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THE GENUINE
DR. C. McLANE'S
Celebrated *'
WORM SPECIFIC M
R OR.
VERMIFUGE.
SYMPTOMS OF WORMS.
rpHE countenance is pale and leaden
•*- colored, with occasional flushes, or
a circumscribed spot on one or both
cheeks; the eyes .become dull; the pu
pils dilate; ap aeWre semicircle runs
along the lower .eye-lid; the nose is ir
ritated, sweflg an£ sometimes bleeds;
a swelling of the upper lip; occasiojial
headar.he, with" humming or throbbing
of the eaps; an qnufcual secretion of
saliva; slimy or furred"tongue; breath
very foul, particularly .in theynorning;
appetite varjable, sonxeti mesvor acious,
with a gnawing sensation of stom
achj at others, entirely gone; fleeting
pains in the stomach;' occasional
nausea and vomiting; violent pains
throughout the abdomen'; bowels ir
regular, at times costive; stools slimy;
not unfrequeatly tinged with blood;
belljF swollen and hard purine turbid;
respiration occasionally* difficult, and
accompanied by hiccough; cough
sometimes dry a,nd convulsive; uneasy
and disturbed" sleep, with grinding of
the tee|h; temper variable, but gener
ally irritable, &c.
Whenever the aßdve symptoms
are found to exist,
DR. C. McLANE'S VERMIFUGE
will certainly effeet a cure.
JT DOES NOT CONTAIN MERCURY
in any form; it is an innocent prepara
tion, not capable of doing the slightest
injury to the most tender infant.
The genuine DR.\ MCLANE'S VER
MIFUGE bears the signatures of C. Mc
•Lane and FLEMING BROS, on the
tapper. :0:
DR. C. MCLAXE'S
LIVER "PILLS
•** not recommended as a remedy " for all
, ij to heir to," but in affections
the liver, and in all Bilious Complaints,
~7 s pepsia and Sick Headache, or diseases of
«at character, they stand without a rival.
AGUE AND FEVER.
No better cathartic can be used preparatory
to, or after taking Quinine.
A* a simple purgative they are unequaled.
BEWAKK OF IMITATIONS.
The gepulne are never sugar coated.
~ .^° x h* a red wax seal on the lid with
tne impression D*. MCLANE'S LIVER PILLS,
j, , wrapper bears the signatures of C.
•*CLANB and FLEMING BROS.
T haying the genuine Dr. C. Mc
r,l3 LIVER PILLS, prepared by Fleming
r I?*'', 0 / Pittsburgh, Fa., the market being
snLn°!i utions the name McLane,
peued differently but same pronunciation.
IUKS. Gi.EiyDENit;nr.« Odsband,
The lUy*leri«u« ln«nniljr of Jeulouay,
(From Lippencott's Magazine for April.)
Yoli remember Hawthorne's story of
Wakefield,' a man who, from mere oddi
ty and whim, alter palling from his wife
to go on a short-journey.- vanished into
the Wilderness o! Loudon and never res
turned to her. although lie lived so near
that he watched curiously her comings
and her goings year after \ear. seeing
her change from a happy matrom into a
melancholy widow, and so go on into
cheerless age. Other things have haps
pencil quite as strange, perhaps stranger.
Let me tell you the true story of Airs.
Glendenning's husband.
Agues Holt met Hugh Glcndcnuiuc
before she left school: they fell in Jovcf,
were engaged, and by the time she was
eighteen she married him. lie was a
young fellow of twenty six. and his most
striking qualities seemed to be his good
looks and impetuosity ot temperament.
In person he was of average height; his
figure good, his face remarkably hand
some, his hair and eyes dark, his com
plexion pale. Agues was a quiet, grace
mi creature, with blue, bashful eyes, ami
the most charming smile in the world.
