MINISTER HEARS A LOUDER CALL. "Beloved flock," the parson said, thon paußod and wiped hisoyea; "AH pastor and as people we mast sever tender ties; I've u cull to go to Blanktown to be their chosou pastor; A call ho loud to disobey, I foar would grieve the Mastoi-." Replied the spokesman of the flock : "Though loud the call may be, We'll call you louder to remain; an X for ov ory V . Those Blanktown people offer you, we'll gi vo to keep you hero; ... Wo trust you'll hear a voice divine, our call s BO loud and clear." With sobbing voico tbo parson said: "My duty s clearer now: . „ I'll stay with you, beloved ones; to Heavens Boletus sing! 'Blest be the Tie," and sing it clear and strong, .. , ~. To leave you when you coll so loud, would be exceeding wrong." Then in liis study ho sat down a letter to iiulito Unto the church at Blanktown. Thus did tlio parson write: "I've wrestled o'er your call with prayer; tho Lord bids 1110 to stay. And rated to his work, I daro not dis obey. " —Richmond Telegram. COURTING A SCHOOL MA'M. BY OLIVER KIMBALL. Setli Squires was in love with tlio District School Ma'm, and desired to escort her to the Fourth of July cele bration at the corners, but ho hatod to face the battery of those roguish brown eyes, somehow, as he told his espocial friend and confidant, "they took all the grit" out of him. Bert advised him to write. Setli was not wholly pleased with the idea, for—although he was tho owner of a rich and beautiful farm, and other property besides, that amounted to $20,000, which had been left him by his father, and as much more in prospect at liis mother's death—ho was deplorably ignorant. Ilis intellectual attainments Were confined to a little reading and : writing, and a knowledge of arithmetic which barely enabled him to do his i business. In nice and form lie was anything but beautiful, being of a tall, ungainly, shambling form, and possessing a face adorned with whitish, watery blue eyes; uncouth features; a dark rod com plexion and numerous freckles,combined with firoy red hair and mustache; and on which was written, in imperishable characters, the sordidpess and miserli ness of his mean little soul. Beth had never been hardly out of sight of his own chimney, and, of course, knew nothing of the ways of the world, for what was the use of spend ing money for traveling when it was so much better to keep it to spend to as tonish the neighborhood, as* for in stance, for a carriage and a span of horses which would make all the boys wild with envy, and the girls crazy to go with him. Seth enjoyed his reputation for being the richest young man for miles around —and nothing delighted his dear little &oul more than to go first with one country lass and then another, and then tell, to anyone and everyone that would listen to him, of their great anxiety to gobble him up," as he expressed it. Said he to Bert: "Belli' she's a school-marm she's up to all tli durn stuff you git out o' books, giamma* and such. It does well null lu • a poor feller to study and learn —but tain't no benefit to a rich man—l don't have to!" Bert promised to help him, said In;: "If we can't git up betwixt us a letter chuck full of polite grammar and such then you can eat mo fur a skunk, durned if you can't." "Wall, you should oughter git up a letter better'n I, fur you ben four weeks to the 'cademy." The more Setli thought of the idea of writing the letter he liked it; therefore the consequence was, that that after noon found them closeted in Seth's room with the door locked, and with the sweat pouring down their heated faces, as in an agony of inspiration, they sought disparingly to clotho their letter in proper garb, witli the aid of "Fox's Book of Martyrs," and Herriok's "Albenic," all the books that the house contained. They wasted ink and paper with a reckless abandon, which showed at once that Seth "meant business," as Bert said, regardless of expense. Both (lid the writing, as he could write the better hand, and Bert did the composing. Beth commonced: "Miss Nora Witlierspoon," by Bert's direction, then lie wrote "Dear Miss." "No, I won't; it sounds too durn fresh!" "Wall, then, dear friend." "I don't like that there neither; it don't sound jest right," declared Both. "Wall, let her go as she is then," re plied the sorely puzzeled helper. "No, that sounds as if I felt so durn big; I won't do that," still complained the rich man. "Wall, put what you mind to, I'm tired o' tellin' you what to write; you'ro so (lurnod particular. I guess I'll go bum." "Now, now, Bert don't git mad and leave, fur then I should go crazy sure, an'l ain't fur from it this minute! I should think you'd have some pity fur me; here I am covered with sweat an' my head hoppin' like blazes! an'the durned letter has got to