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VOLUME XIII. Reporter and Post. PL'BLtIHED WEEKLY AT DANBURY. N. 0. PMPPKE & SONS, Pubs. 4 Prop? BiTEA OF Bl BM4 KIPTIOM J Cn« T«r, p tumble In advance tIJH» Six MonUit 7§ R ITES or 41»> KRTMnO : Oae Square ten llna# or le*«) 1 time.. SI 00 Far each additional insertion ...V) Centracta for longer time *r mora »pace can be ■ade in jiivpertien to the above rate*. Tranaleai adTertlnem will be esneered to remit according to rate* at the time they »eiit their fa vara Lecal Not 1 can will be charged 50 per ;«ant. higher thaa uWrc c-t. Bum net* Ue ifr 4* u -f-.fwimtißi. PHOFBSSIOJfAL CARDS. A. J. BOYD, J - W " MEH>. BO YD # RE ID, Attorneys-atil WBNTWOHTII, N. C. Practice in the Superior court of , Stokes county. ROBERT D. Attorney and Counsellor, MT. AIKY, N. C. Practices In rli« courts of Surry, Stokes, YadWia and Alleghany. sr. F. CAR TER, ZIFTQ ja.YR y-.f T- /v.* ir. MT. AIKY, SURIIY CO., N. 0 Practices wherever liisservicos arc wanted R. L. HA YMORE, ATTORN EY-AT LAW Mt. An-y- N. c. SDecial attention given to the collection ol claims. *-**■> B p. KING, WITH JOH.YSOX SUIT OX «j- CO., , 1>1«V" c;ooi>s. No*. 27 an i ."fl South Sharp, Sti« ct, T. W. JOHfSON, K M> SCTt'ON- J. B. R. ORABBE, «• J- JOHNSOII. F. DAY ALBERT JON KB. IRay & Joa©9r manufacturen ol IAHI'I V«Y. HARNESS. rOU.AK'J.TRrNR !io. J W. Dallisww mrcel. iialttmore, JW. W. A. Tackcr, It. C. Smith. ».». | Tucker. Smith * Co.. Manufactarbra * wholesale Ilealon In ( BOOTH, SHOES, HATS ASD CAl's. , No. 230 BalUmul# street, liat:iin»rc, JW- ' It. J. «t l ; - K - BEST, * ITH i Henri) Sonncborn A' Co., WHOLESALE CLOTHIERS. as Aaaoyer st.,(ba«weenaerma.i « Lombard SUI BALTIHOHK Ml). B. 60NNEBOBN, BLIMU.NE C. W ATKINS. wXTKIINB. 08 o L. CSTTttBLU, A. h. WA 1 Kl>. . Watkins- Cottrell & Co.. Import* re awl .Jobber# of HAHI>WAUE. 1307 Main Street, RICHMOND, VA. A sent, for Fairbanks Standard Scales, an Anker Brand Bolting Llotb. Stephen Pulnry, L • " ji,air II". 11. MILKS, wtm STEPHEXTUTXE YSf CO. Wholesale dealer* in Boots, Shoes, and Trunks, 121U Mam Street, Kept. It ICII MO SI), VA. J. R. ABBOTT, OF N 0., with WISSO, ELLETT & CRUMP, RICHMOND, VA., Wholesale Dtalers ia BOOTS, BHOBB, TRUNKS, ftC. Prompt attention paid to orders, and satia factioii gauranteed. llryiaM Stall Pruon Ooodi a tptevtll) March, 0. m BOSSST «. rowsas. SDUAS D. TATLO . R W POWERS & CO., WHOLESALE DRUGGISTS, Dealer* in PAINTS, OILS, DYES, VARNISHES, French and 'American WINDOW GLAUS, PUTTY, fcC SIiOXINU AND CHKWINU CIGARS, TOUACCO A SPBCJALTI 1806 Main St., Biohmond, VaJ Augu»i6m2t>— J L C. BIRD, WITU W. D. KYLE & Co., IBPCBTKKS AND JOltBKltH OF HARDWARE. Cutlery. IRON, NAILS and CARBIAOB GOODS No. 9 Governor Street, RICHMOND,VA. ■WTIOBK. A»ml>rut.. ibrij mnniM' trwktateni In onw p-ichi'Kt* nv 4 old UuaUMa. H« K»»«, Ac. "ViFj iiili Mr all Ih-MChna. or bjr mail. _ SUBSCRIBE FOR Your County Paper, --The Reporter and Post.::- fc/ • -m « om. OF THE PEOPLE! FOR THE PEOPLE! OF THE PEOPLE! FOB THE PEOPLE! OF THE PEOPLE ! Foil THE PEOPLE! OF Till. PEOPLE ! FOK THE PEOPLE ! ONLY $1.50 A YEAR! siiist niiii: \«n It is your duly to aid your couuty paper. We propose publishing s good family paptr. and solicit from our friends and from the Democratic party in Stokos and adjoining counties a li beral support. Make up clubs for us. Now go to work, and aid un enterprise devoted to your best interests. Read | the following NOTICES OK TLIK PBKBS : The REPORTER AND POST is sounil iu j policy and politics, and deserves a hbc- i ml support.— Reutsvilte Weekly. The Uanbury REPORTER AND POST j begins its tlnrti cnth year. It is a good j paper and deserves to live long aud live ■ well.— Daily Workman The Uanbury REPORTER AND POST I eclebiates its twelfth auuiversary, and with pardonable pride refers to its suo ecss, which it deserves.—vVet cs and Ob server. The Daiibury REPORTER AND POST is twelve years old. It is a good paper aud should be well patronized by the people of Stokes. It cerUiuly deserves it.- Salem l'ress. For twelve long years the Danbury REPORTER AND POST has beeu roughing it, and still manages to ride the waves of the journalistic sea. Wo hope that it wiU have plain sailing after awhile. Lexington Dispatch. The Uanbury REPORTER AND POST has just passed its l'ith anniversary aud under the efficient management of broth er Duggins cannot fail to increase iu popularity with the people of Stokes and adjoining counties.