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I've ls*en as busy as it bee all winter, and it's lucky for mo that I've had eiiuft to keep my lihssl a-circulnting : for, it I'd - had to set still, 1 should have froze todeath, with the mercury falling down among the zeroes. I've braided all Keubtm's old trousers and coats tip into rugs, and I declare ! w hen the |sor man got out in the rain the other day, ami wet hissclf clean through, there waru't t'liulf every day clothes in the house for him to shift hisself into, ami he had to put on his black trousers and hlsswaller tail coat, that lie's never made a practice of wearing any wheres except to prayer-meetings and Sun days. Keiilieti was mad as a bob-tailed dog in fly-tiuie, ami sez he, giving the cat a h'ist out of the rock! tig-cheer, w here she'd got curled up for a imp, sez he : "Miraiuly, you'd ort to bo ashamed of yourself, a-cultiug up theui good clothes of mine. And them gray panterloous wurn't wore out at all, except a place on the knees and inebby they needetl to Is? reseateil." Sez he : "It's lucky that I'm put together solid, you'd braid me into a rug, soul and is sly, if you could tear ine up into strips as you can a pair of panterloous. " And he kicked at that cat agin, jest us she was a-gwiuu to git back into the cheer Strange to me that, when men-folks git mad, they always spit out their spite onto the cat or dog. Jest as if that animal was to blame for my braiding up them britches ! Hut 1 was sorry eiiutf afterward, when llcubcn come in from the barn, with his awaller-tail all spattered over with milk : he'il lteeii a-utilking, and the cow had t<sk a notion to step iuio the pail to soak her corns, and the milk had flew all over the coat-tails of the pardiit-r of my joys ami sor- It took me two hours, with a sponge and some aiuouiiay, and my eyes and uose wat ering as if 1 bad the chronical influenza, to scrub that milk ofl°. Aud then I didn't git it ort', for Kculieu never could stand still a miuuit to have auythiug done to him, and, as soon as I got a good grab ou lliem tails, and got the sponge sot right to scrub he'd fetch a wisk, and I'd lost? my bolt ititircly. Margaret Ann, that is our darter from a city school, has got a pile of new idee* brought home with her. Rent's Corner is an old-fashioned place, aud the folks don't travel round to any great extent. And (laterally we hain't got ahead so fur as some parts of the world. We still think that it ain't nice and pious for a man to have more than one wife to a time, and we shouldn't be likely to elect an absconding Canada tramp of a bauk-casliier to U? deacon of our meeting-house — not if we knowed about it ; and we still think that it looks ls-tter not to go a-flshing Sundays. Margaret Ann, a'inost as soon as she got home, ls*guu to complain hew old-styled our bouse looked. It needed refurnishing, and repainting, and repapering, aud re—al most everything else. "Why, mama," err. she—she ha* taken to calling me 'ma' and 'mama' jest as if she was a three-year-old— "you have no i.lcc how superannuated our interior looks. There is nothing astlietick or rershashy alsrut it." "I should hope uot indeed," sez I. "I shouldn't want anything with such a sound ing name as them has got, in my itisides, if that is w hat you mean." "Ma, how dreadfully vulgar you are ! If Arabella I>e Jones should come to seeui she would fall into a state of nervous prostra tion. She is so delicate and refined that she would faint away if she should be In the room w ith a pair of those ilrtgulful cowhide boots that pa wears, and 1 have known her to have a spasm when she iuhnled the breath of someone who had been eating on ions ! < >h, she i* altogether too ethereal for this mundane spear !" "Then I should advise her to go to a spear where they don't eat onions," sez 1. "Bent's Corner is no place for her." "But, ma, why can't we tlx up our old house ?" sez Margaret Ann, a-tipping her head on one side to see liow the; little toj knot of a curl panned out, she'd been a w inding onto a curling-iron. And full half of the hair in it stuck fast to the iron, and the smell of burnt hair was so strong in the house that I had to burn some coffee on top of the stove to fumigate the air. " 'Twouhl cost money," sez I, "and yor father can't spare much, this year, on ac count of that boss having the heaves and "lying, and milk's going down to two cents onto a can." But Margaret Ann sed that didn't make no difference — wo could do the work our selves. And she talked at me so much and used so many words that bad never been aired sense they was put into Webstei or the bridge, that I give in. I could have stood out agin words of two syllables ; but when they come to lie shot at me eight ami ten syllables long, l went down bcfore'om like grass Is? fore a four-boss mowing-machine. She talked the scheme into