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Who Was N$t‘so 8ad Is the Broth'
or Who-Remained at Home
and Worked.
Da, Tai.maok Showing Up the
’Wickedness op the Industrious
Son-—Painting Him as a Liaii
AND AN EnV.^DS, JeAIOU^, AND Al,
Together Odious Person—The
pATF.NT-LRAt^jER SINNER’S PeNNV.
J; Bkoom.v», 1 March 14—Services
fa the Tabernacle opened this
morning with the Binging of the
byjpf*—^ "'f£e morning light is breaking,
j T^e darkness disappears .”
Mr. Talinage's subject was, “The
Pouting Son,” and he took his text
from Luke xv., 28—“He was angry
kid would not go in.” The dis
tinguished preacher said:
Many times I have been asked
why I never preach t£3 elder
Son of the great parable All of ns
preachers are accustomed to pur¬
sue the young son. You can
Sear its rags flap in many a ser
monic breeze, and thd sound of the
crunching pods for which he is an
unsuccessful contestant, Bat I
confess never until to-day could J
train the Camera ofericura upon the
elder son. I could not get a good
sbghtive for the photograph. The
light in the gallery was not suffi¬
cient or the chemicals were defec¬
tive or the kisteif moved in the pic¬
ture. I believe I have bird how;
hot a side face or a three-quarter
of the burst, but a full-length por
ski he appears to irie:
The father in the text had not
much to brag of in his boys; The
one was a rake and ihe other a
churL Some like thb other, but
I Ifee neither. There is nothing
chivalric in the dissoluteness of the
one, nothing admirable in the a< r d
sobriety of the btlieri The one
goes down over the starboard side
and the other goes down over the
larboard side. •
Frofff Sil the windows of the
JtqmeStead burst the minstrelsy.—
T be floor qtiakes with the feet of
the rustics, whose dance is always
vigorous. The neighbors had
hVard of the arrival of the adveUtu
rer and had come to greet Him.—
I think the house Was crowded
with congratulatofs. The table
must have beeh loaded, and the
one kind, of {heat announced must
Have fik'4 its concomitants. Clap
goes the symbols, thrum go the
harps, click go the chalices, and up
and down go the feet indoors, while
is a sorry spectacle orit cfoors.—
The old son stands there a frigid
phlegmatic. He liad just returned
from the fields in a substantial
garb; He e sees the wild excitement
aborit the mansion, and asks of a
servant who is hasteping b'y with a
goat skin of wine on his shoulder
what all this fuss is about. When
told that his brother had got back
_^ou would have thought he would
have hastened in to see him after
so long an absence, and, if not con
scientiously opposed to. dancing,
would have joined in the Oriental
Schottische. No; Ms brow lowers
and his face gets dark arid Ms lips
contemptuously, and he stamps the
earth in indignation, The odors
of the feast which come out on the
air do not s| 4 ram' appetite, nor
does the lively music put spring
into his step.
be is in a terrible pout’.'
i.r
He criticises the expenditure and
injustice and the morals of the
entertainment. The old father
rushes out bare-headed to coax him
in. 'yhe’souV his invulnerable. scofis his bfoth- He
scolds' father, at
er and makes a scene. He says:
‘Father, you put a premium on va
gfancy. You never gave me a par¬
ty". I staid home on the farm and
worked, and this scrapegrace went
o^f with good clothes and came
bjick time not fit, make to be seen. him. What# He
T ’OU over
breakfyuur That heart—you calf to whjci? pay y?e hind’ had
for it.
been giving extrej fegcf would not
have been so fat and sleek as, he is
if I had known yqu Were going to
make this absurd use of it. Tjiat
vagabond ought to Jh&ve beeri. coite
hided, instead of banqueted; veal
is foo good for him/ That Eight/'
after 'the guests had departed and
fhe Jieeri son sat andf tellihg about where he
had wliat .he had seen,
and asking About had oceur
eJ on the old place since his de¬
parture, the elder son went to bed’
disgusted, and.slammed thts dbor
after him, The elder' sbjt still
livpjj. You may see Mm almostaHy the' 1
h'unday'; '
jea, every day of
week. At a meeting' of ministers
in Germany some one asked who
was the elder son of a parable.—
Rrummachor answered 1 : ‘I khotf
hfyi'very well. I met him
day/ And- when asked who
meant ho answered : ‘Myself.—
When, yesterday, I heard of the
salvation of a very obnoxious in tin,
I,‘felt irritated.’ First, the aenior
b'rotlicr of the text stands for the
sMf grutulatory, self-satisfied, self
worslnVnl man. The fellow bursts
lit» broth
v'
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S. B. Burr, Proprietor.
