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The mil Conyers I t' ••<•'•• m I ^ fa gl ner » \\ HARP Publisher. ^ k * A. VOLUME V. T II K IYEBS examiner polished every Friday, CONYERS, GEORGIA, P er Annum m Advance. 1 50 J 0B PRINTING, Description, Promptly and Every Reasonable Rates, y Executed, at, |TS I ( )It ADVERTISING rertiscii Hilts wl ll he insertedfor ONE square, for the first inter f FD’TV CENTS per square for \Z inuance, period, for a one liberal month, discount or less, will inch in length, or less, consti E-VofiV^in the local line, column each will inser- be at Ten Cents per Lws and deaths obituaries will be published will be [,,,1 n M,f news, but „ ertising rates, for at adv 7AIL AT THE (railroad restaurant. -Under the Cur Shed,) ATLANTA, GA. there all the delicacies of the season I be furniaqed iff the best of style and Iheap ia*JIoal as any furnished establishment at allhours in the of city the 8 DURAND. unej.20 l BALLARD A just Like Her Dream. L lie st evening about seven o’clock, I Mrs. Henry H. llealy was she return- drove I,uki home from a ride, Adelaide avenue into Melrose hut Id She was alone in a box into buggy, the just after she had turned L Lit, r highway a man sprang into the l grasped the reins, and stopped the horse. He then jumped into Biicle anil struck the lady a severe low in the face, causing her nose to h'd quite freely. Jt so happened that rs. llealy had been at Attleboro dur ftg KjUid the day. knife and for while there in connection had pur-. a nse w)/!i household duties. This site had ■igotten to leave at home, and on dis ■tvering Bui it in her pocket while driving pile. laid it on the seat cushion by her Killian On receiving the blow from the the thought of the knife flashed ■cross her mind, and at once grasping it she struck at him with such force as Hu' was able to command. Ho imme B atcly let go his hold upon the car ■age, and fell back with t he exclama ■ou: “My God, I am cut!” The lady il frwc on, and alter passing some dis¬ tinct: from the’ pint where she had ^Ap:i ^■okctl assailed, about for pulled in the to horse assist her, and ■M, someone ■reef nobody that happening to lie on the at time, continued on her Wav home. .She did not see her assail ■m after she struck at him, and all that l ■caranee 1 ' 1 ' can remember concerning his np is that lie was a largo man w 111 a full beard, and she thinks lie ■ <)u ’ 11 The blow which he gave ■<‘i ibd not cause any serious injury, pit the shock to her nervous system ■ah u>rr apparent for some hours after | arc1, n ‘ e °bject of the villa’n in IIiu.s assaulting . her is entirely a matter f| I P au ' ot biro. diamond She happened ear-rings, to have '"".'casonable and it is 1 Iosm'nmou to suppose that the of them might have been ns object. Mrs. Healy’s husband from u I, ^companies her on her drives, Sue " 3 ' * Lap P ened to be awa N »om 2 1 iT mH°V ,Iai V1 '-? \l inoideQc he assaidt e ami related that in - is that q r.v < a ,' 1 “ esda y night dreamed ban 1 ( • Tended by largo with atllll beard a .vaihnt ’ 8Uch as her as i (< ! 1)0 This dream she relaUMl ' 1 )1 ' eabtast ' table yesterday inoniiit TZ L M m ° ro over yesterday e en l sin . S u, ’ arly eventful* appears day |«£ or tho faJSfc l, i | ^Perienees reminding live s£a L s !S3 Works s tho » locomo vausino-oon'sit bee- 111 on \ e wa disabled, Z ld £ r \ ble u, delay- N sequent whi?t! The con comiect Ul 110 train *> ilod tn and le f. tram at the junction, Mv S u 1 aud her friends had ml take to ' va S° n the fair cident Then occ *rred another ac eeasidcrable distance 011 broke **' ax e ' tree ot> the wag nl.nl ti, le .P art Y a ^ain left ,,!1 the was h.°ni U \, ’ Another team picked hlmient' ni.vi ° mc ' v ^ at to their aston Mrs Healv last p !’ tlu> y a11 - including Bon V ’JJ^ reached their destina dntov i tt * Kroridence ml, — (B. l.j Tho “ department.Clerk. jj 1 U ftn in Washington U ,800 v,l ‘ i He earns from d, n . O ,i?' 0t l Ifc to fcWt nt 1>er year * is '4s worth* u lt as much as they ^' ot ttiem who owe board °, raneh *y ]e Mound ^Petition 1 ii Uot h‘ h with ln i l 01uul g 111 b ®U» * '“‘j tll, ‘ world to two T l he clerk wear is a polite pau “tfier th is u,vS that for some reason or ft* foes to TV ( !' V0S bbu a living. niAn unless' : “J i ha f °°a a 8 cigarette iders himself in his a ful reflet",,! r b ' “ su ^ we commend care ! n 3 police coZ a f;u d f hat came to Hght An , . ^ Uali ‘ n Clt y recently. an £i r i th -‘t she shMa ;^ et ; she explained * o’clock and ® ve r V morning about Hghtful ck-c UD Lii J q nt the , day