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(?It/ ?"i>rwT> ;''' f*HOI1 RrltiH;inT .I f A* ??3 JHJ&OQ V&tPROBATK, rl^RPIl; H, MORGAN. -tttid-uyinl v._ ./?>T.HI^<7/JiP?/ir 0/* COURT, n JOSEPH F. R0RIN60N., JB. f" CfT?? SI/ERT&-,' I < J. WILLIAM II.'DUKES. ?lall r ?'in^qi ikt} .<!<? I ? -? ' ? ?' AJt fftiif*: ;:*?; ?? ? /??./ 'V > ??.?? "? in ifi ?? : - itj CORO.VKR, LUTHER RANSDALE/ vouxrr>4;p.u.vfss[o.vxKs, IT?NRY LIVINGSTON, ; . JAMES STOKES, MORGAN J.: KELLER. Srfaool CosnBiiisnIcmcr, T. ELLIOTT WANNAMAKER. P?l? T RT. Tho Tin? Betrothal. tub mmdbk'a qukstion. ? 7?u tow to love too ever, ; " Ae'/dti love lite how, tO-day?. ?:-?flay no change shall us.dissever, Ananer me one question, pray: AVer/ 'tis a word supernal Borrowed from a foreign tongue, It jbelongs to the eternal And on angel's lips first hung. 1 Boundless, endless Is its mottuiug. Though men heni it iu Time's space; Each, in littleness o'er weening, ?'Binds it to hit mortal race. . Teil mv where-your ever rencheth, ? To Death's1 night or Heaven's day ? Aud by what yuur answer teacheth, V I. wiD answer yea or uuy. 1 ' Awawkk. Onirard to the great immortal I my troth would plight, Should I Bee thee puss Death's portal Lote Bhouhl own no blight . Short the space our souls would sover, Brief *+ onI? 1 be Lore's night; Thus I swear to thee fbreVer Lore that knows uo flight. ACCKITANUIC. Now in thine I place my hand, Thou wilt keep it in thy clssp Till Death part Love's murtul hand, Loose a little while its gru.?p. i^in ihy heart my henft'l drop, )[{] Joying in the sacrifice, Since our love's sweet, grand device. Is the vast farerer I -.-.?> Y AEIOUS. AN APPEAL TQTJJK HONOR AHLE THE SENATE "V*"1 1 *.op rnt - tJNraB? STATES, /? Behalf of thr Consercative. People of South Carolina} Against the Adoption, hh Con greu, of the neie Constitution Pro pe*f<t cfvr i South ', Carolina. '??'" ??' ^io:?;| : 1 To the Honorable the Senate, of the United Stat't of Atnzrtca a t^,.mit|cr?|KqrnlJu bchair of,a large pot A\ol\ ofthe good people of titu State of South Garbling .respectfully appeal your honora ble Dody, to arrest tho adoptiou of tho new Constitution proposed for said State. In spite of the respectful remonstrance submitted to the Houm of Representatives und to the Sen ate, we find, that the former body hnve given to said instrument their approval. For the sake of all classes of our"pooplc, for considera tions nffecting tbo peace of society, in view of (the substantial intercuts of the State, put in jeopardy by an organic law, which may truth fully bo cliaraoterixcd as u political abortion, ?tli??tfspriug of incapacity nnd prejudice and hate, we submit oar case?the case of the con servatism vf Soutli Carolina?to the high court of last resort, the Sonato of tho country In addition to tbo argument contained in the remonstrance paper, aud in tho address m?d'.''to tbo Rccoiistructloh Cohimittcc of the House of Representatives herewith submitted, we. respectfully invite tho attention of your boiiorablo b''dy to tho <exhibits hereto append ed, and marked "A," "B" and 1. Ksbibit "A" gives the items, and shows the amount of taxation provided for in the uew CJonstitutipp,, Stoto ib tiow sadly iui povcrisheil. Tho proparty which her people had in their slaves has been swept away ; it is true, givon up by and with/tho consent of the Stuto ) nevertheless,' that property no longer represents caj?tal and value. ' The ravages or war. the niajjks of the conqueror's torch, arc everywhere visible. The labor, of the country iB'passing front one stato to .another, nud is dis turbed and demoralized. The flower of tho commonwealth have fullcu.on the baitm-nold, ?hd the brblicM'" fortunes and disappointed hopes of a .