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“A Map of Busy Life—lts Fluctuations and its Vast Concerns.”
ELLIJAY. GA., THURSDAY, MARCH it, 1881
“My Little Waxed Mustache.”
I don’t know what his came is,
I don’t know where he dwells,
1 only know his Voice is
As musical as bells ;
And, ob ! lie’s such a dancer,
And cuts so vast a dash,
He really is a darling,
My “little waxed mustache."
He’s such a charming talker,
Has such a talking way,
That all the indies like him,
Aud call him sweet and gay.
But oh ! I mean to have him,
Though prudes may think me rash,
I really mean to have him,
My “little waxed mustache.”
Don’t talk to me ot glory,
Don’t talk to me of fame;
I “take no stock’.’ in either,
For neither is ray game.
I’m fond of love aud music,
I'm foud of vim and Hash,
And surely I have found them
Iu “little waxed mustache,”
EXCHANGING DUSTEBS.
Experience of a Humorist and a
Clergyman.
I hurriedly called for my lin
en duster (ever since my uncle
iu California left me $3000.000 I
always wear a linen duster when
I travel ; 1 feel as though 1 could
afford it, and society rather de
mands it of me), and climbed in
to the train and waited for it to
start. By and by I reached into
the capacious pockets of that
duster, aud in an idle, vagrant
moment, drew forth a Police Ga
zette, radiant with the usual as
tonishing display of all kinds of
stockings in all manner of alti
tudes save proper ones, with fe
male figures attached to them.
Now, I never buy and I never
read that journal, and I was
amazed lo find it in my pocket.
I went down and brought
up a couple ol beer tickets. Then
I raked agajh and found a piece
of billiard-chalk, several grains
ol coffee, aud a piece of lemon
peel. It seemed to me that my
oidiuarily well-behaved and ex
emplary duster had evidently
been out with (he boys last night,
instead of reposing in the quiet
of the coat-room. Curious to
know just how far this iniquity
weut, I reached into another
pocket, and found a corkscrew,
three dice revelling iu the luxu
rious afliueuce of three aces
apiece, and a poker deck contain
ing four kings of spades.,
I was ashamed of that duster.
Not only had it been out with
the boys, but it had fallen among
thieves, and was itself the mean
est thief of the lot, and unworthy
to be called one of the boys. 1
was almost at raid lo examine the
last pocket; but 1 finally sent
down the grapple, and up it came
with a whisky-flask, very empty
bui very odorous.
1 began to wish the train would
stait so that I might watch my
opportunity aud throw that dus
ter, with all its manifold iniqu -
lies on its wicked head, into the
river. I stealthily felt under the
bottle and found a pair of brass
knuckles. That settled it; my
duster was irrevocably bad. I
would wear it as lar as the river
or the first tunnel, and I would
jnever wear it farther. Would
the iraiu ever start ?
then a gentle hand touch
ed my shoulder. 1 started guili -
ly and lqkyd up to see a police
man. it i had been arrested on
any charge, l(ie|t, burglary, min
der, slieep-siealiug x treasou —any
thing, 1 should hs,ye given rigtil
in aud gone ajqiig, ,1 had lit
enough confidence in, my sell to
deny anything. But when 1
looked up 1 saw a kind, lender,
face, and I heard the pleased
voice oi a Methodist clergyman
■“I beg your pardon,” lie said,
“but fear you and I have ex
changed dusters. I only noticed
ilie change this moment, when I
found some tellers and lecture
tickets bearing yorr name in the
pockets. The mistake was my
own, 1 have no doubt. I am so
very careless and our dusters are
so nearly Bike.”
I was so shocked that I didn’t
know what to say nor where to
look, but I had jus l , enough sense
left to say yes, that it was my
duster that lie had iu his hands,
that I couldn’t find my own in
the court-room and look the only
one that was letl. Aud then I
gave the good innocent man the
villainous old sin-dyed Philistine
that had been corrupting my
morals all morning.
And then, to sit there and nev
er look around, but just listen to
i hat man’s acclamations of
amazement and horror. First he
found the billiard-chalk. He
didn’t know what that was, so he
only said, “H,m !” When he
found the coffee grains—Out he
didn’t exactly understand them,
and just said, “Ha !”
