Decatur Eagle, Volume 13, Number 39, Decatur, Adams County, 7 January 1870 — Page 1

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ATTORNEYS. JA7I E S R . HOBO, -A.ttorn.cy I/a’cv, DECATUR, INDIANA. DRAWS Deeds,,Mortgages and Contracts. Redeems Land and pays Taxes. OFFICE--Opposite the Auditor’s Office. vlOnfitf R. S. PETERSON’, Attorney at Xjo.nfu', DECATUR, INDIANA. I jROMPT attention paid to all business entrusted tohiscare. Is aNot.ary Public, and draws Deeds, Mortgages, and other instriiments. in writing. OFFICE—In D. Studabnker’s Law Office. Vl2hßßtf DAAIEL B. HEELER, Attorney at DECATUR, INDIANA. WILL practice his Profession anywbete in Indiana or Ohio. OFFlCE—Opposite the Recorder’s Office. vi()ns2tf D. ST UK>AB A KER. Attorney nt Xjtzwxr, DECATUR, INDIANA. WILL practice la w in Adnmsand adjoining counties; secure pensions and other claims against the government; buy and sell real estate; exam no titles and pay taxes, and other business pertaining to real estate agency. . 13-23 CHA REES 71. FR A ACE, Attorney at Law, DECATUR, INDIANA. T)ROMTT attention paid to all Lusi--1 siness en’rusted to his care. Is a Notary Public, Draws Deeds and Moitgages and other Instruments in Writing. Office in J. R. Bobo's Law-Office. 13:37 PHYSICIANS. F.A.JELLEFF. W. H. BCH ROCK . ! JEELEFF A SCHKG4K, Physicians and surgeons, DECATUR,- INDIANA. OFFICE—On Second St eet, opposite the Publiv Square. vßnlstf. CHARLES L. tTRTISS, Physician and Surgeon, DECATUR, INDIANA. HAVING permanently located in this place, offers his professional servicestothe people of Decatur and vicinity. ' OFFICE—At the Burt House. 11-qp AAD R E W SOR G , Physician and Surgeon, DECATI R, INDIANA. O —On Second Street, over W. ; t rSn ! r & Brother's Hardware More. • vßn42tf. a. J. erAvia, ml d., Surgeon. Dispensary, A vol inc Block. v11n25 * FORT WAYNE, IND. S. <’. AYERS, 11. D.J RESIDENT Ear and. Eye FORT WAYNE, INDIANA. OFFICE—South west - corner Main & | ! Calhoun str“ets, over Drug Store. fit?” Artificial Eyes inserted. 12-44 REAL ESTATE ACE NTS. JAUES It. 8080, Real Estate Agent, DECATUR, INDIANA. j upIIREE THOUSAND ACRES of good 1 farming land, several Town Lots, 1 and a larg< quantity of wild lan<l for j sale. If you want to buy a good farm he will sell it to you. If you want your land sold he will sell it for you. No sale, no charge. vHhiC AUCTIONEER. ~ < HA RLEM 71. FR A ACE, A-ixctioxiocr, DECATI R, INDIANA. VN’NOUNCES to the public that he is a regularly Licensed Auctioneer, and will attend all Public Sales when requested. OFFICE—In J. R. Bobo's Law office. .1. P. AV AliiGOA ER, Licensed Auctioneer, RESIDENCE, near Salem, Adams Co., ilndiana. P st-Oflice address, Wilshire, Ohio. B6PSpecial attention given to crying public sales. HOTELS. .71 IES Si E HOUSE, I. J. MIESSE, Proprietor. St., Opposite the Court jAuse, INDIANA. traveling public will find this _L House a desirable stopping plaep. Good sample rooms. vlln9 MAYER HOUSE. J . W. BULL, Proprietor, Corner of Calhoun and Wayne Streets, FORT W AYNE, INDIANA. vl2n7 ts MAlf STREET EXCHANGE, A. FREEMAN, Proprietor, B>»( Miin Streef r _near the Public Square FORT WANYE, INDIANA. vllall ' If HE DEKIA HOUSE, A. J. H. MILLS. Proprietor,On Barr, betsreen Columbia and .Vain Sts. FORT WtYNK. INDIANA. F.NERAL Stage Office. Good sta* VTbleingin ooaaestioa with this hou«e v!2n24 If.

