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CHAPTER:
TRIOS R. A. CHAPTER.
No. 19, meets at Trion on the Friday
■ljht before the third Sunday in April,
May, June, July, August, and Septeiu- :
bar aid on Saturday night belete the j
third Sunday in October. Novempev,
Deoember, January. February, and
March, 0. 0. BRYAN, 11. P.
G. B. MYERS, Sect’y.
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ATTORNEYS:
J. M. Robertson,
Attorney at Laiv,
and Solicitor in Chancery.
Chattanooga, - - Tf.nn.
PRACTICE iu Chancery, Circuit nr.tl Supreme
Coart* of Tcßueiaete and U. S. District Court.
Alse iu adjoining cunuiic* in Georgia.
99"-'* ca In Loart House.
Robert M. W. Glenn,
Attorney at Law,
LaFayette, - - - - Georgia.
WILL PRACTICE in the Supeiior Courts of the
*.««« and adjoining circuits. Collections a
■feeolajty. Office ttrt turner opposite Drug store.
8 *5 dux.
Jc«a PMKL.AN, C. P. CaREB.
Phelan & Goree,
Attoriaeya at Law,
Poss Block,
249 Narkot St.,
CW ATVANO GO A, - - - TENNESSEE
" \Y.li. &J. ?. Jacoway,
Attorneys at Law,
Tbhstox, - - - - Georgia.
PaACTICB In the const!** of Dade. VV.*.!k»-r km.
Catansa, and a*iJoln!ngcnant!cß, and in the > ■*
j. Taras nnd Federal < nmtn A to, Jackson,.DeKfrib
t»« & 'hcrakee, In North Alshamn, and eim-wher.* by
special contract. Special atuniton g r.. 40 the c»l-
Mattos of slalaa. y
V7, K. Hturv;
Attorney at Law,
Eummbrville, - - - - Georgia.
TIT ILL practi»*« I'a tb« Homo and adjoining «'ir
Vs cult*. Collection* a specialty.
,1. 0. Clements,
Attorney at Law,
- - - Georgia
.1 V.L nf.ctlcc in tho suv-rel C'-P-i the
tT u '•'“•MCherulteeClreuitJ, autMhe SUjimne
nade b
Govt -. ■ ' Copeland,
ur * ffiey at Law, *.
'LxFxt ferric, - - - Georgia.
’• TTfTiLL practice in tfao Superior Courts, of Rome
• £lretit.«)«cffhrri! bv speclnl agreement. C«l
--1 a specialty. (Office in mar of (. uiin rsoii’s
1 00 1
, jg I!. P. Lumpkin,
Itiorney a t Law,
LaFayktte. - - Georgia.
WILL aive prompt aUcntim to all business,
entrusted to bun.
Office at .Shuford h Lump in’* store.
DENTISTS:
urn- ■ - . -
Dr. Geo. B. Jordan,
Resident ©enlist,
Kreiso Fawn, - - - - Ga.
Offers bis professional services to the people ol
Sad* and Walker counties. Dental operations pur
gar>>a-4 i« • neat and substantial mani.rr.
All work warranted to glv** perfect satisfaction.
Will mike a profmdonr.l t rip through McLe
»sr«o' L'*ve, on the first of ea. h month.
Dr. J, P. Paiin,
EJssidesist ©esatlst.
Dalton, - - - Georgia.
T AM PREPARED with all tjif
a Modern Improvements-hi D. ntal
mHypPt.t Pt )»ia nc M to turn out us good work
«s eas be had In the State, and nt as low price* as
eau be doneby any firstclr.?.- workman.
#7-1 guarantee all woik turned out to stand pny
sd ill reasonable test*. Special attention given to
osrreetins irregnlarltieH in children’s t'-eth.
fe/-L«diea waited on at their residence, when un
able u» visit tlie office. A liberal share of patronage
solicited,
>fllce: Up-stairs on Hamilton street, opposite
ffa-.lonal Hotel.
Will visit Lafayette, Walker Co., at Superior
Ccurt* Au«ast and February.
HOTELS:
J. WITHERS Proprietai 1 ,
LaFayettk, Georgia.
