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A Family Companion, Devoted to Literature, Miscellany, News, Agriculture, Markets, &c Vol. XI. WEDNESDAY MORNING, APRIL 14, 1875. No. 15. THE HERALD~ IS PUBLISHED EIVERY WFDNESDAY MORiNING) At -Neirberry. C. H..t BY UHK~ F, GRENDKKRM Editor and rroprietor. Terins, s2&o-w per alonit"13 1nTarist,.,y in Advance. nr-~ The psv-r is stopped ait the expiration o01 time for wh t it is Paid. Er- The X mark denotes expiration of sub reription. HOE-N HOPE EVER. A BY GERJkLD MASSEY. Hope on, hope ever!, though to-day be dark th, The sweet sunburst may smile on thee to -morro%v H, Tho' thou art lonely, there's an eye that will t1j mark Ch Thy loneliness, and guerdon all thy sorrow! Tbo' thou must toil 'mong cold and sordid men, S11 Widone to e -ho back thy thoug-ht or loveNv hir poor bmrFli6a dostLot beat in of vain, V Hope on, hope ever! w The iron may enter in and pierce thy soul, C C But cannot kill the Love within thee burn- tU3 ing;C The tears of misery-, thy better dole, fl Caix-nev* quench thy true heart's seraph hei yearning ne( For better, things; nor crush thy arduousst trust; That erMc from the mind shall be uprooted, lift That truth shall dawn, astfowers spring from r the dlust, for And Lovre be cherished where Hate was em bruited! Hope on, hope ever! S I knowA'is. hard to> bear the sneer and taunt,- b With the heart's honest pride at midnight hal wrestle, nol To feelthe killing canker worm of Waat, al WlDkrichX rogaes in their stolen luxury nestle; For I have fe':t it. Yet from earth's cold real, vis Xy soul looks out on coming things andre . A.1 ret "Good gracious!" j S~J WOMAT'S HEROISM. -0 Bound home to New York from a Sandwich Islands, the ship tmpton, was bowling along rough the Pacific Ocean, under a )11d of canvas. The crimson rays of the rising a had tinted the blue, rollincj ves, when Bertha Winthrop one the passengers came on deck. She was a lovely girl of eighteen, bh hazel eyes, light-brown hair, a ar, white skin, and perfect fea es. Nothing could have been: re charming than the contour of - well formed head, balanced on a :k as round and smooth as if dptured from marble; yet full of and expression. Che supple grace of her whole ' m, from the sloping shoulders, lithe, flexible waist, down to the all, well-shaped feet, was remark. c e, perhaps partially due to her >its of exercise in the open air, only in walking and riding, but c in swimming. e he had been to Honolulu, on a t to some relatives, and was now a irning home under the escort of lover, Herbert Weldon, a hand- f ie naval officer of twenty-three, v had obtained leave of absence b n the commander of his vessel, ig off Maui, Sandwich Islands. n ertha was not at all demonstra in manner. Some people said g was cold. Her calm self-pos- m sion never deserted her. She C 31d look with still clear eyes h )n her lover, when he spoke to tl she seldom blushed, stood with ping lashes before him. his at times wounded Herbert's s] iy. He wondered if it was sible she did not care for him, ft zr all. True, her voice had fal- s4 ad, he had heard the beating of b heart and felt the trembling of c hand, when he won from her 0 ay months before, the confession li t she loved him. But these signs h .ection soon passed away, and l seemed as calm as ever. here are some men who cannot such women; there are others b adore them.n ~ertha was not long on deck a n the you.ng officer sought her he two conversed. Finally Her said; "If we have good weather, will reach New York in three l ths. Then dear girl, I will ~ e you my wife.'- h Yes, Herbert," she answered in at ',quiet voice. : I think we are 'well matched,' .t is called," he went on--"don't ' Certainly," she replied, in the e quiet way, a slight smile on pretty lips.C 'Mine forever ! My own to love, rish, and protect ! Oh, Bertha, 0 cannot imagine how eagerly I d forward to the happy time !" ~ Oh, yes, I can understand all ~ t !" she replied, calmly, raising . soft clear eyes, and looking him ' dily, yet not boldly, in the face. a shadow crossed Herbert's brow. ~ d she love him, and yet be so n.i ~Bertha," he suddenly said, "I *h you would say something-act ~ some way to let me know that ~ Lthink as much of me as I do of e 'or an instant the girl flushed ~ rn brow to neck. Then she be- a ae pale. 'Herbert," she said, quietly, "you st never doubt me." IThe young man was not satisfied.I ien Bertha left him, and went in the cabin, without having spoken in, he felt chagrined. 