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VOL. XLI —fiO. 35—NEW SERIES VOI, 5. NO!18
Miscellaneous,
Miscellaneous,
General Misceltany.
0
An Acorn Becomes a Trw.
When the Russian Grand Duke
Alexis was in Boston, visiting the
rooms of the Historical Society, and
was about to depart, Admiral Possier,
who was with him, took from his pock
et, as the Boston “ Traveler” reports,
a small envelope and handed it to Mr.
Winthrop, observing that it might.
Social Life in California Mining Towns f
and Stock Counties.
| \ VER100 PAGES—printed in two
vy colon, on superb Tinted Paper. Four Ilun.
dred Knmnluco or Flatter*. PlanU and Vegetable*
—with dencriptiona, and Two Cou>red 1'lates.
Directions and plans for making Walks, Lawns,
Gardens, sc. The handsomest and best Floral
Guide in the world—*11 for TEN CENTS, to tnaaa
who think of buying seeds—Not a Manor the cost.
130,000 told for 1S71. Address
dec l-5t J.iXES VICK. Rochester, N.Y.
I - "'/
| Jamils journal—to
Nmi IN advance'
he
;mncr.
WEKliJ-r,
IIV S. A. ATKIJNSOIs
at three dollars per ANNUM,
xtricti.r/.v apvaxce.
Office, Broad st., overJ. H. Hoggin*.
R1TKS Hi' ADVERTISING.
,i..rti«ni,ntt will he Inserted at One Dollar and
Fiftr cibrt per ofl2 **"•». for theI flnt, and
asveetr-flre Cents for each anbaoquei.t Insertion,
for tnr time under one month. For a longer period
till,ml conlrarls will he made.
Business Directory.
I am tit mini. A. S. ERWIN. HOWELL CO:IB
- COBB, EUWIX & COBB.
A rTORNEYSAT LAW,
ii. Albi us, Georgia. OSes In the Deuprsc
huiMiuA.
"^E OFFER
r. r. LUMPKIN. 1IESRY JACKSON.
Lumpkin & Jackson,
A TTOltNKYS AT LAW, will practice in the
jTx. Superior I'ourt of Clark county, the Supreme
Court of the State, ami the United States Court
for the Northern District of Georgia. fob. Dtf
1). <J. CAN’JLER,
Attorney at
A.
L A W,
Homer, llanWs County, (ia. Will practice
la the eoumies of Banks, Jackson, Hall, Haber*
•ham aud Franklin.
X tSTIN W. RIDLN.
T T O R N E Y A T L A W ,
.and Notary Public, Athens, Ga. Will prac
tice in the Western circuit; will give particular
attention to tho collection of claims, and will act as
ageat for the purchase and sale ot real estate and
nay taxes on wild lands. jan15tf
i. M. • KKLTON,^ C. W. .SEIDELL,
PITTMAN A HINTON,
A TTO UN E Y S A T L A W ,
x-L Jefftrson, Jackson county, Ga.
SAMUEL P. THURMOND.
A T TORN E Y A T L A \V ,
Athean, (is. office on Broad street, over
Marry «t S<m’» Store. Will giro special attention
te eases ia Bankruptcy. Also, to the collection of
all claims entrusted to his care.
SHARP & FLOYD,
Successors to George Sharp, Jr.,
AND
A tlanta, Ga.
a large variety of
FINE WATCHES,
CLOCKS,
JEWELRY,
SILVER WARE,
SPECTACLES,
FANCY GOODS,
FINE BRONZES,
AND STATUARY.
WE HAVE A FULL CORPS OF
$aicliiiLiik8t$, Jeweller^ |n graver?
Manufacture many Fine Goods
*“ " sh °P. »"<> ■« prepared to FILL AM
01llll.lt> for good, or work promptly.
All goods engraved free of charge.
a make a specialty or
PREMIUMS FOR FAIRS!
»nd»re prepared to give any information on ap-
plication. \\ e guarantee the
LAltGEST ASSOltTEMNT,
THE FINEST GOODS,
THE LOWEST PRICES,
AND THE BEST WORK.
C-allaud&cc us.
