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t ■m 1IW3BP&*, l.« \» \ I . r* .>«. * $$ ' %' X ’ >•* sr- • ^ vqi<» vm. dQMFETirm -.'V-f PADGETT LEADS ALL OTHERS! WALNUT BEDROOM SUITES, 10 PIECES, $42.50. A NICE BEDROOM SUITE $18.00 I3T EVERY KIND AND EVERY VARIETY OF FURNITtTRE. JU COOKING STOVES AT ALE PRICES. PADGETT'S FURNITURE AND STOVE HOUSE. 1110 and 1112 BROAD STREET - ■ - AUGUSTA, GA. tyRefer you to the Editor of this paper. BE EOEGOT. Importer of and Wholesale and Retail Dealer in Fine Cijfars, Smoking and Chewing Tobacco, Wines, Brandies, Whiskies, Gin, Ale, Porter, Ac. 637 and CS9 BROAD STREET - - - AUGUSTA, GEORGIA, nr Country orders accompanied with the cash promptly attended lo. T 101 Mar Tall Alont Mr BARN WELL, S. C a,;i ’ THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 12, 1885. . ••• JKoaeph Cook to KlacaHu *<•'1 7T- ■■ Akout-tkro* laaolty mt Wellsley C9lVjRp fc ptyi»loh Nr*. Joseph Cook was In eartr j-cm an ftMtfuotrasa. wrote to the Her. Josuph Cook eshlea for aa auto- gruph sentliucut to pjafle anonv the vafued archives of the college. He responded with the following which has ntnur before been prieted: «- When Bomo fell, where wort thou, ooloesat fall? In slow M-ccoslon thou hast wandered back: These miles <Jf secthlnjr chasm were thy track; When lost Atlantia sunk, when) didst thou - call • 1 ‘ To thv vexed jin'clplcee? What If all Thy dates stood ou thy oliffs, from the storied suck Of Jii-ey to the dohigci green and UHick, Hnw <- <4oqu< nt wore thy storied WaiU When Hr*l in thoc was dipped the avrsllow’i wlinr? When ln'cnlVt thou first the shy brown wood- thrush sing? When thou uud man first met, hast thou for got/ Where wert thou In thy youth; when man was not? Speak, dateless roar! for thou art old and wise; {*• TVof memories are uosouiiding majesties 1 FINE CLOTHING, HATS AND GENTS’ VtlRNlSIR ING GOODS, BUT ri oar the thttnrtoroui thim, tho mufflod roar; I see the blindtn wheeling, smiting mists. The grt-eus and grays, purples und arao- thysU; From Oort's wid<- palia thy frighteaed cat*- raelg pour; Ami I look up beneath them and adore. Al'ore me haisg ehaln liebtiiing on the mists Oi suuiuior tetuueate. lu the awei-ome lists Of contest urr the thunders and thy abore. Hen. nth thy qutvonnjrtiTcn rocks i Htn And gale Into tho lightnings and tho sky, Hut 1 hear only the*'.and feel and see A hand that upderydrts Immensity. Thou si<e«keet muCT>, but most thou s:>cak'st of UJm' God. (HM Mrt watery ftm. 1. L. STAN,SELL, Ut BROAD STREET, UNDER GLOBE HOTEL, AUGUSTA, GEORGIA, Ciih get nwny with them till in the way of FINE CLOTHING, HATS AND GENTS’ h t RNISFIING GOODS for this Fuji ami Winter in the rerv Latest Styles ami at I*i ices that astoni'h ever\ IkkIv tha! looks at"lliem. H»' moans lo outsell them all. Give liim a trial ami you will go home the l*est pleased man in the State. [V Don’t forget the p ace. A SKASIPB MONSTER. I. L. R T ^ JsT S E X_i L, “I can’t toe what you can want run ning off to the seaside for, Edwin; you had nearly a week at Dwrby only last Easter,” * grumbled Miss Holland. ‘ Young people think of nothing nowa days, hut gadding about and holiday making. When I was young wc thought a (juiet visit to- our relations once in two years quite change enough; but, now ” ‘Thorp, don’t bo cross. Aunt Mary; I can’t be mewed np in London during this hot August weather, and you must confess that I stick close ejiough to business to deserve my holiday when 1 get one. I went to Derby on business, you know, " said Edwin, a bright, good- natured, gentlemanly young fellow as I ever bore w ith tho whims ami humored 1 the fancies of two old maids. “You'd ' better go with me. Aunt Mary,” ho continued; tho change would do you A. 46 MR OAD STREET, UNDER GLOBE HOTEL, AUGUSTA, GEORG PLEASURE AND PROFIT TO ALL. WATCH AND JEWELRY REPAIRING AND FULL LINK OF GOODS. J~OEIISr IT. Denier in Diamonds, Watches, Clocks and Jewelry, 729 Broad Street, Clocks and Opposite Central Hotel, Augusta, Ga. GEANDYS & ZOEN, ROUGH AND DRESSED LUMBER. Contractors and Bnibleis, Manufacturers ami Dealers in all kinds of Lum- 1>cr ami Building Material. Wc are prepared to take contracts or give esti mates on all kinds of buildings. Our Saw and Planing Mills are at ‘•Gramlvs," S. ('., postotfice Windsor, S. C. Wc also keep in stock at our yard on corner of Watkins and Twiggs Sts., Augusta, G.i., a.I kinds of material as above stated. All orders sent to either place will be promptly attended to. We are, respectfully, GRANDYS & ZORN. •las. W. Turley’s SEASONABLE SUGGESTIONS TO SENSIBLE PEOPLE. nir'y* a-00ids. Knowing full well that our people in general are economizing, yet desiring First Class Dry Goods, and seeing thev know how to appreciate them, I have determined to give them the full bcncfll of my extraordinary purchase#, and dis{>08C of my Stock of Goods at the smallest profits. GRAND DISPLAY OF FALL AND WINTER IMPORTATIONS OF DRESS GOODS!! Embracing the very Latest Novelties in Fabric Colors, and intermixtures of colorings of the most pronouncqjl ami RELIABLE STYLES AT POPULAR PRICES, In Plaids, Brocades, and Solid Colors, from 10 cents per yard up to the finest. nrTHE NEWEST SHADES IN SILKS AND SATINS.^J A handsome line of Velvets and Velveteens, oomprising all the new and* pretty shades from 50 ccuts to the finest Silk Velvet. An elegant line of Black and Colored Gros Grain Silks from 50 cents per jMurd up to the finest quality; also a complete stock of Black and Colored Cashmeres, a celebrated make. Jacket*, Ulaterettcs, Pelises, New Markets, Circulars, Jersey#. Handsome Jackets from $2.25 up to $15.00. Shoulder Shawls, 25c, 35c, 50c, 75c. Large Shawls, 2 yards square, $1 and #1.50 each. Large Wool Shawls, black and colored, $2, #3, $3.50. Ladies’ Cloth and Flannel Skirts, 50c. to $2 each. White Blankets, $1.50, $2.00, $3.00, $4.00 to $10.00 per pair. 11 Department can be found one of the largest 1 epartment can be found one of the largest as well as the Kentucky Jeans, Kerseys, Cashmeres, Repellants, Water Iji our Woolen tiest assortments of Proofs, Diagonals, Broadcloths, &c. - , all at bottom prices.’ Piain Rctl and White Flannels from 15c. per yard up. An extra good quality in Red Twilled at 25c, 35c, 40c. and 60c. Opera Flannels in all shades; also Basket Flannels, in the new Fall colors. Dark, Gray and Bine Gray Skirt Flannels. Bleached and Unbleached Cotton Flannels lowest prices np to the very heaviest quality. Thousands of docent Ladic t>om th$ Hose at 10c. up lies’, Misses’ and Children’s Fancy to the finest, and fresh stock. The South Carolina Seamless Hosiery, in Men's Half Hose, New Fall Mix tures; also Ladies’, Misses’ and Children’s, in Fall colors. _ A visit of inspection is desired. No trouble to show goods. JAMES W. TURLEYgSOS Broad St., A Lagneta, da. zixmm is ahead nr folitcs, -BUT WE LEAD IN- wnnrai 1 ueue ! OUR MOTTO, like his, is “Reform”—Old High Prices must get out of the way and give way to the New Low Prices. We buy for Cash, hence arc able to get the Bottom, as onr Prices will prove. Read Sind wonder. /SOLID WALNUT MARBLE TOP SUITES, WITH TOILET SHi JVASHSTJND, TEN PIECES, FOR FIFTY DOLLARS, This Is what Cash docs. We have Suites from this up to #500. Wc arc now 'dttfog tp two Hotels, who bought ** cheap from os as they could buy from the fiutmries, and a little cheapdr. Wtf defy atf eompetltion. Call and 1 Ef r> AH goods packed and shipped free of charge. J. i,JB eee as. j & CO. Md MMAB STBXrr, AtmmfA, cmbbcua. and Aunt Becky more good titan all the doctors’ stuff. “Nonsense!” snapped the old lady. “Change, indeed! That’s just what we both hate, and what causes more than half the people’s illness—leaving their own homes, where everything is well looked after, to go and sleep iu damp, dirty beds, and to eat half-cooked food, to be robbed right and left—they call that a holiday!” “And besides that, which does not matter to a young fellow like you as it would to old folks like us,’’ put in Aunt Becky, solemnly, “there is tho much greater danger of making bad companions.’’ “Or of some designing, painted crea ture getting hold of you, and making you marry her whether you will or not,’ said Miss Holland. “1 will promise you no one will get hold of me: so be i|iiito content and ilon t worry yourself, ai.nt," answered the object of their doubtj anti fears. “1 dpn t intend to marry for many years yet—1 like my liberty too well, and you make me too comfortable.” And with this soothing conclusion Edwin Holland escaped, and, his prep arations being soon made, a few days after ho was strolling on the beach at Swanseombe—a very pretty but quiet seaside town on the south coast. * • • • • “I am. afraid you must make your self contented indoors this morning, Katie; you know Martha and Ellon are making the preserves, and I expect my brother and his wife to lunch, so that I really have my hands so full I cannot go out.” said Mrs. Gray to her niece, who was staying ou a visit with her at her villa on the Swanseombe cliffs. “Very well, auntie, I will stay and help you,” answered the girl cheerfully. But by twelve o'clock Mrs. Gray's preparations were completed. Lunch eon was not fill two, but the visitors might arrive at any moment, so she sat down contentedly in tho cool dining room with her knitting. Then Katin looked out at the waves gently rippling in the August sunshine, at the boats gliding_on them with their white sails spreatWtnd she envied the people who were able to be out iu the sweet, cool sea-air, and grew restless and discon tented. “Might I just take one little run, aunt—just to the Cove and backP I would not stay out too long,” she ven tured to ask presently. “My dear, I womd gladly let you go; but you know how very strict were your mother's injunctions to me Ah no account to let you stray about by your self.” “I know, aunt, and it is nonsense for mamma treating! Jae like a griulpnni n up’fcaby,” jpJtK&ti%|bulignantIyg "But you know, dear, being heronly daughter, she is naturally more anxious about you,” answered Mrs. Gray. “Then I wish I had half-a-dozen sis ters, aunt. I am tired of being UOten about, and watched and worried over,” was Kate’s ungracious reply. “What can mamma possibly see of danger in my taking a walk by myself in this quiet placeP” “There Me, always monsters of some kind lying it' Wait for the young and pretty, my dear; it is of these your mamma is fearful,” answered Mrs. Gray, trying to speak seriously, Mt un able to repress a merry twinkle in her eye., ’ -- - “Oh! I know what you mean, aunt; but mamma need not fear—I have too much pride to allow any gentleman to speak to me who has not Men properly Introduced. I shall never do as poor, ■illy Mattie Veto did—ran away with a man she met at Scarborough, and then find she had married her unele’a clerk,” and the stately boee of Katie’s head as •be spoke would have befitted ,t dutb- ess at least. * “I believe you, my dear Katie. You will never, I am sure, break your moth er’s heart by any foolish enoapade." “Then snow your trust in lowing me a little liberty now and dear auntie. Yon often go out when you would prefer remaining ifi, I know. by aL itheu. Let me go out this! • . » 8,sii>aflfc£L NLa- . ; - sterner le go my worn of honor no to me, and I will speak to no Aunts need to be made of •tuff than Mht. Gray was composed of to withstand the pleading of such a pretty winsome gin as Kate Leigh. Ten minutes alter, she was walking merrily along the Parade, alone, and rejoicing in the unaccustomed sense of freedom. About hslfwn hour’s walk brought her to some sequestered spot midway between the town and a small fishing village. Here she sat down to rest for awhile in a natural grotto in the rooks, whence she had s good view of the sea. Then she fixed her sunshade in front of her to keep off the eua’s rays, and, pro ducing a novel from her pocket, she prepared to enjoy herself for half an hotir, at the end of which time the most return to be in time for lunoheon. About live minutes elapsed, and Ka tie was deep in the interest of a thril ling tale, when “Whew!” came a sud den-gust of wind, and away wont ker sunshade tumbling over, and careering gaily down the rocks. She rose, with a little cry, to rescue it, when another little squall took the book from her hand. In desperation she prepared to de scend the rocks. “Pray do not move! You might fall and seriously injure yourself. I will endeavor to recover your stolen prop erty for you, ' v tried mvoi Aand look ing round in pergfexed Katie perceived a young man Scrambling down the rocks after b&r sunshade. Had she not 1 een so immersed in her story, she might have been aware that he had been watching her for the last minute or so, thinking what a pretty picture she made sitting