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' -'-SIS *' / ' v/ r/ -V ^ -< / TOTj. XXXII. CAMDEN, S. C., THTKSDAY, JULY 34, 1873. NO. 47. 1 " the mm journal. AN INDEPENDENT FAMILY PAPER PUBLISHED BY JOHN KERSHAW. SUBSCRIPTION RATES One year. in advance $2 "0 Six months 1 <>0 Three months 75 Transient Advertisements must be paid 3? advance. The Railroad Question in its Ecomical and Political Bearings. The farmers' movement in the West for cheap transportation and to cheek railroad monoply begins to have an influence aud to ] take shape in the politics of the country. < The Iowa liepublican State Convention, I which assembled on tho 25th for the purposo ] of nominating candidates for tioveruer and \ other officers, took tho subject up nobly. ^ Among the resolutions, mostly of a partisan political character, passed unanimously by 1 * *l?Af t h A 1 l.AVT? 1 ? * <A? t?l?A /I liiu V, wi'U ui'ii nan 1110 umivmui^. i vw- > solved, That the producing, commcrical and t industrial interests of the country should t have the best and ehenpest modes of trans- r portation possible j and while actual capital . invested in such means of transit, whether 0 by railroad or otherwise, should be permit- f ted the right of reasonable remuneration, ^ abuse in their inauagcweut, excessive rates, oppressive discrimination agaiust localities, ^ persons or iatocrstsshonld bo corrected by _ law, aud we demand Congressional and Le- e gislative enactments that will control and M regulate the railroads of the country, give to f the peoplo transportation et fair rates and pro- :i ^--1.1 :~i: ..i ? Tl leui lueuj zil^uiim uiii-viiit: iiuuocs. xucu, ^ again, in other resolutions, referring to the n mission of the republican party, the Conven- ^ tion says, "it will now be derelict to its spir- n it and duty if it does not protect all our peopie from all the forms of oppression, whcth- jt er by monoplies, centralized capital, or of w whatsoever kind the oppression may be;" and, "that we insist upon the right and duty tJ of the State to control every franchise of w whatsoever kind it grants," meaning the ^ grants to capitalists and corporations for making railroads or other improvements, declar- tj in<v r?f oamn 4tmA f"V*nf OTA ia r\r\ TTlell lug caw tuo oauio biuiv tuuv kkviv id uv n idu p. to do injustice to those who invest in such enterprises. It is 'worthy of notice that the ^ ^^L'onveiitioo, while avowing its faith in the jD ML republican party, declares that to carry out t]l these views it is "the duty of every Republi- w ""can to oppose the election of a bad man aud ^ incompetent official; whether he be a candidate upon our own or any other ticket." ^ Admitting there is some of the usual bun- jU enmhr in thnsfl resolutions which characterizes i;i those of political conventions generally, still ] it is evident tho republicans of Iowa arc ^ awake to the issues that arc looming up, and that they intend to uso them. Their Stato jy is agricultural, more largely so. perhaps, than anyotherin proportion to population,and isat "** a greater distance from markets for Its produce { than many others Foelitig, then, tho necessity of an outlet for their products, which means ot ch^pCTT^waspoilatiou to the seaboard, the ft i>. lij movements of the the fanners throughout.tho p] West agaiust the Railroad monopoly f?nd its tj high charges. Among the farmers' granges (l and other cognate associations in tho West for curbiug and regulating the railroad inwhich heein to couuttheir nieuibcrs j ' D v hv million!), Towa Las a large number. Thongh these combinations have not ha J f? time to crystal ire or show their strength p( the)"arc increasing, and must, before long, become more united and effective. 'JLhc material interests of a vast section of the coun- j( try must give direction to its political action. t| Cheap transportation, consequently, being of primary importance to the agricultural West, J( tiro railroad question will necessarily enter into the politics of that region, llow to 0 solve it is the difficulty at present. The c people sec, and indeed feel, the necessity of t] 1 -il.! 1>~? (n l.ftmn nr linw I lining .viuicimnj; ; uuv nucik uvni<> ?. . ^ (<? proceed ts not so apparent. There is the ( difficulty of invading invested or chartered n right.