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dl)c 4JI)atl)cim ttccorb. II. A. LONDON, ED1T0H AM' PKOPKIKTOH. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION, One. "i'J'.V, one .vt'iii $ 2. fP One copy, six months 4 I-"" One copy, three months - 50 Tired. I m tired. Ilrnit mid lift Tint! from I usv mio-l nn-1 Mieeti 1 inn t. it'll- Ill-Hi is sweet. I nm tired. I hnvc played In ll c pun ii I in llie shude, I hnvc seen III-.- flowers fade, 1 iiiii tired. I liuve hud What lins iiimUi my spirit gld What Ims iiiiulo my spirit Mil. I inn lii-iil. I.ns." i iul gain ! (,iiliU-ii alien ws .ind N-nlt" i'il urn in ! I ) . i v h8 not U rn spent in vain. I mil tiled. Kventide Ituls hip Iny ciiioj ins, il , Jjiils me in my hopes iilwlo. I nm Die I. I.od is near. l.et mi; sleep without a fear, 1 pt mi- ilii- without a tai-. , I aH li.ed. i would rest. Aei I In- liiol ml Inn its net ' I mil tired- Hume is heat. EARNING HER LIVING. Minna's room was not light nt the best of times. Its one window, plant ed dormer-fashion in the roof, gave a view of the blank whitewashed side of an adjoining house, which towered tip a story or so high'T than it.s unpretentious neighbors. Hut Minna a personage who always male the best of things had abso lutely persuaded herself that this was the best light in the world for her oil painting. 4 There are no bursts of sunshine or stray sunbeams to disturb the clear, cool atmosphere," said she. "Artists uhnnjs prefer this sort of light." For Minna Morton was a working gill. Too delicate to stand behind the counter or superintend the busy loom, she yet endeavored to earn her own livelihood by means of an artist's pal ette and sheaf of brushes. Jler out lit had cost a considerable sum - there was no denying that; but iiosa Hale, who stitched kid gloves in down town factory, had lent her the money for the purchase, and little Bess lieaton, the landlady's daughter, "sat" to her two hours every day after school, quite satisfied with ginger bread nuts In munch and a battered rag doll, which bad belonged to Min na's own younger days, to play with. And Minna was young and hopeful, and in the far distance saw herself acquiring name and fortune by means of her belove I art. This morning, however, the room seemed a degree gloomier than its usual wont; and when Minna arrang ed her canvas on the ease), a dim sort of misgiving crept across her heart. It was a simple picture that she had painted a little girl playing on a sun tlecked baru-llour, with a brood of chickens fluttering around her, and a stealthy cat advancing from beneath tangled masses of hay. Yesteiday the lit tit girl had seemed animated with real, actual life; the hay had seemed to rustle in the wind; one could almost perceive the sinuous, gliding motion of the cat. Hut to-day it was as if a leaden spell had descend ed upon everything. "Am I an artist ?" Minna asked her self; "or am I not?" Hose Hale's steii, coming softly down the stairs, aroused her from a disa greeable reverie. Mie hurried to the door, with the almost invisible limp which had al ways haunted her since that unlucky fall of her childhood. "Itosa," she said, "are you in a hur ry? lo come in a liniment!" And Horn came in, with her little brown bonnet neatly tied underneath her chin, and her lunch-basket in her hand, on her way to the factory where 'real imported kid gloves, fresh from Paris," ware turned out by the dozen gross a day. "What is it. Minna?" she asked cheerfully. "Look nt this picture," said Minna, drawing her up in front of the easel, "Well, I'm looking," said Rosa. 'What do you think of It ?" "What do 1 think of it?" Hosa re peated. ' Why, I think it is beautiful!' "Oh, I know that!" impatiently cried Mir.na. "The bits of hay are painted to perfection, and the rat holes in the barn-floor are copied cx actly after that one in the corner of the cupboard; but all that isn't true art. Itosa. Hoes the child look as if she would speak to you?" "The checks in her gingham apron are nainted beautifully," said Iiosa, timidly. Minna frowned. "Hut the cat?" said she. "Is It live cat? Do you fancy you are going to see her spring?" "N-no," unwillingly admitted Iiosa. "It's a loely cat, but It Is only a if ur nfurat! Minna dear Minna. I haven't offended you, have I?" Oh, no!" said Minna, lightly. "Hut you have told uie exactly what I want ed to kt.ow what I was sure of my seif. (iood bv, Hosa! and mind you don't brj , me any more of those de'.l ilout little. buuqueU. They're lovely, VOL. VIII. Ijtit