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r ■ the mercury. *ni«red h Bocond- olaas matter at the Bandera- W villo Postoffloe, April 27, 1880. Sindersrlllo, Washington County, Oft. rear jams n A. JS JERNICAN, tlM pm Year. Watches, Clocks AND JEWELRY bkpaibed m JERNIGAM Birr your Spectacles, Spectacles FROM JERNICAN. None genuine without our Trado Murk. On hand And for sale, Spectacles, Hose glasses, Etc Music! Music -GO TO- JERNIGAN -FOR- BOWS, STRINGS, ROSIN BOXES, &o Machine Needles Oil and Shuttles foil ALL KINDS OF MACHINES, for aal< I will also order part, of Machlnoa that get broken, for which new plooee are wan tod. A. J. JERN1GAN C. C. BROWN, ' Attorney at Law, Bandera rille, Ga. Will practice in the State and United States courts. OOice in Court-house. hTnThollifield, Physician and Surgeon, BandenriUe, Ga. Office noit door to Mrs. Bayno’a millinery •tore on Harris Stroot. G. W. H. WHITAKER, DENTIST, BANDERS VILLE, GA. Terms Oian. Oflico at hia Hoaidenoe, on Harris Street. April 3, 1880. TOE MERCURY. A. J. JERNIGAN, Proprietor. DEVOTED TO LITERATURE, AGRICULTURE AND GENERAL INTELLIGENCE. •1.60 PER ANNUM YOL. II. Tiro Visions, Whero.oloao tho curving mountains drew To olasp tiro stream in their embrace, With ovory outline, curve and hue Reflected in its placid face, 1 “ Tho plowman stopped hia team to watch Tho train, as awift it thundered by; Homo distant glimpse of lifo to catch, Ho strains his oager, wistful eye. Tho morning freshness lies on him, Just wakened from his balmy droams; Tho travelers, begrimed and dim, Think longingly of mountain streams. Oh, for tho joyous mountain air, Tho fresh, delightful autumn day Among tho liillsl The plowman there Must havo perpetual holiday! Aud lie, as all day'long lie guides HiB Btoady plow, witli patient hand, Thinks of the flying train that glides Into some now, onchautod land. Wlioro, day by day, no plodding ronud Woariee (lie framo and dulls tho mind— Wlioro lifo thrills koon to sight and Bound, With plows and furrows loft behind, Evon so, to each, tiro untrod ways Of lifo nro touched by fancy’s glow, That ovor sliods its brightest rays Upon tho path wo do not knowl —Agnes M. Machar, in the Century. The Old Arm-Chair. SANDERSVILLE, GA., DECEMBER 6, 1881. B. D. EVANS, Attorney at Law, SANDEllSVILLE, GA. April 3, 1880. E A. SULLIVAN, NOTARY PUBLIC, SANDERSVILLE, GA. Special attention given to tho collection ol claims. Offioe in the Oourt-houea 25 CENTS, •w POSTPAID. A TREATISE ON THE HORSE -AND- HIS DISEASES. Containing an Index of Diseases, which gives r} e oymptoma, Cause, and tho Best Treatment i 0 ?’ A Table giving all the principal drugs 8«i for the Ilorso, with tho ordinary (lose, neots, ami antidote when a poison. A Table ai \ Engraving of tho Horse’s Teeth at uineront ages, with rules for telling tho age. a valuable collection of Receipts and much (her valuable information. BOOK, sent postpaid to any rf 8 * n United States or Canada, for ?*• Cents. CLUB RATES. COPIES $1 00 T\Ytfv.p PIEa 1 70 HUNDRED COPIES 10 00 Address'* 0 an<1 Tlu- ee-Oent Stamps reoeived. New York Newspaper Union, 148 dc iso Worth St., NawY.rk. “Yes, thoro they go I” said Miss Pamela, lifting the comer of the win dow curtain to look down the long per spective of tho winding road. " Four of ’em. In two cutters, with two wolf- robes and two sets of sleigh bells. And it’s the third time that Ruth and Bessie havo been asked ont sloigh-riding witbin tbo month, and nobody ever thinks of me I” And it was a little strange, too, when one came to think of it. Miss Pamela Pipely was a plump young woman of tbroe-und-thirty, with rosy cheeks, snapping blook eyes, and a figure as trim and straight as a sapling-pine. She had not Ruth's melting, almond- shaped eyes perhaps, nor tho peachy pink of Bessie’s radiant complexion, but she was universally acknowledged to ho the best hand at piokling and preserving in nil the country around. She oouldn’t quote S.?inburneor Jean Tngelow, hut she managed her widowed brother's household with a firm yet gentle band, and had a chestful of patchwork, hedquilts and oroohotod tidies, in the bigold garret upstairs. In fact, MisH Pamela Pipely would have made a first-class wife to any man living—if only the baohelors around Gray Goorgo could havo heon