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J. 4. *-;, * aaisAawrfJitC * / t :U. I ^ as v 9 t/eJae III. Jio.-WhoIf No. 107 } ^ ACTON, ONT., THURSDAY, JULY 12, 1877. \ ipi.OO per annojn in Advance BUSlXXfS CUil>& c HEAP BREAD *^*&&Ua?ft,..fc FOR THE MILLION nfljJtffliCoUtseori'hyMclivn* oVl<*>>. Mo nJ SOT*51"1- OBlct m) Ko.-ldMico . !suV eceiyUfA ><y K. Utile. Km, . pvR. iR., JtfORKsjtW.. 4 P. -3DE- Physi- 1 cin. SarR'o.in, *o., o! HMleVui'-Col- ,^J \>rfc.*lioOr*iluat ai Victoria *jMTt au Friday*, rrom 9 a. m, v>U< RestJorK-c West Howor street. ACTS':1-' HENDERSON, Convey-- let a D.-.V LU'# .wwofwfe C* X>etl. Mori^r^K*-*. *:- proi'AfOd ni\'\\lv,VT';im^uy. rv>rrocUy n~f on reioil itIe trrrn*. Money to Ljni-Oa Mortgage security. Office O'.UiP* Homo, AClon. P.XATHESOX, Attorney 0 al-L.'wr, Solicitor In Chsineory, Ac. 0-T5.-? Corner ef Mnlo and CliurtU T, W. COOPER, vRa\v Oil. Inns. etc. |iiite Lead, and ;s, Starch,. "trashing itbfaes, etc. :es ; apan afid; In 10 cents >!irit_Y. b bbos. :er! I0TS- :'"r Provinoial Land Surveyor and Civil Engineer, Guelph. n 0rd*r* tFT ma'l promptly attested to. I rffM. LAI itL.iW. Barrister. Vf AttornoJ-at-liaTr Solicitor In Caaaeerv, Ac. oacec -* Hamilton. 10 Km ilfee:; Milton. Mrvtti street. TUc Miltoa OiHc will b atljer tJ>e' minims, ~*at otalT. Cjmpbjll.aal Mr L-ud- U' iil '.t<>ud t me "MtUon office". *i Trld*y orea<*tj reet. S. Sc E. 2TXCKLIN Beg to announce that they hare secured - the services of, a First-Class Baker, and that their Baking bnsiness is now insult operation, in the premises crnncd by J/ri. Hasina. I Bread will bo delivered daily at the house* in tha village and vicinity, y Woddinff Cakes, Tea Cakos, Pastry. Buns, &c, made in the very Ivst manner, Trid kept always ou hand, good and fresh. Aio all kinds of Confectionery; Biscuits, Cheese, &c. The patronapo of tho public is -re- pvotfutly solicited. ' ' i B. i E, NICKLTNJ AcUm. Eeb. 29. 187. THE WAT OF THE M OKLD, Ttioro.aro beautiful songs Ihnt wo novor sing, And names that arc never spokon ; Thwe ro trcasuns jruimhd withjonl- ens care, And kept w a sacred token. There are faded flowers and letters dim With tears that hare rained above them. I^or the fickle words and tho faithless hearts That taught us how to love them. There are sighs that come in our joyous hours, To chasten our dreams; of gladness, And tear's, that spring to our aohing cyos, >' - In hburs of tliouphtlow satinets can turn around, aa you wight my, Wiljjani vrtll : havo . Bcooped in Howduji, Plunkettyillo, Sauaariti, Schaddlowutcb, Brewacoowuri, Spodsc<iiballawallachiuorba,8cham- niofhoru, and other pointa equally and uniformly contiguous." John paused, looked up at the coiling, sighed, and mournfully added '* It looks bad tar Eugene.'-' " I shonld say it did," emphatio- -ally ejaculated tho1 old gentleman. " Poor irian," sighed tho old lady, "Ilaa ho. a family V I " A wife and ooven children," For the blithest birds that sing in suriiifl I Haiti John, gently H ESBY L. DKVKE, INstBAVCE 1CESTT, Gl F.Lrn, ^.jjci/jr U M.'reantit* ana \VaterIoo. ^:i y;jslaei -%utrusted ;*? flit; care, wi11 fte f-UiirUr' s^iro,1t-L; v~u t.>rSfro at Pav'. ' sokt:ore.. liueliuu^ -iiirJor* li>- mill . ^.I'^ei*^ io"\i^-lpti Gr Oo >u fost oaice "" P--^P^te^i:.DRARE, P1TEXTS Tor IXTENTI'OXS: ei.it !vU >'.i*lv ai--J iVJ ^erly s^taral ; I- C'la-J-u '-i * L' ail* 1 Sl.iU* -UtJ Earopo. fitn' tiirac:-(t qtoq cn*rfe. >*ena fj.-p.-iiK : ::-:.-K'.:;ia<. A;-r !"? iU-i:its= fiari.1 ./iiES'KV UJirsT, h : Oll-VTA, CiDll-il,. t'OU c_i' U.-i-wi-jaw:. WH-LIA3I WATIL1NS, ffr JJirrlsge lirea.r** Ortlcaie ;y Boratip;)o!:aieiir.J BaJtne** private and confidential (i3;i :i! Posi ora.