be writ some how. I tell you what I'll do, you help mo git this here up in good stylo an' I'll givo you a dollar, clean cash; come, that's fair. You can't say it hain't!" Being thus adjured, combined with the potency of the dollar, caused Bert to melt. Once more he tried his tactics at composition. "Why don't you put it 'Dear Miss Nora Witlierspoon?'" he said. "You've hit the nail on the head at last!" cried Beth, joyfully. "That sounds something like, so highfalutin' an' grand." And he very laborously put that down. "Wall, now, I've got so fur; Miss Nora Witlierspoon, dear Miss Nora Witherspoon. Now, what next?" "Wall, less see, hum, wall, T take my pen in hand fur to—fur to', less seo, yes, 'fur to ask you fur the honor an pleasure of your honorable company to the Fourth o' July celebration to the corners'. There, how's that?" he asked, with conscious pride in his voice. "That sounds all proper. Quick, tell it off slow'fore you forgit it, an' let mo put it down." After much patient labor, both as to writing and to spelling, and after spoil ing two blieets moro of paper, he finally penned it down on a third, and then was ready for the next. "Wall," said Bert, "I s'poso you want an answer right away, don't you?" "Yes, yes." "Wall, (hen, 'please, answer by re turn mail.' You see there won't be any return mail as both will be drop letters, bui is sounds big. Less see, what did I h. VJ? Oh, yes, 'please answer by re turn mail, and oblige yours forever more, anxiously, Squires*. There I how's that suit you " "That's good, but I want a P. 8.; in all highfalutin'ietters they alters have 'em." "Wall, write down what I've got, an' then I'll go fur your P. 5.," said the perplexed composer, striving to earii the dollar. After destroying another sheet of paper and commencing and going all over again, Setli was ready for the P. S. "Why not put in a piece of poetry, something like this, for instance? 'The rose is red, the violet's blue; Honey is I sweet, an' so are you.'" I "The very thing!" exclaimed Setli, enthusiastically. "Bert your a trump! and I shan't furgit this right away," ho said, fervently. ! After writing down this dainty little ' stanza, Setli, very complacently, read over his lotter, and said he: "That sounds as if purty school-marms had writ it; sho can't find any fault with that air." But in searching for an envelope to enclose his precious missive in, lie in advertently overturned half the con tents of tho ink bottlo over it. "By gee! what cussed luck I'm bavin'! Now, I'll have to go all over her agin, an' I'd ruther give five dollars then do it," lie groaned. "Wall, do you suppose she'll bite?" asked Bert, after the letter had been completed again, and was at last ready to mail. "Yes, I s'poso sho will, Bert Jones, she'll go fast enough. I've got to see the girl that 'ud refuse to ride in my carriage, behind my blacks." "\\ all, I guess there hain't no danger but she'll go quick enough, but gin us that dollar. I've earnt it fair enough by tho looks of tho paper around. Durned if it don't look as if you'd been writin' up a sermon!" "Wall, here's your dollar, and I don't begrudge it a mite. I say, Bert, don't you wish you was a goiiT to marry such a darn little handsome high-flier as I be?" smirked Setli. "Why, hello, I didn't know as you was goin' to git married; it generally takes two to make a bargin." "Oli, wall, who won't refuse. Money is king. She'd be a darn fool to; there hain't everybody as rich as I bo that 'ud take up with a poor school-marm, not wuth a cent, an' don't know a livin' thing about dairy work. But I don't care, she jest suits me, an' the ole lady can learn her." "Why, I used to think you an'Mol Jackson would step off." "He, he, Mol 'ud be only too glad to git me, but I never meant to marry her. 1 shouldn't if Nora hadn't never come here. 1 was only bavin' a little fan, you understand, nothin' more on my part. It used to tickle me nigh to death to hear tho ole lady tell what a rusher Mol was at makin' butter, an' how she'd play oil tho wash-board. I jest said to myself, 'not, you don't all boss,' I liairit catched so easy. How mad Mol 'll be when she see's me round with the little daisy; an' all you fellers 'll bo lookin' glum enough, lie, he." A few days alter Setli encountered Bert in tho road, and drawing a letter from his pocket, ho showed it to Bert with the following remark: "Bead that there, an' see if you can make head or tail of it, an' tell mo what it means, any how. " Bert took it and read: "Mis. Studies: —Your kind invitation is ro ceivod. for wlihdi please accept my thanks, and also my regrets, for. owiim to a former engagement., 1 am const rained to decline, "liespeetfully, "Nou.v WITHER SPOON." "Wall, don't he so 'tarnel slow, what the nlo Harry does