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A Family Companion, Devoted to Literature, Miscellany, News, Agriculture, Markets, &c. Vol. X. WEDNESDAY MORNING, JULY 15, 1874. No. 28. THE HERALD - IS PUBLISHED EVERY WEDNESDAY MOMNING, At Newberry C. 11.9 BY TH09, F. GRENEKERt Edi tor and Proprietor. Iuvariably in Adr2uce. Z,- The paper is stopped at the expiration of time for Whih it is paid. L7" The >4 ark denotes expiration of -sub NO SECVTIN HEAVEN. "'Talking of sects till late one eve, Of the various doctrineq the saints believe, That night I stood, in a trouble dream, By the side of at darkly flowing stream. And.a Churchman down to the river came, When [ heard a strange voice call his name, "Good father, stop; wheu you cross this tide, You must leave your robe on the other side." But the aged father did not mind; And his long gown floated out behind, As down to the stream his way he took, His pale hands clasped on a gilt-edged book. G4rm bound for Heaven, and when r'm there, I shall want my book of Common Prayer; And, though I put on a starry crown, I shall feel quite lost without my gown." Then fixed Lis eyes on the shining tract, But his gown was heavy and held him back4 And the poor old father tried in vain A biDgle step in the flood to gain. I saw him again on the other side, Bot fiis.silk gown floated on the tide; Aad4 o6,-aswW in that blissful spot, Whether he belonged to the Church or not. Then down to the rivm a Quaker strayed; Iii.jriss of a sober hoe was made *My cwat aud hat must be all of grey, Jcgvuot g -.ay othe a. Then he,buttoned his coat straight up to his Ohin, And staMdly, solemnly, waded in; knui his broad-brimmed hat he pulled down Over his forekead, so c-id and white. But ~ ~ AN"10 aftrtVwnrcrre Raa hist hat, MAI~Y MOORE. -0 the steps when I called her name; how sweetly her blue eyes looked at me, how gaily rang out her mer ry laugh. No one but Mary could ever bring her heart so near her lips. 1 followed that laugh from the days of my childhood till I grew an awkward, blushing youth; I fol lowed it through the heated noon of manhood; and now when the frosts of age are silvering my hair, and many children climb upon my knee and call me "father," I find that the memories 6f youth are strong, and that even in gray hairs, I am following the music still. When I was fifteen the first great sorrow of my life came upon my breast. I was sent away to school, and was obliged to part with Mary. We were not to see each other for four long years. This to me was like a sentence of death, for Mary was life itself to. me. But hearts are tough things after all. I left college in all the flush of my nineteenth year. I was no long er the awkward of embarrassed youth. I had grown into a tall,t slender stripling with a very good Dpinion of myself both in general md particular. If I thought of Uary Moore, it was how I could daz de and bewilder her with my good looks and wonderful mental attain nents, and never thinking that she night dazzle and bewilder me still more. I was a coxcomb, I know. but as youth and good looks have led, I trust that I may be believed wvhen I say that self-conceit has left ne also. An advantageous proposal was nade at that time, and accepting t I gave up all idea of a profession, md prepared to go to India. In ny hurried visit home of two days [ saw nothing of Mary Moore. She iad gone to a boarding school at ome distance and was not ex >ected home until the following Aay. I uttered a sigh to the mem )ry of my little blue-eyed playmate, md then called myself "a man" Mgam. In a year I thought, as a vehicle whirled away from our door-I vill return and if Mary is as pret y as she used to be, why then, per iaps I may marry her. And thus 1 settled the fortune >f a young lady whom I had not ;een for four years. I n1ever bought of the possibility of her -efusing me-never dreamed that ;he would not condescend to accept ny offer. But now I know that had Mary net me then she would have despis d me. Perhaps in the scented nd affected student she might have ound plenty of sport; but as for lov ngme, I should perhaps have found nyself mistaken. India was my alvation, not merely because of ny laborious industry which coun eracted the evil of my nature and nade me a better man. When at he end of three years I prepared o return I said nothing of the re ormation of myself, which I knew ad taken place. They loved me Ls I was, I murmured to myself, nd they shall fmnd out for them ~elves whetfier I am better worth oving than formerly. I picked up many a token from* hat land of romance and gold for he friends I hoped to meet. The ift of Mary Moore I selected with Sbeating heart; it was a rigg of -ough virgin gold, with my name ad hers