'he sun had risen, but it was led by a hazy vapor. Masses of vy black clouds rushing along the windward. The ship's ' tain was ordering sail to be ta- ~ Bither and thither about the E ks went the active sailors, pull Sand hauling on braces, sheets and ' w lines. Then up the rigging t y darted to furl the topgallant ~ ls, the fore and mizzen topsails, ~ 1 to close-reef the main. I While all hands were aloft the I Le came shrieking, howling and ,ing on the ship. With her lee-rail scooping up the ite waters, her shrouds whistling ci bending to the gale, her masts aying and cracking, her timbers1 aning and humming, away she nt, driving through the mad wa s veiled in a shroud of spray m bow to stern. Amidships, holding on to a pin I the main fife-rail, stood Herbert, i tching the men who were furling Suddenly the ship made a mad ange; a great torrent of water me sweeping, like a huge, moving; sil ovr the weather-rail 1 Ere the young officer could avoid it by running aft, it struck his form, washing him overboard like a shot. rhere was a slender half-rotten rope anging from the waist, attached to t rail. Herbert seized this as he ,vent, with ready self-possession, isting it around his waist. The wild mass of water swept >ver and past him; there he was, 1anging by the end of the rope, tbout ten yards from the ship's side. Bertha, who had come on deck ust as her lover was swept over the -ail, now ran amidships, with pale hks and wild eyes, calling on the I hip's officers to save the young nan. No boat could be lowered in such gale. The officers ran to the rail, Lowever, and commenced hauling in the rope, to which the imperiled ne, half-hidden by the raging, aaming waters and the flying spray, as still clinging. As they continued to haul, an mnious, snapping sound was heard. he standards of the rotten rope rere giving away! "He must go!" ried the captain, despairingly. "No arthly power can save him now! 'he rope will part ere we get him longside!" Nearer-nearer to the ship was e young officer drawn. When he ras within five yards of it, the rope eld him by only one of its strands! This, going around and around, ist part in a few seconds. With clasped hands, and eyes leaming large and bright, Bertha -atched Herbert, her lips tightly mpressed, as if by the -power of er will alone she would prevent e rope from giving way. The strain upon that one strand -as tremendous. It cracked and iapped, but still held. The first mate stood reaching x out over the rail to be ready to ize Herbert the moment he should a drawn within his reach. The Lptain had taken a bowline-hitch a the end of the main topsail hal ards, thus forming a noose, which e stood ready to throw if the strand ould part ere Herbert was pulled >the ship. To throw it now would probably a attended with fatal results. The oose would strike the other rope, ad not slip down over the young an further than his neck, thus rangling him. Nearer-still nearer ! Bertha could now see her lover oking up from the white, foam g vortex, his eyes bright with the ope of being saved. He was only vo yards from the vessel's side. he first mate, leaning far over -om the outside of the ship, to 'hich he had lashed himself, could imost reach him. "Thank God ! he is saved !" cried a man hoarsely, as he made a utch at Herbert's hair. He had just seized a few threads those bright locks--he was en eavoring to obtain a firmer hold, rhen a loud, snapping sound was eard, as the rope parted ! The man with the noose threw , but it fell short, dashed aside by heavy sea, from Herbert, as the hip rushed past him. With a gurg ng cry of despair, the young man rifted to leeward ! But not he alone ; for Bertha, rho, the moment she saw that the trand must part had quickly fast ned the end of the main-topgal mt halliards about her waist, had prang bravely into the wild sea, nd, striking bravely into the mad raves, as the turns of the rope hich she had thrown off the pins lackened, she fast approached her over. Reaching him when he was about wenty yards astern, she threw her rhite arms about him, and held him rly, while the men on deck now auled on the rope. Although half suffocated by the aging waters-although her beauti ul waist was compressed by the train of the rope upon it, so that he could hardly breathe-yet, with ier white teeth firmly set, her large rild eyes gleaming like stars through he foam, her long wet hair sweep ag the young man's face, her warm >osom beating against his own, the rave girl still held firmly to her ovr, determined to save his life ! At last the two were drawn to the ;hip's side and helped aboard, amid he ringing cheers of the sailors and officers. Herbert then bore into the cabin he noble girl, who, exhausted by ier exertions, had nearly fainted vhen she reached the deck. As he hung over her applying re ~toratives and kissing her again id again, she smiled and said, gen "Have I not done something at .ast to prove how much I love you!" "You are a noble girl !" he an wered; "and I now understand iou. Another woman might have seen mont to enea harz feeling8 to me in passionate language an with burning cheeks; but she wou have stood helplessly by and seE me perish. You are one of thoE glorious creatures who are demoi strative in action rather than i speech!" And so he still found her, whei a few months later, he made her hi wife. LEE AND JACKSON. AN ENGLISH GENERAL'S ESTIMATE 0 THEIR GREATNESS. Maj.