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Starting n'sne forest, Milggp miles away, sped-s gaily onward a child at play; tg with the leaflets, rossing meadows green, Dancing lhrough the wheat field Gliding o'er the stream Till at length it reaches Blocks of brick and stone, Notbing 4o e daunted, Still it presses on; With a holy mission, Hasting to fulfill, With its might and power, All1 its Master's will. Lughing in the windows, Lifting ringletz fair, Peeping in at doors With a roguelsh air; Brinaing joy and blessing To the weary heart, To the fainting spirit Giving a fresh start. Fevered pulses cooling With its light caress; Drooping hopes renewing Into earnestness; Sorrow's tears beguiling By its wisdom play. Whip'eng to the dreary Of a brighterday. Sigbing,ith the mourner, Singing with the gay, Chasing clouds and darkness, Then away , away; Ever speeding onward, Never stops to rest, Till the shades of evening Gather in the west. To us an example, Of wl:t we should be In our Christian journey, Earnest, tireless, free; With a word of kindness For the high or low, Bearing joy and comfort Whereso'er we go. Never to be weary While the day shall last: Working in God's vineyard Till the day * sast; Ever pressing onward With the end in view, For the rest of heaven Waits for me and you. A FIRT-CLASS FISH STOR -0 THE STRANGE ADVENTURES OF CONFEDERATE DISPATCH BOX. -0 PARIS, July 3.-A young Sout erner bere has, for some montd been enjoying himself in the mc liberal but rational manner, a is, perhaps the happiest man France. Good looking, educat< rich, he has a fortune at the ert of the wave, and keeps her thei It has just begun to leak out hb this happy youth came into his tate, and if the facts be as s ted, I think you will agree s'i me that never did "fishermai luck" better deserve to be lard 3v celebrated than in his case. * ido not get the story from own lips, though I am slightly: *quainted with him, but ftom an timate friend of his who knows the circumstances. The young man-his name is - G- H--; is a native South Carohina, where his fhtl had large possessions in C3ollet< S--- served in the Con federi .army during the last two years the wae, though still too youn and when the war was over settl] 5at .Pocotaligo, poor as a chur mouse. His father's estate w nearly all gone, and what lit remained he resolved should be: ligiously devoted to the needs his mother and sisters, who we no0w living in Barnwell in a ve poor way. Young H- had pacity and industry, but th4 were not sufficien t to get him wo in a State where all things wv prostrate under the negro's gizzs foot. Hie procured some odd j on the railroad, but these so failed him, and at last, in despt - he shipped before the mast it tra~ding schooner that belonged Macbias, Me , and made irregu * voyages bet ween Boston, Be: fort, S. C., Havana, and a matk -.In three or four years he got to mate of the trader. and finally 1 owners began to ygemise him vessel of his own, one niew bui ing, if he would purchase an ii in her to the extent of 51,5 His own savingsamounited to ne liv half that sum already, and took a furlough from the schoo: flor the purpose of seeing his ther and some other friends, in dier to try to get a temporary h of the balance need ed. Mioney, however, was hard get. N~o one doubted the securi but they did not havo the mot to spare. After several futile forts young H- was about give up the pursuit in desp wvhen his mother bethought of Col. Jacob E--, her cou still living near Port Royal, bhought to be rather better an the rest of the connecti H-- Was very sligb acquainted with CoL. E--, but his mother insisted that he w - should take a letter from her T Lo her relative, and thus leave no- r thing untried in a matter which st so intimately concerned the push- t) ing of his own fortunes. T When H-- arrived at his cou- e( -sin's place on Port Royal Sound, b he found that the family were not fc very well prepared to have visi- r: torS. In fact. only two nights e before, the house, an old brick p mansion, had been burned down t to the ground, an.I the family were - no.v living in a couple of tents b pi,ched on the lawn in front of the T ruins. Col. E- had lost every- in thing the house contained, and p was now dow,i with au ague; his i daughter was ill with hysterics, b and everything was in confusion fi and disorder. In fact, as Mrs. E rr pitifully told H- "there's t< actually nothing to eat in the o house-in the tent, I mean," she i said, with a feeble smile, "and the n Colonel is too ill to go fishing to- t day." 11- did not show his let"er b nor mention its subject. On the v contrary lie tried to make hii- si self