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VOL. XXVII. NO 6 SNAILS. In every community there is | a gang of mosshacks who stub bornly oppose public improve ments. They are respectable oit- ms and taxpayers, but they w nonprogressive, and devoid ' of genuine public spirit. They don’t object to improvements in tliemsolves, but they most •trenously object to the added burdens in the way of taxation they will be called on to pay, /Th is class of obstructionists haue to he met and overcome in every city that ever amounts to anything. There is not a largi- city in the country but had to deal with and down pre cisely this kind of opposition in establishing parks aud other improvements that have helped their growth and prosperity so materially. There is only one course to take with obstructionists of this sort —drivo the chariot of progress right over them, and go ahead with the work of city building. FRANK DIN’S LOAN. We often learn by sad expe rience that it is a very unwise plan to ‘give’ money to the poor. It is much wiser eithei to loan or to require some slight return in "work. This plan fends to raise the respect of the recipent, rather than to form the easily acquired habit of begging. In an old English magazine we find-the following letter from Dr. Franklin to some unknown beggar; it is amusing as well as instructive: “April 22, 1784. “I send you herewith a bill for ten Louis-d’or. I do not pretend to give such a sum; 1 only ledd it to you. When you shall return to your country you canted fail of getting into some business that will in tine enable you to pay all your debts. In that case, when you meet with another honest man in similar distress, you must pay me by lending this sum ti him, enjoining him to discharge the debt by like operation when be shall be able, and shall meet with such another opportunity. hope it may thus go through many hands before it meets with a knave to stop its prog ress. This is a trick of min* for doing a deal of good with a little money. 1 am not rich enough to afford much in good work, and so am obliged to be earning and make the most o! a little.” —Harper’s Round Table. PITH AND POINT. Some genius will tell tin world how to utilize the mi crobe. —Puck. She—Does the baby take after its mother. He—Well, it hasn’t begun to talk yet. “I think the joke has been carried far enough,” said tin editor, as he marked “accepted” on it.—Brooklyn Life. “Now for another arctic ex ploration” said Fogg as he star ted on a search for his over shoes. —Boston Transcript. The indestructibility of mat ter is the one thing that saves the universe from wreck at Un hands of the small hoy.—Puck. Hopeful: “I ln-ur that you are a widow,” said the one who hail been abroad. “Yes, just at present,,” said the one in black. —Indianapolis Journal. “Strange that these old clocks are always called ‘grandfather’s clocks.’” “Yes, and I’ll wager a cooky that the grandmothers had to wind them.”—Chicago Rec ord . Teacher—Now, Thomas, why do we all love George Washing ton? Pupil—'C'ausi school let’s out on his birthday, and he was the Fa*her of his Country —Puck. Manager—Everything set for that farmyard scene? . Property Man—Everything but the heq. Once more the eternal femi nine and the exigencies of realism were in di e conflict. — Cincinnatii Euquirer. Man (to Dentist) —I want • vou to kill this nerve, please. I’m expecting some money in a ’ few days, and then I’ll cal) around and pay you. Dentist (sarcastically)—l can’t kill such a nerve as you’ve got. —Fun,. Layman —Realism, eh? Now e,«-ou don’t mean to tell me the cun really sets like that? Artist —Ha, ha, my dear fel low. yon dots’! grasp the insig ntfioince of the new art at all. That, sir, is the way the sun ought to sat.—Detroit Jour nal. The Gwinnett Herald. THE COLONEL’S WIFE. BY C. B. LEWIS. One day a mail rider arrived at the frontier fort with such news that a sergeant and six men and an ambulance were ordered out within an hour to escort and convey the colonel’s wife down to the railroad. This was a trip of forty miles. For the first ten miles it was over a level plain, then the trail ran through the scrub, along the foothills, over five miles of des ert, around the south base of the mountain and straight down to the railroad. It was a hard, rough trail. It took the army wagons from t hree to four days to make the forty miles. We could make it in two if allowed to pursue