er; and panegyric himself. Like
other self righteous people, he wae
full of faults. He, was an ingrate,
not appreciative of the home bless¬
ings he had enjoyed. He was dis¬
obedient, for when his father asked
him to go in, lie staid orih .He
was a liar, fot he says the yoqng
e£t son had devoured lather, .hie father's
living, when the so fax from
being rained by his recreant bey,
had cattle at the barn, had rich
wardrobes, had jewelry, had .mus¬
ical instruments; arid instead of a
pauper wae a prince. Yet the sen¬
ior brother; with all his faults, be¬
comes tiie merciless critic of the
junior brother. The only perfect
people I hate found have been ut
forty obnoviods'. I Was never so
badly cheated in all niy life as by a
perfect man. He had got clear dp
in his devotions until he was above
the ordinary rules of common hon
esty. Wheii Died go
Crowding about prater-meetings
and places of business, telling how
good they are, you had better keep
your hand on your pocket-book.—
The more genuinely good a man
gets the more humble he is. The
Mississipi river makes less tioiSe
than a brawling mountairi rivulet
There are stores and shops that
have more in the Show-windows
than they have irisicte oil the
shelves. This Setiior brother stood
hugging himself at the Poirier of
the hotiSe: We heat ft great deal
now it dayS ifo'otft higher life.—
The orie is admirable and the other
disgusririg. The one makes the
man more charitable for the faults
of others, talks but little about hint
self and more of Christ and beaten;
does not bore prayer meeting® with
long prayers, becomes Mote lovable
and kind and itseifril,' until some
day his so Hi puts out a riing and
soafs aviay %o eternal. rest. The
iiffier higher-life man carries a Bi¬
ble under his arm most conspicu¬
ously, talks constantly about what
he himfelf has felt, runs about
from church to church as q sort of
general own’ evangelist, is a £tfi&ce home fc
his , pastor wliep at
and to other parties when
abroad, rushes up a man whilst
running up a line -nirifriher of figures
or cowriting ou't a of bill®
and asks him how his soul is, makes
religion a dose of epicacuanka,
when addressing a religious meet¬
ing tallrs patronizingly, rit tftorigji
ordinary Christian's’ vler'e so far be
neatk him, that he had to shout at
the fop of his voice to make them
hear, but still encouraging them to
hope that if they continued to
climb they may some day get with¬
in sight of the place wh’efe he noW
is. A roaring, roysterm’g, bouch*
ing siririer jri riot so offensive to me
as that higher life malformation. —
For the former there’ is hope of re¬
pentance; but for the latter there is
no hope, for I never knew one of
them to give up his Phariaism.—
The prodigal son saw his faults
and came back, but tl?e seriib^sciri,
oblivious of his deHriqiiericy; stands
outside, provonricing his own eu>
blame Ionium. How much easier it is to
others than it is to blame our
selves! Adam blamed Eve, Eve
blamed the serpent, the serpent
blamed Satan, the senior brother
blamed the, younger/ and nbrie of
thenrblafobft the fh^p’telyps.,, brother r stands < •
Again, elder
for those who are faithless of the
reformation of the dissipated, die
olnte. In the very sojfod of his
toice you find thiA elder son does
not think his bre^he/a^information
is genuine. Has whole manner
says : “He has onljr coH>e back for
more money. He got his one
third ; .he wants another. He Will
never be content windfall' to sta/ Oil the
farm. He away. If I
thought Ee would 7 -brihave himself,
I would cofofe and joifiln the mirth,
but this whole thing Ik a sham.—
This tattterdemaliah is a
confirmed inebriate ajjd
ed now'there is in aR our churches
great incredulity in regard to the
reclamation of the recreant. They
say he has been a hard drinker, but
I say hh has reformed/ And they
also shake their'heads apd look hi
gubrious, and aay» They'sU/:" ,‘I hqpe ’Bo
are not mistaken.'
not make too glad'a time at this
convereiion, for the urioonveriod. first tiling you.
know lm will bo
not have t«o big a party at the
prodigal’s return, nor strike
timbrel too Iona, and kill the
that has been half-starved op
common, rather th«n the one
has been luxuriating in the pad*
FORT i. VALLEY, GEORGIA, FRIDAY, APtflL rtf & 1880.
dock.’
