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gnmotctts fcpadmcut. THE PRINTER AND THE DUTCHMAN. A journeyman printer lately set out on foot for the interior of Ohio, a distance of five hundred miles, wtih a brass rule and three dollars in cash in his pocket. He found himself in Pennsylvania, and being weary, called at the inn of a Dutchman, whom he found quietly smoking his pipe, when the following dialogue ensued. "Veil, Misther Valking sthick, vat you vant ?" "Refreshment and repose." "Supper and lodgings, I reckon." "Yes, sir, supper and lodgings." "Pe you a yankee peddler mit jewelry in your pack to cheat te gals ?" "No, sir?no yankee pedlar." "Singing teacher, too lazy to work ?" "No, sir." "A chenteel shoe-maker, vot stchays till Saturday night, and laysh drunk in de porch ofer Sunday ?" "No, sir, or I should have mended by boots before this. But 1 am not disposed longer to submit to this outlandish inquisition. Can you give me supper aud lodgings?" "Torebly. But vot be you? A book achent, taken honest people's money for a little larnin, that only makes em lazy?" "Try again, your worship." "A tentist, breaking te people's chaws, at a tollar a schnag, and running off mit old Shambock's daughter?" "No, sir?no tooth puller." "A kernologist, den, feeliu de young folks' heds, like so many cabbitch, and charging twenty-five cents for telling their fortunes, like a blara'd yankee." "No; no phrenologist, either, your excellency." "Veil den vot de tifle are you ? Chost tell and you shall have some of the best sassage for supper, and stchay all night, free gratis mitout charging you a cent, mit a chill of whisky to sthart on before prekfast." "Very well, your honor. To terminate the coloquy without further circumlocution, I am an humble disciple of Faust?a professor of the art preservative of all arts?a typographer, at your service; a printer, sir?a man that prints books and newspapers." ' "A man vot prints noospapers ! Oh! yaw! yaw! By Choopiter! aye 1 aye! Ditsch it! A man vot prints noospapers?yaw ! yaw! Vatilk up, vaulk up, Mr. Brinter! Cheems, some junks to the fire. A man vot prints noospapers. I vish I may be shot if I didn't think you was a tailor I" SSy* "When I was a boy," said an old man, "we had a schoolmaster who had an odd way of catching boys. One day he called out to us: "Boys, I must have close attention to your books. The first one of you that sees another boy idle, I want you to inform me, and I will attend to his case." "Ah!" thought I to myself, "there's Joe Simmons, that I don't like. I'll watch him, and if I see him look offhis book I'll tell." It was not long before I saw Joe look off his book, and immediately I informed the master. "Indeed !" said he; "and how did you know he was idle?" "I saw him," said I. "You did? And were your eyes on your book when you saw him ?" I was caught, and I never watched for idle boys again." In the St. Louis Recorder's Court recently, Alexander McManus was fined five dollars for stealing wood from the steamboat Hannibal, and was asked by his honor to fork over. "C-c-c can't do it," muttered he; "a-a-aint got the pewter, yer honor." "Are you a married man ?" asked the Recorder. "N-n-n-not exactly s-s-so far g-g-g-gone yet, sir." "Well, I will have to send you to the penitentiary." "T-t-taint nothin' t-t-to go th-there," said Alick. "I'm used to it; but when you talked about marriage, you frightened me." ? -? SSy The following good thing we fiud in the Waterbury American : "What do you call that?" indignantly asked a customer at a cheap restaurant, pointing to an object he had discovered in his plate of hash. "Wristband with sleeve-button attached, sir," said the water, briskly. "Well, do you consider that a proper thing for a man to find in his hash ?" asked the customer, in wrath. "Good gracious, sir!" cried the waiter, "would you expect to find a ten-dollar silk umbrella in a fifteen cent plate of hash !" SSy A German settler in Ohio, found guilty of selling liquor contrary to law, and sentenced to be imprisoned in the county jail for thirty days, protested as follows: "Chail! Go to chail! Me go to chail! But I can't go! Dere's my pizines3?ray pakery. Who pakes ray pread when I been gone?" Then casting his eyes about the court appealingly, they fell upon the good-natured face of jolly Chris Ellwaner, a fellow-countryman, who had no "piziness," and forthwith a brilliant idea struck him. Turning to the judge he said, in sober earnest: "Dere's Chris Ellwaner! He's got nodings to do ; send him !" ? &SF Charles Nordoff tells of a man whom he found in California, who refused to let the telegraph wires pass over his farm. "He did not want the whole country to know every time he whipped his children," he said ; and when it was explained to him that the wires did not, of themselves, take cognizance of passing events, he replied : "Well, anyhow, he'd always hearn that it killed corn." 8ST "I'm lonely, to-night, Love." This was composed by a young fellow in Detroit, who went hunting ducks on the St. Clair Flats, and by the overturning of his boat, had to hang to a log all night. He wasn't as lonely as he tried to make her believe, for the mosquitoes made the time pretty lively, and a coal-barge cabin boy shot at him several times for a canvass-back duck. A temperance lecturer discanting on the superior advantages of cold water, remarked, "When the world had become so corrupt that the Lord could do nothing with it, he was obliged to give it a thorough sousing with cold water." "Yes," replied a toper present; "but it killed every living critter on the face of the earth." &5T A very little boy, who was riding with his father in a buggy, was very anxious to know what Flora, the horse, was made of. His father explained to him, that, like all other animals, she was made of the dust of the earth. "Oh! yes," said the little boy, "I see some of it on her neck." ? SOT A gentleman said to an old lady who had brought up a family of children near the Merrimac River: "I should think you would have lived in constant fear that some of them would have got drowned." "Oh ! no," responded the old lady, "we only lost three or four that way." ? ^ *?