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P J. KIKER & SON,
ATTORNEYS AT LAW,
Will practice in all the Courts of the Cheiv
ekce Circuit; Supreme Court ol Georgia, and
the United States District Court at Atlanta,
Ca. Office : Sutheast corner of the Court
House, Calhoun, Ga.
LWIN & MILNER*
1 attorneys at law,
CALHOUN, GA
Will practice in all the Superior Courts of
Of Cherokee Georgia, the Supreme Court of
(hj State and the United States District and
Circuit ourts, at Atlanta.
attorneys at law,
CALHOUN, GA.
Office : Court House Street.
J D. TINSLEY,
Watch-Haker & Jeweler,
CALHOUN , GA.
All styles of Clocks, Watches and Jewelry
heatly repaired and warranted.
JVU b'E WALDO THORNTON, D. D. S..
DENTIST.
Office over Geo. W. Wells & Co.’s Agricul
tural Warehouse.
iyj-188 C. A. HUDGINS,
Milliner & Mantua-Maker,
Court House St., Calhoun* Ga.
Patterns of the latest styles and fashion
for ladies just received. Gutting and
making done to order.
M USIC 1 MUSIC ! , x
-A large variety of new and select music
direct from Philadelphia kept constantly on
hand and for sale by Mrs. J. L. 1 arrott.
She also gives notice that she will instruct
in music at her residence. Terms, per month,
$1.00; use of instrument, 50 ennts. Recep
tion days, Tuesdays and Thursdays.
ZT. GRAY,
. CALHOUN, GA„
Is prepared to furnish the public with
buggies and Wagons, bran new and warrant
ed. Repairing of all kinds done at short
notice. Would call attention to the cele
rated “Fish Brothers’ Wagon which he fur
ni-hes. Call and examine before buying
elsewhere.
J H. ARTHUR
DEALER IN
■general merchandise,
RAILROAD STREET,
Calhoun , Ga.
lw. marshall,
KAILRCAD ST., OLD STAND OF
A. W. BALLEW.
heeps constantly on hand a superior stock of
Family & Fancy Groceries,
. ’’PB Hardware, &c, to which especial at
-ojion jg called. Everything in my line
al prices that absolutely defy competi-
ON [jY Send Twenty-Five Cents to
0 THE KENNESAW GAZETTE,
Atlania, Ga.,
CENTS an<l if will be J ou montb
!y one year. Richest thing out
What is Done with the Newspa
pers ?
.“ The new postage law brings a con
siderable revenue from the New York
advertising agencies. Geo. 1\ RoWell
& Co.’s quarterly bills upon newspapers
received exceed $430; those of S. M.
Pettengill & Cos. are above $350 while
the agencies of W. J. Carlton, Rates &
Loose, W. W. Sharpe and others most
prominent, pay from one-fourth to one
eighth of the above amounts.”— N. Y.
Sun, March 3, 1874.
The above paragraph has been ex
tensively copied into the newspapers of
the country. When it is borne in mind
that the sum of five cents pays the pos
tage upon thirteen papers, it is easy to
calculate that for the postage exacted
from Messrs. Geo. P. Rowell & Cos.,
they are entitled to receive considera
b)y more than one hundred thousand
papers every three months, or more than
a thousand every day. On occasions in
the winter when the snows interfere
with the regular running of the mails,
as soon as the blockade is removed it
not unfrequently happens that as many
as twenty-five bushels of newspapers
will be received in a single morning.
W hat becomes of all the papers ?
What do you do with them ? are ques
tions which are often asked. The pa
pers come from every quarter, and are
assorted throughout the day and night
by the Post-office employes. Those ad
dressed to Geo P. Rowell & Co.’s Ad
vertising Ageiicy aic thrown into large
mail bags, arranged on a rack or frame
made to support them, with the mouth
held open, and these, when filled, are
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tied at the top and set aside to wait un
til called for. On Mondays and morn
ings after holidays as many as three or
four bags are filled, each one containing
several bushels of newspapers in their
wrappers, each bag being packed as
closely as possible.
The mail bags are brought to the of
fice, after which the papers are taken
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from the bags and heaped upon a table.
