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DIRECTORY-
STATE GOVERNMENT.
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James M. Smith, Governor.
N. C. Barnet. Secretary of State.
J. W. Goldsmith. Comptroller General.
John Jones, Treasurer.
Joel lirnnhaip, Librarian.
John T. Brown, Principal Keeper of the
Penitentiary. , „
Gustavus J. Orr, State School Commis
sioner. , . . ,
J N, Janes, Commissioner of Agricul
ture. .
Thomas D. Little, State Geologist.
JUDICIAL.
blue ridge circuit.
Noel B. Kmglit. Judge.
C. D. Phillips, Solicitor General.
June of Holding Court.
CnRRoKEK —Foiiifli Monday in I’ebru
ary, and first Monday in August.
Cobb—Second Monday in March and
Jfovvmber. ,
Dawson—Third Monday m April and
Mecopd 7 <mi’av in Scpuinbt r
Fannin- Thiid Monday in May and Oc
t«*ber. , .. .
Forsyth—First M<»n<biy in April and
f-urth Moral y in Alienist.
Gii.’i'er-—Second .Monday in May and
October. ...... >
Lumpkin—Second Monday in April and
flr«t .Mondav in S ph-mb- r.
Milton—l'onrth Monday in March and
third Monday in August.
pKSKKNS—Fourth Monday in April ami
Henteiuln-r. , ,
Towns-Monday alter tour’ll Monday in
M<v ami Och.b. r. .
U.xto.N—Fourth Monday m Mav and Oc
««ber.
COUNTY OFFICERS.
C. M. McClure, Ordinary. Regular court
ftr»t Monday in each month.
J. W. Hudson, Oh rk Superior Court.
M. P. Morris, Sheriff.
K. G. Gramling, Deputy Slu rilT.
J»hn <4. Evans. Ti easurer.
Win. N. Wilson, Tax Receiver.
. w Joseph G Dupree, 'Tax Coln-elor.
Wn». W. II iwkins, Surveyor.
; Win. Rampley, Coroner.
JUSTICE COURT-CANTON DIS.
Jiiitvph E. Hutson, J. P.
X. F. Daniel, N. P.
M. G. Danii l, L. U
, TOWN GOVERNMENT.
W. A. Trnsrley, Mayor.
J. W Hu Ison, Recorder.
J*mHlflf KHl»v, J»<*z G»F. J. M. Hnr
4i*. J M. McAtee, klieodorc Turk, Alder-
■U.
county. Hoard of education.
James O. Dowda, President.
James W; Hudson, County School Com
s»d«aiouer.
prof James U. Vine* nt. Examiner
Joseph M. McAfee. Allen Keith, Joseph
J. Maddox, John R Moore.
Meetings quarterly, in the court house.
ORKKOKEB
A’. TI(»N.
Jam** o. fMiwdn, l»nsidenl.
M. B Th. gb*. Vice-President.
C. M Met lure, Secretary.
J. W. Treasurer.
John D AH-war, Censor Morum.
Prof .him# V. Vinecut. Association (. or
*e«|*ondrnt ,
lirgubu* meeting* every second Saturday
ia •nch month, ul 10 a. in.
*’ U> ' RELIGIOVS.
THpHst Canton Ga, time of
fourth SUndr.v in inch month.
' ' BeV. M. B. T'-.ggh’, Pastor.
M. E. C'hmih. time of service, preachers
la charge
Hrv. W G Hanson, first Sunday.
Rrv. B. K. L ilbetlcr, second.
Rev. J. M. Hanim, third.
MASONIC.
CiNTirN I«oD'iK, N<». 77. met is first aud
thirvi MoiiHwv nieh’s in each numib.
James A Sna’ls rs. W. M.
Joseph M. HvA:ix\Sen tnry.
FlXfc* p'puE, No. 282, meets first and
third Sdnril»«'. 2 n m.
C: M. MoUhuv, W. M
O/W P.Hm.Vc. S cretary.
