VOLUME XII.
Reporter and Post.
PUBLISHED WEEKLY AT
DANBURY, N. C.
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PROF C.IR VS. .
A. j. Born, J. w. ULID
BO YD $ REinr
Attorney«-at-I jrw
WBNTWOIITH, N. 0.
Practice in the Superior court of
Btokes county.
ROBERT D. GILMER,
Attorney and Counsellor,
MT. A l ItV, N. C.
Practices in the courts of Surry, Stokes.
Yadkin and Alleghany.
IK F. CARTER,
IT.
MT. AIUV, BUISRY CO., N. C
Practices where ve. hit services are \raated.
//. A. HA YMORE,
ATTORNEY AT LAW
Mt Airy- N. C.
Special attention given to the collection el
claims. I—lSjin
11. M. MARTINDALE,
WITH
jyjf. j. c. DUL>4xrs co.,
3TA Tioyjcns 1 A SI) JJOO KS L % LJ.Kits
ware no ISM:.
|Qf**School Unokt a Specialty.
Stationery of all kinds. Wrapping paper.
Twines, Honnel Boards, P/|«r Jiliuds.
ww. BAi.TiyotK sr., inr/rimoke art*
J. 8. HARifISON,
WITII
A. L. ELLET&CO.,
DRY GOODS & NOTIONS
10, 12 & 14 Twelfth Stroe 4 .,
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u L i r uv"mt!i r ' sßichm'd, Va
» F. KINO,
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JOHXSOX, SUTTO.YS' CO..
I>HY GOODS,
Mea. 77 and 7% South Sharp, Street,
t- W. JOHFSOM, R. M. •I'TUON
J. H. K. HUABUK, U. J. JOHNSON.
r. DAV, ALBKKf JOKXt.
insnufactnrcrs of
S ADDLERT.II AHNKSS, COLI.AUS, TItTN K
Ne. SSS W. Baltimore atreet, Baltimore, i/d.
Vf. A. Tucker, 11. C.Smith, DH. Spragfla?
Tuolter. Smith a Co..
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MOOTS, tHOUS, HATS AND CAI'S.
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n. J. Jt U. AT. BEST,
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WHOLESALE CLOTHIERS.
90 Aaaover St., (becweeQ(l.>rman Stal
BALTIMORE UIK
». tOmfSBORN, B. UI.IMI.LNE
C.WATKISS, W. B. ROBRUTSON
O. L. COTTKALL, A. X. WATKINS.
Watkins. Cottrell & Co..
import*)re and Jobbera of
HARDWARE.
1807 Main Stroet,
RICHMOND, VA.
Af*Rte far Fairbanks .Standard Mealea, an
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W. 11. MILKS,
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Hholcaale (Uaitrs in
Boots, Shoes, and 'Trunks,
1219 Mam Street,
B*pt. R-81-«m. KICnMOM), VA.
J. R ABBOTT, OF N 0.,
with
WII\CO, ELLEIT k CRIIMr,
RICHMOND, VA.,
Wholesale Dealers is
BOOTS, SHOES, TRUNKS, AC.
Prompt attention paid to orders, aud satis
faction paurunleed.
Virginia Slate Prison Qocdi a tpecia'.ty
March, 6. m
MINT W. rowsft*. KDU A K 9. TAVLO .
R W rOWEHS & CO.,
WJJOLE6A LE DRUGGISTS }
Dealers in
PAIXTB, OU.S, DYga, VARNISHES,
French and Amerioan
WINDOW GLAMB, PUTTY, it C
OiQAKS, MiuKiNU AND CIIKWIKO
TOBACCO A KI'KCIALTI.
1806 Main St., fiichmoud, Va.
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Tlie Nlicrlei of a Mean Mail
Sometimes 1 wonder what a mean
niau thinks about when ha goes to bed.