useful, gave Mr. E'j- his tl dose ofquinine, taught Mrs. E tr how to ril! her tent sails if, a saier ( and more comfortable fashion, and n then, taking a simall negro boy d with him. launched the boat, fe hoisted sail, and went fishing for y the repleni!ling (f poor Mrs. E - 'sexbausted larder. Well ac- a atainted with the sound and its fishing ground, he soon caught . quite a mess of fish, and was beat- a ing back again when a startled o I cry of the niegro boy, who was by C the ma1st, attracted his attention. e The cause of the boy's alarm was a large shark between ten and twelve feet long, which swam directly in front of the boat and seemed pre- T pared to dispute its passage. Ti j boat, ets is common in those wa- b terg, carried a small harpoon at- w tached to a long line, for the pur- e( pose of usinx upon the devil-fish I in frequently met there, and the o chase and capture of which is a r favorite and exciting sport c" s1 A South Carolinians. Hastily call- tl ing the boy to the helm, and giv ing h's lugger sheet plenty of tl I- play, 11- snatched the harpoon p S, and line, sprang to the boT, toss- t st ed a lar-ge fish in the water, and, f~ nd as the shark turned up to seize it, t in drove the hroninto his belly b d, with so true an aim and such fatal e st force that the huge fish only y e. tr-uggled a few minutes before a iw expiring. H[e was not able to get s a- his prize aboard, but determined t. ta- not to lose such a trophy of his t tb ar-nm's strength, took it in tow, be is hind his boat, and wvas soon ableI ;to land his cargo and tow in safe- i, - ty near the burned mansion. r iis Securing his b oat, H- now c -sent the boy for help to fetcht naway his fish, and amused him- t all self dy disembowelling the mon- y ster. His jack-knife struck upon b 8 something hard arid metallic ini of' the viscer-a of the fish, and ex- d er amining more closely, lie brought y m. to light a square, flat zinc box, 1: te about the size of a one-pound grun- a of powder can, much corroded, but 1 g;apparently hermetically scaled and t ed water-tight. He washed it of, c ch dried it, and put it into his pocket v as for future examination- then, the f Ie boy having come with help, took a re- his fish and some tidbits from the f of shar-k up to the tent, mu to the re joy of the occupants, who could I ry 'not thank him enough. a- Col. E-, to whom H- s se showed h i s box, immediatelyi -k thought he recognized it as one c re of a peculiar sort of dispatch box ,rd used by the Confederate Govern- i bs ment for their messengers by sea e on and in blot-kade-runners, being .ir. convenient for car-r-ying in the< Sa pocket and for throwing over-a to board in case the vessel was cap-r lar tred, The box was carefully t- opened and was found to be pr-e et. cisely what Col. E--suspected be -a dispatch box of the Confed-! he erate Government. The contents, a in addition to some papers of no1 Id- present importance, compljrisedi a . te series of long dispatches in cipher 30. addressed to a well known agent ar- in Paris of the defunct rebellion, f he and ten certificates of deposit, ir promising to pay money of A m io- brose. Gunter's, now on deposit or- with the banking-house of X. An >an imas Frrs, Bor-deaux, to John Br-own or order, w~hen properly to countersigned. The amount of ty, the certificates in all was 896, cy 000 francs. '-Worth nothing, of ef jcourse," said H--, down on his to luck as usual. rir, "Not a nickel, my boy," said der Col. E--; "bat nevertheless, in, you must come with me to-mnor drow and show them to Mr. T-. mTo-morrow's my well day, and I'm ofgoing up to Charleston to see o. abou~t getting a shanty put up for ly my folks to live in." in eiuarleston next day B as taken by Col. E- to Mr. -, and introduced to that antleman, to whom he told the ory of the shark, and presented ie box and its contents. Mr. eyed him sharply, and ask I him if the whole story bad .cn told him. Col. - vouched I r his kinsman,and the ex-secreta opene- the box, glanced at the pher dispatch, and turned very de. "qave either of you read iik?"l he asked. "No." said If--. intended to make out the cipher, At have not yet had time." Mr. - annswvered nothing, but tak the drafts out of the box, ap ied a lighted match to the re aiiing papers, and watched them rn to ashes with a sigh of satis. .etiort. "Perilous secrets, young an." said he, "and happy am I , dispose of them thus. Not fly reputations, but lives wouid are been sacrificed had those atters become public. Now, as > those certificates-they are ry probably worth nothing it, yoi have done me a real ser ec in tLis matter, and more be. d' ile, an'd itf you can get any Ii g