J. J. k J. C. ALKXAMIKB,
D ealers in hardware,
Iron Steel, Nail*. Carriage Material, Mining
tnplemenu.'Ac., Whitehall st., Atlanta.
M.V.VX ESTES,
^TTOUNEY AT
Homer, Banka County. Ga.
A
BY.,
J. II. XTI.KSKKT.
T T O R N E Y A T L A W ,
CarnenriUo, l'ranklin countv, tla. Office
n.rly occupird hyj. I'. Langnlon, Votq. 1x21
G HOVEltJfclLVKEK
SEWING MACHINES! !
PHOSOl .Nt'Kl) TI1K BEST IN I SK.
AT .la WHO HAVE TRIED
th.m. These machines, with ull the
IMPUOYEMENIS
AND -——
ATTACHMENTS,
may b. had, at manufacturer's prices, freight
added, at the
BANNER OFFICE.
NOTICE OF C HA NOE OF SCHEDULE
OEORGIA RAILROAI).
Hup«riutriitleut*N Hfilff, 'l
Georgia ami lUrnn X liurusta Railroad, -
. AvguMta. G ., January 20,1871. I
f\N AND AFTER SUNDAY,
V J January 22d, 1ST!, the l\i*»wonger Trains will
run as follows:
i>ay Vnssnvjev Train, Daily, Sunday
Excepted.
I*av« Augusta at.. 8 00 a.m.
Leave Atlanta at 7 10 a.m.
Ariivea* Atlanta at ti 80p.m.
Arrive at Augusta at 5 10 p. ».i.
Sight Passenger Train.
Leave Augustaat 8 80p. m.
l eave Atlautaat 10 15 p. m.
Arrive at Atlania at 6 40a. m.
Arrive r* Augusta at 7 80 a. m.
Berzirti* Passenger Train.
Leave A«;asts. at 1 l’»p. m.
Lear* It* reliant 7 80 :». m.
Arrive at August* 0 25a. m.
Arrive at Beracdia <» 0«x>. in.
Rath Day and Night l*assenger Trains will make
Kose connections at Augusta and At Inn in with
l*a%«*uger Trains of connecting roads.
rassengers from Atlanta, Athens, Washington,
and station* on Georgia Railroad, by taking the
Dawn Dav Passenger Train will make close connec
tion at < air.ak with the M eon Passenger Train,
aad reach Mac ii the same day at 7 40 p. iu.
Palace.'sleeping Carson all Night Trains.
Schedule un Macon & Augusta Hull road.
To tale Effect Jan. 23, 187).
DdiCfen .1 ngusta and Macon—Day Pas
senger Train Daily, Sunday Excepted.
I*»ve Augusta at 12 00noon.
Leave Macon at 0 O0a. in.
Arrive at Macon at " JO p. in.
Arrive at Augusta at 1 45 p.m.
The day Passenger Train arriving nt Macn at
7 40 p. m., makes close connect Ions with Tr.*I.;s of
connecting Roads at Macon.
Passengers leaving Macon at «» n. m., will make
close connections at Uamak with Up Day Passenger
Train for Atlanta, Athens, Washin gton, and all
Joints on Geor da Rai'road. and *v> i • .*«t rt At
lanta with •>
S. K. JOHNSON, Supt.
Send your Old Furniture to
WOOD’S
REPAIR SHOP,
.Vert to the. Epistmxd Church,and have it
may 193m MADE GOOD AS SEW.
NORTH EAT GEORGIA
May 23-1 y
SHARP & FLOYD,
Whitehall Street, Atlanta.
JAY 0. GAILEY,
yNVITES ATTENTION TO HIS
FALL STOCK
GRAND EXHIBITION!!
FOR THE
Farmers, Mechanics and Housewives of
Xorth-Eust Georgia.
Open Every Day!
FWWE SEASON for Fain is at hand and being uu-
JL willing that Athens should be behiud other
places of less importance,I have determined to have
A C inmercial Exposition,
.If My Old Stand, So. 7, Broad St.
To make the display attractive, I have vis;
the Northern markets, and brought out many
NOVSt-TIEST
Embracing a verv handsome displav in seasonable
DRY GOODS!
