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Old Farmer Smith came home in a mif -Yon his field the other day, While his sweet little wife, the pride of his At her wheel was spinning away. And ever anon a gay little song M aRh the buz= of ber wheel kept time; And his wratbful brow is clearing now, UnAr her cheerful rhyme. '"ome. come, little Turk, put away your work, And lister. to what I say; What can I do. but a quarrel brew With the man across the way? "I have built my fence, but he won't com menee To lay a single rail; His cattle getin, and the feed gets thin, I am tempted to make a sale!" "Why. John. dear John, how you do goonI aftaid it will be as they say." 40,~ no, little wife, I havc heard that strife In a lawyer's hands don't pay. -He is picking a flaw, to drive me to law, I am told that be said he *ould, And you know;, long ago, law wronged me so, Yvowed that I never should. -SO wht can I do, that I wil not rue, To the man across the way?" If that's what you want, I.can help you haant That msn with a spectre~gray. .wThrty dollars will do to cay you through, And then you have gained a neighbor; It would cost you more to peep-in the door Of a court, and as much more labor. "Just use your good sense-let's build him *al-face, And shame bad acts out of the fellow." The built up his part, and sent to his heart Love's dart, where the good thought mel 4lo. That very same night, by the edadle light, :,They oWlted with.interesta letter; K6t a' word w*as' there, but three greenbacks fair Said-the man was growing better. IfHOW IT ENDED. Miss Jane Beagle bad lived years enough in this wicked world to know that even single blessed. .2ts,is Inot always perfectly satis factory. She had flirted with several admirers, but she went too far when she refused Billy Win kum because he was poor and un known, for Billy had in him that stuff that makes a man rise in - some place-opinions of his own, a loud voice, a feeling that be was .as good as anybody else, if not a little better, and a talent for Fourth of July orations. So that in these years which had changed his old love from 'that bandsome Jane Beagle' to 'Miss Jane Beagle, that hasn't ever mnarried, be had risen in the world and been to Congress, and was a person of such distinction that no one would have dared to call him Billy Win. kunm. Mr. William Warrington Winkum was his designation ; a finer coat, more watch and chain, *or a larger diamond in his cravat, wer;e owned by no one in Bill. berry. He had never married, but that madie him all the more desirable to-Billberry society. He had met Jane very often there; and now Jane would very willingly have proved to him that her decisive 'No' of fifteen years ago had been repented of. Alas! either Mr. William Warrington Winkum no longer grieved over that 'No,' or he regarded it-as final. 'And yet be hasn't married, said Miss Jane ; 'and be don't flr round amongst the young girle nor pay attention to the widows, 1 have not a gray hair. He is five years older than I am any way. Suppose be should like me still ?' ' However, concealment did not seem to prey like a worm ina bud on Mr. William Warringtoi Winkum's damask cheek. 114 eshouted on the platform at elec tion with unimpaired lung power and be built himself a house or the hill wherein he installed housekeeper, his remarkable olc grandmother, who had outlive< .fourteen grandchildren, and al ninety walked, rode, talked and at< with an energy not often met in woman of forty. Oh ! that house with its brigh bricks its new sh utters, its elabc rate roof, its stately chimneys, it ibalcony and front porch, and it 3' uerine of Wilton carpets, rea lace curtains and velvet parlor fhrniture! How often Jane Beagle said to herself: 'All this might have I-ein mine it I had said yes to Billy.' She said it to herself very often oneo day. about house cleaning time, when she was doing her beat with the shabby old bouse that was all her own now. One after another had slipped out of1 it-some were married, some were dead-nobodv remained. 'I don't think I can stand it much longer,' sighed Jane. 'I must take boarders or sometbing. -Nobody to speak to all day long. If I feel sick, nobody to do for me.' Jane was down on the kitchen floor scrubbing as she spoke. The rag carpet was hanging on the line outside. The rush-bottomed chairs, welt scrutbed, were turned upon the grass to dry, every pan shone beautifully, but the wood was worm-eaten, and the smooth est whitewash would not make the wall flawless. 'Heigh ho,' sighed Jane ; '[ like a handsome house, but I shan't ever have one of my own~.' She said it aloud-a habit of talking to herself had grown upon her-but to her surprise she was answered on the instant. 