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WRITTEN FOII TIIK BUENA VISTA AHOTIU.
EVERY MAN A lIAKHKR.
Our notions rightly ketllcd up,
No one a doubt can harbor,
That all this world’s a barber shop
And every man a barber.
The fanner, he's n barber’s friend,
And ready in a trice, sir,
To lather with a recommend
And shave us with a price, sir.
Mechanics, they are barbers all,
Nor lackeys at the play, sir,
They lather when fur woik they call,
And shave ua for the pay, sir.
The doctor, he’s a barber, too,
He lathers with a pill, sir.
And many applicants or few,
lie shaves us with a bill, sir.
The m<*rchant, lie’s a barber, too,
No one but him surpasses,
lie lathers with fine calico,
And shaves the beardless lasses.
Our Congre s members lately havo
Assumed the barber station,
And without to shavo
With double compensation.
The printer, honct man alone,
Though very close and saving,
Content to pick a hungry bone,
13ut has no nack at shaving.
Of all the suds bedaubing host,
With razor whet the keenest,
The lawyer lathers oiks the most,
And shaves mankind the cleaned.
WRITTEN FOR THIi BUENA VISTA AItGUS
A Volumincustine.
Tazewell, Ga., Feb. 14.
Miss Elizabeth:
Praps you'll be cxpnsed tn git or
letter will no name attacked dcr on.
But men is culiar critters, sicli crit
ters, as tu aliens bo desirous of un.
bussuniing dcinselves wid dcr tale ob
luv tu der sweetheaits. Wlicr der
deeds lie good or evil Ps no pro ft,
but da Si cm to pivfer darkness red
der dan li-c. But considir.g the knr
nctcii.-ties ob dig culiar critters, I
must koi fess I's one ob dem. And
Miss Lizibeth, I’s got one berry por
tant question tu ax you. Wuu dat
I’s been studying on low dose many
daze, aid some nitis tu, I'll tell dc
trufnow, I sit till most breakfast
time, think n ob do most proper
“modus operandi” ob inducing dc
subject. And last nitc white I sat
wary, worn, haggard, pale, and rag
ged tu, for my coat is te.ircd in pla
ces as big as a yard seek. But tu'de
subject. I said, while I sat, “thanks
to my own self, I hit dc nail on dc
bed.” And now, my lub, do you ask
wbat. dc elusion was. Well, you see
it was tu write a volumiuoustine, and
in disway I might ax my portant
question. And dis am de sum total,
after all yer adding,
multiplying de cube and V root tu,
and dividing; for tis no use enlargin
multiplicities, or simplicities eder,
but tu ted the plane truf which is
dis: I want tu git married. Will
yoahabmc! Forgib me Miss Liz
abeth, if Fsc hurt your l’eclins, for yu
uo yu is de bright numerary of my
exzistence- I will bring my letter tu
a klosc by sayin I dont no what I
■cant tink uf dese big.words dat ex
presses—well, I dont no what. Kon
.sider dem all tu yurself ennyhow.
Jerry Williams.
P. S.—Miss Lizabcth, l’s jist, herd
yuse g -vinc to marry anodder feller,
if dis is so it will almost brake my
hart. But if it is bo plesc gib dis to
Miss Droociller, an tell her it was she
□rot yu I intended tu ax my poitant
question. With much luy fer Miss
Droociila I remain undetermined
what tu do. J. W.
Address Suspense Post Office
“ Minnie has been to see me to„day,”
said little five-year-old, “and she be
haved like a little lady.,” “1 hope you
did, too,” said her mother. “Yes,
deed,-I did ; I turned somersaults for
her on tho bed.”
THE BUENA VISTA ARGUS
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VOLUME I.
Written for tho Vista Argun.
Education of tlio Mind.
Cut-Off, Marion Cos., Ga., )
Apiil Ist, 187 G. j
Mr. Editor:
As M 3 lime is ni when
tbo public schools will open and to
cheer up parents and guardians to a
senso of duty I think that a few lines
on t lie above subject not out of place,
will endeavor to offer them, though I
feel my weakness for tho duty, and
were 1 to consult my feelings alone it
would go undischarged.