our way in peace. It was queer enough that the col onel should come down to us in person as we stood beside our saddle horses, knowing nothing of where we were to* go or the object of our trip, but stranger yet that all “military etiquette” should go out of his voice and demeanor as he said: “Men, 1 am going to send my wife down to the railroad to go East. You are to be her es cort. It is a case of life or death or she would not go. lam afraid of the Indians, and yet i think yotl will get through all right. You are to make' tin best time possible. If attack ed—” “We shall beat them off, sir,’ replied Sergeant Gregg, after waiting half a minute for the colonel to finish. “I hope you can. 1 can only send seven of you and a driver. Eight men ought to beat off a hundred Indians, unless taken in ambush. Be watchful ami prudent. Sergeant, you. are an old Indian fighter. You will know best what to do. Yon will get away by 1 o'clock Travel as fast ns you can and is late as you can,, so ns to fin ish the journey to-morrow. If you are attacked—” The colonel did not finish He looked at each man and horse, inspected the ambulance aud its pair of mules, and with a half nod to us he walked away. His wife must go, and, owing to details and sickness, no commissioned officer could be sent along. If the Indians were out an escort of twenty men would not lie too large Only eight of us were to 450. Had he finished his sentence lie would have sa-d: “If attacked and you are about to fall into the hands of the red devils, do not let my wife be captured alive.” We understood what he meant though wo said nothiug’to each other. No matter what he or anyone else feared, the little woman was almost merry as she took her seat in the ambu lance for the start. She treat ed us to the fullest extent, and that feeling made every man worth three. ’ Our horses were in line fettle,, and the first ten miles were covered in a gallop Then the way became so rough that wo could only proceed at a walk. We wound through the scrubby cedars and pines to the crest of a low mountain, and then descended into Little Val ley at just 5 o’clock. A dash across the valley to the base of blue Mountain would put us in ctfmp for the night. We had progressed famously well, and had not yet sighted an Indian. Three different times we had to bridge chasms which mountain torrents had cut out within a week, and twice we had to drag trees and logs out of the path before we could go on. Nothing had happened when we reached the valley, and as we looked around us and across it nothing could lie seen to alarm. We hack just taken the ropes off the blocked wheels of the ambulance when the war whoop of the hostile Indians sounded behind us, and we look ed back over our trail to catch sight of a hundred mounted warriors bearing down upon us They had picked our trail and run us down. “Mount 1 Now,straight across the vulley! Fall in to the rear of the ambulance.” Tim voice of the old sergeant was hard and linn as he spoke The curtains of the were up, and 1 glanced at the colonel’s wife. Slue had seen aud heard. Her cheeks had LAWRENCEVILLE, GEORGIA, TU !SDAY, APRIL 20th 1897. paled, but she was removing a repeating rifi from its hooks as we fell in behind the vehicle. It was a clear five-mile dash. The prairie was as level as a floor, and the mules needed no urging after hearing the yells of the Indians. The soldier driver wound the lines about his bands, braced his feet and away we went. We had a start of half a mile. No man looked back. The pace was not a hot one, and there was cover five miles away. The Indians gained on us, but only inch by inch. The mules took up such ajgait that our horses had to lie right down to it to keep up. Not a word was spo ken as' we rode, but every ear listened to locate those coming up behind us. If they came too near we must halt and open fire while the ambulance pushed on. We had almost reached cover before three or four rifle bullets came singing over our heads. Three minutes later we were among the trees and rocks and the race was ended. As the ambulance halted and we Hung ourselves off our horses I looked back and saw a band of at least seventy Indians almost within rifle shot, of us, The road struck the hills at a gulch, and they dnred not follow us into tlint. They gave vent to their disappointment by shouts and yells and a waste of aimi nition, and for a few minutes