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About Rockdale register. (Conyers, Ga.) 1874-1877 | View Entire Issue (March 2, 1876)
’Volume Q. , IPOSTORY. ■ isblfrfc POETRY. ax 4 ukoikju an Who wsnt to tex.vs. wit ha duity, tearful eye, .1 saw.(i crooks go dry— (A whoppingM porhaps you think) ; Without a single drop to drink For manor banstthrough all her wilds— Brill West’' for eottntless milus. "FaWept isicrois ter whole domain, And.still 1 found it was thp quae— A marked decline in .aft I saw Aoitoss the plains of ,\rk insaw. TH J summers dry, fhd winters wet, The people poor and all iu debt. I must confess the lands are good That lie above the rolling flood; Bukin the Win, a#d on the hills, 'Tori'll hive the rJver and the chills— And that I saw inust 'be the fate i IU ®w*iy eouuty in the State. '"'"file far-off hills are always green,’* Itet .when I found thou—changed the '■ sonne-T --lt was the swamps that showed tho green, Wls- r* intormfttimts swell the spleen; ’ Blue mass and quinine you must take, Or live and die with ague quake. I saw a thousand men or mors, 'Almost starving; sick and poor, Among the cypress and the fern, Still sighing, longing to return To. dear bid Georgia —former home — But they, alas ! can never come, a ■j:. . ,i , : ■ ( For want of means, in sad distress, Throughout that howling wilderness, They mope, andOroop, and woep, ami die, Can’t help their children when they cry; All that 1 saw—and something wui— Of wiuoli i'll tell you all in verse'. ; I saw tii drunk, I thiu'i, Ad 4 heard fi)9 Wtlufot' those that sink In beastly drunk’ness to the sod, Blaspheming ail the names of (100. May heaven save us from that fate— Redeem that people—save the State. Bankrupt in all—in every whim, While still in whisky they will swim - All hunting, fishing, slashing ’round, And scare a sober man be found— E'en preachers, lawyers, doctors drunk, All bqaytiug of they: wealth and spunk. /. - ' ' [Spirta ' Times asi Ph,iter. da as|s &3b sav . SJSNATOK NOItWOOD. t f ~ Kxtracttrom H>“ e P .oi> on me Centennial Bill, But, should any friend of this meads' lire ask whether 1 favor a celebration of the Declaration of American ludepin* deuce, I tell him, yes ; but the celebra tion 1 desire to see and tor the world to witness is far different from.the one he is seeking to provide. He would diligent ly search tor what at best ts a doubtful power, anil exercise it to jget at the pftb lie treas try-, ilu would la/ his hands oiltlie money ol 40,01)0,0 JJ people w th oUI instruct! jus as to iiow they wish the celebration conducted, an.l hand.it over to a private corporation to be used aid spent as a few privileged members may ree tit. lie would deliver over $1,5u0,- 000 ot tlie public money to be spent ini’ oue reading of die Declaration of Inde pendence aud one oraliou at ouc spot. He would tax the people of Georgia $45,000 to be spent in Philadelphia, alone, tor the benefit of the few, when not oue hundred of the people ol that State will be able to visit the scene where their money will be squandered. He would suppress an exhibition of the gen era' joy by telling the people their men* ey had already been taken to provide a vicarious demonstration in Philadelphia, He would substitute a purchased cere mony tor a heart-felt, patriotic outburst. ’Me would set the example ot the gov ernment assuming control of the cele bration ot the Fourth ot J uly and dhr courage the accustomed annual oelebra tion ot the people. Such is not my idea of what the scene should be on that memorable day. I would have it a simultaneous movement of forty million people along the eontu neut. It should begin as Uio gray dawn first lights up the cliffs ot Maine and rise and roll with4iie sun in deafening shout and tumult, until bis parting smile, as if in sorrow at leaving a scene so happy, saddens and lades into the gloom ot nig lit. As the lark watching tor the purpling east springs from its nest with nieiry note; as ti e mocking bird rists on buoyant wing and joyously revels in the melody ot iis gwii song ; so would I hear the children of this land, the future mothers aud statesmen of America, as' ihoy rise on that morning, pour out their hearts m one universal omul, The husbandman should leave the Held, the mechanic his bench, the lawyer his "brief, the clergyman bis study, the