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A Family Companion, Devoted to Literature, Miscellany, News, Agriculture, Markets, &c. VOl. XI.. WEDNESDAY MORNING, JULY 21, 1875. No. 29. THE HERAUI IS PUBLIiHRLD EVERY WEDNESDAY MORING, it Newbernq, S. C. BY TH09* Fe GRENUKMR Editor and Proprietor. Terms6 $2.5Q peraltarn-un Invariably in Advance. rp- The per is stped at the expiration time for wriMT it is paid. g7 The >< mark denotes expiration of su' Feription. HOMEWARD. 1. " My poor., poor eyes, they are blinded wil tears, And I cannot work!" she said, Tossing aside her thimble and shears, &nd windiDg her spools of thread. The riotous wind with her roses stay'd A-wooing, a-wooing along; The swallow she slep t al In ud ismay'd, And her dreams ther were sweet wii song. But Qhe lady lay on her pillow wbite, '%Vhite as a ghost lay she, Speeding her soul on a lonely flight To her lover afar at sea, "Thbe night is drtnken with drear alarm, And I cannot sleep !" she said, Tossing the snow of a weary arm On the fold of a weary head. Thevelvety roaes-foolish things! A-noddin-, a-nodding were To tbe wind a-fa.rling bhis wanton wings, Where the lilies were all &tstir. But the lady lay at her lattice low, ]Low as&.the land lay she, 'With every beat in her breast a blow For ber lover afar at sea ,"My blood is fire, my breath is flame, IAnd I cannot live!" she said, Walling the words of her lover's name, As if he were doomed and dead. The beautiful ship went under the moon, any love for me, don't again say I : have no regard for you, for it is " - this feeling of regard that causes t me grief to see you commencing a c course which, if continued must I end in your ruin, here and hereaf- t Ster." "Kate, this is perfect madness! I r say again, I must have my inde- I pendence! I would scorn to refuse f to pledge in wine the health of our fair hostess. What if it did make o h it a little merry! I think too much y of myself to become intoxicated, of a course ; and I do think you are ma- t, king entirely too much of a trifle, d by allowing your scruples to over- n rule your better judgment. I can- a: not believe it right for a man to iE bind himself in any way; he should u be free to act as his own feelings il may dictate." "I say amen to that Stanley.- I-a You are free from this very moment; o and it will be worse than useless for te you to hint this subje.ct again at any t time or under any circumstances, t< unless you have been a pledged tem p perance man for at least one year; b and Heaven helping me, I will I stand firm in my determination, it and not yield one iota, though it 5< break my heart! But, oh! Stanley, ;I I implore you to think of your aged g mother, and forsake this horrible n practice before it is too late to re-: n trace your sters !" r "Kate, for Heaven's . sake, cease n this! my mind is in a whirl. I am cl maddened! I cannot bear to be sent ei off thus ; give me to-night for reflec- 0: tion; to-morrow at ten o'clock I will see you, perhaps, for the last IE time." n He seized her hand, imprint4d a sl kiss upon it, and was gone. . i - Poor Kate! She threw herself T upon the sofa convulsed in tears. "Oh, it is so hard, it is so hard. If giving up half my life would 2 save him how cheerfully would it be given; but I cannot yield to his weakness, for it would be his ruin and disgrace, and I-what, what * would I be ? Oh,- it is too horrible P to contemplate! a drunkard's wife! C the very thought makes me shud- ' der." Let us follow Stanley to his boarding house, where he quickly ' repaired after p~arting with Kate. t On entering his room he threw t himself upon a sofa for reflection ; o and, as he told me afterwards, rea- c soned with himself thus: a "I am in a pretty dilemma ; there I is Kate on one hand, who loves me i devotedly, and pleads with me in c my sainted mother's name to flee f from impending ruin and disgrace. v 1She would make any sacrifice for f me, but what she calls her princi- h -ples of right. She has pledged her self never to marry a man who drinks e Sand who refuses to sign a tern- 2 perance pledge and keep it sacred Ii for twelve months ; and I know her C well enough to know she will keep t it to the letter. t: "Now on the other hand, are all I my jolly companions with whom I f >r have a real nice time, (except that I ;> my conscience at times gives me 1 >f trouble, and since this interview 1 - with Kate I know it would lash me I .e most unmercifully,) and those lady iI >f friends who are so ready to tempt me with a glass of sparkling wine, c i should I, by their influence become a st a drunkard, would they still court i K- my society ? IEthink not. 1l "But I must