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1* Id writing to this office on baaioew give jour name and Poet clioe addrem. 2. Barineaa letters and eommnnioa- tions to be published should be written on separate sheets, and the oiject of each elearlj indicated bj uecessarj note when required. • 3. Articles for publication should ke written in a clear, legible hand, and on only one side of the pag<\ 4 All changes in advertisements must reach uV on Friday. THE BJUtBEH’* LOVE. •‘Fair maiden, wilt tbonjahar* mj faUT’' A lore-sick barber cried; , M Oh ao,” aaid aha, “I caiinot ba A BtUe ahaver’a bride 1 •* ’ - . “ Thy lip, pomade, doth wonnd me deep, And cutteth sharp and keen; *oap precious art thou to my heart, Which hones no other queen. “And since to bo my bonny bride - Thou wilt not condescend, ■» I Xsar my daya have run their race, And reached their lather and. ' This form must crumble In the dost, Theae Ups In death grow dumb, ^ ,, This berlwr’s mng, so fair and anng, Mustachs-n pale became.'’ —IfnJknowip Hard. “ O, sidssors! Wherefore talk his this?" The maiden fair replied, _ “And rmaor row hMan«« L ftwenath, I will not be your bride. ~ “ Comb, whisker round; some trim young leas Ton’ll win if yowOI tmt try; Don't baerd <lnlt^ And na'er curl ep and dial Al»»! be would not heed her worda, "* * ® ut t " 0 * • ten-^noor aunt— ••And blew bis brains out? ’’-No, not much, He herrsd b j barber's puli. —Tr — VOL. IV. Na 40. BARNWELL, C. H., S. C., THURSDAY, JUNE 9, 1881., i ■ iY^risi Orntnet mlfertislnc k paynbk M days after first insertion, aakai other* wise stipulated. No wamunicstioii will be published unless eoeemperiled by the name sad ad dress of the writer, net seosassiUy for publication, but SI* gaarsoty of food . THE TALISMAK. A pout upon tin* rwl Ups n# OeritU Bint'loir's young wifu—unmisUVaM v » Pout-hf, though k wife j( sleuast two r teem, the f'md, ipdulgeot hunbend had <<>r the lipat time said nay to an openly- Mpreer^l wish. 'P«ie fnocy bull of the ameua, a grwn l *nd fanliumnbU aenetu I •lege, wus In take place during bis el amd that be should attaad. Him was only ». Let tbia —*d an estenuatioo of (ha tear* that r>we k> the brows elowly trrkW down tba |wwtty Im», apUsterur •« the dainty morning Jrwm. abwb, dingiag to the dainty term, it- Vrtebwl aa )■ Warily ttn graaeful oaUllMW. fWBsnly Kwlm bad uo remiui In kwd 4 ttasa ossa id bee ctifldrru, Omahl Hiariair bail only aSuupml k> )arrhapa to hade bia M»{ nimataM an *o you aaotlwe T*— " Then he was goea; turaiug and tnrntng I with eys ihimed 10, it seemed to Sophie- every itroke said,. V Stay I stay !’* She was almost tempted to obey it, bti£ she had promised Ellen, and after nil she had heard that it was well for young wives to assert themselves. An hour later, and, on the Opnnt Bel- zoni’s arm, she entered upon the brill iant scene. So far he had not even, soerned curious to ascertain her identity: She experienced at this a singular sense of relief. The boll was at its height as the clock rang out the hour of midnight; but, tot the firet time in her life, light aud gayety were distasteful. A hundred times she wished herself at home, “I will tell Gerald. I have already been punished, ” she whispered to hef- aelf, as she stood for a moment alone in a quiet comer. “You loak more like a non than a fairy—rather like one who had fore sworn thq vanities of the Dtotld than a «r«ju to tempt men to their deatruo- tion, n said a voice close to her, " though to the latter I knob no one more fitted. N ’‘Sit!" ah# exclaimed, indignantly, recognising aa she spoke the Count standing at her elbow. “Ah, you thought I did not know you. I should pea strata any disguise you wor ®- Beside, you haw forgotten to remove a badge of reengnitioa." She followed with her eras his down ward g lanes, sad saw that it rested on **** band. Ungloved, as in better accord ami ha bad t with tbs etigunqira of her costume, she dnl not Involuntarily aba drew it away, with the ring which had betrayed bar. be | Denial win ueatese. grrst *‘ Bines yeu know me, tbea," eha mid, ami “ we will uo further play spark Tooth r» ww are masts ; to ooraal Rirwfvaa," -Ah, ■ad.ms.