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(1. W. M. TAiUM, Editor and Prop:ietor.
VOLUME IV.
Railroads.
Chickasaw Route,
MEMPHIS Si CHARLESTON K R.
TWO PASSENGFR TRAINS DAILY
TO
MEM HA IS, TENN.
Lv Chattanooga 830 a m 345 p m
“ Stevenson 10 10 a m 520 p m
Arr Decatur 135 p ui 80i pm
m “ imli 540 p ui 12 05 a m
" “ Grand .Junction... 712 p m 148 a m
“ Me ui] li is 930 p m 400 a w
(’lose connection is made at Memphis
with the Memphis & Little Rock
Railroad lor all points in
ARKANSAS AND TEXAS.
Tae tima by this line from Chattanoo
ga to Memphis, Little Rock, and points
beyond, is live hours quicker than by any
other line.
Through Passenger Poaches and Baggage
Cars from
CHATTANOOGA to LITTLE ROCK
Without Change.
Xo Other Line Offers these
Advantages.
MIGRANT TICKETS NOW SELLING AT
THE LOWEST KATES
For further information call on or
■ write to J. M. SUTTON,
Passenger A;t., Chickasaw Route,
IP. O. Box 224 Chattoncoga, TenD.
Mu Great Smira B’y
Time Card,
Taking effect Jauuary 15th, 1882.
SOUTH BOUND.
l No. 1. Mail.
r Arrive. Depart.
Cha.tanooga a m 8 25
Wauliatchie 843 do 8 41
Moiyanvifie 859 do 900
Trenton... 916 do 9 17
Risin? Fawn 937 do 938
Attalla 12 20 do 12 35
Birmingham 25) do 301
Tuscaloosa 523 do 525
Meridian 10 00 do
Citable* 15. Wallace, 11. Collbran,
Superintendent. Gen’l Pass. Ag I '.
lastTiUe.Ckattan-jOia Si St. Louis E 1?.
AHEAD OF ALL COMPETITORS.
B 0 INESS MEN, TOURISTS. D r HUS DT D
EMIGRANTS, FAMILIMS, Cl Liff L 111 DL H
Tlu- Knnta to Lmisville, Uineiiumti, Indi
amipolig, Chicago, ami tbo Norlli, is via !i
--vlllc.
The !?, Rm.ls to S. Louis ati i the West is
via .Hrlivnvls.
* tS*l to West Ti'iiuessoo and Ken
turlcv, Misßissipi, Arkansas and Texts io.it is.
lia ili Ut nur.
DON’T FOKGKT IT.
- By this Line you recure the—
MAXIMUM “ nEiSJ;,
MINIMUM ° f K ' p ßtThA?lmV.....
Be sure to buy your ticxeis over me
k. C. & St. L. R’yt
, THE INEXPERIENCED TRAV
ELER net and not go Mini ?; few changes
necc sarv, an 1 such as ate unavoida-
He are made in Union Depots.
Through Sleepers
—between—
Atlanta and Nashville, Atlanta aud L >u
i-ville,, Nashville and 8 . Louis, via C -
him bus, Nashville and Louisville. Nash
ville and Memphis, Martiu and St. Louis,
Union City and St, Louis, M< Ivei zieanu
Little R ick, where connection is made
Nidi Through Sleej irs to all Texas p outs.
Call ou or address
A. B. Wrenn. Atlanta, Ga.
•h H. Peebles, T. A. Chatta'hc >g°, Tenn.
'V. T. Rogers P. A. ChitanoogH, Tenn.
W. L Pani.ey, G P. and T. A ,
Nashville, Tenn.
Rising Pawn Lodge, No. 293, meets
first and third Saturday nights of each
m °ntb. .1. W. Russey, W. M.
8. H. Thttrmon, Stc’ty.
Trenton Lodge, No. 179, meets once a
R month cn Friday night, on or before
Ihe full m ion.
W. N Jacoway. W. M.
G'. M. Crabtree, Secßy.
Trenton Chapter No. 60, R. A. M ,
ni p ts on the thi’d Wednesday n’ght of
ea si month,
* • W. A. B. Tatdm. H. P.
W. N. Jacoway, Sic’ty.
Court of O dharv meet J on fust Mor
nßy of each month.
G. M. Crabtree Ordinary.
H. Thurman, Circuit Court Clerk
M P. Majors, S.ieriff|
I Joseph Cole mar, Tax R ceire-.