-. Then the railroad power is strongly n fortified hy capital and by it< influence over- tJ public men, legislatures and the judiciary. J Nor is it clear to tho reformers whether they , should go to the State govcruicnts or the federal govornuicnt for a remedy. Tn their j( inchoate movements under this stntoof things the farmers' organizations exhibit some fear that the politicians or political parties may t( defeat their objeet while pretending to favor j. it. But are thpy not independent of one or other of the old political parties ? Can they c crystallize into a power in the Republic ( ? Tlio f.i? I Ktnfo Convcn- ? Vi illiwuv UVUlg r??' J ? v tion his taken the initiative to bring them j into the republican organization. Will the j democrats bid higher or do letter? Or ; will these organizations remain a power in ( themselves ? The answer must be left to the s future.?X. 1'. Ilnrnfil. ' An Krf.ct I'o*tukp.? V writer on health r! very justly condemns the habit of lounging, I t in which large numbers of persons indulge, I v hs injurious to bcahb. lie says:'An cfcof o bodilv attitude is of vastly moro" importance ? to health than it is generally imagined. Crook- 1 ed bodily positions maintained for any length i of time, are always injurious, whether in the i sitting, standing or lying postnrc ; whether i sleeping or waking. To sit with tlio bodv ; leaning forward on thcstoma<-h,ortooncsidc. 1 with the heels elevated to a level with the : head, is not only in had taste, but exceeding- i ly detrimental to health, ft cramps the < stomach presses the vital organs, interrupts ( t bo free motions of tlio chest, and enfeebles 1 the functions of the abdominal and thoracic organs, and. in fact, unbalances the whole . 1? c-cfrt?, Manv children become JJIllBCUlUK D10?vm*. ^ slightly humpbacked, or severely roundshouldered, by sleeping with the head raised on a high pillow; when any person finds it easier to sit, or stand, or sleep in a crooked position tlrin in a strait one, such persons way he sure his muscular system is badly deranged, and the more earful ho is to preserve a straight or an upright position, and pot back to nature again, the better.' ft is said that some of the Boston ra1 ., teeners convicted of selling liquor. are in tho hahit of paying substitutes to ktvo out tlie terms of imprisonment which they havo heen sentenced. Frugality And Extravagance. BY THE REV. A. W. THOROLP, A. M. Amonsr the practical lessons which a care fill parent will constantly inculcate on liis diildreu, and tli-i pithy maxims that will be 'ailing from hit lips, almost without his mowing them, none can be more important n their nature, more incessant in their inluence, or more permanent in their result, han those which bear upon money. It is asy to make too much of it, and it is possible o make too little. Where the one aim of he head of a family is plainly seen to be ich, and the constant burden of his talk is n the power and importance of money, his hildron will inevitably bo trained for their ather's Mammon-worship, and the air of ilthy lucre they daily breathe will insensibly mpregnate their moral character. If, on he other hand, they see money treated as a latter of utter in difference; if before their - - y yes, day by day, expenses .arc incurred ritliout inean9 to meet thorn, nn3 the last uestion ever asked about anything is what - will cost, there will be a tendency in the ther direction to impair quickness of the loral sense in money matters generally, abitual jsclf-indnlgence will seem to be the atural order of things, #and to wish for anyling will mean instantly to try to procure . No doubt in many ^persons there arc hat may be called hereditary ideas about loney: some are born frugal, others ex avagant; and be the circumstances of life bat they may, the original bias will assert self from the nursery to the grave. But a reat deal may bo done by carefully educang children in the true value of money as iean3 to an end. * * * Every.one has some weak