Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 3, Number 27, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 4 January 1873 — Page 1

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,THE CALL,

prepare thyself, be waiting. And question not thy fat*— He who woald reap at harvest time, liutiov in faith anfi wait. Hie hoar will come be ready,

Thy work Is tblne alone Fear not that God will aak of thee, .. Fmit, where he hath not sown. Then when He calls be wllUng,

Nor from thy duty flee Be watting, ready, willing, cry: Here Lord am I, send me."

Town-Talk.

KICKnva MEN.

No allusion la intended to (hose who are accustomed to apply the foot to whatever may offend, whether man or beaat. It Is not of men who kick with their feet that T. T. writes. Neither is of the practice of applying the foot to men, not kicking men in this sense. Bat T. T. alludes to men—and the term is Intended to include both sexes—who are like kicking guns. T. T. had one of these when a boy. He traded for it. It was a beauty, and he got a bargain on that trade. He thought so till he tried it. His first shot was at a squirrel.. It was a splendid mark. T. T. took deliberate aim, gently drew the trigger, and whang went the gun, and over and over went T. T. end over end, in a kind of back somersault. Gathering himself up at the end of about six of these revolutions,*he inquired of the boy with him if he had hit the squirrel. "Hit him," said the boy as soon as he oould stop laughing long enough to say any thing, "Hit him, 'I 'low' you must, for you ought to have seen him run Lightning would'nt have been no where." Whether he waa really laughlag at the apeed of the squirrel, or at the somersaults, T. T. waa not certain, and as he waa a big boy, all inquiry waa waved."Reckon that gun must have had a double load In it," said the fellow. This waa very probable, for T. T. bad not examined to see if it was already loaded. There was no load in it now, that was certain. One was put in, an ordinary one. It was tried on a rabbit. Results were, whang, up flew the muzale, rabbit run infone direction, and T. T. somersaulted rapidly on the opposite direotion. After one or two more experimenta with lighter loads, each resulting in different degrees of the same thing, we concluded that that gun was a mighty fine looking gun, but that it would kiok. It was a good gun to trade. It made hunting rare sport for the game, for it gave thom safe warning to be off, but it was rather hard on the fellow hunting. T. T. traded it off, and so did the fellow he traded it to. T^ls litte story "founded on fact," illustrates kicking men. They kick every caufce ttaoy try to help. Let any enterprise whloh wants help get these men thoroughly interested in it, and they are sure to kill it trying to help it. There was that fellow with the flexible back. He wanted to gain the favor of the people, so when he bowed his head kept going down, down, down, till we looked in wonder to see where it waa going. Did he think yon the Pope and want to kisa the big toe No. He only wanted to be called polite, a gentleman. Everybody said he waa an spa. That's the way he kicked. ^There was old Smoothbore. He wanted confidence, and so he fawned and flattered, and every body shrugged the shoulders and said "Hell dote match." That's the way he kicked. A while since a fellow came Jrora the South to get help. T. T. was favorably disposed toward the cause. He knew the people were suffering there, and waa ready to do any thing possible to help them. This was the chief attraction of the "Liberal movement" to T. T. This man was an honest man, probably. He told some terrible facta—and they were faota beyond question. But he had an air and tone which seemed to demand rather than aak, and he assumed that we had robbed his people and were In duty bound to restore some of onr ill-gotten gains. He did not say anything of the kind, but he teemed to aay It. He didn't get a thing from any body so far as T. T. learned. That's the way he kicked.

Every body has read the "Hoosier Sohoolmaster," and will remember how old "Brother Sodom" kicked when he attempted to convert Bud Means. Bud didn't object to any thing he said, he believed all Brother Sodom's preaching, but the way he said it nisde Bud mad. Let Bud tell his own story, as he told it to the sohoolmastor. He said, "You see, I wanted to git out of this lowlived Flat Crick way of living. We're a hard set down here, Mr. Hartsoek. And I'm glttin' to be one of the hardest of 'em. But I never could get any good out of old Bosaw with his whisky and meanness. And I went to Mount Tabor church ouce't. I heard a man discussln' baptism, regeneration, and so on. That didn't seem nd core for me. I went to a revival over at Cllfty. Well, 'twarn't no oae, First night there was a man that spoke about Jesus Christ in seeb a way that I wanted to toiler him every where. But I didn't feel fit. Next night I came back with my mind made up that I'd try Jesas