-Gen. Sir Garnet J. Wols( ley, the victorious commander i the Ashantee war of 187S-74, wa stationed in Canada during our civ il war-then plain Col. Wolseley and made an underground visit t< Gen. Lee just after the battle o Gettysburg. In the United Servici Magazine there is being publishet monthly a biographical sketch o Sir Garnet Wolseley, written b3 Lieut. Low, late of the Indian Navy who is the author of "The Life o: Sir George Pollock." In the lasi number of the magazine the bio grapher reaches the period in hi hero's life when he was in Canadl ind made his visit to Lee. ThE reader is enabled to obtain fron bhis narrative some account o: Wolseley's opinions of the leadinE soldiers who fought on both sidei in our war, and the value of theii military operations. Of Gen. Robert E. Lee-"the read ar is informed by Lieut. Low-Sih 3arnet Wolseley had the most exalt nd idea. These are his words: "I is Wolseley's deliberate opiniol bhat in military genius Lee has had ao superior since the great Napo eon astonished the world by hi narvellous career of victory; and h< places Robert Lee even above th< )reat German generals who have s( recently avenged the defeats in licted on their country by th( nighty Corsican." It was his greal admiration for Lee, as well as his esire to study war-under the novel aspects presented in the South, that induced Col. Wolseley to un ertake the rather perilous journey bo that country. Leaving his quar ters at Montreal quietly, he passed bhrough New York and Baltimor< to the lower counties of Maryland where the northern terminus of th< underground passage to the Con federacy was secretly laid. He hai obtained in Canada and Baltimori eonfidential letters to persons ii Maryland, who were in possessioi of the necessary facilities to pu' him on the right track. He strug gled through the usual. dangeri which at that time attended the sur reptitious crossing of the militar' ines, dodging from house to hous< and hiding in out-of-the way places and narrowly escaping one evening capture by Federal cavalry. Bui an.ally he got across the Potomat in safety, and wended his way par tially on foot to Richmond. Hi picked up at the river a countrymar of his own bound on the same ad venture, and during his subsequeni stay in the Confederacy they stued together. This companion of him subsequent travels was the Hon Frank Lawley, brother of Lord Wenlock. Mr. Lawley was going to the Confederacy with a commis sion from the London Times to ac1 as its correspondent. When th< two Englishmen reached Richmoni they were received with open armm by the people there. They ha( many social attentions, and the Con federate Government, through it, Secretary of War, Mr. Randolph gave them carte blanche to g< wherever they pleased. After in specting the fortifications of Rich mond and Petersburg they startei by the Virginia Central Railroad t< visit the headquarters of Gen. Lee which were then about six milei from Winchester. Col. Wolseley and his companio2 were received by Gen. Lee wit] that kindness and stately courtes: for which he was so noted. Wolse ley speaks with the utmost enthu siasm of the Southern commander He described him as a person who wherever seen, whether in a castle or hovel, alone or in a crowd, woul< at once attract attention as a spler did specimen of an English gentle man, with one of the most rarel; handsome faces ever seen. Th General was living in a tent like th rest of the men, though there wa a comfortable farm-house near by But he so scrupulously respecte the rights of private property tha he would not consent to take pos session of it. He led the two Eng lishmen to a seat hard by, under; large tree, and there converse< with them on the topic most intE resting to them, the past, presen and future of the war. Wolsele; a that., notwithstanding his nem .d sonal losses at Arlington and else d where, which were very severe, Gen. n Lee never evinced any bitterness of -e feeling against the North, nor gave i- utterance to a single violent ex n pression. On the contrary, he al luded to many former friends