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THE LEDGER: GAFFNEY, S. C., MAY 20, 1807. 3 - ROM THE FORKS. Apt o!o and Things at tho “Confiu- 1 onoa of tho streams.’ Xcwa from lliirkli*berr>' l(i<l^;e—The l-n i «• llullinn I’m Si}—I! Ira la itml fie I’resu-l.i-r—\\ |jc»n Drinkn Were Ni-eeHaary. Ac on!in to Aunt Nancy Newton and the Scripture*, “ehe foi j'etti th her pains and rejoiceth much, for a man child is horned into t h e world,” or words to that extent. One <iav last week Aunt /xs Nancy driv bv our to say O']- bv and howdvdo. \ She was cn her re turn Iruek home to the I’anther Creel: settlement from a j>;ea---uiit trip over on IIucklels'rry Hidpe. Site had lx*en over there unlxdiiiowar.cc to us on a little i; niily visitation around amongst th« Mullinses—which you recollect Dave Muliiu,x, he married Miss Hit by Lester. Now from what they tell me Miss Hit!iy‘s mother was a Newton, though 1 never di<l lind out far certain the full degteeof i:ir.::cry between her and Aunt Nancy. lint anyhow.thatilcar,delight ful old soul driv three miles out of iter way and come around by our house to tell me and mother the latest and most freshest news from over there on Huck leberry liidge. Mi.IiJrjs Ilaby. “Don’t you remember, Rufus, when Dave Mullins and Hithy Le. tergot mar ried V” says Aunt Nancy, like as if I didn’t have it blame thing to do but keep the v.c/ldin rec tnisof theenuntry. I told her I re; h-ered the wisklin •leur its a bell—: aiticalar the music and 1 lu nein and tin* tr<mendius big fare dinner which foilowed—but to save my life I eouldn’t recollect exactly the year and the day when it all come to j.a •>, “Well, it was 17 years ago the third day of last Novmber sin 'e Dave and Hithy too!; to mixinVIothes for better or for worse,” Aunt Nancy went on. “And i:'/lit before 1 :>t tin* gov d Ix>rd blessed ’em with tin i:* li.st’xjrn baby, and a boy b d>\ ,.f thnt. Coi sequent ially you understand the general circumfer ence of the surroundins at tlieir* house, and you will take my word for it when I tell you that the outdoincst and most goneinest eonlusioiunent in the history <,f Ilueklebcrry Ridge i.s now gain on rig>-!it e.rcum! thene in tho Mullins wttic-, ment. k V" cert a inly tli n./ Iiat rudilent mid surjuisin me when 1 iirst heard cl>oi:t it, cause it did look to me by thm time like Dave and Hithy never would fulfill the f-'-rip- ttires. And now, naturally of conrae, to be there and we their jirond looks and silly ways you would think it must be thccnlye.st baby in t he round created world. Now jest betwixt ns gals, a.s it r <re, I Jiave seen :i whole juisslo of ibies in n>y day and go nemtion, Rufus, a'nd I didn’t find nothin so very extry and plujK*rfeetly fine about the lute and the new and the unexpected Mullins baby—which at the same time it is a right pnornisin boy. Lut yet still at the same time it is only u baby, and about like ell ihc rest so fur as I could see— with two arms and two legs, and two Inu.ds and two feet, and two ears and two eyes, and the general marks and iippeunnents of a plain American baby boy. And at this late day if it is pleas ant for Dave rend Uithy to take unto t lieirselves the fiattei in. f>xd not ion that they liave got the onlyest baby in the whole discovered country wliat’s the difference to us? “Or.cst upon a time. 1 recollect, when I had made a big r land trade with I rkuh Deverly—wherein, to tell the Dibit* truth, I had just naturally swapped the socks olT of l’ri,..i» so smooth cud easy that it makes my head swim till yen when 1 think e’i»ut it. Well, at ary rates, 1 wanted the deeds and t tle- ments fixed up bomb proof, so 1 went to Judge 1’iekins and got him to write out the papers, liut then I i •-v> r did read them paper* clean through. 