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Z. P. H. F A XL XL,
AT TOP. IT AT AT LAW,
LITTLE ROCK, ARKANSAS.
H. I?. Vaughan.
ATTORNEY AT LAW
AND
SOLICITORS IN CHANCERY.
DES ARC, ARKANSAS.
WILL practice in llie Courts of the counties
of I’rairie. White, Jackson, Woodruff ami
Monroe. Particular attention given to the
collection of claims any where in the State.
eepTtf.
T. E. EMERSON,
ATTORNEY AT LAW
AND GENERAL LAND AGENT,
AUSTIN, PRAIRIE COUNTY, ARK.
Special attention given to the collection
and securing claims, buying ami selling lands
paying taxes, cxamitig titles, &c. april 11
J. R. r. ALDRIDGE,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
Cotton Plant, Arkansas.
Will practice in the Circuit Courts of
Woodruff county, and the Circuit Courts of
tl,e seventh Judicial District, and give prompt
attention to all business emrusieu ,u me
care. Jan12
n- 8. OANTT. "• BRONAUCU.
GANTT BRONAUGH,
ATTOa3SYS AY LAW.
Will practice in the counties of Prairie.
White, Woodruff. Monroe, Arkansas ami Pu
laski. ' Prompt atttention given to the collec
tion of claims Taxes will he paid and titles
investigated for non-residents. aprl4-om
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Jackscnport an:! Augusta, Arkansas.
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Jackson, Independence, While. Lawrence,
Randolph, Green. Craighead and Cross, and
attend to special cases in any part of the
btate. Address either office. myl8-ly
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SOL. F. CLARK. SAM W WILLIAMS.
JOE W. MARTIN.
CLARK WILLIAMS & MARTIN,
Attorneys at Law,
LITTLE ROCK, ARKANSAS.
WILL practice in all the Courts, prosecute
Claims of all kinds, collect debts, and
act as Real Estate and General Agents.
Office—Markham Street, near State House.
april28-tf
JAMES J. GALLAGHER.
Attorney at Ln w,
COTTON PLANT WOODRUFF CO. ARK.
Will practice where called.
sep28-tf.
DP.. J. W. EDT.XT3T,
Being permanently located at l)es Arc. 1
! will continue the practice of his profession in
! all its branches.
Office at Col. J. M. Burney’s Drug Store.
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Offers It is services to the citizens of
Des Are and vicinity in Hie practice of
i medicine. Thankful for past favors,
and by attention to business lie expects
J to share a liberal prtronage.
Office—At tils residence—late the
| residence of W. G. Frith. sep21
DR. ROB’T. B. TREZEVANT,
Tenders Ids professional services to
the citizens of Des Arc and vicinity.
Office—At B. F. Johnson Drug Store.
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Dr. R. B. SHELBY,
ml'XPKRS liis professional services to the
I Citizens of Des Arc ami surrounding
country, in the practice of Medicine and Ob
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over fifteen years in Southern practice, to
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SEARCY, WlllTE COUNTY,
All KANSAS.
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ENTERTAINMENT!!!
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tnlnnient, on liuena Vista Street, near
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ronage of those visiting Des Arc. The fare
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Give me a trial, and I will endeavor to give
satisfaction.
BENJAMIN HAYLEY
Pea Are. ArV.. Mm&h 2*,
Sketch or liana Patrick Le
Connor.
BT ONE WHO KNOWS HIM.
“Le Connol, this must be stopped.
Here you come crawling into bed at
midnight like a thief creeping in at a
window. Can you be a man or not?'’
“Both madam, both, which do you
prefer?”
“You want to be the death of me!
Do you suppose I am going to put up
with such treatment always? What is
that on your breath? Whisky? No. I
know that too well, thanks to the in
troduction you gave me. Brandy?
No. Le Connor, what is it?”
“My dear, that is the eleventh article
of impeachment that smells so strong
ly. The brenth of every loyal man in
St. Louis smells precisely the same
way.”
