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TOWN DIRECTORY.
Mayor—Thomas G. Barnett.
CoMMismoNKKS—W,W\ Tnrnipseed, D. B.
Bivins, E tt. Hnrris, F>. U. James.
C't.RRK—R. Q. Harris.
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L. H. Moore, Deputy.
JUDICIARY.
A. M. Spkkr,- - - - * Judge.
F. D. Dishukf, - - Solicitor Genera!.
Butts—Second (Mondays in March and
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July.
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and August.
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CHURCH DIRECTORY
Mkthodist KeiacopAi. Chorch, (Sooth,)
Rev. Wesley F. Smith, Pastor Fourth
Sabbath in each month. Sunday-school 3
p. it. Prayer meeting Wednesday evening
Christian Church, W.S. Fears, Pastor.
Heoond Sabbath in each month.
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DOCTORS
DR. J. C.TDRNIPSRED will attend to
all calls day or night. Office i resi
dence, Hampton, Ga.
"IVR. W. H PKKBLRS treats all dis
*' eases, and will attend to all calls day
and night. Office at the Drug Store,
Broad Street, Hampton, Ga.
FEK BILL.
visit, in day, St.
K ich visit, in night, $2.
M ileage, in day, 50c.
Mileage, in nieht, SL.
Prescription, sl. ~
Obstetrics, from $lO to SIOO.
Consultation, $lO.
BR. D. F. KNOTT having permanently
located in Hampton, offers his profes
sional service* to the citizens of Hampton
and vicinity. All orders left at Mclntosh’s
store will receive prompt attention. sp26
DR. N.’ Tc BARNiffTT tenders his profes
sional services to the citizens of Henry
aud adjoining counties, and will answer calls
day or night. Treats all diseases, of what
ever nature. Office at Nipper’s Drug Stole,
Hampton, Ga. Night calls can be made at
my residence, opposite Berea church. apr26
JF. PONDER, Dentist, has located in
• Hampton. Ga.,and invites the public to
cull at his room, upstairs is the Bivins
ll(fuse, where he will be fbuno at all hours.
Warrants all work for twelve months.
LAWYERS.
CW. HODNE'IT, Attorney aod Coun
• seller at Law, Jonesboro, Ga. Prompt
attention given to all bnsiness.
TC. NOLAN, Attorney at Daw. Mc
• Donough, Georgia: Will practice in
the counties composing the Flint Circuit ;
the Snpteme Court of Georgia, and the
Doited States District Court.
WM. T. DICKEN, Attorney at Law, Me
Donciugb* Ga. Will practice in the
counties cotappaing the Flint Judicial Cir
cuit the Supreme Court of Georgia, and the
United; State* Dfctrict Court. (Office up
•tain ottr W. C- Sloan’*) : > apr27-ly
6RO. M. NOLAN, AttornrV at Law.
McDonough,Oa. (Office in Court bouse )
Will practice in Henry and adjoining coon
ties, and in .the Supreme and District Courts
of Georgia. Prompt attention given to col
tartlbna. \-7~ I < moh2B-5m
J F. WALL, Attorney at Law, Warap
. tbo,4}a Will practice in the counties
composing the Fliot Judicial Circuit, and
the Supreme and District Courts of Georgia.
Prompt attention given to collections. ocs
EDWARD J. REAGAN. Attorney* V
law. Office np stairs in the Mclntosh
building.- Baniptos, Ga. Special attention
given to oommerctat and othef collections.
BF. McCOLLUM, Attorney and Coun
• asHor at Law, Hampton, Ga. Will
practice in Hehry, Clayton, Fayette, Coweta.
Pike, Meriwether, Spalding and Butts Snpe
rior Courts, and in tbe Supreme and United
States Courts. Collecting claims a specialty.
THE LOOM OF LIFE.
“1 stood within a spacious room.
Where many busy weavers were,
And each one plied a lofty loom,
With ceaseless and with noisy stir,—
The warp and rollers, spools and reels,
It was a mazy scene to view,
While slow revolved the groaning wheels,
And fast the clashing shuttles flew.
I sat within.a sliest room,
While evening shadows deepened ronnd,
And thought that life is like a loom.
With many colored tissues wound—
Our souls a warp, and thought a thread
1 bat, since oor being first began,
Backward and forth has ever sped,
Shot by the bnsy weaver—man.”
