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THE MERCURY.
RICHARD I. HARRIS,
Attorney at Law,
SANDER8VLLE, GA.
Will prsitiee in nil the courts of the
middle circnit»»nd in the counties sur-
roundifig \\ shington Special atten
tion given to commercial law.
E- S. LANGMADE,
Attorney at Law,
SANDER'VILLE, Gt.
MAYOR. ~
O. H* ROGERS.
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D. E, B, WELLS.
MARSHALL.
J. E. WEDDON.
ALDEftMJEjy,
W. H. LAWSON,
Wm. RAWLINGS,
K. G. LANG.
A M. MAYO,
M. H. BOYER.
2 own 0/ 2ennille.
Mayor— John C. Uarmnn.
AlHermpn W P. Davis, J W
Smith, P. J. Pipkin, T. J. Beck.
Clerk—S. H B Massey.
Miuxhail—J, C. Hamilton.
B. D. IVANS,
ATTORNEY AT LAW.
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April Mm.
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ATTORNEY AT LAW,
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„ Will practical* the Mate and Unites
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VOLUME IV
SANDER8VILLE, GA„ TUESDAY, JANUARY 1, 1884.
NUMBER 37.
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HINES & ROGERS,
Attorneys at Law,
SANDERSVILLE. GA„
toll.
Jawii?5S° jnh th «upountlea of Waahla|taa,
fod la th. rr h Emanuel and Wilkinson,
‘Hot „ x q.0^, for tba Souther* JDU-
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Oct aMe af Fablla Igur.
EDITORIAL NOTES.
Work is to be begun this week on the
groat canal that is to irrigate the San
Lula Valley, in Southern Colorado, Hit
canal is to be seven miles long and at
the bottom sixty feet wide, and there are
to be many lateral canola from it, all to
irrigate two hundred thousand sores of
laud now almost worthless. Several col
onies are to bo organized to occupy the
land.
From time to time complaints of the
ineffloienoy of onr jury system appear in
the publio prints, and not a few lawyers
of ability do not hesitate to recommend
the time honored trial by jury. It is
natural that juries should refloat populai
sentiment, and it is not surprising that
the avorage intelligence and prejudice of
the times should always appear in
the deliberations and conclusions ol a
jury. Tliero is no such thing os the re
form of the jury system. The improve
ment aimed at cannot be reaoho i without
reforming the people at large. With tht
elevation of popular morals and intelli*
genoe, juries will naturally rise to the
height of their duties, and execute the
trust confided to them wisely and firmly.
Tun largest private house in New
York city is now in process of building
near Central park on Madiaon avenue.
It ia to be occupied by Charles Tiffany,
the jeweler, Louis 0. Tiffany, the deco
rator, and Mitckel, a son-in-law of Charles
Tiffany It is expected to ooet $400.-
000, not including the lot Tho house
will be five stories high to the coping-**
style of architecture French, bitted on
the Renaisance. The walls are of brick,
of a peculiar form manufactured espec
ially for the purposo at Perth Arabov.
Each brick is four inched wide, one slid
a half inches ‘Auck and thirteen Inches
l°DKi «nd of the color and texture of fire
brick. In tile center of ho building is a
paved court thirty feet square, open to
the sky, the various stories being ranged
around it, and lighted from it, after the
manner of the European palaces,
In the Hawaiian kingdom there are
about 2,000 lepers, of whom probably
half are under restraint The afflicted
are nearly all natives, and the few whites
probably fifty or sixty, who are victims
of the disease ore not under restraint
when a leper is reported, the police at
once put him in a detention hospital.
When it is discovered that he is really a
leper the authorities send him to the
inland of Molokai, there to remain until
he dies. Cn this island (hero are proba
bly a thousand lepers. The scenes at
parting when the unfortunate sufferers
ore separated from their families to be
sent to their place of exilo are described
as being sod iu the extreme. Of course
under the circumstances, there is no
help for it There is no such thing as
curing leprosy, and when the disease
breaks up a family, the separation may
be regarded as eternal
Salt Lake is one hundred miles long
and fifty miles across at tho widest part.
