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• • H#on< k la vrtUai to tbU eflw on ba^n^n alwty* I«f* yoar oum and Po« oAoa 1. Ba«iB€wt totiato and oonannkja- }na to be pubdtoed ibould be writlnn on aeparate nheeU, and the ohj*«t of each dearly indicated by neceaaarj note when required. . S. Artidea for publioation ahould ^ . w ritten in a c ear, legible hand, and oa ( only one aide of the page. 4 All change* in adTertieementa muat reach ns on Friday. ins--"' TWm HIGHWAY COW. The hurt tor hid* w^aduAyfeowa, t r * H*r body wm ton end hw n*ck we* alto; On* ton tamad np end the other tuned down. She waa lean of rtoon and lon« of limb; With a Homan noa* aed a abort atemp tail. And riba ilk* tto hoapa «e a hoaaa aeede pell Many a mark did tor body beer; 8to had bean a target for all things known ; Oa may a eear the dnaky hair Would grow no more where It onot had grown; Many a paaalonate, parting ahot Had jeft upon tor a laattng spot Many and many a well-aimed ■to* Many a hrlokbat of goodly dae, < And many e cudgel swiftly throws. Had brought the tear* to tor loriag eye*, THh a aoiaa Uk* the eound of a rid* ereek. "* - Many a day tod dh* M|a*d In the pound Tor totplng toreefTAo tor nelghtor’a torn; Many aeowardly ear and hound Te drtea tor eut ef hie growing grataL Sharp wan the presto aba seed to play T« i** tor dll and to gal away. YOL IV. NO. 48. & - BARNWELL Oi HtjSrC. THURSDAY. AUGUST U, 1881. C/ntrsot etHi day* after lr*t Ini wide •Upulnte't. 4»o eontoi«dicrt*o«4m! NfpuhWtoA; in unlew nec inipatiled by the nimr ••<» *4- dren of the irrtier, naf neceetoftty^T ibticdli >a, bat d«d gutranty of ge*d iih • - w- $2 a Year. '* And you think that little women’e face could be made beautiful ?” 'lAknow tW".r v J . , “Tryit, then. Here id jronr copy of 'fctian’d ‘Belle,’ all fioiahed but the face. Make an ‘ apothosi* portrait of your neighbor, and, while it harmohizea with the body 1 of Titian's beauty, still leave it recognizable aa the portrait, and m give in to jour theories—believing in all other miracles, if yon like, at the same time I”* Tngarde laughed, as he went back to his own picture, and McDonald, after sitting a few minutes lost in reverie, Coined his easel so « to grPE painter’s view of his fetenfle neighbor. He thonght she oolorod slightly as he fixed big eves upon her; but, if ao, she apparently became very aoon unconscious of his gaze, and he. was soon absorbed himself in the tank to ''frkioh his friend had so mockingly challenged him. [Excuse me, dear reader, while with two epiatlea I build a bridge over which you can cross a chasm of a mouth in ay story.] To QBAITS McDonald—.Vtr .• I an intrusted with a delicate ccuaaiestna, which I knew not bow to broach to you except by simple propmeL Will you forgive toy abrupt levity, if I inform you, without further preface, thud the Oountesa Wychrtom, a Potlah lady of high l .rUi mi dto|4> fortune, doee you v yuur band. If dith, in the original from which she copied—end promised to be at his wed ding, and to listen sharply for her mur mured name in his vow at tits altar. He chanced to wear at the moment a ring of red cornelian, and he agreed with W that she should stand where he ooold see her, end at the moment of his putting the marriage ring upon hie bride’s fin ger that she should put on this, as a to ken of having received his spiritual vows of devotion, j ifKiVS Thu day seme, and the splendid equi page of the Grantees dashed into the square of the Santa Maria, with a veiled bride and a cold bridegroom, and depoa- itftd them at the steps of the church. JOTP they were followed by other ooroneted equipages, and gayly-dressed people dismounted from each—the mother and * is ter* of the bridegroom, gayly dressed, among them, but looking pale with in- certitude and dread. The vailed bnde was small, but she moved gracefully up the aisle, and met her future husband at the altar, with a low courtesy, end nude a sign to the priest V> proceed with the ceremony. McDonald was colorWv but firm, and. « AMAXHVMA AMD MDTTOMS. i c . r * ' jT.