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X . ' J'. xy' 1! ;1 JL t r r "BE SURE YOU v AEE RIGHT AND THEN GO AHEAD,'' -DaVi: Crockett.' I 1 llUTIIERFORBTON, N. G. SATURDAY, AUGUST 27, 1870. VOL. IV. NO.; 28 f '.;' . . . ; f - I -4 ' ' . " -- - P s ill fi t I l: i r-1 .1 , i u 1 i i t: iTOiCSSlOIini vaiua r . IUTIIEUrOBDTON,1N. C 'Continues the prnct.ice of hi rrofeaxion in ' tlund ttiw aurro.inding Count c. All worV rci!y executed. id warranted. TcctH- cx rctd without in, by Iho.uao ot Cbloro- Will iaiii Wt rt i,a unRmsld lental work ,of I)r. li. II. riIgett, deceased: licflt referen. eta fumidod on application. Oflieo at Dr. Duffy ' old stand. 25-tL The Little Pet BY JCLIA M. .TUATER. J. B. CARPENTER, ATTOUMKY AT LAW, . KuTiiKurouuroN, U Collections promptly attended to. 1-1 y. ATTOIlK EY AT LAW, ItL'TIlKUKoKUrOX. N. C. "Will pive prompt nttention to nil business entrusted to bi cure: . . P;irticnl;r attention priven to collections in both Superior rmd Justices' Courts. ATTORNEY AT LAW, llUrilKUFOU TON, N. C Co'llectionff made in auypnrt of the State ; 7 "11711 . JIfSTICK, in 3?- ClaiuiH State. rilKlli'OItDTOX,.N..C. - collected iu all parts or the 1eria L. r. Cll t'UCI 111.1 G. M. WU1TESIDK 4 III ItCIIlM. A WIIITIiSIDE ATTOUNEYS and COUNSELLOIIS AT LAW, xt llUTIlKUFUliDTON, N. 0. AVill practico iu all the Courts ot Western jioilti Carolina, ut the Supreme Courtsi of .he State and in the Pisttict, Circuit aud Suprem fourts hf the United States. ' febCt ; iiVrjTuTiiTruuis, "WILL 01 VK ' PROMPT AT tcnlion to all Professional calls and hopes to merit a coiilinuauct ol hia long established practice. t3? Has constMitly on hand a line supply ol riJltK DUUUS at liisotlico iu Uutherlordton. ,c 2-tf .. 18 Jlf. ofhlCKS, llUTilKlU'OUDTON, N. O. M 10NTIMJKS the practice of Medicine, Surgery and Midwifery, in llutlicrlord and Ihu surrounding counties. 1 Charges mod erate. tnch.l8tt;' W. M. S1IIPP, Attduxey at Law, Charlotte, N. 0. Will attend to all business entrusted to his ae iu the IXth Judicial district., .Collections lajde in all parts of the Stale. . 45ly H. CABAN1SS. ATTORNEY AT LAW. ' SlIKLllY, N. C. Pin just a wee bit lassie, with a Iassie8 win some ways, , . ' . And worth Kiy weight in solid gold, my Ici cle Johuuy says. My curly litilo noddlo htlds a thimbleiul of sense ; Not ciuite so much as Solomoh's-but'l.is was bo immense ! ' . , I know that Bugar plums are aweet, that "no my love," means yes; That when big I'll always wear my pret ty Sunday dress. And can count 'leveu,.six, nine, five and sav hit A. B. C. . Now,; have vou any taffy, dear; that you" cou&l give to me? I'm Bridget's1 "Torment of her life, that makes her brain run wild." And mania's " Darling little Elf," and grand ma's 41 Blessed Child," And Uncle Johnnys -"Touch me Not," and papa's A' Gyptian Queen : ' 1 make them stand about, vou see; that must be what they mean. For oDeuinsr hard. old. btouey hearts I two . Dreeious keys. 1 And one is, O, I ti.ank you, sir, the other's, If you p'ease; And if theso do not answer, I know ajiother trick : I queexcA two mighty tear-drops out that mer s em pretty quick. I'm sweet as an lily bed, and sweeter too, I pose : But that's no reason why I shouldn't rumple up my domes, 0, would 1 be an angel if an angel never tries, . - 4 Or sjoils i;s pretty pinafore a makin' nice dipt . 