engraved inside-that was ll, and yet the sight of the little oy strangely thrilled me as I >alanced it on the tip of my finger. To the eyes of others it was but small plain circle, suggesting ~houghts, perhaps, by its elegance, f the beautiful white hand that was so wear it. But not to me-how nuch was embodied there-all these Ielights were hidden within that ittle ring of gold. Tall, bearded, and su.n-bronzed, E knocked at my father's house. rhe lights in the parlor window, md the hum of conversation and :heerful laughter, showed me that 3mpany was asembled there. I ioped that sister Lizzie would come o the door, and I might greet a.ny ramily when no strange eye was Looking carelessly on. But no, a servant answered my summons. They were too merry n the parlor to heed the long ab sent one who asked for admittance. A~ bitter thought like this ran Ehrough my mind as I heard the sound from the parlor, and saw the half-suppressed smile on the ser vant's face. I hesitated a moment before making myself known or asking for any of my family. And while I stood silent a strange apparitin grew up before me ; from behind the servant, peered out a golden head, a tiny, delicate form and sweet childish face with blue eyes, so like those of one who had brightened my boyhood, that I started with a sudden feeling of pain. / "What is your name, my pretty " I asked while the wondering ser vant help the door. "Mary Moore." "And what else?" I asked quick ly. She lifted u her handk to shade her face. I had seen that very at titude in another, 1 my boyhood, many and many a time-and an swered in a sweet bird-like voice. "Mary Moore Chester." My heart sank down like -lead. Here was an end to all the bright dreams and hopes of my youth and manhood. Frank Chester, my boy ish rival, who had often tried in vain to usurp my place beside the girl had succeeded at last, and won her away from me. This was the child-his child and Mary's. I sank, body and soul, beneath this blow, and, hiding my face in my hands I leaned against the door, while my heart wept tears of blood. The little one gazed at me, grieved and amazed, and put up her pretty lips as if about to cry, while the per plexed serxant stepped to the parlor and called my sister to see who it was that acted so strangely. I heard a light step and a pleasant voice saying: "Do you wish to see my father, sir I looked up. There itood a pret ty, sweet-faced maiden of twenty, not much changed from the dear lit tle sister I had loved so well. I look ed at her for a moment, and then: stilling the tempest of my heart, by a mighty effort I opened my arms and said: "Lizzie, don't you know me." "Harry! oh, my brother Harry !" she cried, and threw herself upon my breast, snd wept as if her heart would break. I could not weep. I drew her gently into the lighted parlor, and stood with her before them all. There was a rush, and a cry of joy, and then my father and mo ther sprang toward me, and wel comed me. home with heart-felt tears. Oh, strange and passing sweet is such a greeting to the way-worn traveler. And, as I held my dear old mother to my heart, and grasped my father's hand, While Lizzie clung beside me, I felt that I was not yet lost ; and although another had, se cred lire's most - choice blessing, :any a joy remained for me in the :ear sanctuary of home. There were four inmates of the* room, who had risen on my sudden enrance. One was the blue-eyed hild who now stood beside Frank hester, clinging to his hand. Near by stood Lizzie Moore, Mary's eld st sister, and in a distant corner, to,which she had hurriedly retreat d when my name was spoken, stood a tall and slender figure half hid en by the heavy window curtains hat fell to the floor. When the first rapturous greeting was over, Lizzie led me forward with a timid grace, and Frank Ches ter grasped my hand. "Welcome home, my boy !" he said with the loud, cheer-ful tones I remembered so well. "You have :hanged so that I never would have known vou; but no matter about that, your heart is in the right place, I know." "How can you say that he is chang ed" said my mother, gently. "To b sure he looks older and graver, ad more like a man than when he went away, but his eyes and smile are the same as ever. It is a heavy heart which changes him. He is my b)oy still." Heaven help me ! at that moment I felt like a boy, at d it would have been a blessed relief to have wept upon her bosom as I had done~ in my infancy. But I kept down the tremor of my lips, and answer ed quietly, as I looked into his full, handsome face. "You have changed, too, Frank, but I think for the better." "Oh, yes-thank you for the compliment," he answered with a hearty laugh. "My wife tells me I grow handsomer every day. His