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Tho Story of .tones of Jones County.
There was a man which—ho !iv l in Jones
W Inch Jones is a county of red hi!! anti stones,
Anil In* lived pretty much b\ gc(l tug <>f Justus,
Amt Ins mules were nothing lull shin ami hones,
Ami his lm<rs were as dal ns hiscoru-biead pones.
Ami he lui'l ’bout a thousand a it;soi iwul.
T Wtn man winch-his name was also Jones—
/!e swore that he'd leave them old red lulls and
stones,
For In- couldn't make nothin’ but yellowish cotton,
And little of that for his fences were rotten,
And what little corn he had there was botighl'n
And he couldn't get a living from the land.
A nd the longer he *worr* the madder He got,
And he rose and walked to the stable lot.
Amt ho halloed to Tom to come there and fix
For to emigrate somewhere where the land was
rich,
And l*>quit raising cocklehurs and IhisUos and
rich,
And wasting their time on barren land.
$ i him and Tom the)- hitched up their mules,
Protesting that folks were mighty lug fools.
That 'ml stay in Georgia their time out.
Just scratching a living when all of them mout
<ict places in Texas where, cotton would sprout
By the timo yon could plant it in the land.
And he drove by a house where a man named
Brown
V as living, not far from the edge of town.
And he bantered Brown for to buy his place,
And said that seeing that money wasskase,
Ami seeing that sheriffs were hard to face,
Two dollars an acre would get the land.
They closed at a dollar and fifty cents,
And Jones he bought him a wagon and tents,
And loaded his corn and women and truck,
And he moved to Texas, which it tuck
lbs entire pile with the best of luck,
To get there and get a little land.
But Brown moved out to the old .Jones-farm,
And he rolled up his breeches and bared his arm.
A'ml he picked all the rocks from oil ’n the ground,
Amt He rooted it up and plowed it down,
And sowed his corn and wheat in the land.
Fire years glided by, and Brown one day,
(YY lin’d got so fat that he wouldn't weigh)
YY as sitting down rather la/.ily,
To the pleasantest dinner you’d ever see,
YY hen one of his children jumped on his knee
Ami says, “ Y oil's Jones which you bought his
land.”
And there was Jones standing out at the fence.
And lie hadn't no wagons, nor mules nor tents,
for he had lell Texas aloot and conic
To < i corgi a to see if he couldn't get some
Km-plny incut, and he was looking as hum-
Ulu as if 110 had never owned any land.
But Brown asked him in, and he sot
Him down to his victuals smoking hot,
And when he had tilled himself and the floor
Brown looked at him sharp, and rose and swore
That “whether men’s land was rich or poor,
Thar's more in the man than thar is in the land.”
—JfacvM. Telf graph S* M< sscngcr.
A NOVEL GHOST STORY.
Fn anew volume by the Rev. J. S. "Wood,
entitled ‘‘Alan mid Beast Here and Hereaf
ter,” occurs the following striking ghost
story, which the reader may credit or not, as
he is accustomed to do in regard to legends
of this sort r
“There are, as wc know, many persons
who cannot believe that, as they put it. the
living should be able to see the dead, neither
do I believe it. But as the spirit lives, though
the material body no longer encloses it, sure
ty there can be no diftlculty in believing that
lhe living spirit within an earthly liody may
see a living spirit which has escaped from its
material garment. Wc do not doubt that al
ter the deat h of the liody the spirit will live
and see other spirits similarly freed from
earth, and it is no very great matter that the
living should see the living, though one be
still enshrined in its earthly tabernacle and
the other released from it.
“This I icing granted—and it is not very
much to grant—it necessarily follows that if
the lower animals possess spirit they may be
capable of spiritual as well as material vis
um. That they do possess this power, and
tied, it can be exercised, is shown by the
story of Balaam. There we. find it definitely
stated not only that the ass saw the angel,
but that she saw him long lielbre her master
did. Now, the angel living a spiritual being
could only lie seen with the spiritual eye;
and it, therefore, follows that, unless the
"lory be entirely false, the animal possessed
spirit and saw with the eye of the spirit.
"1 should think that none who believes in
the truth of the Holy Scriptures (and 1 again
• einind the reader that this book is only in
tended for those who do so.) could doubt that
I ere is a ease which proves that the spirit of
the ass is capable of seeing and fearing the
• pineal angel. And if that be granted, Ido
not, see how’ any one can doubt that, the spirit
which saw the angel partook of his immortal
tty, just as her outward eye, which saw ma
terial objects, partook of their immortality.
