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©he tSathtnsrille 3Uraiue. A WEEKLY PAPER, Published Wednesday, - AT — Watkinsv»l|i>, Oconee Co., Georgia. W. < 3 r. STJX-iIjI V"A. 3 ST, SPITOR AND PROPRIETOR TKRMS i One year, In a1vauee.....f. •ft 00 Six months................ .. 60 WAIFS AM) WHIMS K iiotino mother labeled her pre¬ serves, “Put up by Mrs. D.” Her son ate them, Johnny and wrote D.” on the labels, ‘Tut down by “Jack, what relation to you is that siid gentleman I saw you with this morn¬ ing?” grandparents’ “ Oh, not mush; he’s married to my only daughter.” “ His sermon was very good, but that think prayer, he beginning stole with ‘Our Father/ I entire. I know I have heard something like it before.” The price of mince pies in Leadville has fallen to forty cents each, at which figure all the buttons found between the crusts must be returned to the waiter. “ Dos ,'t be afraid,” gaid a snob to a Oerir, a n laborer; “sit down and make ypvjrself Ltow mv equal.” “ I yould haff to the Teuton. my prains out,” was the reply of ‘Humph!” saida young gentleman, at a play with a young lady, “1 could play the lover better than that myself.” “‘I would like to see you try,” was the naive reply. It is sai l ihat the Uzar of Russia never retires at night without looking •under the bed. His object in looking under the bed is to see if there is any Nihilist there. “All' things come to him who will but wait.” Not much. The fellow that borrowed twenty dollars of you last summer will tot come to you if you waitfive hundred years. An ethereal maiden called Maud Was suspected of being a fraud; Scarce a crumb was she able 10 eat at the table, But in the back pantry—O Lawd J A teacher in a public school iu Franklin, N. H., questioning a class in geography, Merrimack asked: “ Where does ihe rise?” and was promptly answered: “Down back of Warren Daniell’s barn,” d come people are born to ill luck. An o woman who has pasted nearly five thousand medical receipts in a book during been ill the past forty years has never discouraged. a day in her life, and she is bt coming One of our dry goods dealers adver tises “something new iu corsets/’ We do rot. know what it can be that is auy better than what was in them before. Not any new thing in corsets for us, il yon please.— Peek’s Sm. Little Rhode Is’and is sensible enough shooting to pass a law against pigeon —New Orleans Picayune. H’m, yes. The shot used to scatter into ether States so badly that Connecticut and Massachusetts chickens were in danger. Shk amble*! along like a vision, On the foulest side of the street, And turned up her nose in deris on, As we stole but a glance at her feet, , Which were shod iu number gaiters, Made from two the finest French kid— Who’d have thought that her father sold ’taters? And who dares to say that he did ? “ Make a minute of that duel, Mr. Shearer,” said the chief to the newM editor. “Can’t do it,” replied the subaltern. “Why not ? ’ “Cause there’s only two seconds in it.’” (Verdict of accidental death, caused by a sudden in¬ crease of salary.) A , of Winnemucca, miner Nevada, was seized the other day with lockjaw. Greatly and alarmed, he ran to a drug-store, ‘that was the druggist, so peicipitate in his entrance xramp, knocked him mistaking down. him for a ■say, ihe lockjaw cured instantly. Strange to was Ts this my train?” asked a traveler at the Kansas Pacific depot of a lounger. “I don’t know, but 1 guess not,” was the doubtful reply. “1 gee it’s got the name of the Railroad Company on the side, and t expect it belongs to them. Have you lost a train aaywhere?” Something iretJLg of a Limit. .irecu The allu.ion in a recent letter of Louisa correspondent to the old revolu tionarv giant hero, Peter Francisco re vives many tradit ons and reminiscences of the wonderful performances and dar ing deeds of that extraordinary man. Mj father, recently deceased at ibe ad canoed ace of ninety, well remembered him, haiii'g frequently seen him in his native county of Buckingham, and re lated many anecdotes of his stirringand perilous adveniure* and bafr-hreadth escapes, as he heard the recital fall from scribed the lips of the giant himself. He de him as six feet one inchin •fex o?d^L U sSt P b 0 v U ft’tu^sS ccmmonly ordinary large, his thumbs beinv B as large as an man’s wl-ist. Such was his personal strength that he could easily shoulder a cannon weigh iug 1,100 pounds, and he had seen him take a man in his right hand pass over the fl( or and dance .is head against the ceiling with as much ease as If he h d been a doll baby. Tne man’s v eight was 195 pounds. Partaking of the siS irtSzWkEx month waif other battles at the north, und trT^'^v. U> 'i he S ° Uth unde / General MfJ.m ene '"i he iU‘ e was engaged in the »»° the Cow pens Camden, uuillora iuilford ( ourllmuse, etc. He was so brave and ,s )8 e.