^roucl' 'jjcopjc weigh heavily upon the energies of at leant tho old and the less sanguine amongst us. Yet, under these cir cumstances, affecting enough to touch tho sym pathies of every manly nature, and in viola* turn, as we conceive it, of the political inheri tance 'of our^ forefathers, heroin South Caro lina, we are threatened with the onus of a monstrous phin of public spoliation, under the guise of an equitable system of taxation. Un der tho forms of^uw. 'it .is proposed to take away tho little that'thc war has left us. "Tax ation without representation" is combined with "representation without taxation." Thus in South Carolina it is contemplated to rcvivo the tyranny of the British Parliament in 177G, and to add thereto a new and startling feature. Wc refer you now to exhibit "A." Al though South Carolina is struggling for bread, yet obscrvo how, under the new Constitution, the hnrdcnB of 'taxation have been increased : Proposed'now to be raised.$2,230,050 Before the war, amount about. 860,000 Proposed now to be levied on the real es tate of the State...;.'..3 par cent. Before the war.J per cent. But when there is taken into consideration the depreciation of the. value of property since tho war, tho difference is far greater. For illustration, take the euse of a piece of property, in a town before tho war, worth my.w.w..>..$10,000 Levied before the war on this ? per cent. ' making..'. CO Now, at sumo valuation, it ptivs at 8 per cent. 300 Thus the proportion stands as 1 to G. But this is not all: The property valued be furo the war at $10,000,*hos now a value of.$3,000 Before the war, a tux of J per cent, levied on this would give. 15 But to raise tho $300 required now, demands a tax of 10 per cent.d. 300 Thus taking into consideration the doprcci tion of the value of real estate, the proportion stands as 1 to 20, or the taxation provided for in the. new Constitution is absolutely twenty times as great as Iwfore the war. Nor is this all. But in tho case of^laud^ which has depreciated more in the ivaiuo thnn city property the pro portion is evon greater than the ouo established above. In fact, it is now a common thing to Bud large tracts of land sold by the Sheriff for less thau the amount of taxes resting there upon. 2. Exhibit ''BM shows that the Constitu tional Convention was composed of: Whites. 47 Colored.,. 7-1 121 74 eolored pay of taxes.$117 03 1 alone paying. 85 ,35 Hence 70 colored pny. $:>2 58 Or lees than 50 cents euch. 47 whites pay.$761 02 1 white- (conservative) paying. 508 85 Hence 40 whites pay.,.$252 70 Or less ihnu $3 each. Of the 47 white mombers, 2;? pay no tax at all, and ot the 74 colored members, 59 pay no tax at all. Of the whites, at least one-fourth were Government employees and Northern ad venturers, and ol the colored men, a goodly jujiuiber were from abroad. . 3. E.\hibit.-;C'-' shows that tho Legislature, elected under the new Constitution, stands thus, exclusive of the Districts of Marion and Lancaster, as the Democratic success in these Districts is contested : Skxatk. Whites. 20 Colored. 12 32 IIOUSK ok REPRESENTATIVES' I Whites. 37 C0>red.,. 80 123 Total. Whiles.6? Colored. OH Whole number.J.loo Or nearly 2 colored to 1 white. 08 colored pny of taxes..$143 71 I colored paying. 83 35 Hence 07 colored pny. $00 30 Or loss than 70 cents each. 57 whites pay.$401 40 II conservative whites pay. 101 43 Ilenco 43 whites pay. $207 03 Or less than ->7 each. Of thew. r?7 white members. 