RUE abovo is thoroughly fur
-*L nished and prepared with the very
be»t accommodations, for transient apd
local custom, and ut reasonable pritvs.
Satisfaction nuaranteed to those who fa
vor it with their patronage.
READHOUSE,
J. T. KEAD&SOW flVo’rs,
A. L. DeLong, Bookeeper-
Will 11. Hamolbn, ( f'hief )
J. N. W a lkkß, < Day , Clerks.
J. P. BoTtick, (Night)
Chattanooga, - - - Tenets.
Froutiug Union lV««wy depot.
©road St., Rosssc, Ca.
In Ten Stkps or the Railroad.
no ©M.HIBUS SEEDED
I- OCATED In (111! Principal Buslnert fr.|uur.r f.f
Mtlie City, convenient, l tfn: Wharf, tlte Wnnks
nn-1 the PuM Office, anil .s ilinniuahly renovnleil unit
repainted. J- L M. ES TES, Proprietor.
—•>_
J. <H. A. LEWIS, Frds»*s%
iAu.ton, - - - Georgia\
This house is a tffrge four-story hr;',
withiu a few steps of fl.e Passenger do
not. x "
BOAKD PEB DAY - - - $2.00
. Polite and attentive porto: s at. every
' Aain; pass them your checks, walk riyhr
e * nr and make yourmlf »t home.
The * W, Ms LEWIS, Clerk.
Walker County Messenger.
THE MESSENGER.
i..\FAYETTE, GEORGIA.
Thursday Morning, Nov. 4, 1880.
Itatcs of Subscription :
Twelve Month. $1.50
| £ix Month* 75
j Four Month* ...... 50
Single Copt 05
| Invariably in advance.
A “goats of thought” writer says:
j “No star ever rose and set without
j influence somewhere.” It is the i
same way with a hen.
-
“You never saw my hands so
dirty as that,” said a petulant mot h
er, to her little girl. “No, but your
ma did,” was the reply.”
President Hayes has had a moun
tain named after him, and feels in
consequence as if he were a bigger
man than old Mr. Mahomet.
‘Take a buttle of my medicine,’
fair! a quack doctor, to a consump
tive. ‘and you'll never cough again.’
‘ls it so fatal as that ?’ gasped the
patient.
The man who is asked to guess
at a lady’s age and doesn’t guess
several years less than he believes
to be exact, is making an enemy
and doing truth no cowl.-
Nothing so taxes the conceit out
of the average man as to order his
paper discontinued and then see
the editor going right along and
getting rich without hint.
At a London bazaar recently a
lady handed round her baby to be
kissed at Sixpence each. If it were
a girl baby we would have paid
the. price and taken a due bill due
in sixteen years.
In Mary Carpenter’s ragged
school in London a boy defined
Conscience ns ‘a thing a gentleman
hasn’t got who, when a hoy finds
his purse and gives it back to him,
doesn’t give the boy sixpence.’
The great City of Leadville was
once a hamlet rude and young, and
presided over by a Mayor whosts
first proclamation went off in this
style : ‘Whoever shall steal a boss
shall he hung pur order of the
inure!’
There is nothing like a goldefi
October day for going into the field
behind a cart and tossing in the
great yellow pumpkins to the old
farmer, who is just as sure a catch
as ever stood behind the home
plate in a hall nine.
When a Yankee is strucx by a
thunderbolt and KnocKed endways
clear across a ten acre lot, the only
regret he feels, upon recovering con
sciousness, is the disheartening fact
that he can’t capture the bolt and
exhibit it for money.
Without earnestness no man is
ever great, or does really great
things. He, may be the cleverest
of men ; he may be brilliant, enter
taining, popular ; Hut he will want
weight. No f tul-moving picture
was ever painted that had not in it
depth of shadow.
It is but a day or two ago that
the papers were, reporting sun
stroKtß, 'and now here comes an
item headed ‘Frozen to Death.’
John Sarah started on tmmeV/acK
for Geneva, Colorado. ll* l . never
got there. Ilis body wasifountj.
frozen stiii'.