out of tiem1-and it is worth ying-you are perfectly welcom, it all. Thle money belongs to >body strictly speaking-for .1 > not. consider that the late Con. deracy had any heirs-and, if >u can get hold of it, do so." "What money is it, or was it?' ;ked Col. E-. "I'm going to tell you," an veed T ,"and it is a remark Ae instnce of the hard fortune war that seemed to pisue the onfederacy throughout. You re fllect the sterling cotton loan we de during the last year of the ar-the loan by which our En lish brethren were made so sick? hat money was raised to pay for onclads, you know. Tihe gun >ats were built-the Stonewall as one of them-but not deliver I. Diplomacy kept us from go 'g to sea with the English-built es, and it was thought the same e a s o n kept the French-built eaners from going to sea, but rat is not exactly the fact. We 'ould have succeeded in getting iem out if they had been fully id for. We made what we ought were ample arrangements r completinrg the payments, but icy failed through oui- persistent ad luck. For instance, take the ise of these ver'y certificates. It 'as necessaryv for urs to use all >r-ts of precautions in buying this >rt of goods to protect the par les we dealt with, for we k-new re Yankees wvould throw every other's son of them into court. ene the money was deposited ivarious banks in tIhe names of rivte persons; but so that it ould not be drawn unless the cer ieates were endorsed in a par aular way. This is a deposit, o see, of Gunter's money paya I to Br-own on certain terms other words, it is a Confederate raft sent out by express messen or and payable when endorsed y tie agent to whro u sent. The (rent must endorse it in a particu r way, and would not (10 so nnloss Ie messenger brought cer-taini redentials. This system of checks id balances was necessary for our nancial security ; but in this ease, d in several others like it, was ,tal to our plans. The messenger to whom this articuir box was entrusted oung Rlicaud, I remember the cry mo.rnring I sent him-was structed to go to Wilmington, ross to Bermuda in the blockade inner Fannie, sail thenrce for ~ondon, report to an agrent there, id then from him &ret further rders. Ricaud, instead of going n tre Fannie, took another teamer, the Gannet, for Nassau. ?he Gannet was capturned, Ricaud's ispatch-box went to ieed the bar-ks, and Ricaud h imself to 'sticate at Jo-h'ns',n'- ~lhard. Ieantime we, who knew of tire arnie's safe voyage, were con rratuatinlg ourselves that our gent was on the road to Bordeaux, mnd we did not discover the truth intil it was too late to provide a emedy. This sort of thing hap >enedC( several times, and our rerclr gunboats never got to sea. "T henr these Bordalese still have ur money ?" said Col.E - "Ihat remains to be seen. I vas just coming to that point. [his particular deposit has never >eenl checked out-of that I am mre. It was quite forgotten. Rcaud-ever got South again till fune, 18, and then his story wvas >ly patly credited. But wheth i Anrizas Freres will pay the noney or not is quite another natter, and depends upon a varie ,yof' crcumstances, which it is in wise to speculate about. As I raid T wnt our yong friend here ,o try, and I hope he will sue -eed." So saying, Mr. T- took pen ind paper and wrote hurriedly. -Ilere," said he, "is a check for 3600. You must look upon it as cour reward fur restoring to iie those dangerous papers. [t will pay your expenses to Bor leaux and back ; so, if you gain othingr, you will lose nothing. I 1Xye endorsed these certi'~Cates with my own name. Take them Lud this note to London, to Mr. 4 --. He will tell you what fur ,her can be done, if anything. D)o not expect much, but at least S ry ; for'.une may favor you, and I im1 sure Vou deserve it." It seened indeed as if S I-'s good fortune had begun. 0 Paking leove of his friends he :ame over to London, found Mr. -, and made such a good 'riend of that gentleman that he indertook personally to look after: Aie matter iN hich Mr. T- had -ecimended to him. The ex gent, Vhose endorsement was e1ded, happened at the time to in Niceo, and Mr. B- went hither with II and secured he requisite signatures. Then he ecompanied him to .Bordeaux. Uas for the best laid schemes of nice and menu The firm of M. kninias Freres was bankrupt, and t til their assets and affairs in the iands of the syndic. The elder )rother of the firm was dead, and .here was but little hope of get .ing anything out of the surviving t )rother, who, indeed, did not b!ar he best of names." Mr. B - loooked pensive, but old II- not to despair. "If e's an honest man we won't get cent, of course; but, as he seems o be a slippery