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T14E HERALD 6iLY THURSDAY XOR3NING, ox it Newberry, S. C.ade".sIent.VI dY THOS.,;GENKR Editor and Proprietor. efass.per en IU&il, in Ae A Family Companion, Devoted to Literature, Miscellany, News, Agriculture, Markets, & Invariably in Advance. -__ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ __ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _J B P L 1 'A The paper Is stopped at the expiration of ;as 7r which It is paid.ss iSerTC e ,? TheM markdenotes expiration of sub A.A VOI TTYV S.Wt~P C. TH URSDP TAY OCTOTEMSCBH AFTER. After the shower, the tranquil sun; After the snow, the emera!: leaves; Silver stars, when the day is done; After the harvest, golden sheaves. After the clouds, the violet sky; Afar the storm, the lull of waves; -Quiet woods, when the winds go by; After fhe battle, peaceful graves. After the knell; the wedding bells; After the bud, the radiant rose; Joyful greetings from sad farewells; After our weeping, sweet repose. After the burden, the blissfai meed; After the fight, the downy nest; After the furrow, the waking seed; After the shadowy river, rest. -George Cooper. ..s.. The following is considered as Mr. Long fellow's finest sonnet: t "As a fond mother, when the day is o'er. i Leads by the hand her little child to bed, Half willing, half reluctant tabe led, And leaves his broken playthings on the floor. t Still gazing at them through the open.door, Nor wholly reassured and comforted. By promises of others in their stead, Which, thongb more splendid, may not please him more; So Nature deals with us, and takes away C Our playthings one by one, and by the o hand Leads sto rest so gentlr that we go Scarce knowing If we wish to go or stay, ~ Being too full of sleep to understand How far the unknown tryscends the what we know." MAN'S PEDIGREE. o THE GEORGIA PHILOSOPHER DISCOURSES OF THE FAXILY TEEE. A Satire on the Follies and Pompous Claims t of Would-be Great People. Cultivator and Dixie Farmer. r "Honor and shame from no condition rise, Act well your part-there all the honor lies." Pride of ancestry is a good thing. A young man has a right to be proud of a noble father, but the danger is h,, generaliy leans on him too strong and don't do any thing for himself. It is very sel dom indeed that a great man has , a great son ; old John Adams did a and so did John Quincy Adams, but Henry Clay didn't, nor Cal honu, nor Webster, -nor Tom Jef ferson, nor Patrick Henry, nor any of our notables. I wonder why it is ? Thoroughbred horses keep on getting better and better and iaster and faster, and they bold up 'their heads and look proud, and step with a disdainful C spring like the ground wasn't good enough for 'em, but the son of a great man ain't much so count and just lays around andC talks about pap. I alway> feel sorry for afoung man who has to bank on bis daddy's tame. He gets attention and is considered bon ton and all that, but every body talks pitiful about .him.iind says, * well, he is acelever boy but he will never inake the man his father is.' There is too much contrast to be comfortable. A great man's son is in a delicate position, but he can get along very well if he ain't biggoty. Great men's children are very much lhke rich men's children ( there is nothing for 'em to do *nothing behind 'em to spur 'em up, no motive, no ambition, no fear of want. But of all the fools in- the world, c .liver me from these 'stuck ups who claim to be blooded stock, desce'ndants of the F. F. n's, or the F. F's of'any other State, and who put on air -of condescension when they mix with common people. They are not the sort to rely on when war or trouble comes. They witl run from danger on the first alarm. Pedigree is a good thing among horses, but a man bad better not investigate his own ancestors with too much confidence. He wji run up against a scrub on one side or the other. I've got noth King agin scrubs, same of the best people I know are mighty com mon stock, but they are hontest, true .and humble. The war tried ~men, and the scrubs held on and held out as good as anybody. The ~scrubs are not always hunting -round for office and an easy way -to live without work. These obronic office hunters talk mighty. sweet and get around lively when hheyr are lectioneering, but they are not the best people in a com munity. One time the King took journey with all his attendanti ad a boy, xho was sitting o ,he fence, told him.be had bette top awhile and get under tb vagon shed, for it was going t -ain like blazes before he eon! ;et to the next house. The kin lident believe him at.d went or ind shore enough a thunde torai came up in a hurry and i -ained tremendious, and tbt kin Rent back to fidd out how '.h oy knew it was comin'. -Why aid he, Cdaddy's old jack was rayin', and he always bray s jn efore a rain.' So the king bough he jack and took him to his roy I stables and set him up as ceather prophet, and bad hi ed high, and groomed, and mad nuch of him, and