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* TO THINE OWN SELF BE TRUE AND IT MUST FOLLOW AS THE NIGHT THE DAY, THOT7 CANS'T NOT THEN BE FALSE TO ANY MAN. BY THOMPSON, SMITH & JA YNES. WALHALLA, SOUTH CAROLINA, JANUARY 5, 1893. VOLUME XLIV.-NO. 1. New Goods Arrived. Have just received some of the Standard 175 Fire Proof Oil. The best Oil made. Try it. No more grumbling about bad Oil. Also a supply of Pure Linseed Oil, Paint, Glass, &c. Cooking and Heating Stoves from $3.00 upwards. No. 1 Large Fat Mess Mackerel. Hecker's Plain Buckwheat. ' Wv? Schumacher's Rolled Oats. Mocha and Java Screenings, a real; good Parched Coffee, at 25c. per pound. Sugar Drip Syrups, ^ and Florida i Orange Cane Molasses, at 50c. per Gallon. Respectfully, j? . om a msmmmm J J rm u arv ?, 1 893. LIST OF ACTS PASSED KY THE An Act to further regulate tin- 1 <;?>"ERAL ASSEMBLY. I admission of patients to the State j i - Lunatic Asylum, and to provide for ii We give below a Hst of tri" Ads their transportation home when dis- ] of a general nature passed by the charged, and to amend Section 1,591 [ < General Assembly of South Carolina of the General Statutes as to number 1 at its recent session : of days a patient can be retained and < An Act to prohibit the manufac- thc number of regents to sign the j " lure and sale of intoxicating liquors order. : as a beverage within tins State, and Au Act to limit the punishment of i i toprescribethe sale thereof foamed.-per-jons convicted of the following1] ca!, scientific and sacramental pur- misdemeanors, namely: Carrving poses, except as herein permitted. concealed weapons, selling property 1 An Act to reqssre and regulate under lien when the property ?loes1; licenses and license fees in this State not exceed ?20 in value, malicious j 1 from foreign insurance, banking and trespass, malicious* mischief, disturb- J Other like foreign corporations, ex- ing religious meetings, and riots, . 1 cept national banks and except benev- when no weapons are actually nsed < olent institutions organized under the or wounds indicted. 1 Grand Lodge system. An Aet to incorporate the town of i An Act to make appropriations to Calhoun, in Picken?county. < meet the ordinary expenses of the An Act to authorize and empower"! 1 State government for thc fiscal year j thc Trustees of Clemson Agricultural j < commencing November 1, l^'iiL College to license and prohibit traffic An Act to make appropriations f.-r and to appoint policemen at Clemson t ?he payment of the per diem, mileage Agricultural College j ? anl stationery certificates of thc An Act ta amend and declare thc '1 iuembers of the General Assembly, the salaries of the subordinat ? offi law in reference to the duties and powers of thc County Auditor in ref cers and employees thereof, and for erence to the assessment of property other purposes herein named. for taxation, where a false fraud u An Act to raise supplies and make lent or other improper return has appropriations for the fiscal year been made. commencing November 1, 1892. An Act to exempt a certain terri-!? An Act to permit county and State tory in Berkeley county from the j officers to give bonds or procure poli- operation of the general stock law ? ' . cies of insurance, assurance, guaran- for three months every winter, tee or trust companies in lieu of o Si- : An Act to limit the hours of labor j ] cial bonds with ?nd?v?daal sureties. for each day of twenty-four hours 1 An Act to amend Sections 2,503 and each week in all cotton andi* . and 2,004 of the General Statutes, woolen manufacturing establishment : < relating to the marking, branding or ; in South Carolina, disfiguring of certain animals therein An Act to amend Sections lsd, 1S.7 mentioned. ami 188 of Chapter XI, Title III, of | * An Act to empower the Phosphate the G?nerai Statutes of this State, Commissioners to fix the amount of relating to the assessment and taxa royalty to be paid to the State by ! tion of property, anv person, company or corporation ? An Act to provide an additional mining phosphate rock and phos- j remedy for the collection of taxes, phatic deposit in 'the navigable i costs and penalties upon lands past streams and marshes of this State, j due and unpaid for eight months. An Act to repeal, so far as Agri- j An Act to require the County cultural llallis concerned, an Act ! School Commissioners and the County entitled "An- Act to provide for the ! Treasurers of the several counties of sale of the lot and buildings known | the State to keep a book of entry of as Agricultural HUI and the Fish j all warrants drawn on and paid from Pond Lot, and the agricultural and j the free public school fund. . ^ experimental stations, with their per-j An Act to exempt a certain sec } sonal proj>erty at