-e. lilenWilliam, ' photograph*. HURRAH 1 HURRAH! BEST PHOTOGRAPHS Id the County, At TJio Ontario SiotoBrwi Bailory , for B?iiulij of Fi'iith aii\l BriU'vin-. ' . fy in T^'iie, thc-J cannot Ik tur}Hifxd. COPT1NQ & ENLARGING lu all its branches, in the best style of the art, dime on the shortest notice and xt T&SL&zaslile rates. ,41so a splendid stock of Mouldrngs' aiii Picture framcj kept on hand and raaae to order. J call is solicited ssnil you will be convinced thai iiiii is the place to get WilLtlit with tho waning summer, And.libs that wc kissed hi fondest lovo Will smile on tfie first now corner. Over the lireast where lilibs rcat - In white hamla still forever. The rotes of June will no4 and hlow.j Unhcediqg the-hearts that Bfoyor. ; And lips that quivor in Bilont grief, | -All words of hope refusing, \Vill lightly torn to the fleeting joysj Th*t perish with tho using. jSumrncr blossoma and winter snows, Love and its Bwcot clys.ian ; Hope, like the.siren, dim and fair. Quickening our fainting vision ; Drooping spirit and failing pulse. Where uutuld memorios hover, Eyelids; touched with tho seal of death, Aud the fitful dream is over. Cca-Jj- ilx'cqa. M RS S. tlBTJiB. Tnrfcer^fMaOf, Drawln; andFrrneh, Church stre*:, Aet"n. Yours respetfiillv. - / C. \V. HILL, jcton, I>oc. 5. 1S76. 0 LIVES. LG2IES, Plasterer, PUL*ri"c *e4 ai-vigh-ca^iinr Cone on . Aiii s^tlsiac* A CTON FLOl'S MILLS. E. N17TK.L1X, Proprletoni.: npRAVELERS life and Accident INSURANCE COMPANY QT Hartlord, Conn. Systematic Training Very much of tho Bticceea of lifo depends upon tbe early train ing tlint. a child receives, NotJ only his attocoss, but his health and I . e ,, , ,, .. ,. ,. . , ', . , .j as a tree falls, bo shall it he. happiness depend largely upon itf ' Genu of Thought. . We increase onr wealth when w lessen our desires. Aa a man lives, so shall be 4ie; f Yl-iuz *c L-Keed ^i^ays on fjnn<it wh^le-- t i-i . C.' :i ur ail tin i of <*r iln. ROSS IN nOT,SL, Acton. Cto-e to.rh.- t;. T. Il.il .way SLaliuu. E icell^nt nce-orumO'la',t"n'>^r/.li*i7trav.ei- UJtfibhc IR'Ji. CAMl'iJ&LL. IVroiir. D91HXIO.V HO TEX. Actcki,' lt-i'jer; Agu-w, Vro-i-riewr.ThU ' -w HoK-t I< Gj.rt' up iri iIr:-<Ja^s ctjl with tic fnrntJtrrt. <x>uiti>er6ia! rravs'!*r.< i :lu<i io xl accominoiailoii lTiO- rraveiera is n civv.u ^vje: sslerjomoii'ja- Simple Kom, Spcciul ta Pnlir-ios tinntr a-.ttlo.Tpairioth= wants o'Uie tAivei- PAN f and writes Lire policies uporr jfts^a^llr. Bir.upplie." wuh me fiiest tb Low Kat all^cash plan, Kood- LiqtMss a .d- C;e 'ti. Oool s abtipjiRnd ^^jq j.ronjjg^s of impossible ^dii- ___________ dends," but a reduction of the pre~ Pa~ul-Hp Cat2i CajihaS.. CtuJi A ***l*............ .iarplut fur yrv{eetiun Pvli'y-k Mtr*..... .. .. Depueit irrllk 'DvuunioM Gur- ej-a:.-i:i........--.... K ______ lr170,SS5 140,000 Tli Travelers U a STOCK COM-j IttsaUve Hostler*. ~-^Xf-*' AEHSTEtET, - Licensed Auctioneer miuni at the outset; equivalent to a > " dividend " in adrance. The Trav- ! elers wi-ites life aod Accident PolU . _ . dies combined as cheap as moit ^t^^.l^^*ill"^0^ndP^ companies vrrite'lile policies .It is. 01m, Acton, or. at my residence, In the largest Accident Insurance Com- Kockw.>-ni. wlr. be promptly atteudeilto. panT jn the world, having .written Terms reasonable. - 436,000 poucies and paid in actual accident policy TCI TBOILOPE CHiPMiX, -Practical: Bookbinder. AU Descriptions of Binding Keatly Executed. 'Account Bods of all KijuLt JJcule to ~~ Order. Ruling Promptly Attended to. SisDZg,r Bfc George's Square, Gapli a- Orders left at the Fbee Peess Office will receive prompt attention. caea benefits to holders alone over $2,5*5,000. An- accident policy costs but a trifle. No medical examination required. Got a policy' and share in the general benefit. OF. RTJSSEL.L, District Agept, ! 