II L E Titum, Tax C dlector.
I Jossp i Kiser, Coroiiir.
QyjSO
NEWS GLEANINGS.
From twenty to thirty car loads of
iron oar are shipped daily from Gadsden,
Ala.
Railroad property iu Georgia increased
two and a quarter million dollars in
value last year.
In South Carolina the contending
local factions are called the wet ticket
and the dry ticket.
The assets of the Ladies’ Calhoun
Monument Association, in South Caro
lina, now amounts to nearly $70,000.
A colored female preacher from Spar
tanhurg is carrying on a revival in the
colored Baptist church at Anderson,
S. C.
Women who are put in the city prison
in Knoxville are set to work on “ rock
piles,” in public view on one of the
principal thoroughfares.
Capt. Martin, of Anderson county, S.
C., madeJ’rom one pine tree on his place
2,520 of straight edge lumber and
350 feet of rough edge lumber.
St. Luke’s Hospital lias been incor
porated at Jacksonville, Fla. Mrs. .AD
exander Mitchell, wife of the promin
ent Milwaukee railroad man, is the Pres
ident.
A correspondent of the Fredericks
burg Star says that he counted off the
bore of “ The Neck,” King George
county, Va., ninety vessels engaged in
taking oTHeis.
In Macon, Ga., the little two year
old hoy of officer W. YV. Henderson
was found dead in bed. It had slipped
between the railings and the foot-hoard
during the night and broken its neck.
A thriving and profitable enterprise
in the neighborhood of Americus, Ga ,
is the fur trade, the skins being princi
pally chose of the beaver, otter and
coon, and a few wild cat and rabbit
pelts.
Major B. W. Bellamy, living sixteen
miles from Quitman, Ga., has a farm of
10,000 acres, with (5,000 under cultiva*
tion. Over 1,000 negroes live on the
place, and they raise 800 bales of cottons
with all necessary supplies.
The Avalanche says three times as
many heaver skins have heen hrought to
Memphis during the past season as any
in the past fifty years. A dam has been
built twenty miles from the city six feet
high, eight feet wide and forty feet long
by these animals.
Albany (Ga.) News: ‘‘Do you want a
local?” said an Albany matron the otha
er day. “ Yes’m.” “ Well, you may
say that beax are so scarce in Albany
that the girls have all resolved to catch
the first one that comes along, cage him
and keep him as a natural curiosity. ”
Houston (Ga.) Home Journal: A suc
cessful farmer of Houston county told
us the other day that he considered corn
at $1 per bushel equal to cotton at twen
ty cents a pound. That farmer sells
home raised corn, wheat and oats every
vear.
Jefferson Davis delivered a two-hours
speech at the French opera house in NeM'
Orleans Tuesday night, before a meeting
called to raise funds for a building in
which to preserve, the Southern war
rchives and other papers of the South
ern Historical society.
A fruit dealer iu Savannah lias an al
ligator in a box in front of his store,
and was much annoyed by people pass
ing along and poking sticks at him. The
fruiter put up this sign: “Every idot
who comes along is expected to shove
sticks down the alligator’s mouth.”
Tae alligator is let alone now.
Reidsville (N. C.) Times : Bill Gunn
brought to Wentworth yesterday a joint
snake he dug up on his place near that
town. It was examined with much in
terest by several of the citizens, Col.
Settle offering $lO to catch him one just
like it. The tail could be easily taken
to pieces.
Henry W. Grady says the extent of
thecuttiug which Senator Hill, of Geor
gia, has been subjected is not realized
by the public. One-third of his tongue
lias been taken out —the entire left floor
of his his mouth—the glands iu the left
side of his neck. The last operation n'as
the most severe, and probably success
ful. When he was put under ether for
it, it was intended to only take out a
small lump that had hardened on the
gland in liis neck. After lie was in
sensible it was determined to adopt the
heroic treatment and take out the entire
gland. He was kept under the knife
two hours.
RISING FAWN, DADE COUNTY, GEORGIA, THURSDAY, MAY 11, LSS-2.
“Faithful to the Right, Fearless Against Wrong.”
TOPICS OF THE HAY.
Cadet Whittaker is in the West
searching for employment.
After all the Indians iu New Mexico
and Arizona are to get the worst of it.
The New York Sun has it that Frank
James is at the present time sojourning
in that city.
The beer drinkers of Vienna are on a
strike, demanding a decrease in the
price of beer.
