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TWO |r()!,L\IIK l'KB .VN-NTM. V GOD AND OITR^^OTBY^ -i ALWAYS IN ADVANCE yOLTJME 6. NUMBER 27 *rrp 01? a ATHEBtnKr NEWS ?:o:? fjv?7 PUBLISHED AT Every Saturday Morning* ?5 BY THE ?RANGEBTJRG NEWS COMPANY ?:o:? TERMS offefcUBSCRIPTTON. One Copy for one year. $2.00 i ? " V Six Months... 1.00 *W Any ono sondint TEN DOLLARS, tor n 'Club Vf rtcw Subscribers, will receive an * EXTRA COPY for ONE YEAR, free of charge. Any one sending FIVE POLLARS, 'for a' Club of New Subscribers, Will receive an EXTRA COPY for SIX MONTHS. Tree Of charge. ?:o:? RATES OP ADVERTISING. 1 Square 1st Tnscrtion. $1.50 " " 2d " . 1.00 A Square consists of 10 lines Brevier or one lisch of Advertising space. Administrator's Notices.$5 00 Notices of Dismissal of Guardians, Ad ministrators, Executors, &c.$9 00 Contract Advertisements inserted upon the most liberal terms. ~:o:~~ V MARRIAGE and FUNERAL NOTICES, ot ?xoeoding one Square, inserted without ?charge. Terms Cash in uvance. -?a Browning & Browning1, ATTORNEYS AT LAW, ORANUI?BIIRG C. II., So. Ca. Malcolm I. Bbowni.xg. A. F. Bbowninq. no" 4 AUGUSTUS B. KNOWXTON (Formerly ot ine New York Bur.) ATTORNEY AND COUNSELLOR AT LAW, ORAXGERlIRti, S. C. july 8 tf AV, b1ley T'UAL JUM'Wr?/ Residence In Fork of Kdiwto, ALL BUSINESS ENTRUSTED will be promptly and carefully attended to. july 28 !y DR. T. BERWICK LEG ARE, SURGEON DENTIST-, Graduate ilallinioro College Rental Surgery. OFFICE MARKET-ST. OVER STORE OF J. A. HAMILTON, METALLIC CASES. THE UNDERSIGNEP HAS ON HAND ail of the various Sizes of the above (.uses, which can be furnished immediately on ap plication. Also manufacture* WOOD COFFINS as usual, and at the shortest notice. Apply to H. RIOGS, inar 6?Cut Carriage Manufacturer. REEDER & DAVIS, COTTON FACTORS and viuiiciiu Commission ?Lerchanis, Adger'* What/t CHARLESTON, S. C. OsWKLI, it t:;: di.i:. ZlMMKUMAN DAVIS oct 15 . Cm J. F. Bbodie. R. R. Hudoiks H. C. Hud?inb. JBROI>IJ5 CO. COTTON FACTORS \it n COMMISSION MERCHANTS, 2v~0? TU A TL AKT! 0 Wit A Ii F, CHARESTON, S C. Liberal Advances made on Consignmem Kr.i i.h to Andrew Hi-roads, Esq., I're? \ 1st National Buuh, Charleston, 8. C may 2b wee tf WASHINGTON HOUSE BY Mrs. M. W. Stratton, COIiKCK UERVA1S k ASSEMBLY STREETS COLUMBIA, S. C. Convenient to tho Greenville and Charleston Hailronds and the Business portion of tho City. Unto of Transient Board?Two Dollars per Day. Regular Boarders received at Rcusonablo at es. 4f? IP tf 'Sleepy David,? Or the Yankee Race. The following Btory extracted from "A Yankee Among the Nullifiors," pur ports to bo told to the author by a South Carolinian : ? The Yankees, as I said before, arc apt to bo too cute for us in everything ex cept horseflesh, and even sometimes in that. It wob this day three years ago, on this very spot, that I eutered my burse Southron lor a purso of two thou sand dollars He had won a like sum the year before with all case. In short, he wds the best horse at that time in Carolina. Tltofo were, to be sure, two other horses, and very fine ones, too, eutered against him , but they were .10 touch to Southron, and I was as sine of winning as 1 am of sitting hero thin moment, when who should come ulong but a Yankee with u tin cart. Ilo had the shabbiest, worst-looking horso you ever set your eyes ou. Ilo was as lean, slabslided, crooked logged, rough-haired, ntohisjcs colored son of a gun as ever went on four legs Ho atcod all the time us it he was asleep?in fact his owner called him Sleepy David. In short, sir, ho was such a hore'fl as would no. have brought twenty dollars. It was near the hour of starting, wheu the peddler, whvso exterior correspond cd uiu'rvelu?sly with the horse, and who said his name was Zaduck Palmer, to the. astonishment of all, iutimated a wish to enter his horse along with the rest. "Your horse," exclaimed I; ''what ! I that sleopy looking chap there ? You'd better enter him tor the turkey buz zards." "Not's you known on, mister," ic turned the Yankee, with some show oi spirit. "To be sure the critter looks rather sleepy as he stauds and ou that account 1 call hi in Sleepy Duv o : out he's an all jo lired smart horse alter ali Tfiilf. iit'ir rflW .