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GWIXXBTT HERALD. Published every Tuesday Eve- \ 1 ir, K . - Vjg* SUBSCRIPTION RATKS: One Yenr, - - - #1.60 Six Months, - - - 75 Three “ - 50 All subscriptions must be paid in advance, and if not renewed prompt ly »t the expiration will be discontin ued. AD V ERT IS EM ENTS Of a transient character will be eharg ed #1 for the tlr t insertion, and 500 for each subsequent insertion. W Communications intended for personal benefit, will be charged b - at the regular advertised rates. Short and newsy lons from any pari of the ooimty so lcited. TOWN A: COUNTY DIRECTORY JOHN CLAY SMiTH, Mayor. council. A L Moore, K D Herrin 8 A Townley W J Brown arrival and departure of train Arrives from Suwannee. 5 50 p. in Leaves lor 'Suwannee, 7 a* m. AHKIVAb AND DKPAUTURK OK MAILS. JKPPKRBON —Arrives 12 in, departs p. m., Monday and I hursduy. Tbaoles Stour —Departs 6 a m ar rives (; p in, Monday and Thursday. Looanvillr.— Arrives 10 a m. de parts 1 p m.—Oaily. Ykllow River.— Arrives 12 m., de parts 6 a m„Welnesday and Saturday VV. H. HARVEY, P. J 4 churches Methodist —Rev J U Ring, Pastor Services on the Ist and 3th Sundays. Sunday School.— a T Pattillo, Supt Kverry Sunday at 3 p ni Pkksbytkkian- -Rev J K McClelland, Pastor, Services on 2nd uml4th Sundays in each month, Sunday School.—T R Powell. Supt. Every Snnduy at 1).30 uuv Lawkknckvili.r Masonic Lodge.— 3 D won, W M., 8 A Hagood, S W,. SJ.Wino.JW. Meets on Tuesday night on or befoi e foil moon in each month. Mt'Vrrnon Chapter, No 39, R A M.~J D Spence. HP, a T Pattillo Sec. Meets Fiiilay night before the 3rd Sunday in each month. Gwinnett Superior Court. —N. L, HutcbiDS, Judge. Convenes on the Ist Monday in March and September. county officers. Commissioners-—I I) Spence, ( hair and Clerk. N Bennett, Jefferson Britt, J R Hop Kins, J E Cloud. . Sheriff —J M Patterson. ** X>Rdinary--J ’l' Lmnkin. 1 OtiEHt.' a C—f> T Cain. Tax Receiver—G;W l’hurr. Tax Collector— -J C Lowery. Treasurer.- • R N Robinsn Tkomas LFmsr, M.D. Having rrcently located in Gwin nett County tenders hi* professions services as a Physitaau i»> tlie citizen* Promptattoiition to all calls will be §iven. Office and residence at the resi ence of A Cfti nou the Hurricane Shoals road. March 24th 1884 (imo “NO MORE eyeglasses - Mitchell’s Eye Salve, A certain, Sufu, effective remedy for SorsWoak f.l&ilanedEyes Produoing Long Sightedness, and Re storing the sight of the old Cures Tear Drops. Granulation, Stye Tumors, Red Eyes, Mat ted Eye Lashes, and producing qaick relief and per mauent cure Also equally eUleneious when used n other maladies, such as Ulcers Fe er Sores, Tumors, Salt Rheum, urns, Piles or whr.reover iutlama on exists, Mitchell’s Salve .nay be ed to advantage. Sold by all Druggists at 26 edits Ea:m Loans Fivtgyear loans on improved farms m Middle and Northern Georgia, negotiated on cheaper terms than any one in Atlanta. Addres, FRANCIS FON AT NE, Filter Building, Atlanta Ga. April 19tli.—Into. THE Globe Hotel LA WHENCE VJL LE, GA On Monday ihe !2(ith inst., the übdtisigttct will open the Glob Hotel in Lawrer.ceville, for the ac c odatic.n of the and will be prepared to offer firs' class accommodations aw 1 pvwmpt atentionto all who paironizo — the House' A.J> L. BATES - Piiit ettW 1 P»y J ou to ,IBC A _aL MARINEZ ii S.,uP*PLREPRE -56 paints. \inu's hi ndsome resl fc'Sl with them. Stmt 1 ftl \d list of houses S’ CIIAN, Agsnts, . »»A. iw relive ville, *ls- Ojainnril ig| gitali TYLER M. PEEPLES, Proprietor /OL XIV. EDITORIAL BREVITIES. Mr. Tildeu will not attend the j inauguration of Cleveland. The expenses of Carroll county average about SI,OOO r er mouth. I Bogardus and Carver are again abusing each other through the pa p*rs. Colonel lugersoil made $25,000 from fifty lectrres during two months. Prince Bisinark uas abandoned his inientiou'of Visiting Souiheru Europe. About 1,200 justices of the peace were elected in Georgia last Saturday. Moody, the revivahst, flatly