The average depth is forty feet and
sounding have nowhere gone beyond
n netyfoet 'J he bottom is hard, white
sand with a gradually shelving shore,
and the water is so clear that the bottom
is easily seen where the depth is not over
twenty feet. There is over twenty per
cent of salt in the water and one gallon
of salt is obtained from five ga Ions of
wnter. The density of the water is so
great that to dive in it is impossible, and
a strong man cannot swim in it over one
hundred yards. To a person who does
not swim the bathing is delightful, as
the water bears him up and allows his
Inxly absolute rest as he floats. On
"oming out it is necessary to sponge th«
body with fresh water as tho salt will
form a coot of armor not pleasant to
wear. Ther is no form of vegetable or
animal life to be found in this lake which
holds more salt than the Dead Soa.
The rag pickers of Paris are to bo ban
ished from the city and tlie work of re
moving the dust heaps will be done more
thoroughly by regular street cleaners.
The o ass known us rag-pickers with
us are called in France ‘‘chiffoniers.”
Men, womefi and boys are engaged in
the work. They go out at night with
lanterns, bags and hooked sticks with
which to (xplore the rubbish. In Paris
nothing seems wasted. Bones, broken
glass and china, corks, cast oft clothes,
and even bread crusts and vegetables
half decayed etc collected and used by
the ingenious Frenchmen. Distances of
surprising honesty among those degraded
creatures are not rare. Iu 1858 the Em
press Eugenie lost a diamond bracelet
which was found by Gelestin Col et,
chief of the rag-pickers. The ohiffonier
carried the bracelet to police headquar
ters and it was soon restored to the owner.
The Empress bestowed a yearly penaion
of $126 on Collet as a reward for his hon
esty.
Washington contains 65,000 colored
people, a larger number than can be
found in any other city in tho United
States. They enjoy every right that the
law has given them, many have accumu
lated weallh, and they own handsome
residences and b»ve numerous churches.
But the oolor line is rigidly drawn in so
cial matters. Even among the colored
people there are three diilindt classes.
Separated by insurmountable barriers.
The so-called upper crust consists of men
of wealth, learning and high politics]
position. These people associate only
with each other, and are wait d upon by
oolored servants who are mttde to keep
their places. The sooornl class is oom-
Po86d of government olerka and people
in comfortable circumstances, and (he
third class consists of laborers and poor
people generally. In the first of these
circles the leaders are such fnteillae M
the Brutes, Gregorys, Langstons, Worm-
leys and others. These people are weal
thy and well eduoated, and they live in
excellent style, btill they are an is lated
sot, os they ftfu hot good enough for
White society and too good for that of
thoir own race. The student of the race
problem will find much to interest him
in Washington.
California itotitinuoa to hold her own
As the wine region of the United States.
This country is credited with a wine pro-
duot of 39,000,000 gallons, and California
will produce this year ten millions of gal
lons, against eleven millions last year.
Thie shortage ie said to be dtte to a three
days' norther lest June. This wind
seems to he iu the nature of * sirocno,
While Ohio and other Motions have be
come prominent for Wine.production,
California seems to have met With ilnW
ken success in wlfiO Bhlture from the
first. The state probably produoe*
twenty varieties of grapes, and six or
soven of these stand deservedly high in
the opinion of wine experts. It is impos
sible to get at the quantify of wine 6dil-
sumed hy oHr people, because tho devil-
Ivy ol adulteration cannot be definitely
estimated. The adulteration of wine ii
increasing the profit of the dealer to
something like one thousand per cent,
end it is becoming a serious question
with the Californians how to gbt theii
Wine to ihUrket a! honest prices and still
Sdaintain its reputation for richness, pu
rity and strength. How to test vine it
something in which all people feel more
or less interest. One thing is now pretty
well assured—bouquet is never present
except in the purest wines, and there ii
no truly fine wine without A Strikingly
marked o? agffefetbie bouquet.
One of the biggeet swindles evei
known in this country waa the pretended
disoovery of extensive diamond fields in
Arizona in 1872. At that time a man
named Harpending made his appearance
in San Francisco with a lot of diamond'
which were examined and pronounced
gems of the purest water. The egoite-
ment flamed up at once and spread along
the Pacific coast. In a short time twenty
men organized for on expedition to the
diamond fields. In the party waa a Mr.
