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THlE Sixth A::a .l S 'lo of th:is School 'will commnee ':n Munday , -1Louary 8h AI. RJates of tuitio l fulows : Kndlikh'Grannaatzr and Geogrpay... 4') 00 Pupils will be charged fromn the time of .admiesn to the end on i- '. Board . bta:.ather with the Principal, or in the neighhoo,: it 81 2.00 per month. Nov. 2', 4s-um. .R. IHPS , . D.S (GradEte of the fT t college or Dentol Surn *ry 0 OfIce over McFaU t1i'tio- t ore. My patients recanve b:- h : o al the latest improve:nent' . n :he pofe n..... Speciasttentionl gr -oln c hrrctini of Ir reglarities in Children's Teth. The patrona oif the wnab i retfully a.licited Termrs vce moder.aze. Sep. 27, 39-r i. J EO. S. HA KER, Door, Sash, ad Bliad Factory, CIIARLESTON, S. C. This is as Ia r' et' n ') em:!e e a Factory there is in the Cou. j We keep no .\eri work to fill coin try orders. Address GE.ii - I.KER, P. 0. Box Factory andHe areroos, Kim: i:reet, op. posite C'annon .St., on .:t of Cu:. Rhailway. Sep. 6, 39-l. iRricks.BridksBidcs! GOOD BRECKS! 400,000 BRIThKS FOR S E At the Brick aard E. H. CHRISTIAN. tee IlrO Cf);Th Oct. &e 110 Nu"h: 1: tofl.vul Posesing powerful iavigorat:ng These Bitters ae posi ively inva~lable in They purify the system, ad win cu.re SBemittecnt ad Iniermitent levers, and are a preveathro ot Cills and Fever. A11 yield to their pov;crfal cficacy. Are an antidote to change of WYater and I et. to the wasted framte, and correct a3l Will savre-days of suffering to the sick, and The grand Panace~.a fcr a the ilf lie. RSiM . : mm 3ITTERS esA &WIlX In YourorO.L Mria or Sin::e, these 1:': ers aen equaled c:d L.ve e I: .Al h ' TRY ONE UO T E Parents! Guardians! Note! BOARD, with TuIrrioN in En-isih, French, L-iin, Greek, .ilahema.ics, Hook keeping, and Sarveying in the fitIlds, for 42 wvecks, from lst Marcl vext, for ONLY $126! Instruction, analvtical., practical, thor o1:h. Governnt, parental. Climate, deiightful. Scenery, beautiful. 'leasc ad dress, immledliate-lyr, R EV. D. McNEILL TURNEI, D.D., Jan. 3, 1-3m. Brevard, N. 0. [IEWBERRY FEMA[E: HD"VI XY A. P. PIFER, M. A., Principal. Miss FANNIE LEAVELL,: Assistant. Prof. F. WERBER, Musical Dept TiE Exercises of the above School will be resuid on the :l dAN.A RY, 1S72. Tuition fromn 2.50 to 1.50 per month. No Incidental Fees. pils wIll be ciarge'd !ri- date (if en. tranev to the enld of the Sesson. No re duedon except in cases of' protracted ill For particliar., &e., apply to S. P. 800%EIR, Esq., Sec. B'd. COL. iz. P.l ,lres't. Dec. 27, 52-tf 000mu, Sashos, Blids, & , Manu:tturer*and Dealer, No. 20 Hayne Street and Horl'oeck's Wharf, CHARLESTON, S. C. [7 Tnh, is te harge-t amd mo.t complete Fav;(orv of the kind in the tou:hern States, and all ariiesv:5 in this line c.in be frrnished by .ir. P. P. TO.UK at prices wshich defy coletition. :1, A pilet with fill and detniled list of all 'izes of. I>).ors, :a.Ahec an1 Witills. and the prices of e:ch. will Ic sent free and post paid, on aliion to P. P. TOALE, <. LARLEST N, S. C. July 12, 2S-1y. 100 Pieces New Style Prints. 50 Pieces Poplins. Mohair Plaids. Corded AIlpacca. New and Desirable Styles at LowPres BY Nov. 22,-17 -tf'. TiIlE urnders'igned havxxingt been aippointeni age'nt for the sale of LU M lEf, is now pr'e nre to furrni,h :nvi=Unount tof goodl sawed 1-1.N: .an.i O.AK LUMDER, on R.SN *Aif E TE::nS. Cosaon handro a large suipply of i:ARTl l'IN'. sliiNGLESF.. ALll comr' uti eions on tie ubjet of' L' ioner wiill be rornuptly an-werdc. IB S. .J.t'.ES, Atrent, Dec. 27, :32----:3. Walhall.i, S. C. V IC K'S FLORAL GUIDE For 1872. THlE First Edition (of Two 1!rsoNtiEt Ttots.unr copies just published. It is ele-i gatly printed on tine tinted paper, in Two LCtos, anid illustrated with ore- ThreeI lundred Engrat ings of Flowers and \egetables, andI TWO COLORED PLATE S. 1The most beautifurl anid instruetive Oata ou:e and Flora:l Guide in the wiord 1 2 pags, gi vinrg throrough: di rections fir :hLe cultunre of Fiowers and \~egetable's, or :n!emingt grounds, mnakingz walk.s, &'e. A C!,ri.tnIaS present for my~ eurtomers, hrt forwi:dd to any ntho