“You a loyal man ! Le Connor, I have
a notion to kick you out of bed, you
brazen-faced, good-for-nothing Cop
perhead 1 What have you got to do
with the eleventh article of impeach
ment? Go and pay for the eleventh
pound of butter we havjB eaten this
month and then talk to me of loyalty.
You a loyal man! Le Connor, 1 can
stand tliis no longer.”
“Bully! Now I can go to sleep.”
“Tell me, Le Connor, what you have
been doing to-night. It is not the
eleventh article of impeachment, or
whatever you call it, that kept you up
so long.”
“My dear, why do you call me Le
Connor? Why don’t you say Hansy
D...j: j_i_ _ £...4 ... a :
married ?’’
“Hansy Pansy! I’ve a notion to tear
ail tlie hair out of your old bald head.
Johnson and the eleventh article of im
peachment will soon be the death of
you and me too. How do you suppose j
1 am going to endure all this? Why
didn’t you tell me what sort of a man
you were before you took me away
from home?” •
“My dear, I have been advertising
my lecture.”
“Le Connor, have you broughta cof
fin for me? Lecture! I mean to get
right out of bed. You egotistical old
fool! Pretty soon I suppose you
will be caged up as a wild beast with
Ilutler and the other people in the
menagerie, or you will be dancing in
the ballet! You lecture! Le Conner
I knew I was marrying a man with a
head on, and I thought the head had j
some brains in it. Now, you are going [
to exhibit yourself on the stage, merely ■
to show that I was a greater fool than !
you, and that I was humbugged. Lee-!
t u re! What in the name of common!
sense are you going to lecture about?
What is it? I have seen you sleep
with your mouth open, and I have
heard you swear at midnight because
the bootjack was not undor the bed,
but I never heard an original idea
come out pf your mouth yet. Lecture,
will you ? O, you old brute! I’ll lec
ture you J”
"Thank you, ma'am. You've done
that pretty thoroughly already.”
"Le Connor, I know what you mean.
You want to insinuate that 1 talk a.
great deal. Soldo. It's a privilege j
1 own, and the only thing I have ever
owned since I became acquainted with
you. The people want to hear you.
O, no doubt! I wish they could hear
ss much of you as I do. They would !
soon be satisfied. Night after night j
you come in with your long stories to
tell. • You never read the papers. All
you know is your miserable lecture, i
Do you know that the Goveruor of |
Tennessee is dying?
“Madam, excuse. I had heard noth
ing of it.”
“May be your particular friend, Ben.
Butler, will die in a few days. Then
what will you say ?”
“No danger, madam. There is only
room for one at a time. Satan told me
personally that he had no intention of
breaking up his institution, and that
IM Ull IIIV/M <WIU KUUU tUUiU UUIIIC Bin
fly but they never could come to
gether.”
‘‘There you go again, Le Connor,
;razy as a bedbug. You are deterraiu
sd that everybody in the country shall
{now you are a Copperhead, A few
weeks ago you were ashamed to ac
tnowledge that you were a Dcmocoat.
‘•(Hie.) Eleventh article of impeach
ment, madam. Biggest thing in the
world.”
Death.
We have never read anything more
beautiful than the following, from the
pen of George D. Prentice:
“There is but a breath of air and a
beat of the heart betwixt this world and
the next. And in the brief suspense
while we fe$l that death is present with
us, that we are powerless, and that He
Is all powerful, and the faiut pulsation
here is but the prelude of endless life
hereafter, we feel, in the midst of the
stunning calamity about to befall us,
that the earth has no compensating good
to mitigate the severity of our loss.
But there is no grief without some be
niticent provision to soften its intense
ness. When the good aud lovely die,;
the memory of their good deeds, like
the moonbeams on the stormy sea, lights
up our darkened hearts, aud lends to
the surrounding gloom a beauty so sad
so sweet, that we would not, if we
could, dispel the darkness that euvi
rous it.”_ __
•^Flattery is bad coin, whioh ean
1m passed only upon frmjp.