de nies that he compared Lee and Jacksor to the powers of evil. A New Jersey girl put on i.er brothers clothes and vot6ut in his siead at the late election. Tue province of Granada, iD Spain, has been the scene of an other disastriousiarmquake. Russia wants to provoke a row with China, as a pretext for seed ing upon a portion of her Pacafie coast. The prohibition counties in North Alababarna have paid Rome over $4,000 this year for stimu lants. ... ,4.J1 important towns in Belguirn ri connected by telephone and five minutes’ use of the wires cost but foul cents A Runaway horse in Stockton Cal., ran upon a baby carriage, kicked ii int ipliniers, an 1 yet the baby escaped Kr. - ~ - ~~ - The wife of Sidney J. Jordan of of Auierieuß, has given Birth to twins, which have been named Cleveland Hendricks. It is to Le hoped that the Artie pole will yet be discovered. We 1 need least one place from which | emigration must be soufhwad, The City conncil of Augusta has appropriated S3OO for the pur chrse of woodfor the poor during the cold weather A bouse of Birmingham, Conn,, was attacked by roughs, who stole everything valuable, tortured die wv>men and set tire to the place. It highly probabe that old Grant will now become a pensioner on Vanderbuilt. His name will live i« history as the greai American beggar. Julian Hawthorne says he would not exchange the rough democra cy of horse cars for all the silkeD ease and splended pomp of tli En glish empire. Cleveland denied admission to Dr. Mary Walker when she called to see I im. Grover is evidently determined to fool with no more loaded W'imeu. Utah must now be for given j She is sending to the to the New Orleans Exposi ! lion a hog four feel high, eigh 1 | feet long, and weighing 1,076 A few days ago a man named Winter was beheaded by a train j while crossing a hig’ trejtle ] bridge, near CraDberry, N. C It has since bet n diic were 1 iliac b 1 couple of days before he had kill ed a man who lived near (here. A Delware man has wagered SIOOO tba' he can eat 15 12 j pound turkeys in 30 days and is confident he can win the money. ;He is probably a brother to the man who ate a boiled monkey and cart load of "greens. ’’ A saloon keeper named f/isat gree of Berlin Ohio, while drunk ; abused his family most shameful - j ly, and almost immediately after ward accident fell downstairs and rolled into tbe yard, where be lay u'l night and froze to death. At Toronto yesterday, a French man named Poquet. a professed infidel while denying the doctrine of sternal puuishmenf in a discus sion wi’h i is fellow-boarders, was n o w» How can a man on a dollar a day Charter a seat on a popular day, And purchase cigars and tooacoo. pray if He can’t. How can he sport ail elegant tile, Ask his dear friends out fora ‘smile,' And stable a 2:40 animile! He can't. How- can he frolie with better fed friends When, in coid perspiration he’s at.his wits’ ends If his wash-woman after her half dol lar sends? He can’t. How esit he hear to be oalleil a “poor cad,” How ecu he dress inabig Taney plaid. His credit won't keep—lt is'fragrant ly’ bud ? He can’t. How buy perfumery, luuidkerubiefs too, The edges all st amped with a red kan garoo. And change linen cuffs every hiuinlay or too ? He can't. How can.be go out to ride with bis “mash” When hasn't the requisite cold-blood ed-cash ? Why that is Ihe reason for not being rush,— He can’t. How can lie claim his dear girl’s slen der baud And circle her finger witli glittering band, When bis check book’s so weak it scarcely can stand ? He can’t. Ho w can he marry and furnish a wife With the many siimll comforts which sweeten this life ? We must state ttie whole truth,‘tho’ it cuts like a knife, Hecan’t. PROHIBITION. An Act entitled an Act to pro hibit the manufacture or sam of spirituous, malt, vineous or other lstoxicatiug liquors, in the county of Gwinnett, State es Georgia, af ter submitting the same to the qualified voters of said County, t© reguiate the manner in which