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The Norcross Advance. PUBLISHED EVERY FRIDAY BY SIMMONS & VINCENT. SI? INSCRIPTION RATES: One copy, one year ------ $2.00 Five sopies “ “ $8.50 Ten “ “ “ $15.00 •«■*- —ADVERTISING RATES:— Space 1 w 2 wp mt m 6 ml 2 m 17nch SIOO slsols 25054 50 $ 6 00; $lO 00 S “ 150 2 501 4 50; 725 10 001 18 0 ) 3 “ 200 8 00; 5 00; 90015 00 22 00 4 “ 2 at) 8 50! 5 50’ 11 00 18 00! 27 00 % COI. 3 00 1 425 650 14 00 25 001 35 00 “ 5 50! 800 12 50! 25 00'40 00! 50 00 1 “ 10 00l 15 (X) 15 001 22 00 82 00| 100 00 • Advertisements less than one-lourth of a column to be charged for bv the square —for first insertion $1 00 and for each sub sequent insertion 50 cents. Special con tracts ct n be made where short advertise ments are inserted for a longer period than thr e months. One inch shall consti tute a st tate. Ma it ge notices and obituaries, ex , cat ding six lines, will be charged for as adverti einrnts. Personal or abusive communications will not be inserted at any price. Communications of general or local in terest, under a genuine signature, are respectluily solicited from any source. SIMMONS .& VINCENT. Pub’s. “"prospectW” o THE KORCROSS ADVANCE IS PUBLISHED EVERY FRIDAY, At Norcross, Georgia, BY SIMMONS, VINCENT & CO. JfN.* One copy one year $ 2 00 One copy six months 1 00 One copy three months 50 To clubs of five one year 8 50 To clubs of ten one year 15 00 To Ministers of the gospel half price. O THE ADVANCE Is designed to promote all the great interests of our readers especially, and ol our country and race generally. To do that we promise to give them each week the most important news, both Foreign and Domestic ; the Market Re ports and Atlanta Prices Current ; the Legal Hales of Gwinnett and a few other counties, etc., and such Literary, Political, Agricultural and Religious reading mat ter as we may from time to time think most interesting and profitable. In Politics the ADVANCE must be Democratic, to be honest, as we are both Democrats in principle ; but it will not be partisan, nor do injustice to any party, oi individual, knowingly. And, as we hon estly believe, that the first and chief care of all Christians should be to defend our holy religion against the wiles of Satan— his hosts and their arms, we discharge this sacred duty, as beet we , under the guidance of Him who is able to direc and keep us in the way of truta. We will also studiously avoid giving cause of offense to any professed Christis oa account of difference of opinion, and will not, through this medium, attempt to build up any one branch of the Church more than others, nor to injure any one ot them. . L. JACKSON, DEALER IN JPjtJtinr Gbqcwbs, DRY GOODS, CROCKERY, TIN WARE. CONFECTIONERIES and other article* usualh (bund in a coun ry store, E< arything sold at , “SMALL PROFITS." Everything as cheap as the cheapest. Country prod .ice taken in exchange for fttcttliß or'anything in my line of business. A libersd patronage solicited from those who wl»h u buy lt> the bc*l advantage. Ma tresses I M stresses I I wGt keep constantly on hand, for sale. I Matressvx made of the beet material, end of aai’.’i' a forty-pound mntreas tor nd other atree pnvad acA«ordiugly O.M< ra aolieited. L A. JACKSON. North weal oar. Feaehfree afreet Ncrenea, u*. July D. 18TB. THE NORCROSS ADVANCE. BY SIMMONS, VINCENT & CO. HOW TO TEACH POETRY. BY HON. D W. LEWIS. North Georgia Agricultural College, Dahlonega, September 29, 1873. Editors Advance : Your interest in the improve ment of the modes of education will induce you to allow me a cornerin your paper now and then for a gem of poetry or eloquence, that I may cull from these vast fields for the culture of the taste and Jie memory of my pupils. The Hon. A. 11. Stephens, in a conversation during his late visit to Dahlonega and the up-country incidentally remarked that there were four poems or pieces of poe try which he urged upon all young persons of both sexes that came within the reach of his advice to commit to memory. The poem, “The Hermit," in the Vicar of Wakefield, was one of them; the others I may send you as time and leisure may permit,with questions like those sent with the Hermit. They are: “The Elegy in the Church-yard," and Burns’ two pieces, “ Advice to a Young Friend," and the “Unco Guid." This one, “The Hermit," has been assigned as a lesson for memory to all the classes of suf ficient advancement to appreciate it. In addition to the rehearsal, they will be examined on it by questions like the following: First. Mention one great moral truth and lesson taught in this poem, which may have led Mr. Stephens to have recommended it. Second. The next mention an other. Third. Another. And thus con tinuously until that theme or line of thought