and i, companions on the other side in the .s kindest terms. He talked freely about the battle of Antietam, which a had just previously, been fought. The celebrated Stonewall Jackson received Wolseley and the Times' correspondent with much affability. "He talked most affectionately of England and of his brief but enjoy able sojourn there." Wolseley was quite overcome by his interview with Jackson. "For myself," he afterwards exclaimed impulsively, "I believe that, inspired by the presence of such a man, I should be perfectly insensible to fatigue and reckon on success as a moral certainty." Wolseley also made some remarks on the morals of the Southern soldiers. Hi met, while visiting the front, batches of con valescent soldiers marching to join the army. This led him to praise the spirit of the men but. to con demn the great want of judgment evinced by the medical officers. After a sojourn of several days in the neighborhood of the Shenan doah Valley, Wolseley and Lawley retraced their steps to Richmond, L and from thence the future con queror of the Ashantees made his way, by the tortuous and danger ous passage across the Potomac and through Maryland, to Baltimore, and so back to Canada. CoD WINTERs IN EURoP.-In 401 the Black Sea was entirely frozen over. In 763 not only the Black Sea, but the Straits of Dardanelles, were frozen over; the snow in some places rose fifty feet high. In 822 the great rivers of Europe, the Dan ube, the Elbe, etc., were so hard frozen as to bear heavy wagons for a month. In 820 the Adriatic was frozen. In 991 everything was frozen, the crops totally failed, and famine and pestilence closed the year. In 1076 most of the travelers in Germany were frozen to death on the roads. In1132thePo wasfrozen from Cremona to the sea; the wine sacks were burst, and the trees split by the action of the frost, with im mense noise. In 1236 the Danube were frozen to the bottom, and re Imained long in that state. I316 the crops wholly failed in Gerany; wheat which some years before sold in England at six shillings the quar ter, rose to two pounds. In 1308 the crops failed in Scotland, and such a famine ensued that the poor were reduced to feed on grass, and many perished miserably in the fields. The successive winters of 1432-3-4 were uncommonly severe. In 1.568 the wine distributed to the soldiers was cut with hatchets. In 1683 it was excessively cold. Most of the hollies were killed. Coaches drove along the Thames, the ice of which was elevei. inches thick. In 1709 occurred the cold winter; the frost penetrated the earth three yards into the ground. In 1716 booths were erected on the Thames. In 1744 and 1745 the strongest ale in England, exposed to the air, was covered in less than fifteen minutes with ice an eighth of an inch thick. n i. 1809 and again in 1812, the win tLrs were remarkably cold. In 1814 there was a fair on the frozen Thames. A LOCK OF HAI.--Almost every one has at least one lock of hair cut from the head of one now dwelling - in that silent land whence come no Smessages, no letters, n<f tokens of ,any kind to tell of love or of re > membrance. Every one knows that - strange emotion, half joy, half woe, with which the tiny relic of so Imuch that was once dear can thrill > the soul. Only now and then do we dare to take it from its hiding a place, hold it in the palm, press it to the cheek, and use it as a talis 1 man to recall all that we must per 1 force forget in the work-a-day world r for the sake of strength to do its -battle. -We do not know whose hair that -which you treasure may be ; whe ,thaer the flossy curl from a baby's a head, the dark lock from the brow I that once made your breast its -pillow, a parent's gray tress, or Sa young lover's sunny curl. Nor F does its matter, for all love in its e essence, in that part of it that out B lives death, is alike and equally a pure, but we know that there is -nothing like it to you anywhere. I There are no words for the thoughts t it brings. They mock language. .As you touch it, and gaze at it, you have nothing to say. You feel the thorns of your dead rose, that is all, and the wound they make bleed. -"What's a bonanza ?" A plug t hat, seven years old. F Ida Clare is married. I declare, who to?i ESSAY ON WOMAN. Women are like everything else in this world-a very mixed up af faif. According to our own obser vation, there are Women good and women bad, Women gay and women sad, Women big and women small, Women short and women tall, Women fat and women lean, Women sweet and women mean, Women young and women old, Women bought and women sold, Women poor and women rich, And a good many more wome, sich. The first woman