Then he fished out the cork
screw and he seemed to compre
hend that in a general way, for
he said, “What ?” in a staccato
tone that elided an encore from
the entire audience, l'he poor
man’s “Merciful heavens !” that
greeted the appearance of,the
ivliisky-flask was drowned in a
perfect torrent of applause and
wild cries of “Go on, go on,” and
“More.” And then wheu he
pulled out the Police Gazette and
the brass knuckles, he fell back
into his seat with an audibi.e cry
of horror, and the whole car full
ot people just rose lo iheir feel
and veiled and howled, and
trampled on their lials, and
wanted to get out of the car aud
throw it into the Chenango river
to expressfeelings.
I never saw so great enthusi
asm over such a little thing.
And the tainting clergyman came
to me holding the disreputable,
character-destroying old gallows
bird of a duster in his trembling
hands.
“Sir,” he said, with patient re
buke and pitiful appeal mingling
in bis tremulous u Iterance.
“ Sl ’’ ...1 ....
“Go away,” I said, “don’t bring
it around here ? Don’t you point
that thing at me ! ’Tain’t mine!
You claimed it yourself! Don’t
dare to charge me wall it ! Throw
it under the car ! Burn it up 1 1
won’t have it! Don’t you dar- —”
But the clergyman held it out
toward me and raised his light
hand appeaiingy to heaven. Just
Before the tabled, began lo tell
with the jury, however, the por
ler came panting down lo the
train. He hafl.pn innocent look
ing duster in his hands, with a
package of Sunday-school papers
bulging in one pocket and a
Moody hymn book flattening the
other.
“Gent’men,” he said, “de bar
keeper sent me flown and he
says as how somebody has don’
run away wid his duster, and he
wants it sent back, or he make it
pow’ful lively for de man what
took it ef he have to come after it
hisßelf.” , ..1 ■.
That settled .U, The clergy
man took his own duster and
gave uu. the robe of unrighteous
ness to jLhe ambassador. The
man on the wood .box made a
generally ponsplatory, remark
about the false and .fatal streugth
ol circumstantial evidences. The
band played “Benny, cprae back
to the t*sinadd the train pulled
out Hawkey e.
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WELD OATS,
VI, ■ 1
They who. sow wild <* a,s witl
rt ap wild oats. Our young friends
do not belieyp this, bul it is true,
whether it be, believed of nor.
Boys often begin this sowing
at an early age, without any
thought of the reaping. They
h ive an idea that it is “spoony”
to be “good,” that it Is “soft” fo
be careful to keep clear of all
that is wrong ; that it is manly
to chew, to swar and lo swagger;
that it is “smart” to be careless
as to what parents aud teachers
wish.
Young men fancy that they
are proving their independence
by staving away from the Bible
class and throwing out doubls
about Christianity. They pride
themselves on being “out ot
leading strings,” on their ability
to choose their own company and
to judge for themselves how
they will spend their evenings
and where they will pass their
Sabbath. Their noses take an
upward curl at the mention ot
the “pious young men” who hold
on to Sunday school and prayer
I meeting. They have gotten be
yond this!
Now in their hearts they know
that “the saints” are |nght and
they are wrong. They have no
idea of going on in the neglect of
God and his religion all their
lives. They expect to “have a
good time” while young, later in
life to turn over anew leaf, and
to come out all right in the end.
They are sowing their wild oats.
But who ip to reap what they
are sowing ? And what shall the
harvest be ?
“Whatsoever a man sowetb that
shall he also reap.”
Character is .forming.. It is
formed in youth. Men at thirty
and forty are commonly what
they are at twenty, ripened and
hardened ; and at twenty they
are to be whal they were at fif
teen, only more sel. From the
quarries that are dug under Je
rus.ilem a fine creamy limestone
ihat cuts solt to the knife or
chisel when first taken out, but
hardens into solid rock when ex
posed to the air. So it is with us.
In youlli we readily take shape
under the influences which we
invoke ; in manhood we find that
our characters ar p set. We slump
our souls while young and plastic
with the impress that they are
to bear in lter-lile. Let our
young men understand that sow
ing wild c ■ s in youth means a
harvest oi sorrow and sin. Even
if repented 01, the seeds are there
to be totight and bewailed as long
as life. Better —lar better —is u
never lo sow seeds of evil. No
man ever regretted that he began
10 serve God in his youth.- Ex.
. —* rt r
Josh Billines as a Peddler.