The New York Legislature lias passed
a bill prohibiting Judges from appoint
ing relatives to office.
A general exodus of Jews lias set in
in Russia, and the destination in almost
every instance is America.
There are in Arizona 2,273 enlisted
soldiers and 140 officers, in addition to
the forces under General Forsyth.
Cool weather, with accompanying
frosts the fore part of May, should be
credited up to Vennor. He predicted it.
Cotton factories are rapidly increas
ing in Georgia. One hundred thousand
spindles wore added during the year 1881.
The arrears of rent in Ireland are
estimated at $30,000,000. It will per
haps be some time before these figures
will be diminished.
The English government seems to
have lost its grip on Ireland, and Irish
subjects are happier to-day than they
have been for years.
The wife of Edmunds is to receive a
gift of a silk quilt from the women of
Utah as a mark of their appreciation of
her husband’s recent service.
Said Mr. Maher to Mr. Sprague In
the New York Legislature the other day.
“ The gentleman, if ho is a gentleman,
is an infernal liar.’" Wonderful polite
ness those legislators have.
A New York scientist named Kruger
killed himself because he failed iu his
endeavor to perfect a flying-machine.
He has gone where the art of flying is
one of the accomplishments.
During the Parliamentary recess Mr.
Gladstone recreates by writing one or
two long magazine articles, and count
less letters and postal cards, and fills up
any spare moments with chopping trees
in his woods.
There is an honest man in Italy.
King Humbert refuses to allow an ap
propriation to pay the debts of Victor
Emmanuel, but takes upon himself the
honorable duty of paying liis father’s
debts, and lives close.
Poor Prince Leopold, Duke of Al
bany,” (as the Queeu is determined to
have him called) is a sickly weak young
man. He has been troubled with a skin
disease since liis birth and for weeks at
a time is a helpless invalid.
Mr. Gladstone says the charge of
treasonable practices against Mr. Par
nell will be withdrawn. Mr. Forster
gives as the reason for liis withdrawal
from the office of Secretary of Ireland,
that he could not agree to release sus
pects.
The Queeu has given special aud par
ticular orders that her youngest son is
never to be styled Duke of Albauy. but
ho is always to be described as Prince
Leopold, Duke of Albany ” Her Maj
esty does not wish the name of lier late
revered uncle to be forgotten.
It seems the astronomers have discov
ered a system of canals on the planet
Mars two hundred miles in width.
Now let these astronomers keep on and
discover the mules. What monstrous
animals they must be. Look for tlieir
ears, astronomers ! Look for tlieir ears !
The Cincinnati Gazette sounds this
note of warning :
“There is too much money in the United
States Treasury. This tempts Congress to
make liberal appropriations and squander the
funds squeezed out of taxpayers. Congress
ought to reduce taxe-i aud adjourn. Ihis
would be popular. IVhat it is doing is not
popular, as members will discover when they
return to their constituents.”
Mysteriously the saloons in Cedar
ville, Ohio, suddenly blow up. What it
is in tfte whisky that explodes a-t so un
expected an hour of the night and shatters
things generally, must remain an un
solved problem. However there seems
to be little doubt that to conduct a
saloon in that village is a great risk of
life.
Mr. Joseph F. James, in a paper read
before the Cincinnati Society of Natural
History on the works of Charles Darwin,
expressed the belief that the publication
of Darwin’s “Origin of Species” would
“make an epoch in science like the age
of Shakspeare in literature, the discovery
of America in history and the advent of
Christ in theology "
A $25,000 piano of unparalleled spleu- 1
dor, is the Prince of Wales’ wedding
present to Leopold. Wo never could
understand how people who are so hope
lessly in debt as is the Prince of Wales,
could afford to make such lavish pres
ents. This fellow is eternally begging
for money from the government be
cause of the bnrdensomeness of his
debts.
The jury before whom the Malley
hoys are being tried at New Haven for
the murder of Jennie Cramer, are ail
blondes. They were secured by the
strategy of the counsel for defense under
the belief that they were less apt to con
vict than a darker type of humanity
would be, brunettes being regarded as
possessing greater individuality and
positiveness of character.
Capt. Howgate writes to a friend in
Washington from his hiding place and
asks for money. He indicates his pur
pose to be hand for trial any day the
government may set apart, and intimates
that rascals hign in station may expect
to be thoroughly shown up. There is
no doubt but that Howgate could tell a
great many wonderful stories, but there
is no probability that he ever will.
