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LOW PRICES!
HAV’N just received a new stock of
goeds, we mean business when we say
we intend to sell them cheap for cash.
Our stock is now complete, and we would
respectfully ask our friends and the publie
generally t.) call and examine our goods
before purchasing elsewhere. We call
especial a" tention to the following lines of
goods, which we have priced to suit the
times.
DRY GOODS.
Calicos Bleaching, Shirting and Sheeting,
Osn.d urgs, Drilling, Jeans and Cassi
meres, Cambric, Poplins, Japanese
Cloth, Black Alpacca, White and
Bed Flannel, Opera Flannel, Bed
Ticking, Stripes, Shawls, and
Gloves, Hose and Half Hose,
Lady’s and Gent’s Collars,
Coats’ Thread, Balmorals
Towels, Sash, Belt and
Trimming Ribbons,
And other things too numerous to mentior .
GROCERIES.
! j'
Bacon. Flour, Meal, Molasses, Syrup
Sugar, Coffee, 8. C. Harns, Lard, Sult,
Soap, Sinoldng and Chewbig Tobacco,
Kerosene Oil, Starch, Soda, Pepper, Can
dy, Mate h< s, < 'andles, etc.
Table and Pocket Cutlery, Crockery and
Glasswaie.
SHOES.
Gent’s Calf Boots, Gent’s Calf Shoes,
Gent’s Kip Bools, Boy’s Kip Bregans
Gent’s Kip Brogans, Boy’s Buff Shoes,
Lady’s Cflt Short, (pegged), Lady’s Cloth
Gaiters, I -uly’sCulf Shoes, (sewed,) Lady's
Half ('lot' Gaiters, Ladys Morocco Shoes;
Children’s Whose.
A nice assortment of Men’s, Boy’s and
Lady’s Huts.
We rare also on hand a aelirt assort
ment of Drugs, which we are offering
cheap. *
Give ns a call at Lively, McElroy & Co’s
ohl stand, end bear in mind that it is no
trouble t.i show our goods. But we sei,
only for rash.
sept 19U< ALLEN * JONES.
L. A. JACKSON,
DKALEIt IN
DRY GOODS, ('ROCKERY,
TIN WARE. CONFECTIONERIES
and other articles usually found in a eouu- ;
ry store. Everything sold at
“SMALL PROFITS.” I
~* • I
Everything sold as cheap as the cheapest. !
Country | tod tee taken in exchange for '
fftOCXtilE S !
or anything in my line of business.
A literal tmronage solicited from those I
"ho wish u- buy to the best advantage.
Matvosses! Matresses I
I will keep constantly on hand, for sale, j
M itreom* made of the' best materia!, and I
of anv ata* A gmxt fort' qmuna matress
fvrs.\M). ind other sbea priced accordingly !
O.di r» .vsbevlfnlh wslleiUaL
L A. JA OK SON.
Northwest <w. FtHH'Mree atiwt
Norvroes, G*. i
July 11. ISTA
TO IBB* OB FOB
The undersigned offer* to rent or sett !
hi* houwe ami l«»r, in the town of X crerre*.
situate on the Xortherst oirwr of l'ea< U.
tree and Mtt.hr fl Street*, t v.wnt store
rwotn "I 1 the corner connected with the j
dW*dlhut*h«*ua<K Dwetlhu has six rooms '
w ilh three Stv-places. This is mw of the .
test stand* to sell gvsxla there 1- In the
* place, it teU»g. ua the street the tttoal at <
the trade .'omes In at. and fat emuisli >
from the railroad ao Ute va-'iae will m i
scare the ImheV horses. Any «isi*.
ia.c iv imrehnte rent »»««* do a oil u».
ghc me a call. John *. JiMK*.
Xorvro**. Octoier i«.
THE NORCROSS /ADVANCE
BY SIMMONS, VINCENT & CO. -NORCROSS, GA., I'IIIDAY, OCTOBER 10, 187:;. VOL. 1.-N0- 15.
