BY W. BLAIR. VOLUME 26. THE WAYNESBORO' VILLAGE RECORD, • PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY MORNING By W. BLAIR. TERMS—Two Dollars per Annum if paid within the year; Two Dollars and Fifty cents after the expiration of the year. ADVERTISEMENTS--One Square (10 lines) three insertions,sl,so; for each subsequent insertion, Thit': five Cents per Square. A. liberal discohnt made to yearly adver tisers. LOCALS.—Bnsiness Locals Ten Cents per line for the first insertion, Seven Cents for subseauent insertions professional Otiards. J. B. AMBERSON..M. D., PLII - SICIAN AND SURGEON, Office at the Waynesboro' :"Corner- Drug ore." [jano 29—ff. 0133.. PAN M., RilißP-11,E 0 PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON, Offers his professional services to the pub lic_ Office in his residence, on West Main street, Waynesboro'. april 24—tf DR. BENJ. FRANTZ, --I'll-1 - SICIAN_,IND_SE.R_GE 01V; OFFICE--In the Walker Building—near the Bowden House. Night calls should be made at his residence on Hain Street .ad oining the Western School House. July 20-tf ISAAC N. SNIVELY, PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON, WAY7.4EBBORO' PA. •affice at his residence, nearly opposite he Bowden House. Nov 2—tf. JOSEPH DOUGLAS ATTORNEY AT .LAW. WAYNESBORO', PA. Practices in the several Courts of Franklin and adjacent Counties. N. B.—Real Estate leased and sold, wad Fire lusurance effected on reasonable terms. December 10, 1871. 1181., A, til STRAW.IiIa, (FORMERLY OF MERCERSRURG, PA.,) OFFERS his Professional services to the citizens of Waynesboro' and vicinity. Da. STRICKLER has relinquished an exten sive practice at Merccrsburg, where he hat; been prominently engaged for a number of ,years in the practice of his profession. He has opened an Office in Waynesboro', at the residence of George Besore, Esq., .1 Father-in-law, where he can be fowl(' atal times when not professionally engagel July 20, 1871.-tf. —-- - - - H. FORNEY & CO. Prgdugg CQVIZA-L5.8i9.32 MergAgitts No. 77 'NORTH STREET, ' BALTIMORE, AD: Pay particular attention to the sale of :Flour, Grain, Seeds, &c. Liberal advances mane on consignments. may-29-tf RA.IKES. TIEBSONS wanting Spring-tooth Hors 3 Bakes can be supplied with a first-class article by calling on the subscriber. He continues to repair all kinds of machinery at short noticeand upon reasonable terms. 'The Metcalf excelkor Post Boring and Wood sawing EcMhines always on hand. .foHN L. METCALF, Feb 27- 4. Quincy, Pa. MUILINERY MOS V, IVERS. C. L. lIOLLINBERGER now boat- Itited at 37 Pearl Street, Baltimore, Md.', has opened a new Stock of the best and most fashionable Millinery Goods, Orders from th 4 country promptly filled at prices "which will give entire satisfaction. ()it 30— t f ' T. H. WELSH W. V. LIPPINCOTT & CO, AVIIOLESALE DEALERS IN 'Hats, Caps, Furs -,ual Straw 'Goods, I. 3„i Market Strett, Philadelphia, Pa .april 3-tf BARBERING ! BARBERING ! TIII subscriber having rec , ntiv re-pa int ed and papered and added new furni ture tobis shop, announces to his custom ers and the public that he will jeave noth ing undone to give satisfaction and make comfortable all who may be pleased to fa vor him with their patronage. Shaving, Sehtunpooning, Hair-cutting, etc. promptly attended to. A long experience in the bar bering business enables him to promise sat isfaction in all cases. W. A. PRICE. Sept 18-tf THE BOWDEN HOUSE MAIN STItEET, WAYNESBORO', PENN'A. THE subscriber having leased this well known H.del property, announces to the public that he has refurnished, re-pain ted and papered it, and is now amply pre pared to accommodate the traveling public .and others who may be pleased to favor him with their patronage. An attentive hostler will at all times be in attendance. May 23-tf S.l3l'L P. STONER. COACIIMAKING. "PERSONS in want of vehicles of any de -1 scription, new or second-handed, can be supplied at the old "Waynesboro' Coach Factory" on Church street. The subscrib er cordially invites those desiring anything in his line to mil and examine his stock and learn his prices, which he feels warran ted in saying will compare favorably with that of any other establishment in the coun- ty. REPAIRING of all kinds will receiveproinpt attention. Thankful to the public for past patronage he solicits It continuation of the:4lone in the April 10-tf [Witten-for-the Village-Recorl — EFFIE AND WILLIE'S PRATER. 