app1ly by mail, fir TE CE.its, only one-.quar:tcr tihe cost. Address, JAiMIES VICK, Jan;. :3, 1-tf. R~Ot ESTER, N. Y. TilE SEDSCRIl BER has constan;ly o :ula f:H a1sortanent of the above arppi ove d eaise5, of 'nitet:rnt patter'ns, besides co'llim0 of his ow n maise, ail of whic'h ihe is pirepared o lar:.oih at ve'ry re:asonablte rates, with pop i:ess and dest.atch. P'ersons desirous of haLving cases sentt byv ril d will h.ivec thirn sent tree of' chtarg. A I le:rse is al ways on hiatnd and will be frnirsed at the r.te of sIn per day. Thankful f''hr p it pa'o;:age, thle sub scriber resn :5 '. -fo a cot:nlintanon 50 BUSHELS GREENVILE MEA -. U . G i T Mighty Sociable. The following extract is from Mar Twain's ne book, entitled "Roughin it," now in process of publication. It i an amusing illustration of a back settler view of New York life: In Nevada there used to be currev the story of an adventure of two of he nabobs, which may or may not hav occurred. I give it for what it i worth. Colonel Jim had seen somewhat of tb world, and knew more or less of it way; but Colonel Jack was from th back settlements of the States, h. ' led life of arduous toil, and had neve' .ee a city. These two, blessed with sudde we-dth, projected a visit to New York Colonel Jack to see the sights, ar.d Col onel Jim to guard his unsophisticatio: from misfortune. They reached Sai Francisco in the night, and sailed in th morning. Arriving in New York, Col onel Jack said: "I've heard tell of ,narriages all n life, and now I mean to have a ride ii one; I don't care wbat it cos*.. Com! along." They steppel out on the sidewalk, an Colonel Jim called a stylish barouche But Colonel Jack said : "No, sir! None of your cheap-Johi turn-outs for me. I'm here to have : good time, and money ain't any object I mean to have the noblest rig that' going. Now here comes the very trick Stop that yaller one with the picture on it-don't you fret-I'll stand all th expenses myself." So Colonel Jim stopped an empty om nibs, and they got in. Said Colone Jack "Ain't it gay, though ? Oh, no, reckon not! Cushion, and windows and pi-tures, til! you can't rest. Wha would the boys say if they could see u cutting a swell like this in New York By George, I wish they could see us." Then he put hi bead out of the win dow and shouted to the driver: "Say, Johnny, this suits me !-suit: yours truly, you bet! I want this she bang all day. I'm on it, old man ! Le 'ecim out: Make 'em go! We'll mnaki it all right With you, sonny !" The driver passed his hand througI the strap-hole and tapped for his fare I was before the gongs came in commoi use. Colonel Jack took the hand, an< 4ho,k it cordially. Ile said: "You twig me, old pard ! All righ etwe'n gents. Smell of that and seo bow yonu like it!" And he put a twenty dollar gold pieci into the driver's hands. Af:er a mo ment the driver said he could not mak :hange. "Bother the change! Ride it out Put it in your po(:ket." The oniihus stopped and a youn; lady got in. Colonel Jack stared for momient, then nudged Colonel Jim with is eli>'w. "D)on't say a word," he whispered 'Let hcr rid'e if she wants to. Gracious theres roomn enough.' 'rhe young ladly got out her porte monnaie and handed her fare to Golone Jac'k. "What's this fo,r ?" said lie. "Give it to the driver, please." "Take back your money, imadame We can't allow it. You're welcome t< ride here as long as you please, but thi, sheang's chartered, we shaiit let yot pay a cent." T1he girl shrunk into a corner, hiewild red. An old ladyv wimh a basket climbec in, and proff'ered her fare. "Excuse me," said Colonel Jack. "You are pei fecily welcome here, mad rtmn', but we can't allow you to pay' Set right down ther'e, mum, and don' yo be the least uneasy. Make your self as free as if you was in your owr turnout.'' Within t' o minutes, three gentlemen two fat women, and a couple of childrer eitered. "Come right along friends," said Gol onel Jack ; don't mind us. This is free blow out." T1hen he whispered t< Colonel Jim, "New York ain't no socia ble place, I don't recon-it ain't no nami for it." iIe resisted every effonrt