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VOL. V. -NO. 25. I HZISBS*. I : in « hammock I swing, I think-think of anything I Jar \ h r £ ami then I think I « uiade of pa . per and ink: I « the of no earthly use— I ffS,;- lOf eW’l’’ uj^nie/and'the'people’ I've missed • I tXthcpwP^ 1 , if j l ha ve kissed; F ! Saur times I’ve been in debt. I cause - I 1 th f nk M n Vwoiw^'•'and’u'm man’ I have been ; I sinking into life’s shade. I 9k- vntmH I have studied aud read, I sf a blind man ’ a eri PP le ‘ n bed » I of in idle a uil purposeless youth, I And 3 think. “ Have 1 found out the meaning ol I u . n ftiwiisangry, 111-humored and swore; I oi hoi mm pebbles are washed on the shoft; I% b S SinVactions I've done that are good ; I sis haw many herrings you’l find in a wood ; I of tbimrs that bore me; of things that I hate - I o an afternoon dance which breaks up at eight; I Os how many times I have wasted my cash, . I And spent lots of money on nothing buttrash, I Os how many times I have wished you were here; I Os how many wishes I’ve wished in a year. L I ms smukilig a pipe, unless 1 mistake; ■Hiw iomr have 1 aleut and when did I wake? me Commands of the Empress. A Story of Rtnaian neepotiam. BY MARY KYLE DALLAS To believe the following story, which is recounted by a French historian, one must remember that the word of a Rus sian Emperor or Empress has always been a very different thing from the word of an English King or Queen ; and that where—as in this case —the British cabinet would decide that her majesty was temporarily insane, the Russian lady would be considered only a little | more severe than her predecessors. " In the time of Catherine the Second, there dwelt in Russia a gentleman named Sonderland, who, though English by birth, had become a Russian subject, add also a great favorite with the Em press. She loaded him with favors ; made him immensely wealthy; gave him a palace to live in, and embraced him publicly. What more could a sovereign do to show her affection for a subject ? Her partiality was so well-known that the greatest people at Court sought his favor and feared his frown ; but he was a very pleasant and good-hearted per son, who thought more of his dress ap pearance. and the effect he produced on the fair sex, than anything else ; and it was rather a benefit to the community than otherwise that he should have the eai of the Empress. He, himself, was perfectly h#ppy, and spent a great deal *>i his time in writing verses expressive of the charms of the Empress, her gyod fiom - One morning he had just finished a most flattering poem in several cantoes, setang forth the story of her condescen sion to a poor old soldier to whom she ad really been kind, and was reading it ’ a se ‘ e et audience, when a servant entering the room, announced to him that the Chief of the Police, whose name was Reliew, desired to speak with pr^ haVlng a messa e° from the Em- The poet instantly threw down his |>aper, and, delighted with this proof of vou idence on the part of the sovereign excused himself to his friends, and hur ried to the room where Reliew was wait tag tor him. in f h<3 k ll of PoI ’ CG sat leaning back B?hited^l Qr ’r W,t r ? Very grave fuce > aud • i ted the Englishman as a jailer might jamtea prisoner whom he was about ° to lead to execution. asked^nn/ 511 ! 1 lid° I i d ° for you > R eliew?” HoW erland ’ Y lth a c °ndescending in t? , hIS at once ° usual vest}, Express was kinder than moru " est lday ’ aild ex P res sed herself E ', 0 fl 10 “ J ™««»» ;„ d n BX" e; J 0 ?'"?," 0 tea,s - 1 best friend.’’’ 1 COnsidei you my fully .fiV he Chief of PoH °e. doubt friendshin f 1 amve ?’y sure I have a true h,v? r’i ;; y ° U; '; Ut Iregret to say I Utterly hi t he7 ° r y ? U ‘ Y ° U ' laVo yuur s y so loL th T s W llch has bceQ not qnestio?th tb °ugh I may Vrrib y “i' udate > lßuffe " h -vpa!o iT g T y °Vt e 860 S'nfeUa* "it™ r«®«a«ir ..lea 'alien. The Uled *y you nre mis s r-'l:ead 1 ~' m P reßß kissed me on my Cour?- ‘ ,Btevew ug before the whole Bi ?lS lle!iow Seß < t p e . r f ) lVOr of royalty, ’• 8 Pretty wonmn/’^ 8 &d * "Thlr'' r?pbed Wonderland. Relief to ld me nothing,” said tne her’cnS * ID F whatever - She gave plish them „“ and8 ’ and l )ft de me accom- Orland. 