wife ! Could I hear that name and keep silent still? "And you have seen my little girl ?" he added, lifting the infant in his arms, and kissing her crimson cheek. "I tell you, Harry, there is no such other in the world. .Don't you think she looks very much like her mother used to ?" "Very much," I faltered. "Hallo!" cried Frank, with a sud denness that made me sftit violent ly, "I have forgotten to introduce you to my wife ; I believe you and he used to be my playmates in your younger days--yes, Harry," and ha slapped me on the back "for the sake of old times, and be cause you were not at the wedding, I will give you leave to kiss her once, but mind old fellow, you are never to repeat the ceremony. Come, here she is; -I for one want e of very scraichy gloves, which left a my skin as red as a lobst!r. Then, we all being in the same I state, were led into another great f vaulted marble floored room, where the divans are made o marble, I which is not at all soft toTie on. This room was warmer than the t last, and more vapory, and th'e va por was more strongly perfumed 1with sandal-wood. After lying a few moments, the marble grows. soft. and a sense of most delicious - repose comes over you. You feel a soft languor and a dreamy content and your eyes close and you lay with a smile of exquisite laziness on your lips, and imagination flies off in every poss,.ble direction, when the sweet repose is again rudely - broken, and you have again to "move on." Now, indeed, opens The door of paradise. You are led, still without - other covering than nature gives you, into a large circular room, with marble pillar, supporting the blue dome that is spangled with stars. All around the room are marble divans, and in the centre is an im mense fountain, .in the basin of which are sixty or seventy girls and wormen playing in the warm, per fumed water, or lying in all atti tudes on the marble edges of the - basin. The water rises in one grand column fifty feet, and falls back in to an upper basin, while the lower one is undisturbed except by the beautiful white forms that it most delights to receive. On all the divans lay women of all ages and complexions, even to t some negresses, who only served to - make the white bodies and polished limbs appear more lov.lier than ev er. Smaller fountains were placed at regular intervals around the large room, and from these the attendants poured continuously over the bodies of those who lay on the divans, warm water, which was carried off by the pipes. - One attendant stood at the head, holding my gold embroidered bath ing apparatus, one lathered me with perfumed soap till I began to ima gine myself a gigantic rose, and all these beautiful beings laughing and singing and gliding around me but other specimens of flowers. Another attendant rubbed me with gloves made of sponge, and another poured warm water over me inces santly, not dashed it, not let it trickle, but just emptied, the beau tifully chased silver ewer over me with the gentlest of motions, till it seemed like a caress. Then soap of bitter almonds was rubbed on my face, and other of another kind was rubbed in my hair, all done in that caressing way that made it a positive ecstacy; then more perfumed water till I felt drowning in a sea of all delights, in which I could disting-uish perfumes, flowers, sweet singing voices, and forms oftheaven ly beauty. Time and the outer world were lost in the delightful trance, and I desired nothing else in the world to mae my life content forever To lie there on the marble and dreamily watch the glorious white of the living statues, with the long black hair, and the rich dark eyes ; to see the soft, undulating motions of them swimming in the warm, delicious water; to look at the love ly forms stretched at full length on the divans and on the edges of the fountain, a n d others laughing, sporting, singing, mingling with affectionate glances, and wrestling in the water, or on the marble floor, dripping from every limb the per fumed water that glistened on their bodies, and the trickling of the fountain, and the rosy, subdued light that stole in through the jealously-guarded windows, were enoughl to send one of an imagina-' tion like mine off into the realms of fancy and make one believe it the promised land, and cause the whole soul to be satisfied witih the picture, which needed no imagination to embellish. My attendant roused me- from my dreams of perfect peace by pointing to the fountain and signi fying that I was also to get in. My four friends then made their ap pearance with the servants and our luncheon, and nobody can tell of the comical look of us five sitting round the basket eating, and with out any clothes on. I have seen many sights in