point about oney, and almost every one is extravagant i some things and penurious in others. A ible nature is noble with money. It is just hat one would have expected of gallant !ing Amadeus, that he should insist on renrinrr (lio Wimirinl rmf. r?f liia ntvn rilirso mall-natured people are small with their oney, and to get sixpence out of them is ke drawing a double tooth. Wasteful peole are oflcn stingy; for this is their only ay of recouping themselves for their imrovidence. Stingy people are often wasteil, jnst because they are stingy. A stitch i time saves nine. Timidity often defeats s own pupose. Rome in tho end had to ly as much for the three rcmaiuing hooks * the Sibyl as would have bought tho six herg ;and a little outrage in buying is lip is sure." Rut it docs not need inspiraon to see that no one should consent to be a utcc for others who is not prepared to take jc necessary trouble, or who is not qualified y tlic proper experience for fairly doing his est. Money committed to us for a particlar purpose should, in the absence of disrotionary power, be strictly spent on it, or esh instructions procured. With certain ersons it is a necessary precaution, not only ) indicate the way in which your money is > be expended, but to take carc that it gets iiere. ?>omc people have a deep crack runingfrom head to foot through their moral aturc. If you send them money for a hild's schooling, it is spent, on a silk gown ; r tho check that you intended to fill their oal-ccllar is as likely as not to go f or a rinkct. Where sonic people make their inney go much farther than others do, it is ot necessarily because they are so much lore clever, but because they give their linds lo it, and fool it a duty, as well as a lcasure, to make the most of it. If in ellost always those who hare /> as! money who themselves most, and I'none, who have tout iinltih/r themst hen h ant. J)o you doubt i?the reason is clear. "When you have nmcthing to lose, it is matter of importance otto lose it. If you have nothing to lose, a plunge a little deeper under water ran urt no one hut the unfortunate tradesman rho gives you credit. In solemn truth, there an he no kind of doubt that excessive expendiuro of living is one of the great vices of he time ; and it would be wc'.l for all of us f the power of the pulpit were more frc?|uenty and vigorously exercised in sternly disonntennneing the selfish thoughtlessness hat buys what it caunot pay for. and in tigmatizing a. deliberate and persevering xtravacanco by its proppr name of fraud. Yet carefulness about money has its own langers. When an Afx>stle wrote to the 'hurch <>f God, "Let your conversation be. rithout eovctousness." and a Hebrew prophet igos before him sternly denounced the then rrowing habit of adding house to house and i Id to field, it w;> became then, as much as low, every virtue has a tendency to dcterio ate into a cor responding vice; and if to waste nonoy is a fault, to love it i< a sin. Sow it is Much easier to come to ove it than sonic of us uiuy suppose. To be dways worrying about small expenses, or rcgrciung pan i'iwck, or miking iiixnii puu jr even comparing to.) closely ami anxiously >nc year's account with another, will secretly, but inevitably, mildew the spirit with a kind of sordid earthliiicss. To give away will become harder, for we shall soon fanov wo cannot afford it; and what at first was hut a a just carefulness about daily spending, if not watched against, will presently change even a liberal man into an utter screw. And then your punishment will come in the shape (iod sees you to need, and in tlm. shnpt you will most dread. Hither the wealth itsell will he taken from you, and the id >| of gold shattered before your eyes ; or some child or heir for whom you were destroying your very soul is taken from you, to (lie incorruptible treasure of the better country : ami then the I'salmist's sentence eoincs home ? you as with the thrust of a sword-point?"He heapeth npriehes, and cannot tell who shall gather them."