'Twas the eve before Christmas; "Good night" had been said, And Effie and Willie had crept into Ixed There were tears on their pillows, and tears in there eyes, And each little bosom was heaving with sighs For to-night their stern father's command had been given, That they should retire precisely at seven Instead of eight; for they troubled him more Wit h questions unheard of than ever before; He had told them that he thought this de lusion a sin, No such being as "Santa Claus" ever had been, And hoped after this, he should never-more _heai How he scrambled down chimneys with presents each year, And this was the reason that two little heads So restlessly tossed on their soft downy beds. Eight, nine, and the clock on the steeple tolled ten— • Net a word had been spoken by either till then ; When Willie's sad face from the blanket did peep, And whispered, "Dear Ellie, is you fast asleep ;" , `Why, no, brother Willie," a sweet voice replies, "I've tried it in vain, but I can't shut my • eyes; For somehow, it makes me sorry because Dear papa has said there is no 'Santa Claus;" Now we know there is, and it can't be de nied, For he came every year before mamma died ; But then, I've been thinking that she used to pray,. And God would hear everything mamma would say, And perhaps she asked him to send Santa Claus here, With the seeks full of presents he brought every yesr." Well, wby Wit we psy dest as mamma did then, And ask him to send him with presents a- den ?" "I've been thinking so, too, and without a word more, Four little bare feet bounded on the floor, And four little knees the soft carpet pressed, And too little hands were clasped to each breast. "Now, 'Willy, you khow we must firmly be. That the presents we ask for we'er sure to reee!Ve, You must keep just as still till I say amen, And by that you will know that your turns come then," "Dear Jesus, look down on my brother and me, And. grant us the favor we are asking of thee, I want a wax-dolly, a tea-set and ring, And an ebony work-box that shuts with a spring. Bless papa—dear Jesus, and cause him to see That Santa Claus loves tta far better than he, Don't let him get fretful any angry again, At dear brother Willie and Effie, amen !" "PlesQo Jesus 'et Santa Taus turn down. to night.. And bring us some presents before it is 'ight, I want he should dive me a nice new sled, With bright, shiny runners, all painted yed ; An a box full ofeandy, a book and a toy, Amen, and then, dear Jesus I'll be a dood bov." Their prayers being ended they raised up their heads, And with hearts light and cheetful'again sought their beds, And were soon lost in slumber both peace ful and deep, And with fairies in dreamland, were roam ing in sleep, Eight. nine. and the little French clock had struck ten, Eve the father had thought of his children again; He seems now to hear Effie's half suppress ed sighs, And to see the big tears stand in Willie's blue eyes. "I was harsh with my darlings" he mental ly said, And should not have sent them so early to bed; But then I was troubled—my feelings found vent, For bank-stock today has gone down ten per cent: But of course they forget their troubles ere this, And then I denied them the thrice asked for kiss, But just to make sure I'll steal up to their door, Forl never spoke harsh to my darlings be JACOB ADAMS tied Voetrg. BY JOBS H. BARNES A-FAMILY NEWSPAPL'R.DEVOTED TO LITERATURE, LOCAL AND GENERAL NEWS. ETC. WAYNESBORO', FRANKLIN COUNTY, PA., THURSDAY, DECEMBER 25, 1873. fore," So saying he softly ascended the stairs, And arriving at the door, heard both of their prayers. His Effie's, 'bless papa' draws forth ihe• big tears, And Willie's•brave promise falls sweet on his ears, "Strange, strange I'd forgotten them," he said with a sigh, How I lunged when a child have Christ mas draw nigh : "I'll atone for my harshness he inwardly said, By answering their prayers ere I sleep in . my bed, Then he turned to the stairs and softly went down Threw off velvet slippers and silk dressing gown ;' Donned hat, coat, and was out in the street A millionaire forcing the cold driven sleet, Nor stop he till he had bought everything From the boxful of candy to the tiny gold - ring, ' Indeed he kept adding so much •to the store ; That the various presents outnumbered a score ; Then homeward he went with his holiday load, And r with Aunt Mary'i aid in ih'e nursery was stowed Miss Dolly was seated beneath a pine tree; By the side of a table spread out fora tea, The work-box well filled in the centre was laid, And on it a ring for which Effie had pray- ed, • A soldier in uniform stood by a sled, With bright shining runners and all paint- ed red, There were balls, dogs and