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THE FUTURE.
> nt And watched the walking-beam eo alewljr oeatl-
>«*,
And thought how like our Ufa It le-eymbolle «t our
fate* .jp
For le It not of upe and dewna that life la moatty
. mnaeT. *. J <
For -fto haa ttfx upward gone without a downward
!■ ; J r
Aud while I watoned tia beam tha pumper (topped
the well;
daat ao ln Ufe-hoW toon the telre win oloae we
lin ./ pe^ifottoU.
How toon the afeam that drtrei the wbeeh will oome
‘no more for ua,
Wbdo not know aor cannot learn, for it waa ever
time.
But when tfUa life haa ceased to be, are we attll ttko
Will our engine change lie place, another hole to
Will <*ny part of oe be moved to more prollflo
Hells f
And Will the fntnre be controlled by what the proa-
..lot yields?
wai our ‘filter* bo assured la Bredford'a greasy
i
Or will It be a “wild-cal” well without a show of
oil?
Or will It be like yonder hole that long ago waa dug ?
Abandoned, never more to yield, shut midway wHft
. eplug?
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TITE BUT™
W. N. BENNS, JAMES 0. RUSS. Editor,.
TUtRE HE I.1<;IlT.”
VOLUME VI.
BUTLER, GEORGIA, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 25. 1881.
Subscription. *1.50 in Advance.
NUMBER 4.
witness.
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When George Fnulkner oslled at Col.
Dysart’s offlee and told him he wanted
to many his Kitty, the ruined old
Colonel turned in his wrath and bade
him leave liis presence 1
** We ain’t got down to that," said he
*' and you have a mighty lot of aasuranoe
to aSk for her." »}
Yet Kitty waa only a little waif. Col
Dysart had raised as a kind of waiting
maid for his two daughters; she had
been given no advantages in the way of
education, but everybody in the house
had made a pet and plaything Of Kitty,
and she was as pretty as a wild rose—
just the faintest oolor in her.oheeks gave
.a slight suspicion of quadroon blood,
bftt' hot beautiful brown hair was no,
dbrHor than Fanny Dypart’^. Hpr form
was lovely; her hands "and krdis studies
for a sculptor, and Gentleman George,
as Faulkner was called, had tried by
•vfcry unfair means in hii power to woo
and win her, tried and failod, and loving
her all the more for her sweet strength
of innocence he fortified "himself with
some Virginia tanglefoot and walked op
to the cannon’s mouth—in other words^
he* bluffed Abe Colonel, and 'demanded
Kitty’s hand in marriage, •«
" A loafer and boss thief," continued
the irate Colonel, when Gentleman
-George springs at:his throat like ft bull
dog.
“ Take that back 1" he shouted. ’* I’m
no boss thief no mo’n’ yon are. Toko—
it—back," an atbletio shake with every
word.
“ Well, well," gasped the choking
Colonel, “taebbe you ain’t; but you’ll
allow you’re a moonshiner and a gam-
.Wei" \
u Oh," smiled Qentleman George,
showing his handsome teeth—there was
more than a suspicion of color in his
blood—“ you gamble yourself, Colonel;
that’s a gentlefnan’# game; what’s yon
a-goin’ to do ’bout it ? and tlie law is
too close on a little whisky, and revenoo
l offieerp a mighty hard lot. EP that’s all.
you’ve got again'|nef, moughfc as welt let
me have the gal."
“I’ll see yon first,” said [the
Colonel, smartly, and the negotiations
ended then anti there.
Col. Dysart was of the old Virginia
stock, a blue-blood gentleman, poor as
a church mouse and, proud os Lucifer,
liyiTig regally with open doors, while he
uad anything, and maintaining a great
family of dependents in as good style as
he lived himself, white or black. Touch
one of Col Dysart’s servants, and you
touched him. He was a faithful steward
while the estate lasted. That was why
ho hat^d to give up Kitty. She
most like his own, though he had picked
her up in the highway a squalling 8-
year-old, and ridden into the door-yard
with the kicking child nnder his arm.
He transferred her to the cook, thence
she went to the housekeeper, by degrees
' she raached*Mts. Dysart, who made her
an especial pet, as long as she lived, and,
dying, bequeathed her to Fanny, her
eldest daughter.