< mg&4 9 lit ii ^la^^&L,. sight better than he looks. I should like tarnatiou well to try him agaiust some of your Carolina bosses. Ti SU!? I didn't come uil the way from home on jpurpofte, but as I was coming out this way with a toad of tin ud oth or notions, 1 thought 1 might time it so as to kil; two bird.i wttb one stone ; for thinks I to myself, it I can win the purse, and peddle ofl my notions av the same time, 1 shall make a j lagucy good speck. Dut 1 had to hurry ou like the nation to get here in season and that's one reason my boss looks so kind of shabby and out of kilter this morning? But for ull that he'll pciforui like days' work, I tell you." Supposing t hat he had no idea of run ning his horse, rud that ull ho said was merely to gratify his propensity lor talk ing. I bade him begone uud not to trouble mo with his Yankee palaver* '?Why, mister," said he, "this is a free country, and a mau has a light to talk or let it alone, just as he cau aflbrd. Mow I've taken a great deal of pains to git here this morning in order to run Slooj y David against some of your Southern bosses. 1 ain't joking sir '} I am in dead ahnest I understand there is a purse ot two thousuud dollars and 1 should like amusingly to pick it up." "You talk of picking up a purse with that bit of a carrion of your* ! Affuv With you, and don't trouble us any I arther.'' "Well, if 1 can't ruu then I s'poso I can't ; but it's darn hard, any how, lor a n.au to take as much pains as I have to come to the race, and then can't be al lowed tu lUli alter all." "It's too late now; by the rules of the course the horse rdiould have been eu tered yeitoi day j however, if y ou'll plant the entrance Uluucy perhaps you m.iy jet in yet." 1 said tl|it* by way ol getting rid oi the leiiow, having no idea that ||p cm d command the iourth part of the sum required. "How much might the entrance uiouey he '{" drawing out. u purs, eon tainiug a tew shillings in silver and a IV w pennies in copper. 'Ti it ain't more ii a uunr-tor of a dol lar or SO 1 11 plunk it oil the nail." "it is two hundred dollars." '?Two hundred, dollars \" excluimod the Ynukco. "By gauly, what u price I What, the}- axed me ouly a quarter of a dollar to sec tho elephant uud the whole caravan in New York. Two hundred doilurs 1 \\ by, you must be joking now Bless you! my wholo load of tinware hose, wagon aud all, wouldn't foioU that. Hut, in ist or, don't you think I oould go in for ten dollars ?" "Nothing short of two hundrod ; and that must bo paid in the short spaco of five minutes." We now thought we h**fi. fairly got rid of the fellow; but he returned to tbe ehargo, and asked if fifty dollars wouldn't do, then scvauty-five, then u hundred ; aud finding he could not mako a bargain for less than tho regular sum he engaged to give it provided Lo could fiud any ouo to loan him the moucy, for which he offered to pawn hi* wagon load of notious and Sleepy David to boot. He asked ouc, then another to accom modate him with the loan?declaring thut as soon as ever he took the purse thu mone3f should bo returned, aud he would give him a dozen tin whistles into tho bargain. Ho however, gut more ?.-urses than coppers until some wag, who had plenty of cash uud liked to .sec the sport go on, lent him the two hundred dol lars out of sheer in ill too. Though as it af terwdrd turned out, the Yankoo had money enough about him, and was mere ly playing the 'possum all tho while. His next object was to borrow a sad dle. Hero, also he was accommodated ; and taking Sleepy David from the tin t-art, he scrambled upon bis back and took his station on the course. You ucver saw a fello.v sit on a horse 8 > awkwardly in all your life. Everybody said he would fall before be had gOUO u hundred yards ; and some out of com passion urged him to withdraw. "Not by a darned sight ; why, do you think I'd be such a darned fool as to pay .wo huudicd dollars, and then not ru.i after nil ?" Others who wantel to see the sp?rt. though it should cost some broken bones, encouraged him to proceed?Bayiog, as they laughed aloud, that they bad u doubt that he would carry oil the purse. ' That's what 1 mean to do," said ho. ??) hasn't Coino here Cor nothing. I can tell you. .