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A mournful tone which tells of death; A tire whose embers scarce are burning? A spirit to its Cod returning; A buu extinguished from its place, Thus all things end cave Cod! Thus all tilings end! ah! said we so? Can aught have end that lives below? Is nothingness the cud ofstrile? And void the crowning point of life! Annihilation! is tlieie aught? Save madness in monstrous thought? We boldly sav a thing is ending; We mean some change is o'er it ponding; For matter changed, and changed must ho Forever, like some, changing sea; Thus all things change save Cod! Tlio year is ending, quickly Hying, Yet lingering still among us, dying; With faltering footsteps, failing fast, A few moie days and then the last, llis hooks are < '? sed; each broken vow Recorded there against us now, in leart iil gameuess there must stay; Eaeli thought, PActli 8C*?ne, now p.insed awav; Aye, past ami ended though they be, Tie end of all things we Shall see; But t lut end is not yet. Where goes tli* candle when it dies? The leal", the music, summers sighs? A tinish'd thought, a woild, a death, Where is I lie home ot parted breath? Where goes a year, an age, nay. thine? Where is the end, the. great sublime? All, all but u^uler round their Bring, The (?reau(, Omnipotent, All seeing; .Unending, an 1 unchanged forever; In vain the end Irotn Uitn we serveAll ends are uid in tied! Only Just This Once, j A STORY OF UKOOli LV S. ItY MISS M. R. CYISSl.OW. [Published by Request.) iin,.t.i ..?a ..I..... i.... :. .i : - ?v/n" J jur t WHO *#i ill, J I l(lll> ! OllC. lie a 1)1 Ml, not :i b;lb\\ main?<iy j will go up to Maine* and tell mother." I Ami Ji:n, rather than b-Mi* the worst j ol reproaches? that of :i "mother : k > v' ?* wallows l ne lirst gl'ir>*> ol lienor i which lias ever been within In* lips, j and to tell 11 to 1111111, < i?; t k not like k i At all. But lie? "oilier h-Ilow.s" I;*?i?rf\. I n ! pat him on the back, call linn a man, : ami the H itlcjy he'ps smooth out l lie | wry lnoe ami wash down the nnpiia- | table dose. ".J .i8t this one <*igar?all the boy# J smoke; vouM' get to like it." Ami the dizziness ami nausea o( thatfiistci- j gar an? paid for by the reputation ol j manliness anions his companions. "J usl this one?. The boys are go- ! tng to have u good lime; it slui'ii'l i c<?*t you anything." Jiiu is more easily persuaded nov/ j and Llis .first evening is spent at a low theater, followed >up with an hour or two at a bar-room. Ii is by no means j the last, lor the bar-room is w arm and i pleasant., while his boarding house attic is void ami cheerless. Tluvre good stories told there, luerry gitim** ! ol cards, pleasant companions, and, i above all, glasses ot lienor, of vvliteh ' he is learning to l>e very loud. Are you one 01 inese .nms.r Did you come from a country home pine I and true, loving voui mother and . meaning to be u bussing and honor to ! her when you should have gained uu honorable. position in the city? Have I you listened to the voice ol "manly" ! companions, ami followed their iu'auij)le and persuasion* to do what you never supposed you could u hen you leit home? Have .loneliness and pleasant company driven you to week amusement in this bar-room where we find you to-day? Then listen to the rent of this true stoiy ol Jim. Jim w;^ only sixuvn, and he w as a ' member of a JJib o class, and still an attendant. Uut one Sunday utloruooii the tempters came around him and said: "Only just, this