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Administrator's Hale.
x\7"l LFv be sola before the Court House door in
W the town of Jefferson, Jackson coanty, Ga.
within the legal hours of sale, on the first Tucs
,ir m May next, the following property, to-wit:—
Sixty acres of land, in said county, adjoining
lands ofTI. M. Nibtack's estate, Thos. Phillips,
lifLaperriere and others; about ten acres of said
land in cultivation— about four acres in original
forest, the balance in old field. Sold as the prop
n-tv of Levi Philips, dec'd, for the purpose of
paying expenses of administration and lor distri
bution, Terms Cash.
THOMAS PHILLIPS. Adm-r
I)e bonis non of Levi Phillips, dec'd.
March 9th, 1878.
HEORGIA, Jackson County.
Whereas, upon the report of the Reviewers ap
pointed t review, mark out. and report upon the
road petitioned to be made a public road, by D L
Hancock. U K Doathvyler and others, commenc
ing at the Jetferson road, near Dickson’s bridge;
running thence across to the Clarkesville and
Athens road, through the lands of Jas Ellison
and (i E Deathvyler, reporting that the same will
he of much public utility and convenience : It is
Ordered, that unless valid, legal objections are
filed within thirty' days from this date, said road
will be made one of the public roads of said coun
ty. Given under my official signature, this March
J). 1878. 11. W. BELL, Ordinary.
flKOlttnlV, .lackson Coillllv.
T
Whereas. W R A Boyd, adm'r of W II Boyd,
dec'd. represents to the Court, in his petition duly
(ik’d, that he has fully and completely administer
ed the estate af said deceased, and asks the Court
to grant him Letters of Dismission from the same :
This is therefore, to cite and admonish all per
sons concerned, the next of kin, to show cause, if
any they can. on the lirst Monday' in July.
IH7S, in the Court of Ordinary for said Countv.
why the leave prayed lor by the said applicant
should not be granted, and he receive Letters Dis
missory, as asked for in his petition.
Given under my official signature, this March
27th, I*7B. 11. \\\ BELL, Ordinary.
| jiiORGiA, Jackson County.
Whereas, John A. Smith makes application
to me in proper form for Letters of Adminis
tration on the estate of William S. Smith, late of
Mild county, deceased—
T his is to cite all persons concerned, kindred
and creditors, to show cause, if any r they can. on
the first Monday 1 in May. IS7B. at the regu
lar Term of the Court of Ordinary’ of said county,
why said Letters should not he granted the appli
ciuist. Given under my' official signature, this
March 2!)th, 1878 H. W. BELL, Ordinary.
NOTICE TO CONTRACTORS.
\\ T ILL he LET. to the highest bidder, before
the Court House door, in Jefferson, on the
•h'th day of April next, the building of the bridge
across Allen's Fork river, near J. -J. Pettyjohn's,
according to the following specifications : To he
"‘■lt with live sleepers, thirty-five feet long, 10 by
j- inches, god heart, extending from bank to
•’ink; to rest on Post Oak sills on each bank;
pored with heart plank, 2 inches thick, 12 feet in
1 "£th, with good hand-railings substantially' fas-
C iiv.l; lloor spiked with 40 penny spikes.
Tull and complete specifications can be
seen at this office. 11. W. BELL,
March 20, *7B. Ordinary.
Jackson County Sheriff’s Sale.
\V ITI. Resold before the Court House door, in
the town of .Jefferson, within the legal hours
to th<> higlie-'t bidder, on the first Tuesday
'hy, 1878. the following property, to-wit :
djje certain tract or parcel of land in said coun
ty. on the waters of tin* Walnut Fork of the Oco
!*?' river, adjoining lands of A. l.euians, Mary
nliitniire. S. A. Long and others, containing One
>i'indre<l and twelve acres more or less, now
known as the Hilbert (Jin ami Saw-Mill place,
V 1 HKHi is situate Gin-house. Saw-mill and other
improvements. A hout half the land cleared and
in a state of cultivation, remainder in woods and
i'iiie held. Soli] as the property of the firm of
,T - s - i 11. C. Gilbert, by virtue of sundry Jus
t'v-t Court ti. fas. in favor of B. J. Whitmire,
.vltu rof F. M, Whitmire, dec*d, vs. If. C. Gil
'erL surviving copartner, lor the purchase mon
fH> deed tiled in terms of law; levies made and
returned to mo by J. J. Pettyjohn, L. C.; property
pointed out by if. C. Hilbert.