*The city editor of the Jacksonville Journal offered to send his girl the paper regularly, but she replied, with sweet innocence, that her "ma didn't allow her to wear bustles." The poor girl never supposed anybody could want to read the sheet. VST A young man asked a young lady her age, when she replied: "Six times seven and seven times three, added to my age, will exceed six times nine and four, as double my age exceeds twenty." The young man said that he thought she looked much older. fiS?" A stranger, seated at the table of his ' pious host, commenced eating, when his host, checking him, said, "We say something before taking food." To which the stranger replied, "Talk on, you can't turn my stomach now." parting for the fahkth. CONDUCTED UY REV. ROBERT LATH AN. THE INFLUENCE OF LITTLE SINS. Little sins are as really sinful as larger. 1 They are foxes, and they spoil the vines. One , flaw ruins us in the eye of God. We recognize and act upon this in other things; sad and strange that we should fail to do so in , higher. "Who does not see that the tiniest flaw or fracture in a diamond vitiates the whole gem, be it a very Kohinoor?that the smallest streak or stain sets aside the marble > block of Carrara, that is like the driven ( snow?that the slightest spot or speck dims ( to rejection the whole polished lens?that the , most insignificant leak is perilous?" In these cases it will not arrest the verdict to allege , the fault is so very small. Actual transac- ( tions established thi3. Once a famous ruby , was offered to this country. The report of the crown jeweler was that it was the finest that he had ever seen or heard of; but that , one of its facets?one of the "little" cuttings of the face?was slightly fractured. The j result was, that almost invisible flaw reduced , its value by thousands of pounds, aud it was ] rejected from the regalia of England. Again ; ] when Canova was about to commence his great statue of the great Napoleon, his keenly observant eye detected a tiny red line running through the upper portion of the splendid block, that at a great cost had been brought from Paros, and he refused to lay a chisel on it. Once more; in the story of struggles of | the elder Herschel, while he was working out | the problem of gigantic specula, or telescope lenses, you will fiud that he made scores upon scores before he got one to satisfy him. A , scratch like the slenderest spider-line sufficed to vitiate what had cost him long weeks of toil and anxiety. Again ; in the "leak" of a ship, the measure of the ship to resist the * shock of wave or the strain of the wind is not the strongest but its weakest part. The tremeudous issues contingent on the attention or non-attention to the slightest "leak" was illustrated in a recent incident in the late deplorable civil war in America. One of the Federal war-ships had what seemed -a merely superficial "leakage," and, though not noticed, it was not thought necessary to countermand, the order that she should take part in an approaching conflict. At the crisis of the encounter, it was found that the sea-water had got oozing into the powder magazine, and rendered nearly the whole useless. On that powder hung victory or defeat. The little leak" went uncared for, and an inferior force won. I would have you see and' know assuredly that nothing in or about sin can be?except in the relation of words?"little;" that sin is and ever must be sin only and sin absolutely and sin eternally. The smallest neglected | spark of fire has flashed out into a conflagration : the smallest neglected leak has sunk the proudest ship; the smallest neglected sickness has "brought down" to the grave; and the smallest consciously-neglected, unconfessed, and therefore, unpardoned sin will lose you, 0 man, O woman, thy soul! Only wheu our sin has been carried to the Lord, in penitent confession, when placed beneath the "sprinkling blood," is there deliverance.? Orosart. ? ? ? A MOTHER'S PRAYERS. John R. lost his mother when he was but twelve years of age. Short though her life with him had been, it was a valuable one; for she was a pious mother, and with her child's first breath consecrated him in prayer I to God. As he grew up, it was her custom to teach him to pray, kneeling at her knees, and then she would kneel beside him, and pour out her soul in tenderest supplication to God to prepare him for usefulness in this life, and a glorious mortality in the life to come. But in a few days violent sickness brought the mother to the gates of death. The family and friends were hastily summoned round the death-bed. "Put my hand on Johnny's head," and then she prayed. "0 Lord, into thy hand I commeud my boy. Bless him and make him a blessing." And after adding, "Farewell, world; welcome, Jesus!" her ransomed spirit fled to be glorified with the Lord. These were trying times for that dear boy. For some years he did well; but dissatisfied with slow and steady success, he fell in with the crowds that are coustautly driving West, and there hastened to become rich. New associations gradually diverted him from -1 . 1 1 1 I 1 . 1 /? .1 ! . 