horses, books pleasing to bee, And birds of all color were perched in a tree; While Santa Claus laughing stood in the top, As if gently ready more presents to drop, And as the fond father the picture survey ed, He thought for his trouble he had amply been paid, And he said to himself as he brushed off a tear, I am happier to-night than I've been for a year. I've enjoyed more true pleasure than ever before, What care I if bank-stock falls•ten per cent. more, Hereafter I'll make it rule I believe To have t:ianta, Claus visit us. each Christ- nias eve. So thinking he gently extinguished the light, And tripped down stairs to retire for the night, As soon as the beams of the bright morn- ing sun, Put the darkness to light and the stars one by one, Four little blue eyes out of sleep open wide, And at the same moment the presents es pied, Then out of their bed they spring with a bound And the very gifts prayed for wcre all to be found ; They laughed and they cried in their iuno- cent glee, And Shouted for papa to come quick and sec, What presents old Santa Claus had brought in the night, (Just the thing they wanted) and left before light, "And now" added Effie in a voice soft and low, Yo'll believe '„here's Santa Claus papa, I know ; While dear little Willie climbed upon his knee, Determined no secret between them should be And told, in soft whispers, how Effie had said, That their dear blessed mammaso long ago dead, Used to kneel down and pray by the site of her chair, And that God up in heaven Had answered ' her prayer! "Then we dot up and prayed dust as well as we could,— And Dod answerep our prayer, now wasn't he dood ?" "I should say that he was if he sent you all these, And knew just what presents. my children would please, (Well, well, let him think so the dear lit- tle elt, 'Mould be cruel to tell him I did it my- self. Blind father,! who caused your stern heart to relent? And the hasty words spoken so soon to re pent? 'Twas the being who bade you steal softly upstairs, And made you His agent to answer their prayers. Prrrsatrao, PA., December, 1873 A new religious sect has been recently organized in Roanoke county Va., They are disaffected Tanker, and call them selves "Christ's Followers." The Kerkhuer Democrat asks; "Who is there that is not chained to some rock of the past, with the vulture of Memory tearing at his vital:., screaming forever in the ear of Coweieuce ?" glisteliamous Beading. KITTY'S RUSE. "I can't stand this any longer, Kitty ; this surpense is wearing out my life. I mean to have a talk with your father this very night, and know the worst, whatever it is." Brown-eyed, brown-haired Kitty Cline looked up in dismay at her lover's cloud ed and resolute face. "Oh, Robert, tray be patient a little while longer ! You know just how con trary and set in his way father is. If you do as you say, the upshot will be that he will forbid you coming to the house at all. You leave it to me. I have a plan in my head. Be to Cousin .lane's tomor row evening, and I will tell you how it works." As Robert Dunn left the house which he did with a lighter heart than when he entered it, he met Mr. Cline at the gate, who glared wrathfully at him _in return for his pleasant greeting. He was a short, thick-set man, with a red, uncomfortable-looking face, an the' his collar was too tight for him. Stumping into the house with consider ably more noise than was necessary, he turned to the window where Kitty was sitting, humming a tune, a careless, un coaeerned look upon her face, which beli ed the frightened feeling at her heart - "What's that young fellow — coming here so much for, Kitty r Kigy tossed her head with an air of "For what he won't get, smart as he thinks liiuhselff He wanted that I should let him speak to you, but I told him that it wouldn't be the least particle of use." The old man glared at his daughter with and air of mingled astonishment and indignation that was ludicrous to witness. "You did, hey ?" "Yes," replied Kitty, composedly thread ing her needle. "He seems to have got the idea into his head, some way, that you would favor his suit, but I told him it wouldn't make any difference if you did." Here Mr. Cline fairly choked with rage, being unable to give utterance to his feel ings only by an inarticulate sound. "And that, furthermore he needn't take the trouble to call here again," continued Kitty,' placidly, apparently entirely un conscious of the storm that was gath ering. "And have you the assurance to tell me miss," burst forth the indignant old gen tleman, "that my favoring