they had no plan in view. “Well, we beat them in a fair race,” Haid the colonel’s wife, as she descended from the ambulance with the rifle in her hands. “Sergeant Gregg, what are you going to do now ?” “Take cover, ma’am,” he re plied, as lie gave her the mili tary salute. “Yes, of course,” she said, as she looked about “Did you ever see a pair of mules run faster ? I might have got a shot but for you men behind. There must be nearly a hun dred Indians out there, but I guess wo are safe enough now.” She rattled on in that fashion while we were taking the mules from the ambulance and unsad dling our li-.rses, and it was a great weight off our minds to realize that she would not bo n burden on our hands. It was idle to think of pursuing our journey in the darkness which would soon close down, and be fore more morning there would ho plenty ‘of Indians on the trail beyond. We must take cover and hope to stand them oIT until help arrived, or they grew discouraged at the siege. As we were consulting about location and defense the col onel’s wife came bafck to us from the mouth of the gulch aud said: “There’s the place, over to the left, men. There’s aspring on that hill, with a good growth to shelter all, and you can' see plenty of bowlders lyingabout.” The sergeant had selected the same spot, and in the course of a quarter of an hour we were occupying it. We got the horses and mules up there, but the vehicle was left behind. It was a cone-shaped hill amid half a doxeu such, but it com manded the others. It was cov ered with pines and cedars of small growth, and there was a splendid spring right in the crest. If the Indians had been fierce in their pursuit or crafty in their plans, we could not have reached it. It was the outbreak of war again with them, and they were overeuu tious. They drew back into the valley to consult, thus giving us a fair show, and we were snug euough when night fell, and they made a dash for us, which we easily repulsed. Darkness found us occupying a circle about forty -feet across, l with stones and bowlders and trees for shelter, and though the situation was an anxious one and full of danger, all were in good spirits. We made a tire between two rocks and cooked our suppers, aud by the use of blankets we put a tent for the colonel’s wife, though against her protests. After one single effort of the Indians, which was doubtless more of a recouuoissance than an attack, we were leu in peace, though all through the night we heard sounds to prove they were tak ing up positions on all sides of us and making ready for the morrow. None of us except the womi i slept, an hour all night lon We used levers to loosen bow - dors and roll them into the cir cle, and with our knives we ci off limbs and cut down sina I trees to further strengthen 01 r fort. We got the horses into a sort of gully below ns and made the position as safe as possible, and when daylight came there was nothing more to be done. We had about <‘>oo rounds of ammunition, food for three days and water was at hand. Daybreak found us ready for an attack. The colonel’s wile took her place, rifle in hand, between two men, and for half ait hour we expected a sudden rush. At the end of that -time a single warrior appeared to view at the base of the hill, and in broken English, demanded our surrender. The sergeant answered him that wo were ready for them, and at tin-same time fired a shot which rolled* the red-skin’s pony over. Three minutes later there was n cir cle of fire About us. Indians had mounted into trees to tin right and left of us to get n plunging fire, and from the tops of two lower hills they poured in their bullets at random. We simply ctouched down hi - hind the rocks and smoked our pipes, pleased that they wen throwing away their cartridges. At the end of an hour they ceased firing. Not a man of us lmd been touched, but stray btillets had killed one of flu mules and wounded two horses. There would be a rush now, and ns we made ready for it the colonel’s wife sank down beside me and quietly said: “I’ve tumbled over sair- bel aud jack rabbits, and I oug t to be able to hit an Indian. Du I look frightened?” “You are as white as a gho , ma’am,” I answered, as 1 turned to her. “But I’m all right,” sin smiling said, “and here they come.” So they did. With every painted warrior yelling at the top of his voice, the entire band charged us at once, taking in