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The Cherokee Georgian. TEE ABSURDITY OF IT. It is all very well for the poets to tell, By way of their song adorning, Os milkmaids who rouse to manipulate cows At five o’clock in the morning. And of moony young mowers who bundle out doors— The charms of their straw-beds scorning— Befoie break ot day, to make love and hay, At five o’clock in the morning. But, between me and you, it is all untrue — Believe not a word they utter; To no milkmaid alive does the finger of Five Bring beaux—or even bring butter. The poor, sleepy cows, if told to arouse, Would do so, perhaps, in a horn-ing; But the sweet country girls, would they show their curls At five o’clock in the morning ? It may not be wrong for the man in the song — Or the moon —if anxious to settle, To kneel in the grass, and pop, but, alas! What if he popped down on a nettle ? For how could he see what was under his knee, If, in spite of my friendly warning, He went out of bed and his house and his head At five o’clock in the morning ? It is all very well such stories to tell, But if I were a maid, all forlorn-ing, And a lover should drop, in the clover, to pop, At five o’clock in the morning: If I liked him, you see, I’d sap, “Please call at three If not, I’d turn on him with scorning; “Don’t come here, you flat, with conun drums like that, At five o’clock in the morning.” fJohn Paul. Going to the City. *Tis true, and pity ’tis ’tis true, that the most energetic and wide-awake of the sons of our farmers forsake the rural homesteads and flock in crowds into all the cities, to swell the anxious throng of the multitudes, who through life-devouring struggles strive to make an honest livelihood in the over peopled towns. It is no secret, that of the hundred merchants, only a very small per centage achieve a competency, still fewer grow rich, while the vast majority barely can make both ends meet, and many break down after years of fruitless toil. Or take the manufacturers on a small scale, the boss mechanics; there may be one in a thousand who can work on his own capital, the other nine hundred and ninety-nine are constantly on the rack—where to get the money to pay the hands when pay-day comes around, or to meet bills and accounts coming due. They are obliged to borrow from banks, paying high premiums, and are in hot water for renewers and indorsers. There is but John Law out of the hundred thousand carpenters, and but one Captain Eads among the thousands of civil engin eers. Life in the city, with its constant, irritating friction, with its painful uncer tainty of bread and meat in the near fu ture, it must still have some very peculiar charms, that entice our young men away from the country. At home, on the farm, there is no landlord visiting you monthly with the regularity of a chronometer, al ways with both hands extended—but to take, uot to give. There is no dread of rising rents and removal to smaller quar ters. And there is always enough to eat; if one crop fails, another remunerates by the more amplitude ; bread and meat the . poorest farmer never lacks in our countly. Clothes, which go so far toward making men (and women more j et), will last longer and cost less in the country than in the city, with its ever-changing loolish fashions. And when poets grow rapturous at the con templation ot rural happiness and sylv.iu beauty, and when the denizens of the crowded cities know no greater joy than a ramble or a sojourn in the country, why then should our young people in the coun try forsake the abode of such highly-prized felicity, and rather live in the wicked city? The question is asked, and the answer can not be ambiguous. It is not the coun try, its farms and woods, its prairies and brooks, its bird-song and life-air, its luscious fruit and rich milk, its fresh breezes and cool springs, that drive young men away. It is the lack of social enjoyments, the lack of pleasing variety in society, in conversa tion, in diversion, which renders country life monotonous, irksome, loathsome, and makes life in tho city appear fur pleasanter and far better than it is. Often, too, it is unreasonable straining of muscle-work, the sacxeneas of dead drudgery, which wo im pose upon our children that makes them sigh for the pleasure of the town people and hate their own dull homes. The answer suggests the remedy. We must begin with ourselves. We must not undertake to run and manage