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VNKRUl’TCY.—Samuel P. Thurmond,
Attornoy-at-Lnw. Athena, Ga.
ff no ftnm'l street, urer the store of Harry A So*,
jjl give speeiul attention to eases in Bankruptcy. Al-
, t „ the collection of all claims on trusted to hi”. care.
r.UIKS It. LYLE,
Attorney at Law,
1>cr ‘22 WA TKUfSVtL LE, GA.
t oil n m. Matthews. ~
Attorrky at Law,
Daniolrviile, Ga.
Prompt ittention will bo piven to any business en-
unted to hi* care. Marchl4.
IT..ViiI,A.Nit k OKU,
Wholesale and Retail Dealers,
and COMMISSION MERCHANTS,
Dupreo Hall.Broad St, Athens, Gn.
We are now preparod to store Cotton at 25 conts per
hale, and will advance cash when desired. Oct2S.
LYVilLIijll k CLASSICAL SCHOOL,
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T II. nLOGINS,
# holesale and Retail Dealer in
DRY GOODS, GROCERIES. HARDWARE, Ac.
Vehlfi Broad Street, Athens, Ga.
JOHN H. CHRISTY,
J Plain uJ Fancy BOOK AND JOB PRINTER,
Broad St., Athens, Ga.
Office corner Broad and "Wnil streets, over the storo
James D. Pittard. . I
PAVILION HOTEL,
L CHARLESTON, S. O.
This FIRST-CLASS Hotel is situated in the very
centre of tho luisinoss part of the city, ami all who
utopthore will find every convenience aud luxury that
c»n beprocured. Board, per day, $3.00.
R. Hamilton, Supt. Mrs. L. II. BiiTTKRriKLP,
Dec?2 *f Proprietress.
OHIMEY k NEWTON,
O Dealers iu
Foreign and Domestic HARDWARE,
Juqo9 No. <1,Broad street, Athens, Ga.
Q C. DOBBS,
O* Wholesale and Retail Dealer in
Staple aud Fancy DRY GOODS, GROCERIES. Ac.
Feb? No. 12 Broad Street, Athens, Ga.
T7LM0RY SPEER,
ill LAWYER, ATHENS, GA.
A* Solicitor General of Western Circuit, will attend
the Courts of Clarke, Walton, Gwinnett, Hall, Banks,
Jackson, llabor<*ham, Franklin, Rabun and White,
and give attention to collecting and other claims in
those counties. March 19, 1873.
JZ ELIAS, Attorney at Law,
JV. FRANKLIN, N. C.
Practices in all tho Courts of Western North Caro
lina, and in the Federal Courts. Claims collected in
all pa,*ts of tho State. apl6—ly
• PARSON LEE.
To a drowsy country village
Came a certain Parson Lee;
And a man so quaintly different
From ail tbo other men was bo
That the ’Squire himself, the skeptic,
Came to church to hoar(him pray.
And to note the strange things uttered
By this marvel of the day.
The eccentric said this planet
Was a true and goodly place,
And the only thing it wanted
Was more of heaven’s grace;
And he sought to show the people
How to think and work and live.
So that each should help the other
And unto tho needy give;
How tho door that leads to heaven
Was most amply broad and wide.
And how each could turn the handle
And go easiiy inside;
That the very gentlest natures
In the world may yet be stroDg ;
And how truth is always wisdom,
And all wickedness is wrong.
Ho explaihod how true religion
Was day-working, nothing more;
That this world was not an ocean,
Nor wo pebbles on tho shore;
But that thinking men and women
Should find better things to do
Than in twisting God’s commandments
Or in quite breaking them in two.
“ As for acting like our neighbsrs.
Why, we none of us are fools 1
You cannot bo made a Christian
Under everybody’s rules.
If your neighbor’s not as good as
Ho or you would have him be.
Just you go ahead and beat him !"
Said this candid parson Lee.
Next, he told them how complaining
Was a noxious choking weed ;
That tbo flowers scarcely blossomed
Ere they changed to homely seed ;
How that seed again sprang upward
And boro many flow’rets more;
And that life was ever fading
And renewing o’er and o’er.
So, this man, by honest talking,
Worked his wonders in the town ;
But ho never cared for praises,
And ho laughed at high renowu.
Yet the people loved him dearly,
And they blessed God for the sight,
Till at last tho master left them,
On a cold dark winter's night.
Thus he went, they knew not whither ;
Have you ever met him, pray t
You would know him by his smiling,
And the sunshine on bis way.
Wo havo hunted o’er creation,
Over land and over sea, •
But no traces can discover
Of our missing Parson Lee.
The Advent of Old Age.
Thero is a certain poriod in life when tho
human body, as well as mind, reaches its max
imum point of development, and from that
pointto the gwvotKtiiesBasonofderay. This
idea is far more forcibly expressed by Sbak-
speare, who makes Jacques, in “ As You Like
It," say:
4 ‘ And so from hour to hour wo ripe and fipc,
And then from hour to hour we rot and rot,
And thereby hangs a tale.”