my life, but we wo men around those baskets, with chicken legs in our hands and glasses of wine, and other things, were too perfectly ludicrous for any thing, and I laughed till I couldn't aAndmy dreams of aluxurious, sleepy, sensuous paradise, filled -with undulating figures of trans cendent beauty, were gone, and 1 was fully possessed of the demon -of mirth, and 1 provoked the others into my own state of mind, and we were soon the maddest of the crowd in the perfumed waters. to know how you will manage thos ferocious moustaches of yours i the operation." He pushed Lizzie, laughing an blushing toward me. A gleam o light and hope almost too dazzlin to bear, came over me, and I crie out before I thought, "Not Mary! I must have betrayed my secre to every one in the room. But nc thing was said; even Frank, ii general so obtuse, was this time si lent. I kissed the fair cheek of th, young wife, and hurried to the si lent figure looking out of the win dow. "Mary-Mary Moore !" I said it a low, eager tone, "have you n< welcome to give the wanderer?" She turned hurriedly and lait her hand in mine and said hurried ly. "I am glad to see you here, Har ry. Simple words and yet how bless ed they made me. I would'ot hav( yielded her up at the moment foi an Emperor's crown. For ther( was the happy group and dea1 home fireside, with sweet Mari Moore. The eyes I had dreamei of day and night, were falling be neath the ardent gaze of mine, and the sweet face I had so long pray ed to see, was there beside me. ] never knew the meaning of happi ness, until that moment. Many years have passed sincE the happy night, and the hair thai was dark and glossy is fast turning grey. I am now grown to be at old man, and can look back to i happy, and as I hope a well spen life. And yet sweet as it has beei I would not recall a single day, foi the love that made my manhood so bright, shines also upon my whit< hairs. An old man? Can this be so, At heart I am young as ever. Ad Mary, with her bright hair partec smoothly from a brow that has g slight furrow up onit,is still theMar of other days. To me she can nev er grow old or be changed. Th< heart that held her in infancy and sheltered her in the flush-and beau ty of womanhood can never casi her out till life shall cease to warn AN AMVERICAN WOMAN'S EX. PERIENCE OF THE TUTRK. ISH uATH. Olive Harper, writing from Con tantinople, thus lays bare the mys eries of the bath in the far East: I have read, certainly not less han fifty times, elaborate descrip ions of genu ne Turkish baths, by Bayard Taylor, Ross Broune and >thers, and I have always had my imagination filled with the com ined ecstacies of being scrubbcd with hot water and perfumed soai mnd iced sherbet, and I made up my ind not to leave Turkey without 1aving that delightful experience. ou know that I belong to the softer sex, and that they do noi athe promisicuously here as in Ba en, Long Branch and many othe2 fashionable places. This bath where [ went is for ladies alone, not even he "common herd"' being admitted for the charge is very high. Four of us went, together witi two women servants, who carried ur towels, bathing dresses and unch. It is an all-day's job, and the ladies all take lunch with them On entering we were conducted o a large room, where we must un ress and leave our things. I thini hare were nearly fifty women there in all stages of undress, who all paused to regard us with curiosity while we disrobed. Men can pull ff their most sacred garments, tosi them in a heap, and run about as i: nothing were amiss, but somehow ] felt as Eve did when she had made the discovery that she was a little too thinly clad for the time of the year. A servant caught up our bathing dresses and left the room, beckon ing us to follow. We ran the gaunt let of a hundred pairs of eyes be fore we reached the divan where ] was laid like a defunct. The roon was very warm and grew warme> perceptibly, though how, I don'i know, until I began to feel as if ] should suffocate, my heart beal painfully hard and I grew very faint when one of the women gave m< some lemonade, of which I drani two glasses. Then all of a sudden I began to perspire, and I lookei like a pumpkin that hajlaid out al night in a heavy dew. I felt as if ] was dissolving, and waited patiently till the end should come, and] should be but the transparent es sence of what was once a very sub stantial body; but that time hai not come. I was so sleepy that ] felt like calling very hard names when the woman came and mad< me get up, after she had rui,bed m4 down like a race horse with a pai It was two full hours before our wild sport ended, and we slid out of the water and sat talking in lit tle knots of four or five, while the attendants were drying onr hair, and separating it till it stood out in a light puff all around our heads. Not a tangle was left in it, and no comb or brush was used. Then we were laid on the same marble di vans, though with a thick bathing towel this time under us, while the -itendants punched and pulled and rubbed all our j.