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tional fraud.
TOWN DIRECTORY.
Mayor —Thoms j O. Barnett.
Comnissionzrs— D. B. Birins, E: R.
Judai, G. P. Birins. W. B. Pierce.
Clerk—G. P. Rivins.
Treasurer —W. a. Shell.
Marshals—S. A. Belding, Marshal.
B. H. McKneelv, Deputy.
JUDICIARY.
A. 11. Steer, - Judge.
F. D. DtsxcKß, - - Solicitor General.
Butts—Seoond Mondays in March and
Ueptemher
Henry—Third Hondays in January and
July.
Monroe—Fourth Mondays in February,
and August.
Newton—Third Monday* in March and
September.
Pike—First Mondays in April and Octo
ber.
Rockdate—Third Mondays in Febrnary and
sad Aay ast.
Spalding—First Mondays in February
and Aigust.
Upson—First Mondays in M*y and No
r ember.
CHURCH DIRECTORY.
tlinnobTST KruoorAL Church, (South.)
Rer. Wesley F. Smith, Pastor Fourth
Sabbath in each month. Sunday-school 2
r. m. Prayer meeting Wednesday evening
Mbthodtst PaorssTAST Churcii. First
Sabbath Id. each month. Sunday-school 9
A. M.
Chbisi'las CnuacH, W. S. Faars, Pastor.
Smond Sabbath in each mouth.
Birrtn Church, Rer. J. P. Lyon, Pas«
tor. Third Sabbath in each mouth.
DOCTORS
DR. J. C.TURNIPSKKD will attend to
all calla day or night. Office «t rcsi
denee, Hampton, Ua.
I\R. W. H. PEEBLES treate all dis
-1' easea, aad will attood to all calla day
and night. Office .at the Drag Store.
Broad Street, Hampton, Ga.
BR. D. F. KNOTT having permanently
located in Hamptoo, offers his profes*
•ional serricea to the citizens of Hampton
and vicinity. All ordera left at Mclntosh’p
■tore will recaiva prompt attention. sp26
TtR. N. T. BARNETT tenders his profes-
AJ sional services to the citizens of Henry
and adjoining comities, and will answer call*
day or night. Treats all diseases, of what,
ever nature. Office at Nipper’s Drug Store.
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
eall at hia room, upstairs in the Bivina
House, where be will be found -at all hours.
Warrants all work for twelve month*.
lawyers
CW. HODNKJT, Attorney and Coun
• sellor at Law, Jonesboro, Ga. Prompt
atteation given to all basines*.
GEORGE P BIYIVS. Attorney at Law.
Will practice io the State and Federal
Cearta. Collections promptly attended to.
Office op stair* in the Mclntoeb building,
//arapton, Ga. marl2'f
TC. NOLAN, Attorney at Law, Mc
• Donough, Georgia: Will practice in
the counties composing the Flint Circuit;
the Supreme Court of Georgia, and the
United State* District Court.
WM. T. DICKEN, Attorney at Law, Me
Donougb, Ga. Will practice in the
counties composing the Flint Judicial Cir
cuit, the Supreme Court of Georgia, and the
United States District Court. (Office up
■tairs over W. C. Sloan’*.) apr27-ly
GEO. M. NOLAN, Attornet at Law.
McDonough, Ga. (Office in Court bouse)
Will practice in Henry and adjoiniog conn
tics, and io the Supreme and District Coarts
of Georgia. Prompt attention given to col
lections. mcb23-6m
JF. W ALL, Attorney at Law, //amp
. ton.Ua Will practice in the counties
composing the Flint Judicial Circuit, and
the Supreme and District Courts of Georgia.
Prompt atteation given to collect ions, oefi
EDWARD J. REAGAN, Attorney at
law, Office up stairs in the Mclntosh
bn tiding, Hampton, Ga. fecial attention
given to eoannercial and other collections.
BF. McCOLLUM, Attorney and Coun
• sellor st L»w, Hampton, Ga. Will
practice in Henry, Clayton, Fayette, Coweta.
Pike, Meriwether, Spalding and Butts Supe
rior Courts, and id the Supreme and United
Courts. Collecting claims a specialty.
