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A Family Companion, Devoted to Literature, Miscellany, News, Agriculture, Markets, &c. Vol. XI. WEDNESDAY MORNING, JULY 21, 1875. No. 29. Tan"E H ERA L IS PUBLIS,HEDi EVERY WEDNESDAY 31ORNINGS Atsiewberryq S. 1C. BY THOS, F, GRENKER, Editor and Proprietor. Te4s s2zo5 per Junar, Invariably in Advance. rv- he ape isstopped at the expiration Uy. The >4 mark denotes expiration of s, Feription Cor p HOMjEWARD. " My poor, poor eyes, they are blinded W. tearg, And I cannot work!" she said, Tossing aside her thimble and shears, &ud winding her spools of tbread. The riotous wind with her roses stay'd A-wooing, a-wooing along; The-swallow she slept all uudismaly'di And her dreams ther were sweet wi song. Bat the lady Isy on her pillow white, *%hite as a ghost lay she, Speeding her sonl on a lonely flight To her lover afar at sea. "The night is drunken with drear alarm, And I cannot sleep !" she said, Tossing !he snow of a weary arm On the fold of a weary head. The velvet roses-foolish things! A-noddiug, a-nodding were To the wind a-fqrling his wanton wings, Where the lilies were all astir. But the lady lay at her lattice low, low as-the land lay she, 'With every beat in her breast a blow For her lover afar at sea. IM. s"Ky blood is fire, my breath is flame, Aud I cannot live!" she said, WaDling the words of her lover's name, As if he were doomed and dead. Thij beautifal 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 me grief to see you commencing a course which, if continued must end in your ruin, here and hereaf Ih ter." "Kate, this is perfect madness! I say again, I must have my inde pendence! I would scorn to refuse to pledge in wine the health of our fair hostess. What if it did make th it a little merry! I think too much of myself to become intoxicated, of course; and I do think you are ma king entirely too much of a trifle, by allowing your scruples to over rule your better judgment. I can not believe it right for a man to bind himself in any way; he should be free to act as his own feelings may dictate." "I say amen to that Stanley. You are free from this very moment; and it will be worse than useless for you to hint this subje.ct again at any time or under any circumstances, unless you have been a pledged tem perance man for at least one year; and Heaven helping me, I will stand firm in my determination, and not yield one iota, though it break my heart! But, oh ! Stanley, I implore you to think of your aged mother, and forsake this horrible practice before it is too late to re trace your steps !" "Kate, for 'eaven's -sake, cease this! my mind is in a whirl. I am! .naddened! I cannot bear to be sent off thus ; give me to-night for reflec tion; to-morrow at ten o'clock I will see you, perhaps, for the last time." He seized her hand, imprinted a kiss upon it, aad was gone. Poor Kate! She threw herself upon the sofa convulsed in tears. "Oh, it is so hard, it is so hard. If giving up half my life would 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 to contemplate! a drunkard's wife! the very thought makes me shud der." Let us follow Stanley to his boarding house, where he quickly repaired after parting with Kate. On entering his room he threw himself upon a sofa for reflection ; and, as he told me afterwards, rea soned with himself thus: "I am in a pretty dilemma ; there is Kate on one hand, who loves me devotedly, and pleads with me in my sainted mother's name to flee from impending ruin and disgrace. 2i She would make any sacrifice for me, but what she calls her princi ~ples of right. She has pledged her self never to marry a man who drinks - and who refuses to sign a tem perance pledge and keep it sacred afor twelve months ; and I know her well enough to know she will keep it to the letter. "Now on the other hand, are all I my jolly companions with whom I r have a real nice time, (except that > my conscience at times gives me f trouble, and since this interview >- with Kate I know it would lash me e most unmercifully,) and those lady >f friends who are so ready to tempt me with a glass of sparkling wine, u should I, by their influence become it a drunkard, would they still court t- my society ? I think not. ll "But I must act promptly for I u have to decide for weal or woe." s- His struggles all through that Ly long night were terrible ; but he t, came off victorious, and with the h proud determination never to touch d again anything that would intoxi , cate he hastened to make known n his resolve to Kate and, in order to - strengthen himself in h'.s resolve, is he fro.m the day following devoted es himself earnestly and arduously by e night