110 be Beßt away “kedj Son ?tiler T% V ° r u? iapPy in Rome ing y on fi. Q . y ‘ d should not dread giv ‘‘Am I ? ? WR - r plied ed to Siberia ask < d P°pe of you/comin 1 ? i? be 80me ], ew . r coming back,” replied Re- ? h & n ’withtii?? Ve ’l B l ' I am to be derland. J B’ghed Son ki,b; U ansS; e g ? tl oTe r tkaS; it seldom 4 Then she wanfl Eossian, moodily. said Son- ? "tW fe a e D t t". B- anything Vou * l4 i 3 worse • 8 you imagine. The Ooltoo Argils Empress has ordered me to have you stuffed.” “What?” cried Sonderland. “To have you stuffed,” replied the agitated Reliew. “Listen, my pool friend. This morning she sent for me “ ‘ Reliew,’ she said, ‘ you saw to the stuffing of my favorite horse, who died last month ?’ “ I bowed and assented. “ ‘ Send Sonderland to the same tasi lermist and have him stuffed, in an atti tude of supplication—begging, you un lerstand—and placed upon a stand in my private apartment. Let the stand be elegant and bear his name with these words: “The Favorite of the Em press.” ’ “ - Your majesty is good enough to jest,’ 1 said, humbly. “She flashed a fierce glance at me. “•!amin no jesting humor. I valued him,’ she said. ‘ Look, I have even shed tears ; but go. I do'not wish to see him again. Take him to the taxidermist this morning. I will write my orders for him ;’ and she gave me this paperand he handed to poor Sonderland a paper on which were written these words : “Stuff Sonderland very carefully and set him upon mosssin the attitude of begging. Begin your work within the hour. Great as was my affection for poor Sonderland, his beauty was his greatest charm. There are others as faithful and as affectionate, and I shall now always have him to look at; he is certainly a splendid creature. Go and make all speed possible. Have the words ‘The Favorite of the Empress,’ in letters of gold on a black pedestal three feet in height.” “There, my poor Sonderland, you see,” said the Chief of Police, “it is not I who have gone mad.” “ Then it is the Empress,” said Sonder land. “Unhappy sovereign, she has lost her mind.” "“All the worse for us,” sighed the wretched Russian. “As soon as I felt sure of her real meaning, I fell on my knees and begged her not to intrust the terrible news to me; to reconsider her intention. I hardly knew what I said. For answer she nointed to the door. “ ‘lf Sonderland is not taken to the taxidermist within an hour, you shall be knouted and sent to Siberia,’ she said. “Wretch that I am, I am here with the news.” “Let me see the Empress; let me know what I have done. Let me write. Take a note to hei- from me. ” “I dare not,” said the Chief of Police. “1 have a wife and seven children. You are dear, but they are dearer to me.” Sonderland began to hope that the Empress only wished to play a practical joke upon them, and pitying his friend for his terror and the grief he suffered, after a few moments more, arose and offered to go with him' at once. Wrap ping themselves in their furs, both men jumoed into the sleigh at the door. Meanwhile he had written a letter to the Empress, and calling a servant, dis patched it by him. As yet no one guessed at the reason of this visit from the Chief of Police, and the servant had no fears concerning the safety of his er rand. Meanwhile the two getlemen pro ceeded together to the house of the tax idermist, Gottschekoff, Sonderland yet hopeful—for an Englishman could not believe that such a command could be given in earnest—the Russian half mad with horror. In fact, in delivering the command of the Empress he lost com mand of his voice and fainted away. The taxidermist himself grew pale. “This is my sentence of death, as well as yours,” he said to Sonderland, “for I do not know how to stuff a man, and I know what Empresses are. I shall have to try. of course, but I don’t think it can be done.” “lam sure it is only a jest of our sovereign’s,” said Sonderland. The Russians shook their heads. But at this instant a loud tramping was heard, and armed men entered, seized upon the Chief of Police, Sonderland and the taxidermist, forced them into a sleigh and drove madly away to the Roy al Palace. Sohderland still kept his courage. A man knows well enough when a woman really likes him, but the Russians knew that if the Empress had lost her senses, her maddest mandate must be obeyed. Perhaps they would now be all stuffed. Led into the royal presence, they found Catherine furiously pacing the fioor. “ Wretched madman,” she shrieked to the poor Chief of Police, “ what have you been about? ” The poor fellow fell upon his knees. “ My Empress,” he