to pass fare: to the driver, and muade everybody cor dially welcmnme. The situation dawner on the people, and they pocketed thei money, and delivered themiselves up t covert einjoynient of the episode. IIalf : lozen more passengecrs entered. "Oh, there is pienty of roomi," sah Colonel Jam-k. "Walk right in an make youirself at home. A blow-onm ain't worth anything as a hlow-out, un less a body has complany.'' Then in: whisper to Coloniel Jim, "But ain't thes, New Yorkers friendly yAnd ain't thei cool about it too ? icebergs ain't any where. I rec'kon thev'dI tauckle a hearse if it was gin g their way." More piassengers got ini, more yet, an stil mire. B0o;h seats were filled, an a ile of men were stmndinog up h,ohlin on to the e!<ats uverhjead. Pa'rties witi baskets and bundles were climnbing ui o n. e rf 1r.lf'umrese 1.u,lit. I ever saw, I'm an lijun," whispere( Colonel Jack. k A Chinarnan crowded his way in. "I weaken," said Colonel Jack. "Iok s on, driver ! Keep your seats, ladie s and gents. Just make yourself free everything's paid for. Driver, rustli t ihese folks around just as long as they'r r mind to go-friends of ours, you know e Take them everywhere ; and if you wanl S more money come to the St. Nicholas and we'll make it right. Pleasant jour e ney to you, ladies and gents; go it jus s as long as you please-it shan't cost yot c a cent." a The two comrades got out, and Cul onel Jack said-"Jimmy, it's the socia blest place ! ever saw. The Chinamar . waltzed in as comfortable as anybody . If we'd staid awhile I reckon we'd hai psone niggers. B'George, we'll have t< barricade our doors to-night, or some o these ducks will be trying to sleep wiLl us." Behind Time. A railroad (rain was running along at almost lightning speed. A curve wa: just ahead ; and the train was late, very late ; still, the conductor hoped to pass the curve safely. Suddenly a locomo tive dashed into sight. In an instant there was a collision. A shriek, a shock, and fifty souls were in eternity ; and al because ,n engineer had been behind The battle of Waterloo was bein, fought. Column after column had been precipitated upon the enemy. The sun was sinking in the West; reinforcements for the defenders were already in sight; it was necessary to carry the position with one final charge. A powerfulcorps had been summoned from across the country. The great conqueror, confident of its arrival, formed his reserve into an attacking column, and led them down the hill. The whole world knows the recult. Napoleon died a prisoner at St. ielena, because one of his mar.-hals wa5 behind time. A condemned man was being led out for execution. Ile had taken human life, but under circumstances of the greatest provocation. Thousands had signed petitions for a reprieve; still nome had arrived. The last moment was up. The prisoner took his place on the drop -a lifeless body swung in the wind. Just at this moment a horseman came into sight, his steed covered with foam. lie was the person with the reprieve. But he had conic too late. A compara tively innocent mann had died an igno minious death, because a watch had been five minutes too slow, making its timne to arrive behind time. It is continually so in life. The best 1aid plans are daily sacrificed because somebody is "Ibehinid time." There are men who always fail in what they un dertake, simply because they are "be hind timne." Reader, ask yourself seriously the qulestio,, whether there is not some danger of your being amo)ng this class ? T.here w ill be thousands of souls in the place of woe because they put off the thought of eternity till it was too late. Oh, it is sad to think there will be someu tre for this, who were once living 'mong-st us! G od grant, friend, that it ma not he so with you! WiHEN 1S TO: B.'sT 'riME 'TO OCr COaN FermnE:'? Very few farmers are able to judge scientifically of the value of corn -fodder when cut before the ear forms. iand know whether there is any differ ence in nutrition if sown in drills or broadcast. Experimen:ts like these are of great value to the farmer, and D)r. INichols of B ston, with a view