'Why, who knows!' said a voice. ,Yo:i may have the handsomest touse in-- the village yet. Who knows ? Don't you want me to tell you how ?' 'Good g.acious!' cried Jane, jumping to her feet; 'who is that ?' 'It's only me, ma'am,' replied a stout dark* woman, with a big straw hat trimmed with poppies on her ears, who sat on the door sill and smiled at Jane merrily. 'It's only a poor gypsy wandefing over the world telling folks' for. tunes for them. Will you have yours t,,ld, lady ?' -M ine ? s,aid Janq. laughing. Why, I ai too old.' 'You are young enough to have lots ahead of you, lady,' said the gypsy. '"onle, what's twenty five cents to you to hear all your good luck ? Besides luck is misused sometimes if we are not on the look out for it.' What woman does not believe in her inmost heart that there are more things in heaven and ear-t than are dreamed of in philoso phy ? What single woman doubts that somewhere upon earth fate keeps the other half of her soul ? 'It would be awfully foolish,' said she; 'but nobody will ever know, and I think I'll do it..' She felt in her pocket for some change. It was not there. She had given it, she remembered, to the man that mended the wash.boiler that morning. A nd she went to the drawer of the little bookcase with a sliding desk in it, which stood in the sitting room, to get it. The gypsy followed her, chaffing, laughing, hinting at things which brought blushes to Jane's cheek. She peeped into a drawer. There lay the silver spoons and forks, the sugar tongs, a brooch set with pearls, Jane's only costly bit of jewelry, and a roll of bills. Miss Beagle drew her little income once a quarter, and kept it in the house instead of the savings bank, which once had ceased payment for a while. The bright eyes, set close to gether in the gypsy's head, saw all at a glance ; and her smile was very bright as Miss Jane put the twenty-five cents into her hand. 'I have taken a notion to you,' she said, looking at the palm of the small if not beautiful hand that lay in hers. 'There's luck afore you. There's one that is liked, not. far off, eh ?' -Jane blushed again. 'He'll give you a handsome house and set you up in a car riage,' added the gypsy. 'Now own up, your heart is toward him, is it not ?' 'He cares not whether it is or not,' sighed Jane, unaware that Lshe had spoken. .'Lady,' said the gy psy solemnly. L'I have a great power. I can bring together the disunited. I can cure love troubles. Do as I Stell you and he shall come to you jagin.' 'What am I to doT asked Jane, carried away by her own emotions and the gypsy's dramatic manner. -I'll tell you, lady,' said the gypsy. 'Kneel down here beside this chair. Let me cover your face with this handkerchief. Don't be afriad, it's clean ; its a magic handkerchief. Now think of him. Think of him you love, and don't move until I tell you.' People in love are generally a little mad, I am afraid, and Jane had been hopelessly measuring the image of Mr. Warrington Winkum in her heart for years. She did what the- gypsy bade her. The next moment she felt the handkerchief tied tightly over her ayes, and next her hands were tied also with a stout cord. She sereamed, but some one was Lying her feet together. - 'It's no use, lady,' said the gypsy's voice, blandly. 'I've got Lhe key of the drawer and I shan't hurt~you. I'll just help myself and go.' / About an hour after the gypsy had left, Mr. William Warrington Winkum drove past Jane's house in a buggy. He was food of lilaces and stopped to gather a bunch that hung over the fence from a full bush. As he put them up to his nose a scream met his ear. 'Something is the matter,' he said, and without stcpping to tie his horse, he ran into the garden and up the path to the house. The kitchen was empty, the scrubbing brush on the ioor, the pail upset. The gypsy had done that as she departed. Another scream was heard. William rush ed into the inner -room and found Jane with her head tied up in a black silk handkerchief, and her feet and hands bound. In a moment he had her untied. The next she sat in her chair. 'Such a sight !' she said to herself ; but Mr. William Warrington Win kam noticed that she had nioe plump arms under her Lucked-up leeves, and that her big fright Bded eyes were blue indeed. Rap pily, she had not shed a tear. 'I've been tied here for I don't know how long, Mr. Winkum, he said. 'Oh, bow glad I am you came by! I have been robbed of everything I had-my silver, my money, my jewelry. W hat shall I do I don't know.' 'Unprotected women,' said Mr. Winkum, seriously, 'ought not to reside in any house alone.' 'Sometimes,' said Jaue, 'she can't well help it.' It was so singular in that old calico, with such shoes, and nc back braid-for that was hanging over her bureau glass up stairs Miss Jane could never half believe it; but then and there Willian Warrington Win kum changed sud denly it;to a former Billy Winkum and said, without any oratorica flourish or 'a big word. 