the whole circle. It was not until they got closu U|> I hat we could see anything to shoot at, i and every few seconds the s. r-j gcunt cried out to us to hold our fire. It was over in u min ute. They did not expect to find us intrenched, and we knocked them over like nil e pins. 1 believe we killed or wounded ! a full score, and it took tin tight out of them so thoroughly j that not a rifle was fired at u* i until afternoon. Then, soon after two o’clock, and without the slightest warn ing, we were charged again, and for three minutes it was a wild melee. Wo fired into th ir very faces as they sprang up >.i the defenses, and two warrm s were shot down inside our fort, and both by the colonel’s wile. It was their tinal and supreme effort, and well it was for us that it was thus. When we had beaten them off Sergeant Gregg and another man lay down, four men were badly wounded, aud they hail cut our animals out of the gulch and run them off. Had the attack lasted a minute longer, or beeu renewed, two men and a woman would alone have opposed it. And among the queer things of that last dash was the behavior of the colonel’s wife. With my own eyes I saw her shoot down the two warriors who leaped the breastwork, aud I believe she killed two or three more outside of it, und yet, when the attack had been repulsed, the little woman fell over in a dead faint, and for ten minutes we believed her dead from a bullet. When she same to life she had u lit of weeping, and when that was over she turned to and attended our hurts and was ready for an other brush. We put in another night right there, not knowing that tin* In dians drawn off, but soon alter sunup next morning were re lieved of all anxiety by the appearance of a spout, who passed on and sent us aid from the fort. The colonel’s wile did not get down to the railroad, for that was the opening of a war which lusted for months, hut there was uo blame attached to auy of tbs living who r*- turned with her. On the con trary, the old martinet of a colonel took each one of us by the hand, breaking over “mili tary etiquette” once more in his life, and said: “'«u did well, my man,' and here s my hand on it, and I won’t forget you I’'—Buffalo Times. ' THE CEDARS OF LEBA NON. * SEVERAL OROI'I’S OF THE KAMOIS TREES ARE STILL STANDING. In April St Nicholas there is an article entitled, “Silk nnd Cedars,” by Harry Kenn, the artist describing a visit, to the mountains of Leabanon. Mr. Fenn says. Every boy and girl of the Christian world lias heard and read, over and over again, of the “Cedars of Lebanon”: but very few have any idea of the locality and surrounding of the famous grove. It is a popular error, by the way, U> suppose that there are no other cedars remaining besides this group at the head of the “Wady” (val ley or canon) Kadisha. There are, to my knowledge, ten other groves, some numbering thous ands of trees. This particular group that we are about to visit is called by the Arabs by a names which means, “Cedars of the Lord.” They number about four hundred, trees, among them a circle of gigantic fellows that are called by the natives “TheTwe've Apostles,” upon the streught of an old tra dition that Jesus and his discip les having come to this spot left their staves standing in tho ground these staves sprouted into eedartives. There is every reason to sup pose that in the time of King Solomon these scattered groves were part of an enormous un broken forest, extending the en tire length of the Lebanon range of mountains about, one hun dred miles running nearly par allel with tho Mediterranean shore from a little below Beirut. The summits of thy range an trum fifteen to twenty miles from the cosst. The Lebanon —that is, the •‘White”—does not derive its name from glittering snow peaks, but from (he white lime stone dills of its summits. The tirst historical mention of the trees in the Bible (2 Sam. v. II): “AndKirain, King ofTvre. sent mesoengars to David, and cedar trees, and carpenters, and masons, and they built David an house. ” From that day to this the peeple have been almost as reck* less and wasteful wt these noble giants of the mountains as our own people are of the cedars’ tirst cousins, the redwood trees of the] California coast range. As we approach the grove, whic ’ stands upon the top of a small hill, the foliage is almost black against the snow covered crags of Dahrel Kadib which rears its