1 1 J tne sieaay naoits ne naa iormea in Doynoou. He began to neglect the house of God. The Sabbath must then be spent in amusement. Dissipation followed, and he gradually sunk until in a few years his companions were among the most degraded of a large western city. The lowest dens of vice and sin were his favorite haunts, low rum saloons his home, while the oaths of the blasphemer and the filthy song were music to his soul. Exhausted with revelry and rum, one night, amid the oaths and laughing of his companions, he sank down upon the floor in a state of stupor. His mind wandered back to better days?the home of his boyhood?the room of death?his mother! All stood before his semi-unconscious mind in panoramic view. Then the thin, cold hand on his head, and the fervent prayer, "0 Lord, into thy hands I commend my boy. Bless him and make him a blessing." He started up and rushed to the door. "Hallo, Jack! What's the matter? deli- : rium again, eh ?" But John was gone, gone never to "enter i such a place again. Fearful struggles and untold agony racked his almost shattered mind for many days ; but the thin, cold hand on his head, and the prayer sounding in his ear as if it were the voice of an angel with . God's own trump, never left him, until another and sweeter voice spoke to his soul the words of grace; "Return unto the Lord, and i he will have mercy upon thee," and "to our i God, for he will abundantly pardon." It is over fourteen years since that mother's prayers were answered. Prosperity returned to him again; and though a busy merchant in i a large city, he finds time enough to pay his vows which he made to God fourteen years : ago, that if God would again return to him with his favor and grace, he would spend onefourth of his time and one-tenth of his wealth in missionary effort to bring the degraded of the citv to the knowledge of the Lord. "It was her hand on my head and her prayer in my ear that saved me." Mothers, try it. Jesus Christ a Teacher.?A celebrated philosopher of antiquity, who was accustomed to receive large sums from his pupils in return for his instructions, was one day accosted by ' an indigent youth, who requested admission : into the number of his disciples. "And I what," said the sage, "will you give me iu reiturn?" "I will give you myself," was the reply. "I accept the gift," answered the sage, "and engage to restore you to yourself at some future period, much more valuable than you , are at present." In siraular language does our great Teacher address those who apply to him for instruction, conscious that they are [ unable to purchase his instructions, and offer! ing to give him themselves. He will readily accept the gift, he will educate them for heaven, and will at length restore them to themselves, incomparably more wise, more happy, ; and more valuable than when he received ; them. I?* It is not difficult to weep with those who : weep, for the sight of sorrow naturally begets piety; but to rejoice with those who rejoice, to relish the prosperity, to be glad in the advancement, to sympathize with the happiness . of others, cuts our selfishness, and proves often the hardest Christian grace to exercise. I?* Grace thrives by frequent meditation on ' portions of God's word. "Let the word of ' I Christ dwell in you richly." m ^ < How to condemn duels between indi- ' viduals and to approve of duels between na- i nations, no man has been able to explain. i (Eildtxtt's fqmrtmcnt. I] THE COUNTERFEIT SHILLING. A boy named Charles Harris, in a country town in England, had a counterfeit shilling given to him, one day, by his cousin, Thomas Downs, who was a clerk in a store. It looked 1 so much like a good shilling, that hardly one c person in a hundred would have noticed that t it was not a good one. In coming home from t 3chool the next day, Charles showed the shil- ^ ling to some of his companions. They asked him why he didn't pass it ? He said he [ would not do that, because it was not right. The boys laughed at this, and asked him to 1 come to old Dame Jones' little shop, at the c corner of the lane, and spend the shilling in ] nuts and candy. "You may be sure the ? Dame will never notice it," said Harry Morgan, the higgest boy in the company, "for she can't see very well, and then you can treat us c all round, and that will be jolly." 1 Charles' conscience told him that this c would be very wrong, and lie said he couldn't t :lo it. But the boys all got round him, and r * ' ? . < i i vi l 1 pressed nun so mucn, tnac at last ne yieinea | and did it. Hi9 conscience troubled him d read fully when he came to the shop. He hesitated ; but the hoys urged him on, and he went in and passed off the counterfeit shilling for a good one. The boys thought it was nice fun. They enjoyed the treat very much. But Charles didn't enjoy it at all. He could think of nothing but the mean, wicked thing he had done. When he went to bed at night he couldn't sleep. It seemed as if there was a thorn in his pillow that drove sleep away. The next day, when he went to school, Harry Morgan met him and asked him to do his sums for him. "I can't stop now," said Charley. "But you've got to," cried Harry, "if you don't I'll tell of your passing counterfeit money, and then you'll have to go to jail." Poor Charley was terribly frightened. How he wished he had never seen that counterfeit shilling. He felt that it was very hard for the boys who had urged him to do wrong, now to turu round on him in this way. But he saw how entirely he was in their power. During recess there was a quarrel among the boys. One of them who felt angry with Charley said, "Pooh ! a fellow that will cheat a poor old woman will do anything." This was almost more than Charley could bear, but what was he to do. On his way home in the afternoon, he suddenly met his cousin Thomas Downs, who gave him the shilling. "Hallo, Charley," said Thomas, "let's see that shilling I gave you." "Haven't got it," said Charley, turning quickly away. "Stop; did you lose it, or give it away?" "No," said Charley. "Well, where is it ? You haven't spent it, have you ?" It was on the end of his tongue to say "No." But Charley never lied, and great as the temptation was, he wouldn't do it now. "Oh !" he cried, almost choked with grief and shame, "what did you give me that counterfeit niece for? It has been a dreadful temnta- ' tion to me. I have passed it and what shall I do ?" and the poor boy looked perfectly wretched. His cousin was surprised and sorry. He took him quietly by the hand, and walked down a lane where they could talk by themselves. Charley told his cousin all about it, and asked what he was to do. Thomas told him there was but one thing for him to do, and that was to carry a real shilling to the old woman in the place of the counterfeit, and own what he had done. "Couldn't I go and put it under the shop