Christ, and see ef he'd have me. But laws! there waa a big^man ("Brother Sodom") that night that preached bell. Not that I don't believe there ia a hell. Tbey's plenty not a thousand miles away as deserve® it, and I don't know as I'm too good for it myself. But he pitched it at us, and «tu|k it in our faces in sech a *^y that I got mad. And I says, "Well, ef God sends me to hell he can't make me holler 'nough no how." You see my dander was up. And when my dander's up, I wouldn't give up for the devil hisself. The prescher Iras so insulting with his way of doin' it. He seemed to be kinder glad that we was to be damned, and he preached somethin' like some folks swears. It didn't c. und a bit like the Christ the little man preached the night afore. So what doea me and a lot of fellers do bat slip out and cut off the big preacher'a stlrrpps, and bang them on the rider of the fence, and then aet his hoss loose. And from that day I sometimes did, and sometimes didn't, want to be better." Sodom kicked, and instead of converting a fellow that wanted to be converted he made him mad, and ready for a trick. The "little man" the night before did'nt kick. There are a good many people, who like T. T's old gun seem sll right, and are all right till they go off, and then they kick, and then the cause which uses them goes aa T. T. did, heads up and heads down, and lands sprawling.

Husks and Nubbins.

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DIARIES.

I wish to suggest a subject which is of general and practical importance—I mean the keeping of a personal Journal or diary. A good many of The Mail's readers will probably be. tempted to stop here. They have heard some thing of this diary buaineaa—Mark Twain's experience and others'—perhaps have, in the juvenile and sentimental period of their livea, made spasmodic efforts in that direction themselves. They are thoroughly satisfied with their experience on the subject. They think the diary business is well enough for those that like it but are persuaded they have no particular genius for it. They are willing to oxer cise the broadest charity, however, and allow those who are more blessed by nature than themselves with journalistic propensities, to scribble all the blank books full which they can afford to buy.

I am perfectly aware that thia antl diary feeling prevails generally, and yet I mean to persist in saying a word in favor of the keeping of personal journals.

In the first place it is not so hard a matter aa is generally supposed. The great mistake uaually made by persons attempting to keep a diary ia that of trying to do entirely too much. They think they mast write down everything. They try to out-Pepys old Sammy Pepya himself—the king (or perhape we should say rather the stove) of all diarists. Pepys lived two hundred yeara ago in England and kept the most prodigloas diary ever heard of. He wroth down the minuteat transactions of every day, the parchaae of any new garment for himself or hts wife, tales of social aoandal, for Sammy* was an invetearate goaaip, (he would hare made a feartal and wonderful newspaper oorreepondent if he had not had the miatortane to be born two centarlea too aoon)—in fact he wrote down everything, at leaat that la what people aaid who read hia carious old diary a hundred and fifty

years after It waa written. Well, thrssi

There Is a pleasure In going back over the past. Somehow the poftry gathers behind us and the lives of the most prosaic of us are like epics to look back upon. A journal each as I speak of, and as every one ought to keep, will

serve Jf£||ceep the pitf in a tangible ahapeBefore yon. Hera ia some of the fruifcof that life, aomething which yoa did then, your ways of thinking, yoar hopes and ambitioua. By comparing! yoar present self with this book yoa can see how much you have c||pged{ how much yoa have grown, how much better or worse yoa are now than yoa were then. Yoa will find these statistics very pleasant to contemplate and compare particularly if yoa have-been steadily progressing as yoa oaght to be and if you have been degenerating perhaps also the record will do yoa good.

But there is snother argument in favor of diary-keeping' which will not generally occur—the intereat of aueh a book to your descendanta. Do not laugh. Let us look at it. Suppoae now that your father, and grandfather and great grandfather, and great-great grandfather and some other ancestors back of all these yet, with a similar chain of relationahip on your mother's side, had all kept peraonal diaries, recording something of the life they lived, and what they thought and felt, what would yoa, gentle reader, or ungentle either, give for a full aet of thoae old books A very handsome price would yoa not Why there are no heir-looms imaginable which would compare in intereat with these. To be able to read there on that soiled, musty old page, in that curious old-style chirography what yot^r great-grandfather or grandmother, whoae pictures possibly you have/thought and did when they were young like youraelf, or in middle-life aa you.aror-wouldn't that be a treat! The aooffer at antiquity may aay not, but he knows that he ahould prise auch old arohivea aa highly as anybody.