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AN OLD. SONG AS GOOD AB NEW.
A correspondent of the New York Eve
ning Post to mind the following
verses, which were written some fifty-eight
years since, when the Congress of the
United States undertook to pass a law in
creasing the salary of its members to twelve
dollars per day. The reproduction of the
song may please some of our readers, and
will show to the young generation what a
shining light was lost to our ancestors in
not having Ben. Butler to advocate their
cause:
Ob! wont you lit-ar
What roaring cheer
Was spent by Johnny Congress, O!
And how so gay
They doubled their pay,
Aud doubled the people’s taxes, O!
There was Clay the scold,
And Johnson the bold,
Who did not shoot Tecumseh, O!
And Ormsby and Lowndes,
A.II as eager as bounds
On the scent of the loaves and fisiies, 0!
Arrah ! by my soul, it would make your
heart leap for grief to hear the poor sol
diers begging for their pay, the widows
tor their pensions, aud the officers for
new loans, while all the members are
drinking and singing merrily.
'1 welve dollars a day,
Twelve dollars a day,
Twelve dollars a day’s the dandy, O!
There was Clay in the chair
With bis flax-colored hair,
A singing tlie tax bit 1 cheerily, .O!
And smiled as the rabble
So loudly did gabble,
The audience scarcely slumber, O!
It was aye, it was no,
’’Twas too high, ’twas too low—
They ayes will rise, and the Speaker, O!
And quickly arose
Two eyes to a nose,
And the salary bill was carried, O!
Yes! by my soul! they unanimously dis
agreed upon every question except the
salary bill. Gentlemen, order. This
bill proposes to give us all a yearly salary
of fifteen hundred dollars, and myself
three thousand. Shall it pass ? Ay! ay!
ay! The ayes have it, therefore they
aSI begin to sing,
I'welvc dollars a day,
Twelve dollars a day,
Twelve dollars a day’s the dandy, O!
But och! by my shoul.
They all star’d like an owl,
When the people all hissed the ditty, O!
Said Clay, we’re all broke,
They don’t relish the joke tt
The devil has got in the rabble, O!
We have put on their backs ?
A mountain of tax,
An army, a bank, et cetera, O!
Which so tamely Uiey’liore,
’1 hat we all could liuve swore
They were perfectly broken to the halter, O!
How shall wc creep out of this scrape?
says one. Says Clay, I will pei-suade the
people that twelve dollars a day is too
little to support myself and my wife.
Says Hardin, I’ll turn the thing off in a
joke. Bays Ormsby, 1 beg pardon of
my constituents, and promise' never to
do the like again. 44 Well done, my
lads!” says Johnson, and so they all
began to sing again,
Twelve dollars a day,
Twelve dollars a day,
Twelve dollars a day’s the dandy, O !
[Savannah Morning News.
A BEAUTIFUL STORY.
There is a beautiful story in
ancient poetry. A great warrior,
the hero ol Troy, clad in tierce
armor, stretches out his arms to
embrace his child before lie goes
to the field of battle. The child
is afraid of the dazzling helmet
and nodding crest, and stern war
like aspect of his father and
! shrinks back in terror and alarm,
j But there is a loving, tender
I heart beating within that p:ino j
■ ply of steel. The father unbinds ;
■ his glittering hehuvt; lays aside '
i his fierce armor, aud comes lo
his child with outstretched arms '
I and tender words of love. Th ■ I
child shrinks from him no lon*
! ger, but runs' lo his "arms, pillows
I its head upon his bosom, and re
I ceives his parting embrace and
, kiss. So men are afraid of God
j when _he appears in his majesty
and terribleness. They think of |
his omnipotence, his glory, the '
lawfulness of his throne, the ter !
twsof his justice, and shrink back |
j front him. But as this father laid
aside his fierce armor, and came '
to his child in all the tenderness
of paternal affection, <o God veils
his glory, and splendor, and awful*
nvss, and reveals himself to his '
I children in the sweetest aspect of I
love.