highest peak over ten thousand feet above the sea. There is n Maronite chapel in the grove, its patriarch claim ing the sole right to the sacred trees; and, luckly, the supersti tion with which th(> trees have been surrounded has been their salvution. All the cedars of Lebanon would have been de molished for redwood years ago were not the people threatened with dire calamity should they tuke u single stick. A BIG MAIL CONTRACT. Charles burton* carries tin mail daily except Sunday, be tween two towns 20 miles apart, receiving for this the magnifi cent reward of one cent a year. It a necessary for him to travel forty miles a day, or 12,530 miles a year. The payments on star routes are made quarter !y, and the question arises as to 'how I'nclo Sam is going to pay the quarter of a cent, but the contractor will not likely sue if ; the payments are postponed till the last quarter, and then the government can forward tin copper, which will Is* in full. J The worst part about the busi-j ness is that Mr. burton has th*- contract for four y<-ars at the I same rate. The cause of the re markably low price for the con tract is that burton was deter mined to have the route over an enemy who was also a bid-1 dor. and besides be Juts stages and horses which he has been using for years for that purpose,. —Sanford (Ky.) Journal. . be a happy Christian and i God will make you a useful cue. j JOI'RNALISM. Georgia Cracker. To be a successful jouralist is to occupy a very important place in society. The newspaper is one of the most important factors in build ing up a city, state or nation. No thriving city can ass ord to be without a first-class paper. We have learned to look to the newspaper for information on almost every subject. No family can afford to be without a newspaper. The newspaper serves as a measure »f educdtion. The history of a day is brought to our door and we know each day what is going on in every nation on the globe. The newspaper helps us us to understand the great questions of goverment and state. Next to the pulpit, the newspaper is the mightiest power *1 tho sup pression of crime. The crimi nal dreads nothing more than the exposure which the newspa per furnishes the public. The red-handed murderer and the fleeing rascal fear the expo sure that, the paper carries to the homes of the people. The newspaper helps to build up and educate the people. It formulates and crvstalizes pub lic sentiment, upholds the right, suppresses the wrong, encour ages enterprise, and advocates economy pleads for justice and stands for the public weal. It is certainly the best medi um through which to advertise eur resources, to build up trade, to quicken thrift, multiply pros perity and encourage the estab lishment of factories in our midst. No successful business man can afford to ignore the newspaper. It marches hand in hood with prosperity, side by side with en terprise, and is today cue of t he greatest advocates the world has ever seen for the betterment, en lightment aiul upbuilding of the htimnn race. While this is true, yet a low, dirty, filthy newspaper is one of the greatest of calamities. We advocate a clean, high tone news-giving, truth-telling moral, religious newspaper. We want to seethe newspaper elevated, purified and on tin right side of every moral and religious question. We want it to stand for too home, for tho education of tho young, lor the purification of society, for hon esty of tin- ballot box, for an honest ballot and a fair count, for good men in high places, for the upbuilding of our great na tion, and the suppression of crime in every quarter. If this is your object in pub lishing a newspaper in cur midst we extend to you our best wishes and hearty eo-opesatiou. Cordially, S. R. Bklk. Mr. D.G. Bickers, Gainesville Ua. —My Dear Sir: 1 have beer, t« see the “Divine Healer,” or rather faith cure M. D,, as 1 ham he is a regular practioner or whs before he discarded his pill cure, and discovered his new powers. Of course he does not cure every one, but he does cure many. 1 met many that lie has ! treated and conversed with them j —all told mo that they were j cured or greatly bent-fitted. Mrs. Munning Gave, who is near seventy years old, and has been an invalid for many years, and also **lind, not having been able to use either hand crarms, her hands being so terribly con tracted she could not use them for any purpose, after two treat