Stacy's Gal.
The Colonel, I think, was the first person
to propose to her. He did it in the orato
rical style for which he was noted in the
camp, and was promptly refused, much to
his own and the boys’ astonishment. 1 be
lieve the Judge was the next, but as ho bad
fortified his courage with n
whisky his brea?hitoe‘» stronff
his words thiclftibough tolnsure spetfdy re
jection. He w,jß considerably mortified at
it, aod was- never able to explain the cause
of his defeat, but when a Mexican woman
drifted into the camp shortly afterwards and
engaged in washing (or the men, the Judge
tried I!8 hand again <fnd was accepted. It
took him a month to get loose from the
bonds, and he swore lie would "never give
any darmd female critter a chaoce to hook
him again,” id he carefully avoided all In
dian squaws*and homely senorita 9 who occa
sionally passed through Mineral City. Af
ter the Judge a dozen or more of the boys
i flered their bauds and fortunes to “Stacy’s
gal,” and fared in precisely the same man
ner, while old Stacy himself chuckled and
“bet on his gal every trip," as be afterwards
explained.
Sfce bad come into camp a week or two
prcvlmnrty; to the great surprise
body, including her father. Old Stacy, a
good many years before, some eight or ten,
bad lost his wife, and so great was bis grief
that he could not be induced to remain lon
ger in the place she had made a little heaven
for him. So be placed bis daughter—his
only child—in the fashionable femile semi
nary ol the State, provided her with every
thing that was necessary for her com'ort or
happiness, and then struck out for the San
Juan silver mines to forget his recent loss
among the excitements and privations of the
frontier. Stacy was one of -the fortunate few
out of the unlucky many that enter a
mining country, and in n few years he was
possessed of properties yielding him an ex
cellent income from tbeir bard, white quartz.
He regularly corresponded with his daugb
ter and kept her supplied with pocket mon
ey far in excess of her needs or requirements,
but he never went back on a visit, and when
that young lady was duly graduated with
high honors she determined to seek out her
long absent paternal progenitor. With an
independence and courage, the wonderment
of the boys, she traveled across the plains,
took passage on the stages, and finally rode
into Mineral City on horse back, ihe first
white woman in camp and the object of the
shy adoration of the men.
It was some time before the boys could
stand their ground and faee her, instead of
scampering away at her approach, as had
hitherto beqn case; but the W estern
miner is not long in getting axigiMtomed tp
strange things, and it was not over ten days
after her arrival that the Colonel immolated
himself on the altar of bis affections. En
couraged by his example and nnterrified by
bis unceremonious defeat, the boys, one
after another, tried their luck, though, as I
have before mentioned, with no better suc
cess.
Stacy was a partner of mine in the Ajax
mine, in which there were three of as inter
estrd, and as we were doing considerable de
velopment on the vein, I was ef necessity
much in his company, and consequently in
that of h» daughter. She was a very pretty
girl, with dainty, delicate ways, far more be
fitting a bouse on Walnut street than a rough
mining camp; but she loved her father with
an earnest, clinging affection that would not
listen to her leaving him, and so she contin
ued to reign Queen of Miberal City all
through the summer jf 1876.
I don’t know when it was that I was uo
duly attracted towards Nellie. I think if
was when she asked roe to call her thereafter
by that name. She made the request so ia»
ooceotly.so sweetly, so tenderly, alleging
that as I was her father's partner, a gentle
man by birth and education, and such a
kind friend to her, it woold be ever so much
nicer for me to say Nellie, instead of Mis
H-AMPTON, GEORGIA, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 13, 1880.
very nearly adding other words to the name
that oor short acquaintance would not jus
tify. After that I spent most of my even
ings with Nellie, and sometimes of an after
noon we took delicious little rambles togeth
er on the mountain sides and Into the heavy
timber lining the valley, or canyon, of the
Uncompahgre. One evening, as we were
returning home, we stopped to rest oa* the
rock-crested summit of Mineral Point. A
few hundred fret below us lay the little min
ing camp, its log cabins looking donbfy pie
ture-que in the gathering gloaming. Tbe
blue smoke was curling from a dozen chim
neys as the min prepared their evening
meals ; and here and there, over the trails, a
blue-shirled miner, with pick and drill across
his shoulder, came striding home. The son
sinking behind the Wasatch mountains, one
hundred and sixty-five miles distant, cast
great long shadows across the snrronnding
peaks, and veiled tbe ravines and gulches in
deepening darkness.