Columbia* and in j tion of Marion county from the ope Darlington and Spartanburg counties, ; ration of Chapter XXVII, Title X. fc and to appropriate the proceeds j Part I of the General Staates, relat . thereof. ! ins to the general stock law as to An Act to entitle all persons land owners therein, and to persons .charged with forgery to the benefit ?contributing to building and main ly ?f an arraignment and challenge of j taining the surrounding fences, and *3uro? as other persons charged with to provide for the building of certain -^e-ony. . J border fences. An Act. relating to the revis digest and arrangement of the sta laws of this State. An Act providing that when land or other property is purch? from the sinking fund commissio this State the purchase money s be payable only in gold or silver c United States currency, nati< bank notes and coupons due on Br< Bonds and no other. An Act to amend Subdivision . Section 155 of the Code of Civil I cedure, relating to the service summons in civil actions. An Act to repeal an Act entil "An Act to provide for the appo ment of County Boards of Ph; cians to examine the diplomas of p sicians and surgeons in this Stal approved December *24, 1890, and establish in lieu of said boards a St Examining Hoard and to define duties and power thereof. An Act to repeal an Act entit "An Act to create a special sch district within the township Seneca, in Oconee county, to known as the Seneca Graded Scb District," audio authorize the le and collection of local tax there approved December 24, 18i>7. An Act relating to the distrihuti of the direct tax fund. An Act to repeal an Act entitl "An Act to recharter Max wei Bridge, in Oconee county." An Act to o corporate "The An rican Bond Investment Company." An Act td provide for the redera tion of that part of the State de known as the Brown consol bon and stocks by issue of other bon and stocks. An Act to re?>eal an Act entitle "An Act to exempt from taxatu certain lots of land being in the co porate limits of the town of Walhall in the county of Oconee," approve December 23, 1879. An Act to provide additional art fil ial limbs for all soldiers of tl State who lost their legs, eyes < arms ?luring the military service i the years ISftl, 1862, 1863, 1SC4 an ISO"), who are now living and wh obtained one under the Acts of 187 or 1881. A Joint Resolution to anthor?2 und instruct the Attorney General t institute legal.-'proceedings in th matter of the Port Royal an Augusta Railway Comply. An Act to repeal gc Pie. Acts i: ?elation to attorneys' costs. An Act to provide for the adopt ng of legitimate children and allow hg them to inherit. An Act to amend Section 1,826 o he General Statutes of South Caro ina, in relation to distress for rent An Act to prevent the marriage o: jersons under certain ages and t( nake the same a misdemeanor. An Act to re]>eal so much of Sec .ion 1 of an Act entitled "An Act tc ?equire County Treasurers to reporl lumber of polls who have paid theil :>oll tax to the Chairman of the Boarc >f Trustees in the several school dis pels and to thc School Commission ers, and to require school trustees tc report to the County Auditor all tax ible polls in their districts," approved December 22, 1891, as requires the publication of the poll tax list. An Act to amend Title ll?, Chap .er XL, of railroad corporations and general railroad law, and to provide for the regulation of railroad freight ind passenger tariffs in this State ; ;o prevent unjust discrimination and extortion in the rates charged for rransportation of passengers and freights, and to prohibit railroad ompanies and corporations and essees in this State from charging >ther than just and reasonable rates md to punish the same, and pre scribe a mode of procedure and rules >f evidence in relation thereto; pro viding for the election of Railroad Commissioners and prescribe their powers and duties in relation to the same. An Act to amend and declare the aw in regard to actions by and igainst the representatives of de based persons and others. An Act to amend an Act entitled 'An Act to utilize the labor of jail md municipal convicts and to em power the Court* and municipal au ihorities to impose the punishment >f labor within their respective, juris lictions," approved December 22, 1885. ' V An Act to recharter the South" Carolina Medical Association, and to .stablish a State Board of nealthvat?fl rlefine its duties. An Act%to amend Section 1,008 of the General Statutes so as to provide? compensation for dividing counties into new school districts. An Act to amend Section 1;002 of the General Statutes of the State, relating to the apportionment of the free school fund. An Act to amend an Act entitled "An Act to regulate the number and pay of Trial