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THE GEOR GI A ENTER PR IS E.
Vol VIII
New Sale,
Feed & Livery Stable
COVINGTON, ti
lASSKNGEIiS CARRIED FREE frrmi tlic De-
Ipft t tlio Hotel, Persons wi-hing I') procure
ccNivoyanccs. cun 1 jK’i't'ininnihiUsl :it all times.
, Special attention paid to the Feeding and taking
sure of stock.
Omnifont will meet all Trains, and carry citizens
t 35 cents cadi. „ „
C \KY COX, Proprietor,
I,ee & Hightower's old stand, (o\lngton, Ga
11ENIt V l>. C VIMIItS,
Attorney and Counselor At Law.
COVINGTON, GE( mo IA.
. . . ,
Wild, Practice in tfoo Courts of the Flint and
Oenmlgee Circuit-, the Supreme Court ol
Georgia, and elsewln i <*. tattler epeeial contract.
I' Haying perfected arrangements for the prosecu
•tion of Claims aealnst the United States, I will re.
tcive such and torn aru them to my correspondents
_n Washington City.
S. H, Yancsy, M. D,
’OFFERS hi* Professional Services to the citi
zens ot Covington and surrounding country.—.
Office two doors above Andcrsor. & Dcl.aney s
store, on street leading toward the College. Acute
and Clironic Cases made a specialty. I artieulai
■attention given to the treatment of all secret and
- Can always foe found at my Office in the
day, anil at my residence at night, when not pro
tfnft*ion4lv culled uwuy. ,
AVhcn I am not at my office I will leave word at
Anderson & DeEaney’s store where I may be
ound, or when l will return.
E. 11. YANCEY, M. D.
Covington, Feb. C, 1^73. —lt*tf.
Greene & llossignol,
SUCCESSORS TO
Dr. Wm. Xl.’Tutt,
Wholesale Dealers in
Drugs,
Medicines,
Cli('inic:ils,
Perfumery,
Druggists’
Paints,
Oils,
Varnishes,
Glass,
Brushes, &c. &c.
Largest stork in the oitv.
GREENE & ROSSIGNOL,
204 Broad Street, Augusta.
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FOR SALE, IN STORE
. AND
TO ATUUYE.
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a()() rft.-ix. tvvoo-v rmut tjT'Tii• o.
GO Hints. e'e,r Rib Bacon SIDES.
•’OO Boxes Clear IM, 8n... SIDEs,
]OO nil,ls. Ret,oiled MOLASSES.
-0 llhds. Cuba MOLASSES
°0 Puncheons Penvi'ov MOL AS.
-Ml Rarrols Reboiled MOLA^ES.
GO Barrels New Orleans MOLASSES.
40 111,45. New Orleans M ;,.\ns.
35 III,Os. lVmaru SUGARS.
150 Barrels R fined SU3A US,
50 Tierces RICE.
150 Tierces Choice L-af LA HI ■
150 Erf's Clio ice Leal LAUt’.
150 Boses Pale SO \P.
150 Bases and Half Boxes Adamantine
C ANDLIv>. nnFFFF
?(W Bees Rio, Jar*, and L ifrnyvaCi BLEU
Brooms, IVco.hvare, Spices, Starch, Match
es Cl ewiif: and Smoking Tobacco Twines,
Writing "p !'•• ““tco'""
WAI-TON, CI-ARK &
AUGUSTA, GEORGIA.-25.3m.
BRANHAM & JONES
T> ETT GGTSTS
COVINGTON, GA.
WE KEEP a well selected stock of J’ULE
DRUGS, Medicines, Chemicals and l all ent
Medicines of all kinds, always on hand. Our
Paints, Oils, Colors, Dye Stuffs, Window Glass, Putty
COMBS BRUSHES, SOAPS. I’EKKCM ERA
and fancy toilet articles,
AVill be found COMPLETE.
Wine Brandies, Wines, Whiskies, and
Champagne, For Medicinal Use.