'Jane, you don't need to live alone. I've always liked you, anc I sorter think, arter all, you'v4 always liked me. Have me, won' you ?' 'Not even my black braid on ! thought Jane Beagle afterward But all she said was : 'Oh ! Billy I was such a goose fifteen year ago. 'I'm glad tilly had sense enougl to marry a settled old maid,' sai< Grandma Winkum at the wed ding. 'Gals is so hity tity, ani widders so kinder overrulin' an< unset:,in' Old maids is kinder a'n< thankful and willin' to please.' But Jane was too happy to b offended by anything any woma: could say. infe is so complicated a gamn that the devices of skill are liabl< to be defeated at every turn by ai blown chanees, incalculable as th1 descent oif tbistledown. In this world. says Cbauifort you have three sorts of friends those who love you, those wh don't care a peony for you an those wbo bate you. One principal point of goo breeding is to suit our behavior t the three several degrees of me -our superiors, our equals, an th'se below us. cl $tsctUatue5. C l FOR THE HERA.D. ScENTIFIC MISCELLANY. T References to- the microbes-or ri microscopic organisms of fermen- bi tation and disease-have become oi so frequent that this classification F of their varieties by Mr. W. Ham- eE let may be of interest: 1. Mi. et crobes which appear as points are m called monads, monera or micro- c( cocca. They are motionless, and d< may be regarded as the spores of sE other microbes. 2. Motionless tt linear microbes-the bacteridians a and the bacilli. To thtm belongs tr Bacillus anthracis, which produces al the dreaded splenie fever of cattle 1E and sheep. 3. Cylindrical mobile et microbes, having roqnded ends al or contracted in the middle so tI as to form an 8, are the bactcria zc proper. Among them is Bacterium g terms of putrefaction, the com- m monest of all. 4. Flexuous mobile vi microbes. They look and act like s( eels, and differ but little from the fi active bacteria. They are the vi- nl brios. 5. Spiral microbes, resem- t( bling a cork-screw, and mobile; la spirilla spirochetoe. Their presence ei in human blood appears to be con- t( nected with intermittent fever. 6. al Microbes with heads, very active, B having globules larger and more ui refractive than the rest of the s< body at one or both ends. rhes0 0 globules are apparently spores fli ready to be detached from a : bacterium - Bacterium capitatum. Besides these six principal states, the microbes form agglomerations F in which their appearance is 01 somewhat changed, these masses i receiving distinctive names. There seems to be no way at present of b distinguishing between a disease8 -producing bacterium and a harm- i less one by sight. It has lately been prove ex- r< perimentally that calonel may be cj decomposed in the human system w wiLh the formation of corrosive o sublimatc-a powerful poison. a Observations by M. Saulanie, of Toulouse, show that sometLing d very like tuberculosis is produced b in the lungs of dogs by a rematoid N worm. Recent borings indicate the ex istence of workable coal-seams un- u derneath London. I In viow of the ravages of the of the phylloxera which have V so seriously interfered with wine- ~ -growing, a French agriculto- ~ rist has sought to discover a a substitute for the vine, and is said a to have attained very good re- a suIts with a variety of red beet. This beet yields a wine which is C said to be equal to many of south-r erm growth, and the plant has the a advantage of being adapted to all 0 -soils and climates. Prof. Blyth, lecturing at Glas Igow, has called attention to the adaptability of the oxyhydrogen light for general use. The illumi Ination is very brilliant and beau tiful,"the gases may be stored and delivered in the same manner as coal-gas, and he believes that the ~ system may be made economical ~ -by using wind or water power to a produce the gases. - Several interesting archaeologi- e cal 'finds' in Europe are reported. t Near Caltanisetta,,1Sicily, several , caverns have been found, which are evidently burial places dating a from the period when the ancient Sicilians had already been ousted by the Italian tribes, but before the Greek colonization had begun. At Nordrup. Denmark., the xe mains of seven human bodies have been found under a few feet of pumice stone, numerous bronze objects, gold rings, Roman glasses, mosaics, glass beads, etc., being also discovered among the re mains. Astronomers' knowledge of t he remarkable ring of small planets -travelling between the orbits of t SMars and Jupiter commenced jwith the first day of the present I century, when Piazzi discovered the