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fOLUME III.
ATHENS. GEORGIA. THURSDAY MORNING, APRIL 24. 1866.
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NUMBER 4
PUBLISHED WEEKLY,
by JOHN H. CHRISTY,
EDITOR mo F*OF*l*TO».
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ATHENS, GEORGIA.
j^sorsr the Store of *■ VmI * Jtn3
PITNER & ENGL Am),
Wholesale St Retail Dealers’! n
Spoccries, Dry Goods,
HARD*ARK, SHOES AND BOOTS,
ipril 6 Amess, Qa.
DORSEY & CARTER,
DEALERS IN
family Groceries & Provisions.
Corner of Brnvl and Jackson streets,
Athens. Ga.
MOORE & CARLTON,
DEALERS IN
SILK, FANCY AND STAPLE GOODS,
HARDWARE AND CROCKERY.
April No. 3, Granite Row, Athens, Ga.
LUCAS & BILLUPS,
ITIIOI.ESALE AND RETAIL DEALERS IN
DRY GOODS,
GROCERIES, HARDWARE, Ac. Ac.
No. 2, DroaJ Street, Athens.
BEAUTY EVERYWHERE.
There is a beauty in the skes,
When noonday suns are bright,
It glances with ten thousand eyea
Thro’ shudors of the nigit;
When moon with rosy bltnh is Been
To wake— there’s beauty there,—
clJuls proclaim
JOHN H. CHRISTY,
PLAIN AND FANCY
Hook anti Job Printer,
•'Franklin Job Office," Athens, Ga.
*• All work entrusted to his carelaithlully, correctly
and punctually executed, at pricescnrrespnnd-
Janld in; with thebarJneasof the times.
WILLIAM N. WHITE,
WHOLESALE AND RETAIL
BOOKSELLER AND STATIONER,
.IndXeir.papcrand Magazine Agent.
DEALER IN
MUSIC and MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS
LAMPS, FINE CUTLERY, FANTT GOODS, *C.
It*. S, College Avenue, Newton House. Athens, Ga
aignof " Wliite’* University Hook Store.”
Orders promptly filled at Augusta rates
And evening's golden
We, too, of beauty share
Old ocean’s ever swelling trie,
The placid lake and still* _
The rivers rolling in their i*ide,
The ever sparkling rill;
The mountain top, the verdant plain,
The desert rude and bare, . ■ [
Attest by every varied sceue,- ’ • v
That beauty dwelletb there.
The opening buds of jqycus spring,
Its choral hymnsgf praise,
The velvet bloom oti summer’s wing,
Us bright and cloudy days;
The autumn pfad in russet shroud,
With treasures rich and rare,
Old hoary winter shouts aloud,
There’s dazrling beauty here.
Toei'o’- beaii'j'in the hut ball.
Where sweet contcniimcu* dwells.
Should science move or knowledge call,
The voice of beauty swells.
With childhood’s silken cords ’tis blent,
With manhood’s prond career;
While age mature in virtue spent, *
Both heavenly beauty share.
HOME.
There is a spot on earth supremely blest,
A dearer, sweeter spot than all the rest;
Where man, Creation’s tyrant, casts aside
His sword and sceptre, pageantry and
pride;
While in his softeued look, benignly blend
The sire, the son,the husband .father, friend,
Here woman reigns; the mother, daughter,
wife,
Strews with fresh flowers the narrow way
of life.
In the clear heaven of her delightful eye,
An angel guard of loves and graces lie;
Around her knees domestic duties meet.
And fireside pleasures gambol at her feet.
Where shall that laud, that spot of earth
be found)
Art thou a tnan, a patriot* look around ;
^Oh ! thou shalt find, where’er thy footsteps
roam,
That land thy country, and that spot thy
home * [Montgomery.
REFINEMENTS OF LANGUAGE.