and day to reclaim the poor n inebriate and help sustain him in u the paths of morality and temper y ance. It is true, he was for a time r laughed at by his former wild com n panions, and those professed lady f friends neglected no opportunity ir to banter him, telling him they s were ashamed of him for being a in coward, and ceasing his attendance a- at their social gatherings, because ey he was afraid to go where he would u see wine. But he was more than at repaid for all he had lost, by the de loving, encouraging words of Kate, i's and her bright smiles of approv e al. ut After having been a worthy mem it, ber of Good Samaritan Division for *th six months, he ventured on the for. ws bidden subject, and plead with her rer to commute his sentence from n; twelve to six months but in vain. Ler She told him it was for their mutu ny al good she was so exacting, and a while he felt that it was very hard, er- he submitted with a good grace, re- and honored her for her integri r- -ty. ne-And now, dear reader, let me say 'et in conclusion, it has not been my ye good fortune to ~WItneOs a mr brilliant and happy party than that assembled at Col. Pendleton's at j the expiration of the twelve months of Stanley Egerton's probation; and by his side was Kate robed as a bride, radiant in beauty, and with I a heart overflowing with thankful- i ness, that her Heavenly Father i had given her strength to stand i firm in her resolve. I And in their happy home, they i often talk over the events of that year of trial, and Stanley frankly 3 acknowledges that his darling little t temperance girl saved him from a I c drunkard's grave; for he drank a much more than she had an idea of, and had she yielded to his entreat- r ies of an early marriage he would - undoubtedly have been a hopeless inebriate. Amd now, dear girls, let me beg y and implore you, by all your hopes I of happiness, be firm in your de- z termination never to marry a man y that gives the least countenance t to anything that will intoxicate; v perhaps he only takes a little "bit ters" or soinething as medicine.- z Don't believe him, girls, he takes I it for the love of it and will not F scruple to take anything stronger. g Tell him, if he is ailing, to take a iJ glass of hot water ; if that will s not suffice add a little ginger or t, mustard;. but if nothing but m rank poison will satisfy him, in mercy to himself and fellow b creatures take strychnine, an d v end his worthless existence at f< once. V And now, patient reader, I will e leave you, hoping and praying you i may make a noble resolve and t] stand by it unflinchingly as did s Kate Pendleton. HOW NOT TO DO IT. a The following speech was deliv ered by Mr. Nash, of the Logans- a port Star, at the Indiana Editoral e Convention. . Mr. President, Ladies and Gentle men: h When your committee assigned r me the task of telling "How not s to conduct a country newspaper," ~ they recognized the eternal fitness i of things, for "How to conduct at country newspaper" is prominent among the innumerable things that I don't know, and yet ignorance on this point is inexcusable for no man can be connected with a country 3 newspaper -two hours and a half g without receiving advice from many j f'iends of the paper who know just a how to doit. Our facilities for acquiring knowl edge are so great that every man, k woman and child-except the pub- t lishers-knows how to conduct a country newspaper, and most of them would be at home on. a me tropolitan journal. 1I The man who is required to pay r for material, aid and labor, or fur- c nish copy, finds it the easiest thing t imaginable to publish a paper ; and I why all the dolts drift into newspa- t per offices is a question that sorely I puzzles suffering humnanity. E If a man erects a building on his I own ground, buys presses, types, i: and all kinds of printing material, i: writes and selects his matter, and I pays his employees, he imagines 1 that he owns a country newspaper. t Nothing can be further from the t truth. The office is owned by a t joint stock company composed of f an indefinite number of stockholders i -ranging from five hundred to five C thousand-each share representing i a dollar and a half or two dollars ; i and every member of the concern e imagines that he owns a controlling I interest, whether his subscription I be paid in greenbacks or advice. i But I am digressing, simply wan dering off among the wise men who are always ready to tell you how not to conduct a newspaper. In publishing a country newspa per dont get in too much news. It necessitates leaving out the dog fights, which are of greater interest1 to many of your readers. ~Don't say anything