she mean, any how ?" "Mean? Why, she's engaged to go with some other feller?" "Sure? she says 'accept her thanks,"' said Setli, anxiously. "Yes, yes," replied Bert, impatiently, "but that's only a polite way of tellin' you, you've got tho mitten!" Setli looked like unto a boiled lob ster, and foolish enough to sink into the earth, and could find nothing to say to Bert's rude peals of laughter, finally, however, he recovered enough to say, very sheepishly: "Wall, you give me your word you wouldn't tell a livin' soul, so I reckon no one'll he the wiser. Bert, here's another dollar for you, jest as a present, you know, an' mark my words," rushing into a violent rage, "it won't lie healthy fur the feller that takes her. I'll light him as true as I'm alive, an' cut him out, an' bring her hum, I swar it!" ho cried, emphasiz ing liis remarks with many an oath. And as Setli was a powerful fellow, and "had tlio money," as lie said, Bert didn't doubt that lie would do all ho said. "Wall, Setli, I'll be darned if I should wanter stand in his boots, if you git him once." "I'll bet you wouldn't," returned Setli, smelling around like an en ranged turkey gobbler which has sighted a red rag. Setli drove to the corners early on the Fourth and kept an eye out far Nora and her "follei"—but in vain. He saw her not and to all his anxious inquiries when ho met Bert he received the same answer: "Ain't soon liido nor hair of her." What could it mean, anyhow? He couldn't tell, and so concluded to take Mol Jackson, who, by the way,was very willing to be taken, aud drive around by old Calkins, where she boarded, and just let her sec that ho didn't ask any "darn odds" of her any way. So he did, Mollie, resplendent iu a pink gown, and a brass necklace,look ing like a full-blown peony. Ho drove by and saw Nora, as he told Bert, "not dressed up a durned bit, but with some common light thing on with a lot of weeds an' stuff in her belt, but lookin' dura handsome- tho jado! out under the trees with an awful dandified lookin' feller with a black mustache. We come on 'em so all-flred quick that I seed him take his arm away from round her waist—durn him! an' 1 guess he'd been a kissin' of her, fur lie was a bendin' over her, but drawed liis mug back as we come 'long, an' Nora she was red as fire, but her eyes shone jest as devilish as ever an' don't you believe sho'd the imperdence to bow and grin at me!" Something less than a week after wards, as Seih was very busy mowing, Bert came along aud, as Setli checked his horses, he asked with a mysterious look whether he "hud heard the news?" "Naw, what news?" 4 About Nora?" "No, What is it?" said Setli. with visi ble uneasiness; for lie bad not entirely relinquished his hopes yet. "Why, she wa'n't Nora Witherspoon none the time!" "She wa'n't?" echoed Setli, open mouthed. "No," returned Bert, picking a timo thy and proceeding leisurely to chew it. "Wall, what was she, then, for tho Lord's sake?" "I don't jest know her right name, fur she was married when sho come here; and that there feller you seen with her j was her man. She got married a week lor so 'fore she come here to teach, an' j she 'lowed it would bo better to keep it ! secret while she was teachin'; but her ! school's out next week an' so sho up an' j tole when he come up tho Fourth from tho city. So you writ an' wanted to go with a married woman! A purty good thing on you, 1 take it! ha! ha! For once the man of wealth (?) had nothing to say, and, in spite of Bert's protestation of eternal secrecy, and sundry bribes, which he accepted, it got out, and many was the treats which poor Setli had to stand, as well as tho rude jibes and jokes from the envious boys whom he had heretofore most cruelly "cut out." Setli was fain to let pooplo under stand that he didn't care a "darn." So in order to do so, he amnrried the bouncing Mollie ofl'-haud, much to her elation, contenting himself with swear ing eternal enmity to all schooi-ma-ms i'orevermore. The F.ag Protected. Some three or four weeks ago C. G. Goutant, of Lamar, arrivod at the Hotel Bamona, at Cascade, says tho Denver News. Col. Derby, tho manager, shook him by the hand, scanned his features earnestly for a moment, and inquired: "Mr. Coutaut, were you ever in London, Ontario?" "I was there ouco," replied Coutant, about 1867, I think." "Was pretty certain it was you," said Col. Derby, "You were at the Tecum seh House tho night it was attacked by the mob." The two men shook hands and the recognition brought out tho following story: Col. Derby was a nativo of Mont gomery, Ala., and was an ardent and enthusiastic Confederate. After the close of the war lie drifted into Canada and became manager of a prominent hotel in London. During tho excite ment of tho Fenian invasion a very