0 j pies ! I'm but a little lassie, with a thimbleiul of ; sense ; , And as to being very wise, 1 best make no : retense ; But wlieu I am a woman grown, now don't you think I'll d, It only just about as good as dear mama and youl A Brave Girl- Our heroine lived in Bartlctt, New Hampshire, and was a de- cendaiit ot the old Crowiprds. Her father a Crowiord, and Singular Detection of a Mur- derer. As illustrating chuck percep tion and rare presence of mind, Chamber s Journal vouches for the followed the profession of a guide truth of the following story, anion jt the mouhtai ns. Her name which was ori finally puhlished in was Bessie, and she was the only guise of fiction : daughter remaining at home a Caroline u , a good-looking dark' eved, brown-aired girl of finely proportioned young girl, slight, but compact frame, just lived as a lady's maid with a fash entering Iter nineteenth, year. Her mother had been dead sever al years, aiuVupon her devolved the whole care ol the household. One day late in sum mer, Mr. .Crawford went with a party of travellers'; atfay to the headwa ters of one ot the many mountain ionable youns: .widows - rather 2asse. One evening, after having assisted at her mistress' toilet for a dinner party, she amused her self, before putting away the vari ous articles scattered about the room, in trying on a pair of silk stockinsrs and dress shoes belon 4 streams that empty into.Saco, and ging to her mistress, and having Bessie was left alone. Even the done so, she viewed her well- dogs had all gone with the pleas- turned limbs with complacency ure-seekers. Near the middle of saying aloud: " Ihere s a leg tor the afternoon", while the girl was a stocking, and there's a foot for sitting by an 'open window , in the trout room, engaged in sewing a man came up from the road and asked fori a drink of water. Bes sie had seen this man before, and had not liked his looks, lie was a stout, broad-shouldered, ill-favored fellow, a'nd the bits of moss and spikes of the pines upon his clothes indicated that he had slept in the woods Truth Stranger than Fic & t tion. 1 i-TT 1 a shoe. Having satisneu her self as to their symmetry, she di vested herself of her borrowed plumes, put the room to rights, and awaited the return ot her, mis tress whom she saw into bed. That was the last time, she' saw her alive. She was found in the morning murdered in her bed the jewel base and plate chest bro ken open and robbed. The rob- Drop by Drop. AVe waste time and effort A Happy Rebuke " 1 say, Jim, I thought you were in Yvjirtv rnrnsmi -w-oa KAti, sroinff to marrv the widow, Nil. rying to pour, into a child's mind clergyman, and a man of wit and PiuV " "'So did I, especially af- oo many xriuns ax once. lou humor. On nn nna. ter miciufr so much trouble to find have seen little crystal bottles for treated the officer at Fort George a the bo1 of nc nus- that tlieA drop ever mi that would be utterly wasted. be would ask. morning set for the weddincr. This is something -like a child's .Mr." Morrison -aerced to this i'Twas eome other fool'a boily wq mind. ,lts capacity -assiifim. and and thr nfflcpr ;mmo;otAi, a found and buried. Her husband manded that the ccremonv of Bava Iie 8 le alive all the' time. baptism should be performed on an( thcJproofs are all in his r. v . its 'powers of retaining that which is, good are very limited. One well fixed truth is worth more than a volume of instructions which are only suffered to run over. One precious drop of faith in God, in his word, in his faith fulnesss to his promises, outweighs all the gold in the world. Strive to excite this faith in your scholars' heart. Tell them various incidents illustrating Gods answer to prayer in ways that are easy to be understood. Teach them to rccoo-nize all good thing's a l)UPPy 1 e clergvman agreed to it, and a party of gentlemen assembled to witness the novel baptism. Mr. Morrison desired Hi j. 1 1 1 .1 i uii; oiucer 10 nom up The dosr. as favoi Will yc dine with me to-mor row?" said a Hibernain ii friend. "Vnith nn' 1 t-;n w:i I Kill. niLii was necessary in their baptism of all my heart." " Remember 'tu a child, and said : only a family dinner I'm asking As I am a minister of the 1 you .to:" "And what for not? Church of Scotland, I must pro- A family dinner is a mighty plia cecd according to the ceremonies ant thing. What have yc got? of the Church." " Oh, notions bv common, iist " Well, then, major. Iberin bv an illigant pace of coined beef the usual question : Do you ac- and potatoes !" " By the powers. as coming directly to us froni the knowledge yourself the father of that bates the world! JUt my uum otjun, ami jaiu iiuu liliu. U. I tlUS, piippV I ffood toundation, on winch to build in future a substantial Chris tian character. Teach one truth at a time, and make it as sivc as vou can. Ask imrres- A roar ot laughter burst from it. i i .i i . i me crown, and xne omccr threw the candidate of baptism away. own dinner to a hair-barrin' the beef!" ? But Bessie did not hesitate. her and murderer lett no trace by She laid aside her work and went which he could be captured, and, to get the water. When she in spite of the most diligent search, came back the man had entered escaped. Three years, after Caro- the room. She t lid not like this line was ensrasea m a similar ca- qucstions upon it in various ways, so that you may wake up the childs in terest, and try to have your lllus- A man was tried for steal in ft pair of boots from a shop door in A Judge and a Lawyer Cut rand street, with which e ran a Doe Into. xne ouuge saia to the Will practice in the Courts of Itulhcrford, CUtelmid and Gaston. ; ! j7"m7 JUST ICE, ATTOltNEY AT LAW, KuTIIF.RFOHDTON, N. C. A Younff Girl Found After Having Been lUourncd as leud for Fifteen . Year. ' From the Iv.nsas City Times. Nearly fifteen years ago there Kvod on" the banks of the Ohio hut a few miles from the city of Louisville, a man by the name of Henry C. Ban forth,' the family consisting of himself, wife and one child, a daughter only a little over two years of age. ' One da' the child escaped the vigilent e'e of the mother, and wandered from the house. Search was made, but ho trace could be found of their darling, until reaching the banks of the river her little bonnet was seen near the margin of the water, alien indeed the little one was mourned as dead, and only a mother's heart can fathom the agony of the bereaved parent. - Time passed on.. Other children came to take the place of the lost one at the fireside, and the first storm of rief at the terrible afflic tion had given way to t quite sub- nisiiiui Sstill tlw lInp dnnpiiifr . w w 11 practice in the coui is o 1 o k; ltutncr- , .A1 . i ' 'i eAl.AciV.lmA ' waters; of the Ohio always5, caused Anv L-iaiiim leit with him. will be attended inexpressible sadness to their be- - t . ,. i i , o with promptness and dispatch. 10- ly aeo John T. Butler 5 PIIACTICAL Wftlr.li and Clock & MAKl'211 AND JEWKLEK, tC., ' : Mdin St., Charlotte, N. C. . Pealer in Fine Hatches and Clocks, Jewel ry, Spectacles and Watch Materials. &c. Fine Watches, Olocka and Jewelry of every description repaired and warranted or twelve noiilht. 157" Work left at the VlNPiciTon Office will be forwarded at my ex;xrnse. 45-tf. w. il. wil)S, W, J. HI.ACK. WILSON &BL.4CK, viuolesmj: AS'D ketail dealers Jn Drugs, Medicine, i'wis. Oils, Dye Muffs, Chemicals, Window Glass, Lumj)S, Lump Chimney ni-c. j . r Corner Trade k College St4, CIIA IK LOTTi:, N. C. Vindicator copy tt. ! 45-ly "gROVEII k BAKER'S i'lRST PKKMIUM ELASTIC iSTITCH FAMILY 6EWINO , Ml italiliMre Ht. IInlllmref Md, 01 NTS OF KXCJiLLKNCE. Beauty anuV Klasticity ofbticli. '..Perfection nd sim rlicily ofilacliincry.l Uaing both threads flircc'v.v trom the Bpools. No faatening ofscams jby hand and no waste or thread. iuo range .liapplieutwr) without change of 'adjustment. Tho Mm retains ju beauty and firmness alter wa'hing arid ironipg. LeiJeB doing all kinds fA work done by other Sewing Machines, theuo linchinea execute t)ip mput beautiful and per. nanent Kmbroidery and ornamental work. --v -- I y for she was sure he had come in by the window ; but she handed ura the. tin dipper without re mark. The man drank, and then sat the dipper down upon the table. Then he turned upon the girl '.and' drew a broad-bladed, knife ffeom his pocket. pacity by a lady who took her to Paris. She had almost forgotten the murder, and, if she thought of it, it