J ones who acted as agent of Horpendiug,
and assumed the position of pilot. Mike
Gray wne elected captain. After a toil
some journey the explorers reached the
mountains of Arizona, and here theii
hardships began in earnest Alter fif
teen days' tramping they found to theii
astonishment that they had been travel
ing in a circle. The pilot, Jonee, was
appealed to, and that individual admit
ted that he had lost his way and had no
idea o' the situation. The diamond hun
ters worried along another week or so,
and then Jones was dismounted and
forced to leave tho camp. 'The party
soon broke up Two died from-exposure
one became deranged, several others re
mained in the territories for some time,
and the remainder made their way back
to Son Francisco. The true inwardness
of the affair was soon exposed Harpen
ding had "soltod” liis alleged diamond
fields in Wyoming,, and in order to gain
time in which to dispose of stock, he
caused the Arizona expedition to start
off on a wild goose chase. While these
poor fellows were floundering about io
the wilderness, Harpending sold stock
in his bogus diamond bonanza and
skipped before the exposure come.
Mb. Henry Villard, it appears, has
had a serious disagreement with a num
ber of his associates and the result has
been Mr. Villard’s resignation of the
presidency of the Oregon Transconti
nental railway and navigation com
panies. He is succeeded by W. Endicott,
Jr., of Boston, as President of the Ore
gon Transcontinental, and by T. Jefferson
Coolidge, of Boston, as President of the
Oregon Railway ond Navigation Com
pany. A syndicate has also been organ
ized to take between $9,000,000 and $10,-
000,000 of the bonds now owned by the
Oregon Transcontinental. It is claimed
by Mr. Villard’s friends that he still re
tains a large interest in these companies,
but it is pretty well understood that the
millionaires who have been backing him
heretofore are not satisfied with the con
dition of affairs. Notwithstanding the
roseate reports of Mr. Villard, tho float
ing indebtedness of the two companiet
named has increased in the past six
months from $8,000,000 to $23,000,000,
an increase which can only be accounted
for upon tho theory that the losses have
resulted from a protracted attempt to sus
tain iu the market the securities of the
Northern Pacific system. Mr. Vfllwrd’1
railroad career date# from the time when
as tha WjWaiVbi 1 ol llle Kansas Pacific, he
succeeded in ohizeling Jay Gould and
other capitalists out of several hundred
thousand dollars. Organizing a wealthy
following he turned hie attention to the
developement of the railway and steam
ship systems of Oregon^ capitalizing
theitt at colossal figures. Tlffi man’s au-
. daoity, and his immense private invest
ments, snob as his new palace, and sev
eral hundred thousand dollars of govern
ment bonds, registered in hia wife’s
name, have inspired distrust, and the
preferred etoklloUert of the Northern
Pacific are now moving to replace him aa
president of that oomponv. The indica
tions are that Mr. Villard’s career has
reoeived a serious chhcfci
Th* 5,000 lawyers of New YorkOify
embrace many ranks, classes and condi
tions, Less than one-half the number
enjoy a competency, but there are many
who make lintndnBe stlttiS eVet-y year.
Some of the “ shyster” lawyers—men
who know nothing of law and practioe
only in (he police courts—realize aa
muoh aa $25,000 a year. Diokeraon A
Dickerson, patent lawvers, have made
$6,000,000. Their present income is
$40,000 A year. Frederick W. Betts,
also a patent lawyer, has an anmial iM-
tiomb of $$6,000. ttoScott Conkling prob
ably makes $100,000 a year. The firm
of whioh Wm; M. EtaTtl ii a ifiouibdr—
EVdrtk, ftolitkmayd and Choate—do a
business of about $80,000 a year. Mr.
Evarts ia supposed to be worth about
half a million. David Dudley Field has
made $11,000,000 out of hia profession.
In the Tweed suits be received a fee of
$1OO;O00;. Lord. Bay A Lord received a
foe of $176,000 iu the Hicka-Lord suit.
Their income is about $65,000. General
Roger A. Pryor started in New York af
ter the war without a dollar, and now haa
an income of $10,000. The Condert
brothers do a large practice for foreign
er* obd moke $60,000 a year, tile in
comes of other prominent lawyers are
estimated aa follows ; Man A Parsons,
$80,000; William F. Howe, $40,000;
Vsnderpool, Green & Gumming, $80,000;
John F. Dillon, $30,000; Alexander
Green, $50,000; Goodrich, Deady A
Pratt, $35,000 ; 8. J. Tildon ia worth
$10,000,000. B. D. Silliman is worth
$1,000,000. Henry A. dra w has a for
tune of $1,500,000. Judge Comstock is
worth $2,500,000. Porter, Lowry, Boren
A Stone have an income of $1,000,000 a
year. Many of the lawyers who enjoy
the largest inoomes are not the most
prominent in the eyes of the publie.