act promptly for I t >u have to decide for weal or woe." s. His struggles all through that t ly long night were terrible ; but he j :t, came off victorious, and with the e :h proud determination never to touch . L again anything that would intoxi- j k, cate he hastened to make known a m his resolve to Kate and, in order to e g- strengthen himself in his resolve, i is he fro,n the day following devoted rs himself earnestly and arduously by1 ie night and day to reclaim the poor m inebriate and help sustain him in >u the paths of morality and temper ty ance. It is true, he was for a time a- laughed at by his former wild com m panions, and those professed lady of friends neglected no opportunity ar to banter him, telling him they as were ashamed of him for being a in coward, and ceasing his attendance ,n- at their social gatherings, because ry he was afraid to go where he would u see wvine. But he was more thanI o repaid for all he had lost, by the he loving,.encouraging words of Kate, a's and her bright smiles of approv ive al. iut After having been a worthy mem it, ber of Good Samaritan Division for ith six months, he ventured on the for. ws bidden subject, and plead with her er to commute his sentence from 'I; twelve to six months but in vain. ier She told him it was for their mutu y al good she was so exacting, and E a while he felt that it was very hard, er- he submitted with a good grace, re- and honored her for her integri er- ty. ine- And now, dear reader, let me say et in conclusion, it.has not been my bY odfruetowtesamr - unna fortane to witness a more >rilliant and happy party than that ssembled at Col. Pendleton's at he expiration of the twelve months f Stanley Egerton's probation; and y his side was Kate robed as a ride, radiant in beauty, and with heart overflowing with thankful ess, that her Heavenly Father ad given her strength to stand rm in her resolve. And in their happy home, they ften talk over the events of that ear of trial, and Stanley frankly cknowledges that his darling little aperance girl saved him from a runkard's grave; for he drank tuch more than she had an idea of, id had she yielded to his entreat s of an e%rly marriage he would adoubtedly have been a hopeless tebriate. Amd now, dear girls, let me beg d implore you, by all your hopes F happiness, be firm in your de rmination never to marry a man iat gives the least countenance > anything that will intoxicate; erhaps he only takes a little "bit rs" or soinething as medicine. on't believe him, girls, he takes for the love ef it and will not ruple to take anything stronger. ell him, if he is ailing, to take a lass of hot water ; if that will ot suffice add a little ginger or Lustard ;. but if nothing but mk poison will satisfy him, in tercy to himself and fellow eatures take strychnine, an d id his worthless existence at ce. And now, patient reader, I will ave you, hoping and praying you Lay make a noble resolve and ;and by it unfinchingly as did te Pendleton. HOW NOT TO DO IT. The following speech was deliv ed by Mr. Nash, of the Logans rt Star, at the Indiana Editoral onvention. it. Presidnt, Ladies and Gentle men: When your committee assigned te the task of telling "How not conduct a country newspaper," iey recognized the eternal fitness f things, for "How to conduct a untry newspaper" is prominent ong the innumerable things that don't know, and yet ignorance on is point is inexcusable for no man m be connected with a country ewspaper -two hours and a half rithout receiving advice from many tiends of the paper who know just ow to do it. Our facilities for acquiring knowi dge are so great that every man, roman and child-except the pub shers-knows how to conduct a ountry newspaper, and most of LLem would be at home on. a me copolitan journal. The man who is required to pay yr material, aid and labor, or fr ish copy, finds it the easiest thing naginable to publish a paper ; and rhy all the dolts drift into newspa er offices is a question that sorely uzzles suffering hnmanity. If a man erects a building on his wn ground, buys presses, types, nd all kinds of printing material, rrites and selects his matter, and says his employees, he imagines hat he owns a country newspaper. fothing can be further from the ruth. The office is owned by a oint stock company composed of n indefinite number of stockhold'ers -ranging from five hundred to five housand-each share representing dollar and a half or two dollars ; ad every member of the concern magines that he owns a controlling nlerest, whether his subscription e paid in greenbacks or advice. But I am digressing, simply wan lering off among the wise men who re always ready to tell you how not ;o conduct a newspaper. In publishing a country newspa >er don't get in too much news. [t necessitates leaving out the dog ights, which are of greater interest o many of your readers. 