COMMON MISTAKES IN LA GUAGE, N- My dear nephew and nieces, charming inhabitants of glass Louses, don’t throw any more stones. Why, Uncle Phil, you don’t mean to say that we speak incorrectly ! Uncle Philip shoved his spectacles up to the middle of his forehead, and you proceeded as follows : 1s ull very well for you self-suffi cient graduates of colleges and semin- aries to find fault when Uncle Joshua wants the well-bucket *histed, Debby the Aunt Maria ‘ketches’ cold, Coschmaa John Dobbiu's “huff, the creeters,’ the cook ‘biles’ the cran berries, Bridget asks for ‘jolup,’ Fa its cold for plantin’ but concludes to *resk’ it. when ‘renses’ clothes, ‘doctors’ Peete feeds rm er Liray ‘reckons’ ‘ruther Now, Uncle Phil. you know we were | pot talking about such mistakes, It was when Annie Hughes asked the | clerk for ‘these kid gloves,’ informed us that Dr. Burton always I began to wonder how people who pretended to be educated could be guilty of such blunders. That's girls—this Jack, a graduate of Harvard—I ed teachers at the high nothing ASK of the this morning, if he ever said he one school, ed base ball, an 1 he ‘used t that. | oked of Faucy le Phil group could. 1] ¥ severely? down y. upon the critics assembled in front of the fire. So you really think that you are exempt from Ft os Vi | ness of misusing the Eoglish language What will less than six mis : yy. ar vou say if I call attent to no takes you three, since you «I morning I'ry it, been study this last f uncle, Jur years i Ahem ! Uncle hat was alm as he | oked at Js Wel | beg in with y Oh! [ait? to the asked me to cut it i I should have sai Yes or in two. cut a thing in one What else Well, med did I say? whose dress was to be lengthway's length wise Who disc 1d last ‘Fe ? finstead of vered that it was very b'uary,’ and not last ‘Feb ruary’ Of whose class at school did I hear that every Sanday ne ’ to have ‘their’ and not ‘his’ or ‘her reward ? Stop Uncle That is three for me, and of the six mistakes you have only left one for May. Perhaps I haven't made any, Uncle Phil Where did you go May ? To the Ah! Do you know that depot is» French word house, or place of deposit, siiled, this moruing, depot: , and means simply store. and has nothing whatever to do with a struc- the f tare for shelter of passengers, built at points where a railroad train stops. You never he used in any such connection in Our word ‘station,’ Fog land language supplies or ‘station- house,” and only a very cultivated (7) foreign doesn’t understand to his own American who prefers a language he better supplied tongue, by a French word that is entirely a misnomer, I wonder how many more mistakes are current among us, Uncle Phil ? I won't call your attention to any more to-day. Think over these, and find you guilty of some other time,—Mary E. in Good Cheer. I'll sce hos many more | Vandyne, LA _—" | pan Robes, lap robes, and the best blanket in the market. and blankets and robes of all kinds to be sold cheap at Schofields. | Benny ? and then | : | and go home. | the boy « preached ‘extem-pore’ that May aod | . from play - | He Was | ing with it than that man very | stay at one thi | smoke a cigar exactly alike. | mouth and smokes as though he stantly between his teeth lit occasionally, without ¢ the word depot | whether it is lighted the | "a | man points it straight out in front ENFORCED BY A BOY. two! | When the law demanding weeks noice to ba given hefore leav- ing or dis harging came into effect toreman of coal mines in Ohio gener ally paid little or no atiention to it. It was finally brought into promi and use by a boy about fourteen He od without notice, to give place to a pence years of age had been discharg- boy of a friend of the foreman, whose But, though discharged, the boy came the name was B.noy Wootton, al to pit in time for work every morn- ing for two weeks, when this conver- fore gation between the boy and the man was repeated every morning. Good mornin’, Benuy. Moran,’ Any w my lad. rk for me this mornin, 9 No ny lad. (Good moroin, Benny. Good mornin,” my lad. And the boy would then tur When pay for his wages as } AWAY lay ame though he had worked. Beovny seeing hm gud ‘ Why whnal's thee Wan I want my wages, Benny. as a gambler at I would want for friend. Naw See th smokes a few seconds and minnte but he fumbles with his cigar half a Or so. He never lets it go out, seems to take more pleasure in play he does in Circumstances will He r long y} ng ] ng enough to smok ng. easy. will get fairly acquainted, and thensomething ract him. the | else would t urn up to att I guess no two men in world A lazy | . | man sticks about half the weed in his Was | trying to put himself to sleep. A | man who has the firmness and tenaci ty of a bull dog holds his cigar con and chews ever caring at all. A fop stands his cigar on end in the corner solid busines of of his mouth and the him. - — Don’t be fidgetting around on the { seat like that, said a lady in church to would ever replace it | her little daughter. Oh, ma, the bench js 80 hard I can’t help it, pleaded the little sinner. It's no harder for you than it is for me, angrily retorted the lady. Oh, yes, it is, ma, insisted the little girl; for you have a dress, an’ | ain't. A «To any one sending us L755 eash, not coupons, we will send them the Cexran Desmoonar and Glodey's Lady's Book for one year. It is one of the most popu'ar magazines published and the subscription price is $2.00 aud with the Democrat $2.75. Read the advertise- ment in snother co'umn of this paper. cushion in your came ! ' | actual | affect | just | CESARSVIRGINIATURKEY | Costar Alexander citizen of Bride eolored and Shakewell, a ville, owned no turkevs |! } ry whi wiih ber sl oki: 4 in Mrs nea sat « study ant q It ca nll at Hed NIAGARA Bailvoads, EAGLE V Tub win off TWARD \LLEY WE ve L Haver Flemingwn.... Mill Hall..... Beceh Crock Kugioville, Howard Hannah.......coo Fowler ..... tuld Enel Vail coieens Arrive at Tyro Leave Tyro Eust ’ *Arrives at Erie EXPRI Leaves I Ha Arr WWi Prasengers | in Belle Wfonne "| PAST LINE Perspiring at every pore Cesar Alexander and started he ward J ust az he was about to id Ww LU . i tl igh the break in th ly made by himself. he felt d aid on his shoulder with con lerable emphas Fearing that another wd still more L le ancestor was about to "RD wit m, | sank t earth, around. Them the re firmly and gave him le looked up n ] “PEPE ET the the OOK ppeal ita bio ith ag an tL yo groanin and carrying on like an animal fur? was the next thing he beand he question was propoundsd in his wife's most ungentie volos Heo openex] his eyes slowly and in abject fear, amd found himself sitting by his own fireside, the children in bed and Mrs Shake g by him with her hand ou his He r was 80 happy in his life ve's turkey was sale whore it he longed; be bad never stolen it, and he hadn't met any dead and gone ancestor at all, only in dreams Furthermore, he inwardly re solved that he never would, if ancestors’ visits only followed thefts The next day when he set off with his gun ho told Mrs. Bhakewell that he would bring home a “'Vabginiah” turkey, And he dia He held it up with pride and joy on his re turn, amd wos rewarded by a cide from that Indly ‘possum wos eaten with gravy and grace, and Mr. Shakewell's standing in the community remained unimpaired As he bent over his own fragrant thanksgiving board he bad more than usual canse for grat tude, “Vabhginiah turkeys was good enough for my fathers, and good ‘nough fer me,” be often says: but though he sometimes tells of the encounter with his anosstor, be never tells of the cause of that worthy individual's visit to him, Max Euvrow, well stand shoul Lol er eve Fairgy Li Ling The os Philad Harris? 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