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’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.
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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‘