now, they say hat ever since then every jackas u the country wants an ofcf esso ! it ain't one man in a thousau hat knows his own pedigree fo bree generations back, for he ha ,ot grand-parents, and eigh reat-grand parents, and sixteei ,reat-great.grand-parents, and & n doabling everytime and som f 'em were mean stock, and th, ueanness. will crop out away dowi he line in spite of prayers an reachin'and abundance of punish oent. Seraibs come from great mei .d great men come from scrube nd there's nothing for a man t< e proud of but his own good con nct. Let every tub stand on it; wn bottonm. There are two pit ful sights in human nature. on 3 a proud old aristocratic family roken down in parse and posi ion, and the other is to see tbi hildren of a scrub who has go ich, putting on aristocratic aire ad strutting around like thej rere better than any body. Th rst set back too much on breed g and the last too much of 2oney. Tom Perry was the bes pecimen of a scrub I ever saw 70m was bound out when a boy ad worked barefooted all th< inter, and he was pigeon-toed nd tongue-tied, and busby haired nd pop eyed, but he had a bit eart in him, and a powerful will nd be never got tired of work .om Perry was always doinl omething for somebody. H ras the best friend the widov nd orphan had in the communi y. *He was .thbe most uniselfis] itizen of the town, sand doni lore for it than anybody accord ig to his means and his capacity )ld Dr. Benkman said to me on< ay, 'mine friend, let every mai vork op to his capacity in dis if, nd he will be a prince in heaven. VeIl, TIom Perry did that. H adt but little learning and les anners, but be made the ver: est use of his limited capital, fo e lived to do good and be died smented. Rome never had etter friend nor a more usefu itizen. Dick Wilson was a scroab )ick aeed to haul wood to Gaines ille and wore one gallus and ni hoes, and tbe end of his sbir ung out, but b.e worked bard t1 upport his poor old parents, an ne day Cincinnatus Peeple icked him up and sent him ti ebool and hired a boy to work i is place, and Dick rose forwar< nd upward, and now he owin wo or three railroads and lives il few York like a prince, but h ever was ashamed of his raisina nd took good care of his parent' nd helped out his poor kin, an< hat's the kind of a scrub I like nd they are the best b'ope of tb ountry. Bat I know scrubs wh ave got rich, and are spoilin eir children, andl setting 'em u Ls far above the linec as they then elves used to be below it. The ide to church in a fine carriagt nd rent the finest pew, and liv ni a palace, and go to the spring ~very summer for .their delicat iealth. Their fathers used low all summer barefootedi ocky fields over tread-safts an lewberry vines, and scratch th icks and red-bugs all nigh t, an ;et on a puncheon slab in a Io :urch on Sunday, and be ain got used to riding in a pbaton ye for he don't know whether 1 Lean forwards or back wards, an when the phaton crosses a risei he road he don't rise with iti racefdl undulations but bumi hmslf awkrndly and thinl i, everybody is looking at bim. And c a so the world wags along up and c r down. Here she goes and there r e she goes, but there is no security d for anybody except in good con- f d duct. 'Act well yonr part-tbere s all the honor lies.' t BILL ARP. b -- - -+. :+ -- r t THAT "IIOO-FLY" UNIVER- s SITY. L e' Gov. Roberts is going to have a university. Professors have been seCured with difficulty, and the L t. Sbuildings, like the Greenhackers, are going up as rapidly as luck o,f money and otber adverse eircuni tauces will permit. Texas has not: yet acquired a system of common schools, but she is going to have a university or explode. 'Explode' is more classical and sounds much more genteel than 'bust,' but it conveys the same idea. The idea of Gov. Roberts having a univer r sity before the boys and giris know how to read and write, re t " mir.ds one of the osterta~iou; lit.t tie boy who implored bis father to supply hirn with a finger ring. The poor boy's garments were al most as well ventilated as the star route swindle, an,' his person was. improperly exposed in several a p!aces, but that did not embarrass him in the least. Little be cared for the jeers of the populace, as long as he could feast his eyes 3 and gladden his heart on the be v wildering splendor ofa finger ring t procured from a 'sboo.fiy' box of candy. He said be could manage t to get through the winter without much suffering, if he could only be allowed a ring. Possibly he would have been more tban will i ing to have braved the rude au- h tumrnal blasts with one solitary n abbreviated garment, if he were permitted to warm himself with two 'shoo.fly' rings 'or a brass watch chain. a Thanks to the present adminis- h tration, the university fund has been reduced to its lowest denom f, inator and numerator, so to speak, ie to a mere pittance, with which it is r proposed to erect a building, and p when it is finished, and provided & with a home-made faculty to match, it