there. “How awful provoking!” tho Katie, instantly recognising one “monsters” of her aunt's t&te oonver- tation. “What shall I do? I must say 'thank you’ if he brings it to me. I almost wish he may not get itl Shall I go straight on and not wait for it? No! that would look too fooliah.” While she was still discussing the dif ficulties of her position, the young gen tleman returned, flushed and panting with his exertions, and restored her the tansh&de and her missing leaves. Ho would have offered to carry them for her, but to his astonishment, she took them from him without even 4 smile, and the stiffest possible “thanx Vou!” She turned her back on him, and walked rapidly away. “What a queer girl! Her manners certainly does not match her looks,” thought the young man. who was no other than our good-natured friend— Edwin Holland. Ho had been struck with such a keen sense of admiration for Miss Katie, that her abnipt manner of receiving his little service oonsidera- bought of the bly disconcerted him. ty di Nei ext evening he was walking on tk$ Pier when ho saw her again, walkings with an older lady. He would have passed on without the slightest sign that ho recognized her, but Mrs. Gray stopped him, and said, courteous!: "I n: 7 : must thank you very sincerely for tho service you rendered my niece, yes terday. It was extremely kind of you to take so much trouble.” “Oh, pray don’t! It was nothing- nothing at all," answered Edwin, con fused at the unexpected meeting, and feeling, with muon vexation, that the capacity for intelligent conversation hall deserted him. The ladies bowed (Kate with a pretty smile that made her look prettier than ever) and passed on their way. From that day Edwin haunted them like a shadow; ho was nuyclly in love with Kate, bat could find no opportuni ty to make her acquaintance. Sometimes he wished that she would fall \pto the sea, that he might plunge in and poll her ont, or that a terrible storm would come on and frighten her. so that she would gladly accept his pro tection. But nothing of the kind hap- ned. Things went on in a provox- gly even and matter-of-fact way, while his holiday was swift It expiring, and he knew that he would leave ms heart behind him when he left Swans- combe. And Kate? Ah! proudly as she had kept to her resolve, she ooold not help feeling a strange interest in the hand some young fellow with the good, earn est face, who seemed instinctively to know where she would be, yet whoee kept him from gentlemanly instincts the slightest intrusion. Mrs. Gray watched the affair with se cret amusement; she wanted to see her pretty niece marry well, and she had ascertained that this young “monster,” who had thus appeared on Kate’s very first walk alone, was the junior partner in a well-know London firm; if, there fore he had taken more than a passing e a capital tion of two of Katie’s other admirers, who were ready to knock him down when Mrs. Leigh asked hiss with much sweetness (having heard from her hus band of his unmistakably good position) to take Katie down to din net;. That was a’very kappy evening, and Yer Eke it. 1 wrote Mrs. Grai was followed by many' another V by many ’ Soon after Edwin wrote a letter to Mrs. Gray, infonntni his engagement to Katie and feet happiness. When they were married in tho au tumn, his stmts were obliged to confess that his bride was not one of the paint ed creatures who alone, existed in their imaginations, as denisena of the sea side. Bat Mrs. Gray often laughs when Edwin and Katio visit her, and tells him that, after all her mother’s warn ings, it was very sad that the naughty girl should have found a monster and should have found a monster Insisted on making a pet of him. Amusing Printers’ Errors. The unlucky poet who wrote: Soe the pals martyr ts his sheet of flrcl must have been completely crushed when the lino appeared as: Bee the pale martyr In his shirt of fire I We can sympathize also with the poet who, writing of his love, asserted that he had “kissed her under the silent stars,” and found the oompoeitor made him state that he “kicked ner under the eellar stairs.” Trfie, has been doubt ed if these two poets ever existed; bat others, of less mythologic fame, have suffered as badly at the bauds of tho