When ho turns out the light and lies
down. When the darkness closes in
about bun and he is alone aud compell
ed to be honoit with himself. And not
a bright thought, not a generous impulse,
not a manly act, not a word of blessing,
not a grateful look, comes to bless him
again. Not a penny dropped into the
outstretched hand of poverty, nor tbe
balm of a loving word dropped into an
aching heart ; no sunbeam of encourage
ment cast upon a struggling life ; the
strong right fellowship reached
f j»ne fallen nuui to his feet
' A tV-»c tilings c.mc to biiu
as the "God bless you" of the departed
day, how ho must hato hunsolf. Now
he must try to roll away from himself
and sleep on tho other side of the bed.
When the only victory he can think of
is some mean victory in which he has
wronged a neighbor. No wonder he al
ways sneers when tries to smile. How
pure and fair aud good all the rest of
the world must look to him, aud how
cheerless and dusty nmst his own path
appear. Why, even one lone isolated
act of meanness is enough to scatter
cracker crumbs in the bed of the aver- 1
age uian, «nd what must be tho feelings
of a man whose whole life is given up
to mean acts ? When there is so much
suffering and heartache and misery iu
the world, anyhow, why do you add one
pound of wickedness or sadnc s to the
general burden ? I>on't be mean, my
boy
* AccommodiMliiK
A travtl stained tramp called at the
house of an old negra.
"Have you got some wood 1 can
chop ?"
"0, yas. lWs de pile an' yonder's
de axe. Jes bo'p yessc'f."
The tramp after choppiug for about
a half-hour, went to the old uegto and
said :
"Well, Fin done."
"Potic chopped ex much ez yor wants
ier, is yor 1"
"I've chopped enough, 1 think."
"I'll huh. but doan' be noway back'-
urd about it. Jes he'p yessclf, nn' rc
colleck' dat when yor wants tcr limber
up yer jints, here's de place wli.ir yor
kin find conuuoduttotis."
"l!ut I want something to cat. That's
why I chopped the wood."
'•Yer didn't say nutliiu' 'bout dat.
Said yer wanted to chop wood. 1 ken
go out any time an' git somebody tcr
cat. Uood day, sail, llccolleck' dar's
alius a axe lteab at yer 'sposal, sail.
A HARD BUT TRUE YARN.— Some
time ago a partj of men, finding them
selves in a colloquial mood, vietng with
others telling the biggest stories they
could, when one of them, after hearing
all the others through, told of an inci
dent which put an end to the competi
tion and silenced tho crowd.
Ho related that on one occasion a
farmer was coming to Danville with wa
gon and team aud that just as he passed
Mr. John. S. Glasgow's residence near
Fall creek and was coining down the
hill, the tire came off one of the wagon
wheels. Four persons happcucd to be '
standing in sight, and seeing the tiro off i
they watched the wheel to sec if it would ;
be crushed under the load; but the wn
gon went ou down iho hill and the tire '
following rolled ulong too, sometimes j
appearing to be as much as two feet be
hiutl wiiccl to which it,
til getting to tho bottom of thrall,
wbero a* the wagon was going slower,
the tire caught up with aud passed itself
around the wheel again taking its former
place, no ono having touched it. The
driver then fastoned it on with a wedge
and cauic on to town.
The in-ndeut is vouched for by four
truthful and clearsighted persons. Can
anybody beat it for a fact Danville
Register.
A hint or two as to old-timo leupycar
privileges or penalties may be found in
the following from a book printed over
a ecutury ago : "Albeit it is nowe be
come a part of the common law iu re
gard to social relations if life that, as
often as every bissextilo year doth re
turn, the ladyes have the sole jirivilego
during tho time it continueth of making
lovo to tho men, which they do either
by words or by lookcv, as to thcin
seouieth preferable ; and moreover, no
man will be entitled to the benefit of
the clergy who duth iu auywise treat
her proposal with slight or oostumoly."
DANFIERY, N. C, THURSDAY, APRIL 3, 1884.
An ICiiliru Family Annihilated
Tlie most tliocking tragedy in the his
tory of Fauquier I aunty, was cuuctcil
At the residence of John (ihmcock at an
; early hour Sunday morning, resulting
in tie annihilation of the entire family,
Thn murderer is a son of Thomas Glas
cock, the largest laud owner in the
county and one of the wealthiest men in
Virginia. From his youth up John has
been wayward and frolicsome, addicted
to liquor and fond of low company, but
in apito of hi# habits be «at quite a fa
vorite. Some ycar» ago he married a
daughter of lierod Frailer, a prominent
citizen of Loudon County, who bore him
three oluldrou, two boys and a girl.