An unusual assortment of
B ■ t5±3 isias 9
For Men, Women and Children ; aud an unequalled
variety of useful articles for
For Home and Harm!
In fact, the Establishment, heretofore known a* the*
“Planter’* Store,”
Is to become the favorite headquarters for farm sup
plies, if complete stock and fair dealing can make
■„ Th^ Om Road to Success.
The following article, published in
the Journal of Commerce a few uiuntlis
ago, is one of the kind that never grow
old. This" is especially so in these
days, when employees use funds en
trusted to their care for fast living,
and when some of our city papers are
discussing the question, “ How can a
family of six or seven get along respec
tably in Key York on less than $5,000
perhaps, be thought of sufficient inter- per year.. Some will say that the Bing
ed to entitle it to appear in the Socie- ‘hlar thing in the ease of the Joumafs
ty’3 cabinet. The envelope was opened
and disclosed three oak leaves and a
little twig. An inscription in Russian
explained that these were from an oak
tree in St. Petersburg, which grew
from an acorn planted by the Emperor
of Russia, who received it from George
Summer, who took it from an oak
overshadowing the tomb of Washing
ton, at Mount Vernon. This circum
stance may recall to the memory of a
few of our readers the anecdote .which
the late George Dallas, our minister
C1UMXF.YS AX/I
PURE KEROSENE OIL!
Call and examine his stock helore purchasing,
sept 15-tf. 15
wm. wood;
DEALER IX ALL KINDS OF
F XJ RittlTUREc
l^URNITURE REPAIRED, UP-
-L bolstered and varnished, also a large variety
of wood coditis and Fi>k’s I’utent Metaiic Burial
Cases always on hand.
Warcrooms on Clayton St., next to Episcopal
Church. ScpOrim WILLIAM WOOD.
CjiSS'JZZX ADAMS,
designer,
sgraver and fruiter,
Carriage, Buggy & Wagon
]fE,rn:Kiib.
A LARGE LOT direct from the
manufactory, ami will bo aold a* low as can
b* boucht anywhere in tlio Slate, freight adil.nl.
SUMMEY& NEWTON.
E S. ENGLAND & CO.,
/^RE NOW RECEIVING THEIR
NEW FALL STOCK!
•VWted with tare bv one of the firm, in New
lork, to which they invite the attention of their
vubiomrr* aud the public. They have a good assort-
«U*Ul v.f
SJM’lE&FAtiUtDJYGOGDS
** tto \ 1 ,in\N.
OIUIKKUV,
IIAT*. IAPN,
BOOTH,
And in ,h.rt, „„ Jv b log llle """f'
Family and PlanlaWon Supplies,
PRltF - FOB
Will «i*rr •'olinn >.| Ji ) ,
ELF.CTROTYPTNG,
W. Corner I'olrtii and W.u.nct Streets
Cincinnati, Ohio.
Lock Box 22;*,
Klxty-Flve First l’rl/e HnUh Awarded !
TIIE GREAT
Southern Piano
MANUFACTORY.
Vm'IMaBE & CC„
MANUFACTURERS OF
GKAIKD.NQEARF^D IPaiGIIT
Piano Fortes.
KSnllimorr. Yinnlnnd.
rnH ESE J NST R U MENTS
An attractive tVatur
will he its display of
of tl.i< Grand Exhibition,
GLASSWARE,
Lamps and Lamp Fixtures,
Far ahead of anything heretofore offered, and con
stituting a leading
-C? \2T
well worth the attention of Housekeepers.
There will always be a complete assortment of
MMILY GROCERIES!
of tl»e best grades, and *|>ecial attention paid to the
regular supplv of GOOD FLOUK, MEAL, and
PROVISIONS GENERALLY.
Per thu accommodation of builder* a large supply o
may always be found.
As all these attractive and
sold at
ful goods arc to be
w* :v.w.
my old customers and the public are invited to call
anti examine them, lfthcy have anything to sell,
the ittahot Market Price will always be paid for it.