a farm with one or two when it requires tho fiill work of three or four men. Reduce the area of tilled land, if you can not hire more labor, to within workable limits; cul tivate less land, but cultivate it more. Do not ask work of a boy, with his tender muscles and yielding bones, that wi’l tax the powers of a man. Make them work, <>f course, but adapt work to their strength. And above ail, provide variety. The same dull round, day after day, makes life, home, , parents aud friends appear hateful. All work and no play, made Jack a dull boy centuries ago. Bear it in mind. Let the young folks have amusement and en joyment, and by directing it with wise fore thought, you will prevent the mischievous gatherings at the cross-reads and groggery. Have a club, a social club, of the young pcoole assemble weekly from house to house; have them play, d nice, sing, frolic. Visit the fairs, have apple bees, corn husk ings, and Thanksgtving-d.ay gatherings Get your school-teachers and ministers in- 1 tereated in joyful, healthy, country life—be ; cheerful yourself at home—build up the • neighborhood, and be mindful that your- , •elves live but once, aud must leave be Lind you what you did not enjoy; in fine, have your thoughts not entirely absorbed by the desire to make, but intend also to enjoy what you make; and your sons will be cured of the running-to-the-city propensity; they will rather stay in the country, where there is no want, no anxious uncertainty, but where there is plenty and sweetness. Make life joyful. God’s sun smiles upon the country every day: why should we, his children, be cheerless, dull and dreary?— [Midland Farmer. System in Farm Labor. The following pair of pertinent para graphs which we find in the New England Homestead, must have been written by some level-headed body who keeps his eyes wide open and knows how to tell what he sees and thinks: “T. e amount of muscle that can be saved by a little brain labor is wonderful, and yet the science of doing everything in proper season and place, in fact, properly, is some thing that agricultural papers or farming books cannot t<ach. Experience, calcula tion and foietl.ought are the mentors. A month before a piece of machinery is to be used, a glance at it will show where it is de fective. A rainy day, a spare hour ,?a chance to take it to town to be repaired without go ing on purpose. These present themselves to an intelligent farmer, and when the harvest is ripe, or the corn ready for the cultivator, there, will be no delay for the mending of damaged machinery. There is no such weak larinres, or winked waste of time and opportunity, as the man practices who never has time to do any thing properly. lie goes to town with three errands, and comes home with only one fin ished, be has no time for the others. He plows for fifty acres of corn, but has no time to get in but forty. He plows with a duller plow, and chops with a duller axe, for the lack of time to sharpen them. All these are lack of forethought and system— a neglect to use the brain that God has giv en him to shape and direct and save the muscle. An ox will do the work but can not plan it. The horse is powerful, but he is controlled by his master, and his power utilized. Man’s labor is but brvtfo strength, and the stronger the brain force that is brought to bear upon it the more surely every stroke tells, and the more grand will be the result.” What Farmers Cannot Conceal. — A poor farmer cannot conceal the fact that he is a poor farmer. All his surroundings proclaim the verdict against him : —his hors es, cattle, wagons, harness, plows, fences, fields —even his wife and children bear silent, but unmistakable evidence against him. On the other hand, all these things will tes tify favorably in behalf of the good farmer. Every passer by can read the evidence for and against. This fact alone, ought to stim ulate every farmer to do his best, for the sake of bis character, as well as interest; for he may rest assured that every passer by will pronounce judgment according t© the evidence. A celebrated author once wrote: ‘A French woman will love her husband if he is either witty or chivalrous; a German woman if he is constant and faithful; a Dutch woman if he does not disturb her ease too much ; a Spanish woman if he wreaks terrible vengeance on those who fall under her displeasure; an Italian woman, if he is dreamy and poetical; a Danish woman if he calls her