We will sell Drags ns CHEAP as they can be
ti jiit in Atlanta at retail.
ALSO, FINE TOBACCO 'AND CIGARS.
jr-fy- Physicians’ Prescriptions carefully com
pounded,
E V. BRANHAM, M-I).
\\\ T. JONES.
Dr. BRANHAM
OFFERS Ills I’rofcssional Services to tlie* citi
zens of Newton mid luljoining counties.—
UtHeo nt the Drug Store, where lie will he found
dni mid night.—(i-tf.
New Cabinet Shop.
I AM NOW READY to furnish the public with
ail kinds of
and do all kinds of work in the Cabinet line. My
work is warranted, iuul satis.action guaranteed..
Wooden burial cases ami caskets-
A Large and Select assortm , Fine Rosewood
Coffins just received, which will do sold at tlie
most rctisouablo prices. All sizes kept oft hand
ALSO
Coffins Made to Order.
And General Repairing done at prices to suit
tlie times. _ J. L. O SEEK.
Covinaton. G.t., Jan. 4!, 18TJ. 1 >lt
Fine Hilliard Table.
I offer for sale a No. 1, Four Poekot Hilliard Ta
ble. In use but a lew month*. Terms Mtsv.
Apply to T. N. H I TS.
Purest ami Best
champagne cider.
rll AVK Purchased the lfight to manufacture
Jersey Champagne Cider, ill Newton County,
for fifteiia years. This is an excellent drink and
will he fi.rnMicd to families cheap. Come and
try it, and you will bo satisfied that it. Is a* good
if not better than any brought here., i wiM T 1
by the glass, gallon or keg, and warrant it as be
ing pure and freeh.— HARRISON BERRY.
ICE AND ICE CREAM.
jrTTI keep always on hand plenty ot pure Lake
and Manufactured lee. Ice cream kept on hand
during tlie Summer. Families or Individuals will
be furnished with ar.y of the above articles at
short notieeand on cheap terms. IV J
Covington, Ga.—Bs.3m.
Hams.
Tlio 'best Sugar Cured Hams in Market. —
Call and trv them.
' ANDERSON & DeLANEY.
Look Here !
JACKSON’S Magic Balsam, a Fresh supply of
Morphine, Mustang Einament, Tutts, Ayer’s,
and Had way’s Pills, Just received at the Store of
B3TOLD WHITTEN,
PLENTY OF GOOD CIDER.
ONE Barrel of good Cider just received—pure
and Fresh. Sold by the gallon or drink.—
Try it. T. N. PITTS.
CANDIES, PLAIN AND FANCY
A Large lot of Fresh Candy —Plain and
Fancy, just received at WHITTEN S.
Stationery.
Just Received a select assortment of every
variety of Stationery. Call and examine the
quality and price, BRANHAM & JONES
GOOD SOAP.
A choice selection of fine Soaps
at the Store of G. S. Whitten.
New Barber Shop.
n— —-
RTOOD CUTS and Clean Shaves. Give me a
trial, and I will guarantee satisfaction. My Shop
is in the Old Express Office, Covington, Ga,
I am better prepared to give satisfaction now
than ever; as in* shop is newly fitted up.
10 GEORGE JOHNSON, Colored Barber.
Buffalo Beef.
A Fresh Lot Just received by
A N DERSON & DsLANEY.
mfw riin ui^iG
For Men and Boys.
All Sizes, Grades, Style and Prices,
.Just Arrived at LEE & SON.
Bottled Ale
FINE LOT OF BOTTLED ALE for family use
PURE BLACKBERRY BRANDY
\ PURE Article of Good Blackberry Bran
dy‘ fur Medicinal
Fav Up.
PERSONS Due me wifi pleaseeomeforward and
settle* I SELL FOR CASH—not longer than
30 days, over 30 days I charge Ennk
tcrcst. __l '
Car Load of liraii.