furnace and spjudlc bush tfieir.liuin and clang, and busy commerce lull her sails. If Amer ican oratoijy has not lost its spell i it its silver tongue lias not been enchanted in to silence by the golden wand, the inspi ration ot the day aud theme should kin dle every habitable grove with the burn ing words : “Jot in Jerusalem, nor in ibis mountain uoi in Philadelphia, nor alone in independence Hall, but where ever the Hag of our country is given to the breexe, should Americaus do honor to the day that ushered into being the infant Messiah ot nations. Heueatn our leet in lh Celestial Empire, in the Is lands of all lire seas, betorc tbe face ot kings, the scattered sentinels and disci pies ot freedom on that day should testi ly their faith by titling sacritice. Let this ebiebmiuu be grander in moral sublimity than the celebration, ot tlie Greeks ou the banks ot the classic Alpheus, where those who were lately (oes met as friends ami tin ir wrongs were forgotten. .Let it be more joyous than the song and dance of the Jewish boats on the banks of the lied Sea. Let it be freer than tho jubilees of Israel and prouder thau the proudest triumphal march of 1-S.oman Emperor. Thus, and only thus, can we give a fitting testimo ny to mankind of our joy over the dec deration of our right to be lree and oi .our admiration and love for the heroes 'by Whoso sacrificial blood onr freedom was secured and constitutional govern indfit established and maintained. An intelligent black boy was trudg ing along a highway at night in tho vi ciuily of I*l*l ostiwe, Texas. There was a negro woman riding & horse in the same direction Llie boy was going. The two, or rather three—two negroes and the boi;sc—were in company. The intelli gent blao.k bQ_y rgjippjared in I‘alcitine that night out. 61 breath ami as pale ns he could get. ltd faidho saw a ball of fire come, out of the sky, and strike- thte woman anti set her ablaze. The horse ran one way avith the woman afire on his back, aipi luj ran back to town to tell the people what had happened The people went to look after further particulars of this curious iucident. They found the woman lying on the ground with all her clothing burned off, but with life enough in her to tell that she had been struck in the breast by a ball of fire. The horse was found with his mane sinejed, and the woman died next day. The people think she was hit by a meteor. The I*ontift Prisoncih The Pope has scolded, uncommonly hard, in one or two discourses lately pronounced, upon tlie manner iu which affairs in Germany are conducted. Some writers are excited to admiration by this energy of speech exhibited by tlie Pontiff, now so much advanced in years— indeed, about to enter his eighty fifth year. But irascibility frequently • accompanies old age, and tnel‘e is noth ing in Unit to excite surprise. The Ho-* ly Father, like other Wprtals, has much to try him, and not the least is in tlie circumstance of his not being allowed to go out ami take the ait, and give natural vent to the good feelings . f his heart by blessing bis native countiy and the population ot Home) now* more than evei 1 lansniishirig for the enjoyment of ~„i m muili y novelty. Bur, as j. have said before, since tiie Jesuits pass ed tbe sentence of infallibility upon him, {he Pope has n kept, by them a close prisoner within the walls of sumptuous, gilded house. Something Ims repeated ly been said of* a threat which Pius IX. has uttered of his intention to break with his keepers and indulge, his curiosity —while be gratifies the predominating weakness ot his nature; the love of ap plause—by driving once more through Uio town. But the truth is that the Pope is the first, or most conspicuous, viotim of Fils own system.—A, Y Times. Women Lollyists in Washington.’ The most acrrseable olais of people hereabouts are the female lobbyists, of whom there in list be thirty or mors. Sortie want patents extended, others have war claims, and not a few urge the en actment of private bills. A few ot them are handsome, others possess literary pretentions, and nearly all pay great re gard to the conventionalities of society. All have tact, some have practical com mon sertSe, and those who belong to the class against which Sam Weller warmed his father to beware show an Intimate acquaintance with tbe best way of managing the other sex, In no age or country, from the days of Louis XIV. and the Court of Spain, as descri bed'by Gil Bias, has female inffuence been more potont than It is here just now.