-* --s V ' j, i a,- . •, * i’i Amateur* are very apt to look upon uditora as their most implacable foes. The cool persistence with which they dedin* to avail themselves of eontribo- tiona which the contributor is convinced would maketbe fortunes of the Journals, if they only knew it— »uch blindness to self-interest—rouses pity in the breast of the worldly-wiaqgamateur. He indites time ha took from his pants pocktt a a letter of remonstrance to the misguided horse-chestnut, end displayed it with an editor, and is promptly crushed. In air that seemed to imply, “This is the aome a lees-tender emotion than pity is little joker that did the business.” But aroused by such conduct. Bag* very no sooner had solid citizen No. 1 dis- often agitates the bosom of the rejected played has aheetaut charm with a con- poet Smarting under a sense of pwt tented air,: THH HOMSM-CHMSTirUT. A couple of oar solid dtizeot-eoiy in aveMapris as well a* in their bef uounto—were oa a hone ear a day fk two sinoe, when a man came limping aboard apparently suffering from rheu- Latism. One of the solid men re marked, ‘Tve never had a twinge of rheumatism in my life,” and at the same cept byaa asmoua 1 todo.'Td the alter. tow* with a steady votes, bed, whs* t. i- put oc. he arc at the his ill-usags, he poors oat the vials of his wrath upon that incarnation of fraud, injustice and wickedness, the editor. Why should his poems be rejected, when so much trash is inserted ? Why ft* no reaeon for rejection vouchsafed to him ? He hysterically demands The smoont of tibia sort ef eoo* that goes on is trassing. It is dirtnaaing because it ■hows each a lamentable want of I the part of the contributors. Mo ~ to If he war* to do eo^ every article would be sent in half a naa, each time with a than solid citizen No. 2 also drew from his pantaloons pocket a horse- chestnut. Said the first ettfeen, “Tve carried that for thirty yean.” “Ho have I carried this for more than thirty yean,” replied the other; but I don’t carry min* for rheum*tUa*. I carry it for goat" — A passenger, who had been an inter ested listener to the for^ri*, rather timidly asked oa* if he really behaved than was say virtue in u auapl* bone- • No,” aaswersd the man. why do you curry tbs thiag eaa do a* harm, if it L" M It atone a Little au- <>•*.” M Yary wall; fB keep oa carrying tt. Fve oarrtod a thirty ywasB,aad baea as* baa Aadlhaa WMTt OKI Why do women with red or yellowish b ur wear “deed” gold, and greens that remind the beholder of badly cooked vegetables ? Why do pale-faced, brow*- haired women wear the deep red and orange hose which can “ go” only with the olive and pomegranate tints, and the blue-black hair of the South ? Who is accountable for the terra-cotta garments in which aonm otherwise harmless maid ens pervade fashionable crowds, inspir ing the observer with wonder, totally un mixed with edmirattoot slender girls arrayed in ehapelerf clothes, made ap parently of tlioee of the wtHot the new Natural History ^ua<-u' at South Kensington; strong-minded young women in sggreseive cloaks, so uo- spoakahly hideous that wa sigh for the ulster of last season, which we then be lieved eould not be turpeased in odioos- asae; awful things mad* of tweed with blue frills, or goaliag stuff tipped with pink! The < A Id re**, i TilE PEOPLE,, t Rarnwell 0. H., •.'O. ^ fLEASAXTRIEa. Jowns calk his wife’* hair-dresser ' t* r «wit<h-tender. A matosumm story—On* in wbiah there are no weddings. Tnn is a ehap who calk his beet girl Revenge, beeanse “revenge k sweeA" Plump girl* are said to be going out of fashion. If this k true, the plumper th« girl the slimmer her ohancee ” Mr Darling’s Shorn” fc the name of anew ballad, but "the old man’s pool” k generally asotodared mot ^ " mnmtoiitiifc ^^ you call it' ilk ton with * be toe i ie\ from wbieh the ekirt haage g^toa. ■S tri^l to to^Ltori ta a Aeeh we* laanafas ■ um II u hat t—She .. - * . . ■ ^ A m the l to ad lunwa i eld ms that 11 >11 toto b* T g ia»I< ^dgtotoff toindntoseun*<mn«ym plum to