cried, “endeavor ing to obey you, though it broke my “And you, beast?” she cried to the taxidermist. The taxidermist also prostrated, him self with his teeth chattering in his head. “ My Empress,” said Sonderland, of fering her the paper she had written, “ here is your royal mandate. There were some difficulties (purely profes sional) in the way of stuffing me. Otherwise I should have been already in an attitude of supplication on a black marble pedestal, I make no doubt." “Great Heaven!” cried Catherine. “ My friend—my most faithful and most earnest friend—how dared you believe me capable of such a thing ? And you, idiots, get up.” And she spurned the crouching men with her royal foot. “It was my dog, my favorite spaniel—whom I had named after this dear Sonderland because he was so handsome —that I ordered you to stuff. He died last night. The whole palace knew that. Good heavens!” The absurdity of the mistake forced itself upon the royal mind at this instant. Catherine, in the midst c-f her rage, be- DALTON, GEORGIA, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 10, 1883. ran to laugh, and ended by growing jood matured. “Amusing idiots,” she said, “go, and always obey me as well as you have done to-day. I see, at least,'that you meant well. ” And thereupon the Chief of Police and the taxidermist crept away, thankful for their fives, to convey tbe dead dog to its destination. And Sonderland went to lunch with the Empress, who leant upon his shoulder as they walked together through the Palace. A Solen tillc Home. That admirable organization, SoroUs, discussed a momentous question at its meeting on Tuesday. It was: “Will home-making ever become a science?” three erudite papers were real on the subject, and a learned discus sion followed in which Rev. I’hmbe Hanaford participated. We regret pro foundly that neither the contents of the papers nor the points of the arguments used in the discussion have been pub lished. We are left in the dark, there fore, as to what sori of a place a home construed on scientific principles, as they appear to the feminine mmd, would be. The information is also lack ng as to which side had the better of the argument. Apparently the question was not put to a vote, and the organization ad ourned without decid ing whether home-making woqld e er become a science or not. This throws the discussion open to the public, and gives the men a chance to express their views on a question of vital importance to their happiness. Let us suppose for a moment that home-making will become a science, and that we shall shortly have a com pany organized which will guarantee a thoroughly scientific home to all sub scribers. What sort of an institution would it be? The ideal home is, of course, a haven of rest wdiore the hus band and wife both have their own way in everything; where the children never cry: where the servants are models of honesty and industry; where the dinner is nev.r late and is always well cooked; where there is no perceptible washing day; where the sweeping and dusting are done when nobody knows it; where selfishness and bad temper are never known; in short, a little Heaven upon earth, inhabited by thoroughly angelic n ortals. Homes of that kind con structed upon a scientific basis, and served hot, like steam through subter ranean pipes, would meet a long-felt want. Nearly every family in this great city would subscribe for one. But if by a scientific home is meant a place where “intellect” j erpetually reigns; where the constant effort is “to make home interesting by making it iu-tructive:” where “happiness” is served out like cough medicine in a spoon an I accord ing to receipt, we are afraid the demand will not be great History te Is of a man “blessed” with such a home, who, as he sat listening to the fam bar words: “Home, sweet home, there is no place like home,” remarked with deep feeling that he was “thundering’ glad there wasn’t. A great deal depends upon the char acter of the scientific home, and that po'nt must be clearly explained before any opinion as to the success or failure of the scheme can be formed. As for the men. there is little doubt abo t the kind of a scientific home which would Ve popular with them. All they want is a home where they can ha\ e their own way always, where the meals are al ways good, always fresh in variety and always served on time; and where the wife is so accomplished an economist