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\ '> BT: I [IPTION PRICES. ,$1 ?5 75 40 ji'a'nta constitution, 1 yr.. 2 00 Lee EVERY FEIDAT E7 I ) HALE it WHITE, Editors. ) Sample Copy Free :3 g u 1 Olivers, Ga. • DEALERS IN aLL KINDS OF a li i & “tsa lints. Cups, Boots Shoe? tiloo Groceries such as Sugar, ter, Tea, Syrup. Hie*-, Grit* Mi at, Oat M«-al, Tobacco, Snuff etc. We call especial atte nlion to our line of CY GROCER’ESci CONFECTION ERI’S as fanned tomatoes, peaches, pineapples, oysters, salrn n, Maek [gsrdines, eonden8-.fi miik, jelly, pickles, can ly both fancy and ' nuis, raisins, citron, macaroni, Our one spoon baking powders, Hons is bread preparation, etc., etc. pepper and spices both ground and grain are the very best in I he market. Ift fUllt A also keep a trord \ariety of Fresh Crockers, both plain aud :\veet, ithec*Tel rated, Lustro Shoe hi 1 Stove Polish. A good line of Table and Pocket cutlery, Croc to rv. Glass and Woodwarc. etc teT WE MAKE FINE CIGARS A SPECIALTY,“©a ,rmotto: Short Profits and quick Sales Terms Strictly I G. IP. tVJuA VKi: A- BliO. m Q •! i ■ ter Commerce and Warehouse Sts- CON YEP S- GA, BflSli* -HEADQUARTERS FOR ALL KINDS OF ■eneml Merchandise at Bottom PriceS. Us for the NEW HOME Sewing Machine. NEEDLES.“©a tefWe keep all kinds of B6r-SEffING MACHINE .([quarters For all School Books adopted by tho Board of School Commissioners of'.his county. MORE POPULAR THAN EVER. The Recent Improvements Made in The HITE SEWI’G MACHINE! ADD MUCH TO THE Illlfl IY EXCELLENT QO £ L - i of this peri or Machine. 31*®* !«3*S£ Thllpsii v; lean Espeial Favorite, of Ladies, Tail os anil Others, hsethem bsessover for the many advantages other Serving Machines. !-. IEEY WHITE MACHINE V* Wavrented for 5 wars. J. It & T ji SMITH. I; f i Wholesale and Retail Dealers, Broad St., Atlanta Georgia. : A l &D. M. ALMAND, Agents, - • * - Confers, Georgia - - - W -by- I W LANGIfOIilR rriages, Wagons, Bugles, MY , own make. WARRANTED TO BE FIRST CLASS IH EVERT PAS.TSUULAR. pep also a GOOD LINE of We .torn. Carriages and Bug¬ gies which I sell LOW DOWN Miring of Carriages, Wagons an 1 Bu -r - ?a,u..ng and Trimniin [grades [kinds done on short notice, new of furniture repaired asgood as should be rememberd that My esiabt shtuent f have now on hand the largest and best. ntocU °"j 1 [bogies homemade auu of western bui-'f >-* ia “ \ ..i jant bargains had better call. All wli' owe ' ,,e . 0 , r eear you forward and settle _ promptly. 11 1 , and request to come p‘iy will be given , bat - short , , ave it. These who do not pay pro.. So you will please settle prompt >'• DQUARTERS UNDERTAKERS GOODS. rnvo ivemhfng^h^fs^ept 4 n A OTZTZTC ii , f oil - nd slzev *ud COF FIN atiret elas. I uderta’hcr. 0FFIN3 'DELIVERED ANYWHERE IN CM FA OR Jankiog for their libera! patronage in the past, I solioi my customers very satisfaction* c ce of the shiog, wk;U theeverv* hj g v he dene ?*> Mo^t Re«*oec f .fa ? ‘ T ' j. Yf. LANGFORD. A con? hi nation of tastUic of Iron * Peruvian and L’hvsphorns in n palotuole form* lor Debility, Loss of Appe¬ 0' V r Lowers tite, frustration it is imlispensa-’ of Vital lie. 1. HOBBS PURGES REV. J. !•. TOWNER, rites:— / , Ill., MNIC, thorong-h I trial of the Industry, fc *I says:— consider it take pleasure V firm ,/a. ►.benefited that I have been / /f, I* T most excellent remedy for by its // 1 ,t :} Jut- the debilitated vital iorcea. bursters !£2'will and Pub- JU peatest find it value \m % te mraend remedial u I CL p-^tntive 8sing: nn-1 PWsffiSff* and 1 I_ ______ MAIM S3. LOW. 3t sss DR. HARTER MEDICINE CO., 213!'. n% SUBSCRIPTION $1.25. Volume VL ‘‘INDEPENDENT IN ALL THINGS.” CONYERS, GEORGIA, APRIL 20, 1883. Are We Superstitious ? “Mamma,” sail) my ten year-old May, ‘why does Mrs. Brown k-.ep that horrid lookiug and mischievous cat that fame to ! them last winter? I have heard some one say that a strange cat brought good luck j Do you suppose she is superstitious?’ ; j 1 “No; but her grandmother was." “Her grandmother ?” said May. "Why, she has been dead ever so many years; what can she have to do with it ? ’ “Only this: When Mrs. Brown was a little girl she lived with her grandmother, who was proverbial for her faith in signs and omens, and regulated the business of the day as much as the old Romans did. Now, Mrs. Brown would be very much j offended if any one should call her super¬ stitious She professes to have no faith in old time omens, yet unconsciously every day of her life she is influenced by them, She would be disturoed by the ticking of a li'tle insect in the wall which some call the \i< a h watch,' or the coming of a bird into the house, or the howling of a dog at n-ght; yet none the le.s she would exclaim that she was not in the least superstitious.” Early impressions are hard to get rid of. Education, cultivation and the experiences of hfe never fully undermine them. 1 have known very intelligent people to decline to sit at a table with thirteen guests, lest one would not live the year out. Nobody ever thinks of passing a horse¬ shoe without picking it up for good luck; and this has led to the craze for horseshoe decoration. Farmers allow the moon to regulate the lime for sowing, planting, and work of various kinds, and any departure from old established rules is sure to bring ill luck. With some housekeepers the breaking of a looking glass is the occasion of a gloomy ' forebodiug ; the unlucky urchin who breaks it is doomed to a life of misfortune, and i seven years of back luck will rest on the household Peacock feathers were formerly consider¬ ed as bearers of sickness; yet fashion of late has introduced them into house decor¬ ation, and that, too, without any serious consequences ensuing. All of which proves that fashion masters fate. The Greeks and Romans of ancient times put implicit trust in signs and omens, and never undertook any enterprise of moment without consulting an oracle. Though sometimes the response would bear opposite interpretations, yet their faith in the oracle never wavered—the fault was always in the interpreter. How Long Ought a Man to Live? Thurlow Weed, who died not long ago was eighty-five years old. That in America is regarded as a very old age. It gave Mr. Weed distinction, as much as anything else, in his city. Comparatively speaking, Mr. j Weed was notan old man, but, in fact, be came nearer living out the measure of his days than the majority of men. There is no valid reason why, under favorable con¬ ditions, a man Ehould not live a hundred years. All animal life is found to be con stituted wiih a stock ol vitality sufficient to run it five times the period the particular animal nquires to mature. For example, the horse matures in about five years, and will be dead in about twenty five; the dog matures in about two years, and will be dead iu about ten—and so on through the list; but a man who matures in about twenty years, and ought, therefore, to live one hun¬ dred, is dead, on an average, at thirty-five. The failure of the rule iu the case of the man does not prove that the rule is not applicable in his case, but simply that be fails to comply with the conditions of life. The lower animals come nearer complying with the conditions than man. Man wastes his stock of vitality, and is bankrupt before his term is half spent. There is nothing dearer to a man it is said, than his life, j and yet there is nothing with which he is so • mprovident and reckless. ♦ ? ? ? ? A human interrTigation point went to an oculist the other day to get a glass fitted to his eye. “This is the weakest glass you have ?’’ he asked. “Yes.” “Well, what shall I do when I can’t see with this?” “Why, you will probably be compelled to puichase a stronger one.” “And when I cau’iwtih that?" “Well, then you will have to use a still stronger one.” “A nil aft-r that ? -Oh, then you will have to get the very strongest." “The vie im of defective eye¬ sight thought a moment, and then asked: "And when I can , t see with . , the , strongest ? | . The oculist d,dot care to say what would happen after h s own skill had Proved , ineffectual, and of was rathei indignant remained aUhe j inquisitiveness the customer, so | silent. "®“ t dt when °tbe .