his suit will make no difference ?" "Well, papa, of course I'd be sorry to run counter to your wishes—" ',l'd rather think you would be," inter rupted her father ; "it's an operation that you would not care to repeat—not while I'm above ground. Mr. Dunn is an in telligent and worthy young man, of whose preference any lady with the least partic le of sense would be proud. I shall invite him to continue his calls here, and re member that it is my wish that you treat him with the respect and consideration he deserves." Hawing thus delivered himself, Mr. Cline left the room with an air of great satisfaction ; Kitty making no response, save by a subdued sniffle behind the handkerchief, in which she had buried her face. Having first made sure that her father had taken himself off down the street, she dried her laughing eyes, and as soon as it began to grow dusk, she went over to her cousin's where she knew Robert would be waiting for her, to tell him of her success, and to instruct him into his part in the little comedy that was being enacted. At Mr. Cline's express invitation, he continued his calls with more frequency than before, being treated by Kitty, when her father was present, with a coolness which the young man took with very commendable philosophy and resigna tion. Perhaps the warmth and cordiality of his host had something to do w)th this, or he might have been sustained by various. private interviews with Kitty, and which seemed to be very pleasant and satistheto ry to all concerned. Emboldened by the marked encourage mept given him by the old gentleman. Robert finally asked him for the hand of his daughter, receiving his unqualfiied consent. Robert expressed his gratitude in warm terms, taking care to hint "that he had not received much encouragement from Miss Kitty." "Never you mind Kitty," returned the old man with an air of grim satisfaction ; "girls don't know what they want, nor what is for their best good. I'll manage her." Accordingly, that very evening, Mr. Cline communicated to his daughter what he was pleased to term "her undeserved good fortune." No sooner had Kitty been given the name of the husband destined for her than she vehemently asserted that she would die sooner than marry him. J-ler father just as stoutly insisted that she should ; and the controversy ended by his ordering her to her chamber, declaring that she should stay, there until she came to a proper sense of the duty she owed him as a daughter. In the morning he visited Kitty, find ing her, if possible, more contumacious than before. Indeed, so provoking was her language, that he assured her of his determination to keep her on bread and water until she submitted. With this pleasing prospect before her, Kitty remained "in durance vile" all day. She did aot seem at all cast down ; on the contrary, she bore every appenzance of being iu an exceedingly comfortable contented frame of mind. She spent the greater part of the day in answering sundry. notes, and which were slipped un der her door by her cousin who was in the plot, the contents of which seemed to af ford her great satisfaction. When the old gentleman visited Kitty in the evening, he found her considerably subdued, which he ascribed, in no small degree, to the regimen of bread and wa ter to which he had condemned her, be ing in blissful ignorance of the more ap petizing fare that had been surreptitiously smuggled into her. When her father intimated that she could leave her room as soon as she signi fied her willingness to take the husband he had selected for her, she yielded a sul len assent. Kitty was careful to express her deter mination to defer her marriage as—long as possible, and, as a natural consequence, her father was prompt in asserting his determination that the ceremony should be performed at once. Kitty contrived to retain the sullen, resentfbi look she assumed until the hour appointed for the wedding. Then her face became radiant with smiles and blushes, and which created such a marked transtbrrnation in her countenance as to' attract her father's attention. "Ha! she is making the best of it, as I knew ehe would," was his inward com ment. Kitty's married life was a very happy one. "I have the best husband in the world," she said, one day, in the hearing of her father. yon may thank me for it," he chucklal. ' "You never would have mar ried Robert if I hadn't insisted on it.