that when she asks her husband for money and he says: “Where is that five dollars I gave you a week ago?” she will be able to reply, sweetly: “ I have bought both the children a pair of shoes, myself a new bonnet, and a car pet for tlie library, all out of that five dollars, and have a dollar and a half left.” That is the kind of scientific home the average man is yearning for, and if Sorosis or anyotner organization can supply it, the sum of human happi ness will be enormously increased, - -AC F Tribune- Tlie|Gaino of Geogniphy. An ingenious Frenchman has invented a game for facilitating the study of ge ography by children. This new game, approved by the Paris Society of Geog raphy, consists of a large planisphere map of the globe, accompanied by nu merous objects representing animals, plants, flags, costumes, towns aud land scapes. These objects of painted card boards stand upright when the small in scription accompanying them is folded back ; they carry, moreover, a number corresponding to one on the map. Placing each in its proper position, the child becomes acquainted with the sub ject ; if it be a plant, he knows the place which produces it and its use; if a town, he knows its population, its position, elc. The map is folded, and, with its various objects, put into a box. Counter Irritation. Uncle Mose and Parson Ble Isoe were taking a walk along the beach when they perceived a youthful Zulu disporting himself in the surf, who turned out to be Parson Bledsoe’s boy, Abram Lia kum. “ Dat ar boy is gwino to catch cold,” said Old Mose. “Hit’s a warmness he is gwine tir catch.” “I means a cold in his head.” “And I means awarmtiesssomewharr else.”— A surgeon in the German army calls attention of all who have to do with horses to the danger of using the pock et-handkerchief to wipe away any foam which may have been thrown upon their j clothes. Glanders have been comni'im- , cated in that way. Over-Feeding and Under-Feeding. There are thousands of dollars wasted annually by farmers simply by under feeding. We hear a deal of talk among farmers about pigs being “over-fed,” “stuffed to death.” We have seen pigs intended for breeders that had been fed too much starchy, heating food, but none that had been over-fed on the muscle-forming, bone making feed, in stances are on record of children that have died of starvation on a purely or farinaceous diet. Many a pig may have been hastened to the block or grave from similar unwise feeding, it was fed to death, but not because it had too much to eat. On the other hand, it was starved for want of albuminoids, as found in clover, grass or oats, or oilcake meal. When the rations are mixed in scien tific proportions, so that there is a har monious development of tissue, muscle, bone and adipose, there is no danger from over-feeding. The animal will not eat of such feed more than it can digest and assimilate. As long as this kind of feeding can be secured there will be rapid and healthy growth, and little is to be feared from disease. The animal in vigorous health is able to throw off disease that would overcome the poorly or unwisely fed mate. Scientific feeding adjusts the amount and kind of teed to the condition and uses of the animal. The race-horse is not to be fed on rations suited to the bullock, nor the milch cow on the rations of the fattening hog or steer. The racer wants feed for the production of energy and force as well heat. The bullock'wants feed that will develop heat, and muscle and fat, or in other words, the flesh formers. We thay under-feed our stock while we are placing so much straw or hay before them that their bellies are dis tended and they stand knee-deep in the refuse feed. On the next farm may be animals that are plump and full and even in outlines, with glossy coats and stomachs not abnormally large, to which not as much feed is daily given. Animals thus fed are making profitable growth, and are not over-fed or under-fed, since the wants of the ani mal economy are met in the variety and quantity of' feed set before them. The farmer who expects his cattle to live around the'straw-stack this winter will waste winter feed and lose the flesh that the young cattle have now on them made on good pastures. Another a lit tle less foolish vzill occasionally give his cattle a “lock of hay,” along with straw, when it is not hay that is wanted. It is something richer in nitrogen. The steer or