?Somhnj M<nj<r.uv. Only for Married FolksYou haven't been married quite a year. At the ti.uo in question you are living* in the pretty little surburbau villa which your fathor-in-law obligingly bought and furnished for you and your wife. It is a quiet. lovely lit tle place, just outsido the great city, whose roar comes down to you in a.sort of a subdued musical way. You arc the happiest man alive. Having wooed, won andiWtrricd the loveliest of her sex, it is quite reasonable that you should be. The evening previous you sat upon the porch and smoked a cigar. Your wife came out ami sat with you a lilt tic while. Never did she look so lovely as she did then in her loose wrapper, With her golden hair sweeping away in lovely braids from the handsome,though pale, face. She doesn't talk much, but simply places her head on your shoulder, and you sceui to know instinctively that she i is crying. It is not a boisterous grief; the tears come as gently as docs the dew upon the roses in the garden beyond. There is a new. strange light in the deep blue eyes, half sad, half joyful. Somehow you feel wretched, and remorse seizes you as vigorously as it would a pirate. You have a choking sensation in the .throat, and come to the conclusion that the best thing for you to do is to go out and drown yourself in the horeopond. , , * a /? - x. i _ n 11. x. imicr your who goes 10 ecu you skuik. w your own temporary apartment. No one. takes any notice of you in the house. That estimable lady who is partly responsible for your wife's existence, looks at you as if you were on show in a mincralogical cabinet, and she was en deavoring to determine to what order of fossils you belonged. The room in which you camp has been hastily flitted up for your reception It is full of old boxes and barrels, and you arc continually falling over the one and tumbling into the other. Finally ypu, drop off into a sleep, to be awakened ^bout two o'clock in the moring by a spectral figure clad all in white, holding in its hand ft phantom lamp. It turns out to ho your indtlicr-in-law, and not the ghost of some dead 1 - _ .ll _ lfixl 1*11 . lanamuy come 10 cone?: a muufimj, as first imagined. "And bo quick about it too!" This*is. shot after you as you jump into tho night from the front doorstep, after having put your clothes.on as if yuu were poparing 'for some comic lightning change. How youjacQ along the street, running thg.risk of being shot at for a burglar by elecpj, rftrul watchman! And how yon jmll the doctorty bellv when that individual's residence last reached 1 Yon halloo up to him,' " a n r l" I" dressing. His buggy conies round to" the door in a jiffy, and in a little while you and lie arc at your own home. Then begins to reign the mystery. There - . 1 /v ."*! 1 is mucli~ running to nnu iro, nuu iiunjj.-. roam over the house lilee erratic fireflies. Too nervous to stay indoors, you take the porcli again, and light another cigar. In a a moment your wife sends for you." T only want to kiss you, dear, and have you ki.-s inc." Flow the moisture comes, to the eyes, as ynti bend over the pale, patient face, turned up from* the snowy pillow. Von le ss her, pat her check, and your tears eemc raining down to mingle with hers. Then you arc hustled out of the room, and roam around" the house like a maniac. An hour or so passes by, and the doctor comes down stairs and find-iyou in the backyard puffing away at a cigar, which went, out an hour befbre. lie extends bis band and says, "Allow me to congratulate you." You put your hand on his shoulder, and whisper in his ear. He puts his hnn 1 on you shoulder and whispers in your car. Then you say. "Ilully," and maybe execute a limited horn pipe. ITe gets in his buggy and drives awav. The time comes when y<n are admitted. There is an elderly femni bu-tliug about and oceassionnlly boiling 1 mclliing over a gas-stove. You recognise her as the nnr \ The windows are darkened, and on a little stand are the flowers you ut in that morning. Their fragrance steals gratefully throne!) l _ _ -_J the rn'>m ami then into your neari. Yen never felt ho tender and poetic in i your lil'e. On tiptoe you approach the b^d. Your step is as noiseless as the south wit 1 sin<rin?r through the bowed lattice, hut it is sufficient to wake the slcpor. A <"|uick flush of pleasure cotncs to the white check, j and she beckons you to lean over. There i ! one sweet little ki>st and she wh: -pars -in your ear, "I atn so happy." Then she tun. down the cov, rlid, and you s n a .