will boar just abont as C much resemblance to. a bona fide u temple of learning as a 'shoo-fly' p 1ring does to a $5.000 solitaire. It does not affect th~e Governor in d the least that Texas is to be the c laughing stock of the whole coun- a try, on account of the defective o Scondition of her educational reo quirements, as long as he, can show off with that 'shoo fly' uni versity. h The usual plan for educating -the people in civilized countries. is to have efficient common schools fo4r the masses. in these schools,e the children are taught the radi. u meats, and in a few years they are able to read, write and cypter. ~ It is by these common echools that the whole mass of' the peo t pIe is leavened with intelligence. C The girls grow up to be intelli- c g'ent wives and mothers, while the boys have a chance at least of holding their own in this age of fierce competit,ion. They are not so apt to be driven to a life of servitude and crime as they must be when they are raised without a very well defined idea of' what the alphabet really is. I a Besides free schools,n here should be bigber schools, where those pupils who so desire can acquire the higher branches and thbe at' complishments, and finally a real institutioni of learning, where the young men who desire to follow the learned professions carn obtain i a classical education. Instead of K this common sense gradation or , 'studies, we are to hase a sort ort sschools at all. We suppose a lt tIe b'oy il be place~d at the iini o-ver,.il '. amru a ftt-r tw bus ::rad.uaite1i d w t ihhnr,then, pierhaps, the State will establish free e schools, at which be can learn the!r alphabet. This is not common!i sense, but it is evidently Gov. Roberts' idea of a system of edu- 1 cation. The only objection to Gov. Roberts as an educator, is that he does not try his plan on some other State.i isTo be consistent, the same plan as shonld r.e adopted in erar-ting the I niversity building. The first part fthe building that is built should of be the foundation, but the ome, and instead of building rom the ground up, the builders bould build from the top down to be ground. How the dome is to e held up in the air, while the est of the edifice is being con tructed below it, conirary to the iws of gravitation, is more than re can understand, but Gov. -berts will he equal to the emer ency. Why don't they build btw. dod-gasted university, as poopcdyke would say, with the innacle sticking in the ground, nd have ths founcdatnn on nmong be clouds? If they reverse the ystem of education, why not turn be dod-gasted university build. )g upside down, too, and have a ian go up on a ladder and lay be corner stone when the measly Id building is finished ? All Gov. Roberts needs to make eople say, from clean across the treet. 'Howdy, Solomon.' is a bousand wives and fifteen cents rorth of brains from a butcher hop. All in the world he needs a be a university himself, is to ave a fence around him and a bir ty foot telescope sticking out f hit skylight window. [Texas Siftings. THE SUN CHOLERA MEDIINE. k.re than twenty years ago, iler it was found that proven o11 of cholera was easier than are, a prescription drawn up by minent. doctors was published in 'he Sun, and it took the name of "he Sun cholera medicine. Our contemporary never lent .s name to a better article. We are seen it in constant use for' early two score years, and found to be tne best remedy for loose ess of the bowels evnr yet devised. No one who bs this by him, nd takes it in time, will ever ave the cholera. We commend it to all our -iends. Even when no cholera anticipated, it is an excellent -medy for ordinary summer com laints, colic, diarrhea, dysentery, c. Take equal paris of tincture of ayennee pepper, tincture of opi m, tincture of rh rbarh, essen.ce of eppermint, and spir'itc of cam hor. Mix well. Dose, 15 to 30 rops in a little cold water, ac ording to age anid vi,,' co of ymptoms, repeated every fifteen r t wenty minutes until relief is btained.-Journal of Commerce. If' the Columbus (Ga.) Tines as gathered reliable statistics ben the South drinks a vast deal iss than is drank at the North. t gives the number of saloons to very so many inhabitants. Let s glance at a few of the items. [evada has one whisky shop to i-ery 65 inhabitants ; Colorado 1 >i 76; California 99 ; Oregon 170; rew Jersey 179; .New York 192; ii 225; Con ne'cticut 235; Massa hiusetts 245. This will do for ao North. Among Southern tates Louisiana tipples a long rays the most. It has one to very 200, Mars'land comes next rith 293. Kentucky is third with 38. This is because of the large ities of' Baltimore, Ne w Orleans 1d Louisville. But then in Tex s there is but one in every 549' .rkan,sas, 554; Atabama, 608; reorgia, 612; Florida. 