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VOL. LI.
My Native Home.
HY A B. MEEK.
Land of the South—imperial bind !
How proud thy mountains rise—
How sweet thy scenes on every hand—
How sweet thy covering skies!
But not for this—oh, not for these,
f love thy fiejds to roam—
Thou hast a dearer spell to me,
Thou art my native home!
The rivers rMI their languid wealth,
Unequalled to tlie sea ;
'J liy hills and valleys bloom with health
And green with verdured lea,
But not for thy proud ocean streams,
Nor for thy azure dome—
-1 weet ■mnny South—l cling to thee—
Thou art my native home!
I’ve stood beneath Italia’s clime,
Beloved of tale and song—
On Helyn’s hills, proud and sublime,
Where Nature’s wonders throng ;
By Tempo's classic sunlight streams,
Where gods of old did roam—
But ne’er have found so fair a land,
As thou—my native home !
And thou hast prouder glories, too—
Than nature ever gave—
Peace sheds o’er thee her genial dew,
And freedom’s pinion’s wave—
Fair conscience flings her pearls around,
Religion lifts her dome ;
These, these endear thee to my heart—
My own loved native Home !
And Heaven’s best gifts to man arc thine,
God bless thy rosy girls,
Like sylvan flowers, they sweetly shine—
Their hearts are pure as pearls !
And grace and goodness circle them,
Where’er their foot prints roam.
How can T then, whilst loving them,
Not love my native home!
Land of the South—imperial land !
Then, here’s a health to thee—
Long as thy mountain barriers stand,
Mays! thou be blest and free !
May dark dissension’sT>anner ne’er
Wave o’er thy fertile loam;
But should it come,there’s oncwhowill die
To save his native home.
The Disinherited Nephew.
Mr. Amos Arkwright sat before bis
study fire, cogitating. lie was thinking
over the words uttered by Squire House
worth half an hour before, when that
worthy had been sitting with him over
tlie sherry and pineapples at desert.
“ What very fine young men your
nephews are, Mr. Arkwright!’’
‘“Yes,” muttered Amos, “ I suppose
they are very fine young men—very
fine young men indeed. Hut 1 wish
they hadn’t been brought up with the
idea that they had a rich uncle to fall
back upon. Fiorina is a desperately ex
travagant. young coxcomb, without an
idea in his head except the Club House
and his now silver dressing box ; and as
for Albert, studious and thorough going
as lie may be, there’s something about
him that always reminds me of the
ring of false metal. Since the days of
Joseph Surface.no one has ever believed
in those model young men. I’ts per
plexing—it is upon my word. I've til
most a mind to turn my money into good
bars and throw into the East River. I
really believe the boys would do better
if I were bankrupt. Hallo ! here comes
Florian now.”
Florian Leverson lounged into the
room, a handsome, blue-eyed young man,
with gold-brown hair, and a merry Ap
pollo shaped mouth.
“Well, Uncle,” saluted the youth,
dropping languidly into a chair.
“ Well, young man,” brusquely re
sponded the uncle, in a tone denoting no
very rapturous welcome.
“I was just looking for you, uncle.”
“We e you indeed,” said the old man
drily.
“I wanted to tell you something.”
“More debts, eh ?”
“ Not exactly, sir, Uncle,” with a
desperate effort, as one might pull the
string of an iced shower-bath, “ I’m
engaged to be married.”
“And who is the young lady ?”
“Alice Dean.”
“A pretty girl, very, for tliose who
fancy the Anglo-Spanish style of good
looks; but you’ve made a fool of your
self.’’
“In what way sir ?” demanded Flo
rian.
‘ She don’t care a straw for you —it’s
your expectations she’s going to marry.”
“Uncle !”
“Don’t tell me !” cried Mr. Arkwright.
“As if I hadn’t found out the hollow
hypocrisy of this scheming, knavish
world long before you were born. Mar
ry the girl—be a fool if you like ; but
mark my words : if you weren’t the
nephew of Amos Arkwright, the rich
old bachelor. Alice Dean wouldn’t look
atyou twice.”
“ Uncle, you are speaking what is
false !”
“ Hold your tongue,” wrathfully in
terjected 31 r. Arkwright, “or I’ll disin
herit you !”