The patent, insurance and admiralty
lawyors moke very little,noise in the
world, but thoy ore noted for (heir fat
fees. On the other hand, advocates
whose names constantly figure in the
newspapers in connection with celebra
ted cases, have to worry along with in
comes ranging from $5,000 to $15,000.
Fanning for Boys.
In the crash of that “Black Friday”
of 1879, which so many New Yorkers
have cause to remember, a stock-broker
of that city lost all his property. With
in a month ho died, leaving a wife aiul
one son, who was reckoned a dull fel
low at school and college.
The shock woko tho boy to tho neces
sity of supporting his mother and
himself. He wont into a groat mercan
tile house in a position a little above
that of porter, but found that his pros
pects there were not flattering.
He looked about him; every occupa
tion seemed over-crowded. As for
taking up land in the West, ho had no
money to pay his way there, and knew
nothing about farming if he had it.
What ho did do was to wait until
June. With the little money he had
saved out of his wages he paid his
passage to Western Pennsylvania,
where he hired as a farm hand. Strong,
intelligent farm laborers always com
mand high wages throughout the
Middle States. For two years the young
man held this position, helping his
mother out of his wages. In that time
there was nothing in the management
of a farm and cattle, both in theory and
practice, wliich he did not try to master.
At the end of the two years ho weu t
down to the rioh southern slopes of tho
Blue Ridge and rented a farm. By hard
and intelligent work he has now nearly
paid for it, and is at the present time
s successful cattle-raiser for the Balti
more market, with fair prospects of be
coming a rich man.
Our boys and young men who have
neither capital nor family influence are
beginning to turn their faces to farm
ing. Many of them go to the West,
and some of them come back with sor
rowful complaints of the coarseness and
roughness of Western life, and the ob
stacles to success in their path.
These young men become disheart
ened and fail because neither they nor
any man can earn a living at a trade
which they do not understand. The
city-bred man should not take up or
buy a foot of ground until be has
learned how to work it.—Youth’s
Comvanion.
Water.—Recently a tenderfoot from
California was in one of the arid districts
of Arizona, and, being thrown in con
tact with an honest miner, endeavored
to draw the native out. “Little cloudy,
to-day, aint it?” asked the tenderfoot.
“Yes,” said the honest miner. "Looks
like rain ; don’t you think so?" “No,”
said the honest miner, “Indeed I” said
the tenderfoot; “why, from the looks of
the sky I'm certain it is going to rain.”
“Wall, p’r’aps it is, young feller, p’r’aps
it is,” indulgently, “but I ben here ten
year, an’ it hain’t rained yit.” The ten
derfoot concluded it would-gtayxlry.
GENERAL NEWS.
Ten new buildings are going up on one
square in Baton Rouge.
The next Mississippi Legislature will
contain fourteen negroes.
The City Council of Ifsahvilla have
voted *ettt free to the poor.
The extent of ooai lands 111 TtlSi 14 es
timated at 20,000 square miles.
The average daily shipment at oyster*
from Morgan City, La., is 75,000.
The Haile gold mine in South Caro
lina employs 200 workmen and thirteen
engines.
Arkansas, whioh in I860 Lad tiflrfy-
eight miles of railroad, has now 1,664
mileS iti operation.
Over thirty different specimen! of Cfi)
have been secured in the “finds” in
Overton county, Tenn.
T he city authorities of Montgomery,
Alabama, have ordered the planting of
trees on the principal streets.
A force of alligator hunters in Florida
have engaged to furnish 500,000 skins io
a French tannery within a given time.
One thousand dollars in gold ie the re
sult of a five day*’ run, at Conrad Hill,
N. C.| and the ore is steadily improving.
ThE Sheffield Land, Iron slid Manu
facturing Company, of Alabama, organ
ized with a capital of $000;000 all snb-
aoribed.