Then the wrappers are taken off and
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the p ipers smoothed out, uniformly fold
ed and arranged by States. The vari
ous piles are then handed over to the
men who have in charge the business of
examining each separate paper to make
sure that advertisements ordered from
the Agency are being inserted accord
ing to the specifications of contract.
The country is divided into sections
and apportioned out to as many men.
One devotes his entire time to papers
issued in the city of New York ; anoth
er checks those in States near by ; one
has Canada, one the South, and anoth
er the Territories and Pacific coast.
With his book spread open before
him the work of examination and chec ’-
iing proceeds.
Every paper in which an advertise
ment is running is opened out and the
advertisements, one or more, are mark
ed with a crayon so as to be easll y
found or seen at a glance when the ad-
CALHOUN, GA., WEDNESDAY, APRIL 21, 1875.
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vertisex comes to ewmiidation
beforespaying his bill.
\ The checking
|_ books are ar
>s '— ranged to show
5 1EZZZZEH the actual num
s ---———r—i— —her of insertions
£ I which every ad-
— vertisement is to
jlAi _rZZZZZZHreceive. Special
' ji marks, are used
j — to designate spe
.a _J_ cial things, and
. j —checking clerk,
j gU id e and by in
— j-j—Struetions, pro
i EZZZZIIZI duces a page
J which will show
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"ZZZZZi! er h> s insertions
\ 11 jUU S'Zsp - have been truly
rendered, or oth
| erwise.
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r l panying diagram
_ _ the plan is made
h \ plain, as in use
w 4 St for a weekly pa-
S P er - name
-of the adverti
-5 seT: the space ’
> position, style
„ - a “' l lenßth ; of
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-10 Htisement must
appear are all indicated. The various
marks have their meanings—all easily
understood and not readily mistaken.
If a paper fails to come to hand the
checking book reveals the fact, and it is
sent for. It may not be of much im
portance, but the clerks in charge are
iusfructed not to consider that, but to
get the paper and keep files complete.
If any advertisement is materially
wrong, is out of position, has important
typographica l errors, or for any reason
is not what the advertiser is entitled to
expect, notice is dispatched to the pub
lisher at once, and the error is made
good by another insertion or a reduc
tion from the bill.
This system is carried to great per
fection.
The checking books are kept perma
nently for inspection by advertisers.—
The papers themselves are Upt three
months from date of issue, after that
time the Agency does not guarantee to
exhibit them.
After the examination and marking,
t,he paper is again folded, and receives
a heavy mark on its upper right hand
corner to indicate that it has passed
through the requisite examination, and
is ready to be placed upon file. It is
then taken and placed in the space ac
corded to it. Every weekly paper is
assigned a pigeon-hole, 8 inches by 10
1-2 and one foot deep, while to a daily
is accorded three such. These spaces
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are all designated by a label, having
printed upon it the name of the paper
to which the space is accorded.
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These being placed in tiers or cases
placed back to back and set up to form
naileries, so as to permit of the whole
being arranged alphabetically by States,
the name of each State being designa
ted on the cases and again over the en
trance to each separate gallery.
A stranger is thus enabled to search
out the depository for his own local pa
per, or any other that he may desire to
see, with as much readiness as he finds
a work in a dictionary or a name in a
directory. —.
These galleries being arranged one
story above another and as compactly
as possible, occupying portions of the
same rooms where all the work upon
the papers is performed, leaves nothing
to be desired in the way of conven
ience.
An advertiser whose rule it is to pay
no bills until he sees all the papers can
here be accommodated, and a business
amounting to $20,000 per annum in
cheap country papers can be looked af
ter (eveiy copy of every paper exam
ined) by the advertiser, or his represen
tative, who will devote three days’ time
to the examination four times a year.
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The time required for examining pa
pers is mainly used in looking after the
advertisement which is not there. This
work has all been done before-hand, and
each advertisement is marked plainly
with a black crayon. If it is so mark
ed the advertiser takes in its appear
ance, style, position, everything in an
inst int, and if it is not marked he need
go no farther; it is not there, and he
is entitled to one other insertion or an
allowance.
An important use of having complete
files of papers so conveniently arranged
consists in being able to produce for
large advertisers samples of all the pa
pers in which they wish to insert their
announcements, that they may see for
themselves what each paper looks like,
and judge what style of advertising will
be most effective in each.