-inn'I pinl. and wli'fc face, hardly as hi as your ham! The movement wakes it. ate! two clnibiv It plow into the eyi-s. and then ' s.piar - aw at existence." It may even utt r a shri.'l lost plaintive cry, and men i i<- um and takes it up. while you. > i'li'?>\v il head at flic I'ciMJc, thank Hod I' r the hli.-s loins lmv( n you Pretty child!? happy mother!?ecstatic father! The radiance of the honeymoon was glorious, but this new .-ear floods ruin life with iis divine ra vs, and ?0D)8 to glid all the minni* time Would it were alw:i\> so!?X. V. M.t,7. A rjunitif old ?ront Ionian of an active' si irrii??r <Ii-j1.1-ir i<.11. had a man who was at work in his jrardi'ii win) was t!ic rover. <?. " I<iiii'H," -aid ho. did you cv t son a nail " (-ortainlv." said .foii?s. " Then you inn.-t h ivo nicl him. " -aid (ho old i m. ' l.?r yon in vor could have overtaken hi'"." An old lady Helling ankod. as i^ usual, "what iho news "The l it' I.*'Mid the "I'll :in::; < !? 11?, "i. thai the 1 s have the Modoov" The ' Id lad; stim K her knuckles oil the counter and evei aimed, "I h"j>e the last one of cm will die "I it !" J A Painful Separation. ''' o had been united for ii long thne, and for many years I had no fault to find with Tioj qrarcct disposition and her unalterable i fidi ity. Night and day she was with me; she ij^vcr left inc for a moment; at table she nlu yfc ate the things that f preferred. i. was happy, for she was beautiful. Some ma ?>lmirc the. oriental beauties with their < dai locks, their brunette complexions and th-i '^voluptuous glances; others may cele- 1 bra k'thc goddesses of the North, their soft : bin eyes arid their slender graceful forms;? : slid ihc was tiny indeed, but she was white as fltJrv. , l Iga licr hair "! \ SMiliad no more than a billiard-hall. i it she had pretty eyes ? ! Aewas blhid.' * j J?*:peat, however, that I loved her for i ahj?*s was beautiful; and you would have : atffircdrher yourself if you could have seen he* ^reclining'silent and motionless on her j anjpil of criinscn velvet. vtboped for a union without a cloud, but i i fatjjbad decreed otherwise. Is there any- i thivg; ^enduring in this world ? The finest < writ? will turn sopr, and the most faithful I eor$9*won *dl sometimes he corrupted. '*Wit Wa? in my ease i t-omMhoncediv?petty attempts to vex f vty'tp wideh IU first paid but little atten- i to my'habitual good humor; 1 cacp ^ . however. she grew uioro trouble- < 80fite;&J/^drc8sed roproacncs to nor, which i sh^Mllifed without a word of reply. Was i thi?B?nce an avowal of her wickedness? I ? hftfipwuiaivofe to think so, for wc lived to- 1 amicably during the entire sumWfirkr came, and my domestic troubles 1 repJbmeftced with, redoubled force. I tried ( tojg ffchcjt^lr With mildness, but in vain. I tlu&rrcd h?r; it was equally useless. i jVBk! it is too much," I exclaimed one t cau stand it no longer ! 1'ou must i 4*1 see bow powerful is the force of hab- i itjtt ?elt utterly incapable myself of sever- t ineg^be bond that united us so closely; my t raSfttion /ailed utterly. i w Plria there arc several agencies wliicb I tarcTfhargo of unions. All, from the hum- < jfiBprorkman to the richest "fils de famillc," dH^gfrish to enter the lists of matrimony, < ^Hffad there irirls rich or poor, blonde or i yHpte. Thoro one can take bis choice of 1 j^Bdrookcd, the straight, the fat, the thin, i HBe'ing, or Arnold, the spirituellu or the i places I? started accordingly with her. But i strange to say, she was perfectly charming < all the way, and I had nothing to coinpVm 1 of for a single instant. Perhaps she divined j 1 where wo were going. For my part I was 1 temnted to turn back. j' J - ^ "Suppose 1 do not go to this gentleman," 11 T said to myself. Then remembering all she ;1 had made mo suffer, all the torments she had inflicted upon me, and reflecting that there j might be still more in store for me, 1 was-; j convinced that T would he a tool and a cow- | anl if I did not obtain a separation at once. | The next moment T was introduced into a | parlor where there were several persons seated awaiting their turn. They were all called , in One after the other. After about one hour | of anxiety a servant came to me and said, ] .Monsieur, it is your turfi; please walk into , the next room." I went in, taking her with , inc.. i The person before whom I found myself' had on a long dressing-gown, and a red skullcap on his head. 