is exhausted. Fourth. Point out the stanza in the poem which has the finest comparison or figurative language Fifth. The next —name another. Sixth. Another. And thus con tinuously until the topic of figure of speech is exhausted. Seventh. Point out the stanza which contains the greatest power in pathos or depth of emotion. Eighth. The next —name an other. Ninth. Another. And thus con tinuously until all the passages exhibiting power in expression o! emotion are touched. Tenth. Has any pupil any ques tion to ask ? Eleventh. Any other? And thus continuously until all the class have had the privilege of submit ting one or more questions. I request all pupils into whose hands a copy of the paper con taining this piece may fall to pre serve it, and place it in a scrap book, as a memorial of the great and good man by whom it was called to their attention. If you, Professor, will put a class through an examination upon it with questions framed by your self, I will exchange results with you, and let them be published. I think such a step will impart interest to the piece, and to all the exercises on similar pieces. Let me hear from you. I congratulate you upon having access to or rather control of a good press as an aid to be used in many ways advantageous to teachers and pupils. The Signal here is almost equal in the aid it gives me to another assistant teacher. Yours respectfully, David W. Lewis. THE HERMIT. “Turn, Gentle hermit of the dale, And guide my lonely way. To where yon taper cheers the vale With hospitable ray. For here forlorn and loet I tread, W ith fainting steps and slow ; Where wilds, immeasurably spread, Seem lei'gthn'ningaa Igo." “Forbear, my son,’’ the hermit cries, “To tempt the dangerous gloom ; For yonder faithless phantom flies. To lure thee to thy doom. “Here to the houseless child of want My door is open still; i Ami though my portion is but scant, I give it with good wilt Then turn to-night and free I v share, What e'er my cell bestows; My rushy couch and frugal fare, My blessing and repose. No flock that range the valley free. To slaughter I condemn ; Taught by that power that pities me, I learn to pity them : But from the mountain s grassy side A guiltleas feast 1 bring; A scrip with herbs and fruit supplied, And water from the spring. Then pilgrim turn, thy cares forego: All earth bora cares are wrong: 4 Man wants hut little here below, Nor wants that little long.” Soft as the dew from heaven descends His gentle accents fell; The modest stranger lowly bends, And follows to the ce 1. Far in a wilderness o> scure, The lonely man sio > lay, A refuge to the neighboring poor, And strangers led astray. No stores beneath its bumble thatch Required a master’s care ; The wicket, opening with a latch Received the harmless pair. And now, when busy crowds retire To take their evening rest, 'I be hermit trimm’d his little fire, And cheer’d his pensive guest. And spread his vegetable store, And gaily press’d and smiled ; And, skill’d in legendary lore, The lingering hours beguile 1. Around in sympathetic mirth Its tricks the kitten tries, The cricket chirrups in the hearth, The crackling faggot flies. But nothing could a charm impart To soothe the stranger’s svoe ; For grief was heavy at his heart, And tears began to flow. His rising cares the hermit spied, With answering care oppress’d : “And whence, unhappy youth,” he cried “The sorrows of thy breast ? “From better habitation spurn’d, Reluctant dost thou rove ? Or grieve for friendship unretum’d, Or unregarded love ? “Alas ! the joys that fortune brings, Are trifling and decay ; And those who prize the paltry things, More trifling still than they. “And what is friendship but a name, A charm that lulls to sleep ; A shade that follows wealth or fame, But leaves the wretch to weep.? “And lox e is still an emptier sound, The modern fair one’s jest; On earth unseen, or’only found To warm the turtles nest. “For shame, fond youth thy sorrows bush, And spurn the sex, ” he said ; But while he spoke, a rising blush His love-lorn guest betray’d, Surprised he sees how beauties rise, Swift mantling to the view ; Like colours o’er the morning skies, As bright, as transient too. The bashful look, the rising breast, Alternate spreads alarms: The lonely stranger stands confest A laaid in all her charms. “ And ah ! forgive a stranger rude, A wretch foilorn,” she cried ; “Whose feet unhallow’d thus intrude Where heaven and you reside. ‘But let a maid thy pity share, Whom love Las taught to stray Who seeks for rest, but finds despair Companion of her way. “My father lived beside the Tyne, A wealthy lord was he ; Aud all bis wealth was marked as mine, He had but only me. “To win me from his tender arms, Uimumber’d suitors came, Who praised me for