The subject is of the highest im
portance to all, and more especially
to the young. I desire to impress
upon the minds of your many readers
tire degree of importance, which at
taches to it, and to remind them of
'he necessity of cooperation on the
part of every person, of every age
and sex, in the community, in order
that it may successfully attain its le
gitimate object.
The subject of “Education,” per
haps, is as old as written language
itself; but one the importance of
which can never be too deeply im
pressed upon the human mmd, and
one which should bo devoted to all
of our best and never ceasing ener
gies. The first great duty in life,
outside of those which apperta in
to the next world, is the ed
ucation of the mind, in order that it
may be the’better prepared to meet
successfully the many and heavy re
sponsibilities which are the inevitable
lot of all.
The pampered child of wealth, not
less than the humble heir of poverty,
is beset through life with responsibil
ities as onerous and unavoidably.
Indeed, the greater the elevation oi
man in the scale of wealth, the more
extended is his field oi duties and hk
responsibilities increase in proportion
to the means acquired in meeting
them.
This important fact, is ignored by
many, but it is declared t hat to whom
much is given of him shall much bo
required, and those who disregard
the warning contained in this short
verse of scripture will surely receive
the reward of their folly. Every man
and woman evercise a certain degree
of influence in society, as truly as
that every atom of terrestrial compo
sition atlracts and influences those
with which it is brought in contact,
and it is therefore of the utmost im
portance that the minds of the young
should be properly trained in youth,
in order that when arrived at matu
rity they may be exercised for the
greatest amount of good, instead of
being, as is too often the case, per
verted into channels which can lead
to nothing but evil. For these reas
ons this theme cannot be dwelt upon
to excess.
“Had I the force of a Demosthe
nes, the eloquence of a Cicero, or the
wealth of a Rothschild, I should de
light to devote my w'hole life, abili
ties and means to the encouragement
and development, among the young
people of this county, of this* most
important of all earthly interests,
“The Education of Mind,” And
when we behold it in its beauty and
reflect on the rustling of tho pages,
and as the lamp glows with its soft
and steady light, we seem to live in
another world, another age. We are
cotemporary with the discoveries, the
ages, the philosophers of centuries
past, or penetrating the mists of the
future. Wo then revel in a world of
our own creation. Those who have
never roamed through tho elysian
fields of educated thought, can have
BUENA. VISTA, MARION COUNTY,’ GA., APRIL 7, 1876,
no conception or appreciation of the
balmy breezes, wafting along the fra
grant breath of flowers, the morning
meadows, and tnc whispering leaves,
tho murmuring brooks and the azuio
sky, which constitute tho peaceful
scene, in which (lie educated mind
"delights to dwell.
It is not in the province of words to
describe these pleasures, they must
be experienced to be understood, and
none but the educated can realize
them in their perfection of beauty
and joy. Enlightened mankind may
be divided into five general classes:
Professional men, literary men, mer
chants, mechanics and farmers, to
which, perhaps, may be added one
more, that of gentlemen of leisure—in
plain English, “loafers," —a class for
which I am free to confess that I en
tertain but little respect.
These classes arc almost whol’y
composed of the creation; though fe
males are not unfrequently found oc
cupying high positions in all of them,
except tiie last two, end even in
them they may sometimes be found.
For example, those ladies occasion
ally who superintend their own
farms, and 1 hose other ladies who
superintend nothing but their dress
makers, and whose hands are too
delicately Dir to touch the batter
spoon, or lift a smoothing iron.
’While, however, I believe that wo
men are qualified mentally to fill sta
tions in either, of the classes named,
with credit to themselves, and strict
ly speaking, without any breach of
tiie rules of modesty or propriety. J
am not one of that class denominated
strong-minded, who believe in female
ministers, lawyers and physicians.
I think woman’s mission is domes
tic in its character, and that her pro
per sphere is within tiie home circle.
But to fulfil that mission properly
her mind should undergo a proper
system of training, in order that,
while she performs faithfully the du
ties ot a wife and mother, site may be
a lit companion for her educated hus
band, an ornament to intelligent so
ciety, and be prepared, should un
toward circumstances require it, to
maintain herself by resort to those
pursuits which more properly belong
to tho opposite sex.