GOOD templars.
Canton l.iwr.. No. U'J. meets every
Ma’urdsv. 8 p in.
II F Ldt> r<r. \V C. T.
Jam s M I’Eh"
GRANGE
Canton Guy22s, C.mlou Ga.
J.ibtti Onit, Master.
J.iiph M. M.Aax Sevutarv.
Ije Cljcwncc icwrgtatt
POPPING THE QUESTION.
If you love me, tell me so ;
I have read in your eyes,
I have heard it in your sighs,
But my woman’s heart replies,
II you love me, tell me so !
Should I give you Yes, or No?
Nay, a girl may not confess
That her answer would be “Yes”
To such a question, unless
He who loves her tells her so.
It you love me, tell me go! [wait;
Love gives strength to watch and
Trust gives heart for any fate;
Rich or poor, unknown or great —
If you love me. tell me so !
Stonewall Jackson.
SOME TNTKIIESTTNG REMINISCENCES OF THE
PRAYING AND FIGHTING SOLDIER.
Sixteen years ago, when I was commenc
ing to preach (writes the Rev. Florence
McCarthy of Chicago), I was the pastor of
the Baptist church in the village of Lex
ington, in the Valley of Virginia, the seat
of the Virginia Military institute, and of
what is now called Washington and Lee
university. A more beautiful and romantic
spot Uian Lexington can not be found. The
village, and indeed the whole country, is a
succession of beautiful bills, which gradu
ally swell into lofty mountains, encircled
at ‘heir bases with glens and grottoes and
rivers of crystal, broken by waterfalls and
cascades without ntimb'-r. A few miles to
the east, the Blue lidge, like a wall of cloud,
extends from not th to south as far as the
eye can reach ; and, on the West, numerous
mountain p aks rise above the general out
line of the horizon. A few miles to the
south is the famous natural ’midge. The
foliage and forests of the whole region are
beautiful, the air is always crisp and salu
brious, and the surroundings just such as
would stir the heart of a poet to the very
d< pths.
Sixteen years ago the village of Lexing
ton was a place of twenty five, bundre 1 in
habitants, and to all appearances had been
finish'd some twenty years earlier. The
building of a new house was almost an
unheard-of enterprise. There was no rail
r> ad nor telegraph nearer th in Staunton,
about twenty five miles awaj ; and stage
< oai hcs were the best the people ever hoped
for. On walking the streets the appearance
of the place was by no means attractive,
but when we looked down upon it from
some neighboring hill, its snow-white
houses and church-Stceples embowered in
gr en looked like a scene in some fairy
land. One of these points of view was
the site of the two institutions of lean ing
to which Inferred, and which, with spa
cious grounds around each, stand side by
side, the pride of the place. The village
has b< en called the Athens of Virginia, and
certainly contained some of the most learn
ed and some < f the most aristocratic fami
lies in the State.
When I became a pastor in Lexington,
Major Thom is Jonathan Jackson was, and
for several years had been, a professor in
the mili’ary institute. M hat his depart
ment was I neyir knew, but was not the
principal of the institution, and by no
means the most prominent teacher. I was
not personally iicqtuimled with him, but he
was some imes in my congregation. I saw
him constancy, and I remember distinctly
hi# reputation in the town about the time
the war broke out and his marvelous carter
commenced.
Most people at the North would lie some
what surprised to know what the personal
iqq c.truncc of this gn at man was. Jack
son was about six feet high, very lank and
long-limbed, largc-b med, loose-jointed, and
flat-footed. When he walked, it was with
a long, methodic il stride, accompanied with
a leisurely, pendulum-like swaying of the
arms. He wore a military cap, the visor of
which neatly touched his nose, and his
eyes secmetl always fixed on the ground
When I knew him he always wore short
whiskers and mustache, which concealed
the lower part of his face. But I retni'in
l»cr d stinctly meeting him one day on the
I first Bull Rim balthfield, the day after the
‘ battle, and ge ling a view of his mouth.