imputed charms, Aud felt, or feign’d a flame. “Each hour a mercenary crowd With richest proffers strove: Amongst the rest young Edwin bow’d But never talked of love. “In bumble, simplest habit clad, No wealth nor power had he ; Wisdom and worth were all he had, But these were all to me. “And when beside me in the dale, He carol’d lays of love, His breath lent fragrance to the gale, And music to the grove. “The blossom opening to the day, The dews of heaven refined, Could nought of purity display To emulate his mind. “The dew, the blossom on the tree, With charms inconstant shine, Their charms were his, but woe to me' Their constancy was mine. “For still I tried the fickle art, Importunate and vain ; And while his passion touch’d my heart, I triumphed in his pain : “Till quite dejected with my scorn, He left me to my pride; And sought a solitude forlorn, In secret, where he died. ‘But mine the sorrow, mine the fault, And well my life shall pay; I'll seek the solitude he sought; And stretch me where he lay. “And there forlorn, despairing hid, I’ll lay me down and die; Twas so for me that Edwin did. And so for him will I.” “Forbsd it, Heaven the Hermit cried, And clasp'd hci to his breast; The wondering fair one turned to chide, Twas Edwin's self that press’d. ‘Turn. Angelina, ever dear, My charmer turn to see, ‘Tby ow n, thy long-lost Edwin here. Restored to love and thee. ‘ I'hus let me hold thee to my heart. And every care resign ; And shall we never, never part, My life—my all, t ha’ts mine I “No. never from this hour to jiart, (We’ll lire and love so true ; The sigh that rends thy constant heart * Shall break thy Edwin’s too.” NORCROSS, GA., WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 15, 1873. CHARMS. BITS OF ANCIENT SUPERSTITION. Old charms dealt with eveiy possible relation of life. Thus: “Eat here if you want to look handsome for nine days after." “Put a hen’s heart on your wife’s left side while she is asleep, anu she’ll tell all her secrets." “Swal low a mole’s fresh and pal pitating, and you’ll at once be ex pert in divination." ' “Quartan agues yield not to ordinary medi cine; so take of the dust in which a hawk has been rolling, tie it up in a bit of white cloth with a red thread, a”d wear it; or else knock out the eye of a live lizard, and wear it in a bit of goat skin.” These are from Pliny,who also teaches that all medicinal herbs should be gathered, pick pocket fashion, with/-the right hand poked through the left arm hole of the tunic; you ought to be clad in a white robe, with naked, clean-washed feet, and to have just offered an oblation of bread and wine. Worms out of a goat’s brain are good for elipe sy; so is a rivet taken from a wrecked ship, inserted in the bone cut of a living stag’s heart, and then make it into a brooch. If you are a shooting-star, count very qnickly, for you’ll be free from inflammation as many years as you can count numbers while the star remains in view* To cure cataract in the eye, catch a fox, cut out his tongue, let him go, dry his tongue, and tie it up in a red rag,and hang round the man’s neck. When something has got into your eye, rub it with five fin gers of the same side as the eye affected, saying thrice : “Tetune rcsonco bregam gre<so," and spit thrice. If you would escape stom ach-ache, take care that you al ways put on your left shoe first, and wear on gold-leaf the letters L* MORI A,written three times. For toothache, say, “Argidam, margidam,sturgidam’‘ thrice over and spit in a frog’s month,solemn ly desiring him to take the tooth ache. If any one has swallowed a bone, gently touch the mouth with ring-finger and “thumb, and say nine times: “I kiss the Gor gon's mouth." This is a sover eign ; the great Galen himself testifies to the value in such a case. These are from Marcellus Empiricus (the quack, as he well deserves to be called.) who flour ished about 380 A. D. But from Albertus magnus,is the most won derful of all: Gather in August the herb heliotropian, wrap it in a bay-leaf with a wolf's tooth, and it will, if placed under the pillow, show a man who has been robbed, where are his goods, and who has taken them ; also, if placed in a church, it will keep fixed in their places all the wo men present who have broken their marriage vow. “This last is most tried and most true.” Lay a wolfs head under the pillow, and the unhealthy shall sleep sweetly. His flesh well-dressed and sodden, given to eat, enreth devil’s sickness, and all ill-sight. For disease of joints, take a live fox, and seethe him til! the bones alone be left, adding oil during the seething, and use tins as a bath right often Let those who suffer from apparitions eat lion's flesh ; they will not after that suff er any apparition. But the king of