brought to porceivo a fact whioh was so mani festly to their advantage. . Bo Miss Pipely sat before the fire of blazing logs, all mossed over with silver- gray fringe, and bubbling out their resinous hearts beneath the fiery ordeal of the flames, and knitted away at Squire Sam’s gray-mixed stockings, as if she weroon a wagorsgainat old Time and was resolved to conquer at all haz ards. And tho dragon’s head that was carved on the old mahogany chair op posite, and the clawlegs and the queer little brass knobs scattered all over it, secmed.to wink“s#erly at her, in the pleasant light as she worked. It was an heirloom in the family, that old chair, *nd the Pipelys were proud of it. Just then there came tho merry jingle of sleigh-bells up the road, like a peal of miniature laughter. “ Some one else out for a sleigh-ride,” thought Miss Pamela,- without turning her head. But to her infinite amazement the tiny pearls ceased to chime; the sleigh had stopped. “ Good graoions 1” said Miss Pamela, taking a hurried observation from be hind the netted fringe of the curtains, “it’s Mr. Hedger. And he’s coming here, too I" Mr.,Hedger came in—a stout, middle aged man, with light blue eyes shining behind his speotacles, brown hair just sprinkled with gray an 1 a seal muffler buttoned up to liis very nose, « Good morning, Miss Pamela I" said he, pleasantly. « Good morning I" said Miss Pamela. “I’ve called on business," said Mr. Hedger who was one of those uncanon ized social martyrs, a bashful old bach elor. ,, Miss Pamela, to be sure, was an old maid- hnt she wasn’t in the least degree bashful, so, perhaps, the two were not evenly mated. “On businessV” repeated the lady. “ I’ll call my brother at once." << Oh, don't do that, Miss Pamela!” said Mr. Hedger, deprecatingly. « jj 0 j” Miss Pamela raised her jet- black eyes in some surprise. “ Because my business was with you especially,” he explained. << QJj |* Miss Iamela sat downagain, mechan ically crimping the borders of her apron with the linger and thumb of her leit hand, while a very pretty blush crept over her faco. «i I’ve been thinking it over for some time,” said Mr. Hedger, rather ab ruptly. “ Have you ?" said Miss Pamela. And the crimping operation went on faster than ever. «i Of course I know it is taking a great liberty,” said the gentleman, apologetic ally. “Oh, don’t speak of it," said the lady. “ And then, you know, we are almost strangers," he added. “Oh, that makes no difference I” said Miss Pamela, hurriedly. “I can hardly muster courage to ask,” said ho. “ Don’t yon be afraid,” sweetly smiled the bright-oyed damsel, wondering what Bessie and Ruth would say if they were to oome home and find her engaged. “ You will forgive my audacity ?” he murmured, moving hu chair a trifle nearer. " Of oourse I” responded Miss Pipely. " Well, then," said Mr. Hedger, plung ing headlong into the subject, will you sell me that old mahogany dragon’s head chair of yours for my collection of antiquities ? I am told it has a record for a century and a half, and I have long been anxious to possess it. Expense will be no object to me, as my pleasure lios in oolleoting these valuable articles of vertn.” Miss Pamela turned red and white— the folds of the apron fell from her hand. Figuratively speaking, she froze over at onoo. " I prefer to drive no bargains for any family relics,” she said, stiffly. " But—” "lam sorry to disappoint yon, but it is really quite out of the question,” said Pamela. “ Might I continue to hope—” “ You may continue to hope nothing!’ severely spoke the lady. And Mr. Hedger, beginning vaguely to snspect that something was wrong, stumbled vaguely ont of the room. Whilo Pamela pnt her head down in her hands, and began to cry ^little. “ I thought ho was going to propose,” she said, “And 1 did liko him—and I was just going to say yes! And to think ho only wanted that horrid old dragon’s chair, after all 1” In the wood-yard outside ‘ Mr. Hedger encountered Squire Samuel Pipely, who was splitting wood like a good-natured Goliath. “Oh!" said the squire. “Pears to me you mado a very short stay, Hodger?” “ I don’t think your sister was much pleased,” said Mr. Hedger. Tho squire suspended his ax in mid air. “Not pleased?” said he. “Why what on earth did you say to her ?’’ "I only asked if she would bo willing to sell me the old claw-legged mahog any chair for my eolleetion of antiqui ties." “ And she said no?” “ She said no, most emphatically.'* The squire struck his ax into a log, scratched his nose and chuckled. “Ah!” said he. “Well, it ain’t her fault; sho couldn’t say yes.” “ Couldn’t say yes ?” eohoed Hedger. “ My Grandfather Pipely was a queer old soul,” said Sam. “Ho left that chair to Pamela, you know." So I havo understood,” said Mr. Hedger. “ She never was to part with it unless she married,*’ added the squire. “ Unless she married?” repeated Mr. Hedger, vaguely. “ But in that case,” said Squire Sam, seizing bis ax again, “ it was to become the joint property of her and her hus band.” “ I never thought of that," said Mr. Hedger. “Second thoughts aresometimesbest thoughts," said tho squire, splitting away as for dear life. “ I’ve always admired her,” said Mr, Hedger, “ and I believe I’ll go back.” “Just as yon please,” observed the sqnire. Miss Pamela Pipely was sitting by the fire, with a little flush on her cheek and a little moisture of her eyelashes, while her knitting lay unheeded in her lap. She started at his entrance. » Mis9 Pipely—” said the baoholor. “Sir!” she cried, brushing away the dew from the lashes, which curved so prettily at their end, and trying to look unorfneerned. “If you won’t give me the old ohair,” said Mr. Hedger, “ will you give me “ I don’t know what you mean,” said Miss Pamela. “Don't you?” said Mr. Hedger. And then he sat down beside Miss Pa mela and explained himself. I never heard of such a thing in my life!” cried she, hysterically. “But don’t you think it would be a capital idea ?” urged Mr. Hedger. “ No—yes—perhaps 1” said the lady. “ You’ll think of it?” said he. “Yes, I’ll think of it,” said she. And so they beoame engaged, and Mr. Hedger added to his sooial status and his eolleetion oli .antiques at the same time. And they are just as happy as if it had been a ease of love at first sight. Old-Fashioned Lsve Teste. Referring to thense of plantain love charms, they ate very numerous. One popular oio consists in taking (he leaves of yarrow, commonly called “ nose-bleed,” and tiokling the inside of the nostrils, repeating at the samo time these lines: Groon ’arrow, groon ’arrow, you boar a white blow. If my lovo lovo me, my nose will blood now; If my love don’t love mo, it ’ont bleed a drop; If my lovo do lovo mo, ’twill blood ovory drop. Some ont the common brake or fern just above the root to asoertain the ini tial letters of the fntnre wife’s or hns- band’s name, and thedandelion,as aplant of omen, is mneh in demand. As soon as its seeds are ripo they stand above the head of the plant in a globular form, with a feathery top at the end of eaoh seed, and then are without any difficulty detached. When in this condition the flower stalk must be carefully pluoked, so as not to injure the globe of seeds, the charm consisting in blowing off the seeds with the breath. The number of puffs that are required to blow every seed olean off indioates the number of years that must elapse before tho per son is married. Again, nnts and apples aro very favorite love tests. The mode of procedure is for a girl to plaoe on the bars of the grate a nut, repeating this incantation: If bo loves are, pop sod fly; If bo bates mo, llvo and dio. As may be imagined, great is the dis may if the anxious faoe of the inquirer gradually perceives the nnt, instead of making the hoped-for pop, die and make no sign. Again, passing on to the insects, one means of divination is to throw a lady bird into the air, repeat ing meanwhile the subjoined couplet: Fly away oast, fly away west, Show mo wbero lives the ono I liko best. Should tho little insect ohanoo to fly in the direction of the honse whore the loved one resides it is regarded os a highly-favorable omen. Some days are considered specially propitious for practicing love divina tions. Foremost among these is St ■ Valentine’s day, a festival which has been considered highly appropriate for sttoh ceremonies, as there is an old tra dition that on this day birds choose their mates, a notion which is frequently alluded to by the poets, and particu larly by Chaucer, to which reference is made also in “ A Midsummer Night’s