“I would rather be disinherited than
thus insulted,” rejoined the hot temper
ed nephew.”
By way of answer, Mr. Arkwright
merely rose and strode out of the room,
nearly tumbling over his other nephew,
Albert Wheatly, at the head of the
stairs.
“My dear uncle,” cried Albert, a tall,
dark stylish looking man, with a voice
as soft as a flute.
“Don’t speak to me, cried Mr. Ark
wright, “for I’m in a passion.”
“In a passion, uncle?”
“With your shiftless, good-for-nothing
jackanapes of a cousin, Florian Lever
son.”
Albert TV heatly’s face assumed a mild
expression of sympathetic regret.
“It is scarcely to be wondered at, un
cle, Florian’s principles are indeed to be
deplored.”
Mr. Arkwright cut Albert short by
hurrying past him down stairs, and
shooting into the street.
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Half an h mr afterward he came back
in a bustle.
“Buys,” lie cried, putting his head
into the room where his nephhews were,
enjoying one another’s company bv the
adventitious aid of the evening news
papers, “I've got to go out West to see
abi>ut the railroad lands I’ve been buy
ing. There’s been trouble in the new
Board of Directors, and I must look af
ter my interests in person.”
And thus disappeared Mr. Amos Ark
wright.
Alice Dean was retrimming her opera
hat when the door opened, and Florian
Leverson walked deliberately in.
She smiled a welcome to her lover;
but then she noticed he looked very
1 ale.
“Florian, what has happened ?”
“I have bad news to toll you, Alice,”
said Florian Leverson, seating himself
beside her. “My uncle has died some
where out West. Helias been threat
ened with apoplexy for some time past,
hut lie was a person who never took any
precaution for his health; and I am left
a beggar.”
“O, Florian, I thought lie was rich.”
“So he was ; but through some strange
pique or perversion, he has left all his
fortune to my cousin Albert.”
“But Mr. Wheatley will surely divide
with you, Florian; he knows that you
two were brought up together in antici
pation of an equal share of the family
estate.”
Florian’s lips curled bitterly.
“YMu do not know Albert Wheatly,
Alice; he is selfish, cruel and grasping.
I never knew him to share as much as
an apple or a handful of marbles with
anybody else.”
“Then Florian—”
“Then, Alice, my little treasure,there
is but one alternative left open to me —
to give you back the troth you plighted
to me. I cannot drag you down to pov
erty with me now.”
“Florian,” cried Alice, with the tears
flushing into her soft eyes and a deeper
dye of crimson coming to her cheek,
“do you think I would give up your love
now ? Never, dearest ! Let ns be poor
and happy together; we can both work,
and love will shed a sunshine over the
darkest lot.”
“But, Alice, you have been so tender
ly brought up.”
“Do you think T am dependent on
velvet carpets and diamonds, and a box
at the opera fi r my happiness, Florian ?”
she asked, almost reproachfully
“My darling 1 was his hov murmured
reply, as he folded her to his heart.—-
-Let Albert W hea.tly have the Arkwright
fortune. L envy none of its yellow glare.
s : nce your noble disinterested heart is
• »>
mine.
*
Mr. Dana was in his office when “Sem
pronious Parkcs’ ” card was brought in-
Mr. Dana, who happened to be that
rara avis , an honest lawyer, laid down
his pen and told his clerk to show the
stranger in.
It was not much that Sempronious
Parkcs wanted—a little matter that was
soon dispatched; but somehow they
drifted off into a desultory conversation
afterward, and happened on the sudden
death of Amos Arkwright.
“I have been told ho was enormously
rich,” said Mr. Parkcs, tapping his
snuffbox.
“Yes,” said Mr. Dana, “it was a curi
ous whim of the old man’s constituting
me his legal executor. Why I never
saw him in my life.”
“No r
“Never once. But of one thing I’m
certain, to use a Ilibernianisui, the
greatest mistake of his lifetime was at
his death.”
“How do you mean?” inquired Mr.
Parkes.
“In leaving his money to that young
Wheatley.” *
. “A miser, eh ?”