A drug clerk who put up poison |
i for quinine took the matter very
coolly, saying that the victim was :
old and would have died in a few j
years any
.teh,.*.*,-J- 4rfiiii.ij Ai' *
Tuk married ladies of a AVes
tern city have formed “a Com tv
home husband club.” It is about
four teet long and has a brush on
the eml of it,
Norcrcss SaMith School Association.
A GRAND GALA DAY.
A NEW ERA IN SUNDAY SCHOOL
WORK INAUGURATED —ENRAPTUR-
ING MUSIC HON. H. P. BELL’S
ADDRESS.’
L•‘•st Friday was a gala day with the
people of Norcross and vicinity. The
heavens were cloudless, and the superfluous
glory of a Southern sun mellowed the?
gentle, breezes that were waft d from the
crystal waters of the Chattahoochee. As
early as eight o’clock the sound of horses
hoofs and carriage wheels greeted our ex
pectant citizens from every-street. Crowd
after crowd came; Sabba‘h Schools rallied
around their exquisitely wrought banners,
and at ten o clock a column of s?lx or seven
hundred people were seen marching and
counter-marching along Peachtree street.
A little later they gathered at the arbor
prepared for the occasion. Each Sabbath
School occupied separate positions. On
the right of the rostrum was Prospect
School, with banner inscribed
44 HE FIRST LOVED US.”
In front and to the right was Trinity
(three schools under one banner) with
motto:
“(SOD BLESS THE SUNDAY SCHOOLS.”
I'irectly in -front was Norcross School
with motto:
“the LORD IS OUR SHEPHERD.”
In front and to the right was Winter’s
School, witliout banner.
Directly to the left was Warsaw School,
with motto:
“in the name of our god we set up our
BANNER.”
At ten. apd a half o’clock Hon. 11. H.
Vl alker, President of the Association,
• arose upon the rostrum and announced the
i programme. first was singing by all
■ the schools.c TWb’ sang “ Beautiful River,”
led by Mr. NV«mich, of Prospect—one of
the best singer/ we have ever heard. Think
of three or fiiiir hundred men, women and
children standing amidst forest oaks pour
ing forth their voices in perfect accord on
the exquisite “Beautiful River.” Not a
semblance of affectation could be detected.
It was nature’s noblemen pouring their
whole souls into the song, aud how en*
rapturing the harmonies as they rang out
and echoed amid the forest oaks and adoivn
the valleys.
Succeeding a brief but excellent address
of welcome by Rev. G. E. Gardner, the
lion. 11. P. Bell, member of Congress elect,
was introduced. We regret onr inability
to give his mo t excellent address in full.
We attempt a synopsis of his leading ideas,
as follows;
Mr. President, Ladies and Gentlcm n :
i am glad to be with you ou this au
s spicious occasion. We meet not to cele
( I brate but to inaugurate one of the grandest
- eras in the history of Sabbath School or
t ; ganlzations. We meet around religion’s
s ■ consecrated altar, where denominational
( | distinctions are obliterated. We meet to
, ! identify our efforts and interests, and from
I. . .
I I this identification will spring the exaltation
of our Sabbath School labors.
My friends, we live in an eventful age—
eventful in inventions and discoveries;
eventful in thought, in material and mental
advancement, and in the grandest human
achievements ev r known to the world.
We have lived to see the Pacific united to
the Atlantic—“to see the globe bound in
: the ‘mystic meshes’ of the telegraph, and
thought speed on the lightning’s wing over
continents and under seas. Our neighbors
| stand on the Pacific coast and read the
I great speeches of Gladstone and Disraeli
j hours before they are delivered in the
I Biitish Parliament.”
Our age is eventful in great problems
in politics, science, society and church.
I Change and discontent mark even- phase
I of our era. The volcanic powers of human
passion are struggling for an outlet, and ■
revolution sudden and wild ca*ts its shadows !
| thick and fast over the entire inhabited
I world.