An Old glory.
Many years ago a celebrated Italian ;
artist was walking along the streets of
his native city, perplexed and des
ponding in consequence of some irri
tating circumstance or misfortune/
when he beheld a little boy of such j
surprising and surpassing beauty that
he forgot his own troubles and gloom
in looking upon the almost angel face
before him.
“That face I must havo,” said the
artist, “for my studio. Will you come
to my room and sit for a picture, my
little man ?”
The little boy was glad to go and see
the pictures and pencils and curious1
things in the artist's room ; and he was!
still more pleased when he saw what
seemed to be another boy looking just
like himself smiling from the artist's
canvas.
The artist took great pleasure in
looking at the sweet face. When he
was troubled, or irritated, or perplex
ed, he lifted his eyes to that lovely im
age on the wall, and its beautiful fea
tures and expression calmed his heart'
and made him happy again. Many a
visitor to his studio wished to pur
chase that lovely face; but, though
poor, and often wanting money to buy
food and clothes, he would not sell his
good angel, as he called this portrait. !
So the years went on. Oftentimes
as he looked up to the face on the
glowing canvas he wondered what had
become of that boy.
“How I should like to see how he
looks now! I wonder if I should
i- „ 5 ¥„ 1,_i . . .. i
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true, or wicked and abandoned? Or
has he died and gone to a better land ?”
One day tbe artist was strolling
down one of the fine walks of the city,
when he beheld a man whoso face and
mien were so vicious, so depraved, so
almost fiend-like, that he involuntarily
stopped and gazed at him.
“What a spectacle! I should like to
paint that figure, and hang it in my
sludio opposite tbe angel-boy,” said
the artist to himself.
The young man asked the painter
for money, for be was a beggar as well
as a thief.
“Come to my room, and let me paint
your portrait, and I will give you all
you ask,” said the artist.
The young man followed the painter,
and sat for a sketch. When it was fin
ished, aud he received a few coins for
his trouble, he turned to go; hut his
eye rested upon the picture of the boy ;, ’
he looked at it, turned pale, and then i
bursf into tears. ! i
“What troubles you, man ?” said the!i
painter. It was long before the young !
man could speak. He sobbed aloud,
and seemed pierced witli agony. ! c
At last he pointed up to the picture 11
on the wall, and in broken tones which
seemed to come from a broken heart,!
he said : \ <
“Twenty years ago you asked me to
come up here and sit fora picture, and 1
the angel-face is that portrait, iichold 1
me now, a ruined man ; so bloated, so 1
hideoqp, that women and children turn >
away their faces from me ; so ficnd-Iikc 1
that you want my picture to show how !
ugly a man could look. Ah! I gee j'
now what vice aud crime have done : 1
for me.” i
The artist was amazed. He could 1
not believe his own eyes and ears.
“How‘did this happen?” lie asked.
The young man told his sad and 1
dreadful story; how, being an only '
son, and very beautiful, his parents 1
petted and spoiled him; how he went 1
with had boys and learned all their 1
had habits and vices aud came to love '
them ; how, having plenty of money, I
he was enticed to wicked places till all I
was lost, and then, unable to work and j1
ashamed to beg, lie began to steal, was
caught, and imprisoned with the worst
criminals; came out stilt more deprav- J j
ed to commit worse crimes than be
fore; how every bad deed lie perform
ed seemed to drive him to commit a '
worse one, till it seemed to him he
v/itm uvb oivji uti IU tllv
gallows.
It was a fearful tale, and brought !j
tears into the artist’s eyes. He be
sought the young man to stop, offered
to help him. But alas ! it was too late. (
Disease, contracted by dissipation, (
soon prostrated the young man, and he
died before he could reform. The
painter hung his portrait opposite that
of the beautiful boy; and when visit
ors asked him why he allowed such a
hideous looking luce to be there, lie
told them the story, saying as he clos
ed, “Between the angel and the demon .
there is only twenty years of vice.’’