Nellie sat on the croppings of a vein of
quartz and I lay stretched out at her feet,
wstcbing her pretty, tender eyes as they wan
dered about the horizon, drinking in the
beauty aod grandenr of the scene. She had
some light, fleecy arangement—a nuHfa, 1
believe it is called—wrapped loosely abouT
her bead and (bonHers, and her bair, in
whose meshes the sunbeams seemed to have
caught, peeped from beneath, helping tb
frame a face stamped with innocence and pu
rity. Young people always get sentimental
in tbe evening, when surrounded by quiet,
and 1 was no exception to tbe rule, and al
most before I knew it I was toying with the
little hand, so white and soft,lying careless
ly On the flinty quartz
‘ Nellie,” I said after a few moments,
“don’t you never long to leave this rough
place and go back to the East ?”
“Not now,” she said slowly, “though I
might under some circumstances.”
‘•Why not now?”
“Oh, because—ibecause —l don’t want to
leave papa.”
“L* that the real reason ?” I asked, hgr
shyness and evideot avoidance of my eyes
giving me hopes that set my heart beating
with qnicker pulsations.
‘ Let us go down,” she said quickly as she
arose.
"No, not until 'yon onswer mV and I
caught again the little hand.
She drew it from my grasp, and, with a
saucy “Come,” started down tbe trail and I
hastened to follow. 1 made several attempts
to renew the conversation on the way, but
Nellie always turned it off from the subject
nearest my heart; and yet when I left her
at her father's door she shyly extended her
hand, and I thought I deteeied a soft pres
sure ns I took it mine. A moment and she
had vanished, and I noticed a rosy flush on
her pretty cheeks and an unusual light in her
tender eyes. I went back to my little cab
in with a strange admixture of certainty
and doubt in my feelings, and a quickening
of my putaes that made me oblivious to my
rough surroundings.
After supper I lit my pipe and sat open
my roughly-hewn door step. The sun had
gone down, but yet there was light enough
for me to see ber cabin and notice her faiber
standing in the doorway chatting with Min
eral Bob, the best prospector in the camp
and the third owner with Stacy and myself
in the Ajax. I turned my head and saw tbe
lights in the sbaft-bonse of the Big Giant
mine on R"d Mountain gleaming away In
the distance < 1 heard the clanging blows of
the blacksmith at bis iorge as be sharpened
the tools for the morning’s work, and the
deep boom of tbe blast in tbe Little Emily
mine came floating through tbe still night
air. Then my eyes wandered back to the
cabin which held Nellie. Bob was still
there, bis tall figure and broad shoulders
contrasting greatly with tbe little old man
in tbe doorway. What was he doing there
so long, I thought, and I puff -d my pipe
vicioasly as I saw Nellie a moment later
join the two. Tbe night Killed down, and
tbe cabins faded from view, tbeir presence
poly revealed by tbe lights shin hag through
the little square windows or the sparks
streaming out of tbe stone and mod chim
neys. It was getting cool, too, aod I knocked
tbe aabes out of my pipe and re-catered my
little borne and stirred op tbe smouldering
ember* on tbe hearth. An boor went by
and tbe moon sent its beams across my table,
with its tin plates aod cops i across my
earthen aod rocky floor, touching lightly my
books oo a sbclf at tbe bead of my bed sod
Msting softly on the rolled-up coat that
serred me for a pillow. I turned oo my
•tool god glanced out of tbe window. Tbe
tops of tbe surrounding timber were silvered
by tbe moonlight, sod tbe cabins stood out
against tbe dark background of the tall
spruces. The sound of stagiog came up
from tbe saloon and the wind sighed fitfully.
reverie, and Nellie was the centre about
Which all my thoughts revolved. Presently
there was a knocking at my door, and at my
invitation Mineral Bob entered.
“Hello! Philadelphia,’' he said, “I kinder
thought yoo wasn’t hi ”
“Why?" I asked, rather sorry of the In
terruption, though Bob was good company,
and no one could look into bis merry blue
eyes and pleasant lace, covered all over with
a luxuriant, rich brown beard, withoot feel
log better anS less out of spirits.
“Oh, I sort of calculated you'd be some
where around tbe girl. How's yonr chances,
partner ? Good, eh !”
