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LOVE'S ARITHMETIC.
Yes, you may kiss me once—
Just once, not even twic •;
You wicked wretch, you g tve me two !
No; it isn’t nice.
You have your orders, sir—
Once, only once, I say—
How very strange, you cannot coent!
Now, dear, will you obey?
Oh, well, if you’re so dull
I’ll give you one chance more;
Now try to get it right this time —•
You horrid creature! Four I
Just understand me, please
I told you only one,
And if you do me out of four
They’ll have to be undone.
There, then I give you up.
The hopelessest of dunces ;
But you can kiss me just once more,
That means a hundred ounces!
Contributed to The Georgian.
What I Used to See, and What I See
Now.
At the commencement of the civil war,
free government had reached the climax of
its glory. Since then, everything condu
cive to individual or national prosperity is
demoralized, decay is written in unmistak
able characters upon individual enterprise,
and the nation’s doom is a question of thii<-
unless we inaugurate a new, or rather an
old, system. By this I mean that we must
go back to first principles. The nation is
now making prcpaiation for the grand Cen
tennial show, which will cost or squander
thousands of dollars and valna' le time —
which is money wasted to celebrate a bank
rupt and degraded failure. It would be in
order if the Chief Executive had the moral
courage and Christian qualifications to pro
claim a big prayer-meeting, to invoke the
God who lules the destinies of nations to
turn back the tide of lawlessness and op
pression which has been the order of con
gressional legislation for the past ten years.
But I am digressing.
We hear a great deal sai 1 about hard
times and scarcity of money. Lelnsinves
tigate this trouble. Ours are an agricul
people. There thould be nnmxn
panic to a fanner—none to anybody out of
debt. The fault, in a great measure, is our
own. A few years ago I saw on almost ev
ery farm an animal—now almost unknown
—called a hog, which costs us a l«rge por
tion of our cotton crop, to say nothing o'
lard, which enters into a great many of the
culinary fixings, and which, strange to say,
is made from this hog. I used to see the
females on almost every farm manufacture
and make up, by hand, all the family’s
working-clothes Our sweethearts, with a
plain, neat, ten-yard calico harto-tl
neater and more desirable than the stylish
woman of to-day, with her double-skirt tie
back and jigtrarees of thirty or forty yards,
made up ragged on a high-priced sewing
machine.
I see a great many dissatisfied people
young men especially, going west in search
of a j<>b—the most of them without a dol
lar. They want a good place to lioanl,
good wages, and have a passion for tine
clothes; fancy boots a specialty; warrant
ed not to work a lick if it can possibly be
avoided. Going west, because lauds are
cheap. Well, comment is unnecessary.
I see a great many salaried officers, which
are so many drains upon the tax-payers of
the country. A great many of them ate
useless sappera of tbc country’s prosperity,
and others are receiving sums in excess of
the services rendered, and yet they claim to
be the people’s servants. If I hire a serv
ant, I claim the right to state the terms.
If the people pay the expenses of running
the machine, then let the people instruct
those very obedient servants how to spend
their money. There is a tax receiver, a
collector, and a county treasurer, each of
whom receive as much as half a dozen mtn
who plow all the year round, and these of
ficers could be dispensed with save one, and
that one's salary be reduced. It’s all in
“my eye, Betty Martin,” harping upon the
brain, responsibility and qualifications.
Anybody with common sense and an hon
est heart—those are the great qualifies'ions
necessary to discharge the duties, and there
are hundreds ready to sacrifice themselves
for half the present price, and congratilate (
themselves upon escaping plow-handles.,
Let the people memorialize the Legislature
to do away with all the offices that can
be dispensed with, and cut down in every
way possible public expenses. If our pres-,
ent members think it looks niggardly and
undignified to retrench, then let us send
other and better men, who will spend the
people’s money as they would their own.
Then we will have better times.
As I don’t want an office, and have no
friends to reward nor foes to punish, I make
free to alate plainly the opinions of an
Old Fogy
Mrs. Mili is was asked the other day
bow she managed to get along so nicely
with Mr. Millie, and she frankly replied :
“Oh, I fred him well. When a woman
marries, her happinees for a little while d>
’ pends upon the state of her husband’s heart,
after that it’s pretty much according to the
state of his stomach.'’
Virtue and Intelligence —Tile Safeguards of Liberty.
CANTOX, CHEROKEE COUNTY, GA, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 5, 1876.