In speech she wus curiously reserved,
and rarely expressed herself freely. One
OfThe discomforts of the season 'of her
engagements was that Hugh constantly
pressed her for an ample confession of
loye, which she would never make in
words by more than a quiet as.-ent when
he demanded if she loved him. She
hoped and expected after marriage he
would be loss persistent and more ready
to take things for granted, while he, on
his -side, looked forward to wedlock
with a belief that, once a wife, Agnes
would no longer torture him with her
evasions and denials, but 'tell him with
Ihe same freedom and eloquence which
lie used himself ihe whole story of her
passion tor him. The t.vo probably loved
each other equally, but Hair tempera
ments we're t/o powerfully contrasted to
make mutual understandings possible.
Agues was slow, puritanical, unci, hows
ever faithful aud strong, iu feeling, ut
terly destituteof sponianiety, while
, Hugh was ; quick, ardent, and gfveu to
the powerful expression of whatever
feeling or mood came uppermost.
They had been married a month when
business arrangements compelled Hugh
to go to England, and he insisted on tak
ing bis wife She yielded, but her incli
nations were against Ihe journey; she
disliked lo leave her family, and was,
besides, iu great fear ot the sea. She
Was melancholy and nervous in parting
trom her friends, and tor the first three
days oil the ocean 6peut the entire time
iu (cars. Hugh could not understand
licr terror of the wafer, and felt, beside-,
that she was using him ill in feeling the
least Vcluctarice at severing her cornices
.(ion with her old home. He tortured her
with questions: Did she love him? Did
she trust him? If she loved him, it she
trusted him, how could sho help being
to accompany him anywhere on the
wide earth? These demands, incessantly
repeated, insistently uiged and pressed,
wore upon the young wife; she knew
ihey were actuated by a love which jeal
ousy demanded everything from her, bin
they developed a sort of coldness and
pjrverseifftss in her mind.
On one occasion, when Hugh asked il
she really loved him, she replied listless
ly; J'llow can-you expect me to love you
When you wear uio out like this? 1 shall
soon begin to halo you if you go on in
this way."
These careless words produced the
most profound impression upoji Hugh's
mind, and were the beginning of calam
ity. lie brooded over them, incessants
ly repealing thein to himself. Agnes,
who was a mere child at heart, and of a
nature not wide enough fully to absorb
the idea oi another's, realized nothing of
the suffering she had inflicted. Besides,
Hugh's conduct began to estrange her.
Ll became his wont to sit looking at her,
his large black eyes growing gradually
cavornous in their depths and unearthly
iu their bri'liancy. At limes he would
exclaim, ' You do not love me. You will
soon hale me.' At night lie never seem
ed to sieep, aud, hanging the lantern so
that the rays fell on her lace, blinding
'and dizzying her, lie would sit on the
edge of tiie berth staring into her face
and muttering, 'She hates ine I'
The voyage was a short one; in ten
davs ihey were in London, where they
met friends, and lor the three months
which followed both Hugh and Agnes
had a comparatively happy time.
upbraided her .husband /or his absurdi
ties, and he himself seemed to see his
conduct in the light of day, instead of the
lurid glare of an insane, jealous dread
Still, married life was a palpablo disap
pointment to Agnes, who began to feel
that if she must bend her every faculty
fo the task of pleasing a man whose brain
seemed in a whirl of lalse and distorted
ideaTcoiicerning h~r and his love for her
and her feelings fcr him, she should soon
loso all respect for and belief in her bus-
tho fiine they
spent iu Loudon MFcousin. George
Dana, a young man'ol twenty-two, whom
she had known and loved like a brother
trom her infancy, happened to join in
rluir party. His coming was the signal
for tbe most violent outbreaks of jealousy
oil Hugh Gleudenning's part- His mind
seemed all astray, he was indifferent to
rtie fact that be placed his wife in a cruel
and humiliating position; he persisted in
the chimera that an easy habit of intiina
cy with her cousin George was the ex
pression of a love which far surpassed her
affection for himself. Again and again
he taunted and insulted her until she iuis
plored her cousin to- leave London*
Gejrge Dana, however, . .JttsafiiM,
Agnes's aoiual position with a mini who ;
was half insane, could not be induced to
go. He WHS not through with his sight-1
seeing; he was interested in the race*; iu
GRAHAM, N C-, WEDNESDAY JUtfE 25 1879
short, he liked being m Loud >n at this |
tune ot the year better limn being anv
whcio else in Europe, and lie insisted on
remaining, and even lett a sort of boy
ish Satisfaction in augmenting Glemlen
j ning s jealousy to the utmost by constant
oilers ot attention to ihe young wile.