“On the contrary,as graceless a spend
thrift as you ever saw. Gambling, bet
ting at the races, vicious amusements
and degrading company. His prosperity
seems to have acted on him as I have
sometimes seen sunshine act on a rank
noisome patch of weeds, stimulating him
to flaunting folly.”
“Spending the old man’s money, eh ?”
“Not entirely, for the best of it was
fortunately so tied up that he could on
ly use the interest; but whatever could
by any possibility be squandered has
vanished.”
“There was another nephew ,was there
not ?”
“Yes, Florian Leverson. lie is mar
ried.”
“Married ?”
“Yes ; and is in Jay and Dayson’s
banking house, doing well. Nobody had
any idea of the steadiness and common
sense there was in that young man.”
“I suppose he is furious at his uncle’s
partiality.”
“I have never heard him express anv
such opinion. He always declares the
money was his uncle’s, to do with as he
saw lit. and that he had received too
many kindnesses at the hands of Mr.
Arkwright to begin to criticise bis
memory now. ”
Mr. Parkes took snuff.
“ Must be a curious young man,” he
said drily. “And who, may" I ask, did
he marry ?”
“ Miss Dean ; and a very energetic,
thoroughgoing little wife she makes him.
In this case the disinherited nephew
seems to have received the most real hap
pincss of the two.”
“It’s a peculiar sort of story.” said
Mr. Parkes, rising; “but I must be go
ing. Good morning, Mr. Dana. I’m
much obliged to you fur your politeness
about those stamps.”
And Mr. Dana went back to bis legal
w
toils, never once mistrusting that he had
been talking to a ghost 1
Florian Leverson and his wife were
sitting contentedly at their unrneteuding
little fire side, when a knock cauic at the
door. Florian started a littie.
“Ifmy uncle Arkwright were not
dead and buried.” he said to Alice, “I
should declare that was his knock.”
“Nonsense,” said /Vlice. playfully, and
she opened the door.
There stood Mr. Amos Arkwright,
smiling contentedly.
“ Good evening,” said uncle Ark
wright, walking in as if nothing had
happened. “You’re at tea, I see. Can
you give me a cup strong, without milk
or sugar ?”
Alice uttered a cry, and ran behind
Florian. Florian started at the appari
tion, with a face pale as ashes.
“Uncle!”
“Yes, it’s I,” said Mr. Arkwright,
warming his coat tails at the fire. “I’m
not dead. I’ve been alive in Chicago
the whole time; but you understand L
wanted to see for myself how things were
going to work. I’ve found it all out
Albert’s a mean scamp, and you and this
bright-eyed little wife of yours—come
here my dear, and give me a kiss —arc
trumps.”
Mrs. Alice, now quite convinced that
Uncle Amos teas Uncle Amos, and no
sheeted ghost, but rather a plump old
gentleman in a gray woolen suit and
gaiters, came accordingly with the fra
grant kiss on her cherry lips, and sealed
herself at once as favorite with the ca.
pricious old millionaire. While Florian,
as his uncle said, “behaved more like an
insane school-boy, than a reasoning mem
ber of society !”
Uncle Arkwright’s little strategem
had succeeded brilliantly in discerning
the false stone from the diamond. Al
bert Wheatley, shorn of the glitter of
his temporary prosperity, is a billiard
uiaker now, somewhere in the North ;
and Mr, Arkwright is domiciled with
Mr and Mrs. Florian Leverson. the most
complacent old gentleman South of Ma
son anJ Dixon’s line.
A Wo nßill on t’le Bench.
My last gave in brief the history of
the passage of the woman’s suffrage act
in Wyoming. I will now give some of
the practical workings of woman’s suf
frage and woman’s office holding. The
first action taken under the provisions
of this law was the appo ntment by the
Secretary, as acting Governor, of Mrs.