When the papers have accumulated
until their allotted spaces assume a
crowded appearance, then comes the fi
nal solution of the problem of, “ What
do you do with them ?” Boys go
through the galleries, extract the super
fluous papers from each of the spaces
(being careful to have a complete file
for at least three months), throw them
into one great heap ; after which a deal
er in pape>* stock comes and carts them
all away, and in another month they
may be found in the store of the paper
dealer, made into new bundles, upon
which may again be printed other pa
pers to repeat the same round of expe
riences.— Geo. P.Rowell & Co's. Amer
ican Mcwspapel Reporter.
Quandaries.
We give a list of what are called
quandaries, scrapes, fixes, concernings,
and sometimes dilemmas :
Knocking at the wrong door, and
hesitating whether you shall run away
and say nothing about it, or stay and
apologize.
Not crossing the road until you £ee a
gig coming one way and a cab another,
so that if you move on you are sure to
be knocked by one, and if you stand
still you may possibly be crushed by
both.
Finding yourself in a damp bed, on
a cold night, and cogitating whether
you will lie still and catch your death,
or get up and dress, and pass the night
on two cane bottom chairs.
Paying your addresses to a penniless
fair orie, under the impression that she
is an heiress, and on discovering your
error, having the option of marrying
the lady, or of being shot by the young
lady’s brother.
Coming to four cross roads, one of
which you must take at random, or just
walk lack a mile or two and inquire
your way.
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True hospitality of the home is'
never loudly and noisily demonstrtive.
It never overwhelms you with its greet
ing, though you have not a doubt of its
perfect sincerity. Y"ou are not disturb
ed by the creaking of the domestic ma
chinery, suddehiy driven at unwonted
speed for your own accommodation. —
Quietly it does its work, that it' may put
you in peaceful possession of its results.
He is not the true host, she is not the
best hostess, who is ever going to and
fro with hurried action, and flurrid man
ner and heated countenance, as if to
say, “see how hospitable I can be j” but
rather the one who takes your coming
with quiet.dignity and noiseless pains
taking ; who never obtrudes attention,
yet is very attentive all the while who
makes you, in one word—the most ex
pressive word in the English tongue —
to be at home. There is no richer,
cheaper, larger hospitality than that.
UNDER THE ROSE.
A PLATONIC KISS.
You kissed me as if roses slipped
Their rose-bud necklaces, arid blew
Such breaths as never yet have dipped
The bee in fragrance over shoe.
While rose leaves of their color stripped
Themselves to make a blush for you.
Nor chide with such a cold restraint,
As you laid the rose in snow;
For this the summer stores her paint,
The dappled twilights overflow
With motley colors pied and quaint,
For kisses that in flowers do grow.
Nor pout and tease ; you did not mean
So sw r eet a. thing. Abide this test:
In open markets grades are seen
Of good and bad, in price expressed;
The buyers’ purse must choose between ;
But when we give, w r e give the best.
Yet if" that color. sw r eet as bees,
Of flowers flushes teases, see
How we can pluck such thorns as these,
That bleed in blushes, easily !
For kiss me, sweet just as you please ;
I’ll take it as it pleases me.
y — Harper's Magazine.
THE REWARD OF KINDNESS.
, Mrs. Gorham put down a letter she
had been reading, and looking around
the table at her blooming daughters and
two tall, handsome sous, she said, in a
doleful tone —
“ Your Aunt Sabina is coming, to
London, and has invited hersell here
without ceremony.”
“ When ?” asked Arabella, with an
intonation of intense disgust.
“ She will reach here this afternoon.
Wilber you will go to meet her.
“ Sotry, ma, but I have promised to
drive Miss Caldwell to the park. Ired
can go.”
“Certainly I will go,” Ired said
gravely, though there was a hot flush
on his forehead. “I am very fond of
Aunt.”
“ Jonsebw,” said his mother, —“you
have not seen her for fourteen years 1
never went near the detestable old farm
since your father died.”
“Nevertheless, I have a vivid recol
lection of Aunt Sabina s kindness when
we were there.”
“ Dear me, Fred,” drawled Lucilla,
don’t be sentimental. I wish the old
thing would stay at home. I can t im
agine what she is coming here for.
“ She is our father’s sister, and I
can’t find anything surprising in her
looking for a welcome amongst her
brother’s children,” said Ired.