liy the Ist ot July Hugh's business
Was concluded, and he took Agnes to
I B lance and Swiiz.erlaud for a mouth, but
J the two wrro no longer on terms ofallec
lionate intimacy, Hugh was still jeal
ous, and regarded his wile's steady cold
ness as a sign of irios' chilling indiffer
ence. Agnes, on her side, felt that to
maintain a semblance of buoyant happi
ness when she left so dejected at the way
she had been outraged was to lessen her
dignity as a woman. The two sailed
from Havre tor New York on the Uthol
August, 186-. On the seventh d*y out,
when they were half way across the
ocean, Hugh Gle;idennin£ was suddenly
missed. There was no traco ot him on
board steamer, and it wus readily
concluded that the rash and unhappy
young man had thrown himself over
board.
it was naturally the crudest possible
trial for Agnes when she was forced to
belieye that her husband had committed
suicide. She knew, too, that ho had been
disheartened by her coldness. Again
and again 6he had repulsed him when he
had tried to have an explanation. Nat
urally, now that lie was gone, all the
generosity of her first love returned; she
iorgot his faults, and remembered only
her own; and accused'herself ot cruelty
and heartlessness, and sorrowed like the
tin despairing cl widows.
It seemed natural, under the circum
stances, that Agnes should not onl)
mourn, but mourn with peculiar hope
lessnesspfor her young husband, who
had been taken from her onlv a lew
months after their wedding day. She
sorrowed a year, two years, three years;
but by that time her family all began to
make an effort to persuade her that if was
wrong thus to continue oppressing not
herself but them with this long past «f
--tliction. Sho was faithful and fenacious
of impressions, but at the end of tour
ycaiß she had resumed her ordinary dress
and begun once more to mingle in Ihe
society of her mother's Inuse. She was
more attractive than in her girlhood, and
her story was too well known and created
a touching interest in her youth and
beauty. She had several admirers, but
not until George Dana returned did she
allow any one to come near her as a lov
er. George had, perhaps, always been
fond of her; he was, at any rate, now ar
dently in love with her. Remembering as
Agnes did poor Glendenning's jealousy
of the young man in London, it was with
some menial disquietude and outward
struggle that 6he allowed herself to yield
to the feelings that, she could lovo again,
and love her cousin George.
However; ills courtship was so tar suc
cessful that she promised to marry him
wnen she had passed the fifth anniversary
ot her husbands death. TUAt date, whicn
was to-divide her old allegiance from her
new, was the 2oth ot August, 186-. The
day passed quietly in the pleasant
country-house. George Dana was fo
come in the evening, and Agnes rose
when she heard the train whistling at
the bend, and said she would walk aeroas
the fi Id to meet her lover. Every one
smiled and no one offered to accompany
her. The family, consisting of the father
and mother of Agnes, her three sisters,
and four of her married sisters children,
all sat on the piazza waiting for Agnes
aud George to return to lea,
Suddenly Maiy Holt exclaimed, "If
Hugh Glendenning were alive, I should
say that was lie;" and she pointed lo a
man who passed the house at a distance
ot some two rods, and who now at her.
exclamation, lifted his hat a.id bowed.
The sight of this man created the most
powerful sensation in the group, and Mr.
Holt sprang to his ftjet and went down
to the gate; but ho had vanished. The
likeness to Hugh Glendenning had been
startling; not only his lace, but his
attitude and gesture and gait seemed lo
have declared that it was Hugh Glen
denning himself. In another moment
George Dana came running up, calling
for help, lie had, he said, while cross
ing the fields to meet Agnes, seen her in
conversation with a man who looked
like Hugh Glendening, aud who strode
away, on his approach, and when he
himself reached her she had swooned
away and was lying on the ground.