Justices in Oconee county," approved December 22,1891. An Act to further regulate the publication"- of the Acts and Joint Resolutions of the General Assembly of this State. A Joint Resolutidfi to appropriate the sum of fifty thousand dollars to complete the erection and equipment of Clemson-Agricultural College. -A Joint Resolution to provide for the calling of a Constitutional ( vention. An Ac t to regulate the compe tion of Sheriffs for conveying lt tics to the asylum. An Act to repeal Section 271 the General Statutes of South C: lina, requiring County Treasurers publish a notice of the total rate centum of levies for State pnrpf and for all other purposes. An Act tb regulate chattel nu gages ami the payment and satis! tion thereof. An Act to ratify and confirm contract made and entered into and between the Board of Direct of the South Carolina r?nitenti and the Columbia Street Ra?w Light and Tower Company for development of the five hundr horse power of water power rosen by the State of South Carolina the use of the South Carolina Pc tentiary along the line of the < lumbia Canal. An Act to amend Section 1 of Act to amend an Act entitled ". Act to limit the school ages of puj attending the free public school approved December 22, 1880, : proved December 26, A. D. 13S5. An Act to require Circuit Jink to give notice to the Chief Justice their inability to hold any court which they have been assigned. An Act to authorize the Cont; Commissioners of Marlboro, Aik( Chesterfield, Abbeville, .Marion. Ci: endon, Laurens, Oconceand Hor counties to use any funds ot tin respective counties from special ordinary tax left in the treasury pay any outstanding claims affair their respective counties, and expend the surplus of any fiscal ye to the expenses of the succeedit year. An Act to prevent cruelty to ch ilren and to provide for the punis ment of the same. An Act to reduce the compet?s lion of the County Hoard of Equal cation and to provide for compens Lion to township assessors in Hon* Greenville, Florence, Marionu 3Lir boro, Colleton, Oconee, Aiken, Spa tanburg, Anderson ami Williamsbui counties. . An Act to amend an Act entitle 'An Act to incorporate the Nation: Land and Improvement and Mani "acturing Company," and the Act iraendatory thereof. An Act to amend Section 2,500 ( ;he General Statutes, so as to includ wilful, unlawful and malicious injur ,o personal property. An Act to amend Section 1,796 < ;he Gen,eral Statutes as amended b \ct of 1889, approved December 2-* 1889. An Act to amend an Act entitle? 'An Act to authorize and empowe ;he town council of Abbeville to con ,ract with the Georgia, Carolina an< S'orthern Kailroad for the locatioi )f certain railroad shops it* said towt ind to contribute to the same,' ipproved December 24, lS9o. An Act to amend Section 1,087 o ;he General Statutes, relating U lamagcs caused by defective high ?vays, causeways or bridges. An Act to amend Section 99G o; ;he General Statutes, relating to thc sowers of State Board of Examiners A Joint Resolution extending thc ;ime for the collection of State, ?ounty, railroad and other taxes"dui br the present year, commencing S'ovember 1,4891, until the ?5th day >f January, 1S93. A Joint Resolution to appropriate .he sum of eight hundred dollars, if io much be necessary, to complete .he Confederate rolls. An Act to amend Section 1,004 of .he General Statutes of thc State, .elating to the branches to bc; taught n free public schools. An Act tc -?inend Section 1,015 of ,he General Statutes, in relation to ?eports and pay of teachers. An Act providing for a right of iction against a municipal eorpora ,ion for damages sustained by reason )f defects in thc repair of streets, sidewalks and bridges within the Hin ts of said-municipal corporation. A Joint Resolution authorizing ,he Comptroller General to draw his warrant on the State Treasurer, and :he said Treasurer to pay the same, :or defraying the expenses of the ipecial election held in Oconee county m 26th February, 1892, for the >fBce. of Probate Judge of said frtfnty. ?boot 'fifty bills were continued inti?n?x?aa?iQM. . - ^ . >t>_ ; . SpWhnen ("ases. C?fford;^ Xew Cassel, Wis., was Troubled With neuralgia and rheumatism, ais stomach was disordered, his liver was ,4:ected ta an alarming degree, appetite fell away and he waa terribly reduced in flesh and strength. Three bottles of Electric Bitters cured him. Edward Shepherd, Harrisburg, 111., had a running sore on his leg of eight ?rears' standing. Used three bottles of Electric Bitters and seven boxes of Buck ten's Arnica Salve, and his leg is sound ?nd well. John Speaker, Catawba, O., had five large fever sores on his leg. ? Doctors said he was incurable. 