in this world was Eve. Eve was a bad girl. She didn't belong to the good templars. Eve liked apple cider too well-she wanted hers dry. . We never saw Eve, but they say.she was a pretty i girl. Her fellow was a chap by the i name of Adam. We never went to i school with him. Eve was like the i rest of her sisters-just tell her not i to do a thing and she would be sure i to do it. Eve must have been a ] country girl. She-didn't care much : for fashion, and she made her own I clothes without a sewing machine. I She would be rather behind the E times should she visit us now. ] Some women are very pretty. E We don't like pretty women-there I are always so many fellows around i them. They remind us of a lot of i flies on a molasses stick. We like the molasses, but-bother the flies. Good women are plenty in this i country, but they will never tell ( you of it; you have got to trail'em I out yourself. Bad women are everywhere. They ( are like rotten apples in a barrel of t good ones-apt to throw their de cayed influence around them. They i will always try to make you believe ] they are good. Don't take a bad I woman. She is counterfeit treas- I ure. Look out for trade mark. I Gay women are jolly fellows; al- I ways on a laugh. They make you 1 feel good clear to your sleeve but tons. A sad woman ought to wear spec- I tacles with pink-colored glasses in I them. That would make her look < at the world in a different light. f We don't know that we like a big woman better than a little one. If she is so big that a step-ladder is required to kiss her, we. most re- i spectfully decline in favor of the I small one. As we refleet farther 1 on this subject, we come to the con- < clusion that the small ones are al- < ways preferable. They have a ten- I dency to hang themselves-around I a fellow-and we want to furnish t the material for a hanging-post. I We hate a mean woman. We C feel like saying "deliver us- from C evil," whenever we see one. But a give us e sweet woman-one of na- t ture's own children-with rosy C cheeks and loving eyes; with a no- I ble heart, a high-toned mind, a i pure soul and a healthy body, re- I fined in taste, developed in intellect; E be she poor or rich, young or old, C large or small-to such a one we t could say, "fly unto our arms, dar. t ling; we love you." I e THE PaEn ME ET I NG.-"The t growing Christian men of my la Church," said a pastor, "are the men c who habitually attend the weekly t prayer meeting. The men who 1 give most for the cause of Christ in 1 this country and af>road, are the I men who attend the prayer meeting. a The men whose Christian counsel I and support I most rely upon, are t the men who go to the prayer meet-. ing. The men who I should least fear would run into extremes, either of frigid conservatism on the one C hand, or rash radicalism on the C other, but who would be most like- a ly to maintain candid, large, gene- r rous, just views of duty, are the r men of the prayer meeting. The t men who labor most for souls a around them, who visit the sick and I comfort the afficted, are the men f who habitually attend the prayer t meeting." A.h, yes, the prayer < meeting is half way between the 1 pulpit and the closet-the spot ~ where public instruction and pri- 1 vate meditation meet-to kindle, and blow the soul into social warmth i and expanding life. f HE DIDN'T CME-A newly mar ried couple from somewhere down i the Lansing road, says the Detroit < Free Press, were riding in a Grand t River car yesterday, and the groom insisted on holding the bride's hand in the big red paw. "Oh ! no, don't," she said, as she 1 jerked her hand away. c "Oh ! luv, let me hold your hand, z just for ten minutes !" he pleaded. e "Shoo! Don't you see they are looking at us !" she whispered. "They are, eh !" he replied, look- ~ ing up and down the car. "Wall, ' now, I'm going to put my arm around ye, and if any fellow in this car dares to spit crooked, I'll get x up and mop the floor with himantil i I wear him out up tohis shoulder blades !" His arm encircled her, and the i other passengers looked as solemn as if theyswereson their way home from a inneralI A PROPOSAL IN A CAR. F A Pennsylvania paper says that the passengers on one of the trains " from Buffalo to Brocton, last week, were treated to a love scene of un usual character. Occupying one of the seats was a fair young maiden from Corry, and a grey-headed, ai benevolent-looking gentleman from W Chicago. She was handsome, and at aot above twenty-two. He was on st he shady side of sixty, with flow- sh ng white hair and beard, and a w 3leasant expression on his counte- au iance. He had been in her com. er ?any from