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VOL. XXVII. NO 7 HAD TWO BIRTHDAYS. R»ally Washington was horn on February It, instead of Feb ruary 22. The record in the Washington family Bible shows that George was born on the lltli day of February, 1782,and .the first known celebration of event was February lltb 1784. when Washington was at the height of his power and fame. Wby, then, do we celebrate February 22? Under the old method of counting time, called ♦ a - old style, tio account of leap •fciours was made, and gradually the calendar ran behind, so to, •peak. When the new and cor rect ca’endar was adoptedWash ingtin's birthday, which was February 11, O. S. (old style), became February 22, new style. Congressman Bailey of Texas in defending himself from criti cism because of his refusal to wear a dress suit, and go into the swell society of the nation al capital, says: ‘‘The truth is that not cue man out of overv hundred in my district cares anything about my clothes so long’as they are clean and not fantastic 1 My constituents ure just as far from being ruffians as they are from being dudes. They have long since passed that stage of civilization where six-shooters and spurs are con sidered personal ornaments, but 1 am g ad to say they have not reached that other stage of civ ilization where the men us* perfume and wear corsets, and the women smoke cigarettes and wear bloomers. They are wholesome, sensible Americans, who care infinitely more about what th irlb-preaentat ive thinks than they d<> about what, lie wears.” A SMART TRADE. The Philadelphia Record tells this story of a trade war. In ortier to boom business, an en terprising grocer on a certain d iv advertised several thousand five c u nt loaves of bread lor sile at one cent each. His rival was in despair until a brilliant idea came into his head. Jh hired a small arim of boys and girls to buy up al! the louves at a cent each. At 2 o’clock Grocer No. 1 had sold all his bread, and those who came later denounced him as u fraud, who had fooled them with a lying advertisement Meanwhile the foxy grocer • round the corner, with more it a i a thousand one cent loaves stack'd no on hi- kitchen fl ’or, put iut n big sign, ‘’Frost Bread I—A 1 —A Five-Cent Loaf for Two Cents. We Never Adver tise What We Have Not Got ” He thus not only discern fitted his rival and turned the tide in his own favor, bus made a prof it on the bread as well. A COIN THAT HAS DISAP PEARED. “Though the poniiv of 186 G, ’’ observed it numismatist, *‘wiih issued in groat sufficiency, the coins si oil disappeared from circulation, and are held an rarities. They are seldom of fered’for sa'e, but those which have been offered brought n large price. There aro several theories ex iting among coin experts as to the disappearance of this pen ny, being of the older style and large, but the most generally accepted is that the penny was gobbled up iii consequence of a rumor which was started on the authority of an employe of the ITiited States mint where the pennies were made This rumor was that in making the composition of the metals for the coin a bar of gold was melt ed up by mistake for a bar ol n.ckle, and that the reason why the p uny disappeared was in cod sequence of its intrinsic val- | ue The result of this and other stories about :be 185 b penny is that though tlieie were just as many coined us there were of *64, '65 or ’67 pennies, one of the 6(5 pennies will today bring nearly one hundred times as much money as »hose of the other years mentioned. Some numismatists have even gone sc far as to test the composition, They found no trace of gold. It is one of the peculiar thing-* about the scarcity of some c -ius.” —Washington Star. DID YOU EVER Try Electric Bitters us a remedy for your troubles ? If not, get a bottle now and get relief This tmdu ine has beeu found to bo p-ouliarly adapted to the rebel and cure ot all Female Comidi.ints. exerting h wonder direct influence in giving Ttfength and tone to the organs. fi you have Loss <;f Appelito, Constipation, Headache, Faint iutßpells, or urt* Nervous,Sleep less, Excitable, Melancholy or troubled with Dizzy S|k>lls, Electric Bitters is the medicine yfiftiie. d. Health and Strength >i by it* use Fif ty cents ami .fl at Winn & Sou’s Drug Store. British residents of Mexico will give a series of fetes in hon #r qf th* queen's jubilee. The Gwinnett Herald. THE LITTI'Ji WAWf* P‘ BY ,\f K. HARROW). “A little child shall lead them.” One bright Easter morning, Gilbert Strong, with great-coat buttoned closely about him — for the season was early, and the air frosty and biting— (topped briskly along on his re turn from church. His objec tive point was a cozy cottage over which presided his dear old mother to whom he was tenderly devoted. As lie passed though that por tion of the city inhabited by the poorer class, he thought he heard the feeble cry of a child. His ear was quick always to catch the appeal of the weak. He paused a moment, and looked about. Again the cry came, from the cellar right at his