'fou wish me to take her from yon /" lie , said. And at the same moment he look hold of my arm. "Oli. no!" I cried; let me keep her; do not tear her from me !" "Coward!" said the man in (lie red cap, pu-diing me hack in a chair and seizing nic by liio head. Ah?ah?all?!?"Here, Monsieur, here is yonr tooth.?-('ourr.'cr <1 ; Ktntf-L'.iis." Nature wont he rohbed! I Tow many times have you heard the old saying? Kx- ^ perlciue^i fathers and mothers urge upon [' youthful sons and daughters that they should ' have a regular hour be an early one. so that I by an abundance of sweet sleep they may i not fail of the best measures of physical and j mental growth. Hours of sleep, tho sleep of J exhaustion, arc tho hours of accumulation. Some one as sorts that tlm greatest preach- ' ors have invariably been great sleepers, j I hietho fact that the pastor sometime s finds I himself compelled to write late Satunly night j ho. h his sermon, explain the lack of force ii hi* pulpit efforts on the Pahhath ? due f a minister's first duties is to himself, by rest. and in all ways to keep himself in a v.h ! siaiie and nerlect a frame of body, and ------- J - ^ . mec ol' spirit, us it is possible l??r hiui to ." ('lire. A female lawyer in Chicago lms just won her first caso. Sho combined nil the cle1 jiionts essential t<>.success, being only ninelecn years old, of very attractive appearance, just admitted to practice, and having for ' !i i client a hard-working washerwoman who was compelled to sue u butcher !*>r non-payment of rent. Against the cloi|Ucnt p i unit of dm young lady, the argument of the cidicr's male attorney were of no avail, ami jury bron-'ht in a verdict after but t v.<? | lies' deliberation in favor of the washer- j woman. Kiirb' furlongs make a mile?The Crand llapid- Times sav- tin re is a firmer near .laid -on who has .a mile of viing < lies. 11 In- lour boys and four girls. 11 is name iI I hi long." Modern Literature. When one looks on the ever-increasing multitude of books, lie can but ask, who in the generations to come will read them ? Supposing literary productiveness to continue as active as now?and haw. can future readers do more than keep up witli the literature of their own day ? What will they do with the writers of the past'/ What with the many products of the present generat ion ? Of eoursc, by degrees, the fifth, fourth, thirdrate authors disappear from public sight, and their names livconly in antiquarian catalogues. But what of those whom we are used to class as fir.-tand second-rate?the men of genitufand ofprc-mincntability?the Scott.s, I ho Dickonscss, Thackcrays, 'tho'Bulwcrs, the "Brownings, the Tennysons, hot to speak those renowned as theologians, metaphysicians, historians, scientists? Will thoy be read fifty years hence? It is not easy for a man r.P one ago to fudge what .a coming age will admire and loom worthy of preservation. There is, indeed, ad ideal standard of excellence; and in proportion as this is reached, the chances )f immortality increase, but the literary ar:ists who work for posterity are very. few. 1 Mot one writer in a thousand aspires higher han no please the popular taste, and thus icquire anjimmediate reputation. Literature s more and more a trade and a means of ivelihood, and must therefore address itself :o topics of .popular interest, and aim to treat hern according to popular tastes. No one :an reasonably find fault with this. But it shows us that popularity is no pledge ofpernanent reputation. Time works great changes in the relative position of authors, rho names that the world will not willingly ct die, were, in