She. yaivned and toljA nim she
wished he was a fire, He wanted
to Know why, .and she said, “Oh,
fires go out late at night.” Then
lie looKed at her and she looiced at
him, and he said he had to be at
the store early to-morrow and
guessed he would go.
A Florida Diana. —The JacK
sonville (Fla.) 1 dephone says: Last
I Wednesday wefK Mrs. Ivey, wife of
■ the section master g* Hart’s Cut
and daughter of ilfn. Benjamin
(•Upton, s was informed that a large
ter he'd been seen in the woods
ar thefhduse, and picidng up her '
! Ifhsbar.’ds rSte she proceeded in the
j direction in which the animal had
| been seen. She had not gone far
| when up sprang a large bucK, which
! made off to the woods, hut before
! he had gone very far it bullet from
Mrs. Ivej V gun brought him to the ;
earth, dead. The head was cut ofi
and nailed to a largo oaK tree ip
-j front of the house at Hart’s Cut. |
LAFAYETTE, GEORGIA, THURSDAY MORNING, NOVEMBER
A Happy Denouament.
‘My degr uncle, I hope you are
I not in earnest it) this ?’
‘But I am in earnest, sir—l am
in earnest.’
Mr. Oliver Hawkes, the rich
banker, faced about, and with his
hands beneath his coat-tails, glared
through his spectacles at his niqtf'i
ew.
‘Yes, sir; I was never more in
earnest in my life, as you will see.
I promised her father on his death
bed to look after the welfare of his
daughter, and to do what I could
to bring about a marriage between
her and you.’
‘Why should you and Mr.
Thompson have singled me cut in
this affair ?’ inquired Mr. Charles
Albert Fitzroy, with tyiything but
a flattered or gratified expression.
‘For various reasons, sir—for
various reasons. Because John
Thompson and I had been close
friends and partners through life,
and you and Joanna —'
I Joanna V
‘You and Joanna,’ pursued Mr.
Hawkes, without noticing his neph
ew’s horrified expression, ‘were the
nearest of us, and of an age and
disposition suited to each other.
Because my poor iriend dreaded,
of all things, his daughter making
an unsuitable or unhappy match,
and he knew you had been proper-,
ly brought up, in correct princi
and without any bad habits or U
dates—thanks to me. And be
cause, as your wife, she would be
at least safe and under my eye and
my care — 1
‘Wouldn’t it be as well, sir, if—if
you would yourself marry the
young lady ?’ interrupted Fitzroy,
with sudden interest.
‘No impertinence, sir! You
know as well as I do that I am no
marrying man, and that even if I
were, I should not think of taking
for my wife a girl of eighteen.’
‘She'll grow older.’
•So shall I.’
Charles Albert turned to a win
dow and looked cut gloomily, while
his uncle paced the floor.
Presently lie said, aViruptlv:
‘Does Miss Thompson know of
this matter?’ .
‘She knows that it was her fa
ther’s wish that she should marry
you. He did not desire to bind her
■ by a promise. If on acquaintance
she likes you, well and good ; and
I see no reason why she should
not, provided you conduct your
self properly.’
‘J ly inclination is not to be con
sidered, it seems.’
‘Pooh ! You will like her well
enough when once you know "er.
jhe’s an uncommonly i ice girl.’
‘Pretty?’ inquited the young
man indifferently.
'Ham! Well, I am no great judge
of beauty; but in my opinion she’s
good-looking enough to satisfy a hf
rational taste. I don’t say she’s a
Venus or an Helen of Troy, or a.
Cleopatra—heaven forbid! But she’s
a nice, lady-like, pleasant-manner
ed girl who will make a wife
and a good housekeeper. t Such a
pudding as I saw on tier father’s tit
hie, made by her twn hands.’ r
Fitzroy suppressed a groan.
‘What style is she?’ he inquired,
faintly.
‘.No particular style that I know
of. Good figure blue or gray eyes,
or perhaps brown -don’t recollect
which. Nose -hum !—a trifle turn
ed up, I think , hair reddish—’
‘Red hair!’
“Yes ; red hair—and what of it?