in toxicating liquors iu .any quanity ma /be furnished, to provide a penaby for violating said Act, and for other purposes. Section I. Bo Renamed by the General Assembly of Georgia, and it is hereby enacied-by authority of the same. That fiom and al ter the passage of this Act, the ques’ion of prohibiting the mami fucture or side of spirituous, malt vinous,or other intoxicating liquors excep! as is hereinafter provided, shall be submitted to the qualified voters of said coumy at any time whenever so many as ©ue hundred of the qualifiedvotecs of said coun ty. shall ~etifion tbe ordinary of said county for the benefit of the provisions of this Act. Sectiion 11. Be it further en acted by the authority aforesaid, jfbat it shall be the duty of (he Ordinary of said county, whehev - er petitioned as prescribed in tLe first section of this Act, to ordet; an elecdon to be held in said coun ty. within not less man ihirty, nor more than forty days thereafter in the same manua l, and under the same laws and regulations as apply to elections for members of the General Assembly, except that only uwo tally sheet and lists of voters shall be kep l , one of which together with the tickets shall be seale* 1 up, aud transmitted to the Clerk of the Superior Court of said county.and kep’ as the return of other elections; and the other shall be returned to the Ordinary of ssid county who shall codsolo date the returnee and declare the result of said election. Section 111. Be it further en acted by the authority aforesaid That the Ordinary of said county hall publish or cause to ba pub lished his order directing said election to be held in, the public Gazette in which the legal adver tisements of said county are pub lished, once a week for four wteks proceeding said election, giving notice that those oppoiug the man ufac ure or sale of spiritous or malt, vinous, or other intoxica ting liquors shall have written or printed on tl.eir ballots t “No Whskey,” and those tavoring the uianufac ure or sale of spiriious, malt, vinous, or other intoxicat ing iquous shall have written or printed on their ballot“ For Whis ky-” Sectio IV Be it fnriher en acted by the authority aforesaid, That if, upon consolidation of the returns of said e’ectior it shall appear thin a majority of the le gal votes cast ure for prohibition OUR OWN SECTION WE LABOR Ft >R ITS ADVANC.T \IENT- LAWRENCEVILLE, GA. JANUARY 13 1885. of the election in the same pup lie Uftzoite in which notice of said electiou was published, and from and sfttr that date it shall be un lawful for any person, or person's or firm, their agents, smployes, or clerks to manufacture or sell, bai ter, exchange or furnish by any device whatever for.a valuable con sideraiion any spiritous, malt vi nous, or other intoxicating liquors in any quanity within the bounties of said county, except us i., here after provided Section V. Be it further enact ed by tbe authority aforesaid, That in the in .the event a majori tyof thelegalvotes cast ai the first elec ion held at provisions of this Act he against prohibition, it, shall bo the duty of the ordinary of said county to order an elec tion to be governed in all respects as is herein'before provided, of ten as petitioned as prescribed in the first section of this Act, un til the same is ratified ; provid that electioas shall not be held under the provisions of this Act oftener than once in every twelve months. Section VI. Be it further en acted by the authority aforesaid. That in the event a majority of tbe legal votes cast at any election held under ihe provisions of this Act are in favor of prohibition,up on the recommendation of the Grand Jury the Ordinary of said county may license not more than three druggest apothecaries, or pbayeiciauß, no two of whom shall sell in the same Militia district who upon subscribing teanoAth and giving bond with good secuii ty in the sum of two thousand dollars to comply with the provis ions of this Act. aud paying any sum of money