J. H. HUGGINS,
sept 15 jjicu of “ Planter's Store,” Athens.
have
I be«n lit fore Hie pnblie for nenrly thirty years
and upon their excellence alone attained an unpur-
chatrapre-eminence, which pronounces them un
equalled. iu
TQHS,
TOUCH,
WJRSM/IIISIIt?
AS* QQIUSIUIT.
un. All our SRl'aRE Pianos have our new Im
proved Overstrung Scale and the luraff,. I retde.
We would call upeclal attention to our late
Patented improvements in IJIItMi PIA'IIS. and
SQVAKK tilt \ Ml. found in no other Plano, which
bring the Piano nearer perfection than has yet
Inwii attained. __
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n« We arc by special arrangement enabled to
furnish PAlll.Olt ORGANS and MEl.OPEOKS of
the most celebrated makers, wholesale and retail,
at 1/uee.it Factory Prices.
Illustr ted Catalogues and Price List* furnished
on application tw ltd. KVAHK ACO., Balt. Md
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dec 29 tf
Public Laws, 1871.
TDUBLIC LAWS passed bv the
F ofn^ral
Price, ?1 burKE’S BOOKSTORE.
or thirty years since, used to tell of
the acorn and its bearer.
Mr. Dallas was culled upon, as he
related, by a young American, who
saitl that he desired much to see the
Emperor of Russia, as he had brought
an acorn, the fruit of a tree growing
by the tomb of Washington, which he
wished to present him. Mr. Dallas
said that he could not possibly under
take to obtain a private audience from
the Emperor with so little occasion for it.
“ Well,” said the young man, “I
am determined to sec him at any rate.”
“ Have a care,” repled Mr. Dallas,
“ or you may get yourself into an un
pleasant scrape. If you do, I will not
undertake to help you out of it.”
“ I shall see him at all events,” was
the young man’s answer, and he took
his leave.
Shortly afterwards Mr. Dallas inet
him in company with a man wearing
a military uniform.
“ Well,” said the young man, “ I
have seen the Emperor.”
“ Yes, and have got into a difficulty;
ou are under arrest, I see ; you re
member what I said about helping you
out of any scrape you might get your
self into.”
“ Oh, you meau that man ; why he
is my officer!”
“ Your officer!”
“Yes, he is the officer whom the
Emperor directed to go with me, and
show me anything that I might like to
see in St. Petersburg.”
On comparing notes, it was found
that the young adventurer had already
seen a great deal more of that city
than Mr. Dallas .had, although for
some time a resident there. The in
troduction to the Emperor took plifce
this manner. The young man
wrote a note to the Emperor acquaint
ing him with the strong desire he had
for a private interview, and mentioned
his particular purpose. Soon after
this he was waited on by a person w ho
asked him if he was the American gen
tleman who desired to sea the Emperor.
“ I am,” was the answer.
“ Come, then, with me, and your
wish shall be gratified.”
The American was conducted into a
small room in the palace, the Emper
or’s cabinet, probably, where sat a
middle-aged geutleraan who asked
the question, and being answered in
the affirmative, said, “ I am the Em
peror.” The conversation proceeded,
but the Emperor not finding himself
over-fluent in English, said to the
young man: “ Come with me and I
will present you to the Empress, who
speaks English much better than I;”
and taking him into another room in
traduced him to the family circle.—
The American nnd the Empress were
soon engaged in an animated conver
sation. •
“ You have no servants in Amer
ica,” said the Empress.
“ Pat don me, we havo many,” was
the reply.
“ Yes, but you do not call them by
that name; you call them help.’
“Ah!” said the Yankee, shaking
his finger at her Imperial Majesty,
“ you have been reading Mrs. Trol
lope.”
“ So she has,” interrupted the Em
peror, and they all laughed in chorus.
Meantime the acorn was not forgot
ten, but duly delivered; the young
man was afterward allowed tree access
to the Imperial family circle, was pro
vided with an intelligent guide in mil
itary uniform, who was to show him
everyting worth seeiug in St Peters
burg, and was afterward sent at the
Imperial expense to travel post through
the Empire wherever has curiosity
might lead him.