Terms of Sale. f>y Agreement. —Three hundred
dollars Cash, and the remainder Ist day of No
vwnher, 187S. Notes for the remainder not to
"Sceed one- hundred dollars each, and deed to he
made to purchaser when all the purchase money
!v paid. Written notice given to 11. C. Gilbcft,
tenant in possession J. J. WALLACE,
G (pr fee $10) Dep. Sheriff.
Strayed,
pUOM the pro mises of Mr. Joe Garrison, near .
*- Dry Pond church, some three or four weeks
s 'ce. THIRTEEN HOGS, all unmarked, Among
t P < -* number was a White Sow. with two pigs;
, * Blue Sow, with four pigs. The remainder
IJ*. the lot were Shoats, about seven months old.
1 bey are supposed to have strayed off. and per
|iap,s got lost in endeavoring to reach the neigh
borhood of Mr. Pleas. Roberts*, above Academy
''Lurch, where they were raised. Any informa
tion concerning these hogs will be thankfully re
(civeti and their recovery liberally rewarded.
•March Jf) ;it * SARAH DAVIS.
Take Notice!
r P‘l£ accounts due. the FOREST NEWS OF-
I ICE for Subscriptions and Advertisements,
U P to th.e inst.. arc in my hauds for collec
t">n. Debtors, take notice ! Come and sottlc
w,thout another word. W. S. McCART\,
Jan t’Kth. I7S. ,\tt*y at Law.
THE FOREST NEWS.
The People their own Rulers; Advancement in Education, Science, Agriculture and Southern Manufactures.
SELECT MISCELLANY.
At Evening Time.
She talks to us at evening-time
Of all the quaint old ways.
And all the things that used to be
Once, in her girlish days !
She says the lads were twice as true.
The maids more shy and sweet,
And not afraid of work or play
Were those she used to meet;
A simpler life contented them.
And simpler songs were sung,
And one would think ’twas Eden-time
Long since, when she was young.
She talks to us at evening-time,
Of how her lover came
1 o woo her first; how shy she was
To call him by his name;
She says his eyes were bright as stars,
llis hair was like the crow—
I saw him once—his eyes were dim.
His hair was white as snow ;
She tells us, with a touch of pride,
lie on her accents hung,
And ne'er was lad so true as he,
Long since, when she was y’oung.
She talks to us at evening-time.
And tells us what we know
How dear we are. but still she feels
'Tis nearly time to go ;
We stoop to touch her silv'ry hair,
Or softly kiss her brow.
They did not love her more long sinco
Than we all love her now ;
But she would fold her weary hands,
And go to rest among
The silent crowd of those she knew
Long since, when she was young.
Married in Spite of Himself.
Dr. S , having passed a very credit
able examination before the army medical
board, was commissioned an assistant sur
geon in the United States Army in 18—, and
ordered to report for duty’ to the command
ing officer at Fort McKavett, Texas. There
were no railroads in the Western country at
that time, and the usual way r of getting to
Texas was by' the Mississippi river to New
Orleans, and then crossing the Gulf, to stage
it up through the State. Dr. S. was very
desirous of examining the Western country
mineralogically, so lie applied for, and re
ceived. permission from the War Department
to go by' way of Arkansas and the Indian
Territory to his post.
On his arrival at St. Louis, he shipped the
greater part of his baggage by way of the
river, and. taking only what he could carry
on horse back, started on his journey. While
in St. Louis, at tlie Planters', he had formed
the acquaintance of a gentleman, who, leani
ng where he was going, gave him a letter of
introduction to bis brother, who was a farmer
living on his route in Arkansas. It is not
necessary for us to follow him on his road, or
toll what discoveries lie made for the benefit
of science; sufficient it is, that one day to
ward dusk lie reached the house of the gen
tleman to whom he had the letter, and dis
mounting. knocked at the door, and present
ed his letter to t he Judge (even in those days
everyone was a Judge in Arkansas), who
would not have needed it to have accorded
him an open-handed welcome, for travelers
were a God-send. and news was as much
sought after then as now. After a short visit,
he proposed to go on to the next town, about,
four miles off, where he intended to ‘put up
for the night. But the Judge would not
listen to his leaving, and was so cordial in
his desire for him to stay that he would have
been rude not to have done so. The Judge,
after directing one of the servants to tend to
iiis horse, invited him into the dining-room,
where he was introduced to the wife and
daughter of his host and a substantial es
teru supper, to which be did ample justice.