At what ago are wo to look for thisebange t
The Psalmist says the days of men are three
score years and ton, and some of our readers,
perhaps, will remember a pretty little poem
of Willis, written on his thirty-fifth birth-day,
beginning : “ I’m half way home.” but poets
London Underground.
Underground, the city of London is cert&inly
the most wonderful in the world. It is a laby
rinth of drain pipes, water pipes, gas pipes
and underground railways. There are poiata
in the soil of London where it would be ex
tremely difficult to find room for another pipe.
One company alone—The Gas Light and Coke
Company—supplies two districts with nearly
4,000 miles of pipe varying in diameter from
three inches to four feet.. These are the main
pipes meroly, and from them every house and
street lamp receives on an avqrage six or
eight feet of small piping. In addition to
these, and the underground telegraph wires,
there are no less than 2,500 miles of drain
pipes of various dimensions. Less familiar to
ns, but no less important, are the lead and
iron tubes—leaden pipes with outer castings of
iron—through which is sent written messages,
packed in little gutta percha cases, are blown
from station to station. The convenience of
these messages is immense. A steam engine
forces in a blast of air, and in about a minute
it travels a distance of 980 yards. There are
at present thirteen stations on tho underground
railway, and as the people walk upon the
streets of London, electricity is flashing mes
sages above their heads and littlo missives are
whizzing and darting just under their foot.
And as many as 1,500 messages pass to and fro
in a day. The drainage system of London
presents a world of underground sewers, some
2,000 or 3,000 miles in extent. All the drains
empty into three great sewers rnnning paral
lei with the Thames, which sewers connect in
tho neighborhood of Victoria Park, and through
Barking Creek discharge into the river. Men
are constantly employed keeping these drains
in repair. Londoners never pour a pail of wa
ter down a drain but at tho depths of that
mystorions aperture somebody is making way
for it. A stranger properly costumed, can ex
plore these depths, wb'ch resemble vaulted
galleries, in the sides of which are traps form
ing various small channels. When tho storm
waters come, as they sometimes do during a
thunder pump, tho torrent is fearful; so much
so that upon several occasions men have lost
their lives.
LEONARDO’S “ LAST SUPPER.”
[The following beautiful tribute to “ Da
Vinci's Christ” is understood to be from the
pen of Rev. Charles F. Deems, D. D., the pas
tor of The Church of the Strangers, New York
city. We clip it from the Evening Mail, sure
the many thoughtful minds will appreciate it,
and thank ns for famishing it to their scrap
books :
Long have I vainly hoped and yearned and
sought
In noble works by noble painters wronght,
A worthy head of Christ. Howe’er admired,
Howe’er with frenzy, fine and trne, inspired,
All failed my heart and hope. Some earthly
taint,
Bat most of weakness, made them paint, mere
paint
At best, but worthy of a third-rate saint,
And now, at last-, my restie.-is longing dream
Has found a Christ where tiod Himself doth
beam
In Majesty, thro’ eyes and brows that bless
My whole life thro’ with all strange tender
ness.
The strength of man, the sweetness of a wo
man,
The Father, Mother, God blent in the human.
The inevitable jnstice, yet serene.
Solemn, angost, and shaded by & dream
Of tragic sadness suited to the hoar ;
A yearning, pitying love : a gathered power ;
Divinest grandeur, and supremest grace ;
A perfect soul set in a perfect face !
With peneil dipped in love and faith sublime
Da Vinci wrought and gave to canvass and to
time.
John wears a face too gentle, rapt and fair
To be not all unwomanly ; yet there
You read no weakness in its conrage rare—
A mere embodied love that fain would die
For Christ, as Christ for lost Humanity.
He seems to he, thro' all the wrong and rack
Of time upon the picture, turning back
To soul, exhaling non—a little more
Of love and sorrow—and the form will o’er
The scene transfigured stand and soar.
Judas is bold back foreground for tho saint,
As if the bold black heart perforce would paint
Itself upon the face, struck thro’, reveals
O not the face, but what tho face conceals.
The other, minor saints, each in his way,
Is fall of character, and seems to play
His part as if that part was his alway.
Bnt ah, bow soon tbo wandering eye returns,
Back to the central light that beams and burns
Thro' all tho mists which violence and time
Havo heaped upon its glory ; all this rime
And ruin makes His glory more sublime.
TjMIWARD R. HARDEN,
.I'J (Laic%fu<lge IT. S. Courts Nebraska and Utah,
and now Judge of Brook* County Court)
Attorney at Law,
julj’23 ly Quitman, Brooks County, Ga.
T F. 0’KELLEY’S
t! . PHOTOGRAPH GALLERY,
Over Williams* Shoo store, Broad street, Athens,
Georgia. gc p3«
B f. camp,
, Attorkry at Law,
CARNESVILLE, GA.