The acorn, it seems, was duly plan
ted and germinated and became
tree. In token ofthe truth of this, if
we may receive the words of the Bos
ton “ Traveler” as authentic, some
leaves and little twigs from it are de
posited in the Boston Historical So
ciety.
lucky” friend was that his wife vxu
willing to livW* in the third story, on
s""cn dollarj^week ftnPtKo two, while
her husband was earning a thousand
dollars a year:
“ A young man writes to us that he
has had * ten years’ office experience,’
we suppose as a clerk or bookkeeper,
during which time he has saved ‘ the
sum total of $75, which is his all. He
wishes to settle in some growing young
town an J grow up witli it.’ He is evi
dently sincere, and his letter shows
that he is not deficient in ability, and
has some good sense. We therefore
say to him plainly, that si cces- in life
does not coine to him in that way. No
oue finds a fortune by chance, nor can
lie * grow’ into a state of prosperity
merely by planting himself in a fresh
virgin soil. Everything in life worth
having is wrestled for and acquired
through severe labor aud self-denial.
It is a great mistake to suppose that
the failures ot aspirants in this line
tome from adverse surroundings. Cir
cumstances have much less to do with
material prosperity than is generally
supposed. Favoring conditions may
accelerate the acquisition of an cstnte,
but the same application and self-denial
will guarantee the final result under
any conditions. There are exceptions,
of course; but this is the rule. A
■nan without a family, who has been
toiling in New Yt rk for ten years, nnd
has laid up but 875, would not ‘ grow
up’ iuto anything better, even amid the
stimulus of that wonderful activity
which marks the youth of a thriving
town. The accretion that conies upon
a man who waits to grow’ up by out
ward helps, is only the overlaying of
rust aud caukar. that gnaw out the vi
tals. The true growth is that which
conies from within, and employs every
faculty in tho earnest effort. Nearly
all of our young men make the same
mistake which our correspondent con
fesses—they spend too large a propor
tion of their earnings for adornments
and unhealthy indulgences of the baser
appetites. Fine clothes, jewelry, ci
gars, pleasure-hunting, and other cost
ly or vicious habits, waste no inconsid
erable portion of their annual income.
We heard a man spoken of the other
day as one who had been remarkably
‘ lucky’ iu establishing himself in a
comfortable l one, and that was the
only word used to d’siinguish between
him and an associate who had more
brilliant talents, but failed of success.
There was no luck in the matter, for
we knew them both. They both were
married, and both were without child
ren, and each entering upon a salary
of 81,000 per annum, went about the
same time to look for board in Brook
lyn. The * unfortunate’ man took
board for himself and wife at 820 a
week, whieh he said was the cheapest
at which ho could get a comfortable
room in a first-class house. The
lucky’ man looked for some time, un
til he found clean healthy quarters iu
a third story at seven dollars a week
for the pair, his wife to do her own
sweeping and make her own bed. He
lived within his iucome, and laid up
money from the start; the other ran in
debt and became embarrassed from the
hour. There is no secret in such his
tories ; he who runs may read them
If any cue assumes that the nobler
part is to * enjoy life’ as we go, and
that the acquisition of an estate, the
foundation of which is laid in early
self-denial and tho structure built in
patient toil with the same prevalent
spirit ever present, is an ignoble am
bition, we shall not argue the case.—
But we do say that those who desiro
this result cau pursue it safely and
surely in no other way, and if a man
after knowing what it will cost, will not
pay the prico for it, he should not
grumble at the fates, nor murmur
against a discriminating Providence.
Would Wait Awhile.—A Mass
achusetts paper tells of a colored woman
who had been lately oonverted, but
was so unfortunate as to fly into a
passion over the misdoings of one of a
neighbor’s youngsters. Her mistress
remarked upon the impropriety of such
conduct in the case of one about to join
the church and reoeived this frank re
sponse : “ I have ’sperinoed religion
an Tse gwine to join the church; but,
yjsg B I’ll scald dat nigger first.’
A Sedalia editor says that a girl who
Is now called “ a beautiful blond
few years ago have been termed
“ tow-head.”
The world learns its lessons slowly.