A great many persons like red
hair.’
‘/don’t,’ said the nephew decis
ively.
‘Well, then, get her to dye it.—
Tell her to dye it yellow, brown,
purple, green —any color you
choose,’said the old banker impa
tiently. ‘But one'thing I know—
which is, that if you decline to
marry Joanna’ —Charles Albert
winced—‘without any reason, I
J I’ll leave every cent of my raonev
to the girl herself.’
‘But, my dear uncle, listen to un*.
If I decline to marry Miss Tomp
son, it will not le without 'good
ami sufficient reason.’
‘What reason can you possibly
| have, in the name of common
i sense!’
‘Only this,’ answered Charles Al
bert, tragically, twisting down the]
corners of his datlyuioustnvhe — 1
“only this. I could never love her,
and consequently could not make
her happy. In a word, my heart
is not mine to bestow. It is already
in the keeping of another.’
■Tn the keeping of tlte—old ;
' Scratch ?’ exclaimed Uncle Hawkes,
angrily.
Fitzroy drew tip his elegant form
with dignity.
‘You forget, sir. You are my un
cle, hut I cannot hear that term ap
plied to the lady whom 1 love.’
‘Fiddlesticks! And pray, sir, who
may this wonderful female be?”
‘Site in a wonderful woman, sir;
the paragon of her sex for grace, j
beauty and sweetness.’
‘Oh, no doubt, no doubt! And
where had you the good fortune to
meet this paragon?’
'vlr. Hawkes was very red in the
face, though trying hard to appear
coolly sarcastic.
Charles Albert looked dreamily
into the sky, and answered softly :
‘I first met her —at Venice, on a
moonlight night, in a gondola.’
‘Gondolas t>e —smashed !’ sneeretf
Uncle Hawkes.
‘Sir!’ said Fitzroy, haughtily.
‘Oil, go on, go on ! Let’s hear all
about it. It will do no good. He,
he ! What did she ray in the gon
. dola?’
if" ‘She repeated some lines of Uy
\ f«h'about Venice and theAdriat’c.
T happened to be seated next to her
and heard it. And she leant-<1 over
the side of the gondola and let the
sparkling waters ripple through
white, jeweled fingers, looking like.
in the moonlit spray ?’
•Me, he ! What next?’
( laries Albert indignantly arose.
‘Sir, I cannot have the deepest
and m v »t sacred emotions (pf-lny
heart n ykeel tit!’
‘Oh, svt down, sit. down ! You
haven’t ytt told us the name of the
lady.’ ’
‘llt-r l it Aon he said, softly and
pensively —’rer name was —Zi let)
ca.’
‘What?’ Y *
‘Znh-uea. , she signed hersel!
5, - v. ,
m a note to>_ *
Mr. Olive9W®.vkc.s’ rugged coun
tenance assutped an expie sion ol
unspeakable disgust.
‘You don’t mean to say that she
was some heathen Greek or Itali
an ?’
‘No, sir; s!»; was an American or
English.’
Then I presume she had a family
surname.’
‘Unfortunately, I could never as
certain her family name. She was
traveling with a small party —a
family party, apparently—and their
name was Cresswell. But she had
not tV 3 air of being related to
them.’
‘And you never met her again ?’
, ‘Pardon ine, 1 did meet her again.
11 was .—'the -ummitof Vesuvius
J , r
‘Ab.w little nearer heaven —or, it
may beAthe opposite place ’
“On tin; Very verge of the awful
t crater,* Where she stood, calm and
t.rlesp, gazing down, without a
shuidt r, it.to the fiery abyss be
low.’
‘Nice warn) place for a declarn
| tion of love. Hope you made ib’
j ‘No, sir; there I unfortunately
lost h- if One moment f saw her
standing thus, and knew bv her
shy gllnco and blush that sht• rec
ognizee! me, anil was not indifferent
tojm'e meeting. But when a rno
-1 niefit after, I again turned toward
her, she was gone. I caught one
hasty glimpse of her rapidly-de
sending form —’
‘Gracious heavens ! You don’t
wean to say that she fell into the
crater?’ cried Uncle Ilawkes, in
unaffected horror.
