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VOLUME VI.
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CONYERS EXAMINER
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SlrsriScotchroo's GriCI’.
“I’ve hud my life insured," sai l Mr
Saotehroe, of according to the veracious
iiistorian the Little Eock Gazette
“Now, incase I die, toy wife will re¬
ceive J2.000. Li case that of my death, how
over, I don't know she would be
benefited, for she has determined <0 kill
happens herself if anything of a serious tell nature
to me. Let me you whip
she did,” and Mr. Seotcliroo took hold
of the two men to whom he was talking.
“Why, deadly she lias prepared kill a bottle
stuff enough to a mule. Sin
says that when the money falls due sin
shall fall a victim to tlio contents of tire
botr’.ii,"
“ It may be unwarranted replied incredulity
nn my part, Scoteliroe,” one o
tlte; men, “ but I’ll bet you §5 that 1
tan go to your house, tell your wifi
' that dead, and-”
you are hei
“ Just go on. Break the news to
gently. I’Ll stand outside dive prepared for th/ ti
rush in when she makes a
bottle. Gome, ahead.”
The two men went to Scotchroa’s cot¬
tage, Scoteliroe stood out by tlio chim¬
ney while his companion went in.
“This is Mrs. Scoteliroe, I believe? ’
said the man, when a red-faced woman
opened the door.
“Yes, sir."
“Rather a fine day.’’
“ Rather.”
“ Heard any news to-day ? ”
“No, sir.
“ Got some for yon. Scoteliroe is a
capital body liked fellow, a splendid Pity man. such Every¬
him. that a ca¬
lamity “’iVhat’s should befall linn.”
the matter?”
“ He went down to tho depot to-day
and stood walking around. along. A You switch know engine switch
came
engines liavo killed more men than ah
the others.”
“Yes,” said Mrs. Scoteliroe, “switch
engines have always borne sanguinary
reputations. ”
Scoteliroe “ Well, this switch engine took sight al
^ and floored him. ”
“Didit kill lum?”
“Well, he’ll be brought home after
a while in a sack."
“Will they bring him before din-
11 or?”
“I don’t know. By the wav, he had
■an insurance policy for £2,000.” rigid
“Yes, and I want tho money
away.” “Rather unfortunate, but when he
was swept up from the track, among the
rubbish was found a paper snowing that
icy-” Seotahroe had relinquished his pol¬
What, deceive mo in that way ; leave
me without any support; the miserable
wretch. I
clasp Sootchroe ran in and attempted to
his wife.
“ Where’s that policy ?”
“Here it is.”
“Give it here. and It’s just like yon to
surrender it get kilted.”
“ Come on Jim,” said Scoteliroe to his
friend ; “ I want to get the vilest drink
to be fonnd in a ten-eent saloon.”
k Model Girl.
Do you war t to read tires word-picture her
of a modest girl ? I wish more of
class existed, for the sake of society at
large. She is not what is called hand¬
some, though possessed of a quiet at
f r;vf i veil ess all her own. Her warurooe
is chosen for quality according to her
tinauciel circumstances ; the colors are
selected with care, suitable to each other
ami favorable to her complexion (yon
nuts- ca q -iii,-. taste, so is is, “modest
tas-o ’’) ; the style must, of course, be as
near the popular fashion as she dare ap¬
proach. bnt never quite up to the height;
when out calling or shopping she dresses
wit!. neatness wd care; if walking, she
neither moves too fast nor slow, but
glides along with a natural ano. graceful
step which is very becoming, recogniz¬ wel¬
ing her friends by a polite bow or
come grasp of the hand ; but there are
no ck-inonstrafive embraces or giremng when
word-. She is strictly truthful,
anv cuestion is being discussed, and her
npini m is asked, she gives it hesitating¬
ly, net doubtfully, and, if not accepted,
never allows herself to utter a contra¬
diction, but calmly and quietly although with¬ tier
draws from the discussion, defeated do¬
opinion is not lost cr t>y so
ing ; on the contrary, it almost mways and
carries wei ght and effect. Her acts
words are unobtrusive, but her !r ' flu ^°
is great in the home which it is nei hap¬
piness to adorn.
the^^hSerdoes IT f, U lazv fl- that cannot counteract
by his Sabbath
a*oiiiiig sermon.
Conyers Examine 6
FROST.
“iaassiSBBs&sss ^isiawraB wish
atline.
«g£ar»sa sc
*'t“ Spiked “• »»>
c-a ti spring from feaihe & fen,. =».,
IfKl WG t-blc eels,
g;-a ooms such as rock S ;rn
call caims
wieda! 10 * 1 ' foaray * roadB with ^odge and
VndscimilaMi- 'HjJ %htsof , \ ai J birds w'th briJHnntpbi'm-, iris w n-rs
a
vleoni. *
, Afwasaa»*ajr i
nop hke dreams dispelled before the
J hey heat away in vapor cn !bs noon.
- coney L Hilo re'b. r-i Harper'* J .ocarina.
