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About The Dawson journal. (Dawson, Ga.) 1878-18?? | View Entire Issue (Oct. 3, 1878)
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We hereby give final no lice that, no advertisement of this class wil he published iD the Journal without the fee i a paid in advance, only in cases where we have special arrangements to the contrary ©arfte. J, 11. GUEKItT, JAB, G. PAKKB. GIIERRY & PARKS, jtp'S ani Csliiiselors at Lais, DAWSON, - GEORGIA. IyRAOTICE in the State and Federal I Courts. Collections made a specialty.— Promptness and dispatch guarantied and insured Nov ltf j “ It. P. SIMMONS, jffi’j 'at La'S & Seal Ijtaie fe’t, Dawson, Terrell County, Ga. SPE.’IAL a tention given to collections, _ conveyancing and investigating titles to Real Estate. Oct 18, tf T. FT. PICKETT, illfy Counselor at Law, OFFICE w‘th Ordinary in Cnurt HotPe. All basin, ent-usted tG his care will receive prompt and efficient attention. JalO ~7t7 eT. beckT Attorney at Law, IHoviisni, f'aHioiisi rHly,Ca. Will practice in the* Albay Circuit and else* where in the State, by Contract. Prompt at tention iriven to all business entrusted to his care. Collections a specialty. Will also in- titles and buv or sell real Estate in alhaun, F*?iker and ifcrly Counties, march 21-tf L. G CARTLEDGE, At torney at Law '101! n,, - - (iCOStOIA. \oL Av? close attention to all bust. ’* n >ss entrusted to his care in Albany Circuit 4-Iv L. C- HOYL, Attorney at Law> Oawtion. Ceorgia> r , JANES. C. A. MCDONALD Janes & McDonald, Attorneys at -Law, DA WS OY, - GEOk GIA. Dffice at the C<urt House. Tan,'? ALBANY HOUSE, Cor. Pine & Jackson Sts- ALBANY, GA. hoard p er ( } a y $2.50 Table well supplied 11 good, clean sleeping apartments. ®mnibus to and from the bo**.se. M. BAIINES, Proprietor. N. 88. fSAKNES, WHTCH jjg MAKER A N I > J E W E L E I! DAWSON. GA. yy ORK don <* in good style and at most reasonable pries*. Office in Melton & 1 °s atore, Main Street so-tf NOTICE! J j; ' ’ h This day associated with me in „, e P r °tt ba.-ir.esß my son, VVm A Janes, Juvr, ! ’ rm naaw and style of dR. J. R. *" E * k SOX ‘ ■**• for past patronage, I respectfully Kem 'i a , C °ntinuance. iina J. R JAMES. BY J. D. HOYL & CO Men.With Queer Nerves. In February lust 1 was riding in a Sleigh from Shirley to Greenville, in Maine. I was a commercial traveler and my companion in the cutter, Mr. Long was an old schoolmate from j New York, now a sawmill owner of j Greenville. Riding just behind us iinavnde pung were two Canadian i Frenchmen, whom he had hired.: to work in his mill At the foot of a long hill I sprang from the sleigh to warm my feet by walking, and as I leaped out the board seat, on the ex" tremeend of which my friend sat tipped up and befell out into the deep snow lie jumped up and laughed. Just then I saw the Frenchmen tumble backward out of their sleigh exactly as Long had done. It was a ludicrous mimicry, and I could not understand it. We stopped their lazy horse and laughed at them as they came up, but they only pointed at Long, muttered some thing in mongrel French and shook their heads seriously. One of them had struck on his head and sprained his neck. “Well,’’ said Long, “I’d no idea those fellows were jumpers.” “Jumpers!” I asked, “what’s jump ers?” “Why, didn’t you ever hear of jumping Frenchmen?” “Never in my life ?” “Those are jumping Frenchmen. They tumbled out of that seat jus 1 because they saw me tumble, and they couldn’t have helped‘t to save their lives. This country is full of jumpers.” “Can’t they control their conduct m any way; “Oh yes; inmost ways, when they are not jumped ; but you jump one of them and over he goes “Jump one of them! Come ex plain. You’ll have to make your joke plainer.” “No joke, ’pon honor. By jumping one of them I mean surprising him. Startle him in any way and you set him going at once. I’ll show you a lot of them when we get to Green ville.” We are in the upper part of Maine Greenville is at the lower end of Moosehead Lake, which is the source of the Kennebeek river, and the cen ter of a vast lumber region. It con tains some fifty houses, among which are two large hotels which are tilled with pleasure seekers in summer. More than half of the lumbermen employed in the woods in winter, I learn from L., are Canadian French, or half-breeds —unkempt, halt