Among all the improvements of the
Rge, none, perhaps, are more striking
than those which have recently been
made, and indeed are at present raak-
,n the language of .ordinary life.
w ho, in these days, ever read of board
ing-schools ? Nobody—They are trans
formed into academies for boys, and
seminaries for girls;.the higher classes
are “establishments.” A coachmaker’s
shop is a repository for carriages;” a
Milliner’s shop, a “ depot;” a thread-
seller s, an “emporium.” One buys
drugs at a “medical hailwines of a
“companyand shoes at a “mart.”
Blacking is dispensed from an “institu
tion ;” and meat from a " purveyor.”
One would jtnagine that the word shop
had become not only coutemptible, but
had been discoverednot to belong to the
English language. •low-a-days, all the
shops are “ warehouses,” or “ places
of business;” and you will hardly find
a tradesmen having the honest hardi-
"Brief Stems.
hood to caii himself a shepke^er,
There is now also no such word as that litTlb was prosecuted as rapidly, but as
THE BROKEN LEG.
A city physician was one night
called up in great haste by a watchman,
who informed him that he bad just
picked up in the gutter a miserable
drunkard, who appeareutly been run
over by a passing carriage and had one
leg awfully shattered, and he feared
might otherwise by injured. The doc
tor made quick despatch wite his toilet,
and followen the agitated watchman to
the watch-house, where he found a man
beastly drunk, with his leg literally
smashed to pieces. The slightest move
ment of the poor man caused the bro
ken fragments to grate together in such
a way as to disturbs most sensibly, the
nerves of all in the room, and~to send
some of the hardy watchmen suddenly
to the open air to save themselve from
fainting.
It was, of course, impossible to do
anything with such a limb without strip
ping it. But the moment an attempt
was made to do this, tee drunkard in-
isted that this leg was well enough, and
bidding his tormentors to let him alone.
This of course was out of the question;
and the work of baring the shattered
JAMES M. ROYAL,
HARNESS MAKER;
H AS removed his shop to Mitchell’s old
Tavern, oue door east of Grady <& Nich-
•laoii’s—where he keeps always on hand a
general assortment of articles inhisline, and
I laalwavsready to fillordersinthe best style
Jfct 26 tf
COLT & COLBERT,
DEALERS IN
STAPLE DRY GOODS.GROCERIES
, AND HARDWARE.
No. 9 Granite Row Athens, Ga.
JAMES I. COLT. | WM. C. COLBERT.
August 6,1855.
Here, said a dandy to an Irish laborer
come tell me the biggest lie you ever
told in your life, and I’ll treat you to a
whisky punch. An* by my soul, quickly
retorted Pai, yer honor is a gentleman.
“ It is a point nut of doubt with me,”
said Shenstone, “ that the ladies are
most properly the judges of the men’s
dress, and the men that of the ladies.”
It is rather hard for oue to find him
self, like ihe distressed hero of a novel,
left to his own resources when he has
no resources left,
T. BISHOP & SON,
Wholesale and Retail Groce s,
April 6 No. 1, Broad street, Athens.
W. W. LUMPKIN,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
Athens, Ga.
W ILL Practice in all the counties of the
Western Circuit. Particular attention
given to collecting.
0See on Broad street, over White & Moss’
•tore. Jan 31
A pleasant wife is a rainbow in the
sky, when her husband’s mind is tossed
with storms and tempests.
A youth without enthusiasm of some
kind would be as unnatural a thing as
spring-time without wild flowers.
W. L. MARLER,
ATTORNEY AT LAW.
Jefferson, Jackson County, Ga.
References.—Messrs. McLester a Hunter
Bad W. S, Thompson. Erqs., Jefferson; D.
▼. Spence r nd w. J. Peeples, Esqs. Law-
ttnceville; J. H. Newton, C. Peeples, E«n.
MJ. H. Cbristv, Athens; Law & Clarke
»w k|.Graham, Esqs. Gainesville-
Jen 17—ly
A Warm House.—“Is your bouse a
warm one?” asked a person in search
of a tenement.
** It ought to be—the painter gave it
two coats recently,” was the reply.