The one reason why more prodi
gals don't come back is because the
church is full of rank infidelity on
a possibility of their not standing
first. Bo yori not kriovr that there
is hot a house on all the streets of
heavea which does hot hold a prod
igal who got back afid forever staid
hornet A list of hundreds of
thousands of. prodigals permanent
ly and foreV-el reformed could be
made up. Who is John Buoyant
AjS^bqigftl. Richad Baxtqjr? A
frodigal. JohnNewtont A prod
igal. George Whitfieldt A prodi
gal. 1 can go tip any of thes 8
aisles and find on either side those
who, far astray once, have for many
Been faithful, and their etern
salvation is as sure as if they
had been ten years in heaven. Yet
some of you are entirely faithless
the reformation of the lost.
know not how to shake hands
with them: You know not how to
for them. You know not how
treat tHerii. They are trying to
out into a warm gulf stream of
sympathy, and you are the
against which they, strike
shiver. They are prodigals I
but you are the sour, un
frigid, censorious, sa
and cranky elder brother,
if you are going to heaven I
think some people wodld be
to go to perdition to get rid
you. Hunters say that When a
deer is shot the others push it
of their oompany. The common
feeling is; out With a man when sin
has wounded him. But I say the
Soke bones a man has broken
fife rriorie need he has of a hospital,
and the more bruised aud cut
sin a man is the more need to be
carried into human and divine sym¬
pathy—for elegant sinners there is
plenty of help. For sinners in
velvet, in satin arid laces, for high
salaried siririefs, for kid gloved
patent-leathered siririers, for sinners
fixed Up by the hair-dresser, for
pomatumed and laVefe'cleried and
coioghejl and crimped and
and curled and banged sinners,
plenty of room. Such sinners we
give good seats to. We usher
them into the church With' Ohester
fleldiqE? gftllaa'tries, arid put a soft
ottoman under th'Cir feet and a gilt
prayer-nook into their hand, and
pass this contribution box before
fheffT with an air of apology,
they, the generous souls, open
their exquisite and Parisian pprte
monnaie, and, With di'a’m'oned fin
gefs, pfash down among the ten
dollar gold pieces and delicately
pick out a deposit rt*5 aH expression
Of gratitude—their Sabbath offer¬
ing to the Lord—of one cent. Plen¬
ty of room for such sinners. But
When a Q&n’ has. been drinking his
coat threadbare, and his face in
erysipelas, and his wife’s wedding
dress is in the pawnbroker’s shop,
and his children, who ought to be
&{ ifchbol, begging cold victuals at
the basement doors of the city, and
the man is on fire, body, mind and
soul, with the flames that leap'
the scathing/ eoaliirrig, blasting,
scorching,' blistering, consuming
c\Jp, which the drunkard picks up
trembling; agonized and affrighted
to pr'estf to his' parched lips and his
cracked tongue and his shrieking,
immortal spirit, not so much room
for him. If the junior . bTothef
the, parable had’ not gone so’
and spent less money, and had
gone into such low wassail, tire pro¬
test would not have been so sharp,
having pitched headlong off
the precipice, the hero of my text
WriB'ftbg'ere|I and would not go in.
be not too hard with the fallen
lest thou thyself also are tempted,
Do you know who that man was
who, Sabbath before last, disturbed'
on r service, aifle staggering up and
down the until the service had
to stop’ building till Jhe was removed from
the A fallen minister of
the gospel of Jesus Christ, belong¬
ing to a sister denomination. Hd
administered at , the altar, he
had baptized candidates nnd bro
kefi the bread of the Holy Sacra*
ment. From what a height
10 W8AT A DR ^ TH ’,
A m*n satonthe beach, an inva
lid'in Sbufh America, one summer
day, and he saw Something crawl
ing; and wriggling iip'tho beach,
and'ho ii 'might wonc^erel what wild beast,
be eOpimg toward him,
and-ho took out his pistol for self
defense. When he found it was
not a beast, but a man, an immortal
man, a man made in God's own im*
ago, with filthy shock of hair, un"
shaven Said horrible; he had
reduced to great poverty, and was
living in a boat, and cravling up to
the invalid, he asked for some
strong drink. He turned out to
be a Scotchman, who had once been
a merchant in Edinburgh. The in
valid said: ‘I used to know a mer*
chant^in; if Edinburgh;’ giving the
name, He pool: man answered,
‘I am that man.’
