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An elder, while baptizing converts
at Goliad, Texas, revival meeting,
advanced with wiry, sharp-eyed
old chap in the. water. He asked
the usual question, whether there
was any reason why the ordinance
of baptism should not be administer
ed. After pause tall, powerful
looking man, who was looking
quietly on, remarked; "Elder, /
don't want to interfere in your bus
mess, but want to say that this
is an old sinner you have got hold
of, and that one dip won't do him
any good. Ifyou want to get the
sins out Of him you'll have to anchor
him out in the deep water all night. .
- Victoria Advocate.
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ia Al.

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~ declare y exclaimed Fogg,
the dinner table yesterday, "this is
the most afectionate pie ever saw
"AfTectionate pie? p cried every one
at the table, including the landlady.
eyes" said Fogg; "the upper and
lower crusts are so confounde,I af-
feetionate that they couldn't get
anything between them
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Fl VIII see your lace again !"
She meant it when she said it; and
as she spoke, she threw her betroth-
al ring towards her lover, who had
offended her.
1t missed him, and rolled down
upon the floor, and over the sill of
an open chinacloset-ons of those
old-fashioned closets that used to
stand on each side of The mantle
piece.
She did not notice where it rolled !;
he did though; and after she had
left the room, he turned to pick it
up. The ring she had worn would
always be precious to him.
Miss Rashleigh went straight to
her own room, as miserable q girl as
ever lived; and a moment later
Grandmother Rashleigh hustled into
the drawing-room, pushed the open
closet door to, picked up the maya
zine, set the ANIMALS and books of
poetry straight on the table, pulled
down the shades, arranged the chairs
mathematically against the wall and
hustled out again.
give had these things fifty years."
she said to herself, "and there's Cor
nelia and her beau with no more re-
spect for them than if they were
that much lumber
The she closed the door and went
away to her own room upstairs,
where fine silk patchwork quilt
was in the frame, a surprise for said
Cornelia.
Grandma Rashleigh gave every
young person of the family some
thing of her own manufacture on his
or her wedding day.
"Now," the old lady had said, a
dozen times to Triphney King, who
was helping. II rather think Corne-
liza will have the best thing I've
done and there's bit in it of every
handsome silk there's ever been in
the family, and of her fathers and
grandfathe wedding vests"
"Yes'm; it's a real memorial
quilt" said Tripheny. at takes
you, mum, to plan such things"
The quilt was finished and bound
that afternoon and Triphney's job
of quilting being over, she went
home; but she carried about the
news that she ''was sure all was over
between Miss Rashleigh and Mr..
sSpear. She'd heard Cornelia saying
something to her grandma, ard the
pld lady was furious"
' "He would never had done that if
he had cared for me. you know,
grandma" Cornelia was saying at
that moment.
STUFF and nonsensel He loves
the ground you walk on!n said the
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At Pau, France, it is not unusual
to see person with pair of skates
in one hand and q sun umbrella in
the other. The ice Is found on q
small lake that lies deep in a hollow
and there is good skating on the
lake, while roundabout Pau people
are promenading iii sunshine as
warm as that OF Octoner.
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Acute rheumatism is an Inflammation
of the joints, marked by pain, heat, red
ness, and tendency to suddenly shift
from one joint to another. With these
symptoms apply Salvation Oil, the great
pain cure, to the affected parts without
delay. Price rs cent bottle.
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Sandwich man to Mr.. Smythe, of
Columbia, who thinks it is the cor
rect thing to wear his cap and gown
in the street, as "they do it abroad,
you know'D: II say, but you have
an aisy place. Plat are you adver-
toisin', anyway ~
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Old Deacon Dobson boosted that he
was always prepared for the worst -
and so he was, for he always kept DIR.
Bulls Cough Syrup in the house, re-
garding it the only safe remedy for
coughs and solids.
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her pride was gone.
"Oh, dear-oh dear II she sobbed.
/ wish / had died I wish / had
never come tol Oh, Orville Orville!
what has become of your"
"Oh! oh |" moaned the mother.
"Oh ! oh y moaned the sisters.
And Cornelia's head fell back
again.
Emma, get the lavender out of
the china-closet," said grandma to
her daughter. "Quick. It's on the
corner SHELF
Mrs Rashleigh sprang to the closet.
1T WON'T openl" she cried wildly.
Its patent lock- said grandma;
clocks as it shuts. Here's the key
And Mrs. Rashleigh flew back to
the door, opened it and uttered a
shrek.
There on the floor, huddled up I'M
der the shelf, lay poor Orville Spear.
He was white and limp.
Cornelia sat and stared at him in
the most awful way. She thought
him dead, but the more experienced