they cost five cents, and you ' Iroulile," said Mr. Palmer, vindictive haven't any live-rent pieces to throw , ly. "is that there is nothing to it. It aWay." j is negative from beginning to end. Ami so, with a loving kins, she dis- Toll the artist, we can find no sale lor .,,uJDit ii. o i.inU.i-hpnkpil little factor v- such trash!" girl, who was always so kind to her; j un.i o.n aim But. down in the l iiai , shadow of the dismal whitewashed wall, and cried: "I knew it all along." she declared. "You are a hideous little imposter!" (to the simpering figure in the fore ground). "And you" (to the cat) "are simply a thing of wood. And 1 am not an artist at all ! If--" "Hat, tat, tat!" came a soft knock at the door. Minna started guiltily to her feet, and dashed away the wet spray of tears from her cheek. "Come in!" said sln. And to her horror, she saw standing there a tall, pleasant-faced young man. "What did you please to want?" taid she, rather timidly. 11 beg your pardon!" said he. "Hut are you thi young lady who sent the picture dealer, was dead and btir a note to Palmer & Co., picture deal- i ivlt that Minna, wandering through ers? My father has an attack of lum- . th(, darted room of the old ware bagothis morning, and he is unable to i 10,SPi witti a rosy-cheeked child cling- come out. He has sent me in ins stead." Minna co'ore I deeply as she remem- 1 b red that in her elation of the day : before she had actually been so foolish j as to write to Palmer & Co. to send up an expert to value her picture for the ', salesroom. Where is the picture?" he asked, is this it?" "Yes," Minna answered, with an ; odd, choking sensation in her throat. , "Hut but " ' It was of no use. The tears' would come. She sat down in the cushioned window seat, and hid her face in her hands. "Has anything happened?" askd : Mr. Paul Palmer, genuinely discon- certed. : -.Nothing morn than might have ; been expected, said Minna, trying ro mile. "Please don t Hunk me foolish: Yesterday I fancied that this daub of mine was a gem of art. Now my eyes have been opened. I know that it is worthless!" Mr. Palmer glanced scrutiniingly at the picture. Hot." said he, "are you sure that i lire the best judge?" One can trust one's own instinct," said Minna, sadly; "I am sorry to have given you so much unnecessary trouble. Hut 1 am not rich, and I thought I had discovered a way of irninir my living. It Is a bitter dis- iippoiiitiiu-nt to me; but 1 suppose it is in old story to you, Mr. Palmer. Paul was silent. In the course of his business he had witnessed many trying scenes, but his heart, ached for this pale little girl, with the sunny. llax-gold hair brushed away from her forehead, and the almost imperceptible limp in her gait. It seemed to him as ; if ho could read her story almost as j plainly as if it were w ritten on her j face in printed sentences. I Suppose you let me take the pict ure home and submit it to my lather s ; opinion i lie saiu, eaiiniy. I do not believe it will bo of any ," sighed Minna. "It seems as if! my eyes had been unsealed all too late. I am no artist. 1 am only a fraud. Oh, yes, as he looked Inquiringly ai her, "you can take it. The sooner I know my fate, tne better it will be for me." So Mr. Palmer wrapped up the can vas in a piece of brown paper, bowed juiet "good-by," and departed. All that day Minna sat in a sort of terrified suspense, scarcely daring to breathe. Toward night Mr. Palmer came back. "Well?" she gasped, breathlessly. "1 am happy to say that the picture is accepted," said he. "1 have brought you twenty-live dollars for it. And I would like a pair of smaller ones- companion subjects as soon as you can furnish them." Minna Morton gave a little gasp for breath. "Oh!" she cried, "you do not really mean it Accepted! and more want ed! Oh, It don t seem possible! "How soon can you have them ready?" said Paul, quietly. "In a month ?" "Yes, in less time than that," answered Minna, half giddy with de light. "1 shall work day and night. Oh, Mr. Palmer, how kind you are! Indeed, indeed, you do not know whnt all this means for me!" If Minna could have been tempora rily clairvoyant that clay If ehe could have followed Paul Palmer back to the "art emporium," where Ms father, half doubled up with lumbago, sat viewing his recent acquisition through an eye-glass what would have been her feelings? "Paul," said he, curtly, "this thing that you have brought home Isn't worth shop-room? "What lithe matter with It, sir?" 