once, Jim; let piety' alone lor to-day. Old Soapy locks will get on just as well without yum lor once; and we are going to have! such fun." So 4,just for once," though with j many misgivings, Jim turned Ins back 1 i>n the church that, Sunday afternoon, and went with his friends to have l4!un." It be only could have known! lint (iod never lets us see the es >1 dial may belall us it we wiltully diso- i livy 11 im. It ih enough that lit? give* iiKUommaiul which would k? r|> us hi <ate:y it' we obey it. rlJ?e "tun1' consisted in fleeing how ^ ) many liquor Htorea would sell iLteiu "drinks," although, it S onlay, and ill were supposed to be cJoxcd. 1 hey ! [ouiui plenty, and aiuuseJ them we Iv?*s with thinking how "mad" they could ] make the proprietors it tkejr were to iniorai against them the next morn- j mg. I?ut they were all young and not i juito used to so nni.iy glasses, and drey began to get very tipsy, so at i iuiit was iiighLtalJ now. One said; ' ^ -| >~x7r" _jl ^Vii liidepei A. V BOKO, W. 0., SATL "('oine, fallows, wu'vo had enough j of this; let's turn into the next place j and see who can drink tiio most glasses; then we'll go home.* This proposition met with general approbation, though a tew went home then. Tue others went in and several said: 41 Let's see ii we can't break Jim down; he's sott.' Uut Jnn overheard this speech. His spirit w as up, and w hat he had already drunk had done aw ay w ith hisdieretion; so he drank with one, and diank alone, j and when, one after another, all his ! companions had slunk of!', he was there ! drinking still. "Tut that young fellow out," said the proprietor to his two liar-tenders at about one o'clock in the morning; "he's had more than is good lor hint, and its time to shwt up.' .... -i * k3<> UIU I HO llll'II rOilKffi J ?? >. > 1* <4 1 111 T I who, furious with the iulei riiption lo i Ins slumbers, Miuggled ami fought wildly t.ll they got lam out inI?> the j street. When the door was cloned,, lie j begged pitifully, in an incoherent man- i ner, to be let in again to the warm \ room. One bar-lcmler lunched, and j i lie oilier said: 'Poor bo\ 1 it's a! shame; there ought. to be some one lake care ol bun." But they did not i let him in, and thai, was the last thai j any one ever heard ol poor Jim. lie imusi have st umbled along a lew yaids, and then erept into I lie nearest i urea, and sunk to sleep under the I step; lor there 111poihvemnn iouu i him at live o'eloe.U tout bitter winter morning, with his lieau on *u up< timed basket for a pi'lovv, stone dead ? dia l without a parting word mmiii s:iy one, with no mother's bund to wipe the death-damp from his brow; dead at sixteen, with ail the possibilities ol Iiih hie be I ore him, In* short lite over, and an endless elernit y ot' hell begun. For what? For "just one" glass of li'juor, "just one" cigar, "just one" evening at.a salaloon, "just, oiitj" Sunday afternoon's J ' Man." Dear Iriend, think ol bis mother's agony, think ot his lathei's despmir, ?u the injury to his brothers and sisters I im < i * -11 > t.? i ii" I I? I" f Think ol what h hrautilul tiling liic may he, what hii awl'nl thing hi ll must be, ami what udrcadtul thing a drunkaid's dentu is, and say it you really | think it Was worth t lie sacrifice. Kul you s..\: "1 am not ?i hoy; 1 can slop when I will. It won't liurt mi1. ' Can yon? Will it no ? Do you not drtn.v more than you ?1 i?i a Vear iigo? Arc you as strong? Is your digestion as good? Are you a.