door," said Charley, "it will be just the same; she'll get it, and not lose by the counterfeit." "Just as well for her," said his cousin, "but not as well for you, Charley. You know you have done wrong. If you are really sorry, make clean work of it. Now, go like a man; be honest about it. You have injured your Conscience by doing wrong; you must heal it by dping right. Here, take this shilling, I give it you for my share in your trouble. It will teach me a lesson about putting temptation in the way of my friends. Go down to the woman; own it all; ask her to forgive you, and give her the good shilling in place of the bad one." Charley did so. When he got the counterfeit shillinsr he went down to the shore and threw it into the sea. Then he felt a great load lifted off from him, and said to himself, ' "Now, I'm free again. I am not afraid of ' anybody now." 1 And this shows us how we are to get relief < from the trouble, when we have injured our j consciences by doing wrong to those about j us.?Exchange. SOWING DISCORD. j "Aunt Alice, I think Sarah Lee is the most * disagreeable girl in our school; she is always 1 making mischief. Now I have helped her 1 ever so many times iu her lessons, and lent i her my history, but she is not in the least j grateful. She told Mabel that she thought I j was very proud of my curly hair, and that my ^ composition wasn't half as good as Mary Gray's." s "Were not both statements true ?" quietly 1 asked her aunt. t Laura blushed, but presently said: "I c think it is very raeau for her to talk about } me, any way. I suppose she was provoked j because I got above her in spelling. I am sure it was not ray fault that she missed. I * told Mabel I thought that was what made her 1 so spiteful." . 1 "You never talk against her, do you, r Laura?" "No, indeed ; I am sure I never did." "Take care, my child; I think I can convince you that you said she was the most disagreeable girl in school, that she was always c making mischief, thatshe was ungrateful, and ^ spiteful, because you got above her. Now, 1 did she ever say anything half as bad about t you ? How would it sound if what you have ^ just said was reported to her, exactly as you t have said it? Would you not be very sorry , indeed to have her hear it?" Laura looked as she felt, very much con- v fused, and she had no apology to offer. v "Always look carefully within, my dear, c when one speaks ill of you, and see if you do t not deserve it, and cannot learn a lesson from it. Then, before you allow yourself to get j angry, ask if you have not said quite as bad things about the other party. There are a . great many hasty words spoken, which hurt ? nobody but the speaker, unless they are re- 1 peated. To do this is a tale-bearer's business, r that is strictly forbidden in the Bible "Thou J suait not go up ana down as a tale-bearer t among ray people." It was wrong for Mabel j. to repeat the words that gave you so much annoyanee, and it is quite iikely that she re- r ported your answer also. Of all seed-sowing, it is the poorest to sow discord among those t who should be good friends. I think the p true course for you, dear, is to repent truly of j unkind words, and seek, by uniform kindness, to be reconciled to your friend. As you are c much the greatest offender, it is proper that I the first step toward a reconciliation should t come from you."?Presbyterian. I t Do it Now.?Don't live a single hour of t your life without doing what is to be done in t it, and going straight through from beginning to end. Work, play, study, whatever it is, take hold at once and finish it up squarely v and cleanly ; then to the next thing, without; v letting any moments drop out between. It is | r wonderful to see how many hours these prompt: fc people contrive to make of a day ; it is as if a they picked up the moments that the drawlers ; j lost. And if ever you find yourself where you have so many things pressing upon you, that you hardly know how to begin, let me a tell you a secret: Take hold of the very first! I one that comes to hand, and you will find the J j rest all fall into file, and follow after like a j company of well-drilled soldiers ; and though work may be hard to meet when it charges in n i squad.it is easily vanished if you can bring a it into line. li ?CttUlti$CCHCC of the f?5t. | Written for the Yorkville Enquirer. MY FIRST COAT. It is nearly half a century ago, but I re- i nernber with the vivid distinctness of ail j went which transpired but yesterday, the ime when I got ray first coat. All the atending circumstances conspired to imprint he event lastingly upon my memory. My ; sarents were neither rich nor poor. They ived in a secluded region of country. Rarey did we see any one, except when some one :ame to our house on some little errand. 3oth my father and mother loved retirement, scarcely ever did either of them leave home, ind never both leave at the same time. One if them invariably remained at home to watch is children. There were four of U3?three laughters and one son. I was the oldest. At he period referred to, I had nearly completed ny ninth year. To the best of ray recollection, ! had never been in any house except that of ny parents, In early infancy I had been tacen to church, but I was too small to recolect anything about it. I knew the faces of >nly a few individuals outside of our immediite family. It was now thought by both ray )arents, that it was time that I should be tacen to church. To enable me to enjoy this privilege, I must be provided with a coat. It vas not then, as it is now. When at present t is determined that a lad must have a new ;oat, it is bought ready made ; or the cloth is Dought and put into the hands of a tailor to De made. Then it was different When it was concluded that I should have i coat, the wool was selected, and both my parents went to work to get it ready. My 'ather carded and my mother spun. Soon i large bunch.of yarn was hanging up in the jorner of the house. I remember it well. I jounted it many times every day. It confined, when