23 Adeaiie Street East, Toronto. WILSON IRWIN, Special Agent The European War. (Danbury 2?eicf.) Tho Turco-llussian war is not a popular topic of conversation-. .Be yond.vague references to the Hub- niiins and tbe Turks nothing is said. When the names of commanders, important points, and buttle-fields are approached, the parties simul taneously and unanimously Wilt and:back swiftly dowri. When a man is out for tho evening and desires to make 8, favorable im pression upon the company, he will lose color and self-possession if the war is mentioned.' Consequently what information is made known is dispensed almost entirely by the papers. Things whicn cannot jbo spoken can be Sprinted. No man attempts to read tho war news .to another. II" says he hasn't the time and thnt the oth^r would get a much clearer idea of it bj rend ing it Lioit>elf, which is undoubt edly true. As large and as bright ulid us intellectual Q8 ia Danbiiry there is only one. man hero *ho dares tackle , the subject. Noth ing that the contending forces have so far developed makes him quail. He ia a type setter, and is keeping company with a youug lady who is tbe sole hope.of her parents, and Appears to be the sole hope of our friend.' Sunday nigfct he wtent after her to go to church,-, but jfibe was not feeling well, no he pre- parsd to spend the evening U-ith her and the elderly parents. | "John," aaid the-pld gentleman, " what ia the war news V "Oh, yes,JTohn," said his wife, " I wii>h you would tell us scjme- thing about it. Edward don't: get the pajiera, and when ho does I the pesky names are so long and so crooked that he cuu't make out anything. I wish you would tell us about it." The accommodating young man straightened up in bis chair as a self-directed injunction to brace up, tbo The old lady sighed: again. The Dunkln Act boiled down , The ({1st of what it enacts. Tho provision bf. tho Dunktn Act, briefly summarized, aro as follows: Claune 1 gives the power of pass ing a by-law to enforce tbo Act to every Municipal Council, without submitting the matter to the elec tors unless it choaes to do so. Ola-iso 3 provides that Councils may, if they prefer, order the by law to be submitted to the electors for their approval. Clause 4 enacts tht tiny 30 electors may propose by requisition the passage of such a by-law in any- given municipality, and demand a poll to determine whether it shall bo adopted. Sub-section 4 of clause 5 provides that the voting shall be done open (not by ballot) each elector voting " yea " or " nay " as he may elect; j. e. "yea" means for the by-law , The undersigned begs leave to inform the people of Acton and sur- . rounding neighborhood fcbat he has Proearod a magnificent HEARSE And hvprepared to attend and con- -auct Funerals on tbe Shortest notice *a most moderate terms, CaxheU, CoffiKt, Burial Jioba, And all kinds of Funeral Furnish ings keptin'stock, and supplied .n the shortest notice. HaiBandsand lovessupplied when ieqnired. P" - A*** t> u . JOHN SPEIGHT. -}-. <rto, Feb. JO, 1877. j VCTOX LIVERY & SALE STABLE ' J.,P. AXE AN Takes pleasure In announcing to th nubile generally that he ta prepared to y ' furnish Tirst^olacfl Horses and Oaxriages At Reasonable Rates. , His Bles and Horses are the best that can be Had, an(T be Is determlDd not to be surpassed by any City BUbte. Acton jmvlst.I8T5. JOB PBINTING of all kinds neatly ana prompttr eieonted at tbe FREE FB3E6S OFFICE, Xexl Ike F*t Oflu, If Ul Street. and smiling agreeably old couple, aaid " They ain't got at it over there very hot just yet, but there's going ioboa lively time in a few days. The Eussums are now trying to force their way acroBS tbe Danilhe." " What's tat V asked the old lady, with lively interest. | " That's the river whieh 'cuts' ihrough Eoutuonia. If the Rus sians get Rcross it they'll be slap down upon the Turks in a.jiffy, and'll moke the stuffing fly. Gen. William Roagemoff is in charge of the Russian army ar, this .point, and Eugene Ishmail has the com mand of7 the Turks opposing him. Now William is right here, (indi cating the spot on the table with his finger) at Lavascratchi that is, his infantry is here. At Hoopen- bush he baa his artillery, and back at Toobunkskewmichi he has his cavalry." " Gracious! what names !" ejacu lated tbe astonished old lady. The old gentleman said nothing, but he made, np his mind that John must hayea tremendous in tellect to scoop in those names and hold them. : " Eugene," continued the young man, ^nodestly, " baa. his