clad, and so ignorant that not more than one in two hundred can read print or write his own name. Most of these, he said, ai e jumpers. “Now follow me intothe'diningroom,” lie added, as he hitched the two.horses in front of a small hotel, through the win dow of which we could see a dozen red shirted men at supper. I followed him in. As he entered the room he raised his hands suddenly above his head, pointed his fore-fingers at the ceiling, and said “Sh-h!” so as to be heard by all. The men around the table instant ly sprang up pointed their fore fingers at the ceiling, and every one said “Sh-h One knocked over his chair and Some crockery was broken by the jog the table received. The two hrenehmen who had foliowed their employer also repeated the same gesture and said “Sh-h!” The men around the table flushed and then turned pale as theyre sumed their seats. They recognized Long as he saluted them in their pecu liar French-indlan patois: but they were surly and indisposed to ta! it. AA e soon withdrew. “Well” said Long “they're jump ers.” “What did they do that for ?” I as- Iced* “They couldn’t have helped it if their lives had been at stake.'’ I wanted to investigate this strange phenomenon, if, indeed it was genu ine, but I was to start next morning for Bangor. iq hav# never seen any of the queer creatures down along the coast, I * Si "“No,” said Long “they are confin ed to Canada and the frontier—mainly tn the lumbering region. There are thousands of jumpers in Maine. By the way, you are coming back m Apnl, Just make a stay of a fortnight and 1 11 show you more jumpers than you can count; and more odd exciting tricks than you ever dreamed of. Jumpers come in out of the woods in the spring and they will he loafing around herein April drinking whisky and spending their win ter’s earnings.” , T 1 promised I would do it, and I did I stayed there nearly a mouth. '> hat DAWSON, GEORGIA, THURSDAY., OCTOBER 3, 1878 he told me is a fact. Jumping French men are as thick as dogs, and they are not much more iuteligent. ,1 umping or shouting, or moving suddenly when star tled is peculiar to most of them. I have seen as many as twenty-five jumpers all together. Touch one of them when he is not expecting it, on the neck, or even on the hand, and lie would cry out, tremble, turn pale, mid catch his breath and his crying out would be pretty cer tain to start the others. j There are many different kinds of i jumpers. Some when startled fiercely strike out directly in front of them hit— j ting whatever is in the way. As I make j it my business to watch these men, I saw j a good deal of this hitting, most of it harmless, as they generally struck only the air. They like to tease one anoth er, or jump one another, as it is called there. This is the principle source of fun, and whenever there is a gathering of them, thej r warily watch to avoid a jump. Occasionally a man when laugh- \ ing is jumped either by a sudden noise or a chip hitting him on the back.— Then he flings away whatever he has in his hands. I saw one pouring some milk into his coffee. I shouted to him, “fling it!” and he flung the pitcher across the room, smashing it against the wall. A gong hung behind a door, but it had not been used for years on ac count of its startling effect on jumpers. One day a stranger tapped it. A man whom I was trying to talk with struck aimlessly into the air, and another knocked a friend into the great fire place. Any of these jumpers can be made to strike anybody that stand near enough, by shouting to him, “Hit him?” Long tells me that seven were knocked down in a second, the general assault being induced by a clumsy wait-iter dropping a tray. I saw one follow who sneezes whenever anybopy else sneezes, or even when anybody indulges in a simulated sneeze. His nervous system seems to be easily imposed on I saw an other who, although he does not know a word of English, will repeat any short sentence spoken to him suddenly. “(food morning, how, d’ do?” I said to him. “Good morning, how d’ do?” he re peated after me with excellent articula tion. A piece of recklessness and careless ness which on Friday last bid fair to cause another tragedy in Clayton coun ty is thus detailed in the Constitution , of Atlanta, which says: “It seems up on the day in question a Depu ty United States Marshal from this city, named Patterson, went to Jonesboro for the purpose of arresting a man ac cused of a violation of the internal rev enue laws. The accused party was charged with illicit distilling, it was expected that the officer would encoun ter him in Jonesboro that afternoon.