Witness, here in our own land, the
I grandest fabric of Republican government
I merging into a deS|M>tism —the encroach- i
ments on Constitutional Liberty, and grasp I
j the great problem here of equality of races. ;
This last comes hnmc to ns for sohition,
and I, for one, am for their separation by j
a gulf as wide as that which separated
Dives from Lazarps,
In some of our States legislate n has !
meddh'd with the sacred bonds of mar- ,
ring'. The preaa amusee itself more with
j divorce cases than with the causes pro- j
I duetivc of social and moral reformMion, I
and yet, to us, these social and moral qnes-!
j lions are paramount. Huxley, Sj>encer
' and Darwin are endeavoring to rule God i
i out of tLe universe*, and put instead thereof i
j a cold tn at erial iwn—a blind force that ’
■ would undermine our social fabric nd an \
i uihilatc our social iu.>iitution of marriage.
i which is the bond that unites Mx-ivty to- !
; getber, and which must be pn served,
i transru-tted and perpetuated.
I AH reformaiioa inNtate or ehurdi spring |
from a corrvapoudlng social and moral re
fonualkrtj; h< nee if we would reform our ;
i government and church we mu*t primarily I
use tte instrum nU iti>.» found in the'
' parental relation, and to this subject I In- i
! die y w attention.
God has b!'-ss*-d parents with children, j
No nejM’**iWl?ty is so littk appreciatad. j
The utiFs. rv iss not only the matrix of mea j
and womeig but it is also the matrix in ’
i which arc. Wm ideas and character- i
istfes that distwgnish mtn and women as
1 good and had. I will give a “few simple!
■ ■" " " ■ ■■ I I I' ur ni „ ■
rules to be observed in the nurseiy, as it
offers the best field for mpral and social
reformation.
First. Begin at an early period It is a
mistake to wait three or four The
child a month old is a miniature man or
woman.
Second. Subordinate the will of your child
to your will. Demand
Those who have obeyed know how to com
mand. Your authority is supreme. Never
dispute with a child, or you yield the con
test. A boy that never obeys v ill, «hen a
man, disregard the" laws of GoTf and con
temn the regard of men.
Third. Set a good example. Never do a
thing not commendable.' Children watch
your every movement, and naturally imi
tate you.
Fourth. Never deceive j air children.
Reward if you promise to; if you
promise to punish.
Fifth. Cultivate familiarity with your
children. Answer their many little ques
tions. Play with them, no odd', how sim
ple their garneS. IL. merry with them;
you thus give them at home what they
seek from home, and what they- generally
find in bad association.
Sixth. Don’t deny gratifica
tion. Children have hopes. They
“castles in the air,” which hould not lie
crushed by parental indifference. They
put all their affections on little idols, which
should not be denied them. We old folks
remember when our hearts were crushed
by our parents refusing to give us some
little toy. Get your boy a pooLet knife or
I a tool chest. Get your daughter ribbons or
a set of furniture for her play-house. It
loops your children to you.' Nothing
i else will answer the purpose. '“Train up
a child in the way he shoukl go, etc ”
Proper discipline in the nursery gives the
government law abiding citizens.
The Sabbath School is in impor
tance to the nursery. It has superior ad
vantages. What are they ?
First. You can carry your children to
Sabbath School when they are very young—
too young to send to secular schools, hut
' not too young to receive lasting impres
sions.
Second. It is the cheapest school. It is
literally without money aud without price.
Third. It makes available the associa
tions of time and place. As to plact', men I
don’t feel in the ball room lik -th y do in
1 the church. In the Sabbitb School we
meet around God’s altar—where';!, sweet
est reminiscences and pur. st thinights cltis- i
ter—where our happy hearts beat in unison j
with the happy hearts of Dur dehrest |
friends. The atmosphere Ifs If is piwus. :
As to time, in the me t [
on the Holy Sabbath
memories gather about us. W ■ think of
the crucifixion of Christ; we think of His '
great mission; we see God building crea
tion and caring for its end. We read <>f >
the disciples and of the good of old. Such :
thoughts d -velop our moral nature :uud pu
rify •our I eing.