Esther Morris, of South Pass City, as a
Justice of tlie Peace, for Sweetwater
county. Mrs. Morris qualified, “remit
ted the usual fee of five dollars’’ to the
Secretary, and entered upon the duties
of her office. Nothing unusual occur
red for some days; everybody was satis
fied with the new Justice, and the new
Justice with everybody. One day, how
ever, the wine of bitterness was mixed
in her cup of bliss, and notwithstanding
her womanly and wifely feeling, she was
compelled to drink it. Her better-half,
who was now left in charge of the do
mestic department of the firm, had pre
vious to his retirement to the sweets of
domestic life, occasionally taken a social
glass with his friends. Taking advantage
of this weakness, some friends waited
upon Mr. Morris one day, and having
made him drunk, led him into a breach
of the peace, then hastened to the Es
quire’s office and lodged a complaint
with her Honor, against her Honor’s
“leige, lord and master,” that used to
be, and demanded a warrant for his ar
rest. Mrs. Justice hesitated a moment
on the banks of this woman’s Rubicon,
but like Caesar, she was equal to the
emergency, and promptly crossed into
her lord’s dominions, and her former
master was dragged before her for trial.
Mr Morris’ head was not sufficiently
clear to comprehend the situation. He
began to assert his sovereign rights in
contempt of court, until suddenly brought
up by the officers in obedience to the
Court’s order. Seeing that things had
changed somewhat, and that Othello’s
occupation had been at least suspended,
lie began to expostulate first with the
officer that he had no discretion, but
was acting under orders from the court.
“Who is the court (hie)?” inquired
Mr. Morris. On being informed that
the occupant of the bench was the
Judge, Morris looked at the Justice
with a puzzled air, scratched liis head
in an effort to collect his scattered
thoughts, and ejaculated : “ Her—her
—(hie)— -you u —d fool —she’s my wife
—(hie) —she is—that’s Esther—my
wife, Esther, you’re drunk, or—oh. don’t
bother me (hie),” and he started to go.
“Lock up the prisoner for contempt
of court,” said Mrs. Morris to the officer
“ What have you to do about it eh ?”
blurted out Mr. Morris, staggering uie
nancingly toward the Judge.
“Y ou will find I have all to say about
it. Officer, luck him up,” replied her
Honor.
Although badly mixed. Mr. Morris
began to get a glimmer of the truth,and
began a parley :
“ Now look here, Mr. Officer, don’t
you be in a hurry. I didn’t mean any
thing wrong. I want to just talk with
my wife a minute. Now, Esther, what's
the use of foolin' ? you jist git down
out of there, and go home and behave
yourself. I’ll tend to this little difficul
ty myself. Now go right along, the ba
by want's nursing. I had to give it to
Mrs. Winslow to get it to sleep when I
came u ovn. He’s hungry, fr he won’t
use that old bottle, and [ don’t blame
him either. The dishes ain’t washed,
nor the beds made, either And what’s
more, I ain't goin’ to do it any more.—
You hear that; now start along.”
By the time 3lr Morris had delivered
himself of this, his tone had changed a;?
i his feeling warmed from that of expos
Dilation to that of command again, and
the officer forced him into the rudely
constructed lockup in rear of her Hon
or’s court, and there Mr. Morris was left
to reflect upon the situation, and gaze
upon the divided wall between himself
and wife as a dividing line between
man’s and woman’s rights under the
new dispensation.
On the following morning Mr. Morris
was arraigned before her Honor, and in
the most sober and subdued manner,
and with the deepest humiliation, plead
guilty, asked the pardon of the court
for contempt, begged its clemency, and
then awaited his sentence with humility
and resignation.
After giving the prisoner a Caudle
lecture as amended by the laws of Wy
oming, her Honor imposed the usual fine
and required the prisoner to give b »nds
to keep the peace, upon whimi the court
gallantly offered to let him go, and Mr.
Morris vanished.— ComspomlerJ of the
N. r. Sun.
GEORGIA LK( lISLATUKE.
EVENING SESSION.
Thursday, Nov. 2, 1871.
SENATE.
The following bills w’ere read the first
time :
Mr. Brown—A bill to repeal the usu
ry laws in this State, and to fix the rate
of interest where the same is not fixed
by agreement of the parties.
Mr. Candler—A bill to appoint a
committee to investigate the official con
duct, of the late Governor of this State
and certain other public officers.
Mr. Ilillyer—A bill to provide a rem
edy by which funds or property, stolen
from the State Road, may be recovered.
On motion the Senate then adjourned
till 10 A. M. to-morrow.
IIOU3E.
The following bills were read the first
time:
By Mr. Jackson—-a bill to repeal the
act in relation to the city of Atlanta,
known as the Holcombe bill.