The lessou of this tale is in the tale ^
itself. You who read it cau tell what
it is. Think of it often, and heed it '
always.
Peaches Without Stones.—An ag
rioulturist has, it is said, tried with suc
cess the following method of making
peaches grow without stones. “Turn the
tops of the trees down, cut off the ends,
stick them into the ground, and fasten ,
them so with stakes: in a year or two tho-e
tops will take root, and when well rooted i
cut off the branches connecting those re
rersed and rooted branches with the tree
proper, and this reversed peach tree will
produce fine peaches without stones " '
The same experiment may be tried with 1
plums, cherries and currants.
^ gBr-Tho course of the radicals in the
Senate is arrested. So they themselves
would have been long ago bad justice 1
Keen d<roe 1
A General Amnesty.
The question is often asked why Pres
ident Johnson does not proclaim a gen
oral amnesty for offenses committed it
connection with the war. Wchavenov
had perfect peace for more ttian threi
years, and there has not been during
that entire period so much asususpicioi
that any portion of the people, of th‘
South were not practically loyal, or tha
there was the slightest grounds for be
lieving that any purpose existed any
where to renew the attempt forSoutlicn
indepencence. In these facts the Gov
eminent lias ample indemnity for the
past as well as complete security fo
the future. If the Southern peopl
could restrain themselves and their net
oral dispositions to resist and resell
wrongs under the oppressions to whicl
they have been subjected since theclos
of the war, it Is fair to presume tha
they will not attempt it under less ag
gravatingcircumstances. They arc en
tirely conscious of their own weaknes
and inability to confront the Govern
ment and though they had the disposi
tion. they know that they are power
less to strike a blow in their own dc
fence, no matter how grinding the tyr
anny imposed. They have been quiet
submissive and law-abiding. Congrcsi
has persecuted to the extent of it;
power and even beyond the extent of it:
!egitim.;to authority ; but it has alway:
been in the power ol' the President t<
relieve them of their political disabili
ties. WIiv he has not done it is impos
siblc to conjecture. It was oertalnlj
his wisest policy to do it. It woulc
Iinvc been n very emphatic expressior
of his condemnation of the Itadica
persecution of the Southern people
and it would have greatly strengthened
him in the estimation of all right think
ing men North and South. After lit
had deferred the exercise of his author
ity in this regard until the inaugura
tion of the subject of impeachment, we
'oulil account for the postponement ol
an action. A proclamation of geuerai
amnesty would have enraged his ene
mies and rendered his chance of aetjut
:al less certRin. Ho had too much at
(take to risk anything, and it was nol
iis policy to provoke lmd feelings 01
•ctaliation. Hut now the ease is
ihanged. Impeachment is dead. An
irew Johnson has his enemies beneath
iis feet. They have failed to depose
lini upon the strongest charges which
hey could concoct, and they can find
10 better material now than that which
hey have already exhausted, and he is
afe for the remainder of his term, anil
an afford to bo both magnanimous
md just. Tan any one see any reason
vliv lie should not be! We confess
ve cannot. Every argument that we
•nil think of points to the wisdom of
his policy, and we can find no argu
nent against it.
The amnesty if proclaimed, should
•mbrace all. We have had enough ol
ini tial pardon which have left certain
•lasses within the range of future perse
•utions. Why should Jefferson Davis
>c tried for treason ? Every sane man
n America knows that he cannot be
onvictcd, and that if convicted public
entiment would not tolerate his puu
slinient. Why should J. C. Breckin
idge, Kentucky's idol, be an exile and
i wanderer in foreign lands when the
cratch of Andrew Johnson’s pen could
•elievc him of his disabilities and re
tore him to his friends? There is no
•easouable explanation of Mr. John
on's conduct in this respect, and we
ire linn in the belief that he will soon
liscover that he is doing injustice to
nmself and to those who have and who
ire now defending him by failing to
iroclaini the general amnesty which
mblic sentiment demands.—Louisville
Courier.
A Successful Burglar Trap.