The Star Route cases have again been
postponed, this time because of the
absence of John W. Dorsey brother of
ex-Senator Dorsey, who is sojourning in
Texas, New Mexico, Arizona, etc. The
great anxiety for trial and “consequent
vindication” that sprang up so spontane
ously when the charges of conspiracy
e u-e first brought, seems to have died a
natural death. The Indian country is a
good hiding place for Mr. Dorsey.
Since the “ removal” of Jesse James
Missouri seems to be satisfied. How
about the res! of the gang ? or does re
moving Jesso vindicate justice ? Why
do the authorities regard the probable
presence of I’fejik James in a communi
ty with a pr< .Lind sense of awe ? And
why is there? no effort made even to
discover his .whereabouts ? or is the
State taking a breathing spell to 1 jgij/
again as soon as it can recovejjjfirom
the late conflict ? ~
Messrs. Vanderbilt and Field may
regard their escape from destruction by
dynamite as a most narrow one. Had
uot one of the machines been accident
ally exploded by the jar of the car, be
fore reaching their destination, there is
no question but that they would have
accomplished the purpose for which
they were intended, during the prooess
of opening them. that
tlioir senders were there does
not seem to be a particle of doubt.
The almost simultaneous death of
Adams and Jefferson seemed scarcely
more remarkable to their contemporaries
than is the closeness in time between
the funerals of the two authors who
have most contributed to the literary
fame of the United States during the last
half contury—Emerson and Longfellow.
And, looking across the water, the near
ness between the deaths of Darwin aud
Emerson reminds us that each was in
liis way a founder of a school of thought,
and that by this joint bereavement both
England and America lose their recog
nized intellectual leaders.
A morbid citizen of St. Louis, afflicted
with an ardent desire to possess the two
horses which lately belonged to Jesse
James, has been the victim of a rather
mean but amusing joke. Somebody,
who knew his wish, shipped to him a
couple of worn-out street-car horses, for
which he cheerfully paid a fancy price.
The poor beasts, in the course of their
arduous lives, had encountered more
than their full share of the sling and
arrows ox outrageous iortune, ana were
in a sorry condition when they reached
St. Louis. But they were beautiful in
the eyes of their owner, and he exulted
exceedingly over his purchase until some
sympathetic friend informed him that he
had made a fool of himself.
The Chicago Tribune relates how Ni
agara Falls are to be utilized as an elec
tric apparatus. It says
The preliminary step has been the purchaso
of the twelve acres known as Prospect Park,
adjacent to the falls, which substantially gives
the purchaser the control of the water-power of
the entire American falls, estimated at 2,000.-
000 horse-power, or ten times the amount of
steam-power in Chicago and all the rest of
Cook County—a foreo equal to that of 12,000,-
000 men. The control of this prodigious
power having been obtained, it is pro
posed to erect immense buildings anil ponder
ous machinery upon the brink of the falls,
where the water can be easily reached, “to be
returned after use.” After generating the
electricity by this unlimited hydraulic force, it
is to be conducted through properly insulated
cases to sixty-five prominent American cities
and towns for illuminating purposes, and is
also to be used for operating machinery and
ultimately for heating purposes. Altogether
there will be ten thousand miles of copper
cables with machinery to correspond.
TnE Cincinnati Board of Health does
uot seem to be accomplishing much.
Under its management there has been
almost a steady increase of Bmallpox for
TERMS—SI.OO par Annum blric'ly in Adv mce.
the past four months until the number
af now cases now reach in the neighbor
hood of 300 a week. This is somewhat
alarming. That the infection has turned
several million dollars worth of trade
over to other cities less unfortunate
there can be no question, and that the
financial success of the forthcoming
musical festival will be severely
and perhaps seriously effected by it will
be only too plainly shown by the dimin
ished sum total of the receipts and the
ibsonco of strangers on the streets.
An inefficient Board of Health—and
they seem to be the plague of many
sections—is decidedly an expensive in
stitution to a community.
Beep vs. Shallow Flowing.
There seems to bo quite a difference
of opinion in regard to the depth to plow
for the successful growing of crops.