,WitU ho wȣ living ou of tiis
' mother's fiuost farms of several hundred
j acres, about three miles north of this
[•luce, up to last Sunday morning
The first intimation that anything un
usual had happened wa» given to a hired
m m who was attending to the liorsos at
: 'he barn, between eight and nine o'clock
ill the morning. To hint Glaseoek entno
and suid, in a ealiu and iuliffercnt way:
"You had better go to the house, I have
played the devil tip there," and moun
ting his horse rode out as usual to tbe
field whore his cattle wore feeding. The
hired man after a while went to the
' house. The doors being open ho went
iu aud saw a shocking sight in the fam
ily bedchamber. (!u one bed, with her
body hanging partly over its side, lay
the dead and yet bleeding body of Glas
cock's young wife. On the other side
nf the room in bed lay her two younger
children drenched with their own blood,
and by the bedside, where it had evi
dently fallen i n its death struggle, was
the body of the oldest child, with u thin
stream of blood flowing from a hole in j
its head. Death eauie to all of thorn in j
the same way, by shooting with a revol
ver, and so close had 'he weapon been !
held that their faces were blackened I
with powder. So effectually had he ac- j
coniplished his work—evidently done
while bis victims were sleeping—that
not a spark of lite was left in either of
the four.
The hired man, as soon as lie recov
ered from tno shock, gave the alarm.
Neighbors came iu and hearing what I
little the man had to say supposed Glas- j
cock had taken flight. Some of them
walked up to the cattle field whether j
Glascock was said to have gone, and
there iu a little piece of woodland ad
joining the field they found his lifeless
body, with the now empty revolver which
had done such deadly execution lying
beside him and his own brains aud blood
scattered around on the freshly fallen
snow.
Glascock was a free liver and gave
frequent entertainments at his house,;
the last of which was an oyster supper j
on the night preceding the murder. No |
authentic clue to the cause leading to !
the tragedy lias been found, but various ;
theories are advauced. Que of the most
plausible is that his father, in his ef
forts to check his son in his mad career,
hail recently cut down his allowance,
and perhaps given notice that lie would
tr> longer be responsible for expenses
incurred in riotous living-. Another
theory is that ho has for some time, with
or without cause, suspected his wife of
infidelity, and that on the uight of tho
oyster supper ho saw some action on her
part with some of the guests that gave
confirmation to bis jealous tuind and
deteruiinea hiiu to put an end lo the
whole affair. Mrs. Glasjock has always
borne an irreproachable reputation. -»■
The father, mother and three children
were buried side by side, yesterday iu
tho oeinotciy near Middlcburg, Va.—
Recturlown (Fa.) Special.
IIUMII
On oueof the northern trains recently
| was an old lady, who ovtdcntly hail nev
er beforo made a railway journey. Af
ter looking about her for some time in
! curiosity, her eyes alighted on the bell
lino, and sho asked tho water boy, who
i liaj polled to be passiug at the time what
jit was for. "That, uiarui," said the
boy with a twiukle in his eyes, ' is to
riug tho bell when you want anything to
eat," aud passed on. Shortly after the
| old lady got down the family umbrella,
aud, reached up to the boll line, gave a
vigorous pull. Of course tbe brakes
were applied, tho windows were thrown
up, questions asked, etc., tho old lady
| sitting calmy through tho confusion.
I Presently the conductor camo rushing
into tho car, exclaiming, "Who pulled
that boll !" "1 did," replied tho uld
lady meekly. "Wull, what do you
want ?" snapped the official impatiently.
( "Well,' said tliu old party, meditatively
| "you eau bring nic some hash."
Xew Heulhcr Prediction*
VKNNOU IMI'ttOVEIi
Aii intensely bluo sky indicates a
temporary absence of clouds. Under
other circumstances, "gain, an intensely
blew sky indicates a tornado.
When ik woman leaves a piece of soap
npon the stairs where her husband will
tread upon it, it is a dead sure sign of
a storm.