ments o >uld use both hands and told me she had strength enough to milk tier cow. I also talked with youngWadc, a lud llftecn years of age, who has been paralyzed <jn one side for several years. He has thrown away his crutches and was frol ■ icing with the boys. I, in company with Dr. It. J. Mussey end wife, went up to have him treat Mrs. Massey for deafness. She had been almost entirely deaf in one ear for sev enteen years, and was very hard of hearing in her right ear. He gave her oue treatment and she left him, being able to hear ev-> ery word spoken in an ordinary tone of voice. We have several ladies in our city who have been treub-d by him und cured. One has hud u large turn' r to disappear, anoth er a large win on her neck, still another with two wins. Lust Saturday a negro woman came to him on crutches who had not been üblo to walk for years. lb* gave her one treat ment, then stepping buck some twenty steps ho commanded her to walk to him. She ut tirst hesitated, but upon receiving ttie second command sip- did as told, left her crutches and walk <-d directly to him, then turned apd walked back, picked up her crutches and left the hall with out their aid. These and many others are samples of his cures that have come under my observation. How tie dots these things, 1 know not; what power it is, 1 know not, but I do know he is healing many us the multitudes are coming to him from all quarters of tbs globe. 1.00 F?ER ANNUM, IN ADVANCE If you so desire, I will inter view tho Doctor and send you results. W it h kiudrst ri gards, I am, yours in F. C. B , W. T. Dozier. HOW GREEN SMITH’S CROP WAS SAVED. Walker County Messenger. During the war no one did more for the women and chil dron of his county than gener ous hearted Green Smith, a pros- i porous farmer whose home was; about two miles from Jug Tav ern. After the surrender, dur ing the heart of the crop season,! the darrkies were carrying on a protracted meeting ;n a hush arbor about a half a mile from his home. Night and day it was kept up with not any pros pect of it coming to an end un til Green saw that he was going to lose his crop. He couldn’t do anything himself, but lie had faith that the old soldiers could help him. Near him were two, one a member of the 6th Ga., who had lost an arm. the other of the 22nd Ga.,. who hud lost a leg. He offered them each a suit of clothes if they would break up the meeting. They took the contract and callod in the aid of a confederate. One dark night at the meeting, while the fide of excitement was at its height, the arbor was fired | at three Corners and harmless, shots from pistols in the hands of the three determined men rang out above the shouts of the mourners. An instantaneous pnnic followed. The sheep and the shepherds scattered, as if struck by a whirlwind. No ef fort was made to continue the meeting and the crops of Greene Smith and his neighbors were saved by the timely work of the willing laborers. BEEFSTEAK S4B A POI ND. The first beefs toad that ever reached Circle City, Alaska, sold for S4B per pound a few weeks ago. The steak consisted of a teu ! pound piece of the beef that w as i slaughtered at Forty Mile Creek and was packed at that place and shipped 260 miles to Circle j City Gy Thomas O’Brien. When O’Brien readied the camp, the miners turned out in a body to see the steak. It was pluced on exhibtion and it at tracted as much attention as an eight-legged cult, Everybody wanted a piece of the fresh meat, and the* prices offered were such as would have result ed in a mining camp quurael or j bloodshed if it had not been de- 1 Cided to rHtlte the stead off fori the benefit of a hospital which Bishop Howe is trying to estab lish for the miners at Circle City. At tirst 95 per pound was of fered for a slice of the steak, but the bidding became brisker and as the meat was sliced, as high as $-15 per pound was offer ed. Finally, in orter to avoid complications, it was decided to sell tickets at 50 cents to 12.50 for tlie privilege of drawing for a slice. After 1480 worth of tickets had been sold the draw ing began, and to the relief of the managers of the sale, no trouble resulted in the disposi tion of Circle City s first be* f steak. —►*.