Again, the senior brother stands
for the ejiirit df envy and jealousy.
He took the reception of the ju
niot Mother as a wrong to himself,
He had done so well he thought
tliat the banquet ought to Kaye
been spread for him, the .music for
him, the dance for him, -qn 4 the
congratulation for him. Oh, mean
and dastardly spririts of envy and
HoW they have come
down through all ages! Cain and
Abel, Saul and David, Esau and
Jacob, Haman andMordecia, Othel
lo ftfid Torquatus, Cassar and Pom*
pey, Columbus and the Spanish
courtier; Camb’yseS; Who slew his
brother Siiierdes because he was
a better marksman; Dionysius, who
slew Philoxenus because he was a
better siliger. Jealousy among
painters—Klostermari and Geoffrey,
Hudson arid Reynolds. Francia
wanted one of Raphael’s paint
in[ gg) Ba W it and died of jealous
grief; When Lee Soeur died, his
contemporary, Le Brun, said: ‘I
fg^l I have had a thorn from my
foot.’ Jealousy among authors—
how seldom contemporaries recog*
nize each other< jEnophoU and
Plato lived at the sacoie time; but
from their writings,’ you might
think they had UeVer heard of each
other. Religious jealousies—the
Mohammedans prayed for rain
during the time of great drouth,
arid the rain came riot. The Chris
tian prayed and the fairi immediate¬
ly descended. The Mohammedans
said the reason the fairi did riot
descend while they were praying
was because God loved to hear
their supplications so much that
He kept the dfriuth on iri order to
coritinrie tlreir devotions; but that
wheri the Ohristiaris began to pray
the rain came immediately, because
God did ript Warij- to hear any more
o| their cries'. Among the basest
passions of the soul- at first ap¬
pearance of envy let us stamp it
out. In all departments it appears.
Aqg. ageient Theogenes, Wrestler the was prince |e'jeal¬ of
of
that after his death when
statue had been set up to his
honor, his antagonist went out and
WUESTLEB WITH THE STATUE
till he flung it, but flung it upon
crushing him to death.
So erivy is not only absurd, but
killing to body and soul. How
seldom you hear a merchant speak
well of another merchant in the
same line of goods, or physicians in
the ^atiie block, or clergymeri of
I^hy this folly? This
a large’world, and there iri room
all. Let us rather rejoice in
each other’s successes.' The next
thing to riding in a splendid
equipage is to stand along the road
and admire the passing span. The
best thing to having a banquet
in honor of ourselves is to come in
the back door and rejoice that our
long absent brother is receiving it.
Nay. if we do not get as much hon¬
or and attention as some others, let
us argue that we escapg much'as¬
sault which comes to those in high
position. A French General was
riding at the head of Mr army, who
were on foo,t and overburdened; complained at
one of his soldiers
his haying to walk while the Gen¬
eral rode. The General dismount¬
ed’anti compelled foe complaining
private to mount bis horse., Pass
ing through a ravine, a bullet from
a sharp-shooter wounded and slew
the soldier on horseback. Then
the General drew a moral, that it
was sometimes not so safe to ride
as to go afoot. s
Again the senior brother
for those Cfoatian peoplo who
spends their life in religious pout*
ing. While the song and the
laughter and the innocent ^convivi¬
ality Went on inside, the man in
text stood with the edrhers of
mouth drawn, dowp, arid his
curled, looking as lie felt miserable.
I am glad to know his lugubrious
physiognomy and groutinesa of
havior did not stop the joy indoors.
So there are professed
who spend their life in
they do not like the music
church They do not like the
rities of the young. They do not
like anything^
POUTING, POUTING, POUTING
at society. Pouting at the govem
foerit. Pouting at the newspapers.