^ed of such confidence in bir prowess that he was positively fearlcss He umd a sword with a blade fiV feSr n Vrd b i; ;h ^ ^ M 'f a 7i.’' ,r0rd :TY 7 bo came within reach ' l.'m paid ihe for tenor feitofhisiis his I,h. PiETiJiLv _ united in Wisconsin ertirers have been the h.d. W vYr Tke.r since .Unuarv I. and t wel news f u.,u>t> hive beeKMim Pr TrT nded »^ r? n ron Sfquem e~l>,lro,‘ f mean that twelve w -wspaiwr, a'n.lYred" have ^" iie en Mis r enoe,i by ,, W! , . ing a; pure', all rigiit. Hut if von in sinuate thrft recent matrimony y hn2 brought twelve 'iVireon,i„new ? ‘to* nerH to an un!i»n»'y gr v,. W e me in liml. tion to pr..ve that, yon are from ians. ii e tl«. wo de-ire any controversy tY' or hard feelings, Uuidana^w bui ih« editor tFV ,d FreeP.n ». * If#* •till DWfr Mkc it back— v*. /V«4«AW The Watkinsville Advance. VOLUME ' I. llipcov n its Mule Through Dreams. I Temple Bur. 1 A certain lawyer was seriously per¬ plexed with a complicated law case. In the night his wife saw him get np, walk to a “opinion,” writing-table, com nose carefully an elabor ate placed it in a drawer, and return to bed. Next morn¬ ing he remembered nothing of his dream, and could not believe it till his wife gave him ofccular demonstration of the fact by pointing out the drawer where the “opinion” lay complete, Stu dents and poets arts often indebted the to dreams marvelous for their brightest ideas, and “Rubla Khan,” composition by Coleridge, of the frag¬ ment will occur to every readelr. lie says he had fallen asleep in his chair while reading in “Purchas' Pilgrimage” of a palace built asleep by Khan Rubla, and remained about three hours, during which time he “could not have composed Jess than two or three hundred lines.” The images with them rose before him as things, and sions, “ without the corresponding sensation, expres¬ auy or con¬ sciousness of effort.” When he awoke he instantly sat down to commit bis composition by to paper, but was called away a person on business; and when he returned to resume the poem it had utterly Languages vanished from his memory. ently but imperfectly long forgotten, known or in waking appar-* life, have been known to recur in dreams and delirium. Abercrombie rels tessev¬ eral authenticated instances of this sort; and the writer knew an able clergyman who, when a boy, preached over in his sleep ingly the word sermon for he had last heard, seem Word, and it was friends ho tin common occurrence f <r his to gather round his b dside to hear his discourse. But he Was endowed with a marvelous memory in his waking hours; and on one occasion, it is said, he learned three books of Euclid on his way home from school. places Missing documents and forgotten are sometimes recovered in dreams. Sir Walter Scott, in his notes to the “Antiquary.” speaks of a because gentle man sorely troubled in his mind he was pressed for the payment of some tithe money which he believed was un justly fused charged, recollection and of which he had a Con bought by his deceased as having father been out many years ago. In bis dreams he thought the shade of his father appeared to him and inquired the cause of his grief. Not at all startled by the apparition he gravely stated the facts of the case. The shade told him that he must seek out an old lawyer who had retired from professional business and was now living at Invereek. He gave the lawyer’s name and remarked that the papers relating to hands ihe purchase but of the tithes were in his now, that as the transaction had occurred many years ago, and this wan the only one in’which the lawyer was would ever be engaged on call bis account, it necessary to it to his rec¬ ollection by this token, that “when 1 went to pay his account there was a gal difficulty niece of in getting gold, change for a Portu¬ and we were forced to drink out the balance at a tavern.” On reaching Inveresk the gentlemau called upon the lawyer, who could not remem ber the transaction till the incident of the Portugal coin was mentioned, when it all recurred to his memory. The documents were handed over to him and carried to Edinburg to prove hie -.sse. ■Honien Voting. Miss T Louise • M. mi Alcott, at aa m • a letter i to the Woman* Journal, about the Concord, Mass., election at which women voted for the first time for School Committee, thus describes the scene and reports her also impressions: the Registrar, “ The. Moderator, (who is and has most kindly and faithfully done hiB duty to the women, in spite of hs own difference of opl.jo.) w ould P/ lh„ e P ar e ...ou.c.d ‘heir votes th.Ht. And deposit them u before the men did. No one ob jected, we were ready, and filed out in g 0 ^ 1 order dropping our votes and pawing . back to our seats as quickly and quietly as possible while the assembled gentlemen watched us m silence. No 1,olt fell on our audacious heads, but “° earthquake Rasing shook the created town, general a outbreak surprise laughter a of and applause, for scarcely were we siea P° s f. * < rt 2 V'V* that the V u< ^ e be r0 closed V a ? d P The ro ' Srw e C Jffl allowed proceeding, we thought, since we were no voice on any other question, The businrsa of the meeting went on, and the women remained to hear the A/acussion ^ officers elected of ways and with means, neatness and an.i see the despatch town pretty by those much who appeared they pleased. to run tfce as At 6 o’clock h usewives retired to get tea for the exhausted gentlemen, come aeain ' a.