-ha whwporad. “tetus U tha world wu are to each other wa are a mast. O think you, lock coldly on such beauty e* IV Chn—“ Is bguunl tea furthsr spsocb by t«> eRrwiw him. His as Ina • I-rung lUHMig a craw l ef te tba 4s sarmnai "And tliif is all?” ha questioned, bitterly, when she had paused. “No, not all ( n she continued, rais ing her voice. ' f “ My oonfeeaion has another witness, who has forced* bis hated presence ^igain upon me. The Count Belenxi is here again, Gerald." - As she spoke feho drew aside the cur tain, bat the form she expected to dis close was gone, the open window at testing to its flight, t Silently the husband drew a paper from bis pocket and showed her a para graph offering a reward for the irrast of a thief and swindler kboWn as the Count Belong!, ^ "My darUBg, fc ha aaid, "my little wife has learned a good lesson that she will never forget, I have known this story all the time, bnt hate WAiWl ttnti 1 you cams b> tell it tb me. I returned 'the night of the ball to take you with me, when I found yon had goiv\ Imag ine What 1 suffeleu and my added suf- leriag when arriving at tha scene of en joyment, where I followed you, I dis covered who was your companion. I •food near you and heard the words ha addressed to you t beard with joyful heart ymtr answer j saw yoh wrench your hand from Ins hold, and also saw what yon did not—the sparkle of the nag he draw tram your finger. Poor little girl t I watched yon hasten through the crowd, and knew that you bail already m<4 your bittereat punish ment. It has I wen through my efforts that tha Count has bean tram Only this morning t ring (Unm the man with whom ha it aa a aamnty. Ones muse I it on your fiugsr. But iumutet>ee l darting, it k only tha outward simrm. A wife's true tahmnau is bar buahmai s wbink UO te buys it with bee kauri's blood. 9 el- if if LOFJC OVH COVUJMT. " I feel," said the fat passenger, as tl«J traimerossed the Ohio line, “ that I nin in the land of slateameu. There is the smell of a ppstodlce in the air, and the low sWeei souqd of a Oonsnlate is heard iu Uie dewjrdistamki i sbii \hk shady forms of Marshals yet to he; and; out of- the dreamy gates of tnarpoSeihlo I see Die sad procession of jfetfik to bk Supreme Judges. It is a dear ahd fa vored land, this grand eld step-mother of Presidents. ” “ We ill ioV* diir oOhntt^,” anti the sad passenger, "and we fight, and sw?ar, and work, and Be, and sweat, and shout for the privilege of adminis tering her finances. Oh, Amsria^ America, what would a country be with out offices f" ‘"It would be like a cal withodl i voice.” the mltn ott the wood-bb* said. . “ Or a cigar wklout a match,” the aaid En- ernes passenger “Ora room without a bed,” dymion, the slee|>y passenger. “Ora bar without whisky,” aaid the voices immediately asked what that “ After all," the jitter said, “politi cians are no worse than they tited to ba, but there are mobs of them ; and threuin is all the evil, (haaahoppers are no more voracious in one aeaeoo than aa- Otlu r, but, ia the year wbes Ussy multi ply their census by oountlea millions, they are able to do infinitely more mis chief than when there are barely enough of Ux-m to famish fish-belt ter the in dustry ms oi tiaras of the republic, all the mischief in the country ten t by the politecuna. There are kwyeeu who would honor the bar by getting themselves kicked out ef 11 There are editors who disgrace journeUem. There ere mimetrn who profane