— While Patterson was standing on the street talking with Judge Joe AleCon nell, he saw Colonel W. L. Wattersou ride out of the livery stable and gallop off up the road in the direction of -Mor row’s station. “There goes my man now,” said Patterson, mistaking Col. Watterson for the party in search of whom he had come. Having no horse at hand, Patterson boarded the freight train then about to leave the de pot and bound in the same direction the horseman had taken. As the train ran along, Patterson kept a sharp lookout for his supposed “moonshiner,” but the i horse Col. Watterson was riding was j frightened at the approach of the train ; and he turned into a clump of trees and j bushes and thereby not only escaped the vigilant eye of the Marshal, but perhaps a swift and deadly bullet. The I train proceeded on its way and the j Marshal watched for his victim. At a point nearly midway between Jonesboro and Morrow’s a man was overtaken.— He was on horseback and was trying to manage his rather unruly animal. Whether Patterson hailed him or not j we are not advised, but even had ho j done so the rattle of the train and his j attention to his horse would have pre- ! vented the rider hearing him. As it j was Patterson cracked away at the un suspecting man with his pistol at point blank range, and the bullet whistled in very uncomfortable distance of its tar get. The horse plunged at the sound, and his rider held him in. Patterson jumped from the train, and ran in front | of the horse and presented his revolver j at the rider, saying, “You are my pris oner.” The young man upon the horse j was Mr. Harper, one of the men who j had been a guard over the escaped mur- j duress, Julia Johnson. His astonish- : merit at this novel and dangerous con- : dition of affairs may well be imagined. He asked his captor why he had been taken, and explanations were made w hieh soon demonstrated to Patterson that he had made a very violent mis take, and tried to blow daylight through the wrong man. He made every excuse in his power, but Harper was indignant, as he should have been. That bullet, had come too near doing its bloody j work upon his body to suit his ideas.— We have not heard what Mr. Patterson has to say about the affair, but at pres ent there appears to be no justification for the act. Had Harper been the right party for whom Patterson was seeking, the latter had no right to fire upon him or even to adopt the custom of ships at sea and fire across his bows to bring him to a halt. Had the bul | let killed Harper there can be no ques tion as to how Mr. Patterson would have fared in a court. This case will not rest here. Harper proposes to pros ecute Patterson to the extent of the law, upon a charge of assault with in tent to murder. The matter deserves 1 the attention of the United States Mar -1 shal as well, for such acts as these will not be tolerated by the citizens of peac eable communities in the State.” Com. 1 ponrtencc. Editors Dawson Journal: Gents: Having changed my place of business, I thought you would not seri ously object to a few remarks that I wish to make through the columns of your paper, and if these remarks prove uninteresting I trust my kind readers will forgive this, my first effort at news paper writing. 1 have been, for the last ten months, doing business in a little country town known as S h.,in Alabama, where l made many kind friends and acquaint ances. I visited M , from Sh., where I spent three or four days very pleasantly and was hospitably enter tained by Mrs. J , a lady who is fully capacitated to entertain visitors in a charming manner, being not only a lady of deep intellect and high culture, but possessing all the other noble traits of character that tend to make a lady most admired. I attended the first Baptist Church, having the honor and | great pleasure of acting as escort to the I beautiful and accomplished Miss Luja, where we heard an eloquent discourse by the Rev. Dr. Hawthorne, subject: “Vanity of vanities,” being an able minister and fine orator, of course it was well rendered. During my short but pleasant stay, I met