Their spleen is too large; their ljver
don’t work. Their digestion is
broke down. The only two cruet 6
in their castor sur.e to be full are
vinegar and red pepper. Oh, quit
that mood. Store a little of the
saccharine iri Jour disposition. Ab¬
sorb some of God’s sunshine. Dq
not imitate the junior son who
went off into abandonment, nor the
senior who stood pouting,at tile
corner of the house,,but the father
Who had welpoirie for the repentant
wanderer, and coaxing and beseech¬
ing words for the pouting malcon¬
tent. Go in and sit down with the
banqueters, and take a good big
piece of the fatted calf, and after¬
ward, while you sit with oae hand
in the hand of the returned broth¬
er, and the other in the hand of the.
rejoicirig father;, let your heart beat
time to the clapping of the cymbal
chid the mellow voice of the flute.
It was meet that we should make
merry and be glad, for this thy
brother was dead and is alive again,
was lost and is found.
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Tidings from' Liberia,
George Shaw, a well known
ored man, formerly of this county,
brit. now in Liberia, writes
friends in Augusta warning
colored people not to go to that
nighted region. He says the
try is mountainous and sterile,
the climate very Sickly; AU
necessaries of life are very inferior,
and high in price- The letter fur¬
ther says: “Wrong statements
have been made to the colored
ple of the South about Liberia,
which cause many a poor soul to
come here and suffer. Liberia is a
ceftain death for all the American
people who come here, and the na¬
tives—who think we are just out of
slavery—look on us with suspicion
and scorn. If the true facts about
this country were generally known
it would save many a poor soul
from' dying, Which a large majority
do wh'o land on those burning
shores. There is no machinery in
the country, arid farmers cannot
keep out of debt from one season
to the other. The much talked of
bread fruit ^.nothing, like
bread yon have iri the States; it is
a peculiar kind of fruit growing on
large trees, aud very insignificant.”
Shaw, with several others from
this section, shipped on the Azor
from Charleston, .about two years
ago.—Augusta News.
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Long Words;
“Rob,” said Tom, “which is the
most dangerous word in all the Eh
glish language to pronounce 1 ”
“Don't know,” said Rob, “unless
it is a shearing word.”
“Pooh!" said Tom, “it is stum¬
bled, because you are sure to get a
tumble between the first and the
last letter.”
“Ha, ha!” said Rob; “now I’ve
one for you. I found it one day in
reading the paper. Which js' the
longest word in all the English'
language?”
“Valetudinarianism,” said Tom 1
,
promptly.
“No,, sir; it’s smiles, because
there’ri a whole mile between the
first and last letter.”
“Ho, ho!” cried' Tom, “that’s
nothing; I know a word that has
over three miles between its begin¬
ning and ending,”
“Now, what’s' that ?” asked Rob,
faintly, “Bfeleaguered,” 1 cxclaimod Tend',
A setting Sit. ,
Arnold l’armeY,with a house foil of
boys, was one day tuggibg away at
a large piece of timber. Finding it
to,he rather hard work, he called his
boys one after anqlher, at the top of
His voice, but received no reply. Fi
nally, after he had no need of them,
they all came. ,
“Where,” said he, “have you been,
and what have mo,.call you bean doing;
diUn’t.yog hear 1 ”
iri the shop,' Beltin' the saw,’|
“And you, Dick?” continued the
old fanner.,. > ,, ,
“Out in the bnxn. settin, the hen.’
“And you, Jack?” . ■
“Up iu Granny’s room sottiri
clodk.”
“ Ancfvou, TotnT’ j.- j
“Up Iri the gairet, sottiri the trap.
“Aud now Master Fred, where
were.you settiu’?” asked the farmer,
amused at the peculiarity of the rc*>
plies. “On ___ the doorstep, * settiri i still;”
replied the youngster.
