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From the dust of the deaiU J Yoinii; heads loek forwarl, I'lie ilead'"past is'ni^ht ; 'They live in the present, , ' And their future is.lvritht- Ahhouiih they Jailer I As lii-at does from cold, jl.i-.t old heads from youn,' may A.s yonu^ heads from old.- The youuj: 1 would caution : lie not ijvcrwise When your tlders'in trouble, \\\-uld hale you advise. ]'>e glad to impart .YVhat your ithli- i/i to.tcli ; Be patient in lisU-hinj;, And modest in speteh. The old who know little, Alid talk ml:eh slmuld heed l.est in trying to teaeli, -- They only mislead. To the old who have wisdom "Tis neeilless to say. The j;ras3 muft l>e se.feoneil lletiirt; it is jiav. Let yeur truths be iwll studied, Thtn ldair.lv expressed, . " .ii'.d not ill the garments +>f pedantry dressed. '. Let no word of falsehood " KYr fail from vo'ur t->ii^uc. And all .-hall hoVtttared . - ' The old :dnl the vouno. [earn, K, NV. 'El'i:!E. T. YT. 00?ES, Gi-yil 3ui^ecrr, Guelpn." SADDLERY, i . ow well Uio little hlnek velvut hat,' with'Us white ostrich plume, become lor how perfectly she tuannged lior steed ! Wlmt ciiHtlos in tho ^ ^ ;l. L.V.IDL-HV. iiarrister. >i'r I."." in H _ASE='- ' is.:. *j- FiXilV DSiItt' r. \cv.sT. M .-.-jr.: :: i-.: 1 "-V: iiav otir Harness at le Ontario S-.J-iiorv. -.-here you ge the worth of vour mnney.- A s-tilend:d lot of ">"' COLLARS on ha.i J. " . . r-y. All parties ltuciOiS to pur chase !!ar:;e-i should (1 so .-.1 once !>efi>re theru-'n coranertes in order to securer, good set. _ ' "'.' T.CREECH. Acton; Jan. 7. J.-7S. ; L. DKaK." t5I^ fV. r.: I-.-:-i- \'TS for i:"VK-\i IONS ?:;in- Gi.i- . .:-. ,-.va. '.: -r, s-.'icl'.nr T. . it v. ir.J UraM;::isroc o Pi-I* LIVER LOZJB.?>aster( - -,rol Kon,':i-ca = '-irr-' >, V. t.or.:it/.c teria-, .iti-'l sail-1 TAKIG1APY fd. K'^'!--'-! ti^??ti'->!le SlV HO'f-SE. . on- to the 'J- T. P.'.:-*-i.y .--."t:..:!. "nrars xlati'-n f"r til' tr.-.v.-.- THaS. cAMI'^IvLL.i'r^r. JU' -' 'Dr-r, -'if."/ '.-^ -i' -first-.-'O.-s : , ri:*cc vr:-5h:rio learn SHORTHAND v.-ottld do well address^ s. W.'ALIi'it^ITII, ' j. /'/-- *-, Acton. Hotel ir- V r--. Cornrner.;: '^c'lraraolious'sanlFrep'" -- S!'"" a -_i?!-. -'.or- p.il 1 "-o ta 'lir^rs'and. CnVaV.l'".io^l "sWiLllcg aud k,:.;i-.t!Te Host1'-' t~ Of trarcrl- itli tr ^ IV M. II EM ST St ET Lie snse d Auohoe eer for t6H. (j :!i P.o: Ter -ii Co-.titlP!- of Weiilagt ,u!"'Tr:' 6r'-rf lfft fit t!is t"F-K I'f-f.; ., 1;^. or at mv r^id^nr..,--! k-!ro.j. ^-;;i t> prornr'-:>' attenue-i t ^-= r^Li.sonabi'?- B03 per Js: "p TSOLLOPE CHAPSiArv Practical B.aok"biB.dsr. All D*>criptioiiS:or KindLns Neatly Executed. Ae^wf-iJv'^ 0/ all Kind* (jnl-.r. Had': t'J J Ruling Promptly Attended to. quare, Ocepl A TBAP FOR A YOUNG V>\~ W. J. MOBGAX. The following :s n true stoiy. It.-w;is told mo on Ijoaril the good ship " Liticplii.shiic-" one lvjiiijh niitlit oil" Cape- Horn l>y u fellow- p.is.-*'iigiT who peri.shed with tlie : ill-fated " L-jiuiuii" not Lnany months; .aftei-si-ards. I fear, how- "ever, any narrative of mine ivili but feebly convey the (iecji impres- sion its thrillitig .and tragic inci dents made upon my mind 11.11 iiupression which n. lapse of years h;ts failed to obliterate or even lessen in the smallest degree. FATiT I. The Day Ukfoue. Tis but another anxious uij;ht."; ' . Ji'in...f. iis- n>y last day of .single ne.-A '. To-morrow, ere noon,, see me -ranked among the noble urinyoT Heiiediets', or mar- tyis, as my uncle, the moat invete rate of. baclielure, would have it. "J'ittii 1 felt half credulous, half in- nnrr I know it is all nonsense (I .speak as a -v'etei'iin-. of nineteen years, with seven oiive -branches round my table). The married State is ti/V right 6ne ; it halves our griefs arid doubk-H our joy.". Such is my ex perience, whatever selfish bachelors or peevish old maids; may say to tho contrary^ To return it was the dny before our wedding, and 1 had plenty to do; how to get through it all, even during- 11 lony June ' day, seemed a puzzle. " Iin- Ijri'mi* morning, Park with- my l^wfTthed, her last canter as Annie iBC-ltravers, luncheon at her fadier'-s lhcn.se, a visit east of Temple Bar L'-'niy family solicitors, a drive iu fternifon park on my old regiment'i- diag, jlinner with my uncle, f^f It v blessed would fii riiav .St. Geor^' fW Orders le-ftat the Fr.rir' Vr.r.