army on the oiker aide of tho fiver, of course. Here i his infantry at Rustychuck, which he has covered fully by bat teries, wbile his other artillery is at Sorghumphbbia. He wants to to keep the Eussiana on theiother side of the river, . you know, bul William is too much for" |him." "He is 1" gasped the old gentle man. ! t , " Yes oh, yee," replied [John, with great confidence. . " AVilliam is tony; he is right up to iti every time. The first thing you! know he'll be-acroas that river and Eu and "nay" against it. Sub-section 6 of same clause pro vides that the poll may bo kept open one day for every 400 voters in the polling division. Sub-section 8 enacts that the by law shall coma into force on 1st March after its passage. Cluuso 9. Tl.e'T by-law must re main in force ono year from com ing into operation. Sub-section 3, clause 12. Licens ed distillers or brewers may sell only the liquors they m:\nufucture, iu quantities of five gallons, to be ull taken away at one time. Sub-section 4. Any merchant or trader having a Btore or place for sale of goods may sell five gallons (or u dozen bottlea) at a time. '* Clause-13. Clerks or agents vio lating the law shall be puuished and incur the same penalty us their principal or employer. A Clause 14. Prosecutions can he brought in the name of tho Inland Revenue officer of the disirict where the by-law is in force,"-or of the municipality, or in the name of any private person. Clause 15. Prosecutions must bo commenced withiu three mouths after the alleged offence. Clause 17. Two or more offences, by the Banio party,! may be'includ ed in any given complaint, but the maximum penalty imposed is $100. . i Sub-section 1, clause 34. When the proBecution is brought in the flume of an Inland Revenue Collec tor, one-ihird of the fine goes to ,tbe Government, one-third to the iperKon on whose information the action is brought, and one-third is retained by- the Collector. When brought in the name of the Municipality the whole fine shall belong to the Municipality, but it m*y pay one-half to tbe party on whose information the action was brought. Clause, 36. There is no appeal from the decisions of magistrates or other duly qualified officers. Clause 40. Any peiuoh obtain- ingliquor at any inn or other such public house, contrary to this Act, drinking to excess and being killed, committing suicide while intoxicat ed, or otherwise come to his death through "such drinking to exeesp, the legal representatives of such person may enter an action against such innkeeper, etc., and recover damages. Clause 44. Druggists may sell liquars for medicinal purposes; neither they nor tbe storekeeper shall sell any between nine Satur day night and six Monday morn- ing- Any. police officer may be author It is. OHsotitial that" from the very beginning of his life be be trained to systematic thought and action; and tbe child that is thus trained up until it becomes a fixed habit, will be more likely to succeed in what ho undertukeB than the one who is not. Many business fail ures have their origin in tbe school room. . A. bent twig often grows into a crooked brunch, and tbo chances are that the boy who is al lowed to parse words and solve oxaraples in a bap-bazzard way will keep bis Uuaitoeoa RCcoiintB in the Bame manner, ' i . j Tlie.teueher. who has in his hands the training of immortal minds has assumed no small share of respon sibility. And yet it is astonishing, when one thinks ubout it, with what a small: amount of consider ation many persons enter upon the teacher's, work. Men.and. women enter the profession and go to. work as if they considered i a human mind a no more difficult thing to manage than a hand-saw, and in deed if driving, simplv, be the teacher's chief aim in lift, it is an easier thing.often to drive a boy for six hours a day than it is to drive a handsaw for twelve hours. Laziness takes deep root in many hearts and it is " conscienceless ; hence wo often do that which is easiest, whether it be