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TREE AND TRIED.
13 f FLORENCE ELWOOL).
‘I tell you, Lottie, that
Ralph Morrill, rough ami
uncouth as you consider him
is worth a doze u such fellow s
as Frank Howland. Yon
needn't look so cross, sis, for
I’m a privileged character,
and I shall speak in spite of
your frowns,’ and the auda
cious boot her of Lizzie Car
roll seized his sister in his
arnisand waltzed gaily round
the room with liei, in spit.**
of her efforts to free herself
from his grasp.
‘Ugh! yon near,’ said Lot
tie, taking a long breath, and
smoothing her rumpled dress
‘what do vou know about ei
the* of the young gentlemen?’
‘What do I know? A good
deal,J should say,’ replied
Jem, coolly, lighting a cig ir.
lWell, fhen, if yon know
so much, perlmps you’ll bo
good enough to impart a lit
tle of your information.’
‘Certainly, certainly, sis,
with all the pleasure in the
world. 1 know that, both
the young gentlemen in qncs
tion have proposed to you.’
‘Hoav did yon learn that/
‘Oh, never mind, so long
as I know it. I also know
that Ralph Morrill is a very
prince in honor and liigh
mimledness, while Frank
Howhmd is a conceited, con
temptible pnppy.’
‘Oh, Jim, now can yon say
that? I’m sure Frank is as
handsome and elegant as—’
‘As Ralph is aw kward and
boorish, vou would sav/ Yes,
and Ralph does not expect
that you will accept him, al
though he considers himself
bound to come for his answer
at the time set by yon.’
‘Why did he ask me to
marry him, expecting a re
fusal?’
‘He was not. then aware of
the opinion you entertained
for him. He, however, re
ceived the information from
\our own lips.’
How! When?’
‘As he was leaving the
house he overheard your re
mo. AmA ho was ail
awful awkward boor, and if
he ever married be would
mortify his wife to dcat’.i by
his uncouth manners. He
told me so himself/
‘Oh, Jim,’ cried Lottie, her
eyes tilled with tears, ‘I’m so
sorry that I was thoughtless
enough to make such a re
mark. I did’nt mean it, in
deed I did not.’
‘So I told him, lmt he wir’d
not believe me. Howland is
confident that you will ac
cept him; and, being aware
of Ralph's proposal,be taunts
him with tbe certainty of his
rejection by you. Of course
you w ill do as you please, sis,
this is your affair, not mine,
but I felt it my duty to give
you iny opinion of the ras
cal. He is a mean, nnprin
ciplod, conceited snob. To
give you an idea of his char
acter I'll relate a little inci
dent. Last week his wash
woman appealed to him to
pay her w hat was due from
him, assuring him that her
children wore sick and suffer
ing for want of medicine. If
you will believe it the scoun
drel refused to pay her one
cent until the regular day of
settlement, winch is the first
of the month. As she was
passing but from the house
she encountercdvRalph, who
hoards at the same place with
Howland. He stopped her
and inquired the cause of her
distress. She told him, and
the generous fellow not only
gave her money, but accom
panied her home and then
went and summoned a phy
siciau to attend the children
at his own expense.’
‘Did ho tell you this?’
‘Not he; he isn’t the kind
of fellow to boast-of his good
deeds. I got it from Dr. Bas
ford, who is, as you know, an
old friend of mine, and he
was informed of Howland’s
meanness by tbe woman her
seif.’ With these Wprds the
gay fellow waltzed from the
room w histling a lively air.
If or a few moireuts after
departure, Lottie sat engaged
in deep thought; then, rising
with a look of determina
tion on her pretty face, she
said:
‘I must know the troth of
these things. I’ll satisfy way
self upon these questions—
yes, Til do if.’
That sameevetifiig1 as Frank
Howland and Ralph M&lrill
stood upon the steps of their
hotel puffing their fragrant
Havanas and surrounded by
a numbei of their acquain
tances, a yonng girl poorly
dressed, and wearing a thick
veil, approached, bearing a
basket of fruit nponber arm,
and, in a timid, trembling
voice, said:
‘Gentlemen, will yon please
buy of luy fruit! I’ve not
sold any all day long.’