fellow, there's a bhance for it yet." Ile called on he syndicate, consulted a notary )r two in town, and then sent M. Animas a message to call upon lim that night at his hotel. M. nimas came, a sallow little Gas 3on, with purple gills and an un easy eye. He denied everythin g, )f course, and said that anyhow ae was totally insolvent-couldn't pay ten centimes in the hundred. "Exactly," said Mr. B-. Your debts amount to 8,000,000 ratics. You have given in assets o the amount of 3,500,000 francs. You have still in your possession he sum of 3,000,000 francs, pro perty of the late Confederacy, Brown, Gunter and all that firm. bis money you have not returned to the syndie as part of your ssets, but are trying to hide away. Now, M. Animas, it is a question f arithmetic between us. My young friend here has legitimate cheks for 896,000 francs, which e is entitled to, and wants. You will pay him, or else you will pre pare to-morrow to pay the syndic the three millions you are con caling, and stand trial for fraud besides." M. Animas turned green, but he paid the money, and that is how S- G-H I- got rich. CoMmcs10N Wr Go.-The know ledge of God is gained, as the knowldge of man is gained byI living with him. If we only come across a man occasionally and in public, and see nothing of him in his privatte anid domestic life, we cannot be said to know him. All the knowledge of God which many prfessng Christians have is de rived from a formal salute which they make to himi in their- prayers, when thcy ris up in the morning and lie down at night. While this state of things lasts no pro gress would be made if they offer stated prayers seven times a day instead of twice. But try to bring God into your daily work ; consult him about it; offer it to himn a a contribution to his service; ask him to help you in it; ask him to bless it; do it as to the Lord aid not to men. Refer to him in all your- temptations ; go back at once to his bosom when you are consciouis of a departure from him, not waiting till night to confess it, lest meanwhile, the nigh t of death overtake you or, at best, y-on should lose time in your script ral course. In short, walk band in hand with God through life (as a little chil'd walks hand in hand with its father over some danger os and thorny road,) dreading above all things to quit his side, assured that, as soon as you do so. you will fall into mis~chief and trouble. Seek not so nmch to pray as to live in an atmosphere of prayer, lifting .up your heart momentarily to him in varied ex presinls of devotion, as the occa sions of life may prompt, adoring him,tan king him, resigning your will to him many times a day, and you shall thus, as you advance in this practice, as it becomes more and more habitual to yon, increase in that knowledge of God with fully contents and satisfies the soul. :N(LE JOE DOPPLE'S STORY We were a hungry jury, kept ut by an obstinate judgc, who told s the case was a very plain one, t the same time taking good care ot to tea us on which side it was o plain. Most of the testimony on both ides, we were convinced, was false, nd the problem to be solved was ne not unusually presented in law aits-to find out the truth by tri'ing a balance between con radictory lies. Being in for a night of it, and aIving regained toward e a c h ther the good temper we had lost i quaireling over the case, the ext point was how to get through he time. "Somcbody tell a story," sug ested the foreman. "Mr. Dopple, ou're an old settler, and must are met with some adventures in ioncer times that would be worth eling.'' "Well, I have seen some queer hings." said Mr. Dopple-"Uncle oc" his neighbors called him-a ale old man of about sixty, with fa2e full of good humor and good ense. I have seen some queer hings, but I am not much at nar ating them." "Never mind Uncle Joe," we aid, "you'll do it well enough." "Well, boys if you'll excuse mis akes, I'll tell you about a case hat might have turned out a rcat deal more serious!y than this nle." "Go on," was urged. "This is how it was," began ncle Joe, clearing his vocal hatch vay by rolling an immense quid uto one cheek. "When I'd made ip my mind to come out here and >uy, mother, as I called my wife, he made me a belt to carry my noney in. "Them was the days before ;reenbacks, and bank.notes were o great shakes if they got too far 'rom home. So land buyers most y carried what they had in specie, vhich they commonly did in belts, uckled around their bodies-a lodge the robbers soon got up to, Lnd the first thing they did when ,hey got hold of a ebap was to ook fcr his money belt. "Well, I kissed mother and bade er good-bye one morning, and et out to hunt a