DECATUK, IXD.. FRIDAY JANUARY 7, 1870.

Mischief! • u BY UNCLE FRANK. Who daily toddles all about, Turns topsy-turvy, inside-out, All movables the house throughout ? Mischief. ■ Who in the saucepan dropped his shoe, Then laughed to see cook Biddy stew? You little rogue, we know ’twas you— Mischief. M ho caught poor pussy with a noose? Who broke the eggs of sitting goose? . Who was it turned old Billy loo.se? Mischief. Who was it let the chickens out I pon the garden just laid out, 'I hen cheered the “scratchci s’’ with a shout? Mischief. Who nips ma's “posies'' in the bud? Who blacks hisshoes with yellow mud? M ho made the bath-room all one flood ? Mischief. Who is it, to explore the well, Once sounded it with dinner-bell? How many more things, who can tell? Mischief. Who now lies sleeping on the floor, With cherry lips and pinafore And face besmeared with cherry gore? Mischief. —Hearth and Home. Mrs. .Micawber in Finance “Mack,” in his last Washington letter to the Cincinnati Enquirer, gives the following impression in i regard to the recent action of the ; House on repudiation : I confess to a feeling of disgust to see so many Democrats rush in to disclaim the sentiments of Mr. Mungen’s speech in favor of repudiation, yesterday; and to assure the House that the country in general, and their constituents in particular, will never listen to the thought of such a thing : “I will never—no never—desert you, Wjlkins Micawber!” And then comes the Hon Garfield with a resolution that the country will he ever true and fai hful to its finan , ci:d Wilkins. Now, the fact is, all j this talk about ‘ national honor" ! and “sacred obligations” is the • niercst'gammon. National honor ' to the bondholders is certainly no i more sacred than individual honor to individual creditors. Debt and its discharge are questions of ability more than of honor, especially with nations. A few more yeaijs of taxes and tariffs and Radical reconstruction, will strip the National debt of all the sacredness | wherewith it is now hedged; and the people will look the matter i squarely in the face and decide as • their welfare dictates. Thon repti •dintion will triumph. Every act I passed by Congress within the last five years has increased at once the probability and the necessity ! for n pudiation as a great measure !of relief to the people. Every ! man who voted against Ingersoll's bill for the redemption of 841. OCO.OOO of bonds, the other day. voted in the direction of repudiation. When any man. either Deni- ; o rat or Republican, asserts that I the people will pay the bonds in ! gold and submit to financial dis tress and ruin rather than repudiate the debt, bo speaks without au ! thority. as he will ascertain when ' the question is fairly put. Debtors have rights as “sacred” as those of creditors, and among ! them is the right to refuse to pay a debt when the creditors won t i I live up to the letter and spirit of I their agreement. The greenback! ' theory, indorsed by all parties in the West, is the Sybil's, last offvri I to Tarquin. and if the bondholders are wi.-e they will profit by the i ancient example, and take the best , they can get ere it be too late for; them to get anything. Meantime 1 . ' events are doing more than a’! the spi eches that can be made in Con i gress <>r out of it to }skc the stingi .out of this AV ord “repmlfation." | and the less these sensitive gentle : men in the House of Representa i i fives sar against it now the less! ' they will have to* retract in a few! | years. The successor of Mr. Stanton ; on the supreme bench is canvassed ' more in outside quarters than in I ' officiaTcircles. To a member of’ ; conirrecs who merely alluded to | I the vacancy on Saturday, the pres i j ident replied that it would hot be filled until Justice Grier formally! left the bench on Feb. 1. Penn I . sylvania feel confident that J«dgc -of that state, will finally receive the appointment, though a candidate from New Jersey has I appeared- ■ So stubborn was a negro viola-! rtor in Georgia, that he refused to’ i kick when hanged by r party ofj lynchers.