'othlng notblpg op earth, The " "" " " CViffl l, he vi uai nam mkii. PITTSBOlur, CHATHAM CO., N. C., Ji'it I'.iiil J 'aimer such message, lie carried back no went and came ften. lie spoke words of kindly enc ouragement to the poor young girl, and paid, out of his own pocket, liber al prices for her elT rt J. And one day he asked her to be his wife, iind Minna promised that she would. "Heretofore," said she, "I have al ways dreamed of devoting myself to ; art; but of late I am not so hopeful. ' It seems as if my poor pinions are not strong enough to soar. Yes, Paul, if j you care for a helpless lame girl like j me " "I love you, Minna," ho said, simply. "II you will trust yourself tome, I ; will never give you cause to repent it." i It was not until they had been mar 1 ried somo years, and old Mr. Palmer, ing to the skirts of her gown, came across some dust-powdered canvasses, with their faces turned to the wall. "Oil, look, mamma!" cried little Paul. "What are these?" "Let U3 examine them, dear," said she. They were her own long forgotten efforts! Mie stool looking at them, through a mist or tears and smiles. "Hear, noble Paul!" she murmured to herself. "This only iidds to the debt of gratitude that I already owe him. Hut he need not have been so tender of my feelings. I know now that iirt, so far as 1 am concerned, was a delusion and a snare. I know timt ,ny truost tiappiness. my greatest, u.Uvity )uii ,e,.n cherishing him Hn,i the children." An,, h1ic n,,vir ,0( jml (h.lt she j,a,i ,i.s(.,)Vered his long guarded secret -llni Furrmt h'rurts. I'ronil HeacniiN. Human nature is much the same the world over, and if the following anecdotes have Scotchmen for their hers, the same thing might have happened anywhere else than in the highlands. It should be said that in Scotland a deacon is the chairman of a corporation nf tradesmen, and not a church ollicer. Two worthy ineunibents.who fretted (heir little hour upon a stage not far from the banks of the Ayr. happened jM, (.osen deacons on the same day. The more youthful of the two Hew 0 ( tell his young wife what an important prop of the civic edifice he had been allowed to become; and searching the "but and ben", in vain, ran ,ml ( the byre, where, meeting the cow, he could no longer contain his joy, but, in the fullness of his heart, clasped her round the neck, ex claiming: "Oh, criimmie, crninmle, ye're nae langer a common cow yo'ro a dea con's cow!" The elder civic dignitary was a se date, pious person, and felt rather "blate" in showing to his wife that ho was uplifted above this world's honors. As he thought, however, it was too good a piece of news to allow her to remain any time ignorant of, he lifted the latch of his own door, and stretch ing his head inward "Nelly"' said he, in a voice that made Nelly all ears and eyes, "gif ony- boily comes spierin' for the deacon, I'm just owre the gate at John Tamson's!" Human Klectrnljpes. M. Kergovat., a chemist of Krest, has proposed a new method of dispos ing of the human body after death, which he considers preferable in every way to either burial or cremation. His system is an antiseptic one, much simpler and less expensive than the old process of embalming, and Is noth ing more than a new galvanoplastic application. The Lody Is coated with a conducting substance, such as plum bago, or is bathed with a solution of nitrate of silver, the after decomposi tion of which, under the influence of sunlight, loaves a finely divided depos it of metallic silver. It is then placed in a bath of copper sulphate, and con nected for electrolysis with several cells of gravity or other battery of constant current. The result is that the body is incased in a skiu of copper, which prevents further change or chemical action. If desired, this may be again plated with gold or silver, according to the taste or wealth of the friends of the dead. M. Kergov at?. has employed the process eleven limes on human subjects, and on many animals, and states that in all cases it was perfectly satisfactory. In spite, however, of his warm recommenda tion, the idea Is repulsive. It seems a mockery to give permanence to the temple, when all that one made it valuable Is Rone, AVentffo- LmtrUan. I'HILDKEVS COLl'MN. I'h.o's Treasure. 1 here oncn wns a time, little maiden, When my heart vni-o lull "I piide, A foml old cat in tin- Mill I cut Willi six littlu kits at my eelo. Miou 1 Miou ! littlu maiden, Miou ' lor the cold, cold si-a Tliry heeded me not hut they diownrd the lot And only U-lt onu for me. Hut n time will i-nmo, litlle iimi lon, When (lie inl hove efitcn the emu, And innny a nmime in my iiinslerV house Is tuiueukin from nillht to morn. When the hiicon is nipidfy shiinkiiift, And the cheese will not hiM loradny, Then he'll think of me mid the eold, cold fen, And my little ones gene away. frtd .'