"Come, come, Bob, stop yoor non
sense. Here, fill yonr pipe and sit down.’’
Bob laughed good-humoredly, and, pulling
op a stool, sat down near the fire, and as be
filled his pipe said :
, "I’ve dropped In on a little business—
about the Suoshine, you know," alluding to
a mine of bis, and one of the best in the
camp. "Too know I’m obliged to sink—■
ain’t got r.o chance to tunnel, and the derned
sorlace water is getting the best of me.
Must have a pump, if I want to do anything
—this bailing water out by tbe bucketful
when she’s coming in near as fast is of no
account. Yon know that?"
I nodded assent
“Well, then, Philadelphia.” as be lighted
his pipe and gave two or three vigorous
puffa, “I want to see what kind of a dicker
I can make with you abbut running tbe
m'me I ain’t got the money to get an engine
and pnmp, though I guess I could borrow it.
And besides I’ve got to go East on business
inside of a week, and I don't want to leave
the Sunshine idle—l can’t affotd It.”
"Why don’j you sell Ler to old Stacy ?”
I siid. “He’s got some ready cash ”
“Bat he’s going out shortly aod wr.sU to
sell bis own mines.”
“Going out—Stacy ?” I demanded, won
dering why Nellie had never ai hided to it
“ Yes, going to take that gal of hie back
to the .States, This ain’t no fit place for a
pretty thing like she is, you know,”
Itcllie going to leave camp f By Jove,
that wouldn’t do. No, If she left, I would,
too. I shouldn’t lose ber, now that I had
all but won ber, so I said :
‘1 tell yon, Bob, I don’t know that I shall
fit&f much longer ntyself. Perhaps yon
would like to male me an offer for my inter
est io the Ajax and let rpe atteed to your
business in the Flast, if I can ; I would be
very glad to.”
“No; much obliged, partner ; bat no one
cat* do what I'm going ont for, except my
self.. game time, I might be able to handle
my own property better if I had the Ajax,
too, seeing as how the two claims join each
other on the same vein. I wonder if old
Stacy would sell oat cheap enough ?”
■jph, I guess bo,” I said; “especially if he
is at all anxious to get away. I’ll speak to
bins for yon ”
“He said tbe other day," continoed Bob,
as though he were carefully weighing the
proposition, “that he’d sell to me on time if
1 could get a good man to go my security.”
"Would he take me, do you think ?"
“Take you ? A. great sight sooner than
any Rian in cauip.”
“Well, then, Bob, yon give me a mortgage
on tbe mine, and if bis figures are not too
high,- I’U Indorse four note and turn you
over my interest besides. Tbe mine is solid
yet, I guess, though I haven't been to it for
a week."
"That’s tbe gal's fanlt," grinned Bob;
“hat if sbe wasn't good I wouldn’t want to
buy. I believe I’ll go down and see the old
man—it wouldn’t take long and Bob but
toned op his coat and started ont.
Haff an boor later Bob returned with the
necessary papers, by which Stacy conveyed
his third interest in tbe Ajax mine to hiss
for eight thousand dollars, payable within
thirty days. I indorsed Bob’s note for the
amount, be assuring me that if the mine con
tinned to pay as h bad in tbe past, he conld
easily take it up when doe ; besides which,
I reasoned to myself that I would soon be
Stacy's son-in-law, and, in case of Bob’s
failure to meet tbe note, the old mun would
not be hard on me. I also transferred my
third interest to Bob for a like amount, and
secured myself for both sum* by a mortgage
oo tbe property, aod to I went to bed that
night and dreamed of tbe little wife I toon
expected to hare.
I saw Nellie the next day. and though she
smiled sweetly vgi blushed most prettily l
wasn’t satisfied, as. owing ta her getting
things In readiness lor the trip next morning,
ibere was no opportunity for a quiet little
conversation. I told Stacy I was going out,
and he laughed and said Nellie bad spoken
of ft and be "didn't know but what it was a
good scheme for hia gal, ’cause it could
hardly be expected that me and Bob would
those I didn't care to take with me, I dis
tributed among »be hoy*. They all knew
what I was going ont for, and good-natured
witticisms were freely indulged in at my ex
pense. But 1 liked it. and rather enjoyed
my triethph over the Coloqel aod tbe Judge
and the others who bad tried to win tbe
little treasnre that 1 bad carried off, but bad
miserably failed.