And what Is to hinder such records being as valuable to those that ahall come after us Will not great-great-great-grand be prefixed to our namea sometime, just aa it haa to our forofathersT Will not our age grow old and antiquated and be as far behind the times as any of the pastT While improving on our progenitors, than, why not improve in the matter of diarizing Why cheat the coming agea out of ancestral records because we have been cheated out of them It aeema to me this one argument alone ought to be sufficient to make every reader of The Mail begin keeping a diary.

Books about six by eight inches and three-quartern of an inoh thick will be found very convenient for the purpose. Bartlett and Dooley will pleaae take notice and promptly order a aupply. Also plsce the sale of several thouasnd of them to my credit.

Pulpit and Preacher.

The late Unitarian National Conferpnoe developed two facta: First, the slow growth of the Church, andaeeond the soanty supply of ministers.

The oldest minister in the world is the Rev, Isaac Poince, who haa been pastor of a church in Amsterdam, Holland, for the paat aeventy yeara. preacher haa been arreated in North Carolina for highway robbery. We think that preachers, aa a general thing ought to refrain from highway robbery, if they oan.—[Louiaville Courier Journal.

In Waupun,Wiaoonaln,the.boys go to church Sunday evenings, slam the door, walk In, look all up one side of the church, crossover and look up the other aide, and if they don't see the girl they want go out and alam the door.

The plateaot Rev. George Trask's an-tl-tobaoco tracts were destroyed by the Boaton fire, and the Congregational 1st cannot understand "why the good Lord suffered these to barn instead of the vaat amount of filthy weed that could

amateur diarists that I waa speaking of "7 just auch fires." The editor of the Methodist Christian

began operations on a eoale altogether too glgantio. If they had undertaken leas they would have accomplished more. The paradox of Heaiod applies to them—that "the half ia more than the whole." I do not recommend the Pepya atyle of journalising. For a person who 11 vea on a penalon it mightdo but moat of ua dont 11 ve on pensions—exeept Indeed the pension which N|tare grants for oar services aa they are rendered. My notion of a diagr ia that it ahall toll, not what we bay and where we dine, bat what we think and feel aa we go along that it be a sort of self-acting thought-regiater, marking oar moods and the changes in oar spiritual and intellectual natures. There is no need to write every day. Sometimes an efitry may not be made for a week or a month, or three months, for that matter. Write when you feel like it—when yon have nothing else of special importance to do for an hour. If you do so toe four or five yeara you will bo surprised at the amount of diary you have. And yoa will be pleased, too. No book, I'll venture, in your whole library will afford you as much entertainment. You can read in it by the hour.

better use than kindling

Advocate, Cincinnati, haa got himaelf Into trouble. In apeaking recently of Biahop Merrill the editor described hia good qualitiea and added Suaviter in modo aed/orUaer in re. At thia one of hia aubecribers ia greatly alarmed' and writes to know what awful secret thing 4he Bishop haa done that it can not be told in plain Engliah.

The miniaters of Wsshington do not like the idea of outside preaching and prayer meetings by the Young Men's Christian Association/ They say that seventy-fiva per cent, of these who at-f tend these gatherings are regula church-goers, in whem a habit of "i ding about" is tnereby encou They urge the members of the tion to expend their, time and mo: in getting people to attend church ularly rather than in theae extra ings.

In the year 1851 the General SynAd of the Reform (Dutch) Church madfe the following jleliverance~lgainst tha public ministry of women: *'We wntness with pain in some parts of the Christian Church the introduction of females to lead the devotions of a promifamoos sssembly, a practice which we Relieve to be not onlycontrary to the ^4rd of God, bat ruinoaa to the #n and and permanent infl** fas females In the Chore* paid tor Hogs

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People and Things.

MrA

GOOD NATURED MAN.

If I had been consulted when I happened te be born, My place among my fellow men

Had been refused with scorn For now I find most enjoy The life which 1 began, At first as kind, goodnatured boy,

Aa kind, good natured man. I loved—aa every fellow doea: Bat women treated me As rosea treat the bees that bass.