beasts is condescending: “For sore ears take lion's suet, melt in a dish, and drop into the ear;” which makes us think either that lions were much more plentiful, or sore ears much tn oft distress ing, than now a-days. Fancy in “the Chepe" the announcement: “A fat lion killed last week; of his suet a little left. To prevent disappointment, apply early.” For tear of mad hound, take the worms which be under a mad hound's tongue, snip them away, lead them around about a fig-tree gi.e them to him who hath been rent; he will soon be healed; or this: a hound’s head burnt to i ashes, and applied on the wound. casteth out all the venom and I the foulness and healeth the man. | And so goat's grease cures drop sy ; dog's milk helps children i through their teething; gall of a ’ wild buck mingled with field bee's honey makes the eyes bright; a hare's heel carried in the pocket keeps away stomach ache; a hare's brain in wine cures drowsiness; burnt harts horn in hot water kills worms; and so on.— All the Year Round- THE VILLAGE. A country village affords no re treat. There every body knows every body's business. You can not raise a half a dozen gozlings without having them stoned for picking of your neighbors goose berries. Gossip wants no better heaven than a small village. Miss Glib stands at her gate three times a day talking with old Mrs. Chatterbox; and on rainy days, at the blacksmith’s shop, the whole business of the town swims in a tank of tobacco juice of the worst plug. Every body knows whether this morning, out of the butcher cart, you bought mutton or calf’s liver, and the mason’s wife, at the risk of breaking her neck, rushes down stairs to ex claim, “Just think of it! Just think of it! Mrs. Stuckup has bought a sirloin steak, and she is no better than other people ! Your preserv ing kettle is also borrowed. A bonnet box was sent going from the millinery shop to the house of a villager on Saturday afternoon, and on Sunday morning a score of people are early at church with heads half turned towards the door, to watch the coming of the new purchase, hankerchief up to mouth, ready to burst out at what they call a perfect fright of a bon net. They always ask what yo'i gave for a thing, and say you were cheated ; had something of a better quality they could have let you had for half the money. We have at different times lived in a small village, and many of our best friends dwell there, but there ai e other places more favo rite for a man’s getting to heaven. Tulmage's Gems. PICTURES. A room with pictures in it, and a room without pictures, differ by nearly as much as a room with windows, and a room without windows. Nothing, we think, is more melancholy, particularly to a person who has to pass much time in his room, than blank walls and nothing on them ; for pictures are loop holes of escape to the ; soul, leading it to other scenes i and other spheres. It is such an inexpressible relief to a person engaged in writing or even read ing. or looking up to find his soul escaping, as it were, through the frame of an exquisite picture, to other beautiful and perhaps idyl lic scenes, where the fancy for a moment may revel, refreshed and delighted. Is it winter in your world ? Perhaps it is summer in the picture. What a charming momentary change and contrast. And thus pictures are consolers of loneliness. They are a relief to the jaded mind ; they are windows to the imprisoned thought; they are books ; they are histories and sermons, which we can read with out the trouble of turning over the leaves. The Fatal Blow. —Two broth ers quarreled. Both were in a passion. One struck the other in his rage and killed him! Think of it! The boy did not mean to do it. He did not think he had struck hard. Alas tor both! In a moment he relented. All the auger went out ol his soul in one blow of his fist as the stroke of lightning exhausts the electric ity in the cloud. But that one blow killed the object of his , wrath—his own brother. Then he fell upon the dead body, caressing, crying, calling, kissing; i but in vain. IE had killed his brother! I At the coroner's inquest the fa ther ot the two boys was called to ' the witness-stand, As he took his plac all noticed on hi face ; a silly, senseless grin— He had \ suddenly become a maniac. O human anger, how* terrible a | demon thou art! Boys, have you ! cast it out of you, or are you yet , fostering it? A western man who had been silting on a wasp and the wa-p had just noticed it, arose partly : to his leet, and with pathetic ten derness remarked: ••Ouch!” just at the time that the lecturer in tended to have the people laugh. According to the experience of a Western fanner, fruit trees in blossom transplanted at night perfect their crop and show no injury from haring