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A Family Companion, Devoted to Literature, Miscellany, News, Agriculture, Markets, &c. Vol. XI. WEDNESDAY MORNING, MAY 12, 1875. No. 19. THE HEIIALD IS rUB~LISRED FVERY WVEDNESDAY YORINING, At Newberry, S. C* BY TH09. F, GRENEKERt Editor sAd4Proprietor. Trmzs, $2.45o per aInnunt, invariably in Advance. iro-The paper is stopped at the expiration of time for whioh it is Pat. 07 The X4 mark deit6tes expiration of sub Eeription. BY LOI I HODlING. One morn in dreary Winter, Came a worn and weary printer, With his bundle on a splinter O'er his back; Travel-stained he was, and needy, And his appetite was speedY For a "snack." For the printing office steering Till within the door appearisog Where he bowed, as one revering, When he spoke. Saying in a voice as solemn2 As a gratisrBuchu columir "I am broke! In your city I'm a stranger, Dustr seedy as a Granger For I su erdin a manger Of a Barn I desire a&small donation .And some eaytransportation For my corn. Boat? I tried to v!5~rk my passage, Movft& freight and rough expressage, Living:on bologna, sassage, Dry and poor. But they found I was a printer Xnd they hustled me instanter To the shore; Then 1 sadly recollected Days when printers were respected For their skill. 'Now I'm ejected, Fore and aft. would have permitted him to rot in his prison without raising a little position he made was to go around among his friends and tell them he was absolutely insolvent. "If," said he, "I do this, and they freely advance money to start me in business, I win. I have no doubt I can borrow all the money I want, with nothing but my face as security." Then, as I stated at the outset, we bet ten dollars each on the re sult, and I awaited with eagerness the result of the practical test. I, however, ventured to intimate that if he carried out the experi ment he might weaken people's con fidence in truthfulness; but this only made him think I feared the result, and made him more deter mined than ever. So the experi ment was tried. He went to Mr. Smith, one of his most intimate friends, and said: "Mr. Smith, I am a bankrupt." "Indeed!" ejaculated Mr. Smith, very much astonished. "And pray, how has it come about ?" "I-I-," said M1r. Spriggins, hesitatingly, for story telling-or, in plain English, lying-was a new sin with him. "I-I went security for a friend, and had to pay the last cent of i." "Too bad, indeed," was Mr. Smith's sympathizing response. "If I can only borrow a few thousands, however, to get started in business again, I think I can get on very well. Mr. Smith thought there would be no difficulty in getting the mon ey. He would be very glad to. ad vance it himself, but he was "exces sively short" just at that time. Mr. Spriggins knew that this was not the case, and his opinion of Mr. Smith's undying friendship under went a rapid and radical change. He saw all of his many friends and renewed his request to each in turn; but they all happened to be "short" just at that time. After a few days of unsuccessful efforts to borrow money, he humbly acknowl edged he had lost his bet fairly, and that his face was not good security among his friends. "I told you so," said I. But an unlooked-for trouble came upon him. lHe was engaged to a very accomplished young lady. His trust in her was unbounded. He had often told me that if there was a good true waman on earth, it was his intended. But her father, earing of the insolvency of the son-in-law that was to be, accosted him, saying, "I understand, Mr. Spriggins, that you have met with a reverse of fortune." "Yes, sir," replied Spriggins, sheepishly. "Of ~cou.rse, under your altered ircumstances, you cannot expect to wed my daughter." Here was a new turn in affairs for which Mr. Spriggins was not prepared. He thought at first of correcting the falsehood he had himself started; but the idea sud denly flashed upon his mind that here was a good opportunity of testing the sterling qjualities of his sweetheart. This would be a tri umph which would more than com pensate for his defeats in other directions. So he replied, "Of course, sir, I have a better opinion of your daugh ter than to suppose she promised to be my wife for the sake of my money. Marriage for money" and Spriggins was becoming very indignant-"marriage for money sir, is a self-degradation, and no thing else, let the world call it by whatever name it may." "Of course, Mr. Spriggins, my daughter thought something of you; but you know a man without means would be foolish to think of marrying." "I have a good education, and, I may say, a brave heart; and, though deprived of fortune, I can earn enough to support myself and an other." "It is useless to prolong