The man who was bent on matrimony
has been straightened up.
Father,” said a cobbler’s lad, as
he was pegging away at an old shoe.
“ they say that trout bite good now.”
“Well, well,” replied the old gentle
man, “ you stick to your work, and they
won’t bite you.”
* John is my coffee hot ?’
‘Not yet, tnassa ; me spit in him and
he no sizzle.'
What animal has the greatest quanti
ty of brains? The hog, of course, for
he has a hogshead full.
W. G. BELONY,
tVTTORIVEY AT LAW,
|PlLL givo liisspecial attention in collcct-
’ > ing, and to the claims of all persons en-
Jjlleti to Land Wah*arts, under the late
P*Wy Land Bill of the lest Congress.
Office on Broad Street over the store
I.M. Kenney.
Msrch 15—1865—tf.
0. W. & H. R. J. LONG, -
holesale and Retail Druggists,
ATHENS, Ga.
f SLOAN & OATMAN,
DEALERS IN
Italian, Egyptian it American
ANJ) BAST TENNESSEE MARBLE.
Monnmeats,Tom.bs.Urns and Vases; Marble
^Mantels and Furnishing Marble*
All ordore promptly filled.
«.» . _ ATLANTA, GA.
Hoicrte Mr. Boss Crane. junel4
In Paris ladies wear daggers at their
girdles. In America they wear them in
their eyes.
A Prophecu for 1856.—There is a
popular and very ancient saying that
every year that ends with ’56 is one of
plenty, and this has been confirmed by
a statement to the effect that this has
invariably been the case,ever since 1056,
in many parts of En rope.
Smart old Lady.—“Grandma,”
said a little urchin, “ your specks are
upside down, Do you wear them thus
to see to sow ?”
" No my dear,” was the reply,
wear them so to see.”
of tailor, that is to say aiming speakers
polite. “ Clothier” has been discover
ed to to be more elegant, although, for
our part, the term tailor is every bit as
respectable. This new mode of para
phrasing the language of ordinary life,
however ridiculous it may in some in
stances be, is not half so absurd as the
newspaper fashion of using high-flown
terms in speaking most extravagantly
of very common-place occutrences.
For instance, instead of reading that,
after a ball the company did not go
away till daylight, we are’told that the
joyous groups continued tripping on the
light fantastic toe until Sol gave them
warning to depart If one of the com
pany happened on his way* to tumble
into a ditch, we should be informed
that his foot slipped, and he was im
mersed in the liquid element” A good
supper is described as making the ‘'ta
bles groan .with every delicacy of the
season.” A crowd of briefless lawyers,
unbeneficed clergymen, and half-pay
officers, are enumerated as a “ host of
fashion” at a watering-place, where we
aiC also informed that ladies, instead of
taking a dip before breakfast, “ plun g
themselves fearlessly inio the o??om of
Neptune.”
A sheep killed by lightning is a thing
unheard of; the animal may be destroy
ed bj the electric fluid, but, even then,
we should not be told it was dead; we
should be informed that, “ the vital spark
had fled forever.” If the carcass were
picked up by a carpenter or shoemaker,
we never should hear that a journeyman
tradesman had found it; we should be
told that the remains had been discov
ered by an “ operative artisan.” All
little girls, be their faces ever so plain,
pitted or pitiable, if they appear at a
public office to complain of robbery or
ill-treatment, are invariably ‘‘intelligent
and interesting." If they have pro
ceeded very far in crime, they are called
unfortunate females.” Cl ild murder
iselegantly termed” irfanticideand
v hen it is puuished capitally, we hear,
not that the unnatural mother was
hanged, but that “ the unfortunate cul*
>rit underwent the last sentence of (he
aw, and was launched into eternity.”