'Don't say anything about the po itical situation, lest you hurt the ~eelings of a county officer who gets us letter heads printed at your es ablishment. Don't say a word in j'our local solumns about the 'merchant or manufacturer who has a standing dvertisement in your paper. If he wants to keep his business be fore the people let him pay for it at twenty cents per line. That's busi Don't neglect patent medicine advertisements. Fill your paper with them at half your regular rates; give an agent liberal commissions for procuring them, and take your ay in nostrums. This will encour* :g ed-aepyiin,adfl ge eay-ae-pt"hyinrsn ill '. pape ih"ihyitrsi r Don't fail to publish a long ser mon on some doctrinal point every week. This will gratify the man who wrote the sermon. Don't fail to give your readers a full supply of original poetry. It will encourage home talent and make your paper popular with senti mental young ladies, noted for well ventilated hosiery and a charming ignorance of housework. Don't be particular about issuing your paper on the regular publica tion day. Give your readers a chance to exercise that greatest of all Christian virtues, patience. Don't spend too much time in reading proof. Let your paper be -like your life-full of errors. Don't fail to take sides in every personal quarrel lOt occurs in your town. If Smith wants you. to pitch into Brown do it. Brown may give you a good flogging for your impudence, but you will have bhe sympathy of Smith while your wounds are healing. Don't neglect any opportunity to make your paper highly sensational. If you have a "damnible rumor," publish it. If it be true, you will gain credit for fearless journalism; if false you have simply blasted some one's good name, and commit bed one of the indiscretions of the ineteenth century. Don't reject an article because it borders on the obscene. The roughs will endorse it and give you credit for wit. In short, publish a paper, in the interest of street-corner loal grs, hotel bummers, and blear-eyed ward politicians, and you will win bhe lasting gratitude of your succes gor, the sheriff. How LImuRGtE CHEESE IS MIADE. The preliminary stepa in the manu facture of Limburger cheese are iimilg,r to those employed with or dinary cheese, except that the curd is taken up in a moister state, more whey being permitted to remain, and the mass is heated to a differ ent degree of temperature, thus pre - serving all the richness which other wise would be lost. It is then ta ken from the vat and put in perfo. rated molds five inches square -by seven inches in depth which are placed on the draining table, where it is -allowed to remain for a short time. It is then taken into the cheese cellar below ground and put on the pressing tables, where it re mains about twenty-four hours be-4 fore it goes to the salting table. After four or five days it is ready for the shelves, where it is placed in tiers and changed and rubbed daily for about four to six weeks before it is packed. The packing process is done by rolling it in heavy paper and covering it with tin foil, when it is ready for mar ket. FOOLING THE OI.D LADY.-The fol lowing story is very good, - but rather apocryphal: A young man out West was courting a pretty girl, but her mother would not permit him to stay after ten o'clock, greatly to his and her daughter's disgust. Last New Year's Day that young man presented the old lady with a patent clock of great beauty and ingenuity. The prospective mother in-law was greatly pleased, and gave her old clock to a poor woman who lived in the neighborhood. Now that young couple are happy, for this new clock is so constructed that it will lose three hours between 8 and 10 in the evening, and make it up all right before morning. The old lady watches the clock carefully and cries "Ahem !" as usual when it gets to 10. And yet, she says, she can't understand what makes her get so sleepy before 10, and hate to get up so bad the next mom ng. A CENTENNARIAN oR A SUICIDE. A learned professor intimates that all who die under one hundred years of age are guilty of suicide! The process of reasoning by which he arrives at this conclusion is some thing as follows: Duration of life is measured by the time of growth; the camel is eight years in growing, and lives five times eight years ; the horse is five years in growing, and live twenty-five years ; man, being twenty years in growing, should live five times twenty years. So, Provi