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[From the Louisrille Courier-Journal.]
RURAL CONIENTMENT.
BY WILL S. HAYS.
(Suggested on seeing a lit.le picture of an
aged couple seated in a log cabin before a
fire at bed-tune.] &
The banks is all a bustin’, Nance, an’ things
is goin’ ter smash,
The people sold for credit whar they’d
oughtcr sell fur cash,
An’ winter’s briugin’ poverty to everybody’s
door,
The rich kin stand it pretty well—hit’s
orful on the poor.
The workin’ mans the suffeier, Nance;
he’s got uo woik to do;
An’ folks are goin’ to suffer whar they
suff’rin’ never knew,
An’ them that’s always “showin’ off ’ to
poor folks what they’ve got,
You’ll find, perhaps, that they’ll turn out
the poorest of the lot.
I’ve fist l>eeu thinkin’, Nancy Jane, about
the awful muss;
How folks had better live an’ raise thar
children jest line us;
For, as I told old Deacon Smith, he sed it
al! was true;
He never in his life had seed two folks like
me an’ you.
Our home’s an old log cabin, Nance, 1 a’ f
hidden in the woods ;
Our family’s rich in life an’ health, but
poor in “worldly goods
We haint no fine lace curtains, or no carpet
on the floor,
But the sua is al ' ays smilin’ through the
window an’ the door.
Our farm is small—we’ve got a spring, an’
horses, hogs, an’ cows;
We’ve gals to milk, an’ cook, an’ sew, an’
boys to tend the plows;
M e’ve got no gold in banks that burst, nor
owe no man a cent;
1 tell you, Nance, the Lord Is good, an’ we
should feel content.
We're plain an’ honest country f >ll s, nn’
know no “city airs;”
We read the Bible every night before we
kneel in pr iy. rs;
We go to ebi r.'.li on Sunday’s, Nance, an’
walk just like the rest,
An’ live 1 ke Christian peeph cug’it—we
try to do what’s b st.
Our boys don’t do like city I toys, who from
thar duty shirk,
"Whose p treats raise ’em up to think ’tis a
d sgra' C to work;
Our gals ain’t like them city gals you will
so often meet,
Who ought to help thar mothers more an’
run less on the street.
You don’t see Thomas Henry pushin’ bil
liards every night,
Or loafin’ ’bout the tavern gittin’ treated
till he's tight;
You don’t find him a namin’ ’round to
catch some damsel’s eye,
Or courtin’ of some gal that's rich, whose
daddy’s ’bout to die.
Ah! Nance, the time has come at last
when pride must have its fall;
The folks’ll find the workin’ man's the
life and prop of all;
The farmer’s independent, Nance, his trade
will never spoil,
Bo long as he Is able w ith his sons to till
the soil.
The proud, aristocratic folk?, who sol in
fortune’s door,
Who thought they’d never come towant,
an' “ listed up” an’ poor;
Their servants gone, their horses sold, their
houses an’ their lands,
Au’ everything except their liver, are in
the sheriff's hands.
Old woman, put yer knittin' up; it’s giuln’
purty late;
I’ll read about two chapters in th 1 Bible, if
you’ll w» t;
We’d pray to God before we sh*ep, as every
Christian ought;
An’ thank Him, not for what we want,
but what we’ve had an’ uot.
PUTTING ON A SHIRT.
There are things which a man can do
with some show of dignity and even ele
gance, but the puttlug on of a clean shirt
b not one of them. Even those fastidious
chajw who put one ou every week never be
come so expert and familiar with the pro
cess that they can go through with it with
any degree of comfort or dexterity, and the
less extravagant ijjdhldurJs who change
only < ®cc a month, are really to be envied.