653; Mis insi~pi G54 ; Virginia 693; North !arolina, 708; South Carolina, 00. As a test for the coloring mat a: in red wine it is found that, n mrixing an equal quantity of ni rii acid with the wine to be ested, the color will remain un bagee for hours if the wine be 'ure, while if artificial it is ehang d within a minute. It is neither safe. respectable, .r wise to bring any youth to nannood without a regular call ng. Indos try, like idlenesf, is a natter of' habit. No idle boy will nake an active and industrious .nd useful man. The best way to discipline one's 'arth against scandal is to believe L1I stories false which ought not n0 be tre.e THE PROMISE TO CURTAIL PUBLIC EXPENSE.-THE PROPOSITION TO DOU BLE IT. We desire to ask the Chairman, or any other member of the State Democratic Executive Committee, what will be done in reference to voting for the Constitutional Amendments ? Will tickets be furnished to those wishing to vote 'No.' or will the Committee act as heretofore, and furuish tickets only for those wishing to vote 'Yes?' We would like to have information on thie ques tion. Question. of vital impor tance to the welfare of the people are to be voted upon, and we think it nothing but faire to give both sides of these ques tions a hearing. The matter of new counties is one of the questions to be settled. Various propositions are being made to divide the counties into much snialler territory with the avow ed bope of enhancing the value of certain property, and also for the greater convenience of the people generally. With the area re duced to 425 square miles some fifty new counties may and will be orgniized. We non huv only 34 counties. In each county there are 1 Sberiff. 1 Clerk of Court. 1 Auditor. 1 Treasurer. 1 Master in Equity. 1 Probate Judge. 1 School Commissioner. 3 County Commissioners. 1 Clerk for County Commis sioners. 1 Supervisor of Registration. Twelve county officers in each county, or in fifty counties six hundred additional county offices to be supported by taxing the people. In addition to the sup port of these officers, each county would require: 1 Court House. 1 Jail. - 1 Poor Farm. The Court House at Abbeville cost about $20,000, the jail about $10,000, and the poor farm say $3,000, in all $33,000. The safes, desks, pigeon holes, books and other furniture in the Court House is estimated at $2,500. Can we afford to build new court houses, and jails, purchase poor farms for fifty new counties, and then pay the arm'y of officers who will thenceforth live off the pub. lie ? Will anybody say that these officers will live without expense to the public ? It is claimed that property will be enhanced by the establish muent of Court Houses. Is this true ? if the property of one town is made more valuable be cause of the transfer of business from another town, is not one town injured in the exact pro. portion that the other is benefit ted ? All these are important matters, and deserve serious con siderat ion, and we think the Dem oratc managers should give the people a ebanee to vote either way. As the Democratic party in the past has faithfully kept its pledges in reference 'to the management of the public funds, we presume that it is the intention of the party ,oc fulfill its promises in the future. The proposition to erect one 4hundred and fifty public buildings by taxation, and to add six hundred office.rs to be paid by the people, deserves careful con sideration by the citizen. Tbe great majority of our people will be burtnened by increased fees, and higher taxes, to support an army of six hundred officers, more than are now maintained at public expense. WVhere the officer is not paid out of the treasury by direct taxationi. the tees, und(er the propos.ed scheme,' mast ne essarily be greatly increased. In addition to the six hundred new county officers, the number of our Senators would be in inreased from thirty-five to eighty five. The number of Circuit Judges and Solictors would be more than doubled. To view the matter in a prac tical ligbt, may we not ask if it wonl -not hecapnerm to the nub lie if gentlemen having much business in Court, would move to the Court House? When Mo hammed had business on the mountain, he went to it. [Abbt ille Press and Banner. The costliest pair otshoes and stockings over heard of are said to have been worn by a New York lady at the White Sulphur Springs during the season just closed. The shoes cost $39, and the stockings were valued at $90. They were made of black silk, and midway between the ankle and the knee was a green tree em broidered in silk, and resting up on the branches of the tree were bright.plurnaged birds, some in the act of flying. On the 'bulge' or largest part of the stocking was a huntsman, clad in red shirt and trousers, taking aim at the birds in the tree. Upon the in step was the monogram of the lady wrought in gold letters.. Be. tween the knee and the upper part of the stocking were eighteen narrow bands of many varying hues. A reporter teils this story, but he does not explain how be obtained the description.