that may be requir ed for license by the State, county and municipal au.boi-ities, may be authorized to keep and sell wine for sacramental purpose, and any other vinous, matl, or spirituous liquors for medicinal or mechanical purposes iu quanities not less than one quart, said affidavit ivdu bond shall be recorded, and kept by the Ordinary in his office foi ivhicli his fee shall be one dollar. Section VII. Beit further en acted. That any druggist, apoth eearv, or physician having license to ketp and sell such liquors as are by this Act provided, shall not sell the same to any person unless the pel son applying for the same shall make and sign an afildtvit that said liquors are needed by ’he applicant for sacramental, nudici, nal, or mechanical pui poses, and will not be used as a beverage which affidavit shall be made be - fore said licensed druggist, apoth ecary, or phytician, who is hereby authorized to administer the same Sail affidavit shall be recorded in a book to be kept for that pui pose, which hook said druggest apothecary, or physician shall on the first day o each term of the Superior Court, lay before the Grand Jury of said county io lie examined by them, ai d if tbe Grand Jury find that such licenit ed druggest, apothecary,or physi cian has not conformed to ti e spir it and intention of this Ait, he shall be indicted for a misdemean or, and upon conviction punished as prescribed in section fourteen of this Ad. Said book of a tli da-, vita shall oe open at any lime for the inspec ion of any officer or citi zen of suid county. Section VIII Be it further en acted by the authority aforesaid, That no druggist, *potheea>y, or physician having license to sell liquors as aforesaid shall allow any person to drink the same at his place of business, nor shall he sell ihe same or allow the same to be sold to a minnor an insane person nr to an intoxicated person, even though t hey shall make or offer to make the affidavit as before men tioned, nor shall he sell or uilow to be sold to any intemperant pri son of whose intemperate habits he has been notified by the relu tions thereof even though he shall make or offer to make said attida vit ; aud should a y druggist, apo tnecary, or physician, licensed to sell liquors as aforesaid, violate the provisions of this Act, said person shall be guilty ot a mfs le- bond him I subject such obi igor to an rction en the same, and the recovery thereon mull bb for the win le amount of the bond, to b« paid by the Ordinary, when coll o ted to the County School commit sioner, and paid out by the him as i>art of the common school fund. The Ordinary of said county shall not license any druggest, apothecary or physician to sell liquors as is herein provided for a longer period than one year, and, a’ any time npou the recoin"'©nda lion of the (fraud Jury, he shall re fuss to grant further license. Section IX Be it further enact ed by tbe authority aforesaid. That from and after the rat is fac tion of this Act, all rights and au thonty now delegated the corpor ate authorities of any town or towns of said coumy to issue licen se to sell intoxicating liquors of any kind in any quanity whatsoev er I ip, and the same are Hereby re pealed Section X. Beit further enac ed by the authority aforsaid. That no/uing in this Act shall be so con strned as to effect the vested rights of those who have at t lie time this Act is ra'ified a license to sell said liquor*, until ihe expiration of the time for which said license is issu ed. f eotion XI. Be it farther en ac ed by the authority of i fore said, 7'haf nothing in this Act shall be coi strued as to prevent any person front furnishing wine for sacramental purposes, rr the manufacture or sale of Cider, or domestic provided that such wines are sold by the produ cet only, and not ottered for sale by drinks at any barroom or other public place of business. Section XII Be it further en acted by the authority aforesaid Thai nothing in this Act shall be held as