Contributed to Tho Georgian.
Why Go West ?
“Westward the tide of empire w nds its
way,” etc.
And why westward, pray ? Can you tell
us? Is it noi because at the S »uth we
sleep? What has the West—though known
to be wonderful in resourcesand abundant
in such treasures as are craved by the hu
man heart—to offer as equal in all aspects
to those gifts s® lavishly liestowed upon the j
people who inhabit tbc Southern slope of
the Blue Ridge mountains ? The so-called
“tide of empire” is surely unai quaiuted with
this favored region. Your coirespondent
has recently met a gentleman all the way
from Denver, Colorado —yes, the tar famed
city of Denver, which is nestled down upon
the borders of Denver Lake, skirted around
by scenery and mountain peaks as beautiful
as a poet’s dream, where they tell us p* ople
forget to die, and from which place it is
said they must move away it they wish not
to live. How much we have heard, read,
and imagined about Denver. Why, Sirs,
we had concluded that it surely was tin
one place of our broad American Union
which comprised the great nonpareil of
natural beauty combined with climatic per
fection in every sense. And yet, rtrange
to tell, our ilenyer friend would like to
move from Colorado and come to the
Southern Blue Ridge country. The present
period of our Southern winter, especially
the past time weeks of murky, cloudy
days, i»» the most unfavorable time imagin
able to look at this country. And yet, the
aforesaid visitor’s knowledge of it i- limited
'o such an unfavorable view. Certainly ’ln
eyent, trifling though it. seems, lif s a bright
feather to the cap of *our people Up >
the citizens and acquaintance* met on his
route, our new friend bestowed cordial ami
well deserved praise. Why go West, then,
young man? The writer, it is true, has
not been to Denver, but has often been
West, and through many of its best parts,
and he has no hesitancy in saying that
your country is good enough, possibly bet
ter than you have merited Lay hold with
gloves off it you would in piove, dry. lop,
and beautify it, f«>r n» »“»•<• you W«—«
you will ceitainlv tie removed from some
one or more of Heaven’s choicest blessings
lying in profusion around you, but whicn it
may be you are too listless, or they are too
common for you rightly to appreciate and
enjoy. Certain it is that neither in the
West, East. North or South, affluence co * -
’orts, a good name, or high p'-si’itm, or any
golden prize can be attained without dili
gence, good habits, Drain work, mtiM.le
work and constant application. All the es
sentials for the make np of a wealthy,
populous, s< If- ustaining 1 nd ! : c within the
superb belt of the South i • Blue Ridge
slope. Nothing is lacking bit* phica and
enterprise. Capital follows th*sc, it does
not make them, but is produced and en
ticed hy them. Far betti ris it ter a coni*
inanity m a town to lie without natural
I'dvantiges w Inn thev goto work with a
,b l< t mined and united spirit to make them,
than for to oth* r provided with every gift
nature can Ixstow, but who being content
ed with their lucky Jot qtiw tly and de
mnrdy fold thiir hands, awaiting at ease
for great things to turn up lor them
VIKOtL.
Contributed to The Georgian
A Temperance Essay
READ XT A LADT MEMBER OF BALACOA
GOOD TEMPLAR*’ LODGE.
When I take a retrospective view of our
history, and see the many pit-falls into
which anient spirits have drawn many of
our unfortunate race, the spectacle appals
me. Amcng the fallen we see some of our
country’s lieat men, brought to rain and
shame by taking the first fabe step —yea,
taking the first, the fatal dram. We have ,
known some of our country's noblest blood i
who had wealth, talent, and scores of i
friends, come down step by step, and get so
low in the scale of respectability from the ;
use of this horrid intoxicating dram, that
their best friends deserted them, and their
wiv< s, their onec bosom companions, would
draw back from them, and their ill-tn ated
children, bone of their bone and flesh of <
their fl -sb, would fly from them as from
I monsters; for they act noi as men, hus
i bands, or fathers, but, when drank, they <
i are worse than brutes. Once man becomes
■ fond of this intoxicating drink, and«he will
' neglect bis business, then his family; his
j property goes to waste ; his helpless family ’
j comes to want, to poverty, and to tags,
and. while they are ragged and gnawed by
the pangs of hunger, and borering around
a chip fire in some cheerless cabin, he., the
red-eyed monster, is loafing around some
little village dram-shop, or rolling like the
i swine in the mud and filth of the street.
| Man, when intoxicated, is not in his
j right mind. He la comes highly offended
j al some slight remark made in a joke that
;he would not notice when sober, flies into
a passion, plunges his knife into the bosom,
may be, of oae of his best friends, sheds
I his life’s hlood, and sends a soul into eter
nity, perhaps unprepared to meet his God.