Much of the world does not learn its
lessons at all. The young are every
where growing up amid the rains of
other lives apparently without inquir
ing or caring for the reasons of the dis
asters to life, fortune and reputation
that are happening, or have happened,
everywhere around them. One man
with great trusts of money in his hands,
betrays the confidence of the public,
becomes a defaulter, and blows his
brains ont. Another led on by p*wer
ami place, is degraded at last to a poor
demagogue without character and in
fluence. Another, through a surrender
of himself to sensuality, becomes a
disgusting beast, with heart and brain
more foul than the nest of unclean
birds. Another, by tasting the wiuc-
cup, becomes a drunkaid at last, and
dies in horrible delirium, or lives to he
a curse to a wife, children and friends.
There is an army of these |>oor wretch
es in every large city in tho land, dy
ing daily, and daily reinforced. A
young girl, “ loving not wisely, but
too well,” yields herself to a seducer,
who rui s aud forsakes her to a life of
shame and a death of despair. Not
one girl, but thousands of girls yearly,
so that, though a great company of
those whose robes are soiled beyond
cleansing, hide themselves iu the grave
during a twelve-month; another great
company of the pure drop to their pla
ces and keep filled to repletion the ranks
of prositution. Again and again, iu
iustauces beyond countiug, are these
tragedies repeated in the full presence of
the rising generation, and yet it seems to
grow no wiser. Nothing has been
more fully demonstrated than that the
first steps of sin and folly are fraught
with peril. Nothing has been better
proven than that temperate drinking
is always dangerous, and that excessive
drinking is always ruinous. It is very
well known that a man cannot consort
with a lewd woman for an hour, with
out receiving a stain that a whole life
of repentance cannot wholly eradicate.
Since time began women have been led
astray by the same promises, the same
pledges, the same empty rewards.—
If young men and women could pos
sibly learn wisdom, it would seem a« if
they might get it in a day, by simply
using their eyes and thinking upon
what they see. Yet in the great city
and iu all great cities of the country,
young women are all the time repeat
ing the mistakes of those around them
who are wrecked in character and for
tune. The young man keeps his wine
bottle, and seeks resorts where deceiv
ed and ruined women lay in wait for
prey, knowing perfectly well, if he
knows anything, or has used fairly the
reason with which Heaven has endow
ed him, that he is in the broad road to
perdition—that there is before him a
life of disgust and a death of horror.
When the results of certain courses
of conduct and certain indulgences are
sow well-known ns these to which we
allude, it seems strange that any one
can enter upon them. Every young
man knows that if he never tiste* a
glass of alcoholic drink he will not be
come, or stand in danger of becoming
a drunkard. Every young man knows
that if he preserves a chaste youth, and
shuns the society of the lewd, he can
carry to the woman whom he loves a
self-respect which is invaluable, a past
freely open to her questioning gaze,
and the pure physical vitality which
shall be the wealth of another genera
tion. Ho knows that the rewards of
chastity are ten thousand times better
than those of criminal indulgence; he
knows that nothing is lost aud every
thing is gained by a life of manly so
briety and self-denial. He knows all
this, if he has his eyes open aud has
exercised his reason in even a small de
gree ; and yet he joins the infatuated
multitude and goes straight to destruc
tion. We know that we do not ex
aggerate when we say that every large
city ha3 thousands of young men, with
good mothers and pure sisters, who, if
their lives should be uncovered, could
never look their mothers and sisters in
the face again. They are full of fears
of exposure, and conscious of irrepara
ble loss. Their lives are masked in a
thousand ways. They live a daily lie.
They arc the victims aud slaves of
vices which are just as certain to crip
ple or kill them, unless at ouce and for
ever forsaken, as that they exist.—
There are thousands of others who,
now pure and good, will follow evil ex
ample unwarned by what they soe,
and within a year will be walking in
the road that leads evermore down
ward.
One tires of talking to fools, and falls
back in sorrow that hell and destruc
tion are never full—in sorrow that men
cannot or will not learn there is but
oue path to an honorable, peaoeful,
prosperous and successful life, and that
all others lead more or less directly to
ruin.—Exchange.