The feat te accomplished in this way:
You lay the r.nent down on th • b<xl, or
acro*< a table or washstand, bosom down
ward.*, eaih rustle of the sLily-st. rehed
garment striking terror to your soul. Pull
ing it open, you make a strange draft on
your courage and resolution, and plunge
into It, thrusting yout anus here and there
in a frantic and d< speratc search for the
►lcvw*, finding which you strugg’e trnui
fnlly In an endeavor to draw the garment
down so that you can catch a glimpee of
the outer world once marc. Ry the exercise
of a prnp»T an*' unt of judgment you are
finally suece*»ful in this, ami vou find
younwlf gating out upo» Mimmi ding ob
jicta, enejrebsl by stiff, niMl'mg Imn,
w hlch prop* your chin up in the air ami
gives ite to a feeling as though you were
tirwcid MCUod about by crowl’ara, »i*h no
prucpccl of ever being able to stdiwn
a tain Putting on a collar and a tie, you
d,wi your outer ganni ats and salh forth,
ftviing as uncomfortable and uneasy as
though you bad just sat down ou a evat-
I it! imrkrt full eggs.
THE NORCROSS ADVANCE.
BY SIMMONS, VINCENT & CO.
HISTORIC STEPHENS.
PICTURE OF A DRAMATIC SCENE IN
THE HOUSE.
The Washington correspondent
of the Brooklyn Argus writes:
“Chief of them was Alexander H.
Stephens, Col. Waddell, of North
Carolina, supported the brilliant,
intense, magnificent tactician of
other days to his feet. He took
their arms and dispensed with the
significant crutches that had been
stacked in front of his desk. He
stood right at the beginning of the
middle aisle of the House. By
felicitously dramatic accident or
happy design, all the rest of the
many ex-Confederates ranged in
a semi-circle on either side of their
former Vice President. Then the
modified oath was taken by them
with uplifted hands and assented
to with an unanimous and quietly
elegant bow. There were many
magnificent looking men in the
company; I doubt that any one
observed them; the pale, sufter
ing, distinguished little man in
the middle was the cynosure of
all eyes. He was dressed in ex
quisite black, as if in mourning for
his country. In sitting, he had
worn his hat to protect him from
the draught. In standing, he dis
pensed with it and disclosed an
abnormal;y large head, pierced
with intensely black and deep
eyes, and covered with a sh< r ,
disordered growth of iron gray
hair. When he responded to his
name the strong soul in him was
manifest, for his clear, sharp, pen
etrating voice, the echo ot that
soul, was heard distinctly all over
the House. The ethereal part of
the man is as strong as ever. The
physical is a wreck. It was a his
torical scene. He who fifteen
years before the war, had been
the leader par excellence of the
House, returned to subscribe to
the oath administered by a Speak
er who was never heard of when
Stephens left Congress, or three
years thereafter. In all the House
were but two men who had been
his congressional contemporaries -
‘Sunset’ Cox, then of Ohio, and
John B. Clark, then and now o!
M ssouri, who had a three months
of notoriety fifteen years ago by
Hinging John Sherman’s endorse
ment of Hinton Rowan Helper’s
‘lmpending Crisis’ at John Sher
man’s head, and thereby defeat
inghim for Speaker,though Henry
Winter Davis’ single vote e’ected
William K. Pennington, a Jersey
Republican, to that office. Well
could Stephens say he stood dying
the solitary survivor of many great
dead. Gone was Thad Stevens,
the incarnation of hate; gone was
Giddings, the abolitionist whom
Stephens himself loved ; gone was
the courtly ex-Governor Briggs,
of New York, and the uncouth
Mike Walsh; gone was the fiery
Keith, and gone the fearful and
wonderful John Covode; gone the
eloquent Lovejoy and the mellow
Mallory ; gone Herschel V. John
son ; gone Bocock, and Yulee, and
E Imondtlon, and Clingman, and
the impetuous Brooks, and Potter,
and Rector, and Phelps, and Rol
lins, and Winter Davis, and a
I thousand, once statesmen of eith
er party, and there was the mar;
on whom twenty years ago death
had apparently set his seal, sur
vivor ot them all, mid representa
live of the greatest district of the
Empire State of the South. Back
ground this contrast with the fear
ful four years of intersections!
throat-iu ting, and the dramatic
facts of the occasion stand out,
grim with graves and lighted by
intense cerebral fire."