to oh. t'in somethiing definite on this point, in -stituted latst season severe trials to de termine the excellence of corn-fodder grown undimer diff'erent circum-.tances P art of the field was sown broadcast in~ May, and the rest was planted in drills. The stalks were cut just before the ears bagan to form. The plants froml th broadc'ast sowing contained nincty-twc per cent of water, and those from thc drills eighty-three per cent., leaving cight per cent. of solid matter in tht former and seventeen iq, the hatter. T1hat is to say, the plaints sow n in drills con tainms niore than: twice as miuch: solid mnatt er as did those sown b,roadcast. Theu -solid maitter was starch, gum, sugar, ani woodly fibrie ; the broadcast specimens containing' searcely anygm nlsgr w ~hile thiose to which the air and sun had access in the drills contained these sub.tan ces in: contsiderable quanltitics. Theli Doctor goes on to say that hiis ex pe-r;ients con vinuced him th'at corn- fodl der should not he cut until the flower is fairly developed and the car begins to. form, and any corn that is so plante' that the ear cannot form. is prectically wvorthless as fodd er. Mani waas nodec for act ion ; every m01 mecnt of his mortal life God calls up~o him to be and do somnething. ile hma no right to do niothinug. A quiiesce-nt conlscience is a disob.edient conscience andI benee in all essenti al respects, it is rtuy sinful, as if in:stigating or permni ting:f ::nvert act o)f evil. TIhe differen~ 15 :: V ! oi'IC C, :L L I The Federal Goverrment and the States. Whatever the merits of the fiction fight in Louisiana, and whatever may be the result of it, one thing is clear ; the interference of the federal government, in the affairs of the States produces no good, and leads to unmeasured evis. In Soath Carolina, in Georgia, in Texas, and now in Loui-iana, the touch of its hands has evoked only confusion and an archy ; on the other side, where that i-n terposition has been withheld, or re strained, as in Virginia, Missouri, and Mississippi, the recovery of the States from the disorders of the rebellion, and their launch into the ways of peaceful progress and development has been miost rapid. It can not be too often repeated, nor emphasized with too much force, that the stability and usefulness of our politi cal constitution depends entirely upon the tidelity with which we observe its peculiar characteristics. That conll%itu tion rests upon two fividament:l princi ples, the sovereignty of the central gov ernment, in its sphere, and the indepen dence of the States, in their spheres; and so long as those spheres are kept intact, so long as the federal and the lo cal jurisdictions are not confounded, there will be a complete and beautiful harmony in the working of the system. But let the States assume more than is du- them, as they did in the planters' rebellion, or let the Union a-qnime more than is due it, as now seems to be the tendency at Washington, aud that har mony must be inevitably broken. The seven years of turbulence, putrage, and disaster, which have accompanied the several schemes of reconstruction, as it is called, are a sad but im1presbive proof of this text. Our American idea of government, if it have any originality, :ny validity, any value, consists in the ba-alnce it seeks to preserve between local independence and freedom and national unity. Had our f-junders established a miore centraliz,2d government, or had they adopted a mere state-league, they would have repeated simply experiments many thousand years old ; they would have added no thing to the experience of mankind, but would have gone staggering on in the outworn methois of Europe. They had, however, a better inspiration than any former example in their ardent love of liberty conjoined to order, and by the unique structure which they devised, of a republic of republic, they went further than any of the human race had yet gone towards the realization of that liberty in order which is the one high problem of politics. The result of the war against rebellion has guararteed tbe principle of national sovereignty