been removed, while others moved by day shed their blossoms and produce little or no fruit. Tuis item should be kept for use next year. VOL. 1-NO- 16. THE INDEPENDENT SOUTH AND WEST. From the New York Day Book.] Agriculture and mining sre the agents for the creation of real properly, and but one thing is needed to make the localities of agriculture and mining the mosv independent, financially, of all the sections of the country—that one thing is manufactures. The grand trouble in the past with the South was, while her cotton enriched largely the Northern manufactur ers and the capitalists, whose wealth was in ships, there was comparatively little profit left in the pockets of the Southern plan ter; hisshare was small indeed. He paid out too much for food and clothing, while growing cot ton, sugar, rice, tobacco, tar and turpentine. The foed products he needed, instead of raising them on his own soil, he imported from other States, and, of course, at high cost comparatively. His coat, instead of being made of voo' manufactured in Texas,where the wool was giown, was fabricated in the North. Bread, meat, clothes, tools, and luxuries, all saddled with a dozen big profits, that the Southern planter paid for, *n raw products on which he made but one profit, and that a small one. Now, the South are beginning to learn that the way to grow rich themselves is to keep working up their raw products to that point of completion where consumption will step in and claim them, and then that same South will increase in financial strength faster than ever. To be sure, the fiist steps are costly an I difficult; but the beginning made,the manufactures started, each decade will find new resources opening up and capital easier to obtain. The South have already learned that they can grow their wheat and pork, and beef and mutton, to an extent that will save them millions ol dollars a year, and as they have iron and coal with their other minerals, the great staple, nails, they ceria nly ought riot to send North for tne amount of a pound, but we are av ar a that furnaces, rolling mills, Ac, are now to s< m ■ j extent at work th we. Cotton mills aie also found in sight ol cotton plantations. This is well. And we hope that the huge ex penses and lack of profit which ever attends new projects,will not discourage the bold and honest men who have taken hold of the enterprise. What we have said touching Southern ap plies equally to the West. That section, strange as it may appear to-day, raises beef, whose hides are sent east to be tanned into leather, to be made into shots, which are sent back for Welter.i consumption. This is a most ter rible blunder in the political economy of that section. So it is in wool and other staples, which are transported to remote points, handled and stored, and insured, only to rjturn to the same West again, to be consumed,when some manufacturers would not only render independent of the East, but would save her ten of mil lions per year in solid wealth.— Natu a ly, the South and West, abounding, as they do, in all the resouices of a progressive people, ought not to be at all independent upon the North and East. These sections can raise all the food I they need, while at the same time they can produce all the staples which cover the necessities of life, and therefore the manufacturing iof those staples, iron, wool, flax, silk, cotton, leather etc., should naturally be there, and not at tl.e East and North. It takes capital, i we know; but capital will always ; go where the law of trade sends * it. Refuse to transport Southern !a id Western proeu ts to the ! North and East, and as is the case with the Western nations in the.r ■ spice, coffee and tea trade, consu mers will go for the aitic es they 'need to he points where those I articles are produced. So, regard ing manufactures, the world must j have them. If cotton were kept at home, in the South, and native i hides in the West, sheeting would i in time be a Southern product, and shoes a Western, for the tide ;of purchase could be forced in i ; those directions by manufacturing j interests centering there. As' with these staples named, so will i others. The South and West are . too rich in resources to hold the relations they now sustain to the i North and East. OF EVERY DESCRIPTION Promptly and Neatly Executed at THE ADVANCE JOB OFFICE, At Reasonable Prices. gar give us A CALL. MAXIMS FOR WORKING >iEN. A good advertisement for a working man is a seat in church. The savings bank is a safe debtor. Fifty cents for a good lecture is better than half that sum for a circus. Dress neatly ; a well clothed man com mands favor and respect, while one in slovenly attire can hardly borrow his neighbor’s saw-horse. If you wish to personally