No person reads iir -the newspapers
that a house bad been burned down; he
perhaps will find *‘ that the house fell a
sacrifice to the flames.” In an account
of the launch, not that the ship went off-
the slips without any accident, Cut that
“ she glided securely and majestically
into her native element ;” the said ua-
tive element being one in which the
said ship never was before. To send
for a surgeon, if one’s leg is broken, is
out of the question; a man indeed may
be “despatched for medical aid.”
There are now no public singers at
tavern dinners; they are the “ profes
sional gentlemen;” and actors are all
professors of the histrionic art.” Wid
ows are scarce, they are *6 “ interest-
gently, as possible by the trembling
hands of the half-fainting men, CP whose
ears the grating of the broken bones
fell with sickening effect With much
ado the pantaloons of the prior cripple
THE FIELD «F CORN.
BY MBS. ST. SIMON.
A Peasant named Robert, said one
day to his neighbor Godfrey, “ I have
for many years observed thy life and
conduct, and one thing appears to me
particularly strange and singular. Al
though thou hast often experienced great
vicissitudes, and many trials and afflic
tions have befallen thee and thy house,
still thou art always cheerful, and thy
looks bespeak content in adversity as in
prosperity. Tell me how it is that thou
art able to preserve such serenity of
temper T’
Godfrey smiled and said, “ That I
can tell thee in a few words. I am
tauglit this by my own calling, and my
daily occupation. I consider myself
and my life as a field of corn.”
At these words Robert looked at him
as though he understood him not, and
Godfrey proceeded/‘Behold my brother,
when misfortune cometh, I think of the
plough and the harrow, which break up
the ground, that the weeds may be des
troyed, and the seeds strike root. I
seek, therefore, for the waste spots in
my heart, and for the weeds that grow
therein. The former must be tilled,
NOTES OF A TALK WITH A
FARMER.
Mr. Hewlett, of Baltimore county,
whose suggestions we always receive
with pleasure as the result of intelligent
observation in connection with highly
successful practice, tells us that he is in
the habit ofsowing orchard grass, timothy
and clover seeds togethfr, for hay ami
pasture, and never fails with these to get
a good turf. He has a very high opin
ion of the value of orchard grass in con
nexion with clover, for hay aud for its
abundant after-math. The timothy, cut
with these, does not attain its full per
fection,. but this is compensated in a
measure by iis larger growth. -, He
sows in the. foil a peck of timothy and. a
bushel of orchard grass seeds, and ’ in
spring another bushel of orchard grass
and a peck of clover seed. This is very
heavy seeding, but is thought to be just
ified by the great importance of ensur
ing a thorough “setting” of the ground.
Mr. H. cuts his hay when about two-
thirds of the clover blossoms have turned
brown.
He bears emphatic testimony to the
statement of the President of our State
Society as to the economy of corn and
£ a J! -grow and flourish. Often times
too, 1 regard my afflictions as a tempest,
which rises dark and threatening, but
which brings with it the rain that cools
were retrieved j and the boot got off, and th* »>r; and then 1 think: ‘When it
the discovery was made that the iimb ‘
was indeed broken to pieces,—literally
smashed up! bat it was a wooden leg!
The peals of laughter which followed
this curious discovery shook the house,
and are renewed by the parties concean-
ed. every time the scene is recalled, to
this day, though nearly twenty years
have elapsed since the eventful night.
So much for the laughable experienced
of a city physician’s, lite.—Traveller.
THE TIME TO CHOOSE.
Mrs. Swishelm says the best time to
choose a wife is early in the morning.
If a young lady is at all ipclined to sulk$
and slatterness, it is just before break
fast. As a general thing a weman don’t
get on her temper, till ten A. M.
Men never look slovenly before break
fast—no indeed! Never run round
vestless in their stocking feet, with
dressing-gown inside out; soiled hand
kerchief hanging by one corner odt of
his pocket J minus dicky: minus neck
tie ; pantaloon straps flying at their
heels; suspenders streaming from their
waistband ; chin shaved on one side,
lathered on the other; last night’s coat
and pants on the floor just where they
hopped out of them; face snarled op in
forty wrinkles, because the fire won’t
burn; and because it snows ; and be.
cause the office boyjhasn’t been for the
keys, and because the newspaper hasn’t
come; and because they smoked too
many cigars by one dozen, the night
before; and because there’s an omelet
instead of a chicken leg for breakfast;
and because they are out of shaving
soap; and out of cigars and credit; and
can’t any how “ get their tempers on,”
till they get some money and a mint
julep!