a few instances among the ibscurc of their own'day. * It is a question whether this great litera- ] y fecundity is favorable to the highest re- 1 iults. It might seem that when such great lumbers arc authors, tli-6 probabilities are j lugmentcd that a certain number of them . fill do work of the highest kind." Where , here are hundreds of Jamses and TroMopes md Mnlchos. there is trreatcr likelihood of >eing and Thackery, or one George Elliot. ' Perhaps this is so. T5ut, sotting aside ' genius?which is always a law to itself, and annparativcly little affected by its surroun- < lines?tho highest order of talent is quite j is likely to be smothered as to bo. stimulated jy tho warm and murky atmosphere in which t now lives. Like trees in a thick forest ' tfhich check each other's growth, so these ' jumberless literateurs, by mutal action and 'oaction, arc kept in u mediocre, condition, ind.cach booouies a kind off*? eimtfeof the j rrt, ert?V.a ndividnnllity, which gives - to books thcifi diarm and power, is scarce possiblo to one >vho docs not live a somewhat isolated intel- j cctnal life. A man whose daily food is from the newspapers and magazines and reviews, and who measures himself by his con- ' cmporaries, will scarce bo heard of n qaar- ' Lcr of a century hence.?Churchman. Scenk in a Smoking Car.?The follow- , ing amusing incident occurred recently in :hc smoking car of a C. 0. and J. C. railroad train, between Shelby and Cleveland. Says he Cleveland Times: A woman with a poodle dog entered the ?ar just piior to the departure of the train 1 l??J. il._ P :..i .,.,,1 ?|V?? .l/tnAutflnrr I rum LUC HTUiur Jiuuii, unv uuti uv|M.,-iv.nn Iter dog on the seat, turned over (he back I ->f another one, so that each scat faced the ] other. Together, she ami her canine companion thus monopolized the entire seats. ] Appearances seemed to indicate that the car was one exclusively for the convenience of those addicted to the use of the "weed;" but 1 of this fact she wa- soon advised by the conductor. who advised her at the same time that the accommodations in the other coaches wore superior to those where she was tl.cn. However, she insisted on ^remaining, urging that her presence would deter the occupants of the car from smoking, and she would consequently experience no discomfort from tobacco fumes. Long before the train reached this city, however, a gentleman sitting direct!}' in front of her produced his case, aud, taking thcrelrom a cigar, began puffing away at it. in a manner which seemed peculiarly calculated to aggravate the woman hack of him. Tn an instant strategic ie movement, she wrested the obnoxious cigar from his mouth and threw it out of flic window, exclaiming. "If there is anything i do hate, it is tobacco stnoke.'' The passenger who had witnessed the affair were con""'^"'1 I nn.lonr hui the nffendiui? siliu kcr supjtrefoil whatever emotions may have J been struggling fur expression in words or j action, and maintained throughout the sauie ; imperturbable gravity which had character-1 i/cd him IVoni the first.. Calmly rising from 1 his scat, ho opened the window nearest him. ! fastening it np. and reaching over the seat-1 hack, took up that woman's 'poodle dog | and threw it out oi'thc window as far beyond as possible, at the same time saying, "if there i< anything 1 do hate, it's a poodle dog !" Here is another one of those delightful facts of science : Feeling is a much slower than sight. If a man had arms long enough to reach the sun, and were to touch that body witbthe tip of his fingers, he would ' never find out whether it were hot or cold. , - 1 1-1 1"* -1 ?oi1 1.rtf'?ra llio wnncntli*!! 111*- I *l> li- nr ui .in in ,..?v . .. riveil al 1ic:uT?junvter^, which would require !<'<' )0.il . 