A cotempoary tells, or rather lets the
lero of the incident tell of a German
vatcli maker in this city who, hearing
if the frequent burglaries, concluded
o fortify his store against the gentry
vho worked with skeleton keys and
rowbars. The watch-maker said :
‘•I hear much tiugs apout to purgu
ars all a’while; I hears they preaks
i tores into cm very much. \ ell, 1
inks I vixes’em, so that the next time
hat they coomes to my stores, by taui,
hey no gum. I puys a pig horse bis
le, and I fastens it to dc floor, mit de
nouzle pointin’ to de door. So den 1
•uns a string from de drigger up uiit
ler vail and down mit der door, so
■on Mr. Purgular opens himself mit
ler door, vy, if he ploze de tani prains
>ut of de liistel, vy, den you see I can't
lelp it, don't it? That’s vot I say.
L,ast night 1 left de door pointing at de
lioozlo of de liistel mit two bullets in
t, uut goes out to drink some lager
net ter boys. I sometimes drinks too
nuch lager. Veil, I can’t help it. 1
lores myself into more ash twenty six
een klasses lager, uut then I goes
ioiiic. Ven 1 pass mine store 1 dinks
better ash look in unt see if nothing
>ese all right. That is right, don't it?
,f it don't I ain't can’t help it. Veil,
nit so many glnssesof me in der lager,
. forget apout der boss bistle uut opin
er door, hang! by tarn, 1 joost gets a
mllet mit mine elbow uut auoder pul
et get mine hat through it all ter vile,
fost I scart? Veil, if l vos 1 cau't
lelp It. You’d be scart yourself, ain't
t? I joost trow away the boss bistle,
in I never sets no more traps for bur
glars so long as 1 can’t help it. So!”
> ^ I
tarThe imaginations of men do
nore than nature to make women
>*«ntift)l.
.Shorl-Lli rd Honor.
The members elect to Congress in the
late insurgent .States, who have been
elected (be past spring, have short
lived official honor before them. If
,! admitted by the present Congress their
r j terms expire with the Congress admit
j ; ting them. That will be on the 4th of
, March next. They would be members
t of this Congress only. This w ould be
, perhaps an advantage to the Radicals
j who want the Electoral votes of the
, States for the Radical Presidential can
didate. Hut there must be a new elcc
' tion this year for the Forty-first Con
. j gress in all the ten States. How
, would such elections result? That is
; a serious question for the Radicals.
. 1 With the State governments in opera
^ ' tion, the military withdrawn, what
, certainty is there that the white men of
. | those States wojld not reverse matters
' and elect Democrats to Congress ? It
is perfectly well known that there is
. anxictj at Washington among Radicals
on this very point. They are not sure
[ that the Southern States would remain
' Radicalized through one election after
; the State governments assume supreme
control, and the people are released
j from military supervision and thecou
| j trol of officials bolstered up by Con
! ; gress. It is on this account that some
Radical Senators discourage hasto in
| admitting the ten Stales. It is in view
of such a possible result that some
I Senators propose to establish an ntiom
: alous condition ot aii'alrs there, admit
ting them hack to the TTninn ns co
equal, sovereign States, and yet con
tinuing to exercise over them Congress
ional and military control, on the plea
that it will be necessary, in order to
give a successful start to the new order
of tilings. Such a plan is of itself a
confession that •‘reconstruction” will
not last a day, if the people are left to
administer their own affairs, but would
be overthrown by the people as soon
ns the Congressional despotism ends.
There is, in fact, no alternative for the
; Radical-, and the people might as well
understand it. Reconstruction has
been achieved bv bayonets at a cost of
: one hundred millions per annum. Such
reconstruction will not last six months
after a withdrawal of the army. The
white people of the United States, in
every portion of it, wi.'l insist upon
their right to govern themselves, frame
their own Constitutions, and make
their own laws. Reconstruction in the
South is not the work of the people,
hut of Congress, and when the Con
gressional tyranny ends the recon
struction work will tumble to pieces.