feet. Finding the entrance, he ran rapidly down the steps and ton half-open door. The light from which became increased to his eyes the obscur ity of the room, and it was some time before he caught sight ol any object within it. Then he saw in a corner a heap of some thing which proved to be a bed of rags, upon which lay a wo man and child The woman’s hand rested upon the child’s head, and she had pushed most of the rags over its body. Gilbert stooped and examined them. The woman was dead; * the hand resting upon the child’s head, stiff and icy. He pulled the rags away, and! there lay a little girl of about three years, apparently dying. As ho touched her, she opened her eyes, and with a feeble wail said: “Mamie wants mamma.” Gibert lifted her in his arms, saying gently: “Hush, little one!” The caution was needless. She had ngnin sunk into uncon sciousness. Unbuttoning bis thick mat, he placed tho emaciated little form inside it, and holding her close to his great, throbbing heart, lie run up tho steps, sprang into a passing cab, ami hurried to the hospital. He took the child in, and gave her into the hands of the nurse who met him Gilbert stayed long enough to see the child made comfortable, and then left to attend to thol burial of the mother. The setting Easter sun looked down upon her grave. There was absolutely no identification oi' the womau. She had evi dently. while all the world was rejoicing in the thought of a risen Saviour, crept into this hole to die, and had doubtless beeu dead all night, the child lying beside her. Her last act was to heap tho rags over its halt-frozen body, and to lay her dying hand upon its head to hush its sobs. The nurse, a young woman, into whose hands the child had faden, sat with it upou her lap, after the careful administration of food and stimulants had called ha k its fleeting life. Tears fell upou the poor little .body as she tenderly bathed it, tho bones almost pgitrudiug through the skin. The physician standing by, discovered an eruption on the child, which he feared might prove coMiagious; so for fear of infection she could not betaken to the ward occupied by the other little ones. The woman’s ward was full but there was a vacant bed in that of Ills uiwu. LAWRENCEVILLE, GEORGIA, TU' SDAY, APRIL 27th 1897. This bed was removed, and a small crib, with its neat hospit al appointments, substituted. On one side of it stood a bed in which lay a great, brawny, Irish laborer, Mike O’Neal. The night previous, in a drunk en row, he had had his skull broken, and had been brought to the hospital for treatment. Sinfto the hour he came, he had done nothing but curse and abuse, in the most brutal man ner, physician, students and nurse, whenever they came near him. Until the fumes of the whiskey got out of his brain, there was no hope of controlling .him. On the other side of the crih lay a patient, Mike’s complete opposite—a slender, swarthy young man of most quiet and gentlemanly demeanor. The week before, ho had attempted 'suicide by cutting his throat 'The wound was deep enough to be fatal, and was healing. He refused to give his name,.Raying bitterly 1 • r>'onger had any, and was known simply by num ber seventy-eight. An extreme melancholy rested upon his fea tures, and he never spoke ex cept to answer questions from nurse and physician. As the two lay in their beds, they saw the little crih brought in; number seventy-eight, with apathy, Mike cursing that a squalling brat was to be brought among them. Presently the nurse entered, holding in her arms, wrapped in a blanket, the tiny patient. Removing the blanket, she laid the baby, clad in the snow white hospital gown, in the crib. The pale ringlets hail been brushed, and lay upon the pillow like a golden halo around the pinched and shrunken face. At the sight of her, number seventy-eight half-rose in bis bed, and covering his eyes, fell back with a groan. Mike paused in his curses, and with a sudden revulsion of feeling as he gipsed into the pale still face, whispered: “Is (he baby dead?” She was not dead, but the poor little life flickered for days, as if with every breath it would go out. A great calm lay upon the ward. Mike never uttered an other oath, but submitted pa tiently to whatever treatment | the doctor and nurses accorded j him. Number seventy-eight assumed n position in which he could always look into the lit tle face, eager for some change for the better. Uncle Peteri | the black man, who lay with a broken leg, ceased entirely bis merry plantation songs, and all queruhmsuess and complain ing died out in the presence of the baby’s suffering. One day it seemed the little life was fast ebbing out in spite ‘of every effort to hold it back. The physician, with two stu dents, the nurse and Gilbert, who came every day to visit the little one, stood watching the labored breathing, tears in every eye. The physician was himself*: tV’er, the students not yot iujuicd to scenes of suf fering, while the nurse loved the baby as if it were her own. Gilbert felt in his heart a re | solve, a* yet