bit ter feeling, as will bo remembered, existed all over Canada against the United States, and one evening a mob assembled about Col. Derby's hotel, in London, and demanded that he pull down tho stars and stripes which ho had floating over tho 1 louse. Tlio Colonel very politely but very firmly declined to comply with tho demand. Then the excited Canadians proposod to take them down: and Col. Derby be gan vigorous measures for defense. The street was packed with an angry crowd, and its leaders were evidently bent on raiding tho hotel. One Hug hung outside just above tho door, and this the mob succeeded in pulling down by driving nails into a largo polo and forming a hook with which they tore down tho stars and stripes. But when they attempted to enter tho hotel to reach the flag on the dome of the build ing they were met by Col. Derby and the few Americans who happened to be stopping at the hotel, who swore they would kill the first man who offered a further insult to tho national flag. There was a dangerous glitter in tho ej'e of tlio ex-Confederate Colonel as with his revolvers lie faced the Canadian mob and warned them back. The American spirit conquered; tlio mob hesitated, fell back and dispersed, and tlio old flag continued to float over the hotel so long as Col. Derby remained its manager. Tlio incident lias its les son and illustrates not only tho per sonal bravery of tho man. but also tho lovo of tlio American for tho flag, no matter what uniform ho may havo worn during the civil war. The Ilml Old Times. For a change, how does the foregoing caption look? Wo havo long been ac customed to tho other phrase, "tho good old times;" let us change it. There were the bad old times of the French revolution, when blood flowed like water and tho greatest murderer was the best fellow. There were worse old times before tho French revolution; times of tyranny and royal caprice and unutter able debauchery in high places; times that could only be purified las by fire. There wero tho bad old times of tho middle ages in Europe, when children wero allowed to havo their feelings wrought up so that they would enlist by tho 10,000 in a hopeless crusado against the Moslems, only to die by tho 10,000. There were the bad old times in En gland when it was a perfectly respecta ble tiling for a gentleman to get drunk once in a while, and when no ono was read out of good society because ho was a gambler, and when women labored half-naked in tho coal mines, worse treated than tho donkeys themselves. There were tho times when only the few could obtain an education, and tlio masses could scarcely hope to get abovo tlie condition of their fathers. There wero the had old times in our own land when there was only one pro fessing Christian to every fourteen of the population, instead of one in five as at present; when our rulers were pro nounced atheists and our scholars were pronounced skeptics. There wero tlio had old times of slavery and disunion and Civil War and carpetbagism. There were the bad old times when no one voice, even of one crying in the wilder ness, was raised against tho curse of rum-selling; when some ministers of the Gospel themselves tippled at each house on their round of pastoral calls, and the members of tlio flock wore not slow to follow their cxamplo. Let us thank God that the bad old times have gone never to return, as we bopg. Tlio new times are not as good as those that are coming, but they are better than tho past, and the custom sky is brightening.— (l allien 'Hide. Nome Other (lame. A man with his left arm in a sling was telling a passenger on a Fort-street car what ailed him and how it happoned. Said he: "My boy Henry likes to go hunting, und so last Soonday I takes my g n und goes oudt by del* Norris road mit him to kill some squirrels. Booty soon wo vhas separated, und i goes along by a thicket und Henry shoots me mit his shotgun." "Accidentally, of course?" "Of course. Ho sees mo creepitig along, und takes me for a wolf." "A wolf! Why, there isn't a wolt in 500 miles of Detroit." "Dot vhas so, but Henry doaiT know it until we comes back-home. He feels worry bad aboudt it. Henry vhas a good boy, und next time ho doan' make sooch a mistake—he shoots me for a woodclinck !"— Detroit Free Press. THE trouble is that before marriage the young man thinks that when she becomes his wife she will be as unwil ling that he should spend money for her as she is now, and that she thinks ho will be as generous when ho is her hus band as she finds him now that ho is in love.— Sonierrilh' Journal, CONFIDING Son— Mother, what's tho best way to propose to a girl ? Mother- When tho right girl comes along, my son, you won't need any advice. 1 WOULD ASK HIM TO COME AGAIN. | Uow JK>v. Mr. IVnleOOHt Would ileraivo a IStn-Klar in UIN House. I People often amuse themselves by ! 