her pa in much the same way, and got ten dollars out of him and the liberty to do as she was a mind to. We harnessed the old mare into wagon and went over to Smith ville, and got the painter there to mix us some paint, and we bought sotue room paper, and some red cur tains, and some prepared glue, and some varnish, and some tacks with brass heads, and other things too numerous to mentlou. We begun 011 the front-room iirst We piled all the furniture into the front-entry, and sot a table aginst the d<K?r that was loadtd down with a lot of things, andGrand tuarm Sawyer's chany set among 'em. That cliany set beat anything I ever seed any where in the way of chany, and I sot a farm by it. Margaret Ann put on an old red petticoat of mine over her dress and a blouse of her pa's and tied her heud up in a gingham a pron, lM'fore she went to business. My uni form was one of Reuben's old calico shirts that I had kept for him to wear in haying time—because anybody sweats so, in baying that it rots the shirt clean to nothing — and put it on outside of my old delaine skirt that I wear when I'm a-wasliing. We had the wash bench and two barrels with a board over 'em, to stand upon. I had the barrels and Margaret Ann bad tlie bench. "Now 111a," sez she, dipping her brush into tlie paint, "you want, to dip lightly: give it a little dab aginst the side of the pail, to shake out tin? superfluenf paint, and draw it toward you — so, in this way." Ami she dabbed, and then she drawned — and, my soul and body, the result was amazing ! The paint which was pale-blue, flew and squirted all into Margaret Ann's face and eyes, ami HIH* looktnl like flu* piece of "spat ter-wrk" tliaf MIHH DliiHttiorn T<*k tin* prr miiiui of twenty-live cents on, at the Smith villo cattle-show, lust fall. Ami she gr.ihlssl up the tail of tliat petticoat, which lial dipped itself into a pot of ldaek paint thai we'd mixed to sfrijw* off with ami rubbed it ver l>er coiinertiance, and black aud blue was about equally mixed. "Heaven and earth ! Margaret Ann," uey. 1, "you'll never come clean in the world without b'iling out." Ami I made a rush toward her, to wi|<e her off with my apron, and I forgot that i was on thein barrels ; ami the lxiard tilted up and 1 made a grab to save myself, ami down I went into one of them barrels — feet fust , paint brush aud all — ami the barrel fitted me as well as if the cooper had took my measure. "Murder I" cried Margaret Ann, running to the door ami shouting down the road : "Ma lias suicided herself ! Help ! Help !" And, in a mi 1111 if, llenbeii coiue running in like mad, aud Squire Power, which had come over to swap some setting-bens' eggs— and he come in with him. "Creatiou of Adam J" sez Reuben, "now there's another good barrel gone to shucks ! And 1 shall have to buy barrels to put my apple-crop into ' Twenty cents 011 a barrel out ! Miramly," sez he "ills strange that a woman as old as you are can't keep lierscll out < f sueli scrapes like this." "I guess it'll be a serais? in airuest before 1 git out," sey. 1, as 1 squirmed around and the nails on the inside of tin? pesky barrel begun to plow into my bide. "Let's pull her out," sez Npiire Power, spitting onto his hands aud bracing Idsself. "You hold onto the barrel, Wiggins, and I'll extract her jest as the dentist t tkes out a luuhler." And Reuben grabbed the barrel, and the Squire grahtHsl me. He got me right by that shouhh-r of mine that I've had the rhuinatiz into for nigh onto six year, and, for a iuin nit, i thought 1 should lie made into two Miramly Wigginses. 1 struck out with the hand that had the painl-bruah ill it, and the Squire's mouth was the nearest and most convenient opening — aud in the brush went, paint and all, aud stufl'ocated him nigh a bout to death. "W-o-o-u-g-li !" sez the Squire, squirting out w hat he hail inside of his mouth ami throat, ami tiring it right down the back of my neck, where that shirt of Reuben's had a button off. Ami he let go of me so sud dint, that it upsot Ceuis-n, who was a-hold ing onto ihu barrel with all Lis might. "Ma ! ma !" cried Margaret Ami, "can't you kiuder screw yourself round and get out ?" "You might try it on yerself," sez I, feel ing toad euuff to break something right in two with the poker, "and see how you liked it, with nine hundred am! fifty nails a-*tick iug into your back and atummuk and claw ing the iu'ards out of ye." Squire Power was intirely overcome, and he staggered hack and fell into a cheer that Ueulieu had bought at an auction Itecausc it was two hundred and twenty year old, and Washington had sot into it. Margaret Ann had jest painted the hack of it w ith some yaller daisies and a sunflower, and 1 yelled out as I seed the Squire a-going : "Con't set into that cheer I It's —" Hut the Squire hail sot before 1 got the words out, aud the deed was done. And, when lie got