^ good a man as \ ou were a l>ov? I Would your m uher he ?rI;j 1 to iind j vou where we have found von? You : y eunuol a newer ibes.* (picstions. Vou know that you have entered upon that path which can have hut one ending. N.ow -just lor one/;' listen to me; | "just lor once" put down tiiat glass, pour out its contents, and never have it filled again. "Just lor once*' tell ; your companions that you will not enter a liar room again. And ll you are cold and lonely in your tmurdiug-pluiH! i and don't know where to spcud your evening, '"just tor oiiee' go to some prayer meeting; you wiil Hud it as warm, and friends will greet you with loving Ileai I.e. Tin u, hvt yon fall again ii:to temptation, "ouly just till* once,' hut or.ee r,:id forever, give yourseil to the oh-wr Lord Jesus Cnrist, who gave his precious hie lor Vi?u. and who will ln-. i. you in Mm mioii^, loving ujijih, hu<j J give you grave to yii'icoiue every mm. Think how much happier your ! lite * ill he then j bow iuu .*I) bell. r your death than inui ol '"poor Jim." ! in railing you now; will yoi. | iislen "just iIim once?'?TeutptranctX The (ho iu. J. T. TrezevaiH, of Aii^utu, Aikan- j sus, in answer to inquires 1 com several j persons, a riles lo the Louisville (Jour- | lei-Jotuiiul, Mini gives the hollowing uocount ol his experience w, An the ch u lit. 1 he soil ol this county is w>. i! adapLeo 1 to l.he growtli and cultivation ol : this plant. \\ ny not our tanners try j .1? OH UK A. TlfcO Agricultural Jiureati :tt Wash- J iiigloii says it is a plant or inn, iui- j ported into this country about I Mo or | IboO /rom the houlli ol Franco. I shall nay j??st u li.il 1 know 01 it Ironi oxperiiiwuils It tastes much hko the ' Ooco.niui -no! unite as hwool or neb. j During tin- laic unpleasantii^k, 1 got i a quail fiom .Mobile, where ll * an' advertised a* "chnia, or carih alumnd.1 FoiJnwmg directions, 1 planted ll at I1 Columbia, ,S. <J., in poor sandy soil,!1 ami raised at least ton bushels from > one eighth ol ui aero. W'mcii gallior- ; ed, washed ami dried a few day*, il in eaten like peanut-, and seems lo acl on ll e system as lion do. Though oily, il never otleiids tin; stomach, and is 1 preferred to the [icanut. When dried, parched ajid ground like oolKo, j il makes excellent chocolate, Out. little iniuiioi to the guiuiuc article. As, % 4 ? * 1 * - *"- ~ "h Jl l_j idoiit Jouni;il. I It DAY, FElJltU AltY ni&wwiflMttTVMMMBMMMUNrvnMunnm jnx ? delicaeit s wei'c Hi'iirco during thw war, my lamily olten hail eliula ready l<? tier to our visitors. A tablespoonlul ol it, parched ami ^roinul, vill soon tilt a room with its ploaseant aroma Its chief merit, however, is as food lor 1 poultry ami pijJJs ami breed sows. 1'ijjTH tml poultry will not loueh corn | until lho ehula is eaten, tl both are jjfiven them. Of course nothing takes the place ol corn lor latt'Miinj* ho^s lov | market. Chufa seems to eanse rapid I growth ol pij;**, hut I le ver led it to jjrowii hogs. Alter a time it tl ivors the flesh ot poultry, besides m iking it tender fat, ami juiev. ('I'l l IV I I In this latitude, say Memphis, it j should not he planted betoYu April, nor later titan At.\y; earlier or later I ml lifer South or North. Prepare lilt' ground hy doop plowing, and I lot the rons or hods ho about i w o toot j apart and about lour inches above llio ' level, or about as cotton rows are prepared, I?.?f. not. so wide apart. Tito ground should b-' well puI \ 011I and j tree t?t o.hulH. l'ltnt the nuts a toot i apart. in t.t?