- Wake up here, Sleep David, aud look about you*; you uiiihl'ntT^T^yVrtfr eyes up* n to day ; it's no time to be suooziu' when there is money at stake.'' The horse, as if he uudcrst ?od what his: master uns saying, opened his eyes ami pricked his ears, act u illy showing a little more .signs of Hie. The signal WUS given to start. Away sprung Southron with the spoed of light ning, and away sprang the other South ern horses Jcuviug Sleep} David in the rear, und the peddler surging from side to aide as if he wus just ready to full oil". The hor-se went pawing along with his nose stuck straight before him ; aud you cover beheld so queer a figure cut by any man aud horse as this siugulur pair made. Dut they improved as they proceeded: aud the peddler -sat more jockey like, aud the horse evideutly gained upon the others. Dut it would not do. lie came iu at least half a mihi behind the others. it was uoW thought tho Yankee had got enough of the race, aud would withdraw before the next heat. Contra ry to all expectations, however, he per severed, and even offered to bet a thou sand dollars on the issti? of the race. " The fellow's a fool," said ouc. "He don't know what side his bread i.-i buttered," said another, -,or else he ?tOultl ?nf risk ?i?i?" iiioiiuy at BO desperate stake." "lie's safe enough there," said a third, for he has no more to risli." Here, howevor, everybody was mis taken again, lot the peddler hauled out an old greasy pocket book and planked the one thousand dollars. It was cov ered of course IJut I confess I no.v began tobe htuggored, and to suspect thut tho Yankee was moro knnvo than fool. 1 hud no fears, however, lor tho purse. Southron was not a h >rsc to be distanced ill one day, und especially by such a miserable looking thing as Sleepy David. The second heat was now conimonocd, and if 1 had heft re foil confident in the entire superiority of my noble horse Southron, that superiority was strength ened as I again saw him coining iu ah a 1 af tho rest. 1 considered tho purse UOW as my own property. In. itutnagi nation 1 had grasp-jd it, and was about putting it in my pocket?when lo and bulwl 1 ! the peddlftr's horse, which was behind tho rest, sudd only shot forward n* if he had been kickod on end, and stretching his ueck like a crane, won the heat by barely a head. hverybody was astonished. "That horse mu?t be the devil himself," said one, "I was sure ho w BOtno Yankee trick b through," said another, the observations that pass to mouth The Yankee, in the me to plank another thousa uobody would tako the b well thoy didn't; for at Sleepy David net only horse, but even came in fj a milo the lead of Sent) "There, by gnulcy !" | as he dls in u tinted .."Pll purse, and tho other coc1 lars. I knew well en Southern horses couldn't to Sleepy David." play you ho got ich were rout mouth 10, offered liars, but md it was third boat jticcd every ? quarter o'' jftuisclf. Yankee, :.;t little 'u.vmd dol that your Id a caudle - xvf the most ijived. Phil Kmassed his was the re iunty at his lemory are ird College j ^Ijue, Girard j[Ompuny, Gir ird College, ttjon of some half orphan is a marble lb represents bis appear jjfsbort stature, 1 had a shrewd '.peculiar eoat, in a cue. His (rjth ecccntrici ?r, were more bionul a is of young man as is duties very ly. This had of Mr. Gir u d, Ouc morning and. calliuu; the The Dream ?f Steven Girard was rctnarkablo men who ndelpliia, the eity whor great fortune in bust cipient of his muuifioe death, and his name well preserved in the Girard Row, Ciirurd Ihink, Girard Insuran ard House, oic. At where the support audjj live hundred orphan - hoys are provided for, statue of Mr. Girard, him ffith exact fidel ancc iu life. He wa a benevolent smile, faco. lie wore a la and his hair was (i whole life Was mark ties, which, in no part observable than iu his benevolence. In hi-; office Was el<ilk, who attonded intelligently and fait] attracted tho attent' for nothing escaped h Jn came ii.to the ofii dork, remarked : ?'Young man, I d/cniucd about you last night." / ' Dreamed of ine^" returned th - clerk, in tin prise. "Yes; I saw a form and heard a voice. The form vns your own, and the voice said : 'This man is your best clerk, but ho should be a cooper. Mer chants fail, but eoopjrs arc always sure of living by their titde.' So you must leave me and lear^ to be a first-rate cooper. I never ,go contrary to my dreams. They often/tell me how to pro ceed. 1 trust thtjui as I do my own judgment, and obeyjthrin conscientious ly. (to and get a place to learn the trade of a cooper| and when you can make a barrel, com4 and see me again." Tho clerk was, of course, greatly as tonished. Hut ha had no fear of toil, and he knew that l e would lose nothing, in any event, by filling iu with the di rections of