‘Are your oranges sweet,
my beauty! said Howland,
taking some of the fruit from
the basket.' /
‘Ye% sir, they are Tory nice
but nobody would bny tliein
to-day,’ w is the low reply.
‘Why don’t you offer kiss
es for sale. I’m sure I’d give
you more for a sweet kiss
than I would for a sweet or
ange.’
A coarse langli from some
of the men followed this re
mark, aud the girl said, plead
ingly:
•Oh, sir, pleas© do not in
sult. me, buy my oranges and
you will not have cauec to
regret it.’
‘Well, then, sweet one, 1
will. If you’ll give me a kiss
I’ll purchase the whole lot,’
said Howland, endeavoring
to place his arms about, the
girl.
‘For shame, How land !’
cried Ralph Morrill. ‘Is that
the way you treat a iadyl’
‘A lady! ha, ha! that’s
pretfy good,’ was the reply.
‘Perhaps you’d be w illing for
a certain young lady to know
that you classed her ill the
same category with a street
vender,’ continued Howland.
‘1 am willing for any one
to know that I consider any
woman a lady and entitled
to be treated as such, no mat
ter what her station may be,
until sbe conducts herself
otherwise fhnu as a lady/re
plied Ralph.
‘All right, old fellow, I’m
going to have aliissfrom this
lady, anyhow, sneered How
land, again seizing the girl
3iul attempting to raise her
veil.
In an instant lie was seized
by the shoulders and hurled
several feet away, while ‘lie
basket was knocked from the
girl’s grasp, and the fruit
rolled in all directions.
‘Never mind the fruit,
Miss,’ said Ralph, kindly, *J
will pay yon for that, and if
you will allow me, I will
conduct you from this place.’
Picking up the basket, he
otfored his arm to the trem
bling girl, and before How
land had recovered from his
astonishment she was walk
ing down the street with her
champion oy her side.
When they reached the
next street the girl told him
lie need not go auy fnrthei
with her, and he taking a
five dollar note from hispock
et thrust it into her hand,
saying:
‘There, miss, is the pay for
your frnit. I regret that yon
have been grossly insnlted
by a person who styles him
self a gentleman.’
‘Oh, sir, bow can I thank
yoif?’ was the low reply; ‘be
lieve me, I will return this
to yon a hundred fold.’
‘Nay, that would be too
mnch,’ he replied, laughing,
and raising his hat, lie po
litely bade her good evening,
and tnrned back to his hotel.
Oh the following evening
Frank Howland called at the
house of his heart’s idol, and
being nsbered into the parlor
sent up 1»ig card. His heart
beat with anxious expecta
tions, for this was the eve
ning when she bad promised
to give him an answer to his;
snit. Ho felt confident that j
he would be accepted, but, as
might he supposed, lie was i n
a measure of suspense.
A few moments elapsed
and then the door opened,
and, to Iris great surprise, the
fruit vender, whom lie bud
so basely insulted on the pre
rians evening, entered and
approaching him said:
‘Sir, Miss Carroll wishes
tue to sar to yon that she can
never marry a Utah eo utter
ly dcstifrftt of pW’SNfte and
Ifcntlemnnly requisites as to
|psult a lady, however poor
she may be.
‘And you are Miss Carroll’s
messenger,are yon?’ lie ‘flisefr
cd. ‘Allow me to say that I
came liere to have an inter
view with a lady ^ind not a
beggar. I jvish to see Miss
Carroll.’
‘Behold her, then!’ and
throwing hank the veil and
bonnet, she revealed the bean
tiful features »‘f Lottie. Car
roll.
X'“i,u"'hIrn^.
ed and could not speak , for
very surprise, while Lottie
continued:
‘I had heard riimora that
yon were utterly, destitute of
gentlemanly qualities, and I
determined to test your char
acter for inflelf. I have sue
ceededin Obtaining thcknowl
edge I desired, and I have
only to bid you good even
ing.’