Shortly afterward the eyes of the prophet
were opened, and he also saw the angel; but
it must, be remembered that the eyes of the
1 east had been opened first, and that she, her
master and the angel met for the time in the
same spiritual plane.
“ 1 have for a long time had in my posses
sion a letter from a lady, in which she nar
rates a personal adventure which has a singu
larly close resemblance to the Script ural story
of Balaam. It had beeu told to me imincdi
sifody alter I threw out my 'feeler in the
'Common Objects of the Country ’ As I had
.s’ that time the intention of vindicating the
on mortality of the lower animals. T requested
tie* narrator to write it, so that I might pos
ses the statement authenticated m her own
hand-writ mg.
*' At the time of the occurrence the lady
an 1 her mother were living in an old country
chateau in France.
“* It was during the winter of Ift —, that,
one evening 1 happened to be sitting by the
side of a cheerful tire in my bed-room, busily
engaged in caressing a favorite cat, the il
his rious Cady Catharine, now, alas! no
m >rc. She lay in a pensive attitude and a
winking state of drowsiness in my lap.
“‘Although my room might in* without
caudles, it was perfectly illuminated by the
light of the lire. There were two doors—one
behind me leading into an apartment which
had been looked for the winter, and another
on the opposite side of t,!ie room which com
municated with the passage.
“ 'Mamina had not left me many minutes,
awl 1 lie high-backed, old-fashioned uvm-chair
which film had occupied remained vacant at
Ihe opposite eof uei of" the lire place. Buss,
nho i;:v with J.i i heal on my arm. became
in ire an l more sleepy, and I pondered on the
propriety of preparing for bed.
Of a sn Men I became aware that some
thing had effected my pet s equanimity. The
purring ceased, and she exhibited rapid-in
creasing symptoms of uneasiness. 1 Ismt down
and endeavored to coax !n*r into quietness;
but she in.-Jantly struggled <0 her feet in my
lap, and spitting Vehemently, with back arch
il and tail swollen, she assumed a mingled
altitude of terror and defiance.
“' I'he change in her position obliged me
to raise my bea 1 ; and on looking up, to my
inexpressible horror, I then perceived that a
little, hideous, wrinkled old hag occupied
mamma's chair. Her hands were rested on
her knees, and her holy wasstsxijvedforward
so as to bring her lace in close proximity
with mine. Her eyes, piercingly fierce and
shining with an over-jiowering lustre, were
steadfastly fixed on me. It was as if a fiend
was glaring at me through them. Her dress
and general appearance denoted her to be
long to the French Hoergrouse, but those eves
so wonderfully large, and in their expression
so intensely wicked, entirely absorbed my
senses and precluded any attention to detail.
I should have screamed, but my breath was
gone, while that terrible gaze so horribly
fascinated me I could neither withdraw 1113’
eyes nor rise from my seat.
“'I had, meanwhile, been trying to keep a
tight hold on the cat, but she seemed reso
lutely determined not to remain in such ugly
ncighborhoo 1, and, after some more desperate
elforts. at length succeeded in escaping from
my grasp. Leaping over tables, chairs, and
all that came in her way, she repeatedly
threw herself, with frightful violence, against
the top panel of the door which communicat
ed with the disused room. Then, returning
in the same frantic manner, she furiously
dashed against the door on the opposite side.
‘"My terror was divided, and I looked by
turns now at the old woman, whose great
starting eyes were constantly fixed on me,
and now at the cat, who was becoming every
instant more frantic. At last the dreadful
idea that the animal had gone mad had the
efieet of restoring my breath, and 1 screamed
loudly.
“ ‘Mamma ran in immediately, and the cat,
on the door opening, literally sprang over her
head, and for upwards of half an hour ran up
and down stairs as if pursued. 1 turned to
point to the object of my terror, but it was
gone. 1 indcr such circumstances the lapse
of lime is dillieult to appreciate, but I should
think that the apparition lasted about four or
five minutes.
“ ‘Some time afterward it transpired that
a former proprietor of the house, a woman,
had hanged herself in that very room.’