unspoken, slipping \ away with the child’s life. Mike was crying like a baby, bis hands clasped tight in the effort to keep back the solm which shook the bed with their violence, his warm, Irish heart heart half- broken with sympa thy. Number seventy-eight lay with avertod eyes. The first prayer that had passed his lips for many day*, was breathed from tliPin. “0 God, restore the child, so like my little Alice at home, to life, and help me, a ruined, broken wretch, to again have trust in thee,” While they watched aud while they prayed, a great peace over* spread the baby's face, her bieathing grew soft and slow, aud amid the tearful smiles of the watohiuu group, she fell into a deep sleep. It lasted all through the night. A hush as of death pervaded the room, lest by s-ime sudden jar the buttle thread of life should he broken. The close of that sleep would bo life or death. It was life With the morning she awoke, lifted the blue eyes from under the fringed lids, and looked so a moment about her. She hu\ the nurse’s loving face ben: over her, and whispered with faint little smile: “Mamie’s mammal” She had gone back to tie moment she lost conscionsnos; beside her dead mother. She fell asleep again, clasp ing the nurse’s hand, while Gilbert, who had just come in, looked on in rapture Mike fairly had hystericr and became so uproarious i his joy that he to l»o threatens with the doctor, Number seventy-eight. la\ with a solemn determination ii his heart, Since God had an Swered his prayer for the child he would answer the one so: himself. With his return to health, ho would go to his wife and child, and begin again hi broken life, consecrating it to trust, and usefulness. Later, he told to Mary Bar ton, the nurse’s confiding eai. his story. He w as from the South .where he had left his wife and child with relatives. He had come to a northern city, hoping to recruit his ruined fortunes and send for them. Disappointed at every step, destitute and hopeless, ho had attempted to take the life he thought useless to others and a disgrace to him self. The Imiul was too weak ened by starvation to fully do the deed, and he had been found and saved. “Nothing,” ho concluded, “but the presence of t-liat little child would have ever softened my bitterness. 1 am going homo to be a man again. ” And the pledge made by th biby’s bedside was fully kept. After little Mamie grow well enough to be out of her bed, she became the pet and delight 'of the ward, flittering from bed to he'd, with her winsome ways and innocent prattle, beguiling one from his sorrow, another from his pain. Mike worsliipi d her as an angel descended from heaven. Number seventy ejght held her in his arms and told her stories of his own little girl at home, while Uncle Peter's face grew radiant whenever “Little Missis” came near liis beil. She called Mary Barton always “mamma,” and never knew the difference between her and her mother. Gilbert Strong came dailv with gifts to delight and amuse her. She had learned his step] upon the stair, and ran to meet him. Next to the nurse, she loved him best.. It was a long time before lit tle Mamie wan acknowledged to be entirely well, for that meant j going away, since this was a hospital for the sick only Gil bert strong settled t bequest inn One morning he came in a carriage, and with tho tearful farewells of her hospital friends' he carried her away So the cozy cottage home,the old mother’s heart and his own were all brightened by the pres ence of his adopted daughter, the little hospitul waif. TWO NEGROES HOI.I) l I* FIVE WHITE MEN. One of (be boldest highway robberies on record is reported to us from Climax, Ga., a small town on the 8. F. & W. rail road, about eight miles from Bainbridge. About 8 80 o’clock last Thurs day night, while Mr. D B. En glish, Dr. Carter, and thice young men were engaged in con versation at English’s store, two negroes, hearing a pistol in each hand, stepped into the jstore, and ordered the white I men to turn their faces to tie wall, aud hold up their hands. This they proceeded to do at once, while the negroes went through their pockets, taking what money they had. bqt no jewelry. English was then or dered to open his sale, and i while one negro went through the contents of the safe, pocket ing all the cash and tearing 'o shreds all the private pap-rs, tho other one, pistol in eiicji hand, kept the white men lined up against the wall. They ».*• cured about JH6 in cash, some shoe*_and a hat. They an nouneotj that, they would stay on tho outside until the eleven j o'clock train passed, and if any , one attempted to leave tile store, he was a dead limn. Being unarmed, the men hud to submit, while the robbers made good their esoa pe. Blood hounds are on the trail.