1 never have saw such a hand writ in In my whole entire natural life. I raley •odidn't have no serious doubts but what, the judge l:nowcd his busim : ^ a::d had writ everything down aecordin to law. Hut you see 1 wanted to know all them things to a dead and buried certainty. So the next time he come itmnd on the circuit I took the papers to the judge and told him 1 would love for him to read his writin through and through with me. He looked at the papers a few minutes, and then says to me. says he: “’Hiram Lucas, did I write cut them papers?' “‘Judge Pickir.s. you did,’says I. ‘“No mistake about that, lliram?’ says he. “ ‘Sho as pun is iron and fiotl made lit tle apples.’ says L “’Well. lliram,’ says he. ‘you will have to wait till I can throw down about three or four good, stiff drinks b**fore I can read that writin, 1 was drunk when I wrote out them j apcr.s.’ ” Now as for me. 1 never could worry the story down without a right smart .sprinkle of salt, on it, but cid man lliram maintained till the last that f<'M>n as the judge tanked up sufficient on the necessary drinks he read them pa pers through and througdi ns clear and I easy as you could read plain print. “VVateli r.nti I’m}-.” "1 never am to dbremember the tine.* ; when I sawed Parson Dick N:;!;or- off at the knees and got two drii.k.s in. tid of one,’’ said old man Hiram Lucas to me on eel upon another time. “Recoilset, Rufus, that me and Dick Nabors was be rued and bred and brung up on farms ajiuin, and had been g r ood friends fr<»m our early youth up to the present w ritin. Hut in the run of time it would se< m like we bud came up to what you mought call a forks of the road. So Dick he went his way as a preacher, whilst 1 went mine as a full- | blood Lucas and a natural-born ho: c- , trader. One day we met up together j in town. The weather was meet hr na tions cold, and finally at la t by scene 1 book or mererook I got Dick to go v. 1th me for a. change of breath. We noml- » • natid cur pi/on and poured cut the bs. a»'d then nothin v.culd do Dick d by the Heriptun s and offer up a short and fi rvent prayer before he took ; little somethin for the stomach's sake. And in the main time, whilst he had his eyes rhet and was gdvin thanks, I climbed up around drink as well a* mine. ” Wheri*'s my sperits?* soys he. wihcn he ojicneil his ey*v, and saw the <*!reui:!- ferenee of the ea'cunity. “ ‘Ask me r.o questions and I will tell you r.o Her,,’ says I, ’but necordin to the Peri fit u res. Dick, you ma. I wc/e!i and pray—watch as well ;ie j/ray.’ PACIFIC COAST CATS. ■ STORKS IN A FIGHT. . ! drinks, and then news v.a* rutner ‘ but y , ! a. Vet All la Well. “Bithy and the Ixiby are lx»th doin as well a.s you could exj • et.aiong about 11ds time of the year, and in the fullness of time 1 reckon Dave, will recover. Rut for two day and nights r, did raley look to me like the crazy asylum was right seriously threatened with bis mauiy pmenee,” and with that Aunt Nancy went fumblin and foolin around in her tbanky bag afi«*r h<*r pipe and tobacco. “That night w hen He* doct or lir t made his landin \*.itii tlu* baby Dave looked like In* diiln't know v. hieli !e* bad Ix’tter do—take wings and fly away, or faint and fall over in it. His eyes got as big tis a pair of cups and s'uieei s, a:.<l bulged out till bleen gracious if \ oa couldn’t rff t<X)k a stick and sei api s! ’em off. lie ion id n’t lie (Sown, nor set up. nor keep still no w a;, lie ecu Id lix it. He wear in* a plum svivet and in < very body’s way. Ry daylight next inornin lie wa« out and gone to t he h t teadin to lib •-lock, and to tee him etirrin iwonml people that didn’t know nothin about what had come to pass would of thought he was runniii of a nix-mule farm and had got three wee ks behind with his work, “Refore breakfast that inornin Doe Mintcrs lu* come over to nee what was what and who was who. and tun 'd in by the lot lookiu for Daw*. He didn’t find Dave out there, but he found his signs, and that was a gracious plenty to tell tin* w hole story. “Now wh'it do you reckon Dave had went and done. l»ufi:>? Lies* the heavens if lie didn't feed his horse on cotton seed a'nd goober vines, and then whirl in and give the cow ten ears of corn and two