“The close but evidently unsuspected re
semblance of this narrative to the story of
Balaam is worthy of notice. In both cases
we have the remarkable fact that the animal
was tin* first to see the spiritual being, and to
show, by its terrified actions, that it had
done so.”
A GOOD YARN.
In the village of 1 duetto lived a man who
had once been a judge of the county, and
was well known all over it. by the name of
Judge . He kept a store and saw mill
and was always sure to have the best of the
bargain on his side, by which he had gained
an ample fortune ; and some did not hesit ate
to call him the biggest rascal in the world.
He was very conceited with all. and used to
brag of his business capacity, when any one
was near to listen.
One rainy day quite a number were seated
around the stove, he began as usual to tell of
his great, bargains, and finally wound up with
the expression : “ Nobody has ever cheated
me, nor they can’t, neither.”
“Judge,” said an old man of the company,
"I've cheated you more than you ever did
me!”
“How so?” said the Judge.
“ If you will promise you won't go to law
about it, nor do anything, I'll tell you; or
else I won't; you arc too much of a law
character for me.*’
“Let's bear,” cried half a dozen at once.
“I'll promise,” sai l the Judge, “and treat
in the bargain if you have.”
“ Well, do you remember that wagon you
robbed me of?”
“ I never robbed you of any wagon, I on
ly got the the best of the bargain,” said the
Judge.
“ Well, I made up 1113' mind to have it
back, and ’
“ You never did,’ interrupted the Judge.
“ Yes, 1 did, and interest too.”
“ How so ?” thundered t he enraged Judge,
“Well, you see Judge, 1 sold 3*oll one day
a very nice pine log, and bargained with 3 011
for a lot more.
Well, that log I stole olf your pile by the
mill the night before and the next day I sold
it to you.
The next night I drew it back home, and
and sold it to you the next, and so I kept
on until v r ou had bought your own log of me
twenty-seven times 1 ”
“That’s a lie,” exclaimed infuriated Judge
running to his books and examning his log
account, “3*oll never did sell me tweut)*-
seven logs of the same measurement.”
“I know it,” said the vennor in logs, “ by
the drawing back and forth, the end wore off,
I kept cutting the end off, until it, was only
ten feet long—-just fourteen feet shorter than
it was when I brought it, and when it got so
short, I drew it home and worked it, into
shingles, and the next week you Knight the
shingles, and I concluded I had got the
worth of my wagon back—and stowed away
in my pocket book.”
i lie exclamations of the Judge wore
drowned in the shouts of the bystanders, and
the log man found the door without the
promised treat.
Story of the Big Squash.
The big squash of Aiuherst Agricultural
College farm, which grew so stoutly that it
burst several iron cages, ami finally lifted
1,120 pounds (and of which a plaster cast is
preserved.) had enough roots underground to
feed it for its herculean work. The squash
vine was washed out with its roots by the
continued use of a garden hose for twenty
four hours, and the whole root system was
spread out on a floor and carefully measured.
The main branch was twelve or fifteen feet
long, and aggregated some 1,000. One of the
seventy nodal roots, four feet long, had 4*o
branches, and a most careful estimate of the
ramifications of the rootlet, based upon the
actual measurement of the division, showed
that the squash vine had between fifteen and
nineteen miles of roots. Ileekoningthc num
ber of days it had been growing, (fifty-two,) it
was found that it must have been on an aver
age of 1,000 feet per day, and on favorable
days about 2.000 feet. Colonel Clark, the
President of the Agricultural College, says
that while this growth was going on. and (lie
big squash was expanding and lifting its
enormous burden, great drops of sweat stood
all over its rough lind, proving that it l’clt the
great task imposed upon it.
THE STRANGEST OF DUELS.
Perhaps the most remarkable duel ever
fought took place in 1873. It was peculiar
ly French in its Lone, and could hardly have
oeeured under any other than a French state
of sock-ty. M. le (irandpre and M. le Pique
had a quarrel, arising out of jealousy eon
ceaming a lady. They agreed to light a
duel to settle their respective claims ; and.
in order that the heat of angry passions should
not interfere with the polished elegance of
the proceedings, they postponed tiie duel for
a mouth, the lady agreeing to bestow her hand
on the survivor of the two, if the other was
killed: at all events, this was inferred.V>y the
two men, if not actually expressed. The
duelists were to fight in the air.—Two bal
loons were constructed exactly alike. On
the day denoted Let irandpre and his second
entered the car of one balloon. Le Pique
and his second that of the other; it was in
tiie garden of the Tuileries, amid an immense
crowd of spectators. The gentlemen wore
to fire, at each other’s balloon, in order to
bring them down by the escape of gas; and,
as pistols might hardly have served this pur
pose, each joronaut took a blunderbuss in
his car. At the given signal the ropes that
retained the ears were cut, and the balloons
ascended. The wind was moderate, and
kept the balloons ascended. The wind was
moderate, and kept the balloons at about
their original distance of 80 yards apart.