After supper they adjourned to the parlor,
and he entertained his new made friends with
news from the outside world. The Judge
brewed some stiff whisky punch, which our
friend, socially inclined, imbibed quite freely.
The old couple retired and left their daughter
to entertain him, and whether it was the
punch or what—at all events he made hot
love to her, and finally asked her to go to
Texas with him, to which she consented. She
being very unsophisticated and innocent, took
everything he said to down-right earnest, and
with her it was a ease of “ love at first sight.’
But lam anticipating. During the night our
friend, the doctor, woke up and remembered
what he had said, and it worried him ; but lie
said to himself: “Never mind, I will make
it all right in the morning. I must have made
a fool of myself; what must that girl think
of me ?” and rolled over and went to sleep
Morning came, and upon his going
down to the parlor he found the young lady
alone, for which he blessed his stars, and was
just about to make an apology, when she said :
“ I told mamma, and she said it was all
right. Papa is going to town this morning,
and you ride in with him and talk it over;
but he won’t object, I know.”
“ But. my dear miss, I was very’ foolish.
and—”
“No, j'oii were all right.”
“ Well, I will go to my post and return for
you. for I must go at once.”
“ No, I can go with you ; papa will fix that;
it would be such an expense for you to come
back all the way here.”
“ But I have ro way of taking 3*011.”
*• j have thought of that; that does not
j m ake any difference, father will give us a
| team.”
I With nearly tears in his e\’es he went into
j breakfast, to which at that moment they were
! both summoned ; but alas ! appetite he had
1 none. Tt was not that she was not pretty.
JEFFERSON, JACKSON COUNTY, GA., SATURDAY. APRIL 13,1878.
and nice, but he thought what a confounded
fool she must be not to see that he wanted to
get out of it. But it was no use, so when the
Judge started for town the doctor was sitting
beside him. The Judge saved him the trouble
of broaching the subject by stating it himself.
“ I always, young man, give Nell her own
way'; so it is all right; you need not say a
word.”
“But I’ve got to go on to-day.”
The old Judge turned his eyes toward him ;
lie had an Arkansas bowie in each, and one
of those double-barreled shot-gun looks, as
he said :
“ You ain’t a trying to get out of it. are
you ?”
The doctor, taking in the situation, said
promptly, " No, sir.”
“That's right. I will fix everything for
you ; give you that black team of mine and
a light wagon to carry your wife’s things, and
a thousand as a starter. You can be married
to-night and leave early in the morning;
that'll suit you, won't it ?"
“Yes, sir.”
“After you get fixed at your post I will
come down and pay you a visit. I have been
thinking about selling out and moving to
Texas for some time.”
Things were arranged as the Judge said.
The marriage took place, and the army re
ceived an addition to its ladies in the person
of the Arkansas Judge's daughter. She was
universally popular, and justly so, and was
an acquisition to any post.
At the breaking out of the war the doctor
went South, resigning his commission.
If he did not love his wife at first he did
when I knew him, and 1 am certain he never
regretted the obduracy of bis father-in-law or
the unsophisticated ness of his wife.— Wash
in (/ton Sunday World .
Playing Horse with a B*ar.
Once tiiere wos a man whose life had been
spent in "going west.” His father and moth
er moved from New England to Michigan
when he was a baby, and settled six miles
from any neighbor. But before the farm was
ail cleared, other settlers came, and the fam
ily moved on. “Don’t want to be crowded,”
the old man said ; “ I heard a rifle and an ax
that wasn’t mine, yesterday.” And he went
farther and farther west every year, till by
the time the little boy I’m telling you of was
a grown up man, they had got clear to the
west part of Oregon, on the Pacific coast.—
And as the old man couldn’t move west, any
further, without getting into the ocean, and
neighbors had moved within two miles of him,
he gave it up, went to lied sick, and died.
“’Tain’t no use,” he said. “They'rebound
to crowd an old man outer the world. I can’t
a-bear to tech elbows with folks, nohow.”
And so he died, with his nearest neighbor
two miles away.