<*. ror? s, Ono in each pi.too. aid uhoul km tilt h drop. They d?> j not dts'p. In >t him k or ten j (tuvs a spire ol gra>.s v,*ill shoot, up; then another and a no hoi', tin il, hy August, each nut Kill j?av*r a bunctl ol grass over it six inches in diameter ei/hteen inches high. In A.upuH and S ptembor, when everything ri-?' may be parched by hoi, dry sun an Ox K'rttt Iter, the chula \>> as green as srin cr wheat, !? seems to defy dtout ft, aim | the or;isH does not bwgin to lade until | host, It should not by Withered unt.j! December as it is all lite lime putting 1 out new t a In vs. in southern Alalia-| tna and Ueorgiu it in sulK'i'ed '?> r*inatn in the ground ; il winter. When 1 yo.i wish to gather it, lak" the tub ??l i gra?a in your lumi an 1 pull it up. It comes up very easily, ami tin* nuts are ' round in n ik>i, ill tin* root* ol the lull, ll you do not. eare to gather it, turn \ our Mini and young pips on it. I hey will root up the ground most thoroughly, and chickens and turki ys will scratch fair it. horn iKorumg till night. Some have thought it the common gra-s nut ol the count i y, hut 1 it is very different. The bl?des o| I grass are identieHl, lutt the <o iiuaiv glass nut tuns everywhere, ?od oltcn I s"ndk roots u. loot deep into the earth, | w !.. re (Mic or iv) nuts ure I on ml to the I j nuts. idle chain does mil ran ai ail. ! and I he tin's are ail l-og?-lher in i a hnneh. The common g .-tss mil | will soot: lake possession ol u god'-u. The ehuta die- uiilean i-uilivaU'ii, a* it. does not spr in I. When wanted for eat in*/, wash the dirt. of}', dry it a day or two in the Mtn, j ami it is a delicacy. Wit Kit It TO OKI II. I produced mine, last June, from Mr. Moel (1 think that is the name),; the editor of the ftgnce M n? *1 department ol the Mehiie ltegistcr, Monde, Ala. II e wiote me thai it vscarce, as the deitiHiui tvss great; hat rr<>t tor i me i wo quart* at ttliy cents per qu art.. 1 dint rihuuul that among my Ixrmer ; ii lends in this county, w no tn?w have enough lor a good plxnting litis i spring. Though 1 did ie>t get it nil June, I raised more than a gallon 1mm ] twenty lour lulls, in a lot that hud no | miii for hall the day. <),.( hut died | husUels pi-r acre is a sure c??q>. Keep | the earth loos", .is iu cultivating saeel potatoes, and keep tin; weeds and other grass away. A one horse plow ^lil keep the earth in g.e?d condition, it run between the ro a e whenevu r it begins io he hard an i diy As in every thing else, plant the largest and hest | iiu's lor a good yield. I <i<? net know that. Very rich ground will produce; much more limn thin hoiI. ."Sandy i?> on is i>?-si, as hcing more poms. Maine's Mischief. Mark Antony, in lhe pi iy ol "Julius 1 *ivi,^* is not a lovaide cliai icier , lo hjs great qualities, his courage, boitlin.'ss ami wit, are >uhed an lined loua tieto igogm-ry whose enuring d:*piny is one ol i he gteatcsl 'riuiupns t .Shakespeare. Dangling the picreetl robe ol the tie.nl I u'-tr beiore the yes ol the limn u: rabble, hesti h their hearts to muliuy while d.-pireating Kity lumtiit. lie brandish s f jcair's will, mini as the infinite d po- I nuUi I' rush tdi'ln h n i tie I 111' ha.iiM.