Whan the suu rises b'thind a bank of
clouds, and the clouds hang low all
around the horizon, and all over the sky,
and the air feels damp, mid t'lerc is a
fine drizzling mint bleu -ig, the indica
tions ire thwro will be tin somewhere
in tiio United Suites Br j\tiyda.
When it begins »o thunder look out"
for lightning.
When a unin gets up in the night, and
feels along the top pantry shelf in the
dark, and knocks the big square bottle j
without any label down to the flo«r and j
breaks it, it is a there is going to
bo a dry spell until 7 or 8 o'clock in the j
morning.
\\ hen the cradle begins to vibrate ®
with irregular, spasmodic motions about j
one o'clock in the morning, look out for !
signals, and try to remember where j
you put the paregoric the last time you !
used it.
When the youngest boy in the family
conies home three hours after closing of |
school, witli his hair wet and his shirt I
wrong side out, look out for a spanking j
breeze.
l'o sec the head of the family feeling '
iu his right hand pocket, then in the lot: '
hand pocket, then iu all his vest pock
ets, then in his hip pockets, thou in las j
coat pockets, and then whistles at the |
ceiling, indicates "no change."
If he suddenly stops waistling at the '
ceiling and expands his face into a broad
grimace of deligl t, it means "unexpected
change."
The weather during the whole of
Thanksgiving week * * (*) t
If the corn husks are very tliicK, the
winter will be colder than the summer.
If the corn husks are very thin, the '
summer will be warmer than the win
ter. ,
It the eorn husks are neither 100 thin |
nor too thick, the summer will be warm j
and the winter will be cold.
Hull E arma rk lie-11» EucliOtlicr
A successful farmer finds it to his in- ]
terest that his neighbors should also be !
successful. A siugle iustance of well- j
ordered and productive fields does not j
make the reputation of an entire locality ;
for profitable agricultural enterprises, j
11 becomes uoted for fertility, and ae- j
quires comparative importance as a cen- j
tcr of production, when the number of;
goud farmers is in the majority ; when !
its yields of grain or hay or other crops !
attract general notice; when buyers
learn that such a country town will sun- 1
ply the largest quantity and finest qual
ity of butter or cheese or wool or apples
or other speciality; when those who trav
el observe the general excollence of roads '
the beauty of the shade that overhangs !
them, the neatness of the lawns by which
they are bordered, the orchards and gar
dens that adjoin them, tho evident pros
perity of the community at large. To !
what extent tho inancy value of one's i
land who livos iu sueli a community is 1
enhanced thereby—not to mention the
pleasures and profit uf associating with
thoM having aims for improve- j
incut and gradually securing similar t
means for attaining it—would be ditli- 1
cult to dctciiiiinc.— Country Gentleman, j
medical man dis- I
ooursing upon sleep, makes this remark:
".One man liny do with a little less sleep '
than another; but as a general rule, if j
you want a clerk, a lieutenant, a lawyer
a physician, a legislator, a judge, a pros- j
idcut or a pastor, do nut trust your in
terest to any man who docs not take on
the average eight good solid hours of
i sleep out of every twenty-four. What
ever may be his reason for it, if he docs
I not give himself that, he will snap some
j time just when you want Imu to be
I strong."
It's mighty strange, but, de biggest j
sinners in dc worl' beliebsin decverlas
i tin fire of dc debil. I has knowed many
a good uiau,what didn't believe dat de
debil was half sicli a powerful fellow as
do prcaohcrs said, an' I has kuowed
! many a thief dat believed everything
dat he was told about ilv ole man. 1
ain't got much confidence in dat 'ligion
what is based on fear. A convict may
work mighty hard 'ease do oberseer is
lookin' at hiui. but de work is nebcr done '
| as well as if he want fo'ced to do it.