about the po litical situation, lest you hurt the feelings of a county officer who gets his letter heads printed at your es tablishment. Don't say a word in jour local colmns about the 'merchant or manufacturer who has a standing advertisement 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 ~pa in nostrumns. This will encour age ready-made physicians, and fill paper with "mighty interestin A Don't fail to publish a long ser non on some doctrinal point every veek. This will gratify. the man vho wi'ote the sermon. Don't fail to give your readers a ul supply of original poetry. It vill encourage home talent and nake your paper popular with senti nental young ladies, noted for well rentilated hosiery and a charming gnorance of housework. Don't be particular about issuing our paper on the regular publica ion day. Give your readers a hance to exercise that greatest of 11 Christian virtues, patience. Don't spend too much time in eading proof. Let your paper be -like your life-full of errors. Don't fail to take sides in every ersonal quarrel tit occurs in oour town. If Smith wants you to itch into Brown do it. Brown iay give you a good flogging for our impudence, but you will have ie sympathy of Smith while your rounds are healing. Don't neglect any opportunity to iake your paper highly sensational. f you have a "damneble rumor," ublish it. If it be true, you will ain credit for fearless journalism; false you have simply blasted )me one's good name, and commit d one of the indiscretions of the ineLeenth century. Don't reject an article because it orders on the obscene. The roughs ill endorse it and give you credit )r wit. In short, publish a paper i the interest of street-corner loal es, hotel bummers, and blear-eyed ard politicians, and you will win ie lasting gratitude of your succes )r, the sheriff. How LDuRoER CHEESE IS IADE. 'he preliminary steps in the manu 6ture of Limburger cheese are imilar to those employed with or inary cheese, except that the curd taken up in a moister state, more rhey being permitted to remain, ad the mass is heated to a differ at degree of temperature, thus pre. rving all the richness which other rise would be lost. It is then ta en from the vat and put in perfo. ted molds five inches square -by even inches in depth which are laced on the draining table, where is -allowed to remain for a short Lie. It is then taken into the heese cellar below ground and put n the pressing tables, where it re iains about twenty-four hours be-' re it goes to the salting table. ater four or five days it is ready r the shelves, where it is placed tiers and changed and rubbed aily for about four to six weeks efore it is packed. The packing' rocess is done by rolling it in eavy paper and covering it with n foil, when it is ready for mar FOOLING TPHE OLD L.n.-The fol wing story is very good,.- but ather apocryphal: A young man ut West was courting a pretty girl, ut her mother would not permit ui to stay after ten o'clock, greatly c his and her daughter's disgust. ast New Year's Day that young ian presented the old lady with a atent clock of great beauty and genuty. The prospective mother -law was greatly pleased, and gave .er old clock to a poor woman who ved in the neighborhood. Now hat young couple are happy, for his new clock is so constructed hat it will lose three hours between Sand 10 in the evening, and make Ib up all right before morning. The >ld lady wvatches the clock carefully ,d cries "Ahemn!" as usual when t gets to 10. And yet, she says, he can't understand what makes ter get so sleepy before 10, and Late to get up so bad the next moin A CENTENARIAN OR A SUICIDE. L learned professor intimates that il who die under one hundred years f age are guilty of suicide! The rocess of reasoning by which he rrives at this conclusion is some hing as follows: Duration of life s measured by the time of growth; he camel is eight years in growing, ud lives five times eight years; the iorse is five years in growing, and ive twenty-five years ; man, being wenty years in growing, should live ive times twenty years. So, Provi lence having intended man to live century, he would arrive at that ge if he did not kill himself by un iholesome modes of living, violent )assions and exposure to accidents. urely, according to this theory, she human race might well adopt aew and more healthful modes of ating, sleeping, working and recrea bing, in the hope of becoming cen Eennarians. 1 o great, the noble, the trong, th ie of the most ive nature. 