—Mon roe Messenger. Ulgsus Tabuiwt cure bail i»r«*Ui. WHY JACK DID NOT RUN FORA CLAIM. BY FRANCKS BII.OERBAf'K. It will open the twenty-first. That’s the day,” called Jack Bowen to his wife as he stopped his team before his cabin door. Mary had been watching some time for him to return from town, not because she was un easy about him in the least, for lack had been a sober boy and wue a sober man, but the love, vbich a few short years before, 'lad led her to leave her father’s humble dwelling, had grown with her years and Jack was al ways sure of a warm welcome. They had struggled through hardships, for Jack was poor, but his heart was brave and his ’tody was strong and his willing lands made their rmie log cab in comfoGable, Jack had rented i field near by, wh *n> he daily toiled to earn a living for his family. They wore happy here, but ambition entered their Bim ole lives anil when a tract ol Indian land, known on the map is the Cherokee Outlet, but gen ■rally called “The Strip” was to be opened to white settlers. Jack and Mary watched eagerly for the president’s proclama tion, naming the day when they might join in a race for a farm if their own, where their baby boy, Grata, and their little Es ther could grow to manhood anil womanhood without the evil in lluences of a floating popula tion. They had longed for a day when Jack could mount his fa vorite horse on the boundary line of the land of promise and, as the signal rang from the musket of the United States oliHers, speed away into wild, trackless region stretching be fore him, and having found n farm where meadow grasses wave and sparkling springs feed the creek that winds among the trees he would rest his tired steed and give him food and drink. But the time for dreaming was over; the reality was at hand. Jack and Mary began making preparation for camp ing as the they thought it would be best to go the boundary line and camp whero Mary and the children could remain while Jack made the race. In this way they would bo near and j could go immediately to the claim when Jack had staked it, thereby insuring its settlement ami preventing others from claiming the same land. In a few days all was ready and with merry hearts they bade adieu to their home. As they journey ed, filled with hopeful anticipa tions, little did they dream how soon they would return with hearts aching with life’s first great sorrow, that, time only could heal. Traveling in their prairie schooner (the name commonly given to the ordinary farm wag on with a canvass cover) they reached Orlando, a small town on the Santa Fo Kail road just whero it enters Oklahoma prop er from the north. Near by they pitched their tout in the temporary canvas city peopled with twenty-eight thousand per s in ou the same errand as themselves. It was here they la gan to realize that the chance they sought to gum u homo de manded much physical endur ance. Those days of camping w« re uncomfortable. The wind, which prevailed in that section of the country, blew with great violence and the loose soil dis turbed by the tread of man and beast, tilled the air. It was scarcely possible to breathe and goggles to protect tho eyes were a necessity. Care was required to pr*i»rve the small &t«>re of | fond in wholesome condition, 1 lor the resources of the villiage could barely supply tho demand Every well in the place was drawn dry each dav aud the wa ter was sold at five cents a drink or ton eoi ts a bucketful. Wa- > ter wagons were used, not to \ sprinkle the streets, hut to bring from a distance the nec essary supply. Jack must register and to do j this lie must full in lino behind i hundreds of men who were tie fore him ut the booths; still he was in advance of thousands of others who were yet to upply. As newcomers took their places they wero numbered in compa nies of sis and if any one lost his place lie had to begin at the rear again, so Jack stook or sat on the around all day in the dust and heat with short inter missions for his meals and took his turn at night rolling up in a blanket to sleep on the ground Mary watched and protected the tittle ones as they slept in their tent not far away while her wakeful hours were spent in listening to the rumble of wag ons, the cry of children and the report of the six-shooter as it added its sound so the various noises that, wo]t» the nightly echoes. * Three days and nights passed anil Jack had registered. Now twenty-four hours and the test would he rm.tle, but Grats, whom the mother had noticed was ailing, suddenly went into a spasm. For a time it seemed that they could do nothing for him, but by diligent inquiry the lather found a iloi’ti»r who re lieved the child but the relief was of short juration. At eve ning another spasm came on. When the doctor entered the tent a second time a sad. thoughtful expression came to his face. He sat with the fam ily half the night. Some wo men from the neighboring tents came to tak» turns in mistering to the needs of the little one to simpathizo with the grief stricken father and mother. At dawn, each of these helpers, ac quaintances of a single night, went where duty called them and at noon many horsemen stood ready to respond to the signal of the soldier’s musket, but Jack did not hear the re port as he bent above the life less form of baby Grats. A week later they were back in their old home with the