. Wtihtrhy. "Told a I.lo Willi Ills Unger." A little boy, for a trick, pointed his linger to the wrong road when a man asked him which way the doctor went. As a rtsult the man missed the doctor and his little boy died because the doctor came too late to take a fishbone from his throat. At the funeral the minister said the little boy was killed by a lie which another boy told with his linger. I suppose that boy did not know the mischief he did. Of course nobody thinks he meant to kill a little boy whei. he pointed the wrong way. He ! only wanted to have a little fun. Hut j It was fun that co-it somebody a great j deal; if he ever heard the result of it, j ho must have felt guilty of doing a j mean and wicked thing. We ought j never trifle with the truth. ''hi 1 1 mi's Frirnil. A miipersttttitiia torkntoo. "Our Jon" is a line specimen of ihn species known as the sulphur-crested cockatoo. lie always showed a great dread of dolls or manikins, and this led us to tease him by placing our pet Punchin ello at the foot of his perch. Fear of the uncanny thing kept him a close prisoner for some time; but one day he came cautiously dvwn the upright pole, and backed judiciously away from the rear of the hated monstros ity. This provoked a new device; another grinning ligure was placed back of the stand, After long con templation of the .situation "Joe" now managed to escap", with much trepi dation from one side; but gradually the entire collection .if manikins j was placed around his perch, so that they laid siege to him. At this ".Joe" became greatly incensed. His crest rose and fell every niinu'e in tho day. (It Is a curious fact that it never seemed to occur to him that he might fly from the perch. He has never at tempted to reach it or leave it in t hat way, but invariably ciimiis up or down by means of his feet and beak.) And now "Joe's" life began to have a shade of anxiety in it, until at last he became quite unhappy. O'no mem orable day, stealthily descending from aloft, he dashed suddenly into the charmed circle, ami sieed Mrs. Punch by her wonderful frilled cap. Then, with crest erect and eves flashing, -his form trembling with rage and ex citement, ho rushed up the pole, and, once more safely aloft, he tore tho offending Judy into pieces, with an energy bordering on insanity. This tremendous effort toill'iced for tho re ii i :ii ri 1 1 er of the day, during which ho sat upon his perch with his feathers ruffled and treiifoling. So, one by one, (he members of that unfortunate family fell icliins to his hatred. For a long time, he did not care to attack Punch himself; but ho finally mustered courage stitlicient to attempt the capture of his arch enemy, and. a few minutes later, the terri ble toy, stripped of his gilt and tinsel ed bravery, lay hopelessly broken anil disfigured, upon the floor.- .S7. Mirh- lillS. l.onilmi'ii 1'nhllc Drinking Houses. In a given district in th i north of London (St. Patients) f2 public houses wero watched one Salurday night, with tho result that 11,4011 men, 7.7.1 1 women, and J,!l"iH children, or a total of 21,092 persons, were seen to enter between 9 and 12 o'clock. In anoth er district, in the south, the total num ber of persons going to the 50 public houses watched was 29,357, made up of l7,fJ4 7 men, 10,titi5 women, and 1, 645 children. In the west 49 houses were visited by 21,902 persons, of whom 12.809 were men, 7,455 women and 1, OllS children. In the east, rep resented by 49 houses, there were 7. 24') male visitors, 4,933 female, and 1, 718 children, maklng'a to al of 13,897. The total for the 200 public houses watched for the same three hours was tSf,tio8 visitors. Following tip t is inquiry they had made a small one as to the number of women visiting pub lic houses in the morning between the hours of 10 and 12, and one Monday 12 hotisea were watched near Tolmer square, with the result of finding that as many as 1,250 women went, to '.hem between those hours,- )Ji Mii fQru DECEMHKU 3, 1865. THE SIEGE OF Tf 'T ls Tteminisconco of Sherman's March to the Se;a. How Georgia's Capital was Belaagured and Defended. Noting the discovery of an old j bombshell by an Atlanta well-digger, i the CijuxtiiutioH of that city says: Paring the seige of Atlanta in lwj-l, j it was a practical question and one of j vital interest how to dodga them, i (Gradually the Confederate lines drew I nearer the city. The faint echo of their guns was heard ten miles away. I When the lines fell back to the river ! there was a universal wail in Atlanta. 