21 pay no taxes at all. Of these f)S colored members, G7 pay no taxes at all. With regard to the State Government: The officers consist of 7 whites and 1 colored?the colored man having tho paid offu-o of least profit. As ?0 taxes: The Governor pny?. $00 00 Secretary of State. 00 00 Comptroilcr-Gcncrul. 00 00 Treasurer. 00 00 Attorney-General. 00 00 Kuper'deiU of Education.. 00 00 IdctftMtaiil-Governor. 15 00 Ad't uud Inspector Gen... 1 00 Making.,. $!({ 00 Thus the 8 members of the State corps of officers pay on an average each.;.; $2 11 Thus have tho Committee truthfully roprc stinted to the honorable Senate the. character1 of the raatK us Well those who framed the Constitution as those whonrc to lcgisluto under its provisions. It will bo aeon that they jrcpre^ sent not tho wealth of the State, neither ita^ commercial, nor its agricultural, nor its mb chanicnl interests. That they do not represent its intelligence, its tone and its sentiments, may be regarded as a self-uvidont proposition, to establish which requires no argument. It is shown, also, how little interested in the mnb tcr of excessive taxation they will be who shall levy tho taxes, and liow very littlo of taxes they will represent who shall make the laws in South Carolina ; aud how small an amount, too, they will be found to contribute to the re venues of tho State, who shall mainly?nay, almost entirety?sustain the new law-givers, which Congress has given to the South. In behalf, therefore, of justice and fair deal ing, representing the just claims of the white citizcus of South Carolina, without further eonimcuts, wc have the honor respectfully to submit statistieal argument contained in these exhibits, and to express the hope that it may appear to your houorable body, weighty enough to induce the rejection at jour hands, of the Constitution proposed for South Carolina. WADE HAMPTON, JOS. DAN'L. POPE, JOnN P. THOMAS, SAM'L. McOOWAN, P. W. McMARTEH, W. 31. SHANNON, State Central Executive Committee. EX 111 HIT A. ****** * N. 11.?The late assessment of real estate throughout the State, city, town and country, is $70,507,075, ou which a tax levied of 3 per cent, will raise $2,115,212. If real estate owners arc to defray the expenses of the State, it will require more than 3 ncr cent, to meet thorn. Formerly it was about A per cent., and that too, when lands aud real estate in general had not depreciated in valivj. EXHIBIT 1). Lift of I)i/i:i/at(iJ.O the. iJuurcution -trfncA ien* Jo'lif at C/itir/rsfon.. .January 14. 1808, tuul vmhd March 17. iaos. NAM KS. It EM AH KS. K. .1. Cain. W. J. McKintnv... K. W. M. Mackcy. T. K. Support us... I>. V. Kuudolph... OllA.NtiKHU IUI. $ !Xot on Tux book. EXHIBIT C. STATE UOVEHN MEXT. officers NAMES; R. K. Scott. Lemuel Boozer... F. .1. Motes, Jr.. F. L. Curdoza.... ?I. L. Nannie. S. O. Farker. i). ii. Chamberlain! J. K. iillson.i Ki.00 1.00 Governor.. Lt. Gov'r., A. & L.G.. Sec. Stute, Comp. Gm Treasurer At. Oen... Sup'l. Ed. Mlb.MBEHS OF THE I.KOlSl.ATUKft Senator... Kcp'tives. o n a s o B n v i: a . ,0. F. Randolph...; |W; J. McKinlay... T. K. Sasportus... F. De Mars. K. .1. Cain. .lames 1*. Mays.... 1.90 Nut on Tax Hook. ,Ex L d The Foregoing list refers to tuxes from 1800 to 1867, tu? lux returns for 1808 not being completed. SELECTED STOKY. Tho Old Red Slcteh. After mother had gone to bod I wont up stairs and brought down my writing desk.? There were some sheets of paper and delicate envelopes, which had been there lor months stored within, and a silver pen and pen handle