Fourth. The text book used in Sabbath .
Schools is without equal. The demoustra- j
' tions of Euclid, the reasonings of Locke, I
and the speculations of Bacon, are of no 1
’ avail in death. The Bible is the oldest
history, the wisest philosophy, the best
law and the sweetest poetry known to men.
1 This is the text book of Sabbath Schools,
1 and it is a shame that the Cincinnati Board
of Education has ostracized the Bible from
the public schools. My judgment is that i
there would be fewer wrecks of manhoixl '
! and womanhood if the Bible were a uni
-1 versal text book.
I recapitulate then by sa ing that the
grandest auxiliaries of social and moral re
form are to be found in the instruction of
the niwsery and Sabbath School. In con
clusion I congratulate you on this effort in
behalf of Sabbath Schools. It is a united
• effort. There are here no denominational
I distinctions, but “in the name of our G d
we set up our banner.” This organization
lis based iqum a common platform. Let
us not be content with its inauguration, j
but let us resolve to perpetuate it.
Now, children, what can I say to you I
You are in the hey-day of joyous youth.
' In life’s journey you’ll find thorns, trials |
and troubles. Character is formed and i
destiny sealed in early childhood. Bad '
men and bad women come from dtsobedi- .
ent children. The boys who fish on th? ■
, Sabbath, who swear and lie, who disn gnrd :
j their parent’s advice, and mock at the
! warnings and admonitions of the aged,
make the men who fill our jqijs and hang
. upon onr gallows. Let uot the aua< ou;la
coils of vice encircle you. Plant youiwlves <
: upon the granite foundation of truth. ;
! 1 emptations overcome will straigth. n you
It is not all of l.fe to live*. Get all you can 1
i and keep ull y-uget is miserly. It woHt
• do. Our hearts must be Open to eluu itab’e
l impulses. Our hands must b? ready for
good deeds. We are identifi 1 in al! onr
intent's. We must org.miz-.* and uaite al!
' our fore sin the cans, of the go-4 aiwl the
true. Duty's path leads o happintw. By {
I following it in death we will bj happy that,
i we can give up a gotxl life.
This is biff a partial syn psis of C June! :
Bell’s speech. The Lmgu.g. is ours, but
: the ideas are lt:s. lie sp >k.: only fifty-one :
i minutes, but every s<a‘ u v. pr. _r:::ra. ..
i with thought, and every g •stare promptwi ‘
I by- burning pathos. Whan Iw eor.i-hule.i t
the largr* amlience showed th it thev re- i
garded the orator of the d y more tfen '
equal to the occasion. The Colonel has
“an army of the reserve.” Tn bis gr al st •
efforts he seems fajiheaX from exlmuttiou. '
After his speech <Mtme the big basket »
dinner, after which the audi. i.< re-as-, m- ,
bled, and the schools alt mated in gingu»g
t icir choice-I songs. This teporter iu- 1
tended to listen at'entlvely and here give i
the palm to the school tha' excelled ; but <
just as the singing began he was informed !
that the President wished to see him upon
the rostrum. lie went up, wh reupon he !
was informed that in fifteen minutes he 1
would be oal'ed upon to make a fifteen ‘
minute’s speech. What! a newspaper re- *
porter eiiflpd upon ujth only fifteen minifies
warning to make a fifteen minute’s speech
to an assemblage of some seven or eight
hundrid people? Y'es, and he w;g> called, (
and it scared him so badly that he remcm- *
bers .nothing that occurred afterwards
except Rev. Mr. Wooten, in ins speech,
said something about a *s.tmon in an augur
hole, and lion. J. P. Simmons’ remark
that the thought that had engaged his at
tention .most during the day w„s that there
were so many pretty girls present.
MOSLEM AFRICA.