The Dysart girls were good to her, but
indifferent; Kitty missed some
love very much, as she did good Mrs.
Dysart, and her heart went out to the
handsome fellow who smiled at her at
barbecues, and met her at preacher’!
meeting, and tried to entioe her off to
clandestine trysts.
That soupcon of African creole blood
which Unshed hia cheek found its mate
in hets; she had seen him laughing and
talking with her young ladies—his fam
ily waa as old and good as theirs—if it
had crossed the color line somewhere,
while she was a waif—a nobody. How
good it was of him to love her I
Biit, all the same, Kitty was wide
awake, and, knew that, if she had neither
blood nor birth t6 boost of, she had rep-
ntatioq, and Gentleman George was
known to bo wild, so she held her own
and compelled him to ask for her duly
in honorable marriage. Yon have heard
what the Colonel .said, but when did
, love ever fail in its undertakings t and
who came to the. rescue but romantic
Louise Dysart, the youngest daughter
of the Colonel, whom Kitty had oonfided
in, and she planned the whole thing—
ad elopement, oairiage end pair, mar-
riagu before * Justine aa4 btreelf m
Then ihe went home and
hoar her father storm I
poned the year before we
te Planters’ House, on the
mountain, where we had
made up a party for the season; and wo
heard from Col. Dysart that Kitty had
made a —— fool of herself, and he had
sent Louise to a seminary North to get
some sense in her head, and he’d be
if he’d ever help that sly Kitty,
not if she starved 1 And then we learned
that he had inquired all along about
tbem, and found put that Gentleman
George waa very good to his little wife
—that he had still eluded the excisemen,
aud gambled, but otherwise conducted
himself properly. Defrauding the Gov
ernment was not muohof a crime there.
The people had their own views about
that. If Gentleman George did nothifig
worse than disseminate the moonshiner’s
whisky, without paying the taxes, he
wouldn’t lose muoh in the respect of
Che people.
We had some curiosity to see this
cliivalrie. Georgo and his Kitty, and
Fhtety Dysart luid promised to take us
toiheir mountain cabin, but somehow
we never went, and had nearly forgotten
the intention, when one day we stumbled
in on them quite accidentally. We were
looking for wild flowers in the mountains,
and a storm came up so unexpectedly
that wo hnrried into the first cabin we
oamo to for shelter. A sick man was
bolstered up in a chair, and one of the
shyest, loveliest, most attractive girls I
had ever seen was fanning him with an
old palmetto hat. The room was hung
with starched aud goffered muslin
dresses, beautifully done np, aud an a
rack above the door several rifles were
hung. The sick man was the living
image of Wilkos Booth, as I remembered,
him—pale, statuesque features and dark
curling hair, tlie embodiment of pictur
esque- refinement and intellect. I never
saw such devotion in any woman's face
befoitius she gassed into his pale coun
tenance to see if our entrance had
startled him. She looked like the sister
of Tasso, or Gertrude, bending over her
Rudolph. I 1 4
Wo did not stay long, but we come
away deeply in love with Kitty, and
'other distrustful of her sick husband,
who was convalescing from an attack of
mountain fever* We felt, that some
thing was wrong and that Gentleman
George must be very selfish to wear a
fine gold watch, and a seal ring, and let
IHtty take in washing from tho hotel, as
she actually did; for we recognised those
beautiful lauudried dresses. We felt
that it was the old story of man’s selfish
ness and woman’s devotion, but we
mode ourselves agreeable, and drew the
gentleman out. He talked well in spite
of his vernacular, and ho read Bliaks-
peare and Mrs. Augusta Evans, and
gave us some quaint music on the banjo,
and told us of his family and was rather
proud of the drop of unleayea in hift
blood. / ,
It matches Kitty,” he saidHaffgh-
ingly; “ come hero, girl; give tlie folks
some buttermilk and berries. Fly
around, honey, or tbpy’ll think you’re
worn out nursin’ me.**
He moved A square of stone in the
hearth with his stick, and brought out a
jug with a corn-cob stopper; we all
tasted tho illicit whisky and he put it
book, saying:
You’ll not inform if you’re Kit’s
friends, and they’ll never take me alive 1"
Kitty shuddered and turned palo, but
we knew this was all mock heroism. A
pretty still in the mountain side was npt
likely to bo interfered with by snmmer
visitors, but the paling cheek of the
lovely young wife showed that she was
ever fearful of danger, and she followed
to the door to ask us in a sweet im
ploring way not to mention to GoL
Dysart’s family that she did the fine
starching and ironing for the hotel via-
“George is proud,” sho said, “and
so is the kunnel. I never washed there,
and I needn’t go to now, but he’s had
the mountain fevah. Pore boy 1 it’s
took him down so 1"
Her voioe was soft and flntelike; we
promised what she asked, as her hus
band called petulantly :
“ Kit! doan’t stand gnbblin thar I the
fevah’s on again! ”
Our next venture was of another sort:
There was a quarrel between some dis
tillers and the exciseman, and Ool. Dy
sart went as peacemaker between them
and collected a moiety of the tax money.