for a great many years to come ; it will not be questioned in our generation, at least. But the very war which secured this piriniciple has put the other and counter principle in danger. The great and f"rmidablc evil which now menar-es us is the absorption of the rights and duties and privileges of the States by the central maelstrom. By the rebel lion the national life was threatened by the perversion of State rights. The na tional sovereignty then became the cen tre of popular loyalty. This sentiment still survives with unwonted rigor, and c:auses the centralizing policy of the gov ernment to be regarded with intdulgen:ce and even partiality. Advocates of local sovereignty and State indepcndence, on die contrary, are urging a course which is rnot likely to arouse the popular en thu-iasmn. But it is just at this time of general indiffe:rence to the value of local govern men t, and the prevalence of the natiomnal spirit, that the former idea is in danger of receiving irreparahle iij try. Short-sighted puliticianis, ignorant of the history of political ideas, think of a principle of government onily as a clause more or less in a constitution. Such men are capable of tampering with the ideas on which the republic is founded fo,r the sake or electing a candidate or passing a hill. But it devolves upon those who are stateazmen arnd not politi cians, who are patriots and riot pariisans, w-hose range of vision transcends the limi: s of anc election district, and who see heyond the term of an office, to ar. rest a tendency so much the more dan gerius as it is less paitent t-> superficiai obsue rva ti on. Th'le present frame of our government depends upon the prevalencec of certain political ideas amnong thie people ; it wilt he cbanged if ever, no(t by irevolution but hy the decay of these ideas, and their sub stitutiocn by others. T1he danger, there.fore, of naitional interterence in State allahirs, conisits in fatiiiarizing the peopllle with a disregard and c:on tempt for ioc-al goverinm,ient, andcc not in the success ouf the part i.-uIar mceasuires which rthe ad mnist: ation ir uy hie pursuuing. WXe are tnt amionig those who are tormented ni ith phtantomts of Amecricani Cas-arism; but it' the utnwarranitaLbe eneroacmenits of the national governmieint are persistedi iin, and are tamely subnthed to by the States, thet e is fear that the Amilericani nsut5titu:ion mtay suth-r a uisastrous chaniti-; for it shoutld never be forgotten .,ia t..:- caf mrAv !bWrte in peace, and our power in war, the secret of that machinery which sits so' lightly on the nation, and yet, in the strain of great emergencies, brings every muscle into work, is-the nation supreme in national concerns; the States supreme in State concerns.-N. Y. Evening Post. The Fate of Fisk. From the New York World. The only essential difference between the repute of Stokes, the assassin, and the repute of Fisk, the assassinated, in Now York, was a difference rot of kind but of degree. The victim had made his doings matters of newspaper comment and his person popularly known, as the murderer had never been able, or it may be had never been inclined, to do. But the bullet which ended the career of Fisk invested his memory in a moment with a kind of popular sympathy and pity which will infallibly be imputed if not to him ;or righteousness, at least for scan. dal and a shame to his slayer. The cir cumstances in which Janes Fisk, J-., was done to death were of themselves so base and brutal that nine men in ten, in reading of theni, will infer from the tale not only an i:istinctive compassion for the f:llen man, which will make them deaf to all moralizing upon his past ca reer, but also an instinctive contempt and loathing for the man who killed him, I which will make them duaf to all pleas in mitigation of his crime drawn from the wrongs he had suffered and the provocation lie bad received. Was this the object of Stokes when he gathered up all the fac ulties of his nature to that sly and wolf ish pursuit of the foreman? The poor creature, confronted with social and financial ruin, by the superior