—* .V. Y. Y imes. jV "Woll'-Ohild. A “wolf child,” the real thing, has been interviewed by Editor Francis in the orphanage that occupies the tomb of Akbar’s begum at Secundra, India. He is about 20 years old, and was captured in a wolfs den at Bulandshaliar, twelve years ago. He was then fully eight years old, was found in company with the wolf and walking upon all-fours, and the animal evidently recognized and pro tected him as one of her own progeny. No doubt the boy had been stolen and carried off by the wolf wheu an infant* and was fed, cared for and brought up in the wolfish way by his adopted moth er. The boy is named “Saturday,” that being the day he was rescued from the wild animal’s den. At first raw meat was the food Ire inosUqlished ; he was quite wild and intractable - Gradually he was tamed, taught to walk properly, and subjected to -other necessary usages of human civilized life. But beyond the expression of a very lew words, language could not be imparled to him. lie is evidently half idiotic, though he understands commands addressed to him, and makes known his owu wants by simple ejaculations and signs. He makes his salaams to.strangers, and en joys attentions paid to him, He has by no means unpleasant luce, and there is not a mark of the beast about him ex cept iu the scat—print of his mother wolf, which he poiuts out upon his cheek. The case is a carious one, and attracted uot a little attention at the time throughput the world. It was then supposed he possessed capacity for , improvement and education, hut life | ertoris ol years to Leach him have met tvith very little success. CONYERS, GEORGIA: THCTItSBA.Y. MA.UCII i2, 1870. N E \V S l A l* JS K D O T 8; An Indiana editor has stamped upon bis office bill heads A picture of ltd for get meuot. The TVroil that Rood sent his “S.lng of the Shirt" to four different pujupra, before any one. would publish it. Tho tribune . in an artio'c on liter:)-, t ire as a lmsiin-sn, aavs : “Nowhere ,ie labor so ohoipto-day as in tho literary market. Bricklayers, joiners, masons, coopers, carpenters, plumbers, riggers, ship caulkers and stone-cutters are earn ings better wages than the majority of those who are writing for a living. 1 ’ Thqreflro 7)403 establishments in llis United States and Territories from which 1 newspapers and periodicals are issued. ( To suppose that the publications coin cide in number with the pluses of issue, would not. however, be a sound hypoth esis. siiihc from many of them from two to six arc regularly sent forth. The following from the Christian at Wyric, gould be .abridged, hut wpionm mend it. tp our contributors as fit is : “Abbreviate, cut short, eliminate, ex punge, condense, weed out, cauterize, trim, deplete, reduce—it must be done. Pack in the smallest space ; don't send us introduction and preface ; don't (fill ns what you ‘propose doing,’ but simply do it.” In other \y9rd3 equally brief: “Boil it down.” The value of a good newspaper, which has never been accurately determined, is Certilm lo be greater this year than per haps ever before. A presidential Con test, whoso outlines Cannot y6t be digs cerned, will Cngrnss public atteriiion in every section of the country, while the progress of the Centennial Exhibition will furnish interesting reading for the whole world.— Tittles. . Some business men would rather sponge on a country fence than pay a newspaper anything for advertising, which is so true that it is enough to make a printer crack himself on the head with tint “shooting stick” or diown his “devil”,in the ink keg. Some “business'’ men will walk through the mad a who'e day wiih an old paur pot in Ujeir bands, <1 •uihimr uhrui pvo**.r “ g 0 To SmlthS foil Yonß lAud,” when one soft dollar would add several more lines anil put them in decent shape in any respectable newspaper in life Country.