-s |<I i In; cons pirn m* lie rushes ?lowu ami I'l'll'S Willi ii ixl.sll C\tlilltl lilll : - Now !ci it. work. Mis- hint", t!?o i arc afoot: 1 aki; tin; course 111v> i ii o. it Jam?s (v. Maine. after his Am tit r*on\ illo speech, h.nl sat for tin* picture ?it Marcus Anioni s, the poet Would not have changed a 1-1 lie. lie(ki't'ii the "curled Antony" ami Maine there i*. however, a striking i|it)i*rence. The otic liehl op the lotie ot C'aisur, newly slain; tin- oilier gesticulates, as, with uiuthlc lingers, he luihlrt uj> t lie mouldering grave clothes o! I ln> I'liion lieu I whose corpse* he turns over in their sepulchre to tret lIk* aiuKings ot a parly flag. Outside <>i ili?? iniit *ii|y in lIn* House ot Kcprem niHtivt'H who cheered deliriously :it llie ily speech, we may ask, en.ii Ulaine awake any other leciiiig than dls yi.?; a? uie r>*i?M'ed cci>mi ills o. ?kc ^ \\?' r?, 1870. NO. 0. dead I'nion soldiers drop to pioces in bin busy lingers ? The ?lo;i?4 of the Union shall never be forgotten, but the ghoul who robs the graves to make a parly Hag shall not bo thought a hero. The Hag to sweep the country must boot fairer bunting than can bo woven Iron) the "bloody shirt" of Morton or the "grave clothes" ol Blaine. There is one oth^r view of (Maine posturing as the IL-pu'dinan .Mark Antony which must not be forgotten, lor it is, in Mr. Blaine's eyes, ol the greatest moment ? namely, llow will it lull fir Blaine? Able anil cunning, with the Antouiun llavor of ostentations blunlness, he lets his wishes appear as the unJercurta n., lather than the li?le, of his speech. Like Anionv in his most efi'usivc sentences he would be read between tlie lines. When he lied precipitately to the e.lo tk room to dodge the thild l< rut vote lie let his hailing excuse ol delicacy On account of bung spoken o| as a I'residential candidate lull t lie under story tliat lie only refrained frotn striking Grant's anibiiion because lie loved Grant. It is the I;iu11 ol such men to reason too linely Willi I linnscl \ os, -Mil c.vpert the world to In* cozened witli a hall uttered thought. .Mr. Klainc knows t hat his fignt will) Mr. Iliil, in which the latter deserves io he heat en a-* inneli as Ihaine deserves to be censured, is a doubt Inl advantage t,o liimsell, Urutus said to Antony al> I'hilij'l'i The post mo of your Mows are yet unknown: and this may he repeated to Mlaidn; l.tT .as Antony was hut. clearing the way' lor yonne Oct avian Caesar to juonrit the throne over Antony's corpse, so the blows ol i'diine may tell for (infill, whom iilninc loved too mneli to destroy as a i'residential candidate-? a delicacy that (Irani is not likely to reeiprorate it the gate to a third term is hut left ajar. ? A'. 1. Herald. \ l'ni tlifii' ."Sketch. Let a man lail in business, what : n i fL-et it has on his i rni'T creditors ! Men who have liken lu.n) by the arm a tolled and chatted with hint by the hour, shrug their shoulders and pass on with a eohl 4*how do you do V" Kvery tiille of a hill is hunted up and presented thai would not have seen the light lor months to eonie, hut for liie misfortune ot the delator. It it is psid, well and good; it not, the scowl of the sheriff, perhaps, meats him at the corner. A man that has never failed knows hut little of human nature.. In prosperity lie sails along gently, wafted by favoring smiles and kind v/orda from everybody. Ho prides hlc:-\-!' on his name ami spotless character, and makes his boast that iie has not an enemy in the world. Alas ihe change.?He looks at the world in a different light when reverses come upon him. lie hardly knows how to move or to do this thing or the other; there are spies about him, a w rist, is ready for his hack. To know what, kind ol stutl th" world is made of, a person must he unfortunate and stop paying once in Ins Iilotime. If lie has kind mends, then they aro made manifest. A failure is a moral seive, it brings out the wheat and shows the chaff. A man thus learns that words ami pretended good will are not ami do not constitute real I Headship. Don't imc in a ill kkv. (five me a w hi.