It may, to some of your readers,
seem out of place for me to speak of
the advantages of education in that
kind of business which belongs to the
female sex; but it may be remember
ed that it lias been, in the past, my
duty to superintend the early mental
training of botli sexes, and that in or
der to discharge my duty properly,
I should have some conception of the
object, for which that training is de
signed, and this must be my apology
for what I write in regard to them.
Among professional men are nu
merous ministers of tho gospel, law
yers, physicians, composers and ar
tists. My truthfulness will not be
doubted v.hcu I assert that ministers
of the gospel, holding as they* do the
highest office which is the lot of man
to fill, ought to make use of every
available opportunity for the educa
tion of the mind, in order that they
may be the better prepared to win
and to hold the attention of their
congregations, and make themselves
entertaining and instructive to ihose
to whom they are sent to dispense
the words ol eternal truth.
Incognito.
[Concluded next week.]
What the tyranny’s coming to : The
mistress, having heard three rings on
the street doer, goes to open it.
Housemaid—“Oh, please m’m, if that’s
anybody for me, I am not at home.”
A Bachelor's Whim.
“V'ell girls,’; said my uncle Ba:-
r abas, “and now what do you pro
pose to do aboutnt?”
We sat arorftVd the fire in a discon
solate sorni-gircle that dreary, driz
zle r Mv nitibt.. when Up. i-An qat,-
tc’Jwf a ;j; llnT tnc
the poor little daffodils in the bohl
ci’s shook and shivered as if they
would fain hide their golden heads
once more in the mother-soil. My
mother. Eleanor aud I. The first,
pale and pretty, and silver-haired,
with the widows cap and her dress
of black bombazine and crape ; the
sweetest looking old lady I think that I
ever saw. Eleanor sat beside her, look
ing as she always did, like a prin
cess, with large, dark eyes, Diana
like features, and hair twisted in a
sort of coronal around her queenly
head. While I, plain, homespun
Susanna—commonly called, “for
short,” Susy-—crouched upon a foot
stool in tho corner, my elbows on my
knees and my chin in iny hands.
Uncle Barnabas Berkclin sat in the
middle of the circle, erect, stiff and
rather grim. He was stout and
short, with a grizzling mustache, a
little round, bald spot on tire crown
ot his head, two glittering black
eyes t hat were always sending their
dusky lightnings in the direction
lea-t expected. Uncle Barnabas
was rich and we were very poor.
Uncle Barnabas was wise in the
ways of tho world, and we were in
experienced. Uncle Barnabas was
prosperous in all lie did, while if
there was a bad bargain to be made
we were pretty sure to be the ones
to make it. Consequently, and as a
matter of course, we looked up to
Uncle Barnabas, and reverenced his
opinions.
“\Vhat do we propose lo do about
it?” Eleanor slowly repeated, lift
ing her beautiful jetty brows.
“Yes, that’s exactly it,” said my
mother, nervously ; “because, Broth
er Barnabas, wo don’t pretend to be
business women, and it’s certain wo
cannot live comfortably on our pres
ent income. Something lias got to
be done.”
My mother leaned back in her
chair with a troubled face.
“Yes,” said Uncle Barnabas,
“.something has got to bo done ; hut
who’s to do it ?’’
Another dead silence succeeded.
“I suppose you girls are educat
ed,” said uncle Barnabas “1 know I
found enough old school bills when I
was looking over my brother’s pa
pers.”
“Of course,” said my mother with
evident pride ; “their educat ion has
been most expensive. Music, draw
ing, use of the globes—”
“Yes, yes, of course,” interrupted
Uncle Barnabas. “But is it practi
cal ? Can they teach ?”
Eleanor looked dubious. I was
quite certain I could not. Mine. Le
noir, among all her list of accomplish
ments, had not included the art of
practical tuition.
“Humnh 1” grunted Uncle Barna
bas. Queer tiling tin’s modern idea
of education. Well, if you can’t
teach you can surely do something.
What do you say, Eleanor, to a situ
ation ?”
“A situation ?”
The color tluttcred in Eleanor’s
cheeks like pink and white apple
blossoms.
“I spoke plain enough, didn’t I?”
saul Uncle Barnabas, dryly. ‘Wes,
a situation.”
“What sort of a situation, Uncle
Barnabas ?”