country the fairest and ha ppi st on earth ; a Russian woman if he holds all westerners to be miserable barbarians; an English woman if he is of the nobility; an American woman if—he has plenty of mo noy. A young hoodlum tried his first pipe in San Francisco. When his father came home he found him braced against a bar rel, with his legs spread apart, his hands and lower jaw drooping listlessly and a deadly pallor over-spreading his face. “What is the matter?” inquired his father. “I was feeling bad because there was no school.” And then the fond parent, step ping into the house, said to bis wife, “That boy loves school better than any body I ever saw.” Smart boy. Tn clearing away the refuse from the an cient silver mines of Liurium, in Greece, a large number of seeds w re found unknown to modem science, but described in the writ ings of Pliny. The seeds took root, budded and blossomed, bearing beautiful yellow flowers, after a burial of at least 1,508 years. Bad company is like a nail driven into a post, which after the first or second blow, may be drawn out with little difficulty; but being once driven in up to the head, the pin cers cannot take hold to draw it out and it can only be done by the destruction of the Wood. RZ, J. O’STmHRTDS, HOUSE, SIGN AND ORNAMENTAL Painter, FRESCO AND SCENIC ARTIST, Canton, .... Georgia. Refers to Rev. P. H. Brewster, W. M. ■ Ellis, J. B. Birton A Co., Canton. Ga.; J. ’ A. Stover. J. W. Dyer, painters, Carters-! villc; John A. Matthias, Casa sLuion, Ga. ' Pru .-a to suit the times. aiu 25 4-2 m IF YOU WANT PRINTING DONE. 1 with ueatiivi -s and dispatch, call at this office. PROF. VINCENT'S SEI ECT HIGH SCHOOL FOR Young & Middle-aged Men WILL OPEN THE REGULAR TERM OF TEN MONTHS At Canton, Georgia, ON THE FIRST MONDAY IN SEPTEMBER. THE OURRIGULUM embraces a thorough course of Hi® Latin, Greek, and German laegnaj®; fW Natural, Mental and Moral Sciences ; the United States Military Academe Course of Mathematics, and a Practical Business Course. Special attention is given to Note and Letter-writing, Land Surveying, Science of Accounts, Legal Forms and Commercial Law, and the Applied Sciences. THE SYSTEM OF TEACHING discards in toto the mevu/riter and rigidly enforces the rationale— the reason why and wherefore — method. Students are taught to tbink for themselves. THE TEXT-BOOKS used are the very Vanguards of Scientific Progress. THE RECITATIONS are always lively, awakening and delightful to young men who earnestly desire to get a solid and progressive education in the shortest time and at the least possible ex pense. Only a small number of young men will be admitted, and to them the Principal will give every needed attention. Young men who have time or money to throw away—who do not mean to study for the love and use of it —are not wanted. CANTON < is situated on the banks of the Etowah, twenty-four miles above Cartersville and twenty-five mites north of Marietta, 'on tho projected Marietta and North Georgia Rail load, is surrounded by beautiful mountain scenery, water as pure as gurgles from the earth, the atmosphere salubrious and salu tary, its population quiet, industrious, gen erous, and highly moral —just the place to do earnest, hard studying. BOARD has been engaged at tile justly popular Canton Hotel and with select faniiliesat from $8 00 to $12.50 per month. TUITION invariably five dollars per month. REFERENCES. Believing young men who have for the most part been educated by the Principal, and who are now in life’s arena, are the best judges of his competency and efficiency, he takes the liberty to refer those interested to the following former pupils: E. D. Little, M. D., Duluth, Ga. Henry Strickland, Principal Bay Creek Academy. W. L. Moore, M. D., Gainsville, Ga. Goo. K. Looper, Attorney, DawsonviJe. Geo. W. Hendrix, Attorney, Canton, Ga. J. B. Brown, Merchant, Tilton, Ga. J. C. Hughes, Teacher, Mt. Zion, For syth County, Ga. D. I). McConnel, Attorney, Acworth. M. J. Lewis, Clerk, Atlanta, Ga. IV. P. Hughes, Teacher, Big Creek, Ga. I). W. Meadows, Teacher, Danielsville. J. W. Estes, Merchant, Cumtning, Ga. Thos. O. Wolford, R. R. Agent, Carters ville, Ga. I. N. Strickland, Civil Engineer, Duluth. Geo. W. Collier, Teacher, Atlanta, Ga. Allison Green, Clerk, Atlanta, Ga. T. G. Donaldson, Farmer, Atlanta, Ga. Jabez Galt, Farmer, Canton, Ga. H. 11. Parks, Traveling Agent Atlanta Constitution. J. A. Baker, Farmer, Cartersville, Ga. For