-.x. THE OVERWORKED 'PROFESSOR.' -A mau swims further than any other man-professor. A man ents corns and cures bunions for e living-professor; he waltzes three hours without resting-professor ; plays the fiddle and imparts to others the secrets of the diabolical art-professor ; walks a slack rope stretched across the street-pro. fessor; goes without eating twen ty days-professor ; rides four horses bareback-professor ; sings in the choir-professor; teaches a brass band-professor ; cures warts-professor ; plays billIards for a living--professor ; trains dogs-professor; performs some clever tricks of sleight of hand professor; does anything in the world except teach, and knows less of books and schools than be does of heaven-professor.-Bur lington Rawkeye. ANSWERING THE BISHOP.-In 1 1877 Bishop Bowman went to r Boise City, Idaho, to hold con- I ference. One Sunday afternoon he got the Sabbath schools to- 1 gether and had a splendid time< talking to the children. He was an admirable teacher, and soon had all the little ones answering questions. He tried to f explain the operations of the t mind through the brain, but find- f ing it difficult to make them un- I derstand, he put his forefinger oni the top of his head, saying, 'What a is there?' After a moment's dead silence a E little boy screamed out,'Nothin'!'i The lesson in mental philoso- i phy came to end for that time; but nobody onjoyed telling the I story better than the bishop him- C self. Cruel as the advice may seem at t first sigbt, it is nevertheless true 'j that the surest way to feel com- c fortable in very hot weather is to t keep busy at something that in- g duce free perspiration. The loun- c yer on the shore of a bay or lake a never feels so cool in the thinnest p of clothing as he does when he puts on his blue flanr.el shirt and v spends an hour or two at the oars. Ladies on piazzas or it carriages, a farnning themselves vigorously,e bestow much pity on men laboringc by the roadside, but the laborerse are more comfortable than thosei who are doing nothing. ([Augusta Chronicle. t Whben a dark and gloomy crisis] in your- life is reached and de- 1 struction seems to overwhelm you -only remember that the black est, tiercest, storm passes quickest, and the earth is always the brightest after it. They say an alligator is incapa blei of nausea. This will afford a comforting reflection to the man who has just been swallowed by one. Re who does a base thing in zeal for his friend, burns the golden thread that ties their hearts toether. WANTED A JOB. Yesterday a man came into the 3oomerang office with -the air of a nan who is tired of this earth, and ants to wing his way to a land of orgetfulness,- and plunge into the ethean depths of oblivion. After he ad taken a seat in the tete-a-tete ad bung his hat on the escritoire, he aid: 'I'm a newspaper man myself. )idn't know but you might want a ood man on the staff, s,mebody to rite up the sad featurea of life and urnish the tearful wail, as it were. jife is full of woe, and in my estimation very paper should have a woe editor. am well fitted for that position, as ou will see, if I may be allowed to o on and detail my experience to ron. 'I went down -into Kansas, and tarted a paper in a small town on be Santa Fe road, with assurance hat I would meet with the cordial id and sympathy of the people there. didn't expect to do a big business, mt I just wanted to run a little mod st paper, with patent telegraph news nd electrotype editorials in it. The rst week my patent inside didn't et there, and I had to print that.is ue on some paper bags that I got rom our leading grocer. This was n advantage, because his ad was Iready printed on the first page, and t saved the wear and tear of display ype. Still the paper looked meagre, nd did not attract the attention that had hoped for it. It did not infln nce the administration nor boom up he town as I had anticipated. 'The next week I wrote up a little ocial party and gave the name of a roung man who was drunk and frolic ome, and shot out all the lights. He dso shot an old man who was 'calling. ff' the dance. 'I thought the press ought to be earless and outspoken if the occa ion required, and I. wrote it up arefully, and, as I thought, fairly, )ut the young man came around the mext day and convinced me that 'I was wrong. I was writing a scath ng article on agnosticism when he ame in and knocked me under the ob press with a chair. I didn't n,w him at all, and I thought it was ather eccentric for a total stranger, o when I got up again I told him so. rhen he jammed me into the wood ox, and poured a keg of ink and a an of coal oil on we before I could ~ave any understanding with him. 'Then he went away. 'That evening he came with some riends and bought the good will of he establishment, and the whvOe of ice and subscription list of me. He ad the advantage of me, and bought Slow. 'I felt that I was making a acrifice, but I was afraid I might not have another opportunity to sell, so I old. The price, of course, was now nal, but the inducements held out rere not to be ignored. 