Will give prompt attention to *11 business entrusted
to him. llo will attend the Courts of Habersham,
Franklin and Hall. geplT—ly.
c. riinu. u. P- howeix.
PEEPLES & HOWELL,
attorneys at law,
20 and 22, Kimball Bouse,
ATLANTA, GA.
PRACTICE in tho Stateand Federal Court!, and
1 attend regularly all thoConrts in Atlanta, includ
ing tho Supreme Court of the State, and will argue
eaaea upon briofi for absent parties, on reaionablo
term*. , ,
Thoy alao practice in the Courts of tbo counties con
tiguous oraooeasible to Atlantaby Railroad, sepll
Flanking a Salary Grabber.
Col. Gxro J. Dodds, late member of Con
gress from the Fifth District of Ohio, tells a
good story about a call ho recently received at
his office from a man who claimed to be an
editor from Arkansas. Ho was a very seedy
looking chap, and appeared as though he had
hut recently come off from about a six weeks’
spree. Bowing profoundly, then striking an
attitude, with one hand on his heart and the
other extending a badly used ping hat he ex
claimed with a dramatic air, ‘ Have 1 the hon
or of addressing the Hon. Ozro J. Dodds!’
Said the Colonel, * My name is Dodds, bnt
I’m no longer an honorable.’
‘ Not an honorable? Dodds not an honora
ble t Now, by St. Paul, when I scan that
honest face, on which all the gods at once do
seem to sot their (’ Green Seal,’ murmured
Dodds to himself,) I road nothing dishonor
able.’
* That’s right,’ said Dodds, ‘ never read any
thing dishonorable. But to business.’
Yes, as you say, to business. I am a print
er—I might say, with no uncoming blush, an
are not very reliable authority in matters of j editor. I am from the noble State of Arkan-
M.'W.RIDEN,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
U, s. Claim Agent and notary Pule
GAINESVILLE, GEORGIA.
Office on Wilson street, below King A Bro’s.
Fobrunry 18, 1873.
iOIIN B. K8TK8. MADISON BELL.
ESTES Ac KELL,
attorneys at law.
a AINESVILLE GEORGIA.
W ' ILL practice in the counties composing the West-
«-u Circuit, and Dnwson and Forsyth counties
of the Blue Ridge Li.cnit. They will also practice in
the Supreme Court of Georgia, and iu the United States
Court at Atlanta. .tnay 14
JAS. L. LONG, M. D.
Surgeon, Accoucheur and Physician,
(Office at Mr. Tkomae Shent.’ Store,)
Good Hope District, Walton co., Ga.
Offers bis professional services to the citisens of the
surrounding country. aug27
Livery, Feed & Sale Stable,
ATBEBS, GEORGIA.
GANN $ NNAVBS, PBOPBIETORS,
JILL be found et their old itend, rear Franklin
•» Housebuilding. Thomas street. Keep always
on hand good Turn-outs and oarefnl driver*.
Stock well oared for when entrusted to our oare.
Stock on baud for isle at all times. dec2S—ti
WALTON HOTEL,
MONROE, GA.
T HE subscriber would leipeetfully inform traveler*
and tha public generally that he haa taken charge
of the above Hotel, and will spare no p* iff* to make
ait comfortable who may favor him with their patron
***• l|is charges will be reMonablo. jan28 lm
science. A distinguished French physiolo
gist writing upon the subject says : “ I pro
pose the following natural divisions aud natu
ral durations for the whole life of man. The
first ten years of life are infancy, the second
ten boyhood, tho third ten first youth, tho
fourth ten socoud youth, from forty to forty-
five first manhood, from fifty-five to soventy
second manhood; and this period of manhood
is tbo age of strength, tho manly period of hu
man life. From seventy to eighty-fivo first
old age, from eighty-fivo to one hundred soc-
ond old age."
Theso deductions are made from a careful
study of tho question, with all tho aids deriv
able from a thorough knowledge of the sciences
of anatomy and physiology. It is not claimed
but what these divisions will vary in different
individuals, and overlap each other in the
same one; but that they are as correct as such
a general truth can be stated we verily bo-
lieve. These limits are not so arbitrary as
thoy may seem at first sight. At tea years of
age the second toothing is completed and in
fancy ought to end ; at twenty the bones no
longer increase in length and boyhood natu
rally ends; at forty the body ceases to increase
in size, and youth ends, and so on. After for
ty whatever increase there may be of the body
is in fat;- and, instead of increasing its
strength and activity, this latter growth weak
ens tbo body and retards its motions. When
the growth ceases absolutely the body rests,
rallies and becomes invigorated. This period
of iDternal invigoration is the poriod of the
first manhood, and lasts fifteen years, when
the period of old age begins; and this period
begins when we have no longer any reserve of
strength to draw npon, and when the natural
strength is barely sufficient for the daily woik,
and when any thing unusual fatigued, and ex
traordinary efforts impair the general health.
When this condition of things arrive, oid age
has fairly began, and this period is at sev
enty years of age.