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"SEW TEAR RESOLUTIONS" AXD HOW TO PRESERVE THEM. fFor tlic KEOWEE COURIER.] There is a beautiful little set of volumes in the mental library of every male individual of tb? genus homo, entitled "Xew Year Resolu tions," whose rythmical expressions of sublimely poetical thought are only subjected to an airing once in three hundred and sixty-five days, which occurs on each bright New Year morning, and after three days they are carefully packed away again, nor are they disturbed until the next anniversary, when the individual awakes on the morning of the bright and promising "First" and mentally reviews the many scenes of cham pagne and enjoyment through which he Jins passed in celebrating the anni versary of thc blessed nativity. The reaction is so soul-inspiring that those mildewed volumes are taken down from their long occupancy of a high back shelf in thc cerebrum and again promiscuously aired. So delicate, however, are these precious little vol umes that they arc with great diffi culty preserved at all. ;The binding is of such highly polished yet brittle material that it is very easily broken, and the binding once broken the volume is soon gone to decay. Thc first volume in which young mon, between the ages of eighteen and twenty five, take such pure delight contains in substance: "I do most solemnly resolve to abstain hence forth and forever from all intoxicat ing liquors whatsoever, as a bever age, so help me Benjamin Bacchus." Kow, thc best possible way to pre serve this volume is to immediately ?'ickle it in very strong alcohol, add ing a little each day, as the resolu tion exhausts the preserving quali ties of the liquid. This has been found to be thc only efficient mode of preservation. Thc second -oi-ime is a bright and sparkling little resolution addressed particularly lo blooming youth, the contents ot which is summed up in the following wc rds: "In compliance with the earnest request of my mother and my sweetheart I do most sincerely resolve"lo deny myself the pernicious use of vile cigarettes, so help me W. J>u?;c & Sons." Xow, there is one way, and one way only, to preserve this beautiful little resolution, and that is, subject it to thc fumes of five thousand cig arettes cadi month and you will find that it will keep in the very best Condition. Thc third vo umc contains some thing like this : "Whereas, the Eng lish language is sufficiently profane ? without the addition of numerous adjectives from the replete vocabu lary of the South Sea sailors, I do most 1 .-lily resolve that henceforth I shall not allow my tongue to adver tise the profanity of my soul,. o help mc ye god of profanity." This resolution is only preserved by being packed air-tight between the "Pilgrim's Progress" and "Sun day School Quarterly." Thc contents of the fourth volume is read in language as follows : "I [ence forth I solemnly swear to indulge not in any game of chance whatsoever, nor bet upon the issue of any pugil istic encounter or other sporting fea ture, so help me Richard Fox." Hermetically seal this resolution in a dice-cup, wrap it well in a late copy of the Sporting World and stow it safely away in a vault of the Lou isiana State Lottery. Thc rest of the volumes of New Year resolutions may bc encased in rock salt t<> preserve their freshness. Some few~snggestions may be well for those who would indulge in Xew Year resolutions : First. W hen emptying your demi john, in accordance with your first resolution, always pour the vile, destructive liquid into some gutter or pipe which you are well assured leads directly into some handy cistern then dry. You will find this a paying precaution. In casting away your stock of cigarettes, in compliance with reso lution number two, simply drop them behind your.trunk. Hats may want to indulge in a silent midnight whiff. When bidding farewell to the members of the Sporting Club it would be well to leave your cane, umbrella or some other necessary in the club room. You may return for it later. With these few hints and sugges tions for the preservation of New Year resolutions, g^od humor, health and a few other things in the calci, dar, allow me to hope that each and every resolution may be well pre served, provided it is"nonperditus" YiRoir.U's KCSTICLS. Now Try This. It will cost you nothing and will surely do you good, if you have a cough, cold or any trouble with throat, chftst or lungs. Dr. King's New Discovery for consump tion, coughs and colds is guaranteed to give relief or money will be paid back. Sufferers from La Grippe found it-just the thing and under its use had a speedy and perfect recovery. Try a sample bot tle at our expense and learn for yourself just how good a thing it is. Trial bot tles free at the Norman Ca:roll Co.'s drug store. Large size, 50c. and $li -?.?