THE GOOD SAMARITAN,
C ; l Y aU U vk « ° hr , ” 3 , curlea , ,, her -
'
«i d L t*-!- ?ito° , ln f° \ r mer l J 10, ^\ er , the s , kitchen-to , , 8 P«cio«9
t n i, miKlTif ,. h
; iiil'a ki. li'ni' T" a asprett/ ? r
m i 'V. 11 n rose; hep eyes were i f
!f „ k?, b U0 ; herl ;. ! ! ,r threads
i u or i° , "hke a Catherine
® ',1 the
y . nr, s.de : that S next the (tult. ’
.ne oM bones was noth.ng wfappaditt more thin a bundle
o. a piece Lorraine Of patvh
s " as ® atlve arid
had lately . , married an Lli irehman ta
minariy known m “George.” whom
.she had lorod or many a year.
Ylii-s etty was romanti •. and it so dr
.lghted her when George nt if.8v jeelded
to tlie idolatry ot poor line that she
coaxed her father into leasing a bit of
scrubby house woodland, with a tumbVdown that
upon it, to George, so he
cored have a garden and potato-patch
and raise some chickens and take nice
rare of poor Fifine. • iss Betty evert
rondos/ ended to go to them during'the
house-fcnishing Fifine and the lioncyjno n arid
assUt n her little domestic f' r
n:sh relation usr and adornugand ills garden, advi-o Ijls Guorgn.
n to potato
patch, But, his truth chickens and Wood'splitt had ng.
to sav, t-eorge so
studied the character and a trii uies of
the noble Indian that he modeled do¬ his
ii 0 upon if so far as resigning ail
mestic dut es to poor Fi: ne. Tin nn,Vfi
over to his spouse theent re supervision
of the garden, potato patch,' ehickeu
raising and even the wood-splitting. He
was ot a dreamy nr.tuie and would sit
for hours on a rude bench he had placed
nea • the water, meditate and there he would
s 11 eke and until Filinc had
idled up the house and led the chiekeffg
mid hoed the potatoes and washed A
couple of and dozen split, pieces fur Oftfc and oi her
patrons, some wood got
dinner upon the table, and then Guo: go
would come in and eat .dinner with
ifine and tell her bi all • he had been
thinking bench i.boiit under while tlie trees. silting there upon
the
Fi ne was very happy. She knew
that < corge was fti e ioF to her iff
m nd, but lie had fold her tiinn aftd
iga 11 that it was right he shon d lie her
superior, and ho loved her all the bet
for it.
But M ss Betty had her misgiving!!,
an one day, w en she was eluded Up
like a lovely kitten upon tlie ’VindoW
s 11. sha Said to lllinc: “What does
Geo rge do, Fil no. towards the support
ot' 11 ad househo'd? It seems to me that
you What are always slaving do? 1 ’ and toil.ng.
docs 1 eorge
'Jlien Fi: no Shrugged her shoulders, crooked
which had become somewhat
nd bulgy t 0111 the heavy burdens elevated tliev
had bo;tie all these years, and
her eyebrows, uliicli were renter scrag¬
gy arid g a ', and said, with a world of
.eci n y in her voice: “ IVhafc does he do,
mv angel? Ho gives to me the happi¬
ness u h eli is mv all; he gives to me the
convey ation which is beautiful; he 1 tells
me of what is going on in tlie big, busy
world: he pities, he consoles, ah, my lit¬
tle one. lie loves me.”
Miss Betty blushed and was silent,
and thought, foolish child .„, that after
all this was ever , thi: n n"d She left 1 ifine
to iron tlie tucks an furbelows wlih
which Mrs. Van Byke delighted to under adorn
her daughter Petty and went out
lllC grape-vine and walked to and fro
ind thought that it somebody—and blushed the
boro she trembled amt at
thought of t/is name—would read to her
in-iiin. would ta k to her again, would
;ell her of the t ig, bea tifui world once
more; if he would love her—ah, wliat
wo Id she not be glad to give in return!
She would work ior him— aye, she would
wo! k her slim In vers to the bone, onlv
of course he wouldn’t let her; he wus
too noble and generous should and thoughtful. arise, how
But if t c necessity 1 ke
triad she would be to do even poor
’ifine, me, if onlv he would love her in re
t “i n! , ritv of manknd
ut alas! the superb Ke the
was here also pre-eminent. nab! was Roake,
new minister, the Hev. I eg
The consistorv had tho ght it be; to
vet a voting man, so that he could board
around among the parish oners and ihns
save the lent of a parsonage. Captain had
V in Dvke Miss Bettv’s father,
thought it ’best to economise in taken every
way that thev could and ha I even
tfip h°s vmino- man to board at first, fie
d wife they'd scarcely mis- u hat
be mr-on ate and the church must ho
betoed v,ni alon/r as much as was pru lent
:li P thi hta months,
But Captain, after a few
suddenly .Iter eban-ted hi- mind. The y<> ng
fnd m f was very fertile in imagination
niek n thoo-tot: and his sermons
were r, sneeddy prepared , and the long
davs had so many sweet, rich
houMtofilP M°o Miss Bettv’s' duties were
linht hcr moth r was still active
srsssa .^0
s 1 ^ when he wls fiaSlftt? ^out sailing J intoe 5 SS
house or wandering among the rocb or
^ng.the^ds upon th^shor^ Ih.