Mr. Gitard. A cordingly, he settled up his affairs at the office, and in a few days engaged with Mr. Girard's cooper to learn the trade. During a long period, ho kept steadily at work, and made excellent progress. Meanwhile, Mr. Girard had not for gotten him Ho o'.lcn saw the young man in his overalls on the wharves at w..rl> ..?.i hv =f-c-ko ???uura iu ly to him. Ho had not made up his mind us to wlmt he would do for him, hut lie was greatly phased at the suc cessful carrying out id' his dream. Ou cue occasion, as he came from the wharf, he mutterod : ' "My young cooper is doing well. He is a man, every inch of him. 1 inus; give bittt a helping hand." A low nights subsequently, the good old man was sleeping calmly in his hutublo looking apartment. Iiis real wealth did not show ilsolf in anything about him. The furniture was old fashioned, nud the surroundings were strictly after the plain tastu of the owner. As he slumbered, Iiis counteti IIU0O was claw, and without the trace of a single cure. A t times a slight smile Bitted over his lace, ami he BCUluud to Le in a pleasant dream His slumbers CODtiQUod for a considerable time, when ho suddenly awoke. He rubbed his eyes and thou spoko : 1 Ah, ah !" be said, "I've had a dream again about my young coopor. I thought thnt I would hear something about him again. There is u good spirit lookiug after hU wolfurc, surely. 'When he fiuiahe* apprenticeship, and is a good coopor, give hiui twenty thousand dol lar.) to start io busineia/ whispared tha voice in uiy ear. Of course I will. H,e iu worthy of encouragement. The money will go into good hands. Of course I'll givo it to him, but in my own way. IIa ! ha! I have a plan for that." Soon tho old man dropped into slum ber again. Ho had the samo calm countenance, and the same serene smile. His lifo wus devoid of all evil, and his dreams were full of good deeds in store for thoY\iturc. Timo passed on. One day the young man cume iuto Mr. Girard's oflico. He was in the garb of a mechanic, and be looked healthful aud sinewy from man ual labor. ?'Good day, Mr. Girard," he said, as the old gcutlemnu turned to him with a warm greeting. "I have come to tell you that 1 am a good cooper now. I have served my en tiro time." "Can you make a good barrel ?" "As good as any cooper iu Philadel phia." ".Mako nie twenty, and bring thorn here yourself." The young man went off, and iu an hour was bard at work at the barrels. He was really a superior workman, and when the twenty barrels were completed, they were the admiration of all in the shop. Whoa they had been placed iu Mr. Guard's store, he examined every one with the closest scrutiny. He look ed at the .staves, tho hoops, the heads, the shopc, the cutting, and the driving, and in the end remarked to the young cooper, who was anxiously awaiting his verdict: "They are good barreH. I never saw better. Von have learned your trade and done your part faithfully. Conic into the counting room, and I'll now do miuc." Tho couple went into the office. The old mau's face beamed with pleasure and satisfaction, and the young man 8 was flushed and pale by turns, from the peculiar circumstances of the moment. Mr. Girard took down his check book and wt'wtu cV . This he cut out, and then, turning to the young man, he said : "My young man, listen to me. Your fidelity, promptness, and energy early attracted my atteutiotl. Then I had a dream about you, I mentioned to you a long time ago. You acted with alacrity upon the suggestion made in consequence ol that dream, and to-day you stand before me skilled in a trade. 1 have dreamed of you in the meantime. A good spirit whispered into my car to give you twenty thousand dollars. You have mule for 100 twenty suppcrior bar rels, for which I will now pay you one thousand each, making twenty thousand in all." Mr. Girard at this juncture placed in the hand of the agitated young mau the cheek he had prepared. "Now," he continued, "you have a capital to commence business as a mer chant, if you seo lit. Should disaster overtake you, go to your trade again." The young man broke forth iu a tor rent of thanks, but Mr. Girard abruptly stoppe 1 hin, saying : "You loss interest on your money while yon talk. 1 have fulfilled Uiy dreams, and douc justice to you. Good ""'go Here this strange interview ended. The young man went away with the deepest gratitude in his h.