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DuII Children.

The teacher Of a large school had a
little girl under her care who was eX-
ceedingly backward in her lessons. She
was at the bottom of the class, and
seemed to care but little about what
passed in it. During the school hours
singing was sometimes employed as a
relaxation, and noticing that this little
girl had a very clear, sweet voice, her
teacher said TO her;
Jane, you have a good voice, and you
may lead the singing.
She frightened up and from that time
her mind seemed more active. Her les
sons we're attended to, and she made
steady progress. One day as the teacher
was going home, she overlook Jane and
one of her schoolfellows.
"Well, Jane" said she "you are get
ting on very well at school How is it
that you do so much better now than
you did at the beginning of the half
year, :.
"I do not know why it is, replied
Jane.
"I know what she told me the other
day. said her companion who was with
her. EFf|#
"And what was that2" asked the
teacher, -,
"Why, she said she was encouraged. "
Yes, there was the secret-she was en-
couraged. She felt she was not dull in
everything; she had learned self-respect,
and thus she was encouraged to self-im-
proyement.
Take a hint, dear fellow, and try to
reach the intellect through the heart.
Endeavor to draw out the dormant fac
ulties of your children by discrimination,
culture, and well-timed praise. Give
them the credit whenever you can, and
allure them with hopeful words. Many
q dull-minded child has been made ire
trievably stupid by constant fault-fnding
or ungenerous sarcasm. And on the other
hand, how often has genial smile or an
approving remark awakened into new
life some slow-learning scholar
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INSURANCE.
ise MASONIC MUTUAL
Life Assurance Association
OF MEMPHIS. TENN.
OFFICE: NO. o UNION STREET.

First Question-How much per annum will
it cost man of thirty-fve to insure his life in
Answer~s1S4 for g., 900 policy.
Second Question-How much will IL cost IL
! the Masonic Mutual Assurance Association o
Answer-About ss1 90. payable at intervals
(See table of standard authorities at our Office.
Third QgestiOn-Why this difference for the
Answer-1st. Because by this plan the Asso-
citation only calls for enough in initiation fees
(the interest upon which will finally pay work
ing expenses), and the So at death to pay losses.
I'd. If there are no deaths, no tax.
Fourth Question-HOw can you afford to in
sure SO much less than the old mode.
Answer-Because we do not charge enough
in advance to pay you one-half back in divi-
dends out of your own money paid in premiums
Fifth Question: is policy of insurance upon
the Mutual p Ian the same in all respects, save
as to charges?
$500 policies, and is kept to that standard in
numbers, there is no difference. except that
you are taxed only at the death of member I;
while in the old mode you are taxed whether
losses or not and that in advance.
Sixth Question-Will O policy holder in this
Association receive diyidendH
Answer-1es; from all accumulation which
may acerue from forfeiture and surplus interest
Seventh Question-How are your funds in
vested2
Answer-Under direction of the Finance
Committee, on unincumbered real estate, val
ued at twice the amount of the investment, or
undOubted city acceptance.
Eighth Question-Does the Association pay
to the heirs of the policy-holder two dollars for
each enrolled member who has heretofore paid
all assessments, should any member fail to
pay on last assessmentf
Answer-Yes; as the Association holds in its
permanent fund, paid in by initiation fee, an
amount in excess of any amount it will be at
one time called upon to pay on the death Of
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now vanderbilt started.

Every little while the newspapers con-
tain an account of yanderbilts begin
ming. Most Of these accounts are apo
cryphal. Hist own statement OF his hrst
real success is this. De was young
man on Staten Island he was master
Of rowing. He was athletic, strong and
daring. One night a stranger came to
the landing and wanted TO be rowed
across 10 Gowmanns. The night was
dark and stormy, and the wind blew a
gale. Not a boatman could be found
who would leave. The landlord said
I" There is aobody who can row you over
but Corn. Vanderbilt for so he was
called. Ii was doubtful, he said, whether
he would do it. Vanderbilt was found,
and, in answer 10 the request, replied
ats pretty rough, but If you will
give me ten dollars, lie down in my boat,
and not stir, or do Just what ] bid you,
III try il" He rOwed the Dap over and
back in safety. As soon as he landed at
Staten Island the stranger said; young
man. bow would you like to run an OPP
position steamboat" Nothing would
suit me better, was the reply. Have
Won pluck enough to obey oFdeTs2" said
he stranger. s have, was the re-
sponss. Suppose ! was to tell yon to
run into q steamboat, what would you
dor" Run into her, by -, The
bargain was sealed amid the storm that
night on the island, and Vanderbilt en-
tered on his Eell-known career as a
steamboatman.
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to the creed Of the Rev. Mr.. Sabine, are
all doomed to be d-dashed. Not long
after George Holland died, the Rev. Mr..
Walsh, an old city missionary died Of
starvation in New York. He left no
wife to perish in the same way, but
he did leave four children, who
would have starved but for. the
crusts which their father gave them
at the sacrifice of his own life. Now
let us see if the surviving ministers Of
the city, whose salvation is secured be-
yond all peradventure, whether buried
from the aristocratic Church Of the
Atonement or the humble little church
around the corner, will raise fund for
the support and education of the children
of the Rev. Mr.. Walsh. The Rev. Mr..
Sabine, with his eight or ten thousand
dollars year, might contribute a nickel
or two, and we are quite sure that the
Rev. Henry Ward Beecher, with his
twenty-thousand-dollar salary, could
spare ten or fifteen cents for the pur-
pose. We are not quite sure of it either,
for we know that the corypheii of the
naked dramatic gospel cannot afford to
squander their ten-cent shlnplasters
upon the famished orphans Of their
brethren who are foolish enough to die
of starvation in the very midst of
churches that pay the highest mar
ket price for pastors who teach that
there is no hell for him who pays his
spiritual adviser munifcently and votes
the Radical ticket early and often. But
If the Rev. Mr.. Sabine and the Rev. Mr.
Beecher have no money to invest in such
an improbable enterprise as the support
and education Of the orphan children of
a brother minister who preferred to
starve to death rather than beg his bread
from those he had endeayored, in his
younger and better days, to lead by the
still waters of life--and we have no rea-
son to suppose that they haye-they can
at least call upon better men to con-
tribute something to fund for that pur-
pose. Let them do this-and do it at
once-and we will guarantee that Joseph
Jefferson, Edwin Booth, Lester Wallack
and the other leading actors Of New
York will themselves contribute literally.
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FRANCE.

Have you read in song and story.
How the dead Napoleon comes,
Yearning still for earth-born glory
And the War-beat of the drumsY
Phantom legiens fell before him
Far upon the Dreamland plain,
While the eagles hover DER him,
As exulting DER the slam!
And he marshals his battalions
Ranged upon the spectral sod,
Till, as the Armada galleens,
Vanished by the breath of God.
So the vision fades, and only
One remembrance doth remain
Where a captive PAGES lonely
On the shores of st. Helena.
When we read that gallant story
Our desponding spirits thrill;
France and Victory France and Glory
Seem familiar phases still.
And If in the coming ages
We have need of battle cry,
We can seek historic pages,
Think of fAusterlitz-and die
Once our cannon spoke in, thunder,
And all Europe heard in dread.
Now, oh ! France, thou'r torn asunder
And thy army lacks a head
Yet, as earnest of salvation
While this agony shall last,
Hope amid thy desolation
Fairer future from the past.
Still, as sweeps the storm of iron
+ Where the cannon crown the ridge,
And the battle clouds environ,
We shall think of Lodi bridge.
Lol the golden lilies paling;
France has sore need of her sons.
They shall answer her unfailing
While one lives to man the guns.
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How the American Minister Re
ceIVed His Dispatches.

The Journal des Debats thus described
the ceremonial observed on the weekly
occasions when the correspondence OF
Mr. Washburne, the United States Min
lister, was admitted into Paris; 1r,tr.
Every Tuesday morning at ten o clock
precisely trumpet announces the arri-
val of pdriementaire at the bridge Of
Sevres, and white flag is displayed.
A .Prussian officer in full uniform,
gloyed and shod as in drawing-room.
advances upon the bridge as far as the
broken arch, raises his hand to his
cap and addresses the French officers
who await him, Gentlemen, | have
the honor to offer you my salutation." +"
They reply, Sir, we have the honor
to salute you. Gentlemen" he
resumes, " have the honor, to inform
You that am commissioned to hand you
the communication for Mr.. Washburne." +"
To which the reply is, " Sir, we will have
the honor to send for the packet " After
another exchange Of military salutations,
each party retires from the bridge to
their respective banks Of the river. The
French send off boat and receive from
the hands of the Prussian officer the
diplomatic letter bag. Further saluta-
tions follow, and the parties withdraw
to their respective intrenchments, and
the firing, if deemed advisable, is at once
resumed.
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BEHIND THE SCENES.
Good Word for the Theatrical
Profession.

/
A writer in the Cincinnati Gazette
tells of a recent visit behind the scenes
in one of the theaters in that city, and
relates the following incident:
An affecting incident occurred at
the National few days ago One of
the public favorites, just as the curtain
rose, received a telegram that his mother
lay dying in Philadelphia. The poor fell
low broke down, sobbed like child, and
around him hung his associates ia silent,
fearful sympathy. But the public had
paid their admission-the performance
must go on; and with herosm not often
paralleled, he rose, wiped the tears from
his face, and appeared before the
footlights Little did the audience
think, as they shook with laughter
at his broad caricature, and Numbered
out a vehement encore, of the agony he
was enduring. Could they have stood
at the wings and seen the CHASTITY
look of suffering that swept over his face
as he left the stage, they would have
realized what their amusement cost that
night. But again and again was he re-
called, and as he left the scene for the
last time, another telegram announced
to him that all was over. Still the mex
orable public must receive their quid
pro quo, and so through the pantomime s
weary length he had to drag himself, ap-
parently the gayest of the gay, while
the keenest and bitterest of earthly sor-
rows was piercing his heart and many a
mute pressure of the hand bore evidence
of the kindly sympathy of those about
him.
The writer labors to correct the popu-
lar impression that the majority of act
ors and actresses are immoral, and in
conclusion says;
81 have only word for the reader.
Frown as unsparingly as you will on vice
and immortality whenever or wherever
found; but, ! pray you, by our common
humanity, let your mantle of charity be
large enough to cover the stage as a
whole, and believe that there, as every
where else in life, are found earnest, de-
voted, ambitious men and women, among
whom the average morality is certainly
as high as elsewhere in the world, and
who will appreciate your action all the
more because of the unjust cloud Of cen
sure under which they have heretofore
labored. ="
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sth day of February, 1871,
LEGAL.
Attachment Notice.
7. J. Brettan

-. Dre''an Before S. A.
J.N. .Hardaway 4 s. H .Forbes) i"oore' 90 T.
A TTACHMENT HAVING BEEN ISSUED
"A by me in the above cause. on the ground
that the defendants are non-residents of the
State. so that the ordinary process of law can
not be served upon them, and the same having
been returned by the proper officer. levied,
etc, the defendants win take notice that this
cause is set for trial Monday, February 9th,
tice of the Peace for Shelby county, at Iey
Office in the city of Memphis, when and where
the defendants can appear and defend said
suit, or the same will be proceeded with
ex parte; and it is further ordered that this
notice be published once week for four con-
secutiye weeks in the Public Ledger. q news
paper published in the city of Memphis;
S. A. MOORE, j. p.
Logwood Micou, Attorneys.
January o. 1871. 128-134-1 -140-146
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The starred PREACHER.
From the Louisville Courior-Journal.I

From the Louisville Courier-Journal.l
When George Holland, the good old
actor Of New York, died, and Christian
burial was denied him by the ean-can
pastor of his church, the Rev. Mr. Sa-
bine, the surviving actors Of the city in
augurated movement for the raising
of a fund for the support Of his family,
who we're left BY the deceased husband
aud father with much smaller amount
of money than they deserve. The fund
is likely 70 reach, il is said, the sum Of
twenty thousand dollars which viii place
the widow and her children beyond the
reach Of want for some years at least
Very well for the actors, Who, according
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ATTACHMENT Notice.
J. R. Robertson

]. B. Russell, alias r. S. HEWITT ~
A ENACTMENT HAVING BEEN ISSUED
n by me in the above cause, on the ground
that the defendant is a nonresident of the
State Of Tennessee. and the same having
been returned by the proper officer, levied
Etc. the defendant will take notice that this
cause is set for trial on Monday. the ,6th
day of March next, before me, JUS
tice Of the Peace for Shelby county, at my
Office in the city of Memphis, when and where
the defendants can appear and defend said
suit. or the same will be proceeded with
ex parte; and il Is further ordered rec @ that TINS
secutive weeks in the Public Ledger, a news
paper published in the city of Memphis.
In testimony whereof l have hereunto sc !
is6-iI2-i4S-154i P. NJ. WINTERS, J.P.
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oIAIh ~ III lfsrsford s-esd So.
HInrronn. Jnnuary y, ls7


Personally appeared George L. Chase, Pres
Sdent- and j.. b. Browne, Secretary OF the
Hartford Fire Insurance Company, and made
~uhscrihed Is a true full and correcf state
ment of The aEairs Of said Company, ana OK
hibits 20 far - can be ascertained at this date,
it actual condition on the 3lst day OF Deeem 2
V'' ''''' GEo. SUMNER. Notary Public.
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STATE OF TENNESSEE,
GorpTpor GFVTCF.

NASHVILLE, January /. issi.l
I. ed. r. Pennebaker, Comptroher Of TIE
Treasury. a., hereby certify that the Hartford
Fire InsurancS Company, located az Hartford.
IN DE state Of Connecticut, has produced 70
-. sstisfaetory evs sdence that said Company
has complied with al the requirements 81 the
s,,-snse Companies; and further certify d a.
Henry A. Littleton, agent Of said CompanT,
has also con piled with the red Guireme1ts ot the
laws OF tnu State. made and prcfide91 N slel
sases. Wherefore, said Insurance Comp mpany
has authority to take risks and tranfas, NE
bnsiuess Of Insurance in tbs state. AZ Aem
I'D. r. PENNEBAKER,
ls3-l50 ComBtroller Of Tennessee.
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Tn lime ZIG DR. Thomas Walker OF

In June, lTT6, DR.. Thomas Walker, Of
Virginia, who had been His Majesty
George the Thirds colonial surveyor,
while surveying lands in that part of
Virginia, now Kentucky, lost his sur
veyor's hatchet, marked on the hevel
with his initials, 1T. W., and in his
diary recorded his loss, which diary is
now in the possession Of his grand
daughter, Mrs. W. G. Rives Some few
years ago that hatehet was found minus
the handle, at the place where three
fourths Of a century ago it had been
lost, and it was returned to the late Hon.
w. c. RiYes. Probably no foot had trod
over that tract from the time Of the sur
vey till the day Of finding the long-lost
surveyors Ratchet. ---Lnnl[naL
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Edwin R. Campbell, now in San Fran
cisco, though hardly forty-6ve, boasts
thst he has killed, in his editorial capae-
ity, not less than twenty-nine newspapers.
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MISCELLANEOUS.

llth. The greatest amount insured in any one
risk is $40, 900. except IN special cases.
19th. The amount insured in any one city,
town or village depends upon its size and
how built.
18th. The amount insured in any one block
depends as above. .- ...,..<.
1lth1 Certifed copy Of the Charter Of the Com
pany, as filed. heretofore.
75th. General Power OfAttorney for agents 70
accept service Of process previously hied.
]. d. BROWNE. Secretary.
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Hartford Fire Insurance Co.,
On the slst day of December, 1870,

Made to the Comptroller of the State Of Ten;
nessee. in conformity with the laws Of said
State. 0.i
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CAPITAL.

lst. The name of the company is the HART
FORD FIRE Insurance COMPANY, and IS
located at Hartford, Connecticut. lb5
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INSURANCE.
statement of the Condition

OF THE
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Rules for Play ing Onto a Organ In
Meeting.

When the preacher comes in and meals
down in the poolpit, pool out all the
shoppers. That's wot tue shoppers are
for sil 8iIJ
When him is gave out to be sung,
play over the whole toon before singin',
but be sure to play it so they can't tell
whether it's that toon or acme other
toon. 1t will amoose the people to gesx
When you play the interlud. sumtimes
pull out all the shoppers and sumtimes
pull them all in. The shoppers are made
to pull out and in.
Play the interloods about twice as long
as the toon The interloods is the best
part of the music,and should be the Ion.
gest. .,
Play from the interloods into the toon
without letting them know when the toon
begins. This vii! teach them to mind
their hizness. Always play the inter.
loods faster or slower than the toon.
This viii keep it from being the same
time as the toon.
If the preacher gives out 5 verses play
a. Tew many verses is teejus.
Doorin the sermon go out of the
church, and cum back il time for the
next toon. That will show you donfs
mean to be hard on the preacher ,Oy
havin' too many listenin to him at onst.
The Occident.
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E u R @ P E
THE PARIS REvoLUTIoN
FORT D'IssY ABANDONED.

PAHIs, April 90 There was sharp
engagement Saturday night at Les Mou-
lineaux, in which the Versaillists were
repulsed with a loss of twenty-nine men
made prisoners. But, in the meantime,
a column of the enemy advanced OH
Clamart railway station and occupied
the houses 200 yards from the intrench-
ments of Fort D'Issy. The fort was a
wreck. Its casemates were broken, its
embrasures demolished, thirty of its six
ty guns dismounted, and the ammunition
for the mitrailleuses exhausted, The
garrison became panic stricken, the gun.
ners mutinieds and spiked half their re-
naming guns, and this morning before
daylight the entire garrison abandoned
the fort. The Commandant, General
Negry, has arrived in tie city.
General Cuseret, who went to the
front at the first news of the detection
of the troops, returned at noon to day
having failed to stop tie panic. He has
sent out fresh troops, among them tho
Avengers of Paris, to reoccupy the
works, and desperate fight is now in
progress in that quarter.
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"Look yere, Pompey, de corn's up"
'De corn up! Why, l only planted it
yesterday" 81 know dat; but de pigs
got in last night and guv it lift"
A marble-cutter near Lockport, re-
Gently received from German an order
for tombstone with the following epi-
taph: "My wife Susan is dead; if she'd
had lifd till next Friday she'd been ded
shust two weeks As tree fall so must
she stand. All things is impossible NIT
God"
European medical statistics have es-
tablshed the important facts, that since
stavs have been abandoned the annual
mortality has diminished among females
eighteen per cent, and that, since the in
PRODUCTION Of. chignons, brain fevers
have increased 72a per cent.
Those who have worn their hats five
years will be pleased to see that they are
just in fashion again; and those who
have pantaloons bought in 1913 will be
glad to know that they 1.-THE pontaloons)
will also be. with their elastic footings,
the pride of the man of fashion this sea-
son; even as they were his pride twenty
three years since.
A new and most disgusting dodge has
come into vogue in London. Two wo-
men go about together, the one selling
violets, the other with some horrid mess
which she contrives to smear on ladies'
dresses and gentlemen's oats Then
the violet seller, WHO is waiting behind a
corner, approaches, points out the nasti.
ness, begs to be allowed to remove it,
and receives gratuity for ier pains.
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The Patience OF Job.

Everybody is in the habit of Dragging
on Job, and Job did have considerable
pashuncc; but did he ever keep dis
trik sckule. for dollars a month and
board around, or run country newspa1
per?
Did he ever reap lodged oats down
hill on not day, and have all his gallus
buttons bust oph at once? s
Did he ever have the jumping tooth
axe and be made to tend the babe while
his wife was ever to Perkins to atea
squall? RF
Did he ever get up in the morning
awful dri-and tuff it three miles before
breakfast to get drink ,and find that the
man kept temperance house?
Did he ever undertake. to milk q hiking.
heffer with bushy tale, in fly time, and
in lot?
Did he ever set on a litter of Kittens
in the old arm chair, with his summer
pantaloons on?
II he could do all these things, and
praize the Lord at the same time, all I
have to say is, bully for Job osk Bil-
hngS. AK ~ s
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The Gals ALI Right.

A clergyman in charge of church in
one of the thriving towns Of Kentucky,
some years ago, was called upon one
evening to GO several miles into the
country to solemnize marriage between
. young man scarcely past twenty and a
lady who was elderly enough in appear
ance to be his mother A large compa-
ny of ladies and gentlemen were assem-
bled, all strangers to our ministerial
friend. When proceeding with the cere-
mony he propounded the question: ''If
any person has any objection to the
joining of these parties in marriage, they
will now make it known, or hereafter
forever hold their peace" The minis
ter waited moment to see if any Oh
lection was made, when the brides fa-
ther, in loud voice, exclaimed: "Go
ahead, stranger, the gals all right. -
The reverend gentleman was considera-
bly, taken aback, but managed to 60
through with the ceremony.