Rochester, and the few ob iours passed in her society had de tgain awakened the dreams of love w] n his old heart. It was evidently a L case of love at first sight on his ot :art. With her 'twas not. But he of old his tale. His wife was long si dnce dead; his children had grown sa ip, married, and passed from his d iome. He was alone in this world. Sb le had wealth at his command, S1 mt he longed for some companion i o share it with him. This was th rpoken in a low tone, but sufficient- da so y loud to be heard by those in the do ieats near him. At last the impor ant moment came. The old gentle- -' nan said: "Will you share my for er une with me; will you be my wife?" s Chen spoke this noble oil maiden. sh 'I cannot. Your riches are nothing sa o me. If Iloved you I would ac ept; but that I do not, and must uP herefore refuse your offer." But tu he old man still pleaded. He ask- go xd to be allowed to accompany her he o Corry and see her parents. She leclined. His pleadings were con inued until the train rived at 3rocton, when she again refused to et him accompany her to Corry. ou lis train 'irrived and they must ce )art. He threw his arms around Va ker neck and kissed her fervently, sic inmindful of the gazing crowd. Lhen upon the platform of the car Le took off hisliat,and with his white dr W I Lair .and beard streaming in the OE ireeze, and tears running down his for heeks, this aged lover blessed the F< air maiden and swore to see -her gam. Ir nm TE SuiueHr.-We wish he importance of admitting the ight of the sun, freely,. as well as a milding these early and late fires, a ould be properly impressed upon ur housekeepers. No article of th criture should be brought to our Lomes too good or too delicate for to he sun to see all day long. Hises >resence should never be excluded,bi icept when so bright as to be tin- bil omfortable to the eyes. And walks. hould be in bright sunlight, so hat the eyes are protected by veil ir parasol, when inconveniently in ense. A sun bath is of far more ed rnportance in preserving a health ul condition of the body than is enerally understood. A sun bath osts nothing, and that is a misfor- do une, for people are deluded with he idea that those things only can e good or useful which cost mon- cai y. But remember that pure wa- ed er, fresh air, sunlight, and home ept free from dampness, will se are you from many heavy bills of be doctor; and give you health and igor, which no money can procure. t is a well established fact that hau 'eople who live much in- the sun int re usually stronger and more m .ealthy than those whose occupa-pa ions deprive them of sunlight. kn .LChristian Union. he How T HEY PnOPosE.-A writer riticises the madness of match do iaking with becoming severity, nd predicts the evils which mustbi ecessarily befall our country if he iatrimony shall long continue to OD e a simple matter of money. In tead of its being an affair of the 17' eart it is really a very different af air-nothing but a hasty transac- elt ion in fancy stocks; and if the be ificiating clergyman were to em- fre bly an appropriate formula of "F vords in celebrating the nuptials m< Le would address the parties thus: he "Romeo, wilt thou have this del cate constitution, this bundle of mi ilks and satins, this crock of gold, jo or thy wedded wife ?" "1 will." en "Juliet, wilt thou have this false de retense, this profligate in broad- an loth this unpaid tailor's bill, for in hy wedded husband ?" ''I will." yo The happy pair are then pro- sti Lolnced man and wife. And what foi s the result? A brief career of fig lissipation, a splendid misery, a bu eduction to poverty, domestic dis- laz ension, separation and finally a if ivorce. This may be somewhat y evere, but it is not entirely unjust, Leither is it wholly undeserved. u; Wife-One who shares our sor- an ows, doubles our joys, and quad. as uples our expenses. ho -- - + - -Jo A man has been arrested for pa king things as they come.th A ----oele.--we-tw,W LO A tice eleen is twentyto, ret em - twice ten be twenty too. res IFTY-FIVE DOZEN CLOTHES PINS. )W MRS. JOHNSON STIRRED UP THE HEAD OP THE FAMILY-A WARNING TO LAZY HUSBANDS. Ladies who have husbands'who e neglectful in supplying them ith kindlings should carefully udy the experietce of a Division reet sister. All her married life e has had an unbroken struggle th her husband to keep herself pplied with wood, and the great part of the time she has been liged to depend upon her own ftness with the axe, and any one io has seen a woman handle an e knows what a dreadful thing is. Two months ago she begged him not to go away without ,ving her some kindlings. He d he wouldn't. But he finally 