**- T0 aiuiivetllis lee&son.
T. I). Fierrson,
DEALER IN
White Pine Doors, Sash and
Blinds, Mouldings, &e. _
3m2G Broad street, Atlanta, Ga.
Nails,
OLD Dominion Yulis at 7 1-4 cents
per pound. Lee & Son.
FJNE WHISKIES.
THE finest end best anti purest Liquors In the
market, can be found at the store “ r f mTTFN
Covington, Ga.
Fine Syrup.
TfITF. HAVE Just received tcvcral varieties of
\\ line [4sON &' l)kL A NEY.
F 1 o u r.
Kennesaw and Marietta Flour at Atlanta prmeg,
freight added, to be found LEE & SON.
J. 11. ANDERSON, $■ CO.,
20 Alabama Street, Atlanta, Ga.,
VHE NOIV' Prepared to furnish Planters witl)
tlie beet
MdWEK ■ AND REAVERS,
SCYTHES AND CRADLES,
HORSE RAKES,
THRESHERS AND POWERS,
With or without Separators. Also have a splen
did a-sortment of
Agricultural Implements,
INCLUDING PLOWS, FEED CUTTERS,
HARROWS, PUMPS, WAGONS, AC.,
A (TENTS FOR
BROWN’S CELEBRATED COTTON GIN,
TEXAS COTTON PRESS,
liLVNDY'S STEAM ENGINES and Saw Mills.
/Vents lor Case’s New TURBINE WATER
WHEEL.
r *. fan an d see ns before purchasing elsewhere.
, h d-v J. H, ANDERSON. & CO,
COVINGTON, GEORGIA, JULY IS, 1873.
Women f to tln* Front,
In an audacious attempt to African
ize the South, says the Mobile Register,
tlio designin'* and ignorant men who
have assumed tho odium of that IminiN
iuting task havo apparently ignored that
most important dement of civilized so
ciety—woman !
A Beauregard—a Ilays—a Gibson —
faiso to race and country —and forget
ful of the precious lives which have bean
sacrificed to build up their fame —now
sunk in tlio darkness of contempt and
execration —may pledge their own faith
to the “unification” of races whom the
Creator has cast in widely distinct
moulds ; and reckless of th'e deep dam
nation brought bv themselves on their
own names, may succeed in assimila
ting their own fallen nature to that of
inferior beings ; but they possess neither
(he right nor the power to degrade to an
equality with themselves that other half
of the human family to whom God has—
jointly with man—entrusted the inher
it a nee ol the Earth!
These eleventh-hour converts to “uni
fication’’ and miscegenation may in
vite their male associates to their own
bed and board, and lie down ‘with them
in promiscuous and revolting congeni
ality; but they never shall—they never
can—bring the noble woman of the
•South to their own degraded level! In
their sycophantic adulation of a racV
rapidly sinking out of sight, and whose
fast ebbing life is only galvanized irfto
temporary activity by the poisonous
touch of a corrupt political system, those
men, who proclaim unbounded equality
even unto the home and social circle,
violently trample upon the rights of
mothers, wives and sisters, and like the
Athenians of old, cast out their virgins
to the Minotaurs of Radicalism !
Bat will those noble women submit to
this odious and cowardly ransom ? Will
they, whoso loins have borne the fallen
leroes who sleep in the dust of a thous
and battle fields, permit the faint hearted
survivors of the struggle to buy an ig
nominious peace at such an infamous
irice ? V\ ill those women forget that
they, too. have received in all its purity
the sacred inheritance of a common an
cestry, and that they cannot, without
sacrilege, transmit it to their own de
scendanss, tainted and polluted ill its
mountain head ?
When nations Become so degenerate
wear the
loaches us that woman, divinely inspired
>v never dying principles of devotion to
race and country, steps up to the front
of the arena, and like the Roman mat
ron passing to her trembling hfl'-band
tlio dagger dyed in ber own blood, and
exclaiming 41 1 ake it—it hurts not
shows by her example that death is
preferable to disgrace.