was not with any hope of discovering the criminal. It happened that she was walk ing in one of the public promen ades one afternoon, when, as she " Look, ye, my young lad v, " he passed a group of men, she heard said : "1 know there s money in these words : 1 1 "IT 1 his house, and l Know vou are alone. Showiue-vhere the mon ey is?" If you don't I shall kill vou, -and then hunt it up mvself. I'm in earnest, and there ain't no time to waste. JJon t make a uss, for if you do you'll feel this knife quid u There's a leg for and thora's a fbot for a stocking, a shoe." In a moment the events of the eve ping before her mistress was mur dered flashed on her memory. And now for her marvelous presence of mind. Pretending not to have heard auvthing she Bessie shrank back, and looked glanced sideways at the group of into the man's face, and she could men. She saw there were three, see that he meant hist what he but she could not tell which of said.'- 1 them-had spoken." She walked "If I show -ou where the mon- slowly past them, then she is, will vou promise not to do stopped in an undecided manner, me harm r - ana nnany uirneu duck, auu, "Show me, honest, and "I won't walking up to them, she asked to harm vou. " ' ' be directed to a certain .street. "Then come with me. Rut As she expected, all of them had you will take only the money a word for her,- and among the vou won t take my lather s pa pers : a Only the money, girl.1 . Bessie led the way to a small bedroom on the ground floor, where there was an old mahoga ny bureau, the upper drawer ot which she unlocked: The man when he saw this, thinking, doubt- CHARLOTTE IIOTE,; JI, MATTHEWS & SQN 1 PUCFUlfcTOKM, ciiAuurrrii, n. c. AKK lids method of returning their sin cere Utanka to their mends and tho pub lie generally for tho vert liberal mariner hi which their Jlouso ban been patronized un (lrr the charge or Matthew A gtegall, and they ledge tkcmaclvcs tlmt no twins ahall be spared to make Uieir '8troim comloruble, Tliir lublo sliail be (wnished wiUi Uio htl the market tllords. i r Attentive and ipJilc eeryQnts will alwava t pt) jui'nd ind pery vlfyn vyjll bo made to gie iiu'Te eatiiilpf'twn. j Their ntnblpa nru htgP nQ comnodioue, tufficlent to neconinH,M,w who may ppni to at uj. llorva njid Vthiclea alvvqya oa J,ljiHpiilr lac tranrs oi fusiomers. f' tho very reaved hearts, five years the' family removed to St. Louis, wlicre hev have resided ever since. Last Saturday Mr. Ban forth received an anonymous let ter froilf this city, urging him to come up immediately if he wished to find his daughter, whoni he supposed was drowned thirteen years before. lie arrived in the city Monday last, and proceeding to the place designated in the letter, found a woman whom he had known in other days, rapidly hearing the grave,- and a : young girl in attendance upon her. She pointed to the child immediately upon his entrance, saying : " This is your drowned child, " and en- tered -uiibn an explanation which convinc ed hini of the truth of her words. .It seems that he hhnsel was the innocent cause of the at fair. The woman had loved him previous to his hiarriaire, ar.d when the words were spoken bid ding him to another, all the worst passions ot her nature were aroused and she determined 'upon! some revenge, and how faithfully she executed her intention, the above facts -will testify. She had kept herself informed of his whereabouts, and when she knew that, shortly death would claim her as his victimy she determined to make all the reparation in her power. Who can paint the joy of the father on finding the dead alive? . i The woman it seems had only been in our city some six months, corning from Cincinnati j to wjiich place she had first fled with the child, BUe said she had always treated her as she would her own daughter, to which the child tes tified and hegged that the woman might be taken with them.' The result was that yesterday cyenmg the