— Winston Sentinel. The editorials on political topics are timely and to the point, and the general make up of every page shows plainly the exercise of much care aud pains taking. Long may it live and flourish under the present manageuicut. —.Moun- tain Totcc. The Danbury REPORTER AND POST has entered the thirteenth year of its ex istence, aud we congratulate it upou the prosperity that is mauifested through its columns. To us it is more than an ac quaintance, and we regard it almost as a kinsman. — Lea/tsville Gazette. The Danbury REPORTER AND POST J last week celebrated its twelfth aunivcr sary. It is a strong and reliable paper editorially, it is a good local and gener al newspaper and iu all rospects a credit to its town and section. It ouuht to be well patronned.— Statesville Landmark. The Danbury REPORTER AND POST has just entered its 13th year. We were 000 of the crew that launched the RE PORTER, and feel a d;ep interest in its welfare, and hopo that she may drift on ward with a clear sky and a smooth sui face for as uiauy more years.— Caswell JS'ews. The Danbuty REPORTER AND POST has celebrated its 12th anniversary. The paper is souud in polioy and politics, and deserves tho hearty support of the people of Stokes. It is an excellent weekly aud we hopo to see it flourish iu the future as never before.— Winston Leader. Tho Danbury REPORTER AND POST cauic out last week with a long editorial, eutitled, "Our Tweltb Auniversary" and reviews its past history in a vory entertaining way. Go on Bro. Pepper in your good work; jou get up one of if not the best oountry paper in North Carolina Kernersvil/e Aews. That valued exchange, published in Danbury, N. C., the REPORTER AND POST, has entered upon its 12th anni versary. Long may it live to call tho attention of the outside world to a coun ty which is as rich, we suppose, in min erals as any in the State of North Car olina, and to battle for correct pclitiosl measures. -Danville Times. "NOTHING SUCCEEDS BANBURY* N. C., THUKBDA 11IIHUS THAT NEVER HIE. The pure, the bright, the Ijcautiful, That stirred our hearts in youth ; The impulse to a worthless prayr, The dream* of love ami truth ; The longing after something lost, The spirit's yearning cry, The striving aftei lietter hopes— These things ean never til''. The timid hand stretched forth to aid A brother Iu his ncd ; The kindly word ill griefs dark hour, That proves a friend indeed— The (ilea for mercy, softly bieatlied, Wiirn justice threatened high, i if a eoulflte heart— The memory of a clasping hand, The pressure of a kiss, And all tlie tritles sweet and frail That make up life's liliss; If W illi a Arm. uiii iiaiiging faith, Ami holy trust ami high, Those hands clasped and lips have met. j These things shall never die. The cruel and the hitter word That wounded as it tell, The chilling wants of sympathy We feel but never tell— Tho hard repulse that chills the heart Whose lioi>es were hounding h gh, In an unfailing record kept— These things shall never die. Lei nothing pass, for erery hand Must find some work to tlo ; Lose not a chance to waken love— lie linn ami just and true. So shall a light that cannot fade Deem i>u thee from on high, And angel's voices say to thee. These tilings shall never die. —All tiio Yearltouud. My Little Boy 1 was a widow. A young widow, I suppose—for no one would regard three-and-twenty us a very venerable age. And a pretty wid- \ ow, people said. Whether they were right or wroug, 1 cannot taKc upon my- ; so If to say. Of course I knew, when ever I looked iu the glass, that 1 was not an absolute flight—and so, when my i cousin, Mrs. General Foxley, invited j me to spend a summer with her at the Ujieutal hotel, where there were balls and soirees, lawn tenuis and archeiy breakfasts going on all the while, 1 j wasn't at all sorry that Mile Chale- j lage had sent hyiue my lovely uew . [ hulf-iuourning dress, all trimmed with i pearl aud lavender, sparkling jet aud I prismatic clair du luucs, aud that Auut j Laviua, our family "ctiquettc-book" j had decided that it was quite proper to wear my tliauiouds il 1 pleased. For ; 1 was a decided bruuette, aud dark wo- ; men always look well iu diamonds. Nut that it had occurred to me that ! 