%kTd how theylfkeiit - red , them , - . and and , assured aHS o them that that, , there , had , not been heen so so orderly orderly a a meeting meeting of for for years. years f th pi f;m rC nt sights To w" mv eves was a flock ../■ " 8lctl c "T B with great ,• interest , their mothers, aunts, ? nd slate ". who were showing them >ow * Tote w,i en their own emanc.pa S oYw^n bands who greatly enjoyed the affair l„nan ^loudi inane “ad : Their^doubt! of them differed in d atouttfie suf frage question Among the newvoters ofthet* incordfight a^d andYrhe’rs renown tworf H.nwck ‘rt^fTThe™ Quincv whore toen among the first rauiers of the town A woraerf mKidlv arravof dignified and earnest families"' though some of the “first of the historic aSe" town were conspicuous conspicuous bv hr their their absence. r,,‘ ‘ E M A tKAy ? k*Umg up a 7 ^ r d , \ y for . ul" g ' 1U \ r * }!** i^’ , r0 1 \,L Mr f 'i Frorhard ? *f ria of W.lkin., The two the n Orphans, is the latest re-euforcemcnt. WATKINSVIILE, GEORGIA. MAY 26, 1880. THE I'KLNS AW’D THE l‘LOW. Wo envy not the prineely man, In city or in town, Who wonder* whether pumpkin vines Turn up the hill or down. We care not for his mat hid httlta Not y»t h!s heaps of gold. Wd wtnild not own his sordid heart ttotr all his wealth twice told. We are the favored ones of «mh, Wf breathe pllrt air each morn, We sirlv, IVe frenp the golden grinn* We We toft—we gather Hie in the com. whal tW* earH, on And more than this tie do— We hear of starving millions round, And gl&diy feed them too. The lawyer lives on princely fees, Yet drags a weary Hie, He never knows a peaceful hour, His at mospliere is st rife. A merchant thumbs his yardstick o’er, Grows haggard nt. bis toil, He’s not the man God meant him for; Why don’t he till the soil? 'J he doctor plods through storm and rain— Plods at his patient’s will; ’IN hen dead ami gone, he plods again To get, his lengthy bi’b The printer—Wees his noble noul \ He grasps the iilighty e&Hb, And stamps it on our daily sheets To cheer the laborer’s he art. We And sing honor the honor the ot the pibW, to press— Two noble instruments of toil, Each with a power to bless. The bone, tile nerve of this fast age. One Trute tills wealth the evePdaithful of hulnnh klhdj earth, The other tin- the mind. AX INTERNATIONAL episode. BY l?Li#A V. HAlL. “ Yes, And I liked you at first, I must confeafe, a week ago 1 might have been won, Bltt that is all over*” she pensively sighed, ” For 1 find yoU nHJ only a ymtuger son.” I'bere Was silent*? awhile on that A)piue height, They ettmd heiir the sttmid of a mountain stream; He twirled his nilistrche and his alpenstock, While she softly warbled, “ It whs a dream." We leave to-morrow ior France," she resumed, “ i hope 1 shall meet you at Paris next spring, Now don’t say I've flirted, for culture, you know Is hardly consistent with that sort of thing.” “ If it’s not a flirtation, whal, under heaven, Would question, your ladyship call it?” that he fiercely well said, And the ! own, is one Might bother the average British head. She turned her lare lo the rosy West Where the Hush ol dying days reft,-. still glowed; ” ’tis nothing.” she pouted, lively, “ But an ‘international episode.’ ” —Sceilmer's Monthly. 1.AI1) ll\. BV A. M. MUNSTER. Laid by in my Bilent chamber, I hear them' stirring below; Voices 1 love are sounding clear And steps I kuow ar« in mine ear, Still passing to and fro. And ask my heart, Shall I never more Of mine own will pass through that door? I ask, Oh! is it forever That I have ceased to be One of the group around the hearth, sharing their sorrow or their mirth? Am I from henceforth free From all concern with the things of life, Done with its sorrow, and toil and strife? Shall they carry me forth in silence, With blind and ^aled up eyes? Shall they throw the windows wide to the air And gather mementoes here and there, As This they she think, fond with of—this tears and sighs, 14 was she wore, But she never shall need them any more." — LUtt'h’s Living Age. FAIRLY CAUGHT, storm 6 Tinv bS^ vearsago'lm thTfirm aitoMhad . e3ov learned 1^^was mv ^the n whore a'centleman’s undertook manstoTand meetton w^n of a gentleman a mansion, aim I i was sent tV? age near to to rn wmen wS ta tne th W e° r mansion mansTo h n was was built was on the shore of an estuary of the Bay of Morecom be, not far from the Sve market town whose would name T nnt fomesever^f As mv work aLm.clTJdton/w^ keen me from aZrst de*iribte weeks tbi’n^^but alr&hl tried to eet accom miration’in a nrivate house fiYhe’villaEe Hailed and the^I was ord^dmtesl forced to lodue 6 inn freornttorCaioresatohostel^w^ Amontr those who were in the habit.of St?