dence having intended man to live a centuy, he would arrive at thai age if he did not kill himself by un wholesome modes of living, violeni passions and exposure to accidents Surely, according to this theory, the human race might well adopi new and more healthful modes o: eating, sleeping, working and recrea ting, in the hope of becoming een tennarians. I 3' great, the noble, th< strong,thiof the mostd tive nature. ; It was the of Egypt th t becamnetheeV and yet wer as ANECDOTES OF DOGS. A few feet from me, at this mo ment, is a curious specimen of the long backed, shortlegged German hound yelept a turnspit, who came to the establishment a silent, reserv ed, even dull being. But on fair encouragement his faculties became developed. He showed signs of a humorous disposition-as though he could relish a jest-and began to utter mysteriously uncouth and cavernous sounds, as though labor-' ing to find an utterance. These be gan gradually to take the character of expostulation, angry remonstance piteous entreaty, weariness, to say nothing of literal yawns when he w,s bored. They are wonderful creatures, even ip London, with curious, puzzling ways of their own. Thus, lately, one dark night, the writer, entering 'a Hansom cab, was duly encased within the glass' and shutters. As the vehicle shot off in its course, something white appeared to flash on the footboard in front, which by and by resolved' itself into the outline of a greyish white cur-dog, who had leaped up in a half professional way, much as the little tigers of another genera tion used to skip up behind the cab riolet. There this curious creature remained, poising himself at the edge, like'some spectral dog, and balancing itself with ease, as a cir cus rider would. When the cab stopped, he was gone as suddenly as he came. "Oh he were there, were he ?" the driver merely ex claimed. It turned out that this lean, unkempt pariah had drawn near the cab a few nights before, had received less cheerlish greeting than what he was accustomed to, and had attached himself to the cab in this mysterious way and was now actually to be seen hovering in the shadow afar uff. There was some thing ghostly in the fashion in which .he came out of the night and ap peared upon the footboard. Again: I was once acquainted with a dog that had a no less singular penchant for seeing a train pass under an arch at a particular hour each day. Punctually at five o'clock he would rouse himself and set off at full speed to keep his appointment, using cunning devices when he sus pected he might be detained. Hav ing seen his train go by, and looked down with a wary and critical air to see that the passage was per formed properly, he jogged home with a contented mind. How did he know the hour exactly?i Agairxt: Every morning there comes to the door one of the neatest, lightest, best-appointed little traps conceiva. ble, in the service of our butter man. It is drawn by a frisky, wag gish little pony, evidently a pet ; and on the pony's back rides a vivacious little terrier, who, from practice, can balance himself in a secure and dashing style. Both pony and terrier understand each other, though the terrier capers about the pony's neck in an incon venient fashion. On cold days pony has his cloth, while terrier has a miniature covering of the same kind, securely fitted to his person. When the butterman comes up the area, the sly pair are watching him, and if in his huri'y he incautiously slam the back door of his cart, a pre tense is made of accepting the noise as a signal, and off starts pony gal loping, terrier barking and alngst erect on pony's neck, while driver is running along frantically striving to climb into his vehicle as it goes. Another dog, a red Irish retriever, whose acquaintance I made lately, was sent down forty miles into Kent, shut up in a dog-box. On his fir:st day's sport, he took offense at the keeper using a whip to him, a freedom he perhaps thought was not justified by so short an ac quaintance. The next morning he was at the door of his house on Victoria street ! How was this ac complished ? He must have come straight across the country, guided by some faculty that his two-legged superiors have not. ([London Society. No Snow R Hnr3.-Saturday afternoon while the rope-walker was going through his perform ances, a boy about twelve years old turned to an acquaintance of te same age and remarked: "Tom don't you wish you could do that?" "Yes, I do," sadly re plid Tom, "but my folks make me go to school .and are deter mined that 1 shan't never be no body !"