Mrs. Gorham shrugged her shoulders.
If she had spoken her thoughts it would
have been —" Ired is so odd. Just
like his father. But she only said, “ I
may depend upon you, tnen, Ired, to
meet your aunt! I will see about her
room.” . 4 • t
It was a source of gfcat satisfaction'
to Mrs. Gorham that her children were
all like herself, “ true Greers, except
Fred,” she would say, congratulating
herself that the plebian Gorham blood
was not transmitted to her elder son,
Wilber, or any of the three girls.
That Greer pride meant intense sel
fishness, that Greer beauty was of coal
hard type, that Greer disposition was
tyrannical and narfow-mibded, did not
trouble Mrs. Gorham. That the son
who was all Gorham was proud to the
core with the true pride that knows no
false shame, that he was noble in dispo
sition, handsome in a frank, manly type,
and self-sacrificing, she could appreci
ate. Ilis hands and feet were not so
small as darling Wilber s. he had no
fashionable affections, and no Greer
look. So his mother thought him very
rough and coarse, end his sisters de
clared he had no style at all. But out
side of home, where great shows of
wealth were made private economies,
Fred was more appreciated.
When he became a man and knew
that his father’s est te, though sum
cient to give them e.ery comfort, was
not large enough for the extravaganc.
his mother indulged in, he fitted him
self for business and took a position
a counting-house, thus becoming self
supporting, though his mother declared
that no Greer had ever been in a trade.
That the money she lived on was made
in soap boiling the fashionable lady ig
nored entirely. Darling Wilber had
studied law, but his first client lad not
yet appeared, and Mrs. Gorham sup
ported him, trusting his fascinations
would touch the heart of some moneyed
belle. Miss Caldwell was present
hope. She was her own mistress, an
orphan heiress, and very handsome.—
That she was proud and rather cold in
manner was only an additional charm to
Mrs. Gorham, Lucilla, Arabella and
Corinne, who were enthusiastic in their
admiration of Cordelia Caldwell’s queen
ly manner.
Nobody suspected that Fred, blu n t,
straight-forward Fred, hid one secret
in his heart, confessed to no living be
ing, and that secret was a love pure and
true for Cordelia Caldwell —a love that
wonl-1 shut itself closely away from any
suspicion of fortune hunting —that on
ly drooled and mourned, thinking of
the heiress.
At four o’clock Fred was at the sta
tion with a carriage waiting for Aunt
Sabina. What a little old fashioned fig
ure she was, in her quaint black silk
bonnet and large figured shawl. But
Fred knew, her kindly old face at once,
though he had not seen it since he was
twelve years old.
“ You are aunt,” he said, going
quickly to meet her.
She looked at the handsome face,
and then caught a quick, gasping
breath.
“ You must be one of -John’s boys,
she said. “ How like you are to your
father.”
“ I am Fred,” he answered.
“ Dear heart! How you’ve grown !
Is your ma here ?”
“ She is wailing for you at home.”
The good old country woman had
never had the least doubt of a warm
welcome at her brother’s house, apd
Fred certainly confirmed her expecta
tions. He found the old black leather
trunk, the bag, the bandbox, ana the
great bulging cotton umbrella, and put
them all in the carriage without one
smile of ridicule. He made his aunt
go to a restaurant and refresh herself ,
before starting on the long drive home
He listened with respectful interest to
all the mishaps of the long journey,
and sympathized with the—-“ Ruination
of every mortal slich I’ve got on, dear,
in the dust and smoke.
And he chatted pleasantly of his
childish recollections of the tiny house
and wide farm where Aunt Sabina
lived.
“ You see, ’ she told him, “ I made up
my mind this year that I would come
to London once before I died. I have
tried to before now, but something or
other has always hindered. Dear, dear !
You’ve all grown up, I suppose, and
you was but a lot of babies the last time
John brought you to see me.”
“ Corinne is the youngesf, and she
is eighteen. Wilber is the only one
older than I am.”
“ Yes, I remember. Well dear, I’m
glad John’s wife brought up such a fine
family. I’m only an old maid, but Ido
love children and young folks ”
But a chill fell upon the kindly old
heart when home was reached at last,
and four fashionably dressed ladies gave
her a strictly courteous greeting. But
for the warm clasp of Fred’s hand, I
think she would have returned to the
station by the same carriage she came in
so wounded and sore she felt.