repealing any existing laws of any municipality or lecai ity prohibiting absolutely the sale of all intoxicating liquors. Section XIII Be it furt/ter en acted by the authority aforesaid. That at any election held under the provisions of this Ret no per son shall be allowed to vote a? said election except at the voting pre cin ;t in iu the militia district in which he resides, of which the Or dinary of said county shall give notice in '-is order directing said eieciion to be held. Section XIV. Be it further en acted by the authority aforesaid That any person who shall he gni| yof violating any of the provis ions of this Act ahull he held and deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof shall be punished as prescribed in Sec tion 4310 of the Code of Ge‘-rgia> of 1882. Section XV. Be ii further en acted by t lie authority aforesaid, Tha/ a 1 laws conflicting with this Act bo and the same are hreby re pealed. Tliej woihed llir (andialuie. '“Patrick Lsfoe,’’ said Justice Duffy, at 'lie Tombs, “how did you come to get drunk? ’ “I’m a candidate for office, sir.” was his i iisvor. “Forwhat position?’ “A Uh i man. I was nominated by the People's party. I asked f »r five minutes delay before I gave my word of a< ceptanct. lianjhoiiig io my Wife. ‘Kute,' s iys I. ‘if I gel to be an /* liter man i / will lie the making ot me We can ufferd to live on Fifth avenue. Now, au swer me truihfully was there any one in your family ever arrested for f oaling? If so, let me know right away or it will he out in the papers ami we will be disgraced. Bui if you say not, I will go aln ad and br elected.’ She said ‘no,’ aud I ran back to ihe hull, § d accept ed die nomiua iou and the ' - •-Roll?” “I tine-.v a twenty dollar bill oil the counter in the bar-room and S lid,‘Refuse no one a drink. I s'aited to go out when I was ac~ c isted by a committee of young men, who aski dme to purchase ticke ts for a benefit. They clui.li ed to represent 500 voles, and I votes, asked me io buy tickets for their annual ball, and / took $lO worth from each. Next came a big tell >w who sjized mo by the shoulder and said, ‘I want to talk wvh you. I’m the man who runs this district, and you can’t be elect ed unless you are solid with tie You want to fix me, to get the boys in your favor: say S2OO, that wiM do now until I see you again.' l inen sneaked iuto tie yard up the staira to the roof, then climb td over several buildings and made my way on tbe street and went home.’’ “You haven’t explained to me yei how yon came to be arrest ed ?" “Well, hold on ; I’m coming to it now. No sooner did I get home when a brass band appeared before my door and serenaded me I went on the stoop and made a speech, atter I went with them to the saloon and pat up the drinks again. This time I began to drink and got pretry full. Annul whom 1 am now in formed is a swindler came up to me and said : •1 hear jou want (o be elecied. Here’s acl ance for you. A wo man with three children will lie disposed, and 'f you do the light thing the district will go wild ov er you.’ I gave him $25 and then I was iu formed of the man’B char acter. I became so disgusted that I drank more, aud this morning I awoke to find myself in a station - house.” He was discharged, and as he went out lie was heard muttering . “I’m sick already of the whole bu siness. To Mol tiers If you say no mean co. Unless you have a good reason for ohang ing a given command, hoi 1 to it. Take an in leu at in your c.hil - dren’s amusements; mother’s share in what pleases them is a great de light Remember llmt trilles to you are mountains io them; respect theii feelings. Keep up a standard of princi p es; your children are your judg e Be honest with them in small things an well as in great. If you cannot tell them what they wiish o know, say so rather than deceive ' hem. As loug as it is possible, kiss ihe children good uignt after they are in bed, they like it, and it keeps them very close. Bear in mind that you are ,urgo ly