Josh Billings thinks the charily
ot this world a conundrum, and
he gives it up. One cold, snowy
afternoon this winter he saw a
thinly clad man trying to sell a
couple of lead.pencils at the toot
of the stairs of . yn elivated rail
way station, imploring each pass*
er-by to purchase as he was
starving. Several passed without
buying. Josh was the eighth and
lie bought them and .passed on
to ilt,e Filth avenue hotel. Soon,
having an errand at the Gilsey
house, he thought he would try
his luck; selling pencils on the
way. He t©ok the two he had
bought, pulling up his coat collar
and his hat brim down, and set
out in the dark-, At twenty
fourth street, he stopped a benev
olent .looking pedestrian with
“Please huy my two pencils for
ten. cents a piece ; I am starving,
[ have not fliad anything.to eat
for twenty-four hours,” etc.. The
man pushed .him aside, saying
gruffly, “I can buy three for a
quarter down. the street,” and
went on. Three others being ap
pealed to, .did abo,tV the same..
At last he spuched into the Gil-,
syv house aud tried, the dodge out
a man at the bar, who tossed him
a quarter, saving,.“T.aKe that, old
man, I don’t waut any pencils."
VOL.VIII. .NO. 4.
Then Josh
told the ■~ 4 —Ljfc ftTnPrif*]” 0
as an amateur penciLejLer,'~lo
the- great-amusement or tne as*
sent bled company.
I T P 2- 4**"* ili' <v
He Had Forgotten His Arithmetic: r>
Aitassaw Traveler.-
An Arkjansaw matt, arraigned
before a justice .of the peace, be
came indignant, and irt rejdy to a
statement - made :by the magis
trate,
‘•You are a liar, @ ir * J ou are 3L
liar I” ,f ... .... , .
“I’ll fine you fifty dollars,” said
Hhe justice, “and if yon don't pays
the amount immediately.l’ll send
you to jaii-Y t . • ..+
' “Judge, Ido not possess fifty
dallarß.” •... y
“Then take him to jail, Mr,
Constable.”
“Hold on, judge, said the man,,
thoughtfully, “why am I to go to
jail f’ -.i * - - ‘
“For calling me a liar.” ’ ' i
“1 meant, that yon were dot a
liar. I said twice that ycu- were
a bar, aud if two negatives make
an .affirmative, two xffirmatives.
ought to make one.negative. So,
you see, what I said was really a
coraplimeut.” ... •
“Thaia fact,’-’, replied the
judge. “I used la be- good ini
arithmetic, but have forgotten a.
great deal. GiYa me your hand,<
sir. ■ Mr- Clerk, fine the State teu.-
dollars and give the ftioney to the
learned gentleman.”
At the Lace Counter.
] *• . i * i .;* • . I
Not a very long. lime ago,,jn,
i one of our dry good, stores, was a
young.fellow waiting Qa. ; cpstom-,
I ers, working hard, standing. on*
; ins feet ail day, getting no thanksi
| and having altogether a deucedi
| hard time of it-. One night,about
i time for.closing up, one -of these,
i elderly, angular temales I sneak
iof got . hold of him. . She was
I looking or a piece ot goods and.
iconLd’nt. find what site tvauted
under,any consideration before
ne had been showing her the
steckJor five minutes. But she
tiling, on and persjsted iu looking
at everything-. It was dark: eve-,
rybody was-going home-or. was.
gout-; toe slur*, wa- ait shut up,
and still.she wouldn’t go.
"Weil," he says, "madam*, l
dou’t Uiitik I can suit you any
way.” , .
‘ Well, you’re here to wail on
loiks. ain’t, you T’- she says.
“O, ves,” he says, sarcastically, i
“ihat’s. what. I’m lured for., I’ll
wail on you all uight if you say
so.”- .. ..; ~.. /.... .*, i
“Oan’t you show me a remnant
of that material f' she says.. . .<
“Ob,.yes,’,’,he says, “lean, bn"
it’s not what you want, I know.”
“How do y.uu, know-iPs :>not,
what 1 want Perhaps I .ana a >
better judge of what 1 want than
you Perhaps I ami”. .< ..
“He got on .tho remnant and
unwound it from the board. -She
looked at it and felt it and shod 1 :
her h,eafl. , • , -
“No I don’t like that at all." ■ >
That was more than, the teliow
could stand. He. caug(itup the,
board and hit her a clip over the
head with jL . , i , '.* ■ ’*
“Well, how do you Uk tfiwt,i’
he.says. Then of course there
was the deuce to pay..The.dlder-.
ly, angular female wentoJf iu a
high dudgeon, and . the uext
morning, complained at > head--
quaethers of what she called- The
outrageous conduct of the,, sales
man. But when - the manager
came to hear bi% side*of tb© stfcry
he said ha thought hushouldhave
done the sajne under th same*
circumstances, ~ap/J ?£nt f iutjpc
back to,his desk. Now 1 like
thft. . ‘