Bnffon, the distinguished naturalist, says
that the man wha does not die by accident
or disease lives to ninety or one hundred years
That he is eminent authority no one will dis
pute. It is very true, however, that compar
atively few men live to be ninety or a hundred
years old, bnt that affords no argument against
the truth of our proposition. Most men die of
disease—only a very few of oldage. The death
record of any place will show, however, quite
a respectable number of people who live to be
eighty and ono hundred years.
saw, the only State, by the way, ahlo to and
and willing to support two Governors at the
samo time. But I have been unfortunate.
Much have I been tossed through the ire of
cruel Juno, and—’ *
Juno! how is it yourself, broke in the
Colonel.
‘ Buffeted by the world's rude storms yon
see me here a stranded wreck. Scarce three
months past I left my office in charge of my
worthy foreman, and sought tho peaceful vales
and calm retreat of the Muskingum valley,
whero my childhood sported. Returning, I
stopped in Cincinnati. I fell into evil compa
ny, and—bnt why dwell on details t Enough
that I am disheartened, ruined, broke! A
mark for scorn to point her slow, uunorring
finger at. As I was about to give up in de
spair, having given up every thing else I bad,
I thought of you. Sir, I am here. Ton have
not sent for me, but I have come! Your name,
sir, is known and honored from ono end of
this great republic to the other. It
u Glow* in tho stars,
Refreshes in the breeze,
Warms in the sun
And blossoms on the trees.”
When tho national treasury was threatened
by a horde of greedy congressmen, you stood
like a wall of adamant between the people and
thoso infamous salary-grabbers. Lend me a
dollar.’
* My doar sir,’ tbo colonel hastened to ex
plain, ‘ yon mistake the case entirely. I was
one of the grabbers.’
‘Yon were! (grasping the colonel’s band
warmly) ‘ so much the bettor! Let me con
gratulate yon that a parsimonious pnblic could
not frighten yon oat of what was bnt a fair
remuneration for your valuable services,
am glad that your pecuniary clroumstancea
are so much better than I supposed. Make it
two dollars',’
And the colonel did. It was the only clean
thing left for him to do.
True to Life.
“ Mother, mother!” cried a young rook, re
turning hurriedly from his first fright. *• I’m
so frightened. I’ve seen each a sight!’
' What sight, my son ?’ asked the old rook
' Oh, white creatures screaming and run
ning and straining their necks, and holding
their heads ever so high. See, mother, there
thoy go!’
“ Geese, my son, merely geese," calmly re
plied the parent bird, looking ovor the com
mon. “ Through life, child, observe that
when you meet any one who makes a great
fuss about himself, and tries to lift his head
higher than the rest of ‘the world, you may
set him down at once as a goose.”
A True Lady.
Beauty and style are not tho surest pass
ports to respectability—some of the noblest
specimens of womanhood that tho world has
over seen, havo presented the plainest and
most unprepossessing appearance. A wo
man's worth is to bo estimated by the real
goodness of her heart, tho greatness of her
soul, aud the purity aud aweetuessof horchar-
acter ; and a woman with a kindly disposl
tion, and a well balanced mind and temper,
is lovely and attractive, be her face over so
plain and her figure ever so homely; she
makes the host of wives, and the truest of
mothers. She has a higher purpose in living
than the beautiful, yot vain and snpercillioas
woman, who has no higher ambition than to
flaunt her finery on tho street, or to gratify
her inordinate vanity by extracting flattery
and praiso from society whose compliments
are as hollow as they are insincere.
Clean Teeth.
If you will only keep your teeth clean they
wont decay. The wondorful dentrifices which
are sold at fabulous prices are greatly inferior
to a simple mixture of soap and prepared
chalk with a little something like orris root;
but the essential articles are soap and chalk.
The drnggist will prepare you enough for a
quarter of a dollar to last you a long time.
When you go to bed, with a broad tooth-brush
go through the mouth thoroughly. If dispos
ed to a bad mouth you may repeat the dose
in the morning. Bnt the principal articlo for
keeping the teeth clean is the tooth-pick, a
soft goose qnill which yon mast nse after eat
ing, no matter thoagh it be a piece of apple,
and if convenient after the pick nse a mouth
ful of water to rinse from the teeth what the
tooth-pick may leave.—Dio Lewis.
R. B. ADAIR, D.D.S.
GAINESVILLE, GA.
*><*»•. Southeastnonur Public Square. raorST
A. A.. EDGE,
Boot, Shoe aud Harness
MAKER.
sprlUS—ly WATKINSVILLE, GA.
..It'seasy enongb for a man to say bo will
never swear again as long as he lives, but let
him attempt to draw up a bucket of water
with a windlasa|ind have the pin slip oat,
and then— 1 ,
Earn your money before yon spend it.
Never ran in debt unless you see a way to
gat out again.
Never borrow if yon can possibly avoid it.
..The London Times has a telegraph wire
between London and Paris for its exclusive
i nse, and for which it pays *15,000 a year.