An amusing colloquy camo off recent
ly at (ho sapper table on board of one
of our Eastern steamboats, betw. en a
Boston exqu : site, reeking with hair oil
and Cologne, who was “demming” the
waiters, and otherwise assuming very
consequential airs, and a raw ■♦Jona
than, who sat by his side dressed in
homespun. Taming to his “ vulgah
friend, the former pointedJm jeweled
finger, and said:
“Butter, sah!”
•“I see it is, ” coolly replied Jona
than.
“Butter, sah, I say 1" fiercely repeated
the dandy.
“I know it—very good—a first rate
article,” provokingly reiterated home-
spun.
“Butteh. I tell you!” thundered the
exquisite in still louder tones, pointing
elms. nnmnviniF finoor like scorn’s.
is past, the sun will shine again.’ Its
this manner I consider myself and my
life as a field of corn. Has the field a
right to. say to the husbandman who
ploughs it: * What doest thou V
“ And who is the master and tiller of
thy field!” asked Robert
Who,” replied Godfrey, “ but He
who sendeth frost and snow, and dew
and rain upon oar fields! Whomso
ever he loveth, he chastenetb.”—New
York Organ.
relicts;” and as' for nursery-maids, with slow unmoving finger like scorn
they are now-a-days universally trans-1 and scowling upon his neighbor as if he
formed into “ young persons who su- ( would annihilate him.
perintend the junior branches of the
family.” ___
Give Him All.—An Indian,
Kerri
•tail
Fish! Fish!I
o. 1 Mackere
large No. 8 do'
etl Halibci nuil
iveil and for sale low
Y.WSRO? 4 SON. I
who
heard u sermon in a Christian settle
ment, was much moved by the claim
that he should give “up all to God.”
The duty pressed upon his heart; he
returned to his wigwam; he meditated
much upon it, and at length solemnly
resolved to do what God required. First,
he took his rifle, set it apart for the
Lord ; then his fishing apparatus^; then
his scanty furniture; then his blanket,
repeating as he set apart each article,
“Here Lord, take that.” Finding
himself utterly destitute, having given
up all, he yet felt that be was forsaken
of God and was in great distress. I he
darkness of despair enrae over him. In
this, his last extremity, he laid himself
upon the altar, saying, “ Here, Lord,
take a poor Indian.” The offering was
accepted; and, there, alone, bereft of
human help or hope, this poor, despised
savage was delivered from the power of
sin and made an heir of glory. He soon
learned to read, and was supplied with
a Bible, which he made his daily com
panion;’he was ; happy in solitude,or
with Christian friends, to whom he
often remarked that when be g .vc hint-
“ Well, gosh-all- Jerusalem. What of
it ?’ now yelled the downeaster, getting
his dandriff up in turn—“Yer didn’t
think I took it for lard?"
That was a very fair retort of a pretty
girl, annoyed by the impertinences of a
conceited beau at a wedding party—
“ Do you know what I was thinking
of all the time during the ceremony 1"
he asked.
“No, sir, how should I.”
“ Why, I was blessing my stars that
1 was not the bridegroom.
“ And I have no doubt the bride was
doing the seme thing," said the girl, and
left him id think it over again.