which had been n birthday present in my school days. 1 took them out and the ink hot tie also. The ink was thick, for we did not write much ?either id' us?and I brought the vinegar cruet from the closet and thinned it to my lik ing. Then I sat do\\n and looked at the paper. Then 1 went to tho stairs and listened to sec that mother was not coming. Then 1 actually seated myself, squared my elbows, and began to write. This is what ! wrote : DlJAR Mish HARROW?1 am a coward. Not, 1 hope, in one. sense, hut certainly as re gards you. For a year 1 have loved you, yet, 1 would no more have dared to say no than I would had you been a queen. Perhaps be cause I do not cherish a hopo that you like me. To-morrow you and I will ride together. To-morrow 1 had made np my mind to try fat ?tut I know I elnill not dare apeak, bo I wr ijp I will give you this letter to rbad tit hoi'nc. If tho'nnswor be . "No," it will be oa?jer for both of us. "Will ypu try and think enough of mo to be,my wife some day ? Uluve you better than I do. my^life, and I wjifcdo all man can to make life happy for you. \YiQi a little hnpo I can make my way in the world us other men do. T am young and Mtrong, and nut utterly ignorant. Tf I am to have that hope, givo me a lino, your,namo only, anything to 8uow me what you menu. If I, am to be miserable; well, then inake> no answer. SiVVuce shall mean "no." I could not bear to see you or spoak to yon after that. This is an awkward love letter, no doubt. I am not used to writing letters of auy kind of late. I never wrote or said a word of lovo to any one before. That must bu its excuse.? But were it ever so elegant it could not mean more. For I offer all the love in my heart. The only love I over felt or shall ever know. ?LM?X CtlAIG. I scaled this note in tho daintiest envelope I possessed, and wrote Iicpsy Ilarlow's name on the back, and hid it iu tho desk from mo-' ther'a eyes; sharp eyes that looked after me anxiously as 1 drove away with old Dobbin and the little red sleigh the next morning, She was ready for inc. My mother's hint was in my mind, and I looked at lur dress. All I discovered was that it was blue; but her furs were good ; I could judge of furs. "She must marry a rich man," I said.? ?'She shall, too. I've more to start with than Washington bud." And I tucked her into die sloigh and drove off to -.life d^Uj^ng. It was a pleasant drive, uunjLu merry dance and supper; but as the time ^ygnr' on I felt glad that T had written a letter. Fori could not have said what it said for me. It was at the last momenta when were driving homeward that I mustvivd courage to ask her for the little reticule she carried as the other girl.-> did. with a brush and some flowers in it, I think, for tlwy had to touch up their curia and braids after tno windy ride before the dance. "Ntiy.do you want it >?" she asked. "T-Jplit something iu it which you must not Ionk".SrTiii yrru reach homo," 1 said." "Vol'.i arouse my curiosity," she answered. ??I .shall look the instant 1 have a lamp." j And as she spuke L had dropped in the let j ter aud snapped the elasp. Not a word none could I speak. But at '.he door T tried, for the first time, to kiss her. II er lips eluded mine, and 1 dared not repeat the attempt. 1 took the red sleigh home and waited, wait ed hopefully, as I knew afterwards, for an an swer. None came ; a day, a week, a month. Then all tin: hope was over. I had seen her. She had given nie a iitlie. cold, smileless bow. I was rejected. ??Mother." I said that night, "we must have some one to farm the place. I'm going to some city." "Why?" she asked. "To make 1113* fortune." 