this con troversy, Mr. Spriggins," said the old man. "As a man of honor you will certainly offer to release my daughter from her engagement. Of course, if she does not accept your offer of freedom under the circum stances, I shall have nothing more to say. Good day, Mr. Spriggins; I am in somewhat of a hurry." "In a hurry, is he ?" muttered Spriggins, as his intended father-in law disappeared from view. "Seems to me that everybody is in a hurry now that meets me. Ah ! I under stand it. The sickly smile, the flurry and hurry, means simply that they want to drop me from their list of friends. Well, they shall be accommodated. But there is one friend that 'sticketh closer than a brother ;' she will not desert me. There's great consolation in that." So saying, he hastened to see her. He found her in tears. For the first time since engaged in trying his experiment, he felt like a very man mani. He would have eon fessed at once what a great liar i had been making of himself, ha< not the confession been a rathe awkward undertaking. "You have no doubt learned," sait he, "that I have met with a suddei reverse of fortune. Your father tell me that the only honorable cours< for me is to offer to release yoi from your engagement. And, whili doing so, permit me to say that il after being released from your en gagement with Spriggins, the rie] man, you will plight your faith t< him as a poor man, I shall be thi happiest man on earth. I want t( be an honorable man, and so giv( you your freedom." Miss Dulcinea sobbed convulsive ly, but finally succeeded in speak ing so as to be understood. "You are very kind, Mr. Sprig gins," she said. "I am very sorry that our engagement must be bro ken off, for I did like you so well.' And so the hopes that Mr. Sprig gins entertained were dashed to the ground. His dulcinea liked him very well, but liked his money bet ter, and so when she imagined that was gone, she too left him. With out another word he strode-off from her presence, a different but by no means a happy man. "So, so !" he muttered. "The engagement on her part has been a mere matter of money. I am the same man now I was before. I am just as good and I think a great deal wiser." "You are right," said he to me. "This world is a humbug. There is not a man or woman among my friends that's worth a pinch of snuff. But I will be revenged. I have a plan that will spite old Smith delightfully." Mr. Spriggins seemed to have been struck with a new thought. He left me abruptly, and I saw him no more for several days. Mean. time the news was spread around that Spriggins was not insolvent that it was all a hoax. The next time I saw him he told me, with a sort of malicious pleas. ure, that he had got about even with his "friends." Said he, "I know of an investment that will pay,without doubt, at least fifty per cent. I called on Smith and ex pained the thing to him. He was highly pleased, and offered to go into the affair. "But," said I, "you have no money-you are excesswe ly short." I've called on the rest, with a like result, and now I'm re venged." Mr. Spriggins really laughed, but it was rather a dis. agreeable laugh. ''I met," said he, "the father of her whom I once in tended to marry. He was very friendly, but I told him I wasl in a hury and could not stop to talk, my time being too precious. And every t i m e those false-hearted friends smile on me so pleasantly I pass on and tell them I'm in a hur ry." I suppose Mr. Sprigginis has had his revenge, but he is a very sad man now. He is an old bach elor, and vows that girls care more about money than a good, true heart.- He says, too, that the love stories scattered over the country are without any foundation in real life. Poor Spriggins ! He has learned at great cosb the truth thai "Where ignorance is bliss, 'tis folly to b< wise" THEx PascAE Hno oF THE REBE LIo.-A correspondent of the Alba ny Argus writes a good story fron Burnt Hills, Saratoga County, con cerning one Thos. Murray. He says If there is any man who crawls be tween Heaven and earth who car cook pancakes better and fastei than Tom, let him put his monel up and it will be covered. Ton baked pancakes for a whole arm corps, and he did nothing els4 while there. Your corresponden drove seven miles in a rain- storn to meet Tom, who readily enterei into a conversation with the writer "Tom," inquired your correspond ent, "if you baked so many pan cakes, I don't see how you grease< the griddle fast enough." "Why, replied the champion pancake ba ker, "you must know I had a grid de thirty feet in circumference, an< I kept two darkies with large piece of pork strapped to the soles c their feet, skating around on th griddle. Every time we turned: cake we tossed it high in the air so as to open the pores of the undem side and make it tender. I tell yol the air was thick with pancakes.