-key cocktail right (juirk, I 'm in an awful hurry," said an lmpalicntI u.kiiig individual, as lie rushed, mto.i wes tern! bar-room " t tun, ' said the very sH I-oomi posed tni\'er ol tloeoetion -is li?; slowly turned away u> tin mo Mp I or. "vim oucl to haw ki t f t?> 1 tartier, mill you would u<?i havo huon iu such :i devil ol u hurry" "was that your In si whisky?" asked i In* oustniiier less agil alcd after ho had swalio v 1 lilt* contents oi loo it weren't, i'ii rt I y relum-d I' ? )?:?? k<ii?. ol*. Ml)o v >u think I it lo .i no-i.r'i lo put good whiskey :u ? coe kt nl l' m'l throw away lino liquor that vvav. t n pin any kind ol rot-gut in a ooekiiil naiic'ti (lie wim-v, ami that's more prolit lo mo, you know." A I'sicmrf, ? To ai?i imuvrs in arriving at accura -y in as.-ort-oni i j Iht uino'iul of lan i in different li- blunder cultivation, ' ho following lahle is given hy an agricult nr.il paper: 1' ive Vartls wide hy "JoS yards lon?_f, eon'ninK one acre; 10 yards wide hy list yards long, contains one acre: 20 yards wide by 242 yuids long, cout aina ,?mo acre; Jo yards wide by 1 J 1 yardsJong, contain*, one acre; 100 yards vtnlo by ;ju | yaidlong contain one ac.iv; 220 lei t wide I?y 198 leet long contain one acre; I M leet wnlc I?y MOO leet long, contains one acre; 00 leet wide by 720 leet long contains one acre. A Portland man, caught halting for trout on another man's land the oilier .ii?y, completely silenced the owner who remonstrated wile the majestic answer, "Who wants to catch your tiout? I am only trying to drown this worm." i .? I ADVERTISEMENTS I? ?? - t?- *t M.'H) jier vpi:?re fr- first, ll.lv .vnis t'?r .Miri) subsequent InsMtiou. an f j One iiH'h *i? irc wiil const! tut 1 .1 ?q uar# 1 wlmi'iM* in brevier or display typ ; !? ? tbu# 1111 incl will Iki charged for as 4 s j mo. ilui notions free. Deohs ami Funeral notions fre<?. U?ii ;i<nm notions of one square f ?n. A liUoal discount will be to t.hos# ,1 Iv?m tiHoinnnts ,are to bo ccpt lu lo j in iliis? <?i longer. T11E BOSS SNORE It. An Incident of a Washoe 1.mitring llnihe. I , After the fir? old man Milliard found I lodgings on South street, lie got a hod in ;i large rootn containing two other ueds that wore ocoupi ?d. Mr. Mallard is a huge, fat, good* ? iture I and very entertaining man. Th ? proprietor ol tho lodging hous? w u j much pleased with Milliard, an I laughed at his jokes the first *vcnin * 'of hi* arrival at his place till t?a < I rolled down his cheek-*. TV* nun who were to he dullard'* room mates 1 also thought well of hiin?that evi . I ing. The next morning, how>*\.- ^ thoy looked sad and red-eyed. Tln-u they went to the landlord and told him that he must find some other ] J*I.icc for Mr. Ihillard, a* he was suoli j a teiTthle snoror they eouldiPt stand him. "l'lii! l:in llonl's rooms were ;ill : occupied, :t11 I :io h:ol no plane for ihill.ii*>! hut j i t where he was, Tba J c.ompl lilting lo 'gers loft, an>l "in two or thrco weih' two other men were put ii''.') the vacant beds, Hull**-* made short work of thorn; opc night, let thorn out. The landlord sought nil interview w'nh Ihillard and ruinousi rated with him. Ihillard stoutly assert i ! that hod I not snore ?had never been known ' ? snore, The