matrons saw that he was yet living.
Sally was sent post-haste for the
doctor; and there in Mrs. Rash
leigh $ drawing-room, he found Cor
nelia and Orville lying quite uncon-
scious, like Romeo and Juliet in the
scene at the tomb, and the rest of
the party in state of bewilderment
and terror past description.
At last, however, both were con-
scious, and seated in arm chairs, re-
garded each other, when the observ-
ers kept silence, and Mr.. Orville
Spear uttered the first words.
"Of all COMPOUNDED FOOLS
"Whe dear?" asked his mother.
"Me," said Orville, regardless of
grammar "Who shut me in?"
"What were you in the closet for 2"
askes. grandma, with guilty con-
science.
"To pick something up that rolled
there.n said Orville.
1.-THE ring" asked Cornelia, fran
tically.
eyes, the ring" said Mr. Spear.
"More fool I. Some one banged the
door to. / shouted, and howled and
kicked, and no one heard me-"
ooh oh! oh! oh |" shrieked Cor
nelia. II believe you hid there just
to kill me, for no other purpose than
out of revenge"
"You banged the door on me. A
jealous woman will do anything"
said Mr.. Spear.
II banged the door, Orville," said
old Mrs. Rashleigh; IT? You'd
left everything flying. / just push
it as | passed; and you ought to
bless your stars that you are alive;
for people don't go into the draw
ing-room, sometimes for fortnight
in this small family. We use the
parlor much more and Pm deaf and
so is old Hepsiba, and you might
have died there. Yes, and you'd
have killed him, Cornelia," added
the old lady, throwing his pretty
diamond ring on the floor"
ooh !" moaned Cornelia. "Ohw
at wasn't her fault. / was con-
founded fool all through y cried Or
vile. III knew that closet had
spring-lock. Don't blame Cornelia."
II shall always blame myself"
sighed Cornelia. "Oh, how pale you
arew
"And how pale you are, Cornelia,
dear" sighed Orville. "Did you
really care when you thought / was
dead ?"
Ladies'" said Grandma Rash
leigh, "now that Orville has had his
wine and biscuit, and is getting on,
let us 60 into the other room, and
leave these two young folks to talk
things over together"
She led the way: the others fol
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old lady. QUIZ never get sucn
another, Cornelia.n
II shall never marry at all. /
hate men T. replied Cornelia.
! And then her grandma made the
house too hot for her, so she went
over to her mothers, her usual way
when she fell out with grandma.
Three days passed At the end of
the third, Piety Pratt stepped in at
Mrs. Rashleigh's-young Mrs. Rash
leigh, as they called her, though she
was nearly fifty, for grandma was
old Mrs. Rashleigh.
II expect you will feel upset when
tell you the news, Cornelia," she
said. you've been too cruel this
time--he, he, hel Orville Spear
ha'nt been heard of since he was at
your house. His mother says he
went over to explain and makeup,
and he never came back-he, he, he.
She thought maybe he'd stepped
over to his brothers. but he hadn't
he, he. | reckon he's drowned
himself!''
II don't know why the whole
town should talk over my affairs,
and every meddling old maid giggle
about them r cried Cornelia
Piety jumped to her feet, seized
her parasol, and turned towards the
door.
"Good afternoon, Miss Cornelia
and Mrs. Rashleigh !" she said, with
a contemptuous courtesy. II will
remember my manners, if other folks
forget theirs. Only there's other
folks as likely to be old maids as me,
and / fancy it's Mr.. Spears affair
now if anything has happened to her
boy"
Away fiounced Miss Pratt.
"You've put Piety into rage,
Cornelia," said Mrs. Rashleigh. ats
pity; she has a long tongue"
But Cornelia was crying.
ooh, mother DEAR" she sobbed,
sit isn't true, is it? Orville did feel
dreadfully. Won't you see, mother?"
But at this moment Sally, the lit
tie servant girl from Grandma Rash
leigh's, came flying into the room,
without any more warning than if
she had been shot from gun.
"The old missus says you are to
come over at once, both you ladiesl'
she cried, standing before Mrs. r.,
and repeating her lesson like a par
rot. "There's something of impor-
lance, and your needed at wonst."
sect your bonnet, Cornelia," said
her mother. "I'll just put on this
sun-bonnet. What is it, Sally, do
you know?"
81 know it's something dreadful.
Missus is almost wild, and there's
lots of folks there. Something
about Mr.. Spear
The two ladies said no more, but
hurried away together, and, entering
grsndma's parlor, found there assem-
bled more of the members of the
Spear family, and friend or two.
Orvillc had disappeared. He had
never been home since his visit to
Cornelia and now the alarmed rela-
tives were anxious to get all the in
formation they could regarding the
interview between Orville and Cor
nelia.
II had reason to be angry, Mrs.
Spear" said Cornelia, proudly; "very
good reason and / took off my ring
and gave it back, and went out of
the room. That is all / know. /
don't know when he went or where
II thought he wouldn't mind so
much. | believed he had stopped
caring for me T"
"He ought to now, at all events, y
said grandma.
"My boy is dead, I'm surel 1
shall have the pond dragged" said
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IN THE WORLDS GREATcHoRUs
BY CARRIE V. SHAW.