Mississippi haa gained 100 per oent in
five yean in manufacturing industries,
having at this time $7,000,000 invested
in such enterprises.
Fifteen locomotive engineers have
been imported from England to run the
Alabama Great Southern and the Vicks
burg and Mari dan roads.
A stock company for the establish
ment of a cotton mil ban bt«n organized
in Hhreveeport, La., with n capital stock
of $100,000 to $200,000.
FisniNd along the Gu f Coast is ala
Rtandfttlll. Cedar Key fleh dealers ate
salting their fish because there ia no
market for them at present.
Laiioh numbers of duoks are being
caught in traps on the James river. One
gentleman last week sowed seventy-five
bushels of corn as a bait for duoka,
Thb Vicksburg citizens' harbor com
mittee are urging the Mississippi River
Commission to take some immediate
measures toward restoring the harbor.
The New York city council haa decided
to purchase Leutze’s picture of “Wash
ington's Triumphal Entry into New
York. November 26. 1788.” The prioe
asked is $10,000.
Strawberries are in the Savannah
market. Although very early in the
season, the fruit is grown in open ground
just east of the city. The market opens
atfil a basket
In the western port of North Carolina,
on Pigeon river, is a ohurch twenty-five
feet wide, forty feet long and fifteen feel
high, built from the timber sawed from
one curly poplar tree.
The gold mine known aa the Hampton
mine, about two miles south of Wades-
boro, N. O., which has been laying idle
for the Inst two years, haa been sold to a
company at gentlemen who intend to
work it vigorously.
Macon Telegraph: Immense quantities
ol sugar will some day be produced in
Florida and Southern Georgia. It ought
not to be long before the people in those
sections awake to a full realization of the
capabilities of their soil in that direction.
“Cattle,” Bays the Oxanna Tribune,
“ore bought in Georgia within twenty-
five miles of Atlanta; driven to Texas;
grazed on the prairies, and shipped to
Chicago—packed and shipped back to
Atlanta and sold presumably at a profit
to all hands.”
Richmond State: 1 he blockade in the
Virginia cut of the Albemarle and Chesa- 1
peake canal Btill oontinuea. One hun
dred vessels of all descriptions are de
layed in the canal and all vessels are now
stopped from entering the canal to avoid
further accumulations.
Dounam (N. O.) Recorder : Nearly on<-
million pounds of tobacco were shipped
to Durham lost week from other mar
kets. This shows the value of our
market. The manufacturers of Durham
will consume not lees than seven million
pounds of tobacco this year.
A case was tried in Jefferson, Ga.,
against a gentleman who invested hia
word’s money in confederate bonds. They
sued him for it, and the jury found for
the wards to the amount of what the
confederate bonds were worth at the
time the investment was made.
The Third United States Artillery,
whioh has been posted in Atlanta for
several months, has gone into winter
quarters in Florida. It is expected that
congress will make an appropriation at
its present session for the establishment
of a permanent post ut Atlanta.
The Postmaster-General has directed
postmasters to exchange for the public,
as applications are made, three qnd six-
cwut Anwratnottons of poetage tfgmps
and stamped envelopes, for others of dif
ferent denominations, Stamped en
velopes will be exchanged at the full cur
rent rate.
A theatrical manager in the Supreme
Court of Georgia, has recovered damage*
from the railroad company whose train
broke down and fai ed to deposit them
and his baggage at the given place and
time. He recovered the price of the
tickets and dtie compensation for the
time lost
Chattanooga Times : Mine Belle Pat-
tenon, granddaughter of the late ex-
PreeideEt Johnem, who reel dee at Green
ville, is engaged, so report says, in Utii-
Wg a thrilling novel, portraying Some of
the marked (Mile of character of one or
two ruggedly honeet and plain-epoken
East Tennesseans
Faring the put four yean Arkansas,
Florida, Louisiana and Texaa have
doubled their railroad mileage. The
total mileage in the four States now
Stands 20,040, against 7,260 ten yean
ago, and during the decade it is estimated
that at least $300,000,000 hai been in
vested in these enterprises.
Captain Terby, of Yalaha, has made
9,000 pounds of guava jelly this season,
and is still manufacturing, having used
nearly a ton of crystallized sugar. A
large quantity of gnavos is also being
preserved and put Up in jan, and he has
discovered a process for making guava
wine, Said to be superior to orange wine.