new home for is, carrying the price of it in hard yas h. "Nothbing worth mentioning hap ened till one night I stopped at Scabin and asked for lodging. "'You can have it,' was the an wer, 'that is providing you don't bject to sleeping double, for ano ther stranger's here before you.' "I didn't exactly like the idea but houses were scarce in them parts, and not caring to risk go ing further, and faring wvorse, I lit, and taking my saddle-bags on my arm, led my critter around to the t able, the proprietor showing the way, and when old Roan had been looked after we went into the house. "The other stranger was sitting by the fire, and gave me a sharp look as I came forward. "As I sat I noticed he kept watching me sharp. I didn't fan y his looks much but after a spell he managed to be quite friendly, as it was always my way to meet that sort of thing half-way. "lie, too, was on the lookout to buy, arnd we compared notes on the subject till bed time. Our host was one o' them sort o' cflaps that listen a good deal without saying much, anid his wife looked as if' she daren 't say much if she would. "We paid our bills before going to bed. The other traveler said he was going to start before day; but as our roads lay but a litt le wvay together, 1 concluded I wouldn't rise so soon for the sake of only that much company. Sunrise was arly enough for me. "Our sleeping room was one end of the cabin partitioned off by it self. "'It's a long time since you and me silept together,' said the stran. ger', whcn we was both ready tc lay down. "So it is,' said I. 'Which side do you take !' S-Front,' said he, 'if it is ali the same to you.' "'All the same,' said I jumping "The stranger followed, and I don't know what he did, but I soot fell asleep. "I don't know how late or earla it was when I woke up, feeling chilly. The moon was shininj bright through the window. Th clothes were turr'ed over from th front side of the be~d, and tLer stood my bedfellow,. leaning ove me,~ with a big knife inI one hanc a fumbling at the buckle of my belt with the other." "Of course, you grasped the arm that wielded the knife with one of your hands, and the villain's throat with the other?" interrupt ed a blustering juryinan. "Well, no, I didn't. 'You cried out. then ?" "Not that either." ",Well," said the blusteringjIry t man. "I'd like to see the man that would rob ic without a tussle for it. Suppose he had killed you -what, after all. is death ? Only an eternal sleep philosophy tells ;r us." "That may be," said Unc!eJoe; "but I wasnt'a bit sleepy, just then." "Ha! ha!" laughed the foreman. "I never heard the eternal sleep' theory better answered. "Well," continued Uncle Joe. "I lay still as a mouse till that pesky critter undone my belt and slipped it from under me, which he did so gently that I hardly felt it, wide a wake as I was. Then he pulled the cover over me, and tucking it in as carefully as mother could have done, he buckled my belt around him finished dressing and slipped out." "And you lay there and let your self be robbed without uttering a word?" again broke in the bluster ing juryman. "I didn't see no good in speak ing," said Uncle Joe; "il knew he'd sock his knife into me if I so much as chirped, and taking his chance o' cutting his way through the land lord afterward, if so be be woke up. No, I didn't say a word, but just turned over and took another nap, and in good time got up and mounted old Roan and rode off just as if nothing had happened. I got to my journey's end that day, and bought my land the next." "But your money ?" the fore man reminded him. "Oh, that was all right," said Uncle Joe. "Why, didn't the robber get it?" "He got the belt," Uncle Joe answered. "You see. mother and me knew that money belts had got to be so much in fashion, that they was the first thing every robber went for, and once they got a man's belt they'd go off con tented. So, what does mother and me do but fill my belt with pewter buttons, and mother she sewed the double eagles into the lining ofmy coonskin jacket, which the fur on the outside kept from showing, and there I carried them safe enough." We were still laughing at Uncle Joe's story when the bailifftapped at the door. The judge wanted to see us. His Honor had had his supper, and feeling in better humor, he discharged us from du rance. HlAPPINsS.