With a hanghty bow, she
loft the room, and Howland,
cursing himself and his luck
rushed from the house.
An hour later Ralph Mor
rill was seated in the parlor
which Howland quitted so
hastily, awaiting the pres
ouceof Lottie, although he
had no hope of being accep
ted by her. As before, the
fruit vender entered, and
Ral pluujose to greet her, po
litely.
, ‘I promised yon that I
would return your money a
hundred fold,’ she said. ‘If
yon will accept the poor prop
i orty- I desire to bestow upou
| you, I shall be able to fulfill
iiny promise. Will you take
; me tor the debt?’
‘-Yon?’ cried Ralph in as
tonishment.
‘ Yes,’ she answered, throw
ing back her veil and bonnet
and revealing the face of
Lottie Cayroll.
Ralph Morrill left that
house unhappy juay, nod n
few months later he led Lot
j tic Carroll to the altar.
The Bright Side.—Look
on the bright side. It is the
right side. The times may
lie hard, but it will make
them no easier to wear a
gloomy and sad countenance.
It is the sunshine and not
the elond, that makes the
flower. The sky is blue ten
times where it is black once.
Yon have tronbles—so have
others. None are free from
them. Troubles give tone
ami sinew to life—fortitude
and courage to man. That
would bo a dull sea, and the
sailors would never get skill,
where there was nothing to
disturb its surface. What
though things look a little
dark, the lane will turn, and
night w ill end in broad day.
There is more virtue in a
sunbeam than in a whole
hemisphere of cloud and
gloom.
The Cheapest Manure.
-—Dr. Daniel Lee, in the
Nashville Union and Amer
ican, says that land plastei
(Gypsum) is the cheapest
manure known to him, and
he has been a careful observ
er of its 7 efforts for sixty
years. He adds that it lus
been in nse ip this country
one hundred years, since
Franklin wrote his name in
sowed plaster, brought lrom
Paris to Philadelphia which
had such a fertilizing effect
that all could read his name
in clover and lucerne. Ho
refers to a locality in the
State ofNtW York, where it,
has been nsed for fifty years,
and though containing no
ammonia or nitrogen in any
form; no potash, no magne
sia»botb of which exist in all
crops; no phosphoric add,
yet many upland-fields were
niore productive in 1874than
in 1824, after the removal of
fifty harvests, receiving in
return less than seventy-eight
pounds per aore of a true
sulphate of lime a year, and
never any other fevtilizer.
A Pennsylvania ‘ladies’
man says be is never satisfied
that his lady friends under
stand a kiss, unless he has it
from their own numtbs.
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* A em\rt thing—a mustard!
plaster. ;
RECIPES, ^
Quince Jaui.—Ono-fourth,
pound of brow n sugar to ono
pound of quince. Moil the
frnit in as littffe water as pos
sible, until the fruit wiU mash
easily. Pflprr off the water,
niasli the fruit with a spoon,
putln the sugar and boM 20
minutes stirring often!
Apple Mutter.—Take one
bushel of soar apples 'peeled,
cook well [in a little water,
then add a gallon and a half
of go°<? mola^es, stirring
well until Then if}i|
in a Htlie
JaiW- set it
ip.li ,..v,
Ap<pte y- for Torts —
Out aud core apples, without
paring, cover them withWa
ter and let them cook slow ly
in an earthen dish until the
apples look red; then pour
into a bag and gently squeeze
out all the liquid that will
flow fmely. Boil the liquor
again abort half an' hour,
then add half a pound of su
gar to a pint of juice, and
boil for fifteen minutes.
It will prove a firm nice jel
ly, aud require but half the
nsnal quantity of su^ar.
Preserved Peaches.—Take
ripe but not soft peaches.—
Pour boiling water overthein
to take off the skins, which
will pull off easily. Weigh
equal quantities of fruit and
sugar, and put them togeth
er in an earthen pan over
night. In the morning ponr
off the syrup, and boil a few
minutes; set off the kettle
and take off the skuin. Put
back the kettle on the fire;
when the syrnp boils np put
in the peaches. Moil the
syrnp fifteen minute more,
and ponr over them.