several facinat ing ladies. It would require too much time and space to personate all, but must speak of Miss Sallie, who, having inherited some of her mother’s disting uishing characteristics, 1 found doubly charming. After all this, of course, it was with great reluctance that I took my step homeward, but duty, stern and pressing, called me thence, and to night I find myself at the old home stead, in Terrell county, where I have decided to make my home for the pres ent. Fearing I have taxed the patience of my kind readers, I take the liberty of subscribing myself, Yours very truly, C. M. Some Interesting Dates. Dates are generally dry reading: but there is sometimes a significance in the mere grouping of dates; and the reader will find much significance in an attent ive consideration of the following events, all occurring, he will observe, within the limits of a little over a century: Postoffiees were first established in 14G4; printed musical notes were first used in 1473; watches were first constructed in 1476; America was discovered in 1492; the first printing press was set up at Copenhagen in 1493; Cope.-aliens announced his discovery of the true system of the universe in 1517; Albert Durer gave the world a prophecy of future wood engraving in 1527 ; Jer gens set the spinning-wheel in motion in 1530, the germ of all the busy wheels and looms-of ten thousand fut ure factories; modern needles first came into use in 1545; the first knives were used in England, and the first wheeled carriages in France in 1559; the first newspaper was published in England in 1588; telescopes were invented in 1590; Spencer, Shakespeare, Bacon, Kepler, Tycho Brahe were contempora ries in 1590—these are some of the more important headlands of European history within a single cenury. The Apple in the Bottle. On the mantle-piece of my grand mother’s best parlor, among other mar vels, was an apple in a phial. It quite filled up the body of the bottle ; and my childish wonderment constantly was.— “How could it have gotten there ?” By stealth I climbed a chair to see if the bottle would not unscrew, or if there had been a joint in the glass throughout the length of the phial. I was satisfied, by careful observation, that neither of these theories could be supported; and the apple remained to me an enigma and a mystery. One day, walking in the garden, l saw it all. There, on a tree, was a pliial tied, and within a tiny apple, which was growing within the crystal. The apple was put into the bottle while it was little, and it grew there. More than thirty years ago, we tried this experiment with a cGrcuiuber.— We laid a large bottle upon the ground by a hill of cucumbers, and placed a j tiny cucumber in the bottle to see what would he the result. It grew till it filled the bottle, when we cut it off from the stem, and then filled the bottle with alcohol and corked it up tight. We have it now, all as fresh, with the little prickers on it, as it was when first corked up. So sins will grow, if allowed, in the hearts of children, and cannot be easily removed when they have their growth. Fair Notes. : The people of Dougherty, assisted by a number of other counties are working to make the first fall fair of the South west Georgia Industrial Association a complete and grand success. The jYaes asks: “Have you commenced to pre pare your articles for the Fair? Tf not, begin now. Bring specimens of home manufacture, home industry, your big ears of corn, brag cotton stalks, fine stock —anything that will help to make up a good show for our section. Thou sands of people tire "coming, and they must not be disappointed in the exhibi tion. Remember, people of Dougherty, Worth, Loo, Mitchel, Baker, Calhoun, Terrell, Early, etc., you are expected tt> do the work. If you haven’t a premium list send to Secretary Carter and he will furnish you one, postage prepaid. The exhibition of fine stock will he one of the best ever seen in Georgia. The art department will be a special feature with the ladies, and we doubt nit it will be a fine exhibition.” A Novel Suit. —We learn from a gentleman, who recently returned from Wayne county, that Mr. John Ingram was applied to for work by a poor man, whom he told in jest, to get rid of him, that ho would give him two thousand dollars for three thousand lizzard hides. The man agreed to undertake the