-ints, and cracked all our knuckles, and elbows and shoulders, till I thought I should be always even more unsteady than ever. They don't give you the least chance to make a protest. to this sort of thing. They roll you and rub you, up and down, and round and round, tlll you only want a chance to get your hands free to "punch their heads," when all at once, panting and perspiring, they grin at you and say pekkey, which means "all right," and then you can put on your handsome bathing dress, and have your towels spread out on the divan about you. Then the other ladies came about me like bees around a holly-hock, and proceeded to admire me from head to foot. Then the attendants came in and we all followed them through a suc cession of rooms, resting a short time in each, and arinking lemon ade and sherbet, and eating con serves made of roses and violets -or, at least flavored with the-per fame of those flowers. Then we went into another room cooler still, where most of the ladies smoked while they chatted of their dresses, husbands, flirtations, etc. One thing surprises me: the perfect freedom with which they tell each other of their flirtations, some of which go somewhat beyond the decorum of our American flirtations, even. After the ladies had all finished smoking their marghilas and little histories of how they had managed to throw dust into the eunuch's eyes, etc., they proceededto perform their toilets, something wonderful to see. I am a woman, and I thought I knew all their little faults and some thing of the intricacies of the toilet ; but I learned more that day than 1 ever thought any one knew. First, an old woman came to each woman or girl, bearing a dressing case fill ed with the most marvelous of com pounds for the improvement of the beauty under their care. Little look ing-glasses were given to each wo man, and then commences the oper ation. All the superfluous hairs on the face were removed by little pincers; then the women brought out stiff little brushes made of bris tles, and after dipping them into a preparation of arsenic, proceeded to, by means of pulling the skin of the face tightly, puncture it with the sharp bristles which thus leaves an indellible white beneath the sur face, which is perfectly dazzling in its transparence and brilliancy. Next the eyebrows are carefully brushed with a soft brush, and then the smoke of. frankincense, mixed with the oil of rose, is laid on, while the eye-lashes are dyed with some vegetable dye, which leaves them a brilliant black, and under the eyelids and on the upper lid is laid a sort of pale brown, which gives the whole eye a beauty and languor most bewitching. Then when a rich carmine, or rather rose-leaf pink, is artistically spread on the heeks, and the full lips of a deep herry color, the faces in their col lring are most lovely. These col. ors do not fade or rub off, but stay until another long-protracted bath of vapor and tepid water opens the pores for another application. The toilet finished, the beauties, natural and manufactured, regarded themselves in their hand-glasses with evident satisfaction, and each other with contempt. Some -of them who were quite plain in the water, became beautiful after the operation was complete. T h e i r luxuriant hair was in general braid ed and loaded with a profusion of rnaments, not excepting diamond stars and other jewels, and some times with long strings of gold oin, plaited in, which gingled with every motion. It was a novel sight to see these women all sitting about on little stools with their ancient hand maidens, all submitting to these intrica ies of toilet that are kept so secret by more civilized women,all seeming here to be a matter of course. Among the candidates for admis sion to Wesit Point is one named Sauermileh, from Pennsylvani. Should he graduate he may do for frontier service, but he can never represent the cream of the army. . Loe -softenare+---- brn Leigs whic khetr sftll in pn-las, wrehichaned often doe nloth ireh cagdgfende nat.Mnm RICH PooR PEPLE.