He called at Kitty’s on the way up the
mountain, and left word that he wonld
be back the next day at noon and would
cat dinner with her. Her husband waa
well now, and that morning he took his
rifle and went out “after game," he
said. Kitty begged him not to inter
fere with any of the excisemen, and he
promised he wonld not, and he left her
with a careless kiss.
Fanny and Louise Dysart got up the
idQ9 of a picnio to meet their father,
visit Kitty and spend a day in ths
mountains at the same time. There
were no dresses hung in Kitty’s cabin,
though her hands had goffered the ruf
fles on Fanny’s crisp lawn and Louise’s
organdy, through the medium of the
head waiter at the hotel, but they un
ceremoniously asked her to admire the
work. They ohaffed her about bei
hanAeme husband, and wondered where
he was, and declared laughingly they %
would not have come if they had not ex--
pected to ole site. Ool. Dysart was
late, and the picnickers' bad their
feast spread order the mountain pines
and Kitty mode a dmrmteg hostess, but
she was anxious, and seemed watching
and listening, At last Ool. Dysart
came riding slowly, and with his
bridle-nrra hanging by his tide, broken
by a rifle-ball I The girls sobbed and
olnng to him, and teked a thousand
questions, htrf Kifty helped him off hie
hors^gqfc life house, and, with
the help of others of the party, band
aged up the broken aim. Then the
Colonel talked with white lips and set
teeth.
“The highwaymen 1 It was
tlie money they wanted, and thej meant
to shoot me like a dog, ' Ipur <0 Aram
Bet oil one man. Masked -Mke tkitvus
every mothers’ son of ’em ! Well, I
settled the account of one of ’em; grilled
him thru and thru so he’ll never knew [home during spring cleaning!
m^uua
ATTOrnt
MS FOR TUE TBOUQUTFWL.
it mnstaota dreads the short
oignr. M
There’s maujdRlip between tha pul
pit and the ehurch door.
A aliver in your hand is worse than
fl,000 m hand of your friend.
l^rer build castles in the heir. They
are ever liable to be overthrown.
Put a rioh man on mule-back and the
mule will throw him just as quickly as
he would a beggar.
Least said the sooner the deadlock is
ended.
Piety is often butanes-deep.
You can’t make a portmonnaisout of a
two-legged calf.
Bangs cover a multitude of wrinkles.
Like the dog in the manger, the nose
is above kissing and is always ready to
interfere with the kissing of others.
When the Bpring bonnet oomes into
(he ^louse, monoy flies out of the pookot-
book.
Oh, that mine ^nemy had been at
wlmt hurt him i A mean sneakin’ cow
ard ! Hallo, Kitty 1 blood makes you
sipk, hey ?’’
For Kitty had dropped like a shot biid
at his feet.
It Was tho blood," ahd said, and she
soon came round and helped us to got
off, a silent terrified party, for oven on
outlaw’s death is a shadow on one’s soul,
but we all felt that the Colonel had (lono
tlie country a service. These outrages
had been frequent of late.
We hated to leave Kitty alone, but
she said Georito Would bo tight back,
and wo loft her watching the winding
mountain roa<l anxious for a first
glimpse of his loved face.
THE tooY.X/fAMILr (if*RtJfiHtA.
It may bo a platitude, writes G. A.