Fast Western Towns—A Lively Picture of the Sweet Water Country. New towns in the Wesi always fast, but mining towns are particularly lively. Go into the fast portions of one of these miniature cities, and you can see sights such as are only to be met with in the great city of New York. There is a glare of lamps that blind you, and everywhere tinsel .and cheap tawdry is apparent. Here is a drinking saloon,and women lounge about with cigars in their mouth, or mix with the single men at the bar, taking as stiff and strong drinks as the hardiest miner. It is a shocking sight ; Tut there is a worse ojie, perhaps, in the next building, where the doors are thrown wide open to tiie street and passers-by see within women sitting on men’s knees, or lounging in dishabille on the beds. Across 1 the street is a roar of cat-gut and blare of horns, and painted girls and young men are waltzing or dancing the can can, while a villainous looking man is handing round the meanest of whisky and wine for the dancers to drink. Go there at midnight and you will find women . frenzied with drink, their hair and dress dishevelled, screaming, laughing, cursing and wanting to fight, while their men hold them or engage in the women's quarrels. In that brilliantly lighted room groups of men are seated round green tables, an .) while they stake their last dollar, women bring them bad rum, never failing themselves ' to drink with the winner, whoever I he may be. It is in these hells that the miner spends his hard earned gold. He will work alDlay in the mine and part with his last cent for a brief hour of pleasure at night. : Such are some of the glimpses ofj life in a mining town, and our! notes record many others, but suf- 1 fice this, for the present, of what ' we saw in the Sweetwater country. | Maidens Desiring Husbands. — A Paris correspondent, speaking j of the patron saint of maidens de- i siring husbands and the high re- J gard which is paid to him in France, relates the following illustration of his powers: Some months since, a maiden in I a village not far from Paris, find- ■ ing years stealing away and no ‘ suitor for her hand appearing, j brought a plaster statuette of St. Nicholas, placed it at the head of her bed, and night and morning | addressed supplications to it for a suitable helpmeet. Months went by without bringing a lover. The other day her st of patience ! became exhausted. She lost all; confidence in the saint. Taking the statuette by the nape sliedhrew it into the street, ejaculating, “Go i to the D !” As she threw out, the statuette a young man happen- j cd to be passing under the win J dow. He was bareheaded. The statuette fell on his poll and not only stunned him, but as it broke to atoms, cut his scalp severely.— Blood poured profusely forth. He ; straightway went to an attorney and brought suit against the person who had wounded him. He j asked heavy damages. He did not see the defendant of the suit until ■ she appeared in court. Her per- j son and mien made adeepitnpres j sion on him, and he asked leave; to withdraw his suit. She, delight- j ed by this termination of legal pro- j cce<lings which had looked threat- ; ening to her. was verv gracious to IO • ' I him, and they walked home from I the court house in Company. He j asked leave to visit tier. He soon j allied her hand, and they were I married witlrout delay. Who can read this leaf of i domestic history with undimmed aves: A widowed mother. 63 years of age, residing in the vicinity of Toronto.’ Canada, was de t serted last year by her only child, . a daughter. It was the qld. old j storv The tempter came, and the | confidence of the girl was betray-1 ed. Months passed, and one afternoon, as the heart-broken moth- j er sat in the doorway oT her cottage gazing listlessly toward the setting sun. the golden pathway ; was suddenly broken by the apj pearance of a human form so wast- ’ j cd. and a face so ghostly and I deathlike in its expression, that j recognition w»s for a moment at • fault. But only for a moment.’ I “My child!” “Mother!” Tight ’ locked in each other's arms both j sank to the floor, and as the gio- ! rious remnant of that bright day | faded from the sky, so went out these two lives. , God is a great God, and thcre'foro we should wait upon him; lie | is a good God. and therefore it is j not in vain to wait upon him. '