But I'm going to tell you about his son’s
escape with the hear. They built their first
log house at the foot of a hill; but it was so
low and damp that James—for that was lus
name —started to build a bigger one higher
up. half a mile olf. near a mountain brook,
with grand old t rees around the spot, and a
fine view of the country. lie took off the
two front wheels of the old emigrant wagon,
that they had crossed the great plains in, and
made him a good strong two wheeled cart,
witli a box on it. And in this he drew back
and forth his carpenter tools, and his dinner,
and chips for the fire, over a rough road that
he had cut through the woods.
110 used to take a little nap after his noon
day meal ; and one day lie was sleeping on a
splendid bed of evergreen boughs that, he had
fixed near the timbers lie was at work on,
when he was awakened by a loud rattling of
the tin dishes in his cart, lie looked around
quickly, and what do you suppose he saw?
A big black bear pawing over the luncheon
he had left and smacking his chops over a
piece of wild honey and some corn cake that
James hadn't eaten up.
“This is a pretty fix,” said James to him
self as quick as a flash. “My rifle and ax
are both in the cart, and that ugly beast would
claw me to pieces before I could get them
out.” He was afraid the bear would chase
!1 im if he ran. and corner him if he stayed,
and so he set his wits to work to find a way
out of the scrape. Good, bright wits are too
much for a bear, or a hard lesson, or a tough
job of anv sort, if they are only kept at work,
with no "can’t,” or “1 don't want to,” or
“Oh, dear,” to hinder them. It didn’t take
James’ wit so long as I have been telling it
to yen to make a plan for him.
He jumped to his feet quick as a flash,
grabbed the tongue of the cart before the bear
could say “Jack Robinson” —if he had known
how—and started on a fast run down the hill,
drawing the cart and the bear in it after him.
“Well, I s’pose there never was a hear so
astonished since the pair saved from the flood
stepped out of Noah’s ark and found the
whole drowned. He had never had a ride
before, and didn’t want one now. But the
cart was going so fast that he daren’t jump
out; and so he just clung on, and looked
from one side to the other, and fairly howled
as the cart humped over the roots and stones.
James had been to the city once and seen
the street cars, and when he found lie had
the bear caught, the fun of the thing made
him laugh.
When the bear roared once be halloed back :
“All full inside! take the next car!” And
when the bear gave a terrific growl, he said ;
-Move ujT in front, please, and don’t grum
ble. T'ds is a through car. Git up, there !”
and lie buckled down to it, and ran just the
wav the car-drivers make the horses go, when
they are late, and pretend they don’t see a
little boy crooking his fingers for ’em to stop
on the crossing. The tin dishes in the bot
tom of the cart rattled life a pedler's wagon
on the pavement; the ax and gun bounded on
to the bear’s toes, and he looked as if he
didn’t know which was the worst—his mad or
his scare.
Down the steep hill James ran, straight for
the corner of his log-house. He had his plans
all made, and as he turned the corner he ran
the cart against a log, and tipped it right
over, bottom side up. with Mister Bear on
the other side : llis other rifle hung over
the door, in the house, and he grabbed that
down in a-hurry, and as tlm bear stuck his
head out from under the cart, he shot him
right between the eyes, saying : “There, that
settles the question.”
“ What question ?” asked his wife, who
came running out to see what the noise meant.
“Why the question whether I had caught a
hear or he had caught me.”
Beautiful Words to a Bride.
The following beautiful letter was written
several years ago by a gentleman to a bride
on receiving her wedding cards. It is ex
quisitely fresh and original, and full of poet
ry. Though not intended for publication, it
found its wav into print, and we think it is
too much of a gem to he lost entirely :
“I am holding some pasteboard in my
hands, Addie ! three stately pluckings from
the bush of coremon}’! lam gazing upon a
card and a name—a name with which your
gentle life began, a name with which your
throbbing heart was lost. There is nothing
strange about that card. The maiden sign
still looks from it, calm and customar}-, as
it looked on many a friendly visit, as it lies
in many a formal basket. lam gazing, too,
ipon a card where the nearer parent tells the
vorld she will lie ‘at home' one day. and that
is nothing new ! But there is another card,
whose mingling there puts a tongue of fire
into this speechless pasteboard, enameling
fate on common-place It tells us that feel
ing is maturing into destiny, and that these
cards are but the pale heralds of a coming
crisis, when a hand that lias pressed friend’s
hands and plucked flowers, shall close down
on him to whom she shall be friend and
flower forever.