art and cunning of his antagonist, doubt less fancied that in tAking the life of Fisk lie should more than balance the long account between them. But what was such a life as the life of James Fisk, Jr.? A life of low successes, of vulgar gains, of silly and indecent ostentation, of dishonest financiering-a life alike empty of the romance of passion and of the reality of principle-was that so much to lose? In the ordinary course of nature it must have come to an end sooner or later. It wxs a life to be en vied only by simpletons or scoundrels; a life without one solitary charm for men with hearts in their bosoms, or brains in their heada, or manhood in their wills ; a li&e compact of impotence, of impudence, and of noise. In the not wholly improbable course, we will not say of nature but of law and of society, it was to be expected that this life might terminate in pover ty and in chastisement -inl the poor-house or the prison. Had it so ended, Fisk himself would doubtless have suffered pangs enough to satiate even the wrath of Stokos; for obscurity and penury would have had real terrors for this prosperous charlatan, who bask ed in publicity and in the pomps of wealth like a goldfish in his sunlit bowl of glass. But from such a denouement of his life's brazen comedy, the hostile hand of Stokes has saved him. . . Truly the revenge of Stokes was tho pleasure of a foul. But it was more than this. It was a crime not only against the statute law of the land and the decalogue, by both of which the killinig even of such fantastical and ofi ending members of the body poli tic as James Fisk, Jr.,is pronounced an act uncommendable and worthy of punish mnent, but also against the moral influ ences by which a community is trained and bred either to honor things honora ble or to go astrav after gods of brass anid clay. The career of such a man as Jame-s Fisk, .Jr., was not only a stand ing disgrace to the generation in which he lived, but an example of evil onien to the generation which is to come. From the N. Y. Evening Post. It is deeply to be regretted, for the sake of example, that bo did not live to be overtaken by the inevitable disgrace which was pressing at his heels. In the midst of our regret and indignaticn for the deed of blood which has struck him down, public opinion has no more impera tive duty than that of avoiding all sym pathy with his character and life. "Speak nothiing hut good of the dead," is a mnaxim in manners which naust give way w hen morals are at stake. The man whose frail virtue has not always been proof against temptation, but whiose life has been incnspicuoue, will easily ind in death oblivion to his errors, and may sleep under his plausible epitaph among the just without provoking a whisper of his name in answer to the simpi~le chiild who inquires, in wonder. "Where are the bad people buried ?" but when a mani has been reckless in trampling aill the obstacles which law, hoor, and conscience put in the way of self indlulgence ; when lhe has seized great trusts in order to betramy them; w hen he~ hla- thrust himself into pro miience before the comun iity as an example ofn cor rupt ion ; when lie has ob taned weahh andl po.ver by robbery, an1 oip; u-cl th.m to insult public tnorals, the grave is for him nio refuge fromi the j,'dgment whic:h truth m:ust EVIL GoMrAsy.-The following beauti ful allegory is translated from the Ger man: Tophronious a wise teacher, would not suffer even his own grown-up sons and daughters to ass)cciate with those whose conduct was not pure and upright. "Dear father," said the gentle Eulalia to him one day, when be forbade her, in company with her brother, to visit the volatile Lucinda, "dear father, you must think us very childish, if you imagine that we should be exposed to danger by it." The father took;iu silence a,dead coal from the hearth, and reached to his daughter. "It will not burn you, my child; take it." Eulalia did so; and behold ! her deli cate white hand was soiled and blackened and, as it chanced, her white dress also. "We cannot be too careful in handling coals," said Eulalia, in vexation. "Yes, truly," said the father; you see, my child, that coals, even if they do not burn, blacken. So it is with the company of the vicious."