Suln, to remark that illustrious rank, an
income of a greet many thousands of
roublos a year j a fihe house to Hvfc - in, a
French cook and plenty of servants, and
the breast of your coat all covered with
stars a*nl crosses, do not necessarily of
themselves Confer on humanity the thing
called happiness j but it is expedient to
remember this truism in view of tho
opiniotl that those adorn np states of ex
istence mord monotonous, more useless,
and indeed more generally deplorable
tliuu those of the male members of tlie
imperial family in Russia. The Grand
Duchesses are more fortunate, They
have, at least, the chalice of marrying
foreign potentates, of escaping from his
Imperial Majesty’s jail-r-in which liis
Imperial lilajcsty himself is the chief
prisoner— of conversing with free people,
nhd-bf breathing free air. But here arc
these young, middle-aged aud elderl,
imperial gentlemen, forming a caste
apart, as isolated and comparatively as
numerous as the imperial casto of the
Yellow Girdle in Oliina, condemned to
pass tlieir liveH, buttoned and buckled
and strapped up in the tiglit-litting uni-
forrns, and to wear helmets or forage
caps on their heads. They were dressed
in uniform when they were children:
they live iu uniform, and when they .die
they will be buried in uniform. Eucb.
adult one of them is mured up in a pal
ace of his own as big as a barrack, where
he keeps, or is rather kept, in safe cus
tody by a swarming retinue of aides-de-
camp, cqueries, moitros d’kotel, grooms
and lacqueys, and tho wages of this army
of pgraaites added to the revenue ap
portioned to their Highnesses from a civil
list of 10,000,000 of roubles a year, but
which is practically unlimited, go far to
ward eating np the fat of tho land, ami
grinding the faoe of the miserable mou-
iik even to the bone.
THE SMALL BOY'S EXPLANATION,
Angelica had invited her “ best young
man" to the ovening meal. Everything
had passed off harmoniously until An
gelica’s 7-year-old brother broke tho
blissful silence by exclaiming :
“Oh, mal yer oughter seen Mr.
Lighted the other night, when he called
to take Angie to the drill; he looked so
nioe, sittin’ ’long side of her with his
arm
“ Fred I" screamed the maiden, whose
face began to assume the color of a well-
done crab—quiokly placing her hand
over tho boy’s mouth.
“ Yer onghter seen him," continued
the persistent informant after gaining
his breath, and the embarrassed girl
hand was removed ; “ he had his arm—
“ Freddie 1" shouted the mother, os i
her frantic attempt to reach tho boy’s
auricular appendage she upset the con
tents of the teapot in Mr. Lighted’s iap,
making numerous Prussian war maps
over his new lavender pantaloons.
“I was just goin’ to say," the half-
friglitened boy pleaded, between a cry
and an injured whine, “he had liis
“Yon boy!” thundered the father,
“away to the wood-shed."
And the boy made for the nearest exit,
exclaiming *s he waltzed, “I was only
goiu’ to say Mr. Lighted had his army
clo lies on, and HI leave it to him if he
didn’t"
And the boy was permitted to return,
and the remainder of the meal was spunk
in explanations from the family in regard
to tho number of times Freddie had t»
be “ talked to” f*ir using liis fingers for n
ladle.
A cigarette in the mouth shows whioh
way the money goes.
Lonesome is whom handsome does.
The ifcan who pleads his own case is
nnnved of lawyers.
Thi man who saves 6 cents by walk
ing giv>s 10 to the shoemaker.
Kiss aid let kiss.
It is a dhort layin’ that has no turn in
The boot-tree is known by its boot.
The scissors has two blades, crying
Steal, steal."
Whoso diggeth a pit should bo oast
out of tho family cirole.
All that blisters is not good medioine.
A feast is good as enough.
He most have a big spoon that must
cat ice-cream with a young lady.
Honest ten furnishes ito own grounds.
Of two women, ehooso the one that
will have you.
The beauty is not so bright as she is
painted.
Two in a tirade seldom agree.
Speech is cheap, but votes are what
tell
A womau after his own heart is what
plcoseth tlie man.
Money is the principal thing; there
fore get money; and with all the gettings
get it well invested.
A soft answer turneth the stomach.
The coal-hole goeth before destruc
tion, and a banana skin before a fall.