Our Silent Influence.—We are
touching our fellow being on all
>ides. They are effected by good
or evil by what we think and feel.
May flowers in the parlor breathe
their fragrance through the at
mospl.ere. We are each of us as
silently saturating the atmos
phere about u« with the subtle
aroma ot our churacte . In the
family circle, besides and beyond
all the teachings, the daily life of
each parent and each child mys
teriously modifies the life of every
person in the household. The same
process on a wider sc.de is going
on through the community. No
m m liveth to himself, and no man
d eth to hnnself. Others are built
up and straightened by our un
conscious deeds, and o.hers may
be wret cited out of their places
and thrown down by our uncon
scious influence.
LIFE INSURANCE MEN.
Never, never has that fearful
creature, the life insurance man,
been more thoroughly hit off than
by a Philadelphia newspaper gen
tleman, who, in the following
heart-rending manner, describes
what nearly every healthy Amer
ican citizen has had the misfor
tune to experience:
“His name was Benjamin P.
Gunn. He came around to my
office fourteen times in one morn
ing to see if he could not persuade
me to take out a life insurance
policy in liis company. He used
to waylay me in the streets, at
church, in my own house, and
bore me about that policy. If I
went to the opera Gunn would
buy the seat next to me, and sit
there the whole evening talking
about sudden death and the ad
van'ages of the ten-ye?r plan. If
I got into a street car, Gunn would
come rushing in at the next cor
ner and begin to explain how I
could beat his company out of a
fortune. If I sat down to dinner
in a restaurant, up would come
Gunn, and seizing the chair next
to me, he would tell a cheering
anecdote about a man who in
sured in his company for fifty
thousand dollars only last week,
and was buried yesterday. If 1
attended the funeral of a departed
friend, and went as they threw the
earth upon his coffin,! would hear
awl isper, and, turning around,
there would be the indomitable
Benjamin P. Gunn, bursting to
say: ‘Poor Smith? knew him well.
Insured for ten thousand in our
company. Widow left in good
circumstances. Let me take your
name. Shall I?’
“ He followed me everywhere ;
until I got «o sick of persecutions
that I left town suddenly one eve
ning and hid myself in a secluded
country village, hoping to get rid
of him.
“At the end of two weeks I re
turned, reaching home at one in
t’.e morning. I had hardly got into
bed before there was a ring at the
door-bell. I looked out and there
was Gunn with another person.
He asked if Max Adeler was at
home. I said 1 was the man. Mr.
Gunn then observed that he ex
pected my return, and thought he
would call around about that in
surance policy. He said he had
the doctor with him, and if 1
would come down he would take
down my name and have me ex
amined immediately. 1 was too
indignant to reply. I shut the
window with a slam and to bed
again. After breakfast in the
morning, I opened the door and
there was Gunn sitting on the
steps with his doctor waiting for
me! lie had been there all night.
As 1 came out they seized me and
tried to undress me there on the
pavement in order to examine me.
I retreated and lockeu myself up
in the garret, with orders to admit
nobody to the house until I came
down sta.rs. But Gunn <vas not
to be baffled. He rented the house
next door and stationed himself
in the garret adjoining mine.
When he got fixed he spent his
time pounding on the partition
and cry in gt, ‘Hallo, Adeler! Ad
eler, Isay! how about that poli
cy?’ And then he Would tell me
some anecdotes about men who
were cut off immediately after
paying the first premium. But 1
paid no attention to him and made
no no se. Then he was silent for
awhile.
“Suddenly one morning the trap
door of my garret was wrenched
oft’, and, upon looking up. 1 saw
Gunn with the doctor and a crow
bar and a lot ot death rates com
ing down the ladder at me. I fit d
from the house to the Presbyte
rian Church, close by. and paid
the sexton twenty dollars to let
me climb up to the point of the
steeple and sit astride of the ball.