their pulpits. Tbrsw ere several people outside ef pulb mad a * around fur misse l hie welcome; but he tbnukl that be aught tenet tue wile's heart, end aud Bathing. The nest dev he alerted on bu journey. - ‘■V«gii* put ndne. mj drurf ex- •kknkl Kn kftftin. i orating In nra n her fnqnd oo the morning of the bell "And why n»4?" ! ‘J tie raid • away.” i«pl>ed Mm. Sk. rlsir, with some Idtlc show of wifely dignity, se though the fact were in iteelf anffirieul nplsnst ion. “And why need that make any dMfi-r- encr ?" puraued Mrs. Martin, a bewitru ing Httic widow a me few yeera her frrnd's henior. " t will share my escort with you—Count Belonsi I" Sophie Sinclair looked amazed. She knew. Uiat the man mentioned had but lately gained ftitrrt into society, and •knew, alVi, that her huslmnd disliked and distrusted him. Once oi twice she hnd seen his e/t liodadmiringly upon herself,and had felt icmcwhat as the bird might feel beneath the basilisk glare of the serpent “ Well, why don’t you answer?” con* .inned Mrs. Martin. “ Will you go ?” “No, no,” she replied, trying to speak with firm decision. “ Besides, I do not think that Gerald admires the Count" ’• Pri’judiocs. ITie Count is one ot the most charming and agreeable men I know. Indeed, I think I should be canonized for my willingness to shore his attentions, especially as I have heard , him any fill manner of pretty things about yon.” “Nonsense, Ellen!" reverted Mrs. Sinclair.*-j-r ^ But shg felt the ground dipping bo- neath her foetrmrsho spoke. * After all, Gerald had not said, posi tively, no. Hnd he thought it neces sary, after he had openly expressed Iris disapprobation of bar going ? *. me had not known that she would be sorely tempted. Besides she would ITlfwlc. "* ODO would know her, and when she told Gerald he would for give her. A sodden thought came to her. "I will go,” she said at last, after con tinued urging, and, looking at the pict ure in all its brighteat lights, " on one condition, and that is. no one ia to km>w mu—not even the Gaunt Bay that you have persuaded a (head to aoooutpaay you who wkhee to remain unknown. I will some to your house, where be will find me, ami thus Main no slew.” Bo U was dwided; but apsSe <4 h*r ez ras ATI. 4NTIH Afro PAijitto AMC- TIO. Nordenskyold reported the east coast ot all Arctic lands as heavily iced, when their west coasts are comparatively free. This is explained by totatleh of the earth making the eastern shores the weather ot tesisting and advancing sidk,.- Tong season and then keep the brook* while all wee tern shores are felatfrelt lee shores. His Interesting tidal Observa tions jtlsl south at Wrangel land show an average rise and fall of only eight inches. This seems to indicate that the mariiM basin riotlk df Behrirtg strait is of limited extent, and eUhet land locked or oomposed of an archipelago of nnmerons islands, connected by Sounds with little snrronnding water - Judging by the comparative size of Greenland, any Arctic continent that may exist, if VB-geUenli proportion, would Kkely be about tour and a half degrees in depth from tire physical North pole of the earth. All shores within the Arctic cir cle apjieor to be skirted with islands. Oapt. Keenan, when "boiling out" in the liark James Allan, about 100 tall, thin paMe&ger, whereupon several aortl> 01 Point B * rrow ’ ** wi * > distinctneee a range of high land, visi ble s long way north of the veeasJ's po- siUou. This i* annually eimflrmed by the flight of large numbers of aquatic birds, which puss northward in the spring from Point Barrow, and return in August «r early September with their young, which are always reared soon land. When we consider that the Lamer in this port ef cemfully •f the warm Karo Si wo, tbs tropica, and a branch at which flows pa*t Japan and through Behring