1 said. "For that girl?tho school ma'am ?" asked I my mot I cr. bitterly. "No," 1 said, "never for her." Mother knelt dowu beside me as I put vu a low stool. She put her hands on my shoulder aud looked iu my face. "?>hc didn't dare refuse you ?" she said. "Boy. I know you arc in trouble. I'm your mothoA'. Toll me." "Sin- did not accept mo," said I. ??The haughty minx! said my mother. "I?" Then she burst into tears. "And that's to part us ?" .-he said. ? Not if you'll go with me," 1 answered. Hut she could not leave her hyuio, and 1 went alone. In the frosty morning, as I turn-, ed to look hack at the little virago, from the top of I.I;C old stage, I saw the children tiling in at the school houso door, uud caught a glimp.-v of Hepsy's dress just beyond; only a fold of her dress but 1 knew it. The school bell was ringing; but it did not say "turn again" to me as it should have done, had I been such a prophet as Whittington. ? 1 made my fortune. I had a cousin in New Vork who was deep in the mysteries of Wall street. He helped me ; so did Jmck or Fate. In live, years 1 was a moderately rich man. My mother wanted nothing but my presence. She would not come to me, but urged mo to return to her. At li.st my heart was too weak to be trusted among those familiar scenes. To have met llcpsy would have been too much to bear.? Hut time helps us all. At the end of five years 1 wrote to my mother : ??I am coming homo again, bineo you will not live here with nie. Kxpect me to-mor row. And on the morrow I went. Mother had not altered much. But I had grown a long, light beard, and was a youth no longer,?a fact which troubled her. Tbcro were changes, too. Uirls woro married?old people dead. The tallest, handsomest man I remembered1, had met with an accident and navled about a wretched cripple. The church was rebuilt autl tho huts in the hojlpw had be^en^burnt. A factory had risen, aud the factory^ peoplo^s houses wore about it. Instead ' of tho olu frame school house was a brick building with many windows' and a cupola. ? . j "Who was tho teacher? ,Was .ehe?therorrr' Ilopsy Harrow ! .J, dajcd^ioj.ask- .... % ? - I Idly I .?i.tmtpr^ and refurnished now, and ? idly, in1 the evening of my second day at home) I went out to the shed where tho little red Sleigh stood?tho "shabby old thing5,-with a green patch on tho cushions. ??; 1 > ; j .7/ "It ain't been-touohed ' siiico/*you left Al mon," said my mother. '..'Poor old Dobbin ! How smart he used to take it round. I felt as if I'd lost a friend when he died. Remember my patching the cushiou?" She lifted it us* she spoke. From behind it dropped something. "What? Of leather, blue with mould, crushed by its long lying under the cushion, but a reticule for all that. Hop sy Harrow's reticule ! I opened it. There lay a comb and brush, an artificial rose?how well I remember it in her hair 1?and my letter. Yes, iuj* letter, that she had never read, ucver seen, ucver known of. '?What's; the matter, Almon"?" asked, my mother. . t ? For a few moments I did not know. At. last I spoke. ! Y "It is Ali s Harrow's rctioulo," '?She must have lost it when you took her a sleigh ridiiig," suid myf mother. "Just like' her to lose it and not know extravagant critter. She's teaching yet; 'likely tO?sho airi't'triar riud; no doubt she'll be an'old maid, and serve her right." The rest my mother said to herself, for I waited to hear no more. I took the reticule in my hand aud went over to the long-furgotten path toward the school house, school was over: A figure