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A tablo of interest?The dinner table. ftvcry woman may be said to XL at forty. Cruelty to animals.?Torhwing physic to the dogs. Zeal without knowledge is fire without light. Intellectal farming?Harrowing a man's feelings. Back pay?Settling for a coat; or getting thrashing at school. The band to accompany a lady vocalist?A bus-band. * A man was arrested recently for being intoxicated wjth delight. What is that from which, it you tako the whole, some will remasn ? Wholesome. A gentleman in a fit of absent-mindedness, told ilnothcr that he had two sons?both boys. Why is early grass like a penknife? because the spring rings the blades. Very Certain.?The surest way to loso keep drinking other people's. Tho book to whsch reference's most frequently made nowadays?the pocketbook. If your uncle's sister is not .your aunt, what relation is to you ? She is your mother. Pat was asked the other day if he understood French. "Yes, yer honor, if it's spoken in Irish." A young man who was asked by his sweetheart what phonography was, took out his pencil and wrote the following, and 'said it was phonography: " U R A B U T, L N." Why is 3*?an who makes additons to a false rumor like one who has confidence in ill that is told him ? Because ho re-lies on ill that he hears. There is a time for all things. The time *>'eavc is when a young lady asks you what and ol a day it is lor waiting. . # . How would you express, iu two letters, ;hat you were twice the sire of your compan- ^ oos ? I W (I double you.) 'if A cloth saturated With chloroform and lpplicd to the wound, is said to be sure cure for a rattlesnake bite. * Did the man who plowed the reas^d afterward planted his loot upon his native soil, sx-Iords are all alive and doing well?much better than the last victim. A schoolmaster, on being asked what was meant by the word "fortification," answered, 'Two twcntyfications make a fortification." Mrs. Thompson, who died near Glasgow, Scotland, recently, in the eighty-fiftth year )f her age, was the daughter of the poet Burns. The cost of maintaining the public schools )f New York for the coming year will bo *3,35(?,T)00. Of this sum the teachers will receive a little over $2,000,000. Beast Butler's favorite exercises arc said to be walking for his health aud running tor office. It is said he has gone <o Fire Island to get acclimated, as his chances appear good for a warm latitude eventually. The Australians never sue for a divorce. When a husband gets discouraged, he takes his wife to the brow of a cliff to view tho gorgeous sunset, and over she goes.. A (leorgia woman is credited with raising a largo family, although not out of her teens, it was her mother-in-law's family, and she did it with a keg of gunpowder planted in the cellar. A youth and maiden were dancing the lancer. In the course of the insane convertion wfiieh the dance nccssitates, he took to questioning her about her accomplishments. ' J>o j-ou paint ?" Ho asked, lfc wonders what 011 earth she got mad about. A Portland man was eau<rht fishing for trout 011 another man's land the other day; the owner remonstrated, but retired in silence before the majestic answer. "Who wants to catch your trout? I'm onlv trying to drop in this worm." \ Ttrnnl-K-n sr:i r.infcain. iust returned t - ? ^ WV"V " " ~K 7 # - - from a tour of the Holy, Laud, expressed, himself as digested with Jerusalem. ''It is the meanest place I ever visited. There is not a drop oi'jiuuor in the whole town fit to drink." An Irish physician was called to examine the corpse of another Irishman, who had heen assassinated hv s one of his countrymen. ' This person," said he, after inspecting tlio body, ''was so ill that if ho had not been murdered, ho would have died half an hour before." A nicely dressed gentleman applied for a marriage license at Povcr, Tennessee, last week, but when he spoke the lady's name the polite County Clerk suggested that, if it was all the same to hint, he would prefer that lie .should name some other party, as tho one mentioned had become his wife the previous eve n in*;. "l>o you like chickens?" asked a remarkably modest Nashville youth of his sweetness, a- lie was walking about two feet from her* on hi> way fVoni the ehurch, last Sunday night. "Certainly 1 do," she replied; "why do you ask such a <|iicstion as that ?" Became I thought if you liked chickens, you wouldn't object to taking a wing," and ho crooked his arm in an irresistible manner, Sweetness took a wing.