Characteristics. It has long been contended that personal traits might be discovered by watching the way in which I people do certain things ; that the handwriting, for instance, is often characteristic of the writer. The same may be said of dancing and skating. Some men, instead of dancing heartily, merely amble la-! zily and gracefully around the • room ; there is no apparent enjoyment in what they are doing.— . They wear an air of patient forti- ■ tude quite piteous to see; thus j their manner of dancing is not, unlike their dispositions, easy and ; ; lounging by nature. Olhersdance i with a smoothness and swiftness I indicative of equanimity-- and • strength of character. Others ; bob about in a wild, objectless manner, bumping against every j one, and although evidently working hard to dance, are simply do I ing as-they do in life, never accom j plishing anything. The same may be said of skating. Yon will see ! one moving on like a duck in the ‘ water, without any visible motion • of the feet. Another will fairly swoop past, with a steadiness and [ swiftness typical of some of their ' traits. Others limp along oncer- 1 tain and awkward, and present a ! painful picture of indecision ; others never appear to lose their native self-possession, and look quite as calm on skates as elsewhere; others are elerpally falling and being helped up; they never nan get on. These are people who are ' to be unsuccessful in real life.-— ; Others seem to have no control over their feet, which take them j into all sorts of trouble; these i are the ones whose impulses and ’feelings are always carrying them | into scrapes. Others go ahead re ‘ gardless of everybody, and by I sheer force of weight make wav for themselves ; these are the folks I who ran over you at the rink and j in every-day life. | Condensation of .Ilagnetism, — I Tn the Comtes Rendus of Paris, M. Janin describes a mode of condensing magnetism. He had made I a horseshoe-shaped magnet composed of perfectly homogeneous steel, and fastened together by I means of bolts. When properly ! magnetized, it is capable of bcar- • ing a weight of 650 pounds at the : armature. When the armature is ■ so placed as to be in contact with [ only one of the steel bars composing the horseshoe, it appears j that the magnetism of the nine other bars is very perceptibly diI minished. Under these conditions. ; and notwithstanding the magnet i was previously saturated with mag- . . netism t it is possible to saturate ■ anew will) magnetism, and make the horseshoe bear double the ■ weight, or 1,320 pounds. This i experiment can be repeated; an- [ other armature may be put on. so i as to bear on onl\ one of the com ! ponent bars, and again more magnetism can be condensed. In this manner the author has already sue ceeded in making the horseshoe , bear another 1.320 pounds. ——— Didn't Scare Worth a Cent, Some smart young man, the other night, thought it would be I cunning to dress up asaghost and ; frighten a simple Dutchman, who 1 usually returns from the city at a ■ late hour of the evening. So he I donned the traditional white sheet i and laid in wait. He didn’t have I to lay in wait long before the Dutchman appeared and the ghost appeared to the Dutchman. Did the simple Dutchman exclaim. “Mine cott in himmcll vot ish dose?” No, he didn’t. He just got out of his wagon, and gave that ghost what he afterwards described as “te tamtest licking vot a Lam chost never cott, all te vile. too soon a’retty.” Thtf Dutchman chuckles over it thnslv : “Don’t schare vorth a tam. ain’t it? Nndder time, ven a chost van's to wrap himself all round a vite sheet a’retty. und get der middle of der tifel, I yust shtimp my vagon outx>f me, like shoffel out of a shot, by tam. tint lick him nt he voshawhole kravevarnt. Dose is de gind uph man I be. Don't , schare vorth a tam.” Put off repentance till to-mor-row. and you have a day more to repent of, and a day less to repent in. The pest of society—a tale bear er. “Set a watch over thy mouth, and keep the door of thy lips. for a tale bearer is worse than a thief.” ——■ — Life has no value except so far as we use it in perfecting onr "souls, for enriching our minds with noble qualities, and for spreading happiness around ns.