Kiile* for It Mm*
| .
i In mounting, face the near side of the
horse. Ihe near side is the side nearest
i yourself. If you stand on the right side
ol the horse, which is the wrong side,
when you mount you will face the crup
| per. Then everybody will know that
1 your name is Johauu Gottlieb Krnsige- '
1 folger. If you cannot liiouut from the
ground, lead the horse to a high fence,
climb up on tho fence, say "whoa" two
or three times, and jaiup over the lior
:se s ears. You will lijht somewhere on
i his hack, ami you will have plenty of
tiiue to adjust yourself while the horse
:is mining away. Another method of
mounting, largely practiced by young
I gentlemen Iroiu the city, is to balance
| yourself An one foot on the fouco, and
point the other leg at tho hone, in the [
general direction of the saddle, saying
"wnoa all tho time. The horse, after
| this gesture has been repeated a few
j times, backs away, pulls the alleged rt
j dcr off the fence, and walks up and down
J the lane with him at a rapid gallop,
j I'his gives the rider in about ten min-
I utcs, all the exercise ho wants for a
|we,'k. If by some miracle you manage
I to get into the saddle, hold on with both
I bauds and say "whoa." The luster the
j horse goes the tighter you must hold on,
and the louder you must "holler." If
( >ou are from New York or Philadelphia,
you will shorten the stirrups until your
1 kucos are on a level with your chin.
| Then as you ride you will rise to your
j feet and staud in the atti'ude of a
i peering over a fence to look for his dog,
and then suddenly fall iu the saddle like
a man who had stepped on a baniiaua
! peel. Thi« is the English school. It
j is hard on the horse, but is considered
very graceful. A ui in cannot wear false
, teeth, however, aud ride in this man
lier.
Tlic Kdllor Was In.
"Is the editor in !" asked a wry-faced
man, who stood six feet and two inches
iu his socks, of the office boy of a liloom
ingtoo newspaper.
"I do not know," said the boy. "I'll
ask him. ' He was gone about teu
I "uiuutes, when lie returned, smiling
| blandly, and saiu : "I guess he's in.
, lie s in it you're the nun he thinks you
j are. Is your name Smithers ?"
j "Ye, my name is Smithers, and 1
; reckon he won't bo in tho cowardly pup
| py. when he knows that Jake Smithers
is after him."
| "So you're Smithers, are you?" said
I the boy.
j "Yes, I'm Smithers. The same
j Smithers (hat the guui-startcd editor
' called n ham in this morning's paper.
I've come to clean the shop and thresh
j that editor till he won't know himself
from a stuck pig. I reckon the editor ]
\ ain't in now, is he
i "Oh, yes' I'll show you up to his room |
iu a minute, lie told me to ask you if |
you was Smithers, and if you was, to j
show you up. When I left the room ho j
J had two revolvers, a ten pound weight j
j and a sword lying on his desk, and he 1
! told uie to show you the door to his !
i room right away, and to get behind the
| base-burner for safety as soon as y >u
j went in Higbt this way sir. Tho ed
itor'* in, and he is anxious to sec you."
j "Well, you tell the editor that 1 said
he might go to.Chicago, if he wants to.
1 hain't got no time to fool away ou him.'
I And Smithers hurried to catch the train.
' —Through Mail.
"I took the pledge," said an old man,
j "at the foot of the gallows where 1 saw
! a young man hung. The Sheriff took j
'out his watch and said, "If you have
j anything to say speak now for you have
■ only five minutes to live." The vouii"
JO
man burst into tears and said, "I
! had ouly one little brother. lie had
' beautiful bluo eyes and flaxen hair, and
I loved bun. Hut one day 1 got drunk,
and coming home found liiui gathering
berries in the garlen, and becoming au
gry without cause. I killed him with a
rake. Hum had done it; it has ruined
uie. I have but one word to say—nev
er, never, never touch anything that is
I intoxicating!"
A CROP SKIN. -The old Dutch far
i niers in the Piedmont portion of this
State beliovo that the weather on Ash
. Wednesday indicates whether or not
they will have a good >vhoat crop that
year. If that day is inclement the
wheat crop will be short, but if it is a
good day there will be a bountiful crop.
If this be true wo may expect an abun
dant crop of wheat this year, because
; Ash Wednesday was a delightful day.—
i Bugle.
TiiEcmiisiiTi win.