‘Of course not, sir.’ replied his
nephew, indignantly. ‘1 mean
i that site and her party were descend
ing the mountain by the new in
•! dined railroad.’
‘Oh ! And you followed, I sup
: pose?’
‘I did track them for several
■ days ; but as often us I ci me up
[ ! with them they would disappear.
Those two fat, red-faced guardians
r of hers—Mr. and Mrs. Ore?swell —
i evidently suspected me. Once, in
Florence, 1 succeeded iu tending
j
her a line, asking if she would be
on the balcony in the evening, and j
she replied that alio would, aign- j
ing herself Zeleiica. But she did
not appear, and after waiting until
twelve tit night, 1 discovered that
her guardians hud draggid her ol)
before sunset. They ln»d«Bt*rtcd
for Paris, whither I followed, and
afterward to London, .but could
never gain anothy traco of them.
For two months T never tired in the
search.’
‘Ah! suit was that
you so lung abroad. A pretty wild
goose chase, iudeed.br*
‘And now that f am at home
again, you add an additional bur
den to my life by requiring me to
forget Zeleuca, and marry—Joan
na !’
‘Well, do as you please—do as
you please ! But you know what
the consequences will he if you de
cline to marry my friend a daugh
ter, and thus force me to break the
promise i made him on his death
bed.’
Mr. Oliver Hawkes snatched up
his lint and glovcs„and, with an ex
tremely red face, rushed out of the
house, over a small news-hoy, call
ed him a litUe ras'-G ' d gave him
a dime, and so pmvs $ '• divpi the
street, grumbling and groyning to 4
himself.
‘As ridiculous and idiotic an af
fair as ever I heard of. But he’ii
get over it. They all do, in time.’
For some weeks, however, Mr.
Oliver Hawkes’ hopes in this res
pect seemed destined to disappoint
ment.
Charles Albert Fitzroy was absent
.and melancholy, and-calmly but
Vesolutely declined to call on MBs
Thompson, who, having just com
pleted her education at n first-class
establishment, had returned to her
aunt’s residence, only one block
distant from that of Air. Ilawkes.
Char It s Albert took especial pains
never to go in this direction, ant)
he hunted out, in all the lists and
directories the name of Crcsswell,
and made inquiries, in hope of dis
covering the stern guardians of hits
Zeleuca, and thus eventually Z-tlou
-ieu herself.
And, seeing these things, Uncle
ilawkes began to despond, especial
ly on learning from Mrs. Martin,
Miss Thompson’s aunt, that the
voung lady was greatly disinclined
to tlte match with Mr. Fitzroy, and
frequently declared that she would
never marry at all, but live and die
an old maid.
By some means, this decision of
the young lady canto to the ears of
Fitzroy anil inspired him with a
new hope.
He would visit Miss Thompson,
ant! by his indifference and stupid
ity, inspire ber with such a dislike
of him that no human power could
induce her to consent to accept hi.'
hand. Thus would he e&cnpe the
hateful match, while the blame ol
it could not be laid to his account.
Mr. Oliver Hawkes was delighted
when his nephew, with a pensive
and resigned air, signified his will
ingness to submit to an introduc
tion to liis friend’s daughter.
‘That is right, my dear hoy—
that is right!’ he said affectionately
t:,pping him on the s/iouhler, ‘I
kin w your good sense would get the
better of that romantic folly, and,
it you like, we will call on the la
dies this very afternoon. I'll come
home from the office on purpose.
Accordingly the two gentlemen
that evening found themselves in
Mrs. Martin parlor, where that lady
graciously received thorn, and pres
ently, at Mr. Hawkes’ request, went
to summon her niece.
Charles Albert, with his back to
the door, affected to be profoundly
absorbed in a painting, while his
uncle, on the contrary, hud never
before exhibited so much nervous
ness.
The slow opening of the door,
and his uncle’s somewhat agitated
exclamation of'Joanna, my dear 1
caused him to turn around.