** [)Pr . His home was about a mile from the village, couple on the side of a lane lcadtog to a of farms. His house, like himself, was a queer one. Originally it had been built for the storage of corn, the produce of fields at a distance from the farmstead. Somehow it had ceased to be needed for that purpose, s> the owner and turned such it it into a occupied dwelling house, as was now bv the aforesaid strange man. It was divided in:o three apartments on the ground floor, one of which, a very l large one, was set apart and used a kind of ^VTVa!l worked warehouse’. for stock and this lan-e rnnm his ’ was He was a man of ill-temper Kid and loose habits, and for some time borne a dubious ° character. si^tedHheyYTuld When neopie were agked why he was not give ? a satisfactory ^y reply' “ “He He hves, lives,” equal ’they they would would say, expenditure “without whicti S doing work work equal to to his his expenditure, goYto looks looks bad.” bad.” As As l 1 got to know know him him I I found that he bad an unamiable temper; W8S morose, sour, and at times passion¬ ate. He was aiso fond of dis to betting, and like all such.._____ uneven life, oftenerloitering about than at work. So I did not wonder that well meaning ^ people did not like him. He mogtly 1 ^ C came f me on Wet wet nights to the, I ‘ or d Ad m “ l<1 A* As we we became became ac- ac ..... — m....... '., Xu quainted collection , he . of invited me to look ° ovrr T r his birds and *** quadru <|Uadra a ^ j dl ii V t ^ i had a go., d collection, , and, as well M 1 couifl judjge, did hi* work well. He had also a good assortment of butterflies an d moth-, and in a corner, close to the SeSfngt'x'"w'hLh S rmint mil to tomn aL, r hirS nmti' D a ^ e tfl eiven siuffine £ ’ to Z .nimais ?>ne wt I ,« whirlTdifl. r ^i /an?i from lt.lt im’’ U .° uauU u rl ^ V 1.Tf «l ? r M U ‘* r ab L * "nTn 1 , The^^f| rl «idf hiifT^ flllr K )7mebnw hL ^Vailed^tn^ialre^Lhem^ m«n e ^ rheywereplacedat r,u 1 oneend ndlY.t ot ther™m, «.***'*’ one in each corner, away from the win dow, and close to the wall, where, ex‘ cept in strong daylighf, they could not T' y ' PP “ c " nn * ru ‘!?, particulars , w,th . . mystery will fresco mtheaequal. about 1 bad been in the village si j weeks when the neighborhood was aroused and alarmed one morning bv the re port of the robfeiy of a jeweler’s shop that in the had market been town effected already during referred the to, night. valuable preceding Much propet ty had been taken. This robbery had beeh effected in sufih a wiry as led to the belief that a gang of practiced thieves had done it. The prevailing question was: “ bo the robbers live among us, or have they come from a distance?” This query was still going from mouth to mouth when we were startled, astounded, indeed, by a report of a second robbery of the same premises, and ou the night following bv the breaking warehouse into and pur Joining of a provision writing in our own village. Were I robbers fiction, I would not have made the pay so soon a second visit to the jeweler’s, as such an act would have been deemed preposterous, but I am feinting what really what oCctifred, have said. and so am forcea to say ‘ I The jeweler had been so taken up by efforts to find out the thieves and regain his first loss, that he had not placed ad ditional guard over what was left; be side's, he was sure, he revisiting said, that thieves would not think of for a long time. As for the provision dealer, he said in my hearing that he had no fear of his place being entered, as he be lieved robbers would rot care to touch property his. so bulky and had of reckoned such inferior value as But he with oiithis host; for he had lost a fine ham, a large lot of tea, a deal of spices, a few boxes of cigars, and indeed a portion of most he dealt in. The excitement ami alarm occasioned by these robbeiies were great and widespread The hatches of detectives, one from Lancaster, our’village and ene from what Cendal, could came to to see they find out. They were not short of ques tions, I mind; but they took care what sort of questions they answered, it was easy to see that one of their believed aims was to make it appear that they the robbers came from a distance, in order to put the thieves off the their opposite guaid; for their own opinion was of this. . No event, however serious, can keep hold of people’s minds beyond certain