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Rainfalls and Forwfs-— ^According
to a paper in.. Polybiblion, the fol¬
lowing are the laws of meteorology
as affected by forests: 1. It rains
more abundantly under ether identi
oal-circumstances, over forests than
non wooded ground and mos abund
antly over f« wiffi trees in
a green condnion 2. The degree
of saturation of the air by moisture
non-wooded :a greater af ground forests and much than great- over
er over pinus sylvestris than over
masses of leaved species. 3. The
leafage and branches of leafed trees
intercept one-third, and those of
resinous trees the,half of the rains
w *l 8r i .which,, after paid returns
to the,atmosphere by evaporation,
On tha other hand, these same leaves
and branches restrain the evapora
tlon of water which reaches the
ground ; and that evaporation is
•early four times less under a mass
of leafed forest than ini the open, and
two and one-third times only .under
a mass of pines. 4. The laws of
the change of temperature out of
urider wood are similar to those
which’ result from the observations
M. Mathieu. The general con¬
clusion seems to be that forests reg¬
ulate the function of water,and exer¬
cise on the. temperature, as on the,
atmosphere, .an effect of ponderaticn
and eqailibrium.
Will He Succeed
In nine.cases out .of ton,, a man's
life will not, be a success if he does
not bear burdens in childhood
the fondness or the vanity of father
or mother has kept him from hard
work: if another always helped him
out at the end of his ro w; if instead
of taking his turn at pitcher off be
stowed away sill bis time—in short
if what was light fell to'him, and
what rias heavy about the work to
some ono else; if he has been permit¬
ted to shirk; until shirking has be¬
come a habit, Unless a miracle
been wrought, hm life will be a
failure, and ,the blame will.not
half so much his as that of bis weak
and foolish parents.
On the other hind, if a boy has
been brought up to do his part, nev
er allowed to shirk his, responsibil¬
ity,or to dodge work whether or not
it made his head ache, or soiled his
Kanos until bearing burdens has be¬
come a matter of pride, the heavy
end ot the wood his choice, parents,
as they bid him good; bye, may dis¬
miss their fear. The elements of
success are his, and at some time,
arid in some way the wc-rld will rec¬
ognize his capacity. »
Ammonia, m Rain
Liebig says that any one may sat¬
isfy himself of the presence of am¬
monia in rain by simply adding a
little sulphuric acid to a quantity
of rain-water, and by evaporating
it nearly to dryness iri a clean por¬
celain basin- The ammonia re
mains in the - residue in combina¬
tion with the acid employed ab‘d
may be detected by the addition of
a little cholorid'o of platinum, or
more simply, by a little powdered
lime, wMch separates the ammonia
and thrfs renders its peculiar pun*
gent smell sensible. The sensation’
perceived 7 on moistening the hand
with rain-water,, so different from
that produced by pure distilled wa
tej 1 , and to winch the term soft¬
ness 7 is commonly applied* is caus¬
ed by the presence of a* carbonate
of ammonia.
The first African Baptist Church
Richmond, Va, has 8,000 members;
but this immense aggregation of
Gh ristiannity does not prevent a
terrible church quarrel, which is
shaking the congregation to its
foundations. It seems that two
sisters were found fighting their for dear su¬
premacy in the favor of
paster, and summed’ this is bow a pious old for
brothe* up - the.platter “De
the Commonwealth:* members
is still consequenclng on
Holmfes, ‘bout dat ar affar wid
.winJin, but as yit.no reoeedins hev
bin’ meuced giri ‘im. .De feo
bowsomdover, dat if de sisterin
gin deir evidence dat she’s g lilty,
dere is plenty folks in de church
what will go for bouncin’
Holmes, suah.’ *■4’
Little Edith (who has heard h r
mamma speak of blighted think affection)
—“Mamma, and you *1 a per¬
son is really and truly ire love- it
would be.wiokcd her to deprive >ns?” ber of
the object of affecti
Mamma-—“Why, certantiy, Edith
dear; but wberuin the world did yoj
learn nil that?’ , ‘
Edith—“I heard you tell it to
Mrs. I’m Jingiejaw to-day. in lovo And with mom¬ that
ma, awfully iu the cupboard.” It i»
loaf of cake
needles* to say that Edith aud the
objoct.ofhor alleotiona were immad*
i«t«ly iititied.
V0I.-9 No. j
34.
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MY WIFE’S BRIDAL TOUR
BT MOSE SKINNER.