But it does not end here. The murderer
is arrested and chained down in a dungeon.
I W hen there he becomes sober, and Ixgius
to reflect. “How came I here?” he asks
“What does all this mean ? Ah !
fatal dram, it is thou that has brought me
to this! It I could only go back and live
my life over again, I would spurn thee as I
would a viper. But, alas ! it is too late. I
must now suff r the penalty of my heinous
crime.”
Now, my friends, let us unite our exer
tions to drive this fiery-headed monster
: troin our land. Let us neither buy, sell,
t use,-or patronize any one who d<,es deal in
. this obnoxious poison. Let us strive to sec
how much good we can do ; for, if we try.
we can accomplish much. Let us be more
punctual iu our attendance upon the lodge,
and zealous in the good cause. It is a cause
in which every one should take great inter
est. When the doors of the grog-shops are
closed, and temperance prevails over our
loved country, then we will be a prosperous
and happy people again.
Letter from Cherokee ( ounty.
• Canton, Ga., Dec. 3, 1875.
Editors Milledgeville Union and
Recorder On leaving your city some
days since, your correspondent proceeded
en n»yte to Atlanta, via the Georgia rail-’
road. We are glad to see and learn that
planWs in the sections from your place to
Atlanta arc manifesting unusual interest in
the sowing of small grain. The acreage
will probably exceed any crop ever before
planted in that section.
We arrived at Atlanta, where we spent
one d’ty. Business there seemed to be
more brisk, and business men more hope- ,
ful and in better spirits, than in any city .
which we have visited in some time, but _
all complained of a considerable falling off
in business to what it usually has been at j
tliitJ season. .
While in Atlanta we had the pleasure of
making the acquaintance of Captain J. M.
McAfee, a wealthy and leading citizen of
tnis town and county, who gave us a cor
dial invitation to visit this section of the t
State, and to go home with him, as be was 1
to start the next day. As the heading of <
this communication indicates, we accepted 1
tfie’fnvWiion. I
According to agreement, we proceeded i
from Atlanta to Marietta, on the Western i
and Atlantic train, the latter being the '
nearest point of railroad to this place. We ]
spent a good portion of one day in Mari- t
etta, ami. the Superior court being in ses- '
sion there, tbc town was pretty lively, i
H' p we saw a few familiar faces, among i
whom was General William Phillips. Tbc ’
G<-n. ral was professionally engaged in the i
court-room, but we had a pleasant conver
sation with him before leaving. He mani- i
fisted a great intciest in the Marietta and ■
North Georgia railroad, of which he is the
president.
The railroad is now gradt d to this place
(Canton), a distance of twenty-two miles, ;
and ties are being provided to lay the track
The prospects for completing the whole line i
to Murphy. North Carolina —where it will
be met by the line projected southward
from Knoxville—are very encouraging at I
the pres* nt time. We think there is no
load in the State that will be more profit
able to the people generally than this one, <
when it is completed. It runs through a
connt’-y for which there is now no outlet.
Corn here in Canton is bringing but fifty
cents a bushel for the best, and I am in
formed that a few miles above here in this
county thousands of bushels can be bought !
for forty cents a bushel. Sweet pota’oes
here are worth only thirty-five cents, while
cabbages and apples go tor a mere song.
Y’our section and southern Georgia need
these things, and the completion of the
Marietta and North Georgia road will en
able you to obtain them at much less cost
than you do from the West, and at the
same time the money you spend for such
j produce will remain in the State. We
! wish the General and the stockholders ■
' great success in the prosecution of this '
j enterprise. Rich iron, copper, and gold .
mine* are being discovered continually in
this section of the Slate, and miners arc at
work with encouraging success in a num
b rof them, al> of which, when opened
! up properly by railroad facilities, will add .
largely to the prosperity of our State. We J
know not, Messrs. Editors, that you will
' agree with us, but we say this road should *
be budt at all hazards. If it can not be
! done without State aid, the Legislature J
should not hesitate to give it in reason, j
' The State can lose nothing by so doing. I
I The taxable property in the section through j
which the road runs wilt be greatly in
creased, which will relieve property in
other sections in the same proportion, and,;
as we have already stated, will enable lax ..
payers in other parts of the State to obtain |
their supplies of meat, gram, minerals, etc., ;
at much less figures than they do from the •
West, which of itself leaves each taxpayer .
more more money and better able to pay ;
his taxes. So you see the interest will be a
mutual one all over the State, and hence we
repeat that, if State aid is necessary to the
completion of this road, the Legislature
should not hisitate to grant it.