*
ERROR CEASES TO BE DANGEROUS WHILE TRUTH LS LEFT FREE TO COMBAT it.”
CONYERS, GA., FRIDAY', MARCH 16, 18S3.
Il'A,' 1 :>nJ tako llis w!fe to task for tin's
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01
hanging Captam. around s-fidthc
§* SW*ir&WW8! , SrSsS
wStfAWSHaBS! some fear of the Captain that she neVet*
ventured to retuobstriite w tli him. ho
R'ghed m secret with her daughter when,
C aptain managed to iransier tho
preacher to the carp of a stealthy and
comely He widow peach in the neighborhood!
‘‘ can M all lib p 6Ases on that
aotoWto.” the captain. And diort
tv aiterWards ho
the
the !a ! r widow 11 hit ga boring gr
Snd fbrlis. in the j>ietty woodland iiaiints
about Granville
“We can’t keep a parson single,'’
chuckled the Capita h at h.s iiiOner-ta
ble; "tlib tVffllldn won’t let hm alone,
no what we may. But the widow Item
son owns her own house, and that will
save rout for a parsonage.”
The morsel upon Miss Betty’s fork
remained untasted, and the Captain ill
th s a then! Tor bis
daughmtS Ahd the ,
so summer waned, and Eep
ternber her was blue at hand—September and rick with
soil b.azh Warm sun
bi-iilianfc sliihe: krid garden though of her the widow she tad a
own was
h nd of the wanton wil! fl wars that
grew Granv.lle. so luxuriously She HRd the in the woods lnin o.'
yi.ung sler
Jille 1 the house With great clusters o.
noldetl-rods and asters and big j unde
poke herrie='. Oub day the potty pit- e
ton slopped 'fc bfefbre d tl-.fi door of t 1 a a tan
y.p, j, 0 an ( h e widow was led in o
y, e s pt ng room, whose she found Miss
Ung'which Betty almost hidden hasitv by, a md quite net
-CcM, sheWtU "child.’ said pAtelting- the wide
1 w,
'Tint away that rag and run and get a
rereltv dress on. rve prom sod 111 -o f
this lintnv a day wc should take lbs
drive bitlie together, end 1 defiktfe io you it
»h*dl rarest ot»e yhii Ovet- lu d 111
your life. The dstv is made richly to
or er '.Or it: the MlrnicH cloud hire the gtiid
leuest shushitttj—not a in the sky!
Hin away anil make yourself look as
pc tv■ as" yon can.” sit'd
*• You Arts y’ehy kiildi” Miss I'et
tvw'th her a liltlh trip of cidd jealousy ou
lougue. “but 1 must mend this 1 let
ng lor poor Fifine. She is sick with a
fever, and the mosquitoes are dread n 1
down there in the tvoo/1. Ma itnmn says
itdo.it I may have this rrittiiiff if I thiii faitka
tett.V, “Slut i- (iq badly 'perplex tot ft.” said p<».,r
1 jO lig! But 1
io nor tie Airs. 1 enson,” she
which added, there- wi lt an air aisft Of gto'tlri slight digfijty, snilf of iti
a
v r -nroach— pi ‘ I could notslecii |iec|) in m, own
led Led of luxury and know that poor Kiiiue
\v;l langui-liingthere iiiitoes ” a prey to fever and
nivs
If the VvMtiW had thereupon o r o:ed
to drive to town with Miss i etty and
luy or P‘ne A Iirand-u<tv (nqopy VIss
B/'ity i/lri won't! LuL |!ie havte put heart j.'.e oiu netting glad
thS was at; very
the /.lire ladv o ered no such sacri
l:ee to her charity, altogether for she could not bear to
find pur eel.
“Ton chttiices to one, tny dear.” said
the WideW, '-you’ll TlteT h.iivj yf'id- Uioor lor
yortr j n Be poor creatines are
Vrfy sllperstitious anil queer and don t
know w ot is best or them. 1 ve no
do b . in any case, she has eloar-sfarcb- pretended to
to sick to.’get rid of some
iny for your good motliet'. Fi; no
Won d rather WOf-k at hotlie. so that she
call band I c With hers, th.it lttbberiy the fines! lout of and a hus¬ best
of bhe is
of Liimdrei-ses, and sorry should I be
to have hh . tiling lefa i her; but you
hmst no* believe ab t ese wily French¬
women say.” mantled h'gli in Miss T’et
The color
ty'scheeks a- these slanders foil u; on
her oafs, and she stead ly re.used to p .t
her work aside.
‘ Yi u are a Fttle goo-o. sum me
widow at length- " 'Must I tell you,
then, that wc shall have some charm tig
com: any with us.’ Wo are to stop at
mv hou e for Mr. Roake—there, now,
M -s l.ettv, run a wav and dress.”
The color tied from Miss Betty's
cheeks and the needle tvenib'ed in her
fingers. As she raised her blue eyes o
the fine black ones of the widow a tear
or two tremble,/', wi hin them,
“You arc wel ome lo nr charming
company, s she said. will go on
wi b my ,work for my poor Fifine.