The mouth is usually a great index of char
acter ; but any one would search Jackson s
mouth in vain for any sign of greatness.
His lips were thin and nd, his upper lip
shoit, and the corners of his mouth slight- i
lv upturned; the whole mouth expnssing
in a most unmistakable way a vast amount
of sweenies and gentleness, but giving uo j
hint of courage, endurance, perseverance,
or any s >rt ot genius. Jackson’s voice was
like his mouth, very soft, kindly, and inar
ticulate sometimes like a taint j ibber. His
forehead, nose, an I chin were prominent,
and coires|»ndud more with his character.
It is pretty sa c to say that, while his ap
pearance and carriage were somewhat
eccentric, bis looks were entirely destitute
! of anything <i diugut, and that he passed
I for an ordinary-looking maw.
| The most prominent trait in Jackson's
character was his piety. He was a mem
i bet of the I’as’ ytt iian church in the vil
lage, .m i w.,s will known as an bund !e,
i conscientious, devoted, *nd consistent
■Christian man. He was not only a con
, slant attendant on preaching, but a conse-
CANTOX, CHEROKEE COUNTY, GA., WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 10, 1875.
Virtue and Intelligence—The Safeguards of Liberty.
in the 8 mday school, an exlmrler in the
prayer meeting, and a systematic and mu
nificent giver to every benevolent object
In illustration of this point it is related that
a day or two after the first battle of Bull
Run the whole village collected at the
stairc stand in a storm of excitement, await
ing the news. When the stage arrived and
the mail was opened, it was announced that
Dr. White, the venerable pastor of the
Presbyterian church, who was present, had
received a letter from General Jackson.
The Doctor mounted the stand, arranged
his spectacles, broke the envoi >pe, and pro
ceeded to read to the anxious crowd the
momentous document. It ran somewhat
as follows:
“Dear PastorWe had a battle yester
day. Inclosed please find check for SIOO,
being my subscription f>r foreign missions
now due.”
And the fervent piety seemed to deepen,
during his life in the army. His hours of
prayer while in the tented field were ob
served with singular faithfulness. The old
negro who was his body servant in the field
declared that he could tell when there was
going to be any heavy fighting by the con
stancy with which bis master gave himself
to his devotions. And Jackson’s humble
faith in God shone forth the brightest in
his dying moment; for, after receiving his
death-wound, when all about him were
overwhelmed with grief, he played the part
of comforter, and constantly exclaimed:
“It is all right; it is all right.”
It was said and believed in Jackson’s
corps that the General was always engaged
in prayer whenever he was fighting, and
that, as lie rode along the lines in the lead
en hail, his right hand was always raised
beseechingly to heaven. This had a won
derfully inspiring effect on bis Virginians,
who were all intensely religious men; but,
unfortunately for poetry and romance, the
impression was afterward discovered to be
unfounded. Jackson, early in the war,
had received a wound in the right hand,
which, I must not omit to say, parenthetic
ally, he refused, Sydney-like, to let the sur
geon dress until some piivate soldiers had
be<-n wailed on. This wound always inter
fered with the circulation of the blood in
that hand, so that he felt more comfortable
when it was held upright, as if he was un
de r the influence of strong emotion; and,
as he was always a sleepy looking man,
and appeared al all times as if he bad the
smoke of the camp-fire blowing in his ( yes,
it is easy to sec how natural it was for the
men to get the idea that lie was praying all
the time he was chasing Banks.