= 0*.;fc will.rtc-ive prompt attention. THE ROYAL HOTtX. ' ACTON. EXCHANGE Th<J undersigi heps leave to inform the peon>f Acton and sur rounding neigh'Uood that he has procured -A mrificent I1RAK.SE. 4nd is prepared- attend and con duct Funerals-one shortest notice and most moder- terms. Cadx!*, C'.ft P'l'rhil J!;h,*, And all kinds Funeral Furnish- ings kept in sk, and supplied on the stest notice. Ha* Bands and (res supplied when required. jiix si'kight. Acton,Feb. 1677. :hey nro still unrealized! That I tm not Primp Minister, nor Viceroy }f -India, but a plain country ^entlomun, keeping a puck of ounds for the niuusoment of my neighbors, opoti houso to all good ters in the way they should go no easy mutter in Clicse railroaa tiuies. Hut I urn growing tedious. I hat ride, like all happiness, caaie to an end; that luncheon was drs- cussed,. and I drove to Me'ssia. Surefust and Vellum, and inscribed my name on 'various- parchments. Tho senior .partner was marvellous- ly, ]iolite, and insisted on opening a bottle of rare old -port (I found some hours later), in which to drink our future happiness. I next occupied the seat of honor 011 the drag of the th Hussars, duly presented myself tit lily uncle's houso in, Park Lanef and was ushered into the drawing raom by the old butler. ' "Just twenty minutes Jate,. iraFiy," said Sir John, consulting his charonometer. I hid hai-dly time to apologize- ore the gong summoned us to a dinner worthy of Lucculltis, where my reailei-s-- must be content to leave me until due justice has been done to the inventive faculties of .the-chrj dt: citifine. PART IT. Wooed axu Mauuied axd a'. "In the forest's sl.iatle Our vows .were -plighted." L'ik'jJcUow. "The wine stands with you, Hurry," said my uncle. "Why, bless the boy, ho is so taken up with his future bride that he foi- gets his oljl uncle." " A thousand pardons,"" Baid T, refilling my glass; "but, to tell tlie truth, I was thinking it was high time 1 was off to Covent Gar den, though, indeed, Annie told me, it was not likely she would - " Then don't you go cither, my boy; I shall :be glad of a littlo inore of your "company ; nnd, by- th.e bye, it is customary, is it not, 011 these occasions to give the bride some present ?" ! 1 replied that it certainly was usual. . ' . '" In my day it was qiiite the re verse cake and gloves to all our friends; how ever, I ordered this Ijttle ring to bo made by Storr nnd Mortiirier ; it is the exact copy of it ring I once gave to another bride." (My uncle sighed deeply.) " Give it to your Annie with ntv love and blessing." "I urn sure she will prize it, ho less for its intrinsic value than tor its being your gift," I remarked, at, I examined the ring, an old-fushion- ed whole. hoop of emeralds and diamonds. " And I have something less ornamental, perhaps, but more solid for you," continued my relative. "You know, Harry, you are my heir )" " Unless, uncle, you took it into your head to follow my example." "There is not the slightest chance of that," he replied, in almost a stern tone of 'voice, "if. you will let me finish without interruption; I was saying yen are my sole heir; you are going to my country seat for your honeymoon. Knowing your love for the country, 1 have made over Colebrooke Hall to you now. by deed of gift contained in this envelope. I You will find t#6 place 1.1 sad wilderness it will be an occupation; and 'amusement to you both to. get it into order. ?' 1 This well-known house has recently endc-rgone a thorough renovating ami repairing, is now furnished with n*w aud loiLrii. furniture of tbe best des- eriptro.a, and is prepared to provide fiht-cla-M accommodation to the pirhlie.' The'present proprietor Jias received a license, and lie will keep the bar well supplied with the very best of liquors and ei.'/aVi. ,The s'tablin.7 is.large and -Well-fittfcd up; also, ample shed-room. The patronage of the public is rc-speet- elly solicited.