~ I baked them so fast that the boy wouldn't eat the cold ones,so we use< them for breastworks, and onc when a regiment of 'rebs' took ou breastworks, they procured enougl pancakes to feed them for sixtee: months, and that is all they hai for their rations had given out tw days before, and the smell of th pancakes made them fight like de' il ocpue u ok. Ho to coue timeEks.at A LOVER'S RUSE. 1 Some years since, two wealt a bachelors lived in the vicinity Paris. They had a young muid all-work named Marie de La Fo , Marie was a sweet, pretty gi and lively and piquant in h - manners, although modest in t i extreme, and this was the ie > son that the two brothers ke her in their employ. They kn that she was frugal, economical; ai dressed in the most moderate ma ner imaginable. One day Mai surprised her employers by infon ing them that a young artizan, i siding in Paris, had asked her han They strove to dissuade her fro accepting the offer of marriage, b she told them that she could n be happy unless she became t] wife of her dear Henri. So it wi arranged that she should quit til service of the two brothers at tl end of the coming month. One day during the interval tl two brothers sold some valuable re estate, which they owned jointl and the sum realized amounted I 106,000 francs. It was all in bil on the Bank of France, and wi paid too late for deposit the san afternoon. Night came and as the old bach lors seldom had such a large amom in the house they were considerab] concerned lest robbers should a tempt to rob them. Their feai was strengthened by the numerot burglaries that had recently take place in that vicinity. The residence of the old men wi some distance from the main roai and stood near the River Seine. was a lonely, gloomy location, aq on the night in question the wini swept through the tall larches su rounding the mansion with dolefb and moaning cadence. About midnight the old men r tired; but scarcely had they fallE asleep when Marie wrapped at the door and informed them that rol bers were at work below. Both the bacheloisa were terrib frightened, and while one cot menced to bar the door the oth< began removing a tile from ti hearth to hide the bills. "You have a gun," said Mari "take it and shoot the villians." But the two trembling men pai no heed to her advice. "Cowards ?" said the brave gia scornfully, "I wish that I were man for five minutes." Just then there came a hea, crash from the apartsments belo3 The brother's crept beneath tI bed, where they shivered and cring ed, unable to speak from terror. "We shall all be murdered in ot beds," said the girl. "We will 1 found by the police in the mornir with our throats cut from eari ear. Peste ! fools, give me the gut She seized the double-barrelb gun that laid upon the shelf, at started down stairs, while the ta frightened men watched her wit out saying a word. Presently bar went the gun, and a groan w; heard. Bang !went the secor barrel, and a screech of pain i sounded through -the house th caused the blood of the brothers run cold. A brief pause ensued, and th< Marie came tripping upstairs, b her face wore a determined dissat fled look. She asked for powd and ball to reload, which were ft nished; but before she finished loa ing, footsteps were heard retreatii from the house. No one slept in the house th night, nor were they again molei ed. Bntt at early dawn, on goiJ downstairs, a pool of blood 'on t hail floor showed that one robb< at least, had been seriously, if in mortally, wounded ; and it w plain to see by the bloody path the earth that the victim had be dragged t.o the river. Gore mai ed the-whole distance, and the I lice were at once put on the alt for the arrest of the living thies and the recovery of the body of i dead one. But all efforts proved yain, a the bravery of the young girl a discussed far and near. The grateful bachelors were overwhelmed that they offered give Marie a dower. "Ah ! messieurs," replied she, fectionately "how can I leave yo You may again be attacked by r< bers." "But wve will not, neverthele stand between you and happines they replied. "Here are thia thousand francs-you have sas our lives, and richly deserve i money. If you choose to live this house with your husband, will repair the lower part for ti purpose, and you can also be hii to keep our room neat as at pri 3. ent." Henri married Marie, and the; accepted the dower and the house Years passed, and recently th( real facts of this midnight robber: came to light. Both of the old by bachelors were dead, and had willei of Marie another t li i r t y thousani >f- francs. The brave girl did not re rt. fuse it. It turned out, however r, that the robbers were not plural. er Henri acted as the burglar, th< he blood was from a lamb killed foi the purpose, and the whole was bu1 pt a ruse of the two lovers to open the w hearts and purses of the two oli id misers. ie BUYNG A WATcHDOG.