WHAT CAN IT BE 7
He never speaks of love, but oft his syes
NY ith quiet earnest meanings rest on me,
While a chance meeting seems a glad sur
prise—
Oh! il it bu not love, wbnt can it be 7
Sometimes be silent sits, when i l l speak,
The quick response comes tow and thrill*
»*! > •« n. ’ •*- , , '
lie reads i»y thought instinctive on my
cheek — * nth £
Oh 1 if it be not ldve, what Can it be-7
Searching my soul he claims it joy to find
Tastes, feelings, hsprg, all with his own
agree,
And asks what more heart unto heart can
bind—
Oh 1 if it be not love, what can K be 7
Last eve when Maude swtpt by with queen
ly air.
The jewels flashing on her forehead frse,
••Sweeter,” he said, “the wild rose in jour
hktr"— ,
Oh 1 if it be cot love, what can it be 7
As by a shining gate at twilight dim,
I sit and wait until he turns the key.
When will he ops 7 If tis not love wijlh
him,
Oh !my sick heart, ’tis life or death with
me! —Jane C. Simpeon.
Her Secret.
“I certainly do owe you everything. It’s
a prsfanation to mention money in connec
tion with that sort o( indebtedness; but,
Lavinia, I shall try to discharge part of it io
another way.”
Miss Vid smiled and blushed, plucking at
one of the rotes climbing all about tho win
dow, with lowered bead and very great em
barrassment.
Sidney, however, saw nothiog of this;
his thoughts were projected io the fataie;
and though his gaze rested dreamily on the
things around him, his fancy had taken a
wild flight, and was basy with different
objects And then there wat a silence.
Just then Carrie appeared, with her straw
bat on and the strawberry basket in her
hand, looking a great deal like a figure out
of a picture.
*•1 want you, Sidney."
And, with his honest smile, awsy went
Sidney to stain his baods with picking
berries.
Lsvinia looked after them with a faded
glance—juat the shadow of something—
not vrzatisD, but a gleam of sadness and
disappointment; and she went io and was
rather q> .1 for a few minates, bustling
about the room, and finally over to the glass,
where »he took a stolen peep at her own
comely restarts. She saw a woman of thir
ty, (till pretty, and even handsome.
Well, there were certainly no disparity of
tges, for be was qnite thirty also—some
months over.
'-That is what be means, I think,” said
Lavinia, after deep cogitation.
"He does owe me everything, j ast as he
says, and I—l believe be likes me. We
grew np together, and it is only natural
I shall certainly not do anything rash—l
mean refuse him. I like him, too”—her
mice faltered—“l never knew until now
bow much.”
Old Dorcas cam in with a needle to
thread, and Lavinia drew herself op a little
haughtily at being caught before tbs mir
ror.
“Strawberries for desert, Dorcas. Carrie
will pick them.”
“I see the doctor end her gatherin' ’em,
miss,” returned the ancient handmaid. “1
thick I never see bim looking so well, ipiss,
as this time. And it’s not so far off, I can
tell yon,” said Dorcas with a nod and a
■mile.
“Wbat’s oot far offt”
“The quest ion he is going to ask yon,
Min Vin. You know very well ;and, if you
infeed to make bim happy, it takes only the
one word.”
“Nonsense 1 I don’t even know what yoo
mean,” said Lavinia, with a Lqgh of trepe
idation.acd coloring brilliao'ly, absorbed hi
tbs threading process. “The difference of
age, sod everything.”
“The age *a just right, and he .is in earn
est. r found tbit on bia desk.”
Dorcas produced a sheet of paper on
whieh was traced many times, in very beau
tiful penmanship, surrounded by scrolls and
other marvelous embellishments, the name
“Mrs. Sidney Linden."
Lavinia inspected it eagerly, and then
returned it with a repraving frown.
“Yon had no business te poke among
Doctor linden’s papers, Dorcas. It wa*
wrong, and be weald be very angry.*
So the old servant was dismissed, and
went oat smiling, and Miss Yin was alooe
HAMPTON, GA., FRIDAY, MAY 14, 1880.
Well, here was conflrmatiop strong as
r>roods of Holy Writ—documentary evi
dence, which even the law admits indispu
table ; and Lnvinia Brandon, like tbe prac
tical woman she was, accepted tbe facta and
went on with her plans.
As Sidney’s wife abt could be of more
use to him than ever—and that was say
ing much. Old Doctor Jellick had long
been willing to sell out his practice, and. ran
her bappy thoughts ; “We can stay jnat
where we are. This old house. iAymlmred
to ns both, and the village and tbe people.