When I married my second
ghe wa8 Mt about “ ;
for a bri(laI tol , r . p told h r 8Wd
het ter wait six months or a / year, and
p<J to with he ba ghe 8aid
she - d ralllef g d alone _ when a wo .
man tra7eli lan waa an 0Ut . aQ( j
out humbug r
So j gavo ber 8 ev ^ t y-dve cents
and , old her to g0 off and have a
good time . j nfever b ^g r< i d g 0 ^on.
ey where my wife’s happiness
concerned. My first wife never
could com) .lain of not going any
where, for I'm dreadful fierce to. go
0 ff on a good time myself; and al¬
waya waS- j don>t pretend t0 68J ,
how maDy timftsI took her out t0
see the engine squirt, and there was
no en d to the free lectures I let
her g0 l0( The neigbbo r 3 used to
say .
“It dobs beat all how the Skinners
Wneu Signor Blitz was- in Shunk
ville wjth his • Qnderful.canaries he
gave myi wife a complimentary
ticket. 1 not only sold that ticket
for my wife, bat I gave her half the
money. I don’t boast of .it; though;
L only mention it to show bow much
I thought of my wife’s happiness.
I don’t think any man ought to,
get married until -he can
his wife’s happiness only second to
his Own. John Wise, ft neighbor of
mine, did thusly, and when I got
married I concluded to do like
Wiijfi. . , , .,
But the plan didn't work in the
cose of my second wife. No, I
should say not. I broached the
subject kiedly; j ... - -
‘Matilda,’ Isaid, ‘I suppose you
are aware that I am now your lord
and master.’
‘Not much yoa ain’t.'
‘Mrs. ■ Skinner,’ I replied, ‘you
are fearfully demoralized; you need
reorganizing at once. You are
eranky.’
Aud I brandished my new sixty
twp-cents umbrelly wildly around
her. She took the umbrelly away
from me and locked me up in the
clothes press.
I am quick to draw an inference,
and the inference I drew was that
I was not a success as a reorganizer
of female woman.
, After this I changed my lacjics.
I let her have her own way, arid the
plan worked to a charm from the
very first. It’s the best way of man¬
aging a wife that I know of. Of
course this is between you and
me.
So when niy. wife said she was
bound to go off on. a bridal tour, I
cordially consented.
‘Go, Matilda,’ said I, ‘and stay as
long as you want to, then, if you
feel as though you would like to
stay a little longer, stay my dear,
stay- , ( i
She told ac to stop talking and
go up stairs and get her red flannel
night-cap and that bag of pennyroyal
for her Aunt Abigail.
My wife is. a very smart wpman.
She was a Baxter, aud the Baxters
are a' very smart family, indeed.
Her mother, who is going on eighty,
can fry more slapjacks now than
half those primped-up city girls who
rattle on the piano, or else walk tlie
streets with their furbelows and fix¬
ings, pretending to get mad if a
youth looks at them pretty hard, but
gettiug mad in earnest if you don't
notice them at all. . , ...
Ah! girls ain’t what they used to
be wheu I was young and the fel¬
lows are worse still. When I went
courting, for instance, I riever
thought of staying after 10 o’clock,
and only went twice a week. Now
they go seven nights - 1 “ the week
ana cry because there ain't eight.
Then they write touching notes to
each other during the day,
‘Dear George, do yon love me as
much now as you did at a quarter'
past tvv’elro -last night? Say you
do, dearest, and it will -give me
courage to go down to dinner left and
tackle them cold beans over
from
Well, well, 1 suppose, they enjoy
themaelvcs, and it uin,t for us old
folks, whose hearts aro. a little cal¬
loused by long v/ea», to iu‘erfere.
Lot them get together aud court if
they like it—and I think they do.
l was forty seven when I courted
ray present wife, but it seemed just
us nice to eit ou a little cricket at
hor feet ahd let' her smooth my hair
us it did thirty'years ago..
Ah I said beforejmy wife is * very
smart weman, but she could not be
anything She else, and be a Baxter. Wo¬
men's u»oa Right*, to giro and in lootures place on where
one
*hj lectured title a L. big D., colli ge couforre l
the of L. ou tier: But
she wouldn't take it.
• ‘No, gentleman,’ j she said; ‘give It
to the poor.
> She was always just so charitable.
She gave my boys permission to go
barefoot ail winter, and insisted up¬
on it so much in Khr kind way that
they wouldn’t refuse.