Th troubled which now overwhelmed
Agnes and her family was one of those
cruel enigmatical trouble which take all
freshness out ef life. Agues, when re
stored to consciousness, declared that
while she was crossing the fields her
husband had suddenly started out froin
behind a tree, caught her by the arm,
held her lightly clutched, and said to her
in a horrible tone, "Do not dare to marry
that man!" and that she remembered uo
more until she opened her eyes aiul saw
her mother bending over her. A night-,
ful bruise on the tender flesh of her arm
corrooorated her story. The family had
all seen a man who. if not Hugh Gleu
denuing, was bis absolute likeness.
George Dana was the only one who
combatted the truth of these, lie des
clared it to be wholly impossible that
Glciideuiiing should be alive; fie himself
had questioned the captain and officers
on board the steamer after tho sniuide
five years ago. Everything pointed con
clusively to the belief that the unhappy
man had l>eeH drowned. The steamer
had been searched over and over. On
the fatal day of (he disappearance they
had not even sighted a vessel or boat;
thus there could have been ifo rescue from
the scu. Ho was dead. George declared
with irresistible decision. When con
fronted with the tact that they had all
seen Hugh or his ghost, he declared it
it to be a chance ru#emblance; that
Agues was*dispirited and Jwous, and
when the man touched her, disordered
imagination supplied ttie words she be
lieved him to have spokeu.
George, however, being broken-heart-1
ed at the failure ol his engagement, was
not fo be trusted as a counsellor in such
a crisis. The marriage rt as given up.
Advertisements were put in the principal
papers for a year imploring Hugh Gh n
deni'ing, it alive, to communicate with
his wife and fa.c.i y, hut not a word was
heard from him. Agnes naturally
suffered the crudest form of suffering—
suspense and and .helpless and
hopeless' misery. Her past was em
bittered, present she bad none, and the
future was full of douliis andjterrors.
Gradually, as two years, then three
years, passed, every one save herself
ceased to believe in tho reality of the
apparition which had startled them all
2Gth dsv of August. And at times even
Agnes herself doubted the evidence of
her senses. How could it bo possible
that Hugh was still alive when all these
past eight vert* he had never disclosed
himself to Ihe sight of anv of hiA friends?
When lie might come and claim her be
fore all Iho world, what possible object
could he have for lurking in shadow
only caring to overwhelm her when she
made an effort at renewed ties?
George Dana naturally was not slow
to help her in these quesiiaus and doubts,
lie tried,too, to inspire her with courage,
that instead of cowering helpless before
vague and nameles%shadowsin the dark
ness, she should resolutely go on and
meet and grasp ami defy them. By this
time, too she was legally freed from her
husband, even it lie were alive, according
lo the laws of her State; more than
eight years had passed since his apparent
death. Airnes was at last persuaded to
end the long suspense. She suffered not
only for herself but for Geot'ge, whoso
lifii was spoiling, and finally consented
to marry him privately from her sister's
house, in New York. Their plans were
not discussed beyond the family circles;
it was decided that the two should quictlv
walk out to the city chu'ch, and then and
there be married by a strange clergyman.
Thus everything unpleasant would be
avoided, and before consequences were
faced they would bo actually met and
conquered.
The plan 6eemcd destined to bring the
happiest The morning ot the
weddiug-dav dawned. Agnes quieily
ate her breakfast, then went to her room
and put on her bonnet to go out and get
married. As she stood at tho window
drawing on her gloves a man stopped
suddenly oil the pavement, looked up and
gave a warning gesture, and then
pseended the doorstep.
A moment later her sister entered the
room and found her sitting down by the
fire, huddling as if lo warm herself.
• Why. Agnes,' said she, 'l expected to
find you all ready to start. Here is a
little package which some one has just
brought you. Unless it were a secret
about the wedditig, 1 snould suppose this
was a present.'