'Since then I have started three apers, and had three large and hotly nntested fights. My collar-bone has een broken in two places, and my octor's bills have always been bigger han the other expenses of the office. 'he dentist has been pulling teeth ut of my palate ever since I entered be newspaper business. As soon as I ot so I could see with bioth eyes, one f them has been closed up on me, nd my nose has, at different times, ointed around all over my face. 'What I want now is a chance to rork on some paoer in cog., as I iight say, and'where I will be my elf. I can take a 'most current vent and tinge it with sadness. I an give an air of hopeless melan holy to the occurrences of every day ife that will wake your paper known 11 over the world. I will admit that his is an innovation in journalies, erhaps, but it will take, I think, and know that if I can succeed in im muing into my work that settled air of lboom that I feel, your paper will win or itself, in a short time, the name f being the most ghastly record of isappointment and grief-stricken, iorror-soaked remorse in the known world.' The manager sobbed a few times, ad then said, while his voice was. :hoked with emotion, that the opa jue gloom department was ably filled It present, and the stranger went out tnto the cold, hard, unsympathizing 5ter world, taking with him the eaden burden of woe and a silk um brella that stood in the hal. [Boomerana. BOY WANTED. There is -a Gospel tent at the dor. ner' of Michigan 'avenue idFourth street, and of a. Sunday evening-there is a considerable passing in and out on the part of pedestrians. Last Sunday evening a boy of fourteen who had just left the tent encountered a stranger, who stopped him and inquired : 'Say, bub, what sort of a perform ance is going on there ?' -Party good thing,' was the reply - 'I'd kinder like to see the fat.wo man and the living skeleton and the Albino children once more, but Pm. nurty near strapped. Is there any way I kin work in?' 'Us boys crawl under the canvass.' 'Anybody around to knock you "! . stiff?'. 'Never saw anybody. I'll show . you where to go under.' 'By hokey, I'll try it I It's no use to throw away a quarter when you kin beat a side show.' The boy took him around behind . the tent and saw him safe -under, and then crossed the street and sat down. He waited just exactly three minutes, and then the stranger came out of the - tent by the door. He looked up and down the street, closely scanned every - youngster about him, and finally said: to a bootblack: 'Bub, I'm looking for a youth about two heads taller than you peaked nose-brown stiaw hat-hair cut short ! I want to see him so aw ful bad for about a minute that I give you half a dollar if you can find him around there !' [Detroit Free Press. IT DIDN'T SQUEAK AGAIN.-Pred McCabe, the ventriloquist, was agreat joker. Some years ago he was on the Mississippi, on board- one of the - steamboats, and making the aeqain ance of the engineer, he was alloreit the freedom of the engine-room. He sat down in a- corner, and, drawing his hat over his eyes, seemed loitin reverie. In a few minutes a elain part of the - machinery began to squeak. The engineer oiled it" and went about his business. In another few minutes the squeaking was again heard, and the engineer rushed over, oil-can in hand, to give the offending - spindle another lubricating. - Again he rushed to his post, and-again the spindle- began squeaking louder than ever. 'Jupiter,' he yelled, 'the darned things's bewitched.' More oil was administered, but the engin eer began to smell a rat. Pretty soon the spindle squeaked again, and slip ping up behind McCabe, the engineer - poured half a pint of oil down the ' joker's back. 'I guess that ere spin dle won't squeak again.' And it ~ didn't. SUSTAINING HER REPUTATION. Young Hostetter McGinnis: one of the fashionable yong bloods of Austin, took a young lady to church Sunday evening. As he had been up quite late~ the night before, he was very sleepy, consequently he did 'not flirt with the fashionable young lady, as he had heretofore been in the habit of doing in church. 'What is the matter with you? she whispered. 'I am not feeling well,' he whir pered back. 'You wake up and giggle a little, anyhow. If we don't misbehave our. aelves in church, people will think we arc married, and I want you to - understand I've got a reputation to sustain. After that Hostetter McGinnis and the young lady met~ed so improperly that the sexton had to go and whis per to them to keep quiet. [Texas Siftings. How many hopes way have quiv ered for us in past years--have flashed like harmless lightoing in summer nights and died forever. What a folly it is to dread the thought of throwing away life at once, and yet hare no regard to throwing it away piecemeal. No matter how purely and grandly we live to-day there is no denying that we may live more purely, more grandly, to-morrow. To have stored moral capital enough to meet the drafts ofdeath at sight must be ac unmatched 4onis. An old man repents of that3wioch. young man boasts.