up, there was that bunch of daisies and that sunflower, forty-graphed on. to the hack fo his coat as slick as you could mark your name onto a soap-box w ith a stencil-p.ate. "I'll empty her out." sez lteulien, seized with a bright idee ; "strange that I didn't think of it afore." And he grabbed that liarrcl aud stood me right up ou my head, rocked the barrel round fust one way and t'other, jest, as if 1 Was coal-ashes that had got wet and stuck. "Reuben Wiggins," sez I as soon as I could sjteak, "If ever I git out of here, I'll make you sorry for this. You're a-runuing my brains all out through the top of my head." "Bu'st ofl' the hoops," sez the Squire,com ing to the rescue. And he seized a hammer and hit the barrel a liek that sot my rhu maticks off into tantrum and nigh about blowed ofl' the top of my skull. But the barrel caved, ami I was saved. Jest as 1 got out, I lieerd a terrible wail ing kind of a bowl from Nero — that's our <log— and 1 knowed he was in trouble. I went out into the sitting-room, where the noise come from — aud, Idee la re, I didn't know wether to laff or cry. Margaret Ann had sot that pot of prepared glue onto the table, and the "log hud got up there and up sot it, and the glue had run out, and belaid down and got to sleep, and his tail had dried into the glue — and so luul iny ten-dollar switch of hair that I'd took oft' afore I be gun painting and laid down there ! The table-cloth on that tilde was one that Mary Ann Simons worked in this 'ere kero sene-work that was so stylish jest now, and we'd either got to cut the cloth off from the the tail or out the tail off from the cloth. It was a question of no table-cloth or a tailless dog. I <lid not liesertate : I grablicd the scissors, and was a-going to slash right in to the cloth, when the dog — seeing no doubt how desprit 1 looked — give an awful howl and a frantic leap and cleared hisself — cloth faljn? hair, and all — from the table and dashed into the front-entry right over the mess of cliany and through the winder, and down the road like a streak, with that table cloth and that ten-dollar switch, war ranted not dyed and all longhair, a-tr ailing after him like a tail to a kite. And that cliany was smashed into kind ling, and we all sot after the dog a-yelling : "Git out there ! git out !" Aud the grocery man's clerk come out aiul tired at Nero, thinking he had the hydrophoby, and killed old Mrs. Mulligan's goat, that was a-lunch ing off the ole hoop-skirts and tomato-cans in Grigg's back-yard. And she's sued him for daiuidges. And, jest as Reuben and the Squire and I and Maragret Ann had got to the front-gate, a-pnrsuing Nero, a carriage drlvup and out stepped Arabella De .Tones and Gabriel Van Robinson, her yonng man. Imagine if you can, the tableau ! As they say in the live-volume novels, when they don't feel tit to describe any thing, "we draw a curt-iu over the scene." P. S.— Nero come back, the next day, with his tail hare of hair mostly ; but I nev er lieern anything from my switch nor the table-cover And we got Jenkins, the painter, to paint our house because* we thought it would be cheaper.- Peterson's Mayazine. —First-class job work done at the JOURNAL office. Terms, SI.OO per Year, in Advance. ON GOOD mtKicniNc. ThelnclescTll>ulle"Koinet lit tig" Which .Mnlies a Gentleman u Gentleman. Subtle, fragrant. Indescribable, but all pervadiug is that lovely thing we call good breeding. As subtle and as indescribable, but by no means fragrant, is its ungainly opposite. Keenly conscious of the absence of the former, but unable to exactly specify and define when present, we know and feel, but cannot analyze nor tabulate —save in cases of exceptional sweetness and retine im-ut, when we can touch the exact action an I repeat the commanding word which governed all. So with ill-breeding. Wecan scarcely hay where It was unless the misde iimanor was as deep as a wel),as wide as au church door ; but there it was and we felt md knew, whether we were able to detiue it or not. No one can describe" discord uor harmony. So with the mystery of good breeding—the subtle hartuouy and passing flavor of true jmlitciu-ss. It is heard in au intonation—au inflection —in the choice of one word over another seemingly its twin, but with just that difference of application, rather than meaning, which creates the essence of good breeding. The almost microscopic recognition of a stranger—the s|ieciali/.ed attention of an unobtrusive kind —is its evidence ; the careless neglect of an apparently insignificant form is its death warrant. To be the only stranger iu a room ful of intiuiat s and to tie iin.nm.din en a neglected is au act of ill-breeding specially Britannic. If by chance one more kind hearted to liegin witb, and more polished by friction to go ou with, takes pity on the poor | social waif und stray and offers any atten | tiou or reels off the thread of a con versa- j tiou, that jtersou has this marvelous charm ' we call good breeding, iu which all the rest ' li ive beeu deficient. When yon enter a j room and are presented to the hostess her j reception of you proves her good breeding | or lu r bad. The way her children meet you ' —the way in which, at any age beyond the | babyhood, they sjieak and hold themselves —is so eloquent of their geutle trainug or ungentle an is a correct accentor a provin- 1 cial. No idiosyucrasy mars the real essence i of good breeding,and all the excuses made for j lapses and lessons are futile. (Juotl breeding is the current coin of so ciety. He who is bankrupt thereiu ought not to take rank with the rest. The defaulting Loailianl b.ul his bench broken in full con clave atl was chased out of the street where his better brethren carried on their business What the old money-changers and money lenders did with their defaulting members, society ought to do to the ill-bred —to the people who opiose all yon say for the mere sake of op|sjsiug you. and dot for anything approaching to a principle ; who contradict you tlatly, and do uot u|iologize wlieu they are proved iu the wrong ; tell you home truths of hilious complexion and vinegar asjKJCt ; who repeat ill-natured remarks made iu their presence, or repeated to them, m iking you feel you an* scorned ami de spised you know not why, and vilified with out the chance given you for self justifica tion ; who abuse your known friends and ascrilte to them allelic sins of the Decalogue, who brutally attack your known principles in religion, morals, politics ; who sneer at at your cherished sujiei-stitions and fail foul of your confessed weaknesses ; who take the up)ier hand of you generally, not counting susceptibilities as worth the traditional but ton. Such people as these—and there are inauy of rheiu masquerading us ladies and gentlemen of good |s>sitiou and irreproacha ble credential*—but no matter what their lineage or fortune they should lie cashiered, and society would.lie all the sweeter and more wholesome for the waut of them. Contrast these spiny hedgehogs, these aggressive thorn-bushes, these stiugiug mosquitoes and ramping tarantulas with their opposite —the well-breed and gentle folk who never tread on your corns nor offend your suscep tibilities in any way and who carefully carry out of sight all their own private lit tle Hags which may lie your bed tags. This is not want of courage, but it is good breed ing. A WKSTERN JOKE. ___ Lending a Friend a Dress Suit and Then Telling llim it is a Servant's. From the Chicago Herald. Colonal A D. Babcock, of Caoton, 111., is as well known here as at borne. He has achieved a comfortable fortune and has of late been concerned with the Senator Farwell- "Ah*' Taylor syndicate in huildingr the Texas State House. He is one of the "regulars" at the Grand Pacific, which is almost as much a home to him as Canton. Another well-known character about the hotel is Dr. Osgood, who gives more time nowadays to practical joking and meterial enjoyment than to the practice of medicine. Both these gentlemen are small ot stature and, despite their gray hairs, lively as any youngsters. There is constaut rivalry between them as to who is the small est, and either could ride a Sbetlaud pony without his feet dragging. Colonel Babcock was going to take his daughters to the game dinner at Mr. Drake's hostelry, but had no dress suit. Osgood offered to loan his. which fitted the colonel perfectly. As the latter sat at table with his daughters and Colonel Taylor and other friends, looking as fine as a fiddle in the doctor's dress suit, a boy came in with a message. The document was labeled "impor tant," and the colonel opened it with some eagerness and more embarrass ment. It proved to be a letter from Dr. Osgood, in which the latter sent forth that he had just received a very importaant business call to new York and must leave in twenty minutes. The dress suit he had loaned the colonel was, he said, the property of his negro servent, who, of course, ac compaied him to New York and would, of course, need his suit. The situation was a delicate one and be regretted extremely to thus embarrass the colonel, but he would, of course, ap preciate the importance of sending the cloths at once by the messenger. He would suggest that the colonel slip under the tadle, disrob, and band the suit to the messenger. Then his daugh ter could wrap him in a napkin, lay him on a ohair aud smuggle him out unperceiyed when the feast was over. Colonel Babcock is still looking for a chance to get even. 