'There will be no Tvedding,' said
Agnes, in a hopeless tone. *1 have just
seen Hugh again. Il was he who brought
that. Let me see it.'
She opened tlie little parcel listlessly.
It contained a ring—a man's wedding
ring—Ihe very one ahe bad giyeu Hugh
nine years before.
Agues has never seen her husband
since. Whether he is alive she docs not
know; whether he died ou the 2(hli day
of August at sea she docs not know;
whether the chain of contradictory cir
cumstances wo have narrated were
actual ami based upon correct hypotheses
that he himself apueared twice before
her in the flesh she does not know.
Georgg Dana,urged by her entreaties and
lief prayer#, finally renounced all hope
of overcoming hei reluctance to even
1 hiuk of him after her double warning
aud married. Agues is a hopelessly
saddened, changed aud iLclaiiclioly
woman.
HORRIBMI STORI' FIIO.U MEXICO
(Loganf port Jonrnal)
Last week, in Chihuahua, a woman
went in a shomaker's shop in front of
his dwelling and was measured for a
pair of shoes- Tho aon ol Crispin said
to the woman; "Yon have a very pretty
foot." ',Do you tbink so?" said she.
lie replied; "Yes; that is the prettiest
foot in Mexico," The woman was to
come back next day and leave one dollar
wheu the shoes were to be commenced-
Tbe shoemaker's wife, hearing all, said
nothing. The next day the shoemaker
was out wheu the woman with the pretty
foot called, according to the agreement,
and the wife got her into tiie back room
and stabbed her to death. Tbe wife
then cut a steak out of ihe dead womaun
leg and packed the body undor the bed.
The shoemaker came home and ate his
dinner. Th j wife asked him how lie li
ked the meat. He answered that it was
the best he had ever eaten. The wife
then told him he had eaten a part of the
prettiest leg in Mexico. He asked her
what she ment. She showed him the
body under tilts bed, and made a dash at
hiui with a knife, but he escaped and
ran to the Palacio and told tho judge
what had happened. The judge sum
moned a guard of soldiers and went to the
house. 115 asked the wife if she had
committed the murder, and when she an*
swe red yea and attempted to justify thj
act he ordered her to be shot on the
apot by the soldiers, and his orders wert
promptly obeyed.
AN 0 MI HIT L.3CK ffehs,
Snani"n nnd'soldiers, from a habit can
sleep wht n they will, and wake when
they wi.ll. Capt. Ha»'clay, when pers
forming his wonderful feat of walking
1,000 iniies iu as many consecutive
bonis, ordained such mastery over him
sell that he tell asleep tife minute he lay
down. The faculty of remaining asleep
for a length of time is posiessed by some
individuals. Such was, the case with
Quinn the celebrated player, who would
slumber for 24 hours successively; with
Elisabeth Ol vinfWho slept three fburths
of her life.' with Elisabtth Perkins,
who slept for a week or a fortnight at a
titue.' with Mary Lyell, who did tho
same for successive weeks} and with
j many others more or less remarkable.
| A phenomenon of an opposite character
j is sometimes obseryed, for there are in
dividuals who can eiist on a surprisigly
small portion of sleep. The celebrted
General Elliott was an instance of his
kind; he never slept more than four
bo«:'a out of twenty four. In all other
respects he was strikingly abstinent, his
food consisted wholly of bread, water ani
vegetables . In a letter addressed to
Sir. John Sinclair by John Gordon, Esq,
ot Swine, mention is made of a person
named John Mackey, of Skerry, who
died ia Strathnave in the year 1
aged ninety'one; he only slept on an aver
age of four hours in 21, and was a res
inarkably robust and healthy man. Fred
ric the Great of Prussia and the illiis*
tnous surgeon John Hunter only stepfc
five hours during the same period
The celebrate French General, Pichegro,
informed Sir. Robert blaine that during
a whole year's campaign he had not al
lowed himself above one hours sleep in
the twenty four.