By Mr. Long—A bill to alter the law
in relation to the interest on money.
By 31 r. Pope—A bill to authorize
the payment of ten per cent, interest on
one hundred bonds of one thousand dol
lars each, of the Scofield llolling Mill
Company, etc.
By Mr. Hudson—A bill to alter Sec
tion 256, of the Revised Code.
By Mr. Simmons, of Gwinnett—A
bill to make it penal for luborerers to
leave employers before the time of their
contracts expires
The House then adjourned until ten
A. M. Friday.
Friday, Nov. 3, 1871.
SENATE.
The Senate met at 10 a. m., Presi
dent Trammell in the Chair.
A message from the House, announc
ing the organization of that body, was
received.
Mr. Lester introduced a resolution
providing for a joint committee to wait
upon Gov. Conley and notify him of
the organization of the two Houses,
which, on motion of Mr. Burns, was
taken up and adopted.
Messrs. Lester. Jones and Brock were
appointed.
Bills were read a second time.
Leave of absence was granted Mr.
Bruton.
31 r. Steadman—A bill to provide for
the payment of the debt of Clarke
county.
31 r. llillyer presented a memorial ask
ing aid from the United States Govern
ment for connecting the 31 ississippi
River with the Atlantic by the cutting
of certain canals across the tenitory of
this State, and offered a resolution that
our immediate representatives in Con
gress be requested to use every exertion
to secure the granting of the aid sought
by the memorial, and that the Governor
be requested to furnish copies of the
memorial to such representatives and to
certain other persons.
3lr. Smith —A bill to fix the salary
of the officers and members of the Gen
eral Assembly.
This bill fixes the pay of each mem
ber at $240 per annum, and the officers
at $320 each, and allow twelve clerks
each to the Secretary and Clerk.
3ir. Lest.r—A bill to incorporate the j
Savannah and Thunderbolt Railroad.
Mr. Candler —A bill to repeal an act ;
to extend the lien of set off and recoup- !
ment to all debts contracted before June |
Ist. 1865, and to forbid the collection
of the same until all legal taxes due .
therein shall have been paid.
Mr. Smith introduced a resolution al
io aing the 3lessenger to employ an as- j
sistant at three dollars per diem. —
Adopted.
On motion the Senate adjourned un
til 3 p. M.
AFTERNOON SESSION.
The Seuate met at 3 r. M.
Bills read the first time—
By 3lr. Brown —A bill to provide for
paying off the bonded debt of this
State, and for other purposes.
By 31r. Reese —A bill to provide for
filling, by law, the unexpired term of
R. B. Bullock, by a special election, and
for other purposes.
By Mr. Tray wick —A bill to repeal
an act to organize the District Court,
and to define its jurisdiction.
Also, a bill to provide for the appor
tionment of Representatives in the Gen- j
eral Assembly.
By Mr. Hillyer—A bill to modify
and amend Section 3523 of Irwin’s
Code, so as to restrict the lien of judg
ment so far as respects the real estate to
*
the county where rendered, or in which
i a transcribe shall he recorded,
j By 31 r. 1 ray wick—A bill to amend
an act incorporating the town of Haw
kinsvillo in the county of Pulaski, and
to define the limits of the sane.
By 31 r. llillyer—A bill to revise the
granting of new trials in certain ces s
On motion of Mr. Nichols, the Sen
ate adjourned until 10 a. m. to-morrow
HOUSE.
The House met pursuant to adjourn
ment, Speaker Smith presiding.
Prayer by Rev. 31 r. Strickland.
A message from the Senate was re
ceived announcing that the Senate was
organized and ready for business.
Mr. Hoge offered a resolution that a
joint committee ho app billed to notify
Hon. Benjamin Conley, acting as Gov
ernor, that both brandies of the Legis
lature are now organized and ready to
receive from him any communications
be may see proper to transmit. Adopted.
A message from the Senate was re
ceiver! notifying the House that the
Senate had adopted a resolution pro
viding for the appointment of a joint
committee to notify lion. Benjamin Con
Icy, acting as Governor, that botli
branches of tlie General Assembly are
organized and ready to receive commu
nications which he may see pr iper to
transmit.