The alternative then is for Congress
still to maintain a standing army in the
South, calling upon the people to pay
I one hundred millions per annum for
1 the outrageous business. Persistency
in Radical reconstruction meansalarge
| standing army, an expenditure of one
Hundred millions annually, oppressive
taxation and continued debt. Let tho
! ten States enjoy the liberties guaran
I teed to all the States and govern them
selves, and instantly scores of millions
wrenched from the pockets of the peo
ple will he saved to them, the prosper
ity of the South will begin to return—
harmony, peace and contentment will
prevail, and the Republic will move on
as the fathers designed. It might re
sult, and probably would speedily re
sult, in the return of Democratic Rep
resentatives to Congress. But this
would he as just and proper as for
Massachusetts to send Radicals, for
such would he the “will of the people.’’'
To deny to them the realization of that
will is the guilt of Radicalism. But it
cannot last. The white people of the
South will rule the South.—Missouri
Republican.
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Learn a Trude.
Stephen Girard had a favorite clerk,
and he always said “lie intended to do
well by Ren. Lippencot.” So when Beu
got to he twenty-one, he expected to
hearthe ‘govenor’ say something of his
future prospects, and perhaps lend a
helping hand in starting him in tin?
world. But tho old chap carefully
avoided tho subject. Ben mustered
courage:
“I supposo I am now free, sir ” said
ne, ami i thought 1 woukl say some
! thing to you as to my course. What
j ilo you think I had better do?”
“Yes, yes, I know you are,” said the
' millionaire; “and my advice is that you
! go and learn the cooper’s trade.”
This piece of advice nearly froze Hen
'out; but, recovering his equilibrium,
ho said, “if Mr. Girard was in earnest
he would do so.”
“1 am in earnest;” and Ben forthwith
sought the best coopor in Spring Gar
den, became an apprentice, in duo time
could make as good barrels as the best. '
i He announced to old Stephen that he j
had graduated and was ready to setup !
business.—The old man seemed grati- j
tied, and immediately ordered three of J
the best barrels he could turn out. Beu j
done his prettiest, and wheeled them :
I up to his countiug room. Mr Girard
1 pronounced them tirstrato and demand- :
ed the price.
“One dollar,” said Ben, “is as low as
I can live by.”
“Cheap enough! Make out your
j bill.”
The bill was made out, and old Ste
phen settled it with a check for 850,000 j
which he accompanied with this little i
piece of moi ra) to the story:
“There take that, and invest it in the
I best possible manner, and if you are
unfortunate and lose it, you have a good
j trade to fall back upon, which will af- j
ford von a good living.’’
Tlie Discontented Couple.
An old discontented couple, who had
hard work to procure the necessaries
of life, were constantly complaining of
the faults and failures of others, instead
of seeking Divine help to rectify their
own.
“All this trouble and sorrow in the
1 world is through Adam and Eve,” the
1 old gentleman would exclaim. “If I
! had been Adam, I would not have nl
i lowed a woman to lead me into such a
j scrape.”
A wealthy and pious lady lived near,!
| who had ferqucntly relieved the old |
! man und his wife. One day when pass
! ing, she overheard them grumbling as
! usual, about Adam and Eve. She felt
| anxious to convince them of the impor
, tance of being content with the station
j in which Providence had placed them.
■ and how wrong it was to be thu. con
stantly murmuring at their lot in life.
; The next morning the lady’s servant
! in livery came to the cottage with a mes
j sage from his mistress requesting the
, old couple to go up to the mansion.
The look of discontent vanished for
I once, as the old folks were delighted
with such a distinction from one so
very rich.
On arriving at the mansion, the lady
received them most kindly, and thus
j addressed them :
! “I have set apart two rooms in my
! house, and so long aa you attend to
i my wishes, you will be allowed to re
i ilium ueie, anu nave evcrymmg neeu
1 fill for your comfort. But if you dis-!
| obey any of my rules you will be im
j mediately turned out and sent back to
! your own mud cottage.
I “Thank you ! thank you kindly mad
am,” responded the old man.
| “Never fear our doing anything
I against your ,-ishes, ma’am,” added
| the old woman.
“Very well,” said the lady, “then
you will find a home here for life,”
Everything necessary for their com
fort was provided, aud all things wont
on well for some time. There was one
thing that somewhat piuzled them.
For several days there was placed on
the dinner-table a covered dish, which i
they were desired not to touch.
“Mv lady desires me to say, that
every dish is at your service exceptthat
one,” said the servant.
Oil such a day, having nearly finish
ed their hearty repast, the curiosity of
the old woman was greatly excited as
to the contents of the forhiden dish,
and she said to her husband:
“Whatever can it he ?”
“Never mind,” said the old man;
"we've had a capital dinner without it.”
“As the lady was doing us good, she
might as well lot U3 taste every dish,”
added the old woman.
“Why, yes. she might as well have
done handsomely,” rejoined the hus
band.
“There cai| he no harm iu looking,”
continued the old woman; “the lady
will never he any wiser for that.”
The old n an was silent, and silence
serves to give consent. lie was almost
as curious as his wife about the strange
dish. The temptation was strong, aud
the longer it was parlied about the
more irresistible it became.
“She'll never know we have looked, ”
repeated the old woman, as she gently
took hold the cover, and very cautious
ly raised it on one side, then stooped
down to peep under.
“OhI oh! oli!” exclaimed the terri
fied old woman, as she started back aud
upset the dish cover on the floor,
Out jumped a mouse!
The uproar roused the lady of the
house, who suspecting what was the
matter, was quickly at the door.
“What! is this the return you make
for mv kindness? You, who were so
ready to blame Adam and Eve for eat
ing the forbidden fruit, could uot obey
my trifling request? You have now
forfeited the privileges I conferred up
on you, and you must therefore leave
my house immediately, and return to
your mud cottage. Never, iu future,
blame Adam and Eve for what you ev
idently would have done had you been
in their places!”
“I Will.”—We like that strong, ro
bust expression No one having utter
ed it in sincerity, was ever a mean. ;
crying man. The pigmies of the world
did not trouble him, although they rose I
in masses to pull him down. He
speaks, and the indomitable will prc-!
vails. His enemies face before him.
He rides forth a conqueror. Would
you be great? Would you be distin
guished for your scientific or literary
attainments? Look not mournfully at
your lot, but with “I will” breathing
from you lips and bursting from a
great heart, you can not but prevail.
Show us the man that never rose
higher than a toad-stool, and whose i
influence died with bis breath and we]
will point you to a groping, cringing
wretch, who trembles at the approach
of a spider, and faints beneath a thuu- j
der cloud. Let the fires of energy play !
through your veins, and if your |
thoughts are directed in right channels
you will startle the slumberiug uuiverse.
auJ-During a recent performance of
“Romeo and Juliet.” at Marblehead,
Mass., the frir Juliet’s questions in the
soliloquy before taking the sleeping
draught—“What if the mixture does
not work at all?” was answered by au j
urchin in the pit, who said: “Then
take a dose of pills.” The effect upon
the audience can be imagined.
l^pThere i$ no stronger breastplate
then a heart untainted
SAI-iM tia'XDI.
A delightful trip—to Have-Anna,
Ifi^Swcet flowers are slow, and
weeds make haste.
WaT Inviolable fidelity, good humor,
and complacency of temper, outlive all
the charms of a fine face, and make tha
decay of It invisible.
h- A gentle heart is like ripe fruit,
which bends so low that it is at the
mercy of every one who chooses to
pluck it, while the harder fruit keeps
out of resell.
Kir In Washington Hiram Ulysses
Grant is called the gutter perch a
man ; we suppose, because he is so of
ten perched in a gutter!
B5U Wade is given to profanity,
Grant to whiskey, and political parsons
to “clerical indiscretions.” They are
all a hand of brothers.