'binking and saying what they believe hey would do if a burglar broke into lie house at night. Of course they viiow very little about it, and fortun itoly very few persons are called upon ;o put their professions to the test of ' ictual experience. In discussions on j mch subjects, however, it is usual for iacli speaker to assume and assert that le would act with ordinary common ,ense, if not with some degree of cour ige. Very seldom, indeed, can a man | be found who will admit that he would jonduct himself like a miserable weak ling in the presence of a thief. Some j clergymen, however, appear to enter lain different ideas from common people in reference to matters of this sort. Hugh O. Pentecost, a missionary preacher, made a remarkable statement i in the course of a sermon at Newark as lo what he would do in case a thief got into his dwelling, "If I knew a burg lar was in my house at night," he said, 'I would go to him with a light, un armed, and talk to him as I would a j Friend whom I desired to help. If he llicn desired to take my goods I would make no protest, nor would I cause his arrest. 1 would follow him to the door ind invito him to call again." And the reverend gentleman went on to say that if Mr. Lnca, the Brooklyn grocer, had acted in this manner, he would be liv ing to-day and his assailant would not be in jail. It is very difficult to arguo with a man who talks like this, says the Sun, because there is 110 common ground of agreement upon wlncli the discussion can begin. But a few questions and illustrations may serve to show tlio folly of such wishy-washy utterances. Sup pose Mr. Pentecost was living in India, and ho wake up some tine night and found a tiger in his dwelling. Would be take a light, like Lady Macbeth, and go up to the tiger unarmed, and begin then and there to try to tame and domesticate the beast? There are thousands of good people who think it is just as wrong to be cruel to animals as it is to be cruel to men; and doubt less they are right, if the cruel treat ment is needlessly inflicted. But when a man meets a rattlesnake in his path ho does not give the reptile an op portunity to strike, in order to ascer tain whether the creature may not be good enough to run away if let alone, if he is a man of sense he takes effect ive measures at once to avert the possi bility of evil, just as Marshal Nagle did in the case of the assault upon •Judge Field. The time to argue with a burglar or would-be murderer is when we have rendered liini powerless to do evil, and the place to reform him is in prison. This missionary clergy man declares that he would let his im aginary burglar take his property with out making any protest. Well, suppose a burglar, instead of coming after his property, came after one of his children, like the California bandit Morales, whose abduction of a beautiful young girl from her father's house near San Diego was reported recently? If he • would let the burglar go so readily, or rather with an invitation to call again, in the one case, why not in the other? We have no patience with so-called Christian teaching of this kind. There cannot bo too much Christianity, but give us the manly sort, such as Charles Kingslev taught, and no more of this . sentimental nonsense. How to Get Good Claret. Whilst vast quantities of wine in the Medoc are bottled at the end of tlio second year, the fine wines are kept in casks until the third or fourth year. Once in bottle, well corked, the mind oi man may be at rest about his wine, which, up to a certain limit of time, goes on improving. Where occasion for care again presents itself is in getting the wine out of the bottle with out shaking. Most wine pantries are furnished with a small basket, in which the wine bottle may rest whilst the wine is drawn into the decanter. Wine merchants, wine tasters atnl experienced wine drinkers in the Me doc do not trouble themselves about these contrivances. They carefully lift the bottlo from a horizontal to an upright position some three or four ; hours before it is wanted for the table. At the same time they carefully mark the side of the bottle that has lain up permost, and in decanting pour out the wine from that, as it is sure to be free j i from dust. With steady hand they draw from a bottle a maximum quantity j of absolutely clear, bright Any one who desires to drink a good glass of Medoo or Bergundy will not decant 1 it till almost the moment it is required, thus preserving the freshness of the aroma. Good wine needs no bush: but in our climate (which, by the way, the experts of the Medoc declared to be the best possible for storing line wines) it is better for a little warmth. Bather than drink red wine in