in this de Ptetetl of her l0n *. and l hat she dis f b ra rand-n usforoj e( i ti iIlL , 1 t b (>tlon ^ nt 0ut t0 persons who Lniou. ew C Burettes—jy. ' 8tui «ps into Y, Christian delegate to Com in the I,, 0, Gays tllat his *^°st populm. , W . , * made , h'-- ” - country. NEWS GLEANINGS Cedar Key, Fla., ships 40,000 fish per week. The Alabama insane asylum has 417 inmates. Florida will soon be a perfect network of railroads. Arkansas has a two years’ supply of corn, oats and wheat. Atlanta claims to have the finest clmrcli building in the South. Jacksonville, Fla., is to have a new court house at a cost of $50,000. A laige bagging . factory will . soon be added to the industries of Eufaula, Ala bama. Out of the 1,243 convicts in the Geor¬ gia chain gang camps, only 113 are whites. The graves of the 264 Federal soldiers who were burned at Key West, Fla., have been marked by handsome head¬ stones. A vast [amount of cotton will go to waste in Arkansas, Texas and other cot¬ ton States because of the scarcity of pickers. A hill will be introduced at the com¬ ing session of the Alabama Legislature to exempt factory operatives from pay¬ ing poll tax. Between fifty and sixty thousand dol¬ lars in Confederate bonds held by the city of Lynchburg, Va., have been or¬ dered to be sold. The Chattanooga Times says large numbers of farmers from Ohio, Indiana and Illinois are settling in the section contiguous to Chattanooga. At Sarasata, in Charlotte’s harbor, Fla., a Northern company is established and engaged in catching fish, for the pnrpose'of extracting oil and manufact¬ uring it into guano. A Mississippi physician says the day is not far distant when cotton-seed oil will have taken the place of lard the world over. He pronounces it much purer than lard and a great deal heal th¬ ier. Chattanooga (Tcnn.) Times : Tho deer on Cumberland mountain are dying with the black-tongue. No less than fifteen have been found dead within tfie last ten days. Some cattle are dying with it. A curious Indian relic was recently found near Hartsville, Tenn. It is a piece of stone about fifteen inches long, hollowed out in the shape of a police¬ man’s billy. It can be blown like a horn and evidently was used to summon the warriors to assemble. Moscow Lamar co Ala Nov 3d 182 Please put this item in the Journal Mr. Elia, Chaffin of this county & State Sayes he has made a close Astronomicle investigation of the commit in the East and finds that there is a hole through the stare & the blase is caused by the rayes of the Sun shining through, like shining through an Auger, hole, Sub¬ scriber. Near Chattanooga, Tenn., are several Indian mounds which for years have at¬ tracted archaeologists from many parts of the country. The largest mound in the group was opened a few days ago and many skeletons, several pieces of pottery and other interesting Indian relics found. The mound was dug into but a short distance, and will be further tunneled. A meeting of the cotton planters from Tennessee, Mississippi and Alabama met at Memphis Monday to find some means to successfully oppose the monopoly of the cotton-seed oil men. An organiza¬ tion was effected under the name of the “Planters’ Co-operative Association.” The planters allege that the oil men have portioned oft' the cotton country and fixed prices bar the seed, to the great detriment of the farmer. —A man named Neilson and three ladies had a miraculous escape from death while crossing the track of t He Denver and the liio Grande Railroad in a wagon near Sprtngville, U. T., re¬ cently. The vehicle was covered, and Neilson failing to see or hear an ap¬ proaching train, drove on to the track, anly to have his wagon, himself and the ladies hurled into the air. Upon land ing, Neilson took an inventory, and found that neither himself nor the la¬ dies were in the least injured, although tho horses were killed and the wagon broken into splinters.— San Francisco Chronicle. cretlv married. It was considered best to keep the marriage a secret for a few days, and accordingly the young lady returned to the house of her father and the young man leturned to h.s baeh elor earned lodgings. liU The bride, ne -t and day lie his heart \ a ter went to her father’s and demanded her. The parents refused to give her up, as she was ouly sixteen years old. In the meantime the ardor of the young lady’s affection had cooled and she declined, co with her husband. The young man Ts nonplussed aud disconsolate.