A Yankee has invented a plague
which kills off all who do not pay the _ 1,-
printer. It is more destructive than the l self up to the Lord the Loiu gn\e him
consumption, ~ ■* all thincs.”—Ztons lleia.d-
On the banks of the Niger, in Africa
they have a tree called the Shea, from
which excellent butter is obtained. The
tree is like our oak, and the frnit some
what resembles the Spanish olive. The
kernel of the fruit is dried in the sun
and then boiled, and the butter thus
obtained is whiter, firmer, aud of
richer flavor than can be obtained from
the cow, besides keeping sweet a year
without salt. The growth and prepara
tion of this article is one of the leading
articles of African industry, and con
stiiutes the main article of their inland
commerce. If the present supply con
tinues we recommend our dealers to iin
poit a supply of the vegetable butler
from Africa. Or :t may be that the
tree can be acclimated, and every man
have a butter tree in his yard. What
will then become of .cows'?
“ This is really the smallest horse
ever saw.” said a countryman, on view-
ing-a Shetland pony. 1 j
" Indade, now,” replied his Irish oom-
nnuion, “ but I’ve seen- one ss small as
two of him.”
PUBLIC PRINTER.
Among the laws passed by the last
Legislature, we find, says the Southern
Recorder of April 8, one requiring the
State Printer to employ suitable assis
tance to report the daily proceedings of
both branches of the Legislature and to
furnish each member, a copy, daily, of
its proceedings.
We know not who originated this
measure or the sustainers of it. Rut of
one thing we are certain. The Legis
lature knew not what it did when it pass
ed it,_or the Governor, when he signed
it As practical printers we venture the
assertion, if the law be enforced, it will
make a draff upon the treasury that will
make the people of Georgia stare. Very
few have an adequate idea of the ex
pense of reporting A competent steno
grapher cannot be obtained under less
than from five to ten dollars a day. One
would be required for each house and
several copies, &c, steam presses, &c
&c. Then to give in detail all business
matters and the many speeches for Bun
comb, &c., would make a volume equal
to v the Congressional Globe. We would
like to see the Printer that would dare
undertake this herculean task, with its
risks, without first seeing the appropria
tion bill to meet it. For ourselves, we
should require stronger guarantees, than
such a loose law.
If i~t was the idea of the originator of
the bill to have a printed copy of each
Journal which is daily read by the Clerk
printed and given to the members on the
succeeding day, that is practicable; for
then immediately on the adjournment
of the Legislature, their journals would
be ready for delivery, and such a law
would have been as judicious as the one
passed is. inexpedient and to us imprac
ticable. The law ns passed requires,
besides their Journals, this extra print
ing from the reporters, the expense of
which would triple the present appro
priation fund for printing.
Kidnappers Abroad.—The Calhoun
(Ga.) Statesman says:—On Tuesday
the 1st inst., a boy belonging to Mr.
Wm. Mobley, near this place, while at
work gathering wood, was accosted by
two strangers, and commanded to follow
them, and they would carry him to
free State: He was not'so easily gulled
and consequently refused to go. His
life was then threatened, and forced
away into the woods, where they tied
and gagged him, and leff him bound
telling him that there, were other negroes
which they would bring there before
they left. In their absence the boy
effected his escape and returned to his
master with his hands tied and a gag in
his mouth.
per cent, as compared with corn un-
ground. He feeds the meal dry.
Mr. H. is an earnest advocate of
early seeding of wheat—sows in Sep
tember without fear of fly. He has
failed to make a full crop but once in a
number of years, and that owing to late
seeding made necessary by drought ,* that
year he averaged only twenty-eight
bushels to the acre. Thirty-five is his
usual crop. While we of course have
perfect reliance upon the accuracy of this
and other statements of the sort we some
times publish, we-give them to some of
our brethern with a good deal of the
feeling of the Irishman who wrote to his
friends in the old country, that ho got
meat to eat three times a week, fearing
if be told them the whole truth, that he
had it every day, the wouldn’t belave it.
We are not disposed to stir up our friends
of weak faith to “doubtful disputations,”
but the truth must be told. Thirty
bushels of wheat can be made with as
much certainty as fifteen are now ordin
arily made on the sartfe surface.