Some farmers advocate deep, while
others, quite as positive, claim that shal
low plowing is much the host. My ex
perience and observation in plowing is
that some soils will admit of deeper plow
ing than others. For instance, light,
sandy soils will admit of deeper plow
ing than stiff clay soils, or those that
have heavy clay subsoils. Subsoiling
for such lands perhaps is better than
too deep plowing. I think that all soils
are benefited by deep plowing occa
sionally ; and I think deep plowing
ought to be done always in the fall, so
that tho new soil can have the benefit
and influence of the sun, air and frost to
better fit it for a crop. Wo should
be a little careful about turning up too
much of the new soil at a time, for some
subsoils require certain elements to make
them productive that can only be sup
plied by some system of manuring. I
find by deep plowing in the fall, and
then by a top dressing of fine
manure, fits most any kind of soil well
for a term of years, if followed*by a ju
dicious rotation of crops. If 1 draw
manure to a piece of land in tho till,
winter or spring and plow it under I
generally plow a little shallow, so as qot
to get the manure too deep in the ground.
If I am plowing for small grain in the
fall I generally plow a good depth; if I
am plowing for small grain in the spring
Ido not plow so deep. A farmer must
study the nature of his land, and experi
ment a little and watch closely the re
sults, and by that method he can soon
learn what is best for his land. The soil
differs very much sometimes iu the same
locality; seasons vary, droughts and
heavy rains occur, cultivation and fertil
izers—all have a powerful influence on
the productivenesss of the growing crop,
as well as deep or shallow plowing. So
we see that in drawing our conclusions it
is not always the depth of plowing alone
that produces our light or heavy crops.
I think a crop of clover has a good influ
ence on the lightening and loosening of
some subsoils, and on stiff, heavy clay
land it sometimes has a better effect than
deep plowing. Clover, I think, is a good
and cheap and very effectual way of ren
ovating old, heavy land. —Allen E,
Smith, McHenry county, 111., in Farm
ers' lievieiv.
Cruelty to Animals.
The cruelty of man to the animals that
labor for him, afford him pleasure, food,
and the materials for his clothing, is of
ten such as to render it questionable,
M’liich is,- after all, the inferior beast.
Tlie establishment of humane societies
in different States, cities and towns,
however, is a step toward the protection
of dumb animals from human barbarity.
Tlie shame is, that these are at all neces
sary in this boasted century of religions
teaching and general intelligence. It is
a fact, however, that the invocation of
stern law is yet needed to bring many a
human tiger to a sense of M-lmt is due
even to the brutes he slaughters. A’hq.
most flagrant outrage that we have to
note in this direction, is afforded at the*
stock-yards, near this city. It is the
practice of those Mliose busiucss it is to
kill the cattle at the slaughter houses, to
spear them with a knife in the nedk, just
back of the horns. It has been discov
ered by the officers of the humane so
ciety that when the animals are restless
and seek to evade the knife, the mad
dened butchers pierce the eyes of the
victims that they may not see the ap
proach of the death-dealing knife. Ar
rests of these inhuman monsters are be
ing made, and the proprietors of the
packing houses, to their credit be it said,
are seconding tlie society in its efforts to
put a stop to tlie horrid practice. Farm
ers, and farmers’ boys and hired help,
who shudder at tho facts here presented,
are you not guilty of a measure of cru
elty, unconsciously, perhaps, toward
your work team, your cows, and other
domestic animals, that you may, as well
as not, avoid ? Kindness and gentleness
toward the loM’er animals, not only en
noblß the master, but they pay in dollars
and cents, as well. —Prairie Farmer.
Nature’s Toilette.
“ Who has seen Nature getting up ’i
the morning ? She sleeps a’ night in
her claes, yet they’re never rumpled !
her awakening face she turns up, dewy,
to the sun, and Zephyr wfipes it wi’ his
wing, without disturbin’ its dreamy ex
pression. Never ye fcee her liah in pa
pers ; for, crisp and curly, far-streamin’
aud wide-wavin’ are her locks, as alter
nate shadows and sunbeams dancin’ o’
some joyous river, rollin awa’ to the far
off sea. Her e’e is heaven—her brow
the marbled clouds, ane alter a lang
doon doon-gaziug, serene and spiritual
look o’ hersell, breathin’ her orison
prayers, in the reflectin’ magic o’ some
inland ocean, stately steps sue frae the
east 1”
NUMBER 23.
Clever Crows.