further particulars, address JAMES U. VINCENT, Canton, Georgia. Aug 4, 1-lm CARTERSVILLE SALE & LIVERY STABLE BY Roberts A Stashes* (Successors to Roberts & Tumllß.) This is one of the largest and best ar ranged establishments in North Georgia. The building is eligibly situated near the depot and court-house, and is well stocked with GOOD HORSES AND SUPERIOR VEHICLES, wlTich are ready at all times for those who wish to ride, either on business or lor plea sure. The proprietors keep constantly on hand a GOOD SUPPLY OF FOOD FOR HORSES, and have in their employ taithful gnxtma io take care of stuck left in their charge. We will BUY, SELL, AND EXCHANGE Horses and Mules on very accommodating terms. ' jal ly Bargain Offered. CANTON NEEDS A TIN-SHOP. \ NO. 1 SET Tof Tinner’s Tools, with 2 A a small quantity of Raw Stock, can be bought at low figures, or on short time, with approved notes. For information, app v editor of this paper. Aug 4,1 3m Brewster, Sharp &Dowda, rvßuasßßß w Tim csaxom asoxsiAS, Real Estate Ajente, BUY AND SELL BEAL ESTATE, Examine Titles, I TAXES, FURNISH ABSTRACTS, I Make Golleotions, ATTEND PROMPTLY TO ILL BUSI NESS IN OUR LINE. OFFICE or TfW CHEBOKEB GEORGIAN* CANTON, GEORGIA; THE CHEROKEE GEORGIAN, A Weekly Newspaper, PUBLISHED AT CANTON, GEORGIA; And. Devoted to the Interests of Cherokee G NTgla. TZEEUE TV ill contain, from time to time, the Latest News, and will give ito readers an interesting variety of LITERARY, MORAL, AGRICULTURAL, EDUCATIONAL, TEMPERANCE AND POLITICAL, READING MATTER. It is a Home Enterprise, and every citizen in Cherokee and adjoin ing counties should give it his encouragement and support. Ihi Georgian will bo AIT EXCELLENT ADVERTISING- MEDIUM, and merchants and others, who wish to secure tho vast trade fiom the mountain counties, would do well to avail themselves of tho advantages which it offers. Job Work of All Kinds Will be executed at Th» Georgia* office, in tho neatest stylo end •» the most liberal terms. BARTER of all kinds taken for Job Work and subscriptions. TERMS OF TZLEI G-EORCIAN. Ono Year, Eight Months 1 r? Four Months . A liberal discount will be made to clubs. BREWSTER & SHARP, Proprietors. J. 0. DOWDA, Business Manager. The Greatest Aledioal DiscovaFV OF THE Nineteenth Century. Health, Beauty and Happiness Restored to Modern Womanhoob/ Dr. I. Bradfield’* WmmmM FEMALE REGULATOR. BEST FRIEND.. HEAD! READI DEAD ! It is well known to doctors and women that the latter are subject to numerous dis ra«e< peculiar to tlrnir *‘x, such as Suppression of the Menses, Whites, Painful Monthly Periods, Rheumatism of the Back and Womb, Irregular Menstruation, Hemorrhage m Excessive “Flow,” and Prolapsus Uteri, or Falling of the Womb. The Profession has, in vain for many years, sought diligently for some remedy that would enable them Is treat this disease with success. At last that remedy has been discovered, by on« of ths most skillful physicians in the State ot Georgia. The remedy is Dr. Bracineld.’s Female Regulator. o—O —o Blooming in all Her Pristine Beauty, Strength and Elasticity— Tried Doctor at tef Doctor. Rutledge, Ga., February 16th, 1871, This is to certify that my wife was an invalid tor six years. Had disease of tho womb, attended with headache, weight in the lower part of the back; suffered from lan fpior, exhaustion and nervousness, loss of appetite ami flesh. 81>* had become So ex* must cd and weak, her friends were apprehensive she would never grt well. I tried doctor after doctor, and many patent medic itV'S—had despaired of the improvement when, fortunately, she commenced tak'tig DR. BRADFIELD'S FEMALE REGULA TOR. She is now well; and three oi four bottlea cured her. Improved in health, ap petite and flesh, she is blooming in all her pristine beauty, strength and elasticity. I re gard you as hf.b saviour from the dark portals of death, and my cenepacto*. Jhy your sha<low never grow less, ami you never become weary in jvell doing. aug2«-ly JOH* Thankful for the very flattering reception tl»e FEMALE REGULATOR has met With from all portions of the country, the Proprietor begs leave to announce that he has largely increased his manufacturing facilities, and hope* that before very long hw will he able to place within the reach of every sutfering woman this, the greateat boon Mher sex t^‘ Price, $1.50 per Bottle. For sale by all Druggists in the United Statm. L. 11 BRADFIELD, Proprietor, Atlanta, Georgia,