-Metcalf'S n- grocery store has been closed for a e- week or so. Metcalf was perfectly d. willing to have it open, but circum m stances .rendered it necessary for it him to suspend business for a while. t There had been a good many bur ie glaries and Metcalf bought a dog to is keep in his store at night. The man ie that sold the dog said its one strong ie peculiarity was its vigilance. That dog would watch that store closer ke than the Genius of Liberty watches l the destinies of America. So the y, man turned the- dog loose in the 'o store and Metcalf locked up and Is went home. When he came down s in the morning the dog flew at him e as soon as he opened the door and attempted to breakfast on Mr. Met calf's legs; whereupon Mr. Metcalf it suddenly shut the door and sat y down to think. Then he went after - the man who sold the dog, but he s had gone out of town to see his .s aunt, and wouldn't be back for a n month. Metcalf then undertook to coax the dog through the crack of 6s the door, but the animal still mani 1, fested a resolute determination to [t chew Metcalf's legs, and so Metcalf 4 olosed the door again and began Is to wish he had bought a dog less r- attentive to business. Then he d procured a double-barreled gun and spent the remainder of the week 8 shooting slugs and bullets down the n chimney, and through the doors and ir windows, and up through the cellar ceiling, and still the dog held out, until fmnally Metcalf got a section Ly of wire fence, placed it across the 1- door-way, opened the door and Wr banged the obnoxious animal into te eternity. Then lie entered and found that he had shot holes 8; through the molasses cans and the coal oil barrels, and bad blown all d the china ware to atoms;. so that the store looked as if a fifteen-inch '1, shell had burst in it. Metcalf clean a ed up and resumed; but he is anx 'iously awaiting that mnan's return 7y from his visit to his aunt's. He 7- wants to see him about something. ?- Mcica GEMUS.-I know at least a score of men who, though "' intelligent enough in other respects, >e do not know how toedrive a naiin g a workmanlike manner. As boys, ~they were educated with a view to -practicing certain vocations or pro d-fessions, and mechanical arts were .d completely ignored by their unwise 0 parents or guardians. Now it is es isential to e v e r y man-lawyer, Spreacher, physician, merchant-to is know some of the principles of ine Ld chanical art, and how to apply them, ' for no man leads an industrious life at without very frequently seeing the Suse of such knowledge. There are certain mechanical rules that apply m to almost every piece of work thai it nmn attempts to perform, from the s- folding of a paper to the matching to er gether of two boards, and the bung tr- ling manner in which these things dare generally done, show how litth ig idea men have of mechanism. Then fathers, whether city men or coun. at try men, fit up a workshop for yoiu ;t' boys. A small set of tools, of the ig ~best material, will not cost much Iie not more than ten or twelve dollari "', at most-and they'll soon return t< ot you thrice their value in the good as accomplished. Where there is mn comfortable w o r k s h op suppliet en with good tools, the boys are seldon -k know to leave it upon leisure day: >o to loaf in the streets. If nothing art else is given them to do, they wil es be manufacturing wind-mills, sleds he weather-cocks, hand-carts, etc., and every hour thus employed adds t< ad their skill as workmen. Very soo2 'as they will be able to make rain; days as profitable as others, repair so ing or making very many importan to fixtures about the house. We knox boy mechanics who have supplie< af- their homes with brackets, flowei a? stands, step-ladders and a hlndre< )b and one other things convenien and valuable. ss, s, A resident of Milledgeville (Ga. who saw the recent whirlwind strik ed the Oconee river, says the wate in went up, he thinks, a hundred fee min the air, and for a few moment we the bottom of the river where th iat tornado passed was laid bare, an: s-ed mdadsi a lw n ~.then u t and soil tras blwn the tops of the ~ HOW TO CARRY AN OX TI MARKET. This from a correspondent i Rivere du Loup, Canada. When the Grand Trunk Railwa of Canada was completed in 186( many of the -farmers had neve heard of, much less seen, a railwa3 but it soon got reported arouni that passengers could travel