—A, Y. Herald. ERROR CEASES TO BE DANGEROUS WHILE TRUTH IS LEFT FREE TO COMBAT IT.” CONYERS, GA., FRIDAY DECEMBER 1, 1882, TOPICS OF THE DAT. A PEW in Dr. John Hall’s Church, New York, sold the other day for $2,600. The late Daniel Murphy, the Nevada “cattle king,” left an estate worth about $3,000,000. A Mississippi man lias a “mad-stone” for which, it is said, ho has refused a cash offer of $7,500. Recently compiled statistics place the death rate from the administration of chloroform at one pet 1 000 , . In France and Germany, respectively, two francs and two marks are the medical charges for single visits, except in the fashionable watering places, -♦ -- Hon. Jewett Adams, who is elected Governor of Nevada on the Democratic ticket, is a native of South Hero, Ver¬ mont, and resided there until he was twenty-one years old. The story that Langtry, when a girl, used to milk the family cow, is said to create great excitemont among New Yorkers who have gotten rich by milk ing the lambs in Wall Street. “Spinster dinners” are given by betrothed New York girls on the eve of their weddings to friends of their own sex exclusively, and they are chaperoned by the mammas of the morrow’s bride and bridegroom. A YOUNG missionary visiting Thibet for the first time, recently expressed liis horror at finding the practices of Mor monism reversed under the protection of the King of Cashmere. The law allows women several living husbands. Madame Patti, who is nervous when crossing the ocean, before starling for America, made her will, in which she desires to be buried at Craig -y-nos, and leaves a sum of money to be expended in instructing a number of poor Welsh boys with good voices who may show a taste for music. We are progressing in the science of epigrammatic signboard advertising, “ Society for tho Encouragement of Wearing Clean Shirts,” is the latest de¬ velopment, as seen flauntingly displayed over a laundry establishment at Chat¬ ham and Pearl streets, New York City. General Grant’s new magazine arti¬ cle, entitled “An Undeserved Stigma,” concisely reviews the case of General Fitz John Porter, giving grounds for his former belief in Porter’s guilt, and his present conviction of liis entire inno¬ cence, and appeals to the Government and the country for prompt action in Porter’s behalf. Mr. S. C. Hale, a veteran name in literature, announces for publication in March next “A Retrospect of a Long Life, m w hich he promises to give es pecial prominence to his recollections of Ireland sixty years ago, when he says he “frequently bought eggs eight for P penny and chickens for eight pence EB couple. There were no markets except m large towns, aud there was no mode of locomotion.” Staff Commander James Charles Atkinson, the oldest officer in the Brit¬ ish navy, has just died at the age of one hundred years. He commanded the Penguin, and was captured and his vessel destroyed by the American corvette Hornet in 1815. For the past fifteen years he had been quite blind, but otherwise retained all his faculties unimpaired up to the very moment of his death. Mb. Oliver Ames, Lieutenant Gov¬ ernor-elect of Massachusetts, although now a man of great wealth, was trained to work, and did work for years in his father’s shops as a common journeyman shovel-maker. The proficiency he at¬ tained as a mechanic is shown by the fact that for several years fie alone maae all the prize shovels and other tools ex¬ hibited by the firm at fairs in this and other countries. His example is being followed by his son, now twenty years old, who daily works at the bench and anvil. General « Nicolas _ T de Pierola, _ ex President of Peru, who is in New Y T ork, is described as a dapper little man, about five feet five inches in height, with a clear complexion, laugh iug brown ejes, dark wavy hair, moo* tache with long curled ends and an im perial. His foot is as small and as neatly booted fts a woman’s, and he has the grace of maimer of a Frenchman. A high, broad forehead alooe disfin guisli'es him from the commonplace, ana a few streaks of gray in his hair are the only indications that he is forty-three years of age. Bomb patient German has collected largest fionses of worship. First on his list., of course, appears St. Peter’s, at Borne, which is capable of containing ra 000 peop ] e> Nexfc comes Milan Ca tbtdra1 , , , ’ ith q 7n00 . o. St ' p ar ,r R Rome, with 32,000 ,- Cologne, , with 30, 000; St. Paul’s, in London, and the Church of St. Petronius, in Bologna, w ith 25,000 each; the Sophia Mosque, in Constantinople, ’ with 23,000; St. John Jfteran, « p A ^ ‘f’ 00 */* at Stephens, in Vienna, and the cathedral in Pisa, 12,000 