But the point in which the public is the
farthest astray concerning Jackson is his
intellect. Almost every one at the North,
who remembers his brilliant achievements,
takes it for granted that he was a brilliant
scholar. But the tiuth is, General Jackson
was remarkable for his lack of what is
called the intellectual acumen. lie gradu
ated about third in his class from West
Point, but it is universally conceded that it
was the result of his extraordinary deter
mination and persevi ramc. and no biight
ncss ot mind. He never cut any figure as
’ a professor, and was generally regarded as
a very dull, obtuse sort of a person 1 have
: heard a graduate of the Military institute
ridiculing Jackson's weakness as a teacher
of mathematics. He said he had known
5 Jackson to pass as satisfactory a problem
r which one of the class had wotked out on
the blacklioard, and afterward, as the boys
learned by peeping through the key-hole,
1 spend the whole afternoon trying to under
stand what was on the board himself.
I And yet. on other accounts, Jackson was
( very much licloved by the cadets. He was
j extraordinarily kind and gentle. Ibe
graduate above refen cd to told me that he
once became angry with Jackson in the
class-room, and made some demonstration
of hatred, and that Jackson’s only reply
was in his faint, jabbering, but benevolent
tone of voice: “Now, now, Mr. Patton,
do you just put all that hatred against your
lesson instead ot against me, and jou w ill
have no difficulty. ’
The cadets were fond of him for his sin
gular courage also. It was said that on ;
one occasion a numlxr of them mounted
the barracks at the hour when Jackson
had to walk under the caves of the house.
i and dropped brickbats in front of him as
1 he walked along, en leavoring to see how J
j nc&r they could come to his head without
i hitting it. As this trick was played at the
; immediate risk of killing the innocent pro-
■ fessor, it would hardly be believed that the |
cadets would practice it, unless 'he reader
was first informed that these cadets were ■
generally reckless, riotous, irresponsible and ;
unscrupulous desperadoes. It is said that
they succeeded admirably in making al:
* the bricks uraze Professor Jackson's nesc. !
' But, to their utter surprise, the Major did t
i not Iw.k up, nor around, nor quicken his ,
Space at all. He possessed such extraordi
' narv nerve and determination that Le
| treated the whole performance with icy
contempt. From that time be was greatly
,; admired aud beloved for his physical c-our
. | age. He was also remarkable for his punc-
■ tuaiity. Though a very solemn, taciturn,
■ islugsish aud rather dignified man. he was
. vi..a »c ----x- —-—>«-x- ‘
he was- a minute behind tim(Tin going to
meet his class.
One comical peculiarity of Jackson, was
his talent for going to sleep. When I lived
in Lexington it was a well-known fact
there that the Major, notwithstanding his
punctilious attendance at church, h id never
heard Dr. White preach. About the time
that the second hymn was sung lie invari
ably went to the land of nod, whence he
returned only when aroused by the last
hymn. It was said that this habit was the
efft ct of disease, and could not be helped.
It foKowed him all through life, and I saw’
him yield to it once in the army. On one
Sunday, somewhere in Eastern Virginia, I
remember attending a ptcaching service in
front of General Jackson’s headquarters.
The General sat at the preacher’s right
hand on a backless camp stool. As the
sun was very hot and tin re was no shade,
he held his enp in his right hand between
his head and the sun, his reverence not per
mitting him to place it on his head, as
many others did theirs. With his band
elevated in that way, he peacefully glided
off into dreamland and slept without mov
ing his arm or nodding once, until the noise
of the closing exercisis startled him into
consciousness again. The truth is, General
Jackson always looked as if be were
asleep ; and even when walking he had the
appearance of a somnambulist.
Jackson, while he was a gentle and be
nevolent man, and an extremely urbane
and polite man, was also a very grave man.
And it was said in Lexington that the only
time any one saw him laugh was when the
war broke out. But this story was proba
bly apochryphal, for I was informed on
good authority that he viewed the com
mencement of hostilities with grief and
horror. lie had sc<n service in Mexico
and lie assured the people of the village,
who wcie boiling over with the war spirit,
that they did not know what war was, or
their rejoicing would be turned to wailing.