31 r. Hall, of Upson, offered the fol
lowing bill:
Be it enacted by the General Assem
bly that a special election for Governor
shall be had throughout the State on
the Tuesday in December, 1871, to
fill the unexpired term far which R. B.
Bullock was elected, which said election
shall be held as is provided by Irwin’s
Revised Code, for the regular election
of Governor and members of the Eeg
islature.
2. Be it further enacted that the re
turns of said election shall be sealed up
by the managers and directed to the
Senate and the Speaker of the House of
Representatives, and managers shall
forthwith transmit the same to the
acting Governor, who shall, without
opening the same, and without delay,
cause the said returns to be laid before
the Senate, if the Senate be in session
when received, and it received during
the recess of the General Assembly, so
soon as the General Assembly convenes,
the same shall be laid before the Senate,
and be by that body transmitted forth
with to the House of Representatives,
and such proceedings shall thereafter be
had for convening the two Houses "in
tiie Representative Chamber, opening
said returns, counting an l publishing
the vote, and declaring the result of
said election as is provided bv art. 4,
sec. 1, par. 2 of the Constitution.
Sec. 3. Be it further enacted. That if
no person be found to have received a
majority of the whole number of votes
cast at said election, or if the election
be protested such proceedings shall be
had as is provided by art. 4, see. 1, par. j
2, of the Constitution.
Sec. 4. Repeals all conflicting laws.
31r. Jackson offered the following
resolutions :
Resolved, That Rufus B. Bullock,
late Governor of the State of Georgia,
who has resigned his office, and left the
State under circumstances creating grave
suspicions that he is guilty of high
crimes and misdemeanors, has, in charg
ing, in a letter bearing date 23d Octo
ber, 1871, addressed to his political
friends and the people of Georgia, that
a majority of the House of Representa
tives had pledged themselves to vote for
articles of impeachment against him,
without investigation, and that the Sen
ate had determined to unseat a sufficient
number of Republican Senators to se
cure his conviction, without regard to
the truth and validity of charges, de
famed this General Assembly by charges
which are untrue.
Resolved, That the statement in the
same letter to the effect that the people
of Georgia have recently denounced or
ignored the Constitution of the United
States, is false and defamatory of the
people of this State ; on the contrary
we assert that the people of this State
do now as they did six months ago,
(when, according to the letter of Rufus
B. Bullock, they were peaceably dis
posed,) acquiesce iu the result of the
war, and neither any hostility toward
the United States, nor deny to any per
son within the State the equal protec
tion of the law’s. Adopted.
A young man, who speaks from ex
perience, declares that there is no ordeal
more trying to a young man than being
introduced to an elderly person or the
man of middle age. 'J he elderly person
or the man of middle age never enjoys
an introduction to a young man, and vice
versa. There is always a half-disappointed
look on the features of the man of mid
dle age or elderly pers >n, which seems to
say, ‘‘What the deuce does Snooks mean
by putting this young sprout at me ?”
Then the half-disappointed look is suc
ceeded by a look like “Let me get away,”
too, and feels as though he had shot bis
grandmother. Both arebured,and each
secretly resolves to never make any use
of the introduction.
The following “ notice ” was stuck up
on various places in a certain district in
G rayson county, Ky., a short time since:
• Notise to all ther will be A big bar
beku on Sattorday, Sept. 9 1871 in the
teritoary graison County, and the fair
will be 25 cents a meal and Their will
be one of The new kincsof swings their
on the grown and one of the finest ban
ger piekurs ewe evur hard gose withe
the swring freie and you Shal Ride 20
rounds for ten cents come won come awl
boath grate niidsmau! and hear the ban
ucr.”
NO. 15.
A gentleman expressed to a lady his
admiration of her toilet. She said she
supposed he had been impressed by her
angel sleeves. He answered with effu
sion, “ No; but I’d like to be.”
The latest extract from Greely’s
“What I know about Farming”—‘Catch
your butterflies late in August. Select
the deep yellow ones if you would get
good sweet, saleable butter.
An Illinois lover closed his letter to
his lady sentimentally as follows : *• My
best loved one, I chawed the postage
stamp on your last letter all to thunder,
because I knew you licked it on.”