And to them now we imploringly ap
peal to cast away from them, with loath
ing and contempt, the degenerate sons
of their noble sires, and to spurn them
with horror from their maternal or con
jugal embraces. .
Let them rc-vindicate their impre
scriptible rights to their share of that
heir-loom of greatness, virtue and self
denial, which has shed much brilliancy
on their name, and future generations
will rise up and call them blessed !
IJcni Husbands.
A -writer in the Saturday Review
says: —
Of course one would not like to see
women give themselves to any one, no
matter who he might be, for the sake of
getting married ; butthe solid things of
life should be ta'ught them as well as its
poetic beauties ; and false hopes, false
ideals, unsubstantial lore should be
rigorously excluded. A bad marriage
or a loveless life is not a pleasant coda
to that never-acted romance ; nor is the
disenchantment which comes with such
cruel certainty on the heels of the love
sick and unsuitable marriage, a blessing
to be desired. Beauty fades, passion
cools, the blindness of romance gets
couched when seeing is too late; poetry
does not pay the butcher ; and gallantry
of bearing of the ‘dong sword, saddle,
and bridle” kind, is apt to lose itself in
domestic bad language when tlio pot is
empty ol puddings, and bad a dozen
children swarm about the musty lodg
ings or dingy quarters to which love and
folly have reduced the gay lieutenant and
his bride, On the whole, Prince Pretty
man is a dangerous fellow either to get
or wait for, having the trick ni unsub
stantiality throughout. Romrnlic girls
would do well to reflect that, if they are
to have only one gown in a life-time,
they had better buy one that will wash
and wear creditably to tho end, rather
than a flimsy bit of finery that looks
well only in the beginning, and goes to
pieces before the first year is out.
In the case of nineteen barbers brought
before him, Justice White, of Richmond,
Va., has decided that shaving on Sun
da)- has become a necessity by long
usage and public opinion, and is an ad
junct to that proper cleanliness —which
is next to godliness —that is necessary
for the proper attendance upon the church
j services, and a due observance of the
i Sabbath.
A Happy I>m|.
We arc not obliged to tell how fhe
following funny letter got into our hands ;
all the reader has to do is to read it and
laugh. We congratulate the new made
pa*ri-ent, and hope he will got over his
confusion of ideas shortly, so as to ho
able to tell his baby from his horse.—
Ret, Index.
Dear Sister Emma :—I now take my
seat and sit down to take this opportuni
ty to inform you that I am a “daddy;*
at I ast ; that is, I supposo I am, for
Atldie has got a nice, fat baby as ever
made up faces. Wo hppo thnUhese few
linos may find you enjoying the same
great blessing. Now, litis is to ho a
strictly business letter. Pirstlv as 1
said before, Adtlie has got a baby ; ncxt r
ly ! have swapped away oil John and
think I have got a pretty nice horse; it is
a pi"! and weighs nine pounds—l mean
the baby- it is just as fat as butter, and
las a good strong pair of lungs. She
is re I and has a bobtail—the, horse, I
mean —and a white stripe in her face,
and is a good driver; she has got blue
eye.; and a dimple in her chin—l mean
the baby—and just the prettiest mouth
that ever opened to receive pap ; judging
from her teeth, I think she is about six
years old—l mean the horse now—she
is sound, smooth and kind—l mean the
horse or the baby either, now—and the
doctor says she is the fairest, he ever saw,
without any exception—ho meant the
bahy—got 82.) to hoot, not on the baby,
thou h, for in its case the boot is on th<\
other foot, and two or three sizes larger,
as near as I can find out. I am going
to harness the horse now and go after
mother, she was born last night at twenty
minutes past nine*—hope you don’t think
I m "an mother or the horse ; I mean the.
baby. She is as hearty as a pig ; cat aft
egg, a biscuit, and drank three cups of tea
—I mean Addie—she is getting along
nicely, and if she don’Whave any bacr
lock she will get alonaffirst rate. She
is subject to disorders in the stomach,
and they say it is a'sign t^jolic—l
mean the baby—l hope for the
nurse says colicky babies never die.—
She talks about her nose as she takes
snuiT— I mean the nurse, lam going
to'name it Etiiona—l mean the baby.