-Detroit Free Press. -With time and patience the mul -berry leaf becomes satin. Wha1 dificulty is there at which a max should quail, when a worm car accomplish se miuch from the mu] -bherry? so -pleasant i i res. CHANGING ELECTION DAYS. By alterations and amendmentb of their Constitutions the severa] States are gradually coming tc agree upon November, and usually the first week in November, as the time for holding elections. Undei her new Constitution Pennsylvania holds her annual election in Novem ber instead of October, as hereto fore. By an amendment to the Con stitution just adopted by the Legis lature of Connecticut, which wil] undoubtedly be ratified by the people in October,that State changes her annual election from April to November. These changes have a significance beyond their present merely local effect. The change in Pennsylvania from October to No vember deprives that State of the undue influence which it has exer cised, at least once in four years, in virtually discounting the Presiden tial election in November by the results of State election a month earlier. In 1876 Pennsylvania will not name in October the victor in the Presidential contest, and there will be no need of the tremendous expenditures of money, breath and patriotism, of which both parties have been heretofore so prodigal, in order to carry the October elec tion to make sure of its moral effect. Connecticut is a much smaller State and of less consequence in the Presidential election; but the election in that State coming in April has hada significance attached to it which it will not have here after, on account of the indications it furnished of the set of the political tide and of whatever changes had taken place in public opinionasince the elections in Con necticut has been watched by the whole country with the most intense interest, Lecause in the evenly bal anced condition of parties it was supposed that the prestige of victory then would greatly strengthen the winner and be the forerunner of a more general and sweeping triumph in the contests of the year. The change of date for holding her elections will slip the little State into the procession with other and larger States; and her politicians will find themselves perhaps of less importance than they have hithertc thought. The change will have the good effect too of preventing in large measure the raids into the State from New York, of whic] there have been loud complaints by both parties, for, with the electioni on the same day in both States, th< repeaters and stuffers will havy enough to do at home without going among their neighbors. A CA SroaR.-Pussy has always sustained a somewhat spotted repu tation ; and though two or three o the magazine writers have latel* endeavored to clear her skirts o evil, and raise- her. to a level witl the dog, the effect has been a la mentable failure. Pussy is innatel: ferocious and treacherous, and be sides this she is accused of some thing causing her to be ranked wit] the ghouls and vampires. Th< latest story of this cat wickednesi comes from Syracuse, New York A gentleman of that city one nigh lately retired at the usual hour, hii wife occupying the adjoining room During the night the wife heard singular sound in the adjoining apartment, as if her husband wai strangling. Finally the sound be came so intensified as to alarm hei and she arose hastily to make a' investigation. Entering the rooi of the husband her eyes were gree: ed with a spectacle decidedly star: ling. Her husband was still sleei ing, but the family cat had its nos thrust in the man's mouth, and it paws tightly clasped about hi throat. The woman seized the ani mal, but it clung to its hold tent ciously, and was pulled away wit: the greatest effort. The man wa nearly suffocated, and it is believe< would have been killed but for th~ timely interference of his wife. I is scarcely necessary to add tha the cat in question now retains nc a single one of its nine lives, buti did enough while living to ad something to the already bad chal acter of its species. In a smiling regionl the man< money sees only the relations< hay, grain and wood. His admir tion, radiant with calcilation, r duces nature to figures, and adc up the scenery. A person who is too nice an o Eerver of the business crowd, lii one who is too curious in observin the labor of bees, will often I stung for his curiosity. Edhaverlearnied what a sin Sa;ginst an infinite imperishable b big uha i h o~ d - anah an -in the soulafad A DEFENSE FOR PRETTY H] WOMEN. After all is the world so very ab- sa] surd in its love of pretty women? stu Is woman so very ridiculous in thI her chase after beauty ? A pret- ch< ty woman is doing a woman's work ce in the world but not making or speeches, nor puddings but making eni life sunny and more beautiful.