YY hen half a mile above the surface of the
earth, a preconcerted signal for firhig was
given. M. le Pique fixed, but missed, M. le
(irandpre fired, and sent a ball through le
Pique's balloon. The balloon collapsed, the
ear descended with frightful rapidity, and Lc
Pique and his second were dashed to pieces.
Lc (irandpre continued his ascent triumph
anlv, and terminated icrial vo3'agc success
fully.
Go Feel what I have Felt.
A young ladv in New York was in the ha
bit of writing on the subject of temperance.
Her writings were full of pathos, and evineed
such deep emotion of soul that, a friend accus
ed her of being a maniac on the subject of
intemperance, whereupon she wrote the fol
lowing touching lines:
(Jo feel what 1 have felt,
(Jo bear what I have borne—
Sink ’neaih the blow a father dealt,
And the cold world’s proud scorn;
Then sutler on from year to year—■
'J liy' soul relief the scorching tear.
(•0 kneel as 1 have knelt
Implore, beseech and prav—
Strive the besotted heart to melt.
The downward course to sla3 r
Be dashed with bitter curse aside,
Y our prayers burlesqued, your tears defied.
(Jo weep as 1 have wept
O'er a loved father’s fall;
See every promised blessing swept—
Youth’s sweetness turned to gall;
Life’s fading (lowers strewed all the way
That brought me up to woman’s day.
do sec what 1 have seen,
Behold the strong man bow—-
YY ith gnashing teeth—lips bathed in blood—
A ml cold and livid brow ;
Oo catch his withering glance, and see
There mirrored, his soul’s misery.
(Jo to lh)* mother’s side,
And her crushed bosom cheer,
Thine own deep anguish hide,
Wipe from her cheek the bitter tear;
Mark her worn frame and withered brow;
The gray that streaks her dark hair now ;
YY ith fading frame and trembling limb,
And trace the ruin back to him
YY hose plighted faith iu early youth
Promised eternal love and truth;
But who, foresworn, hath yielded up
That promise to the cup,
And led her down through love and light,
And all that made her promise bright—
And chained her there, ’mid want and strife,
That lowly thing—a drunkard’s wife—
And stamped on childhood's brow, so mild,
That withering blight—the drunkard’s child !
(Jo hear, and feel, and see, and know,
All that ni)' soul has felt and known— •
Then look upon the wine cup's glow;
See if its beauty can atone-
Then—if its flavor you can try,
When all proclaim 'lis drink and die?
Tell me I hate the howl ?
Hate is a feeble word’
1 loathe—abhor—my very soul
With strong disgust is stirred—
When’er I see, or hear, or tell
Of that dark beverage of Hell.
Tho “ Sins of the Fathers.”
“ Thine ancestors' virtues arc not thine,”
is the purport of an old copy-plate. We are
not so sure of that. Modern observers are
prepared to prove that moral features may
lie and arc transmitted and inherited, as Weil
as physical. What a loud call upon the
consciousness of the individual prooreation
or : “ Let every one mend one ! ”
In the thirteent h annual report of the New
4 ork Prison Association, Mr. Dugdale urges
educating the “vicious classes,” by giving
the record of the notorious duke family.
“ With great industry, he has traced the
history and genealogy of six persons found
in a certain jail in this State, until at last he
has discovered 70b persons belonging to the
family and traced back their ancestry for six
generations. This family, estimated as num
bering 1,200 persons has, during the last 75
years, cost the community by its debauchery,
pauperism and crime, over SIOO,OOO. Itnum
lers 280 paupers, who have received an ag
gregate of 2.150 years of out door relief, and
150 years of almshouse life, which in cash is
over $47,000 to the country. There were
120 criminals and offerders, who had receiv
ed MO years imprisonment at a cost of $30,-
000 for their maintenance. Fifty per cent,
of the woman were harlots, and 25 per cent,
of the children illegitimate. The objective
point of the study was to determine how great
a proportion of crime and pauperism is due
to hereditary entailment, and how great a
proportion to external circumstances and
example after birth.”