Around them In their lee Twas nlee to keep me round a beat, Their vanity to nut: And, then. It wasn't hard to flout 7 v^A kind, good natured man.

I've not aMend who wonldnt sell My friendship any day yetal" like

Kjr .... And yet all love me passing well. And like to "come and stay."

I toll for every coin I touch, But thia unselfish clan Will his latt sixpence share with such

A kind, good natured man. Nay, strangers find me out at onee, And comfortably grase On one who Is a helpless dunce

In worldly wisdom'a ways. They take my victuals from my plate, My liquor from my can: And I—well, I submit to fate, ., ,.

A kind, good natured man. And yet at times I seem to feel There's something somehow wrong Conviction o'er my mind will steal

And tell me 'tis not strong Experience teaches In Its school That such a narrow span Divides from the confounded fool

Theklnd, good natured man. A Connecticut minister has resigned becauae hia flock didn't want him to play croquet.

A oertain Jew alwaysobserved Christmaa Day because he loved the man who wrote the Sermon on the Mount.

An Engliah court haa decided that people who pin their faith on apiritual msdiuma lnatead of using the medium of their own senses are lit autjeeta for a lunatic aaylum.

Henry Ward Beecher'a price for a lecture in Cfilcago ia $1,509. Perhaps it's worth the money perhape it isn't. But sines he can get the money the Rev, gentleman don't stop to inquire which.

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Governor Brow a. made a' speech before an educational convention at St. Loula the other day in which he strongly opposed the custom of whipping children either at hoase or by their teachers.

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The reason that Forrest did not retire from the atage-waa beexuae he believed men lived longer in active life— "just like a ship," ssid he "she'll last twice aa long on the ocean a*ahe will lathe docks."

A Kentucky man aet out to%huak eighty buahela of oorn the other day, but right in the buaieatpart of the taak he waa called off to shoot a man who had propoeed elopement with hia wife. He therefore fell abort two buaheia.

Thomaa Roberts, an enterprising $ftizen of Piano, Illinois, rejoices in the fact that after laborious effort he hss succeeded In literally transforming a pig'a tail into a whiatle. Now lei him try to make a ailk purse of a sow's sar.

A new kind of railroad awitch haa befen invented, Which kills the switchman if it hapjmia to be out of plans when a train comes along—thua assuring the safety of piaaengers by appealing to the atrongeat 'of all motivea, the inatlnct of self-preeeryation.

We are sorry to record the death of John Smith. He waa frozen to death laatSunday at Springfield, Ohio. John waa probably the beat known man in the country. He belonged to the great Smith family. It ia barely possible there may be a few John Smiths left.

Rawlins, now a noted Methodlat ml later In thia State, was once preachliig at Bedford, and in on* of iMffineat paasagee spoke of "Roman&idiers in their glittering bayonev*4b onr Saviour's time. This *9/nent referenoe to a modern InventiogfVaa a damper on hia aersaon.

Ned Buntlin^ was arrested in St. Louis lsat sft for the part he took in the riot in^Kt city in 1852. He waa at the tloeA under a bond of of f1,000, which (^forfeited. The charge was uU/with Intent to kill. Ned wSj| not a J(ttie surprised to have the old and hdsf indictment drawn against him twqfaty yeara after dat**. After a bearhe waa releaaed on a bond of |500.

Gail Hamilton is directing her caustic pen sgainst the ssnctimonious skinflints of Boston who placarded their unburned houses with "God protect us," etc. She says: "When mature business men—men who hold other people's prop-rty in trust, bank directors and proprietors—publicly placard the Divipe favor as a reason of their exemption from disaster, it is time for stockholders to look Into the hooka."

Brompton, a conductor on the New 'Haven and 'Hartford road, ia a gentleman, but timid withal. The other day he reoefved a telegram for one of his passengers, and, going to the car door, he timidly inquired, "Is there a Hone in this car T" For an instant there was no response, when a little gentleman squealed out, "Why don't you use yoar boot legf" This gXr* Brompton so much confidence that. be bribed a bfakexnaa to canvas the other cars*

Feminitems.