SEN*t(rH I.OUIIHS RECENT I7X
fKOVOKRD ATTACK l l'Ort I.IiXU-
I.AV JUKKA V
Senator 1 'Ogan, of Illiuois, has been
accused by the editors and correspon
dents of some of the [tapers of using un»
grammatical language, and the editor of
the Cincinati Timet called upon the
editor of the Baltimore G azetle to pay
whether or sot the charge was true, and
the Gazette editor responds aa follows:
"Our genial friend, Col. Boyden, of
the Cincinati Time*, desires that y/e
should publickly state whetUer we heard
Senator John A. Logan io his recent
apeech commit any grammar
or do violenoe to the agreeable relations
which should exist between nouiil and
verba. Being duly sworn, we proceetl
to say thut we were present in the Senate
sitting in the seat with Senator Davis,
of Illinois, when Mr. Logan delivered
his p eat speech. We] heard him dis
tinctly make use of the folio wing express
sions; 'lf I bad ofknowed it," I have
stw the time,' etc., 'he done this without
reflection.' Mr. Logan also nsed tbe
following sentence, which we do] not
find recorded in his speech iu the JRec
ord\ 'I ain't been yet in a position to
hear such sentiments as those norated
through tho setthineut, but I hava long
suspicioned in my own infnd that there
is men in this here body 1 which would,
if they have tho power, pluck the blue
empyrean from the augis of the American
eagle without stopping to reflect where
the country was going lo or drifting at.'
We submit that' some portiono of this
sentence will not bear critizal analy
sis."
THE EBCIT CHOP OF TUB VMTEU
STATES,
The value of fruit cropaln the United
States is estimated by tbe government
fctatiatlcian at $M9,000,000 annually, or
about half tho value of tho wheat crop.
The value of tho annual crop ot Michi*
gan is put down ai $4,000,000. California
has 60,000 acres of vineyards producing
10,000,000 gallons of wine annually, be
sides vinegar, raisins, brandy aud fresh
grapes. Tbe oilier States produce
5,000,000 gallons of wine annually. The
single port of Norfolk, Va., reported
$3,000,000 quails of strawberlies last
year. Illinois, a prarie State whoso
fruit growing is of recent origin, now has
32,000 acres ot orchards. According to
recent official- atatemciits, the land ap
priated to this branch of industry is
5,600,000 acres. Upon ibis thore flourish
112,000,000 apple trees, 28,000.009 |>ear
trees, aud 113,270,000 peach trees, and
141,260,000 gntpe vines.
Little Laura was lired and sleepy on
New Year's night when she prepared
for bcl» mid forgot to nay lier 'Now 1
lay uii,' and in Apology to her- mother
tor t lie nejflect said MM Mho iUuKCiI avav
at lier Htli«t Blockings: *i tou'.dn't go to
heaven to mamma ai.yhow in the
world, los 1 am 100 tired.'
A U -**n«l dumb temperance man
would give all the world il lie could say
no when naked lo drink.
NO, 17
G leaning
There is one thing which yoti can crlve
(o oilier jicophrnii'L B|fll keep if, IIIKI that
is jonr Wont.«-Kv I - Tribune.
A diftobedfcnt lfttlw tjirl being tolJ by
her mother (lint it was necessary tlmO
sbeshould oe whipped, said: ''Well, ma)
then t suppose I must: but won't yon
give iue chloroform. Brut?' 1
There are 9,000,000 pair of corsets
mad«» in the United States annually)
w Irish may be taken as some evidence of
how much squeezing a woman can , r
stand before.they scream. •
A man was hanged for horse-stealing
down in Southwestern Missouri, lust
week, and just before he swung off h«»
confessed that for nearly two year*
ho hud been addicted to wettrihg a liver
pad.— llawkey e.
What more precious offering can lie
laid upon tht* altar of a man's heart than
first love of a pure, earnest and affection*
ate girl when au undivided interest in
eight corner lots and fourteen three*
story housos.
i
Artificial ice, is said toTbe/nperior ft>
nature's product, is manufactured in th« '
South at a cost of only 70 cents per on.