1 should ever marry again. My old | commodore had. beeu very good and i kiud to mc, but he wai feeble aud ail ing, aud required a great deal of care , aud my general impression of mafriuio- ny was that it involved tiouble aud sol icitude, and a constant burden of res ponsibility. Aud now, I was free, and I intended ( to remain so ! 1 left like a caged bird that had managed to give its goldeu wires the slip-a butterfly iu the bluo June air ! I meant to go to the Oricutal hotel and have a royal time, waltzing, dreaming—even coquetting a little in a harmless sort of way. if it seemed good to me—but as to marrying again—no, uotl! Even l'riscilla Rent, my com panion, who was the most logical of creatures, declared that I would bo the greatest fool alive to do that' But wo never know just what is go ing to happen to us. The very night before wo were to start for the Oiicut, I j came into tho room where Priscilla was packing the Uce things, which were j too nice and delicate to be intrusted to j Fiiine, the maid. "Prissy," said I, "look here ! a tele gram from San Domingo 1 My cousin, Fanny Black, is doa3 !" j "Dear mo, how said !" said Prissy, putting on tho regulation look of afHic t tion, although she bad never in her life I seen Mrs. Captain Basil Black, of H. M. 114 th Fusillsers, stationed in the West Indies. "But 1 suppose that won't interfero with our trip to the sea side, will it ?" "Bui that isn't all," said 1. "She has left a son. And with her dying breath she charged it on her attendants that I should take him to this country and make a home for him." . I "llow old is be I' said Pricilla Bent looking agast. And —" "Let uie soe," said 1, counting upon uiy Angers. "Basil Black—that's his name, fur 1 remember cousin Fanny writing about him to mamma wheu I was a uiite of a thing—must be ono and twenty at least by this time." "liless me ! ' ejaculated Pnscilt, "aud I you are only just turning twenty-three yourself!" I "Prissy," cried I, with misebi glee, "You'ro as good as a bot + | dates "Hut it won't bo propper/'sali Pris | cilia. ! 'Not proper!" echoed I. 'Why won't it bo proper ! Isn't that dear old com modore's IIOUHO big enough tor oil oT us' And ain't you hero to matronixe us* 1 think myself it will bo rather fine to lit up a suite of bachelor apartments— smoking rooui; di o*sing-roow " "Elsie," cried Miss Bent, in despair, "I believe you would make fun i f any thing ' Don't you see how •' J) LUIO (II'LU ' ,ultrr." "L.Ti'iOat OUR?" HT these San Domingo people, and tell them it is out of the question " "It's too lato now, I'risjy," said I. "Tliey are on tho way here, don't \»u sec ! 1 shouldn't wonder if the steamer were in port now. And you know, Prissy, I've always wanted to adopt a little boy, only the dear commodore wouldn't lot me." "Klsio." "Well, Prissy t" "1 think you must Lc crazj',' groan ed Miss Bout. '•Alittle bo/, indeed! A dashing, flirting, driukmg West India fellow, six feet high, I'll go bail, and broad to correspond ! 1 shall leave the house!" "No, you won't Prissy," said 1, coax rngly. "You'll just make the best of it, as lam going So do. I dare say he is very nice,--and poor Fanny never would have left liiiu in my charge if ho wasu't all that is delightful. And per haps he'll want to go to college, or study law or something, so he won't be very much in the house, after all —and you know, Prissy, one can't neglect a dying woman's request." "It was very thoughtless of her, u'.al! events,'gi uiuhled my faithful old chape ron. "A young thing like you I laughed. "I dure say she heard 1 was a widow," said I, "and probably imagined me a uiiddle-ngrd horror with ey o-glasses and » double chin. Leave these things, Prissy—we shall not go to tiiu uow uxiti) cuuslt. 