When the Romans conquered
Cartilage they were assisted by
the native chiefs; andattirstit
appeared as if Africa would be
come a civilized province in the
fashion of Spain and Gaul. Ber
ber regiments served in the army;
Berber princes were educated in
Rome, and soon became distin
guished as historians and philoso
phers, But the desert was im
pregnable,and contin’ually poured
fresh hordes upon the Tell, or cu]
tivated land. In Algeria, the Ro
mans were strongly established,
and the ruins of tin ir outposts are
yet to be seen far away inland.
But in Morocco they were set
tled on the coas 4 . Algeria was
wisely and temperately govern
ed under the republic; and ('iuyro
describes it as a peaceful prov
ince ; but when the bad days of
the empire came.it was degra
ded to a corn Geld, and was forced
to feed, at its own expense, the
Roman lazaroni. The governor:'.
; biteame satraps, the great land
owners were accused of <-ouspifa
cy, that their estates might es-j
cheat to the crown, mid tli<> peo ;
i pie were liillde agricultural serfs.
; Moreover, the wi'd region be-
I tween the Tell and the Sahara
i contained the game,-j>L serves of
I Rome. The lion wa-da rdyal boast;
: licensed to feed on the c.itt'.e of
i :he and on the shopherd
( himself if it preferred him.
When the Arabs invaded Afri
! ca. they did not merely settle on
the coast. This people, neemstom
| ed to deserts,conquered the whole
country; but they also added
persuasion to force, recognized
J the Berbers as their .kinsmen, de- j
dared them to be Arabs i’» their 1
origin, and allured them to accept 1
the mission of the prop’iet. The ,
two races mingled, and thus the
ination of the Moors was formed.
! At that tune the Jews abounded
in Barbary ; their brethren across
the straits were being persecuted '
by the Christian Goths; and the
African Jews, it is said, instigated
the invasion of Spain. The Moors
treated with indulgence the Eu
ropeaus whom they conquered,
and acquired the arts of the Ro
mans and the Greeks. Andalu
sia civilized Africa; and the city
of Morocco became the rival ol
Cordova and Seville. Between
the literary men of the two coun
tries an amiable, uuntrover.-y ;
would often arise as to which i
might claim pre eminence in the (
learning and the arts, and it ap- !
pears to have been allowed that
Morocco was not inferior to Spain. ,
The existence of a civilized
North Africa soon made its inllu- i
ence felt across the (.eserl. The 1 1
camel was unknown in Cartilage,
and but rarely employed in lhe|.
Roman days; but now tkese ani-i,
ma’s were introduced in thousands ’
and the Sahara voyage could be 1
made with comparative facility. 1
Arab travelers of piety and learn- j *
ing took up their abode in Ibe
Soudan, and the Moslem mission
work commenced. Mo. que* aud i 1
scl:o ds. palace-i with glass win
dows and painted walls, spraug 1 ,
up on the banks ol the Niger, 1 1
and the glone of Granada were i •
reflected at Timbuuloo. I .
Negro nations were speedily ’
converted ; crusades were waged '
against the paeans; and negro i
Moslems, in turban and tobe,con- 1
verted pagaii kingdoms, as the < ‘
Arabs had con verted Tiinbuetoo. I 4
ihits the work was continued |
Irani century to century, and thus i ,
it is still going on. fn Cairo ami ’
Constantinople Elam may appear '
to be decaying; but in the heartJ <l
of Africa it is young, vigorous.. a
victorious, as in the early days. ;
iae negroes, mi ler the influ-! n
ence of thi« and its ac
companying laws, appear
to be an altered people, Restric
tions are placed on polygamy and
slavery ; the position of the wife
is elevated; drunkenness and
gambling are abolished; clusters
of wretched huts have given
place to with’mu
nicipal governments; immense
regions have been opened up to
travel and to trade. A large part
of the Soudan has, in fact, ceased ’
to be African, and has become
Asiatic. The inhabitants are
black, but their laws, manners,
and religion, are no longer those
of the negroes, but of the Arabs.