It is a singular thing in the retrospect
that ‘.lie Southern people w< rc so well
aware that Jackson was a stupid dunce of
a fellow, that even his brilliant successes
did not entirely convince them that he
coiU4 be trusted, lie was made a colonel,
and acquitted himself so handsomely that
they made him a brigadier; but the opinion
of his friends was that he was advanced
too quickly, and that he would prove a
failure; and the very same opinions were
reiterated when lie was macle a major gen
eral. And, notwithstanding all of the
adoring admiration with which the South
ern people cherish his memory’ to-.lay, they
still think he never could have taken Lee’s
place. D is rny opinion, however —and I
think his whole career bears me out in it —
that he would have been far more success
ful as commander-in-chits than be was as
lieutenant general, and more so by far than
Lee was. His ability never had a field
wide enough to exert itself in.
Jackson’s military character was a very
strong one, totally unlike that of any of the
great generals ot modern times. Its pecu
liarities lay in its simplicity. Jackson was
never known to devise a complicated cam
paign. General Lee’s plans consisted cf a
hundred parts, and although they were con
cocted with consummate ability, some ot
them always broke down on the field of
battle. But Jackson’s strategy consisted
simply in reaching some point before his
opponent had the slightest idea he could
1 do it, and then fighting him with a good
’ deal of dash. All his wonderful feats were
‘ accomplished by rapid marching, so that
the rest of the army used to call his troops
’ “Jackson’s foot cavalry.” And it is a very
5 singular fact that, although the Federal
3 generals knew that Jackson was as fleet as
' the wind, and were always making allow-
ances in their plans for his extraordinary
rapidity of movement, he continued, to the
day of his death, to surprise them in the
same wav. When Lee was making ready
to attack McClellan in front of Richmond,
I was in ’.bat devoted city, and I remember
distinctly that Jackson was in the lower
valley, two or three hundred miles away;
but when operations began, he was within
sixteen miles of the city, and the next day
fill on McClellan’s right, like a thunderbolt
from a clear sky.
Jackson’s peculiar mode of warfare by
surprises was illustrated the very first time
that he was intrusted with an independent
command. Soon after the first battle of
Bull Run, when Jackson was a brigadier,
General Joe Johnston put him in command
of one or two brigades and sent him from
Manassas Junction over the Blue ridge,
into the Valier of Virginia, to hang around
Manchester, chiefly a-s an army of observa
tion. Jackson no sooner reached Winches
ter than he learned that Milroy with a
j large force was strongly intrenched at Ber
ryville, fifty miles off. Considering tba‘, in
j addition to his earthworks, the weather
was bitter cold, the roads deep, the ground
'covered with snow, anil Jacksons men
verv pooriv clad, Milroy devoted himself
entirely to playing euchcr. But one morn
' ing he looked out of his tent and saw
Stonewall Jackson’s men coining up the
road. The result was that Milroy’s army
was chased into Maryland, Jackson pursu
it tliem v ~ *j■ th lixt'-l dt’eriniL: .on oj
going to Washington. But Jeff. Davis,
who regarded himself as the only great
general in the South, learning of Jackson’s
exploit, and inferring most assuredly that
he was erazy, sent a hasty telegram to him
to “come back,” in answer to which it is
said the indignant Stonewall sent him
word to send him “more men and fewer
orders.”
This singular faculty of outmarching
everybody was the key to Jim k-on’s suc
cess, but he possessed several great traits of
character, without which this would have
been eßLer impossible or of no use. Jack
son was a man of iron constitution and
superhuman powers of endurance. lie
was a remarkably punctual man. He was
a rigid disciplinarian. He possessed a
strong religious faith, and in all his labors
enjoyed the powerful support of his con
science. And then he was a person of
conspicuous moral and physical courage
Though an extremely modest man, be is
credited with having said of himself, that
he really did not know’ what the feeling of
fear was. And to this wonderful fearless
ness he at last fell a victim, in the Wilder
ness, by riiling on horseback away in front
of his lines on a dark night, in an unknow’n
country, with a view’ of ascertaining, by
getting himself shot at, where the enemy
was. But these qualities, combined with
his humility in mixing with the private
soldiers in their religious meetings, and his
unostentatious appearance, his dingy, sun
burned, yellow-gray clothes, and bis pot
bellied sorrel riding mare, and especially
his succcssis, gave him at last such a hold
on the confidence and affection of his corps
that be was utterly invincible.