1V..V.1 is safely installed with his gun case, his hookahs and chibouks, his book* and papers, in my rooms! Come with me and we'll have up the house keeper, aud turn them into a bachelor suit at once." I was very happy for the next three days, studying the imaginary tastes of my unknown cousin, culling out choice editions of the poets, hanging rare en gravings on the walls, and matching car pets and curtains. Miss Bent, poor old soul, said it was nonsense, —that no young man of any spirit could conde scend to "fit down" (that was iier ex pression) "in a bouse where liewun to bo a dependent," "But he is my cousin," said I. "110 has a claim on me." "Nonesense," said Priseilla, "that doesn't alter the case in the lease." In the meantime 1 was watching the papers—and when I saw in the shipping columns tho arrival of tho "Bonnie Kate" from San Domingo, I put on my hat and veil, ordered the earrige, and called I'iissy to go and accompany me to welcome my new guest. ' If 1 must, I must," said Prissy. But she was not ut all enthusiastic about it. 1 was just pinning the crape bow under my chin, when Allice, the parlor maid, came courtcsying in. "A young gentleman in the parlor wants to see you uia'unt," she said in a smiling flurry. y \ tD mingo steamer. And " "I'll go down at once, Alice," I cried, tearing off uiy hat and veil and flinging the lieavy crape stiearner on ouc side. 'Klsio, Klsio, wait," Priscilla's shrill voice entreated tuc, but my mind was full of poor cousin Fanny nud her or phan child—and hurrying down stairs, I found myself face to face with a tall, slender young man, very pale and fair, with dark blue eyes, a soft, silky mustache, and a plain mourning dress. luvoluntarily I threw my uruis around bis ncok aud kissed him. "You are welcome, Cousin Basil," said 1, "welcome a thousand times." 110 drew back, colored a little. "I beg your pardon, Mrs. Chatteris," ho said, "but there is somo mistake here. XliisT is your cousin and a pale child of four or five years old, whose long golden cuils hung over his black suit, crept out from the shadow of tho cur tains, slowly and shyly. "I am Frank," he said. "And Mr. Lesley i> my dear, desr friend. He lived on the next place, in San Domin go. 110 has come to the Unit4 States with me!" This page is mutilated I tth 1 pt' safety 1 looks., dear little got very existence norant. '•Sweet little Fr— I 11 1 1-..1 U -*«ooeforv. and 1 clasped the oaby foiui to uiy breast. "And Mr. Lesley, too ?" ."aid the j little lad, solemnly reaching out his ! hand to his friend. "Cousin KUie likes ! Mr. Lesley, or siie wouldn't have kissed hiui." 1 could feel myself color to the very roots of my hair, but Mr. Lesley's feat ures never stirred. "Sho thought I was you. Frankic, don't you seo said he. "She didn't expect to see such a nnte of a c'.iap as you. Good-bye, now, lam going to the hotel, and I shall see you very often, if Mrs. Ohnrtcris is—" Hut at this I'rankle burst into an in fant cry of dismay and desolation, and I recovering uiy presence of mind, spoke up at ouce : "Kraokie, don't cry," »aid I, "Mr. j Lesley will not leave you—just nt j present, at least. You were my dead ] cousin's trusted friend, Mr, Lesley," 1 j added bidding out uiy band. "May 1 ■ not hope that you will be my guest, also." And Mr. Lesley seeing that I was thoroughly in earnest, consented. "It I shall not be a bore !' he said, when little Fraukie jumped and danced around liiui for very joy. "Now 1 shall bvo you cousiu Elsie, i all njy life ' said be. "And so will Mr. Lesley !" "Mr. Lesley occupied the suite of apartments which I bad so unconscious- j ly fitted up for the poor young cousin ' who was sleeping thy while in the West India couietary. Little Frankic who had refused to be parted from his fr:eud. slept iu a crib close to his bed side. "Well I'rissy," I said merrily to my mother chaperon, "so we've got two guests instead of ono '" ••It's dreadful," growled poor I'ris sy. "I)o you think so *" said I. "Now it soeins to inc that it is very good fun!" Well, of course anyone oan conjecture for themselves bow it ended. Mr. Lcs ler was young and handsome, —more- over he had a snug little property of his own. 11c liked the United States, and incidentally remarked that if lie had any object he would prefel to remain here permanently. "Hut," he added, mournfully, "it is sad to be so entirely without tics, that no one cares wlictber you stay iu one place or another." ''l care,"' piped up Frank, who sat as usual by bis side, holding bis hand. "And so does cousin Klsic." "Yes," said 1, laughing, though not without some confusion. "Fraukie is right. "tVe both care." "Then" said Mr Lesley, 1' will stay." We wero engaged within the month And as soon as I laid off my half mourn ing we were married, so that Frankic never yet lias been compelled to separ ate tiom bis friend Aud Miss Bent lives with us still, and we are very happy ! Thcro is the end of my love story. Ought not all love stories to end so ? Miss lieut says that all real romances end sadly,—but my experience, you see, has been alto gether different. And perhaps lam a better judge than (be is.