'} he widow laughed lightly and went
away, leaving poor M ss Betty to
s rugglo on w th her t oiiblesome task,
which was more and more irksome
now that she knew how some
oilier j eople were spend ng their after¬
noon. As rent after rent yawned be¬
fore her, and her weary little fingers
grew less and less nimble, more than
cnee the cuestion arose with n her
whether it Was'better to on. b.nce
nobody cared for, why should she care
for anybody? But her generous heart
conquered all these gilt-fall itter she temptations,
and nearly at n ran robe, up¬
stairs to slip on tho pretty muslin
a ! smoothed and crimped by the art
and indu-lry of poor !■ ifine. The net
ting was not a very hea burde but
_ with her
she carried also a kett.e or ice
and a pot of jelly. She took the road
through the woods, and though it was
growing darker and her heart beat
rapidly and she cou d not hmsh the
mosquitoes away because her h nds
w re so full, yet she was upheld by the
thought of rescuing poor G ifine- bmee
s he con’d not save her from the stings
of slander and reproach she should at
Iea <t he free from tno.se of mosquitoes,
At last through the trees she could see
the chicken-coops ot 1 li ne and soon
she was at the poor woman s bedside.
The heart of Miss Betty was bred with
in d great,or, when she remembered be
cruel words of the widow. Fi me lay
upon a r ide bed in the corner. Always
thin and brown, she might now have
been taken lor an exhumed Gneen of
Egypt, inY and all Miss these Fetty mosquitoes spu'd could not unag- find
how
jggnfjto rr I* S^***?#
” have brought yon some ice.
dear i thna q{ .„
^Ah^-• ,^ ^ * h earte the
most mer tful; but, alas. I cannot have
the iio. I am too oolil alraaily. my
litlleone. There is u cold hand at mr
heart, NO, SO; I Cahhot llavc tlifl
1C6. ...
butt;u<r "Very dbtan well, the Fifine,” saidMiss J etty-,
kettle which had been
such a nuiahee to her, “you shall u >t
l;e troubled with the ice, but here 'is
Some jelly.’’ in bltess^ci , tried
'“thou “ A ait illy like b asii Gbe li-oiti . , ’ lioavoh: Fifine,
nt but
talk not to mo of jelly. They have
g.v en me of. jells many years ago. a ter
s me bitter medicine, and I .have since
that time no hunger for jelly. Ah, mv
hose of tiib wiUHVoou! It lliakos tito siek
to think 1 f it.”
"Tien do not think of it; Fifine,”
sa d Miss Betty, putting aside the jar
that had ghothh heavier and heavier at
eve ry step of ti e oumey. “But these
dreadful mosquitoes, they ate do. our ng
, ‘‘Alb Jrcs. i*»y adored ebts. they are
demons drawn all tyithout mercy; tlwy have
tho blood from my body, and
their drcadiul song is madness io my
brain. But rest tranoitil: death will soon
{> t ail 6ltd to iuy in sen . ’
1 * But sets hare, m poor V ifine, ’ ’ cr'ed
Miss Betty, e.vultitigly unrolling |ier
jiftiei8tisii.ee; jieaie ihiil "noth you firs can sleep" in
George arid We I, ahd spread of over tlia you,
riot < ae mon¬
sters Van reach you. See), my poor Fi
liho. vva thill dhath tills ctvor vOu—so,’’ so,
and suiting the action to the word Si iss
oft Betty he pulled bedstead, the when not over the high pc ost
lied suddenly a ter r.
loo ; upon the sick woman’s laco
Stitvbd Iter hands, ami she cried out io
l itirie in disinay: “ Don’t ’* you want the
fact Fifine. *
over you; .
u Ah. life rtf thy Hfe!” Sitid Fifine,, “it
is-ad, it'i( tefriole! 1 know not how
to deny time, after all thou had done
lo. me; but, 0I1, mv little one. 1 van
pot IjnVh it. dvrtr hie. 1 have 1 (lie I,. lot
thy deaf sake, to bear ( it. told myself
that I would sav no word against it—at
least till thou were —b gone, when George
could pull it away .t 1 call not angel, even
lor one until little moment. dead, and Ah, mv,
Vva t 1 am then the
draWovbr me the pal, ami p
dies at toy llicy libatl and bill ffib!., and d
tob What riot Kill; while
alive 1 can bo treated like a dead
bod
Miss Betty sa'd no fnhher but words of
ttnlf&ity oi* vetobniirali 6, let tlie
m hands serable, liintsy thing fall and out ha of her ing
upon the t oor:
smoothed Hiine’s pillow a- d Itelil some
milk to her lips and promise i to eonte
in 1 rt u irnihdi Miss (tatiy t ok
wo hi tad home dark, again and big
It in n t quite
shadows ie aetl to threaten every s ep
O; hiir. her tVay. tier rtbr heai;tw(isheavy ii lie feet seemed wi h
ih and poor
s/arcely able to carry even her liaht
weight along. What a wretched abor¬
tive attempt had been hors, to a leviutc
thfc jnisS/f rif tihol' 1 ifflti? It teas as
the beautiful widow had sa ; d. she had
ha : her labor for her pains—the beauti¬
ful. nloexing (V'ftod;; Wtiri wits bo doubt
r'tt li{£ lloitlti Reginald thlougli Roake. the g'oaming with
the lsev.