stoOd alone near the gnte. I did not know it at first. But on a nearer view 1 found it was a more mature edition of Ilopsy Harrow's .slender frame 3 not so r-londer now but pretty?just as pretty iu the face, and fresh and buxom. I walked up to her- She gavo me a puazlod louk. Then her check flushed. "Mr. Craig ?" she said. "Yes, .Miss Harrow," I answered. "Iain here to restore your property. You iesr-a reti cule in my sleigh five years ago. To-day I fouud it. There is something iu it which I asked you to look at when you were alone. I make the same request now. May I see you this evening V* She bowed. I walked away. That night I went once more to see her.' She had been weeping; the letter lay open upon her knee. '?Such an odd relic of those foolish old t hues," she said. I took her hand. '?Yuu ucver answered it, Ilopsy," I said. Will you auswer it now?" "After all this time ?" "Yes." She said nothing, and I kissed her. Our wedding was a quiet one, and our lives have been quietly happy from that day to the present hour. H U M0R0US7 '?Hark from tho Tombs" Story. This good yarn, for the truth of which 'Sut' vouches, that is, "iu the main liku a man takes n wile," as he phrases it, has appeared in several paper* lately iu an iinootnplotc form : Many years ago, Major Wallace, while President of the East Tennessee and Georgia Railroad, chanced to be traveling over the line in a ear where thero but few passengers, seated opposite the stove, wrapped up in his shawl and meditations connected with tho gigantic job, which he had undertaken, (building a rail road without money.) when night caino on. Presently, in bounded a brakemau, loudly slauiing the door behind him?one of those country geniuses, who, with a laudable ambi tion had, a day or two ngo, abandoned tho girls, the fiddlo, and tbc ploughtail, to "climb in the world," to become a brakemau. Ho had boon tho king beu tit all the neighborhood frolics, at the house raisings, at the corn shuck ings, and at the cross roads doggery fighting ground, and now he i'elt sure that ho was a king bee on. railroads. Struttiug up to tho stove ho slammed down down his lantern, kicked the mud fropt his huge boots on tho footboard of the seat, spit tobacco juice copi ously and noisly on tho hissing stovo, crossed his muscular thighs, took a survey of the aforesaid hoots, with harness leather straps, and then bethought himself of the "cosforncf" sitting opposite, on whom ho proceeded to bo stow a lengthened, critical and saucy .look, as though he doubted the "tustomor's" right to be in the co?ch at all. At length ho sought knowledge: "Whar are you gwino, Mister V ??To Dalton, sir," responded the Major, quietly. "Preacher ain't you?". _j "No, air, I am not; but ,wb>y do you ask?" "?? ! ?QtJUri& ^1}>^VXT7lT?tA,outght 1 MW 'Hark from Iho^bibs^?Icieir ,Vo?r all ?Tor you like uicasils. Yoirtinow mo, I reoketi:" "I am sorry to AfttiitYVlo not/' "Well, Mt?W?Mo jflWifT&Mr the devil wor y?ii raised V "At Mlryvm^lWte t "Oh! tbAtJaJrjddilii^SiI, fBHJ?HIr I hear* tell ovo that scttlomcTit>a^rey^|"rJs% I may be durncd, ane}I ^^^^^f^MP*'' "You seem to bo well acquainted with the place Jonw^JMWM'lwS^^ lho Majory(ulmpstrcho^iu^; \r}itU ^Vfjf fftBV|,l)r"** laughter ? mi i ?in um .mi..inwi^MM?i m of cow?;.tongues' or-ni^. T/^/Ji |<f # 3 "I alluded to your offic"?, anouy the way, what is.you position on this road ? ? , ^ "Brakeiuan, by -.tbo jumpin' gett^nj.^, tho't everybody know\I that; Brcakman over tho Yeast Tcericsscc and Georgia Hailtawith^ <o ''Unfortunately I did. not: kn?wi?T''top1t!