strait. bet i te teut-uK the bated easterns wtiseh had ••-■Med bersurl. traulde { bee nett Id throw hereelf na Die hr-1 sod »4> out brf • i in-aa. nl and onatntem. The morn- iag soa, straemiag m her rwee, awoke toT. With a •kndder she remrmtwved the vtetite of the past Bight. She looted •k.wu at tew haod-tbe bend wterh bad lin-v j ■dinted by aaoilierti touch—we Jhuugb in awaie way aha eapected to Ami th- •••ntamiueliiM I •Tended no the soft, •hue MMfeew. It was ell uumarred •vd die kekol again—she looked away end liark -abe nibi-d her ryes ami (•■Aril —the color mraawhile fl uttering «Nit of l*cr checks and her pale lips •iufe- • riDg, ee if her lieart^set med to stand still in s sudtkm agony of fewr, for free the third finger was missing the tel D-mnttic ring. When and where hnd she lost it, ted .Low could die now find the courage to091- hve all to (Irrald ? Hhc rose and dreneed, r volvfiig and re-revolving this problem in hef mind. At any hour her husband might re turn. For the first timerRho dreaded to mec-t him—dreaded to look into the kindly, handsome eyes, and read there ail lus incredulous reproach, mingled, perl iaps, with scorn and anger. The day wore on. Her friend, Mrs. Martin, ran in to scold her for her deser tion, bnt her pale face and trembling tones made good her plea of sudden ill nose. At nightfall Gerald arrived. She threw herself in his arms, in a bunt of n i voutt weeping ; bnt, when ho wonder- ingly asked its cause, her courage failed her. . , wW was it.uhe uever imagined that ho might look stem until to-day? 1 A week passed, when one evening, sitting in the twilight, a step sounded close beside. She looked up to discover I lie Count. - r “pardon!” he began, in apswer to, her indignant, questioning look; “ why must you be so cruel ? May I now see you?” “ Sk, 1 command you to leave me. I vtii now unaer tne prow*-cion of my own roof.** He wee about to answer, when a latch- key WM heard inserted in the outside door. ••*««. — In an instant he had sprung into some place of conceal meat, Cat the fact that he was near lent to the young wife a sudden courage, born at the moment * desperation. Her bnaband, enterim/. approached her, but she motioned him back. I have a tetter to make. It k fitting you rttaww.” Be wti*<u she uttd tern eli would pack 1 and fly away. Greatly ef the bird, the _ watched tl tiuw at Ha flight. It wee bnt bank, be by* mar. Going i tee waiter mu who wee lying on the id feeding on the ear of earn, to uadOTstimd this restaurant • walked up to tbo feeder end it bed Lean so diaohlod that it amid ueitber Walk nor fly. - Without disturbing it bu returuud. and after morning watched the goose curry awuy ea ear of corn. Finally the visit* cessed, but shortly afterward the sick gander M—It waddled into the camp and gobbled up the corn himself. He bee remained all winter, and the in dications are that he hae made up his mind to settle down and go to house, keeping. maw rolled on ae in purchased •se “ all out of rattled." But being in AHOCT THE KArK-.UiKXTH. Nafo-agent No. 1 had just taken Iris leave. He had told a most wonderful circumstance about the kind of safe lie won agent for, which wat> as follows, aud related to safe-agent No. 2: " 8k," says the poor fellow who hail lost his safe in the large fire, “there isn’t any tue of your talking safe to me. I am convinced that the man who ha* just left here is the man to buy of. Why, he sold, .a safe in New York city to u large produce merchant who had as i* pet a little bantam rooster, and this little rooster got into that safe, and the safe was locked up. Thit night the buildihg burned, and it was a terrible hot lire. In a few days, when they were able to get at the safe and open it, what do you thiuk?” “Well, I suppose,” said the siife-ggent, " that the rooster