thitee took the tram cm the North Missouri Railroad for: St. Louis, and ero this the waiting mother has received the embraces of her lonsc.lo&t daughter,. i -iii voices she easily rccoirnized tne one that had just spoken. Their language and looks were both vervfree, but she only told them that? the y were very impatient, and that she would get the informa tion she wanted from the first gendarme. She thus averted sus .V picion, it they watched her speak- less, ,thitt Crowford's gold was ing to a policeman. The next within his srasp, shut up his knife and put it into his pocket. The girl opened the drawer, and quick as thought, drew forth a large navy revolver one with which she herself has ki 1 led bear and cocked it. " Villian ! " she exclaimed dimculty was how to lntorm a gendarme what she wanted ; she had only been a fortnight in France and knew scarcely a word of French. She, however, carried a il i 1 1 i a trapped pocket dictionary wun her, to assist in making purchases and as a means of acquiring a little plan- A jok c was perpetrated a few think and talk them over with others. Thus vou m.tv sow seed broadcast, wheve vou least look for it. Many things we forget, but rarely the impressive stories we heard m our childhood. rations so striking that he shall Jays since UV" Judge Barker, 5iding over the hSu pre me Court, in session at Lock- port, !N. Y. A juryman was ab sent lrom his seat, all others be ing occupied. A dog looking for his master very quietly took the vacant place. Tho Jud-e ad- n lressiug Hon. A. L. Lanniner of mirraio, said, you see Mr. Lann- 2 ing; that the jurymen seats are Si ll 1 - an occupied, are -ou ready to proceed. the distinguished pleader raised his glasses to his eyes, and wwr it, urier survey oi inejury box made the witty reply. " I our honor that tellow might do tor a itidire: but I hate to trust him for a juryman. ...Zt. V - 1 1 i .i uiuicss wno nau seized the pns-' oner, "What did he say when vou caught him ?" Witness Your Honor, he said he took thd boot in a ioke. J micro "How far did he carry the joke ?" Witness "About forty yards, ( please your Honor. Children. T . j 1 .1 m an article on the- excessive indulgence of children which is certainly quite as applicable to pa rents on this side ot the Atlantic as to those on the other the Qneen newspaper observes ".Ao tor the juvenile balls aud parties, it We had to centralize the evil management of children we should certainly place it in these deplo rable gatherinsg; they take the bloom oft the still unripened fruit make men and women of little children, and turn out base, used up,' dis-illusioned creatures, at an L;e when, if they had been left to the simple amusement natural to their condition, they would have entered the world with the keen sense of enjoyment, the faculty for pleasure, and the delicious ro manticticism which makes half the charm of youth.both to itself and others, There is to be a slaughter of the innocents of yet another kind, and of those of older years, of which we can hard ly speak too severely. .We mean the premature knowledge of evil which it is now the fashion to al low. The lovely freshness of girls is daily becoming more and more a thing of the past, a beauty of tradition, and a generation is rising up more knowing at eigh teen than their grandmothers at eighty. It is undoubtedly a reac tion from " missishness, " but it is in a terribly painful form." to A little boy, in the infant class of a Sunday School, was asked by his teacher if he had learned any thing during the past week. " Yes," said he. ( " hat is it vou have learned V ever to trump your partner's vaa tlvo 4ply. . An Irishman who was arraign ed before a police court on tho charge of whipping hia wife. The good natured judge ioined claimed that he was guilty of no heartily in the merry laugh that otten3e a,1(1 tnat "e wa3 acting in followed, and uroved that he strict accordance with ah ordi- could