-"' -: - i : JOHX MAXEY. Atton, Jane 2C,'-1&77. V can btfirst-clasB Pianos and Obs cheaper of DAN IEL f:ATTY, Washing __ ton, N' Jersey, than any- other manuf'aaer" in -the United States- WhyBecause " ' he sells only for cash, eB no risks and has no book acccs. Every instru ment is fully ranted for six years as strictly fir-lass, and are senf on from 5 to days' test trial, money refun< and freight paid both ways by 1 if they are usatis- factory. $er)or' Illustrated An- VEHTisER (Capue- .Edition) and ead teslimon from his patrons, some of whonu may know. Ad dress p'ANIB. JBEATTY, Wash- i.ngton^.>'ew ey. John Colebrooke, whoso favorite-J^sts'st How can I ever thank yon nepl ew and heir presumptive 1 wis. The opera and, as a grand finale, a farewell supper to my late brother officers, who nil called me a fool to sell out of a crack cavalry corps and throw awaj my "liberty at iive-and-:twenty, whilst in their hearts, I bdlieve, they all envied mv good ttirtune in winning the belle of the. season. Such was to be the order of the day, and I has tened to get myself up. under the surveillance of my French valet. What pains I bestowod on my; toilet engaged" men always do ] Now I have done with such folliesj' and leave' them to my eldest boy just passed for-Sandhurst. The coat that" fitted mo so faultlessly then would not now button round my waist by six inches out upon" time ! I think I see Adolphe put ting the last firjishing touches to my hair, adjusting the exotic flower in my "button bole, dusting- every speck off my boots. I think I see myselfseated atlast on my thorongh- ;bred, Ladybird, and speeding along towards Grosvenor-squnre. There she was, my bride elect,"in all the glory of youth and loveliness, already mounted, and" waiting for me. How. well the tight-fitting habit showed off ther* delicate pro portions of her sylph|-ike fhjure, them hastily nwuy, my uncle filled his ghiBS, saying, " Ho"re, Hurry, is your good health and your fiancee's, . ... ., -, t . ft'ld may your, future he as bright ur we built that sunny morn m I nnd happy as ruy past has been* ' . \ Zl .._ ^ US', tha* dark ^d miserable! If you. will have patience with an old man's digressioni^ I will tell you my life's tory. During the aw yoars I may yet liavo to live, you will re-.; peat it -to no one, your wife, of k ,, , .: when I am gone, telh.ws, andMnymg, w.th Anmoa y0U Illay publish it to the world, assistance, to bring up our young- | < jn tho 8tiri.in timCH Jhm. George III. was King, when Napoleon "Bonaparte, was. deluging Europe with blood, when Nelson swept the seas, and Pitt, Burko and Sheridan shook tho Senate with their won drous oloquencn, I was as gay a young fellow about town as ever sauntered down Fop's Alley. I could tell' you how I flirted" with many well-known belles of the day; how umong my friends and acquaintances I numbered such, men as the Regent, JLord Byron,! nnd many other celebrities; but this is not to the point I was tlnin, just your age a young Baronet with a large-rent roll, and an ex travagant .turn of mind. With neither father nor mcther to con test me, I led a life of pleasure, riding hard, drinkinj; hard; and yet I suppose I was not so fast as some of you youngsturs are now, or I should not be thu hale man I, nm. One night I 'i-enfc1 with a friend, whose name I have forgot ten, to see,the di'bttl of rf- young actress, reported to be of extraordi nary beauty. The play was The Gkimester; but, in delineating the misery of the gambler's unfortunate wife, the debutante failed to please 'Jier critical audience, and was not applauded. She had mistaken her profession. Her beauty, which was really marvellous, did not atone fur her bad acting. It neomed cruel; it raised pity in one heart, at least, in that crowded pit. I went behind the scenes; I sought to comfort the weeping beauty by assuring her that the same mishap befel the great Siddons. T. wcnt: home that night, for the first time in my life, in love. I discovered that Alice Temple, such was her name, was not only; a lady by birth, but hor father, who bad died two years previously of decline, had actually been rector of Colebrooke parish. Often