Mr. Hewlett is perhaps the only far-
mer'in Maryland who has for years made
the cultivation of the field pea a* a fer
tilizer a part of his rotation. He sows
two bushels of peas per acre, on the
previous year’s cornfield about the 10th
of May, and plows the vines down
about the 15th of August, sowing his
wheat upon the pea fallow. It is this
pea-fallow from which he gels the
crops mentioned above. We have no
doubt from the interest excited by our
remarks on the subject of the field pea
in previous numbers, aud from other
indications, that this valuable plant is
coming into favor with. Maryland far
mers, and we hare such a conviction
of its value that we shall not fail by
every means to encourage its adoption,
especially upen all light lands, and those
not highly improved. An intelligent
friend from the lower section of Anne
Arundel county tells us that .te sowed
peas last summer on his corn field when
he laid his corn by, and that his wheat
upon that land is now better than his
clover fallow. His experience with
peas for several seasons convinced him
that a good crop of vines turned down
is a better dressing for wheat than the
usual quantity of guano,
We received from our Baltimore
county friend, likewise, some sugges
tions on Strawberry culture. One waa
DON’T STAY LONG.
“Don’t stay long, husband,” said a
young wife tenderly in my presence one
evening as her husband was preparing,
to go out.—The words themselves were:
insignificant, but the look of melting
fondness with which they were accom
panied spoke volumes. It told all the
vast depths of a woman’s love—-of her
grief when the light of his smile, tlid'
source of all her joy t beamed not bright^
ly upon her.
“Don’t stay long, husband!” and I
fancied I saw the gentle wife, sitting
alone anxiously counting the moments*
of her husband's- absence, every feW
moments running to the door to see if he
were in sight and finding that he was
not. I thought I could hear her exclaim
ing in, disappointed tones “not yet—nbt
yet.”
“Don’t slay long, husband.” And I
again thought|I couldseethe yoang wife,
'rocking nervously in the great arm chair
and weeping as though her heart would
break, as her thoughtless “lord and rafcs*
ter” prolonged his stay to a wearisome
length of time.
O, you that have wives to) fi : j—“Dt
stay long,” when you go forth think of
them kindly when you are mingling in*'
ihe bn?y hive of life, and try, just a
little, to make their homes and hearts
happy, for they are gems too seldom-re-
placed. You cannot find mid the plea**'
sures of the world the peace and joy,that
quiet home blessed with sncli a woman’s
presencu will afford.
“Don’t stay long, husband.!-’ and the
joung wife’s look seemed to say—“for 1 '
here in your own sweet home, is a lov-
g heart whose music is hushed whftv
you are absent—here is a soft breast for
you to lay your head upon, and here
are pure lips unsoiled by sin, that will
pay you with kisses for coming- back-
soon.”
An Irishman, giving his testimony in
one of our courts, a few days since, in
a riot case, said, “ Be jabers, the first
man I saw coming at me, when I got up,
was two brick hats.”
A man once came to the Khojah,
saying:— ’*
“Effendi.I have great need of an a'ss
to-day; have the kindness to lend me
yours.”
“I have not an ass here,” said the
Khojah. At the same moment the anim
al began to bray in the stable.
“Ho!” said the man, “do I not hear
your nss braying ?”
‘ VVhat!” exclaimed the Khojah.
“would you take the word of an ass in
preference to mine ?”
that his experience does not sustniu the
common opinion that it is necessary
every two or three years to make new
beds.* He has a bed now in full per
fection which has been bearing frnit for
eight years.—American Farmer.
Who Runs may Read.—A British
religionsjournal states that a proposal
bis been on foot for posting placards all
over London, containing passages from
the Bible, printed in the largest charac
ters. Each placard to contain only one
verse, and sometimes only one sentence;
and to be renewed as frequently as the
funds obtained will permit. A society
is to be organized for carrying out this
idea. ■ ,
This is a literal realization of what
Solomon prefigured in the first chapter
of his proverbs; “Wisdom crieth with
out; she uttereth her voice in the streets;
she crieth in the chief place of concourse:
in the opening of the gates; in the city
she uttereth her words.”