Dream:" Good morrow, friends, St. Valontine is past; Bogin the wood-birds but to couple now. Thus, the Devonshire young ladies have a fanoy that on St. Valentine’s day they can, if they wish, make certain of thoir fnturo. If so disponed, they go into the churchyard at midnight, with some h mpseod in their hand, which, after they have walked around tho church a certain numberof timesj they scatter on either side as they return homeward, repeating a certain charm. It is sup posed that the true lover will be seen taking up tho hempseed just sown, at tired for the ceremony in a winding- sheet. Another species of lovo-divina- ticn once observed, consisted in obtain ing five hay leaves, four of whioh the anxious maiden pinned to the four cor ners of her pillow, aud tho fifth in the middle. If she was fortunate enough to dream of her lover, it was a snresign that she would be married to him in the course cf l ho year. Again, some young people would boil an egg hard, and, after taking out the contents, fill the shell with salt, the charm consisting in eating the shell and salt on going to bed at night without either speaking or drinking after it. A further method of divination was practiced in the follow ing -way: The ady wrote her lovers’ names upon small pieoes of paper, and rolling them up in clay pnt them into a tub of water. The first that rose to tho surface was to be not only her val entine, bnt in all probability her future husband.—Domestic Folk-Lore, Tho contributions paid in and pledged for the erection of a Christian church in Washington, to tako the place of the one which President Garfield and his family attended, amount to over $21,000. The number of members added to the denomination in eight States during the past year is 2,884- MOMENTOVa MATTER a. Messrs. Moody and Sankey, the re vivalists, began their second religions oampaign in Great Britain in New castle, the seat of the recent Anglican Church congress. Their meetings are attended by large congregations. A story of heroism comes to ns from the English steamer Edgar on a recent trip from the Senegal. The entire crew, except the captain and his wife and the mate, were stricken with sickness so that they oould tnko no part in the navigation of the vessel. The oaptain suggested to his wife to take the post of “ tho man at the wheel,” while ho himself and mate aoted as engineer and fireman. The three brought the vessel safe from the west coast of Afrioa to the European continent. German scientists have discovered through experiment that the eleotrio light is healthier than other methods of illumination, since it leaves the air purer, and that some colors—red, green, bine and yellow especially— are shown more distinctly by it tnan by daylight. Harper's Weekly thinks “ex periments by German scientists aro not nooessary to prove that the eleotrio light has a great advantago over kero sene in not being adapted to the kin dling of fires in kitoben stoves by servant girls, and this consideration goes far toward establishing its supe riority from a sanitary point of view. It also has an advantage over gas in the same respeot, since hotel lodgers from remoto rural districts oannot blow it out on retiring.” A German paper, comparing Ger many with Franco, observes that the former nation is superior to the latter in political and military power, and that the latter surpasses tho former in onltnre and material prosperity. This, it says, is chiefly attributable to the fast that the population of France is almost stationary, whilo tbit of Ger many is rapidly increasing. France, which is, moreover, richer iu natural resources than Germany, is thus easily enabled to provide for the wants of its people. Germany, naturally a poor country, cannot increase her produc tions so as to keep pace with tho in crease of her population. According to tho latest census the population of Germany was 45,194,000; it has in creased by 459,000 a year from 1871 to 1875, and since 1875 by 489,600 a year. Daring the past nine years the increase has amounted to more than 4,000,000 persons, which is more than the population of the grand duchies of Baden aud Hesso and tho province/ of Alsace-Lorraine. It is as if Germany had annexed the population of these countries without annexing the coun