I sat in mv cabin that evening—the lest I
should ever spend in Mineral City—and
somehow 1 got terribly ' blue and out of
spirits. It felt like parting with old friends
Every tree and every rock seemed to have a
hold on my affections. and the rough logs of
my little bom' bad a warm place In my
heart. I couldn’t shake off my lew spirits,
and so I went down to see my little ooe, and
from her sweet face and pretty eyes drew
the consolation I feK I needed. I found her
looking tired from her arranging and pack
ing efforts, bat she seemed most glad to see
me, and we sat on the doorstep and were
soon chatting in a warm, confidential way.
As I was about to go I took ber little hand
io my big palm and said :
"Are you really glad that I am going out
with you ?”
"Yoo know I am," she aaid. earnestly, her
eyes dropping and her soft little fingers in
voluntarily pressing mine, and somehow be
fore T billy realised what I was doing I had
leaned forward and pressed a hot, passionate
kiss on ber pretty lips, and with A little ex
clamation expressive of surpriK, not of
■be turned and vanished. I was a happy
fellow that night.
Our trip was begun the next morning,
and in due conrse of time we all of ns came
to a halt in > T -w York. What a delicious
time I bad it, and how consid
erate Biui f I Bob were. They never
item le<t their pi tie. •*, out let me have
Nfllie to myself, ns though they bad no
connection wbsterer with us. I folt grate
ful to them and meditated often upon what
I could do to show ray appreciation of their
thoughtfulness and good feeling. Nellie
was a little paradox, however—an enigma 1
couldn't solve. I bad proposed to her a
half dozen times on our way East, bat
though sbe plainly showed that ber heart
was mine and permitted me to squeeze ber
hand, whisper soft nothings and kiss
her good night when she retired, she
would give oo answer to my plead
ings, but kept me off with a coquetry in
itself most attractive. And I seemed to be
no nearer than when we left tbe old mining
camp, and I got irritable and oot of
sorts, and one day Nellie suggested that
I bad better run oo and see my family and
get sweetened up a little, and I savagely
replied that I would, and I should not re
turn nntil she snt for me. etc. She smiled
sweetly, and looked tenderly out of her pretty
eyes,and I took tbe train for Philadelphia,
in a terrible temper, and yet feeling sure
that I would be back again within forty
eight hours—and I was. I asked the clerk
to send up my card, and he aaid it would be
useless, as the lady, with ber father and tbe
other gentleman, bad left tbe night before,
for tbe South, he thought. They bad left
a letter for me, however, and—l matched
the letter, and tore it open. There were
several enclosures, reading as follows :
“Tbubsdat.
Mt Dear Charley: You most pardoo
my flirtation with yoo of tbe past few weeks,
but it waa tbe last that I shoo'd ever have,
and you are the dearest of fellows to finish
upon, I dare say you will feel a little
vexed,but youll got over it. Charter, aod
when Bob and myself get settled dowo to
housekeeping—wbloh I trust will be a long
time yet—you moat come aod see us aod be
a good friend to yoor penitent
u , N toxin.”
Tbe next was >
“Dzas Philadelphia— „ You’ve toad a
good time with my intended wife, and I
haven’t interfered ; yoo indorsed my note
for SB,OOO, aod I won’t cheat you ont of it.
I trotted you, aci you came to “time
you treated me, aod here lam smiling. I
inclose with Ibis my note that you indorsed,
and deeds conveying to you the whole ol
th* Ajax- She’s pinched, Philadelphia,
sod ain’t worth a cure. Yoo saAe now the
business that culled me East, eh? Ta. ta.
Mineral Bos.”
I have never sees, them «no*; don’t want
te. <
—- -«*«, AtgS 1 ■
Walter T. Coiajuitt. the father of Qov.
Colquitt, of Georgia, aod James Roquemore
were famous preachers in this State in for
mer days, and this auwy is tuld of ao encoon
ter wbicb they once bad* Mr. Colquitt,
while oo hia way to church ooe Sunday, stop
pedal a peach orchard, by pareussioo of the
owner, and ate some of tbe fruit. Mr. Ro
quemore, riding by oa hia way to tbe meet
ing, called out; "Merer mind, Colquitt, i’ll
bear witness in beaveo against you for steal
teg those peaches.’*' “Hold oo,” said Col
quitt, drawing a blank book and pencil from
bin pnoiret: ‘ let nn- Like vouc interrogate -
Beautiful Venice.