There ! I’ve been reading this over and
I see plainly that I ain’t fit to write.—
The amount of it is, I am frustrated ;
I am a happy father, and that accounts
At fiNa/eei."•”'*
mm<
Hoys, Read This#
A gentleman advertised for a bov to
assist him in his office, and nearly fifty
applicants presented themselves before
him. Out of the whole number he se
lected one and dismissed the rest, “I
should like to know,’’ said a friend,
“on what ground you select that boy,
who bad not a single recommendation.”’
■•You are mistaken,” said the gentleman,
“he has a great many. lie wiped his
feet when he came in, and closed the
door after him, showing that he was
careful; gave up his seat instantly to
that fame old man, showing that he was
kind and thoughtful; he took off his cap
when he came in, and answered my
questions promptly and respectfully,
showing he was polite and gentlemanly ;
he picked up the book which I had pur
posely laid upon the floor, and replaced
it on the table, while all rest stepped
over it or shoved it one side ; and he
waited quietly for his turn, instead of
pushing and crowding, showing that he
was honest and orderly. When I talked
with him I noticed that his clothes were
carefully brushed, his hair in nice order
and his teeth white as milk ; and when
he wrote his name I noticed that his fins
ger nails wero clean, instead of being
tipped with jet, like handsome little
fel[ow in tho blue jacket. Don’t you
call these things letters of recommenda
tion ? I do, and I would give more for
what I can tell about a boy by using my
eyes ten minutes, than all the letters of
recommendation that he can bring me,”
On the second day of June last, a
schooner called the John Ferris, of Nor
folk, while passing up the river ran into
and damaged a net when off Catskill,
belonging to one John Pindar, residing
in that vicinity. The schooner came to
anchor off Hudson. The owner of the
net followed her, and called on a well
known lawyer of this city to draw the
the papers necessary to enable him to
commence proceedings for damages.—
The owner of the net knew the name of
the vessel, but not that of the captain,—
Tito papers were therefore drawn and
action brought entitled John Pindar vs
John Doe. In examining authorities
a case was found that covered the
ground taken, and furnished a precedent.
It w;s entitled John Pindar vs, John
Doe. The facts were exactly the same,
the locality the same, and the plaintiff
was found to be the father of the plains
till in the present case. The date of the
first occurrence .was May, 1849, So
that alter a lapse of some twenty-four
year-, we find the son figuring in the
! same role in which his father had ap
! | eared. —[Hudson (N. Y.) Star.
An Illinois bay was fined $25 for beating
ti - mother, and she paid it.
The fyfjowinc exquisite j*fem‘ Gov
ernor WiUmni.J. Ilnpjvin, fit IkJrodlf Mand, i
ns swnej, nml touching ns apyfrtfn* ever written
by Burns:/
* Charlie Jln/tyrejjf'
, • rT*ver. y* •
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* /'V .veJ^Upnt/heayfcd,
dpreNitf in. >
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St (Icon yis/Kie son, 1
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* /' v nz/ \ ye’r arm,
1 yVgff in ye’r I) isopj
wyMnd iritfu. y
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- A 'WwrbiverltT-n#,
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I see him, I se It+rtVJ j
tide, i
Ifis strong arms are A
t* • Tho big wavss aside; M M
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Oli, the aar|f ;
Shoots swift
j * Raj ldytlfh-is
Of his bonQ^.^pr^^^r
And his oheeks are ro*esJa
• Twa buds*n a boigh *
...j \Yho says ye’re faint-h^rted,
- My brave Charlie, n<swf
. J Ifo, ho, foaming river, ’'/•
r Ye may.roar ns # ye go, 4
But ye canna bear Charlie
J dark loch befovv !
y Jkvrc over, come over.