it was concluded that there was mough, in the language of my mother, "four md twenty-five cut hanks." The chain had 3een spun before. It was dyed blue, and the 'fillen" was dyed a red brown with a kind of boss which was then very abundant in the country, but has long since disappeared. The iveb was sized and warped. So distinct is my ecollection of the circumstance, that I can still see the old warping bars as they stood eaning up against the end of the house. The rnit was to be a fine one; hence a seven hunIred reed and headles to correspond were secured. I watched the "babe" whilst my father and mother put in the web. This lone, my mother mounted the loom and wove ,vith an energy which I had never seen her lisplay before. It was evident that both narents were deeply interested in the coat. In little more than two days from the time ;hat the web was put on the beam, it was ,aken off?twenty-six yards of what is now jailed linsey. My father mounted his horse ind went somewhere in the neighborhood and ;ot a lady to come and make my coat. This ,voraan went by the name of Ann Jane, and ,vas generally regarded as very handy. I renember with what intense anxiety I looked jp the road to see if she was coming. At ast my longing eyes were gratified. It was fate in the evening?too late to commence svork on the coat. The cloth was brought nut and examined by Ann Jane and pronounced excellent, which was regarded by my parents, and, I must confess, by me too, as jomplimentary in the highest degree. Ann Jane was, all over the country, an oracle respecting the quality of cloth. That night was a memorable night to me. [ went to bed, but I could not sleep. If even [ got into a doze, my slumbers were disturbed by rapturous dreams respecting my coat. At length morning came. We always arose sarly, but that morning I was up much earlier than usual. The whole of the family was soon out of bed and breakfast was prepared aud dispatched. The cloth was brought out and Ann Jane, with shears in band, sat down to make the selection for my 3oat. Three yards were cut off for a pair of pants for father, because this being the beginaing of the web, was thought to be sleazy, [t was determined to take the coat from what followed next in order. Ann Jane cut off x certain amount?I forget how much. All I remember is that my father enjoined it upon ler to take enough to make the coat large, issigning as a reason that I was growing very ast. It was determined by all parties that' -he style of the coat should be of the latest ashion. Not a round-a-bout, nor a modern ihoo-fly; but a forked tailed coat. All hands vent to work to hasten the making. I minded he children ; and as it was not a busy season >f the year, my father remained about the louse and aided mother in the household afairs, that she might have as much time as lossible to assist Ann Jane. Not long after loon on Saturday the coat was finished. Dinner had been postponed that the coat night be completed. After dinner was over, father got a large ;ourd and filled it with water and told me to iome and wash. With hands, face and neck, :overed over with strong lye-soap, I followed lira out into the yard that I might be cleansed >efore trying on the coat. Father poured he water on my hands, and although I always before that time had been greatly averse 0 washing, I scrubbed hands, face and neck. 1 was literally covered with soap suds. The vashing over, a clean shirt?coarse but as vhite as snow?was brought out and soon was in my bock. Then came the trying on of he coat. Father, mother, Ann Jane, and :ven my three little sisters, all gathered around ? 1? 'l 1 ? -lr/\ J "MAtt/Mi JIJ n ftinl U 11UW It lUUhCU. 11CVU vuu c* aiug iv.w? oore important when having the royal dialem placed on his head, than did I when havng this, my first coat, tried on. It was prolounced a perfect fit by the whole party. Ann lane went home, and the night, until bed ime, was spent in talking about the coat; and >y me, from bed time to daylight, in incoheent dreams about it. I must give a more minute description of hat coat. As I said before, it was what at >resent is called a linsey coat; but at that time t' was simply called a woolen coat. The olor was, as said above, a bright brown, ap>roaching closely to a red; the style a forked ail. The collar was a remarkable feature, t was quilted and made, by the assistance of mckrara, as stiff and as thick as the sole of a nodern shoe. It run up in a sharp point intil it touched my head about raid-way beween the crown of my head and neck. It vas, at this place, a tight fit. The buttons rerc taken from an old coat of, as well as I emember, my grand-father's, and were the test gilt buttons. They came from Ireland, ,nd had been, I suppose, in the family, for at east half a century. Sabbath morning came and all things were rranged for father and myself to go to church. Ie rode an old mare which was called "Jin." rode a magnificent young horse called Dave. meal bag was thrown over the back of the loble animal and made secure by tying round the trunk of the horse a leather plow inc. With a clean shirt, copperas pants, and my new coat, I jumped astride the noble ani-'1 mal. I was bare-footed, for up to thi9 time, | and long after it, ray feet had never been j confined in shoes. I was a splendid rider.1 Although I was not quite nine years old, I j could ride anything in the shape of a horse. Dave was a spirited animal, and no sooner had I touched his back than the noble creature seemed to catch the spirit of the rider. In due time we reached the church. I had never seen so many people in all ray life. I looked first at one and then at another. My coat, although it was all the world to me, gave me no little uneasiness. The collar confined my head. I could neither turn my head to the right or to the left without coming in contact with the collar. My hat?an old one of my father's?was constantly displaced by it; and on one or two occasions carae near being pushed entirely off my head. It was really painful, but I would have endured anything