That Jackson should have acquired the
sobriquet of “Stonewall” is one of the sole
cisms of the war. It is said that it was
given him at the first battle of Bull Run,
on account of the stubborn resistance he
made just before the Federal stampede;
and it is true that at the second battle of
Buli Run, while waiting for Longstreet, he
made a still more heroic stand in the face
of overwhelming numbers; but nothing
could be a greater slander on Jackson than
to call him Stonewall. Longstreet was the
real Stonewall. For reforming his lines
after lin y had been crushed, and keeping
his men up to the scratch after they had
been licked ail to pieces, Longstreet was
the man. But Jackson scorned defensive
warfare, and was so famous for being the
attacking party and for making unexpected
assaults, that, if he had been called “Eagle”
or “Avalanche,” it would have been infin
itely more appropriate.
There arc two anecdotes of Jackson that
were current in the Southern army during
his lifetime, which are very illustrative cf
his character, and which, as I have never
seen them in print, I will narrate. The
first shows how his punctual habits —with-
out which it is safe to say he never could
have been a great man—followed him from
the Military institute to the field. It used
to be said among the officers that on one
occasion Jackson sent a messenger to one
of his captains to meet him at headquarters
at ten minutes to twelve o’clock. At the
appointed moment the General was seated
in front of his tent, ready for business. But
twelve o’clock came, and tiic Captain had
' not appeared. The hour ot noon was,
with Jackson, the hour of prayer, and he
immediately withdrew into bis inner tent,
where he remained in seclusion for half an
hour. When he emerged again, he found
. the delinquent captain sitting meekly in
front of headquarters awaiting his return.
11 But Jackson was so disgusted with his un
■ I soldierly dilatoriness that be refused to tell
I i him the oljectof the summons or have
; anything to say to him, but with a gentle
. wave of the hand dismissed him, crestfallen
and disgraced, to bis regiment.
The other anecdote brings up a very dif
ferent scene. General Burnside baxing
very foolishly crossed the Rappahannock
river at Fredericksburg, where Lee was en
sconced in impregnable natural fortifica
tions, and having been dreadfully cut to
pieces during the afternoon and evening,
Lee called a council of war late in the
night to determine w hat should be done to
follow up his advantage. Among the ma- ,
jor generals present was Jackson, who, as ,
soon as he got a scat, was fast asleep, and
remained so throughout the conference.
When every one else had given his opin
ion. Jackson was, with some difficulty,
1 waked up, and r< quested to say what be
I thought had belter be done with the ene
' my, and the only words that could be ex
tracted from him were: “Drive ’em in
river; drive ’em in river;’’ after mumbling
which he instantly relapsed into a state ot
' unconsciousness.
Nothing could be more characteristic of
the great captain than this incident. The
other generals were full of inarching and
counter-marching, of combinations aud
tricks, and heroic adventures ; Jackson had
only one weapon— surprise. He knew that
Burnside’s men were lying along the bank
of the river in multitudes, in a terribly de
moralized condition, and that a night a'tack
would strike terror, and drive them like
sheep into the Rappahannock. He af.er
waids explained that it was a part oi his
'; ’ n that the attack should be made ia the
VOLUME L—NUMBER 15.
darkest part of the night, with fixed bayo
nets, and that the Confederates, in order to r
avoid slaughtering each other, should strip
themselves stark naked. Truly this was an
original and startling project; but I have
never yet seen any one who doubted that,
it it had been carried out, not a baker'#
dozen of Burnside’s troops would have es
caped.