Said an ambitious youth to a young
lady : “ Don’t you think I’d better dye
my mustache?” caressing the faintly
visible progeny. “ I think if you will
let it alone it will die itself,” said the
lady.
An old lady reading the market re
ports for the first time, tumbled upon
the quotation—“ Coffee weak.” and re
marked : “ Well, Tdo declare, if they
don’t weaken coffee now before it is
parched.”
“ That man,” says a wag, “ came to
this city forty years ago, purchased a
basket, and commenced gathering rags.
How much do you suppose he is worth
now ?” We gave it up. “ Nothing,”
lie continued, after a pause, “and ho
owes for the basket.”
“ Mamuia, M ill you go to Heaven
when you die ?”—“ I hope so. * £ And
nurse ?”— li I hope so. She’s a irood
woman, and all pood jieople go to
Heaven.” “ Then, please may Igo to
the dogs with papa? He says lie’s go
ing there, and it will be so much nicer.”
A gentleman who was connoisseur in
farm products, while at a leading Mis
souri hotel, discovered a suspicious look
ing hair in the butter. He somewhat
startled the waiter by inquiring whether
they had any bald headed butter, as he
greatly preferred it to the hairy sort.
An Illinois farmer has told his rat
story. He was going out to his corn
crib the other morning, he says, when
lie saw a large rat with head erect, car
rying a full-sized ear of corn in his
mouth, while at the same time his tail
was wrapped around another ear, which
he was dragging behind him.
“ I know what your be oi’s pretty
white horse’s uame is,” said a little boy
to his grown up sister, the other morn
ing. “ It’s Damye.” “ Hash, Eddie,”
that’s naughty.” “ Well, 1 don’t care
if tis,” said the juvenile, ** that’s his
name, ’cos l ist night I was outside the
fence when he stopped at the front gate,
and I heard him say, ‘ \\ boa, Damye.’”
“ Does your arm pain you much, sir ?”
asked a young lady of a gentleman who
had seated himself near her in a mix
ed assembly, and thrown his arms across
the b ick of her chair and slightly
t mched her neck. *■ No. miss, it does
not; why do you ask ?” *• I noticed it
was considerably cut of place, sir,” re
plied she. *• that’s all.” The arm was
removed.
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Various Items.
The host Agricultural l airs are far
mers’ daughters.
The now hornets are a cross between
a round hit and an inverted coffee cup.
Money is a great lever in the affairs
Oi a mail s*» great a leaver, some of us
can never keep it.
” >V hat are you looking at the clo*
phant so sharply for?"’ “To see if* I can
discover the key hole to his trunk.”
Two women in Kansas have gone ad
partners into the law business. They ‘
propone to be sisters in law.
\\ h) is a woman mending her stock
iugs deformed ? Because her hands are
where her feet ought to be.”
An old bachelor says the talk of wo
men is usually about men ; even their
laugh is he ! he ! he !
A correspondent describes \ iunio
Beam in her studio with her arms hare
to the shoulder and “ankles likewise.”
A little hoy out \\ e»t being asked if
lie knew where liars went, answered,
cs, to New \ ork, to write for the pa
pers.”
Newton, Kansas, has no church, but
the proprietor of a whisky shop offers
his room to any minister who may be
disposed to preach therein.
If you cannot inspires woman with
love of you, fill her above the brim
with love of herself, and all that runs
over w ill be yours.
A poet says “ Oh, she was fair hut sor
row’ came and left its traces there.”—
U hat became of the remainder of the
harness he does not state.
A man is said to he absent minded
when he thinks he has left his watch at
homo, and takes it out to see if lie has
got, time to return home and get it.
A greenhorn was offered at a public
table a plate of macearoni soup, hut de
clined it, declaring that they couldn't
play any biled pipe stems on him.
A toper sneered at a young man for
wearing spectacles, when the latter said*
“■lt is better to use glasses over the nose
as Id >, than under the nose as you and >!”
Olive LoganTs going to lecture this
season on Nice Young Men.” Last
season she lectured on ‘‘Girls” A
crusty old bachelor hopes she won’t get
these two lectures mixed up.
A boy bawling in the street was asked
the cause of hi* trouble, mid replied 1
“ l want my mamma; that's what's the
matter. " 1 told the darned thing slic’d
lose me.”