nismory of a mound of earth marking their darling’s resting place and in their submission they said, “Let frugality build for us a homo. We have had enough of chance." A TAME LEOPARD. Of all the cat tribe, leopards are the easiest to tame and touch, if they are captured while young. When they are old, their savage habits have be come fixed and it is almost im possible iheu to tame them. Thirty years ago a curious and well known sight on the streets of B*rliii was Yon dor Muilliern with his tame leopard. Baron von der Maitliern, when a voting man, was for several years German consul in Egypt. While there an Arab friend presented him with a young leopard. It was only a few days oid, it eyes not open yet. The young baron determined to make a pet of the leopard and train and treat it like a dog. The leopards was never con fined in a cage, but was always allowed full liberty and was well fed nnd petted. He slept on a comfortable rug in his master's room, and if the night was cold crept upon his mas ter’s bed and shared it with him. Through the day and out, hs followed Yon ih-r Madliern about like a faithful dog and displayed a dog’s affec tion for his master. He grew t>y ami by into n handsome creature, 0110 of the laigont of I)in species ami finely marked. When he had been in Von der Madliern’s posses sion about two years, the baron was recalled to Berlin and took the animal hack with him. In Berlin the leopard occupied the sahie place in bis master’s hou.o that be lmd done before ami followed the baron about the streets in the same way. At first the sight of the crea ture stalking solemnly along beside the man created quite u sensation in the city, and peo ple crowed to see them pass. But it drew to be an everyday matter, which only attracted occasional notice from strangers or children. The animal lived to he about In years old and died much la mi nted by all who knew it. Ills story scorns to prove that the wildness of such animals is on ly slightly inherited, and that their better nature may usually be brought out bv proper treat* mont. —Our Animul Friends. A North Georgia man who moved to Montana a few years ago started back a short time since, and left the following farewell hot ice on tlio wall of bis shack, “Four miles fromu neighbor, lb miles from a post ollice, 25 miles from a railroad, 11 miles from a church, 180 miles from timber, bull a mile from water, u quurter of a mile from hell, the same distance trom a blood-thirsty half-breed. God Bless Our Home! Gone back to Noitli Georgia which is God's country to get u fresh Sturt. —I n ——w»» —— - Klpan* Tubules cure dyspepsia. 1.00 PER ANNUM, IN ADVANCE HURLING ANATHEMAS. Tn his speech in the House of Representatives on the tariff bill, the Hop. Champ Clark of Missouri thus addressed the re publican side! “You will be brought to your senses when the people get a allot, at you in the year of our Lord and Master 1808. “Then you will he in the con dition of the man out of whom the devil was cast, and after his soul was swept and garnish ed the devil returned, bringing with him seven other devils. The Bible says that the last state of that man was worse than the first. “By the eye of faith, I can see a million bicycles, with pneumatic tires, rjding down protection liars because yon are putting up the price of bicycles 85 per cent. “The women of the land— God bless ’em!—will make husbands, sons, brothers and sweetheart* vote against you, because under the Dingley bill they can have only one dress where they had two under the Wilson-Garman bill, “Seven million farmers will dig you up with their hoes, plow you up with their plows, beat you with their mauls, hackle you with their harrows, hammer you with their sledges, rake you witii their curry-combs, pulver ize you with their disks, cut you down with their axes, split you to pieces with their frees, ride you on their barbed wire fences, toss you with their pitch forks, smite you with their pile drivers, grind you through their sausage mills, mow you down with their reapers, t»ind you up *n great bundles, run you thro' their threshing machines am! scatter you as worthless chaff, because yon are raising the price of all farming implements by 15 per cent. “Every patient forced"to en dure a surgical operation will loathe you, because you hav< increased the tax on anaesthet ics. Every lover of learning will detest you, because you have laid a prohibitive tariff on books, thereby shutting thi gates of knowledge so fur as was in your power. Every child that dies of Uiptheria will pass away pronouncing on you its lasting curse, because you have put up the price of antitoxin You are arraying against you eyery right-thinking man and woman in the land. “ ‘Since he, miscalled the Morn ing Star, Nor man nor fiend hath fallen so far’— ns yon will fall when the people of the United States find out the numerous monstrosities con tained in the bill.” CONDENSED TESTIMOMY. Chas. B. Hood, Broker and Manufacturer’s Agent, Colum bus, Ohio, certifies that Dr King’s New Discovery has no equal as a Cough