With such facts before him. who can deny
the force of the pugilistic motto, “lilood will
toll ?”
The Old Man. —An old farmer talks
about his boys; from nineteen to twenty
they knew more than he did ; at twenty-five
they know as much; at thirty they were will
ing to hear what, lie had to say; at thirty
five they asked his advice ; and lie thinks
when they arc forty they will actually ac
knowledge that tiie old man does know
something.
It is not pleasant to contemplate the par
oxysmal expression of a young lady's face
wlefe she is working her mouth in an effort
to get a piece of chewing gum oil’ a back
tooth.
THE AGRICULTURIST.
Saving Seed Wheat.
Every farmer should make an effort, dur
ing wheat harvest, to secure anew variety of
wheat, or to improve some old variety, that
is now cultivated with a fair degree of satis
faction. The best time in all the year to
commence is, when the crop is about ready
to be harvested. At such a time, one can
judge more satisfactorily of the kind and
character of the grain he desires to cult ivate,
than when lie sees it in any other condition.
If the entire crop has sprung from seed that
has been selected with care, for a few years
past, one can select the grain that is stand
on a area" of a few rods square, allow it to
stand until the kernels are fully matured,
then harvest that part of the crop after all
the rest of the grain has been gathered. Of
course, such seed wheat should be kept by
itself, on the top of other grain, that kernels
of an inferior quality may not mingle with
the seed grain. In case one has access to
nothing but a field of grain of an inferior
quality, the true way is to walk through the
standing grain, examine the heads of a cer
tain character for early maturity and for
being plump, and beautiful grain. Then,
select a hundred, such cars all of which shall
be as nearly alike as practicable. After shell
ing out the grain, let all the small and
inferior kernels be rejected, and put the
chosen seed in an open vessel, or paper box,
where it may be kept safely until seed time.
If the variety is spring wheat, of course the
seed should be kept in a secure place. If
the grain is winter wheat let it be dibbled in.
one kernel in a place, in the field or garden
where the soil lias been thoroughly manur
ed the previous season. Wheat must have
the benefit of a rich soil which abounds large
ly in iiTorganic fertilizers, as well as in rich
manure. Let this practice be followed up
for a few successive years, and it will not be
dillicult to double the wheat crop, without
incurring the expense of extra cultivation.
'Hie best time for dibbling-in the seed of
winter wheat will depend upon the locality,
varying from the first of September to the
middle of October.— World mj Former.
Level Cultivation vs. Hilling Corn.
Most farmers practice level cultivation,
winch is preferable to making hills where the
stalks of corn are growing, lion. Horace
Greeley says on on this subject: “ 1 disclaim
all pretentions to ability to teach western
fanners how to grow Indian corn abundantly
and profitably, while I cheerfully admit that
they have taught me somewhat thoroughly
worth knowing. In my boyhood, I hoed
corn diligently for weeks at a time, drawing
the earth from bet ween the rows up al out.
the stalks to a depth of three or four inches,
thus forming hills which the west lias
since taught me to be of no use, but rather
a detriment, embarrassing the efforts of the
growing, hungry plants to throw out their
roots extensively in every direction, and sub
jecting them to needless injury to drouth.
1 am thoroughly convinced that corn, proper
ly planted, will, like wheat and all other
grains, root itself just deep enough in the
ground, and that to keep down all weeds and
and leave the surface of the corn-field open,
mellow, and perfectly Hat, is the best as well
as the cheapest way to cultivate corn. And
I do not believe that so much human food,
with so little labor, is produced elsewhere on
earth as in the spacious Helds of wheat and
corn in our grand Mississippi valley.”
No Middle Furrov/.
HOW TO PLOW A FIELI) SO AS NOT TO HAVE
\ny Middle Furrow: Is!,. Measure
across one cud, and in axactly half way
across set, a stake tall enough to be seen
across the held from the other end. Then pro
ceed to the other end and there find the cen
tre by careful measurement, and here with
stake in hand proceed towards the first st ake
set, until the distance from the end shall
equal hall’ the diameter as just meaured, and
and there set the stake. Then go to the
first, stake set and carry it towards the last,
one a distance equal to onc-ludt* the diame
ter of that end of the field; there set it.