Tomato Catsup.—Take per
fcctly ripe tomatoes, break
into pieces, put them over
the fire, and let them mine
tee boil and then set off to
cwfp When cooled snfnei
entiy rub through a sieve.—
To each gallon of pulp add 4
tallespoonsful of salt, 3 of
black pepper, 1 of whole al
spice, 2 of ground mustard,
1 of red pepper, 2 of ground
ginger, 1 pound of brown su
gar, ti onions chopped fine,
and one pint of vinegar. Mix
all except the vinegar and
let boil till thick. Then stir
in vinegar, bottle and seal.
To tell good Eggs. — Put
them in water—if the large
ends turn up they are not
fresh. This is said to be an
infallible rule to distinguish
a good egg from a bad one.
To dstroy wasps, saturate
a piece of woolen rag with
spirits of turpentine, put it
into the entrance to the nest,
and leave it there one night.
The next morning every wasp
will be dead.
To wash calico without fa
ding, infuse three gills of salt
in four quarts of water. Put
in the calico while /the solu
tion is hot, and leave until
the latter is cold. It is said
that in this way tho colors
are rendered permanent and
will not fade by subsequent
washing.
To take out Fruit Stains.
Let tile stained part of the
cloth imbibe a little water
without dipping, and hold
the part over a lighted com
mon brimstone match at a
distance. The - sulphurous
acid gas which is discharged
soon causes the spots to dis
appear. Or wet the spots
with clorine water.
Furniture Polish.—An ex
eelleut furniture polish is
made of ten cents worth of
beeswax placed in a tin cup
and melted in a hot oven.
Into this pour two ontices of
turpentine and let it stand
to cool. Apply it briskly to
tlje furniture with a woolen
rag, and give it a finishing
rub with an x>ld silk hand^
kerchief. This polish is al
most equal to a coat of var
nish.
MeDnftle Journal; A sin
gle fact, given by G^n. Col
cfuitt in bis speech Saturday
last, will,w.e hope, b© of great
pfactkal benefit to the far
mcrs of this section. He
said that to remove stumps
from afield,all that is necessa
to have one or more
iron chimneys, some
foot or five feet high. Set
fire to the stamp an4 place
the chimpey oyer it, so as to
give the requisite draught at
#wi4’1>bttom. It will draw
like a stove. Tbo stump will
soon he consumed. With sev
er^| »uch chimneys, of differ
ent si/^s, the removal of the
stumps may be accomplished
at inercly nominal labor and
expense. r,
Butter making.
‘ Mach the larger part of the
blitter made ih this country
made on farms w l»el*e com
paranvely few cows are kept,
and very much is made under
circumstances which makes
the receipt of low prices a
certainty.
Three-fourths of the cows
owned by farmers generally
calve in the spring, and more
thau half the bntjter made by
very many farmers is made
in four months, June, July,
August and September. The
weather is warm, flics are
troublesome, other farm work
is pressing. .It is difficult to
keep the butter in good con
dition. Usually there are
pooi facilities for packing it.
Moifcy is needed, and so mil
Horn of pounds of bnttei is
sold kt country stores at fif
tccn'cents or less, per pound.
Ft i‘ many such fanners we
bolid e there is a much better
way Tbo plan we suggest
is u it applicable to all, but
for rery many farmers webe
lieWi it offers a relief from
wo* in a busy season and
better pay from the product
to be sold. This pi" '**
hav* the cows cal
fall/aml make t
of the butter |
and early in t
the demand is
almost any w het,*!
ti‘^i . ;
rcMfr- ,\rr femno obvious^
i ffeicn t aM
bettir arrangements wojjJjL
havc to be made for caring
for tlje milk; bet tot caro and
feed ionld have to K» eir—
* * ■
t<* the cows, and nit
the calves wo ild
soi n e disad van t age.
of these ar<5PSfosu ' i t„ F __—
It should ™ remembered
tliat ‘the tows most be kept
during tliewinter, and should
have good care and feed in
any ease, and dial under the
common practice some butter
is made throughout nearly
,a)l the winter. And i* is not
an impossible thing to suc
cessfully and cheaply raise
calves dropped in the fall.