- th4 Man has foresworn the pursuit of Wo beauty altogether. Does he seek it ro( for himself, he is guessed to be po- ly, etic; there are whispers that his morals are no better than they 0111 should be. In society, resolute to be ugly, there is no post for an Adonis, pal but that of a model guardsman. But woman does for mankind, what he' man has ceased to do. Her aim from childhood is to be beautiful. up Even as a school girl she notes the progress of her charms-the deepening color of her hair, the ed growing symmetry of her arm, the ipenig contour of her cheek. We an( watch with silent interest the mys- C terious reveries of the maiden*; she is I is dreaming of a coming beauty and panting for the .glories of eighteen. Insensibly she becomes drc an artist; her room is a studio, her glass an academy. The joy of her cOl toilet is the joy of Raphael over his canvass or Michael Angelo over is I his marble. She is creating beauty ' in the silence and the loneliness of Di her chamber. She grows'like any sui art creation, the result of patience, of hope, of a thousand delicate Th touchings and retouchings. Wo man is never perfect, complete. A restless night undoes the beauty of. hi the day; sunshine blurs the evan escent coloring of the cheek; frost 0 nips the tender outlines of her face Y0 into sudden harshness. Care plows at its liles across her brow; mother hood destroys the elastic lightness my of her form; the bloom of her ful cheek, the quick flash of her eye, a fade and vanish as years go by. But woman is trtif to her ideal. hir She won't know when she is beat- ed en and she manages to steal pe, fresh victories even in her defeat. sel She invents new conceptions of wo- - manly grace;, she rallies at forty th and fronts us with the beauty of sts womanhood ; she makes a last stand "" at sixty, with the beauty of her age. She fails, like Caesar, wrapping her . mantle around her-"buried in ini woolen 'twould a saint provoke!1" th Death listens pitifully to the long- gu inags of lifetime, and the wrinkled mn face smiles with something of the W< prettiness of eighteen. th ____ ___ ____ ___da How TO Foutow A Jon.-A writer an Sin Scribner's says I At the begin- " ning of the session with the person 7E before whom your art is to be exer- ro cised, the smile, of course, is in t4e order. The features should then ftake their natural position in repose, " Sor should if the circumstances seem a fto require it, assume a graver ex 1pression ; it might, indeed, be well gi to show the lies of the brow some- a Swhat drawn together, with a sug gestion of trouble, or at least of H concentrated attention. Above al dc ithings, remember that when your " avis-a-vis begins what promises to be aa prolonged humorous narration, your face must instantly relapse in- at tto quiet. The smile may begin early m ain the story-but should be very al slight and inconspicuous at first, Sgradually diffusing itself over the fo Sentire countenance and coming to l7 aa climax with tlie point of the story.- lif either in an actual laugh, or still bet- Lth ,ter, in a radiant smile of apprecia- 7( ation, tip-toe on the virge of laugh ater, and-a hundred times more ef- bc .- fective for its reticence. No one - who has made use of this method te . will ever' return to the old and of e inelegant system-tiring to yourself k< s and unsatisfactory to your interlo- ec s cutor-of beginning the facile audi- la - .ence, if we may so call it, at the lo - highest pitch at the outset of his es Li narration, and vainly endeavoring 5 to keep up the n :ain upon the fea- b< & tures to the end. The consequence y~ e of such a course is, that either the :t smile becomes hard and mechani bt cal, or that precisely when most it neededit altogether disappears, and it you are forced to some clumsy sub d stitute. - t - - - - - - -- --- -al All great questions have been ol settled by men in earnest-by in fmen who have been bound by a a f principle about thbeir bearts, which s - they come to regard as part and la - parcel of their being.. Little, pid- tc s dling, temporizing policy never t conferred a lasting benefit on the world. gi e It is not high crimes, such as ni grobbery and murder, which de- si e stroy the peace of society. .The ai villiage gossip, family quarrels, n jealousies b e,t w e e n no.im,rs, kI nsmdlsm~~ji~~adn,aeh smdlsmn- whic eatin all so i - jtb, ,.ppns&ihetitoals Mial hanniness. -M ADVERTISI NC R#6 IA4dvertisements insered at the rateof 11- ICO pier square-one inch-forfirst iuns'i~ aud 75c. ibr each subsequent insertion. -Double~ column advertisements tenperemt on above Kotices of meetings-, Obituaries and trft~e-. of respect, sanierr&e. per squre as ordinarY advertisements..