I.
In the worlds great chorus,
o mother, will they hear me ?
In the wildwood,
In my childhood.
| have sung my plaintive song;
And the birds grew stin and listened;
But the waters danced and glistened;
And they bore my soul along,
Ever onward TO the throng,
Where the willows
Kiss the pillows,
And the leaning rushes grow.
There story.
Fun of glory,
Eyermore is whispered low.
In the moonlight
OF the midnight
Distant beacons CLEAN and glow;
Spirit voices whisper ever,
And the rushing of the river
Bears me onward with its flow.
Mother, you must stand so near me,
When | reach the dizzy thrcng,
That, ii they refuse to hear me,
When | sing my plaintive song.
If my cherished hopes forsake me,
You'll be there to sooth and take me
Back into our native glen,
Meier to wander forth again.
IL.
In the worlds great chorus,
Q mother, now they hear me,
From the wildwood,
And my childhood,
| have drifted with the years:
But my heart turns back in yearning,
When the sunset fires are burning,
Aud the distance reappears,
Through the mist of homesick tears.
In the twilight,
And the midnight,
All my fancies 60 astray;
But the glory
OF the story
Only wearies me to day.
i have tasted
Fame, and wasted
Years and youth to reach the goal.
But to find in wisdom's measure
l have bought worthless treasure
Worthless to the hungry soul.
Mother, dear, the rushing river
Whispers evermore of you,
And the home l left forever,
Where the water-lilies grew,
Where the birds sang gaily DER us
Till the worlds loud. ringing chorus
Drew me from my native glen
Never to return again!
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aar Aovrss' 6.vAssnr.
-o-(: lol ;)-o-
BY SAFIZ.

NEVER, while l live," said Miss
IN Rashleigh, "never while I live
q y will see your face again |"
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1886-12-23
From Kansas.
WAKEFIELD, Kan. Dec. l, '86

WAKEFIELD, Kan, Dec. l, '06.
Messrs. Editors:
We are having fine weather here;
little frosty nights, but warm and
pleasant days. There were a few
days about the middle of November
that the ground was frozen several
inches deep. There are large quaint,
ties of corn to be gathered yet, all
over the country, with an average
yield of from 20 to % bushels pei
acre of very good quality of corn
Business right here seems to be quite
active, and we are confident that the
spring will bring greater activity in
business than for for some time past
Several parties have been farther
west, to Greedy, Stafford and Ford
counties, lately and taken up home
steads. They report better crops in
that part of Kansas than in the east
ern part. The surface is not broken
by bluffs and ravines as it is here, no
timber is found on any Of the streams,
and very few creeks are found. The
water is almost all supplied by wells
from fifty to ninety feet deep. The
water is almost as soft as rain water,
differing very much from the water
here, which is very hard on account OF
the limestone, which is found in al
most every town. Election passed
very quietly for the number of candi-
dates that were nominated by the diff
ferent parties. The Independent can
didate for Congress, Jno. A. Ander-
son, was elected by handsome ma
jority. w. A. DEMERITT.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1886-12-23
TEMPERANCE Outlook.