Iceland in Summer.
In winter, when an almost perpetoal night
covers the wastes of this fire-born land, and
the waves of a stormy ocean thunder against
its shores, imagination can hardly picture a
more desolate scene; bnt in snmmer the rug
ged nature of Iceland invests itself with many
a charm. Then the eye reposes with delight
on green valleys and crystal lakes, on the par-
pie hills or snow-capped mountains rising in
Alpine grandeur above the distant horizon,
and the stranger might almost be tempted to
exclaim with her patriotic sons, “ Iceland is
the best land nnder the sun.” That it is one
of the meet interesting—through its history,
its natural curiosities—no one ean doubt. U
id ail that can please and fascinate the poet,
the artist, the geologist, or the historian ; the
prosaic utilitarian alone, accustomed to vain*
a country meroly by its productions, might
turn with some contempt from a land without
com, without forest, without mineral riches,
and covered for about two-thirds of its sur
face with bogs, lava wastes and glaciers The
Polar World.
From thu Athens (Tean.) Post.
Cremation in Tennessee.
A passenger who came down on the Tellico
Narrow Guage a few days ago tells a story al
most too horrible for belief. It seems that an
illicit distiller named Jones, who lived with
his family near the lower bench of the big
Smoky Mountain, had been annoyed a good
deal hr the revenue rangers last Fall, and de
termined to change his location aud business
to a more secluded spot. To carry out this
purpose, he selected the head of » deep gorge
some four miles distant, walled in with olifis,
whore, during the winter, assisted by some
friends, he erected a small log building. As
soon as the eold weather was over and Spring
fairly opened, the still and other things neces
sary were moved to the place, and the work
of violating the revenue laws was resumed.—
Several' runs ’ were made, and Jones began
to congratulate himsolf that ho had at last
found
A HAVEN OF SAFETY,
a refuge beyond the prying eyes of tho Govorn-
rnent hirelings, where he conld pursue his
avocation in peace, with none to molest or
make him afraid. Bat, alas 1 how little we
know even of tho immediate future, and how
often do the very steps which the transgres
sor takes to insure safety, lead to his swift and
certain destruction! The still-hjaso being
some distance from where his family lived,
Jones rarely visited them more than once a
fortnight, generally selecting Saturday night
for tho purpose. Everything went on well
enough until about four weeks ago, when he
failed to appear at the accnstomod time.
Nothing was thought of this for a day or
two, but when another week passed without
the return of Jones, the family became alarm
ed, and thought perhaps he had been captnred
by the revenue jay-hawks and carried to Knox
ville, or elsewhere where violators of the law
are occasionally convicted and punished.
Tho alarm was given among tho sparsely set
tled neighborhood. A small number of men
gathered, and accompanied by Mrs. Jones and
her son, a boy of ten or twelve years of age,
they started up tho gorge in tho direction of
the stili-honso.
On reaching the bnilding they found the
door closed and fastened, and no signs of Jones
or any one else could be seen. Mrs. J. called
tho namo of her husband several times; no re
sponse, however, came back to relieve hor
anxiety.
THE STILLNESS OF DEATH
pervaded the gloomy spot. But upon attempt
ing to force an entrance, they were greeted
with t hose peculiar notes of warning which the
ear of tho East Tennessee mountaineer never
fails to recognize. The door was at once
broken down, and a sight met them that caus
ed all to start with fright and horror.
The form of the distiller lay upon the floor,
with eyes starting from their sockets, tho
features horribly distorted, and body swollen
to twice its usual proportions, while the whole
interior of the building was alive
WITH RATTLESNAKES,
some in coil and ready for battle, hut the
largor proportion stnpid and inert as thoagh
they had been imbibing liberally in the illicit
frnitofthe still. The mother and son fled
horror-stricken from the place. A consulta
tion was had, and as it was impossible to res
cue the body of poor Jones without incurring
fearful risk, it was determined to ro-close the
entrance and other apertures, and fire the
building; which was done. The party stayed
until tho house was entirely consumed and
nothing remained bnt the now useless still and
the calcined bones of the miserable distiller.
It is supposed that Jones had built his man
ufactory close upon a den of the deadly rep
tiles in the overhanging cliff, and that, attract
ed by the heat, or possibly the fumes of whis
key, they found their way into the building
in large numbers after he had closed the door
and laid down to sleep. His horrible fate has
created a profound sonsation among the peo
pie of the hill country, and it is likely to be
some time before another illicit rnm mill is
erected in that range.
Popular Weather Signs. I A BLOW IN THE DARK.
Wonld it not serve a useful purpose if some Give us the hand that will strike a blow
scientific meteorologist were to gather In a — open •marketplace,
^ —i While the well-roused blood from the angry
mass the various weather signs—whether val- Dea-rt 6 1
uahle or not—treasured by the farmers and I Inflames the answering face 1
other common-sense people of the country, Rather than that sly stealthy hand
and then sift them so that those of real value That aims a blow in the dark,
oar b,™ their proper Mee.ee. «b~ A "i JStsSjSfSSZ*™*
which are merely fancifnl may cease to mis-
l ea d f I The tale that the smooth-tongued slanderer
tells
That there are weather signs in abundance.