tries themselves. Suoh an increase of population addsto tho strength of the empire, but it also imposes a hoavy burden upon Germany for the mainten ance of her numerous children. A Bio Three-Year-Old Boy. A recent letter from Evansville, Ind., says: There arrived in this oity to-day a man named Adam Castleman, of Ca- sey county, Ky. His family is with him, one of which is a young boy only throe years old, who stands three feet four inches in his stockings, measures sixteen inches around the calf of the leg, twenty-six inches around the thigh, forty-two inches around the waist, thirty-eight inches around the chest, and weighs 130 pounds. Tho child, his father says, weighed but nine pounds at his birth, hut at six months had in creased to forty-nine pounds, and then jumped by rapid stages to his present enormous proportions. The child is bright enough, although physicians have counseled his parents not to tax him closely with mental effort. Physi cally, although so huge for his age, he is sonnd and healthy, and makes what might be called a waddling effort at romping around. Castleman and his wife, though both of good size, are neither of them large, aud oannot re member any ancestor from whom this prodigious boy could have inherited his extraordinary proportiens. They have another child, an yifant girl, three months old, but giving no evidences of following in her brother’s footsteps. Germanu'c Gold. In a dark cellar of the Julias Tower at Spandau, Prussia, lies a vast bulk of gold coin equal to about thirty million dollars, laid aside from Germany’s gains by the war of 1870-71, as a provision of hard cash wherewith to defray the mobi lization and other preliminary expenses of the next campaign undertaken by the empire. The fund is absolutely unproductive, and may be said to have cost the German nation half its total amount in foregone interest since it waB first lodged in its subterranean reposi tory. A few days ago the annual in spection of the treasure by the imperial commissioners took placo. A specially detailed section of the guard assisted the two commissioners iu their labori ous task of counting over the contents of twelve hundred canvas bags, eaoh containing one hundred thousand marks, or twenty-five thousand dollars. The massive iron door, closing the dom icile of all this wealth, can only be opened by the simultaneous action of two keys, masterpieces of the locksmith’s art, one of which is in the possession of either commissioner. The exuct times at which the door is unlocked and re locked, as well as every circumstance, however minute, connected with the process of revision, are registered cn the spot in a protocol signed by the offi cials before leaving the fortress, and at tested by the governor in person. Dur ing the inspection the tower guards are doubled ; at its conclusion the com missioners turn their keys in the looks at one and the same moment, are escorted to the gates of the fortress, and take their departure for Berlin, leaving the infruotuose millions to dark ness and Beclnsion for another year. By contracting a severe cough and cold, 1 s-as compelled to give up my daily work and keep to the house. A noigtibor recommended mo to try a bottle of Dr. Bull's Gough Syrup It was proonred and used ; to my astonishment relief was instantaneous. Edw. W. Chiton, Waverljr, Md, WESTERN ATAGK ROBBER. " Gentleman, Plcnse Climb Down”—A Rend Agent With a Record. There is in tho Detroit workhouso to day a prisoner whose smile is as soft and sweet as a woman’s, and the stranger who meets him is instinctively drawn toward him by his clear, bine eye, soft voice and gentle smile. And yet that very man is accounted the shrewdest, sharpest and most “ nervy' prisoner of the lot. The fact that two officers rode over a thousand miles with him handcuffed and shackled and con stantly watohed is proof of the above assertion. When they turned him over at last to the custody of the superin tendent, they left the following record on the books: “ Prisoner has been engaged in one train robbery at least and in half a dozen stage and highway robberies. “Has broken jail throo times and bears the soars of several wounds. “Has the reputation of being a shooter and a fighter; has killed at least three men ; was a pal of Wild