responsible for your child’s in herited character, and ho pa'>enl with them. If you have lost a child, remen. her that for the one that is gone there is no more to do; for those left, everything. Muke your boys and girls study phaiology: when they are ill lry to make them comprehend why how the complaint arose and the remedy so far as you know it. A Msuilemii Inlr, “Stop !” It was not a very loud voice, but the driver of a Seooud ami Third street cur slowed up and waited for the bell. It did not ring, s ) he went on again. “Stop!” The driver looked around the side of his car, but saw no eue. The conductor heard tue cry but only saw the driver. Again the car proceeded ou its way, and for the third time the mysterious voice was heard: “Stop!” This time the conductor rang the bell, for the voice sounded close to him. They had just pass ed a saloon outside of wli’ch stood a group of stnkiug weavers who, from their loud laughter, appear td to be enjoying something mightily. “Look on top o’ yer ear,” cried one in a strong Yorkshire dialect. The conductor got off his plat form aud followed the director of the weavers index finger. There percued on ’.he edge ol tbe sky light, hinging on like gr ; m death, his wingstivitering helplessly, sat JOIINT. WILSON, .In., Publisher stop. Polly; wall taka you oft' when we get loth* depot.” And oft' they started. When they reached ('heß*’ut street, something in the net work of tel‘graph and electric light wires must have ir resistibly retninnod Polly of her natine forest She w alked sedate ly to the conductor’s end of the car and in a plaintiff voice said: ‘•Wait for me!'’ Happen her gray pinions and making a scarlet par abo’.a iu the air with her rid tail, alighted on one of the electric wires. .She would have been wi ser had she remained on the car. The lamps were about to be lit. The current was turned on, and— perhaps was the “back kick”—she was heard to shriek at the top of her voice: “ Stop !” And she fell, a helpless mass on the pavement, a dead parrot, Tlic Unit In of Ihililuii The other day, ote Blooming ton 'ady met another outlie street and at ouce fell to admiring the dress she wore. The admirer was one of the extreme fashion, while the admired was a plain sen sible litt/e lady, wtio was no less practical in dress than iu convei sation. “Oh, luy !” exclaimed the admir er. ‘‘What beautiful goods that dress is made of! It looks just like the lovliost kiud of seer-suck er goods, hut it ain’t, is ii ?” “No,” the little woman replied, clt is not seer-sucker.” “Or, how delightfully those ir regular little spots bleud into stripes ! My, Ain’t it pretty, though “I think it anything but pretty, my dear?” “Youdo? Why it is too love ly for anything. Why in the world you think it is not pretty, my love ?’’ “Oh, because it looks drabble and slouchy to me." "My, I wish I had a drees like iU Where can I get the goods, my love “You can get goods like this a| any of the stores, but the figures will not be on it. You will have to produce them yourself.” “Produce tnem myself ! Why how can I do that ?” “Well, Just go around to some dry goods establishmeut, and buy enough cheap plain, blue prints to make your dress then make it up asl did.” ‘iHow did yon do ?” •‘Why, my dear ; it is the Am plest thing in thu world- Just put outlie the dress and staud in ruin until it fades out werever it gets wet. NEW PROVERBS. A white lie often told makes a black story. It’s a poor musician who can't blow his own trumpet. Ho who would eat the tgg must tirst break the shell. Every back has its pack. /’lie man who wishes to contin ue believing in his friends should never put them to the proof. Look after your wife; never mind yourself, she’ll look after you. The want of money is the root of much evil. Egotish is an alphabet with />no letter. If you'd know a man’s character follow him home. Men love women; women love a 1 man. The surest read to honor is to ; deserve it. Only whisper ecaudil and it's eclic is heard by all. It's not t he clock with the loud j est lick that goes the Lest. Home is ihe rainbow of lif e. A few nights ago while I stood j on Ihe corner of Erauklin and Nassau streets waiting for a car, aj very small and ragged girl came up and asked ms if 1 wou Id buy a j paper, 1 sni 1 1 wouldn't. She said: "Well, it don’t make no differ j once. 1 ain't got any papers an;’ GWINNETT IIFIRM.I). 