job, provided Ingram would give him his note payable when the skins were deliv ered. Ingram complied, the note was signed and witnessed, and the man with his wife and children repaired to the mountains and commenced war on the reptiles. Ho was so pleased with the result of his first day’s work that ho con tinued, and, in a much shorter time than it seems possible, he had gotton the three thousand skins, and, taking them to Mr. Ingrain, demanded the two thousand dollars promised’. The joke had now turned, and ingrain ex plained that he was just in fun about the affair, but the lizzard hunter was terribly in earnest, and persisted in be ing paid the money. Ingram refused, and a suit will be brought at once—and the lizzard man will win it without doubt. —Stanford (Ky.) Journal. Recently the name of J. AY. P. Park ier has been before the public, and from the bottom facts which have been brought out, he evidently played a double game upon Greenville Seminary and upon the people of Georgia. He evidently did not tell the true story re garding his separation from his former wife ; he evidently did not act in good faith to her in seeking reconciliation— while he was prosecuting a divorce suit: ho evidently is not Seripturally married now, and worse than all, if possible, he evidently committed adultry in living with his former wife a whole week, not two months before be married his pres ent wife. Faithfulness requires us to speak out, and the church of which he is a member, should exclude him.— Christian Index. Sandersville Courier: “Dr. G. AV. Tanner, of Sun Hill, informs us that about a month since Mr. William Tan ner, Jr., while picking cotton, accident ally crippled a ‘thousaudlegs,’ and after crippling, determined it would be a mercy to kill the worm, lie accord ingly struck it with a cob which lay near. Two drops of something, resem bling the tincture of iodine, struck him on the hand. In a short time he suffer ed nausea and pain, and exhibited eve ry symptom of poison from a poisonous serpent. Dr. T. was sent for, and for some time the poison baffled the force of the medicines, but finally the reme dies triumphed, and the patient was restored to health. Persons, and par ticularly children, cannot be too par ticular when coming in contact with this poisonous insect. The fact of their being poisonous is not generally known. Hence the necessity of this caution.” AVe learn from the Albany Advertiser ' that another sheep ranehe is to be es tablished in AVorth county. It says that “Mr. AV’m. Harkan, from Ireland, was in our city last evening, leaving this morning for Isabella, AYorth coun ty. He intends purchasing land in AVortli county for the purpose of estab lishing a sheep ranehe and raising win ter forage for them. He now lias about two hundred sheep in the eity which he i has brought down from Atlanta: among I them some very fine pure bred merinos. He intends to increase iiis flock to one I thousand sheep. Further particulars ' of Air. Harkan’,s enterprise will lie giv en in future issues.” VOL. 14-NO. 31 l Will It Change It’s Name? Cincinnati Enquirer: It is predicted that the ltupublican party will change its name to that of National, for this reason: The party so long as it retains its present name cannot hope to have an effective organization in the South ern States. The name is associated with almost everything repulsive to the Southern mind. Its association would not attach to the National party with out incurring the odium that now at i taches to those belonging to the Repub lican party. White and colored Re publicans would gladly seek the shelter l of the new name. And what is more, l the name National is more appropriate, and suits the principles of the leaders of the party, better than the name Repub li can. And it is about time for the par- j ty to take anew name. We sballl not be supprised to witness the change. Death of Mrs. Hattie Green wood. We regret to learn from the Albany News of last week that .Mrs. Hattie Greenwood, a lady well and favorably known to many in Dawson, died at the residence of her sister, Mrs. Joe thnitb, on Tuesday morning last, of billions fever. She had been sick for two weeks, and Tuesday night was taken with a congestive chill, which proved fatal. She was buried at Rethesda church-yard yesterday morning at ten o’clock. The sincerest condolence of friends is offered to the many relatives. A Sad Accident.