“I have sent you a few flowers to adorn
die dying moments of your single life. They
are the gentlest types of a delicate and dur
-ole friendship. They spring tip by our side
vlion others have deserted it, and they will
>e found watching over our graves when
liO'C who should cherish have forgotten us.
r seems meet to me that a past so calm and
nire as your’s should expire with a kindred
sweetness about it; that flowers and music,
rind friends and earnest words, should con
secrate the hour when a sentiment is passing
to a sacrament.
“The three great stages of our being are
the birth, the bridal, the burial. To the first
•vc bring only weakness, for the last we have
lothing but dust! But here, at the altar,
where life joins life, the pair come throbbing
up to the holy man, whispering the deep
promise that arms each with the other’s heart,
o help on the life’s struggle of care and du
’y. The beautiful will be there, borrowing
new beauty from the scene. The gay’ and
lie frivolous, they and their flounces, will
look solemn for once. And youth will come
o gaze on all its sacre 1 thoughts pant for
ind age will totter up to hear the old words
repeated that to their own lives have given
the charm.
“Some will weep over it as if it were a
tomb, and some will laugh over it as if it
were a joke, but two must stand by it, for it
is fate not fun, this everlasting locking of
their live* !
■•And how can you. who have queened it
>ver so many bending forms, come down at
•a to the frugal diet of a single heart?
•• Hitherto you have been a clock, giving
our time to all the world ! Now you are a
.vatch, buried in one particular bosom, warni
ng only bis breast, marking only' bis hours,
ind ticking only to the beat of his heart—
where time and feeling shall be in unison,
until these lower ties are lost in that higher
wedlock where all hearts are united around
the Great Central Heart of all.
“ Hoping that calm sunshine may hallow
vour clasped hands, I sink silently’ into a
signature. D. C. S.”
The Travels of Plants.
Alexander brought rice from Persia to the
Mediterranean, the Arabs carried it to Egypt,
the Moors to Spain, the Spaniards to Amer
ica. Lncullus brought the cherry’-tree (which
takes its name from Cerasus, the city of
Pontus, where he found it,) to Rome, as a
trophy of his Mithridatic campaign ; and 120
vears later, or in a. and. 46, as Plin3 r tells us.
it was carried to England. Caesar is said to
have given barley to both Germany and
Britain. According to Strabo, wheat came
originally from the banks of the Indus, but
it had reached the Mediterranean before the
dawn of authentic histor\\ Both barley and
wheat came to the New World with its con
querors and colonists, and the maize which
they found here soon went to Europe in ex
change. It was known in England in less
than fifty vears after the discovery of Amer
ica; it was introduced to the Mediterranean
countries, by way of Spain, at the end of the
sixteenth centun", and the Venetians soon
carried it to the Levant. Later it travelled
up the Danube to Hungary, and gradually
spread eastward to China. While it was
thus invading the regions formerly devoted
to rice, the latter, as we have said* was
itself in this country.
The sugar-cane, which, with its sweet
product, was known to the Greeks and
Romans only as a curiosity, seems to have
been cultivated in India and China from the
earliest times. Its introduction into Europe
was one of the results of the Crusades, and
thence it was transplanted to Madeira, and
early in the sixteenth century from that island
to the West Indies. The original home of
“King Cotton” was probably in Persia or
India, though it is also mentioned in the
early annals of Egypt, and bad spread
throughout Africa in very ancient times.
The potato was found in Peru and Chili
by' the first explorers of those countries, who
soon carried it to Spain. It is said to have
reached Burgundy’ in 15G0. and Italy about
the same time. It appears to have been
brought from Virginia to Ireland by Hawk
ins, a slave-trader, in 1565; and to England
in 1585 by Drake, who presented some tubers
to Gerard, who planted them in his garden
in London and described the plant in his
Herball; and it was also introduced by Ral
eigh at about the same dale. But it was
slow to attract attention, and it was not till
nearly a century later that it began to he
much cultivated. In 1663 the Royal Society
published rules for its culture, and from that
time it rapidly gained favor. The Dutch
carried it to the Cape of Good Hope in 1800,
and thence it made its way to India.—Jour
nal of Chemistry.
Even a Cup of Water.