-It is something to look upon enjoyment, so that it be free and wild and in the face of nature, though it is but the enjoy ment of an idiot. It is somethiug to know that Heaven has left the capacity of gladness in such a crea ture's breast ; it is something to be assured that, however lightly men may cr-ush that faculty in their fellows the Great Creator of mankind imparts it even to his despised andl sligh ted work. Who would not rather see a poor idiot happy in the sunlight, than a wise man pining in a darkened jail! Ye men of gloom and austerity, who paint the face of infinite be n-volence with an eternal frown; read in the Everlasting Book, wide open to your view. the lessons it would teach. Its pictures are not in black and somber hues, but bright and glowing tints; its mu si- save when ye drown it-is it not in sighs and groans, but songs and cheerful sounds Listen to the million voices in the summer air, and find one dismal as your own. Rcieember-, if ye can, the sense of hope and pleasure which every glad return of day awakens in the breast of all your kind who have not changed their nature ; and learn some wisdom even from the witless, when their hearts are lifted up they know not why, by all the mirth and happiness it brings.--Dickenls. A New Orleans woman wears a bustle made of government bonds. Her husband looks over the bond market in the evening paper, be fore going home from the club, to see if her back is up. ~Behavior is a mirror in which every one shows hia own image. There is a politeness of the heart akin to love, from which springs r the easiest politeness of outward behavior. 1OW TITEY D) IT IN ILLI NOIS. 1IE WEDIIN( OF TOBTAS SKA(S as AND MARTHA BURLAP. of pIl It was in Shawneetown, Ill. mn hat the very latest love story of' ed be period was enacted, and the pt ero waiz Tobias Skaggs. The th icroine was Martha Burlap, and an his happy couple are now enjoy- an nog the sweets of their honeymoon an n a manner becoming and proper a or newly married people in Illi- br ois. Tobias Skaggs was a show- th aan, and traveled over the coun- he ry with old John Robinson's cir- d, us. No hostler could clean more ti( iorses in an hour, nor drive a yC ircus wagon through a muddy of ountry in a dark night with fewer pr ipsets or milder swearing, nor w arry away more ordinary grub al: rom a country tavern, nor leave pi greater number of disconsolate w hambermaids in every town than er [obias Skaggs. or As for Martha Burlap, she was HI ,wenty-two years old, and had ei hus far wasted herself upon the ci nasculines of Shawneetown. She It -ead all the story papers, dreamed s; )f lovers, but had none, and served rc ,he boarders of' the Wabash House tj Aith tenderness and sweetness- ti which are the current names in bl 5hawneetown for beefsteak and a orn bread. When there isan affin- di ty between two souls in Shawnee :own there isimmediatesympathy I ind love. Martha Burlap saw To Dias in the grand procession dress- ti d in a yello w jacket.pink trousers, e ong bo,ts and a zinc helmet. It was Martba's ague day, and she tood in the kitchen door with a bottle in her hand and the spoon v in her mouth when Tobias rode d d past. She saw his manly form, 0 his gay uniform, his flashing hel- r met, and she forgot the bitterness t of her 'uinine ; she also forgot C the patatoes baking. in the oven and the eggs frying on the fire. The smell of burning food brought Mrs. Nibbs, the landlady, y to the kitchen, and her language a brought tears- to the gentle eyes a of Martha. But her beart was with the gallant man who rode the spavined horse. When the members of old John Robinson's circus were seated at the supper e table then it was that Martha Bur- n lap saw and felt that Tobias was 3 indeed the man for whom her soul had longed all these years of her maidenhood. At supper be received I a nicer beefsteak and hotter cornj bread than his fellows, and his cup ~ was filled again and again with I coffee while others waited. And she-well she was reward-. ed with a free ticket to the show. When the show came to an end, as all shows must, and Martha started out in the mioonlig'he for that home of the homeless, the Wabash House, she found a strong t arm offered and a hoarse voice asking the privilege of becoming t her escort. A half hour later an impatient 'f man was banging at the door of a justice of the peace. The justicer was prompt in the discharge of' his duty, but when he reached the Wa bash House the bride was cooking ing a far'ewell meal while th el] groom was in the stable. He le ft I his horse and she stopped cooking I long enough to join hands at the command of the justice. "Do you take this woman to be y'our law ful wedded wife ?" said the justice. "Yes, he does, you bet," was the prompt reply of the bride. "Do you take this man to be your bus-. and, Martha ?" "Come n o w , squire, don't be foolish !" said the lady, and the justice pronouncedt them man and wife. "Why don't you kiss the bride?" said a grufft voice, and they