^ Mg faiig me r ' ■ 1 well,” .veil,- was was the me answer, answer, 'I i should say —J that “““ ! j the « nexi thing , 1 . • . a,. to do moii would M Ko be t to Vintr buy a a ! small dog with a ^string roui d h’s neck and | let him lead you.” Adv ertis ing. It’s sometimes que Boned by merchants whether advertising pays. The question wil' ba-dly bear discussion in tbe following fac’ts rates of transient advertising being figured • The Tbe Chicago ^olMbnne Tribune it tt is w said said . for a column a year, receives **b 000 The New York Herald rc or rts lowes price column W’U and for Us 5343,000. The New Aork Tribune for t lowest, *20,764, and for its b ghest, *85,648, and these papers are never at a loss fo assist the respective papers, but from busi¬ ness men who fin ! it profitable to advertise. The sensible bnsines man does not consider whether he likes the paper he advertises in or not. It does not take- long to find out by experience where it pays him the best to advertise. That it does pay he has no doubt, and raises no questions. Long experience with almost every business man who lias succeeded has proved that beyond questiou.—Priuters Circular. - Odd Stories About Animals. A Tcronto man while hunting in Esques ing, near Milon, Canada, shot a pure white squirrel. As Stacy G Sherman, of Stockton, N. J., was about to shoot a rabbit, an eagle swoop eel down and carried it off. A chicken ventriloquist is one of the cu¬ riosities of Concord, Ky. He crows with clear notes and then makes, ecbo-like repetition of them, gradually dying away as if at an increasing distance. The owner of a large Newfoundland dog in Louisville had him sheared, much against the animal’s will. After the operation was finished the dog sprang to his feet, trotted away a short distauce, looked at his flanks, and fell dead. Augustus Green, of Chesterfield county, Pennsylvania, got lost in the woods while from delirium, and died there. When found his setter dog, in an emaciated was lying on his body, aud could hardly be dragged away. A colley pup belonging to a shepherd of San Antonio, Texas, will put between l.GOO 1,700 sheep in a pen without chasing or crowding any of them. When penning the sheep be has to work them dovn a long hill slopes to .a flat upon which the pen is built. A Saginaw horse was sick one night re¬ cently, and breaking out of his stable, made its way to the 6table of a veterinary surgeon who had before treated him for sickness. The surgeou's stable was closed, and the sick horse, after standing at the door tor hours, died thare. Among John C. Long's chickens at Col¬ umbia city, Indiana, was a hen with a brood of eight little ones. Her coop bad been raised high enough for her to pRBS in and out by meins of a small piece of board. A large owl enterel, and the frightened ben and her brood hastily ran out, The hen then flew against the prop which fell, and made the owl a prisoner. --- “Missing.” Owing to the innate predatory habits of the animal man, his sudden disappearance does not necessarily point to accident or death A desire for liberty too strong to resist lends him to fresh fields and pastures new. One of the best men I ever knew here—a man of sixty-five years, who loved his home and family dearly, and who had no reason for eccentricity—slipped away one afternoon, went to a distant city, and for two years drove a car there, remaining away because he felt his wife would manage his affairs better without him. He never intended to return, but was seen by chance arrested as a lunatic, aud given his choice, to be confined in an asylum or do his duty. He came back, and after two happy years at home died in his wife’s arms. In another case that I remember, a gentleman was sup¬ posed tobave committed suicide by jumping from a stramboat. II is^ wife made no fuss but keptthe matter quiet, because she alone never gave up the idea that his suicide was a sham, aud for three years she hunted him down, aud finally restored him to his home and business. She knew his nature, and gained her point in the end. A third ease of which I had personal knowledge was that of a dry-goods merchant who was absennt twenty years and who re¬ turned wealthy, made himself known to his wife, who had been married in the meantime, sought out his soil and gave him ten thous¬ and dollars, and then went his way as he had come. Uo said he had left home be cause he wanted to; had not married or cared for another home, and liked the life of a wanderer much better than any do¬ mestic ties. These instances go to show that the cases of alleged disappearances may sometimes be accounted for without any necessity of presupposing robbery and murder. The Use and Abuse ol Bathing. Dr. Dadley A. Sargent, medical director of the Union gymnasium, gave