There is a fact in every (lay of this life to
prove every verse in the Bible. The wavfar
er to eternity stumbles over it daily. Take
this incident, recited the other day by Pro
prietor Jenkins, of the American Hotel, at
Danville. Just after the first battle of Ma
nassas, as the federal soldiers rushed panic
stricken through the streets of Washington,
one of them fell panting and exhausting in
front of the residence of the Rev. Dr. Nor
wood, an Episcopal minister, a righteous
Southern man, and brother to the Hon. John
Norwood, of Hillsboro*, N. C. Miss Rebecca,
his daughter, saw the man fall and at once
started to him with a cup of cold water, but
suddenly recoiled as she thought of the bitter
enemy lie was to her and her people, and
turning back she sat down the water. Then,
as it were, the image of her sainted mother
seemed to startle lie'’ with the words, “even
a cup of cold water shall not lose its reward,”
and again she took it and going to the soldier
lifted his head and gave him drink. Several
days after—Dr. Norwood already being with
in our lines—Miss Rebecca started out of
Washington, having charge of her father's
little children, and as she got to the long
bridge, a sentinel stood statue like at each
end and sternly forbade her crossing. She
had turned back, wretched snd despairing,
when a soldier, horse-back, and wearing a
sword, dashed to the bridge and ordered the
sentinel to stand aside or lie would ofiT with
his head. He next ordered a carriage, and
placing the good lady and children in it, he
rode escort behind till in sight of our lines,
and then bidding Miss Norwood adieu, he
said, “Madam, I am the man to whom you
gave that glass of wafer.” —Reidsville Times.
It Wasn’t the Toothache.
In the ladies waiting-room at the Central
Depot the other day were a newly married
couple from Grass Lake. They had been
visiting in the city two or three days, and
were then ready to go home. They sat side
by side, of course, his arm around her waist
and she leaning on his shoulder. A long
waisted stranger from the East, having sore
eyes and a big heart, walked in, saw them
thus seated, and in about a minute lie asked
of the husband :
‘Has that woman there got tli3 toothache ?’
The husband looked up in surprise, but
made no answer. After two or three minutes
the long-waisted man again remarked :
•If that woman has got the toothache I’ve
got a bottle of peppermint in my satchel
here.’
The bride rolled her big white eyes around,
and the husband looked somewhat embar
rassed. The man from down East unlocked
his satchel, fumbled among shirts and collars,
and brought up four ounces of peppermint
essence. - He uncorked it, touched the con
tents of the bottle against his big red tongue,
and, handing it forward towards the husband,
feelingly said:
‘Just have her sop some on a rag and rub
her gooms with it. We’ve used it in our
family for— !
The bride’s eyes threw out sparks as she
lifted her head from its loving position, and
striking at the bottle she snarled out:
‘Tuthache, you fule ! If you don’t know
the difference ’tween true love and the tuth
ache you’d better pick grass with the geese !’
*My Lord ?’ gasped the man, and he hur
ried out with his satchel in one hand and the
bottle in the other. —Detroit Free Press.
An Irishman, upon seeing a squirrel shot
from a tree, said : ‘Faith, and that’s a waste
of powder; the fall itself would have killed
1 the crather.’
A man in Maine applied for five gallons
:of rum for ‘mechanical purposes.’ ‘For
| what mechanical purpose V inquired the
! agent. ‘ For raising a barn.’ was the reply.
) TERMS, $1.50 PER ANNUM.
/ SI.OO For Six Months;
A Very Honest Quaker.
A good story is told of a ship owner o’f
Liverpool, which will bear repeating. Otrr
merchant was a Quaker, and prided himself
on his honesty. lie would not have told a
downright falsehood to save the value of his
best ship. Jacob Penn was his name.
Once upon a time, Jacob suffered one of
his best ships to set sail from Calcutta for
home without any insurance upon either ves
sel or cargo. At length he became uneasy.
He was confident his ship had encountered
bad weather, and ho feared for her safety.
In this strait he went to his friend Isaac.
He called him Friend, though I am under the
impression that Isaac was of the children of
Israel.
“Friend Isaac,” he said, “I would like
thee to insure my ship which is at sea. 1
should have done it before, but have carelessly
neglected it. If thee canst have the policy
signed, all read}’ for deliver)', at three o’clock'
on the afternoon of the morrow, I will send
and get it, and send thee the money in full.”