Bill; is supposed to know all the lead ing outlaws of the far West. Is sharp and orafty and has great nervo. Look out for him. Offense : Highway rob bery.” The “Smiler” has not yet exhibited the slightest desire to see the outeido walls of the workhouse, bnt is reported as one of the most orderly and qniet prisoners in the institution. “ OKNTLKMRN, PLIASR CURB DOWN.” The first Deadwood line stage robbed was the work of a single'man, and if that man was not tho prisoner we write of then he has a twin brother. The robbery occurred just at sunset six miles from Deadwood. The stage con tained seven men, all well armed. It was just rounding a thicket when a man stepped in front of the horses, halted them, and quietly said to the driver: If yon pnll a line until I am through I’ll send a ballet through yonr head!” This was accompanied by snoh a soft, bland smile that the astonished driver yelled hack: “ Stop your fooling, or I’ll inn over you 1” THAT DBOUVINO SMILE. But (he smile was deceiving. Up oamo a navy revolver on lino with the driver’s eye, and his teeth ohattered as he loosened the reins and soothed the horses. Yells and shouts were heard inside the stage, but none of the pas sengers suspected what was happening until tho road agent palled open one of the doors and called out: Now, then, gentlemen, please climb down I” Who the deuce are you?” was shouted at him by throe or four in chorus, and his smile was honey itself as ho answered: I’ll introduce myself ilirootly. Come, gouts—these shooters arc in a hurry to hurt some one I” Ho hacked off a few feet, a revolver in either hand, aud the passengers be gan climbing down. Leave your arms in tho stage I" shouted the “ Smiler.” “I’ll pop the man who brings ont any sort of weapon with him I Oome, now—sun’s going down fast 1” There were seven revolvers and three Winchester rifles among the passengers but that one man had the bulge on the orowd. Men are half disarmed when surprised. Coop them np in addition to the surprise and plaok is gone. The road-agent knows this, and the foot is as good as half a dozen men behind him. One by one the seven climbed down and stood in a row, and as the last man left the ooaoh the “Smiler” con fronted the line and softly remarked: “ I will now trouble you to deposit yonr watches and money on the ground!’ With many a groan and ourse and High the request was complied with. Those who had walleth lost all; those who had divided their money in dif ferent pockets saved half. Two of the seven had no watches to lose. After the last man had “ deposited” the rob ber pointed to the open door of the stage and said: It’s a tough country and I won’t take your weapons. Please elimb in.” As the last man mounted the step the robber slipped behind the coach and called to the driver to go on at a gal lop, at the same time firing three bul lets over the coach to start thing with a rush. Half a mile away the coach halted and the seven viotims jumped down with their arms, but the “Smiler" had disappeared with his booty. Less than a month after the robbery related above, the “ Smiler ” was half asleep in a Caster City saloon when in came a sharp known as “ Grizzly,” ao companied by three or fonr men, whose admiration for hjs brag and bluster made them his backers. “Grizzly” wanted to fight some one, bnt he wanted to pick his man. When he saw the “ Smiler” dozing away in his ohair he thought he had discovered a “ ten- dor-foot ” whom ho oould wallop. With out a word of warning he advanced and pulled the sleeper’s nose. The coft mile came to the little man’s face as be NO. 36 PUBLISHED EVERY TUESDAY. NOTICE. SV*AI1 muraaloatiOM Intended for thlji pa* per most be accompanied with the 4hll aslik af the writer, not neoeeeirily for publication, bnt ae a guarantee of good faith. We are In no way rceponaible tor the rtotlgos Indoiona of eorreepondente. slowly rose-up, and his voioe was po more than a whisper as he inquire^; “ Stranger, did yon mean that ?" . “You bet I" " “Thenniob of this crowd as don’t liko bullets had better git 1” Three or fonr men rushed ont just as the revolvers commenced to speak. The “Smiler" was alone—the bally had three backers. For three or fonr minatea there was a oonstant pop! popl of revolvers, and then two of “Grizzly’s” friends rnshed