- Household. A BEAUTIFUL CouMPAIuso.-Rev. T Dewitt Talmage, now of Brooklyn, closed a sermon as follows: Seated, at a country fireside, the other day, I saw Jhe fire kindle, blaze, and gn out, and I gathered up from the hearth enough for my reflections. Our mortal life is just like the fire on that hearth We put on the fresh faggots, and the Bame bursts through, and up, and out, gay of sparkle, gay of flash, gay of crackle-emblems ofboyhood. Then the fire reddens into I coals. The heat is fiercer, and the more it is stirred, the more it reddens. With sweep of flame it clears its way till all the hearts glows with intensity-etablem of full manhood. Then comes the whiteness in the coals. The flickering shadows have died along the walls. The faggots drop apart. The household hover over the expiring em bers. The last breath of smoke has been lost up the chimney. Fire is out. Shovel up the white remains. Ashes! A LITTLz TRUr.--The New York Tribune, in some comments upon sundry sharp criticism upon Rev. Mr. Hep worth's late renunciation of Unitarian ism, which have been published by some of his old denominational associates, says: "We begin almost to despair of finding anything worthy to be called Christian charity in all the land. We are all blandly liberal until somebody treads upon our own theological corns, and then we at once discover that the offender isn't much of a man and a brother after all." It wont require any great amount of self-examination for any man to satisfy hiinself of the truth of that last sentence. Peter Cartwright, the pioneer Metho dist, used to be annoyed by a noisy but over-pious sister, who would go off on a high key every opportunity she got. At an animated class-meeting one day, the ;urcharged sister broke out with, "If I had one more feather in the wing of my faith, I could fly away and be with the Saviour." "Stick in the feather, oh, [,ord, and let her go," fervently respond :d Brother Cartwright. A new and careful bridegroom in Cleveland kept the wedding ring in his mouth duri.ig the fore-part of the cere mony, so that he could find it when the proper moment arrived. He mumbled ilong all right until the minister winked it him, as a hint to produge the ring, when in his nerVousness he swallowed it, and there being no stomach-pump on hand, he was stood on h,i< head by three groomsmeniCI to recover the "golden A Western editor, in acknowledging the gift of a peck of potatoes, savs: "It is such kindlnesses as these that bring tears to our eyes. One peck of potatoes makes the whole world kin. We have trusted in Providence and this is our reward. We would like a little kindling wood and sonme tur'iipa, but that would be asking too much, so we'll try and do without them." A wife having lost her hushand, was inconsolable for his death. "Leave nme to my grief," she cried, sobbing, "you know the e-xtreme sensibility of my nerves-a mere nothing upsets them." "Woman is a delusion, mad,am !" ex claimed a crusty old bachelor to awiy young lady. "And muan is always hug ging some delusion or other," was the gnick retort. Pins were first used in 1543. Before that time ladies used to skewer their dresses. The ple-aantest riniging in one's eas -That of the dinner hell. The young lady who was beginning to nine is now oa-k. Poor actors are always "coming out" -at the elbi>ws. Lips ha~ve they, yet kiss not-Pitchers. A PrnY SERMON To YOMG 319. You are the architects of your own for tunes. Rely upon your own strength of body and soul. Take for your motto, self-reliance, perseverance and plock. and inscribe on your banner, "Be just and fear not." Don't take too much advice, keep at the helm and steer yoW own ship. Strike out. Think well at yourself. Fire above the mark you is tend to hit. Assume your position. Don't practice excessive humilitf ye can't get above your level-water dnt ruu up bill-put potatoes on a cart ever a rough rqad and the smal ones will v to the bottom. Euergy, invincible de termination, with a right motive are the levers that rule the world. The. gret, art of commanding is to take a fair axre of the work. Civility costs nothing and buys everything. Don't drink; dent sm)ke; don't swear; don't gamb:e; don't steal; don't deceive; don't tatle., Be polite; be generous; be kind. Study' hard; play hard. Be earnest. Be self reliant. Read good books. Love your fellow men as your God; love yor country and obey the laws; love truth; love virtue. Always do what conscione tells you to be duty and leave the conse quence with God. REASoNS Pox DR.nss!G PLAITt OW THE LORD'S D..