Behind her fair friend’s back,
everybody knows. That the greater part of That grow8i and grows, as it onward goes
these signs are utterly valueless, everybody of With the sound of the mill’s click-clack 1
intelligence can testify. Yet, that they do The doubtful story set afloat
—“»- T. B s,r."»bi d .‘rsr.s
planting the crops, and of tbeir after coltnre, Blows from an unseen hand,
will be acknowledged by many who would not
bo suspected of such folly, and who can give °, pen of day,
no other reason for it than the force of habit, tllan shadows grim and gay
' We are going to hare a dry month,’ eaid a On the darker gloom of night!
farmer the other day. Give us a hand that will deal a blow
How do you know t* he was asked. -f® a may strike a spark,
By the Indian s sign of the new moon, he | That aims a b]ow J £ the / ark .
replied.' * Its horns hnng so sloping that they
could hold no water.’
His companion laaghed. ‘ Why, that's my
Indian sign for a wet moon. The horns sloped
so much that they let loose all the water.’
The sign in- the one ease is no donbt as pro
phetic as the other.
* Always plant
the moon, if yon
heard my neighbor say; * but never kill your
pork or boil your soap at such times, unless
you are willing to have them shrink to no
thing.’
What is your authority for this t’ I asked
Wayside Gatherings.
‘ Pat, do you understand French V ‘ Yiss, if
it’s sphoke in Irish.’
..The difference between a tale-bearer and
. .. . . .1 sealing-wax Is, that sealing-wax burns to keep
your potatoes in he dark of I ge(jreti and ^ tale . bearor bunJ8 to Ml one .
wish to have a full crop, I| The ^ VaHay Mirror romarks thBt
‘ some young ladies aro as hard to understand
as the new postal law.’
. .A wise Frenchman says: ‘ If a lady says,
I can never love you,’ wait a little longer;
. , , . ... , all hope is not lost. But if sho says, * no ono
I have always heard so,’he answered w.th ba8more8 . ncera wlsbes fop happiness
some hesitation, ‘ and have always so practiced. than takfl ^
Potatoes, you know being roots, naturally ... Think ofit , Mr. Bobbs, tho United States
love darkcoss. And soap and bacon-I sup- drjnks S90 000 000 worth of spirit8ovcry year
posethey take their cue from the state of itho Bobbg (excited)y) _ How x wish
I was tbo
moon. Tho fact is, that I enly know this 18 United States!’
the olden tirno rulo. I ..Alluding to the fact that throe steamers
• We are going to h.Tvo a ros on e have been fatally weakened by additions to
of April,’said a farmer to me on the 6th ^ 1 their lengtht tho chrUtian Register 8ayS! _.
April
I was shocked, for he looked wise and lu-
grubrious, and a frost at that time in our lati
tude would have cost millions of dollars. I
asked:
frost on that
• Because wo had a fog on the 19th of March.’
He saw me smiling and added, ‘ I have heard
this rule over since I was a boy, and it has
never failed yet.’
Many fine sermons havo been rained the same
way.’
..A Georgia paper says that it won’t be
„ , .. ... . „ , more than throe weeks before the sad and
• How do you know there will be a , . . .
J lonoly young men of that State can go out and
aat date | book mo j on8 and f ee j aQew goodness of
nature.
..A regulation black-and-tan poodle, to ho
worth $100, must have a head about the size
of a black walnut; eyes that stand outside of
‘ I wouldn’t be a cook for the whole world,’
Breaking it Gently.
es, I remember that anecdote,’ the Snn-
day School Superintendent eaid, with the old
pathos in his voice, and the old sad look in his
eyea. * It was about a simple creature named
Higgins, thr.t need to haul rock for old Maltby.
When the lamented Judge Bagley tripped and
fell down the court house stairs and broke his
neck, it was a groat question how to break the
newstopoor Mrs. Bagley. Bnt finally the
body was put into Higgins’ wagon, and he was
instructed to take it to Mrs. B., bnt to be very
guarded and discreet in his language, and not
break tbe news to her at once, bnt do it grad
ually and gently. When Higgins got there
with his sad freight, he shouted till Mrs. Bag-
ley came to the door.
Then he said, ‘Does the widdor Bagley lire
here?
* The widow Bagley t No, sir |’
* I’ll bet she does. But havo it your own
way. Well, does Judge Bagley live here!’
‘ Yes, Judge Bagley lives here.’
‘ I’ll bet he don’t. But never mind, it ain’t
for me to contradict. Is the Judge in t’
* No, not at present.’
* I jest expected as much. Because, yon
know—take hold o’ satbin, mam, for I’m a go
ing to make a little communication, and
reckon mayby it’ll jar you some—there’s been
anacoident, mam. I’ve got the old Jadgeoarled
ap oat here in the wagon, and when yon see
him yon’U acknowledge yonraelf that an in
quest is about the only thing that could be a
comfort to him.’—Bark Twain.