each: St. Dominic, in Bologna, 11,400; the Frauenkirche, in Munich, 11,000, and San Marco, in Ven¬ ice, 7,000. St. Patrick’s Cathedral, in New York^ia given a capacity of 18,000. A Detroit saloon-keeper advertises that he has paid $800 fora year’s license to sell liquors, but that he means to vol¬ untarily restrict hia business within cer¬ tain moral bonds. “To the wife who has a drunkard for a husband,” he says in an advertisement, “or a friend who is dissipated, 1 say, emphatically, give me notice of such oases, and all such shall be exeluded from my place. Let fathers, mothers, sisters, do likewise, and their requests shall be regarded. I pay a heavy tax for the privilege of selling whisky and other liquors, and 1 want it distinctly understood that I have no de¬ sire to sell to drunkards or minors, or to the poor or destitute. I much prefer that they save their money and put it where it will do the most good to their families. There will be an effort during the next session of Congress to reduce the fee for patent rights from thirty dollars to one dollar—the fee now charged for copyrights. The thirty-dollar fee means an examination, but it is no guaranty of the value of a patent, neither is it a guaranty tnat tfie patent does not in any way infringe on other patents or inter¬ ests. The expenses of the Patent Office will be reduced under the new bill to less than one-fiftieth what they now are, and there will be more profit in con¬ ducting it, for, while the charge for pat¬ ents is exorbitant, the expenses of run ning the office are extravagantly large. The thousands of patents issued yearly that are never heard of afterward mean the support of a certain number of clerks in the Patent Office and a certain num her of patent attorneys who exist be¬ tween the inventor and the Patent Office. It is claimed that there would be even fewer patents issued under the provisions of the proposed bill, and its effect would be in the end to increase the value of a patent-right* Panama Hats. Panama hats are principally manu¬ factured in Veraquas and Western Pan am a. Not all, however, known to com¬ mence isthmus, by that name arc plaited in the made by far a greater portion being in Manta, Monte Christi and other parts of Ecuador. The hats are worn in almost the whole American continent and. the West Indies, and would probably be equally used in ing Europe from did not their high price (vary¬ $2 to $150) prevent their im¬ portation. They are distinguished from all others by consisting only of a single piece, and by their lightness and flexibility. They may be rolled up and put into the pocket without injury. In the rainy season they are apt to get black, but by washing them with soap and water, besmearing them with lime juice, or any other kind of acid, and ex¬ posing is them to the sun, their whiteness about easily restored. Bo little is known these hats that it may not lie out of place to give an account of their manufacture. The “ straw ” (paja),pre¬ vious to plaiting, has to undergo several processes. The leaves are gathered before they unfold, all their coarser veins removed and the rest, without leaves, being separated from the base of the is reduced to shreds. After having day, been exposed to the sun for a and tied into a knot, the s'raw is immersed in boiling water until it be¬ comes white. It is then hung up in a shady place, and subsequently bleached for two or three days. The straw is now ready for use, and in this state is sent to different places, especially to Peru, where the Indians manufacture from it those beautiful cigar cases which some times bring as high as $30 each. The plaiting of the hats is very trouble¬ some. It commences at the crown and finishes at the brim, The hats are made on a block, which is placed on the knees, and required to be constantly pressed with the breast. According to their quality, more or less time is occu¬ pied in the completion—the coarser ones may be finished in two or three days, months. while the finest may take as many The best times for plaiting are the morning hours and the rainy season, when the air is moist. In the middle of the day and in dry, clear weather, the straw is apt to break, and this, when the fiat is finished, is betrayed by knots, and much diruinislies the value.