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BY A. & E. A. M C IIAN, mwsiiJijrßsw# owm*: 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. o v‘.vy v ~- : vfC’ Trrr *w*b*w* l kf* 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;