bundles of fodder. And when Doe saw the general signs of the times all he had» to do was to come on around to the front gate and ask what it was -a girl or a boy. Tbroo ‘Who Arc Remarkably Rright and Original T!ie TrlU»}- I» nn Accomplished Tar nnd Hope Walker mid gvengall tan I*la> ou the I’lan»>—\ 1’eline Oiiiuni Fiend. It bns bee* th.e proud boast of Cali fornia that her wonderful climate has produced the finest fruits, the biggest vegetables, the handsomest w omen, and the last horses to be found anywhere m the United States. Kven the eats of the Pacific coast now seem to have felt the ihliucnce of tliat climate. On the United States ship Albatross. Is a eat that was originally a San ITan- eisean, although her subsequent expe rience on the ship has made her some what of a globe-trotter. She is a pretty white pussy named Trilby, and is ex- eeedingly vain of her mnnyceecmplish- liien’s. At t.,c wo.u of command 1, i.*,^, sits up on her haunches w ith her fore- paws drooping downward in a demure attitude, w hile the rapid flourishes and sudden jerks of I c*r long and fluffy tail t. i! eloquently of bm* pride in the feat. Jf Trilby is asked “Where is the pret tiest foot on the coast ?” she immediate ly spreads out two dainty white paws, sheathing and unsheathing her claws in feline satisfaction over her beauty, and loudly pairing her delight in the admiration her frankness rails for’h. Trilby can also walk a tight rope, but she will do this, a feat which she thinks quite beneath her dignity, only at the command of her favorite on the Albat ross. the first mate of tlu: vessel. At his command also she will jump over board and dive for fish. It lias taken a Peneefal-l.ooklRa IJInl* Are Mt:rili‘roi’.n When Ituileil. The keepers in the Cincinnati zoo have found out that storks, t lie bringers, according to tradition,of all the blessed Ik hie* that are born into the world, nnd which, in far-off. sleepy Holland perch on the rooftrees of houses aj.d are looked up by the Duchman drunk or sober, are the toughest-ter.ipered and bloodiest birds in the catalogue w hen their dander is u;>. There are tw o of these pacific-looking creatures m the Cincinnati garden, and the manager of the show who put them together. Dunking that lu* would have ii happy family p*. rforma nee. has de cided that he did rot miss much in not seei: g the Corbett-Fit/.affair. An eyewitness of the set-to between the Cincinnati babv-brli.xers described ARP OX APPETITES. | ,1:e< T :« ioe::* and el kens for I food they would do without flesh fora Tho Bartow Piiilosophor Writes cf Fruit aad bloat Eatora He Talks (•nrdrulim. Too—Tells iUu Life tne People be fore Flesh Was ( setl for Food. of V, v<>Y> BOTH V.*i;r.K GLTTIXC GROGGY. the mixup thus:. “It b gan friendly, like a boxing bent. One stork marched to the rear of the cage. KtreV-hed his yard of a neck straight up and stood mo tionless, then turned ’about face’ with induce her to do tl Is. and she is still to be approached for it only when she is in the proper frame of mind. When she is frisky and i.s jumping and racing aboul the.* deck with tail up and eyes wide open she will leap from the rail w ith very little urging. Dut when she is backing in the sun, with eyes half h,v 0, |f J I,. #||! :., <i j- y$m m * v Y&m m, in V The \ec«sMir> Drinks. f)bl man lliram Lucas'used to tell a mighty good one on Judge IMekins— which you tiiulerstund both of them have since then thro wed their hands to the pack and went the common way of all human flesh. “I have saw the hnnilw ritin of many sundry men. Rufus, but if there ever was a man that made a plum bust and fell down on It every time he went to write, bis name was Judge I’iekln*.” naln old rnnn Hiram hi g’vin me the itorv. lie Saved t?:e \aliiebles. 0::e New Year oil man Hiram made runnin trade with bis good wife, which was to the general i xti.xt that ( very time Ik* boi.ybt u c|u:irt of .