— Jour¬ nal of Botany. Origin of the Horseshoe Superstition. In the very early times, says a writer in Baldwin's Monthly, among the Celtic race an effigy of the patron saint, so common in churches and temples, was nmc p ^.sed in the dwellings and shops G f the people, as a so-called “protec tion” against ill-fortune. these The “glory” above the head of figures—which ^ a ^ er Avas <d ten rudely carved, in 1 . dl“olilhcd outai, to convey the effect of the shining halo or nimbus frequently seen in illustrations of the A irgin and other scripture sub Jects. Often this metal nimbus was of SfT cay, the nimbus remained and was sus pended in some prominent place at the entrance door or other point command ing view. The effigies in question were not nneonuningly seen by tlie side of the doorway. In course of time the nim¬ bus was much used as a substitute for the latter, and was sold in shops for this 1 purpose. tradition of good luck, The as em j bodied in the horseshoe theory', may thus be easily traced, since it became a i common occurrence, in the due course I of time, for the faithful adherent in the belief in charms and symbols to adopt the horseshoe worn to brightness, in the 1 absence of any other, which he nailed over his cottage-door. Hence apiece metal of this shape became associated in the common mind with supernatural 1 presence and care, in keeping with the belief attaching to the original figure cf the patron saint. A COUNTBY THANKSGIVING. Ay, good man, closo the srreat barn door-, The mellow harvest time is o’er! The earth hag given her treasures meet Of golden corn and hardened wheat. Von and your neighbors well have wrought. And of the summer’s bounty caught; Won from her smil' 3 and from her tears Much goods, perhaps, for many yeara. You cornea tribute now to pay— The bells proclaim Thanksgiving Day. Well have you sown, well have you reaped; And of the riches you have heaped, You think, perhaps, that you will give A part, that others, too, may live. But if such argument you use, Your niggard bounty 1 refuse. No gifts you on the altar lay In any sense are given away. Lo! rings from Heaven a voice abroad: “Who helps God s poor doth lend the Lord.” What is your wealth? He’d have you know To have it, you must let it go. Th ; nk you the hand by Heaven struck cold Will yet have power to clutch its gold? Shrouds havo no pockets, do they say? He to Id, I show you then the way: Wait not till death shall shut the door, But send your cargoes on before. Lo! he that giveth of his hoard To help God’s poor doth lend the Lord. To-day, my brethren—do not wait; Yonder stands Dame Kelly’s gate; And would you build a mansion fair !u Heaven, send your lumber there. Each st’ck that on her wood-pile lies May i aise a dome beyond the skies; You stop the rents within her walls, And yonder rise your marble halls; For every pane that stops the wind There shineth one with jasper lined. Your wealth is gone, your form lies cold But in the city paved with gold Your hoard is held in hands Divine; It bears a name that marks it thine. Behold the bargain ye have made; With usury the debt is paid. No moth doth oat, no thieves do steal, No suffering heart doth envy feel. Doth Bing out the words: Who of his board help God’s poor doth lend the Lord! a h bo bells rinsr out Thansgiviuk nay! A . w JLij.uuiiAISLb uiuM»rn,ri, IHAAmiylAU. t vr«, T v rvn buty Thankao-iviim weefatlSe *^k Sates jTomest'adMiH was alwavs a it seemed to Dear that it was busier this vear than over RKp for' m-ilrln’t Ihiv n.iifo mi comSS derstand it either Horn -s Sum? were home church on M-S v she heard her mother sav to Aunt garet, With a little break in her voice, that she had “no heart for Thankso’iy she ing this thought year.” Dear knew why, and ful Thanksgiving, they would have a sorrow Thanksgiving at all. or, perhaps, no But Tuesday morning there could be no doubt that they were to have Thanks pWng Tiptop th’s called year, ..bonfire” for there made was in what the a great brick o\en in the kitchen, which, since Dear s remembrance, was opened and heated only during Thanksgiving weotv. Tiptop mounted a c.iair so that Av- C< Tm : ' e ,,at0 the °ven, and shouted , <la T* ecst tdl for getting iwi that he r had C only U 1 a chair-bottom ? s y » * noseband hadT^o 1 be^corntkaried'^by his rffiMni USt WhCn ShG WftS S ° bUSy SGeding sticks of hickory wcodTo heat the oven" holcllll g hn end, tugging it along With great gravity and an occasional fall on their toes, and, if they were al mi J stic:r into ,ho oven, t then satisfaction r was complete, Dear paused, in her hurried trips through the kitchen, to look into the blaz ng depths and think of Shadrach, Meshach ana Abeanego. Then they all stood around to see the coals drawn out and the oven swept; and when their mother, holding her hand far in to test the