-art, and a resolution to make a name iu busiucss worthy of the respect of his generous benefactor. lie subsequently bocatno one of the fust merchants of Philadel phia. This incident is one of the UiO.-Jt ' singular in tho history of Mr. Girard, and no less ill the annals ut dreams. A young motlici was in tho habit of airing the baby's clothes at the window. Her husband didn't like it, and, bcliov ing that if she saw her practice a> others saw it she would desist, be s > directed their afternoon walk as tcbring the nursery window in full view from the central part of the town. Stopping abruptly, ho pointed to tbe offending linen flapping unconsciously in tho breczo, and asked sarcastically : "My dear, what is that display iu our window ?" "Why," idtc replied, "that is the flag of our union." Conquered by this pungent retort, be saluted the flag by a swing of his bat ? and, pressing bis wife's arm closer with in his own, as he walked homeward said : "And long may it wavo I" A Good Joke ou Governor Hoffman. Mr. 13. F. Bookman, tho banker, business and railroad millionaire, and tho great Christian who raised $3000, 000 to buy Morrissey's Club House last summer for the Young Men's Christian Association, bad a talk with the Gover nor yesterday. Mr. Bcekman said he had votod the Democratic ticket, and that he had followod the party over pretty rough roads, but he didn't see how ho could vote for such a shuffling old woman as Grceloy. "Why, Governor," said Mr. Beokuian, "tho old fool dun't know enough to attend to lm own business ; he is eternally lotting some devilish lools swindle him ; and with such, a big, over grown child at the head, why, business men wouldn't feel sale j he'd want to do some devilish stupid thing every day*?" "But," interrupted the Governor, "J think Mr. Greclcy is a pretty good judge of mo:i. I think he can pick out an honest man or a knave as quick as any one. I?" "Why, there is just where he is al ways the biggest fool," continued Mr. Bcekman. "Never mind," said the Governor, "I would take his opiuion on a man to be true quicker thau I would take any man's iu the country." "You would?" asko Mr. Beckuiau, feeling iu a side pocket. "Yes, I would," said the Governor firmly. "Well, hero is a little slip where he calls you a moutebank and a corrupt, dishonest and swindling Democratic villain," said Mr. Bcekman, as he hand ed an old Tribune editorial to the Gover nor. Tho Governor read it over twice, then looked as it he was trying to sec straight through Mr. Bookman, u row of carriages and a two-feet brick peti tion, then he slanted dowu his hat and went up stairs. ? iimlm ? - - qwn? ? Journalistic Fun. An incident in tho history of Shad radii Peon's life, which some ol the old er citizens ef Louisville may yet remem ber, and which doubtless afforded them many a hearty laugh, occured about thirty five years ago, when Geo. D. Prentice, at tho head of tlue Louisville Journal, and renn, as editor and pub lisher of tho Ai/rt rti&cr, were running what was called, iu those days of Amer ican journalism, a lively opposition About a year previous to the occurrence a horrible murder ar some great calami ty had occurred iu the south, not far from New Orleans. It happened that Prentice had saved a copy of this paper, which had not been clipped or cut. His natural wit struck upon a good expedient to get off a good joke onP?un by moans of this paper, then a year old. Accor dingly he sprinkled the paper, folded it up, neatly pressed it, which gave it the appearance of a new issue and and en. closing it iu a large wradpor, backed it: "Compliments clerk of the steamer t Inucousta, five days, seventy-eight hours out from New Orleans. Quickest trip on record. To S. Bonn, editor Louis villo Atlccrliier ," Tho boy cane rush ing int.> the editorial sanctum almost I totally exhausted threw down tho paper en the table, nod then scampered off. Bonn picked it up tore off the wrapper huricdly,' and his eyes immediately res ted on the important article of news re forod to. No time was to bo lo^t. Tho paper was nearly up; several important matters were in the form, but they w< ro ordered out, and the new copy was in the hands of tho compositors with a few editorial comments, and very pro fu.