1 .The river had been regarded as a bar I rier beyond which the invader could I not come, and there was a constant I expectation that Johnston would do j 'something to paralie his enemy. One evening about dusk came the i news to the city that tho Confederate I troops had crossed the river and ; burned the bridge behind them. That announcement stilled a thousand hearts in the beleaguered city. There was then no alternative but capture. The people knew the relative force of the armies. They were well aware that Sherman had over lOH.OOU men eiated with a successful march into the heart of their enemy's country, while opposing them were about 40, (MK) men in grey, who had been light ing a slow and desperate retreat. After the river was crossed the Federal army swept with little ob struction to the very outskirts of the city. Atlanta then ha I a regular pop ulation of about 10,(100, but the con centration of war supplies and the im portance attached to it as a base of supplies had run the population up to 20,01 mj or 25,00' . The city was teem ing with people, all in great agitation when they heard that the, invader had set his foot on trie eastern bank of the Chattahoochee. How to defend the city was the next question. It was answered by some very practical and intelligent men whose duty to the Southern Coufeder acy had kept them in or around At- j lanta. Chief among these was Colonel ! L. P. Orant the present president of ! the Atlanta ami West Point Railroad. Coloneltirant planned three complete lines of fortifications. One was to skirt the boundary of the city. The other was to surround the thickly-settled districts, while the third was to encircle the very heart of the city, with the Court-house as a sort of final ram part and stronghold. All these works were duly constructed according to Colonel (irant's plans, and the defences of Atlanta, were famous for their ingenuity and strength. Hut the Federal forces fought their way on until they were within cannon shot of the city. They tried by several ucs perate assaults like that of July 22d, a mile beyond the cemetery, and like the bluntly onslaught on Peachtreo Creek a few days later, to sweep right into the city. In all these efforts they were checked by a force hardly half as great as that, of the invaders. Mcpher son fell in sight of tho city. Many Hirers d minor rank fell. Men were mowed down like wheat by the de termined defenders of the city. It must be a slow seige to win. Sherman realized this fact quickly, and accordingly adjusted hia forces. Hatteries with the heaviest guns he could command were place I in front of the Federal lines. They were al - most completely around the city. Their range was four or live miles, and they had only a mile or a utile and a half o rnvnr. shells noiired thick 1" into the city, and a reign of terror be gan. Then came the bomb proof. It was the only refuge from the shells of the beseigers. Kvery household soon had its place of refuge. The bomb proof con sisted of a perpendicular hole in the ground about four feet square, and a tunnel of six feet which led into a vault of various dimensions. The av- erago size of the bomb proof was 10x12 feet, but many of them were larger. iSome of them were luxuriously fur nished, and offered all tho comforts of home injthe retreat undir ground from the sl.ling and popping shells. so far as protection to life was con cerned they were perfect. No shell could penetrate through the roof of soil, anil there was not a chance in a million that any of the enemy's mis siles would fall in the narrow entrance. The bomb proof was a complete pro tection from the enemy's fiery missiles, and saved many a life in Atlanta. Thousands of shells fell In the city during the six weeks of terror, and not half a doon lives were lost. The most fatal shell fell just in front of where James's bank now is. It ex ploded In thestreet. One piece killed a shoemaker in a cellar. Another frag ment murdered a mule oi the street. Another piece broke the stone post at the corner hlch Mill bear the mark, NO. does the gas post a few fiet away, which was almost cut away uy uic furious shell. The bomb proofs remained long af ter the seige. they were objects of