-The title to the subjoined is as above, and though it may appear very paradox ical, is yet true in every word and line. There are those in this world 1 having not a single acre who are I far happier than the ones who countI their thousands. A contented mind I is happier itself, and study, appli cation, and the exercise of a little philosophy will be found a most excellent recipe to produce content ment. There is a deal of truth in this extract, and we give it, hoping that like a seed cast by the way side, it may spring up in some heart, and produce the richest flowers of happiness: "There are %uch, and we have seen them. They are in our judg ment, the profoundest philosophers, and the happiest fellows on the plan et. We have been in modest houses of those who never were and never will be over-supplied with the wealth of this world, and th&e witnessed what wealth could not buy-scenes of happiness that were real, because they grew out of contented and dis ciplined hearts. It is easy enough to be rich-misfortune excepted. Let a person elevate his thoughts, developing in intellectual and spir itual parts more than the qualities that have to do with nothing but material and earthly existence, avd he will be astonished to find what a shrinkage his income is easily cap able of undergoing. He will find that he is obliged to laborfor others less, while he does for himself yet more and more. There is many a man, intelligent and refined, who dwells in apartments of moderate dimensions, yet gets vastly more happiness out of existence than any millionaire. It makes a great differ ence whether one is comfortably sit uated, and with slender means at that, or is perfectly wretched with the care of his accumulated means in the shape of stocks and bonds." LEMONs WHowSsom.-When peo ple feel the need of an acid, if they would let vinegar alone, and use lemons or apples, they would feel as well satisfied, and receive no in jury. A suggestion may,not. come amiss as to a good plan, when lem ons are cheap in the market, to make good lemon syrup. Press your hand on the legnon, and roll it back and forth briskly on the table to make it squeeze more easily; then press the juice into a bowl or tumbler-never into a tin; strain out all of the seeds, as they give a bad taste. Remove all the pulp from the peels, and boil in water-a pint for a dozen pulps-to extract the acid. A few minutes boiling is enoughhb; then strain the water with the juice of the lemons ; put a pound of white sugar to a pint of the juice ; boil ten minutes, cool it, and your lemonade is ready. Put a tablespoonful or two of this lem on syrup in a glass of water, and have a cooling healthful drink WHA Is ADiarLIe-An exchange answers this question in the follow ing delicious style : ft is the dear little beaming girl who meets one on the door step.; who flings her fair arms around one's neck, and kisses one with her whole sole of love; who seizes one's hat ; who relieves one of one's coat, and hands the tea and toast so pret tily; whid places her elfish form at the piano and warbles forth, unso licited, such delicious songs?, who casts herself at one's footstool and clasps' one's hand and asks her ea ger unheard of questions, with such bright eyes and flushing face, and on whose light flossy curls one places one's hand and breathes "God bless her !" as the fairy form departs. MoTHESi~ AND DAUHErss.-It was a judicious resolution of a father as well as a most pleasing compli ment to his wife, when on being asked by a friend what he intended to do with his girls, replied, "I in tend to apprentice them to their mother, that they may learn the art of improving time, andbe fitted to become wives, mothers, heads of families, and useful members of so ciety." Equally just but bitterly painful, was the remark of the un happy husband of a vain, thought less, dressy woman. "It is hard to say it, but if my girls are to have a chance of growing up good for any thing, they must be sent out of- the way of their mother's example." A Titusville paper says: "A man called at one of our shoe stores yesterday and vainly essayed to get on eithernumbers 11,12or 13 shoes. The store-keeper then sugge.sted that he should put on a thinner pair of stockings and try on the box." The reflectionof the sun from the concave bottom of a milk-can came' near causing a disastrous conflagra tion at Palmvyra. Wis. CONNON POLITENESS. It is not polite to refuse to ac commodate another, when it is in your power, and you can do it withoui detriment to yourself and without infringing on tie rights of others. It is not polite to request of an other a favor you would not wil lingly grant under similar circum stances. It is not polite to invite persons to your house when you do not desire to see them. It is not polite to phew tobacco I in the presence of those to whom your breath may be offensive whether in a . dwelling-house, a stage coach, a car or a steam boat. It is not polite to say through another to a stranger or aequaint ance at the door, whom you do not wish to see, that you are engaged or not at home. It is not polite