I promised him twenty more, if he
would exclude everybody from
that steeple for a week. Once
safely on the ball, three hundred
feet from the earth. I made my
self comfortable with the thought
that 1 had Gunn ala disadvantage
and I determined to beat him fi
nally if I had io stay there a
mouth. About an hour afterward,
while I was looking at the superb
view to the west, 1 beard a rust
ling on the other side of the stee
pie. I looked aroynd and there
was Benjamin P. Gunner eping
up the side of that spire in a bal
loon. in which was the doctor with
the tabular estimates of the losses
of hi 4 ' company frem the Tontine
NORCROSS, GA., WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 17. 1873.
system. As soon as Gunn reached
the ball he threw his grappling
iron into the shingles of the stee
ple and asked me at what age my
father died, and if any of my
aunts had consumption or liver
complaint? Without replying, I
slid down the steeple to the
ground and bounced the first train
lor the Mississippi Valley.
“In two weeks I was in Mexico:
I determined to go to the interior
and find some wild spot in some
elevated region where no Gunn
would ever dare to come. I got a
mule and paid a guide to lead me
to the summit of Popocatapeta.
We arrived at the foot of the
mountain at noon. We toiled up
ward for about four hours. Just
before reaching the top I heard
the sound of voices, and upon
rounding a point who should I see
but Benjamin P. Gunn seated on
the very edge of the crater ex
plaining the endowment plan to
his guide, and stupefyinghim with
a mortality table, while the doc
tor had the other guile a few
yards off examining him to see if
he was healthy. Mr. Gi n i arose
and said he was glad to see me,
because now we could confer over
that business about the policy
without fear of interruption. In a
paroxysm of rage I pushed him
into the crater, and he tell a thou
sand feet below with a heavy thud.
As he hit the bottom I heard a
voice screaming out something
about ‘non-forreiture;’ but there
was a sudden convulsion of* the
mountain, a cloud of aahes, and 1
heard no more.
I was confident that it was
wrong, and that I had no right to
murder Gunn in that manner, but
he forced me to do it in self-de
fense, and I hope his awful fate
will be a warning to other insu
rance agents who remain amongst
us.”
THE BENEFIT OF ONE AD
VERTISEMENT.
We would call the attention of
our readers to the following para
graph, which we find in one of our
exchanges:
“If there is one man on this
continent above another who ap
preciates the benefit of advertis
ing it is Orange Judd. A number
of years ago, when he and his
wife spent their evenings in put
ting up packages, and a penny had
its full value to them, he sent a
boy w th a check for one hundred
dollars to the Herald office with
instructions to pay what was due
and leave the rest for future ad
vertising. The boy being dull of
comprehension didn't understand
him, and told the bookkeeper to
use one hundred dollars for one
day. The next morning what was
Mr. Judd’s hoi rar, on taking up
the Herald, to see, ‘Read the
American Agriculturist’ repeated
for nearly a whole column. He
rushed down to the office for an
explanation, and found that they
only followed instructions and
there was no help for it. ‘ We are
ruined,’ he said to his wife, ‘a
whole year’s advertising gone in
a day.’ But instead of being his
ruin, it was the beginning ol his
success. Immediately subscrip
tions poured in from all parts of
the country. The Agriculturist
soon became an institution, and
its proprietor is one of the richest
men in New York. Mr Judd has
continued from that day of his
lucky mistake, to be one of ti e
most extensive advertisers in the
country, and he has his reward."
A Wife’s Sympathy'.—A writer
says that “what the true man most
wants of a wile is her companion
ship, sympathy,courage and love."
He is right. The true man wants
his wife's c< mpanionship when he
has to get up in the night to see
wiiat that noise is in the cellar.
Her courage is eminently valua
ble in the general neighborhood
debates over the possession ol
some domestic article, and her
love is absolutely indispensable
when he gets in late. But her
sympathy ! Well, any one who has
ever picked up the wrong stove
lid with his bare bind can esti
mate the value of that.
The day when a boy begins to
feel uneasy at being tlep-iulent
up ni somebody else, is the ua\
when his boyhood begins to give
way to manhood. The day when
a g r! finds somebody on whom
she is willing to depend, is that in
which she passe? from girlhood to
w 'manhood.