There stood a very' pretty young
lady—tall, graceful, with large
j brown eyes and a glory of auburn
hair, with golden lights in its
j waves and ripples. With a half
frightened look, her eyes were fixed
: upon Charles Albert us his uncle
i introduced him ; and he—he rc
> turned the gaze with one which
I, 1880. ,
seemed to the older gentleman
almost idiotic in its vacancy.
‘Tire ninny 1 he looks like a stuck
pig 1’ Mr. Hawkes thought. Then, ;
in a whisper, under cover of a slight
cough : ‘Can’t you say tjomething?’;
In obedience to which »ugK‘ stiop, I
Mr. Fitzroy spoke, in ap'-fi'senl, be
wildered manner:
‘Eh—very warm day—for wSe J
season.’ /
‘Very,’echoed tlv* y l ' Un g lady/
futility.
‘And—ahem 1 ’' er * '‘W season.’
•cm:.,.’ . • L f
Uncle Ilawkes coil}/
any longer. He bounced uj »"A1
walked into the next room, w/jluier
Mrs. Martin bad already retired, on
pretense of placing flowers in the
vase on the table. She was as nerv
ous and anxious as Mr Hawkes
himself.
‘Take me into yourfluwer garden,
inn’am,’ be said, wit* the uncere
moniousness of old Ml uaintanceK
'lf 1 have to stay YlVt ‘long
er in there, I -I’ll ITER Ijfltowlj
outright.’ - J ■
Hardly had the two, ,
when Charles Albert fcffzroy rose
I rum his scat, appafjchtd Miss
Thompson, and ki fpeat agitation
extended both hands.
‘Zeleuca.’
And M(ss Joanna Thompson rais
ed her hu] Q. brown, poetic eyes to
him viih-jn glance that thrilled
him ; **
‘I —I never dreamed that it was
you !' she murmured.
Fifteen minutes theraiter Uncle
Hawkes, perambulating among the
flower-beds without, ventured a
furtive glance at the parlor win
dows.
What he beheld there considera
ble astonished him. llis nephew and
Miss Thompson were standing near
the window recess, he holding both
her hands, and she looking up hap
py and blushing.
‘Well 1’ ejaculated the bewildered
old gentleman,‘this is what I call
quick work.’
T: o window was open, and just
then some Wards of his nephew
eatight his enr :
‘To think that I should have
been for six months vainly seeking
you, while we were all the while so
near oneli other.’
And Joanna answered :
‘When we met that night in the
gondola on the Adriatic, hew little
we dreamed o (this meeting.”
Anti then Uncle Hawkes was en
lightened, and lie went home rub
bing his hands, anti blessing Ven
ice, and moonlight nights, and gon
dolas.
A Romantic Elopement.
A young man planned to elope
with the fourteen-year-old daugh
ter iff un omnibus driver in East
Guinesville recently. J’lie girl’s ol
der sister suspected that at! was not
right, and insisted on ritliim with
the couple. Otherwise she said ber
sister should not go. After some
talk the three started out, and hav
ing driven to a lonely road the two
lovers jumped from tho carriage,
got over tho fence by the side of tho
road and took to the woods. —
Through the evening and into the
night they were pursued by the
neighbor with torches and lanterns
hut were not found.
A New York dispatch says:
"General Grant is obliged to travel
around town in a coupe. His ap
pearence on the street is the signal
for the immediate collection ol a
rapidly augmenting ctovvd of fol
lower-. This annoys him beyond
measure, because he would rather
walk than ride.” Such h the fate
of great showmen. Gen. Tom
Thumb, in the days of his popu
larity, was often subject to similar
annoyance.
One express company took week
before last in one package from the
Republican managers in New York
to the Republican managers in lu
djana the handsome sum of 3550,-
000.
Nothing keeps longer than a
middling fortune, and melts away
sooner than u great one. Poverty
treads upon the heels of great and
unexpected riches. •
Uir •
\ A promising young man —One
i who lets his elothiug on credit.
VOL, IV. NO. 16.
Ills Exnt'l A iff.