Their minstrels are men who go
about chanting verses of the Ko
ran through the nose; their fet
ishmen are saintly adventurers,
who travel from chief to chief
and from city .to city, writing phy
lacteries and charms. Thousands
of pious negroes make every year
the pilgrimage to Mecca. Many
perish on the road, and many re
turn.from the Holy City in a very ;
unholy frame of mind; for, as
the Tartars say of Mecca, “ The
torch is dark at its foot;” and
it was written by the Ovid of
Arabia :
“I s?t out in the hopes of lightening my
sins
And returned bringing home with me a
fn-sh load of transgressions.”
Bui the very wickedness of
Mecca deepens real enthusiasm
into severity and wrath; and ev-,
ery year there is a steadv back
water of bigotry into Tartary,
British India, and the Soudan;
the most distant lands being al-,
ways the most devout, as in Ori
ental empires (he outlying prov
inces always pay most taxes to
the crown. Vfinwood Geade'a
.1 frican SAetch-bcok.
In the year 1785, the captain of
a Greenland whaling vessel found
himself at n’ght surrounded by
icebergs, and had to “lay to” until
morning,expecting every moment
to be groiwi 1 io pieces. In the
morning he looked about and saw
a ship near by. He hailed it, but
r. ceiv .d no an.s'wrr. Gutting into
a boat with some of his compan
ions, he pu died out for the m/s
--torio.is craft. Coming alongside
the vessel, he saw through the
port hole a man *at a table, as
though keeping a log-book, fro
zen to death. The last date in
the log book was 1772, showing
that t ie vessel had been drifting
for thirteen years among the ice.
iiie sailors were found, some
irozen among the hammocks and
others in the cabin.
For thirteen years this ship
had been carrying its burden f
corpses- a drifting sepulchre
maimed by a frozen crew.
Cupboards and Pantkies. —Pantry
shelves should be wiped off every day that
no ciuralis of bread or cake be left there
on which the Hut may feed and thrive,
Let them lie neatly (overed with clean
paper, fancifully notched and made to look
tidy. Tiiis cunning little fashioned that
originated with our nice German help is
a yin-tty device, and well worthy of imita
tion
Don t let anything stand long in your
( upb< art’—cook but a litt.e at a time in
hot weather, aud let that be nutritious,
Cooling and binlthful. And keep nothing
on yonr pantry shelves that you do not
tw daily. If an old funnel, or a broken
t-ipot, or damn ;od fruit can stand there to
mak<* roost for tWe dozing flics, carry it off
to the wood shed or th- play bouse and
let civan space be where it was. If your
shelves are “f'uttcred ” just go to work
now, much of the rubbish accumulated
there is worthless.
A Remaenable Coincidence.—
she Nitshville Hanner says But
ler, of B >ston, ami the Balloon at
Brooklyn, “busted” the same day,
there being too much inflation in
etch case. The difference between
Butler andthe B tlloon.i; that But
ler “went up,” and the Balloon
didn’t.
A man addicted to snoring re
marked to his bed-fellow in the
monii’ig that he slept “like a top,”
-I know it.” said the Other—“like
a humming' top.”
“JL><>n*t worry about my going
away darling. Absence you know,
makes the heart grow fonder.”
"Oi somebody else,' added the i
dailing.
An Olii-i jury cf jnqwst rendered aver- I
.lict that a suicide came to his death “by ■
voluntarily drowning hiius-If,’’ If he had ,
tone it involuntarily, they npght have let > ,
rim off, j (
t are not for that which you can j ]
icvcr possess. • <
THE FAMILY LETTER.
HOW THE MATERIALS ARE PROCURED
—HOW THEY ARE USED—WHAT BE
COMES OF THE RESULT.