Well, I can’t hardly say. Part
servant, part companion to an elder
ly lady/' explained tho old gentle
man.
“0, Uncle Barnabas, I couldn’t
do that. ”
“Not do it ? And why not ?
It’s too much—too much, whisper
ed Eleanoi’, losing her regal dignity
in the pressure of the emergency,
like going out to service.
“And that is precisely what it is,
retorted Uncle Barnabas, nodding
his head. Service 1 Why, we’re all
out to service, in one way or anoth
er, in this world.
Oh, yes, I know, faltered poor El
eanor, who, between her distaste lor
the proper plan and her anxiety rot
to offoud Uncle Barnabas Berkclin,
didn’t quite know what to say ; “but
I—L’ve been educated to boa lady.
So you won’t take the situation,
eh ? said Uncle Barnabas, starting
up at a little wishy-washy water col
or drawing of Cupid and Psycire, an
exhibition-piece of poor Eleanor’s
NUMBER 28.
which hung above the chimney-piece.
I couldn’t, indeed, sir.
Wages .twenty-five dollar a month,
mechanically repeated Uncle Barna
bas, as iflie were saying oil'a lesson.
Drive out every day in the carriage
with the missus, cat and canary to
take care of, modern house with all
Sunday after
noon“o’ yourself, and two weeks,
Spring and fall, to visit your moth
er.
No, Uncle Barnabas, no! said
Eleanor, with a little shudder.
lam a true Berkelin, and I cannot
stoop to menial duties.
Uncle Barnabas gave such a pro
longed sniff as to suggest the idea of
a very bad cold in his head, indeed.
Sorry, said he. Heave n helps
those who help themselves, and you
can't expect to be more liberal mind
ed than Heaven. Sister Rachel, to
my mother, what do you say ?
Mymolherdrew her pretty little
figure np a trifle more erect than us
ual.
I think my daughter, Eleanor,
quite right, s tid she, The Berkdins
have always been ladies.
I sat quite silent, still with my
chin in my hands, during all this
family discussion ; but now I rose up
and came creeping to Uncle Barna
bas’ side.
Well, little Susie, said the old gen
tleman, laying his hand kindly on
my wrist, what is it ?
If you please, Uncle Barnabas,
said I, with a rapid throbbing heart,
I would like to take the situation.
Bravo ! cried Uncle Barnabas.
My dear child! exclaimed my
mother.
Susannah! uttered Eleanor, in ac
cents by no means laudatory.
Yes, said I, twenty-five dollars
a month is a great deal of money, and
I was never afraid of work. I think I
will go to the old'lady, Uncle Barna
bas. I’m sure I could send home at
least twenty dollars a month to moth
er and Eleanor, and then tiie two
we< ks, hpiiugand fall, wou’dbesonice.
I’lease, Uncle Barnabas, I'll go back
with you when you go. What is the
old lady’s name ?
Her name ? said Uncle Barnabas.
Didn’t I tell you ? It’s Prudence—
Mrs. Prudence I
What a nie.! name, said I. I
know I shall like her.
Well, I think you will, said Uncle
B irnabas looking kindly at me. And
I think she will like you. Is it a
bargain for the nine o’clock train to
morrow morning ?
Yes, I answered stoutly, taking
care not to look in the direction of
mother aud Eleanor.
You’re the most sensible of the lot,
said Uncle Barnabas, approvingly.
But after he had gone to bed in
tiie best chamber, where the ruffled
pillow cases were, and tiie chintz
cushioned easy-cliair, the full strength
of the family tongue broke on my de
voted head.
I can’t help it, quoth I, holding
valiantly to my colors. We can’t
starve. Some of us must do some
thing. And you can live very nice
ly, mother darling, on twenty dol
lars a month.
That is true, sighed my molher
ftDin behind her black-bordered
pocket handkerchief. But I never
thought to see a daughter of mine
going out to—to service !
And Uncle Barnabas isn’t going to
do an} thing for us after all, cried
out Eleanor, indignantly. Stingy
old fellow ; I should think he might
at least adopt one of us ! lie’s as
rich as Crcesus, and never a chick nor
a child.
lie may do as he likes about that,
I answered, independently. I pre
fer to earn my own money.
So the next morning I set out for
the unknown bourne of New York
life.