J *- /The river to me,
.• J Mv true-hearted ladiße,
. ■’ £ ■ My Charlie Machreo 1
He’s sinking, ho’s sin<ftng,
Oh, what shall I do?
Strike out, Charlie, baldly,
Ten strokes and ye’re thro',
He’s sinking, oh Heaven !
W W n > i*w v j x •••** j
As soon as ye're here i
He rises, I see him,
Five strikes, Charlie, mair—
He’s shaking the wet
From his bonny brown hair.
lie conquers the current,
He gains on the sen,
110, where is the swimmer
Like Charlie Maphrec?
Come over the river,
But once come to me,
And I'll love ye forever,
Dear Charlie Machroe,
lie's sinking, he’s gone,
Oh, God, it is I,
It is I who have killed him,
Help, help—he must die 1
Help, help—ah, lie rises—
Strike nut, ye’er free.
Ho, bravely donp, Charlie,
Once more, now, for me 1
Now cling to the rock
Now gie us yc'r hand—
Ye'ro safe, dearest Charlie,
Ye're safe on the land I
Como li in my bosom,
If there ye can sleep,
I canna speak to ye,
I only ean weop,
ye’ve crossed the wild river,
Ye’ve risked all for me,
And I’ll part frae ye never,
• Dear Charlie Machreo 1
Gathered in Season,
AS A SHOCK OF CORX COMETH IX IX ITIS SEASOX.
In big mornl tillage, God cultivates many
flowers, seeming only for their exquisite
bounty and fragrance. For when, bathed in
soft sunshine, they have burst into blossom,
then the Divine Hand gathers them from the
earthly fields, to bo kept in crystal vases in
blessed mansions above. Thus little children
,]ie—some fn the bud, some in fuller blossom ;
but never too early to make heaven fairer and
sweeter with their immortal bloom.
Verily, to tho eye of Faith nothing is fairer
than tho death of young children. Sight
and sense indeed recoil from it. Tho flower,
that like a breathing rose filled heart and
home with an exquisite delight,—alas! wo
are stricken with sore anguish to find its stem
broken and the blossom gone. But unto Faith,
eagle-eyed beyond mental vi-ion, and winged
to mount like the singing lark over the fading
rainbow unto tho bluo heaven, even this is
touchingly lovely.
The child's earthly ministry was well done,
for the rose does its work as grandly in blos
som as the vino with its fruit. And having
helped to sanctify and lift heavenward the
very hearts that broke at its farewell, it has
! jrono from this troublous sphere cro the winds
' chilled or the rains stained it—leaving the
'Vtfflthit blessed and the *kie through whicT*
it ij/ssivl still sweet with its lingering IrM
gFanco-— to its glory ** an ever-unfolding Hour/
in tfto blessed garden r.f God 1 Surely, pr
Jiff'nged lifo on earth hath no boon like
For such mortal loveliness to put on
ity—to rio from tho carnal with so little rrteiy
ory of earth that the mother’s cradie secmM i
been rocked in tho house of manjj/..'
