488 ^ Puhlic Rehukc — Anecdote of Judge White. [October, 



as not to liave been tauglit good manners. He don't know wbat is 

 polite and respectful in a worshiping assembly, among whom he 

 comes to mingle. I'm sorry for the poor man. I'm sorry for the 

 family to which he belongs. I'm sorry he did not know better. I 

 hope he will not do so again. But, however, that is not what I 

 was going to talk about." Thus Father Axley went on, for some 

 time, "boxing the campass," and hitting a number of persons and 

 things that he was "not going to talk about," and hitting them hard, 

 till the attention and curiosity of the audience were raised to the 

 highest pitch, when, finally, he remarked — "The thing of which I 

 am going to talk, is chewing tobacco. Now, I do hope, when any 

 gentleman comes here to church, who can't keep from chewing to- 

 bacco during the hours of public worship, that he will just take his 

 hat, and put it before him, and spit in his hat. You know we are 

 Methodists. You all know that it is our custom to kneel when we 

 pray. Now, any gentleman may see, in a moment, how exceedingly 

 inconvenient it must be for a well dressed Methodist lady to be 

 compelled to kneel down in a great puddle of tobacco spit! " 



"Now," said Judge White, "at this very time, I had in my 

 mouth an uncommonly large quid of tobacco. Axley's singular 

 manner and train of remark had strongly arrested my attention. — 

 While he was striking right and left, hitting those " things" he was 

 not going to talk about, my curiosity was roused, and conjecture 

 was busy to find out what he could be aiming at. I was chewing 

 my huge Cjuid with uncommon rapidity, and spitting, and looking 

 tip at the preacher to catch every word and every gesture ; and when, 

 at last, he pounced on the "tobacco," behold, there I had a great 

 puddle of tobacco spit! I quietly slipped the quid out of my mouth, 

 and dashed it as far as I could under the seats, resolving never 

 again to be found chewing tobacco in a Methodist church." — W. 

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The latest remedy for this troublesome disease is feeding on corn- 

 stalks through the winter. The Prairie Farmer says: " We have a 

 horse which had the heaves a year ago and coughed badly. Last 

 fall we commenced feeding on corn-stalks, and continued nearly all 

 the past winter. To our great satisfaction he has exhibited none of 