Esj c daily for regions rath
er farther South than those
thought best for darying, we
think the plan advisable.—
We wonld prefer to have the
cows calve about September
1, or a very littlo later, giv
ing them good shelter and
plenty of good food daring
the winter, expecting an in
crease of milk when turned
on grass in the spring, allow
ing the cows to be ‘dried off’
about the last of J unc. This
wonld allow the season of
rest for the cow and milker
and batter-maker, during the
season of greatest heat and
of special busy work on the
farm, also when butter is at
the lowest.—Western Rural.
A very tall and shahl^y
fooking man, a fellow that
reminded yon of a vagrant
letter from * a font of forty
line paragon extra condensed
stepped up to one of our bars
last week, and after heaving
a glass of liquor into hisloog
throat, blandly asked the bar
tendeir if he could change a
$20 bill. The gentlemanin
formed him that he could.—
‘Well,’ said the tali one, with
a sigh of satisfaction, ‘I’ll go
oot and see if I can Snd «¥»©,’
and be plunged cut into the
cold world on his mission.—
Louisville Commercial.
H —i——
Dr. J. H. Jones’ family
| medicines for sale at the drug
! store of Jones & Co, Crystal
| Springs. ; 26
Oapt. Middletonv of dry*
talr will sell summer elotb-j
4s*ff-«*4 low figures f«r on$Ji.
1 42
W* cofa the following
' Items from the Crystal Moni
tor of the 12tl>:
0»>r energetic townsman,
A. J*. Andre, i* building an
other brick house on corner
of Georgetown* and Hail road
avonuos. We hope the time
will come very soon when ev
ery vacant lot on oar ‘burnt
district’ will be adorned with
a large and handsome brick
edifice. Our active and capa
ble m«bkamc,Dau B. Packer,
can furnish the brick* and
the labor just as cheap as the
cheapostpaid nobody can pot
AVe are glad to learn that
Col. Denifett baa purchased
the Ail Is place,near onrfown,
and puiposes making it his
home. Such men as Col Den
nett are a valuable accession
to any community, and our
people always welcome them
with outstretched hands.
Judge Millsaps says that
there is more dissatisfaction,
a greater want of harmony,
among republicans in Copiah
county than at any time sinoe
the war; bnt diat they will all
fall into line before the elec
tion. That may have been the
case lieretofjire, hot we are,
inclined to think that the
squad is becoming rather de
moralized,and that it will re
quire close and constant drill
ing- _'■* __
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One of our exchanges tolls
how to raise hogs: A gentle
man with whom we convers
ed recently while speaking of
hog raising told us that last
year he pnt up in the early
spring six slioats in a clean,
well floored pen and fed them
regularly until near Christ
mas, when he killed the six
find sold one of them in mar
ket for money enough to pay
for the expense of feeding and
.raising the six. The five he
4*iua,
bacon for his family for "the
whole summer. This is what
every farmer in the country
could easily do and thus save
to the country the large am
ount annually sent out of it
tor pork and bacon, besides
making himself and his fami
ly comfortablo and independ
ent of the merchant.
Only once before since the
Republic was founded has the
country been without an cx
President. The only occasion
other than the present was in
the third year of .John Ad
ams’ administration, when
Washington died. No presi
dential death occurred from
1849 to 1862, and five living
ex-Presidents—Van Buren,
Tvlcr, Fillmore, Pierce and.
Buchanan—might have grac
ed the inaugural of Abrahattf
Lincoln. This was the great
est number of ex-Presidents
living at any time. The pro
position has been often broa
ched in the newspapers to
make ex-Presidents ex-otficio
members of the Senate,in or
der that the national coun
cils miglit have the benefit of
tbeir experience in public af
fairs; and the history of the
nation shows that the num
ber of these gentlemen survi
ving at any one time can ne
ver be so great as to give
them undue influence.