time; and these robberies were other begin ject, ning when (3 give the place to some sub next act in the drama be gan to be plactd. it was on a hridav afternoon, about a month after the rob beries. The day was wet and wild ; and, as my work was the out-door carrying of stones which had been placed in posi tion in the rough I was enable to go on with it, and so had to return to my quarters. I had got my dinner, and had just called for a pint of ale with my pipe, when an elderly, ill-dressed man came beside in, and, sitting down on Lancashire a bench me, said, in a broad accent. “I’ll sup wi’ tha lad, if tha doesn’t care;” on which he lifted my mug to his lips and drank freely. I had got over my surprise whe.n he, wip the mg J.s history mouth of the with past his day hand or two. gave The me account was this: He had been a gen tleman’s gardener near Lancashire, over twenty years, had a capital place, h /" had "“f h ? d sense enough to keep . ’ f ° t wh had ' c b ^ one was on morefthan lo, f? h,s for mas- a ter would put u P with so he was d.s, charged. “ it wor day afore yesterday, ^ tion Haid ever ’ “ sin’, * n ! V" trampin’as <lra ", k ' fo I T r v drank, , ary . vexa an’ ; H0 ’onnenv here I am, i’ wi’ noeket a dry math an’ Uiinki” wi’out a mv my pocact. Doesta i/oesca mnaj u u* cont,nued rnn ralae a ,r nny or ' (l PP^e Rmar.g the 1 &T* ! lim 11 othe ? H did lhft sarae called I having for bread, thus “ cheese, raised and the ale, wind/’ he and mB de a 8 0o d mea • been During , talking the , time the the , gardener landlord , had tome had ’/ ^* a d T. 7. You v h are a gardener, C R '“V I under- i ’ 5 -wtu” Ito.he the rente Well, said the landlord, «i I have h ,v. a time to attend to it myself, and u L' aVe as it is tIn >e the seed was in 111 employ you, if yo “ ar ? ' vlH,n g- I H find you plenty to ‘V and ; You can havc.a bed as wel1 . fnd if you pea-e me Inot see ^ y ‘ a y y ‘ 1 . »ay agreed/’replied the gardener, . ^ rid(1 y for Monday morn.” This proposal was satisfactory, where fore the gardener was made happy. Shortly afterward we had an rddition to our company bv the incoming of the old bird-atufler, whom I shall hereafter call the naturalist which (as pleased this designation was the butterfly-feeder, one him>, h.s son, the and two other men whom I had not recn. These-the called for a glass of mm apiece. the table, and hii head on hi« armn, no fell, .„.■, or seemed mn-.u,,« to . • fall,asleep, m...imu, The ram, which wb /i!ij continued conl lr ' u ® d to comedown.com- come down, com me Ht, ( ll to hide , undercover; so, placing my chair in a corner and put ung my head against the wall, I tried to get a nap also. The naturalist and his companions were now the only per sons in the room besides the gardener 1 can not tell u 1 half u nor quarter of what WR « s»'d by first one and then another ° }*["’">! n “ r fl-l.Iunder- whwll they "WF'T'n and “stuffing were W, words ' nder often - “ fla em- " ±11* , hv was thera the name ’ 1 of rew the llm dog, th and '" ‘'Y® nd «|’ that of the lamb, in the *eum before spoken of; and th. other tp wltb . ri r''’ wb,cb Y Ke< they i!’ re were errC<1 stuffed; U> l n e J m \ but U,r,a I ! could not see wi.y they should speak in so low a tone as they did when they spoke of theih. Once or twice they re ferred to a bird by some slang phrase, But aft,revrnu ma.l« this clear enough, By-and-by the the weather cleared n P , wDan men, draining their gla.sses, got up and went away. Thu moment they were gone the gardener roused up, took a memorandum out of his pocket, and began to write therein. He then asked me if I knew who the men were, and what was their occupation, and if 1 understood any of the words uttered in the lower tone of voice. 1 gave him what information I could. “But/' I said, “both they and I belieted you were asleep ” “It is well to go into dreamland at times,”.he > said und then added: “Did ; you say that the old man keeps a mu seunr? Have you seen it? Do you think I could get a look at it?” The questions were put one after the other in quick succession, as though he were eager and anxious about some surprised thing. 1 said “yes" to each, but I was he at the good English in which marked now spoke his and the Stiil refinement I which manners. could make hothihg of it. few i pass over the next days, as they broitght gardener forth no remarkable incident. The had stuck to his contract with the landlord, and I had been enabled to get on with my. work. The four men did not again visit us; but as I went on witli my carving I saw first one amt then another of them pass my place. And once I saw them all in cam est converse in a retired lane, After supper one night r took the gardener the naturalist. to the barn-like habitation of old As we went along he asked me to take particular notice of the dog and the lamb. “For," said he, “I was struck with the question one qf the men put as to whether 'Bruce* and ‘Wonder’could take in any more‘cot ton’or‘flax.’ And it is just possible,” he continued, and “that he in has a way of taking the skin out has become putting and stuffing hard—a after set thing worth knowing, I should think.” When we got to the house the old him. man Came to the door, closing it after the gardener Being asked if he bis would collection allow to see over of preserved animals, he at. first, seemed Son,’* perplexed, he went in, and leaving saying, us outside. “ I’ll ask my Shortly he returned, and said: “It is not con is venient being to cleaned enter the and room to-night, as it the contents re¬ arranged; but night, if your friend will alone, come to morrow and come he shall see over it.” We agreed and came away. 1 was at a loss to account for the condition im posed, but my companion was set up with the arrangement, off Next night errand. came, I and the all gardener set tin his Was Impatient for his return. But when he Came back lie seemed unwilling to relate the result of his adventure, simply saying: “I’m in no humor for talk to-night; I’ll relate what I’ve seen and said to morrow.” My friend had gone on withhisgarden nips ing. His potatoes and onions, his tur and carrots had been got in, and it was clear that if the next two davs should prove fine he would finish tf.e job oo Saturday night. kitchen, On Fnday night he came to me n the ... n corner in which I was reading and asked me t. take it short walk wi-1. him. got up and went. 1 he night was fine butd irk. We walked in the direction of the museum He ' T /'T ' f ? T tt day or two had ltoplyingin the affirmative, he sa d he a strong suspicion that the old naturaustor nis son was no bet !" tha " ?> ould b, ‘ ; lhat h f he or they knew more about the late robberies than other folks, and that he believed ' if ‘ he V had a 1B few ahillincs " which wn,Cfl ? c >ul * ca! ‘ hls he ld at °»’ , n «°« c,,me truth, and , concluded , . by a-kmg . me TJT a K ed, i or / had m bigun *" to < %17 feel an vn accountable curiosity growing within Wc w ha , 1 not walked , far f before w we met , the natural si’s son, apparently byap S "lii wouTd hC TS IS that therefore ^ be be at his t day and a purchase We parted ofHaturdaVater- and came home About ™ the “ midle m e o uur nyttc hour /’e became oa'ne hack lmck hear t ear.nga nt tolerable tolerab'e ' a ' ' J ,| a He’said' "' eJ ' "5 him iYthlbark y Y rd hjjA “ teHev" “I’m on the Xht t a -k of h onrcVhiiicthc' Last but lafking muYumtheoldman house ardwhc overthe said lhat his son was rather short of ^ bu having nefcuged & a frame «' a w2 eU lD al a pront, or ’l a nd Ihesairw/nl/f^liBl^bU • «!, hi.» y ’„ I nnf Jiitout 1,1 the money ft \-„ w ’not i tnLv % i {,, b u t agreed would have done toa/ ’i bavetr.t I to a k ,,/tl you for a Tit ^rt w w^cb t ■, rtl i„i Jhf in,™ el tnnZ i, rkt chean i‘f,?^ ^ p m. rmw nr tbe ^ lm't ing when a well known voice hailed me from below. Uu looking <lown from my stage whom should 1 me in the road be old neath, smiling ail his face over, but my friend, the gardener, in a police uniform' ^in The truth 7went (lashed d" through n moment. Grastung my ym,“ hand he said- “The sc erePs mT.ndU’ihe out u^bot.” Come along a,, " K wkh I was about to witness a denouement 1 had not looked for. Up the road were aeouple of imliccmen. My old com panion was the chief, being a Bergeant ( He led the way .0 the mu seum, and was the first to enter. “Doo.1 morninv n-; old friend," he said, on encountering the naturalist; i have come to take away a few mote naicels of your cheap provisions.” 1 H ’iw that the tod gardener was de tected in the speaker, and that the game was .otta be up. The old man's son rushed up to the dour and scrambled off, eluteh-s only, of however, to fall into the the officers who were 0/1 the watch. The old man was utterly S.nlc help less, and almost beside hirarelf. ing into thief; his chair, he cried out: "lam not the the thieves are there,” NUMBER 12. could pointing to the door, and meaning, I see, his son and confederates, though We they were not present. went into the museum. The first still thing the old gardener did—as I shall call him—was to take hold of “Bruce,” Comrades wh.le lie desired one of his moviflg Ihetn to lay noise hold of “ loose Wonder.” On a of mt tal was heard. A moment’s examination suf¬ ficed to reveal the Secret. In the off siclfl of oach animal, in the soft part, an orifice had been made by cutting the skin In such a wav as to enable the operator A of to the replace it had With been a little care. leaving part stuffing removed, a vacancy just like a throstle’s nest. This wits filled with jewelry, watches, guards, ear rings, and finger rings, A further examination of the museum revealed other and as singular hiding cock places; for