The admiration and love of the Southern
army for Jackson was something wonder
ful. Tin re never was a clearer case of
hero-worship. He was regarded as a fault
less man, and an invincible man ; and I
suppose he could at any time have got his
men to march out by platoons and be shot,
if it would have gratified him in the slight
est degree. At his death the whole South
whs in bars, and not more for their irrep
arable loss than on account of their tender
love for the man.
As regards Jackson’s relation with Lee
and the other great Southern generals, it
was obvious to me that they felt toward
each other like brothers, and never knew
what the feeling of jealousy was. Lee was
always thrusting Jackson forward when
ever anything glorious was to be done, and
Jackson always showed the most sincere
admiration and respect for Lee’s plans and
orders. When victory perched on their
banners, Lee hugged Jackson, and told him
the credit was all due to him ; then Jack
son would declare that Lee was the man
that deserved all the praise ; and then both'
of them would agree that to God belonged
all the glory. And the strangest of all
was, that the Southern people could love
both of these men so extravagantly, and
never know which they loved the best.
An Obstinate Mother. —Day before
yesterday Mrs. Bliss, of Mullet street, found
a eucher deck in her boy’s pocket, and
when she took him by the hair of the head
he calmly said :
‘Hold on, mother—it isn’t your play?
‘l’ll play you 1’ she hissed, tightening her
1 grip. ‘How came you by these here cat dh?”
! ” ‘Mother, you shouldn’t trump me this
way l’ he exclaimed.
‘Trump! trumps! What do you know
about trumps ?’
‘Why, mother, any fool knows that the
right and left bower wiil take an ace every
time.’
'lt will, eh ?’ she hissed as she walked
him around.
‘Of course it will; if diamonds are. trumps,
for instance, and I hold the right and left
bower —’
‘Bowers! bowers! I’ll bower you to death
young man !’she saidas she walked him
the other way.
Or, suppose that spades were trumps,
you held the nine spot and king and turned
up the ace, and what would you do?’ he
earnestly inquired.
‘Oh I’ll show you what I’d do!’ she
grow’led as she got a left-hander in his (‘ar.
‘l’ll teach you a lesson you’ll never forget !’
‘That wouldn’t be Hoyle, mother, you
could pick up the ace and make anoint
every ’
But she threw him over her knee and
played a lone hand.
Life. —The mere lapse of years Is not
life. To eat, ([rink and sleep; to be ex
posed to the darkness and the light; to pace
around the mill of habit and turn the wheel
of wealth ; to make reason our book-keeper,
and turn thought into an implement of
trade —that is not life. In all this but a
poor fraction of the consciousness of hu
manity is a waked; aud the sanctities still
slumber which make it most worth while to
be. Knowledge, truth, love, beauty, good
ness, faith, alone give vitality to the me
chanism of existence. The length of mirth,
which vibrates through the heart; the tears
which freshen the dry wastes within ; the
music which brings childhood back; tho
prayer which call future near; the doubt
that makes us hesitate; the death which
startles us with its mystery ; the hardships
which force us to struggle; the anxiety that
ends in trust—these arc the true nourish
ments of the natural being.
Howto Choose a Wife. —That young
lady will make you a good wife who docs
: not apo'iogize when you find her at work in
1 the kitchen, but continues her task until it
is finished.
When you hear a lady say, “I shall attend
chureh and wear ray old bonnet aud water
proof cloak, for fear we shall have a rain
storm,” depend upon it she will make a good
wife.
When a daughter remarks, ‘-Mother, I
would not hire help, for I can assist you to
do all the work in the kitchen,” set it down
that she will make somebody a good wife.
Whin you hear a young lady saying to
her father, “Don’t purchase a very expen
sive or showy dress for me, but one that
will wear best,” you may be certain she
will make a good wife.
We have heard many women complain
of their husbands’ neglect of home. A
! spoonful of honey will keep more bees in
the hive than will ten of vinegar.
Nothing is more easy than to do nas
clxief; nothing is more difficult than to suf
fer without complaining.