A ithat ve y moment Miss Betty heard
the tr mping”of hoofs behind Jight-1 her, mired and
at pped nsiue to let lho
pony Of tlie widow pass bv. i he basket
S ties Of this phaetnti wferb filled vv tli
taild I'o'Wers. and the white I amis of tlie
minister held a bunch of shy, sweet for¬
get me-nots as blue as A iss her Bet y’seyes. and
The wi ow drew up pony
bade Miss Petty get in by her side, lest
the hobgoblins ot the wood should de¬
vout lie ; but, th e young girl stoutly re
fused nor would she be coaxed from
her dccis on. of hobgoblins,”
“I am not afraid
she said, thinking greedv in her and heart there
could be none so rapacious
as ihe beautiful w idow herself,
"Now what is to be don e with this
obstinate / liild?*’ said the w idow. T he
m tester had ion ig since eapod from t.iie
wagon and approached Miss Belt : i> t
she turned her back on hun, porhaos which
lo hide 1 ho Icars of wre •tch/ dnesa
were fall mg oui ot her eyes,
“Pick her up and put her in here y
me,” said the widow. “ I am myself wood a
hole afraid o th* satyrs of tho
Come, child; do not be * goose and ge
jealous of your grandmother. The
gri: intlemau there has gathered for a pre that fity
nos _____perav of forget-nvi- /fix ou
were le't o' er from spring. We have
fi". n looking for you far an/1 w ile, and
lie has done nothing I ut talk Io me of
h s ove for you till f am sick of the re¬
(rain.”
Betty turned a swift, melting g a nee
behind her. in a twinkl ug the in n s
ter h: d lit cd her to the widow s si/l e,
and forgot to take Iris arm away, It
was quite dark, and the only star that
shone in the sky was that of Venus.
They drove rapidly on, Miss Betti’s
heart thumping in unison w.th the hoofs
oi the pony. “you’d
“I lold 1 you,” said the widow,
have your la or for your pains. IVe
sto ped at Fifine’s. T he poor crea ure
wa s lull of adoration for you. She
ca led upon every saint in tho ea'endar
to shower blessings upon your head.
She said that you had brought her some
beautiful ice and delicious beautituh” ieiiy, am a
net that was most said Miss
“But she reiused them all,"
“Ah yes ” replied ihe widow; “fiut
George did not reiuse them. He had
chop; ed up the ice in tfi* milk and had
spread al ti e jelly upon his bread and
had wrapped himself up in the mosquito
netting and laid upon the lounge as wo
entered, snoring, as Kit ne aid, lik ■ an
auge 1 Fi ne w; s parched with fever
.
and devoured with mos/jnitoes, but -he
d 'dared :o me that she was quite under¬ com
forta 1 le and happy. I do not
stand t” nestled , ,
But Miss Betty did. She
closer to the arm about her, and lifted
her flashed and rad ant face to the one
above her own. he
“Mv sweet little Samar,tart*
whispered and although the widow
could not understand tbe bappiues of
Fi ne, it was c ear to the heart of
Bettv.— Harper's Weekly.
To ^ ^ ^
^ ^*1 (SkS ^riderable velous.
the result is mar
The age of a policeman cannot be told
by his rattles.
Cross-Cot, Religion.
The meetiug-hov.se of tho Licksklllit
district was crowded., Tho preacher, oW
Noah; with Ida gtixv.ky beard field when and head
lialf White, like a eqttjm the
bolls surveying are just bin-congregation opening, sat in in that the pulpit cttl
hvr whieli characterized pi
way has ever tlie
colored preacher. - A spontaneous hymn
arose, and when the melody liod ceased
the preacher arose and said. "Lot ns en¬
gage in prw. ” .-jFhnomigregfltioii kneeled,
even young Ike, the preacher's son, who
had just come from down to tho spring,
where he had been trying to swap mules
with one of the deacons.
“Oh, Lord,” began ob tlie worship preacher, thank “wo
'gamble in dis house to
thee fur the many blessin's ob de past,
an’ at dat yer would spriukle our hm’
wid a leetlo Inoah rain. We must hal> a
shower ’twixt we'seneedin' dis an’ Saturday ob Amen.” night,
'case, Lord, hit.
Just as the preacher end of tlio arose house. there was A tall a
stir at tlie rear
colored man, followed by no vend panics
as intensely colored as himself, bleu down
the aisle. “Came up tor do if an’,
Brother floblnson,” said the preacher,
for he recognized the preacher. of tlie
Blacksnort district, >
“1 (loan want ter coffio up ter ycr
stau’,” said Mr, Homhson.
"Wliut’s de matter wid ycr, said” ex¬
claimed old Noah. “Wind’s a ailin’ o)
yer “Tuther day I sent unto, axin’
ypv rain,” a remarked
yer Robinson, ter stop with prayin’.fur emphasis, “Our cotton
b sufferin’ .fur sunshine. Wo'se had
mooli rain den We wants, an’ ln-ali yer
goes axin’ fur moah.”