A San Francisco writer says: It is
a matter of some surprise, to a mascu
line mind at least, that the women
pining lonely in the cities, manifest so
much unwillingness to migrate into
the country, and accept a home in a
mining town so readily. True, tbe
stock counties of California are very
lonesome just now; the neighbors are
like angels’ visits; there are no schools
or churches, no doctors or parsons, no
gay boulevards or glittering bazaars,
often not even* wagon road,
these are'the necessary concomitantsof
pioneer life, and must be faced for
awhile. But one thing a woman is
certuin of, and that is an abiding home,
a house that will stay put, a place that
is about as liable to removal and its
consequent discomforts, as the stead
fast hills them-elves. Of all men in
California, the stockmen are the most
Girls don't talk slang! If it is ne
cessary tlrnt any one in the family
should do that, let it be tour big broth
er, though I would advise him not to
adopt “ pigeon English” when there is
an elegant systematized language that
he can just as well use. But don’t
you do it. Yon can have no idea
how it sounds to cars unused or averse
to it, to hear a young lady when she
is asked if she will go with you to some
place, answer, “ Not much l” or, if re
quested to do something which she docs
All not.wishr-fcfe say, “ Can’t see Itj*'
Not long ago I heard a young rmss,
who is educated and accomplished-, in
speaking of a man, say that she in
tended to “go for him!” and when-
her sister proffered her assistance af
some work, she unswcroJ, “ Not f<n r
Joe!”
Now young ladies of unexception
able character and really good edtica-
tranquil, contented nnd happy; as nj tion, fall into this habit, thinking it
cla<s there are the best dipt sitioned j shows smartness to answer back i*i
and most kindly, and they make the j slang phrases; and they soon slip flip-
best husbands and kindest fathers.—! pnntly from their tongues with a saucy
The soft and rich sunshine of their j pertness that is neither ladylike nor
green hills has gotten into their tern- becoming. “ I bet” or. “ you bet” is
pers. These are the men who are in- ] well enough among tho.se who are trn-
soparable from the soil, and in whom j ding horses or land; but the contrast
alone lias been breathed the rich and is startling and positively shoe-king to
mellow breath of this sunny weather
of California.
On the other hand, of all places of
residence—or rather, of all places to
vegetate in—I cannot just now think
of one less desirable than one of those
little gimcrack mining towns, with its
garish saloons, rod and yellow rosettes
of paper on the ceiling; and its spav
ined cabins, part of them swagged
down at the head and feet, with their . ,
, , . •, n i-i , ten on every heart, stamped ou everv
backs in the middle like a eat s, aud | 7 ....... .
part of them ’tother way-the doors of Uiem ° ry ' U sh ° U,d ** the e o,den ru,e
hear those words issue from the lips of
a young lady. They seem at once to
surround her with the rougher associ
ates of men’s daily life: nnd bring her
down from the pedestal of purity,
whereon she is placed, to their own
coarse level.
Let ns Help one Another.
This little senteucj should be writ--
one set staying persistently open, and
those of the other set as persistently
shut, all the while. I have talked with
a number of women, now living in the
interior, who once had their homes in
some mining town, aud though they
admit it was a very precarious life, al
ways beaten about from pillar to post,
they universally sighed for a return to
the same. They argue that if a wo
man loves her husband (the frequency
with which they make that supposi
tion) while living in a mining town,
there are no people who will assist her
more generously than miners. Proba
bly that is not to be denied, but still I
repeat that to the masculine mind the
taste is not to be found that would pre
fer a Micawbcr sort of life in one of
these rickety, tawdry, garish towns to
an enduring happiness and an almost
impregnable health on a ranch.
How two
Silver-Haired
Farm.
Brothers
Donkeys and facts are stubborn things. | other generation.
One of the best forms in Franklin
county, Massachusetts, is owned and
managed l. two brothers, whose locks
are now silvered by many years of
honest labor. Their well-kept lands
extend over hundreds of acres, includ
ing some of the most fertile pastures,
where graze ia the Summer seventy-
five or eighty head of young cattle—
one of the best henls of Durhams to he
found in New England. Hundreds
of acres of wood land are covered with
a heavy growth of timber, and instead
of being pillaged nnd robbed by the
invading axe, are increasing in value
every year. Extensive orchards are
iu the best bearing condition, aud fre
quently contribute over 81,000 to the
annual income. They own a dairy of
some twenty cows, and the golden
butter produced is some of the best
that finds its way to the Boston mar
ket.