Oh, Sidney, ybn don’t know how much I
have always loved you, and I never dreamed
until now that you cared for ine other than
a cousin ! How my heart beats ! I never
expected to be so happy ] But thank God.
who is to good to us all!’’—and the wept a
-a little gush of grateful tears.
On she went with her castfc-bujlding.
Wonderful things were to be done. Every
body sbonld share something of her happi
ness.
Her sister Currie, in a year or so—she
was snly seventeen as yat, and too young—
should go to New York and moke u fortu
nate marriage ; it would, of course, as Car
rie was so pretty, be ooly a question with
herself as to which millionaire she should
choose; they would all be at her disposal ;
perhaps she would fancy some duke’s son
from abroad—marriages of this sort were
growing very common.
And so builded Lavinia her beautiful
architecture until, with a thrill, she heard
Sidney and Carrie disputiug about the.
strawberries in the garden outside.
She went ont <t© them, and Carrie, sun
burnt and vexed, and with hands like Mac
betb’s, ran away with the berries to old
Dorcas.
“She is inch a romp, Sidney. I wonder
you do not get ont of patience with her 1”
“No, my stock of that article is unlimit
ed. A wonderful day thii—clear as crystal.
The country io summer—it is the nearest
idea my not very vivid imagination can re
al ze of heaven. I think, dear Yinnie,” he
said laughing, “that it is jnst the sort of day
on which to say sometbiag that has beta m
my thoughts for a long time.”
•‘What can it be. Sidney T”
“You’d never guess It is something very
serious and prosaic.”
‘ Perhaps you bad better postpone it.”
“No, I might iftier have the courage
again. Do you not feel an intuition of what
is coming T I owe everything to yon. dear
est Yin ; your money paid for my rducation
—for the very bread I have eatea. lam in
the attitude of one who stilt oaks favors ;
this the last, I hope, but tbs greatrst of all.
Yiooia, I am in love, and one word from you
seals my happiness or misery.”
She was silent, looking down on the
grass ; but after a minute she spoke;
“Sidney, I must say frankly that I did not
expect it. As to year obligations they are
now nothing; bat once I did ibink them a
tie that should always bind a* together
friendship and gratitude—yen understand?
But if it baa, as yon think, grown into
another feeling, them obligations are dis
charged ; if, in fact, yeu love me, Sidney,
and wish to make me your wife, it is I who
am indebted and grateful to you, for I tell
you frankly that it wae, until this moment;
a dream I did not dare allow myself to think
of. But, since you wish it, I will be yoer
wife, Sidney, aad live hsooaferth with bet
the one thought of mthing myself worthy of
you.”
Red and pale by tnrna—tremulous, puz
zled and bewildered at first—stood Sidney
Linden.
Was there ever before eo inerelible a
•*
mistuke T He knew not what to say or do.
He bad intended to ask Lavinia’a approval
of a contemplated proposal to Carrie—and
whit an appalling situation bad arisen I
He was, indeed, bound by honor and
gratitude to Lavinia, who bad been eo good
to bim, and be bad intended always in tome
dim fashion to return something—he did not
know exactly what ; bat paying the debt in
this way had never entered his thoaghts.
He loved Carrie—a bidden romance of two
yean bock ; a real love—a part of bis life,
indeed. Bat bere suddenly waa a catas
trophe ; be was mined.
"Lavinis, I—of course I—" be stammered
—“that was what I meant—to ask yon to
be my wife. I never bad any other idea
than to—to discharge ay obligation in the
ooe way—by asking yoa to—to accept Ibe
as jour bos band and be bang hi* head in
ibtlDCs * ' " 0
Lavinia did not notice it, or, if she did,
pat her own interpretation on bis ooofneion.
She was qaite too happy to realist details
of what was happening; memory brings
those back afterward. And. speaking very
little more, they crowed tbe lawn to tbe|
boose, and she went tn.
She weot »* her room aiid knelt at her I
■ i ASH ij .
nedside and offered up u prayer.
Thhrit of the eeetacy of something
heyand your maddest bqgml And in »bnt
fted' old Dorcas to something abont
d§f|aer, smiling broadly idiotically,
■NT 1 * 1 ’ « .
♦Well, Dorcas,’’.said Lavinia, getting up
aril going to her and putting her hands
tenderly on the old servant’s shmifiler,
smiling radiantly, “you wore right, and it is
to he."