A LITTLE WOMAN.

fin a little precious diamond, What a snlendor meets the eyes In a little lump of sugar

How much sisweeuiess lies! 80 In a little woman, Lovegrows and multiplies You recollect the proverb says— "A word unto the wise." A pepper-corn is very 1

But seasons every oil

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than all other condiments, TO though 'tis sprinkled thinner. *Just so a little woman Is,

If love will let There's not ajo: You will not

win her, in all tbe world within her.

And as within the little reset You'll flnd the richest dyes, And In a little grain of gold

Much peace and value lies »As from a little balsam, Much odor does arise,

Bo, In a little woman, There's a taste of Paradise. The skylark and tie nllhtlngale.

Though small and lint of wing, Yet warble sweeter In the arove Than all the birds that sing: And so a little woman.

Though a very little thing, Is sweeter than all other sweets, Even flowers that bloom in spring New Yofk haa one hundred lady dootors. ,1 t** t?

A good thing for the elevation of women—thick soled boots. One hundred women are atudying law in American colleges.

Loalsfills boasts of a woman who can talk 416 worda a minute. Madauae Nilason-Bousard paya taxea on real estate in seven American towna.

Why ia a man who marriee an heireaa a lover of mttaief Because he Inarriea fortune.

Luoy Stone won't lecture this winter. She Is nursing a little boy four weeks old.

Miss Amy R-^-, of lows, weighs 362 pounds. No man will marry her, for fear of big Amjr.

The deareet object to a married man should be bis wife, but it is not unfrequently her clothes.

The King of Italy waa anubbed by an Amerloan woman, to whom he attempt^ ed to talk aweetness.

Rev. Mrs. Wilkes, of Rochester,Minnesota, haa assumed the paatorate of the Univeraaliat Church.

Miss Amelia Davla haa the name of being the beat pork and beana baker in the whole State of Indiana.

Theladlea of Philadelphia, Bufialo and other citiea are organizing societies to second Mr. Bergh's humane work in behalf of animals.

The woman who never watched her qeighbora is said to be a couain to the woman who did not know how many dresses her sister-in-law had.

An old lady named Brown has just died in London, leaving $1,500,000 and nobody to inherit it. This will cause a vast commotion among the two or three femiliea of that name in the United Statee.

The Paterson (N. J.) Guardian aaya there ia no place in the State where drunkenness is so common among wein that city. Probably no other place in the atate caree about diaputing the honor.

If I am not at home from the party to-nigh at 10 o'clock," aaid a huaband to hia wife, "do not wait for me.'| "That I won't," replied the lady, algnificantly. "I'll dome for you!" To prevent difficulty the gentleman managed it so aa to be home precisely at 10 o'clock. 7

A pretty girl of Chicag^JosMntly got married. Ths^day-^ollowing she returnediaJtfer father's house. When he incyrfred what waa the matter he waa' nformedthat "Frank's hair didn't curl naturally, but that the curia were the work of the barber." She haa applied for a divoroe. Undoubtedly she will get it, for Frank waa guilty of moat cruel deception.

A writer in the Globs of London hss the temerity to talk about the unpopularity of women. He declares that tliereare mors bachelors than there used to be that women have loat the charms ot patience, modeaty, unselfishness and' tenderness, and that consequently old maids a/s swarming everywhere, snd making ths earth a hard and dreary deaert. 4T*

A young lady wrltea to an exchange giving a recipe for having fun. She says, invite a dozen boys and girla to your house when your pa and ma are away put a half-dollar silver piece In a dish with molaasee an inch deep in it, and offer it to tbe boy who gets it with his mouth. The more boys who try to get It, the more fun will there be. That girl surely deserves a diploma.

The young lady who riaea

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up her aleevea and walks Into the kitchen to get breakfast or assist in so doing, and afterwards with cheerfulness and sunny smiles, pots the houae in order without the aaaiatanoe of mother is worth a thousand parlor beauties, who for the want of exerclae, complain of ezyiui and loange in luxarioiy ease. The former wllll make a gooJ wife and render home a paradise, the latter ia a useless piece of furniture, and will, to the annoyance of the household go whining to the grave. Let her go.

Connubialities.

NO ADMITTANCE."

An Oriental Tate,

A wealthy Syrian—A bdallah by nameFell 111 and aled Who stand

and when his spirit came

Before the gate of heaven, the angel there as with awfUl and males tic air softly said.

