
the northern part of the township. Then his
wife comes out to tell him the dog has fallen
into the well, and when the poor man gets to
the door-yard Ins children, with much shout
ing and excitement, meet him and tell him
there are a couple of eats, of the pole de
nomination, in the spring- house, and another
nndei the barn. With tears am) grouns he
returns to the field, but by that time it has
begun to snow so hard lie can’t see the
horses when he stands at the plow. He is
discouraged and starts for the home with his
team, when he meets a man who bounces
him for using a three-horse clevis he made
him-elf, and wrings ten relnetanl dollars out
of him for it. When he reaches the house
the drive- well man is wailing for him, and
while he is settling with him a chick-peddler
comes in, nnd a lightning-rod man, screen'd
by the storm, climbs up on the $lO smoke
house and fasten- $65 worth of lightning
rods on it, and before the poor farmer can
get his gun half loaded the .bailiff comes in
to tell him that he has been drawn on tbe
j° ry '
An Embarrassing Girt.—A Methodist
minister in Michigan is undergoing great
exercise of mind in % regard to some barrels
of beer which have come into his possession
ia a remaikable way, and which he would
like to get rid of. Some time ago he went
to Cleveland aud asked a wealthy brewer in
that city for a gilt to bis church.
brewer,after some delay, responded bv send
ing several barrels oT beer The minister
has no use for the beer. To sell it would
hardly be in accordance with the rules and
practices of the Methodist church. To give
it to tbe poor would be unprofitable, besides
tho parson says the poor have already bad
enough beer. He wishes tbe brewer would
take the ungodly stuff back aud give hint
Ibe money lor it, tiut as yet tbe brewer has
shown no disposition to do this.
S-’hok dealer—"l find we have no No. 12
ehovs. but here is a pair of large nines.”
I Customer—“ Nines 1 . Do you take me for
The rifv of Quito.
Except the plains of Central Asia,
Ecuador is the Inchest table-1 ind upon the
earth. Quito is 9 000 feet above the sea ;
placed by the side of Boston or New York,
it would seem as if lifted above the clouds.
It is 2 000 feel higher thun the hospice of
Pt. Bernard, the loftiest place in
Europe. Its flowers are beautiful, and b'oorn
all the yeur. No reptiles nor insect? disturb
it* repose ; poisonous snake* are unknown ;
even the mo-qnito never reaches these lofty
regions But fur up above the clouds, in
the midst o’ the finest climate, the rarest
skies of untarnished brilliancy, one fatal ele
ment is mingled with the scene to prove for
ever the helplessness of mini; tbe ear'liqnake
and the ever active volcanoes are the chief
features of life in Ecuador. Above Quito
rises the ceaseless smoke of its Piehincha,
down whose horrible crater, ever threatening
ruin to the nation, the Imveler looks with
never-s ited awe.* “'There,” says Orton, “yoa
see a frightful opening in the earth’3 crust
nearly a mile in width und half a mile deep,
and from the dark abyss comes rolling up a
cloud of sulphurous vapors.” Twenty vol
canoes of enormous size, presided over by
Cotopaxi and Chimborazo, encircle the val
ley of Quito, and brood like giants of
destructions over the peaceful scene. Chim
borazo is a monstrous dome, twice as high
as ./Etna, covered with a crown of perpetual
snow. Its great proportions are best seen
from the Pacific, ns the voyager sails along
the dangerous shore. Its sides are riven by
deep valleys, compared to which the Alpine
vales are shallow crevices or rifts. Around
its magnificent dome of snow, where mortal
foot has never trodden, only the wbite
wingcd condor is seen floating in the trails
parent air. Cotopaxi is an active volcano,
sending out its perpetual smoke ; at night
it seems crowned wjtli fire—a blazing torch
on high ; sometimes it breaks out into fierce
and terrible eruptions. These giant moun
tains are all so huge and tall that -Etna and
Vesuvius would wem pigmies at their side ;
they encircle the fertile plains of Ecuador as
if to hide its people in a happy vale. Its
only peril is the earthquake. One Sunday
morning in August, 1868, there was u slight
tremor of the earth, a sadden shock, and
within u single minute u whole province was
laid in ruins. Cities, towns, houses and
factories fell together. Atone town alone
6 000 persons perished Houses were thrown
into the open air; a cotton factory—solo
proof of progress—was dashed to pieces, and
its proprietor killed. Huge chasms opened
in the cultivated land ; the roads were
broken up; torrents of mud ai d water
flowed down the sides of the mountains, car
rying away mules and cattle. Quito suffered
slightly, but Otavalo was left a desert, and
the wreck of the «reat earthquake has Dever
been repaired.— Harper’s Weekly.
Gutting Laser.— When you see a train
about three hundred and twenty yards down
the track, with the rear end of the train
pointed toward the station, and you also sea
a man on the platform with a valise in one
hand and a ticket.in the other, waiving his
burdened arms furiously, and encumbering
the pure air with rude, ungrammatical, but
evidently earnest expressions, you may de
pend upon it that man and that train desire
to effect a junction, no mit'er whether you
can understand a word the man says or not.
That is, the man wants to gut to the train
pretty seriously. But the train does not
appear to care very much about getting to*
the maD. If it did it would reverse its
motion. It is this cool, stolid, haughty in
d (Terence of the train to ihe mao’s anguish
and his agonized appeals that is so madden
ing to the man. That is the gall of being
left. You wouldn’t really mind being left
so much, if the train went away from yon
rather regretfully like. If it seemed to look
back at you longingly, as you stand wildly
gesticulating and howling on the platform ;
if it seems to be tearing the fibers of its
heart to go away from you, you might en
dure it But to have it get up and dust.aS
it always does—to turn its back right
squarely in your face and go off coughing
and barking down Ihe track just as com
pletely ai d sublimely unconcerned about you
us though you had no existence—this is
what makes you rave. And this, also, is
what pleases the rest of the people on the
platform.— Dob BuriLttt.
A littlk boy in HpnngfielJ, slter his cus
tomary evening prayer a night or two ago,
continued, '*and bless mamma and Jenny
and Uucle Benny, ’ adding after a moment's
pause the explanatory remark, ‘ his name is
Hopkins. ”
Do not kiss the baby unless yon want the
diptheiia. N. B—Female babies at seven
teen not dangerous. A
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