temperature, solemnly declared it was “just right,” they watched breathlessly while the loaf-ca e and spice-cake and cookies were c-are fully put in, and breathed a deep sigh of relief when the oven door closed upon the Wednesday good things committed morning to its keeping, the oven was heated again, and filled with m nee pies, which came out so delightfully brown and **o deliciously fragi-ant that the Gates children grew desperately hungry, and thought Thankso-iviirr theif never would come. And such pumpkin-pies, and and apple-pies, and tarts, at last, as the evening drew on, great batches of broWn bread and rye bread and wheat bread filled the oven to the door When the chicken-pie and turkey were ready for dropped the oven next day, the the tired mother into low rocking her looked chair, wearily and taking the Tiptop on aap, into lire. “Let me hold Tiptop, mamma,” ^ said Dear, thinking how tired her moth er was; but her mother made answer only by holding children Tiptop with a closer arm. The gathered around as the twilight came on, and sitting there, waited for their father to come. Grad i ally silence subdued fell upon them all, broken only by the and roaring of the fire in the stove, the loud ticking of the clock on the mantel shelf. back As Dear listened, how vividly came that sorrowful ni <? ht when she stood and heard the clock ticking loud er ana louder, as J.my gently breathed her He away: and it seemed to Dear that she would never again hear the clock ticking in the night without think °i tbat fT/\ She glanced at her mot c.ei, and did not wonder that she had no heart for Thanksgiving this year. Indeed, she thought tney all had more cause tor complaint than thanks Half , b! |, nded , . , bj teai=, , she , started up, and, going to the window, looked out. It was a Irostv, smmght mght. There Wa sno ' v ® u tbo ? round ’ Here and i there patches ot new ere form ing over the pools of still water leftby the he /Zi / V ‘ n / “Whvdont papa co: 0 ?” „ said ., ^ Tip “ He will come soon, „ said the motm-r, habit, soothingh*, and, m obedience to an old began absent-mindedly humming Greenville, the one tune she knew, and hummed by whose aid she had year after year tlio Gates babies to sleep. “Is papa at the shop?” asked Dear, la the first lull in the humming. “No: I 10 went down to the cotton mill with a load of bobbins, and he ought to be here by this time.” “May I go a little way and meet him?” asked Dear. been “ Yes, in the ”—remembering house all day—“ that Dear had light candle and only first a make the tea. and put more wood in the stove, ami brino me Tiptop’s shoes, night-dress, and untie the boys’ and wear ycur hood, and don’t be gone long."’ Dear had closed the outside door, ready old Ian’s to start whinny on a in run, the when she heard barn. Papa direction of the “ has come, and is unhar¬ nessing Fan,” thought she, feeling a little him disappointed that she could not meet and ride home. Instead, she turned to the barn. At the stable door stood old Fan, steaming bafh. “Papa as if she were having a < apor had a load li o me, 1 ’ 1 Fan. hought But Dear, as she went up to pat what was that she stepped on? A thill? Yes, a broken thill, still hanging to the harness. Startled, Fear glanced around the yard. The wagon was not there, and now she saw that only a part of the harness was on the horse, and that was trailing on the ground. Before this in her heart had time to take shape, Dear opened the stable door and let Fan in, and, carefully closing the door, ran for the street. The road over the top of the hill Jay like three narrow foot-paths, with straight ridges of turf between, and along these narrow paths her Dear sped with Hying feet, strain¬ ing eyes to see she dared not think what. At the brow of the hill she paused and looked down. The The road road wound vvound like a brook down the long hill-side, turning to the right and to the left, with here and there steep pitches and many bars, till it was lost‘in the dark¬ ness far down toward the valley. As far as her eyes could reach there was noth ng unusual to be seen; but at her feet road lay a broken harness strap. Up tluit Fan had come, and down that road Dear must go. <n and on, over bars and pitches, scarcely hit touching the ground, stones bv her feet flying before lior, tJ11 ’ sud <Jenlv, halfway down the steep est 1 pitch, she came to a place in the f 0 ^ where the ® tones and tile , ** ™ ^ ^ plUDg ” " p Here pj .