was cooked.” " No, sk; that little rooster came out and erowed. ” — *- -T- ■ f “ Well, now,” says safe-agent No. 2, “that pnte me in mind of a safe I sold to a man in Philadelphia. He had a little dog, and the dog got locked up in the safe, and the building took fire. The outside of the safe was red-hot, but they went to work and opened that safe; the combination worked to a charm, and what do you thimk ?" "Well, I suppose that little dog came out and barked. w “Barked? No, air, not a bark. That doc wa* trace stiff!” -V. • Good newspaper* are driving novel- reading out of existence. We shall have of I dirf • topping to took at It. He re preted that it wm M ly ” out of tune. It waa sent to our re- pumng man, and, on opuaing the top lid, the with Prom unitrocath the keys wa* taken a mass of dirt, ia •tech we found on* hairpin, threw needle* and eleven pin*, white from out of tha reed ceil* wo rw tuovi'd thirty-two dead dim, and ou each reed point waa a cake of dual, while the tongue vibrated between two thick walla uf dirt; th* dust on the tongue altering the pitch, and the dirt on the block changing the tune. After cleaning the dirt from the reeds, snd replacing them ia the cells, every one wm found to be in perfect tug^ Now, this organ had been kept open all the time, and the stop* left drawn. Had there been no " forte” stops to hold the swells open, the dirt would have re mained comparatively harmless on t’^e outer IkuhL But being left open, together with the other stops, the dust and insecta had ac cess to the most delicate parte of the or gan, and the consequence was dissatis faction with the organ, when the organ was not in fault. BMOKIMO OB line further north or THE MAEKKT. it Uka in tit* artesd t< UrehJa, with a a Year. THE Elf KSO T OP OtM AaM. tffi* rtwtlees energy of age is nothing else than the buoyancy of surly life pass ing over the original boondaflc*, snd, like a swollen river, inundating the sor- rounding country. A* the snows of the far north treasure up th* rainfall of a Address, TrIE PEOPLE, Barnwell Q H., • 0. and rivers full until far into Jane, so the 'buoyancy of youth treasures up great vital forces which send floods of spark ling waters down through the plains pf later years. We can all recall to mind m fifiy old persons upon whose temple* white hair* cams in vain, for the mind and heart refused to grow old. Biogra phy abound* in snch picture*. Many of the moat vivacious pieces in literature have been composed in the latest yean of thek authors, not beoatue thek great vivacity Came then, bnt beoaose it re ceived such an impulse in youth that it could not die a Way or suffer great abate ment Swift wea 60 when he laughed out “ Gulliver’* Travels." Oowper wee over 60 when he wrote " John Gilpin,” and Defoe wa* 6B when he composed th* “Robinson Crusoe." And when Cer vantes mad* the world laugh at ” Knight-errantry " he wa* thceo-ecore years sway from hi* infancy ; and when (ioeth* wa* 82 his mind created th* “Hetena.” In all thma illustrious m*n ih«r* was built up in boyhood and surly ' n lie of Mithumasm which 7VV- Da«M jMiu*. (site* off 10 cent* up until t. BEE I two •'Ousts I wi day,'* aaid a Appeal in hi* “ Why nut r “ Mnc-lta 1 snd I dna't tuck* up What haw* th* ffuttudu with “A r-J d**l," answered th* hay. “ My tearher h** IflO *h*rr* of Die elawk. ami wbra it falte «P • few eeate we *li catch it heavy. I hasp my tjm on the list, and when tbrra* a * break you bet I •km’t go to eahtioi. Iplaysirk. (M|y! bo* she l«*trd me the time MtW-l Diablo busted dowu In £1 When it v«* ■eflte* *1190 ah* waa as good as |de. 1 •M th* first falter that gut uctlo tlm break, and I told tim tiny* nf my ctee* that if th* didn't aril Ihrre dhathe devil to pay. I hoard Vncte Enwer w»j it wm a g«*id ahttfi, and I never slept a wink fc« a