•S?'A Western editor says that in
smoky Pittsburg men kiss each other's
wives, and are able to tell which is
their own only by the taste
*®“AVc don’t pretend to say how
well posted hogs are in mathematics,
but one thing is certain, they know all
about square root—hogs do.
#3T'A celebrated lawyer once said
that the three most troublesome clients
he ever had were a young lady who
wanted to be married, a woman that
wanted a divorce, and an old maid
who did not know what she wanted.
K8“Beauty itself doth of itself per
suade the eyes of men without an or
ator.
4@-A thief, who broke jail in Ohio,
tho other day, being captured, told the
officer that he might have escaped, but
he had conscientious scruples about
traveling on the Sabbath day.
agf-A young widow, who had mar
ried an old man, was continually
speaking of “my first husband.” Tho
second husband at first gently remon
strated. “I guess,” said the wife, pout
ing, “you’ll want me to remember you,
when you're dead and gone.”
C3»Sentiinental young lady, to per
fumer: “I don't think you forwarded
the scent I meant. It seems entirely
different to that I ordered.”
Perfumer, who is fond of punning:
“Madam, I am sure that what you
meant I sent; the scent I sent was tho
scent you meant, consequently, we aro
both of one sentiment.
#8rNimrod, astray: “I say, my good
fellow, I've missed my way; can you
tell mo where I am?” Agriculturisti
“Ees, 1 kin.'” Nimrod: “Thank you;
where am I?” Agriculturist: Whoy,
tliero you be!"
ter While ten men watch for chan
ces, one man makes chances ; while ten
men wait for something to turn up
tine turns something up; so while ten
fail, one succeeds and is called a man
of luck, the favorite of fortune. There
is uo luck like pluck, and fortune most
favors those who are most indifferent
to fortune.
Iiafri’overty is, except where there
is an actual want of food and raiment,
a thing much more imaginary than
real. The shame of poverty—the
shame of being thought poor—it is a
great and fatal weakness, thougli aris
ing in this country from the fashion of
the times themselves.
Drunkness and extravaganco in
dress are the most common social
vices,” said the Rev. Dr. Teaser. “I
beg your pardon, uncle, but I think
there is a social vice far more common
than either of 'em, and one to which
you yourself are much addicted,” res
ponded his nephew Tom. “Name it,”
said his uncle, aghast. “Advice,” said
the audacious Tom.
WiiTAt a bar dinner, Mr. Sam Ewing,
a lawyer and punster, was called upon
for a song, and while hesitating to res
pond, a judge present observed that it
wouldn't be much, as it would be but
Sam (psalm) singing. Well,” rejoined
Ewing, ‘even that would be better than
him (hymu) singing.’ The judge wil
ted.
feg-A young man asked an old
geutlememan for his daugther in mar
riage. The answer was, “Go into the
:.i_ .
--- « -.o * “ **uiuwv-j vx aji
[>les. Give mo one half of the whole
number, and the mother one-half of the
balance and half an apple over, and to
the daughter one-half of the remainder
ind half an apple over, and have one
'eft for yourself, without cutting an
ipple, and then, if she is willing, you
'aii have her.’* lie solved the ques
tion, and how many did he bring!
Answer correctly, and you may have
one of the apples to eat.
JtSrTwo enterprising Yankees have
started out on a temperance tour. One
is to do the lecturing, and the other to
ict the frightful example.
WOfall the youug women mention
ed in the Bible, Ruth seems to have
treated her sweetheart the worst. She
pulled his ears and trod on his corn.
X^A young lady who teaches uiusio
n an academy in Western New York,
lent an order to a publisher recently,
in which she had Bpelled the words
rery poorly. She apologized by ad
ling a postscript as follows: “You
must exkews this letter, as I pla bi noat
butt spel bi ear.” A pretty bad spell
that.
-A physician of Breslau annonnoee
to the Academy of Sciences in Paris that
he has succeeded in illuminating the cav
ities of the living human body by means
of eleotncity, so ss to render their interior
visible to the physieiu