-. It would lessen the burdens of many who now find it hard to maintain their places in society. 2. It would lessen the force or the temptations which often lead men to hr ter honor and honesty for display. 3. If there was le.-s strife in dress at. church, people in moderate circumstances would be more inclined to attend. 4. Universal moderation in dre at church would improve the worship by a the removal of miny wandering thoughts. 5. It would enable all classes of people to attend church better in unfavorsla weather. 6. It would lessen, on the part of the rich, the temptation to vanity. 7. It would lessen on the part of the poor, the temptation to be envious and malicious. 8. It would save valuable time oa the Sabbath. 9. It would relieve our means from 1 serious pressure, and thus enable s ne do more for good enterprises. The Turf; Fjeld and Farm, after doing, Fisk fair justice, and bestowing a little sympathy on Stokes, says: The lesson of the startling tragedy is plain. Society rests upon a moral hei and we must not openly defy morality. Successes not won in the field of honor, in time become mountains to overIhelt those who thus grasp suess. The re ligious senti:nent helps to hold is to gether as a people, and it will not he well with us if we scoff at it. We meet walk righteously, soberly, and practice the precepts of honesty. This may sound like a sermon, but if JaMes Fisk and Edward S. Stokes had walked as Christian men walk, the one would not now sleep under the clay of the Ver mont hills, and the other would not oc cupy a prison cell, awaiting to be tried for his life. TuHE OcrzooK.-The prospects of the opening campaign in New Hamsphire are certainly brightening for the Dem ocracy, and they may well enter uon it with encouragement of asqsurred sac eess if they but do their duty. From every part -f the State the indicati.mns are that the Democrats are awake and determined to lose no ground in New Hampshire this year. ilere is to be won the initial battle in the great con test for reform throughout the whole Union in the coming year, and let every patriotic D)emocrat take hold, not only with confidence and courage, but with determined and vigilant effort to do hia share ini the great work which alitbe bes%t interests of the country so urgently demand.-Cheshire Republican. Cot'wrigG A FAT Gnu..-Don Piatt says: "1 was once in love with a fat girl; she was very fleshy ; ahe was enormous, but the course of my true love came to grief. I was sitting with her in the die twilight one evening. I was sentimental; Isa'id man,y soft things ; 1 embraced part of her. She seemed distant.. She fre qutently turned her lovely head froe-.me. At last I ihought I heard the murmur o voices on the other side. I arose and walked round, andl then I fouaid another fellow courting her on the left flank. 1 was indignant, andl upbraided her foir her treachery in thus concealing fromt mec a'nother love. She laughed at may conceit, as if she were ne~t big enough to have two lovers at once." A Git.-[t has been ehwnently said that if (;hristianity was comlpelled tofiSee f:om the mansions of the great, the acad cenies of the philosophers, the halls oft legislators. the throngs of busy men, we should find her last retreat with women, at the fireside. 11er last audience would be the children gathering around the na' ther's knee; the last sacrifice, the secret prayer, escaping in silen.ce from her lips, and heard, perhapr,, only at the thre e of God. The woman's love that overtops every -