When Undo Ruben Clny, an old
darkey of about seventy winters,
dropped into a Griswold street
tobacco afore a day or two ago, and
was asked his age, he promptly re
j plied :
‘Wall, saii, I reckon I’ze about
j as nigh 70 y’ars ole as dey can
! make ’em.’ "V ,
i % 4
‘lf you can't read’or write or
cypher how can yju tell ?’
‘l’ze kept de dates in my head,
sah, an’ if you’ll take a pencil I kin
[wore my age in no time’tall.’ ,
1 1 One of the. loungers prepared ' v ~*
himsen wtE pencil and paper, and
Uncle Ru>cn, proceeded:
‘Now, ah, in what y’ar did Col
umbus djkiver America ?’
‘ln 149f,.’» -
‘Den <eot dal? down.’'’ |
‘VV’lr, ‘jy'hat has the discoverer
of Arad* ;' 1 to do \\ith your ago ?’■
j asked JfttST VoUfti.
V • <<»<no citfunce, sab. Izo*
j us' ''.gome pint to reckon
•'ili't one kase it’s da,i in ;
On down 1492,’
*v Yes’ $
‘Now, ’ion, when was de revolu-\
shunary wa’ ' .•
‘in 1 770.’ ’r.og r
• Take dat from 119- *
and it leaves how many ?’
‘Just 284 years.’
‘Dat’s k’rect. Now, when dfrA
IVht do next wa’?’
*ln ISI2-14. Take that out and 1
it makes a difference of thirty-six
years, and reduces the figures to
’ 248.’
, said Uucle Iteu-
J-fion as he bent over the figures;
‘Now, den,' in what y’ar did m*p
great-gi'.urdf&ther land in ole Vir
j ginny?’
r ‘Why, hew dipvl know? You
must know if any one.’
The old man scratched his head,
looked over the figures and said :
Dat’s kinder curus. De ole man
comes in dar sum whar?’
All the men began to laugh at
him, and the old man got up and
tied on his comforter and said:
‘You white folks needn’t feel so
mighty peart kase you fink you’ve
got an 010 nigger in a box. Ize
gwine ober to see iriy son George,
an’ George he’ll take a piece o’
chalk an’ de bottom of a cheer an’
begin wid de day dat Cain killed
Abel an’ run my aige down to dis
worry muwnin’ quicker’u de smart
est o’ you kin rub a so’ heel!’ — De
troit Free Press.
Honor unto the Wives.
Three men of wealth meeting,
not long since, the conversation
turned upon their wives. Instead of
finding fault with women in gener
al and their wives in particular,
each one obeyed the wise man’s ad
vice and g ive honor to whom honor
was due. ‘I tell you what it is,’
said one of the men, ‘they may say
what.they please about the useless
ness of modern women, but my
wife has done her share in securiug
t our success in life.
‘Everybody knows that her fami
’ ly was aristocratic and exclusive,
j and all that, and when I married
) i her sho had never dono a day’s
j! work in her life; but wheu W. & Co.
j | failed and I had to commence at
j the foot of the hill again, she dis
| charged the servants and chose but
: | a neat little cottago, and did her
! own housekeeping until I was
• i better off.’
I 1 ‘And my wife,’ said a second,
II ‘was an only daughter, caressed and
•; petted to death ; and everybody
i said, ‘Well, if ho will marry a doll
• like that, ho’il make the greatest
i mistake of his life ;’ but when I
i cauio home the first year of mar
• riage, sick with the fever, she nurs
: ed me back to health, and I never
knew her to murmur because I
thought we couldn’t afford any
• | better style or more luxuries.”
} ‘Well, gentlemen,’ chimed in a
: third,‘l married a smart, healthy,
. pretty girl, but she was a regular
blue-stocking. 8b- adored Tenny-
Bon, doted on Bryon.read Emerson, -
| and named the first baby Ralph
Waldo and the second Maud ; but
1 i 1 tell you what ’tis,’ und the speak
’ i er's eyes grew suspiciously moist,
r ! ‘when we laid little Maud in her
[ j last bed at Auburn my poor wife
; had no remembrance of neglect or
stinted motherly care, and the lit
tle dresses that still lie in the lock
) ed drawer were all made by her
own hands.’ — Detroit Free Press;