great curiosity to the captors of the city. When Sherman drove the peo ple out of Atlanta and burned their houses, the bomb proofs escaped bis vengeance. Many of them remained until the new city began to rise, and there are still in many gardens of this city traces of these iiuprovish'-d de fences of the women and chilercn of Atlanta. The Wolf Spider. j Suddenly appears on the wall a dark i gray fly or perhaps a beetle. It inov s f with wonderful quickness, but always by fits and starts, sometimes one way i and then another. All at once it darts a few inches from the wall and j then flies back again to the same spot. This action is several time3 r peated, and is so quick that the creature's w ings cannot be seen. I approach the wall moro closely, and find that the. creature is neither fly nor beetle, nor even an insect. It is a hunting spider, and of course has no wings. How, then, did it lly from the wall and back again? I have long been familiar with these pretty and active spiders. 1 have often seen them sidle cautious ly toward a fly, leap upon it, and have a sharp tussle w ith it before it suc cumbed to the venomed fangs. Win dow sills, especially when facing southward are happy hunting giounds for this spider. I ha I often seen spi der and lly tumble together off the window sill, and presently the spider return still clasping its prey. It had saved itself from falling to the ground by spinning a thread as it rolled off the sill, and was able to regain its po sition by climbing up the thread. Hut until lately I had never seen it leap from a perpendicular wall, and to all appearances lly back again. The tnrcad affords the means whereby this remarkable ft-it is perfomed. It is extremely elastic, and when the spider has reacht d the end of its leap the thread contracts and jerks it back again, just as a child throws a ball Hway from him. and draws it back to ;,au, lV ,ni india-rubber thread which is attache I toil. I low I had failed t notice, this action for so many years I cannot imagine. Kven tho common wolf spider will act in the same way. 1 caught a glimpse of the creature crouching in the wall under the shadow of a vine leaf, so that 1 could not identify it. suddenly it darted Iran the wail ami alighted on tho ground i.l some little distance, tho elastic thread causing it, to describe a j s,,w j and graceful curve, just as if it wings. As it darted from tho : w.,u ,nt the net over it. ami, much i,, M,y .mijiriie, found that it was no in . s(,(. , W),f spier. I.uiiiiihiu's The Mind's Activity lliirlng Sleep. In con -tioii with tho present a tivity in psychical re.-j'arcli, the follow extract from the recently publish cd "Life) of Agas-ii" is of interest. "He (Agassi) hud been for two weeks striving to decipher tho s e what obscure impressions nt a fossil fish on a a' one slab in which it was preserved. Weary and perplexed ho ! put his work aside at last, and tried to I dismiss it Irom his mimi. Shortly ' after, ho waked cue night persuaded that while asleep he had seen his ; with all the missing leatures per ft lish fllv I restored. Hut when ho tried to hold ' and make la-t the image, it escaped ' him. Nevertheless, he went early to ! the .Innliii ,",,-'' v, thinking that ! on looking anew at the imp. ession he should see something which would put him on tho track of his vision. In vain he blurred record was as blank as ever. The next night he saw the lish again, but with no more satisfactory result. When he awoke it. disappear ed from his memory as before Hop- ing that the same experience might , be repeated on the third night, he ! placed a poi.cil an I paper beside his bed before going to sleep. According ly, toward morning, tho lish reappear ed in his dream, confuse, lly at hrst, but. at last, with such distinctness that he had no longer any doubt as to its zoological characters. Still half dreaming, in perfect darkness, he traced these characters on the sheet of paper at Cie bedside. In the morning he was surprised to see in bis noctur na sketch feal ore -i which bethought it impossible the fossil itself should reveal, lie histened to the .lurnin ilia I'lnntes, an with his draw ing for a guide, succeeded in chiseling away the surface of the stone tinder w Inch portions of the lish proved to be hid den. When wholly exposed, it corres ponded with his dream and his draw ing, and he succeeded in classifying it with ease. He oftmi spoke of this as a good illustration of the well-known fact, that when the hotly Is at rest the tired bratp will do the work it refused before," l)atl)am Hccoio UATISS ADVERTISING nut' insertion two'itiwrtions OIK! Iliolltll 1. Oif . 