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Transient adver tisements and locals 10 cents per line for first Insertion and 5 cents per Une tor each addition at Insertion* What Stunted the Growth of the • Town. i "You waoter know what's holdin* - this country back, dVef'said a man in 1 Green River City, Wyo., who bad a ' board like a woven-wire mattreas , which bad been struck by a cyclone r and rolled together as a scroll—"you 1 ask what's boldin' it down," be con . tinued, as be led me over by a faro i table which was not in use; "yon de -1 aire information as to what's retardin' its development an' causin' it to lan guish by the wayside, as it were? I can tell you, stranger; I can sum it up ! in two words an' give it to you at one dose. It i* Eastern detectives—blood bounds of tbe law that drag away our most successful cit'zensf 'Wbat can you expect of a country where tbe E'Astern detective comes in and demands requisitions for all tbe leadin' cit'zens? With the icj band of tbe detective laid on tbe Mayors of our principal cities, bow can oar coun try develop? With tbe Pennsylvania Sheriff sneakin' up behind tbe Presi dent of our National Bank and indent!- ! fyin'him, bow can you look for pro j gress? 'As long as one of Pinkerton's men can come into our otherwise peaceful and an' prosperous communities, look at a photographn an' then adjust a pair of time-lock handcuffs on tbe principal ol our schools, bow can you come among us ao'ask us with a boiler sneer why we don't boom? 'Stranger, wbat is there to induce us ;to git up, wboop an' develop tbe country,with leg-irons on tbe pastor of tbe First Babtist Church? 'Why stould we invest oar money in business with a Sheriff from Mas sac uusetts an' a detect!ye from Ohio each witb separate warrants M* each lon a fast boss chasm* oar Porbate Jedjre across tbe divide? 'Why should I feel enouraged an' cheerful witb tbe City Attorney bein' tried in North Carolina? Would you yourself feel like settlio' down in a 1 country an' makin' a borne witb tbe Superintendent of tbe Union Sunday school gittin' outo tbe east-boond train chained to tbe editor of tbe morning pa per?' 'My friend, I don't think yon would; I am pos'tiveyou woufd not, 'special ly if your didn't know bat what it might be you turn next, as you prob'bly would. 'This country conld never become thickly and permanently settled as long as tbe Eastern officer who has raked op some old charge again a prominent member of the comunity can walk in an' ply bis vocation un restrained by tbe strong arm of tbe law. As long as it is possible, while a meeting' of tbe leadin' cap'talists is bein' held to devise means of establish in 'a woolen factory, or to raise a bonus for a new railroad, as long as it is possible on such an occasion, I re pent. for a paid spy from a rival town to sneak in tbe back door of tbe hall an.' yell: 'Eastern detective eomin'lan' then stand and watch tbe President of tbe savin's bank an'the Circuit Jeage break their legs as tbey fall oat of tbe winder an' subsequently git tramped into the ground by the crowd; as long as tbia is poss'ble, I again say, jes'so long will progreess languish. 'While a man can stand in our thea ter an'boiler 'Fire!' an' not cause anybody to look around, an' another man can stain pate tbe audience acrost tbe stage by pullin' out a paper au' a ' pair of handcuffs, jes' so loug will our nat,rol resource remain dorment, as it were. 'That, my friend, is about all I've got to say. That is about all there is to say.'— Dakota Bell. Rough on the Chaplain. Ceo. N. P. Banks tells a story about one of his army chaplains which never fails to "bring down" the G. A. R. camp-fires. The chaplains regiments during the war had charge of the mails fpr the regiments to which they were attached. The mail for the regiment of this particular chaplain had not coine to hand for many days. The regi ment was out of the line of communication, Every day from one half to two-thirds of the soldiers boys filed up to the chaplain's tent with such stereotyped inquires as these: "Auy mail yet, chaplain?" "Have you heard from the mail?" "Do you know when the mail will come?" "What do you think is delaying the mail?" The good man was so pestered with in quiries that he had no time to prepare his weekly sermon. He was obliged to spend all Ills time in explaining that he had no mail, that he had heard nothing about the mail. It oecured to him that he might pat an end to his troubles by a sign. Procuring the bottom of au old hard tack box he marked it with charcoal and nailed it on a tree in front of his tent so that all might see this notice: THE CHAPLAIN* DOFS NOT KNOW WHEN THE MAIL WILL ARRIVE. The next anxious inquirer who came along was a reckless young wag. He gazed for a while at the notice, and, discovering the piece of charcoal which the chaplain bad dropped on tbe ground at the completion of the sign, be seized it and added these words: AND HE DON'T CAKE A D — N. The chaplain took in tbe sigu and never put out another one.— New York Tribune.
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