‘ i lay ‘ /j the _ wagon seat. t A » bhIp, little fart her on lay two or three planks across the road - and at the loot of the steep pitch lay ’ on its side ’ a wrecked lumber wa o? n ’ which had run backward till it J ?a i xslze ar >d across the steep gutter by } lie lo ad-sidc lay a load of plank. whicii S He/e 'a mriTof the'brJ^n over belono-in^- wss rc i n s to the harness ' with 1 the the 1 T p 0 wa o- 0 n was her father’s Dear ^"™tood Iho \m MSlon^tte^ wboro hm- fotbara Tallel Ml and down iMo the Nothing moved; there was not even wind enough to bend the tall dead grasses by Dae road-side, and no sound was to be heard in all the still night but th 0 purling and babbling Seep of the little brooks in the water-way! that had gullied either side channels of the on ^ ^ “ “^apa, papa, whore are you?” and d0WU inl ° ythe vall °^’ brin g in g no an papa, papa! what shall I do?” she called again, and as she listened with straining ears, she heard, or thought she heard, a low moan near her. She dropped on her knees, “Papa, papa, are you here? It was a prayer now. Surely she heard a sound as if in answer, and* it seemed to come from the plank that had slid over the gutter. In an instant Dear Was over there peering among the planks. could hear She sound could see nothing, but she a plainly now. She tried with frantic haste to raise the planks, but there was not strength enough in her small arms for that, and almost without thought she dai’ted, not up the hill to her mother, but down into the black valley at the foot of the hill, where a cart-path road. leading ''Along from this the woods dark path, in: ersectcd the overgrown with alders, she went till she came to a low shanty built between two trees, and, bursting open the dooi', she cried: “O Biddy McCoy! come quick; some thing dreadful has happened on the hill.” “What is’t yer sayin’?’ her said the startled Biddy, starting from seat; but as Dear was already out of doors, she added, suiting the action to the -ivoa-ds: “Here, Bridget, tak the babby. ailc [ you Mike,” to a stupid aaad boy by the f irej *.get *and ye r lattthcrn come thin” a i 0 nir;” without waiting followed to put Dear, any* on her head she xhe child was already out of sight, but Biddy went on at a sounding gallop till she came to the foot of the lailL There she saw the small her figure Hying before her and beckoning somethin’ dreadml on. has “Shure, an’ happened,said the breathless Biddy, crossing herself as she came up to the wrecked wagon. “Is any one burted?” a3 p oar c died her to afraid help. there’s “I’m afraid_I’m some one lln( ier the planks,” gasped Dear, trying »ifere.gurl, sino-Ie-handed to lift the load, f that’s no way to vrarruk, tak - the \ one lirst . Mike, yo lazy sow] g t a]< Qcr wid yer lanthern!” and her v< ce W en”t down the hillside like the b]asfc of a trumpet, | starting even the slow Mike into a ri n . - There, hould that,” said she, hand dy’s ing the lantern to Dear, and with Bid stout arms at one end and Mike’s a t the other, the planks were ilung over j n { 0 the road. Dear held her breath, and before the planks were all off they could see that a man lav there stretched j n the bed of the gutter. The planks were over h m like a i - oof, or the cov r er Q f a anfk when the last one was off, Dear saw her father’s fa-e, still and white , but s h e could not utter a sound. “ Howlv Mother, help us!” eaculated Biddy. “Take his feet, Mike, and help get him out of the wather. He'll be orowned intirely if lie’s no kilt already.” p or as he lav damming up the narrow channel, the choked water had risen ail( i spread ai-ound him in an ever-i-ising poo ]. As they took him up and laid him down in the road, the motion seemed to rouse him to life, for Bid 4 j, stooping $> 50 PER ANNUM IN AD/ANCE NUMBER 46. over him with the inmorn, saw his etes suddenly open lie looked about him in a bewildered way, and then clutched nt the reins that were still in his hands, shouting: he “Whoa, Fan, whoa!” Then ami slowly raised himself on his elbow seeing the planks scattered about mm muttered: “Why! she’s got away.” “Are ye much hurled, sur?” asked Biddy, if she concernedly, taking his arm as would help him to his feet. “I don’t know, I’m cold,” said he slowly. 