1 —■- -a! OUR JOH DEPARTMENT IS COMPLETE. AL 0.t.-KI, . ,i. NEATLY AND PROMPTLY EXECU TED, Entered in the Post < tftlce at Law reneeville, Ua., as second class mail matter. ingt" •‘No- Me rnndder does. She’s a dandy, she is. an’ don't make no error.” “Why don’t you help her’” “Cause I ain’t goin’ on eight years yet When I bees g >iu’ on eight, I’ll help her. Tuat’s what our family always does. Me three sisters didn't do nuw.hiu till they was sight.” “Are they soiling papers uow?” “Nop- They’re soarin’ books (book agent). They're playin’ in big luck now, too. They're ladies I’m a kid.” She was wi'hout shoes or hat, but she was as happy as a lark, //or grimmy little fists clutchedhnr skirls on either side as she hopped up and down to keep war u. Eiu ally she made the custom try re quest of a coin, and after I bail searched and found none, she datte ed out on the sidewalk, shouted hack a few sentences of the vilest vitupeiavion, jumped on the step of a bob-tail car, and went sailing up the sireef. Bill Sni'verly belongs to a very aris'ocratic, but snmewhat impjv - ensiled, Oalvestcn family. Bill Inis very distinguished manners, slid it is generally believed that lit is looking at on id for a wealthy wife, He returned to Galveston re cently from a frip to Houston, where he became engaged to a la >iy- The day after he returned, he showed ihe picture of his intend ed to Aunt Diuah, an old family servant. The phologr.th repres ented rather elderty female of meat forbiding aspect. “Well Aunt Diuah whit do you iliink of my intended wife f” The old servant looked at the photograph shook head and repli ed :-- “She urns’ hah a heap oh mou sy." ■ “Thai in fernal old lieu hasn’t laid rn egg in a month,” said Pret /. 1 the o’her morning to his frou; ‘I tbink I’ll chop her head off.” “Don’t been so cruel.’’ replied r, retehon; “I have some patience mit her.” “Patience? Haven’t I been pa tient with her, and haven’t ! beau to her nest every day for a mouth.” “Dot’s all right, Call, yoots look somewhere else too I guess may be she has mislaid them ” “Tlilh chick n dosen’tseem very tender.’’ ventured one of the board in to the landlady, “Oh, yes, it must be.” she repli ed “I raised it myself iu my own yard.” “Tender?” interposed Dumley. “If you had sees this chicken as I have seen extending in motherly protection to its little ones, aud leoder’y shielding them from every danger, you would think twice be fore saying It isn’t tender.’ ’ After dinaei Dumley received a polite Dot* to the eftect that he must either pay something on uc count or vaca'e his room at the end of the week. One of the cares of a managing editor Id city dailies is to keep his assistance out of the skies. They are apt to indulge too freely in what is styled "tine writing .’’Here is i.n example taken ftorn the A) bany Express. •‘ln soft, adumbrant meshes of sieved si’ver the suabeams melted through the leaves and dripped in sprangtee of gold uoon the brown aud black mopuetrie of shadows •bat led to the ragged edge of the curb where a fragile htile frag mem of humanity lay moaui g. ’ . “That’s all light enough," said the managing editor, “hut it’s a little too long. Make it short ~ er. m , “But whai will I say sir?'' asked the blonde reporter. “Ob. I’d say ‘Henuessy Mules - bey s little boy Pat. fell into an open sewer and broke his nose.’ That'll do for an introduction, and then you can go on anu say what is necessary about the careless way in which these things aie con ducted, and ihat under another ad ministration of our local govern ment, and so on you know. Givi tm a rap that's all.” NO 42