The polios authorities of New York
have issued an order directing the aiTest
of every professional thief on sight The
result of (hia atop has been to drive sev
eral thousand thieves out of the city, and
they are now spreading themselves all
over the oonntry. There is good reason
to believe that many of these refugee*
from justice are now wintering in the
south.
North Carolina has thirty railroads
completed and others building. There
are three important lines under construc
tion now—the Fhioktown branch oi the
Western North Carolina rood, running
from AahvUle west; the Cape Fear and
Yadkin Valley road, running from the
* mtheastern section of the etate diagon
ally serosa to the northwestern section,
and then the Virginia and North Carolina
road, making a shorter rout# between
Raleigh and Richmond.
The December crop estimates show a
decrease in corn and cotton since the last
report. The indications for this month
point to a reduction of about 13 per oent
in cotton from the crop of last year. The
report points to a crop of about 6,000,000
bales, but it is possible that it may reach
even higher figures. Returns of corn
production, in consequence of the warm,
moist weather north of the fortieth
parallel, indioate a few mi lion bu-hels
short of previous returns. The wheal
aggregate alightly exceeds 4,000,O't0.
The oat crop will eioeed 600,000,000
bushels, which is 4 per oent larger than
last year.
The United States has brought suit in
the United States Circuit Court iu Sa
vannah, to regain possession of an ialand
in Camden county, known as Grover’s
Island. The island waa confiscated as
the property of Gilmore Wright in 1779
by the State, and afterwards sold to
Josiah Tattnall. Tattnall in 1779 made
a deed of it to tho President of the
United States and hia successors. The
United States claims to have held con
tinuous posses lion of it up to the late
war. After the war Williams head-
righted and afterwards purchased from
the State, and has held possession of it
since that time. The present suit has
been pending abont thirteen years. One
of the principal issues of the case is
whether the original deed from the State
of Georgia to Joeiah Tattnall was suf
ficiently explicit to determine that
Grover’s Ialand was the identical piece
of property which was said to be pur
chased.
Salt With Nats.
One time, while enjoying a visit from
an Englishman, hiokoiy nuts were
nerved in the evening, when an English
friend called for salt, stating that he
knew a case of a women who was taken
violently ill by eating heartily of nute
in the evening. The celebrated Dr.
Abernethy was sent for, but it was after
he bad become too fond of hia caps, and
he was not in a condition to go. He
mattered, “Salt! salt!” of which no
notice was taken. Next morning he
went to the place, and she was a corpse.
He said that had they given her salt it
trould have relieved her, and if they
would allow him to make' an examina
tion he would convince them. On open
ing the stomach, the nuts were found in
a mass. He sprinkled Balt on this, and
it immediately dissolved I have known
of a sudden death myself which appears
to have been the effect of the some
cause. I generally eat salt with nuts,
n d consider it improves them.—Qer-
'nantown Telearaph.
Thebe is a thread in our thoughts as
there is a pulse in onr feelings—he who
can hold the one knows how to think,
tnd he who oan move the other knows
Low to fed.
Or all thieves fools are the worst;
they rob you of time and temper.—
Goetha.
A man’s wisdom is his best friend, tolly
km wor—
THE MERC
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Adventisino pays steady essh divi
dends to all parties interested.
Censure is the tax whieh asMR peys
to the publio for being nminsnt
Boston has 108 sai"
doesn’t include the sirs j
of them.
Yes, Albert, a barrel Is i
pieces. The only hold thing ifDNf it i
the bung. f
Has it ever occurred to base bull'Been
that a milk pitoher is gaMhUyilood
fly catcher? «rsH
Tramps existed many, sMSfy peers
ago. One of Watte’ earliest hymns wae,
“Let dogs delight to bark and bite.”
Ha is happy whose rfreusssteasSRsuit
bis temper: but he is more eaesflent
who can suit his temper to eiiy «Mum-
stanoes.
Rev. Mb. Saarr married four eORples
in fifteen minutes, whioh, oalodisteR Dte
Whitehall Timet, is at the rale Of six
teen knots per hour for that Skipp*''
Her Wants.—California wantsitoor*
people and the authorities havedspued
a pamphlet stating that neufly 4ojHX),-
000 acres of land are open to eeUMRenl
“I sat,-Jenkins, sen you toll aydnng.
tender ebioken from an old one rV. "Or
course I oan.” "Well, howf "Ifythe
teeth," "Chicken* have no telth.”