—Shirley Browne. •Tlif lloj Is Father Iu the .Hull.' The lad who speaks with affectation, and minces foreign tongues that be does not understand at school, will bo a weak cbromo iu oharaoter all bis life; the boy who cheats his teacher into thinking hiui devout at chapel will be the man who will make religion a trade ; aud briug Christianity into oontcmpt ; the boy wlij wius tbo highest average by stealiug Ins examination papers will Bg ure some day as a triekey politician. The boy who, whether neb or poor, dull or clever, looks you straight m the eyes and keeps his answer inside of truth, al ways counts hie friends who will last bis lifc-tiuie, and bolds a capital which will biing hiui in a surer interest than mon ey." ; clucking to In. Tlftfrny broou and Indus- | I trinusly scratching fur their matutinal meal when there appealed in the sky overhead u huge hawk whirling in con i centric circles. A sharp note of warn ing from the patriarchal cock hurried the feeding fowls to places of conceal ment, aud followed by the sharp cluck of the old hen, sent the infant spring scurry beneath the prote:ting wing of their mother. And none too soon came the alarm. The next instant there was a whirring sound iu the air, and, with wings close to bis body, coming head foremost like shot out of a cannou, the hawk landed among the panic stricken brood. Tho old hca had sand in her gizzard and was true blue. With her wings extended and the feathers on her ! neck standing apart like quills upon the 1 fretful porcupine, she met the onslaught | iif the bird of f rcy. No sooner had he | touched the ground than she was upon ■ him. The conflict, which was witness | ed by several reliable parties, was as | : brief as it was brilliant, and before sue- j or could reach the plucky little hen she \ had stretched the feathered pirate life- j lers at her feet. The hawk measured j just four feet from tip to tip, and was | earned to Aiken and exhibited. A | lucky blow from the spur or beak of the hen entered his eye and penetrated i his brain.—Augusta, Ga., Chronicle. A Hop Exploded i "Talk about dynamite, I can tell you j a true story of what nitroglycerine once | did in our State. It was out near l'raire du Chien, where they were blas i ling on the Chicago, Milwaukee and St. l'aul road. The conttact'ir had several kegs of the stuff in an underground place. One day a workman left the place opcu ; by and by souie hogs came along, found a keg open, and as gly cerine is as sweet almost as honey, the animal filled himself. He came out by and by and soon wandered into a stable which contained about forty horses be -1 longing to the contractor. The bog got fooling around among the horses' liiud legs, when one of them drew off and i gave Mr Hog a good one. Tho con cussion started the business, and not a , vestage was ever distovcred of tho hog or of a single hot se or the stable. And where the stable once stood there was a i hole 50 feet deep and 200 feet in cir cumference. Fact, gentleman !"