week. I grehtml th* Appmt th* first thing every morning, and when I aa* her keel down to flfi I skipped to the kill*. land, how *b# did bang Johnny Duluou rouml that nxmtiug! I •m in hope* that th* IdiMted mute would pick up, tmt the water got in the lower level*, and I know we were ia fur it. 8he licked romebudy for every dol lar it dropped. After it struck fi8 it picked np a little, and we ha* time to get well. My motixw'e been paielun my |>ant* now ever since Uie big break in Hierra Nevada, and if the market don’t take a tarn pretty soon I'm gmn' to quit the public school and gn to work on a ranch.”—Carton C'ity Appeal. JOHMUT IB HEQCr.HTBD DEAW. TO WITH- »V THE PHENE MCE WOMMM. The woman who does not require of V man the form ot respect, invites him to discard the substance; and there is one violation of the form which is recent and gross,- and might be well cited as a strik ing illustration of the decay of manners. ciety of ladies 'in public and private places, whether driving, or walking, or sailing, or sitting. There are preux chevaliert who would be honestly amazed if they were told they did not behave like gentlemen, who, sitting with e lady on a hotel piazza, or •trolling in a public park, take out a cigar, light It, and puff as tranquilly m if they were aldUe in thek room*. Or u rouug man comes alone upon the 4eek i e steamer, and blow* cloud* of to- 1*000 smoke in thek faces, without even amarking that tobacco is dtesgreeable o some people. This ia not. indeed^ one of deadly uaa, but a betray* that h* Several fashionable ladies wore drink ing tea in a palatial residence on Gal veston avenue, and, of coarse, they dis sected a few at thek friends, among them a married couple who did not get along very well. “Yes,” said one lady, “ Mi*. Blank is a very positive woman. She come* right straight oat, and never whips the devil around the stump.” :— _r “ “ But she chases Mr. Blank around the orange trees with a broom-stick, for I seed her doing it the other morning when I went for milk,” remarked John ny, who was taking in the conversation with open mouth and ears. — Johnny’s seat in the Senate was imme diately declared vacant by a unanimous vote.—Galveston Nows. b*y*od th* MM. deligtitiag, ia tii to their MM THTEsflEWED TOm POOL. An EagHeh merchant, who had smaeeed coasiderable wealth in th* In dia trade, made aa excursion into Seot- land, pertly for his bealfh, and partly to see the country and study the people. He had taken a fancy that he would like to be a moral philoeojibar; sad to that end he moat look undeteUndingW into the characters of the different daeec* of his fellows. Arrived in Dundee our philosopher wm ueized with the fancy that he would like to interview the moot -consummate fool, and the moat wise and erudite man of the inhabitant*; and ha Applied to an ofdjfbtime correspondent, who had been born and reared in tha town, to furnish him the mean* of gretifiostion. “Certainly,” mid th* friend, “1 have the two men in my mind—the acknowl edged fool of Dundee, sad our best and wisest man. I’ll take you to th* loo) fink” And he introduced the philosopher to a worn, and tattered, snd drunken “cud dy,” or street-porter--a man who did the work of a mole—called “Dnnde* Jock,” informing the latter-named that the gentleman wished to oouvewo with him. “ Yea," said th* Englishman, kindly, and raaxiugly; " I wiah to ask you a few Btbte question*, and if you will an swer them properly, I will fire you fire shillings—-five stiver shilling*." Jock New York auw <• * Brouklyu ferry- lorn with her. Be that ah* * M A ami AGE phice-libt. A minister out West, who luis^heen uohbled a good deal over marriage fees, issued the following ckcnlar and price list : “One marriage, plain, 92. Ditto, Vi«.in£ the bride, 93. Ditto, trimmed with one groomsman