example, a game¬ was found put out of sight; ou metal taking hold of it, a noise of clinking feathers was hearu; on lifting up the over the crop a small hole was seen, out of which rolled, when the bird was, shaken, a number of trinkets. robberies Nearly of all the proceeds of the two (lie jeweler were recovered, one watch and a feW guards only being absent. And some of the properly of the provision dealer was also found stowed in the breeding-box, though most of it had been useel or sold. 1 need hardly say that the parcels sold to the gardener were a part of it, and had to uo with the detection of it. My friend, thesergeant. informed me that he httd been induced to assume the diame¬ ter, which he had so well Personated entirely on of speculation. While making a survey the neighborhood a few days before he began to play his part, he had observed the backward state of the landlord’s garden, and believing that he would readily catch at a chance of getting it finished off in a c'-eap way, and, being a good hand at gardening, he had hit upon the scheme which an swered so well. He had believed that the robbere were nut far from the local¬ ity of the public house, and might come thefe new and again, and so, could he lodge there without heing known or sired, suspected, And he might get at all he de¬ as he had hoped, so did it come to pass. The naturalist, who, it came out,, had and long been a receiver of stolen property, his son, whose first burglaries these were, got each five years’ penal servi tude; one of the other men—who came from a. distant town, and were old hands—was likewise convicted and pun¬ ished; but. the fourth, for some forgot¬ ten reason, got off. My friend came in for a*good reward offered in this case, and for the part which 1 had taken in the affair the jeweler gave me a good pencil-holder, which l value ss a me meuto. An Animated Arkansas Corpse, ^veral days ago an unsteady man noticed walking ° along * the streets in . A m n Ki U , y unateady y woul(1 not |, ftvo tieon nol d , llirlicu llirl tfc f or Texarkana, like Little Rock, i(1 tcejse „f a great many unsteady „ But resiled the man ,'t looked rick „ml when streetowner be sank <lown and lay / motionless. A crowd of ‘ io gath K red ftround( 'examined and wll( . n „ )hv aicia n arrived „ nd the : * n i.« ro , ar u ol \. ti,, “ (ientlemen, the poor fellow is dead ” ‘ wul4 j r.i«/>^i | J *’ n i «i coroner, ror who^had , . . , l>een notihed, a jury and held an inquest. “ Well, gentlemen,” said the coroner, the consulUtion, “whst is you as to the cause of death T’ .fust, then the corpse aro-e, thrust his hands into his pockets and exclaimed : “ I don’t know what your opinion is, hilt I’d like allfired well to know who’s t I'J...... pocketbook.” ...rttd b,.l w;,... PP ,.i , ,y ,he c oroner . w h<> informed him that he would . have to pay the expenses: Tire deuce you say. Yoil talk like » n undertaker that has conducted a funerai!” ‘i 1 have held an inquest over your , b Hdiculously fy) *i r and a * y() u have behaved the county won’t allow me anything, and of course you’ll have to P ay , mP - ‘I didn’t send for you. f didn’t fell yp u to'hold an inquest. 1 was getting a 0 PP, ralp ' “Neither does an, dead man send for ^ But I wasn’t dead ” “ Nor mine either. ’ “ You area hypocrit, sir; you are de ceitful. You should not he recognized in this community. And ( want you to understand this: When you do die W hold an Pend inquest over f you “ r 1 to wou,d save your n " 1 >««•” Not Mnfh of a Ii0t». : *&Z?Z^'ZT with me, ’ replied the etiatomor; ‘Van’t you let me have It for that?’ ‘No, ma’am,” said the clerk, “but you can igain." pay me the five cents when you borne in " But WularTv surus.se t wero to die ” s.id lh« lady ‘Well il wouldn’t be a verv K great loss ‘ ^ndYmtdiS^^YmUing "was clerk gathered from the indignant flash on the lady’s face that be had been misun derstood, that and, before be could assure her it was the little balance and not her that would be no great loss, .be had bounced out at a go as-yeu ol^^his please gait, and was beyopd the sound voice, --------- When cremation becomes fash iona ble, the New Orleans Picayune looks forward to the time when a man can have hte ancestors put up in and When shipped tWt blessed to any part ot the world. time arrives we may expect to receive such Jotters as the warded following: " Dear E.: i have to day dear for to y, u per express llyou p«K>r uncle John and little Biliv. can spare aunt Jane and co'tisiu Harah, l should like to hove them f v r a while.” ©he loMinsirille Jutare. , A weekly tape*, pcblisbid at Watkinsvil.'e, Oconee Co., Georgia. 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Love, like a beautiful opal, isaclouded gem which carries a spark of fire in its bosom; but true friendsuip, like a diamond, radiates steadily from its transparent heart.