--. Special notice-iolocal colnin 20 cents iperfline. Advertisements met marked wihhe um ber of insertibu if,11 be -keptTn'.iffIbrbid Iand charged.'secordn'!. Specialcoeonuacft tisers, wii teh Done with Nsasa~ ipe. TermCiniiU C PASSING TE RR*'&'w~1 known druime.Pbr goodis, house, Who ehan&,d IAAiSU r~ be in aMain tw.4.ij cas was to show thaigth& bet that -he c661d-V-Ass-.,-veiz of a party 0-f thirty-;h ~~e over from .nig in to the shoW wiihout &ac&~ wager was a was marshaledad p'edd*o the tent, wherq _the6-__d66IMp was busily d taaged from all whopasdzi aperture in the'cna, up with the croid- b xi~MC~" rushed,.upto ' his hand full :of.,"d 11,Tdst count these'men u4h in, ending wMIeOV hat." I'CertainlYsi,1."and. rous went tow ork:.*4".ir teen, eighten,'Itcesz 4~ ~~> ed by him and,-W W-,n crowd, till'the-aa"WM ed, when hesfioutWOM K,iit and turnedarii Bat the poifte4ndi bid him ennmerate1wdr. while th-e di- s with the. th who, was stopped'b3oJ min&led wit05h mass iside,pZ-47 centcou-tryaji ~ _O r indit in db'y'_ p.;I .- * .,i , Z of the "intelligent co~aposztort' [S LOOKS DECEIVED HIM. Ie did not look like a joker, s 31. Quad. One to sit and dy his face, would have said t his soul was lost in melan >ly-that he didn't care two kts whether the sun set at noon stayed up until 7 o'clock. He ered the ladies' sitting-room at Central Dopot, wa!ked up to a man whose husband had left the m about ten minutes previous and calmly inquired: 'Madam, your husband went to see the river didn't be ?" Yes-why?" she asked, turning e in an instant. He was a tall man, wasn't He, was," she replied, rising and turning still paler. Had red hair?" 'He had-oh! what has happen 'Weighed about one hundred I eighty pounds ?" Yes-yes-where is he-where ny husband ?" she exclaimed. Couldn't swim could he ?" He's drowned-my husband is wded !" Had a silver watch chain ?" tinued the stranger. Where is my husband-where he body ?" she gasped. 'Do not get excited, madam. I your husband have on a grey Yes-oh! my Thomas! my omas !" 'And stoga boots ?" Let me see him-let me. see :!" she cried. 'Come this way, madam, but do get excited. There, is that ir husband across the street that peanut stand ?" 'Why, yes, that's him; that's 'husband!" she exclaimed joy Ly. "I thought you said he s drowned." 'No madam, I did not. I saw a buying peanuts, and I believ it my duty to say to you that inuts are not healthy at this son of the year!" lie slid softly out, and she stood are and chewed her parasol and red after him as if he were a iagerie on wheels. A. HOME THRusr.-A, story-tell g clergyman of this city relates a following of one of our distin ished Brooklyn Baptist clergy in, which the late Apostle Trask >uld enjoy : A few weeks ago e doctor was. -examining candi tes for admission to the church, d .among them was a delicate, eet-faced boy of some sixteen ars of age, whose eyes, as he se to speak, were bathed in irs. "And you are striving to love, e've, and follow the Lord Jesus ?" ked the minister. "Yes, sir, but my sins are eat," meekly replied the young plicant. "But Jesus will forgive them all. a can wash you clean," said the ctor, encouragingly. "There is one sin," said the boy, bat 1 have straggled against. im free from it now, but I am 'aid that God will never forgive S;'' and the little fellow sobbed >ud. "What is it, my boy ? God will rgive everything, if you are tra penitent and will lead a better e. No matter how,. grievous is sin may be, he will forgive u. Now what is it ?" "S-s-m-o-king," sobbed the ly. Now, as the doctor is an inve rate smoker, say rather burner cigars, he was considerably ta ~n aback, especially as he notic several of the congregation ughing. But putting on a brave ok, he said to the sobbing appli ,nt: "Yes, yes, smoking is bad for ys, but I trust God will forgive >u."-Brooklyn Union. There is a man in Cuthibert, sixty ur years old says a Georgia news. per, who has not taken a drink spirits in over a quarter of a den ry, never drank a cup of coffee in i his life nor ate a pound of meat any kind. A few days since reading a newspaper, he saw an vertisement where it was propo ad to furnish a receipb for five dol is which would teach a man how Slive on thirty cents a week. Al is proposition he became indig. mt, and said it was sheer extrava meeforamnanto spend that amount serting that his provisions was yt worth ten dollars a year..I bsists entirely upon corn bre id wae-dcaigta he wouT41 )edncanlge his diet for that of a ng or prince. His clothing ot m about three dallars per amii e is aman of family and we pitj s family. '-7