>-> . * . Men weave in their own lives the garments which they must wear in the world to come. _ ? . . THE OLD HOISTEIE). The Wanderer Returns to find POT erty and he Gives Happiness to the j Old Folks. "Hello, Jim ! Where have you been lately ?" shouted a broker, the other evening, to a portly, finely dressed man in thc corridor of the Fifth Avenue Hotel. The gentleman stepped, shook hands with his friend and replied : "I've been home to see my old father and mother for the first time . sixteen years, and 1 tell you, ol ' .an, I wouldn't have missed that visit for all my fortune." "Kind o' good to visit your hoy hood home, eh ?" "Yes, indeed. Sit down. I was just thinking about the old folks, and feel talkative. If you have a few moments to sparc, sit down," light a cigar, and listen to the story of a rich man who had almost forgotten his father and mother." They Sal down and the man told his story : "How I came to visit my home j happened in a curious way. Six i weeks ago I went down to Tire I Island fishing. I had had a lunch : put up for r-.e, and you can imagine my astonishment when I opened the | hamper to find a package of crackers wrapped up in a piece of the little patent-inside, country weekly pub-1 Iished at my home in Wisconsin. I read every word of it, advertisements and all. There was George Kellogg, who was a school-mate of mine, ad vertising hams and salt pork, and another boy was postmaster. I tell you it made me homesick, and I de termined then and there to go home, and go home ["did. "In the first place T must tell you how I came to New York. I had a tiff with my father and left home. I finally turned up in New York with a dollar in my ?locket. I got a job running a freight elevator in the very house ?ri which I am now a partner. .My haste to get rich drove the, thought of my parents from me, ami when T did think of them, the hard words that my father last spoke to me rankled in my bosom. Well, I went home. I.tell you, John, my train seemed to creep. L was actually worse than a school-boy going home for vacation. At last we neared the town. Familiar sights met my eyes, and, upon my word, they filled with tears. There was l?ill Lyman's red barn just the same as ever, but what ? were ail the other houses? We rode nearly a mile before coming to the station, passingmany houses of which only an occasional one was familiar. The town had grown to ten times its size when I knew it. The train stop ped, and I jumped off. Not a face I in sight I knew, and I started down j the platform to go home. In the; office door stood the station agent. I ' walked up and said: 'Howdy, ."Vir. ? Collins?' "He stared at me and replied : ' 'You've got the best of me, sir.' "I told him who I was and what I had been doing in New York, and ' he didn't make any bones in talking to me. Said he: 'It's about time you came home. You in New York rich, and your father scratching gravel to get a bare living!' "I tell you, John, it knocked me all in a heap. I thought ray father had enough to live upon comfortably. Then a notion struck me. I Sc fort- ' going home I telegraphed to Chicago to one of our correspondents there to send me ?1,000 by first mai!. Then I went into Mr. Collins* back office, 1 got my trunk in there, and put on an ' old hand-me-down suit that I used j1 for fishing and hunting, took my ! valise in my hand and went home. !! The currant bushes had been dug up i1 from the front yard, and the fence 1 was gone. All the locust trees had ' been cut down and the young maple ; ' trees were planted. The house looked 1 smaller, somehow, too. Hut I went 1 up to the front ?loor and rang the ' bell. Mother came to the door and j . said: 'We don't wish to buy any- M thing to-day, sir.' I ' "It didn't take me a minute toi1 survey her from head to foot. Neatly - dressed, John, but a patch and a darn ? here and there, her hair streaked with . gray, her face thin, drawn and : wrinkled. Yet over her eye-glasses 1 shone those good, honest, benevolent I eyes. I stood staring at her and then . she began staring at mo. I saw the blood rush to her face, and with a ( great sob she threw herself upon me, ' and nervously clasped me about the ! neck, hysterically crying: 'It's Jimmy, 1 it's JJmmy !' ' "Then I cried, too, .lohn.' I just "broke down and cried like a baby. 1 She got mc into 'the house, hugging : and kissing me, and then she went . to the back door ami shouted, 1 'George.' . ? . *1 "Father called from the kitchen, 1 'What do you want. Carline?' "Then he came in. He knew me ! in a moment. He stucx out his hand ? and grasped mine and said sternly : ! 