Isaac did not seem to be anxious to insure
the ship, but upon being assured that no un
favorable intelligence had been heard from
her, he said he would have the policy made
out. to take effect on and after three o’clock
of the following day. but to cover the ship
and cargo from the day of her leaving India.
Early on the following morning Jacob re
ceived a message, by the hand of a captain
just arrived, to the effect that his ship was
stranded and her cargo lost. This was very
unfortunate. Should Friend Isaac happen to'
hear ot the news before the policy was made
out, lie would not make it at all; or, if it was
made, and not signed, he would not sign it.
What should he do? He wanted to act
honestly. It would not be right to let Isaac
go on and make out that policy under such
circumstances. Finally he hit upon a plan,
lie summoned his confidential clerk, and sent
him with this message :
“Tell Friend Isaac,” he said, “that I have
heard from my ship, and if the policy is not
signed, he need net sign it at all.”
The clock was close upon the stroke of
three when the clerk arrived. Friend Jacob's
message was delivered. The ship had been’
heard from, and if the policy had not been’
signed, he need not sign it.
“I think I am in season to save it,” the'
clerk said.
“ No, sir,” answered Isaac, promptly and
emphatically. Now, in truth, the policy of
insurance had not been signed, for the in-'
surer had been in doubt; but when Le heard
the message, he judged at once that the ship’
was safe, and that Jacob sought to save the
heavy item of the premium he had agreed to
pay. _
“No. sir,” he said ; “you are not in time.
It is past three o’clock. The policy is signed.
I will go and get it.”
lie slipped out and hastily finished and
signed the policy, and, having dried the ink,
he brought it to the clerk, demanding in re
turn the sum which had been agreed upon.
The money was paid, and the policy was
taken home to Jacob, who received it very
gladly.
The end we can easily imagine; and it is
not difficult to judge which of th© two felt
most sore over the matter.
—
How lo Get Rich.
The Michigan Farmer reports a conversa
tion with one of the progressive farmers of
the State, in which are presented some ideas
which are just as applicable to this latitude.
Being asked what the farmers of Michigan
most needed to increase the value of their
lands, crops, and herds, “They want.” said
he, “just what the merchants, the manufac
turers, and the mechanics want; just what
the railroadmen, the lumbermen, and the
mining men want; they want labor, capital;
and brains. There is not a runner in the
State but will stand an application of this
trio—work, money, and thought.” We asked
him again, what simple and easy methods lie
would recommend to the farmers from which'
they could get the quickest returns, and he
replied: P'irst, I would recomend that every
cow in the State be crossed by a thorough
bred bull. I calculate that this would add a
million and a half of dollars to the wealth of
the State in two years, and that it would'
double the value of the cattle of the State in
four years. Second, I would cross every
breeding ewe in the State with a thorough
bred ram of improved pedigree, and I calcu
late that it would add one pound of wool to
every shearing in two years, besides improv
ing the flocks in many other respects. You
can calculate the gain yourself. Third, I
would have every farmer select bis seeds of
every grain, especially of corn and wheat—
that is to pick out the best and discard the
inferior. The profit would be immense, for
there is no telling how much can be gained
by selection of seeds.”
Now here are things within the reach of
almost every farmer. They require a little
money, some work, and a good deal of nerve
and will power. Was the old man right?
Let every farmer adopt these precepts and
then contradict them if he can.— Western
Farmers Almanac.
The Bankrupt Law. —The bill reported
by Mr. Christiancy, from the Senate Judicia
ry Committee, to repeal the bankrupt law. is
as follows:—Be it enacted, etc., that the
bankrupt law, approved March 2, 1867, and
all acts in amendment or supplementary
thereto, or in explanation thereof, be and the
same are hereby repealed ; provided, howev
er, that such repeal shall in no manner inval
idate or affect any case in bankruptcy and
pending in any Court prior to the day when
the act shall take effect, but as for all such
pending cases and all future proceedings
therein, the act hereby repealed shall con
tinue in full force and effect till the same
shall he fully disposed of in the same manner
as if said acts had not been repealed.
“But I pass,” said a minister one Sunday,
in dismissing one theme of his subject to
take up another. “Then Lmake it spades !”
yelled a man in the gallery, who was dream
ing the happy hours away in an imaginary
game of euchre. It is needless to say that he
went out on the next deal, assisted by one
of the deacons with a full hand of'clubs.
NUMBER 43.