and often, aa a boy, I had seen little Alice at the rec tory, whifch was in my own gift. Mrs. Temple after her -husband's death, was left, almost peinniless, added to which she lost herfhealth, and it woe'to supnort her sick mother that Alice, much against her will, had gone on. the stage, and failed ! Morally, I felt guilty of their misfortune?, and I .hasten ed to make amends for my criminal negligence. I gave a pretty .cottage, close to (Jolebrooko Hall, rent free to tho widow during her life. I presented the vacant living to h/r nephew ; and Alice, saved from a theatrical, existence, accompanied her mother to her native countfy. I soon followed. Every day that I saw Alice I admired her more and more. 1 resolved that I would make her Lady Colebrooke. Away from the dissipations and racket of town life, I spent, then, the few happy days of. my life in the society of the loveliest and best of beings, who seemingly loved roe as: much as I adored her. I say seemingly, foi the sequel will show how bitter ly I was mistaken. It was in tho fir-woods above the house that I spent the happiest day of my life, tho day she accepted me, and vow ed that she had no other attach ment to any but me; It was in these same Woods that I |passed the most miserable night of lily wretch ed after-life but I anticipate. I look back upon thoso tew weeks as the one ray of real sunshine that has illuminated a long, dark day. Together we roamed over tie lovely country during the bright months of June and July. I gpt Sir Thomas Liwrence to paint her portrait. You will tee it in the drawing-room, and jiidgo Ijy that feeble reflection if I Lave exagger ated her charms. 1 require no picture -her face is eDgraved in my mind; that luxuriant hair, those deep, violet eyes,those pearly teeth! Hers Was a beauty almost super- drunlr, and then our guosta left Alice and me to ourselves. We spent a happy enough afternoon, wandering over the house and grounds, and talking about the alterations and improvements we would make. The bright July day wore away dinner time cunio (wo dined at Bix o'clock in. thoso days). It was wide ; we were sitting over our dessert that Bennett (then footman) came to telLme thet the head constable from Hereford was in the hall, and wished tp see -me on special busi ness. Ibado hitnqask if tho case: was urgent and admitted of.no dolay. Inwardly "ap'atheniatising- tlre man's ill-timed visit, I told Alice to amuse herself in the draw ing-room and I would rejoin her in ten minutes. How that-scene is imprinted upon my memory. I see her now sweep gracefully from the room, kissing her iiand to me as she reached the door/, and play fully remarking, "J. hope the^ constable has not come I to carry' you off to prison it would-jje too bad to separate us so soon !"; I see her last loving smile as she-disap peared from the room^yes, Harry, her last, " I never saw her more !" My uncle paused I saw the big tears rolling down . hia-cheeks I felt, too, a chokirg sensation in my throat as I tried to' say ," how shocking I" I could not utter "a word. More than a minute's pain ful silence intervened before my relative commenced anew. (To be Continued;) He Didu't Want tlie 'Scriy- . tion. ' He was an old man, and ho had a bit of conductor's pasteboard stuck in his hat He walked into the drugstore and enquired-: 'Have you7<ot any good whiskey i' ' YeSjiBir,' replied the gentleman ly druggist. - - --_ nj ' Gdmmo half a pint ' v"^ '.Ifuvo yoa got a doctor's seription V ';- No.' ' Can't sell it, then, sir. in session j must be strict;' ' Where' can I get a doctor ?' sadly inquired the aged inebriate. ' I am a physician, sir,' whining- ly responded the druggist. ' ' Can'fc-yoa give me that what you,called it 'seription V '; ' Well, I might' And the doc tor wrote out a prescription blank, pre- . Jury Pearls of Truth. callinp tor so many- ounces of spiriius- frumenti. He filled 'a. snug looking bottle with the'ar'ticle, pasted a label on. it numbered to correspond with the paper, and presenting the bottle to the vener able l-oysterer, remarked, in tho -rnQst business like way imaginable': gasped-l ' Ain't! ?" The Romish