'Well, young man, do you propose : to behave yourself now ?" . . "He tried to put on a brave front, bat?e broke down. There we three ?at like whipped school children", all whimpering. At last sapper time caine and mother went out to ^>re fffl ABOUT TO IB TH LIFE -R?MEMBER THAT THE PHOENIX MUTUAL LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY Is entitled to your first consideration, since it hollis a FOREMOST place among tho Life Insurance Companies of this country, and offers superior advant ages in all features of business, together with UNSURPASSED FINANCIAL SECURITY. WHY? BECAUSE-Its Policies are plain, liberal and definite contracts, amply secured. BECAUSE--Its Policies are free from all questionable features. BECAUSE-Its Policies are absolutely void of. all vexatious restrictions and conditions* BECAUSE-Its Policies are practically world-wide and free from conditions After two years. 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John, I haven't eaten a me;; n Xew York that tasted as good a hos.- crisp roasted spareribs did. ?pent thc- evening playing checker vith father, while mother sat by tell rig me all about their misfortunes rom oM white Mooley gettin? Irowned in the pond to father's sign ng a note for a friend and having t< nortgagc the place to pay it. Tlx nortgage was duo inside of a weet ind not a cent t< meot it with-jusi ??SOO, She supposed they would bc urned out of house and home, but ir my mind I supposed they wouldn't. Vt last 0 o'clock came- and fatbei laid : 'Jim, go out to the barn and >ee if Kit is all right. Bring in an irmful of old shingles that are just nside the door and rill up trTe water ?ail. Then we'll go off to bed ari J jet up early and go a-fishing.' "I didn't say a word, but I went ?mt to the barn, bedded down the ?orse, broke up an armful of shingles, ?umped up a pail of water, filled the ?voodbox, and then we all went to jed. "Father called me at 4.30 in the norning, and while he was getting t cup of coffee, I skipped over to the lepot cross lots and got my best bass rod. Father took nothing but a trolling line and a spoon hook. Ile rowed the boat, with the trolling line in his mouth, while I stood in the stern with a silver shiner rigged on Now, John, I never saw a man catch fish as he did. To make a long story short, he caught four bass and five, pickerel, and I never got a bite. "At noon we - went ashore, and father went home, while* I. "rent to the postoffice. I got *a letter from Chicagd with a check for 11,000 in it. With. some trouble I got it cashed, getting paid in *5 and ?10 bills, making a roll. I then got a joint roast of beef and a lot ot deli cacies, and had then; sent home. After that I went visiting among my old school-mates for two hours and went home. The j--int was in thc oven. Mother had put on her only silk dress, ard father had donned his Sunday-go-to-meeting clothes none too good, either. This is where. I played a joke on the old folks. Mother was in the kitchen watching the roast. Father was out t<- the barn, and I had a clear coast. I dumped thc sugar oat of tlc- old blue bowl, j ? tit. thc thousand dollars i;? it. and {?laced the cover on again. At last supper was ready. Kailn-r asked a bVssing over it, and ho actually trembled when he strack his knife itt the roast. " 'Wc haven't had a piece of meat like that in live years, dir:!.' he said, and mother nut in with. 'And we haven't had any coffee :;: a year,only when wc went a visitinV "Then she poured out tin- coffee and lifted the cover of thc sugar bowl, asking as she did so, 'How many spoonfuls, Jimmy :' "Then she struck something that wasn't sugar. She picked up the bowl and peered into it. 'Aha, Mas ter Jimmy, playin' your old tri.-ks on your mammy, ch ? Well, boys will be boys/ "Then she gasped for breath. She saw it was money. She looked at me, then at father, and then with trembling fingers drew the great roll of bills out. "Ha! ha ! ha! I car, s.-.- father now, as he stood there, thou on tip toe, with his knife in one hand, fork in the other, and his eyes fairly bulg ing out of his head. Hut it was too much for mother. She raised her eyes to heaven and slowly said, 'Put your trust in the Lord, for he will provide.' "Then she fainted away. Well. John, there's not. much more to tell. We threw water in ber face and bi "night her to, and then we demol ished that dinner, mother ail the time saying, 'My boy Jimuiy ! My boy Jimmy!' "I stayed home for a month. I fixed up the place, paid ?ff all thc debts, had a good time, and came back again to Xew Vork. I am going to send *50 home every week. * tell you, John, it's mighty nice to have a home." John was looking steadily at the head of his cane. When he spoke, he took Jim by the hand and said : "J;m, old friend, what you have told :me has affected me greatly. I "haven't heard from my home, way np in Maine, for ten years. I'm going.home to-morrow."