1It was theI af Egypt th tbecaume thedv md et were asakinni | ANECDOTES OF DOGS. A few feet from me, at this mo ment, is a curious specimen of th( long backed, shortlegged Germar hound yclept a turnspit, who came to the establishment a silent, reserv ed, even dull being. But on faii encouragement his faculties becamE developed. He showed signs ol 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 in 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 off. There was some thing ghostly in the fashion in which .ie 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 wvas per formed properly, he jogged home with a contented mind. How did he know the hour exactly ? Agai!: 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 hurry 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 almosi erect on pony's neck, while drivei 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 intc Kent, shut up in a dog-box. Or his first day's sport, he took offenst at the keeper using a whip to him: a freedom he perhaps thought was not justified by so short an ac quaintance. The next mor'ning he was at the door of his house or Victoria street! How was this ac complished ? He must have com< straight across the country, guidei by some faculty that his two-legge~ superiors have not. ([London Society. No Suow r'oa Hr.-Saturday afternoon while the rope-walkel was going through his perform ances, a boy about twelve years old turned to an acquaintance oj the same age and remarked "Tom don't you wish you couk( do that?" "Yes, I do," sadly re plied Tom, "but nmy folks mnak< me go to school .and are deter mined that 1 sban't never be no body !"-Detroit Free Press. With time and patience the mu] berry leaf becomes satin. Wha diculty is there at which a na should quail, when a worm cai accomplish se much from the mul berry? s& pleas&ii~ if i es. A DEFENSE FOR PRETTY I WO31EN. After all is the world so very ab- a surd in its love of pretty women? 5 Is woman so very ridiculous in t her chase after beauty? A pret- C ty woman is doing a woman's work c in the world but not making 0 speeches, nor puddings but making e life sunny and more beautiful.- t Man has foresworn the pursuit of v beauty altogether. Does he seek it r for himself, he is guessed to be po- 13 etic; there are whispers that his morals are no better than they 0 should be. In society, resolute to be ugly, there is no post for an Adonis, P but that of a model guardsman. But woman does for mankind, what h man has ceased to do. Her aim from childhood is to be beautiful. U] Even as a school girl she notes the progress of her charms-the deepening color of her hair, the e growing symmetry of her arm, the ripening contour of her cheek. We a watch with silent interest the mys terious reveries of the maiden*; she is is dreaming of a coming beauty and panting for the .glories of eighteen. Insensibly she becomes d an artist; her room is a studio, her glass an academy. The joy of her c( toilet is the joy of Raphael over his canvass or Michael Angelo over 1 his marble. She is creating beauty in the silence and the loneliness of D her chamber. She grows like any 81 art creation, the result of patience, of hope, of a thousand delicate touchings and retouchings. Wo man is never perfect, complete. A restless night undoes the beauty of h the day; sunshine blurs the evan escent coloring of the cheek; frost 1 nips the tender outlines of her face Y into sudden harshness. Care plows al its lines across her brow ; mother hood destroys the elastic lightness M of her form; the bloom of her fc cheek, the quick flash of her eye, fade and vanish as years go by. Bat woman is trtMn to her ideal. h She won't know when she is beat- e en and she manages to steal P fresh victori'es even in her lefeat. s( She invents new conceptions of wo manly grace ; she rallies at forty I and fronts us with the beauty of s womanhood ; she makes a last stand ~ at sixty, with the beauty of her age. She fails, like Cosar, wrapping her mantle around her-"buried in it woolen 'twould a saint provoke !" tl Death listens pitifully to the long- g ings of lifetime, and the wrinkled nl face smiles with something of the 'n prettiness of eighteen. tl How TO FonEow A JoxE.