-perils for himself he would buy a rev. tiro.; f< i her. From wbat they say the old man was u.s pood as bis word clean through for ]“ months. Amongst other family records and relies, Andy Lucas has got a paper which slums old man HiramV: star.*account for tiliot paniebi** year, and to look at it you would think he didn't buy nothin much but spi rits a: .1 new dre AH down the lire you will notice these items: ”1 quart of rperits. atjetr. “1 frock for Ma.xdy, 10 eta. “1 (|'uirt of sp'Tits, .70 ets. “1 frock for Mardy, 50cts. “1 (piart sperits, hOet.x “1 frock for Mandy, SO eto.” And so forth and s^i on all down t o • line. Rut I started out to tell you aliont tl :* terrilile time when old ixan RTx.i • !/.u.*is dnv hi* wagon into a railroad wieek and didii’t save a blessed th ug out of the smash-up but bis own life and “the valuables.” The way >1 e«;me to |xt:-'*—the old 11:0*1 boolu d up Ids .mile and Ids one-horse wagon and went to town. It was then way up into the fall of the year, nca.'lv in the Cli'istmar. Owin to t :e stage < f tiu* weather arul the ses^a.n of the y ::r lie had bought a half gnRon ja;r <,f sjievits that day and tw<»“n<*v. frocks lor Mandy.” On Ids return ba<*.'; In me that evenT if wouM i'er.i I ke he ge t most inglorious!;,* and : p* ridy dnink. Con: equcntially Ik was “sicej ia it off" when !k* got to the railn.adero sin.und the first thing he bt.ew Ids mole and wagon !nd run int/i a tail^-rd c ollision with a railroad train. Ry some strong;* hook or crook or freak of nature, when old man Hiron conic to his semes his mule was killed dead and Ids wagon nnadhed into kindliu wood. Rut he didn’t have a butu* broke, whilst he found hlujugcf : p<a it - and the btindleuf dry goods wife and round. After supper that night romebody bailed at t he gate, atfd when I went out to roe, who should it. be but old man Ifiraiti Lucas.—which he had left his wagon and dead mule at the wreck and wa.s 1 ow f»>otin it towards home. IF* had a jug in one hand and a bundle of dry gondo under has arm. He told me to the best of his recollect:' n all about tl::* mash-up, aid then wound up by savin: “Hit was a most helhtf ictus bad scrape fur a white man to drive into, but any how, Rufiic, yon will please take 1 o- lice i(.*<it | come out alive and saved the '-tillable*.” With tiia.t old mnii Hiram molded on d'wvn the road toward#* lumte with his jug *,f uperiU end two “new frack* for Mainly.’’ • • r.rria fanddhs SYKNUALI STRIKES TIIS KKYS. clcs d. nothing cm Induce her to show lierseif off in this trick. A lady in San Francisco has a big black eat named Svengali, whose intel- leatual feat.; are of the musical order. The lady is 11 pianist of considerable ability, and there are many musical gatherings in her house. At saeli times Svengali is in his element. After tlr*. music begins he cannot Ik: kept out of Die room. At first, he stalks slowly and solemnly about tin* room with his eyes fastened on the piuuo. Gradually he circles nearer, and finally mounts with one leap to the top of the instrument, where he sits and watches the perform er. As soon as the music stops he gives a long yow l w hich his mistress says is a request to be allowed to play. She sometimes sets him on the stool, and in apparent dciight he strikes the keys with his forepaws and then jumps on the keylioard, dances back and forth on it, and meow h and you Is and screeches until In* is taken from the room. Du’ he is soon bncb again uniers he is locked in a closet or naiicJ ii|» in a lx;x. for t*> get admission to t he music he w ill jump through windows, claw at doors and walls until they are wrecked.and watch for hours for a elm nee to sneak through an open door. When his mistress pr.ic- tices Svengali always sits in her iap, and occasionally plays duets with her. Over in Chinatow n there is a eat that is a confirmed opium fiend, lie belongs to a Chiimu.an who brought him from a town in the San Joaquin vail:y. 'Ibis cat is of 1 he yellow breed, and t he < hina- inan has named him Ah Toy, “the Gold Ore.’’ Tin* Chinaman and tin* cat are inseparable, and tiny are both slaves of the pi fie. When the limit wishes to : moke tie eaibs the eat, w ho curls tip be side him on the hunk and with what seems to Is* the deefiest satisfaction breathes the fumes from the pipe aid poke* his head close to his master’:; face iu order to get the opium-laden air expelled from the smoker’s lungs. After a time this tells upon Ah Toy. a* it doe* upon his master, and lioth sink into the sleep of the floppy. Ah Toy has been the slave of the drug for five or six months, and is already much the worse for’ his disMipatiou. When his master brought him from his Hun Joa quin birthplace Ah Toy was a fat and fr : sky kitten, holding only the gayest and most frivolous views of life. Now he is thin and forlorn looking, does not care to et t, and ha* a most melancholy demeanor. The only time when he shows any Interest in life is at the hour of the daily smoke. Then he Is excited until the pipe Is ready. Evidently .Mi Toy cannot, stand the pace, and If he dues not reform he will hood be • dead eat. \ - W* Conrt Took Pity on Him. In the folire court f f IxHiUvillr, Ky. t a prisoner charged wit h disorderly con duct M-rtoed h's ditmiwnl by answer ing. when asked u here he lived, that he didn't live—just tonnled. long and j xtient course of training to all i!:c tactical jireci.sion of a rankstnan. and stood straight asoneef Uncle Sam's shooter boys. Suddenly the other raised one of Ids yardsticks straight ■ forward and upuer;!, as though it were | a musket. Then be lowered his long neck and sighted along the long.stretch ; (./ slender leg pointed as it at the heart of his stolidly standing eomfxinioit, all ; in perfect im’ffatlca of one of s mi.'i- 1 tary detail cidercd to shoot a s;>y. At : the tn^nent tin* aim at the brother stork’s heart seemed to be precise, the j aiming stork suddenly uttered a cry, and the other stork fill forward as though shot. Then, taking posit-on in the center of their cage, the mammoth stilt-figged birds circled their right and left feet in the air ultcrnat' ly, then, sent tin ni spinning at each other’s heads, which darted back, forward, sideway.;, up, down, and every other way. “Three times consecutively did they knock the yard-stick legs complctclv from under one another. When it was evident that both storks were getting groggy each drew one leg up until it w as completely hidden under Die body: then, each standing on one leg, Uu*y v ert r.t each other with their heads, making a balance-bunting match out of it that was fast and furious. They finally went down with tlieir heads and reeks tangled like a sleepy Inn's shoe string in the worst kind of a knot. “For an hour or two peace was pre served, but they broke the.silence of th<’ night later on with another tight, which was fiercer even than the first. They were resting from their labors vv hen the beejier went to bed, and though some what ruffled still resembled birds. When the doors were opened in tin morning they looked like two large, raw Hamburg steaks. Invest : g::tion. instituted after thn*o days of that, sort of thing, developed the fact that several years ago these birds performed in Hagenlieel.'s show, that at a matinee they had quarreled over which should have the center of the stage, and that they had kept the old grudge bottled until now. TWO BRAVE GIRLS. And now the pota’o bugs have come again—come ta !y—ahead of time, and 1 have to wage war 0:1 them. There is always soineUting to prey cn everything that is good. Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty, and just s > it is the price of r. good garden. The weeds out grow evri,thing yau plant, and noth ing hurts them. Friers and thistles and cr:;i;g:x:ss and d< gfenne, and chick- weed grow right along just like little sins and bad habits. It tabes constant work and constant watching to keep dawn weeds nnd original sin. lice, everyone that thir .teth! 1 bought a dime's worth of paris green and dis solved h..i f a tablespoonfui in half a bucket of water ami sprinkled the beetles carefully lust evening, and this morning t hey are dead. Lut t his does rot end it. for they have just begun to come. It is net much trouble, and will sjnve the potatoes. I tried it last year. Re sure and mark the paper that contains the powder “poison” and put it where the grandchildren can't get it. Rut the mixture on with an old whisk broom, and what is left in the buck* t hang it up high somewdiere till vvantcJ again. We had a fruit grower:-’ convention lu re lust week and learned a good deal Shout exterminating those pestiferous things, both visible and invisible. It i.s .1 right geed education to hear such exper'enved men talk as Mr. Miifi r. ( il. Nesbitt and Mr. Starnes. I wish th-.* convention would meet here on • * a ir.. nth. My respect f.;r horticulture and horticulturists is very great. Tie* Rerekmans and Mr. Rnrp.ph and Dr. Jones liave done a world of good in ;<d- vanoing the growth of fruit trees and diffusing knowledge among the people. Mr. Miller." too, though more recently 1! m'eilcd among us, is already a house hold word in this part of Georgia. The growing of fruit is i o doubt tie oldest occupation known to man. It most happily combines j.hy.deal la bor with scientific stndj and the re ward is useful, gratifying and refining. There is r.o doubt but fruit r.nd vege tables were the only food of mankind for 1,700 years after ir.e.n was created. I alluded to this In a little talk I de livered to the convention, and sune of my Rllie-reading friends have since questioned me about it and asked for my authority. They reminded me that Abel's sacrifice was from his flocks and vvas more acceptable than Cain’:; < ffering of the fruits of the ground. It d>e« not follow, however, that tin* flocks were for food. Only a few of the animals were fit for inytk’ng, and t ie’se few. such ns domestic cattle, were required for beast* of burden and tili ng the soil ond furnishing clothing. “And the 1/ rd mode coat* of skit s end clothed them.” Refore Me fall, and while Adam nrd I've lived i:i the garden cf Mb n. the fruit of the trees a? d the herbs therein were their only food. After they were driv en from the garden the Lord said: “Then ‘i!iait «*xt the “herb of the feld. In the sweat of thy face sdmlt thou eat bread. And God sent him forth from the gird-11 t:*t!!i the ground. long t me. It takes a hard heart and j strong man to butchera iamb, and yet i it has to be done. 1 don’t mean a hard ened heart, but a heart that will not faint at sight cf ];^iu or blood. My motlu r would not kill a chicken, but sho would dress it and cook it without ob- i jeetion. I have wrung their heads off. i but 1 wouldn't do Jt now for my ow n sake. As we grow Wider we grow kinder and liave mere respect for the life that iod gave to all His creatures. That is, except snakes, 1 never hesitate about killing snakes. Uncle Ham killed a lit tle one in the lower corner of the garden, last week and my wife hnsent been in tiir.se parts since, fer she still insists that where there is one then* are two. Rut 1 don’t blame woman for her an tipathy to snake s. They gave old moth- 1 er Eve a gnat trouble and it lias sur vived to all her daughters. "In sorrow thou shr.lt bring forth children and thy desire shall be to thy husband and he shall rule over thee." What an awful curse! especiallv the last. It was hard, very hard, on Eve: for Die command not to cat of the tree of knowledge was not given to her, but to Adam before Eve was erected. Mayba Adam did not tell her in an impressive manner. Nevertheless the curse is upon her and will remain so until she joins the angels, I reckon.