the winter months drawn from a celler in which the tem perature has not, been maintained at, a desirable pitch, it is better to put the wine where it may feel the tire. A better way still still is to leave it on the mantlepiece of the dining-room for four or six hours before it is to be decanted, when it will have an opportunity of ac quiring something like the temperature of the room. It is well worth while warming the decanter beforo pouring in tlio wine, so that it may not receive the shook of contact with the cold glass. A Grave-Digger Passes a Had Night. j A few nights ago, whilo a party of I .young men and women were walking under the shade-trees skirting the Lafayette cemetery, they were startled by a number of wild cries issuing from the center of that buring ground. The hour was about 9, and, although there were twenty persons about, none of them at first, could muster enough cour age to go in. Then some of them, guided by the sound, made their way between the graves to a vault near the . center of the cemetery. The vault top rises only a few inches above the ground, but there area number of holes piercing the sides, and tlio investiga tors threw themselves prone beforo this. For a time they could see nothing. Then one of the watchers discovered the outline of a human form, and an other piercing cry rent the air. Satis fied now that the thing within was a ghost the men sprang to their feet and ran like mad to the streets. The mys tery was not explained until Officer Smith passed that way. Just as he reached the vault in question he noticed the white face of a man who was lying on the floor inside. lie promptly broke in the door and found Jas. N. Clarke, one of the grave-diggers, in a half unconscious condition, leaning against tlio side of the vault. It was some minutes before he could talk. I Then he Haid: "I came into the vault yesterday af ternoon to do some work. There are I seventeen bodies here. As I entered ' the door closed with a bang, and I saw | that I was caught. The lock is a spring lock, and opens only from the outside. | At first I laughed, but as no one came to my relief 1 soon quit that. When night came I was thoroughly frightened. There was no fun in the prospect of passing a whole night in a narrow vault j with seventeen corpses. Then I I shrieked for help, but no one came. I must have fainted, for when I woke the ! sun was shining. I knew no one until you came. I'm going into some other business now." flow Rockets Are Made. ltockets are made for three purposes: I for signaling, for decorations or cele brations, or as projectiles in war. For signals, the charge consists of twelve parts of niter, two of sulphur, and three of charcoal. The ornamental or deco rative rocket is the one we see used on the Fourth of July, and the composition of which it is made comprises 122 parts of mealed or finely pulverized powder, eighty of niter, forty of sulphur, and forty of cast-iron fillings. The main part of the rocket is a case, I made by rolling stout paper, covered on one side with paste, around a wooden form, at the same time applying con siderable pressure. The end is then "choked," or brought tightly together, with twine. The paper case thus made is next placed in a copper mould, so that a conical copper spindle will pass up through the choke, and the composi tion is then poured in and packed by blows of a mallet on a copper drift or packing tool made to lit over the spindle. The top of the case is now closed with a layer of moist plaster of paris one inch thick, perforated with a small hole for the passage of the flame to the upper part, or "pot." The pot is formed of another paper cylinder slipped over and pasted to the top of the case, and surmounted by a paper cone filled with tow. The "decorations" are placed in the pot and are scattered through the air when the ttame, having passed through the aperture of the plaster, reaches a small charge of mealed powder, placed in the pot. The stick is a piece of pine wood, tapering, and about nine times the length of the rocket. It is to guide the rocket in its flight. The decorations in the pot may be "stars," "serpents," "marrows," "gold rain," and so on. "Marrous" are small paper shells filled with grained powder and pinned with quick match. "Ser pents" are small cases about one-half inch in diameter, in which is a com position of three parts niter, three sul phur, sixteen meal powder, one-half charcoal. This composition is driven in the case, the top of which is closed by plaster of paris, having a small aperture through which passes a piece of quick match. Disease in Lower Animals. The theory is hold that some of the lower animals suffer from disease in duced by the same family of germs that cause typhoid fever in the human