. & 1 Mill I,ones ‘
Dorcas, with a ' WnSflDr” gnn. “He**ftsn
thlked to me, as vonng men in love will,
with anybody,, about tM one they love;
they’ll even sit and hear her abased rather
than not talk of her at all’,” went on wise
Dorcnr, who could see through a millstone
as well ns others.
Lavinia uttered a pleased laugh and kissed
the old creature.
' H? does love her; sure, and he says to me
this very morning, • I can’t wait a day longer,
and l am going to ask -Lavinia for her to
day,' and yon sec he has done it soil got
your consent.”
It Was not a cry, it was n kind of choke,
as of some one dying suddenly of suffocation.
Old Dorcas stared aghast—her mistress had
fallen to the floor. But in one minute she
was on her feet again, and thoagb pale,
strong and steady.
“The idea of losing her, Dorcas—it is
Carrie, wo mean, of course—it overcomes
me a little,’’ said Miss Yin ; and Dorcas had
never seen such a countenance ont of a
coffin. “But we must try to bear those
-things ; be will make her a good husband.
I think I will lie down for a moment."
So Dorcas, none the wis-r, shambled out,
and, Lav nia cros«ed over to the window and
stood looking out. Ido not know what she
saw there; bat those moments bad their
tragedy which words can give no idea oi.
And aftrr a while she went down and
found Sidney seated on the little porch just
where she bad left him. Ue looked np dis
molly enough.
“Sidney,” she said, abruptly, *‘l don’t
know what you will think of mt; but I have
changed my mind since I saw you a few
minutes ago. I cannot be yonr wife ; but
I may tell you this, that if yon should ever
fancy Cairie—you might learn to like her
in time—it would make me very happy."
“But you, Lavinia ” he began, as
tounded. • .
“Well, I really was tempted to give you
my hand, Sidney,” she smiled, “but it wae
only tbs craze of nn instant. Such a thing
would never do, and yon will say so yourself
some years from now; and while I am
grateful te you, Sidney, for thinking so
much of me as to wish to make' me your
wife, I must tell you frankly that it is im
possible. 1 was born for an old maid, %nd
must die one. And now, if you are a wise
man, you will torn your thought* from me
and bestow them upon Carrie." And with
a little laugh, in which them whs nothing of
her heartbreak, she turned and re entered
the house.
And to the hoar of her d»eth no one ever
knew her secret.
A boast Advertising.
If yon have goods to tell advertise.
Hire a man with a lumpblack kettle and
a brush to paint y«nr name and number on
*ll tbe railroad fences. The oars go yrbis
sing by so fast that no ons can read them,
to be sore, bat perhaps tbe obliging con
ductor would stop the train to accommodate
an Inquisitive passenger.
Remember tbe fences by the roadside as
well. Nothing is so attractive to the passer
by as a well painted sign: "Millington’s
medical mixture for mumps.”
Have yoer card in the hotel register by
all means. Strangers stopping at hotels
for a night generally bay a cigar ar two be
fore they leave town, and they need some
Inspiriting literary food besides..
If an advertising agent wants yonr busi
ness advertised in a fancy frame at tbe de
pot, pay him about 200 per cent more than
it is worth, and let him pat it there. When
a man has three-quarters of a second in
which «o catch a train, he invariably stops
to read depot advertisements, and your card
might take his eye.
Of course tbe street thermometer dolge is
excellent. When a man’s fingers and ears
are freewng, or he is puling and "phewing’’
at tbe beat, is tbe time above all others
When he reads an advertisemea'.
Print In tbe blackest ink a great sprawl
ing sard on all year wrapping paper. Ladies
retoraing from a shopping tour like to be
walking bulletins, and if tbe ink mbs OS'
hod spoils some of their finery.no matter.
They will ovver stop at ynpr store again.
Have a few posters pasted all over town,
mixed up with nigger minstrel streamers and
theatrical bills; they will appear very prom
inent an<t attract about as much attention
as * 4 black «• spat an n ypeck led dog.
Have thonsaads of Jitvlp dodgers printed
and hire a lew rfcoya to them
Yon’Ve no idea how the junk dealer arif
paper rag mm» wilferespyct you. rfJ . ™
' Boot fail 4# i.q jyg’
programme. ■
its bills, am] Tiß'miftp* celtsve the tedium
’of the elownlk j £y ,Viewing oVer yonr
interesting remarks ajjout “twenty per cent,
below cost," etc. ~
A boy with a big placard on a pole is art
interesting objaol an Oj* street, und lends
a dignified air to your establishment. Hire
about two.