& the Major. K vmv -pi "Well, you'd dam soon foun\ tho, fac' tQOAaC you' a cut up any shines roun' yerc, hippirig winintc?. or cussin, or trying to*stoa1nnyboily*-ii carpctdjiag, or talkin' sassy to the cohddjslor^or sich. ,"\VvUy I'd chucked, ?0$ ^ca^tj?(emp^ thru that winder, like dartiu 'clapboards through" the cracks ov a barn, for I mean 4a run this here >rrain? ?b ftiM^^ifples, I das, Au' you didn't know I was tho brakeman oV this ycrc railroad?" ' l}??' I %ifT . "Indeed, sir, I did rt?ll" t? i.!*:- il "Well, old Slidentvy4.aU I hes got to aay is thut for a man oc your. Ipolic, you na fess tfuijt> aw/bod u 1 ever tatc. How do you manage to make a hviu, cnyhow ? "I receive a salary; t am Presidentof 'th'w roadj Wallace is hiy nauie.'1'Ti?i i^hayc'.nol the'pleasure of knowing A/ourSp<i trill >you:he kind enough; to iaforui .qie!?" inmajvi-*?- ^ writ All symptoms of "king . hoa!lf disappeared at this thuuderbolt annouueetnent, and in their stead, timid humility, crushed pride of place, a strong "get way"" desire, and a moat cdn fouuded bang dog look. ? . ? '?? ? ? r - A Yankee Hoy.. ij!iw U"tt tl+x'h ok A tourifit tells the following story! Wc recently nict dur friend Dr. Lord, for** mcrly of Boston. - Ho has bccii a resident of this section for about six years. During his first few years he wua, oxtcusivcly engaged in buying wool, aud on-one occasion becomiug bpwUdered with the multiplicity of crooked roads over the broad prairies, he rode up to'a small cabin inclosed ili a* lump of locust trees, and addressed a white-headed' boy perched on the top of a hen coop, wiU>j ?; nutJenap ai?I^ "Halloa, boy:!" "I reckon you arc a stranger," was tbo je i?u ( . it-Jitr^oTvmvss YvttT spouse. 1 * "Look here, sonny." ' <rM ?^M* "I ain't your sonny.""?''- ?' .-?' *-?'.> aaodV "No, not ray sonny, bub if you will jump down aud come bore F1J g\YcijS',a-9.dimev.",ij!v The hoy sprang^ as if aligbtingvfro|ii a wasr/s nest, nnd coming up to the stranger, .exolaii^. od: .' > ? ? "Well, Old ho.?s; whit tiitf?* i alltrfqiaa "I'vo loat my way, and do?'t know wJioW I am.' Can you tell me ?".- . u..t- v.'.* *fi:?i/K "Yesi you're on your horse.^[if} </ fi: M^ Mr. Lord laughed at the. boy's wit, ^and handed him a.dime. Tho boy took tho nioiiaj^, looked up with hiiugled feelings of itond?i?tid delight, and said " -mu- ) In il?ar ?W "1 reckon you must havo? j?wcr of husrosy?? "Why so,my boy?" ;: % dtd^l ^to^tf1 "Causo you slander it away sq,''f. {? r jj^ "What's your father's name?" inquiied Mr. Lord. '? 17 "Bill Jenks," was' tho reply. "Ah yes, I know" him," exclaimedMr.: l^brcl, "he grows wool don't he Y" . ? pn'j "No but bis sheep does." "If you knew me, my lad you would be uioro rcspectful.in your replies, I am a friend of your faUu-^my m^me ia i&r&jjt^ "Oh, yes," exclaimed the .asto* ished lad j "I'yc begird pap read about you in to (Bib^Bj" and startieg ofl" for tho house cn a load run, ho bawled out at the top of his lungs ; "Mother, mother, the Lord is o?t '%or#o>r horseback, and has lost his way;. - - r4(> 7 <tt v<k(>a A yonng lndy noted for her nffiscted'tionn* ncrs, rccontly ontercd the show-room of n fach ionablo milliner, with whom hor family were acquainted, for tbo purpoac of making ? ^omo trifling purchases. On boiug asked('hnw ^hcr mother wast she., rqajlied-^ "She is noi ycry yyell.'.' .. . "Ah ! what is tbo matter wit^lic'rf' . "She fell down stairs and hurt1 her^ coujrtr$y bender." . "Her what?"' M" >l'" <Uh " 11 or courtesy bonder." ' ' "dnUrtosy beudor 1 What is that!" inquir ed tho milliner. i bntoloa "Why, hor knee" was the rcply^_^