first of these objects, which he1 r'amed Ceres. Other discoveries followed at irregular intervals un itil, in 1845, the nuaber of these small planets-or asteroids, asI 'eased to five. Siice that year ie list has extended very rapidly, id 220 have now been discovered. o estimate can be formed of the >tal number of the easteroids. P hey are very small, and Sever- g er has computed that their com- a ned mass is probably less than ia-fourth of the earth's mass. b rom the size of Vesta. which is b tinated to be 319 miles in diam- a er, they dwindle to an unknown I inuteness. Herr Hornstein has a immunicated to the Vienna Aca- a -my the result of recent re- I arches, which appear to prove 8 iat the number of asteroids with l diameter of over 25 miles is ex- 8 emely small, and that probably ti I such were discovered before E 59. The number with a diam. b er less than five miles seems i so to be very small, at least in d e inner parts of the asteroid b ne next Mars; in the outer re- t ons next Jupiter there may be a v ore considerable number of these ry small bodies. Most asteraids i em to have diameters between I ve and fifteen miles. The average a amber with a diameter of five to 0 n miles discovered during the a st twenty years.is about three b Lch year; the yearly number of 9 in to fifteen miles diameter is V )out one and three-fifths. Herr I( ornstein believes, therefore, that 3less much more powerful tele. 0 opes are used future discoveries i asteroids will be chiefty con ed to those measuring five to c rteen miles in diameter. AN PXTRAoRDINARY MAN.-Mr. awcett, the Postmaster.-General Great Britain, is a most extra- e rdinary man. He was made )tally blind when a young man i y the bursting of a gun. But in b pite of that, he is one of the best 7 iformed men of the day; a pro iund mathematician, and widely ad in literature and history. He w handle a rod and fly with onderful success. In the House r Commons he is greatly re ected by all parties. An attend at guides him to the door, and ere ready hands are always to D fotnd to direct the sightless [inister to his place. When lie is t :dressed he turns his head, as iocgh he could see the person to ,hom his reply is directed. The .ost remarkable feature about is speech is his wonderful corn hand of facts and figures, which, aks to his -acute memory, he iasters with marvelous rapidity nd retentiveness. He is greatly ided by his wife, whose attain. ents are almost equal to his own.t ince he was made Postmaster eneral he has introduced many eforms, improved the postageI .amps, introduced a new system f money orders or checks for mall sums, and a plan by which bie postoffice receives stamps as eposits in savings banks, in order carry out his favorite idea inI ifering the poor every possible icility for practicing thrift. HE HAD LEFT His CARD.-NoI latter how witty you may be, ome one is likely to be mere wit y still and to turn your weapon gainst yourself. When two gen lemon fell out with each ether no of them went to the other's ouse, and in large letters wrote4 icoundrel' on the front door. The ext day, when they met by eident, number two said to num er one: 'How did you dare to call on e, yesterday, sir ?' 'I did not call on you and I ever will call on you,' was the itter reply. 'Well, sir,' continued number wo, 'either you or one of your riends called, for this morning, ven I came out of the house,lI aw your name written on my leor.' Three things too much and hree too little are pernicious to ne: To speak much and know ittle ; to spend much and have ittle; to -presume much and be orth little. We suppose when a woman has II the pin money she wants, she 2as attained the pin nickel of her AN ANGEL'S TOUCH. One evening, not long ago, a1 ttlo girl of nine or ten entered a lace in which are a bakery, rocery, and a saloon in one, and sked for five cents' worth of tea. I low's your mother ?' asked the oy who came forward to wait on er. 'Awful sick, and ain't had I nytbing to eat all day.' The boy as just then called to wait upon )me men who entered the saloon, ad the girl sat down. In five a iinutes she was nodding, and in :ven she was sound to sleep and b aniug her head on a barrel, while t 2e held the poor old nickel in a ght grip between her thumb and n nger. One of the men saw her as .0 e came to the bar, and after ask. t ig who she was, said: -Say, you i runkards, see here. Here we've Den pouring down whiskey when! is poor child and her mother rant bread. Here's a two- dollar t ill that says I've got some feel- t )g left.' 'And I can add a dol r,' observed one. 