—Dill Arp, in Atlanta Consti tution. IN THE OLD TIME. After ti Terrible Battle 'j’hc> ivlllril a Hui&c Iit*» llfisli. Katie Herbruck and Lillian McKee- ban. of Tacoma. Wash., are two brave young women. The oilier day while out ii. a rowboat collecting sea urchins ami st ir fishes iu J’liget sound they were attacked by a monster devilfish meas uring over 1” feet between the ends of whence he was to!:« n.” There is nothing nbr.ut eat’r" flesh uo to that time. Refore Eve was cre ated the Lord said to Adam: “I have given you every herb nr.d the fruit of every tree nnd to you it ? kxll be for meat." He gave Adam dominion over 1 lie ani mals and Adam named then:, hut ro- v. here is it intimated that they vvi re for meat. Now let us pass down the gi n< 1: '.l .i* ; until after the Hood. “And God : aid to Noah.Thefearofyuu shall bo upon 1 vi ry beast ofJhe earth and every fowl of tin* air and rhe fishes of the no; and every moving tiling tliat liveth s , ::!l be meat for vou. Even as the green herb have f given yen all tilings. Rut flesh, v, 1th the life thereof, which is the blood there of. shall ye not eat." When Mores came he limited the k'nd of animals that might be used for food. Swine were specially j i!:*il and to this day no Jew will make a beg of himself by eating ling. Fl*!i eating bps never been considered ro- fiiii:^f or spirittiali/.ing in its inlluerees upon our nature, ard yet th:;e is no doubt that t he laboring mail m ods ani mal food. Solomon rays: “Go among the riotous eaters of flesh.” 1 in* children of Israel chided Muses for bringing them away from fir* fii***i pots ( f Egypt, and so the Lord sent tit'rrj quails to eat for supper ard manna for breakfast. Even some of our te*’tk arc (••died canines, from “ea r !is.” a dog. be cause vve tear flos'i with them like a clog. As a man grows old he cans less for fb sh. but his appetite for fruit never A IU I/-:!:** Administered to (tie Ancrlo* i.iar.lruvi r:i;viiv: Yer.r* Ajfo. It io not only astonishing, but really humiliating, to observe with v.hnt ven eration a certain class of our go x! eiti- zens look upon everything of Eritish birth, or Eritish origin; and with what sickly affectation ai.d parricidal con- t< mpt they speak of their own coun try, its powers, its products, its govern ment, its manners and its institu tions. . . This is neither the effect of ambition, of power, cf honest prejudice, cf party heat. It results from innate n.ad conscious littleness. It is the obla tion of a low. groveling, and ryeophan- tic* spirit—cf u mind that shrinks from 1 indep; nefi nee nr.d g i aduati s to tyrar ry. atoms to tho center. . . It must not lu* disguised . . . tint there is another eliu-x; . . . more numerous and more respectable; possessed of ’aleii’.;. if not of integrity; and of itt- fiuene;*, if not of patriotism—professed ly attached to their count ry, its inter- i «■ ts and its honor, who, noverthe- 1 Ic*s;s . . . seem to lock up to the Eng lish vvlih a kind of awful reverence; a M;rt of bewildered admiration—as the* source of all that is sublime and beauti ful on earth! From whence arises this strange ot- * taehment? Is it to be traced to those : hiring and amiable qualities that base and constitute the character of an Eng lishman? Thi'.t inflated arrogam*'*; tliat assumption of excellence; that boast of power, which admit* of no equal nnd allows cf no competition; that insolent : bat affected contempt of other govern- j mi nt ; and other countries; that lin- ' jH>te::t but imposing attitude; that ' nerveless but dictatorial s|)irit—in : hurt, that boasted and exclusive* perfec tion in arts and in arms, in morals and j in manners! Or does it arise frent ; t!;:*;r superior observance of rebgioa* i duties? Is our admiration excited by ' thnt f.iiseand affected piety—that hypo crite"*! devotion which, amid lust and : rapine, murders, massacres ami con flagrations, sacrilegiously appeals to tie cross, and a.*>ium*sat once the con- i trcl amt def enfieef the Christian world? 1 Are tlii -.