remedy. J. I). Brown, Prop. Sr. James Hotel, Ft. Wayne, Did., testi fies that he was cured of aCough of two years standing, caused Gy La Grippe, by Dr. King’s New Discovery. B. F. Merrill, Baldwinsville, Mass., savs that he bus used and recommended it and never knew it to fail and would rather havo it than any doctor, be ywpise it always cures. Mrs. Hemming, 222 E. 25th St., Chicago, always keeps it at bund and has no fear ol Croup, because it instantly re lieves. Free trial bottles at Winn & \ Son’s Drug Store. BEASTS, b7rDs"aND EISH. Each salmon produces about ] 20,000,000 eggs. It is said that the Greenland while sometimes uttains tin, age of 400 years. In (aimed, Kan., not only the life of an unlicensed dog is i forfeited, but its owner must ' pay a fine. An acre of good fishing ground in the sea will yield more foot! in a week than mi acre of the | best land will do in a year. The horse, when browsing, is iguided entirely by the nostrils |in the choice of proper food, anil ‘blind horses are never known to make mistakes in diet. The cries of sea birds, espe cially sea gulls, ore very valu able as fog signals. The birds cluster on the cliffs and coast, anil their cries warn boatmen that they are near the land. The most valuable fur is that of the sea otter. Ouc thousand doPurs lias l>een paid for a sin gle skin of this animal not more than two yards long by three quarters of a yard wide.—Balti more American. “That,” said the wa»tor to the lonely mtpi who was taking his dinner at a cheap restau rant, “that is real genuine conn try-bred mutton, sir.” “Yea.” returned the guest, thoughtfully, “it’s even what you might call died-iu-the- I tjfool.” ft®, rill POWDER Absolutely Pure. Celebrated for its great Itavening sarength and healthfulness. As sures the food against alum and all forms of adulteration common to the cheap brands. Uoyai. Rakixo Powder <omi>aj;y, Nkw York. ANOTiD RIDDL&* Tlie Boston Transtript has re eently published and old riddle, which is said to have appeared years ago in an English period ical Within a few years the same riddle was brougt up in a certain circle of a large New England town, with the result that the rhymes for a time were on every one’s tongue. So tar as known, no one ever guessed the answer. Here it is: Come ui.ri commiserate One who was blind. Homeless and desolate, Void of a mind; Guileless, deceiving, Through unbelieving, Free front all sin; By mortals adored, Still 1 ignored The world I was in. King Ptolemy’s, Cemar’s, And Tigloth I’ileser's Birthdays are shown; Wise men, astrologers, All are acknowledgers, Mine is unknown, l ne’er had a father # Or mother; or rather, If I had either, Then they were neither Alive at my birth; Lodged in a palace, Hunted by malice, l did not inherit By lin.age or merit* •' A spot on the earth. Nursed among pagans, No one baptized me, A sponsor I had Who ne’er catechised me; She gave me the name To her heart was the dearest, She gave me the ph-ce To her bosom was nearest,J But one look of kinduess She cast on me never, Nor a word in my blindness I heard from her ever. Compassed by dangers, Nothing could harm me; By foeinen ami strangers. Naught could alarm me; I saved, I destroyed; I blessed, I annoyed; Kept a crown for a Prince, But had none of mv own; Filled the place of a King, But ne’er sal on a throne; Rescued a warrior; baffled a plot; Was what 1 seemed not, Seemed what I was not; Devdted to slaughter, A price on my head, A King’s lovely dnughter Watched by my bed; Though gently she dressed me, Fainting with fear, She never caressed me Nor wiped oil a tear. Never moistened my lips, Though parching and dry, (What marvel a blight Should pursue till she diel) ’Twas royalty nursed me, Wretched and poor; 'Twas royalty cursed me, In secret, I’m sure. I live not, I die not; But tell you I must That ages have passed Since 1 first turned to dust. This paradox whence? This squalor! This spleudor! Say! was 1 a King, Or a silly pretender? Fathom the mystery, Deep in my history! Was I a man? An angel supernal? A demon infernal? ; Solve it who can f A Polecat, who was traveling lor pleasure, <ame upon an In sect who was traveling for bus. mess. “Ah, there, little one I” the Polecat affably said, “can I be of any assistance to you ?” “No, thank you,” said the Insect, at the same time reach ing for his handkerchief, “I am doing very well, thanks.” “But 1 should lie able to help you. You must observe that 1 am much larger than you are.” “Yes, I know, I know,” re sponded the Insect, anxiously looking for a means of escape, ” “but 1 smell so much the bet ter.” Moral: Metropolitan papers are much larger than those of the interior.—Fresno ltepubli can. Only 50 Cents ! In addiuon to our cluhltiiig rate* with the Constitution, Journal, N. Y. World amt Southern Cultivator, in or<)er to give the people of the county their isututy paper fora low price, we will send the Hxm*i.i> from now until January the first for Fifty Cents. Send iu your orders bv mail or through the Post Masters of (lie county, who are ouv authorised ageuts.