: They have had a terrible time of it ill j
Cincinnati, and indeed all (>hio seems to '
• bo carried away by excitement and I
, frenzy. For some months the failure ot
the juries to convict murderers has been ■
a theme of hot discussion in tho city, for
while murders became eoniinoji the
crimes were unpunished, or at leUst the
convictions were of but light offenses. |
In the meantime the fact that tho citv i
jail contained forty-two murderers was !
a subject of indiguent remarks.
Such was the eoudilion of affairs when |
the jury iu tho Horner case brought iu a j
' verdict of manslaughter in the third de
gree, notwithstanding, Be r net's full con
fession of the murder aud robbery of his j
. victim. 'l'ha.t trial was attended by a >
I very large uuaibet of citizens and the
verdict was a great sourco of chagrin and j
disappointment. About 200 persons I
were killed and wounded ni the riot ;
which followed, and tho destruction of
property is said to bo great. That a i
city of the size mid pretension of (Jin- |
ciunati. and in a section that boasts of
its exceptional civilization, should give j
so much cause for comment aud censure,'
is pcihaps surprising. The accounts j
read more like the wild western stories
that used to come up from tho mining
camps, than from a civilized community.'
Hut suppose such seencs had oceuro i in !
St. Louis or New Orleans, or Charleston,'
what a general outburst of lecturing
would ftdlow throughout the North. Not
a paper would fail to point to it as a [
legiinate outcome of Southern ignorance
and barbarism. Hut what will John 1
Sherman say « Will he ask for a smell
ing committee *
So.MKTIIINU AUOI'T STONKWAMJ
JACKSON'S OLD WAR HOH.SK. — (Jul.
Sohu K Broivn yesterday, had Stone
wall Jackson's historical war horse,
"Old Fancy," iu his stables in this city
aud to day the old horse is ou his way j
to tho Virginia Military institute at
Lexington Old Fancy ha 3 been iu the
keeping of Dr. Morrison, Guu. Jackson's
father-in-law, on the Doctor's farm in '
Lincoln county, ever since the war. I
Mrs. Gun. Jackson, having presented I
the horse to (leu. Smith, of the Virginia j
Military Institute, Dr. Morrison sent'
hi in to Col. Hrown last Mouday, and the '
Colonel forwarded bin to Lexington to
day, over the Uicbmond and Danville I
Hailroad. "Old Fancy" is now about 1
30 year} old, aud has lost a great deal
of his former beauty. He is a fine s jr
rel, and though his eyesight is still good,
his joints aic becoming stiffened aud his
gait is broken. Dr. Morrison has taken
remarkably good care of the famous old
animal and would ouly drive or ride him !
enough to give him the necessary exer- ®
, cise. lip to a short time ago, Dr. j
| Morrison would ride "Old Fancy" about
j the country regularly but as tbc Doctor
is now in his 85th year and too old to '
ride horseback at all, he rotired "Old :
■ Fancy" as well as himself from this ex
ercise.
; Gen. Jackson was at otio time apro
! feasor in the Institute aud it «us ou this
iccouut that Mrs. Jucksons preseutcd
the horse to Gen. Smith. It is tho pur
pose of Gen. Smith to care for "Old
Fancy" as long as the animal lives, ajid |
when the old war horse finally yields up
his burden of life, to turn liiui over to a '
taxidermist, who will stuff his skin and |
mount it for preservation iu the museum
of the Institute,— Journal Observer.
PfMUSUII am] I'ructicc.
"See here, Mr. Ulan!:, what are you
going out to-night for !" asked Mrs. B.
j with a threatening look.
"Big political meeting to-uigbt,'' ex- j
plained Mr. H. apologetically.
"Political inetttiug, cli !" echoed Mrs.'
: IS. "You have beeo goiug to political
1 meetings every night for five weeks,
i aud if it had uot been for uie you would
\ have woru vour boots to bed every j
time."
"Hut just think how uieo it would bo
if I should get uomiuatcd for some- j
thing Think of the loads of money 1
could rake in, and the nice furniture, |
and new clothes, aud sealskin sacqucs,!
and—"
"That will do," interrupted Mrs. j
, Blank; "I have heard that story before. |
You made a speech last night at a ward i
meeting, 1 see."