—... ■ , .—
Mr. BlivenS, an old bache
lor of Rochester, who hrmneh
absorbed In politics, risited
; the W idow Graham tlie oth
or day, just after reading
i Grant’s letter, and asked ber
what she thought of the third
term. Now the widow has
been twice married, and in
response to the question she
made a rash for the aston
ished My Blevins •»* taking
lum lightly in licr anus ex
claimed. ‘Oh, you dear, dear
man! What a happy woman
T am!’ At last accounts Mr.
B. had locked himself in his
wood house, and was endeav
oring to explain tbiugs to tb*
widow through the keyhole.
A Mitno gill left her clo
th ipg in, an open boat and
hid herself, and when her prr
they wouldber slightest
wish, she speared and said
nko wanted to marry George.
Farmer’s Duly at a Good
Citizen,” talks to the point ii*
the following style:
In the emergency that is
upon the people of oiw
beloved State will have to
fight fbebftttle of eqnal rights
and stem the tide of selfish
interest, corruption and un
principled ambition. In this
conflict the farmers must not
desert the right, and roust
fight for sound principles and
a flee constitution.
Every appearance i n dicatat
that the present contest in Cnr
State is one which will inev
itably decide whether right
and justice, or fraud and cor
ruption and dishonesty shall
rule her destinies.
This is the great conflict in
which the farmer! are called
upon, by eveiy tie of interest
or honor, to take part. We
now call upon them, by their
present possessions and their
future hopes; by the memory
of their fathers, and pros
pects of their children; by
gratitude, by affection; by the
memory of our dead; by the
voice of the past, t he present
and the future; by the wail of
the oppressed widow and or
phan, and by every motive
that can influence the action
of good and intelligent men,
to rally around honest, pure
and capable men and elect
none others to office.
Yonr duty does not stop
with the casting of yonr own
ballot, but you should use ev
ery exertion to induce yonr
neighbors to go to the polls.
You. should work by any and
all honorable means, to bring
out all classes, all colors and
all calling!-,to aid in cleaning
up the An gean Stables of
State corruption and incom
petency, which are a disgrace
to any civilized country.
Thk Stale Fair—Invitation
to fiie Granges: jf anrnTrtfror
i/ed by t ho Board of Control
of the Mississippi SI a to Fail
Association to invite the offi
cers of the State Grange, and
the Masfet of each Subordin
ate Grange, or bis accredited
representative, to attend the
next Annual State Fair, ISTo
vember 8th t*» the 13tb. The
privileges of the grounds for
the week will bo given to all
who will bring proper cre
dentials to the Secretary of
the Association. It is the de
sire of the Board to enlist the
active co-operation of the ag
riculturists and mechanics of
the State. It’is hoped that
each delegate from a Grange
will bring some article for ex
hibition, and give to the man
agers the benefit of their ex
perience. The next Fair slioFd
surpass all previous exhibi
tions of the products of our
soil and industries of people.
If each will help success is
certain.—J. L. Power, sec’y.
W. L. Williams, Sec’y of
the State Grange, writes to
the editor of the Vindicator:
In answer to many inqui
ries, I will say that the Stir
Annual Session of the State
Grange will be held at Kos*
ciusko, on the second Tues
day, 14th of September next.
See By-Law#, Art. 8.
Elections of officers of sub
ordinate Grange# will take
Slace at the regular meeting
a December in caeb year in
stead of September as hereto
fore. See amended Constitu
tion of th» Order, Article 1,
Section 1.
An elderly gentleman, re
I turning Berne from chnrcfi,
began to extol the merits of
the sermon, to his son. Said
lie: ‘Jascfc, I have beard one
of the most delightful sermons
ever delivered before a Uferih
tian society- It carried me to
thoigade of heaven/ ‘Why
didn’t yew dodge in? replied
Jacfc; ‘yon will never have
another Stteh a ehanee.’
» I »;'<».—T! 77— • :
‘An acre and a half of pq
tflgtilim! county put it dowi
bit the Msseasevfe blank.
Ho* tfEecorae pnffed up
-—■swallow a pint of IS&fast.