saw the painted face of' the- clown through a crack of the door-"You shet up ; its none of your wvedding," was the ready answer of the bride, and it brought dlown the house. But her finest effort was displayed a moment later, when she snatched up a ladle and ordered them all out of the kitchen till she was done, cooking.1 The next morning old John Robinson's Circus lost a man, and the Wabash House lost a maid, but the drug store has added ano ther quinine customer to its list, and Shawneetowni has gained a new family. Men digging a well at Rochester, Min., found a log of wood about one foot in diameter fifty-five feet below the surface. The bark was still On the log, and the wood was a species of dark-colored pine. N~o State but Massachusetts could hold a summer session of the Legislature ; but there the members are too lean to .sweat, and too stingy if they wasn't too lan. BUYING A PRACTICE. "le is but a landscape painter." Tennyson sings in "The Lord Burleigh;", but once he. was a ysician, and if his knowledge oi dieine was equal to his knowl ge of art, he was a very good ysician. He was younger then an he is now, and he is not old. d he was greener-greener than y spring filiage he ever painted. d spring foliage, by the way, is ;peeialty ol his. City born and ed, he made a short trip into e country, and. while there, ard incidentally of a country 'etor who wished to sell bis prac ,e. ie was hesitating, was our ung friend, about his final choice a profession, having failed to ocure any but poor patients, bo could not pay, and having so flailed to paint any but poor etures which would not sell. It as an even thing with him wheth lie became a starving artist, remained a starving physician. e was earning no money as hcr, nor was he likely to in the ty. Why not try the country? s inhabitants were honest and mple-minded, he had somewhere ad, and wbat, with the beat of e sun, and other novel peculiari es,the world he thought more lia e to sickness than the denizens of crowded city. Certainly the chil en were, for were they not -rpetually eating green fruit ? es, he would try the country, if, ter looking into the practice iat was to be disposed of, he >uld see a living in it. He call I upon the disposing practitioner, ho was but a little older than imself, an affable, good natured oung fellow, though rather ver ant, he thought. The verdant ne was willing to "vamoose the inche," as he remarked, -'for, be ,veen ourselves, there is a lady in .aifornia who is attached to me, 2ough you wouldn't think it per aps." "But about your practice." I won't say anythicg about it. at to-mor:ow, if you like, say to iorrow forenoon, I'll harness up, nd you can see for yourself. It not sickly now, I must tell you, ut it's going to be soon, especial Sanong children and old folks. ten like you and I might live for ver here though they have no such ien. Plenty of money though. fv horse remembers the house of very patient in the neighborhood, nd stops of himself at their doors. 'ou can jot down the number as ye jog along, and decide whether ou you'll buy me out or no. And ow suppose we adjour'n to the avern you are stopping there nd have something cool. I'm birsty, and want to smoke. tusn't smoke in my office you now. Here's a cigar you can moko. Try it." They adjourn d to the tavern, had some hing cool, smoked, and came to n agreement regarding the sum o be paid for the practice, past, resent, and future, especially the uiture. The next forenoon the air drove through the town, or ather the country doctor did, nd was a considerable time about t, so often did the noble animal hat drew the buggy stop. "Why, )octor, nearly every person in he town has been under your Lands," remarked our dlelighted it, keeping a mental tally of the toppages. "Y~es, suppose so, t one time or another. Get up." t was a constant "get up" to the orse, who appeared to remember is muster's practice better than is master did. It was purchased at once for good i'ound sum in cash, and hat very afternoon the retired ractitioner proceeded to the sta ion, accompanied by two or three ecquaintan ces who were enjoying omething hugely. "Best thing )ut," said one. "Beats all," re >lied another ; "eh, Doce?" "Tel ol !" he answered coolly. The rain stopped, took him on, and .ent screaming on with its pre :ious freight--that affable, good atured, verdant young person, ~vho was g'oi ng to California, where ei had a tender attachment. Days passed, and no patients. NIore days passed, and still no pa. Lien ts. What did it mean ? Mean? It meant that there were no pr'ac. tice there ! The country M. D. had borrowed the horse of the milkman ! That's all. "Only this, and nothing more.' Men who arc con fined in their thoughts and affections to the nar row circle cf self, and at seconc hand, cannot give advice to thos< who are out of that circle, and th< world is very apt to confound mod eration in discourse and prudenc< with deep and comprehensiv< judgment: which rests on a vera different basis and results from fa: diffrent qaities.