FINDING EACH OTHER OUT.
Robert Collyer says that after
young people many they have to
find each other out,and they spend
a lifetime in doing that: “Son.e
married folks find each other out
as I have read of mariners finding
out the polar world. They leave
the shores of their single life in
the spring days, with tears and
benedictions sail on a while in
sunshine and fair weather, and
then find their way litde by little
into the cold latitudes, where they
see the sun sink day by day, and
feel the frost creep in, until they
give up ai last, and turn to ice
sitting at the same table. Others,
again, find each other out as we
have been finding out th s conti
ncn*. They nestle down at first
among the meadows, close by the
clear streams; then they go cn
through a belt of shadows, lose
their way and find it again the
best they know, and come out in
to a larger horizon and a bettv r
land ; they meet their difficult hills
and climb them together, strike
deserts and dismal jl.ices, and
cross them together; and so at
last they stand on the further
reaches of the mountains and see
the other ocean, sunning itself,
sweet and still, and then their
journey ends. But through shad
ows and shine this is the gosp?l
for the day, they keep together
right on to the end. They allow
no danger, disaster or difference
to divide them, and no third per
son to interfere, for if they do it
may be as if William and Mary ol
England had pennitted the great
Louis to divide their throne by
first dividing their hearts.
“Did you hear my definition oi
marriage? Sidney Smith says: ‘lt
resembles a pair of shears so join
ed that they cannot be separated;
often moving in opposite direc
tions yet a’ways punishing any
one who comes between them.’
The definition is as witty as it is
wise, and he might have added,
part the shears a.id then all you
have left is two poor daggers.
“So it is possible we may grow
aged in finding each other out.
and wondering why we never saw
that trait before, or struck that
temper; but if there be between
us a true heart, if the rivet holds,
then the addi d years will only
bring added reasons for a perfect
union, and the sweet old ballad
wiil be our psalm of life :
“ ‘ ohn Anderson, my Jo, John
We elamb tke hi is togither;
And many a canty day, John,
vn e’ve had wi’ ane anither;
Now we maun toddle down, John,
But hand and hand we’« 1 go,
And sleep together at the foot,
John Antkrson, my Jo.’
“We mu t find each other ou',
and then it is possible that, like
my mother’s old shears,over whit h
I used to ponder when 1 was a
child, one side is greater and the
other, by consequence, less.”
A PRECAUITON.
Mr. Bellows has been paying at
tentions to young Miss Snively
for some time, ami a few evenings
ago he called for the purpose ol
making a formal proposal. .Miss
Snively, it would appear, has had
other and rather unfortunate love
affairs in the past, and a melan
choly experience has made her
singularly cautious. After talking
wit!) her lor awhile, Bellows hem
med, ami hawed,and blushed,and
then, suddenly seizing her hand,
he was about to plump the ques
tion right out, when Miss Snively
interrupted him.
“Ah, excuse me for asking you.
; .Mr. Bellows, but are you going to
. propose ? ”
Am; zed and somewhat bewil
: dered. Mr. Bellows replied :
“Well, I —that is I should say
that—t. at I did, perhaps, cherish
some —some—as it were, some—
i lea, that is to say—well, yes.’’
“O, very well," rejoined Mis-
I Snively. “very well, but just wail
a moment, p.eaoe, while I cab
; my aunt down s airs.’
“Wh wh wh-what for?” asked
B Hows, in astonishment.
“W hy, so that I can have a wit
ness in case I'm obliged to sue
y< u for breath of promise, < f
course. The last man w! o pro
po>ed got off; but I leekon y u
won’t i I know how to fix things.
Wait a mmu e.”
Ami i hen, as M ss Snive’y we t
ou n search of her aunt. Bt How.*
t meigeu into the entry and glided
hr>ugh the front door. And
mashing fo.s has, down over his
eyes, he dissipated his love’s
y un» dream, stiffled his giief, bit
oil an inordinately large piece of
tobacco, and went to bed. Miss
• Snively vrid not
VOL. I.—NO- 25.