“We liain’t had no rain, shah, an’ I
‘tens tet pfiay fur it until hit do cemo.”
“Is yer tryin’ ter drown tie out ?”
“No, but I wants hiough rain,” Brudder
“I underStitn'B 1 yor game, in
Noah. Y01 tint rain is puttin ' us iii
de grass, loti liliow dat hit is to dr
worlTy intrust ob dis section fur tel' keep
us Jar. Yer wants do Lord tor drown us
out, so dat your cou’rcgnlion will pit dr
heois ob ns id de mai'ket. De Lord al
dis season ob do yeaii, has got so much
business ter tend ter dat he ain't a policin'
how much rain is a failin’. You keep
a oetlflliT tip yemr nnmi, an’ lie keeps «
pullin’ de string. 1 wilnfb yer to stop
hit. Does yer lierih, Itendd.a' Noah?"
“1 Ueali,' bnt Wants is nnglity loft about We
hafkuill. We rain, grabs; we does.
prays, and ef de Lord A hold ob de
wrong string it taint no fault of ours,”
“ Well, I eiuuo heah prepi ired for a let
up or a fight. Bit’ll foolislitieSs as you
sen d tip is ’jitotgh to* (fit do Lord so tan¬
gled dat he can't git Inmsejf straight for
a yeah. You’ll rent de snn in de clips.”
“Frit “ Do wliat lilt wid de sun?”
in do clipn”
“Well, of dat doiui beat an.V tontaltc
I ever heard a nigger make. No wonder
do Lord won’t pay iio 'tcntion to ycr.”
“ Wlirtt would reclipso.'’ you gay?”
“ Why, do
“ Dat’s all light, fi but de fact I want
settled is rliS: isn't.” yet gwine tor stop?”
“No, I
“ Den we mixes wool."
Mr. Robinson sprang meet toward tlie pul¬
pit. Noah sprang to him. The
wildest confusion prevailed. Tho two
men grappled, and the dsntous gathered
around.
claimed “Gimmy Noah, do while plantation,] Mr. RoinuB/m grip,” ex¬ vo¬
ciferated “cut yer capers, cut yer mounted c.ipcres!”
Fuially Robinsou fell, Noah
him, choked him inti obedience and
raising himself Brudder up, exclaimed: Johnson, git “Lotus down
pray again. lucre become friends.
dare” The preacnaic
—Little Hock (JazuU).
Canaries Trained to Whistles Operas.
Mr. Jacob Wise, trainer ref canary
birds in this city, libs achieved remark-,
able success in getting lire pupils belongs to
whistles times. One songster that
to Mrs. Townsend, of Philadelphia, a
daughter of lion. WilUqin L. Scott,
whistles “Der Freischuty,” as well as an
expert whistler. Mr. AVisg sat> s that it
takes two years to train a, bird, and,de¬
scribes the treatment as follows; “ from The
bird when quite young is isolated
all other birds and bird sounds but lii->
own. This little instrument is a lousip
box specially constructed three times for /lay this, it is; pur¬ !
pose. Two or a
playing, but always the same liif. The
young bird, hearing no other sounds, be¬
gins to imitate tlio air; right short when
he has snug all he knows; he never at¬
tempts to go through the whole until
every note is committed to memory, and
is as perfect er imperfect as the music
from the instrument,” Mr. Wisn states
that lie trained one to whistle “God Ha ve
the Queen,” and an Englishman paid
him $Ci 5 for it. He never gets Ickb than
$50 for a trained bird.— L’rici (/’«.) Abb¬
patch.
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ness, which, it is belie .ed. arc riva’d
by the freaks of a farmer living at
Shutts Corners, a hamlet two miles
from Goble kill. Last summer lm
drove to Cobleskill, trailing. accompanied Alter spend- b,v Iris
wife, to do some
ing several hours in the vfilage, “chore-,” hedro and. e
home alone, did his
upon going to the house, was provoked
that his better-half, who was not to I o
seen, had made no preparation for sup
per. He failed to find her in the house,
and in a few moments she arrived le me
in a conveyance rom the village, who: e
she j had been anxiously aw aiting her
husband’s appearance. At another
time he iwle a horse to the villa.e to
have it shod. He was engaged uut 1
evening, when he walked home, a ter
waiting some time for a rde. His w. o
recalled <o his mind the fact that be
had left his horse in the village, ft and he
returned ior it-Tro, (K nme<
_Isaac Grice, Schuvikiii, who was little appointed
Postmaster of a
let of Chester County. Penns..Ranis,
when General Jackson was i res./’ent,
has jest resigned the post ho lias held
for fifty years. f:is successor is h sson,
V. V Price. The hamlet contains now
but one house n addition to those there
when he took the office. Scores o busy
j towns have been built up it around when ii, but (Ije
i Schuylkill opened, remains because as was it is out of tho
i century railroad travel.
way of
Know!tig How to Swim.
conscious of their ability to swim wore
cool m won. th/m one a.mao of 1/m word
far but'they thov not did only not werte hum. not Even panic-stricken, tin who
wo
ran but float In the water feel that they
have resources which others do not share.