1 “ An well ye might be, Ivin’ in all that wather,” and she tohfhim ho 4 they had found h : m lying in the gutte “ with the planks c:mr him, but not ou him, and the water around him. “ Is that, you, De.u-P and has the horse gone home?” asked lie alter a moment, seeing him. the little, shak ng ligui '3 beside “Yes, papa.” and all at once the convulsive sobs leaped oeyoncl her con tiol, and she fell on her knees, quite unable to say or do anything but sob. The s’glit and the sound of her sobs did more than anything else to restore her father to himself. With Biddv’s help he slowly rose from the ground, and, after standing a moment, he said, steadily; “I believe I am all right, 'i’he only’ cold and a little confused, fail must have slunned me, and but for vour help, my good woman, I should have been a dead man soon, “It was yer little gurl tould us. Wo shouldn’t have known.” Ho held his hand lo Dear, and she caught, it and held it under her chin, still uliable to speak. “Do ye think ye could walk, sur? Ye’ve no right to be staudin here wid yer wet clothes.” Thus admonished they began to move. Biddy and Mike and the “lanthem” went with them to the top of the hill. By that time Harvey Gates had obta ned full possession of himself, ami he bade Biddy her good night, telling her he would see on the morrow, “Now, Dear,” said he, ‘ run home and tell vour mother, quietly, that the wagon broke down, but that 1 am all right, It and will be in directly.” was not until near noon the next day, when Dear broke into an in-erress ible fit of sobbing, lhathernioi her knew how near death had been to them that night. She turned very while, and after we UaVtt t - ,e t iaU v ! a tot , a ^ - , He A hatl little been later down Harvey Gates , came m. with Luke to oot the planks out of the road and to SCO Biddy McCoy. He told a pitiful story 0 p t j ic p 0rer ty j n the little ■ shanty. .. There will be no Thanksgiving suppl¬ there to-day,” ho said. Mrs Gates Whl ° ed a IitlIe - She wa? “ lnrilty woraau ’ and ifc was not easy for her to understand the blessedness of giving. “ Aud such a bab .Y- such a Tittle mite ot a bab T ! ’ continued Harvey Gates, as if speakint; A tab t„ v? hiraself. " mt<!d Mra " re P - - “did pausing on hci way to the oven; 3’ 0U sa N Bldd J had a bab N ? “Yes, and the poor little thing looks half starved.” “Mamma,” said Dear, eagerly, “why can’t we have them all up here -‘ T hanks<rivincv smmer ’ We’ve ^ ff ot After ^moment’! hesRatffin she Zi\lb there ain't more’n fmty o/lifty l oU e°m’ bastecUhe^rkey 3 with ener^v. °° ; ‘ Il’u- she ca i] e , as she heard him o-nino-toward brim? the door “telMVddy to the baby; and here, you take that tliick shawl in the entry to wrap it up warm” And so the McCoy’s had the thefr grandest Thinkscrivina- manner of lives: an q no more thankful company the gathered Gates in Ncw England that dav, f am Ry feelino- very tender over their e jt 3 ca p e f rom a great %. calamity.— Times/ Josephine Baker, in S. The Beats of the Pulse. By means of a little instrument called the sphygmograph, permanently the pulse-beats reeord- may be accurately and ed. And now Dr. B. W. Richardson, LL.D., F. It. S., of London, by adding a microphone to a splay gmogi apli, winch has constructed» sphygmoplaone, by feet the pulse-beat may be heard forty away. It that the sounds heard cor¬ seems and respond to those of the heart, and are three in number, one long two short, resembling the words “bother it The three sounds are caused, the first 1 >y contraction of the ventricle, as it throws the blood into the aorta, and the other two by the closing of the valve behind it and the recoil of the arterial column, as the contraction (systole) is finished. It is found that the peculiar sounds of the heart, when diseased and by which , its condi¬ the physician's ear ascertains sounds at tion, have their corresponding instance, those hean the pulse. As, for valve that al¬ where there is a defective be thrown lows the blood, which should forward, to regurgitate into the chamber behind. Another interesting fact appears, viz., that a person’s pulse is quickened lay jus laughter, the sound sometimes seeming almost like an echo of the laugh. Per¬ haps this may help to explain the hy¬ gienic value of a hearty laugh condition. to one m a depressed and melancnohc sounds In severe palpitation the arc all lost in a sort of loud whirr as from a revolving wheel. ninety . , When the pulse-beats is, together are with over the or a minute, there th a e the sphygmophone It k thought that of tli4? body.— Youth's Companion. ---—-— darkey, seventy , > ears . ..... . —A venerable relation.hjp w. m old, had been claiming fanmies ot cote certain Washington that he - and by telling them ’ _ promis'ng that he wo l t. t and exaibit; . . them in his will „ ‘ j , rolls of bills, which he said we e ^ ine, so worked upon then su» p * ties that he borrowed money r gnria m left, and was entertained as a . . * One day he was miweu. w </ BosL