. .If we would have powerful minds we mast
think; if we wonld have faithful hearts, wo
most love; if we would have strong mnsclos,
we must labor. The three—thought, love ant [
labor—include all that is valuable in life.
Table Etiquette.
1. See that those about you are helped be-
for you help yourself.
2. Do not eat sonp from the tip, bnt from
the side of the spoon.
3. On passing your plate to be replenished,
retain the knife and fork.
4. Wipe the month before drinking.
5. Remove the knife only in catting the
food; do not raise it to the mouth.
6. Eat slowly, rapid eating is unhealthy.
7. If you find any thing unpleasant in your
food, avoid calling the attention of others to it.
8. Close the-lips when chewing.
9. Keep yoar elbows off the table.
10. Do not speak with food in your mouth.
11. Wheu asked to help your neighbor do
not shove, bnt hand the plate to him.
12. Do not turn your head and stare about
the room.
13. If any one at the table makes a mistake
take the least possible notice of it.
‘The surest plan I know of for foretelling their 8ocket8 . a tai i about tho size of a lead
tho weather throughout tho year, sai a p an- p enc |j ( and i eg8 80 attenuated that tho animal
ter possessed of at least a semi-collegiate eel- fella over on his baek everv lime ho Ufl8 hi3
ucation, ‘ is to note the twelve days between bQad tQ bark
old and new Christmas (from December 25th , j Ml y ^, gaid a Wisconsin man t£> _
to January 6th.) The months of the ensuing neighbori nQIt day aftar burying
his wife,
year are apt to be wet or dry, warm or cold. , wheQ r came to get int0 bed> aud lay tha(i
according to the days corresponding. e DO j heairng Lucinda jawing around for an
seriously declared that for many years he h our and a half, it just made me feel as if I’d
pitched his crop and ordered his plantation movod |nt0 a strange country.’
worked under tbe guidance of this rule, and
found that it served well. No deubt for that esc)aimed B faahionabl0 yonng lady t0 hor be .
time in advance it was quite as gcod as ^I^thed tover. ‘Of course not,’ he replied;
other rule ordinarily in use. 1, R you wer0 cook f or tbe w hole world you
..A gentleman and lady who occupied tho would never get through your work; but you
same seat on an eastern bound train of cars in will be able to manage it nicely for our little
Ohio, recently, casually falling into conversa-
tion, found that they both belonged in Boston How to Succeed
and were going homo. On their arrival at If your seat is too hard to sit upon, stand up.
the depot in Boston, they both got into the If a rock rises up before you, roll it away, or
same hack, and the hackman having inquired climb over it. Ifyoa want money, earn it. If
of the man where ho wanted to go, he re-1 you wish for confidence, prove yourself worthy
plied, * No. 12 —- street.’’ ‘ Yen may leave of it. It takes longer to skin an elephant than
me at tho same place,’ said the lady. The a mouse, but tho skin is worth something.—
man was a good deal surprised; but when Don’t bo concent with what another has done;
thoy arrived at the house they found that they surpass it. Deserve success, and it will come,
had been living in adjoining houses, tha en-J The boy was not born a man. The sun doc-s
trances to which were not three feet apart, for not rise like a rocket, or go down like a bullet
several years, and had not known each other, j fired from a gun; it slowly hut surely makes
—s 1 its round, and never tires. It is as easy to be
Telling a Lie with a Finger. . I a leader as a wheel-horse. If the job be loag,
A little boy for a trick pointed with his fin-1 ^ b0 y W in bo greater; if tho task be hard,
ger to the wrong road, when a man asked him ^ mor0 comp0l0nt you mu8t bo t0 do it
which way the doctor went. As a result, the j —
man missed the doctor, and bis little boy died, The Happiest Period of Homan Life,
because the doctor came too late to take a fish-1 I am sure there is only one answer. It is
bone from his throat. At the ianeral, the [now. If I am doing ray duty, to-day is tho
minister said the boy was killed by a lie, which best day I ever had. Yesterday had a happi-
aoother boy told with his finger.’ ness of its own, and np to this morning it was
I suppose,’ says Uncle John, * that tho boy I the best day of all. I would not, however, live
did not know the mischief he did. Of coarse, I it over again. I string it as a new bead,
nobody thinks he meant to kill a littlo boy the chaplet of praise, and turn to tho inner
when he pointed the wrong way. He only j thoughts of the present time. Of all tha many
wanted to have a little fun, but it was fun that days of my life, give me to-day. This should
cost somebody a great deal; and if he ever be our feeling always, from the cradle to tha
heard of tho result of it, he must have felt 1 hour wheD we are called to como up hiyhev.—
guilty of doing a mean and wicked thing. We I Childhood is the best for children, mauhcod
ought never to trifle with the truth. I the best for men, and. old age for the silver-
haired. We will all join in a chorus of com-
Waman’s Influence Upon Man. « I mon thanksgiving to God, and, when asked,
It is better for you to pass an eveniog once | ■ Which is the happiest period ?’ I will say-
or twice a week in a lady's drawing room, says | childhood, manhood, old age alike—‘ O, Fath-
Birth and Death
How qniokly one generation of men follows
Thackeray, even though the conversation is I or, it is now.’
slow, and you know the girl’s song by heart,
than in a club, a tavern, or even the pit of a
theatre
virtuous wonuu are not admitted, rely on it,
are del eterious in v.heir nature. All men who
Obedience in Children.