by il and even cattle. A backwoods man, who was indebted to a coun try merchant was pushed by the lat ter for payment of the amount due and the only means of liquidatinf the debt was by taking a fat ox t< the Quebec market. For this pur pose he tied his ox to the back o his cart, and drove to the railwai station, a distance of nine miles. On surveying the train and seeing a iron railing around the platform o: the hind car, he concluded that thai was the place to tie his ox, whiel he accordingly did, taking a plac in a second-class car himself for ward. Presently the train begat to move off slowly. The speed in creased; quicker and quicker il went. The poor man got ver3 fidgety, the speed still increasing until large drops of sweat becam( visible on his brow. By this time the conductor had reached his cai to. collect the tickets. Nearly ouil of breath, the man ran to him; ex claiming. "My dear conductor, my ox wil] never be able to keep up to thic pace; it is not possible." "Your ox! Keep up to this pace! What do you mean? I don't un derstand you. Have you oxen o board ?" "Not on board, of course. I tied him to the railing of the hind car.' . "You tied your ox to the railing of the hind car? Who told you tc do so.?" "No one; but that is the way w( always do in the country." Of course the conductor could not stop his train before reaching the next station when, needless tc say, on looking for the ox, they found attached to the rope a pah of horns, with a small portion ol the neck. Mr. Bergh could scarcely call this cruelty to animals, as it was not intended. The humane conductor made a collection among the passengers on the spot, realizing a~ larger amount than the ox would have brought at market, which he presented to the~ crest-fallen farmer, who immediate ly returned home, vowing he would never have oxen taken to markel by railway again. He has kept his word, and to this day he leads his ox to market behind his own cart (Earper's Magazine. HUSBANDS AND H o Mi E -MADI SIRaTs.-A day or two ago, while crossing the ice, we overheard tw( ladies talking about a new dress and one of the ladies remarked that, "When I tried it on, I asked Rob if it was a good fit about th( waist," and he replied, "Well,] should say not. It fits about as well as a borne-made shirt." There was a volume in Rob's reply. As a rule, home-made shirts don't fit al all. They will draw in at the back and over the shoulders t< that extent that a fellow don't know whether he is encased in a shoulder brace or a straight jack et. The neck band may not g< twice around and tuck in behind but it usually laps about thre< inches, or else it is cut so low ii the neck that a twenty-five ic collar is required to reach the col lar button. In leaning forwar< when sitting, the bosom crushe: in at the sides and projects in the middle, looking more like a badl: demoralized dust-pan than any thing els3. The sleeves are si short that the large twenty-fivy cent pair of cuff buttons selecte< with great care, either tickle fellow's elbows, or dangle aroun< his finger nails, never arriving a a* compromise between the ex tremes. The skirts are generall; of an abbreviated character, ma king the affair resemble an over grown roundabout. Men do no like to find fault, knowing tha their wives meant well enougl: and worked hard in making th garments, but when away f-r the house they do not hesitate ta say that the desire of their heart is that their wives should go ou of the business.-Troy Times. A hog with an artificial leg mus be a touching and picturesque ol ject. The cow catcher at Dunleit took off one of the hinder limbs < Mr. Smith's hog, and his benevoler owner made a wooden succedaneur and strapped it to the stump. T creature showed its gratitude 1 accumulating fat with great rapidi ty, the only drawback being tha when killing and curing tina cmsonoftehm w iha Icomes,noeo h aswu nn handle. AN IRON WEDDING. Busby, of Trenton, celebrated his "iron wedding" one day last week, and invited about one hundred and twenty guests to the wedding. Of course, each person felt compelled to -bring a present of some kind, and each did. When Mr. and Mrs. Smith came, they handed Busby a pair of flat-irons. When Mr. and Mrs. Jones arrived, they also had a pair of flat-irons. All hands laugh ed at the coincidence, and there was great merriment when the Browns arrived with two pairs of flat irons; but when Mr. and Mrs. Robinson came in, with another pair of flat irons, the laughter became perfect ly convulsive. There was, however, something less amusing about it when the Thompsons arrived with fonr flat-irons wrapped in brown paper. And Busby's face actually looked grave when the three John son girls were