A bald head is a fly’s paradise.
The race is not to the swift, but to
the pool-seller.
A short-time note soon goes to pro
test.—Boston Transcript.
ADORED BY DOG a,
I please myself with tlijf thought ihat
every man is, or may be iMip.wiU,*cen
ter, round which many kinds of uffcction
press with gently sustaining forces. Let
as not underrate the love yfhioli rises up
to us from below, bathing our feet in
warmth; Only love, of animals, and
that ot olildreu yjhilo they ure still
quite young, is absolutely free from criti
cism. AIL our contemporaries criticise
ud; even our wives do in their hearts and
r sons in their adolescence. The man
his family lives in a glass case, and
con pot quite withdraw himself. He is
surrounded by iflore affection than tho
bachelor, bat he incurs in a minor de
gree that amenability to criticism which
is the penalty of a prime minister. The
critiokm may not be openly expressed,
but as soon as he aots independently of
the family opinion about his dqtieti 'he
feels that it is there. l£Vexce6dingly
salutary, no <l"ubt; it keeps us In the
path of duty and dignity,; it saves us
from many obberratidftli. ~ Arid- still,
upon the whole, we know ourselves to be
such lamentably in^tfect characters
that we long for an afbetion altogether
ignorant of our faults. Heaven has ao-
oorded this to ub in tho uncritidal canine
attachment. Women love us in their
own exalted ideals, amjjo live up to the
ideal standard is somotifbes rather more
than we ore altogether able; to manage ;
children in their teens find out how
olnmsy and ignorant we are and do not
quite unwaerve.!ty'x*eqpne| us, but our
dogs adore us without a suspicion of our
short-comings.—PfiMp OUbert Hamer-
A BAs ft INBULT.
It doesn't always do to oredik people
with over-sensitivtihess. - The otber day
one of our “ risifc^ joung pianists ’’ was
giving his opinion^ the vulgarity and
meanness display (4 by. oar goldfish aris
tocracy. “ Why/ 1 rfaidbe, “for instance,
not long ago I *>ia invited to attend a
musicale at tho house ^f. Qld Pullbags,
on Nob Hill Ol rtmree I played a good
deal to entertain the company, and when
I left old B., as be shook .bands, slipped
into my hand a $20 gold piece.” “ Why,
the tli ick- skinned old hog I ’’ said tlie
audience, indignantly, “What did you
do?" “Why, you just bet I got even
with him. I haughtily threw the money
on the floor and left, after first exchang
ing the coin for a counterfeit twenty I
happened to have in my pocket just.
theUf—don’t yon see ? ” “Capital idea;
served the old vulgarian right.” “Yes,
it was a huge idea, but the trouble was
that hi8 twenty turned out to be a coun
terfeit, too."—San Francisco Post.
A QVZBT BOAMOnrO-rroUMM.
“I have oqsm *• answer to your ad-
rwtisem^ot for board, " said a nervous
oM rndy toap«rts*MB of 13, as the latter
' 'fihowad her into a partyr of all the com
forts of a home establishment on Henry
street “ But I won’t oome hare nnle
your house is perfectly quiet, bow re*
member that"
“Quiet! well, you may smile," replied
Miss. “ That noise you here now is the
dentist iu the basement, pulling out
tooth, but hell get it out, if it takee him
a month. How muoh oan you afford to
pay?”
I think I hear some sue up-stairs
shouting,” raid the old lady.
That’s only a young lawyer prao.
tioing a oase. You’ll get need to him.
Nobody liked it at first, but wa’vs all
got used to it aud don’t mind it now a
Got any children ? We don’t take
children, because eur babies fight ’em
‘ No, I haven’t. Who’s that yelling
in the next room ?”
“ That's the landlord trying to collect
the rent. You know pa is very deaf,
aud you’ve got to howl at him. You’ll
have to pay in advance if you oome
here.”
“ Good gracious I What’s that ?” ejac
ulated the old lady, as a furious diu
swept through the lower regions.
“ I guess the cook is driving grandma
out of the kitchen with the olothespole.
She often does that. Have you got
much baggage ?’
“Sakoa alive 1 Somebody is being
murdered up-ataire I Who is it ?