— -Iron Erd. Ai33 SD USIUDLD*-’ Irish Potato Growing. I select a very rich piece of old ma nured land. I cut iny potatoes into 3cr 5 pieces the day before I want to plant, Break up the grou .and very deep ; lay off rows three feet apart with shovel plow; drop the pieces two feet apart; cover with a hoe. When they commence to come up, taken plow a>d cover them up. In a week they will be coming through again. Now take a harrow and harrow the rows. In ten days afterward plow them, and the potatoes are made. Kor early use, the Early liose variety is best. By all means buy the seed from the North every two years. Plant about April Ist, for early use. A Buie lor Measuring Trees. It is often desirable to know the to which a tree will work into timber be lo w the branches. It does not pay to cut at random. The following rule has been tried and found correct : Measure troru the tree the number of feet you want your stick in length, on as lev el ground as possible. Then place a stick in the ground at tbe point of meas urement, exactly your own height and exactly pelpendicizlar. Lie down flat on your baek with feet against the stick, so as to bring it in line from your eje to the tree, arid where the Tine of sight strikes the tree over the top of the stake, that point will indicate tlie length desir ed. A Sin Against Nature. Ot all the blunders that the common farmer, and some others, make with trees, none is so common or so hurtful, and which lie is so long finding out, and ot which he might know so certainly, as the practice of cutting oft lower limbs. All over the country nothing is more common than to see mutilated trees on almost every farm—big limbs cut off near the body of tlie tree, and of course rotting to the heart. This is a heart sin against nature, The very limbs necessai l-y to protect the tree from wind and sun arid just where limbs are needed, they are cat away. But tbe greatest injury is the rotting that always takes when a big limb is sawed off—too big to heal over, it must rot, and, being kept moist by the growing tree, is in the right condition to rot, and being on the body, the rotting goes to the heart and hurts the whole tree. It is common all over the country to see large orchards mutilated in this way'. We often see boles in the trees where big limbs have been cut away, where squirrels and even raccoons could crawl in. Perhaps the only reason these trimmers would give is, that the lower limbs were easiei got at. aud some would say they wanted to raise a crop under the trees. Treatment of the Soil. The soil is the farmer’s bank. If he would keep Ills accounts good and have his drafts honored, he must take care that bis farming (Operations do not itn 'poverish his lan' 1 , tot that skill evidently impoverish him. There are those accounted good far mors, beoanse in tho main they nee teas- Pliably successful in their mmmgeincnt, yet who, nevertheless, blindly pursue methods that, are futile in accomplishing dosiivd results. There is much working , in the dark, and sometimes a great waste of lnbpr. There are some things that tire hard to be unlearned after they have been long practiced with apparently ben eficial elleots, hut which re dly had little ujgency in producing those effects. A hundred years aud more ago. Jet!) ro Tull belteyed and taught that by sriffi ciimt oulturo the soil would produce crops year alter year* without manure. II s theory brought disaster upon him utiina f ely, but there was a great lesson in his experience which farmers failed td apply, to wit* tlie value of tillage in ae rating the soil. Cultivation* frequent stirring admits the air, and when it is re collected that;’vegetable and mineral ma nure* are useless until decomposed iuto their original elements, and that decom position can only go on by the dheot n gt-ncy ot the atmosphere, the importation of tho knowledge is at once recognized. Organic matter possesses highly fort ilia in or properties, hut ihusalie dormant ar and useless until decomposed, and rendered j tit-for plant food, by aeration ot the soil | to which.this nutter has boon applied. Pulverize the soil aid keep it mellow, for then it can breathe freely, so as speak and-the more productive it will be ren dered. Ilefein lies the benefit of repeat ed stirring—of tali plowing, which in sures additional pulverizati m by the ac tion of frost, insuring finer tilth. And hence, too, the beneficial effeets ot drain, ing the soil* carrying off stagnant, yvater, and permitting the air to take its place: We must not lose sight ot the' fadt that with properly aerating the soil, the constituents removed from