best" or not. The Tonsequenco is that there are many pcraons trying to teach who had better bo sawing wood. It often happens that it takes leas time and lubor to start forth upon the world a full fledged peda gogue than it does to get ready a first class blacksmith or stone mason, and yet the man who simp ly makes nails or walls can scarcely be said to exert as important an influence upon tbe world as the one who takes an active part in moulding its mind and thought. Still in our practice we too fre quently act as though we supposed the reverse .wero the case. We take two boys and give them a good common school i education ; one of them -chooaes to learn tbe trade of a blacksmith',1 the other determines .to be a teacher; the one must'servo an apprenticeship of three years before hois consider ed able to depend upon himself, tho other goes immediately to bis work ; the one when he has served his apprenticeship and thoroughly learned his trade goes to bending iron into horse shoes ; the other icitlwut serving an apprenticeship and without learning his .trade, goes to the work of bending and training immortal minds ; the one makes a success in bis work, be-, cause ho was ready to do .it well; the other makes a failure, because he was not prepared, and we won der at. the result ; but it is no wonder at all. Loose work will show itself somewhere sooner or later. It is, of course, possible for a teacher to become too systematic, 'to carry system to such an extent that system is all thera is of Mm, till he becomes a kind, of dilapi dated tombstone on which there is but one inscription ; but the great-' est danger does not lie in that direction. The greatest danger is that he will go to his school-room without any definite plans and with few definite ideas, and that his pupils will go from the school room in tbe same condition. Such Perseverance in the bridge by which '-difficulty is overcome. . Words are sometimes signs of ideas, and sometimes of the want of them. Cheerfulness keep* up,a kind of day-light in the mind, and fills it witlt u steady and perpetual se renity. Human glory is not always glori ous. The best men have had their caluminators, the wotat their pane gyrists. Our sorrows are like, thunder clouds, which seem very black m the distance, but grow lighter as they approach. , " j Of all passions avarice ia the most, unaccountable, as it precludes the miser from all pleasure except that of boarding. If the league of friendship is once broken, the cabinet of secrets is un locked, and they fly wildly about like uncaged birds. Kinder is the looking-glass than the wine-glass, for the former re- venla our defects to ourselves only, the latter to 'our friends. In our adversity it is night with us, and in the night many beasts of prey range abroad that keep their dens through the day. Toil and trial are grim school masters, but a flush of hope can make them beautiful, even as a sun beam the rude mountain front. He that neglects the culture of ground naturally fertile is more shamefully culpable than he whose field would scarcely compense tbe husbandry. The talent of success is simply ao what you can.well; and doing well whatever you do without a thought of fame. Fume never comes because it is craved. !__ . If a man has a right to be proud; of anything, it is a good action done as it ought tq be done, without any cold suggestions of interest lurking at the bottom of it. ; The first 'burst1 of passion, in creased and rendered more danger-, ous by a stubborn opposition, will generally yield-and fall harmless when it is met by softness and sub mission. Man regards as iin eternity first the present hour ; then his yoath ; then 'his: life; then hi* century;' then the duration of the earth; then bat of heaven; and, finally, time Tbe First Article* . He was a friend' of mine and used frequently to drop in and give me advice as to how I ought torpu my paper. *-, -.' He was a minister, (and.conse quently thought I should devote it a little more