to spit on the floor of a church, a d welling-house, a car, in the cabin of a steamboat or a ferry-boat. The spitting on the floors of our cars and ferry boats has become so common that ladies have often found it difficult to obtain seats where they could prevent soiling their dresses. A person who uses tobacco, and is obliged to spit should never enter apartments set apart exclusively for ladies and gentlemen, unless he is willing to swallow the delect able juice. It is not polite to contfadiet an other, or rudely to question the truth of his remarks. You should speak with moderation, and con vince with truthful arguments.. It is not polite, when passing another on the sidewalk, to turn to the left; always to the right. It is not polite to hurry through the streets, jarring one person, jostling another, and stepping on the toes of a third. It is not polite to use perfumery about ycur person. Nature does not require it in those who keep themselves clean and pure. When a person is highly scented, it ap pears as if it were done to conceal an offensive breath or some other disagreeable smell. It is not polite to borrow money, a book or any article and not to return it at the time designated, or to wait until called upon by the owner. Forgetfulness or t.hought lessness is not a justifiable excuse when you retain, a moment longer than the time specified, whatever belongs to another. It is not polite to use pompous or high-sounding words in conver-1 sation. The more simple words the better, in which you can con vey your meaning and be under stood.1 It is not polite to notice the de fects of nature in others, or to speak in their presence of their de formity. Cast your eyes on what is perfeel, and speak only of what is agreel.Je. 'It is not polite to beg,earnestly in public for any charitable object. It is sufficient to lay your case be fore your hearers, and let them de cide how much it is their duty to give. They can judgewithout the advice or dictations of another. There is no virtue that adds beauty as that which exerts itself in watching over the tranquility of an aged parent. There are no tears that give so noble a lustre to the cheek of innocence as the tears of filial sorrow. They tell of a hen that floated down the raging tide of MllRiver in a barrel, setting on nineteen eggs. She attended strictly to business during the flood, finally brought up in afriendly harbor, and has since left her barrel with nineteen chick ens at her heels. Some thief entered the sleeping1 apartment of a young lady in Louis ville, Kentucky, on Wednesday night, and cut off and carried away the long braid of her "rich dark brown hair" on the right side. r "The editor of a religious paper says, "In ordinary cases the best doctor you ca# have is the mother or grandmother, who has piloted through the rocks of infantile dis ease a whole family." A Duluth paper says one of the streams running into lake Superiora from the north is called Temperance river, 'because it is the only one of the tributaries of the lake that has ao bar at its mouth. Look out for the best aspects of a man as you do for the viewsin the oountry. -~ Cremation by sun process is to be the name for mmn-stroke, this summer. ADVERTISINC RATESM Advertisements insrted at the raW of $1. 00 per square-one inch-for first luInodW ard 7&e. for each subsequent insertiom. Double cOlamn advertisements tenper cent an-Abo"e. Notices of meeobuaWfiesudgulbutes Of resPect, Same rates =e square a ordinary advertisements. Seilno0*"e in loCAecoumn 20 cents perne AdversiA jwtzlmg*dwjtlk tke Rum ber offInsertMos wkkJb k4W-Rj tffl forbid and wgIeQ*, Done With 6etesad Dbsput& Terms Cash. CItCUMSTANCEX "A VT E it Deacon W -wal' 4 toss aarpen ter, an~d a Baptist, go and reg'lar btandi41P"'i Rome Qnde ids Co., N. Y., more 'tlAw forty years ago. One day while he *as working with- hia".men. on -tAhe 3taging of a- fiew M4Ajfi3 -'Chtirth which he had-contracted to build$ he heard one-of hisiad utra )ath2 and he at once began a -ser nloD on the sin ofiswearin.-ls is he bad arrived ab-o~m ?ressive of the diseours, vweplat .orm on which they.were*tabdng 7ave way. The deacit re up1 iis arms and.gazitg.hezveftWard, )xclaimed,"lord iavezxercyp-er lownward. etruzk._tbQ,,*oMo~.l ,orm, and.that, too, treate agoo ~nent and then -gave"w5yj"~a ,he deacon ooked kyw .. .d -an iepeated, -',gLord -have, mercydv" rben as thloiin-4 -eh of Ihe'two*0platform-';ihadhi Jeacow-and bis.fou be'46ifeW ,be last staging, -zil WiW-totteted in - inst"~t - abd' wni~ t.~ T leac-in, thinking W.4o asat. hand, fairly shtd,---:-*A9-tve - %ercy I" but when the-.e Qr-mass atruck the. solid., ALu v~b i nal crashan dnoboft-Ws~z. "What kind of is them?" ueried an old lady of the young