the fourth of his talks of physical training at the Union hall list week, taking for his subject f . ]ts Uae8 and Abuses.” He ^ ^ t rule8 bathing as follows: ^ ^ ^ u90 of ca , tUe soap is best for cleanliness, and night the ^ Tw ; ce a week is often enough, To ° frequent warm baths detiiitate the system. A cool sponge or wet cloth bath should he taken daily for its tonic an( ^ j always a i wa y 8 in in a a warm warm room, room, if if strong strong and and * is the morning; . . vijoroug ^ (he best , ime 8trong> tbe co ld bath bad better be omitted and the tepid substituted. After exercise, if greatly fatigued, take no bath but rub down vigorously with a dry towel, If thoroughly warmed up but not tired, take a tepid sponge bath standing. Never take a tub bath, except when bathing for clean liness. A warm shower bath followed by a cool coo, sprinkling spn g is preferable V to a cold bath Tak^hland hot J«h« f° unnece , Hary ; those , should ™ “^ ed b exces _ . . at id the u-e of too much soap. Although no ge ne a.. for batting g could -p*™- Heart Breaking a Delusion. One by one the fancies and romantic su perstitions of old are coming to grief under the calm scrutiny and merciless dissection of modern science. Poets have sung and maidens have sobbed over the death of lovers from broken hearts. And now to be told that death from such a cause is well night impossible is almost too much. But this is what a prominent doctor has ventured to tell ns. “A healthy heart,” he ; said, “is only a big muscle, and nobody can j grieve enough to break it. When, there- j fore, a blooming widow shows apparently I inconceivable grief at the death of her husband, and in a short time shows her equanimity, she ought not to be accused of hypocrisy. Neither may it be concluded that another widow who soon pines and dies has had more affection for her husband than the first. The first widow may have bad even more affection than the other, but have been sustained by physical health.” This is a chilling statement of facts and will tend to dissipate many of the existing notions abont affairs of the heart The doctor who is quoted above says that grief is rarely the cause of heart breaking. His theory is that the prostration caused by a sudden sorrow may affect the heart, pro¬ viding that that organ is already diseased oi impaired in its functions. Women are sup¬ posed to be more liable to cardiac troubles as the result of bereavement than men; aud yet it is a fact that more men die of heart disease than women. Oue record of eases observed showed that out of sixty-one cases of death from heart disease, thirty seven were males. Another record showed teven teen males out of twenty-four cases. Another record showed that in sixty-two cases of rupture of the heart there was fatty degeneration existing. In other words wnen fat is substituted for muscle, the org ,n is easily broken. If any of these diseased people had been subjected to sudden grief they might have furnished illustrations of heart breaking. One medical observer records 100 eases of rupture of the heart where there was no grief to account for it. And so it seems that disease, and not grief, is the real cause of heart breaking. “A healthy heart is only a big muscle," it is susceptible to the influences of ordinary conditions of health or disease aud nothing more. The "heart broken" maiden who loses her lover, pines aw„y and dies, is simply a victim of dyspepsia or congestion It was not a sudden snap of the heart j strings that took her on ; not at all: it was a defective liver or a pneumonic affection. "It is a curious fact,” says our medical au¬ thority, “teat the least dangerous heart dis¬ ease often creates the most apprehension. Frequently patients who have only a lunc tional or curable disorder will not be per¬ suaded that cilamnity does not impend, although there may be no reai danger. On the other hand, organic disease may exist unsuspected. There are sympathetic rela tions between the mind and heart, and I able disorders mental of the excitement, heart are frequently trace | to either pleasura ! ble is or certain painful. syratom Quick beating of danger, of the It heart has | j no been demonstrated that the pulse may I safely ra ige from 100 to 1-10 per minute for many years." -- The Law of Finding. One hundred