ont and ran away, both wounded. Those who rnshed in found the bally down and severely wounded and the other one Btone dead, while the " Smiler ” was sitting on a bench re loading one of his revolvers. Thirty shots had been fired at him from a dis tance of twelve feet,' and yet he had. re oeived only one slight flesh wound. One day as fonr men rode ont from Julesbnrg, Col., they encountered a smiling stranger, who made seyeral inquiries regarding mines. They w;cre giving him all possible information, when he suddenly interrupted the con versation with : " Gentlemen, dismonnt and hold apt” At the same time he coveted the orowd with his shooters, and theta Was no alternative bnt to yield. The crowd left him over $1,600, hnt it was his. last robbery. A large party were soon ‘on bis trail, and after dodging them for two or three days he was oaptnred find given a sentence of ten years.—Detroit fYee Press, m A Remarkable Scene in Church. At the opening of the Women’s Ra tional Christian Temperance Union, at Washington, on the motion of Mrs. Foster, of Ohio, the mother of Miss Willard was invited to the platform/ as were also Miss Clara Barton, the Florenoe Nightingale of America, and Miss Snsan B. Anthony. After .the latter appeared andtpok.her seat, a scene followed suoh as is not often seen in any convention. Miss Mor rison, a delicate-looking lady, belong ing to the Indiana delegation, rose in her seat, and as she advanced toward tho platform, said: “ I rise to a question of privilege which I kfiow yon will all grunt.” Ascending the platform she said very earn estly, “I want, in the presence of thiB flag (referring to the stars nnd stripes), which every breeze love? to kiss, in the prosonco of this picture of this great man (Garfield), who in the proudest moment of his life turned aside to kiss his mother and his Wife; so in the presenoe of these throe wopon (Miss Willard's mother, Miss fiartou and MiBS Atilmuy), representing tho motherhood, r. presenting all that is angelic in womuu, and representing us, to kiss Miss AutliQtij,” and suiting tho aotion to tho word, Miss Morrison pounced upon Miss Anthony, aud’ be fore that lady was aware, bad plumped a kiss on her month, which made a smack ” that could he heard all over tho church. ' > Miss Williard, then rising, said she did not know that the good women of Illinois had brought their mothers with them, hut they had brought her mother here, and when tho Western delegation stepped off the ears last night her mpther was t here, and she bad been told that sho was tho brightest of all of thorn. Her mother, she said, was entering her seventy-eighth year. Then, taking her mother by the hand, Miss Willard said, with a trembling lip and broken voice, “Here is a dear heart that never failed e.” She then paid an eloquent tribute to the sged mother that stood beside- her. The scene in the chnroh was remarkable —not an eye was dry, and many ladies aotnally cried aloud at the touching sceno. When Miss Willard had con cluded, her aged mother, her voice trembling with age and emotion, said: Ladies of tho convention, l thank you for the honor you have conferred upon my dear daughter, and I thank yon for the honors yon have paid me it inviting mo to the platform.” She then kissed her daughter, an act whioh sent a fresh thrill of emotion through tho conven tion. The Food to Make Flesh. In goneral we do not think health is promoted by “taking thought’* tod much about it. But on the other hand there is no alvantage in ignorance. Here is a hint from the Toledo Bl/itle; Sugar, syrup, fresh chocs?, wheaten grits, hom ■ iny anl juicy meats are-the foods to make flesh. Almost any Woman will get plump on brown bread and whoaten grits, or oatmeal twice a day, with meat and plonty of .vegetables at breakfast and dinner, and a supper of brown bis cuits, cheese and oream, or coffee drank with plenty of sugar and cream. It is not necessary to look largely if the ap petite does not call for it, but the food must he tempting, and if the hunger is keen, any one who would be plump and spirited mnst not be afraid to indulgo it. Uorelishing, distasteful food, though it may be considered healthy, will not nourish and stimulate like what is pi quant and savory, and changed in vari ety day by day. «Vi