We left Marietta by private conveyance,
in company with our friend Captain Mc-
Afee, en route to thi? place. We had *
nice time on the way, riding through and
viewing the. fertile mountain country. We
sav fertile, because the best lands we ever
saw we have seen about here. The Eto
wah river r ns very mar Canton, and
along its ba: k lie the best of lands. We
think we will m v r regret our trip to North
Georgia. It is a beautiful and very desir
able portion—yes, the most desirable to live
in of any portion of Georgia.
Canton is the county seat of Cherokee
county. The court-house and hotel are
excellent brick buildings, having been built
since the war, Rt a cost of ten or twelve
thousand dollars etch. There are some
four or five other brick buildings in the
place, most of which are business ho.uses,
quite a number of nice framed dwellings,
besides a number of others of less attrac
tion, nearly all of which have been built
since the war, the place having nearly been
burnt out bv the enemy. But the bi st
feature of all is the fact that there is no
liquor sold here, it having been prohibited
by a special act of the Legislature ; hence
the place is a quiet one. The people are
noted for their sobriety, hospitality and
morality. Since here we have had the
pleasure of becoming acquainted with the
editors of The Cherokee Georgian,
which paper is published in this place. We
have had free access to the office anti file
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of the times —the creation of a system of
water-line transportation gigantic in its
proportions and incalculable iu Itt results
in the advancement of the agricultural and
mineral interests of the sections which the
Coosa and its tributaries drain. The pro
po-ed improvement includes water lines of
about thirteen hundred miles in length, de
veloping vast resources of agricultural and
mineral wealth now comparatively locked
up for the want of cheaper transportation
than that secured by railread. These riv
ers, propelly and thoroughly improved,
will bring to the channels of trade a com
merce astounding in its magnitude and be
yond calculation in its benefits to the people
whose interests are directly to be enhanced.
Nor is the value of the work confined to
the interests of the people immediately
along the water line to be thus improved,
but will add greatly to the revenue of the
General and State governments. In this
light the work becomes a matter of na
tional import, appealing with great power
to the national benefit for its consumma
tion.
The Etowah river is comprised in this
system of transportation. Draining one of
the most fertile sections of Georgia, with
rich mines of minerals contiguous to it
that would be more profitably' developed
with cheap transportation, the removal of
obstructions to navigation in it is a subject
in which we of this section arc greatly and
vitally interested. With the unobstructed
passage of boats from Cartersville to Mo
bile, our agricultural and mineral produc
tions would find a cheap outlet to the
markets of the world that would increase
their value at least twenty-five per cent.
These boats returning with groceries and
the tropical productions would enable Car
tersville and the towns upon the Etowah
to successfully compete with Atlanta and
Augusta in tbc sale of these commodities.
When times become more propitious, and
the financial pressure is removed, such a
line of cheap transportation to the sea
would rekindle at an early day the fires of
our iron furnaces, and be the means of
adding scores to the number already erect
ed. The capital already invested would
soon appreciate to par value, and the idle
capital of the country, directed by skilled j
enterprise, would seek investment ir the |
development of the rich mines of mineral
wealth that are so profusely imbedded in
i our bills and mountains. Ex-
It is proverbial that the early bird catch
es the worm. But so,when you come to,
think of it, does the early fish—who wants
to anticipate bis brethren—and get hooked
for his pains. There is no depending on
these proverbs as far as great moral lessons
are concerned.
“If Jones undertakes to pull my ears, i
said a loud-mouthed fellow on a corner, “he
will just have his hands full, now.” The
crowd looked at the man’s ears and thought
so too.
“I go through my work,” as the needle
said to the idle boy. “But not until you are
pushed hard,” as the idle boy said to the
needle.
VOLUME 1.-NUMBER 22.
I I’liosphorus.