to tote dsn l»*to#tttoJtoS •I ef u eeyul ft*el toto. toeert* by the bapu« fevtoebaa* to»y I to e i — ” 1 V " ■■' “ 7 V “ ■ V» ef * espy ef “Tttowetoal him slued the semi ef a with the r> wna a rrrst in wkieli ai de. Mel ton- aeigbber, end they other’* hi*. el the the I art he understood) t&eif oonvermtion waa in French or Italian, neithe* of wltioh an3 it was TTmlSl generally to expres sions of courtesy or brief critickmi of each other * laboss. a Mwt pression ’ of a oeleatial *umtoer's morn- maul-sGcz acroM his knees, drinking from Titiaiifs picture. An artist, who had lounged in from the next room, had hung hjmself by the crook of hi* arm over a high peg, on bis comrade’s eeael, and every now and then he volunteered an observation to which he expected no particular answer. "Ifhen I remember how little beauty I have seen in the world,” said Ingarde (this artist), “lam inclined to believe with Baftnminn* that there to no resnr- reetton of bodies, and that only the spirit* of the good return into the body of the Godhead—for what is ugliness to do in heaven f McDonald only said: “ Hm—hm !” * How win this little plain woman look fa the streets of the New Jerusalem, for example? let she expects, ai we all do, to be recognizable by her friends in besvt-n, end. of course, to have the same irreduapnably-plain too*- Do* *he un- by the way-tor eh* »7 Uia, ia any ceea, cf some eeertl peesuin. tod and pursued in the intuginatom only,'be not the tousfnrdtte ueuumtt^ of a poetic nature. For the Imagination k inoapa- ble of being tiiatoerV twit 14 to at onus disenchanted and set roaming by the very peuittoo and omtainty which are the charms of matrimony. Whether ex clusive devotion of all the faculties of mind and body be the fidelity exacted in marriage k a question every woman should consider before making a hus band of an imaginative man. As I have not seen th* Countess I can generalize on the subject without offense; and she k the best judge whether she can chain my fancy as well aa my affections, or yield to an imaginative mistress the de votion of so predominant a quality of my nature. I can only premise her the constancy of a husband. This inevitable license k allowed—my ideal world and its devotions, that, k to say, left entirely to myself—I am ready to accept the honor of the Countess’ hand. Tour Excellency may command my time and presence. With high consid eration, ete., Grant McDonald. Rather agitated than surprised seemed Mile. Folie when, the next day, as she arranged her brushes upon the shell of her easel, her handsome neighbor com menced, in the most fluent Italian he could command, 16 invite her to hk wedding. Very much surprised was McDonald when aha interrupted him in English, and begged him to use hi* na- Mm ly - " to to »af ftl 4 SM Wbt to *r%YS ’to to* is within the reach of every popil Ladd explained the intent of iUomea who give the 1 beet-boy * This does not mesa,’ add he, * classical scholar, nor the most Ok pitcher ft baue-baH, nor the mathemarieian, nor the best- nor the most elegant de- • (attest runner, nor fhe Shakspcarinn scholar, nor pluckiest fellow at football. '• ‘Toil, young boys, will do well to for the person who seems nearest your father end mother want you to be—what you mean to be your selves when you are in the first class; and you, young girls, will do well to vote for the boy who comes nearest to be&g what your parents are trying to have your brothers become. “'The older scholars are tolerably familiar with ancient and modem histo ry. Vote for that one of your number whoa* character comes nearest to the noblest man of whom you have read.’ “All the school eat upright with mil itary precision. Their officer* passed the ballots, and each pupil prepared hie own. -< ■ “At the head he puts hk own name, and the number of yean he had bean in the school; below, the name of hi* choice for the priaa Each ballot conn ta ‘ _ to at the bar of Feb. to 71 and steady." Whan ruled over Germany, the old : Journal, than already needy • old, became Journal Official du . meat dto Boutokn de C Elb*. Under this regime the number of the 16th at November, 1818, contains the official account of the battle of Leipdo, twenty- nine days after the event The official account says that Napoleon had battle, but retired to Erfurt for “ etrate- getical reasons.” Among the contribu tion* to the fenilleton are Schiller, Les sing and Herr Goethe, “who to the well educated and talented son of the high-born, most respectable, moat wor thy Herr Senator Goethe, of the tree city of Frankfort” Heine was a frequent contributor. AffOTHttm MUBHTITUTH FOB CABTOR OIL. H A writer mentions black alder as a substitute few castor oil. He recom mends a fluid extract made from the bark, each fluid dram of which contains an equivalent of on* dram of the bark. The extract to a dark brown thick fluid, with a sweet end agreeabl* taste, and ton dose varies from one to two drams for a child. As an aperient it hue many advantages over Bhamnus csthartMae: it causes no nausea, no fruetattone, and to have tonic by wbieh the the boweto to elightly er favorable ctfenm- stance*, to foolish. As lor the daily pa pers, they have littk room, under the constantly-increasing amount of tele graphic and local news, for the misoel- laneous topics, in which alone the out- eider can hope to compete with the reg ular staff Thus they offer very littk to the amateur.—Cincisinati Gazette. !—’ . .. .— • VTTKRAVCXB 09 HOTHH “ It looks like Plato. “Pass the butter.”—Horace Greeley. “Gold day, ain't itY-Martin Lw ther. “ You can atop my paper. ”—napoleon Bonaparte. “My head aches fit to split.”—Goorye Washington. “Is this hot enough for you?"—Car dinal Richelieu. "Here's another button off this shirt.” —Daniel Webster. “Bend me up two pounds4 steak.”- Thomas Jefferson. “These potatoes ain’t aeoce'n half -Socrates. “ You’re fuller then you we** bafnu dinner. Confucius. “ Gall around next week and HI pay H". -Edgar Allan Poe. 'Can’t you keep your sold feet out 4 '—Brigham Yt You Modal sit up tor mo; I ehaut Iti taathseeorrt 4 •] sing of allij immediately and since then kwtee are annually need by our home manufacturer* or aaut abroad, princi pally to London and Hamburg. At flirt the akin* came toum Loukmna, and New OriaaM was the center of the tnf• tic. The wholesale manner in which the alligators were slaughtered, how ever, speedily rendered them aoaroe in that State. Florida to now the great source from which our supphee are ob tained, and the trad* centers ia Jackson- ville. The alligators are killed in great numbers, both by passengers on board the plying on the riven of Florida and by hunters who follow this pursuit as a means 4 livelihood. After being killed they are flayed, and only those parts which are useful for leather, each es the beBy end flanks, are pre served. They are the* peeked in a cask containing a strong brine and sent North tob# mode into leather. Hither to alligator leather has been used chiefly for men’s boots end shoe# ; now, how- r, it It to pocket-books, rthsr kinds of fancy i th* wav to b*, th* adttus uf it* \ typapmlmdeoure ta wood, others to fur, and others jut who didn't pay all. Od* of Ums* Utter oka* was Mmed I, but to squeeze anything out 4 m neat to imp iwa tofu He hud „ I at hk toT*u*b end lor not pay ing, and the kmger the debt stood the more reasonable hi* excuse* scented to hk creditors. One day the editor met him on the street, and, after a general greeting, began on hire with: “Mr. Lemon, you hare been owing me foe two yearu" „ » # jfeU “ Y«v but I had bad luck in my sugar- bush.” “But you might have brought wood.” "Bo I should, but I broke two new axes and couldn’t buy another.” “I offered to take it out in turnips andoora.3K “I know, but the crows at* my corn up and the Injuns stole all my turnip*.** “Well, how are you getting along now ? " asked th* editor. ’ " First-rate.” “Hare you a good run of sugar T" "Yes.” "Oorn doing well f" "Splendid.” WhealaM right?" "Yes, ill right" "Well, if eorm wheat, potatoes and tnnups tun oatguad» anl? 0 * hasp wtU