It is turned out in blocks two and *
halt feet long by ten inches in thick
ness. V, L i' * w .
•;*.{ K» ■■'■it-1 » r/v»i
Of the leading candidate for Presif»
dency, Grant is 57, Hayes ia 57, Sher
man 46, Conkling 51, and Blaine 48,
On the Democratic, aide, Th.iliuuh lft 66
Tildn is 65, Davis 64,
Bayard 51. Grant and Hiyet were
born in the some year,lß22.
It is well enough to hung up a chromo
with 'God bless our home' on it; but it
will do no haru by helping on the
matter by a little less fretting. A great
many people ask the Lord to do what
they won't lift, their little fingers to do
themselres.
Tho Silver Spring^," of Florida, cover
au acre of ground, are nearly 100 fe*t
deep, and send off a stream 60 to 100
feet wide, extending eight miles to the
Oclikwalia river. Sixty boats can lie at
anchor ia the spring, and the water is HO
clear that a fish or pebble can be Men at
a depth of tight ieet. , ,
""•At the funeral of Oeneral J as. Shields
in Carrolton, Mo., last.Wednesday, the
two swords presented to him by the
States Illinois and South Carolina, for
gallantry in the • Mexican war, w«r« ~
crossed over the coffin. The gift of Ill
inois cost $2,000, and that of South
Carolina #B,OOO, both are t ichly stud
ded with jewels. The immediate cause
lof 'the death of General Shields was the
opening of the old wound lecieved by
him at the battle of Cerro Gordo.
Children have lliclr own way of solr
ving great mysteries, ami who shall *aV
that science knows better than thdyr
When it was thundering little Mary sat
thinking, what to make of the awful
ncise she did uot know. At last, howpv- /'
er, slits brigteifed up aud said.
1 reckon Dodd is pounding on the floor
to make tho people behave. Ot the
same kind of philosophy was the reply of
the boyiwhoigaZcd at the stars, and theu
guessed that that they were gimlet holos
in the floor of heaven to let the glory
through.— Jf. T. Hera\it.
VAIIIIORABI.B SVNPATBV,
A rather flashily-dressed young lady
in coinpxny with her mother wa* coming
out ot a church in a city, aud while walk
ing down the massive stone steps the old
Inily slipped and went headlong tflf'tne .
sidewalk, Tho daughter, horror-stricken
hid her lace in a $25 haukcrchiet, aud
instead of Itelping her mother up blurted
out,'Oh, moiter. such an idea! ll»w.
could vou tall here? You are perfectly
awful! I am sorry I came out witu
you.
POLITBNBUIS KIKDMASS,
At the table the conversation tell upon
the subject of politeness. The ho-toa*
told of a friend of hers, a little antique in
her manners, for'whom a reception wn*
given bv owe of the Beacon street
tocracy ot Bostou. At dinner the gm»at
poured ou» her tes In her saucer to «*k>l
it—a method ot lofrigeratlon whiaUKwa*
quite an fault thirty yearn ago. The
guests looketl surprised, and some Wore
inclined to smile at her simplicity amt.
iguoraiice ot high toned propriety, but
the lady of the fionso poured some t-*
into b»r naocer and drauk (herefrom.
I Ids was considered a hint to nil, and
the guest was immediately placed at*her
ease.
•nwb »a!llW Aftft Thirty VMn,
Two young men, residents of No*,
ridgewock, Me., met one morning, Hint
one said: "Cbarlea, I dreamed !u*t uignl
that yon were a judge of the
court of Maine, that I was a minis
nnd that you culled on .ne to open your
court with prayer." Just thiitv year#
after this the Rev. Dr. Charlea F. APenj
late president of the State College,
hai'pet|ed to st«p iu the Supreme court
room in Attgnnta. Judge Cbarlea Dau*
fotih betokened to him, and at-k'tl him
to ojien bin cov>rt woh prayer, and heboid
the dream was wribed