It is now a hundred years since phospho
rus was discovered by a German chemist,
and it is less than fifty years since phospho-
I rus became an article of extended manu
j ficlure in connection with lucifer matches,
ai a medicine, in various combinations, as a'
means for the extermination of vermin, and
as a component in some of the very best fer
tilizers, it being an indispensable food for
plant life. The bones and brain of every
human require a certain portion of phoe
phorus, and there is said to bo more than a
pound of pure phosphorus in a man or wo
man of average size. It is true we d«> not
actually eat this substance in its pure and
concentrated state, but it is nevertheless •’
constituent of our food in combination with 4
other elements. The cereals obtain it from 1
the phosphates, and w*e g> t it in a similar
manner from the particles of our daily
nourishment. Phosphorus was at first ob
tained, only in small quantities, by a long
and tedious process from urine. It is now
obtained in more ample supply from bone*.’
It is generally of a light amber color, and ir
semi-transparent, and in appearance greatly,
resembles fine wax. When more carefully
prepared it is almost colorless. It is highly
combustible, and burns in common air with
great rapidity, emitting a luminous vapor,
idhosphorous can lie easily cut with a knife,.
Hid by the aid of suitable machinery can
H' readily drawn out in a good sized “coni”
H a considerable length. Its specific grar-
H-is 1.77. It is insoluble in water; but
subjected to a heat of 148 degrees it
Hkes fire, and burns with a very bright
Hme. When phosphorus is inflamed in
Hygen, the light and heat are very inten-e,
Hhile the flatne greatly dazzles and con-
Hses the eye of the observer. Phosphoric
Hid is a combination of phosphorus with a
Hlifiable base. When phosphorus was first
Hud in the manufacture of matches, its
Hice in Europe was twenty dollars per
Hund, but by recent improved and econom
n*‘l chemical processes in its production,
more accessible material, and other causes,
its cost now does not exceed one dollar per
pound, and is frequently much less. Th*
seat of its largest pioaudiiou Txtn erenn*nT,
with factories also to some extent in Great
Britain and in the United States.
Don’t Worry About Yourxelf.
To regain or recover health persons should
be relieved from all anxiety concerning die
eases. The mind has power over the body.
For a person to think that he has a disease
will often produce that disease. Tin# we
see effected when the mind is intensely con
centrated upon the disease of another. It
is found in the hospital that surgeons and
physicians who make a speciality of cer
tain diseases are liable to die of it them
selves; and the mental power is so great
that sometimes people die of diseases which
they only have in imagination. We have
seen a person sea-sick in anticipation of a
voyage before reaching the vessel. We
have known a person to die of cancer in
the stomach when he had no cancer or
any other mortal disease. A blind-folded
man slightly pricked in the arm has faint
ed ard died from believing that he was
bleedfng to death.
Therefore, w'ell pjrion«, to remain well,
should be cheerful and happy; tnd sick
persons should have their attention drawn
as much as possible from themselves. It.
is by their faith men are saved, and it is by
their faith that men die. If he wills not to
die he can often live in spite of disease;
and if he has little or no attachment to lit*
he will slip away as easily as a child will
fall asleep. Men live by tbeir souls, and
not by their bodies. Tbeir bodies have
no life of themselves; they are only re
sources of life —tenements of their souls.
The will has much to do in continuing the
physical occupancy or giving it up.—[Jour
nal of Health.
The Watch. —“Watch” is from * Sax
oi word signifying “to wake.” At first
the watch was as large as a saucer ; it had
weights, and was called “ihe pocket cl >ck.”
The earliest known use of the modern name
occurs in a record of 1542, which mentions
that Edward I. had “onne larum or watch
of iron, the case being likewise of iron-gilt,
with two phunettss of lead.” The first
great improvement, the substitution of the
springs lor weight, was about 1550. Ths
earliest springs were not coiled but only
straight pieces of steel. Early watches had
only one hand, and required winding twice
a day. The dials were of silver or brass;
I the cases had no crystals but opened st
the back,, and were four or five inches in
diameter. A plain watch cost the equiva
lent of |1.500 in our currency, and after
one was ordered it took a year to make It.
There is a watch in a Swiss museum only
I three-sixteenths of an inch in diameter,
. inserted in the top of a pencil-case. Its
hands indicate not only hours, minutes, and
seconds, but also days of the month. It is
, a relic of the old times, when watebe*
were inserted in snuff-boxes, shirt-studs,
breast • pins, bracelets, and finger-rings.
Many were fantastic—oval, octangular,
cruciform, or in the shape of pears, melons,
or refites.