years ago, the law of find¬ ing was declared by the King's Btnch in a case in which the facts were theie: A person found a wallet containing a sum of money on a shop floor. He handed the wallet aud contents to the shopkeeper to be returned !o the owner. After three years, during which lime the owner did not call for the property, the finder demanded the wallet and money from the shopkeeper. The latter refused to deliver them np on the ground that they were found on his premises. The finder then sued the shop keeper, and it was held as above stated, that titie against of all the the finder woild is but perfect. the owner And the the j ; finder has been held to stand in the place ; of the owner, so that lie was permitted to prevail in action against a person who j found au article which the plaintiff had ; originally found but subsequently lost. The | police have no special rights in regard to articles lost unless these rights are confer re J oy statute. Receivers of articles found | are trustees for the finder. They have no power in the absence of a special statute to j keep the articles against the finder any more than the finder has to retain the arti¬ cle against the owner. Fond Memories. How tnis perfumed air and soft sunlight carries us back to the fast receding days : and memories of our childhood. We see j j the shrubbery, old homestead and almost of years’ hid growth by vines, that trees were planted long ago by our sweet moth er’s direction, and whose hand tended them j . many many and and many many years years to to the the perfect perteet growth, growth, ( down i the .i orchard with its wraltn »./>•» of bloom. i and beyond the old forest through which we | have so often wandered, ga hering tbe delicate, frail wildflower, or rested on the mossy beds and bnilded play bouses. There the little stream, clear as crystal, flowing over its pebbly bottom and past its mossy flower-decked banks we see now tbe flashy and uncertain, to us, trying to catch them, minnow. Cn birls ever sing so sweet to j U3 as dld building tbose wiId .heir oneg we in have tbe watched so oft / nest / ground, ^ faear DO the distant iow .; u 0 f ca!fle in - he ereP „ meadows, and the noisy Kabellike but charming to a child sounds j from the barn yard. An old hen’s voice ^ ^ ;ha , never ^ t0 ^ for a .« ■» C, W. WHITE, Publisher. Number 5. end capture the prize awaiting them. There too, is the pond upon whose bosom floats a flotilla of geese and ducks, and anon we hear the gutters!, homely voice of the frog. There the grand old moumains, could om ever fire, gazing upon their changing, shifting lights and shades. But this wai years ago, and we had almost forgot tha' lies dream of the past was not the reality o the present in the memories this day had called ifp. What Surgery Can Do. The London "Lancet," in publishing its record of the progress of medicine in its many departments flaring the last year, gave some of the more prominent points connected with surgery. Some of the op erations seemed almost miraculous, and were regarded as impossible previous to ex periment. No region of the body is now considered beyond the scope of surgery. Its most marked triumphs relate to the intern¬ al organs and cavities. What has rendered the operations com pariiively safe is the use of antiseptics— fluids that prevent purtrefaction in the wounds. Hitherto carbolic acid has been the chief agent used. But this proved more or less dangerous—sointimes fatally so— in other directions. A much Baler and equal.y effective substitute has been found in what is called eucalyptol, which is ob¬ tained from the Eucalyptus tree, Abscesses of the liver have oeeu freely and successfully cutiuto anddratued. Large parts of the stomach have been cut out, including even the pylorus which is the more highly organized part of the stomach that shuts in the food until digestion is carried to a cer¬ tain extent, and then opens and pours it into the intestines. Entrances have been made through the .walls of the stomach fur the regular intro¬ duction of food in eases where the gullet has been closed by^d.sease, Two pieces embracing the entire circum¬ ference, t be one about three inches in length, the othet fi ve, ! ave been cut from the large intestine—the colon. In all cases the di¬ vided ports arc brought together and