printer. Burns, in a cheap edition of his works, is made to say: O, «1n my love were yon red noee. A well-known temperance lecturer was indignant at finding the sentiment as sert bod to him that “Drunkenness was jolly,” whereas he had declared that it was “folly.” Much surprise was occasioned by Sir Archibald Alison, in his “History of Europe,” including among the persons present at the funeral of the Duke of Wellington the name of •Sir Per irogrii Pickle/’ There can bo little doubt ne that the author had made an uncon scious slip, intending to name Sir Per egrine Acton. Sir Thomas Brasscv having referred in a speech to the “Gol- Tr den Treasury of Songs and Lyrics,” the compositor transformed the title Into the “Golden Treasury of Soups and Cynics.” A report in s Manches ter paper of a recent dramatic perfor mance mentioned the well-known farce of “No. 1 Hound the Corner” under the amusing and suggestive title of “No One Round the Corner.” fancy to her neioe, it would be thing for the girl. On the very last day. of his stay at Swanseombe, feeling desperate, Edwin called on Mrs. Gray, though he turned hot and cold as he stood on the steps, and felt a relief he could hardly analyse when he sa#VMHbedady sNk akfoe Uk the drawing-room.** • ^ He went away triumphant and victo rious, and returned to town with a face so bright and manner so cheery, that his aunts were forced to confess that the air at Swanseombe had evidently agreed with him. Mrs. Gray said not a word to her niece of her admirer’s visit, and she saw with satisfaction that Katie missed him when they went out, and that did not now show go out by herself. The autumn was over, winter had set in, and Katie was at home again. “Hare another plate laid this even ing, my dear; I have invited a young mend to dine here,” said Mr. Leigh to his wife as he went oat one morning. There was a small dinner-party at the Leighs that evening, and Katio' so much anxiety to 1 was in the drawing-room, trying to enliven mg-roo! her friends In that trying time just be fore dinner is annoonoed, when her father entered with the now goeet “Katie, my dear, this U Mr. Holland: I’ll leave yon to ampse him lor awhile.’’ Mr. Leigh tiumeff to Us other and Katie looked up with a •mile to behold her unknown cavalier sf Swanseombe. It was Katie who was tongue-tied and stupid now with astonishment; bet It dkf not matter, as Biwtrfpood plea* ty to icy, end talked away a« tf they old friends, to the wet lodjfns- In tho following instance it was no doubt a bachelor compositor who, in setting up the toast, “Woman, without her man would bo a savage!" got the comma in the wrong place and made the sentence read, “Woman, without her man, would be a savage!" The deplorable state of the press in Field’s time may be realized from the fact that Bishop Usher, on his way to preach at Paul s Cross, asked at s sta tioner's for s copy of the Bible, and on examining it found to his astonishment that the text from which he was about to preach was not in the book! The well-known “Vinegar Bib!e” was pub lished in 1717, aud obtains its name from the Parable of the Vineyard beiug K rinted as the Parable of tho Vinegar. 'ne of the most willful alterations of the text, and one which coet its perpe trator her life, was committed by the widow of a German printer. One night. lan pi while an edition of the Bible was being printed in her boose, she took the op- of altering the word Herr verse read, i thy fool,” instead of “He shall be thy lord.” A Glasgow divine, and one d her portunity of altering the Into “Narr,” making the “He shall be thy fool,” ins Majesty’s chaplains in Scotland, was irted as lately reported as saying that “person ally he violated the Lord’s Day as mochas any member of the- court.’-’ “Venerated” was probably the word actually used by the reverend gentle man.