“No, but I have." -*||
How RAPIDLY a-man loses all interest
in Thanksgiving and Ghitetmaa observa
tions and the glorious results at nMaesa
ohuaetta election whan he shoik^s doer
on hia thumb! ;
A physician says that voMPtet *
cigarette best whan it has optadk ii
We think that women like m. sfnffiwtte
best when it has a men et ene.fMff it
—Philadelphia Call.
Did Maryland to pee Oelmmktt
New Jersey ? Speaking ot- ahados Mi*-
sonri says there’s too anteh Cowado
about nothing and thinks tt‘ (Mb to
have Idaho np some new fake In the
fashion line.-JIartfard Sunday JbaWnmL
It ia e sight worthy of en arttefecray
on to see a women, while talking !hmngh
a telephone to her grocer three milea
away, stamping her little foot and shak
ing her (let as though the poor man woe
quailing right before her.
The Chief of Police of BuflUo defines
a suspicious person as "a man standing
on the street corner with hi* heads in
his poeketa.” Fold your arms end lean
against a wall if you want to peon' tor en
honest man. —Detroit /Vs* Pram.
A gentleman wanted some plumbing
done in his house and asked the plum
ber to give an estimate of the ooet at the
work. "Let me see,” mused the
plumber; "one and one am two, four
into three you oen’t I’ll do the Job let
$800.”
“Jammb, do yon love your Meter f*
"Yes, sir.” "Well, show me bow you
love her.” The boy stood still, not
knowing what to do. "Jamas, how do
1 express my love for your mdtbert”
“Oh, yon give her some bank-notes, bat
l aint got any.”
"Yas,” naidthemarkstnoan, "lfcwmna
ia mean about some things. "Why ha’s
been hunting four times this wash. "The
first day he bought a fox and s brace of
duoka from me, and hang me if he hasn't
used those same duoka end that fox
every day sinoe I”
“No,” said e fond- mother, speaking
proudly of her twenty-five-year- old
daughter; "no, Mery isn’t old enough
to many yet She cries whenever any
one scolds her, end until she becomes
hardened enongh to talk book vigorous
ly she isn’t fit for a wife.”
“Come children,”Susan will say.in the
new time dialect "It is your bed time.
All good little children ere in bed at
half-past nineteen; and hem ia tWenty-
one o’clock. Let me took you in*your
bed and I will tell you atonies fill the
olook strikes twenty-two.”
"I has heard folks say,” remarked
Uncle Mose, “dat da could tell e smart
man by lookin’ in his eye, but dii is a
mistake. De mole ain’t got no eye ter
speak ob, bnt dinged ef he ain’t got
more sense den de toed what ken look at
yer ton minutes widout winkin’.
To mbn addicted to delights, business
is an interruption; to snoh as era cold
to delights business is an entertainment;
for which reason it was said to one who
commended a dull man for his applica
tion, “No thanks to him. If he lu|d no
business, he would have nothing to do.”
Good Manners.
Good manners imply more than mere
ceremony, mere attention tc. established,
forms. The habitual observance of cer
tain conventional rules and usages does
not make a lady or gentleman. Rome
degree of formality is necessary in con
ducting our relations and intercourse
one with another, bnt there must be
with it some heart, some genuine love
for our kind; otherwise we con neither
be the instruments or recipients of en
joyments in the midst of the social cir
cle. To impart or receive pleasure in
society there must be at least “the flow
of soul,” if not the “feast of reason.”
We may admire this or that person for
special accomplishments of. manner,
style and conversation; ; but if thebe are
seen and felt to be merely artificial, not
at all involving the affections, we can
never love the same. No gifts pf mind,
nor elegance of person, nor propriety
of personal bearing oaii compensate for
tho want of heart in company. ; It is
only the heart that can touch and im
press the heart. A warm confi4ing soul
is tlie element of all enjoyment and
pleasure in the sooial world; and wherq
this is there can be no stifflaass, no
studied formalism of manner or lan
guage. {
Chance is a word void of sense;
nothing can exist without e-r
VMtaffe.