I have not said thing about the
crows, which are a feature of Yezo, and
one which the colonists would willingly
dispense with. There are millions of
them, and in many places they break
the silence of the silent land with a
Babel of noisy discords. They are
everywhere and have attained a degree
of most unpardonable impertinence,
mingled with a cunning and sagacity
which almost put them on a level with
man in some circumstances. Five of
them ivas so imprudent as to alight on
two of my horses, and so be ferried
across the Yurapugawa. In tho inn
garden I saw a dog eating a piece of
carrion in the presence of several of
these covetous birds. They evidently
said a good deal to each other on the
subject, and now and then one or two of
them tried to pull the meat away from
him, which lie resented. At last a big,
strong crow succeeded in tearing off a
piece, with which he returned to the
pine where the others were congregated,
and, after much earnest speech, they all
surrounded the dog, and the leading
bird dexterously dropped tho small piece
of meat within reach of his mouth,
when lie immediately snapped at it, let
ting go tho big piece unwisely for a
second, on which two of the crows flew
away with it to the pine, and with much
flutter aud hilarity they all ate, or rather
gorged it, the deceived dog looking va
cant and beM’ildered for a moment, after
which he sat under the tree aud barked
at them inanely.
A gentleman told me that he saw a
dog holding a piece of meat in like man
ner iu tho presence of three crows,
which also vainly tried to tear it from
him, and after a consultation he separ
ated, two going as near ns they dared to
the meat, while the third gave his tail a
bite sharp enough to make the dog turn
round with a squeal, on which the other
villians seized the meat, and the three
fed triumphantly upon it on the top of a
wall. In many places they are so ag
gressive as to destroy crops, unless they
are protected by netting. They assem
ble on the sore backs of horses and pick
them into holes, aud are mischievous in
many ways. They are very late in go
ing to roost, and are early astir in the
morning, and are so bold that they often
came “with many a stately flirt and
flutter ” into the veranda where I was
sitting. I never watched an assemblage
of ttiem for any length of time without
being convinced that there was a Nestor
among them to lead their movements.
Along the sea-shore they are very amus
ing, for they “take the air” in the
evening, seated on sandbanks facing the
wind with their mouths opeu. They are
threatening to devour the settlers, and a
crusade is just now being waged against
them, but their name is legion.— Miss
Bird's “ Unbeaten Tracks in Japan."
Tlie Rights of Others.
If parents Mould teach their children
to respect each other’s rights under all
circumstances, society would bo bur
dened M’ith few of those men whom wo
now meet daily, and who deliberately
prey upon the folly or weakness of others.
There are some children that seem to
have no sense of “mine or thine,” but
borrow at pleasure what they want, ap
propriate to their own use what belongs
to other members of the family, make
sharp bargains, cut off the corners in a
trade,, and consider themselves only
“smart” and praiseworthy when they
have over-reached or outwitted their fel
lows. Uufortunately, in many such in
stances, the parent rejoices rather than
mourns that “ that child seems to have a
faculty of taking care of himself.” Let
us sketch what seems to us an ideal con
dition in a family as to the principle of
“ mine and thine.” Each member of
the family has his own personal belong
ings, and these are sacred to him
alone. No other member meddles there
with. His treasures are not inspected
even or appropriated by any one hut
himself. If he have a room by himself,
that room is safe from intrusion; no
locks nor keys are needed to guard him
uor his from impertinent and officious
meddling. Nevertheless, the parents’
oversight never fails; and they revise all
bargains and agreements made between
their children, so that the elder may not
take advantage of the younger, or the
sharp of the dull, so that each one shall
have an “ even chance” with the rest.
The laws of equity govern parental de
cisions and secure to each child justice.
With such training at home, there is
little danger that these young peo
ple will develope into over-reaching, av
aricious men and women.
Advice to Sir Charles.
When Sir Charles Lyeli, the eminent
geologist, Mas in America, he seems to
have had some curious advice given to
him about traveling on the Mississippi
steamboats.
“Never pay your fare until you are
compelled to,” Mas the first of wisdom
thrown at him.
“Aud pray why not?” he qusried,
with English straightforwardness.
“Because,” was the almost whispered
reply, ‘ ‘your chances are better in case
of trouble.”
“Will yon kindly explain yourself,
sir?” said Lyell, astonished, beyond
measure.
“ Well,” ansM’ered the American, with
a very significant leer, “when I was
traveling up tlie river last March, some
body cried out, ‘Passenger overboard!’
The captain hurried to the office, aud
asked, ‘Has the man overboard paid
liis fare?’ On being answered in the af
firmative, ho turned to the pilot, and
said, indifferently, ‘Go ahead; it’s all
right.’”
When we asked our girl to marry us
she said she didn’t mind— and we have
since found out that she didn't. Toledo
American,