and one brides maid, $4 ; 60 cent* extra for each addi tional groomsman or bridesmaid. Bach elors past 40 will be charged extra. Maxis of same ago 10 per cent off. Mileage will be charged ia long-dis- Liberal reduction to dabs. Payments in cosh ; no notes at E* ed or lebutss mads fur poor coni*. see wab ram woobo eeeam. ftis days ef A u Nat, sad fell traced bar has wm a widow, i cd. He wm called to Oula, her a tetter foil of affecUm, and giving references. Ilrr fnsnds inquired and f'Htnd that hs mm a tihs replied to the tetter He Hh# wrote and hs wrote natti and the wedding day prepared her bridal rob# snd hs ra turoed to New York. TNey mot at the house of one of her friends, she wonder ing how he looked, he anticipating a icoond vision of beauty. She saw a handsome man; he looked and screamed, “ You are the wrong woman !*} And so it was. They had neglected to exchange photographs. She remains a wulow, and he haunts the Brooklyn ferry boats for another vision.—Boston ZVow eller. AM AJfEODOTE OW LUCOUt. In thok “ early days " Abraham Lin coln and Wm. G. Green were partners in a grocery store at New Belem, Menard county, HL At the breaking- out of the Black Hawk war they sold thek store and enlisted for that cam paign, both joining the same regiment Lincoln and Green continued to be on term* of warm friendship until th* former’s death. Shortly after Lincoln’* election to the Presidency, Mr. Breen culled upon him to offer his congratula tions. They talked about old times. tot "if yen trin an*wut me u question we sun auttie it I will MkyeenljaM, end it ahull bu as euu- pte a* ampto eon ha. II ya eaowm II I shall aot tsks yet mmmyjto* My caaus soever II yu shall fluabto tt, Ml gis me twenty skillin’. Th* •'Go ou," Uo*. sad I will “Well, tir-ye sok m* who we* David's lather, aa’ I tolTdjm, N#o. HHto it to i terriew the wire i Tun Canon (New.) Appeal ia sible for th* flnttovtag story: A i who took a trip into the eo—j, m th* plains, a mil* from mj house, noticed e oat, shag* one, almost m large m e fair-sized dog. It lying upon the ground, its A most in such e way that ho had uo doubt that it hud fallen a victim to some videos dog. Around it, feeding unsns- pectingly, wa* a flock at small bird*. The apparently lifeless cut we* within rang* of th* vitiM of th* observer lor some time, end just m ho wm thinking how much easier it would be for th* soimsl to feign death end catch u bird by deceiving it than by slipping up to it, he was astoniahsd to sea the cat snd denly roll over and grab ana of tho feathered tribe that wa* very near, 'ih* other bird* flew away 100 yard* or so and alighted. The oat only made qpe or two mouthful* of the game, and then crept around to the windward of the birds, laid iteelf out again, and once !~itare *uooes*fully played the dead dodge. " Green, do you remember that fellow i who challenged our whole regimentpor The gentleman drove nway without a wrestle, when we were at Book Island?” asked Mr. Lincoln, referring to the Black Hawk campaign. "Yea, I re member Mm,” said Mr. Green. “What was his name?” "Don’tknow; Ire- member the men, bnt not hi* name." " Well, you remember I threw him, don’t yon?" “Ye*, yon did that." “ Well, if I knew hi* •ddree* I would •rad him e commission for e nice little tiffins, ao as to let him know I bear him no nmliee,” aaid old Abe, with that pe culiar twinkle of hfe eye which those who knew him remmnbiir so well Mr. Omen, who ie still smottg the li md resides at TMIaK swbwmb iiur to tell this bttls snsednts when ha of ing how many birds tl took to fh* feline. warn scAvamoE omut. Some mothers are ever ready to find fault with thtu the onleoky exception aathe general role—end aej, “ Thar* 1 you al ways do so." Nothing can be mere an- ecying toyonag petaon* titM thi* ksbft A ganoralimag any httia