Should one end be wider than the oilier, the
wide end should have two stakes put in posi
tion that each of the three will be
equidistant from the outside. Then back
furrow from each corner of the field directly
to the nearest stake. Then commence and
“gee” around from one stake to another.
The ridge formed by the back furrows, as
above mentioned, can he turned on at the
corners and leaves no baulks and saves driv
ing. There may he one short middle furrow
to “ haw” out in the centre, but that can
be avoided. This method saves making such
ridges as are often seen, next the face. — Ger
mantown Telegraph.
Salt for Domestic Animals.
The quantity per head, and the proper way
of administering salt to our domestic ani
mals, and also the question whether they
should have salt at all, we observe is still
being discussed, and going the rounds of the
agricultural papers. Practical experience
has long since settled these questions, and
we think no stock or other farmer, who has
ever tried it. will resort to any but the com
mon-sense plan, of having a lump of rock
salt accessible to stock at all times. It should
be in the horse and cow trough, in the sheep
and barn-yard, and in the field. They will
then take as much as they want, and nature
prompts no more. Taken in this way, it will
promote appetite, good health, and thrift, and
no diarrhoea or other disease will result, as
they often do when given at specified times
and in large quantities.
Salt is not a food but a condiment. The
human system requires some salt in food ;
but we imagine if a tablespoonful or other
quantity of salt was put before a man only
at certain times, and perhaps when his ap
petite did not prompt the use of it, it would
do no good. W think the same rule applies
to our domestic animals ; but by allowing
them free access to it, they will never take
more than enough ; and what they do take
will promote thrift , and indirectly ward olf
diseases to which the liesh is heir.
Keeping Grates Fresh for Winter Use.
—lf you desire delicious, fresh grapes in
winter or even up to the next spring, they
can be had by a very little care arid expense.
Pick the bunches only in a dry, warm day,
and place them in a cool, shady place for
at lease three days; then commence to pack
them in paper boxes that will hold about
ten pounds. Between each layer of grapes
place a single thickness of newspaper ; the
boxes should not eontian more then three
layers in thickness. Then place in a cool,
dry room—not in a cellar, for the natural
dampness there will cause mould and decay.
In this way the past very damp unfavorable
season we kept Concord. Delaware, Hartford
and Diana, the last being in good condition
in March.— Rural World.
THE BOYS’ COLUMN.
Swear Not at AH.
Charlie Harold, speaking to his grand
mother one day about something he did not
like, exclaimed:
“ By thunder !
“Hush!” said his grandmother; “you must
not swear, my dear. Don’t you know that
Jesus said : “Swear not all.”
“Did lie? Well, I didn’t know it was
swearing to say “By thunder,” or “By jolly.”
Is it grandma?”
“ 1 think, my dear, that all such exclama
tions in which the word by is used partake of
the nature of swearing, and a good boy should
never let them fall from his lips.”
Charlie was silent for a few minutes. lie
was thinking, I suppose, for after awhile he
I<Hiked and said :
“ Granina, what makes the newspaper swear
every morning?”
“Does it?” asked the old lady, looking
over the top of her spectacles, with curious
eyes at her darling grandson.
“Yes.” It says, “Bv Telegraph.”
Grandmother laughed. She could not help
it. But seeing that Charlie was serious, she
explained the difference between an exclama
tion such as “ by thunder,” etc., used to give
emphasis to what a person is saying, and an
incomplete sentence such as “ by telegraph,”
which means news received by telegraph.
Charlie was getting into the hail habit of
saving: “By thunder!” “By jolly!” “By
jingo ! etc. llis grandmother made him feel
that day that such phrases arc idle and use
less. and that once learned they led by a very
short step to such words as “By heaven!”
which are actually profane and wicked.—
Charlie meant to lie a noble, upright boy ;
and he gave heed to his grandmother’s les
son. To help him break up his idle habit,
she taught him some golden words, which I
advise you also to commit to memory. Here
they are:
“ I say unto you, swear not at all: neither
by Heaven, l’or it is God’s throne; nor by
earth, for it is God’s footstool; neither by
Jerusalem, for it is the city of the great King;
neither shall thou swear by t hy head, because
thou canst not make one hair white or blade.