— Mrs. Child. Of all human frailties there are none so base as ingratitude, none so infamous as the to return evil for extended good - to debase life-long purest friends. friendship to us by Native, noble qualities of character exist throughout the life of the posses¬ sor, and liv<s after him for all time in the memories of those aided by his kind words and deeds. Bf. not unmindful of the feelings and rights of others. Idly spoken words often cause the deepest wounds and many times are the source of the direHt trouble. There are distinct, perpetual, impel¬ ling desires springing out of our veiy constitution which reek a more tenia!, more phere Vitalizing, than that more satisfying atmos¬ which envehq e» mere temporal interests. To succeed in life demands at ouf hands a complete obedience to the rule confirming such our aims and desires to only attainments as are absolutely with¬ in our power. We can then advanco slowly but surely.— Per. Dr. Mullen. The noblest victory is u'ways that one obtained over one's self. ’ l is a diffi¬ cult task, indeed, to say “ no” emphat¬ ically to all the longings of our own self and nature, but an easy one to die criminate between the right and the wrong. Some of the most bem ticial results are those eminaling from casual thoughts the only. When the mind is rest¬ ing most difficult problems are fre¬ quently arrived ai, solved, the safest conclusions and, many times, Ihe most beautiful thoughts jotted down. Lord Bacon says that as precious odors are exhaled by crushing, so ad¬ versity discovers virlire, while prosperi ty discovers vice. Of virtue no one can rob us; for, as Bias said, so the in¬ wardly rich in virtue may say, “Omnia, met mecumporlo ’’—all my own with uu? I bear. A problem yet unsolved is, of what use is that class of people known pro verbally as gossips—s andal rnoneers we ciety? might, say—existing in all ranks of so¬ discord, Their course is always marked by tha sundered links of friendship, and creation of enmities hetwetn those who have been life-long friends. Follow not after new faces, untested old friendship, friends—those but retain at all hazards all who have been tritd and found true. We all have such among those with whom we mingle in every-day do life, but they are few; there¬ fore not lose any of them. 'Em harder to regain one such than to form a thousand new friendly alliances as the world goes.— Pen. Dr. Mullen. To forgive our enemies is a charm¬ ing way of revenge, overcoming and a short without Caesar¬ ean blow, conquest, a under laying our shame, enemies at our feet sorrow, and repentance; leaving inclined our foes our friends, and solicit¬ ously Thus to grktefu) adversaries relations, to return upon our m a healing way of revenge, a< d to do good for evil is a soft and melting at - tion, a method taught from heaven to keep all smooth on earth.— Fir Thomas Brown. The philosopher Mullen has Miid: Our progret-s would be slow indeed were we to attempt advancement by re¬ garding ourselves as the model to fol¬ low after and imitate. We should seek improvement—-the to embody in commendable our efforts art, quali¬ self ties and charitable actions of other! whose career of life is dotted here anti there with sparkling gems bestowed upon Item in the shape of gratitode and thanks from the poor and needy, from the weak and unfortunate, in return for kind words, pure sympathy and material aid. Roasted to Death by the him. Dr. Sfihtte.nfurth, in .'lecture which graphical explorations Society on tae Central suojeciot Africa, nia fittest in gave his hearers a thrilling accruint of the modeinwhich capital puis.i!. J* inflicted Upon cninioals by the V? tWreat ?reat V .nT^weSl r lUr ?,i „^,Li ieop e _ The malefactor wndemned , i to t to a post firmly driven into the tre^affotd ground in some open place where no ring compatriot’a w^ich head with freah g»eeu leaves, effectually shield his 1> nun from I'limbus’ darts No Mich protection i* however accoided to his hod v, which graJuallv dries ” u P , shrinks together, and eh.^ n/. 1 o^n toThe roll One a D«t,on is Zete^d.me whiie as vet he is Tf not cmn ^ttw^ihe to sf.nlnd death ” hi!' Jacw a c h . I of tormei t be Uat once casi loose from his post and becomes the object of special reverence, as a mighty mag can in whose liehalf directly’ the supernatural powers have clouds deigned seldom mte.fere ......ire with vene. FtP the administration public >d ju-ire mions on the days chosen for ex . bv appearaW the Al Cjuadji authorities: al least, that Dr. Hchweinfutth's er [wrience of African weather ss far as tl upon the judicial roasting ol malefactors, ~ The servant girl of a physician in this city has been discovered issuing certificates of death. It is t-ro-u.b e, then, when she is absent the d.,‘ allows the eat to perform HnaM. toe same Philadelphia Clnonirk-