comprehend the completes! meaning of the old adage, a fool and his money are soon parted, buy a lottery ticket. Never sacrifice money for what people will say. It is better io buy a fair piece of beef at fifteen cents a pound, and leave the sirloin for some other man who would buy your kind except for the name. The man is always most honored who is most excellent in what he undertakes. It is better to saw wood well, than to plead law poorly. Be honest t a stove cold is better than a stove hot with stolen fuel. The laboring man holds the same relation to the merchant, manufacturer, attorney, physician and minister, that the locomotive does to a train of elegant and well-filled cars: they would stand still forever if the engine did not move them. There is many an honest, hard working poor man, who rises himself and calls his family before sunrise, three hundred and sixty-five days in the year. In nine cates out of ten, when his children arrive at his age, they will be called up by servants,. A meerschaum pipe and bank look always quarrel, and the upshot of the en counter generally i a , that one puts the other out of doors. Work harder at drilling rocks, for instance, if your employer never visits you than if he frequently does. He will know of your faithfulness when he pays for the drills. Patronaoe That Pays. —That noble institution, the Public Library of Kentucky, has permanently estab’ished its prosperity by the three gift concerts it has already «iven under its charter. It now boasts of a building that cost two hundred and ten thousand dolh rs, with a Li rary of over fifty thousand volumes, and a magnificent cabinet. The fourth grand gift concert for its fourth endowment will take place De* cember 3d, and at this concert one million five hundred thousand dollars cash is dis tributed to the ticket holders, the highest prize being two hundred and fifty thousand dollars, and scaling down to prizes of fifty dollars, which is the smallest sum given. As there is a prize to every fifth ticket, it is easy to see that the patronage of this concert is a patronage that pays, there being great chances of great gains, and only small chances of small losse j . Hon. Thos. E. Bramlette, late Governor of Ken tucky, is the manager, and tickets may be obtained by addressing him, at Public Li brary Building, Louisville, Ky. oetll-tf That which men call death cannot inter rupt my activity : for my work must go on to its completion, and it cannot be com pleted in Time; hence my existence is limited by no Time, and 1 am Eternal; with the assumption of this great task, I have also laid hold of Eternity!—Fichte. There are fourteen thou and drug stores in’the United States, and the number of persons employed in the various branches • of the drug business is estimated at one hundred and thirty-flvi thousand. T.ie public are warned against a new counterfeit fifty cent currency note, which is skilfully executed, and large numbers of which are being put in circulation iu different parts of the country. When Baron Alderson was asked the appropriate length of a good sermon, he wittily replied: “ I'wenty ninutes, with a Waning to the side of mercy.” Happy is the country that has no history, as the school boy said, on being flogged the third time lor not knowing the maiden name of George Washington’s wife. The attorney for a prisoner charged with stealing tea, interposed a plea that his client could not be convi ted of crime, aa he was only accused of leaf taking. ’I here is one thing which the most im provident young men are always able to keep, and that is late hours. “Way down South,” when a pa per was printed on a Ramage by an old darkey pressman, named Sam, the forms were always plac ed on the press and male ready for him ; and so, with a well train ed negro roller boy, the working of the paper progressed satisfac torily. But it happened one day, that >am, who could not read, was thrown entirely on his own lesourceß. lie put the forms to press and pulled a sheet; looked at it intently, turned it over; something was the matter; he jooked at it again, felt the tyin pan, he’d the sheet up to the light and looked over his spectacles at the grinning roller boy, exclaim ed : ’Look here, boy, why for yer don't ‘stribbit yer rollah ?’ The iorm was bottom up. Sendin Your Cutton. -Although there is no mon y in the market with which t purchase cotton, we urge the farmers to bring all in they have, and leave it with the merchants to whom they are indebted, as collaterals for their debts. If they will do this the money market will be prompt ly relieved, as upon this cotton their creditors will be able to ob tain sufficient advances to meet their paper with, and thus pre vent any further drain of money tne South.—J. tLanta Cons.