it must be re timed, and that in use of luanurps, it is well to consider not only what is desired for rin immediate crop, but also the con dition in which the soil will he left for :sucet*eding crops. Judicious culture and proper rotations will insure good crops, and sit the. same.time the land will not deteriorate in fuvtilit y. White and MladlG vfC-sop. many centuries since, in one of his tables, represented the unnlternhle condition of the black man. It Beerns that there was then a desire to get rid of the complication of color. It was deemed unfortunate that Goo should have made white a"d black men, aud a philanthropist endeavored to wash a ne gro white. The result was that the ne gro died under the operation ol washing. A I’rofi'ssnr Gunning, ot Chicago, in a lecture which he delivered on the 13th inst., represents the hopeless nature ol this eflforl in the following language : “F’or the blank race could noi have j bean derived from the white, and the ; white could not havo been derived from the black. Not diet, not climate, not , habits of life, outworking through a million years, could bleach a black race into a white ; and neither habitation nor habits could in a million times a million years stain a white race black.” He Has a oa.se. A man with a bad looking nose and a melancholy appearance generally, (says the Detroit Free Pi’pSs) entered Justice Potter’s office, the other day, and slam ming a paper down on the desk, lie ex claimed : ‘I s übmit the docs and demand a di vorce.’ '1 h 9 court looked at him in a puzzled way, and the stranger continued : Mump the papers together mighty ’ quick, for she’s out after a dray to move the furni ture !’ ‘I can’t give you a divorce,’ answered his honor. ‘Here is the cash down, mister ?’ said the stranger, pulling oiit a tin box full of shlnplastcrs, ‘and here is charges that will make your blood run cold !’ lie was instructed as to what steps he must take, and in his excitement and coufusiou he went away leaving the docs on the desk. The charges read as fol lows : 1. Pulling hair, jawing and kicked me. 2. More pulling hair. 3. Kicked me Christmas day, and I can pi ove it, 4. YYicd to pizetl me, and then jawed around, 5. Sitting down in the cellar and reading’ dime’novels, and then striking me when I talked to her liko a father. 6. ’J'euzing me to a circus, and then getting mad and ruining a mighty good dish-ymn, 7. Jawing, kicking) fighting, cussing, threatening, making up faces and de manding money t 4 buy ice-cream and candy for her darned yohl'relashuns, 8. And so forth, to-wit, and a good many other things which I can prove ■straight er’n a string. Gentleman, gran' me thin divorce, and 1 will vote lor yo if you ever run for aldermen.' E. L>odsort, alf firth Carolina Baptist brother; went to bed and stayed there while bis clothes wele being dyed that he might give what a new suit would cost to the missionaries. D&2lLl!®a©tDSo Mr. IMo,i.ly lus been hunted by the Rasloral Union of Sen Francisco to visit California. lie replies thut he would like to go, but the work in the Est ptesscs him so that lie feels unable to plat) beyond it. The opinion prevails in 'dert.-vri quar ters in England, that tho Jews, with the Hot 1 8 hihis at their head' p o lose to | ur chase the Holy Land ot Turkey with a view of going in a body. With many, tho restoration of the .lews to'ihe land of their fathers, is regnrded as art 1 eveut. indicated by tho finger ol prophecy. The Methodists of this coimity ape tints distributed: 81-ISCOI-AI, METHODIST. Methodist. Episcopal 1,580,559 Metlipcust Kpiscopal South.. 712,7051 Colored Methodist Episcopal . . St*, HI.) Atrioari Mutboiut. Episcopal. i 200,000 Alricau Methodist Bpisuppal Zion.. 225,005 Evangelical Association 95;250 United Brethren 1:11,850 Total Episcopal Methodist. .3,025,427 NOM-KI-pjCQI-AI, MKTHOIIIST The “ALethodist Ulmreh”... 1 .1 55,181 Methodist I’rotestant 54,319 Ainerioau \VT-sley*au 20,000 Free Mctho dist 0,0 >0 Primitive Metfiodist 2,800 Congr gational and other in— dependent Methodist 9,500 Total non Episcopal Meuliodist.. 