1.50 . - t.M hi-riil on- For liuuer n I v-rt tnn tn will he- imtdu. t From A fur. Sweet, tlmt I -ee iheo win 11 Ihy dimpled emilo liieuU l'ie"h ai-ross tin; silver mUv morn, And when thy sunny eies shsiiie ll the siiniiy Ui", And no rose lovely iislhy lip- is l oin 'J hat i-s enough. ,-eet, tlmt I hem- thee when thy mellow voie l ioiils down tin- twilight in hull-whispered soli. While eveiy wieti mid ihiuih And ul1 the lohiii- !m-h, And li-tenlil,e my silent heml. and lon--Jlilit is enough. nei'l, ih lt I 'heal Win ii Tie tiled if tine i mid h.nl i holy ninht, roektd l'soll And when my yi'moin licpit I, els ihiy end care ih put. And lindeth ti iiti I.' i imlnuken deep. - I1mt i.- enough. If J lb fli i hon. IIIMOItOlS. There has been big jump in the frog market. Teat h'-r -Ifeiiiie ' snorm:;." Small boy Letting till sleep. The .school ma'am who married a tanner had evidently a glimmering of the Illness of things. Some maligna it .slanderer now stales that a woman needs no cuioignt, for she speaks for Herself. l'ond mother Are you better, my th ar? J.ltlle l-.lli'1-- I uiuinn ; is iud jelly all gone? "Yes." "Well. I'm well enough to get up, then." "Jt seems to me," moaned be, as be lied toward the front g.-.te, with tho old man behind him, "that there are more than three feet ilia yard." "My son, how is it that you are al ways behindhand with your studies ?" "Hecause if I were not behindhand with them, I could not pursue thein." Did you do nothing to resuscitate the body ?" was recently asked of a witness. "Yes, s'r; we searched tho pockets," was the reply. A Sunday-school :icho':.r was asked, apropos of sulunnm. who was the great (Jut-en that travels I -o many miles to see him. The scholar in fact, tho whole school looked as if a little help "Are your domestic raiations agree able?" was the question put to an un-happy-looltiug specimen of humanity. "O, my domestic relations are all right," w as tho reply . "it's my wife's relations that are causing the trouble." The principal of an academy, who had just purchased a new hell to hang on the cupola nf the institution, and also married a handsome woman, made an unfortunate orthographical error when he wrote to the president of the boartl of trustees: -I have succeeded in procuring a line l.irge-tongued belle." Schools anil Piths of Mexico. It is a lamentable fact that but a small portion of the Mexican people are able to read and write. The total number of illiterate persons is not definitely Known, there being no accu rate census returns to w bicli reference, can be made. The ino-t leliahlo esti mate that can be arrived at places tho number at 7,""ii,ii.mi, r fully two third:t of the entire population. It is safe to say of all the daily pa pers published in the t'ity of Mexico no one of them has a circulation of .'mm copies outside of the city of publi cation, while it is more lhati probable that the combined outside circulation of all the dailies w ill not exceed that number. I have been in a Mexican city of 1 JT." M " inhabitants, where not a single copy of a tlaily newspaper was subscribed for by the entire popula tion, and where r.ot fifty newspapers of any kind were received at the post cllice, except those addressed to resi dents and visitors of foreign birth, -hitlinniii"ilis Timrs, Kiihlc r Hie Jackass and th Hade. At a meeting nf tho farm animals the I tilde once attempted 1o prove his relationship to the Jackass. "Why," he said, vainly, "just look ,H my ears! We must be nearly related." "True," returned the Jackass, "you may be a degenerated .mile; l-i u though I have often beard men call yon a jackass, they have never yet in sulted me by calling me a Dude." At this speech the other animals burst into roars of laughter, ant' tho crestfallen Dude slunk silently away. MniiAi.: This Fable teaches us tl.it. an ordinary mortal should not attempt to claim the acquaintance of a hotel clerk. Lift: The Kernel of the Argument. A bushel of corn, when compacted into lard, or choese, or butlT, can find its market anywhere in the world where the cost of sending the emu itself would make a market for it im possible. Iiesid" this, in the making of the lard or butter a manurial resi due is left on tho land, instead of being carried away to fertilize foreign fields. This Is the kernel of the argu ment for mixed farming, instead of grain farming, A'tw Orteius 7'i'mos Democrat.