In his recent lecture in fremont
Temple on "a Hundred Years Fight
with the Liquor Traffic." the Rev.
Louis Albert Banks closed as follows !:
Some good people are very much
discouraged with the temperance out
look, because there is such a diversity
of methods, favored by earnest work
ers having the same end in view-the
overthrow of the liquor traffic. l do
not share in that encouragement.
Did you ever watch rain-storm gath
er in the summer time, when the heav-
ems had been long barren, and the air
was full of dust? First, the wind be-
gins to blow; after awhile it shifts
into a rainy quarter, and blows hard
er still then the clouds begin to
gather-light, feathery white clouds
at first; then one darkens, and then
another; one gets black and lower
ing. All the while the wind keeps
blowing, and then-somehow or other,
nobody can ever describe 1.-THE
clouds begin to run together, and the
whole sky is overcast, the the sun is
blotted out, the clouds open, the del
uge pours down, the dust is gone, the
earth is refreshed, and the air is made
pure.
So for a hundred years the wind
has been blowing. Mildly enough
it blew at first, but it has shifted into
a rainy quarter; it is coming from out
the conscience of the American peo-
pie. l look at the skies; I see many
clouds. l see Good Templar lodges
and Blue Ribbon clubs, and Law and
Order leagues. see church temper
ance societies and a Woman's Chris
tian Temperance Union; l see an
anti-saloon Republican convention, a
conference, and prohi-
bition party conventions, here and
there and everywhere. The wind still
as it never has blo"n
before; the clouds get darker. Some
of these days-nobody will ever be
able to tell just how it happened-the
clouds will begin to run together, the
whole sky will be overcast, the sun
will be blotted out, the heavens will
be black as night, the deluge will
pour its floods upon US, and in that
deluge the saloon will die! May God
hasten the coming of the deluge ]"
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1886-12-23
National Bank Circulation.

Among the schemes devised for
continuing the national bank circula-
ton is one proposed by John Thomp-
son, Vice President of the Chase Ma
tional Bank, New York. His plan is
very simple. It proposes that gov
eminent bonds be discarded as secu-
rity for circulating notes, and that the
banks be authorized to issue such
notes to the amount of one-half their
capital, each depositing in the treas
ury an amount equal to one per cent.
of its circulation as a guarantee fund
for the redemption of notes of broken
banks. Preference is to be given the
notes over all other liabilities in case
of failure. The project seems to be
safe enough, so far as security for
note circulation is concerned, and
perhaps Mr.. Thompson's suggestion
might be developed in satisfactory
and practical form. After all, it is
not so much the way that is lacking
as the will. If Congress were so dis
posed, the national bank circulation
would stand in no danger of suppress
sion. When the question of resum-
ing specie payments was pending, pre-
vious to 1875, elaborate plans for at
tanning that end were innumerable.
Financial experts, who knew just how
the thing ought to be done, popped up
everywhere, and each was certain that
he alone had worked out the true So
luton of what was supposed to be
an exceedingly intricate problem. But
in fact there was no serious difficulty
to he surmounted except general TIM
idity. Said Horace Greeley: "The
way to resume is to resume" and he
was right. The act of January IA,
1875, provided that on and after JAN
uary /, 1879, the secretary of the
treasury should redeem in coin the
United States legal tender notes then
outstanding, in sums of not less than
$50, on presentation at the office of
the assistant treasurer in New York,
and straightway the premium on gold
began to decline and kept on dimin
ishing until on the day appointed for
resumption not vestige of it was
left. No trouble whatever was eX-
perienced. The currency came to
specie basis without any further ado
about it, simply because Congress had
determined upon that result. There
was some demagogic protest, stimu-
lated by partisan spirit, bat it came
to nothing, and matters proceed as
regularly as though there had been no
opposition. So it will be in respect of
establishing new basis of national
bank currency. No difficulty need be
experienced after Congress shall have
determined the method to be pursued
only the most direct way, involving
the least circumlocution and machinery,
will be the best,-Troy Times.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1886-12-23
FRANK LEsL1E's SUNDAY MAGAZINE

FRANK LEsLIE's SUNDAY MAGAZINE
The December number of this favorite
family magazine closes the 18th volume
The opening article is "A MOravian Viii
lage," by Lieut.. III, r. Lemly, U. S. A.
who describes sympathetically the vii
lage, of Salem. n. G.. Mr.. Powell's fifth
number of Leaves From My Life' deals
with Lord Beaconsfleld, Barry Corn
wall'' and Alfred Domett. This leaf is
fully illustrated. Other quite profusely
illustrated articles are = Zanzibar,
and Mission Work There; symbols OF
Christian Art" by F. 5. (surely a wo-
MANI "William Penn" and "Pharoah's
Palace of Daphne CTahpanhes) Egypt y
This last is the latest important discov-
cry by the Egypt Exploration Society
How Virtue Triumphed" is pleasant
short story by Mrs. Angeline E. Alex
ander; and Some Famous Paintings by
Raphael" shows three of the great mas
ters' works in outline. 1.-The Gems She
Wore'' is Continued. There is plenty of
miscellany in the shape of short articles
and sketches, and several very beautiful
full page reproductions of paintings by
we'll known artists.