landlord j had to give Ihi iard up as a ba*f bargain, and tur icii his attention to j look1 iig up lodg rs with which to fill } bts vue.inl lied*. lie found men to lake the bed-*, hut again Ihillard eh'Mtn'il tfiem out in a single night, ( rowing desperate, the landlo d ag.ti i we" t to t hill aid. He told him ho I must eh her loive the house or p?. / rent for all the ' edsiu the room ? %f.?. net* n>.uiit Ii I'? H'i ril ci i.l m I. i? . | I * * - 4^ i v was a bargain; lie had paid $15 I? r hed, and In* into uied keeping it until his month was U|?. ami he djdt.'t ptc* ! no-p to ;>ay ("i* heds he had no u lor; In* loln'iHii we, and the man wh ? assi'Mol to the contrary was a "liar ami a horselhiot." Tim landlord I n very much donr< ssed a:ter this Ian interview with l? Hard, as In? saw Im : was iletermined t?r?t to he n mov? I ! (rem his quarter A rimming or two I after, as Ihiliurd* laddlnrd was goii> j down town, It-saw standing in his door a hiot her I ?dging ||miis?* man. 14 I'll ink h cava a lie's ? ? r-* " maid the man as lltiilar I'm landlord eanui uji. i 44'i naiik heaven, I'm lid ot him at i ium!" j u! lid of xhoin ?" J u\Vhv, "| the t?ilt tat man you I yonder waddling down the aired." 14 \V hat of him ? ' ixK io-ioJi of him! He cleaned nearl3* cv.ry man on* o{ my house hp* fore he I' M. 1'iiev wouldn't nt??p in the ?au>e Mock with that snorting, Falsi if!l m porpoise sir!" 4,iie's s good jne, is he?" 44A L'oorl one? lie's a perh'Ct tpr? rorl lie's more different kinds ot a snorer than any man I ever heard, and every time he changes hi i kev it | is for the worse. While I had him hero crowds were gathering in front ol ihe iio.ise nigh'ly wondering what i W f\S the lil.'i I I ei* vi/ i' li i ii it ? I. <. . .<-.1. .? . . * . f ??i"? viiv? imh n r came in one night thinking some one j was being in 11 r lered. My dog r:ir\ away, and :ill the csUh lelt the house, | Kir!" i 4,And the man you pintcd out tome ' is I his snorer ?" <4\'es, miv, ho is. and rwav he Hurst!"' <40lood lay, sir!" and BnlbirdN landlivrd hastened down the strooi. * * Tho next morning with th?- tirst p 'r|) of day, Bnllird, pnftin and blowing, rushed in tlio pnssenee ot his land lord. t4\Vhil are you trying to play upon in<'? 1 said be; 4ll never slept a wink all night. Ot all 'he internal homos I over tieard that mm in my room got 1 oil' t he worst. Is he going 'os'.yy hoiv?" ''Stay? o? oours he is. Hain't be go i i h?* bed tor a i'. mth?" j *4 rtwii I leave." And Ballard was as got?d as ins wor 1 An ho r atierwi i? rho m n vv'm had oils* (] Bn third ar i-e h I * a ' I ??d m v noly into the presse oo ot ths ! I 11 d o|- |. y * i v ? ? !*? 'Fio.l him out,"" t%? landlord. mV?mi raised him; )\?\ 'on<e tor ?f<> i\" i i J th?? | t m < 11??r I nl!y rnl'tK'it ins hun U. "Now," cohI nue I the ln?? "'or , "I'll tfive you a r., K<jii-ire breakfast, anA then you . m g*> " "<th" said ilie fat man "not uvieU i don't. Iihlu't you say last evening in the piem-muee.it' liuilard km) half .1 dozen othtTM ihal 1 wAH to stay her J *, ttloiu |,y?? , 4,Uu? 'hat you know waa only t ~ n u1 ke ev vum king of the kind, i f shall mi ty two3 i am human; i n-t have m.. ue j?uee in which to re;? -e!m jb i The .u ihir t ts now trying t > i;et -j$ some man to m-i tip some kind <?i machine in hi* house that will oust the i) *moor, wlio now has the whole place t?i hiin-.eh except a small ro in tii a corner ot the third sVory, where tie ftii'' ' >s wife spend their uight* ia * 1 rnis? raMo * ay\