Slie fairly dotes on my children,’
and I've seen.fiet pockets many and a time take go oat to
their trowser o
their pennies, and after they'd the got to
sfoep, pat them in bureau 1
drawer for fear they might lose them
daring the night.
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I started to tell you about my
Wife’s bridal tour, but the fact is I
never could find oulr inijefc about it
myself. J believe slie had a good
time. She came back improved in
health, and I found house out before she
had beetv in the twenty-four
BoVirs, that she'd gained in strength
also. I don’t say bow I found it
out—I simply gay I found it out. !
In conclusion, I would s .y to alj ;
young first, men: and Marry your debt second
wife keep out of by
all means, even it'you have to bor¬
row. the money to do it.
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, The Chinese . question -
has cor.
tainly assumed some. curious fea¬
tures iq California, h One of the.
queerest things is the difference
that the Californians pretend to
discover between the Chinese and
Japanese. While’ the former are
hated, the latter are extremely pop •
ular and liked, and a distinct invi¬
tation has been extended to them
tojsta-y; There are several thous¬
and Japanese oh the Pacific Slope,
but it is said that they fall into.
American ways at once, dress in.
our fashion and soon become thor¬
oughly Americanized. The puzzle
in California is- how to legislate
against the Chinese and - yet not
against- the Japanese. They are.
botlj Mongolians of the same race,
amS so alike that it is often difficult
to tell the two people apart.
Tail Accident to the Obelisk.—
Lieut Seaton Sohroender, who is
with Lieutenant-Commander Zar*
rifige in Egypt,on the work of ship •
ping the obelisk to this country,
has been granted three months ad¬
ditional leave of absence by the
Navy . department The. accident
which has occurred in lowering the
monolith, has left it in such a po¬
sition that before the work can be
finished a jack specially manufac-.
tured for the purpose will have to
be made. As this jack will be
made in England, there will be;
considerable delay. Information
through naval sources states that
the obelisk will not reach New York
before October next.
Governor Colquit has granted a
respite of Sam Hill’s sentence for.
two weeks. The general impres¬
sion is that his counsel will- proceed
to have a regular trial for jury be¬
fore the ordinary on a writ of luna¬
cy. There is a statute which em¬
powers the governor to hear evident
cc in cases where lunacy is set up
as a plea after conviction, but. in
this case the trial will be held be-’
fore the ordinary, and a regularly im
pannelled jury if it is had at all. ■
Atlanta correspondence Albany
Advertiser: The political situation
in Georgia is on the eve of some
great changes. Since Governor
Colquitt’s return from the Cincinna*
ti excursion bis truest friends out¬
side of Atlanta have had long con.
ferences with him, and one made
free to tell him that ho could not
get the democratic nomination. To¬
day,|he 27 t*yit is quite freely assert¬
ed that Colquitt will run independ¬
ent.
The_ members of the Georgia Med¬
Sooiety, in Savannah, protest'
against the increase of po wer given
the National Board' of Health by
several congressional bills, and sug¬
gests the holding of a convention, in
which all the Atlantic and gulf states'
should be requested’to participate, in
order to frame a bill wherein our
common, weal should" be explicitly
provided for.
, --- am * m -
Messrs Richard and William Ber
rie of Glynn county, and their
Florida relations, are about to secure
from the, United States government'
about .$5,000,000, in settlement of
an Berfie oldEpahish have been claim. offered The each Repays $94,*
000 for their claim by Secretary
but they prefer .to wait
and get it all, about $150,000 each..
Some guns taken from'the Georgia
Military Institute have been return¬
ed to Marietta in the name of Con¬
gressman Felton, thiis balking Gen.'
Young, who ivanted tkem to go
his name. They had been placed
with condemned cannou, and are*
said to bo dangerous to fire.
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Iu connection with the ‘boom’ in
iron, nails, $ have gone p’iious up from $3 *
keg to 6 . These indicate,,
also, building great throughout improvement in -sh^,
the whole
country. - • ■ • „ <>-
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II , %
ia>reportod built that house au ablo bis states-. |»-,
man who a out of
kor winnings said that his residence
was built on a bluff.
Mount Vesuvius is troubled with,
eruptions, and they don’t know whfct
to do with the crater.
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