Mansions —to linvo no experience of a
mind and chilled affections, but from n childlffi
joyous hoart growing up into the power of atf
nrchangelic intellect—to be .raptured as
blessed babe through the gates of
ah! this is hotter tiffin to wateh as *nn oU/S
propl^nf or tho car of firo in tho valley
Jordan. i ,
Surely, God is wise in nil his works. An&‘*
even amid our tears will we rejoice in th yr
liarvest-feas', that among u, as clsewhore, hjs
gathers so largely the (lowers in their tepsqiV#
And ns of flowers, so of fruits in their ord#f/*
and after their kind each “cometh in hi* soil
son,” Some fruits ripen early. Scarcely
tho delicious Juno poured its full glory over
earth ere some rare and delicate specie* tj/n _
already ripened. And some ripen later.-j|
There nre trees that do not even blosom
midsummer. And there are fruits that remain ~
‘hard ar.d unsavory till God shakes them in th#
wild autumnal wind, and treats them with tJA
distressful ministry of frost. And so is it jtr
the spirtunl,—souls develop and mature
ently. Some are ready for gathering at
early summer ; some come not to tho caring tJjl
the time of the late rain. And God watcncs
carefully that cacli shall “como in his sensorf^’
Wo indeed sometimes talk of untimely deaths
of young Christians, removed 100 early froOl
spheres of usefulness, ns if the OmnisciepAk
Husbandman did not know when His immorta)
grapes are purple and His corn in the ear.—'
Surely, God does the whole thing wisely gath-j
each spiritual growth just as it (tomes
into condition for its immortal uses. -
Oh, thought beautiful and comforting )4—‘
Death is not destruction, but harvesting,—life
gathering from fields of mortal tillage ri|fe
fruits in their season. And why then should
*ou/ harvest-feast be sad over garnered immor>,
tiility ? Why should this sweetly tolling bell,
filling tho troubled earthly air with a gentle*
rfnund, so startle and appal the trustful Spirit ?
God strengthen your faith so to behold this'
mysterious thing in a light from-heaVon that'
its dark veil shall seem transparent, and a"
face with soft eyes look forth loving and bright
03 the face of an angel. „ ... ’
Death is not destruction 1 Death is n6t even ;
...figgth.b har.yiatin.tr.L. _lL.ar.i thin, i
rudely parted, hear’ yc This: “The Beloved 1
hath gone down into His garden to gather !
lilies T’ Ye children who have lost revered"
parents, and whose life is chilled in the shadow =
of tho dread thing—orphanage—hear ye this :
“Asa shock of corn cometh jn his season,
arc matured souls gathered to the garner of
God.—Rev. Chas. Wadsworth.
Dispelling IlisGloom. 1
A broken-hearted young thing writes
to a weekly paper as follows: “About*
three years ago I became acquainted with
a young gentleman ■, and, although be
never paid me any particular attentions,
he would often accompany me to and
from church, etc. But lately I'noticed
a great change in him. Ho avoids me
as much as possible, and starts il I ad
dress him. Can lie have ceased to love
me ?—for 1 know he did, though henev-t
er said so. If I thought he had, if
would break my heart.” Perhaps wo:
ought not to interfere in this matter;
but, as we know exactly what should be
done with the young man, we feel as if
we ought to speak out. Do not attempt
to reason with him or cajole him to paci
fy him. The next time he calls ttaJwfc'
monkey-wrench, fasten it securely ypefr,
his nose, lead 1 im off to the dining-rpoia, •
and ask him in a firm voice what he ’
means. If he won’t answer, twist the
wrench three or four times, and butt bis •
head up against tho stove or the martfeß •
piece until his gloom is dispelled. If-ho 1
says he has ceased to love you, lot your
fingers dally with his ringlets lovingly
for a few minutes, and then suddenly'
lift out a couple of handfuls, and-have
an Irishman at hand to come in and Sit'
on him awhile and knock out his teeth -
and jump up and down on him, and bo •
sociable. Then let him go, and com- •
mence your arrangements to rope in a
fresh njan. \ou cannot afford to wasfc 1
vourlife upon such a wretch ns this ; aniD
where heart will not throb to heart, or •
soul respond to soul, the best thing to do
is to contuse tho nose at once.
On ono cf the trains leading to SiouX-
City recently, a mother was holding, her.
baby up to the window. The youngster -
was so delighted that it gave a- vigorous,
spring an>l went out. The train rah half.•
a mile before it was stopped. It was
backed up to the scene of misfortune for
the purpose of picking up the mangled *
form of the infant; but the youngster was
found quite unhurt, to the great relief of
all and to the special satisfaction of the •
mother. She did not hold the child up
to the window after that.
Sydney Smith once rebuked a swearing vis- .
itor by saying, “Let us assume that everything
and cverybo ly arc damned, and proceed with
our subject.' 1
Over 2,(t00 new post ro ires went into opera
tion the first of this nun !i.
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