“Oh ! that’s a literary fellow on the
top floor. Whenever he writes anything
he squeals like a pig. But he generally
writes at night, and you needn’t pay any
attention to him."
“What are your terms?—good heaven,
the roof has fallen in 1”
“No, it hasn’t; that’s a college pro
fessor, and that’s the way he goes up
and down stairs. If you listen you
may hear him break his neck I Gan
you give any references? Anybody
know [you f’
“ Certainly ; if I—was that a gun ?"
“I guess so. My cousin has got u
prairie down cellar where he huuts In
dians and buffuloes and things. Borne,
times he’s a road agent, ani then he robs
us on the stairs. We always allow for
it in the bo aid, so it evens up. Got any
money of your own"?
“ Nevor mind whether I have or not;
I don’t think I wont a room here, any
way. Let me out, please."
“ Couldn't let you have one, anyhow;”
retorted Miss, preparing to slide down
the balustrade. “ There’s only one emp
ty one, and tbat’s too high-priced for
you; besides, you don’t wear very good
slothes, and we prefer not to have you
around.” And down tlie slide she went
with a whiz-z, while the old lady pat
tered off after another home-like house.
—Brooklyn Eagle.
PLEkaANfRZBM
Ha who fling* his pills away v
to die another day.
Thb Oleve^M Leader thinks
America has not enough navy to bad! |
“ How did you find your unele, <) |
ny ?” “ In a^fc-pie order/
that?*’ “Crusty."
A KooLiBZJC man is one who, wh
has ten minutes to spare, goes and 1
era somebody who hasn’t.
It is terribly embarrassing fcrf *
to town from a fishing excursion I
there is not a fish in the market.
Thu man who was “ waiting for a
thing to turn up” was rewarded
| he stepped on the edge of a barrel 1
iNQumnto duffer asks:
AACKaON AND CALUOUN,
At the close of the session-of Congress,
March 4, 1831, a stiff quarrel broke out ! of liquor will a man get drunk on qd
between Gen. Juckson and John C. Cal- , cat ?” Tho kind ho can get hold of t
houn. It originated in this wise: II ■ “And, O Edward," said the j
will be recollected by those who Lavs ( was going to leave behind him,
read an account of Gen. Jaokson's cam- i every stopping place be sure and i
paign against tlie Beni moles in 1818 tbid , thou go ahead. ”
they —ere Indians who came ont of Flor- Coxoxdrcm for the skeptic: If t
ida, then belonging to Spain, murdered
citizens on oar frontiers and Committed
depredations on their property. The
Spanish offieers, instead of restraining
these Indians, furnished them with sup
plies, thus making themselves parties
to the outrages perpetrated. Gen.
Jackson, believing that he was author
ised by the law of nations, a secret act
of Congress, and an order from tha Gov
ernment at Washington Yo conduct the w ** the quick reply, “as soon as|
campaign as be thought best, marched married.”
no devil, ns yon assert, who
the father of flies? Several bald-lJ
ed men impatiently await yonr replj
Tii man who doea not lora
Win a, woman and aoug
Bay not havo aa good a Him,
Bat hall U*ra Hr* tlmaa aa long.
“Don’t you think,” said a hi
mildly rebuking his wife, “ that i
are possessed by the devil?”
into Florida, took possession of Bt
Marks, Pensacola and Ban Augustine,
and soon put an and to the war. Im
mediately thereafter a letter from Wash
ington was published in a Nashville pa
per stating that William H. Crawford
had proposed in Monroe’s Cabinet to
have Gen. Jackson punished in some
form for his procedings in Florida, and
that Mr. Calhoun had defonded him.
Gen. Jackson believed thia statement,
and the consequence was that he was
very inimical to Crawford and very
friendly to Calhoun. At lost Mr. Craw-
I THU POBK-LOTBB’a DAMKNT.
Idansottot
▲ lasd pig's asst,
i TbeagX bo* ot cr **4 of Moss*
Far, oh, I fair.
From whst I hear.
That horrid trlchinotfsl
A fat woman of Corinth, Mis#., <
1 ash-bark tea to make
skipped for the better land j
hours ahead of a lean woman \
| eating gum-arabio to make her 1
Thu oritio who did not “minf
■tope” introduced some verses |
The poem published thia
ford determined to correct the false im- composed by an esteemed frienJ
pression made on Gen. Jackson’s mind.