sewed, The stitches becoming soon absorbed after the healing is complete. Considerable progress lias been made towards ascertaining the exact spot where the brain and nervous system may be affect¬ ed, thus facilitating tho reaching of disease. It has been found that bone can betraos* planted and aid in the formation ol new oone; and more wonderful still, that sponges can be grafted into a large wound, and be a porous support for the granulations—the new flesh particles—while they are fifing the cavities. The sponge is beiieved ft be gradually absorbed. Tiniest of Wee Babies. The smallest baby in the world is at the house of Mr. Poe, on Carter Rtreet. It was born last, Wednesday. It is the most di niinutive creature imaginable, weighing on | v 0 „ e a „ f ) half pounds at the time of its birth and scarcely twenty-six ounces yesterday. It can hardly be described, fb e entire body is not as large as the fore arm 0 f on ordinary person. It is just eleven and a half inches long, aud in uo portion of the body is it more than six inches in circumference. Its head is no larger than an English walnut. Its antis look like a man’s little finger and the legs like the centre finger. Its hands arc not as large as a five cent piece. The child is perfectly formed and its physical organiza¬ tion is complete in every detail. Its head is covered with all the hair usually found on one so young, and in all particulars it differs in nothing from an ordinary child except in size. In answer to our question whether it cried, Mr. Poe smil-d and said: “If you bad seen me walking the loom last night you would not ask the question. It cries as loudly and as lustily as any chi id I ever saw." The mother was asked regarding its nour isliment. She replied: “It lakes ment perfectly natural and has a roost voracious appetite. The child is doing very well. To show you the size ot its arm I will take this plain gold ring off my little finger and slip it over the child’s hand to ’t s elbow, and suiting the action to the word, the ring, which was very small, slip fed over the forearm with the utmost facility.—Chattanooga Times, —«► ♦ ■ Wealth. When we see how wealth is abused by many who are blessed with it, we wonder that so many are favored of heaven with finanneiai succem. If parents took half as ni n C h pains to impress upon their children ftjA virtue of the rigid use of money as they do t h e advisability of getting it, there would be more good t0 tbe world from its wealth, Nothing is more absurd than to think one j s to spend all the best years of his manhood ; n getting wealth to enjoy in decliuing yearg . Every family onght to do all in its } , ower> through father and mother, sons and daughters, to secure such honest wealth as lt can attain, without sacrificing higher | good. It is high art to know how to keep tinanc'al ambition aud cheerful benevolence ! balanced, so that the one shall not degen crate into selfishness, nor the other into disregard of thought Wealth is too greai a blessing to be sarcastically handled, as it often is in fbe pulpit, an-) in verse. On th< , other hand, it does not deserve to be made tbe god it frequently is by parents in their ias.ic Seal for their son’s business success. Poverty is as liable to be the fruit of dishonesty as wealth, and is as likely, perhaps, to lead to sin, Wealth is good, c-i ud accord ing to circumstances and mo , — aa Sltf CoHMI! #«Mg. CITY AND COUNTY ORGAN, THE LARGEST CIRCULATION, FINEST ADVERTISING MEDIUM. Advertising Bates. Ono column, one vrn . JIMS On* column, »ix montb>,._ MM On* column, three mouths. MW Small advertisement*, ID oenta a tin* Special Rates to Genera! Advertisers. IN THE COMIC BINE. First woman—“But of course, there is no way of getting at her age." Second Woman —'“Oh, yet thf re is—Muliiply it by two."— Paris Paper. “Bah Jovel” exclaimed young Dudiboi, “the weathah is getting so mild, yer know, that I must have the ferrule taken off my cane. It’s too beasty heavy for a warm day, yer know."—Boston Transcript. “I am a native American citizen, born, bejabers, in this country,” said Mr. Muldooa at a recent political gathering, “and if ye disbelievs it, come around home and I will show riaturalza thion paphers. I » ye mo —The Judge. High art appreciated: “What did you think of the water-cooler exhibition this year?" asked an artist of his .super mthetic friend, Mrs. X. “Very fair; very fair, in¬ deed. Tha pictures set off that divine gilt papering in a charming way.”