Lw To guard the elyalan portal) whence contest thou?" Ths Syrian bow ed his head. And answered, "From Aleppo." "Very well Wha wast thou asked the heavenly ssntioel. a merchant." "True but tell me all the rest," Replied the angel, "all—the worst and best: From me—reflect—no act can be concealed,'' Whereat the merchant all his life revealed, And nothing hid of aught that had done

By the Red sea, and on the wondrous Nile And stormy Persian gulf and all the while Had bravely striven to keep his conscience clear, Though always buying cheap and selling dear. As merchant use. "And so I throve amain," He said, "for many a year—nor all In vain For publle benefaction, since I gave Freely for charity—content to save Enough for me and mine,—a handsome store. And that Is all." "Nay, there Is something more," Tbe angel said: "Of thy domestic life Thou hast not spoken—hadst thou not a wife?" "Yes{"said the 8yrian, with a sigh that spoke Of many a groan beneath the marriage yoke, Whereat the angel said, "By God's rich grace. Gome In I—poor suffering soul, and take thy place Among the martyrs—and glvs heaven thanks!" Now, as he entered the oelestlal ranks, Another soul approached the golden door,' Who, having heard all that he who came before •ad spoken, and observed him entering la The open portal, thought himself te win Easy admittance: for when he had tokl His history, like the other, be mad* bold To add, "All this good angel, Is most true And, as for wives, I've had so less than two!" "Twice married I" said the angel, with a face Of wrath and scorn—"Unfortunates have place In heaven's blest mansions—bat, by Beeson's rules, (Soviet the hence!) there Is no room for 00 Is!" -[SeAnO.

The Prinoess Beatrice, of England, haa told the Earl of Aberdeen to "ask mamma."

A Columbus bridegroom borrow two dollara of tbe officiating clergy* man to pay for the lioenae.

A man in Wayne county, Ind., has been married Ave timea, and ia now living with his third living wife.

Goneral Pillow, being reatless in his eld age, baa added another Pillow to his bed. She is a widow, and wealthy.

Prudent Connecticut clergymen complete tbe marriage ceremoqy by giving full instructions how to procure a divorce.

Chauiicey Rose, Terre-Haufe's roinnd benefactor, is the wealthiest man In Indiana. He is a bachelor, girls.—[St. Louis Globe.

The wife of a roofer being aaked if ahe was not afraid to have her husband exposed to such dsnger, trustfully replied, "Oh, he's insured!" .«

A young woman fondling her new* born be be, and a young man his newborn moustache, are two of the most beautiful sights in this world.

A fastidious Connecticut gentleniafi preferred to pay (6,000 on a breachtlf promise rather than marry a y^ppg lady who did not spell correctly.

A Fort Wayne jadge has issued an injunction to prevent an elopement. The ooaple enjoined were joined notwithstanding, and are in danger of oon-

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Mrs. Moore, an Industrious woman of itfpika, Kan., earned money enough to aupport a good-for-nothing husband and bring a niece to live with them. The husband eloped with the niece and she is now nicely rid of both.

A German of Pitteburg by the name of Meyers, engaged to Miss Kate Dressel, failed to put in an appearance at tbe important hour when the bonnie Kate waa arrayed In oloudy bridal robee. An officer found at hia residence the following card: "Mr. Meyers' compliments. Not at home. Gone to Gormany." *^7 $

It brings tears to our eyes when we read incldenta of martial love and devotion outlaating time, change and death. We were sensibly affected recently on bearing sn Incident which oecurred to an eminent pork dealer. Ho arrived boms last week after an extensive tear in tbe purchase of hogs. He was met by a friend, who informed him that bis wife was dead. "Wife dead!" mid the pork merchant. "Well, now, do you know I didn't think she was long-lived.* What's the price of bogs Hia was a grief too deep for tears.

An exchange tells Ibis story of a' yoang ooaple who recently got mat*, ried: The bridegroom gave a male friend tbe dominie's fee in an envelope* Male friend pat the envelope in the inaide breast pocket of his coat along with another envelope. When the time came to pay, he handed the dominie the envelope' and departed. Dominie opened his envelope and found an invitation to Phoenix Hofe boll. Male friend had made a mistake, which was soon after rectified. The dominie respectfully declined thjO-lnvjL^ tation to the ball.

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