'And ['Il give v nother.' They made up a purse fan even five dollars, and the pokesman carefully put the bill I etween .two of the sleeper's fin- C era, drew the nickel away, and hispered to his comrades: 'Jist b )ok there-the gal's dreaming!' P o she was. A big tear had rolled C ut from her closed eyelid, but the l' tce was covered with a smile. t 'he men tiptoed out, and the f lerk walked over and touched th.e a oeeping child. She awoke with a laugh, and cried out: 'What f beautiful dream! Ma wasn't C ick any more, and we had lots to t at and to wear, and my hand C urns yet where an angel touc'ed f , When she discovered that er nickel had been replaced by a ill, a dollar of which loaded her t own with all she could carry, v he innocently,said: 'Well, now, ut ma won't hardly believe me hat von sent up to heaven and got 0 n angel to Cbme down to clerk 1 3 your grocery.'-San Francisco Vews Letter. TUE AaT OF SWINGING A ScYTI2. -A young man from the city, ?hile visiting friends in the coun ry, became interested in the in igorating spectacle of the far er's hired man cutting weeds vith a scythe. It suggested to is inexperienced mind the 'poe ry of motion.' When the hired nan laid down the seythe and vent into the barn a few minutes, he city youth picked up the tensil and made a lunge at a ;roup of weeds. The point of he scythe struck the earth with uch unexpectedness that the oth fell over the handle and lowed up the earth wiith his ead. He was a little discouraged, ut it looked so easy that he got up nd essayed another stroke. This as disastrous. The blade ap-1 peared to coil around his legs1 ike a serpent, eutting throuigh his ip pocket about an inch ; ampu ating a portion of his coat-tail, nd then cut slices of flesh out of is calves. Ho is now convinced hat it is easier to fall over a heelbarrow than to swing a cythe without any previous in tructions.-Norristownl Herald. Man born of woman is of few ays and full of desire to assist ome rich father-in-law to squan er his quarterly dividends. A Western paper reports the irt.h of a male child with wings. P~robably nature intended him for L bank cashier. Wit stands in the same relation 1 common sense that paint does ;o wood-it gives the finish .and preserves it. It is always safe to learn, even Erom our enemies ; seldom safe to renture to insl,ruct even our Eriends. A house is no home unless it ontains food and fire for the mind as well as th the body. The man who was 'rocked in the cradle of the deep' must have slept between sheets of water. Too much talk on trifles is a soial evil. STUDENT'S DUELS. eliberate and Bloody Butchery byGerman Dudi A correspondent of the London 'Robe writes as follows: It was 8 'clock on a foggy morning as a friend ud myself marched along the Maria ilfer strarsse, in Vienna. My friend ras a young surgeon of promise. 'It is a 'mensur,'' quoth he; 'there rill be hot work, for some of them re old hands.' A batch of student's duels was to e fought off, and my friend was doc. >r for his old corps, the 'Slesa !' 'You must be a colleague for the once,' gaid he, as we turned down a arrow side street. 'I can hardly in. roduce you to a 'mensur' unless you ass as a doctor.' So I buttoned high my coat and >oked professional. We entered a tle restaurant, passed through to be back, and so by a narrow passage a door with a peep-hole. 'Ah, doctor!' called half a dozen oices, as we entered. My conductor, turning to me, said: 'Gentlemen, here is an English col mage of Mine desirous of witnessing or 'mensur,' let me introduce him.' Long lasted the bowing, shaking of ands, and exchanging of names, for unc:ilious politeness is never more erigueur than on such occasions. A )ng room with a table at either end, be walls hung with ..ck red gold ags and shields of the 'Silesia'-an rsenal of swords in the racks loves, masks and paddinge in pro. ision. A group of red-capped stu ents standing and sitting round one ble, a group of green capped-stu ents at the other-the whole in a ne atmosphere of tobacco smoke. >lastered were the faces of many, and lmost every, left cheek bore proud races of doughty blows. Our ad ersaries at the other end of the oom were 'Saxonia.' My friend and his. colleague of the ther corps now busied themselves in iying out the implements of their rt-while the first pair of combatants repared for action. Coats and waist, oats were removed'; the sword arm as swathed in many folds of black ilk as was also the neck, while a wad. d garment-horribly stiffened and liseolored from use-protected the )ody, and the eyes were guarded bj ;oggle like spectacle frames. A fel ow got up in this guise has a right uncanny' look about him, especially ith the long straight sword with the earfully sharp blade and a greal >asket 'guard'' in his hand. 'We will commence at once, if it ii greeable to you.' 