— Girls never know what is good for 'em ; it's well that you had some one to choose for you." Kitty made no reply, savb, by a rogish smile and which was quickly communica ted to the countenances of those present, who were acquainted with the secret, as well as good result of "KrrTY's RII8E." The Wife. Here is the best tribute to woman we ever read : Only let a woman be sure she is precious to her husband, not useful, not:valuable, not conveniently simple, but lovely and belovee; let her feel that her cares and love an.. noticed, appreciated and returned; let her opinion be asked, her approval sought, and her jugdmeut respected in matters of which she is cognizant; in short, let her be beloved, honored-and cherish. ed in the: fulfilment of the marriage cove• nant, and she will be to her children and society a well-spring of happiness. She will bear pain, and toil and anxiety, for her husbadd's love is a tower and fortress. Shielded and sheltered therein, adversity will have lost its sting, She may suffer, but sympathy will dull the edge of sor row. A house with love in it; and by love I mean love expressed in words and deeds, for have not one spark of faith in love that never crops out; it is to a house as a person to a machine—one is life, the other mechanism; the unloved woman may have bread just as light, a house just as tidy as the other, but the latter has a spring of beauty about her, a joyousness, a pene trating and pervading brightness to which the former is an entire stranger. The deep happiness of her heart shines out in her face. She gleams over. It is airy, graceful, and warm-welcoming with her presence; she is full • of devices and plots aud sweet s u rprises for husband and family. She has never done with the romance and poetry of life. She herself is a lyric poem setting herself to all pure and gracious melodies. Humble household ways and duties hive for her a golden significance. The prize makes her calling high, and the end sanctities the means. "Love is Heaven, and Heaven is love," THE ORGIN OF "HAIL COLUMBIA."- In the "Recollections of Washington," just published, occurs the following anec• dote : The song of "Hail Columbia," adapted in measure to the "President's March," was written by James Hopkinson, of Phil adelphia, in 1798. At that time war with France was expected, and a patriotic feeling pervaded the community. Mr. Fox, a young singer and actor, called up • on Hopkinson one morning and said, "To morrow evening is appointed foil my ben efit at the theatre. Not a single box has been taken, and I fear there will be a thin house. If you will write me some patri otic verses to the tune of the 'President's March" I feel sure of a full house. Sev eral about the theatre have attempted it, but they have come to the conclusion that it cannot be done ; yet you may succeed." Mr. Hopkinson retired to his study, wrote the first verse and chorus, and submitted them to Mr. Fox, who sung them to a harpsichord accompaniment. The tune and the words harmonized. The song was soon finished, and that evening the young actor received it. The next morning the placards announced that Mr. Fox, would give .a new patriotid song The house was crowded—the song was sung—the audi ence uelighted. Eeght times it was cal led for and repeated, and sung the ninth time, the whole audience stood up and joined in the chorus. Night after night "Hall Columbia' s was applauded in the theatre, and in a few days was the univer sal song of the boys in the street. Such was the origin of our national song" Hail Columbia." Economy is said to be carried to such an extent in a town in Michigan that the paper mills have been compelled to suspend operations for want of rags. Matrimonial: It is no good uow-am.lays for a man to offer his hand if there's noth ing in it. Thoughts for Saturday Night. Adversity often leads to prosperity. Employment is Nature's physician, and is essential to human happiness.. Account him thy real friend who desires thy good, rather than thy good will. Whoever makes the truth appear un pleasant, commits high treason against virtue. He who reforms himself has done more towards reforming the public than a crowd of noisy, impotent patriots. Sorrow comes soon enough without de spondency ; it does a man no good to car ry a lightning rod to attract trouble. Small means often accomplish great things. Each of us may do something to others, and true sympathy and loving ministry are never lost. No doctrine is good for 'anything - that does not leave behind it an ethereal fur row ready for the planting of seed which shall bear abundant harvest. There never did and never will exist anything permanently noble and excel lent in a character in which