-BSara Coleridga PLANTERS AS WAREHOUSE MEN. 1R)CEEINGS OF THE SAVANNAH RIVER VALLEY ASSOCIATION. The Savannah River Valley Asso 1.ati,n met ;n Augusta on Thursday. Chirty-eight Georgia and South Caro ina 6 ranz;ers were rioresented. The committee to whom was referred he reports of the committee to report ipon the practicability and expediency )f establishing a co-operative ware iouse and depot, under the auspices )f the Patrons of Husbandry, and to nake a recommendation thereon. ask 0ave to make the following report: In consideration of the fact that a ery large number of planters have al ready contracted obligations with fac .ors that should be fulfilled, both in etter and spirit, and in consideration )f the shortness of ti.me in which to raise funds necessary, and make suit able and proper arrangements for the storage and sale of the present crop on advantageous terms, your committee respectfully a n d earnestly recom mend the reference of the reports re ferred to us to the executive commit tee, with full power to act, and at the same time do most urgertly advocate the opening of books for subscription to stock for the purpose of establish ing a depot and warehouse, under the auspices of the Patrons of Husbandry, in the City of Augusta, at as early a day as may be considered practicable by the executive committee. The report was received and refer red to the executive committee for further action. Resolutions were adopted on Fliday providing for opening subscription books for stock in a depot and ware house to be established in Augusta under the auspices of the association, and that none other but individual subscriptions be taken less than ten dollars, viz: One share of stock, or if cotton not less than one commercial bale; also, that the capital stock be one hundred thousand dollars; and when ten thousand dollars shall be subscribed it shall be the duty of the executive committee to call a meet ing of the stockholders, giving them ten days' notice, for the purpose of electing suitable officers and managers for each of said co-operative organiza tions, and prepare and procure from the State of Georgia, suitable charac ters, and also for the establishment of suitable agencies at other commercial poimts. The convenition adjourned to meet in Augusta on the fourth Wednesday in February. 18375. A SOLoMoN OF A 3UDGE.-The following story comes from Ire land: Two men had a quarrel in a liquor shop. They adjourned out side to settle the dispute. The first man being from Connaught, immediately seized a lump of stone and let fly at the head of his op ponent, who dipped his head and missed the stone, which went through an expensive plate glass window and did much damage. A magistrate was called upon next morning to determine which of the two should pay the cost. The evidence clearly showed that the aim was a good one, and that if the second man had not dipped his head he would have been struck. "Therefore," said the ma g istrate, "he must pay the dam ages, as it is certain the first man didn't intend to injure the win dow, and the window would not have been injured if it had not been for the act of the second man." The Chicago Tribune has been ex amining into food adulterations in that city. The special field select ed has been an analysis of the gro ceries sold at the leading grocery stores in that city. Specimens have been bought from various establishment, in the usual course of trade, of sugar, coffee, tea, soap, syrups, cream of tartar, baking powders, etc., and they have been subjected to analytical tests by skillful chemists. T he result shows that every article tested is adul terated to a greater or less de gree. An Irishman found a Government blanket recently, and rolling it up, put it under his arm and walked off, say ing7: "Yis, that's nmoine--U for Patrick and S for McCarthy ; be me sowl, but this larnin' is a foine thing, as me fayther would say; for if I hadn't any edication I wouldn't have been afther findin' me blanket. Olin, Iowa, proposes to estab lish, this season, a cheese factory, tannery, bc->t and shoe factory, and a woolen mill. Green Bay has decided that a widower ought to mourn at least thre~e weeks before shining around for a second wife. Be not too prodigal; the kettle, whaenn 'n1 nn+l pt+.u the 4r.