Fast Clergymen. Burleigh, in a letter to the Bos- 1 ton Journal, describing a day in 1 Harlem Lane, with Dan Mace, the celebrated turfman, gives this description of a talk on the piazza of the hotel which overlooks the ■ road. Times have changed surely ■ since the days of Jonathan Ed- . ward-?. It is a curious place, for everybody is dis ected who goes tramping by. “Halloa! that’s a fine nervous team !” “Yes. that’s Wes • ton, ot St. John'szUhapel. He , loves a good horse? I was out ; with him when he was chaplain of ' the seventh regiment.” And Dr. Weston. goes dashing by in his slouched hat and driving gloves, with a brother minister, an ultra High Churchman, at his side.— ■ “Don’t you know who that is? That's Hall, of the Fifth Avenue I Church. Well, he can afford it.— Six thousand in gold, house rent 1 and perquisites thrown in.” And [ Dr. Hall, with a pair of spanking | horses, a tall, large framed man, [ with a jocky cap on his head and ! spider wagon, rolls out of sight • towards Harlem river. Twenty ’ years ago a Presbyterian minister ■ 1 in New York could not have kept; ’ a span of fast horses and his pul pit b.sides. The world moves. There comes Corey with Mountain Maid and Kentucky Mare. He I preaches in a little church on ! Murray Hill. But it is one of the I most elegant chapels in New York. [ He is an eager driver and loves ■ the road. “Vanderbilt will die i soon from an affection of the i heart.” “Why so ?” “Didn’t you ' know he gave Corev the Mountain Maid? She- is worth $10,090.” Behind is a gentleman in earnest . conversation with Harry: “Something to drink?” “Yes; but the I fact is, my minister is with me.” ' “Well, invite him to take something.” “Bless me ; I couldn't do ■ that for the world.” “Let me see I him,” Harry says. “Point him ; out to me. That him with a cap j on. Pshaw! I have seen him 1 before.” Harry goes up to the [.divine, and to the question, will you join Mr. in something to drink? the answer is, “Certain ly, I will, and the parties reach the bar, glasses jingle, and the pull pit and the pew understand each other better. It was a long time before I could get my minister to take a ride with me on the road,” said a party on my left. He con seated one day, and I drove only a fair pace, to his great terror. ' Grasping the seat convulsively he ! he kept crying out: ‘Don’t!! please, don't! Do hold up! Don’t drive so fast!’ Arter the! j second round he sat up erect. On I the third, he intimated that a horse was gaining on me. Before the drive closed he became so excited that lie shouted: ‘Take care! He'll go by you’ ” —and so the conversation continued till the I teams were brought round and the parties were on the road again The conversation with Dan Mace about eminent horses and eminent horsemen I will reserve for the next letter. He Could be i rusted. Alfred was missing one night about sunset. Mother was getting anxious, for she always wished him to be home early. A neigh- ; bor, coming in, said a number of boys had gone to, the river to swim, and be th ought Alfred was safe enough to be with them. “No,” said the mother “he promised me he would not go there without my leave, and he j always keeps his word. He never told me a lie.” But seven o'clock came, then eight, and mother was still watch ing and listening for the step of Alfred ; but it was half-past eight before his merry shouts and whistle were heard, when he ran into ■ the gate. “Confess, now,” the neighbor. “that yon' have been to the river with the other boys, and so kept away till late.” llow the boy’s eves flashed, and the crimson mounted to his cheeks!' “No. sir! I told my mother I would Merer go there without her leave, and do you think I would ! fella lie I I helped James to find I the cows which had strayed in the ’ wood, and did not think I should be so late." James, coming np the street just ; then, came in to tell us he was afraid we had been alarmed; they had been so far in the wood it made them late in getting home. “I think." said the neighbor, ■ taming to the mother as he took his hat to go home, “there is comfort in store for you, madam.— ■ Such a boy as that will make a nor, ble man."— Children.'s Guest. r j The Mormon troops number 1 13,000.