—Mad t isou (til.) Democrat. An liil.mt Smoker. llattie Ketchum, the five-year old daughter of a farmer and tobacco grow -1 er near Wecdsport, N V. is said to bo hopelessly addicted to the use of tobac co, and has been since she was two years » , old When between one and two years of " age the girl was nfllicled with colic, and ! at the suggestion of a friend tobacco ' I smoke was blown into milk and given ' her. This remedy proved uffuctivu, but ' j created an uncortrollable desire for to -3 baeco, and by various subterfuges tho ' child has ever since found means to Bat -4 isfy her craving for the weod. A Settler. A party of newspaper correspondents ' recently met in Loudon and were giv ing their experience of the drinks to bo got in the various parts of tho world, One told of a famous concoction prepar ed in Italy ; another spoke of the drinks , of California; auolher of Messpotauiia, s j Arstralia, eto. The last man to speak s said that at suppct in Hussia he once e ' got a drink oousiatiug of a pint of cliaui - pagne and a pint of brandy hot, which a | was drunk with a toast to the guest of 1 the evening' "Well'" said a listeacr. e ; "Oh, after that you wore put to bed ; y there was nothing else to lo that even - i ing," was the rcjoiudor. Mr. A. W. Swiuk in Davidson oounty one year ag« placed thirteen carp in bin pond and last fall addod forty more; he drew the pond off last week and found U two hundred and forty-six carp. The printer wants two linos to 611 thii column aud her* they are. I .../mined no belt praise it would cease to exist. . I.icentiousncss never seeing to realize what a mean infriugemnet it is upon decency. We have cases of tlio pride of learn ing, but a multitude of the pride of ig norance. Truth flourishes only with proper carc, hut villaiuy will survive under all circumstances. No matter how gray and venerable vice may get, it will always he pretty active for its age. Knowing when and how to take ad vantage of rare occasions is really the brains of busiuess. In the education of children love is first to be instilled, and out of lovo obedience is to be educated. In this commonplace world everyone is said be romantic who cither aduiires | a tine thing or does oue. I "The season is gradually unfolding ! its horrors." Yes, but gradually. So fai spriug poety has bloomed in but• ! very few places. | "Signal-Service Ifazen wants to be i restored to duty." By all means let him fcc restored to duty, and seut to the North Pole. l'ride, like the magnet, constantly points to one object—eelf; but uoliko i the magnet it has no attractive pold, but at all points .Opels. An exchange asks : "How shall wo prevent mice from gnawing the bark off fruit trees ?" Kill the mice, of course. A dead mouse never gnaws hark. Keep your sorrows and trials from the little ones as far as possible. Life should be all sunshine for them ; they will fiud out its shadows soon enough. Some men make a great flourish absut always doing what they believe to bo right; but always manage to believe t that is right which is for their onu in -1 terest. ' It is confidently cxpectccted that Ko " maroff's next explanation will be to the 1 effect that he did not fight until his ■ whole force had been massacred by the ' bloody Afghans. "Patting Disuiarck" is the title of a cablegram in an esteemed contempora ry. When wc pat liismarck we shall insist upon his bciug either muzzled or ■ somewhere else. I In Ohio they they have a one-legged | skating rink expert, it ought Dot to i be very hard for a one-legged man to bo a good skater. lie only has one I skate to keep track of. Those pleasures which depend on ( f! ourselves are the only ones a wise man J | will count; for nothing is ours which o another may deprive us of; hence the u inestimable value of intellectual pleas t ures. " To commit the execution of a pur -0 i pose to one who disapproves of the plan ot it, is tu employ but oue-third of the uian ; his heart and his head arc against you ; you have commanded only his hands. Keenness in a man is not always to bo taken as a sign of capacity, for it is 1 generally observed most in those who ' are selfish and overreaching; and his keenness generally ends in that kind of 8 penetration into other people's interest '' which will tend to benefit his own. If e A shrewd old lady cautioned her married daughter against quarreling I, with her husband too much, and oon ,f eluded by saying : "My obild, * man r _ is like au egg. Kept in hot water a little while, lie uiay boil soft, but keep him there too long 1 and he hardens."— [Boston Post. y llev. Sam Jones, the Methodist revi le valist, bos had several hundred conver | sions at Knoxvillc, Tenn. On the 4th j at oue service 150 were convorted. Five services are held eaoh day and the larg est churches are crowded. Some of 18 Kev. Sam's talks aro very peculiar, not t o put il fine.