— John McNulty convinced a New York police magistrate the j other day that, while he was I drunk w hen arrested, he Imd gut drunk in accordance with the teucliings of the Kittle. “How is that?” asked the magistrate. McNulty picked up the Bible from the desk and read, from the book of Proverbs: “Give strong drink unto him that is ready to |terish, and wine unto those that be heavy of heart. fa*t him drink and f trget his poverty and remem ber his misery no more.” The prisoner was discharged with out fi rther question. ■* *"*■' THK DISCOYKKY SAVED HIS LIFE. Mr. G. fail lunette, Druggist, Beuvefsville. 111,, says: To Dr. King’s New Discovery I owe niv life. Was taken with LaGrippe, and Ire-d all the physicians fur miles about, but of no avail and was given up and told I could not live. Having l)r. King's New Discovery in my store, I sent for a bottle and began its use, and from the tirst dose began to got Initter, and after using three bottles was up and about again. It is worth its weight in gold. Wo won’t keep store or house with out it. Get a free trial bottle at A. M. Wiuu *k Sou’s Drug Store. ROYAI P &/VK|HG POWDER Absolutely Pure. Celebrated ferits great leavening siirepglli and healthfulness. .in sures the food against alum and all forms of adulteration common to the cheap brands. Rotal Bakiwo I’owDKii Company, New York. ~ STOIUC BURGLARIZED AT CAMITON, IN WAI.TON COUNTV. TWO TRAMPS IN' .lAIT.. From the Monroe Messenger, of April 18th, we take the fol lowing: Two tr.amns by the name of Geo. .Jones and Charlie Hamil ton,.respectively, were brought to this city lust Friday evening charged with burglarizing the store of J. R. Camp & Co., at Campton, Thursday night. Jones and Hamilton claim to have originated from Alabama, and had an occupation painting furniture and table-making. They spent the day Thursday in and around Caippton, at one time entering Mr. Camp’s yard bogging for something to eat, and at one .time going into Mr. Camp’s store for the purpose of purchasing 5 cents worth of coffee, 5 cents worth of sugar and 5 cents wort h of tobacco. This,of course,led Mr. Camp’s clerk to suspicion something wrong, but nothing serious was apprehended, as tramps were frequent visitors to that place. They remained about (Hamp ton alt day and were seen late in the evening near the store, and Thursday night the store was broken into—robbed of all the money, which was a small amount, ten 'pair of shoes, two guns, three pistols, a whole raft of knives and other articles too j numerous to mention, a major | portion of which were recovered, I being found buried in saw dust and at various places in the woods. It is estimated that the goods tak“ii were whrth at least #3O.tX). This, of course, is a rough calculation as other things that were taken have not been recovered. The burglary was done after the rain, which full about 11 o’clock, as the tracks were so visible in the mud. Friday morning, after the wreckage had been discovered and goods found missing, a posse went in hot pursuit for those whom had been suspi cioned as guilty. They hunted until about noon Friday, when they captured the men about a mile and a half above Winder. They were brought hack to Monroe and lodged in jail Fri day afternoon. Mr. Camp is satisfied they are the guilty parties. A commitment trial will be heard before Justice it. L. Kelly tomorrow at 10 a. m. 11l MOR OF THE DAY. •That contortionist seems very conceited. ’ ‘Yes; he is.completely wrap ped up in himself.’—Yale Rec ord. ‘Who was Ananias, pap:*.?’ ‘I believe lie was tin* leader of the opposition to George Washington.’—Truth. Farmer Whiffletree —Did you say you was lookin’ for work? Weary Wilkens—Yes, bos*— wid de accent on de was.— Judge. ‘How would you define an op timist?” ‘As a man who expects to pay last week’s board by drawing his next week’s salary.’—Truth. Mrs. Eason—l until ritund that your husband can't meet his creditors. Mrs. West'in—l don’t believe he wants to, especially. She —There’s that Mr. Flyp across the street. He suys _tie knows all the pretty gins m our club. ll*—Knows you also, doesn’t he?—Puck. Jorkins—When young people marry they get into a pickle. Ne\ve*l—l suppose that is why all their friends send them pickle dishes.—Truth. ‘Sort of a Damon and Pythias combination, lint isn’t it fun ny they don’t see through each other?' ‘ That's often the way when [>eople get so thick.’—Puck. Wild-Eyed Customer—Have you any goods made of solo leather or boiler iron? Clothing Merchant—No. sir; we don’t keep boys’ clothing Now York Weekly. Cultivate the habit of casting all your care upon Christ.