take as well as give a joke. ting her back against the wall French, uomgovcrtoa bencl and aiming the weapon at his she sat ' down, and: searching bosom, "many a wild beast have through the dictionary, found the I shot with this good pistol, and Words she wanted, and she then now I'll shoot you if you do not wrote them with a pencil on the instantly leaye this house ! I will flyleaf of the dictionarj-. The give you not even a second. sentance ran thus: "Gendarmes Start, or I fire ! ' je avoir besoin voiisarrcter un mcur- The ruffian could read human terier.,, The grammer was not looks as well as could the maiden, very correct, as dietionariesdo not and he coitld read very plainly in teach syntax, but the gendarme the firm-set lips and in the flash- understood it, and in another ing eyes but more clearly in the minute held the anurderer in his steady hand which held the pistol grasp, lie was afterwards con- that she would not only fire, victed and hung on the girls tes- as she had promised, but her aim timonv would be a sure aud fatal one nil ii t i xne weaiucr nas oeen so in tensely hot tor the last few days, that even ice found it extreme hard work to keep cool. The rays of the sun came down in the straightest manner possible and looked up a fellow as well where ic wasn t as where he was. Some thermometers almost run nance, ot the board of health. " Shure, your honor," said ho to the Judge, " I was only abating a nnisiincp." " Did any of you ever eee an elephant' skin ?" inquired teach er of an infant class. i " I have," exclaimed one. " Where ?" asked the teacher. " On the elephant's bae," said OUt OT Tir ?ures, and to say that tt tllc W htughihg. -cly hot don't begin to was mer express it. It was over two or three hot boiled I At a Sunday School in; Itipou times. All a teacher asked a little boy if he kinds of plans and measures were knew what the expression "sow made and taken to keep cool, and jng tares " meant. " Courth I every means resorted to, to .raise does," said he, pulling th a wind, frrom a two-and-a-halt cent palm leaf fan up to a four- i n x.- . norsc power ueuows. soi a dried bean can be tound in this sectioiv of country. e seat of his little breeches around in front. There's a tear my ma sewed, I teared it 6lidiug down hill." T And he backed out from the bedroom backed into :the sitting-roomthen leaped from the open , window and disappeared. Bessie kept her pistol by her side until her father and his guests came home, 'and' -when she had told " her story search was made for the ruffian. But he was not to be found. Our heroine had so thoroughly frightened him that he never came that way again. A Hint to Lovers of French Wine. A good story is told of an A merican traveling in Paris. Hav ing occasion to take a bath, his physician recommended a wine bath. . In the employ ot-the estab lishment there was a colored man whom he had" known in America, and of him he inquired how they could give a wine bath for seventy-five cents. 'Whyjinassa,' said the negro, " that wine has been in the bath-room tor one week, and you is the thirty-eighth person that bathed in it." " W ell, I sup pose they throw it away when they arc done witli it. " Uh, no, Rev. .John Mayberry, an influ ential colored preacher, j at Beck ford, remarked thusly in reli gious meeting the other night: " Tt is nhnrp-ed all over this coun ty that I'm a Democrat ; but it's master ; they send it down stairs a lie: bresa de Lord. It's bad for the poor people, who bathe vnmi o-b to be a " nip-srer ' but to i for twenty five ,"' oo ' I - be a "nigger . and vote the Democratic ticket, bress de Lord! I don't know how a man could stand it." cents." "And then what, do they do with it 2 " Bottle it up and scud ' it to America, where they sell it for French wine,". , Matrimonial Machine. A machine to facilitate marri ages has, it is said in model, at least been sent to the Patent Of fice by its inventor. . 