1. Then she hit upon a plan. e had four dozen clothes pins. e.took one dozen of them for trting the fire, and found that By worked admirably. The next y she used another dozen, and she continued until the four zen were gone. Then she went the store and purchased anoth four dozen-having them "put the bill." When they were gone a repeated the errand. She 'd no more to him about kind gs. For ten years she had kept the battle, and now she was ed and sick at heart. He could his own way, and she would go rs-patiently, uncomplainingly until the end would come. Dn Monday he signified at the ore that he would like to settle his account. The bill was made t and handed to him. He glan I down the items. As he ad need along the column his face gan to work. First his eyes wly enlarged, then his mouth %dually opened, caused- by the sopiog of his lower jaw; and inkles formed on his forehead. ie third down the- column he -med his lips as if to whistle. ur lines below he did whistle. LIf way down he said: 'Gra-cious!1" A. little further on he said: 'Thunder!" Four more lines were taken in, d he spoke again: 'By the Jumping Jupiter !" 1'hen he read on, smiting his Lgh vigorously, and giving vent various expression of the liveli ,nature.'- Finally he threw the 1 down. 'I say, Benson, look here : this [ can't be mine ; you've got mg xed up with some laundry." 'That's your bill, sir," said the )cer, smiling pleasantly. 'I tell you it can't be," persist the Division street man, begin ig to look scared. "Why here's y-five dozen clothes pins in a o months' bill. What on earth you take me for-a four-story .ndry ?" 'But it is your bill. Your wife iexplain it to you. She order the pins." 'My wife !" gasped the unfortu ,e man. 'Yes, sir." Ihe debtor clutched the bill, imned it into his pocket and cried straight home. He bolted. o the house without any abate nt of speed, and flinging the ?er on the table before his wife, ocked his hat on the back of his .d, and said: 'Martha Ann Johnson, what ~s this meam ? There are fifty e dozen clothes pins in Benson's, i for the past two months, and says you ordered every blessed a of them." 'And solI did," said she, demure ' W.-h- a- t! Fifty-five dozen thes pins in two months !" and shot down into a chair as if a ight car had fallen atop of him. ifty-five dozen close pins in two mnths," he howled. "Will a just aven stand that ?" 'I tell you, you needn't stare at ithat way, Reuben Wheeler hnson, nor of calling onto heav with your impiousness. I or red them clothes pins myself; i I have burnt every one of 'em that there stove, just because a were too allfired lazy to get a ok of wood. And I declare, be 'e I'll be bothered ja.ving a,d hting to getyou to cut wood, I'll en up every cloth >s pin in the Ld, and you shall pay for them, rou have to sell the shirt on ur back to do it. So now !" a.nd Mrs Johnson, with a face e scarlet snatched up the broom, il went to sweeping the carpet if every flake of dust was a red L coal, while the unhappy Mr. bnson hastened to the store, and id the bill. And before dark it night he had a half cord of od. sawed,. split~ and piled" up dy for nnn.-DanburM News. IADVERTISINC RATES, Advertisements inserted at the raef $1.00 per square-one inch-forfirst inserdon, arnd 75e. for each subsequent insertion, Double column advertisements ten per canton above. INotuces of meetinps, obita-ires and tribute of respect, same rates per square as ordinarY advertisements. Specialunotices in local colmna 20 cents per line. Advertisements not marked with the num ber of insertions wMl be kept in tWl forbid and charged aceordkWgy. Special contracts =Me wi th Is.qpdver. tisers, with lieadfcIOXOSO. rates. Done with eswalD~ TRADED LbiKE 'O WIT MAN* A Petersburg paper pub&bWiN the following story and Credits it to'tbe Memphis Appeal: Scene in a Broad street, dloding store, time- 11. o'clock yeshday morning. .Enter colored,. troop from the raral regions Stoekeep er walks hurriely up to t1*frtmp and says: "Well,my cooridfrkenk- th civ il righsbill has passed, -and 1,am compelled to sell you anyUhi=g you want, just the same as to , a:white Colored troop -(PGMP=dsy)--_4 know dat." "Well .o* Just Say what, YOU. want. I will have to sell it to you, althoungh I don't'care to.do, so.7." 641 don't want nfi. 'NIOw just look around-the 46re, and if there is anythingyz wO,Oa~t to buy, say so. flha*iIt'b8U_lIt toyot4*8sIamn6tAbI6_to?sythe $500 fine If you haven't gotmon ey- enough to: pay.1; for: whtYOU want, r711 have _to, lendit.t 11:o;11 though I hope you ,don't wqnt much, as Ihaveift got-ba-t*ft" "What's de price o! e ais? pointing to a pe!; ofOc~r4 "'Seven dollars." fWorth.,a46ut