148,802 Total Methodist in the U. S. 3,173,229 Tho New York Methodist, comment ing upon the plan suggested, that tlie U. S. Goverment be authorized to em ploy agents to search the mails for ob scene literature, and prevent its trails mission through the put-offices; objects to tile plaii dti tllC ground that the rem edy would he worse than the disease; that liberty of correspondence is funda mental, and a part of the freedom ot the press. It says: “Any checks that are consistent with liberty we shall earnestly favor, but wo should not reason that the smallest responsibility attaches to the Government for the sins committed bv the use of tree post-ollicos. The power that is asked tor is certain to be abused. Tihrufty 1 irart'vhs orTaf-ddn,— bun **itf***i 3 j worth a hundred fold more than the best despotism. The people that would 1 liko to suppress sin by main torco, believe that they would suppress only sin. l’ius Ninth believed that he suppressed only gin while ibling the most vhtious and igno rant population in the Italian Peninsula. Despotism may mean well in its sources; if becomes wicked and corrupt lon re before it reaches the masses under it. You must meet sin childly by moral restraint; a little can ho done by a free country through its tuts, and that little we shall always favor. But are not wil ling to sacrifice, or oven to put in peril, a free correspondence and a free press whatever. Parents, teachers and minis ters must correct tlie tastes, protect the ignoimice, and promote the purity ol lads and lasses. They cannot invent a machine to do their work, or to lighten it, or make it easy. It is a mighty task a war in which tlietq are no, truces, a laboring day that never ends, a burden to he home by etery oue of us as long as life last, to he borne by somebody so long sin exist iu tlie world. P:of. Seliem, hi tho Methodist lto view, publishes the following low figures: Total population of the earth ,1,396,842, ODD: under Christian goverinenls, Oah, 459,411; under norf-Oliristian go ver meil s, 711, 382, 59% total are* tfi the earth by square miles, 51|,003,470; ai ea ot Christian goveniienls, 32,419,951; area of non-Chi istian lands, 10,642,555. ! According to Prof. fSehem, nearly two | thuds of the Christian /states ol the | world, as estimated by p >pu a ion, are under Protestant rale,or tho , general I sentiment of people in the a is favorable i to Proteslauisin. Item* BcfitV He hadn’t any baggage, and after on ; look at him the bntsli-boy walked away and Hut down Tlio average Iw mli-buy of the average hotel knows when lie can brush a quarter out ol a guest just as well as if lie was a lawyer. The rit aii gei wrote his name on the register with meal deliberation. It was a long name, it, read : “I hrtjcrt Henry Washington, Chicago, Illinois.” The clerk regarded him for a moment with a keen glance, and then asked : ‘ilow long will you remain here ? ‘About a week,’ be replied. ‘Shall I credit you with $lO paid >J advance f ‘Who are you talking to V demanded the stranger. , ‘Strangers generally pay in advance, replied the clerk. •Well sir, I’ll be hanged sir, if I was ever insulted before ! Ask me tor mon ey in advance 1 Why sir, do you know I could buy'this hotel and still have mi - lieus left V t ‘1 have ray orders.’ ■Am I to n6 treated like a dead beat ? continued the stranger,. ‘When a man comes to Detroit to lend $200,000 on a mortgage, do yon people look upon him as a hkulk and a thief '! •My orders are positive, quietly l’c* rilied the clerk. , q WH „i, to see the owner of this hotel. and 1 want to lake him to the board ot trade, the mayor’s office and the works, and I want him to rind ou. wli .t ind of a man f am.’ IST amber. 32. ‘’i’lic proprietor isn’t iu.’ ‘You don't know ine—volt don’t roal- I ze who I am-i' exclairtieiT the stranger, | tapping tlie otlieo counter with every pause. ‘I didn't care to he known, bid sinco you have insulted trie, I waut to jinfotm you that I am the Rothsebild of ftlte West-' The clerk started off with a letter to llis girl, but lie only got as far as ‘bi-lov ■ed Sarah,' when the stranger yelled I out : i ‘Who itdv.tnced money to Cl i ago Id 1 complete ner water-woWo I Who owiitl tw. itty-eight steaiuboats and six trigs. W o owns six eh-vA ors and and orio hundred frtllei of Kailr >ad f' ‘I and ti l krioW.’ ‘And-yeti wheit I cbituililto tliis liouso I riiit insillled ari it I was a loafer,!' con tinued the strait ger, J Why sir, ,00010 to 'lie bank with me, and sec If my 'check for $50,001) is r.idiortored !’ ‘l'll go !' said the clcik, putting on It is bat. - 1. > 'You needn't go. I wquhl not stop here if you would give in<j a thousa and dollars a day. I'll go' to sottie other house, and when spring'niienr I’ll buy a site next lo you and build a hot*! of my own ami run your old house out of sight.’ ‘Call au ofiioev 1’ said the clerk to one of tho hoys. ‘That’s the crowning insult! shouted the mini. ‘But I'll bide my lime. I'll go over to the tavelui Add setld vVyr and #40,000 check for you a lock at, ami tl'/ matter how sorry yon feel, pit - , I'll not accept an apology, sir—blast me if I do !’ lie went out, and at noon was seen eating craok ra and cheese iu the post office. Almost everybody knows our oldest inhabitant, “Old Uncle Isaac,” but how old he is nobody knows. We oal el up<4.l turn tho other day, and are now willing to swear on our "faith in his word tll.’lf two hundred'years ol ‘‘safViil’ ,de Ld’ii” will not jndre tliari 11(1 thu bill. Of coui’se, Undle Isililo is pioufi; all darkies who live to the ago ol a hundred nml fifty are pious. One of the first thing* wh iuli entitled our attention alter enter ing Issue’s house was a small lifttchel, hung above the ample fireplace ou two or three rusty nails; and it, of course, became tho subject of inquiry. We were astonished at learning that it was the identical hatchet with which the Tmctt\sU”tne“,artwev J , l sy.“ lh j?fl l o" h “* “uncle’s" garden VV., 'V'V^ mike Is uio understand that lifer gar den was not the uimles but the fajdiei’V. Isaac's memory was good, and our his tory at fault. He knew, because ho was ‘thftr.’ 110 had gone ‘wid Mas' Jaw’ge for to see his untile, and h'm un cle took him into the garden and show ed him de cherry tree, and tole him dat was tho first qlierry tree that_ ever come over to dis country, and dat, in about so many years do tree would bar fruit.,- and dat lie would send M:to’ .Jawge some, sho. ’ “Mas’ Jawge was a mighty indopßn - den' littlq cuss, and says to me, arlcr Ids uncle had,gwine in do house, .says lie/ j ‘lke’—lor I was a youngster den— I ‘lke, 1 isn’t gwine to wait on uncle for dem oh ernes; Ise gwinj to cut dat tree right down, and will take it 'long home wid ns,’ Says I, ‘don’t you do it, lioneyf for if you does your uncle he II skin yoif ’Jive!’ ‘Jist as soon be skinned nw not,’ say s Mils’ Jawge, ‘l’s gwine to fifth dat ’at‘ tree.’ So he goes on and gitsdat ’ar same identical too', an piirty soon he was whackin’ away at dat tree. And ! don’t think de child Bad chopped more’n sevoral licks before de ole gentleman, dat’s-his uncle, ho contest a slippii/ out’a do gooseberry bus In a wid a wattle, and de way he ilaxed dal chile was a #bso lom sin* Do chile flung dat same little hatchet at his poor uncle, and jist inoro’n got out’n dat garding ; and when 1, cotohed up wid him, lie was (yswariu like a mate’on a steamboat. “Now, sjr, ilat’s do true story, sar. Dose little one-hoss school books, dey don’t know nullin’ ’bout it. W’y, bless your soul, honey, f went home wid him, Mas’ Jawge, and I staid right Wid lum, and I loliowed him to Braddook’a ’feat, and I got lost dar, and I ken’ a-corniil’ out West, cordin' to do device ol Mr. (loss Greeley dat killed Mr. Burr, and I was ’inong de Injuns for 'bout seventy ||v-f year,' Torn 018 country was settled by de hist white wo nan. ” We had given Uncle Isaac a '“snorf when we went in, and we gave Him an other and came away. lie is hooked for the Centennial. Tho drug s’oro was closed, and ho rang the hell vigorously. The druggist at once pat his head out of an itppci window, and inquired, sleepily > ‘\Vlfo is there ‘.Mr. Carr,' responded the gerttloulerl at the bell. ‘.Misled a ear ! Well, what, is that to to me, -confound you ! Wtop ringing that bell, mid go about your business, man !’ Down went the window anjl thu druggist was lost to sight. , Tim discomfitted Mr. C?*ff Was lost iff urnaifcnletH fori a time, bifi finally seised the bell and lung it again frantically. The druggist’s head appeared at the window again. 110 was wide awake this tim nVIio is there now i ‘Mr, Carr, I tell you. ‘Why, d—n your irrtpudenen I Who cares it you have 1 <4e.t out of that .I lick. If, von are drunk, and missed a e.ir, it is yifur own lookout. Don't you touch that hell again.’ ‘But, I tell you, you idiot, fW -nr ——— Carr.’ •Oh, Lord 1 Why didn‘t you say so before f‘