“ Not one kiss,” she thought, “ and
Fred kissed me at the train, right be
fore all the people.”
Fred slipped a silver coin irnto the
hands of the servant girl who was to
wait upon his aunt, promising another
if sh w?s very attentive, and himself
escorted the old lady to her room. It
was not often the young man’s indigna
tion found voice, though it grew hot
over the many shims and acts of hard
selfishness in the house of his mother,
but he said sonic words that day that
called a blush to the cheeks of the
worldly woman.
It was not a very busy season, and
finding that Sab’na was likely to have
a sorry time if left to the other mem
bers if the family, Fred asked for a
holiday and appointed himself the old
lady’s escort. He was too proud to
care for the fact that the quaint little
figure on his arm attracted many an
amused glance, but gravely stood by
when anew dress for Dolly, the dairy
maid, and a “ city necktie ” for Bob,
the ploughman, was purchased,
He gave undivided attention to the
more important selection of anew black
silk dress for Aunt, herself; and pleas
antly accepted a blue silk scarf, with
large red spots, that was presented to
him, appreciating the love that prompt
ed the gi f t. and mentally resolving to
wear it when he paid a promised visit
to the farm. lie drove his Aunt Sabi"
na to the park. He took her to see all
the sights.
Once or twice, meeting some of his
gentlemen friends, they had thought,
“ the queer old party is some rich rela
tive, Gorham is so very attentive,” and
had delighted Sabina by their deferen
tial attentions.
Once —Fred had not counted on flat
—in a picture gallery, Cordelia Cald
well sauntered in alone. She had heard
of Sabin i through the disgusted com
ments of Lucilla, and knew she had no
properly but a “ miserable farm,” but
she greeted Fred with a smile far more
cordial than she gave her admirers. A
little lump came into Fred’s throat.—
Then he gravely introduced the stately
beauty in her rustling silk, to the little
old fashioned woman on his arm.
“ My Yunt, Miss Gorham. Miss Cald
well.”
They admired the pictures together,
and the youug lady was cordial and
chatty.
After they came down the steps, Miss
Caldwell said—
“ IZu must let your aunt drive an
hour or two with me, Mr. Gorham. I
am going to do some shopping, so I will
not tax your patience by inviting you
to join us, but I shall be pleased if
Miss Gorham will dine with me, and
you will call for her this evening.”
Then she smiled again, made Sabina
comfortable in the carriage, and drove
off leaving Fred forty times deeper in
love than ever, as she intended he
should be.
“He is a very prince of men, ’ she
thought; “ and I’ll give him a day’s
rest. Bless the dear old soul, she has
just such blue eyes as my dear grand 4
mother.”
Then she won Sabina's confidence
and found she was worrying about the
purchase of certain housenold matters
that would not go in the black leather
trunk, aud that she did not like to wor
ry Fred about it.
She drove to the places where the
Best goods could be had, keeping guard
over the slender purse against all impo
sition, till the last towel was satisfacto
rily chosen and directed. Then she
drove home where “ grandmother ” was
queen, knowing the stately old lady
would make the country woman wei-
CJine.
In the evening that followed, Fred’s
heart was touched and warded, ti!.,
scarcely conscious of his own r<D 1 e
told his secret, and knew
that he had woo love for love.
Aunt stayed two weeks, and then
went home, to the immense relief of
the Gorhams, and carrying no regret
at leaving any but Fred and Miss Cor
delia.-
VOL. y.—NO. 38.
It was not even suspected that Cor
delia spent four weeks in the height of
the summer season, listening to the praise
of Fred, at Sabina s farmhouse, and
even Fred did not know it until he
came, too, after she was gone, and had
his share of the pleasure in hearing
commendation of* one he loved.
He wore the necktie, and made him
self so much at home that Sabina wept
some of the bitterest tears of her life
when he left.
“ To have you both, and lose you I”
she sobbed.
j “ Nest t'tne we will come together,”
Fred whispered, and consoled her.
Hut alas ! the next time Fred came
was to superintend the funeral of the
gentle old lady, and although Cordelia
came too, his happy wife, there was no
welcome in the pule lips or the bluo
eyes closed forever.