was a stran ger to the exercise of resolute self denial. • There is much more to be said in favor of most men and creatures then we gener ally think. The trouble is that we care too little about finding out the good We i suitn_o_tbctpaiolle_mow_erer--- - And to gather the ripe, gold ears, Until we have first been sowers And watered the ground with tears. If you hate yours enemies you will con tract such a vicious habit of mind as by degrees will break out npon those who are your friends or those who are indiffer ent-to-you. Look not mournfully into the past. It comes not back again. Wisely improve the present. It is thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy future without fear, and with a manly heart. It is not what people read, but what they remember, that makes them learned. It is not what they profess, but what they practie, that makes them righteous. "Be ye also righteous." It is perhaps well for us that we do not count up in early life the number of steps many of them weary ones, we shall have to take in treading the long road that reaches from the cradle to the grave. The world is a lookingllass, and gives back every man, the reflection of his face. Frown ac it, and it will turn and look sourly upon you ;, laugh at it and with it, and it is a jolly, kind ccmpanion. Each change in your inward experience or eternal condition is a new trust by which to try your faith and love, and will be a help toward perfecting your soul, if you receive it with love and submission. Habits influence the character pretty much as under current's influence a vessel, and whether they speed us on the way of our wishes or retard our progress their power is not the less important because imperceptible. Origin of the Celebrated Passage. One of the debates in Congress, which suddenly called Daniel Webster to his feet, he made a brief but quite eloquent speech, apparently without any opportun ity for previous preparation. In the course of his remarks, he threw out the following sentence, which has ever since been admired as one of the most harmo nious and expressive in the English lan guage. He was speaking of our military conflict with Great Britain: `'Our fath ers raised their flag against a power to which, for purposes of foreign conquest and subjugation, Rome, in the height of her glory, is not to be compared—a power which has dotted over the surface of the whole globe with her possessions and mili tary posts ; whose morning drum beat, following the sun in its course and keeping pace with the hours, circles the earth with one continuous and unbroken strain of the martial airs of England." As he sat down, one of the Senators congratulated him upon his speech, and, alluding to the above passage said to him it was inconceiv able how Mr. Webster, in a speech so manifestly unpremeditated, could have formed so perfect and so beautiful a sen tence, which,' with hours of study, he could not improve. Mr. Webster repli ed that it was not extemporaneous; that in his Summer vacation he had visited Que bec, and whilst standing upon the massive and almost imprognable citadel there, looking out upon the wondrous scene of national grandeur and of natnre's loveli ness spread before him, the idea occurred to his mind. He immediately took his seat upon a gun,. and with a pencil and paper,sketched the thought in the most appropriate language he could at the mo ment command. Upon arriving at his hotel he sat down at his leisure, and wrote it and rewrote it with many iriterlineations and erasures, until he had moulded it into the form of words which satisfied him. He then laid it aside in his retentive mem ory, to be used when the occasion should offer. It is a singular but not less true remark in a late work, that Jefferson was , born just eight years after his predecessor Ad ams; Madison eight years after Jefferson; Monroe eight years after Madison ; and John Quincy Adams eight years after Monroe. Another curious fact to be ob served is,. that Adams was just sixty-six years old when he retired ; Jefferson was silty-sik ; Madison was sixty-six Monroe was sixty-six ; John Quincy Adams, had he been elected to a second term, would have been sixty-six. Adams, Jefferson and Monroe all died on the 4th of July. Where the ELM eau% come, the doctor must. MOO PER YEAR NUMBER 28. Wit and nntor.• When a man's nose becomes a little reddish, it ought to be pulled like other_ reddishes. An advertisement for a district school teacher in- New- Hamsphire concludes is way : "N. B.