-e thanks to the gentlemanly clerk of tho elegant an 1 fast steamer WtiUCOUS t:i for the invnlublc favor, etc. The whole trick proved successful and Proutice delighted, on every possiblo occasion more especially \vh i Ponn had a big thing in tho Advertiser, to ask: "Did that item of news come by the Waucous la?" The boat referred to was notori ously slow, she Ivnl but oiu engine and was commanded by Captain l'l'ANlv DomtMAN, of StoubeuyiHo, Ohio. A Boy's Business.?It exactly suits the. tcniperutnont of a real boy to bo very busy about nothing. If the power, for instance, that is expended in play by a boy between the ages of eight and fourteeu could be applied to soino in dustry, we should sec woudcrful results. But a boy is like a galvanic battery that is not iu connection with anything ; ho generates electricity and plays it off in* to tho air with the most reckless pro digality. And I,, for one, wouldn't have it otherwise. It is as much a boy's business to play off his energies into space as it is for a flower to blow or s> cat-bird to sing snatches of tbe tunes of all the other birds.?Little Corporal. Pleasantries on Mimisteos. The Boston Traveler says; "Of two Boston churches noar togcthor, one somo weeks since lost an able preacher and the other still has a poor one. Recently two gentlemen, who are officers ono of each church, were talking about the va cant pulpit and the representatives of the destitute society said he hoped they would get a good preacher for the place . The other gentleman, with a merry twinkle of his eye said. "I don't know of any society moro m ueed of a good preacher than yours." "Yes," slowly responded the other, "we havo been ao custoned to it." There was no further conversation on thit topic. Two friends of two other churches also of one denomination also mot the other day, and discussed tho preaching of their respective pastors. "Your min ister uses the ideas of other men said one. "Your minister uses the ideas of other mcu said ono "Don't you wish your pastor vtutild do tho same" was the signeifiant response. "Is your pastor sick?" inquired one gentleman of another. "No," was the reply, "why do you ask?" "I heard he was going to Europe on a vacation." "Yes but ho goes on business also." "Ah, that accounts for it." "I sec your pastor out daily," said another gentleman to a friend, the pa pers said he was sick." "Only siok enough to make a trip to Europe neces sary if his pcoplo will take to the hiut." "I wish you would give me my mar rage certificate, said a man tho other day to a clergyman who had married him about a year previous." "How long ago was it inquired tho minister, who docs a large business in that liuo, aud d^d.not recollect the stran ger-^ "I don't know," was the answer. "Cannot you tell wether it was three months or three years?" was tho next inquiry. "Really said the model hus band, "I have had so many other things to think of, that I have really have for gotten all about it." A search of his re cord enabled tho minister to comply with his request. A stalwart Down-Easter went into a printing office in Bangor a few days ago and asked the proprietor, "Aro you the man who stamps natres on koords ?" "I am sir." "Do you keep the keerds too 7" "Yes, sir, I want some." "What name shall I write ?" Here the tall individual camo to a posture where bis eyes was on a level with the piper, and he added iu sub dued tones. "I want marriage keords t" "After taking tbe names tho proprie tor asked. "How many cards do yon want ?" "Six." "But, sir, I never strike off less than fifty." "I don't know what ia thunder I should do with so many," said the long man, and after some further remarks ho retire J, leaviug an order for "six keerds." ? ?^ ? M INI - Teacher, iu loud tones: "What is your uta*mo ?" Boy, in a weak voice: Johnny Wells, sir." "How old are you, John Wells 7"B "Twelve years old, sir." "Now, John, tell me who made this grand and glorious universe 7" "Don't kuow, sir." "What, twolvo years old and don't know who made this noble sphere I James Smith, go and cut mo a whip." Tbe birch is brought and hold over the trembling boy. In thundering tones the rigid disciplinarian demands: "Now, tell me who made this great world we live in V ? In a tearful voice, Johnny answers: I did sir, but I wou't do it again !" A good dcaoon making an official visit to a dying neighbor, who was a vory churlish and unpopular man, put the usual question : "Are yon willing to go, my friend 7" "Oh ! yes," said tho sick man, "1 am !" "Well," said the. simple-minded deacon, "I'm glad you aro. for all the neighbors are willing."