Hut the will the old lady left gave
all her worldly possessions to her “ dear
nephew, Frederick Gorham,” the farm
and the farmhouse.
It was apparently no very great lega
cy, and Cordelia smiled at many of the
old fashioned treasures, as she touch
ed all with tender reverence death
leaves.
leu years ago Sabina was laid to rest
in her narrow coffin, and there is a
busy, flourishing town fouud on the site
of|the old farm.
Mr. biederick Gorham lives thero
now, and hand'es immense sums of mon
ey, the rents of stately buildings.
. “ Made his sir, by Specula*
tions,” you will ce told J f you enquire
as to his income; “ fortunate purchase
of ground before the town was thought
of.” °
Hut I who know, tell you that the
only speculation he made was, in the
kmdness of his heart, extending loving
attentions to his father’s sister, and that
the only land he ever owned was Aunt
Sabina’s farm.
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Procrastination.
Delays are dangerous, says the old
proverb, and it is a very true one. It
is not always best to act upon the mo
ment's impulse, especially if it is an an
gry one; hut in the normal 6tate of
mind, the impulses of an honest heart
are worth hearing. And when one’s
conscience says suddenly, “ This is best
do it,” ten to one conscience is
right.
“ Strike while the iron is hot,” is
borrowed from the blacksmith’s expe
rience, and he knows how necessary it
is to carry it out. So, in many things
in this life, the moment at which hearts
are melted and softened is the time for
action. Wait, and those hearts grow
cold, and other interests stir them, anil
it is all too late.
Hotter he rash than slow. It takes an
immense capital to be slow upon ; a little
one will sometimes do, if used on the
spot. In business this is certainly so.
In amiost all affairs of life at least one
takes the chances of ruin or success, and
that is better thau to creep slowly to
disappointment.
Life is not long enough for procras
tination. Youth is not long enough ;
hope and energy leave us too soon tnbe
tiifled with. As for love, how many a
man has lost the woman he wanted just
because he did not ask her in time !——
How many a woman has trifled with an
honest love, and feared and trembled,
until the hope deferred, which makes
the heart sick, and turned it from her.
If you have a thing to do, do it; do
it now if you can. Hetter fall with a
crash than have the moss grow over
you, and stand a desolate, useless ruin.
\\ e all know how a chasm, which slow,
methodical, pains-taking considerations
would prove to us could not be cleared
at all, may be crossed by a sudden run
and leap. Wo all know how in a mo
ment of excitement we have strength
which surprises ourselves, and which
we could not coolly summon. So with
mental action. The quicker the bettef,
as a genera.' thing. At least, do not
procrastinate; do not pass hours that
should be spent in action, in idle dream
ing. Take life in your hands; and for
weal or woe, go on with it fearing noth
ing, hoping everytning, leading even its
furlorn hopes with a soldier’s spirit to
the very end. And you shall have a
blighter present, and richer draughts
as you go on, and fewer dregs whenVne
cup is emptied.
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At Night.— Here is one of Thack
eray’s pleasant touches : “It is right
now, and here is home. Gathered un
der the quiet roof, elders and children
m alike at rest. In the midst of a
great calm the stars look out from the
heavens. The silence is peopled witfr
the past sorrowful remorse for sins and
shortcomings, memories of passionate
and gi iefs rise out of their graves,
both now alike, calm and sad. Kyes,
as I shut mine, look at me, that have*
long since ceased to shine. The town
and the fair landscape sleep under the
starlight, wreathed under the autumn
mist. Twinkling among the houses, a
light keeps watch here and there in
what may be a sick chamber or two
The clock tolls sweetly in the silent air.
Here is night and rest. An awful sense
of thanks makes the heart swell and
the head bow, as I pass to my room'
through the sleeping house, and feel as*
though a hushed blessing were upon
So Sa\ £ All - -—A man who yes
terday dropped two cents’ worth of maif
matter into the postoffice box, and had
to pay six cents to do it, went over and”
stood by one of the windows and said :
“May Hannibal Hamlin, of Maine,
have the bilibu9 colic, the ague, th,e
gout, the jaundice, corns, bunions, boils,
and the buckwheat scratches from this
day noon for the next fifty years to*
come ''’—Detroit Free Press: