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5itualions manis>-- Males.
Cle-ks, Statesmen, &c.

CIe-kj, baesIuGI, &c
ADVERTISEMENT FOR THE NEW
y VnKk rKikUNE WILL BIZ KENElNkD AT III y
= ROW FFiCES 10 1913 Broadway, cor Thirty r't
Al or SOs Wost twenty thTd st 3o4 Ilird ass corn.
D. rtv fourth az AZ the HAIuM OFF1Ck 30 22sl Thrh
y, cor tweIt foIrth A. ~ Ien SaylnSS
a,,nt 0ti,ng and at the & KLYN BRA SCH offICi.
a ~ " a. gil a. nsGt tho Post Once up To
D m. at regular o.Gce rates
A YOUNG MAN, aged 81 years, having eX-
" enc. wis., situation ~ or
ElCECLEIk OF CDLLECTOh understands housekeeping
salary InoaoraIa AdlrUss r. W., Box 100 Tribune Omco
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miscellaneous.

ATe1 STXTH-AVE., near Wavcrcy place
I,ies and seuteInon tho utmost valno ior
OArTOFF CLOTHING, &c. Call or address MI OF MIS- H.
HA RElh. No 81.
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Ca-denars.

NARDENER-By y man who understands his
NJ all ia brIDchrss; married one Child good
reference Address GARDENER Uptown Tribune ONCE
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Coachmen.
A SITUATION WANTED-As COACliMAN,

Y lis sent Employ on acoodn
~ ing 40 - nnut give eh Ears co i3
r go C5A % ~ ~ - Up town AtiD-ue JUNG,
l. .sa OF. sIs.ss
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Walters
WATER. CARVER. COOK-By a French
w man aged 81 years Sio good waller. understands
also best tg recon-
mondaions. can at CAEPENTERS 1873 West II ths, cor
Gtl-avo.
WAITER and USEFUL.-SWcdish Protestant
W Young mau "a va 'rr IN priyBs family under aad-
cleaning silver and Wiling make himself useful can fur
rsh reference Last employer. Apply 1t ODELLS
SWEDISH AGI.NCN 100 West 3it 81, corner Dr0aiHay
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Farmers.

E'ARM HAND-A young man would like
Tlce farm gen mans plns 40 farming ll'n
gardening hur=a> furnish
Andy Al ODi;LLS AGENCY. 100 West Nth St-, corner
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I'AisDEN Era young man AZ tlfSb-ciAsS
~ gardener: understand hot AMI cold grapes laying olt
lawns DrurinE graft flowers and Kitchen ~ar Ten Nc ca
furnish good reiererce Apply NJ ODtlLS AGINCf IVJ
West 34th-st. Broadway.
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NOIING MAN would like n situation IA
4 a COACHMAN or GARDEN ER; good reference. Adj
dress T.. O. Box l. ]63 New YORK city.
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financial.

A -DEFAULTED RAILROAD BONDSt .
n s2ecity. ana bought By lie old cstblsho house OF
ALBERT Al. NICOLAN q Go
stock Brokers and Auotioacers
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fsQS 2D-AVE.-WantOd by n newi y-m1rrlcd
@E'I'1 man. sitraton as IL careful ctr YER
milk understands farming and The garden
s wife take of m. 4sost IN washing DOth nave
hrstc iaas
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n competent girl a situation

w NORTHUMBERLAND and sEAMsfiii;7a, ~ IAN.
h. ,I snd rsrs-t Dest reference from last employ Il
Al.Irss n r, ,235 BrVuI~ ". Uptown lribu4" Obo~
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Gilnnlioas h)anteA-fsmales.

Chamber maids.
IGT WEST 40TH-ST.-At Mrs. WEiR's
EO Once second floor wanted a situation a. CHAM
BERNARD and LAT DRESS aitlne, objection to io
country; good city reference.
eEA EAST 11TH-ST., near 3d-ave.-A re-
" spectaDls girl wants situation ~ CFIAABERMAlD
sad RI--H. WOnld a washing tlTso years
good cy re;orencs Cali two days at employers
AbS WEST 3JTH-ST.-A respectable young
-4~'F ciIl 10 90 CHAhBERWORK and WAlrlNG, or
asa d washing ironing objection TO take
O chilLrcn. good city reference.
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A II, s, and 10 PER CENT CHOICE CITY
n. BONDS. and Other Investment Secrrit,c~,
s years paying 10 Ia per cent interest promptly paid
AT sale below par by AE.REkr u. NiCOLAN - Co.
stock Brokers and Auctoneefa.
Y Nm n
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Cooks.

NOOK.--A cOIOred man cook in hOtcI or
- restaurant understands his business thoroughly roth ~
cook furnish excellent reerence city or
country. Apply al ODELLS AGENCY. lOD West @4thsb,
corner Br1rlNay.
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sSQ WEST 2STH-Sr., 9Th and 7th-ayes.,
20 room 40 one isht nPXAAA kP ey A A. ri
family tho county, where washing PLAIN can FURNISH Two
years Ieiereloos.
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0lS EAST 38TH-ST. BY q first class
.tlO COOK; understands cooking in all its branches
gots al kinds Of soups maatA DOia aris NC expert
AT all kinds fanoy DIDO dishes Frcnch and English creams
eles rs5oass pastry cook, public or pIfVa'1 Guy
References Call Tor two days
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1875-02-25
GREY H AIRS,

Unbidden guests, why come ye here,
VexinE the thought with omens drear,
Chilling the heart ere age can count
One ice irop in its gushing fount?
Ere on the brow has been impressed
With heavy hand Tines iron crest; -
Whose stamp indelible betrays
The wreck of hopes, the flight of days.
Unwelcome visitors ieel 'i
gloom upon my spirit steal;
terror at your aspect drear, .. ...
AS if eternity were near.
Yet will pause and calmly scan
The changes in Lies narrow span;
The pensive brow, the sallow cheek,
Full plainly of these changes speak. -
Tho fl citing years have borne away
The blossoms OF life's early day,
Yet is there left within my heart
A treasure that will ne'er depart.
Won by the ceaseless toll of years,
By brooding thoughts and anxious fears,
As from rich streams in Afric's lands
Are gathered grains of golden sands.
So oft the patient lab'rer gains,
From sorrows streams such golden grains.
Tho dark the turbid wave may flow,
A hidden treasure lies below. s..l4-., ..E
From year to year, with patient toll,
Life's pilgrim seeks the glitt'ring spoil.
-..Ss.t ll- SO -.I - 500 ,-5s-its
Then why repine that Nature dooms
To swift decay her choicest blooms,
That on the brow appears SO soon
A halel like the wat'ry moon: r-, f-
Ye silS'ry tokens of decay,
l bow submissive to your sway.
Meet councillors are ye Tor one
Whose earthly course is merely run . =,
I would not give the thoughts you bring
For Natures richest covering.
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was a sayin', me sittin' up thar two
hundred feet from the yarth. But !
alters had a way of gettin' out o
scrapes. Il jest happened to think'i
warn't me the bar wanted. He warn
hungry-he was dry. UHewas banker
i'll arter that black bottle in my coat
taifpoeket, and no / Jest whisked i
out and pulled the cork and stuck til.
neck in his mouth as he come to,Udrd
me. Yoh orter a see how comfortabl,
his yes looked as that brandy wen
down his gullet. He sucked away
till he had dreened the last drop. Ther
he let go, and fell that whole two
hundred and twenty feet on to the
ground. I slid down, and it seemed
as eff l never would reach the ground
which was two hundred and fifty feet
eff it was a inch, and I found his neck
broke. He had come to the drunkard's
ontimely end" 9ebi@sA bad 9iE5c enl
bhj Here Dan looked ominohsly at old
Weed, the pilot, whose nose was fear
full y. red. 81 skinned him and hung
the skin up to dry, Made some hair-
siley outen the fat. i'Twarn't: wurth
shucks. Snfelt like applenbrandy, and
when L put it on my head 1 got the
sack from thesgalI wasI fgsin' with,
bekase L smelt offs liquor like pizen,
she said. But the techinest sight WAS
to come. The night'after his DEATH i
found Mrs. Bar and her cubs standin'
by the hide of the besstly ole drunk
ard, a cryin'. They's no limit to 1.-THE
effection of the female sex. She rub
he'd her eyes with her left hand. and
pinted to the hide with her right. And
the young bars looked on kinder SOL
emn, and then they. all marched on in
a percession." .sw .r,c..s,k ,l
int:Whyididn't you shoot 'em, Dan 2"
said Raymond.aE aid isiss1 "l sgIra
s'Shoot 'em EXCLAIMED Dan, draw
ing his other boot, and looking furi-
ously at the questioner.5 saShoot 'em
You onfeelin' brute yea! You ha'nt
got no heart! Do you think Ed shoot
a widderand her poor fatherless--fath-
erless-"17G i5'35bni ssv sa da.d@
s"Cubs, suggested Dudley. odf
eyes, cubs,"' thundered Plue, and
turned into the bunk and snorcd in
ten seconds. Whether Bill Mckay
had kept watch oyer the receding
water 1 cannot say, but when Dudley
to the deck he found Bill roll
ling in an agony of laughter, and
Dudley,himself, tinsenslble' alike to
Dams science and to his moral, lay
down on the deck, and looked up
at the constellation of Ursa Major,
let US say for the sake of
that he wept over tho trag-
ic end of the father of family.
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SPRAY, madam, what do you charge
for recovering an umbrella?" said
Michael O'Flaherty, from Tipperary,
the other day, walking into an UNI
brella shop. "Let me see ii" was she
reply. "Ah, faith, an that's just what
| want TO do; for I've lost one, and L
see you offer TO recoverthem at very
small charge. aud so was just think
ing l would get you TO recover mine"
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1875-02-25

STATE DEBT.-The State debt of
Illinois is 81, ,450, 900. payable at inter-
walls du-ing the next three or four
vears.-But the income of the State
from the Illinois Central Railroad
will be amply sufficient to pay this in
terest as it accrues, and the principal
as it falls due, so that the State is prac-
ticallv out of debt. ~ III
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1875-02-25

PUzzLE.-A man goes to market.
He passes through three toll-gates. He
pays toll in apples. At the first gate
he gives half of his apples and half a
one besides. The next gate he gives
half of what he has left and half an
apple. At the third gate he gave
half the remainder and half ali apple.
He has q whole apple left and didn't
out any. How many apples had he
when he started.
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The HEGRANGEs.-There are now near
lv $4,000 Oranges organized. Mlssou-
ri, Iowa and Tennessee, are the banner
States. The membership exceeds
100000. 1t is claimed that theorder
now has over $17,00O,OO0 invested in
elevators, grain warehouses, -four
mills, agricultural implements, cattle
feeding materials, and similar facto-
ries, banks, and fire and storm insur-
ance companies. 81
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pAXEnEA WAFER CURE,

gAVEaEA WATER CURE,
G.. w STRONG, M d.,
(Late OF Water Cure of Cleveland.l
PR Q p r 7 Z II . r.
location Beautiful-Terms moderate send Tor
circular giving fIill Details
>April6, 1871. 135-1y.
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THEINEBRIATE BEAR.

A SCIENTIFIC FAoT-WITH A MORAL"
"First-rate. And now here goes. l
think when you was 'lectioneerin' fer
Congress last year, Mr., Churchill, you
must been to Jericho, in Ripley
couuty?"
"Yes," said Mr.. Churchill gravely.
"You must sec the place where
the road crosses the Loughery creek p
eyes"
"Do you happen to know where
Ben Samson lives?"
eyes; staid with him in a red
house at the top of the big hill"
"Precisely! Well, l wanted TO fix
the Biography of my fact, so that these
incredible felIers might know as l was
statin' facts" Aud here Dan looked
round i'll triumph. II lived Jinin'
farms with Ben Samson, My house
was in the hollow beyand."
"Hard set lived there in those days,
Dan," said Mr.. Churchill.
"Wal, yes" said Dan, with good-na.
tured impudence "that was material
enough, seein' as how as your father.
in. law made the very first settlement
at Jericho, Mr.. Churchill. But that:
neither here nor there. l lived in
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"TIiE candies you sold me last were
very bad, said Suett 10 tallow cham
dler. "Indeed, sir, I'm sorry for that
" Yes. sir, do you know they burnt TO
the middle and then would burn no
longer" "You surprise me! What.
sir, did they go out?" NO, sir, no,
they burnt shorter"
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eI- Tie space occupied by ten lines ofthis
~pe Ncmpsrei5 shah constitutes squsfs.-s@
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SUNDAY-sCHooL teasner TO pupil ;
'Now. my little nian, can you explain
the cause of Adams fali?" Little
man COMPATIBILITY "Yes, sir; cause
he hadn't any ashes to throw on the
sidewalk"
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"WILL the boy who threw that pep
per on the stove please come up here
and get present of nice book, said
a Sunday-schooi superintendent in
Iowa. But the boy never moved. He
was tar-seeing boy.
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tf J.H. NICHOLS.
Attorney at Law and Notary Public-s once
in PIsenix Block over Brsinefd sons Drug
Siorc- 80
November 20. 1s5a- 12z-u
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DAN PLvE's STORY.
EY EDWARD KGGLEsTON.

!
1t was not often that gentleman o
culture and a lawyer in successful
practice commanded an Ohio rive
fiat boat, but Mr.. Churchill was cut o
health, and so, taking his brillian
nephew, Dudley Churchill, along fo
company, he embarked on the boa
which was TO float the produce of hi
farm to New Orleans.
It was Saturday night, and Mr.
Churchill, being scrupulous man
would not let his boat float onSunday
so she was made fast in a secure land
ing place, her long, sweeping oars
each of which took four men 10 swing
were folded at her side, and the rough
Hoosier crew set themselves about
finding some amusement for the eve.
ming and the idle day that was to fol-
low. The river was falling fast, and
Bill Mckay, the good natured cham
pion of his county, was ordered to
stand watch for the first half of the
night, lest the boat should ground.
With q rueful countenance, the burly
giant climbed the stairway, sorry that
he could not stay below and hear the
yarns which only a fiat-boat cabin
ever hears. ti.a.
"Come. Dan! tell us story" said
Dudley Churchill, who enjoyed moth
ing go much as the society of the rough
hands, with their fresh originality OF
character and their rude wit.
Dan Plue, who was addressed,
looked up slowly. 81 don't think of
no story. But eff you'd like to hear a
little scientific fact with high moral
tendency, think 1 mout relate some
thin of that sort"
"First-rate," said Henry Turner, the
cook, washing dishes; "a fact from
you would be delightful, especially q
fact with a moral tendency"
"Well, then, shan't tell it!' said
Plue. "You han't got the sperret a
man orter have when he hears a fact.
specially fact told of q Saturday
night and good enough fer sermon
fer Sunday morning."
"Pshaw Dan, tell it for me-" said
Dudley. 81 am prepared to believe
every word you say, and to profit by
the mora, of the story"
"Well, it's right smart story to be-
lieve, and don't know as l should
have swallered it myself eff anybody
he'd told 1t to me. Ii does seem lit
tie juberous, to look at it. But 1 see
it with these ere eyes, and I'll swear
to it on stack of bibles as high as a
sycamore"
"Wouldn't you put testament on
top of that, Dan ?" said Perry Ray
mond.
"Yes, ten on 'em! When 1 tell a
yarn tell yarn, but when I'm talkin'
in the presence of lawyer and a
Christian like Mr.. Churchill, and
when Pm telin' scientific fact, and
a hopin' to make moral, and, maybe,
a religious impression, stick to the
facts as saw by these orbits of mine."
"What do you propose to call this
story ?" asked Perry Raymond.
"Why, / should call her Positively
"A Fact CT named her, butDudley's
a man of literary parts, and I'll just
hint to him that it's true, and that it's
got solemn moral, and that it's about
a bar that got to gettin' tight. Maybe
he can give the fact Pm goin' to tell a
name of the sort you see in books
Lets see," said Dudley, how will
this do? Let's call it
The Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1855-1875, 1875-07-28

that more good can be accomplished
by some other kind of legislation.
We are not speaking of the rum in
terest nor of the opponents of all legal
measures in behalf of temperance, but
of the honest believers in license,
whose views have now been embodied
in the statutes. It is nothing more
than fair that the new system should
be thoroughly tried, and for that pur-
pose one full year is certainly a short
time. IF it fails it will have helped
the prohibition cause much more than
a year of the sort of enforcement of
that principle which we have generally
had. IF it has partial euccess, it will
throw new light upon the whole ques-
cannot but be of great practical ad
vantage. In any point Of view, there
fore, it is expedient and strictly just
drop out of Massachusetts, politics
this year as formal issue.
The State contest, then, will be
pies. On one side will be the Repub-
candidates the State can afford, and
inspired by that harmony any reform
impulse which are bringing the whole
national organization into line, as #
ready for the grand contest of 1876.
On the other will be the Democracy,
one thing in Massachusetts, and an
other in Ohio, and still third at the
South. Under these circumstances
every truly disinterested voter will
make his choice, and we have no fear
that it will be otherwise than such as
to give the Commonwealth next year
a Republican Governor and Govern
ment by \ good, solid majority.-Ex.
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We speak prospectively. There
will be a State Campaign in Massa
chusetts when the time comes, and
we should not wonder il it proved to
be pretty lively and decisive cam
paign. with important consequences,
too. For the present the weather is
against all upneces sary activity, while
the Centennial episode and some pc
culiar features of distraction in the
local situation have given an unusual
stagnation to political matters even for
the time of the year. The repressive
influences, however, will wear off in
month or two. The great shadow of
the Presidential contest OF next year
will begin to deepen on our local field
as we get ready for the State canvass,
and between the two. the men of Mas
sachusetts will be different from what
they have ever been hitherto, if they
are behind any others in the Union in
responding, promptly and intelligent
ly, to the demands Of the exigency.
The publicans, we are sure, will
show no such remisses. We observe
some very demure suggestions af1oat
as to what is the difference between
Gov. CASTOR and this or that promi-
nent Republican who may be nomi
mated for his place? and why not ac-
quiesce in the present cast of the
State Government and let national
matters slide. ETC., tic. The Repub-
licans of Massachusetts, are not to be
taken in by such weak inventions.
They know that the developments of
the lat State canvass were entirely
exceptional can never be repeated or
perpetrated. The present brings It's
own law. Governor CASTOR. hampered
and balanced as he has been, has done
very we'll in some respects, although
in no essential Of his Office has he
shown any superiority to what might
have been expected of regular Re-
publican Governor, while the mixed
condition of things at the State House
has by no means been favorable to
the general interests Of the Common
wealth. But now Gov. Gaston's party
friends aspire to advance on the po-
sition they won by mere good luck
last year, and threaten to give Massa-
chusetts a thorough Democratic ad-
ministration This recalls the Re-
publican masses to the true state of
things, to their own duties and the
needs Of the hour.
They will be prepared, when their
State Convention comes on, to act
with the requisite energy, discretion
and harmony. As we have eaid here
tofore, they will waive the temperance
issue for the present year. There
is, in fact no such issue now before
the people. What there is, is the fair
trial of new policy ordered substan-
tally At the last election. For twenty
years, speaking generally. the prohi-
bitionists have had the field to them
selves. Their own fair-minded lead
crs will not claim that the result has
been so conclusive but that sincere
friends OF temperance are found in
every part of the State who maintain
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HAIL I1mnG V0Dhcs
GOING notwithstanding all places sup
piled from the Chicago Z. z, ana toe r..
Wayne r. Il, closes AT losU =. ".
! GOING sOUTH-l. Including Cincinnati
and ali points beyond, closes at 5Oo q. m.
3 Includinx all places supplied from the
Cincinnati Railroad, 500 p. M.
GOING EAST-Including all places sup.
piled from the Columbus r. r., anu
Dayton and Xenia Railroad, closes
at l2.00 m.
GOING WESrJ Including Indianapolis
and all points beyond, closes 1000 e. MI
Guiding ali points supplied by the Indt-s
annapolis Railroad, 300 p. m.
n1Chicago and all points west and north
west, closes 7:0n p. m.
To Webster, williamsburg and Bloomings-
day, al 200p p. m. lss3<s
To Cox's Mills, White Water, Bethel and Ar
ba, on Monday, Wednesday and Friday'
at 1900 m.
To Arlington, Clifton and Liberty, on Nom
day and Friday, at 700 a. m.
To Boston, Beechymire, GoodTin,s Corner neI
Friday, at 12:30 m.
MAILS ARE OPEN
Ats00 a. m from Indianapolis and Cincin-
natl and beyond.
Al 100 a. m. from Cincinnati, way and
through mails, and from Dayton ana
Xenia Isailroad. az+.
At 400 D. m, from East via Columbus Rail-
road, and Day ton and Xenia Railroad.
At7DO D. m. from North, via Chicago Rail-
road and Fort Wayne Railroad.
At 500 D. m. from Indianapolis and beyond.
once open from TOO a. IN. to 7:SO p: m.-
On Sunday, from $50 TO 1880 q. m.
Dec. 1874. B. w. DAVIS. p. NJ.
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Some of our worthy colored brcth-
rem o. the baptist percussion had a
baptism down at the creek last Sun
day, and the ceremony attracted q
very large crowd of people. Mrs. Pit
mans colored servant girl vast very
anxious to be present, and, as it was
from the house while the dinner was
ing clothes. Her interest was SO in
tense that she stood close to the min
lister, who was in the water. while the
ceremony proceeded. After six or
seven had been dipped, the clergyman.
filed with enthusiasm, seized her and
pulled her into the water. She re-
sisted, but the minister imagined that
she was merely afraid of the coldness
Of the water, SO before she could ex-
plain the situation he soused her.
She came up splutteriDg. and ex-
claimed: What you doin'? Lem
me 60, tell you u
But he exerted his strength, and
sent her "ker-chuck" below the sur
face again. She emerged clawing the
air wildly and shouting: ''Gway
from here! Don't you chuck me un-
der agin. you niger !"
But the clergyman was inexorable,
and he plunged her under a third
time, and held her there for minute,
80 as to let it soak in and do her good.
Then she came up and struck for the
shore, and standing there, looking
like draggled mermaid cut in ebony,
she shook her fist at the astOnished
pastor, and shrieked:
"Oh. I'll Fix youi I'll bust the
head often you, you or nary trash
cousin me in dat dare creek and near
ly drowned me, when you kuowed
we'll enough all de time dat Use a
Methodist, and bin chrissened by dem
dat's yer betters, and knows more
about religion den all de Baptisses
dat ever shouted, you miserable black
scum and me got the rheumatic
enough to set me crazy! Oh I'll see
what de law kin do for you! I'll have
you rested dis. very day, or my names
not johanna johnson, you woolly-
headed herrin'! You hear me 2"
Then johanna went home to re-
dress, and the ceremony proceeded.
Miss johnson is now persuaded that
the Baptists are not any better than
pagans.-N. Y. Weekly.