CHEAP HOMES,
ABD ON LONS TIME
FOTS. SAI.I’ IX
GWIN NETT COUNTY.
The lauds which were advertised for
sale in Lawrenceville, on the first Tues
day in this month, by the subscriber, were
not sold at auction, as was intended, in
consequence of the money crisis now pre
vailing, and the heavy rain which fell dur
ing sale hours. A minimum price was
fixed on eacli tract, however, and a few
were sold at private sale.
Those described below were not sold,
and are now offered al the price to each
annexed, to-wit:
The Northeast corner of lot number 111,
and a part of number 148, containing about
75 acres. This p’ace lies one mile south
ol the Coui t-house, in Lawrenceville, on
the Covington road. There is a dwelling
house, stable, veil of first-rate water, a
young orchard, and about, forty acres of
pretty level gray land in a good conditio i
for a crop next year: the balance is all in
the woods. Price $lO per a -re.
The Southeast corner of the same lot,
and part of number 148, making another
tract of about 75 acres. This is all in the
woods, and contains a good deal of branch
bottom, with a beautiful building spot, on
the same road. Price $7 per acre.
The Southwest corner of number 111.
This is all in the woods, lies well and is
well timbered, except some ten to fifteen
acres, which is a pine old line. The soil
is good and contains a large proportion of
bottom land. Price $7 per acre.
The Northeast, Southeast and South
west quarters of lot number 140, contain
ing, according to original survey, sixty
two and a half acres each. The Cov.ngton
road runs nearly on the Northeast line of
this lot, and a right of way to the lower
side of the lot from the road will be re
serve ’. These three tracts are all in the
woods, well watered, and on each could
be opened a nice little farm. Price of
'ach $7 per acre.
As many of the above tracts will be sold
ogether as may be desired, or any person
(pplying can have either alone.
A tract of 22y, acres, adjoining NVm. J.
Born, l>r. Mitchell and Colonel N. L. llnt
diins’ lands, lying inside of the town eor
poratiotffand good red land, well watered,
all ready f>r the plough. Pri(es’s per a<r
The Gordt n place,with 50 acres of wood
land, in the Southe; st corner of number
130. On this place there is a good dwelling
house, with seven rooms, and a poor crib
ind stable, one and a fourth miles from
the Court-house, on the Jefterson road.
There is a first-rate spring, well improved
and surrounded by the native forest trees,
near tLio house, and about 75 acres of first
rate red land, now all lying out. The
houses and fences arc in bad condition,
but can be made good wi.h but reasonable
cost. The two tracts contain 175 acres.
Price sl.2'X*. Any competent judge would,
on seeing this property, pronounce it very
cheap.
The Hollinsworth place, on the same
*ad, two mi es from the Court-house.
This place contains 250 acres, number 207,
and has always been considered one of
the best farms in the neighborhood. Im
provements fair, about one-half cleared,
and the other in the woods. If desired,
this lot will be divided into two equal
parts, by running a line across the road,
so as to throw one-half on the side next to
K. T. Terrell, and the other next to J. M.
Anibros’ farm, and the purchaser can
have choice of sides at tlu price asked,
which is $lO per acre.
Also, about 75 acres in the Northeast
corner of lot number 130, on the sam<-
road, and adjoining the lands of J. M.
Ambrose and others. Os this tract about
25 acres is old field, and the balance all
aood lands. There is an old house place
on the road, two and three-fourth miles
from town, and several fruit and shade
trees around it—a beautiful place for a
residence. Price six dollars per acre.
All these lands lie in the fifth district of
said county, and within sight or nine miles
of the Air-Line Railroad, and to enable
persons of small means to secure homes
for themselves and families,are offered on
the following easy terms, to-wit: One
fourth cash, one at two years, one at three
and the other at four years, with interest
at ten per cent,
•William E, Mimmons. Samuel J. Winn,
or Dr. T. K. Mitchell, would show the
property to strangers wishing to see it.
For further partie liars, address
JAMES T. SIMMONS.
Norcross Ge >rei.i.
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