A loafer got hold of a groen persim
mon, which, before they are ripened by
the froit, are said to be the most bitter
and puckery fruit known.
He took the persimmon outside the
garden wall, and commenced upon it by
seizing a generous monthfnl of the frail
which appeared to be in a state to frizzle
i his lips and tongue most provokingly.
“How do you like it.? ’-enquired the
owner of the garden, who had been
watching him.
The saliva was oozing from the corn
ers of the fellow’s mouth, and he was
able only to reply.
“flow do I look, naber ? Ami wisliu'
or tingin'" --;V C ■*
A young man being cured of a mar
tial predilection by being in a skirmish,
it was said of him that he had an itch for
military distinction, but the smell ofsuf-
' phur cured it.
The Bor with the Bad IIat.—
Soon after I was settled in the ministry,,
was appointed a member of the School*
Committee of the place. In my frequent*
visits to one of the schools, I took notice
of a boy whose clothing was very coarse,*
and showed many patches, but still was -
clean and neat throughout. His habits
were remarkably quiet and orderly, and 1
his maimers very correct. His disposi
tion was evidently generous and kind,
and his temper mild and cheerful, as he
mingled with his school mates nt play*
or joined their company on the road.
When I last saw him in New En; Find,
.he was on his way to school. Ills ap
pearance still bespoke the condition tf
his poor and widowed mother; and his
lint was but a poor protection against
.ithersunor rain. But, as I passed
him, he lifted it with an easy but respect*-'
ful action, a pleasant smile, and a eheer-'
ful “good morning,’’Jwhich.ttnconscious-
ly to himself, made the noble boy’ it*
Perfect model of genuine good manners,
fils bow, his smile, and his words, nil
came straight from his true kind ifeart.
i When I last saw him, thirty'years,•'
had'passed, and I was on a visit to the?
WtSt. Theb*y bad becirae a dlstiiT-
flushed lawyer and statesman. But his
how, and his smile, and hi* kind greeting,
.were just the same as those of the hare^-'
foot boy with the poor hat.
A Pointed Inquiry.*—“Couldn>V
you get young pork, ma’am,to bake with'
your beans ?tl said old Roger, somewhat
cynically, as he sat at the table ona „
Sunday.
“They told me it was'young,” said'
the landlady. . .
“Well, it may be so, but gray hair is ’
•t a juvenile feature,.by any means, iu
our latitude, ma’am,” continued’ he,
fishing up a hair about a foot and a half
long, with his fork:, “He may b&vtf
been young, but he must have led a’
very wicked life to be gray so soon.” : V
As he spoke he looked along the table, •
and a slight emotion was visible among
the boarders, and the man who was op
posite with his mouth foil of edibles, with
which he had been < ndeavoring ta'
smother a laugh grew dark with the?
effort, and then collapsed, scattering
dismay and crumbs amid the' nicely'
pTaiterf'foIds of Old 'Roger's shirt- hills
A wise man will stay for a convenb-ht
season, and will lend a little, 'hither*''
than be torn by the roots.
When once infidelity can persuade*
men that they die like beasts, they will'
be brought to live Uk# bea>ts utioJ-
Heaven and immortality are tlu.-mc.-t-
for profitable discus-ion, but, . unfortu
nately,. many persons think move of new
dresses and late fashions than they duf
of their future destiny/*
. Whatever children hear read or spok
ed of in terms of approbation, will givo
a strong bias to their minds. Ilcnce'
(be necessity of guarding' conversation,
in families, as_well as .excludii g books'
and companions that have a tendency to-'
vitiate the heart. .
wit-
in a
EJP’Dqring the examination of a
nissasto the locality of the stairs
house, the counsel asked him—
.*■'Which way the stairs run ?’
The witness, who, by they way, is s»
rioted wag, replied—
‘One way they run up stairs, but tho
other way they run down stairs.’
The learned counsel winked loth
eyes, and then took a look at the ceil*