sheep or colt that goes into winter quarters plump ought to come out of winter quarters next May heavier, or it is evident there has been loss of feed and time and interest on cash value of the animal in the fall,when it went to the barnyard from the pasture. There is also a loss of pounds of flesh that it will take one or two months at good pasture to regain. It damages, too, the character of the animal and places it in the serpb form, when, if it had been scientifically fed, it would have been babv beef. Evidently such feeding, or stuffing with straw, is under-feeding, and most unprofitable. Tnere are ten t lousand steers in the country to-day shivering around straw stacks, and on frost-bitten, short pas tures, that are losing flesh from want of an addition 11 grain ration, to where there will be one stall fed steer off his feed from too heavy grain rations. Both are unscientific methods of feeding, and unprofitable therefore extravagant. Parsimonious care of farm stock is not economy. It is meanness and cruelty, the result most likely of ignorance or false reasoning. Since it is unprofitable to feed young ‘ cattle only corn or meal, and since corn and meal are salable, and straw is not, therefore the unwise man concludes the cattle must live on straw and the corn must be sold. The men who make for tunes raising cattle, hogs and horses, do not think corn, oats and mill feed too good for their stock. The straw and fodder are fed and with them enough nitrogenous feed co keep the animals warm and their energy up, and give them time to sleep and rest. The ani mal at the straw-slack quits eating when it can not stand the labor of eating any more, and not because its hunger is ap peased or the wants of nature satisfied. Its stomach takes in its burden and grinds it through and is weak and weary and unstrengthened. This is a bad case of a sort of over feeding, with consequences very much like those following under-feeding, and that is what it is. The animal has not 1 enough to eat to keep up heat and ani- ' mal force, and nature is compelled to 1 consume tne tat which had been stored in the carcass during the days of warm sunshine and plenty of grass. The fact is, there is cheaper feed than that warm , fat. i A large daily feed of grain with straw and corn-fodder will prevent shrinkage and cause growth. The worth of those pounds of fat lost or burnt up would nave bought corn enough, or oil cake and meal enough to have saved that grass fat, and added pounds of muscle, bone and tissue in addition, and brought the animals out in the spring, thrifty and prepared to make rapid growth on grass. Under-feeding and over-feeding are two sources of loss that the truly wise farmer avoid. The merciful, kind hearted man can not rest well beside his warm fire or tucked away warm in his; feathor bed, when he thinks of the stock' shivering in the fence corners, hungry, vet surfeited with straw and ice-water- If ho don’t know enough to give the iihilosophy of an addition of nitrogenous i jght time for feed. Straw and corn-fodder make valuable feed, but far more so when enough grain, or meal, or oil-cake is added to make a ration that meets the wants of the animal. The man who has fat steers, fat pigs ami sleek, plump colts, is not one who is out of conceit of farming. Thrifty, well-fed stock and a good bank account usually belong to the generous and wise feeder.— Cincinnati Commercial. Clothing for Little Folks. It is said a great many babies die ivery year for want of sufficient cloth ng. Children do not need heavy clothes, but they do need warm, light flannels. Little children are on the floor a great dea l , and are more exposed to colds than grown persons. W hen not too small, they should have flannel or meri no underclothes. Two suits will cost less than a doctor’s visit, and if your babies are not properly protected from the i old you will be very apt to have the doct r visit you a good many times. Babies too small for underwear can be made comfortable with flannel diaper drawers the color of the stockings. Three pairs are reeded. From half to three-four!hs of a yard are required. 1 hey should be cut halt handkerchief shape, and then hollowed out to lit around the legs snugly. A little cro cheted edge of zephyr or Saxony finishes them neatly, l ive buttons should be on the pointed part. 