—No man need apply who wears a shawl." "I have lost flesh," said a toper to his companion. "No great loss," replied the other, "since you have made it np iu spir its." retiring man says nobody ever paid him much attention until he broke out of jail, and then he was much sought af- ter. An epicurean has discovered that the pleasantest way to take cod liver oil is to fatten pigeons with it and them eat the pigeons. —A_ministar Navin. sermon, as •is custom was, some hours at:. ter asked a gentleman his opinion of it? He replied that "'Twos very good, but it spoiled a dinner, worth two of it. A Rochester editor went hunting the other day for the first time in twenty years, and he was lucky enough to bring down an old farmer by a shot in the leg. The distance was silt -six 'ards. An undecided fellow courted a lady for twenty-eight years, and then married her. She turprd out a perfect virago, but died in two years; after the wedJing. "Now," said he, in a self congratulating tone, "see what I have escaped by a . long court ship." Oilural gentleman 4. A standing over a egister in one of our stores attracted gen eral attention to himself by observing to his wife, "Mariar, I guess I'm going to have a fever, I feel such hot streaks a run nin'-up my legs." '"a, what is the interest of a kiss?" asked sweet sixteen of her sire. "Why, really, I don't know. Why doyou ask!" "Because John, my cousin, borrowed n; kiss last night frSin me, andsaid he'd pay me back some of these nights, with inter est.". A Fairfield Vermont mother learned of her daughter's contemplated elopement and on the night appointed for the flight put some laudanum in the girl's tea. The latter fell asleep and did not wake up till morning, and in the meantime Rome got tired of waiting and went home disgusted. He goes with another girl now. A gentleman of transatlantic "rai-ing" had mentioned the exceedingly likely fact that he had seen as many as fifty snakes up a tree at one time. An Eng lishman, however, ventured to evince a decided incredulity. "Waal, stranger," said the Yankee, •'there were forty." "Forty I But that is as wonderful as fifty," exclaimed the other. "Waal, stranger," was the rejoinder, "you seem tarnation hard to please. We'll say twenty—there! And I'm darned if I don't fight afore I take off another snake." "Julius, is yo better dis mornin'?' "No' I was better yistiday, but got over it." .:Am der no hopes den ob your discov ry?" "Discovery of what?" •"Your dis covery from der couvalesents dat fetched you oh your back," "Dat depends alto geder, Mr. Snow, on de prognostification dat amplify de disease: if dey should ter minate fataily de doctor thinks Julius is a gone nigger; should dey not terminate fatally, he hopes dis colored individual won't die till unoder time." . A schoolboy being requested to write a composition on the subject of" Pins," pro duced the following : "Pins are very use• ful. They have saved the lives of a great many men, woman and children—in fact whole families." "1-row so ?" asked the puzzled teacher; and the boy replied, "Why, by not swallowing them." This matches the story of the other boy who defined salt as "the stuff that makes pota toes caste bad when you don't put any on." AN INFIDEL AGREEING WITH PAUL. -7- An admirable replywas once made by careful reader of the Bible to an infidel, who attacked him with such expressions as these : "That the blood of Christ can wash a way sin is foolishess; I don't understand or believe it." The Bible student remarked, "You awl Paul agree exactly." The infidel replied with surprise; "How is this that Paul and I agree exactly ?-' Said the student, "Turn to the first chapter of Corinthians and read the eigh teenth verse." The infidel read, "Fcr the preaching of the cross is to them that perish, tbolisties,; but unto us which are saved, it is the pow er of 'God," The infidel hung his head, and ever at ter studied the Bible, and soon believed it tojm God's power of salvation. • BAD BREAMS.—Bad dreams are frc quently caused by a tight neck baud,whic4 prevents the blood when it has reached the brain from flowing freely back again. Compression of any part ofthe body should be avoided at all times, but especially du ring sleep. The lighter the bed elothva are the morn refreshing and sweet repose. For this season, emufortera unto 3 of delaines or other thin woolen inateri.d and stuffed with wool are far pieferw those made of cotton, and warmer even, than blankets, eitice the fibers of weul ;Ara wider ap . a'rt and the z-aina weight izo• farther m retaining dm warmth of ti,o body - , reached a ver