Each of these brother! has a family,
and they reside in two grand old farm
houses in dose proximity. But what
sceems a little remarkable in this age
of greed and selfishness, says the Green
field paper which tells the story, is
that the relations of the two families
are always most friendly and in the
most perfect harmony. They share
everything in common. There is no
division of the proceeds of their well
paying farm. Either draws for the
wonts of himself and family, as the oc
casion requires, without any particular
consultation with or permission of the
other. There is a confidence in aud a
reliance upon the integrity of each
other that is as rare as it is beautiful.
If a member of one household is sick,
he or she is cared for as tenderly by
those from the neighboring house as
by thoso beneath the same roof. There
is no finding of fault because some may
thiuk they are doing more than their
shareofthe common work. As the
wife of one of the brothers is an inval
id, the management of the dairy has
fallen to the lot of the other, bat this
extra duty is discharged as a matter of
course, and is the source of no unpleas
antness. Eaoh of the brothers has a
son, and it is probable that the farm
will be transmitted to them still on-
divided, and the same pleasant family
r|jationship will be continued for ait-
practiced not only in every household,
but all through the world. By help
ing one another we not only remove
thorns from the pathway, and anxiety
from the mind, but we feel a sense of
pleasure in our hearts, knowing we aie
doing our duty to a fellow creature.
A helping hand or encouraging
word is little to us yet it is a benefit to
others. Who has not felt the power
of a little sentence? Who has not
needed the encouragement and aid of
a kind friend? How soothing when
perplexed with some task that is mys
terious and burdensome, to feel a gen
tle hand on the shoulder and to hear a
kind voice whispering: “ Do not be
discouraged, I see your trouble—let
me help you.” What strength is in
spired, what hope created, what sweet
gratitude is felt, and the great difficul
ty dissolved as dew beneath the sun
shine. Yes, let us help one another
by endeavoring to strenghten anti en
courage the weak, nnd lifting the bur
den of care from the weary and op
pressed, that life may glide smoothly
on and the fount of bitterness yield
sweet waters; aud He whose willing,
hand Ls ready to aid us will rewar d
our humble endeavors and every good!
will be as “ bread cast upon the waters
to return after many days,” if not to*
those we love.
Irrigation.
It is stated by a Denver paper that
engineers have recently entered upon
the work of surveying the line of an
extensive irrigating canal, to be more
than one hundred miles in length,
commencing in Platte Canon, berhre
the river debouches upon the plains,
and extending to the head of the Re
publican River, in the Eastern pnrt of
the Territory. This canal, it is said,
will irrigate no less than three million
acres of laud now useless except for
stock purposes, anti will he, if con
structed, the means of making a place
where a milliou people may find homes.
It is claimed tlrnt means sufficient to
pay for the survey are raised, and the
parties purehing it on can control
enough more to build the canal.
Why the Dutchman “Jinei*
MIT UE Demi'EIiasck.”—“ I sail tell
you how it van. I drink mine lager;
den I put mine liantl on mine head,
and doro vas von pain. Den I put my
.hand on mine body, and dcre vas an-
oder pain. Den I put my hand in
mine pocket, and dere vas nottiug.--
So I jine mil de demperanee. Now
dere is no pain more in mine head,
and de pain in mine body vls all gone
avay. I put mire hand in mine pock
ets, and dere vas dwenty dollar. So
I shtay mit de demperancc.”
A man in Danbury discovered that
powder feied with lard was good for
boils. He tried it. The stove cover
is in tbe second story now, though most
all the rest of the stove has been col
lected. He was deceived in his lard,
he says.
Truthfulness is a corner-stone in
character; and if it be not firmly laid
in youth, there will always be a weak
spot in the foundation.
In prosperity we need moderation;
in adversity, patience.