Leos. The new Pope has assumed the title of Pope. Leo Xllli, and we are led to inquire after his prede cessors who have borne tlie name of Leo. Pope Leo. I., called also "The Great," was a Tuscan, and occupied St. Peter's chair from A. D. 440 to 461.. Leo IT. was a Eornan. _ He died the next year after' his eleetibn* which occurred A. D. 682. - Lso IH., a Roman, reigned, twenty-one" years, A. D. 795 to A.D. 816. ; - ; ' Leo IT. occupied the Holy See from 847 to 855. He was , an Italian. Leo V. the " unfortunate Leo," reigned one month and was then banished. This occurred in 903. He was a native of Ardea. Leo VI., a Roman, was Pope for. one year, 928. Leo VII., reigned three years, from 936 to 939. . Leo VIII. had an unsettled and brief reign of two years, from 963 to 965. Leo IX. was a'German, and reigned five year?, 1049 to 1054. Leo X., whoso name will always be famous because of his powerful opposition against Luthnr;, wore the Pontifical robes from 1543 to 1521. He was a native of -Flor ence. ] - Leo XL, also a Florentine/ ac ceded to the Popedom in 1605. His honors faded in-a single month. Leo XII., a native of Papal Italy, was Pope from 1823 to 1829. The firsfr'four Leos and the ninth have been accorded canonical nones. It is somewhat a6toLishing that. Leo X. escaped this infliction, in view of his eminent services during the most trying period of the "Romish Supremacy." It will be noticed "that two of tho Leos reigned twenty-one years, two one year, and two one month";. fjiciently ?" I said, ss I to6k the 4ei]d from my iinole's hand. "It Inis'been mv dream to be a country gentleman." " And you have realized if." " Annie, too, I know, is of the same mind ; but, positively,"! feel as' if I w^as robbing you. You must promise to be our first guest, uncle." ; - ' " Never, never do I wish to set my eyes on the place again. May it prove a happier home to you than it has been to me may/jour commencement of married life there be more auspicious than mine was." j ' 'Than'"yours, uncle 1 I never knew till now you had been mar ried." ' : " I was, indeed, though my ex perience of wedded blifts is very short. The tale is- long ago forgot ten. During my yoluntary exile from England of so many years, the friends of my youth dropped away. I, who would have gladly have followed theni, was left. . Except my faithful did servant, Bennett, few recollect the tetriblo mystery connected with my marriage a mystery, the truth of which will; T suppose, never, be known 1 until ' that' day when tbo secrets of all hearts shall be1 revealed."' Tears glistened in his eyes, but, brushing ' A dollar and a half, sir.': _f A dollar and a half! his astonished customer, that pretty high, mister?' . ' It's our price. a dollar for the prescription and fifty cents for the medicine.' 'Yes, well,' slowly replied the wicked eld duffer, as he Blowlv but toned up the half pint in his over coat pocket, 'I guess, bossj that I don't want-the 'seription. .Here's your half a dollar,' and he stuqk his tongue in one side of his mouth, winked ironically at him out of the mortar and peftle, and walked out. 1------------------- Napoleon's PFophecy. Napoleon, the Great, when at St. Helena, spoke as follows to T)r. O'Mearaj. - " In the course of a few years Russia will have Constantinople^ and the greater part of Turkey and Greece. This 1 hold to be as cer tain as. if it had already taken place. In the natural course of things in u few years Turkey must fall to Russia. The greatest part of lier population are Greeks, you may say Russians. The Powers; it would injure and who could oppose it, are England, France, Prussia and Aus tria!' "Now, as to Austria, it will be very easy for Russia to engage her assistance by giving her Servia and other provinces- bordering -On the Austrian Dominion, reaching near to Constantinople. The only The man whose, wind and Lands are Lr.sy finds no time to weep and' wail. If work is slack spend; the time in reading, lso man ever knew too much. TLe ;hardest stijden'tH in the world are 'the old men who know the most. Habits influence the character prqtty much as nnderciirrentijiiifl.il-'- ende- a "vessel, and whether they" spded us on the way of our vi^ns-; or retard our progress, 'their e;i- e'_ is not the less important 1 c-7;fet/ imperceptible1. < -] Among so many - art while others - bavcf been this alone remains uiishak- n. ".oat we.ought to beware of coiii'ifiUing' injustice rather .'than of b't.ing in jured, and that, above all. a man out to study not to appear good, but to,'be so_. both publicly.1 and, privately. >1_ The third finger was oii;?in:rHv__ chosen for wearing the weddings, ring for the reason that it is" not "i only used. less, but is more capably of preseryingia ring from bruisef-i^ having this one quality peculiar to- itself, tfijit it canriot be extended but in company with, some some' other finger, whereas tbe others may be singly stretched out to their full length and straightness. ' Character ' is alweys known.,. Thefts never enrich; alms'-riever impoverish,; murder will speak ott.f- - of -stone walls. . The least admix-s ture of a lie for example, the least mixture of; vanity, the least at tempt to make a good impression,- a favorable appearance, will vitiate the effect; but speak the 'truth and all nature and all spirits hel'p- you With unexpected furtherance. - JEmeff-on. :. : - It Wis finally said by Socratss - that the shortest and' most direct road to popularity is ' for a man to be the same as he wishes to be taken for.' People are egregious- - ly mistaken if they think they caii ever attain tp|iermanent popularity -. by. hypocrisy; by mere outside ap pearances, and;- by only their lang'u'age'but their looks. True popularity takes deep root, and spreads itself wide,_, but the " false falls away like, blsssoms-; for nothing that is'false can be lasting. WcciV. Total Abstinence at Home. If you have a son/ keep him, if you can, from -ever touching a glass of wine, ; Ii is the ready excuse of jinany a young lad for caking a glasa Sofichampagne^ " We always have ...---------------....... . ..--------,_, t' at home." The decanter "at hypothesis that England and France^ 1 bcmie kindles the appetite which will ever be allied with, sincerity wil] be in order to prevent this. But even, this alliance will not' Being a Roy. avaiL France, England and Prus sia cannot effect it, and once mis tress of Constantinople, Russia gets all the commerce o the. Med.iTer- ranean, boeomes a- great na.val power, and God knows what may happen. She will qiarrel with England, march off an army to In dia of ,90,000 good soldiers, which to'Russia is nothing, and 400,000 Cossacks, and England loses India. Above all other powers Russia .is to, be feared especially by England. Her soldiers are braver than the Austrians, and: she has the means of raising as many as she pleases. A hundred years hence I shall be applauded for my efforts to re-es tablish the Kingdom of Poland, and Europe^ especially England, will lament that I did not succeed. There are only three ways of 'at tacking England with, effect, de taching Ireland from her; captur ing her Indian possessions or a des cent on'her c"bast." . lave thought I see your natural. Sometimes ? she was not mortal smile of incredulity wait till you riew that portrait, v ait till you hear the end. " Of course1 all my l|rionds warn ed mo not to marry at, actress ; of course I would not hi convinced. What lover ever yel listened, to advice? I married her. The knot was tied in, Colebrook Church. It was a quiet affair, very unlike what yours will be tomorrow. A. friend now gone was ny best man. The clergyman, Edw rd Temple's daughter, two fresh 1 joking-girls Alice's bridesmaid j a tenants and servants 'vera the sol5 spectators. The cer< inony over,' we drove to tbe hoise, where a merry party of eight sat down to .the breakfast;. 