ushered into the parlor . carrying a flat-iron apiece. Each one of the succeeding guests brought flat-irons, and there was no break in the continuance until old Mr. Curby came from Philadelphia with a cast-iron cow-bell; and at any other time he would have treated such a present with scorn, but now he was actually grateful to Mr. Curby, and he was about to em brace him, when the Walshinghams came with the new kind of double pointed flat-irons with wooden han dles. And all the rest of the guests brought the same articles except Mr. Rugby, and he had with him a patent stand for holding flat irons. Busby got madder and madder ev ery minute, and by the time the company had all arrived he was nearly insane with rage, and he went to bed leaving his wife to en tertain the guests. In the morning they counted up the spoils and found they had two hundred and thirteen flat-irons, one stand, and a cow-bell. And now the Busbys have cut the Smiths, and Browns, and Jacksons, and Thompsons and the rest entirely, for they are con vinced that there was a preconcert ed design to play a trick upon them. The fact, however, is that the hardware stores in the place had an over-stock of flat-irons, and sold them at an absurdly low figure, and Busby's friends went for the cheapest thing they could find, as people always do on such occasions. Busby thin1m he will not celebrate his "silver wedding." DEVICES FOR SJLYUGGLING. Some interest was recently ex cited in this city by the case of a very pretty young French milliner who had obtained contracts from a numbe' of prominent and fashion able ladies to bring over dresses for them from Paris. She under took to get these dresses through the Custom House without paying the duty, but was detected and ar rested, and now bids fair to serve out a full term in the Penitentiary in consequence. She is well edu cated, speaks Faglish~ fuently, and is so young and good looking that her hard fate has awakened a good deal of commiseration. A few years ago a woman who had landed from one of the foreign steamiers, was observed by a female detective to walk as though her dress was extraordinarily heavy. She was arrested, and alarge silk un derskirt or petticoat that she wore, wa,s found to be stitched off, from top to bottom, in squares, and, in stead of being wadded with cotton, every square contained a gold watch, amounting, in the aggregate, to several hundred. These were all confiscated. A pretty serious joke was once played on a Massachusetts clergy man by a dry-goods dealec- from the same town in which he resided, Iwho happened to meet him while travelling in Canada. "I have got a good deal of baggage," said the merchant ; "you don't appear to have scarcely any, and if you would take along a few of my trunks with Iyou, it would cost you nothing and would be quite an accommodation to me.'' The clergyman readily consented, but when he was cross ing the border the trunks were bro rken open and found to contain dutiable goods ! He had very hard Swork to extricate himself from the Sdilemma, which he finally succeed Sed in doing by proving his good character. IEver since customs have been im Sposed human ingenuity has been taxed in a thousand ways to evade their payment.-Z. Y. Dispatch. BIt rarely happens that a death roccurs at a funeral. Mr Symonds, tof Saugus, Mass., was seized with sapoplexy while attending the fa. Bneral of a friend, and died instant Ilv. He had celebrated the forti ,eth anniversary of his wedding tha night pnevious. LADVERTISINC RATES* Advertisements inscrted at the rats of $1 .00 per square-one inchi-forfirst insertion, and 75c. for each subsequent insertion. Double column advertisements ten per cent on abore Notices of meetings, obituaries and tribute of respect, same rates per square as ordinarY advertisements. Special notices in local colum 20 cents per line. Advertisements not marked witb the num - ber of insertions will be kept in tME forbid and charged accrdlingly. Special contracts made with *.1qp adver tisers, with liberal dedactic,= on-ast&e rates. J" P""i.u Done with Neatness and D'Mp*L Terms Cash. A MODEL ADVERT18 N~T. A recent journa-notof heega lar school contains a long adverrise mnent of a celebrated practW.oner, from the following extract is taken:' Have yeez pains in yer bones, or a bodwWin ache In yer j in ts after dancin' a jg at a wke? Have yeez caught a black eye &=omsome .thunderin' whack? Have Yeez vartebral twists In the qafe IT' yer back? When yer walkin' the strates are you likely to fall? Don't whisky sit well on yer stomach at all? Sure ie's botherin' nonsens to sit down and wape, When a bit av my powdhe& putIms yato slape; Shtate yer symptomns, =s darlins, and niver ycen doubt But as sure as a gun! aem sthralten, "ea out. Come, thin, ye poor cathwrs,, .d donPtyeez be scairt! Have yeez batin! and lamberWn thumps at, the heart? Wid ossification and amclaraflov, Wid attenuation and 1augtto, Wid emaciation, and ~idraIn Wid pracipitation and hapid&dato Wid prnoccupation aud evaporifion, Wid hallycination and acrid sacratioil, Wid bla&karrmptlon and-p--!