—The Allison and Chamblis families are connected by marriage—Mr. John Allison having married a Miss Chamblis. During the prevalence of the high winds this week, near Welborn, Mrs. Chamblis, the wife of a brother of Mrs. Allison, with her children and young woman named La ton, with her infant, were in an open double buggy, when a tree fell and killed Mrs. Chamblis and injured her infant slightly. Miss Laton was seri ously injured, and it is reported, has since died. —Live Oak Expositor. A well-to DO farmer living in Iron town, Mo., recently plowed up an un exploded shell. Hoping it contained treasure, he secured a hammer and cold-chisel and proceeded to open it.— And now his widow, in her grief, is be seeching persons in the neighboring counties to return such portions of the “dear old man,” or of his clothes, watch or money, as may have fallen in their vicinity. “When you choose a wife, young man, don’t go it blind,” says a religious exchange, “but proceed prayerfully, quietly, calmly and considerately to find out her faults and foibles, likes and dislikes.” Good, as far it goes: hut what the young man wants to know is, how can he manage to stack up all the aforesaid information unless he marries the girl beforehand. Memphis .fluilanche: Callahan, a widower, who had a good character here, left his children in Memphis at the beginning of the epidemic, went to Louisville, married again, and sent back ala John Donovan “to take care of his children.” The children are all dead or dying, but Callahan took good care his carcass did not appear. Grains of Gold. A hasty man never wants woe. Words are but the froth of thought. A man must become wise at bis expence. A fine coat may cover a fool, but never conceals one. Neither despise or oppose what you do not understand. Laziness travels so slowly that pover ty soon overtakes her. If thou art too lazy to think, thou wilt be too poor to know. lie who laughs at cruelty, sets his heel on the neck of religion. He who knows his ignorance is the possessor (if the rarest knowledge. The Chinese say there is a well of wisdom at the root of every gray hair. Ho good to all, that thou mayst keep thy friends and gain thine enemies. Delations always take the greatest liberties, and render the least assis tance. All human virtues increase and strengthen by the experience of them. Our hope for self is strongest and least selfish when it is blended with hope for the world. The world is full of sublime truths, and yet most people spend their time hunting for vapid curiosities. It is.well enough for us to see beau tiful illusions in our dreams, but we should walk awake with trull. * If a man’s religion is pretentions on Sunday and obscure on weekdays, you had better-slo business with him on a cash basis. God: The La Grange Reporter calls attention to the fact that Junebugs are greenbaekers. It is also true that their circulation frequently hangs upon a thread. —Ji u gust a Chron. A Con. The elections to be held in Ohio and Indiana on the Bth of October consti tute the next important event of the year. Our sister State, Alabama, w ill ob serve to-day as a day of humil.atien and pray t; to God that the yellow fever j epidemic may abate in affected locali- | ties, and that other States may be 1 spared. Beast Butler is desperate, lie is going to win or lose—sink or swim, survive or perish. He is playing a heavy card for Ben Butler,. Go it,' Spoony. Massachusetts needs revolu tion. A Piqtia girl, who had a quarrel with a lover, remarked to a friend that “she wasn’t on squeezing terms with that fraud anymore.” I'Ut: Champion Fish Story. Living at Clear Lake is a family tvho have a littl 1 girl who takes daily rides oil the lake in a small skiti drawn by two pickerel. They art regular harnessed, and by means ot lines she is ettab'vd to guide in any direction desired. Thetish are about three feet in length weigh between ’ seven or eight pounds each, and are very powerful The rapidity with which they skint through the water with (lie boat and its precious cargo is said to exceed in swiftness the tati.ncst sab-boat that has been pla ced on the lake, and it is proposed to send for llaulin and lioss, the cham pion senders, and match the tisli against them in a four-mile race.