\inotti' the ,v.wse-,e C ra of the Seawall
iwk ittna Mr i-Umiei Barlow, of with New
York w ln> having provided himself
a life preserver, gave it away to another
passenger and dropped into the water.
He turned himself upon his back and
floated, managing to keep his nose above
water until liowns rescued. Ail tho pas
sengers who could swim, or at least who
did it swim, readied the shore in safety.
would reinforce persons otherwise
liable tube fear-stricken, with assurance,
enabling them to toko measure s for sav
ing themselves. If, for example, tho
watc r were not »n absolute ten-or to one
half or three-fourths of tho passengers,
when a collision occurs or a tiro breaks
nut, they would, with some degree of
carefulness and deliberation, set about
loweriug the boats. They could exercise
their reason and take precautions, would
look to see if (lie plugs tvero all in, and
would lower the boats, perhaps, without
emptying everybody out or filling tie ■
boats with water. On the Narragansott while
one of tho bunts was lowered tho
plug in the bottom, allowing tho ruin
water to run away, wus out, and tho boat
filled. The patent plug, which, by the
pressing of tho water on the bottom, is
forced homo, onglit to boused in all
boats: but it is not, and a liiflo caution
and preservation of the mental balance
on the part of tho passengers would avoid
these'unnecessary dangers. that tho art
It. is not merely, thereforo
of swimming w ill save the lives of voy
agers, but the familiarity with tlte water
and tlie consciousness that one can, oven
when he must take to the water, support
himself in it for a time at least, mid uu
til help Comes, would prevent the dread
fill panics to which mere than to the dis
aster itself, the great loss of life is due.
Should every man, and every woman, amt llu *
ov cry child that’s old enough to learn, be
aware rare that 118 soon an they touch the
_
water they could suppo; mediate thesnpelves danger in
it, nearly nil of tho im
wo uld disappear. A swimmer, too, can
use even a life-preserver to bettor advan¬
tage than one ignorant of tho art.
Of course swimmers drown sometimes,
but tlio proportion is vory snudl, and it
happens quite as often that it is tho boy
that cannot swim who is drowned while
in bathing. The mi mber of swiminers smaller
that are drowned is very im ich
than tho number of non-swimmers wii who
are drowned while bathing or ratlin; If
CillLDREN’S TEETH.
Hew Till'? K,mill,t he Alim ,ileri «<• imd
*>c.-a,r I’revcntert.
A mother U/.M>ri»a of several Affieuiij’ti.M children lately told
ne - her experience. A tow years ago she
iliought that her eldest boy » teeth in the
iront of the lower jaw were dceayiug
badly. This was adisappoiiitmant cluMron to t he
mother, who bad fed her earn
tally on nourishing and wlitocsotoft io£Kl >
as£«tirs»“S!:iSS
Inisbmi/l, who was very truo iii tho l.n_ f
Ins'tom'aters this Bi'UBiiii, «ul a pecim
^
ser
she .thought thttt the aud of tho vegoto
ble went ton far and acted on the enamel
ot the tectli. But when ibe ” %
fourteen years old, went to a duitret t
fe* ri„!i; w '"t::. t.re'iiU'tj
StiluY* sӣ "r -tS'b
aS ffi*
S^srswj ei; sijvssf rssszxs
temuuu in itSaflJsft * n -x K
,
astsrs. teeth order to avoid dentistry bills in
in children
the tlio future tntnrc. The i j Younger J b arc
Brother’s
si sl* as
is no longer opportunity suspected to as read the cause. in
had au some a
rz
enamel coffee he of drank his teeth (dmiiu <s t "is ; «t.; s- • ;
especially) p iietratau ai.d H
colored his teeth.
scouring the teeth. M hen Uiey »
been neglected this claim. may Ire lh irere ■■ ■ ut
to get, them once :’ •>' ,J ■ ’
has peculiar tools for removing ta t )
crpst, bat the yt.lo.v bo cleaned /i< po i. 'mam
dive’s teeth can
dentist does it by anyone- Take ttu ly
powdered punucestoueured stick to rub with a little 1 tip clean, tire
soft pine stick into water and then in po
pine dered and rub the teetli geuliy. -
Afterwards pumice, wash them with aim
soap
water, using a tooth bru.di. It is wellt >
use a little fine, clean wiao occasionatty
for cleaning teetli, but plenty of l ,!ir ”
water (a little warm m tlie cold vyreitlrei)
will usually suffice for cleansing tlie
teeth of persons of good dietetic hanits.
To£ 1 > 8« > f ^ '
, ,
jng for “arwestry ” the mother should
cat plain aim nutritious food, a ywicd
diet well supplied with bone> material, as
the grains are when it is bolted or wfteil
out, and lean meat. For young children
milk should be freely used, and Graham
oat meal also.
-
—Wf. arc apt 1 b< kinder the
fcrtiles tiiat lo e us than to the women
that love us. Is it because the brutes
ai v dumb?—George Eliot .
$ .50 PER ANNUM IN AD/ANCE
NUMBER 5.