Uncle Barnabas, said I, as the
train reached the city, hew shall I
find where Mrs. Prudence lives ?
Oh, I’ll go there with you, said he.
Are you well acquainted with her ?
I ventured to ask.
Oh, very well indeed, answered
uncle Barnabas, nodding his head
sagely.
Wo took a hack at the depot and
drove through so many streets that
my head spun round like a teetotum,
before we stopped at a pretty brown
stone mansion—it looked like a pal
ace to my unaccustomed eyes—and
Uncle Barnabas helped mo out.
Hero is whore Mrs. Prudence
lives, said he with a chuckle.
A neat little maid, with a frilled
wlntc apron, and rose colored rib
bons in her hair, opened tho door
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with a courtesy, and I was conduct
ed into an elegant apartment, all
gilding, exotics, and blue damask,
when a plump old lady, dressed iu
black silk, with tho loveliest Valen
ciennes lace at her throat and wrist,
came smilingly forward, like a sixty
year-old sunbeam.
So you’ve come back, Barnabas,
have you ? said she and brought one
of the dear girls with you. Come
kiss me, my dear.
Y r es, Susy, kiss you aunt, said Un
cle Barnabas, flinging his hat one
way and bis gloves another, as bo
sat complacently down on the sofa.
My aunt, I echoed. .
Why of course, said tho plump old
lady, don’t you know ? I’m your Aunt
Prudence.
But I thought, gasped I, that I
was coming to a situation.
Well, so you are, retorted Uncle
Barnabas. The situation of adopted
daughter in my family. Twenty-five
dollars a month pocket money, the
care of your Aunt Prudence’s cat
and Canary, and to make yourselt
generally useful.
Oh, Uncle ? cried I, .Eleanor would
have been so glad to have come if she
had known it.
Fiddlestrings'and little fishes ! il
logiciiiiy responded my uncle. I’ve
no patience with a girl that’s too fine
to work. Eleanor had the situation
offered her and chose to decline.
You decided to come and here you'
stay. Ring the bell, True, and or
der tea, for I’m as hungry a hunter,
and I dare say little Susy here would
rel sh a cup of good tea.
And this is the way I drifted into
my luxurious home. Eleanor, in the
country cottage, envies me bitterly,
for she lias all the tastes which wealth
and a metropoliton homo can grati
fy. But Uncle Barnabas will not
hear of my exchanging with her.
No, no! says he. Tho girl I’vo
got. is the girl I mean to keep. Miss
Eleanor is too fine a lady to suit me.
But he lets me send them liberal
presents every month, so I am hap
py-
Prepared expressly for the Uueua Vista Argus.
Valuable Reoipes.
Rheumatism Cure.— Take of prick
ly ash, white ash and cherry tree
bark one handfnl each; and of black
walnut double handful. Put into a
half gallon of water, boil down to
three hail pints, and add half pint of
syrup and one quart of whisky. Dose:
wine glass three times a day.
The above recipe is also a sovereign
remedy for neuralgia and has cured
where all other prescriptions have
failed.
Remedy for Poisoned Cattle.—
Give blue stone, a piece the size of
the end of your little finger, and feed
on Jerusalem oak as much as they
will eat. Immediate relief is the re
sult.
How to Keep Off Hawks.—
Whenever those high-flying aristo
cratic birds stoop from their high po
sition, making frequent abrupt visits
into the poultry yard, creating un
pleasant feelings among the inmates,
all that is necessary to stop their fre
quent incursions is to mix pulverized
nux vomica with the food of tho
smaller fry and those visits will very
suddenly stop.
Dr. Six Hammers.
Lookout’s Crumbling Palisades.
—An immense mass of rock weigh
ing about six thousand tons, which
had been breaking off from, the
Palisades of Lookout for several
days, fell on Monday morning,
completely blocking up the ascent
of the mountain. It landed just
below the toll gate, about two
thirds the way up the mountain.
Efforts will soon be made for its
removal. —Nashville American ,
29 th.
Tutor—“ What can yon say of the se
cond law of thought?" Ntudent —“It
cannot both be arid not be. For exam
pie, the door over there must be shut
or open.” Tutor—“ Give another ill
nation.” Student—“ Well, take the
case ol another door.”