.... Unquestioning obedience we muBt demand
All amusements of youth to w _ hi ^| from tbe cbild for ber own safety. U may
often he a question of life and death whether
, . „ , .. the little girl runs when she is called, or throws
avoid female society have dull perceptions and away 80metbing wbich she ha8
In her band
are stupid, or have gross tastes, and nr<Ht I of ^ lnt0 her mou th. But has
against, vhat is pure- Your club swaggerers ^ ^ haWt of obedi e nC o a higberofflee thaa
who are sucking the butts of billiard cues all ^ , It „ the flr8t yialdiDg of the untrained
.. - - — ... . D te ht > 0811 female aociety iD8i P id - Toetrv is wm r j gbt fei authority, and as such has an
another to the grave 1 We cotae like the ^inspiring t0 a yokel; beauty has no charm* i S0 s{gni ft C a n &. The mother who can’t
nPAftn wftvo tn all nr a Ann Rnnrrnl V Rtrlkfl » 1 as ha* kIaam q maa. ! ° _
ocean wave to the shore, and scarcely strike
the strand before we roll back into the forget
fulness whence we came. “ There is a skele
ton in every house.” Aye, in some many.
We can stand upon the corner of any street,
and looking back, we shall see that all the hous
es have changed occupants in a very few years.
The old men hate gone, and a generation that
knew them not has tak en their places. Yes,
while we look, we ourselves grow old and pass
on to join the great caravan whose tents are
almost in sight on the other side. In youth
the other world seems a great way off, bnt la
ter we feel and realize that it is close at hand;
and, what is better, nature does the prepara
tory work for passing into It, so that we can
easily grow into it—born into it.
. .A Connecticut lady remained too long on
a train to hiss female friends the other day,
and, trying to get off after it had started, was
thrown on her face. ‘ If ever I kiss anybody
again I* she said revengefully, as she arose,
‘ any woman at least,’ she added thoughtfully,
• then it will bo whem I am crazy.’
..The California papers toll about a boj
climbing a tomato vino to get away from amad
dog. Tomato Vines a ttain an enormous si te
in California, and so «lo dog stories.
for a blind man; music does not please a pooi j
beast who does not know one tune from anoth
er; but as a pure epicure is hardly over tired
of water, sancey, and brqad and butter, I pro
test I can sit for a whole night talking to a
yreli regulated, kindly woman, about her girl
Fanny, or her boy Frank, and like the even
ing's entertainment. One of the great benefits
a man may derive from a woman's society is,
that he is boond to be respectful to her. The
habit is p{ great good to yoar moral men, de
pend upon it. Our education makes of us the
n ost eminently selfish men in the world. We
fight for ourselves, we push for ourselves, we
yawn for ourselves, wo ligh* our pipes and say
we won’t go out, we prefer ourselves and- our
ease; and the greatest good that comes to man
from woman’s society is, that he has to think
of somebody tp jvhop bo is bound to be con
stantly attentive and respectful-
.. A singularTact'abcut the Tichborne claim
ant who was held to be Arthur Orton, was that
bis hair was of a very different color from that
qfOrtoq's hair presented ! ftt court. Another
singular fact is that since the claimant has
been, in prison hiq hair has gradually changed
to the aolor of the Orton’s specimen.
train her daughters and sons to obedience were
bettor childless, for she is but giving to her
country elements of weakness, not elements of
strength. She is furnishing future inmates for
jails, penitentiaries, and prisons, and patting
arms into the hands of the enemies of law and
order.—Miss A. C. Brackett.
To Make Water Cold in the Sum
mer.—The following is a simple modo of
rendering water almost as cold as ic©: Let
the jar, pitcher, or vessel uaed^foc. water
be surrounded with one or more folds of
coarse cotton cloth kept constantly wot.
The evaporation of the water will carry
off the heat from the inside and reduce it
to tho freezing point. In India and other
tropical regions where ice canaot be pro-
eared, this is common. Lot every me
chanic or laborer have ut his place ( of em
ployment two pitchers thus provided with
lids and covers, the one to contain water
for drinking, tho other for evaporation,
and he can always have a supply of cold
water in warm weather. Any person ^an
test this by dipping a finger in water, ami
bolding it in the air of a warm day ; after
doing this three or four times, he will finu
his finger uncomfortably cold.