But let your communications be yea, yea;
nay, nay ; lbr whatsoever is more than these
cometli evil.’
How Young Men Fail.
“There is Alfred Sutton home with his
family to live on the old folks,” said one
neighbor to another. “It seems hard, after
all llis father has has done to fit him for busi
ness, and the capital he invested to start him
so fairly. It is surprising lie has turned out
so poorly, lie is a steady young man, no
bad habits, so far as I know; he has a good
education, and was always considered smart ;
but lie doesn’t succeed in anything. I am
told he lias tried a number of dilferent kinds
of business and sunk money every t ime.—
What can be the trouble with Alfred? I
should like to know, for 1 don’t waul my boy
to take his turn.”
“Alfred is smart enough,” said the other,
“and has education enough, but lie lacks the
one clement of success, lie never wants to
give a dollar's worth of work lbr a dollar of
money, and there is no other way for a young
man to make his fortune. He must dig if he
would get. hold. All the men that have suc
ceeded. honestly or dishonestly, ill making
money, have had to work for it, the sharpers
sometimes the hardest of all. Alfred wishes
U> set his train in motion, and let it take care
of itself. No wonder it soon runs oil’ the
track, and a smash-up is the result. Teach
your boy, friend Archer, to work with a will
when he does work. Give him play enough
to make him healthy and happy, Imt let him
learn early that work is the business of life.
Patient, self-denying work is the price of suc
cess. Ease and indolence eat away not cap
ital only, but worse still, all of m in’s nerve
power. Present gratificat ion tends to put off
duty until to-morrow or next week. It. is get
ting to be a rare thing for the sons of rich
men to die rich. Too often they squander in
half a score of years what their fathers were
a lifetime in accumulating. I wish I could
ring it in the ears of every aspiring young
man, that work, hard work, of head and hand,
is the price of success. —Country Gentleman.
Acting Lies.
Ralph Royster ventured one day to toss
his ball in the parlor, lie knew it was wrong,
nut he wanted to do it and he did. Presently
the ball fell upon the table and smashed a
delicate glass which covered a beautiful col
lection of skeleton leavers.
“Oh !” cried Ralph, “what shall I do now?”
After looking at the fragments with a rueful
face for a few moments, lie left the room,
feeling as if his heart was sinking down to his
heels with the load of guilt and lear with
which his disobedient act loaded it. As lie
passed into the hall, the eat rubbed against
his leg. A bad thought arose in his breast,
and putting the cat into the parlor, he shut
her in, and said, “Stay there,Tabby 1 Mam
ma will think you broke that glass, and I
shall escape a scolding.”
“Hurrah for you, old Tabby! You are
good for getting a fellow out of a scrape, if
for nothing else.*’
At the table that afternoon, Mrs. Royster
said to her husband :
“Pa, you must send Tabbv away, T found
her in the parlor to-day, and she had been on
the table, and broken the glass which cover
ed those skeleton leaves.”
Ralph blushed frorq his chin to the roots of
his hair. His heart beat very quickly. The
voice within whispered: “Be manly. Be
true. Confess-that you broke it.”
But Ralph was stubbornly silent. The
poor cat was drowned for his misdeed, and
Ralph escaped a scolding by acting a lie. —
Exchange.
, Household Words. —Stop your noise!
Shut up, this minute ! I’ll box your ears !
1 fold your tongue ! Let me be! Get out!
Behave yourself! I won’t! You shall! Never
mind! You’ll catch it! Put away those
things! You'll kill yourself! Mind your
own business! I’ll tell ma! You mean
thing ! There, l told you so ! I did ! I will
have it! Oh, look what you have done!—
I’was you! Won't you catch it, though!
It's my house! Who’s afraid of you? Get
out of this room, directly ! Do you hear me?
Dear me, I never did such a thing in all my
bom days? —Church Union.
TIP Some time-honored proverbial savings
need revision to suit the age. For instance,
“Boys will be boys,” is entirely wrong, for
everybody knows that they endeavor b) ap
pear like men as much and .as soon as pos
sible. )
i
They that deny a God destroy man’s
nobility, for certainly lit:m is kin to beast
by his body ; and if he is n>\>t kin to God by
his spirit, he is a base and/ignoble creature.
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