—Lila, A polite man, truly : The scene is laid in arailway carriage, where seven passengers are smoking furiously. Theeighth passenger courteously: “I beg your pardon, gentle¬ men, but I do hope that my not smoking doesn’t inconvenience you,”—French Fun, “Was it a small, white dorg, with a blue ribbon round his neck, yer was looking for, miss?" “Yes," gasped the young lady, in anxious suspense. “Well, Jack Adam’s Newfoundland purp, he’s a gone an’ swal lered him." They carried her into the nearest drug store.—Chicago Eye. “What a man Fiuixton is to change round 1" exclaimed Mm. Fenderson. “It was only last week that he went into the grocery business, and now he has gone into insolvency." “Oh, that’s nothing 1” replied Fogg, good deal more money in it you know.”—Boston Transcript. Mrs. Sam Milledgo, an Austin lady, was busy trying to make a pincushion of saw¬ dust wheh the colored cook came to ask what she should cook for dinner. “Go way, and don’t bother me now. My head is full of sawdust now and 1 can't think of any¬ thing else."—Texas Siftings. In a Boston newspaper office: The gen¬ tleman who is making up th nn—“Here’s an item that has no mark ’ there’s no way to tell where it beloui- Foreman— “What’s it headed ? Mah up—“An Old Scandal Revived.” Fo: “O, that goes in the Now England n /s," —Louisville Courier-Journal. “I see that your son is out of the peniten¬ tiary,” said a man to an acquaintance, “Yes; we proved that insanity was the cause of his killing the fellow, and they turned him out on probation." “How a that?" “They said that they’d let him stay out a day or two, and if he acted like a crazy man they’d let him stay out permanently. Well, h3 acted like he was insane, and 1 reckon he’ll stay out." “How did he act like he was insane?" "By killing another man." There was nothing mean abont him : “Charles,” she said, as she leaned her class¬ ical head upon his broad, stalwart shoulder, “J have but one request to make before our ■wedding.” “Speak out, dearest," he ans¬ wered, huskily. “What, is it?" "1 want a lock of your hair." “Take it, darling," he cried snatching off a brown, vinegar-colored wig and, forcing it into her hands. "Taka it. No one shall ever say I refuse-d any re¬ quest from my future wife involving an out¬ lay of only §15,"—Chicago Check. What they do not say: He—“Yqpr father must be worth at least a million and you would enable me to go through life in a _ Btyle I never could hope for without you. I do not love you, it is true, but—one caunot expect everything. So let us marry If your father fails 1 can crawl out of it some¬ how." She—“Very well 1 You will never amount to anything, but y a are good enough as far as you go. I have trifled w ; tll so many men that most of them hate me and 1 may not get a better of! >r. If I do I can break the engagement ’—Life. How to start an echo: We cam it vouch or the truth of the following < y, but an Austin gentleman said he as an eye¬ witness of the occurrence. He was on a steamboat on the Hudson river, with a party of excursionists. The boat stopped at a place in the river where there is a wonder¬ ful echo. One of the gentlemen asked everybody iu the crowd for a pistol with which to wake up the echoes. Nobody had any pistol, but a gentleman from Arkansas said that he had something that was darned sight more reliable than a pistol, and pall¬ ing out of bis boot a kniie with a thirteen inch blade handed ,r, over to to the party who wanted to sue up the echoes.—1 exas Siftings. Why the Granger was astonished: A citizen of Detroit, who had been to Lansing on business, was returning the other day, when wlfd took aa ol< the J tarmer next sea - » “ £ , a ' the conversation, whic as a^^ C 'Q- Then be Lappcne thing about ^ farmer (|t ,. , ( j. « Bat doubted, and Ue a 1 have Been t • bm to X nrup ^ Maria' ^ ^ ^ ^ bis wife, here § bin a „ QTer Yurnp and rides with us a hu! hill half half dav day before he lets on a word ! Huy, the Bixbys didn’t go no further than Bosron and the fust night they got home they kept the hull town np till two o clock in the morning to tell about picture ha Is and opera houses 1 Wall! wall 1 Bin to lump and not bragging