'We are entirely at your service.' The presidents of either corps sa ute ceremoniously, the crowd of stu lents fall back, the combatants ad ance to chalk line. The presidenti >n either side are in full student gala. >ooted, capped and ribboned-theit sked swords ready to parry an unan, horized blow. The recorder readi he protocol of the fight, the senioi ~alls: 'Silentium ! Ready ! Guard ! Chere is a second's pause, and then a he word 'los !' (let loose) the ham nering begins. It is not at all liki >roadswords or singesticks-still les ike foils, for the student's 'paukerei s quite sui genesis-an inelegan asking at close quarters with noth *ng but the over guard 'terce ani They. are to fight for fifteen min tes-rests not included-unless, o ourse, before that time the docto elares it to be dangerous to pro ~eed. 'Halt' is called for a few sec ands. First blood. 'It is nothing, elares the doctor, and the swords cen advance again, but one of then bas a dripping gash in the cheek 'Halt' is called at least a dozen times ad each time another gash is re orded One man can hardly see fo the blood which triokles down hi forehead and gets under his goggls ad so the doctor, with calm readi ness, smears the upper rim with th grease from a plate of 'guylasch,' an thus diverts the gory stream. 'Our man aan go on a bit more, from the Saxonia. 'Our man is quite ready,' from th Silesia. 'Ready ! Los!l' once more. Han mer, hammer ; clash, clash. 'Halt!l' a lock of hair Stters t the ground; Saxonia staggers back the doctor is at his side. 'We must stop,'renmarks .&culapiui after a glance ; 'a deep scalp wound.' The recorder advances, and reads passively from his notes: 'Meusur' between X--of Spein nia, and Y---f- -iEsr ia. pyt. by Dr..-, after fourteenth round, after twelve and three-quarter mi utes actual fighting.' And now the doctors- fall t we and a right ghastly sight it is;gory dings, steaming hot, are loosened, an wine poured down between pale Next duel was a far fner a&i practiced slashers yield the stee Everybody took the trouble to o> on ; even the most crushed of put down his beer and assuned-t critical mien. Lightning quick.lh the blades, whizzing ominously but the touches were less frequent hy reason of greater skilloin All at once Silesia dropped his weapoe and fainted outright His. whle hand was laid open by a skillful Un der switch. This concluded he s ond affair. THEY NEVER GPT OVER g 'Do you know, my dear,' she denly said, as she looked up from piecework-'do you .know that week will be the twentieth anni of our wedding ?' 'Is that so? By George howim flies! Why, I had no idea f 'Yes, we have been married a twenty long years,' she centinue with something of a sigh. 'Yond been a good husband to me, da 'And you have been a blessed wife to me, Susan. Comeere t kiss you. There!' 'I was thinking to day-I aww thinking of-of ,Of that sickly faced babooni used to go home with youfrom prayer meeting before I -knew you be. terrupted. ,Who do you mean? 'Why, that Brace fellow, of cours Why, George, he wasn't sue& bad fellow." ,Wasn't he? Well, Id. hie know of a worse one. He know enough to cheir putt there you were s good as. en him.' 'Yes, George; but yoU.* kno yo were keeping company at the a m time with that Helen Perkins._. 'That Helen Perkivs! WasVtu Perkins one of the loveliest and.t tiest young ladies in Liverpool? 'No, she wasn't-! She bad. like a horse 'She did, eh ! How about tha stoop-shouldered, white headed Brae 'And such' big feet as shead Why, George, she was the laughint stock of the town.' 'Not much she wasn't! She was a young, lady who would havemade a~ 'Then, why didn't you marry bu and all her moles and warts -nd mushroom eyes?' 'Don't talk that way to me ! H eyes were as nice as yours.' 'They wan't!' 'They was! I' believe you- ~ar sorry because you didn't- marry Brace!' 'And I know you are sorry you didn't marry that beautiful asa&. accomplished Miss Perkins I' 'I am, eh ? I thought you saif' had been agood husband to you - 'And didn't you call -me you, Then he plumped down and begr to read the mortgage sales and avt. tisements in the paper, and she ke.. up her sewing and gave the eata gentle kick. These old thiings will come up now and then, and aodiehou neither side ever gets entirely over. them.-Free Press. Some Boston people had a seaned the other day and the medium called. up the spirit of a deceasedladj, she intimate friend of the eciNC'Afhii ridentifying herself to the sntiae=tini~ of all present, she was askedifbec experiences of her present-happy sta realized her earthly expecttog . S'Yes,' replied the spirit 'it iswertN Ilovely and nice here, but'-with . long, soft sigh-'it is naot Boston! A handsome -woman pleases dh Seye but a good woman charms heart. Every age has its problem, by see. ing which humanity is helped for ward. Disgretion is te golden ord whioi wisdom strings her riebe