Advertise on a calendar. Peoptn never
look at a calendar to sec what day of the
month it is. They merely glance hurriedly
at it so as to he sare that your name is
spelled with or without a p.. that's all.
When the breezes blow, wafted by a pa
per fan In the hands of lovely womsn,
’tis well to havo the air redolent with the
perfume of the carmine ink in which yonr
business address is printed. This will
make the market for decent fans v ry good.
Patronise every agent llmt shows you tan
advertising tablet, card, directory, diction*
ary or even an adver'ising Bihip, if one is of
fered at a reasonable price. The man mnat
make a living.
But don’t think of advertising in a well
established, legitimate newspaper. Not for
a moment. Your advertisement would h<-
nieely printed and would find its way info
all the thrifty households of the region, where
tbe farmer, the m»ulranic, the tradusmno in
other lines, and into the families of the
wealthy and refined, all who have articles to
buy and money with which to bny them, and
in the qoiet of the evening, after the news of
the day had been digested, it wonld be read
and pondered, and next day people would
comedown to your store and patronise yon,
and kofp coming in increasing numbers, and
yon might have to hire an extra clerk or
two, move into a larger block and more fa
vorable location and d<J a bigger business,
bat of course it would he more expensive—
and bring greater profits,*- New Haven Reg
itltr.
A n Orphan Squash.
4
Among the persons exhibiting at the ter
ritorial fair this year is Jas. R. Johnson, a
farmer, of tho Piickly Pear Valley, whoae
ranch lies seven miles north of Helena. He
has a splendid collection o I grain und vug*,
tables—among the latter a squash of nearly
forty ponodf* weight, which buf a history too
remarkable to puss unrecorded. It is of the
California mammoth variety, nod considera
bly the smallest “buih” of several nf the
kind shown iu the name collection. Home
six or seven wc-cks ago—when little more
than ten pounds weight—this squash was
accidentally severed from its vine by the
tread ol a lorm employe. Mr. Johnson de
plored the accident, the vegetable being a
favorite, and the Grst to set from the blos
som, and he entertained great expectations of
it. The hired man. seeing his distress, sug
gested that the squash be taken and raised
by hand. Jnhnsoo confessed be did net
koow what that meant.
“It will grow and mvtnre if yon' will fur
aish the milk,” was the response.
"Go ahead and do it," said Johnson, whs
smiled grimly, thinking that the Yankee
hired roan was disposed to play a joke on
bim.
The "orphan vegetable," with the stem
and a lew inches of the vine left intact, was
token to the house and deposited in a gar
ret-room, where it could gdt a snn-batb
part of each day. The stem wns wounJ with
several layers of cotton cloth, and • this was
submerged in a dish of new milk morning
an«| evening. Tbe squash fed hungrily on
the lacteal fluid On the start it absorbed
a pint of milk in a few boars. This was
presently increased to a quart, and twice a
a d«y it was thu< rationed to the first day of
the
bringing up, and neighbors who dropped in
from time to time to see it expressed their
surprise and astonishment at this singular
mode of vegetable production. They watsh
ed it nurse, and' conM' easily detect the
healthy appetite draining the nu'ritions drink
Every oae give the squash repeated shakes,
and pressed tbeir investigations to learn
whether there was any internal evidence of
all the milk dhicb that vegetable had con
sumed. The squash prospered amaaingly,
expanded in sine continually, and. when taken
away for exhibition weighed within a frac
tion of lorty pounds.
There were many at tbe fair whom curi
osity was greatly ex-ited about this squash,
and Mr. Jobneoc promised to cut tbe ren
table in tbe presence of witnesses aod exhib
it 1o them its “true inwardness." This
was done before a large commune of people,
and the amswment of tbe multitude may be
pictnrcd, bat not described, when it was
to their wondering eyes. Divided
careTffify in the oaafelfeVtMM W ”** £*'
mhvedjdisclnsing a t#oi gold
“•ivHo&d iq inah buttcif, artth plomp, yrell-filW
VMMfx rp ng all side* of the luadions
estimate by
many •nd
fragrant! <? n&t*f»ring-
dai-y 4 y. vtytha anhnird of novelty
more than the sijpprimngrortnty of tbe sight
that raisod the enthusiastic outburst of tbe .