1 he notion is, that the marriageable people of a social circle or district are to put their respective names, writ ten on cards, into the. machine; upon setting it in operation, the majority of the cards are ground to impalpable powder, but a few are turned out mated, and paired by inexorable fate. But, after all, this is not equal to the method ot "the olden time. Then the lads and lasses gathered around the glowiiig hearth, the andirons were cleared from the blazing logs, and the boys arranged chesnuts upon one andiron, the girls on the oth- f-l 1 1 . J - A 1 er. r.acn chestnut represented one individual the one who placed it there; and the heads came verv close together over the fire whilctlie hands were placing the chesnuts on the respective bare. The chestnuts were left to roast. There was no hope for those that, exploding, fell into the fire. Those tliat Hew out of the chimney-place into the room had another chance ; but those that sat out' the roasting upon the bars were inevitably ; and irrevo cably mated.. It was only requi site in the beginning that the chestnuts should be examined, to see that there were no holes in them; the test was perfectly fair, and the great advantage was that the chestnuts themselves " popp ed the question. A nice little bov in Pittsburgh went to the circus the other day, and amused himself i tnrowino A Colorado woman eloped from her husband and three children. Adding " insult to injury," she lett a note behind, informing her stones at the, elephant while he husband that none of tho "chil was drinking. U lien he got dren " were his. through the boy tried to propitiate him by ottering htm a piece of Xot bad for a little ,rA nfrpn "1 1 lr- . . 7 " triiiiriM'tirii'.iii irii irn iinTtTinrv i the cakt cepting I whose knowledtre of r-eooranhv in .1 i .. v i : ' o o o r i j - cake the elephant emptied Unmoivhat mnprf.pr On hmiP nr about sixty-four gallons of water, her father speak of going to tho ?asurc, over the boy, and polls to vote, she very innocently . ting him into the third inauired if the i.eonle of the tron. tier to dry off. This boy is very o voted at tho. oniintnr ? i beer me then si i i i liirnnerent about circuses now. He says he believes he doesn't care tor them as. much as lie used to. " Have you ground all the tool right as I told 'ou this tnoruing when I went away ?" said a car penter to a rather green hyl whom he hadV'taken as an 'umirentiro- to buy 4 All Knt the liand Raw. ftir. re- "We'vegotamon- 1 the lad, promptly; "I use now ' replied couldn't get all the gaps out; of that."' , . "Dan," said a little four-year- old, " give me a sixpence a . mon key. key in the house the elder brother. "Who is it Dan?" "You," was the reply, " Then give me sixpence to buy the monkey some nuts." His brother could not resist. " Charlie," said Grandma, re provingly, " j-oifr, portion will be in the burning lake at last if you go on telling so many stories." "Oh! no, Grandma I couldn't stand it'l " But you -you will be made to tand itmy boy." " Oh ! well, Grandma if I can onlv stand it it's all right." Jerrold said oho day he would make a . pun upon anything his friends would' , put to . him. A friend asked him if he could pun upon the, signs of the zodiac ; to which he promptly replied : " By Gemini, I Cancer.' A young gentleman having caned m ins phveician. said. " Xow, sir, I wish no more trifling. My desire is, that you i at once strike at the root of my disease V " It shall be done," replied the doctor.; and lifting his cane, he smashed the decanter which stood on the table. " f ' "I hope, my little girl," Leaid one morning, " that yotf will be able to control your little temper to-day." " Yes niarama, and' I hope you will be able ib control your big temper." -j - A lad crawled' into.a igar hozsr head and ; hii . first exclamation was, "Oh, for a tliottsand ton- gues. i1 1 ' ' I - (
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