—Chamber*' Journal. The Good Woman’s Logie. Dr. Kimball, of Saoo, Me., who is one of the oldest and most widely known praotitionen in York county, tells n good story of himself. He hind attended an old gentiemkn daring n lingering illness, and about a year af ter his decease sent in his bill, which amounted to a considerable sum, to the widow. He repeated the process three met without eliciting a reply, and lien called. He was put off from time to time, until patience ceased to be a virtue, and then he again called with determination in his character. % grim •W"V\nn ‘Come, my good woman,” said he, delmque when the waited fhquent appeared, “I have long enough, and must have ney. Fixing my money.” Fixing upon him a look of withering contempt and brandishini apt an her broom ~in his face, she rep] '‘You've been here three times for that money, but I'll pay my honest debts, I thank ye, before I pay my doctor’s bills/' The good physician was so Wflllyleneed with the logic of his debt- 4Pkathe receipted the bill on the ■pot—ffosfon Courier. When Mae. Toodles was Young. The method of conducting the auc tion sales twenty-five or thirty yean ago was peculiar. Previous to the sale each person desirous of purchasing fur nished the auctioneer with the name trader which he ooold bid. Thus, John Smith, of Pittsburg, bid not as John Smith, bat as “Pittsburg.” The books were put up in lots and the auctioneer proceeded to obtain bids. Haring elic ited the highest possible figure. If the find bidder did not desire the entire lot any other person could take the re mainder at the same price. Should tide not be the ease, the remaining hooka were then put np and the bidding leoommenoed Of fifty volumes of Shakspeare "Pittsburgh might take ten. - The reply was prompt, “Lancas ter ten,” “Easton five,” “Norristown two,” “Hartford tan,” and so on. In this way half a million dollars worth of books weald sometimes be worked off in a week.—Pkiladelpki* Nam*. Boston has an apple mission which ifetribntes 4,000 or 6,000 bushels of •ppies among the poor every year. Comparison with this scheme ought to wake the average traet society go off ‘ ‘ tomir * * * CREOLE LOYE-MAKIHa efVew 1 m the 1 trap the unsuspecting youth, to depict for our Nonhem frl peculiar phase of creole ehi Down in the old French portion of Hew Orleans it is highly nasals for young unmarried men to veutare alone, writes a correspondent. The black, eyed beauties are only too glad of the ehaaee to capture an Ammcaa, and will resort to all sorts of devices to ea- In order friends tau peculiar phase of creole eharaotar, I will relate the true story of the exper- ieaee of my friend. Jack Inflaaoa, who fell a victim to creole strategy not long ago. Jack met the beautiful Melanie at a soiree dansante on the Hoe Bon Ea- fants. Being n good dancer and also a first-class waiter, he was Mile. Me lanie’s partner for many figures, and by a judicious use of cream and eaka gained the good will of Melanie’* mam ma. An invitation to call next Sunday was accepted, and the visitor entreated to “call again.” Jack did so upon the Sunday following, and was so cordially received that he repeated his visit a third time. For my friend Jack was an innocent soul, totally ignorant of creole customs, and he walked right Into the snare. On his third call Me lanie’s papa tapped him on the shoul der and said: “M’sieu Laflance, I would lak to' ace you one minute,” and led him to the dining-room. Suspecting nothing, Jack followed him. Once there tile old gentleman prodnoed a decanter and said: “Mon ami, tek some cognac Yon will fin’ it ver’ fine. My fodder buy it from Cavaroe, Ah! you lak it, eh? Tek cigar—nevah min', thass a real Havaua, shuah. Now, fren’ you lak fo' know fo’ w’at I want you—eh bien? M’sieu Lafianoe, I have notiz yo’ attentions at my daughter”— here the luckless Jack began to protect. “O, I am not displease’, my de’ young man. My fam’ly, seh, is one of the bes’ in the city. Yes, aah, we are twenty-firs’ coozin with Jean Baptiste St. Louis de Lonne; whoso gran'fodder slap that Spanish canaille, O’Reilly, 00 the ckik a hondred year ago, as yoS fin’ wrote down in Gayar re. Bat, my fren’, whose these Yankee r-r-raseau and Sen end days in 1 through tito] There was L the pert *f reoeiv ______ Among those rand Mai widow efaboal sjhmD f ownedi •be wee not right off ebe an til seer ‘ “Thsi’t of my oows, bat Yve-fot to ey,” she said. “Itwfflimt bo m hofti aglne”replied Maf. Caevei will be a heap week 1 from the locomotive will set! haystacks. Bit law. I reckon I'll have ht of way. bet M thatyoewflM >T don’t think tnrbed as much as you “I never expeet to get of sleep at nights