short of death, so proud was I of ray new coat. I have had- many coats since that, and some of them fine ones, too; but never have I possessed any coat or anything else, that made me feel so happy. I felt richer the day I wore ray first coat than I would today were I made sole possessor of either continent. I was rich without a pang of envy, and happy without an unsatisfied desire. I had what I wanted, and wanted nothing that I did not have; and although the coat was not worth five dollars, I would not have taken a house-full of gold for it Ireland. Ike f etfeviUe Ghquim. TERMS?IN ADVANCE: One Copy, oneyear, ; 9 3 00 One C?py, Six months, 1 50 OneCopy, Three months, 1 00 Single Copy, 10 Two Copies, one year, 5 00 Ten Copies, 14 44 25 00 persons who make up clubs of ten or more names, an extra copy ol'tlie paper will be furnished one year, free of charge. ADVERTIHEMENT8 Will be inserted at One Dollar and Fifty Cents per square for the first, and Seventy-five Cents per square for each subsequent insertion-less than three months. A square consists of the space occupied by ten lines of this size type, or one inch. No advertisement considered less than a square. Semi-Monthly, Monthly, or Quarterly Advertisements, will bochargedTwo Dollars per square for each insertion. Quarterly, Semi-Annual or Yearly contracts will be made on liberal terms?the contract, however, must inall cases be confined to the immediate business of the firm or individual contracting. Obituary Notices and Tributes of Respect, rated as advertisements. Announcements of Marriages and Deaths,and notices of a religiouscharacter, inserted gratis, and solicited. 7&T' Personal Communications, when admissable; Communications of limited or individual interest, or recommendations of Candidates for offices of honor, profit or trust, will bo charged for as advertisements. Dr. Crook's Wine of Tar. i 10 YEARS -of a t PUBLIC TEST Dr. Crook's WINE TAR To have more merit than any similar preparation ever offered the public. Tt i* rich in the medicinal qualities of Tar, and unequaled for diseases of the Throat and Lungs, performing the most remarkable cures. Coughs, Colds, Chonic Coughs. It effectually cures tliem all. Asthma and Bronchtis. Has cured so many caBes it has been pronounced a specific for these complaints. For pains in Breast, Side or Back, Gravel or Kidney Disease, Diseases of the Urinary Organs, Jaundice or any Liver Complaint, It has no equal. It is also a superior Tonic, Restores the Appetite, Strengthens the System, Restores the Weak and Debilitated, Causes the Food to Digest, Removes Dyspepsia and Indigestion, Prevents Malarious Fevers, Gives tone to your System. TiM.rnn fwAnlz'e ti/inrni'Ttir M I" y IFI V WW a WW ?MV October 3 40 ly GEO. S. HACKER, DOOR, SASH AND BLIND FACTORY, I CHARLESTON, S. C. THIS is as large and complete a Factory as there is in the South. All work manufactured at the Factory in this city. The only house owned and managed by a Carolinian in this line in Charleston. Send for price list. Address, GEO. S. HACKER, Post-Office box 170, Charleston, S. C. Factory and Warerooms on King street, opposite Cannon street, on line of City Railway. December 5 49 ly STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA, York County. WHEREAS JAMES BRIAN has applied to me for Letters of Administration, on all and singular, the goods and chattels, rights and credits of JACOB BRIAN, late of the county aforesaid, deceased. These are, therefore, to cite and admonish al 1 and singular, the kindred and creditors oftho said deceased, to be and appear before mo, at our next Judge of Probato's Court for the said County, to bo holden at York Court House on tho 25TH DAY OF JANUARY, instant, to show cause, if any, why the said Administration should not be granted. Given under mv hand and Seal, this 3rd day of January, in the year of our Lord one thousand m'rrh* hundred and seventy-two. and in the 97th year of the independence of the United States of America. JOSEPH A. McLEAN, Judge of Probate. January 1(5 3 2t DOC^, SASH AND BLINDS, | MOULDINGS, Brackets, Stair Fix- ' tures, builders' Furnishing Hard- j ware, Drain Pipe, Floor Tiles, Wire ! Guards, Terra Cotta Ware, Marble and 1 Slato Mantle Pieces. WINDOW GLASS A SPECIALTY, j Circulars and Price Lists sent free ; ; on application, by P. P. TO ALE, 20 Hayuo and 33 Pinckney streets, : Charleston, S. C. 1 i IPS' Orders received by my Agents, I Messrs. JEFFERYS A METTS, attho ! ! Citizen'sSavingsBank,Yorkville,S.C. | Octobor3 ^ 40 ly jA?'PIltS ma^ iearn something greatly ? to their advantage and obtain specimens and full particulars free, by addressing WOOD'S LITERARY AND ART AGENCY, J Newburgh, N. Y. TRIUMPH ANT! ! rWlr^1 !MrmF^r^?gWr 1 IKlnHTlri^iB^^^^P^ iBTmiMJim ( ?^a?wg^^sg?c^<^W^IB?wlSt t RbB t H??kehkSSSm^9HEB 1 ^bH^H^HHRHmB ri THE f t CAROLINA FERTILIZER * 8 WILL BE SOLD AS FOLLOWS: f CASH PRICE. $4S PER TON OF 2000 LBS. ' TIME PRICE. $53 PER TON OF 2000 LBS. PAYABLE NOVEMBER 1, 1873, FREE OF INTEREST. FREIGHT AND DRAYAGE To bo added, ITS SUCCESS IS \ UNPARALLELED, j AND ITS STANDARD IS .A. NO. 1. 1 CALL ON AGENTS FOR ALMANACS AND CERTIFICATES. I ,GE0. W. WILLIAMS & CO., CHARLESTON, S. C. CARROLL, CLARK & CO., AGENTS AT YORKVILLE, S. C. WYLIE, RODDEY & AGUES, i AGENTS AT ROCK HILL, S. C. _Decemberl9 51 4m ] 7r THIS unrivaled Medicine Is warranted not to contnln a single particle of Mercury, or any injurious mineral substance, but is PURELY VEGETABLE. For FORTY YEARS It has proved Its great value in all diseases of the Liver, Bowels and Kidneys. Thousands of the good and great in nil parts of the country vouch for Its wonderful and peculiar power in purifying the Blood, stimulating the torpid Liver and Bowels, and imparting new Life and Vigor to the whole system. SIMMONS' LIVER REGULATOR is acknowledged to have no equal as a LIVER MEDICINE. It contains four medical elements, never united in the same happy proportion in any other preparation, viz: a gentle Cathar- B tic, a wonderful Tonic,an unexceptionable Alterative and a ccr- 1 tain