* t!u* cap’iv.iting traits that ! dazzle our countrvr.eti? Are these the • alluring <|ualities that, banish frt in our 1 rcie is thnt. love cf -ixntry, that spirit of indepe ndence, thnt self-respect usd all tiio e local affeetions w hich rntum ha* implanted alike in the Indian nn»l the Aral)? Or does the remembrance cf the it a.tern d solicitude and protaet! m of England during our filial vassalage inspire us with this tir.bcttrd d udmirn- 1 hm? Is the di bt of gtatitmie far the suppt.tr of otir infancy, and for the mnnii'viid Ues-.s’ngs I •stowed uj>,n us in our riper years, never to lie dis charged? is our lave excited by the recollection, of her affectionate embraces at Lexing ton—her more that, maternal fon ’res* in arming the merciless savages and them noon our defense!' sn jXMiring womi ’i ;:.*•! ehildrer—her employ m^nt of ti. * mercenary l arbarktns of Ger many and the refuse of her ow n king dom to ravage our coasts, to bum our cities nnd to carry fire nnd sword into tlr* heart of our jieacefttl eountry—in short, to r ;b us of our property and free* put 1 {.jui to redtu e us to a state of ser vile dependence, of base and uncondi tional submis-sion? Dim s the recollec tion of there thing*—does her ow n h’s- 1 tary, or the history of our revolution, ! fill us with this immeasurable respect ? Or, must we descend to her mere re cent achievements, and attribute it to iter total disregard*of the laws of na tions. and of those principles that gov ern the civilized world—to tlte sp'>ba- TIJKN BEGAN THE BATTLE. ! tie opposite arms. Their f'*st notice was when the octopus thru.u an arm into the boat, (titehing Miss Herutuck by the foot. She screamed and pulled, flnall t v* escaping by dexterously slip ping off her shoe. Then began the battle. The octopus vvliip;ied tlieduuml until foam covered iu surface endeavor- lag all the while to fasten a tentacle ulxiut one cf the Isoot’s oeeii|>atit*. T!ie young women res >d by vigcrourly |)i*tindipg it vvith our* and fish hook. Fin-ally the octopus twisted nn arm about the crosspiece in the boat’s bmv ur.d beaded for sea. This frightened Misses Herbruck and MeKeehon, who Kdiered tlieir only hope lay in cut ting off this tentacle, which they suc ceeded in doing with on oar after be ing lowed six miles. Another stroke killed the monster, which was dragged ir to th.e boot. It weighed 110 pounds ?t d each cf its eight arm* was rov- red with over 25i •’suckers." leaves him. Rut if he didn't lose h:s iik- | tions of our ('ommeree nnd the imp ing Jor flesit he couldn’t < at much of it nohow, for about that time he loses Ids teeth and Rrovidciiee udmerisht s him that it is time to irepure fur that spirit ual food thnt corneth fronxuhovo. There h a food of the gods rA-d nmbrosin. but it is made of fruit iffd no! of flesh. Cannibals love flesh—raw fir: h. bloody flesh, and even eat human flesh, and they are next to dog* j«i the scale of erect ion. No, Uiere is no refinement in flesh eating and yet 1 am free to confess that I am not vet old enough or saint enough to refuse to dine on turkey or fried chicken or quail on toast. Gold smith’* hermit was dreadfully heart broken when he said: “ No flock* Mini roan the valley free To slaughter 1 condemn: Tnticrht by that Power that pities me. I fi urn to pity them.” That was all right until he found his Angelina and then I reckon he killed a elbek' i) for breakfast. Hut it is a fact that most kind-hearted people will con fess tliat if they lud to kill their owu rcss- me.nt of our seamen: to th<* murder of Pierce; to the tr'se and cowardly attack upon the (.'h»**apeake; to the itiltumtuk tr'*utment of American prisoners: totho jvetty pillage and wanton destruet ion of private property at llavre-de-Grnce; to the shocking outrages at Hampton; to the hurningof the eapitol; to the horrid mutilations and ma^aacrni of our de fenseless inhabitants by her Scotch ruf fians and savage allies, and, lastly, to that dastard cruelty, that character Istie. basene.'*, that bloodthirsty dispo sition dixplaytxl in the late murders at Dartmoor prisonV—M Y. Collector of 1815. Tbr Cause of (lie now. Glblsi—How did IllilTer* come to hit you? Hnoggx—Oh, it wn* all on account of ,-v trifling difference of opinion Ix'twren us. (liliha—Difference of opinion? Hnoggs—Yew; I thought lie Med, and be thought he didn't.—M Y. Tribune.