J&s&ysttJs SCIENCE AND ART.
fo.tr hundred and fifty-one millions of
“ lllllons annu o waves flow into
1,10 eye and dash against the retina in each
secorid.
Whitk fish less than a week old and
looking like a pair of eyes with a tail, if
tolaced beneath a microscope are fonnd to
be transparent, and exhibit beautifully
tlia notion of tlio heart in propelling the
blood, audits circulation through the
tail.
If seeds (barley, corn, etc.,) bo placed
botween moist pieces of litmus paper, the
roots stick to the paper and color it so in
tensely red that even on tho back of tho
paper their course can ho traced in red
lines on a bluo ground. If tincture of
litmus be repeatedly added, the intensity
of tho red color is increased,
Pnon. ,T. Lawbbnob Smith, of Louis
yille, Ky., in a paper read before the
French meteorite Academy which of fell Sciences, Estherville, soys that
|]io at
Iowa, on May 10 , 1879 , should of be plaoed
opart for tho phenomena its fail, es
pecially the into force of ground, penetration and for of tho its
fragments tho
mode of association of its mineral con
stituents.
An Italian Antarctic expedition is pro- of
posed by Lieut, liova, who was one
tlio officers under Nordeuskjold on the
Yoga. It is to sail in the spring of 1881 ,
„ m i touch at Monte Video, Terra del
Fuego, Falkland, and South Shetland
i B ] !V ndn, and, proceeding in a southwest
W anl]y directum, commence explorations, winters
expecting p, tlio Antarctic to be engaged for and two return by
region, The
wa y 0 { Hobart Town. expenses are
estimated at 000,000 lire.
instrument called the stafchmo
graph, for recording the speed of railway
(j-uins, has been invented and by a German well
mechanician at Cassol, works so
j^at the Prussian Government is about
to t<wt j t on wme „j the Htato linen. A
,,, v j L . w 0 { the engineer enables him
t(J micertuiutho velocity of tlio locomotive
nt lin y moment, and the ohonges of spe cd
ai'o graphically represented upon a roll of
paper, which can be studied at tl ie end
of the journey.
A few years ago Herr Kolbe suggested
dringitig-wuter used on corruption long voyages by
might lie preserved little salicylic from acid, and thin
means of a experiments.
wus supported by laboratory made
Afterward experiments board ships were without on a
large scale on examined sun
cobs, and when tho water was
not a particle of the acid could ho found,
AVImt became of tho acid is an open
question. Herr lvolbe considers that tho
action of the wood of tho cask decom¬
posed tho salicylic acid.
Somswhat in these worus an nngiisn follow¬
scientific journal introduces the
ing suggestion: They propose to light
the whole of London by means of a great
central light-house. Suppose a with circular gal
tower, ’ say ’’i 1,000 feet or more,
j erieg at Dt€aw j» ot 0110 hundred feet,
, (l mjfofy provided with a series
. j a tnps, with reflectors ar
. ftt RuitaHo angles. The light
^ t jj Ug [,,, directed and diffused over
ell tirc metropolis, rendering gas-light This
nnne cessary except in tho suburbs.
issr***
fc Ri«sssasswj!as:
^ (,; m « of the apparatus made which in electric will
iu 11R trato the progress
B^*tatsssa?ss exhibition taking a« it means to
" " up, important prob
m0 most
p.^is to which man’s attention great is service given to at
bssc&u*- , ^ prove of v—n
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“*™,Ilk, II, M.Eilmiiiiil Aboutthrae
jssfiiXr ss» Tjunarsrti usaxriw
oxJilbited “*4* a magnificent can vaa symbolical
■ «< i *»
was occupied by the vessel of the Stote,
which entered was port represented and os moored as having^safo with a cnam y
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Light, Not Noise.
xrjsSSteifJsSrti before Judge Pratt, referee, and
during tho progress of the truil Imcame
H little bit noisy, as be sometimes does,
when tho Judge looked np and said to
him; -.ypr.--did you ever hear of
t)l( , miin who was lost in the woods during
» thunder atom ?” On hang answered
lh(i negfttivC) the Judge continued:
t -Y"‘ Vocls, in attempting lit to pass through while a
of his way, and
was j n that predicament a fearful
tbunder Htoren came up. The woods
, lU .; u )ly dark. The roaring of the
^ ^ atl j q ie crashing of the frightened thunder
were The man was ■ed
^ 8tart d to prav, but, not bemg u
business, said: ‘Ob,Lord, give noise!’ us
... , . >r0 frept, and a little less
f -to , nean you, Mr. --,” added
- , but the au/lience supposed all
n i( . time tiiat the Judge did mean himself him, he
, tlrevt ho thinks of it
inclines to that opinion also^
The Bees Sting. said to be
The sting of the bee is a
hollow tube. The male bee l# moffen
si ve, not being provided therefore with when this
weapon or pointed insect tube alights ; upon a bare
one of these of Hamlet im
footed boy the soliloquy that boy’s
mediuteiv forces itself upon
mind a., he anxiously awaits the results.
1 • Tube bee or not tube bee ? That’s ths
question. ”•— YavicoA Straw,