Oiowd as they viewtirf the-remarkable blend
ing of fiyrin and dairy produce. The ‘ meat" of
*tTPS sqrilf.oh, in rvrtww#v'*f 40iar,-«qtia»iad *hif
of tbe butter-ball. aud. after eterybody has
had a fair chance to see ami satisfy them
selves of the genninenais of both und iaves
tigato to their heart's content .tbe uoiqoo
exhibit, it will he divi<fed np and inrceled
out to a dozen or more parties, to whom al
so will he given portions of the btrtter foe
trial. Mr. Johnson receives from the citi
zens of Helena a special piemium of S2B
for this rarest specimen of a “batter squash”
ever raised by hand, nr, for that matter, by
nature's own process. We think it will h«
generally acknowledged a wondrous pro
dnet, the counterpart of which has probably
never before been seen or heard of in Mon
tana nr nDy other part of the world. —Helena
(Montanh) Herald.
Finding an Alligator.
Texas equestrians would answer in tbe
affirmative the question of Job: “Oaoat
thoo draw ont leviathan with a hook? or
his tongue with a cord, which thou letieat
down ?” The Texas Mule Ranger toil* how
something of the kind was accomplished,
though writers were not wholly agreed as te
whether Job referred to the crocodile or
some other aquatic monster:
A surveyor lived la the viainity of Austin
for many years, named James R. Pace.
“Bob” was one of tbs earliest settlers on tb«
Colorado river. Ile wa* a very clever gen
tleman—kind, accommodating, and always
ready for a campaign against the enemies of
Texas. He was an actor in quite all the
stirring events incident to tha settlement of
this portion of oor frontier, one of the heroes
of Han Jaciato, aitd a participant in many
fights with Indians. Bob and some others
were bntbing iu the Colorado some miles
below Austin, when a big alligator made
bis appearance and began to make free oa
very short acquaintance. The intrusive
reptile was roped and t-ccurrly fastened. A
piece of aruud <« introduced into his mouth
crosswise and tied there—the long-tailed
creature was gagged in the moct approved
style. A proposition wan made to mount
and have an alligator ride. A rope wae
adjusted to serve tw a bridle. The water in
the vicinity was not very deep. The inmnted
perfoimnnco began, and bia qlligatorsbip
reared up his head, und cut fantastic didoes
with bia tail—the rider was thrown- Aw
other rope was at ached to tbs gag sod
passed around the body of tbs water-horse.
1 hta time Our frieod Bob did the honors.
Ilia steed was not “a Tartar of the Ukraine
breed,” though Bob stuck to him as tightly
aa if be had been t ied on. The aqnatie
courser plunged and pitched and made the
water foam, bat be was not ioclinad to “trot
out” as he should. Bob promptly popped
both thumbs into the ugly brute’s eyes-ami
away be went at full speed, bellowing,
wading, swimming, aad diving He struck
furious blows with bis tail, bowed up bie
back, aod “splurged immensely,” all to-no
effect. Hia rough und ruthless rider kept
bis seat. At times they would be oo the
bottom, submerged, oot of sight; when they
rose to tbe surface, Bob was master of tho
situation. Tbe sport was novel,new-fangled,
aod the fun was obstreperous. After a
while the animal showed signs of (aligns,
and Bob dismounted to give bim a rest aad
allow some one else to share iu tbe pastime.
Thst found a dead man on the pavement
in trout of a newspaper otfiue in a Western
town with a poem on ‘‘Spring’’ clutched in
hie still cold fingers, aud the corooer didn’t
even bold an inquest on bim. Ha simply
looked up at lb« editorial rooms on tbe top
fl'*ar, and measuring tbe di taoce to the
ground with hu eye, remarked : “U would
kill any man to be thrown out of that win- (
dow. l ake tbe remains to tbe undertaker. 11
Next." Spring poets are scarcer now tbaa
they were. —Steubenville Heralds
■WnT is it when om man sa'li anotl
liar and a scoundrel Use insulted person \ t u
most invariably asks, ‘W hat do yen
sir V it woeld stem that such language,
would not require a -map and a diagram • j
make it clear,
Tan King of Sew*’ !
and has just -J X\. J
the legeudwf tiObeugri
bar tbe army to her 1
to soboi U. j- " ,-flg
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