-A writera in Scribner's says I At the begin- s ning of the session with the person F before whom your art is to be exer- r cised, the smile, of course, is in order. The features should then take their natural position in repose, or should if the circumstances seem to require it, assume a graver ex pression ; it might, indeed, be well g to show the lines of the brow some- a what drawn together, with a sug gestion of trouble, or at least of concentrated attention. Above all d things, remember that when your vis-a-vis begins what promises to be a prolonged humorous narration, your face must instantly relapse in- a to quiet. The smile may begin early ' in the story-but should be very a slight and inconspicuous at first, .gradually diffusing itself over the I entire countenance and coming to 1o a climax with thie point of the story-- Ii either in an actual laugh, qr still bet- tl ter, in a radiant smile of apprecia- y tion, tip-toe on the virge of laugh ter, and' a hundred times more ef- b fective for its reticence. No one who has made use of this method t< will ever return to the old and o inelegant system-tiring to yourself k~ and unsatisfactory to your interlo- e, cutor-of beginning the facile audi- l1 ence, if we may so call it, at the l< highest pitch at the outset of his e narration, and vainly endeavoring to keep up the strain upon the fea- b~ tures to the end. The consequence ~ of such a course is, that either the smile becomes hard and mechani cal, or that precisely when most neededit altogether disappears, and you are forced to some clumsy sub stitute.. a All great questions have been , settled by men in earnest-by 5. men who have been bound by a a principle about their hearts, which they come to regard as part and 1s parcel of their being. Little, pid- 6 dling, temporizing policy never t conferred a lasting benefit on the a world.. It is not high crimes, such as x robbery and murder, which do- a stroy the peace of society. The a villiage gossip, family quarrels, jealousies b e t w e e n no"~ medesmnea"attfing, are b th, myp 'which oat into all so-~ cial hap~in'eso. CHANGING ELECTION DAYS. By alterations and amendments of their Constitutions the several States are gradually coming to agree upon November, and usually the first week in November, as the time for holding elections. Under 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 will 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 had a 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 opinion.since the elections in Con necticut has been watched by the whole country with the most intense interest, because 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 hitherto thought. The change will have the good effect too of preventing in a large measure the raids into the State from New York, of which there have been loud complaints by both parties, for, with the elections on the same day in both States, the repeaters and stu.ffers will have enough to do at home without going among their neighbors. A CA SroRv.-Pussy has always sustained a somewhat spotted repu tation ; and though two or three of the magazine writers have lately endeavored to clear her skirts of evil, and raise- her. to a level with the dog, the effect has been a la mentable failure. Pussy is innately ferocious and treacherous, and be sides this she is accused of some thing causing her to be ranked with the ghouls and vampires. The latest story of this cat wickedness comes from Syracuse, New York. A gentleman of that city one night lately retired at the usual hour, his wife occupying the adjoining room. During the night the wife heard a singular sound in the adjoining apartment, as if her husband was strangling. Finally the sound be came so intensified as to alarm her, and she arose hastily to make an investigation. Entering the room of the husband her eyes were greet ed with a spectacle decidedly start ling. Her husband was still sleep. ing, but the family cat had its nose thrust in the man's mouth, and its paws tightly clasped about his throat. The woman seized the ani mal, but it clung to its hold tena ciously, and was pulled away with the greatest effort. The man was nearly suffocated, and it is believed would have been killed but for the timely interference of his wife. It is scarcely necessary to add that the cat in question now retains not a single one of its nine lives, but it did enough while living to add something to the already bad char acter of its species. In a smiling region the man of money sees only the relations of hay, grain and wood. His admira tion, radiant with calcilation, re duces nature to figures, and adds up the scenery. -A person who is too nice an ob. server of the business crowd, like .one who is too curious in observing the labor of bees, will often be stung for his curiosity. - - - -4 . - - I-have learned what a sin is ainst an infinite imperishable be in snch as is tesuA [IS LOOKS DECEIVED HIM. He did not look like a joker, ays -1. Quad. One to sit and tudy his face, would have said hat his soul was lost in melan holy-that he didn't care two ents whether the sun set at noon r stayed up until 7 o'clock. He atered the ladies' sitting-room at he Central Dopot, wa!ked up to a roman whose husband had left the )om about ten minutes previous r, and calmly inquired: "Madam, your