-!Ical Wid greatJactildo-sadon1vualdon, Wid square titilation and could perspiul*lon ? fteme sowl! ButL'rR brin aftlYer Woes to complation; D)nless yer In love--thin yen past all salva tion. A CALipomuN E1uA HU BA ND 'S WRoNs.-]Eer mother ldtoKad to have touched a man's heart is something not to be forgotten THOUGHTS FOR SATURDAY NIGHT. .t Sin is ashamed of sin. To step aside is husnan. y Pleasure and sorrow are twins. , Above all things reverence your r self. , Honest men are the gentlemen I of nature. Memory always obeys the com mands of the heart. Man is the weeping animal born to govern %ll the rest. There is even a happiness that makes the heart afraid. A wise man will make more op portunity than he finds. F The thought of eternity consoles r for the shortness of life. Sad is his lot who, once at least in his life, has not bean a poet. r Solid love, whose roots is virtue, can no more die than virtue itself. Cultivate not only the cornfields of your mind, but the pleasure grounds also. , Nurture your mind with great thoughts. To believe in the heroic make heroes. As turning the logs will make a dull fire burn, so change of studies a dull brain. A good discourse is that from which one can take nothing with out taking the life. When a man can look upon the simple wild rose and feel no pleas ure, his taste has been corrupted. I should say sincerity, a deep, great, genuine sincerity, is the first characteristic of all men in any way heroic. If you wish success in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, ex perience your wise counselor, cau tion your elder brother, and hope your guardian genius. A man ought to carry himself in the world as an orange tree would if it could walk up and down the garden-swingiig perfume from every little censer it holds up to the air. It is said that jealousy is love, but I deny it; for though jealousy be procured by love, as ashes are by fire, yet jealousy extinguishes love as ashes smother flame. WHAT AN ARMY OF TOAD STooLs DID.-Did ever you think how strong the growing plants must be to force their way up through the earth ? Even the green daisy tips and the tiny blades of grass, that bow before a breath, have to exert a force in coming through, that, in proportion to their size, is greater than you would exert in rising from under a mound of cob ble stones. And think of toad stools-~what soft tender things they are, breaking at a touch. Yet I can tell you, they're quite mighty in their way. Charles Kingsley, the celebrated English priest and. novelist, was'a very close observer of nature. One evening he noticed particular ly a square fiat stone, that, I should say, was about as long and as broad as the~ length of three burdock leaves. He thought it would re quire a strong man to lift a stone like that. In the morning he look ed again, and lo ! the stone was raised so that he could see the light under it. What was his surprise to find on closer examination, that a crop of toad-stools had sprung up under the stone in~ the night, and raiseditup on their little round shoulders as they came !. i'm told that Canon Kingsley gives an account of this in his book called "Christmas in the West -Indies," but it was in England that he saw it. Knowing that he was so close an observer, I shouldn't be one bit surprised if he went still further and found that one secret of the toad-stools being able to lift the stone was that they didn't waste time and strength in urging each other to the work, but each one did his very best without quarrelling about whose turn it was or -whether Pink Shoulder or Brown Button was shirking his share. But then the toad-stools must have -been strong too.-"Jack-in-the-Pul t pit," St. Nicholas. t LCOLD COuRTING.-S a t u r d'a y e morning at 1 o'clock the police .found a horse and cutter coming in from the country on the Pontiac road, with the driver so nearly fro tzen that he was lopped over on the seat and unconscious. He w as ta t ken to the station, and they thaw . ed him out after an hour or so. SWhen he could speak he asked: ~f "Sergeant, will I live ?" .t "Oh, yes, I guess so," was the a answer. e "Well, I'm sorry," mused the y young man. "I wanted to die, so -they could put on my tombstone; t,"Here lies one who was fool .e enough to ride twenty-six miles e o spark a red headed girl!I". (.Detroit Press.