to tbe cause of religion and not quite ao much to politics- , He said-it could be made a power for good in the Western land, in which we had cast both our for tunes. He was a lover of the original, too, and said that be dis Hr. Barker and His Ut.tl-piip.7 Mr. Barker^was walking down Broadway yesterday, n. benevolent smileon bisniddy cdfintenance.aiid a fat bull-dog trotting, camplacei.tly at his heels. Occasionally Mr. Barker would look around at the dog and '.chuckle to himself. " The .Board of Aldermen be darned," said Mr. Barker. " I am not goint to put a four-foot strap on your neck Marcus.'Aureliiis*," and Marcus Anielius wagged his Stub of a tail..1 Just tiien a boy ' r -m-wS . v: flta1*- sis" ffSW in liked to see reprint, and thought I l-exploded a bomb directly under the should write more take tbe-time, J dog's black no%e, and that animal in fact, to fill tbe paper right np with good new stuff. That seemed such an easy thing for him that one day I ventured to Bay . i *" . "Brother you had a glorious meeting at tbe school bouse last night, I hear. ; Suppose you write it up for me."'" '. ", He didn't seem to act as thongh he wanted to. - I urged.. He flushed a little and stood around, awkward, like. He had never been honored .with an invita tion to write, for the prass before.' J still urged. Then he took off his gloves. And his bat. And his overcoat. Then I gave'him a seat at the table with paper and pencil. He sat down to editorial work. He bad always been talking about how H should be done, and now be. was at it. He started" hi" , I w.errt aboutfmy work, and hav ing written a'column or., two'..of matter for the week's paper, left him still writing while I went out to solicit some advertisements.. I wm gone an hour^or. two, and came back, he w4a still.at Many persons fancy themselves friendly, when they are only offici ous.. They counsel, not so muoh that you should become, wise, as that they should be recognised as teachers'of wisdom. {zed by two or more magistrates to act ub inspector, and enter houses of public entertainment to see that no infraction of the law is being committed. ' Chanob op Op-ijfiflN. He that never changed any of his opinions, never corrected any of his mis takes; and he who was never wise. enough to find out any mistakes in himself, will not be charitable enough to excuse what he reckons mistakes in others. J>r. Wltichcote.' teachers mu6t work loosely, and with tmcertainty, because they do not know how to work otherwise. They fail'just as the busiuess man' fails who .undertakes a business that he knows nothing of, or if they succeed at all it is only after they havo done enough vague and un systematic woi k to deserve to fail. The normal school should b3 allow ed and required to do as much for the lK>y who intends to teach as an apprenticeship does for the. ttW ehuiiie, then he will go into the school-room ao well equipped, that his teaching, as far us method is concerned, will not be a mere ex periment. 'There is a vast dif ference between having a simple knowledge of a subject and having an ability to impart that knowledge to another iu tbe easiest and quick est way, and the teacher who goes into the school-room without know ing how to teach fails to recognize 'that fact. Parent and TeaeJur.' I Why do !not printers succeed to the Same extent Aa brewers 1 Be cause printers work for the head and brewers for the stomach; and J where twenty men have stoimachs, I gene will be paddling "P Put of (but one has brains. Printers' Be- that iii no time; and before you gidtr. P An Indian woman is a squaw, therefore an Indian "baby ia a squawling, . i " Give me a; fifth story room, next, the skylight, so I can get out one way at least,".said n'traveller as he registered his name at a city hoteL You can always detect a 'baebe- lor by the way he handles a baby, bat to be safe from loss it is well to use a borrowed baby in making the .experiment. -v :. A Fine Distinction. A young man, whose attire was1 clean