He wrote a letter to John Forsyth, then
a Senator from Georgia, and asked him
to show it to Gen. Jackson. In this let
ter he said that it was Mr. Calhoun, and
not himself, that mads the proposition
complained of. Thia information great
ly surprised the General and completely I changed her mind since,
obanged hU holing, tow.rd Mr. 0.1- j Ema0B wu „ ola „ d s ,
hora. A correspondence between the | 5 Qne morning Band. Mid to
partie. cn.ued and then open war. Mr. , „ j won . t , 0Te u yon do
has lain in liis grave many years i
own amusement"
Thu man who said, “ A womd
change her mind on any subjej
twenty-four hours" has been
ered. Ten year* ago hi* wifel
nonneed him a- fool, and ahe J
Calhoun issued an address to the people ,
of the United States, in which he |
charged that it was a plot gotten up by |
Mr. Van Buron to injure him. The evi- I
deuoe did not support the charge. The
result of it all was that Mr. Yan Buren i
resigned his seat in the Cabinet, and l , ., .
was at once followed by every member i
of it, save the Post master General,
soon appoiuted Minister to Spain. Ing- j
love I
said, “ Yon most not say so.
not love you if you don’t
body.” Borah replied, “ Well,
God did not hear me. He is
high, and I guess He is a little
A clergyman lost his hat
liomo I
shabbier one, which was left in
of it. Next day tho hat waa rel
ham, Branch and Berrien were friends ! fbo penitent appropnator,
to Mr. Calbouo, and, of oourae, thej 1 'TU never toko . mimrtor,
had to go ont. Van Bnrcn was appoint
ed a Minister to England, and Eatoi>
Governor of Florida. Callioun himself,
the next year, resigned tha Vice Presi
dency, and was elected a Senator.
TUB UNKNOWN FUTURE.
What is before me? What is before
you? Wo do not know, and thore is no
one of whom we can ask the question
with liopo of reply. There are many
things which we dread, some which we
fear greatly; but we are well aware that
our hopes may never be realized and
that our fears may prove groundless.
That whioh we nevei hoped may glad-
3ii us, that whioh we never dreaded
ar fall upon us, after all.
The babe in his cradle yonder is a rid
dle* not to be read even by his mother.
Bho fbrxyiB her plans for him os she rocks
the; aradle : with her slender foot. He is
to be a statesulhn or a clergyman, a
merchant or a soldier. She plays with
her dreams of his future just as she blew
bubbles in her childhood, and as those
bubbles burst-so may these bright fan
cies of hen. Or, haply, even greater
things may be in store for him than she
has thought of; for though some one
who was destined for the ohuroh by
bis mother has, doubtless, died a felon’s
death, another, whose parents only
hoped that ha should work at his father's
honest trade, has coma to be a ruler in
the land.
The great poets were not poets in their
oradlea. The whole list of peoplo whose
name* are known to all the world gave
no sign of future greatness in their cra
dles. They cried for pap and for tin*
moon just like all the babes who lived
and died without being or doing any
thing particular.
But, oh, the fate that may be before
any babel before you, before me. Oh,
the brightness or the darkness behind
the curtain that veils our future and that
of those we love I Do the angels know
all ? Is it written, or only to be writ-
ton ?
Far one thing let us all be thankful:
that we do not know and that there is no
means of knowing the life that we may
live, or the death that we must die, or
the fate that lies before the ohildren for
whom we build our bonny air castles.—
New York Ledger.
HO IF THE 1C OT USC 111 IDS GAINEL
THE lit NAME AND FORTUNE.
If tlie doctrino that honesty is the best
policy needed any confirmation, tho his
tory of tlie Rothschild family ought to
afford it. The founder of tho line, Meyei
Amschel, or Anselm, was born in the
Jew’s quarter at Frankfort-ou-the-Main,
in 1743. His parents died when-ho was
11 yeiu's old. He becuuio peddler,
aU-arouud worker, and finally clerk to a
small banker aud money-changer in Han
over. In 1772 he had saved a little capi
tal, so ho returned to Frankfort aud set
up a money-changing shop with a red
sign over tho door. That red paint-
smeared hoard became tho godfather ol
tho richest family oil the face of tho earth.