* ' i'j'J :V'f i i • • -iiv* , kiW • 'if - f
■ * iTm—i i mmn mama
Green Millsaps, so-called)
an pe rinttmdontwf pubtieedo
fcau*ed: the fuffowing ‘election
dotie^’ which we efdpy flrour
■ tin* H«r*W of the l4tteLf hiu
irbe pwtrnne of the Public
; Schools of 0opiah
OtHftdMS* |ffftces otf
Saturday, Aognst 25, 187$,■
at iSf o’clock,meridian,for the
school-year, which coroinren
eea on the first day of Sep
tember, |n accordance With
laws passed in relation to pub
tic ednrjffiapr.
Every oeigfrborfiood {hat
wishes a school Will, on the
above mentidOed day, assem
ble and elect from atiwng
themselves such trustees as
feel an interest hr pud)lie ed
ucation.
The sfectimfwfnjbo fry bal
lot or popular choice,and tho
three receiving the highest
namber of votes shall be de
clared duly elected.
The MeComb City Intelli
gencer says of \lie South’s
fortunate escape: It is estim
ated that in the western States
which were visited by the
flood,crops were damaged not
less than 50 per cent. To
whatfignre prices would have
rnn up in the Sonth the com
ing season, in consequence of
the loss,but for our abundant
crops, no one can tell. Our
people have cause to kill the
fatted calf Mid to send up
thanksgivings to tbs good
Lord for putting it into their
minds to plant l&rgefy of Ike
cereals and thus to prepare
for the impending catastro
phe to the grain otopain the
West. They 1mtided wiser
than they knew. If, supenid
ded to the lo w price of cotton,
there had been a scarcity of
grain crops with them the
present season, their condi
tion womM have been pitiable'
beyond description.
Politeness is to a mart
what beauty is to a woman.
It creates an instantaneous
impression in liisbehalf,while
the opposite quality exercises
as quick a prejudice against
-him. Tiro politician who has
this advantage easily dTSTan
ces all rival candidates, for
every voter he speaks with
becomes instantly his friend.
The very tones in which he
asks for a pinch of snuff are
often more potent than the
logic of a Webster or a Olay.
Polished manners have often*
made sconndrcls successful,
while thebestof men,by their'
hardness and coldness, have
done themselves incalculable
injury—the shell being Bo
rough that the world could
not believe there was a pre
cious kernal wfthin it. HacS
Raleigh never flung down his
cloak in the mud for the
proud Elizabeth to walk on,
his career in life wo’ld scarce
ly have been worth record
ing. Scores of men have been
successful in life by pleasing
manners alone. A trait of
character is well worth culti
vating, lads. Never fin-get
the valne of true civility.
Academy of Design — at
young lady’s boarding school.
With most men life is like
back-gammon, half skill and
half lack.
If yon will take away the
‘i* fronKWoKe, yon win liavc
a nose left/ '*
Most poeple ifie Irifc eggs
too fall of Ibefttieltes heboid
any thing elsa. 5 7 r:1 fT
When do the . teeth nsurp
ihe tongue's _ " "ref—
When they are _ ;
Sprinkling carts make
white pawtefome shrink to
wards tUeusBo* stda of tho
walk. n jk n ■„ ,,
Why does a dnek go under
watetf For diver’s reasons.
Why does sW go oft land?
JWan-dry WaSoefc.
*!^1 wonder what makes my
ey«o so- weak' said afeptoa
ge*tln*e»#, .‘Xkej ,<pe in a
;v!fk *•»
latter. , ;
Wljfrcrjr manfcaaaTmwnesa
that ftoestrf par, He dsnatlr
begitW-fo^dk armmd for a
ptwrtnetfta share ht* losse*
FwflfliiiMtef *j o^a
‘What did you hang that
%, ^aael’ asked tha
sqhfjal fliarra. The hoy look
edu^i^witk jypp|ve look,
anarwed: Wm> Timtiav,
‘aj^fevo /) v
'H;-r *)/•» of •taifta*.! *r/v.d