end neat, and whose general appearance was rather prepossess ing, stood before^: the bar of jrtPo- lice Court. By his side,stood a young man of about the same age, with a coal black face and woolly hair, and who was dressed with all the gorgeoUEness of a "swell." - " What's your name, white uianl" asked the Court. " MoFinnigiin, sir." "And yours,: my man and brother?" "Ga'wgeWasbin'ton Jones,, sari." " What was the matter, (leorge Washington V do.truf, sab. I was a goin' up' de street; sab, las' night, when I met. this man an' I kin' of jostled agin 'im, sab, an' he turn' right roun',' sah. an' fetch me a clip on. de nose, sah ; den I calls an offisa' an' had dat man arrested, an'data all de truf.". - " How was it, McFinnigan ' " Shure, yer Onor, ah' it was all the nayger's fault. I was a comin' down tho a'v'nie, quiet as a lam', sor, sayin' nothin' to nobody, whin that spalpeen came forninst me, sor, wud his elbow, an* I up an' hit 'im upon the spur a'tho momint" " No, sah, he bit me on the nose, sah!"- . . ; -..." : .-,, " On the spur a the momint "7^- '< On de nose, sah." i " Never' mind fine distinctions," said hia Honor, " it casts a man $10 in this Court to. hit a man, whether it be upon tbe spur^ of the moment or upon the nose. George Washington, you are discharged Newjork World. j J when I it. He was sweating awfully, The table and floor were white with copy-paper, and the pencil in his hand-was much diminished in length. I . I went to dinner. , When I returned he was st.it Jet- I . ' .-...j--'- There was more paper scattered, aroundj tke pencil was shorter, and he was [wetter. It was sumtuer. The hours drugged along into the middle of the afternoon. .i Great cords stood out on the jpreacher's heated brow. His eyes ,were bent on the daz zling white paper before hiin, and his fingers moved nervously, and the pencil was a stnb. I began to grow frightened. I knew I had only a small weekly paper, and that its fourteen columns' of space-; (one,aide was patent iu- ward) would not bald the contents of the Bible, and a supplement mes sage from heaven, besides. At last the man looked up, and timidly advancing with a piece of paper in one hand, suddenly turned; and went back to change a word. . Thenj-he came on again, and like: "J.;"gnt one who bad passed through a vis ion, hejd out tho paper and feebly asked: |. "Will that dof I looked. 1 There were j list seven lines of it, advertising measure ! He was a darge man weighed over 300 pounds then, but when I met hi in three weeks weighed less than' 225. ; He had been sick. gave a howl and made a dash et the boy. .1 - ;: " Look a yoer," yelled a police man to Mr. Barkerj " you want to pnt a Btrnp on that yeredawg. . Ffe's mad," - "He is not mad," aaid Mr. Bar ker, indignantly. " Wctt,1 old feller, wboW the judge. I say yer^owg's matj, and I'm goingNto knock 'im on the head wif.h my clbbJ'_, ';,. < l Mr. Birkerforthe moment loot ed frighteaed. Suddenly, however, a twinkle camo" into bis eye, and, drawing himself up to his/full height he addressed the policemaa haughtily : " Officer, yoti evidently do net know whom we are. We had de- ' sired to' preserve our incognito, but yon force us to reveal ourselves. We are the Grand Duke Aloxif: and that is onr bull-dog." That dog is an alien ; he is not a citizen, and must not beX[l>ourid by foreign laws:"; and straps. ^Do you wish to em broil your land in a war with Bua- sia I If yon do^just club that dog." " Well, call offyour dowg, then/' said the policeman. 4 ; . " Herev Bloyitskinourskirklit- baschowHikichowhockouski," ajtid Mr. Barker without the slightest hesitation.. . -^ ' " Well, I'm blowed," mused Hie officer, as Mr. Barker and his dog disappeared. " I'm blowed if t^iat ' dowg couldn't work a free.lunch, route off the people's legs afore tho Juke could pronounce half . bis name." m tte S8: later he The seven-line, nine-hour-effort was too much for him. But it was not all lost. , He never advised an editor agaiii. Keijt.ier did he ever compose for a paper again. It wta hard work for him to write and he saw he was not cut out for an editor. Chicago. Evening Jour nal. - -.'