for Jost know my I’ll he in my grave hand ont yer handt __ a whack. I’ll do it on children. Whet 1 her own flash end Major Convene money and the nmeat ‘Devon r?” 1 badtyl folded up the 1 his pocket “Kswa worst in Che mer, I believe they < every time he eon last time he wee I gaaeUa, and Knee, but I told wanted mn M SFtffc’ attentions.” “And hs's going to HI about two “ tek ou' plantations an' ou* nigroes, seh, place. we was force’ to leave ou an’ come ych an’ work, yes. ami Laflance, I do not objec’ to daughtah choose yo' to' husbaa’. no. Hera tho unfortunate Jack broke la with: "But, my dear sir, you are mis- takon. I did not make love to your daughter.” The old gentleman bristled up. “My de’ seh, I love my fam’ly. Thass my h'only thing yoh on eartn. You have visit Melanie Sunday after Sunday. You have talk with her, dance with her, sing with her. You have compromise my daughter, seh I There is no otheh oo'se lef a man of honah, seh, than to ma’y her; yes, seh, to ma’y her." “But, sir,” blurted out Jack, “I am only a poor clerk with #50 a month, and could not support a wife even if wanted one.” “Ah, mon cher, thass all ’ight— the ruonnaie W nothing. Yon don’t catch motch, thass true. But fo* that I don’ keh me. You come live yeh, yes. Then, afteh w’ile, when yo* patron he got fo’ lak you mo’ and give you r-r-raise to seventy-fi’ dollah. we will do ver’ well, yes. So thass stt fix, eh ? Come, you tek some mo’ cognac. Ah! mon cher Lafianoe, you don’t Know w’at it is to be a feddsr, I suppose? Then you can’t nevah on’stan* ’ow E lease I feel when a young man lak yon ask me fo’ my daojhtakl Yea, aah, youtire the only young man w’at 1 would rat tab have my daughtah moa’ anybody w’atovah, “So we will some hack to tlw w ell 1 will udl to Melanie I have grant demand. M’sieu I.uflaaee, ah, to ragged edge of don't cneoerage h and listless. It may I with me unless I lo am know hew 1 reliable" “Yes, I understand, lend him the ms “Not mash I’i any Anton* tc new silk oing to hdve a 1 uilt, and If I ain’t! tide of three fault” “Do you realty tore Maj. Convene. “NupITl never lane afrifc so kiadtotha ohiktan, «at children need a proteeter an I’m reedy he make any m don’t think we 1 feelings into welfare of oar riffkprtng fe Do you know who iafka J The present' exceedingly y°. toll you the trot’, yen did not tok me by sop prise, no. Ah, a fodder can see w en his daughtah love a young man! An’ Melanie, she love you, ah! aho dream of you all night yea. Ah, aah, w’en a St Louis de Lorme lorn she lOfiKKK \ ITiiiiiW nevah let go, no, but she, lak the kan, she die firs’. "Thass all ’Hghh ami Jack, I will see Fere le Core, an* we will mek the announcement next Sunday. Yon can get one It’ll ring, yes, an’ Melanie will be ready for next monk I know yon don’t want to wait long. Allons, let ns tell them w’st we have arrange.” And off Jade was hustled to the parlor before he could say Jack Robinson. And though, as it happened, Melanie has proven an excellent wife, there are many who are not Melanies, and it is to pnt onr visit ing friends next winter upon their guard against the wiles of designing creole papas that I am constrained to publish tills true story of Jack Lafiaaoe’s courtship. A Racy Rat Story. A large number of rat* established isefre themselves in a hay-loft, about between the floor and the top hay. The owner of the ptetnlaia> hearing a continuous squealing noi— in the Toft, took a fork and removed the hay from the place whence the noise proceeded and uncovered a of about twenty rats. Several of ran and were caught by the do& but e bundle of sixteen full-grown ai‘ ' remained on the spot; their tafia plaited together, something after tito fashion of a whip-001" ~ one of them the rest not be shaken apart by person* who saw to avoid the cold the rat occupying the top of the pile eought a warmer by creeping underneath, bat not tag room to draw hie toil after- him it It was snppeeod was left sticking ont; the next rat did the same, and so on nntfl as had ohaaged their position and every indi vidual rat’s tail wae entwined mto the curious knot that held them together. If they had not been dtaeovnaed and killed they meet have atamd, as they could not have separated. James Gordon French paper thj tcahta