I’roni the Danbury News. ]
The family letter is written on
Sunday. The reason that day is
selected is not alone because of
the leisure it presents. The quiet
of the day—its relief from all in
fluences that irritate or agitate,
frees the mind from irrelevant
and antagonistic matter, and
makes it pre-eminently a fit oc
casion for communing with the
loved ones. In nine cases out of
ten the letter is writt en by the
head of the family, and of those
sent an equal proportion is ad
dressed to his wife’s folks. We
don’t know ndiy it is a man so
rarely write.® to his own folks, but
as it is not the province of this
article to treat on that subject,
we will pretend we don’t care.
The hour being selected for indit
ing the letter, the first thing is to
find the paper. There is always
a drawer in every well regula
ted family for keeping such
things. It is either in the table
or stand. Here the writing pa
per and old screws and “fiddle
strings and broken locks and fish
lines aud grocery receipts are
i kept.
There may be other things,
if there are he will see them.—
Ihe sheet of paper is finally
found,the fly stains neatly scraped
off, and search commences for the
ink and pen. The former is inva
riably found on the mantle next
to the clock*, and is immediate
ly laid on the table convenient
to the perspiring man, who sarcas
tically enquires if the letter is
to be written to day or next Sun
day. This inspires the good wile
with new zeal in the search.—
She goes over the drawer again,
because she knows he wouldn’t
see anything if it was right un
der his nose, but the pen is not
there. Then she looks over the
top of the bureau, and lifts every
thing on the top of the front room
table, aud says it seems so sin
gular it can’t be found, when she
saw it only the day before, and
thought about the letter. Tiien
she goes into the pantry, and af
ter exploringJhe lower shelf in
vain, stands up on a chair and
carefully goes over the top shelf,
wheie tire medim-He bottles aud
unused cans are stationed. Af
ter sho has done this she starts
and pretty soon returns with the
pen, and take-* it to the sink to
wash the grease from it, but does
not succeed in quite effacing the
delicate scent of bergamot.—
Tiiis leads him to observe that
anybody who takes a pen-holder
to lift hair-grease from a bottle is
too pure and innocent for this
world. Everything now in readi
ness, good humor is restored, the
wife takes a seat opposite, with
her elbows on tlie table, and her
chin in her hands,and assumes an
expression of conn enance that is
mysteriously calculated to both
encourage and repress the writer;
and lie grasps the pen tightly be
tween his fingers, and stares at
the paper witiian intensity that
is entirely unnecessary. The
date line starts off glibly, and
then suddenly ceases as it reaches
the date itself. He puts the hold
er in iris mouth and immediately
spits it out again,making up a face
that is no wise suggestive of ber
gamot and pettislrly asks her if she
knows the day of the month. Os
course she does. It is the 13th -
or it is the—but no-it m ist be.
She hesitates, starts at him, wa
vers, and is She don’t know
whether it is the 13th or 18th, but
tne almanac will tell, and she at
once starts to hunt it up. This
occasions a delay of fifteen min
utes, during which he makes nine
ty-five passes at one fly. The
date having been satisfactorilv
se tied upon,and the things which
roried over the floor as that stand
drawer unexpectedly fell out,
having been restored to their
place, the date line is completed
and ‘Dear Mother” started. The
pen is a home pen of bashful
mould, and whenever it starts a
line it requires half a dozen pas
to make it give down. All
home pens do this. And all home
-neets of paper have weak spots
which tlie ink refuses to cross
thus creating some remarkable di
vision ol words, and considerablo
contusion among sentehcea,
spots are two inches in diamotor,
and anybody in tiie next room
can tell the moment tlie writer
comes to them, just as well as if
<in Was over his shoulder.
” hen ih i le ter is completed,
wfiich (generally occurs at the
iend if t ie fifth hour from the
I commencement, it is carefully
read over, and supplied with ab
sent words, and then gone over
again an 1 ar.isficaliy fuuvhcrd up
r v ' J, h the pen at lhe bn re places.
Lien jt is folde.l up reiifly for
the envelope, m jf | there tlie dis
covery is made that there is no
envelope in the house, and tho
letter is tucked in behind the
clock until the waul is supplied.