— When the girl has tired of riding she drives the piekeraltoa boat-lions whore they are unharnessed, taken into a commodious glass aquarium, made expressly for them, and fed.— When she visits the tank to har ness them for a ride, the pickerel jump almost into her arms, so glad npp arantly, arc they to see her.— The young Miss has been offered 1.0 if.) for her strange team, but no money would induce Ler to part with them. A New Stove. A fat citizen, having in view tie purchase of anew coal stove, was yesterday standing in Irontof a hard ware store, when a newsboy halted, and re Actively said: “1 s'pose you’ve seen the new stove—the one that beats ’em all.” “1 don’t know that I have,” was the calm reply. “You orter see it, sir. They are alius talkin’ ’bout these coal stoves which saves ten per cent of fuel, and noyv they’ve got one.” Have, eh?” “Ycs’r 1 saw this one goin’ the other day, hot enough to bake an' ox on’ it didn’t burn any coal at all— not even a pound.” “Is that possible! Why, T never heard of such a thing! Didn’t burn any coal at all?” “Not an ounce, and it was throwing! out an awful beat.” Well that beats me I don’t see how they got the heat.” “They burn wood sir!” was the humble je dy. The man tried to Coax the boy within reach, but the lad had to go to the postotlice. “Wi.i.i. Jedge, I’ll ’splainde wharfo oh deni remains. Ye see I’ze got a passed o’ chickens dat’s pow’ful en- Iciprisin’—deyn’t been no day sense last Clfris’inas but deni fowls hez bin ri g lar in dere ’tention to bizness.— Nuddintly, .ledge, eggs was sense, and yet" <ley wuz mo’ shells lavin’ l'oun’ do yard dan dis chile could ’c amt far. Well. I sot on de prob lem a awiiile, ail’ fetched out dat dere wuz a waezle or so jes started in hi/.* iuess, so I tuk two or free of deni eggs ’stmeted de natural pervizions, an’ furnished ’em wid lnd’mim and turpentine, an’ a few morsels oh corn starch puddin’, to kino o’ make ’em nourisiiin’, an’ in de niOriiin’ when I kirn out I finin’ dad nigger wailin’ fur de kurriner f tell ye, Judge, some eggs ain’t hultsome, an’it d< u’t do fur a m m to go rouu’ suckin’ tun’ peuti’seus.” The United States postotlice de partment has issued art order that after October Ist the Registry system shall be extended to mail matter of tlm third class, that is hooks merchandise* etc, and that the registry fee for each package of such matter be lix at the uniform rat j of 10 cents addi tional to the postage require I by law. The name and address of the sender must bo endorsed, either in writing or in print, Upon each package <0 third class matter offered for reg istrar >n; and there may be added to this brief description, in writing or in print, the number and names of the article.? enclosed. No aditiou al writing matter, except the addres? is promitted by law. “The Japanese have no cuss words in their language.” After seventeen futile attempts to get the joints < t a stove pipe to lit the indignant Jap goes out and bumps his bead against a post, kicks a hairless dog twenty seven times around the yard and then—feels better. Jim—“ Tell me, Laura, why that sadness' Te 1 me why that look of care 1 ? Why has tied that look of gladness that thy face was wont to wear ?” Laura—“ Jim, (is useless to dis semble, \ ell my face may wear a frown; for I’ve lost my largest hear pin, and my chignon’s coming down!”— Ex. A little boy who was nearly starved by a stingy mu le, (bis guardian), with whom be lived, meeting a lank gray-’ hound, one day in the street, was ajkt and by bis guardian what made the dog s<> thin. After reflecting, the little fellow - replied: “1 suppose ho lives with h - uncle,” Small hut a -live bootblack to a wearer of th’r.eens—“Say, boss, lei me black yer boots; do it for five cents an acre and warrant it done before sun -1 5> Gown. Brilliant and impulsive people,’ says an exchange, “have black eyes.” Im pulsive p- ople are only too apt to get black eyes. The English language is inadequate to express the forlorn feelings of a m v who think.- be has - .1,-u a dime novel and finds it to be a e.ok book. “Fine nainsook,- embroidered, makes lovely slips for children,” says a ta-h --ionablc writer, t'vange peel on a side walk continues to be good enough iW men. I A little boy having broken hi> roek iug-korse the day it was bought, his mother rebuked (dm. He silenced her by inquiring, “What’s the good of a hi rse till it’s broke !’