Another favorite place of resort is tbs
Giardino B ale, a little garden of tbe Grand
Canal, where a small orchestra of stringed
instruments play dance music and operatic
airs every evening. There was a fair during
our stay for the benefit of a certaio orphan
asylum, and this garden was very prettily
decorated with different colored banners,
while the booths nnder the trees were bril
liantly ITtoininated and bang with white, red
and green flags. Two bands alternated with
each other in playing for several heart, and
every one who did oot enter tbe garden took
a gondola and floated on the eanal listening
to tbe music. There is nnlhir.g ao luxuri
ous as the cushions of a gondola, and tooth
ing so delightful as its motion. There ia
such a softening, quiet ing influence about
this mode of navigation that every ooe speaiM
in a half whisper—
And half asleep they aeetn, tho* all awake, f
And music io tbeir ears tbeir hearts
do make.
The loveliest part of Veniee !* where tbu
Grand Canal broadens ont towards the la
goons Here i« the beautiful Cburcb of San
ta Marla della Smite, built in accordance
with a row to tbe Virgin, who was soppossd
to have caused tbe Inroads of the plague to
cease ; the neighboring Cbnrcb of San Gior*
(io Maggloro, with a graceful, slender cam
panile at its side: oo the opposite side of*
tbe oaoal is the ducal palace, aod a glimpse
into the piazzi beyond; tbe wider watery
the sailiog ships lying at anchor, aod tbu
steamers that ply between Venice, Trieste
and Alexandria | here and there a black si
lent gondola moving noiselessly about with
a single light io tbe prow ; all along tbe
shore rows of gas tamps, and everywhere so
many lights that it seems as I? tbe city were
in a perpetual state of festal illumination.
Bush is the aspect of Venice oo o summer
night. When yon have left all this, whet
end- r that you find yourself repeating:
C , .i it. ...-teed, hare beau other Burn*
dreu > 7 —Worcester Spy.
Charity For The Fallen.
Never say anything damaging to the good
name of a woman, it matters not how poor
she may be or what her place in society.
They have a hard enough time at best, and
God help the man who would give them a
kick down the hill. We are all too free
with their names—we talk too much about
them on our street corner club* and io pub
lic places. We do very wrong. Tbe least
little hint that there ia something wrong,
that “she ain’t all right,” whether spoken in
jest or in earnest, is takeo np and unlike the
rolling stone gathers moss as it goes from
eorner to corner, and at last comes home to
the persecuted creatures with crushing
weight. Sbe has done nothing bnt kept
quiet while her idle persecutors have pursu
ed her and now site is kicked from door to
door, and ia fallen so low that none will do
ber reverence. Give a dog a bad name
and you had aa well kill him—talk
about a good woman In street corner cfabf
and aernas bar-room counters and you had
aa well set her down at onoe as a social
wreck. No one want* to help ber.
don’t want so much theoretical religion, we
want a kind of blae jeans aod homes poo
pity that will do for tbe waabtob and the
kitchen aa well an the drawing room aod the
parlor.
Yotmo Mr I/we berry fell alaeep In (be
barber's chair last evening. Whsn the m
sor na-tn finished his wotk and shook op bio
customer be remarked, sympathetically and
respectfully : •‘Tired, Mr. Loveberry t*
“Tired, shir, tired T replied the young gen
tleman with dignity. “No. shit; cao.’t you
shee Vm drunk, you (hie) ijit V
“Thcsk sre men," toyn Mr. who
sing like angels no Sunday and lie like sin
on Monday.” Newspaper men never sing
like angels, and if Mr. Talmago alluded tp
lawyers, why did k» cot come oat like a
man and say ao I
-Tbs very soil of Prance,” saya a leeewl
writer -spronts Immorality.* Bdt Prance to
not peculiar in this regard. You can Gh&
loose earth ia every country. ~
Warn a St. Louis girl soctwa ft is a
sign of damp weather or rain across the
< river—in about two daya, when the spcajt
cornea down. »
; “Gag love die ? inqnirea a young la#
in a recently published poem. It cannot,,
but it gets dreadfully adjourned oceaA
aiooaUy.
LioiiTiriNa chased & book agaot oarr ball
the State the other day, trying to get a lick
at him, bat failed Thus is justice again de
feated.
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