'The top button holds both button-holes on the band around tbe waist. Children's shoes are apt to have very thin soles until number four’s can be worn. After cold weather comes on, cut in-soles of paste-board a little small er than the sole, and cover with Canton or woollen f’annel. An old, felt hat makes a good lining for little shoes. •Shaker flannel is the m st sensible for children's wear, as it does not shrink in wasliiirg. is warm, and wears well. There is a qnjd.ty of scarlet fl: nnel (it is all cotton) which has a very short nap, close’y resembling Shaker flannel, which sells at sixte n cents per yar L It is said to wash without fading. 'This will make pretty and cheap skirts, if it is fast color, and a very pretty edge in shell stitch can be croehe ed on the edge by first doubling the Saxony in a zephyr needle and button holing the edge after it is hemmed. Make the stitches a quarter of an inch long. When you Imve been around once, com mence crocheting, using only every oth er one of the button-hole stitches. But four stitches in the first, row of shells, four in the secund, and five in the last. I am not familiar with the terms used in describing crochet, work, but, any one who understands the simplest Stitch can readily do this. Any number of rows can be knitted, but i think thee makes the trimming deep enough for a little child. -Work a vine in double herring bone stitch, with white linen thread, above the hem, and y ui will find it a great improvement. Warm, little hoods, of Saxony, are knit in the shell stitch I have described above, and lined with merino or silk. The < ost is a trifle. A cut of Saxony will knit two. Glengairy caps in ear- dinal are much worn. I hey are crocheted at first just like a mat, and when the desired size is reached, de crease one stitch every row till the cap is small enough for the head, when knit half ado cn rows plain. Finish with a shell edge, and on top set a zephyr ball, steamed and trimmed into shape. Very durable little dresses for chil dren are made of small, shepherd’s plaid, or plain gray flannel. They should be lined. A good way is a simple, close-fitting saeque almost like an apron, with a four to six-inch plait ing set up on the dress. Brighten with Scotch plaid bands, or rows of bright colored worsted b aid, or some easily executed embroidery in zephyr or Sax ony. Short-sleeved, low ne -ked aprons of white goods over these little, dark dresses are very pretty, and can be made of tho cheapest materials. One lady whose children are always prettily dressed makes use of the five cent pique. She says it wears well and does up very easily. The woven Swiss trim ming is prettier than embroidery, wears very much better, aud can be had in handsome patterns at from fivetofi teen cents per vard. A very pretty quality of cross-barred goods can be got now that it is out of season for fifteen cents per yard. Economical mothers can find many bargains now in summer goods which have not yet been put away; and as most such goods are remnants, most merchants are willing to dispose of them ata bargain rather than carry them over. —Cor- Louis title Home and Hire tide. Joan of Arc. It has been strongly doubted whether Joan of Arc ever suffered the punish ment that has made her a martyr, though , i details of her execution and lust mo ments grace the civic records of Rouen. Several books have been published dis cussing the question. A Belgian lawyer is the author of one of !le con tends that the historians—who have done nothing but copy each other in the narratives of her deutli—err exceedingly in saying that it took place on the last day of May, 1473, the fact being that she was alive and well many years ufU r that date. There are good grounds, too, i for believing that the pretty story ol Abelard and Ileloise is a pure iictiou. 11 l» ll»—■ • ““” • The theory that a submerged body can bo raised by firing cannon over d was recently prove. 