spe cies, and that they may, bv means of their secretions and excretions and slaughtered carcasses, convey the dis ease back to man. Many instances are recorded where outbreaks of what ap peared to be typhoid have been traced to the eating of meat of animals known to have been diseased when killed. One authority relates the following: A butcher refused to buy n calf, because it was manifestly ill; the family, there fore, to whom it belonged killed and ate it themselves, and six of their num ber were attacked with typhoid fever. Dr. Crawford tells of another instance of this sort. At Kloten, a place seven miles north of Zurich, on the 80th of .Tune, 1878, a festal board was spread, and 690 persons partook of the viands, of whom 290 fell ill with typhoid fever, and 878 others who had eaten at the inn whoso landlord had furnished the collation, making in all 008 persons af fected with the disease from the effects of the same feast. There were 49 oth ers affected secondarily, making 717 cases directly and indirectly from the feast. The cause of the outbreak was traced directly to a sick calf furnished the innkeeper by a butcher, as it was clearly shown that only those who par took of the veal thus furnished were at tacked. This veal had been procured of a dealer at Seebach, who had sold tlio liver of the same uuimal to a fellow townsman, who was in like manner at tacked with typhoid fever. The brain of the same animal was sent to the par sonage at Seebach, and all the family were attacked with the saiuo disease. The calf was ascertained to havo been almost dead when receiving the dis patching blow from the butcher. Not withstanding the largo number of in stances which appear to support the theory that typhoid fever is communi cated by animals to man, it is by no means settled that such is possible. In fact, there are gravo doubts if the disease caused by eating moat believed to be infected was actually typhoid fe ver. A Vine of the Dead. In the beautiful cemetery at Athens stands an old tomb of a family once prominent, not only in the Classic City, but in other cities and throughout the State. In it are laid at rest the bodies |of several ancestors who once played prominent parts in the history of Athens and the state. Death slights no family, though for a time he may pass it by. A few years after the war the door ol the last cold resting place of the family yawned for awhile and closed again on the increased dead who slept within its dark, cold recesses. For somo years there wore no deaths, and the Rilence of the tomb was unbroken, save for the visits of loved onos who knelt without and offered prayer for the dead or pain loving tribute to their virtues. At las! death came once more. The good old grandmother bowed to the will of time, and dear ones gathered to pay their last . respects. The solemn procession wound I its slow way to the cemetery. The i door of the vault moved heavily on it* hinges as it swung back to receive it* dead. A Hood of golden sunlight filled the tomb, dispelling the gloom and re. vealiug a strange sight. There, creep- I ing along the walls and over the coffins, was a white vine. Pure and pearly i! stood in bold relief against the darh background and glistened in the sun light. Put what most [astonished tli 4 >s( i who saw it was its urn-shaped wind I ings. There was no mistaking the re j semblance. It was almost a perfect urn. But the wonder did not stop here. Curling further on it formed] a 1)., tin family initial. Astonishment coasec not here. It was a trip story, am? the climax was .tto be I led. The minister offered upt.be j i or, "Ashe* to ashes, dust fo du t Those wlu were looking at the whih sine saw r tremble, then it li •1* -,il 11 in frag men Is, scattering over the dins of th dead. — Augusta Chronicle. THE potato bug issjinl to be doterio ating but it made manv a mash in it j better days.— A Chaplain's Opinion of the Guil lotine. The Abbe Faure, chaplain of the Ro qnette, lias just sent to the Minister of 1 the Interior a report on his six years' work as prison chaplain, during which time lie has accompanied thirteen crim inals to the guillotine. It may seem , strange at first sight that a priest,whose duty it is to speak tenderly and lovingly and pray with the dying murderer, to con sole and abs >lve him, and at the last mo ment to kiss him on both cheeks, should bo an advocate of capital punish- j ment. The abbo defends it on the ground that criminals are really fright ened by no other penalty. To convince ] oneself of this, he says one need only | compare the behavior of the prisoner 011 1 the ovo and 011 tho morrow of tho an nouncement of a respite. Before it ho is ill, feverish, and unable to ait or sloop; but after he at once recovers his spirits, talks even jocosely of his trip to New Caledonia, and begins to look fur ward to a free pardon. The abbe does not answer the objection that murderers I seldom consider con so | nonces before- I hand, but lie nevertheless believes in tho deterrent olVcet of the scutl'old.