Brougtit to Terms. A good story is told of a couple of farmers who lived a few miles . apart, one of them having calkid upon the other just at dinner time one day, who, by the way, was rather a penurious old fellow, and who seemed to be enjoying the frugal repast very pleasantly.—

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The visitor drew up to the store, > : looking very wishfully towards the table, expecting the old farmer to invite him to dine, but he kept on eating, when presently he broke out with—- “ What's the news up your way, neighbor?” said the old fellow, still eating ; “no news, eh ?” “No, I believe not,” replied the visitor; presently thinking of some news, he replied, “Well, yes. friend. I did hear of an item of news that’s worth mentioning.” “Ha, what is that ?” “Neighbor John has a cow that has five calves.” “Is that so ? Good gracious ! What in thunder does the fifth calf do when the others are sucking?” asked the farmer, not turning his head from his dinner. “Why, he stands and looks on, just as I do, like a dumb fool,” said the visitor. “Mary, put on another plate!" ejaculated the farmer. Advice to the Girls. Do not estimate the worth of a young man by his ability to talk soft nonsense, nor by the length of his moustache. Do not imagine that an extra ribbon, tied around the neck, can remedy the defect of a soiled collar or untidy dress. If your hands are browned by labor, do not envy the lily fingers ot Miss Fuss and Feathers, whose mother works in the kitchen while she lounges in the parlor. If a dandy, with a cigar between his fingers, asks you if smoking is offensive to you. tell him emphatically, “Yes.” The habit should be, even though the odor may not. ~.Do not waste yopr tears on the imaginary sorrows of Alonzo and Mblissa, nor the trials of dime novel heroines. Seek rather to alleviate the woes of the •..tiering ones of earth. If your dress is inconveniently long, and a gentleman steps upon it, don’t be angry, but meekly beg his pardon, as you ought. Always cherish the partiality for the smell of dishwater. It is more conducive to health and far less expensive than “Bouquettes of Eden.” A Beautiful Comparison. Rev. T. DeWitt Talmage, now of Brooklyn, closed a sermon as follows: Seated at a country fireside, the other day, I saw the fire kindle, blaze, and go out, and I gathered ;up from the hearth enough for I many reflections. Our mortal life j is just like the fire on that hearth,— ■’-• We put on the fresh faggots, and • the flames burst through, and up, 1 and out, gay of sparkle, gay of flash, gay of crackle —emblems of boyhood. Then the fire reddens into coals. The heat is fiercer, and the more it is starred the more it reddens. With sweep of flame it clears its way till ali the hearth glows with the intensity—emblem of full manhood. Then comes a whiteness to the coals. The heat lessens. The flickering shadows i have died along the walls. The faggots drop apart. The household hover over the expiring embers. The last breath of smoke has Seen lost in the chimney.— Fire is out. Shovel up the white remains—Ashes! A year or two ago I dined in San Francisco with the family of a pioneer, and talked with his daughter, a young lady whose first experience in San Francisco was an adventure, though herself did not remember it, as she was only two or three years old at the time. Her father said that after landing from the ship, they were walking up the street, a servant leading the party with the little girl in her arms. And presently a huge miner, bearded, belted, spurred and bristling with deadly weapons—just down from a long miningcampaign in the mountains —evidently barred - ant, and stood gazing, with a face j all alive with gratification and astonishment. Then he said, reverently, ••Well, if it ain’t a child!” And then he snatched a little leather sack out of his pocket and said to the servant, “There's a hundred and fifty dollars in dust there, and I'll give it to you to let me kiss the child!” But see how things j change. Sitting at that dinnertable? listening to that anecdote, if I had offered double the money for the privilege of kissing the same child. I would have been refused. Seventeen added years bad far more thkn doubled the'pnet.— Mark I "wains A country paper says Grant is best known by his deeds and not by his words. Yes. and particularly by the “deeds" in which bis name appears as grantee, and that (of some ambitions office seeker as grantor.