1 m ? I .lumber named Leonard 1 j offiho whturf and drowned himaeir, ‘" ‘ frMot out by firing t was a/1 md gone down. He tnougio. vater pipe bursting. TERMS: SI.OOA YEAR RELIGIOUS AND EDUCATIONAL. ■ —Ninety years ago the first English missionary offered himself, and now the whole number of evangelical foreign missionaries is 5.000, and they are the leaders of a native hostof 30.000 helpers of all kinds. •—'l he foundation stone of the mag nificent Church of the Savior, at Vienna, which has been under construction for twenty six years, and is the expression of a national thanksgiving for the pres ervation of the monarch’s life, isa block of marble < uarried on the Mount of Ol ves, Jerusalem. The church will cost •’J1,875.000. —ln response to the complaints of Karents of the overwork of pupils n the ew York City schools, the 1 oar I of Education has under consideration a material reduction of the. ourse of study by a revision, throwing out some re quirementsand making others elective. •—-V. B. Times. —Dr. Dana, o F St. Baul, made a pil grimage of -100 mi es to preach the ser m n at the dedication of a Congrega tional church at Winnipeg, Manitoba, recently. The church and parsonage cost • 15,000. and $30,000 of the amount was obtained by twice selling lots pur chased as a site for the buildings, the city’s growth sending the price of real estate upwards rapidly.-- Chicajo Jour~ nal. —One of the sons of the Brince of Wales is to Le given an ecclesiastical training. His illustrious uncle, the Duke of Albany, was designed for the church, but did not possess sufficient vitality for that call ng. It has been mauv years since England has had a primate who was a Brince of the blood, but the next generation may possibly witness a royal incumbent of the Sec of Canterbury- —Mr. Goble, a missionary of the American Baptist Union, is said to be the inventor of the jin-riki-sha, the pop ular Bullman-car, so generally used in Japan. As in Tokio alone there are between -10,000 and 50,000 giving em ployment to that number of men, and bringing in an annual income of $75,000 from that single city, it can be inferred that the missionary has been of some material benefit. Christian lVcck-.li/. Hannibal Hamlin addre-sed the st dents of Colby University, in Water ville, Ale., a few evenings ago, on the “ Importance of Era tice in Extempore ‘peaking.” At the conclusion of the addre s he presented to the c liege an oil paint ng, a copy of the portra t of Christo her Columbus in the A a al Museum at Madr d, believed to be the most a thentic 1 koness of thegreat dis cover: r. The portrait will be placed in tbe library for the present. At a late meeting in London. Gen eral Booth, the lea ler of the Salvation Army, made the surprising statement that the offerings for susta ning the operations of the ainiy amounted to 8600,000 per annum. Ho strongly ad vised the local corps to purchase a Lon don theater whi h had been offered them; “for, by doing so,” he said, “they would be killing two birds with one stone. This would shut the devil out an t let God in.” Saved His Life. In a stairway on Woodward avenue Monday sat a man who looked the picture of sadness, and every now and then he pulled out a red handkerchief with many holes and rents in it, and wiped tears from his eyei. By and by a pedestrian halted and asked: “Say, stranger, what ails you?” “Oh, I dunno. I guess I feel sad.” “You shouldn’t feel bad on New Year’s Day. It’s the day on which to brace up and swear off.” “That’s just the point!” replied the man, as he brought out the handker chief. “I haven’t anything to swear off from.” “Don’t you drink?” “Not a drop.” “Nor smoke, nor chew?” • “Neither one; nor do I swear, gam ble, bet nor lie.” “Well, you must be a pretty good man.” “Oh, I am —I am, I’m too good. The rest of you can resolve to-day not to rob or steal again. You can swear off on whisky and tobacco and lay plans for economy, but I’ve got to plod right along in the old track.” “Can’t you think ol one single point for reformation?” “Not a point —not a one. I’ve sat here for a whole hour trying to find one single weakness, but I can’t do it. Stranger, it makes me sad, and vou must excuse these tears. When I realize that I am so all-fired good 1 am half in clined to commit suicide.” „ “I’L tell you of a point, old man. _ “Will you? Thanks! thanks! What is it?” “Why don’t you resolve to get your hair cut, wash your face, clean out your nails, and put on a clean shirt?” “Why don’t I? I will! Thank Heaven, there is a show for me after all! I m not as good as I thought I was. i es, sir, I’ll do it. Shake with me! >ou have probably saved my life, and my gratitude is unbounded.” And then he cried some more, but they were tears of joy.— Detroit tree Press. —A New Jerset squire received . 32 cents for uniting a couple m the of wedlock. The re i thlDk /A b a e^ l l!ld too little ' ant service he I'rof. Eggloston jnore beautiful -, a ; diamond was but Tetamed its lillianoy only for ate J J