husband went it to see the river didn't he ?" "Yes-why?" she asked, turning %le in an instant. "He was a tall man, wasn't "He, was," she replied, rising p and turning still paler. "Had red hair?" "He had-oh! what has happen I ?" "Weighed about one hundred id eighty pounds ?" "Yes-yes-where is he-where my husband ?" she exclaimed. "Couldn't swim could he ?" "He's drowned-my husband is .owfed !" "Had a silver watch chain ?" )ntinued the stranger. "Where is my husband-where the body ?" she gasped. "Do not get excited, madam. id your husband have on a grey it !" "Yes-oh ! my Thomas! my homas !" "And stoga boots ?" "Let me see him-let me. see m!" she cried. "Come this way, madam, but do >t get excited. There, is that )ur husband across the street that peanut stand ?" "Why, yes, that's him; that's y husband !" she exclaimed joy illy. "I thought you said he as drowned." "No madam, I did not. I saw im buying peanuts, and I believ. I it my Iuty to say to you that Danuts are not healthy at this ,ason of the yearl" - He slid softly out, and she stood iere and chewed her parasol and ~ared after him as if he were a enagerie on wheels. A HOME THRUST.-A story-tell ig clergyman of this city relates ae followingof one of our distin nished Brooklyn Baptist clergy ien, which the late Apostle Trask rould enjoy: A few weeks ago de doctor was. examining candi ates for admission to the church, nd .among them was a delicate, weet-faeed boy of some sixteen ears of age, whose eyes, as he >se to speak, were bathed in ~ars. "And you are striving to love, arve, and follow the Lord Jesus ?" sked the minister. "Yes, sir, but my sins are reat," meekly replied the young pplicant. "But Jesus will forgive them all. [e can wash you clean," said the octor, encouragingly. "There is one sin," said the boy, that 1 have struggled against. am free from it now, but I am raid that God will never forgive te ;" and the little fellow sobbed oud. "What is it, my boy ? God will >rgive everything, if you are tru r penitent and will lead a better fe. No matter how,. grievous ais sin may be, he will forgive ou. Now what is it ?" "S-s-n-o-king," sobbed the oy. Now, as the doctor is an inve rate smoker, say rather burner f cigars, he was considerably ta en aback, especially as he notic d several of the congregation ughing. But putting on a brave >ok, he said to the sobbing appli ant: "Yes, yes, smoking is bad for oys, but I trust God will forgive o."-Brooklyn Union. There is a man in Cuthbert, sixty >ur years old says a Georgia news aper, who has not taken a drink f spirits in over a quarter of a den [ry, never drank a cup of coffee in U his life nor ate a pound of meat f any kind. A few days since' i reading a newspaper, he saw an dvertisemnent where it was propo ed to furnish a receipL for five dol ers which would teach a man how a live on thirty cents a week. At his proposition he became indig ant, and said it was sheer extrava ancefora man to spend that amount sserting that his provisions was ot worth ten dollars a year.. absists entirely upon corna nd water-ecarnthat he would o* xcange his diet for that of a ing or prince. His clothin im about.three dollars per sasim [e is a man.of amily; aad w IS faumly -' -"~' ADVERTISINC RATES. IAdverti:iements inserted at the rde of !.CO per square--one inch-forfirst iawdton aud 75c. for each subsequent insertion. T;ile column advertisements ten per cent on aboye Notices of meetings, 6bituaries and tribute.. 1of respect, samerawe per sqaare as ordinary advertisements. Special rxoticeija joca1 cola 20 Cents per line. Advertisements =otmark-ed wftlbe num ber of insertifns'wil be, kept -ft - dR-,frbiJ Iand cha1igedaecrdaklI.. - Special co 'tisers, wlthlibeWd -r lddtWmis r~k. Done with Nestnsiij _DftjwtL-r PASSING TH[E_G RWD-fN.- P~I known drummerfors- ty Zoodg:. house, who eband'ed ]As- su,rtU be in a Alainedtowp- *keroew--: -* cus was to so wthat nig4,a j bet that-he co61d as'vr ~ of a party dftrty h over from &.,eighhic~ into the show wiihout ac-,7~Tt wager wag ace~t7j~~4 was marshaled audt *ceido~ the tent, where ihe :dbeji er. was bdsilyOegagedUKj'69--*W~kc - from all who 'Passdw I,~~~. aperture in the cava. (i up with the crow d, the drnvmi C rushed. up to th6" his hand full _ofcrd:aig d'. 'r "Just count these M-ennas,ffi. .' in, ending w"t.theoawlft bt~ hat." "ICertaiilY,*s, rous went toWO&k teen, eigteen, etC, 48 &A ed by him apdd uigled' crowd, till the w4rW: 41 ed, when he shod'w,_d6I%Ir and turnedahF& Bat the polite W'dndW-u bid him ennmebii46 while the jarywowsrw with th--h " who, was stopped be6fr1i min&led wfthfmml M indistinguiql&1 of the "intelligent' cornpcsitor, .L~ ,.,f aAmAth~flE? hA~ QfitA.