From simple Meyer Anselm, tho young
Jow came to be culled Meyer Ansulm
Rothschild, or red sign or shield.
He collected ancient and rare coins, and
among tho amateurs who bought of him
was tho Landgrave, afterward the Elec
tor, William of Hesse, tho blood-peddling
scoundrel who sold his subjects to En
gland to be killed in America during tho
Revolution. The Landgrave look a fancy
to Meyer Anselm and rnndo iiim his agent.
When Napoleon overran Europe, Will
iam of Hesse was driven from his state*,
und left all the monoy ho could gather
together in the hands of Anselm, his
agent. It amounted to 4250,000. Money
in those days returned 12 or even 20
per cent, on good security. Anselm
lout it, and turned it over aud over
again. The war went on. Tho battle of
Lcipsio was fought, and Napoleon and
his army were hurled across the Rhine.
The Landgrave of Hesse then returned
to Uis states. A few days after, tho oldest
son of Meyer Anselm presented himself
at court and handed over to the Land
grave the three millions of florinB which
were the principal and interest of tlie
treasure hi* father had taken care of.
The Landgrave looked upon the restored
money ea a windfall Iu his exultation
he knighted young Rothaohild at pnee.
“Such honesty,"his Highness exclaimed,
“ had never been known in tho world.”
At tho Congress of Vienna, where ho
went shortly after, he could talk of noth
ing else than the h meaty of the Roths
childs. He made thorn the fashionable
bankers of Europe, which they remain
to thia day.
“ Mr husband is a brute,” declared
Mme. X. to an intimate friend tho other
day, “ Why, my dear, what’s the mat
ter now? ” “ He found fault with a lit.
“ Did you read that poem in last tie vivacity of mino yesterday, and I
night’s paper?”asked Smith. “ReadI” j threw a candle-stick at his head; then
exclaimedPuffington; “no, sir; I never ; w hst do yon suppose ho did ?” “I don’t
rend poetry. I write it 1” “ Oil, 1
said Smith, demurely. “You
congratulated.”
who!
hatl
You can’t imagine wliat queer j
I’ve had running through my hffl
since I put that hat on.”
DYSPEPSIA AND BUPERSTIM
The Russians aro by no moan* I
peptio a race as Americans, fJ
have more physical labor and less!
to employ tho services of cookl
there are subjects of tho Czar evj
over-oat, and suffer in cousequf
other mortals do. They ore,
not inclined to blame themselves|
tacks of dyspepsia, but think 1
such attacks do trouble thorny!
to the presence of a snake in
acli. It is currently believed
reptile is very fond of raspberJ
anil leave its hiding place wl
gees or smells them. So the >
goes into the bath-room (when l
to be oared), some raspbe;
fetched and strewed on hot
tho room, over which the i
with open month to facilitate t
of the serpent. Bhould it not I
nppearauoe, charms or incantal
resorted to, and oontinued till|
tient feels better, when the an
posed to have left his temp
unobserved. Surely the son
reason is reached* by a ]
believe in snah an absurdity,
havo relations in countries wei
—people who are equally nn
what te the real cause of dyi
what its enre,^
FAOU-HA1M.
In the British navy c
may wear •11 th# Uoe-hmir th.y I
but m the except on f<|
rice, beard* are t
tho continsntal ai
tions aro in foroo,
aro more liberal, and du
month tho Minister of War 1
general order to the
much aa he. hears that j
beards have been prohibited!
remind all commanding .c
a Ministerial decision of
in the army, may wear
just as they please. In
are rigorously prohibited
n mustache, and the same i
lending restaurants in
gentleman lately got 111
] ilace in one of thes£ J
but, though very
loved his nmatsoh bettor t
declined the plane.*
Horne Toon,
one day asked by tho masti
why a certain vetu governs
lar clause. Ho answered:|
know.” “That is imp
master. “ I knowiMH
but obstinate." J0H
sistod, and the i
tho punishment,
rulo of gryunar wh
ject, and %ome
know." “Why, he stood before the A know that very well;
to Im ' mirror, so that I conin’ t throw the oth- 1 a3k for the rule;
er. The bwto
but I
yon. denial