Corrective of nil impurities of the body. Such signal success has attended Its use, that it Is now regarded as the GREAT UNFAILING SPECIFIC For Liver Complaint and the painful offspring thereof, to wit: DYSPEPSIA, CONSTIPATION, Jaundice, Bilious attacks, SICK HEADACHE, Colic, Depression of Spirits, SOUR STOMACH, Heart Burn, kc.,&c. s Regulate the Liver and prevent CHILLS AND FEVER. \ SIMMONS* LIVER REGULATOR ^ fa hnrmlnaq. Is no drastic violent medicine, Is sure to cure if taken regularly, Is no intoxicating beverage, Is n faultless family medicine,**Is the cheapest family medicine in the world, Is given with safety and the happiest results to the most delicate infant, Does not interfere with business, Does not disarrange the system, Takes the place of Quinine and Bitters of every kind, Contains the simplest and best remedies. SIMMONS' LIVER REGULATOR, THE GREAT FAMILY MEDICINE, Is manufactured only by J. H. ZEILIN & CO., Macon, Ga., and Philadelphia. Price 31.00 per package; sent by mail, postage paid, $1.04. Prepared ready for use In bottles, $1.50. BOLD BY ALL DRUGGISTS. QQ- Beware of all Counterfeits and Imitations. December 13 50 6m j Ms Hiii Magazine Is an original, flrst-closs. Dollar Monthly. It is H * O fresh and sprightly, and will Interest the entire f\ f household, including lovers and maidens, bus- VJ O bands and wives, parents and children. Itsug- p gests the Importance of securing a union of p ' [J hearts and purposes in life, before there shall IS g be a union of hands. It believes that, while it A s Is woman's privilege to purify nnd comfort and ^ a m adorn, it should be man's pleasure to provide ?l V Pi for, cherish, and protect. It would have chll- ft Odren treated as feeling, thinking and growing 55 creatures?perfectly created,but not fUUgrown. T 8 U YcLln advocating theso doctrines, the Maga- u zlne does not employ doctrinal sermons?long JJ 5 and dreary disquisitions which do not interest Q t: Eand therefore do not profit the reader. On the p contrary, It would rather preach as though It ? U preached not?an interesting story,for instance, fc O" being made to serve the purpose of a long dls- m, course by giving the reader something real, in- Ot Utcrestlng and profitable to think about. J The worst as well as tlio best feature of the g\ n Magazine is its price. The idea of getting & VP fm really flrst-class Magazine at one dollar a year, V M seems absurd to most people. Yet it employs A A some of the best contributors in the country? H including Gail IIamilto*, its leading editor, ^ _ Cwho receives a salary of three thousand dol- f Alars, equivalent to about ten dollars per day. p Each number contains nearly eight hundred p o tm dollars' worth of matter, which costs the sub- ~ 3 L scrlber about eight cents. A C I Hope and Joy?two beautifully tinted crayon portraits worth Four Dollars?will be mailed J N free to every subscriber to the Magazine at SI SO ft E Specimens freo. Agents wanted. Address 8. 55 J 8. WOOD <t CO., Ncwburgh, N. Y. T ^ IjijiUoHonal Ju |J United Yolce of the Press,?Wood's 111 magazine Is one of tho monuments of business "F t O enterprise which mark the age.?Methodi* Uomt ft P Journal, Phlla., I'u As its title promises, It 25 is dovoted to the instruction and entertainment V# E ofthefamllyclrcle.and.lnordcrtoplaccltwlth. p ? &ln the means of readers In moderate clrcum- ? Jstances,it is furnished at a remarkably low rata A in proportion to tlie interest of its contents.?JV. ?j fw I". Tribune. ..It Is csscntlnlly a home magazine, H w and is just the thing that one would most desire f\ Y to place In the bands of bis wife and little ones, w ? or that 11 man of business would himself take II e ft urvfor the employment of a leisure hour.?Post 5? r ^ wllmlniiton. s. C Were wo out of our S if chair editorial, as a "private citizen," cut off r? r* from our exchange list and all that, one of the fc p first magazines to which we should subscribe U T would be Wood's Household.?Keyvier, Hart- " OC ford, Ct. ?It Is an Intellectual and moral ft | educator, lilghly prized by all who become ac- , JJL qualified with It.?Christian Adromle. If L I O popular writers are, therefore, good writers, n * Yand if high prices prove the merit of literary ** wares, then Mr. Wood's magazine is a good M H one.?The InSrpauUnt, New York Its aril- V Ocles breathe a spirit of economy, morality and A virtue which Is highly refreshing In this age of g\ p fashionable folly and extravaganco.?Saitind, M EEdlna, Mo It Is undoubtedly one of the A freshest, liveliest journals we have examined. * ?Remrd, Springfield, Tenn The articles 2 1 J are short, piquant, and of such unquestioned a 9 excellence, that tliLs periodical ought to be both I Q familiar and welcome In very ninny house- /?, holds. Wood's Is a marvel or cheapness nud * T first-class quality combined.?tote York Timet. E> n Wood's Mi nun i January 9 2 ly ^ JHEPARKERCUN. 1 PARKER BRtfS WESTMERIDEN.CT. ' ? WRAPPING PAPER. j 2 A LOT of TIDDY'S large-aizod WRAPPING ti PAPER on hand and for sale, by | A W. L. GRIST, Agent. I STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA, COUNTY OF CHE8TEB-00URT OF COMMON FLEAS. J. C. Macoy, as Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas for Chester county, Plaintiff, against Obadinli M. Cornwcll, Defendant.?Summons for Belief. fo the Defendant, Obadiah M. Cornwell: fOU are hereby summoned and required to answer the complaint in this action, which has his day been filed in the office of the Clerk of the taurtof Common Pleas for the said county, and to ervo a copy of your answer to the said complaint in the subscribers, at their office, in the town of Chester, South Carolina, within twenty days after he service of this summons on you, exclusive of he day of such service ; and if'you fail to ansverthis complaint within tlio time aforesaid, the 'laintiff will apply to the Court for the relief lemanded in the complaint. Dated January 7th, 1873. \f*T.TTRR. At MVT.TTRT7! Plaintiff's Attorneys. ro the Defendant, Obadiah M. Cornwell: You will take notice that a summons in this lotion, of which the foregoing is a true copy, was iled in the office of the Clerk of said County, it Chester Court House, in the County and State iforesaid. on the 7th day of January, A. D., 1873. ind that if you fail to answer as required in said mmmnns, the Plaintiff will apply to the Court or the relief demanded in the complaint McLURE & McLURE, Plaintiff's Attorneys. January 9 2 6t STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA. York County. 