"Yes," responded Mr. 15., with par
-1 donabls pride
! "And 1 seo by the two or throe lines
L notico of it in the newspaper that the
burden of your remarks was "the office 1
should seek the man and not the man
tho office." Now, you just takeoff that
! overcoat ; sit right down, and if any of- |
■ (ice comes along and knocks 1 will let j
it in."— Philadelphia Call.
NO. 42
MMALL linr.S
A bow long bout at length inuaf! wax
| weak.
He bears misery best that hides it
most.
No estate can make him rich that baa
a poor heart.
A blin l mau will not thank you for a
| lookiug-glas*.
lie hail need me betimes who would
| pltasc everybody.
Rebukes ought to hare a grain more
j of salt than of sugar.
If an ass goes a traveling, he will not
come home a horse.
De only difference twixed do proud
and do fools is dis . He fool's got do
de mos' sence.
He that thinks himself the happiest
I man, really is so ; but he that thinks
lawsuit the generally tbegrcat
! est fool.
Our mluds are as different as our fa
ces. \\'o are all traveling to one des
tination—happiness; but none are going
by the same road.
I
A book publisher announces; "Iu
| press—A Pretty Girl." She is often iu
I that pleasant predicament—and the work
is to be continue I next week.
"\es,'said Fogg, "Ivc mot many
successes in life. That's the trouble,
you know. The things a fellow meets
arc always going the other way."
He had been ridiculing her big feet,
and, to get even with him, she replied
that ho might have her old sealskin sac*
| quo made over into a pair of caruiuffs.
It is said that Mr. Howell's first poein
was rejected, lint ho needn't let that
worry him. Our k first poem was also
rejected. Aud so by the way, was our
last.
I A Williauisport youth scut fifty cents
to a New \ ork firm to learn how to keep
I from swearing, and received in reply :
i "Don't open your mouth." lie has
sworn ever siuce."
"1 Climb td Host" is the name of Lu
icy Larcoiu's latest poem. Whence t ho
j inference that he: poetry docs no; pay
j enough to permit Miss Larcom to room
on the parlor floor.
"\es, said the dealer in crockery
i ware, "send one of our circulars to Mr.
j Jones. Ho is getting up a littlo in the
world, aud has just hired a servant.
\\ e II have his patronage immediately."
Two brothers and a sister in ( on
ncctieut married at different times, the
j brothers marrying two sisters, and tho
j first sou of each couple, boru iu differ
-1 eit years, were all buru ou the li'J of
' February.
It was like the song of Rome w»n
, derful bird, aud it made the air nhiue
i after the sound had died away; and yet
, it was just the remark ot a brave young
I man who walked past me one day arm
I in arm with a companion :
"Depeud upon it, Tom, St. Kdmiind
of Canterbury wa> right when ho said to
somebody : >• Work as though you would
; live forever . live as though you woud
die to-day."
Money For Women.
I ~~
r. 31. IJollaud thus discourses on tho
pecuniary dependence uf women : Even
wives who have inherited tuoucy some
| times find they can uot get hold of it
j except by coaxing or teasing their hus
bands. Nothing is commoner than for
a woman to bp obligud to tell how she
spent what she had last. Girls usually
have to teaso thoir mothers into coaxing
i heir fathers. One of the richest wem
! bers of a society to which I once preach-
I cd gave his sou five dollars to spend at
j one of our church festivals, and let his
grown up daughters go there without a
cent of money to pay the eutranoe fee.
j Many men keep their wives and daugh
; tcrs, either iuteutionalty or thoughtless
ly, in such a state of pecuniary depen
dence ns is simply slavory. It has beeu
said that the only way ■ woman can get
any money of hor own is to bocoine a
widow. There is no doubt that many
girls hurry into teaching, acting, auihor
| ship or domestic service simply in order
to have money of their own which they
can spend without being questioned an
noyingly. Of oourso it is well for tho
members of a family to consult each
other about expenditures of iuiportauoe,
but (or a man to limit and qucstiou hi*
wife to an extent ho Would uot euduro
huuself is tyranny."
The Iliokory CarolinUn thinks Gii
( uier and Stcduiaa the right tiuket.
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