. '"..-. Slow Bat Sure. , ' The-!? slow fighter" rwas a tall, raw boned specimen of the Pike county breed, and when he arrived in the mining camp the boys began to have fun with him to."fnuil him,"'as they call it in the^ par lance of the minea! ' ', - He stood it for a long time with perfect equanimity, until finally- one of the party darad him out of doors to fight. He went. When they got all ready and squared off, =Pike county i' 'stretched out his long .neck and presented the tip of bis big nose temptingly close to his tormentor; " I'm a little slow," he said, " and ean't fight unless I'm welfrril.eld just paste me one a-good 'unj^a on the end of that smellerJ'Mj' His request was complied withkp " That was a good.un," he said,1 calmly, " but VI don't feel quite riled yit" (turning the^ side of hia^ head, to his adversary); "please chug%ae another lively one under tljeearj'^v- " " "The astonished^'advei-sary again compliedj whereupon Pike Counfy,-. remarking that be was."..not quite as*well riled as he would like to be, but would do the best he could," :. sailed into the crowd, and for tbe next-ten days' the "boys" -were ' engaged in mending broken jkws, repaiting-dauiaged eyes and tender ly .reaurceeting.emasL.cd noses,i-1-^v".i. O. Demycfai. . ' The" pebbles in our path w-eary us and make us footsore1 more than the rocks, which require only, a bold effort fcp surmount. j . Another eonecientious roan is- Opposed to having the drug stores; open an Sundayj;1 He is a dmggistt himseM1, and Sunday is the only day' he hak to go fishing, .' 1----------rv~--------j--. .- The Rnssian Nation. When one reflects that the essence of this people-l the -great Russian nation^ thirty-6ix millions of men of one'race, one creed, one' tongue, forms!, the greatest homogeneous moss of men in the world who can doubt that Russia has a great future before her t Xfhaa been said that/with increasing populatitm the enormous kingdom must fall to pieces of itself; Lut no part can exist without the other; the wood ed north' needs the corn growing soAitbj the industrial midland needs them' both, while the 'interior is nothing without the sea coasts, and , the mighty Volga, Butstill more powerful than all thef*e-is.th.e com munity of feeling which binds.to gether even tbe most distant parts. And of this feeling, Moscow is the centre point; not only of the Euro pean Empire, but.of the old, sacred realm of' the Czars, in which the 'historical memories of the* people are rooted, and out of which its future may yet perhaps arise. Count Holtke's Correspondence. In speaking of the vocal per formances of a certain celebrated singer, a musical critic suid : "We bung every note"i-a remarkable proof of the singer's power of " exe - cution. An expensive wife makes a pen sive husband. . .. 1 . .. . The' Muscovites are expected jto do a Russian business in iTurkey. - How to . find oul what's in a name : Put. it on the back of a note. ' : . The Turk will fight hard fur hia government, although he always. makes Porte of it. All, the good don't die youfig," for many editors and lawyers live to a good old age. Always speak well of tbe dead and once in a while a good word: for the living, if '-yow ^have . the time. ~V Inquisitive school-board officer to Hibernian prent'>: "Was your boy born in Glascae r? "No, sor ; an' I hope he never will be."_ The pay of a Rnxsiiii colonel is only S400 a year; but it casta-! the. government considerable tp ; keep a book with bis name in it I . " What'kind of carpet -shall we :] get for the puraon** etndyT asked a church committeeman of fa^a col league. " Ax ' minister," was the comprehensivel reply. -^-On bearing. a- clergrman te- -mark that " tbe wtorld im full of change," Mrs.-Tpartington said1 she could hardly bring her mind to be lieve it, so little found its waj into her pocket. i> -- r^^ ^^S SSs^^