6ur healths we're In that delightful book, " Being a' Boy," Mr. Charles Dudley- Warner gives such touches as this to the common places oi life : " His tlders say that the boy is always hungry : but that is a very coarse way of putting it. He has only recently oome into a world that is full of good .thintrs to eat; and" there is, on the whole, a very short time -in which to. eat them ; at least he is told^ among the first information he receives, that life is brief. Life beiijig brief, and pie and the like fleeting, he very soon decides, on an active-campaign. It may be an ol 1 storj to people who have been eating for forty or fifty years, but it is different with a be ginner. He takes the thick and thin as it comes as to pie, for in stance.! Some people do make thiim veirjHbin.' ettthei That Fetched Him- soon seeks the drinking saloon. The thoughtless "or "reckless parent givas. the fatal push which sends!, thelioys to destruction. ^ Lon^ "labor in the temperance re-' forhi l^as convinced me that the. most effectual placo to promote jt is at home. " There is the spot where the mischief too often is done. ' Let it be written upon. the: walls of every 'house r- Wherever there is a hoy, there should never hi- u. bottle. Miehiijander was ' cbrtrt on 'a charge of battery, preferrei 5Young men - who visit their girls in this deplorable age of slang should be careful to speak distinct ly, t A few evening since as a Mill Street clerk was about to bid his swebtheart good-bye for a few days, his emotion neatly mastering him, he began in an unintelligible voice few of my-j t0 utter words of lovepwhen she biought him down from the sub lime "to the ridiculous by exclaim ing in a loud voice/"Whac'd yer soy.!"' That lovo story; is yet un told. ' When brought into assault and battery, preferred by his wife, his Honor asked him why he struck her. ' She called me a worthless, lazy loafer, but that wasn't it.- .'Well?' j 'She said our whole family weren't fit for fish bait, but-I didu't got mad at that.' . " ' What was it, then ?'"',-. '.She ?hook her fist under my nose, and naid I was too lazy to die, but I know'd she was excited and I let that pass. She's got a fearful temper, your honor.'- ' I wish to know if you had "sufiicfent' cause or provocation,' said the coutt. '- ' I guess I had, Judge. - She came close up and spit in my Face, and said I was meaner than'pizeu, but I didn'f'mind that.* ' What then?' LensHieniiijir Mis Nights. Bonnel Thornton, like most wits, was a lover of^eonviviality, which frequently led; him to spend the whole night-'Tri" Company and the next morning in bed. On ons of these occasions an old fetnale rela tion, having waited on- hirn before be hatl arisen, began' to-read a fj.- miliarnleetnre on -prudence, which she concluded by saying :-^- "Ah, -Bonnel, BDrinel! -I see plainly that vou'll shorten uour daiji." _ " Very true, uiadam, replied he ; but,by the same rule you must ad mit that I "shall -lengthen iny nights!" ' ' " - ' ' ' :t" il! I m ..(3% 1 : ' : ' .is : . - 1/ ,:'3i- - In the third precinct a policsmtn arrestedfa man who tried to explain that hel-was only " weary/" The policeman explained that there is arrest fc-V the "waary." A" Georgia negro who filled-to put in an appuar.anot} uatil "a'.wjsk after the day sec" for hi3- W-VdJing, explained that he and his brother had only one good suit of 'clothes '.between theui, and that as his b'ro- fther was off preaching he had to i-await his return. t : Doring the sermon-in." the Bip- tist Cnurch at Grand R-ipjids, Mich, a few Sundays ugo.='a-jSve year old child left its sa'at, walked up to the pulpit, and stood 'beside Dr. Graves, the pastor, wW in- qiiired, '^What do you want, my little mjiti V " A glass, of water,' child replied. The' the child replied. The" minister ' I know'd her temper, and I sot | poured out a glass of. water, and and whistled ' Hold'the Fort,' and I was bearing and bearing with her, when she turned round and gin my coon dog the sniashingest kick lifted him right out'n doors onter his head. That fetched mo. Judge, iif there had bee)i forty lions and a cajnel in the rotjtlj I'd have skinned-her or died a trying:' t the chiid drauk.it and left the p!at-=? form. * Tl.hfe-vincident created muck- iimuimmit ab6ng the congregt. -tion)/wirich tlie AJkilji, in returning" to-Ws seat, noticedi-and thinking; thepeoplo>vere laughing at soma-' mistake of his, heluiide a bow to the pastor, and siid, 'Thank you, sir,' anil took his seat. 7 i le m 3 ^ " 4 !: w .-'3'. ij^. II -i:J. ii 1-8 m 'ii ^"h-: V :v-r:fp :. i# m ^P^'