— [Pall Mall Gazette. No Cure No Fay. 1 It Is a pretty eevcro tost of any doctor's sit ill when tho payment of his fee io made coiuli ; ttoiial upon his curing his patient. Wt after having, for many years, observed tho thou sands of marvelous cures effected In liver, I K°2? diseases,by Dr. Pierce's Golden Aledlcal I)i covery, its manufacturers feel warranted in sol ing it iu- t icy are now doing, tbrough all druggists, the world over, under a certificate of pfxiUv* guarantee line it will cither benefit or euro in every case of di-eiwo for which they ro ommend it. if taken in time and iven a fair trJal, or money paid for it will bo promptly refunded. Torpid liver, or "bil- | iousnosa," fmpuro blond, skin eruptions, scrof ul us o esahd swoilings, consumption (which 1 8 c;*-la of tho lungsl, all yield to this won derful medicine, it is both tonic or strength r. soring, JJT b o-'d-cleaiising. Chronic Nasal Catarrh positively cured by Dr. .Sago's Itemedy. oO oento, by dru GF.OUOTA is $24,2517,710 richer than one your ngo. Tlmt is tho amount of tho increase in her tax assessments, and tho gain has boon vory general all over the State. Other Southern States aro pressing along in the same lino with great vigor. America's finest.-— I "Tumuli's Bunch " Cigar. Tho Irish police have been ordered not. to "shadow " l-iUglish members of i'urliumcut traveling in Ireland. To-Mghr mill Toiilorrotf Night. And each day and night during this week yon can get at all drnggsts' Kemp's Hal am for the Throat and I.tings, acknowledged to be thu most successful remedy over sold for tho cure of Coughs, ('roup, bronchitis. Whooping Cough, Asthma and Consumption. Get a bot tle to-day and keep It always in the house, so you can check your cold at once. Price 6CO. and sl. Sample bottles free. The annual returns show that. 78,084 per sons emigrated from Ireland during the past Any article that lias outlived 24 years of com pcntiosi and imitation, and sells more and more each year, must have merit. Dohbins's Electric Soap first made in 18d. is just that arti. . Ask your grocer for it. lio has it, or will get it. The Em press Ercderiek of Germany will pay a visit lo llio Vatican during her sojourn iu Italy. If afflicted Willi aorn eyes u*e Or Isaac Thornp ion's Eye Water OniKgistH sell ZSo per bottle The skeleton of a man was found low down in an old hollow sycamore stump hy work men engaged in blowing up slumps, near Tiflin. Ii;io. Sick Headache Is a very distressing affection, generally arising from stomach troubles, biliousness and dyspepsia, and we frequently Had persons of both sexes subject to periodic headaches for which they can ascribe no direct cause. Hut the hcnducho is'n sure indication that thcro Is something wrong somewhere, and Whatever the cause Hood's Sarsaparlila is a reliable remedy for headache, and for all troubles which seem to require a corrective and regulator. It cures dyspepsia, biliousness, malaria, tones the stomach, creates an appetite, and gives strength to the nerves. N. B. He sure to get Hood's Sarsapanlla Sold by all druggists. $1; six for Prepared only by C. I. noon ft CO., Apothecaries, Lowell, Mass. IOO Doses One Dollar THE EDWARD HARRISON MIIJII CO., SY Harrison's NtnniUril Iturr WBfa Stone Uriiiding anil t'lminni; and tfur a bi 1 jnfffc respon si bio part inn. W rSftSS ulflL Low Pi'leri, Write for tEj&alF New Illustrated Cata- Jilillii loguc and mention this paper. 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M 1,10 n ian who want* M-rvice to five dollars In a Rubber Coat, and U (t style) a garment that will keep at his first half hours experience In |\ m jf&B mm him dry ini the hardest storm. It.la a storm finds to his sorrow that it la fiAa El B f, S ItRAND nardly a better protection titan a rnos- IV C| H Sl.inß Kit,"'u narae fatnUinr to every qulto nettiiiK. not only feels chajrrinrd Cow-l>oy al lover the land. \\ it It them at brills' so badly taken in, hut also B_i 8l "'C Wind and tN aternr.wf eels tf lie dots not look exactly liko Saan j|ca Coat is lowers I* ihlyllrand .slicker. Alk tor the "KlHli itUANi)" Mr icKttß ■ B■■ B W and take another. If v .:r storekeeper does not hnve the Ftsn hkam>. send lor descriptive catalogue. A..T. Tow Kit.'JO Simmons St.. Iloston. Mass, 4*4* * -i- -i- *i* ■M* *** * * 4* "i* ****** *** * * JOSEPH H. HUNTER. ♦JP to usp Hclief is immediate/ A cure is HB It is an Ointment, of which a small partic e is "PP'toJ to the nostrils. I'rice, 60c. 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