3has. Bovd, against Juliet E. Dronnan, James A. Boyd, John Boyd, Robert S, Boyd, minor children of David L. Boyd, deceased, (names unknown) and Agnes E. Gardner, legk representatives of David Boyd, deceased; William Boyd, John Boyd, Elizabeth Boyd, Rachel Boyd and Agnes Hardin, children of Wm. Boyd, deceased; William J. L. Boyd, Charles Boyd, Margaret Burris, and Joseph Boyd, children of John Boyd, deceased; Randolph Kelsey, Rhett Kelsey, Lonny Kelsey, Sallie Kelsey, Minnie Kelsey, Lizzie Kelsey, j and Agnes Kelsey, grand children of John Boyd, deceased, and all other unknown legal heirs and representatives of Charles Boyd, senior, deceased. FOU are hereby required to appear at the Court of Probate, to be holden at York Court blouse, for York county, on the 4th day of March, V. D. 1873, to shew cause, if any you can, why he real estate of CHARLES BOYD, Sr., deceased, lituate in said county, bounding lands of Wm. 3. Moore, James C. Poag, Lewis McElwee, and ithers, and containing one hundred and ninety icres, more or less, should not be sold, allotting o the said Charles Boyd, Petitioner, the one'ourth parttbereofand to the legal representatives if Da^id Boyd, Wm. Boyd, and John Boyd each, per st ^es) the remaining three-fourths in equal jortions, liven under my hand and seal this 14th day of January, A. D., 1873. JOSEPH A. McLEAN, Judge of Probate. January 16 3 Ct ESTABLISHED 1857. Li H. MILLER, MILLER'S SAFE AND HON WORKS, BALTIMORE, MD. SALESROOM: 265 BALTIMORE STREET, (One Door above Hanover,) FACTORY: Square bounded by Henrietta, Claret, Fremont and Warner Streets. Every variety of the Best Fire and Burglar Proo Safes, Bankers' Chests, Improved Combination Locks, Bank v amis ana uours. Send for Illustrated Catalogue and Price List. 12,000 IN USE-TESTED IN 200 FIRES. Near References:?National Bank, Chester, Smith and Melton, Chester ; John Agnew & Son, Columbia. S. C. September 12 37 tf PACIFIC GUANO COMPANY'S (CAPITAL 9100,000) SOLUBLE PACIFIC GUANO. THIS GUANO is now so well known in all the Southern States for its remarkable effects as in agency for increasing the products of labor, as lot to require special recommendation from us. Lis use for seven years past has established its , jliaracter for reliable excellence. The large fixed japital invested by the Company in this trade af'ords the surest guarantee of the continued ex:ellence of this Guano. The supplies put into the market this season are, is heretofore, prepared under the personal superntendence of Dr. ST. JULIEN RAVENEL, Chemist of the Company, at Charleston, S. C., lenco planters may rest assured that its quality ind composition is precisely the same as that leretofore sold. J. N. ROBSON, Selling Agent, Charleston, S. C. JNO. S. REESE A CO.. General Agents, Baltimore, Md. Terms?$48 cash ; $53 time, without interest. To accommodate planters, they can order now ind have until the 1st of April to decide as to vhether they will take at the time or cash price. iVhen delivered from the Factory by the carload 10 drayage will be charged. W. H. McCORKLE. Agent at Yorkville. S. C. November28 48 3m ROSE'S HOTEL, (FORMERLY HUNT'S HOTEL.) COLUMmA, s. c. rHIS HOUSE is in the centre of the city, convenient to all the Public Offices and Business louses, located on the south-west corner of the itate House Square, has been recently re-opened nd renovated, and will now compare favorably vith any Hotel at the South. ROSE'S OMNIBUS will convey passengers to nd from every train, free of charge. Also, a first-class Carriage for the accommodaion of ladies. TRANSIENT BOARD $2.50 per day. W. E. ROSE, Proprietor. September 12 37 tf THE MORNING STAR." DAILY EDITION: rHOUGH only five years old, has the largest Daily Circulation of anv newspaper in the itate, and a circulation in Wilmington fifty per ent. larger than that of any other paper. WREKLY EDITION: low combined with the CAROLINA FARMER, flaking one of the best Family Newspapers in be South. Circulation very large and rapidly inr easing. SUBSCRIPTION PRICE: )aily Star, 1 year, $7 00 44 44 <? 9 CA II lllUlllLU>f O MM " " 8 months 2 00 VeeklyStar, 1 year, 2 00 " " (! months, 1 00 " ' 8 months, 50 It may be safely asserted that no newspaper ver established in North Carolina has made such apid progress as THE MORNING STAR. p?S- Sena for Specimen copies. Address, WM. H. BERNARD, Wilmington, N. C. January 16 3 tf UNG'9 MOUNTAIN R. ROAD. DAILY TRAIN. aEREAFTER the trains over the KING'S MOUNTAIN RAIL ROAD will run daily. Sundays excepted) as follows, making close conection with trains on the Charlotte, Columbia A iimiofa P(1)1 fAOfl ' uu a,u^uoio nouiu?ui leave Yorkville, promptly, at 7J o'clock, A. M. .rrive at Chester at 9J o'clock, A. M. leave Chester at 4 o'clock, P. M. ^ .rrive at Yorkvilleat 6 o'clock, P. M. All Freights must be delivered at the Depot by o'clock, P. M., on the evenings previous to the eparture of the train. GEORGE W. MELTON, President. A SENSIBLE MAN'S LOGIC. aE who provides not for his own family, is worse than a heathen. Necessaries and coneniences should first be provided. A good SEWNG MACHINE has become a necessary in every imily. The "AMERICAN" IS THE BEST .ND CHEAPEST; containing within itself all le latest improvements. Therefore I will go at nee and buy one of J. R. SCHORB A SON, Agent* for York County. October31 44 tf ? P* TO ^uRiday * Agents wanted! All classes of working people ^ f either sex, young or old, make more money at ork for us in their spare moments, or all the me, than at anything else. Particular* free ddreesG. Stinson & Co., Portland Maine Octolier 3 40 ' ]v