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GEORGIA HOME JOURNAL.
W. ADO ISON KNOWLES, Prop’r.
VOLUME XII.—NO. 19.
NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.
METROPOLITAN
Cotton,Stock & Produce
EXCHANGE,
Library Building, AUGUSTA, Ga.
Send for copy of rules for trading. Cor
respondence solicited. Daily market re
ports furnished free of charge,
H. E. CUMMINGS,
febß 83 Manager.
RUFUS CARTER* CO.,
(Successors to Smith- & Carter,)
-wholesale
tobacconists,
Library Bl’dg, Augusta, Ca,
■STTobacco exclusively at Whoi.ksalx
only febß 83
MACON 1 A First-class
COMMERCIAL BusinessSchool.
OHI I rnr Equal to any North or South
Send for Circulars, free.
MACON, GA. |w. McKAY, - Principal.
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AUGUSTA HOTEL,
AUGUSTA, GA.
LEWIS & DOOLITTLE,
PROPRIETORS.
TABLE First Class in every particular.
Large and well ventilated rooms. Hates
S3 per day. Centrally located near railroad
crossing. Telegraph office and Barber shop
in the building.
AUGUSTA BUTEL RESTAHRAIT,
—AND—
LUNCH ROOM.
Choice Wines, Liquors and Cigars. Meals
to order at all hours. janll 84
W.A.KIIBROEM&CO.
AGENTS FOR
eclipse mrm
Saw Mills, Planing Mills, Sepe
tors, Presses, Cotton Gins,
Condensers, Etc.
sell all of the above upon the
most favorable terms, and ask the farmers
of Greene county when in need of anything
in this line to give us your orders. Wo al
so have control of Morgan county south of
the Georgia Railroad and solicit the trade
of this section.
W. A. KIMBROUGH & CO.,
feb. 29th, ’B3. Greenesboro’, Ga.
HIM MU SHIM
GEORGIA RAILROAD COMPANY, )
Office of General Manager, >
Augusta, Ga.. Nov. 17, 1883 )
Commencing Sunday, theioth inst.
> the following Passenger Schedule will
be operated. Trains run by 90th meridian
time, 32 minutes slower than Augusta time:
FAST 3L.X2*rESI
NO, 27. WEST DAILY. NO. 28. EAST DAILY.
Lve Augusta 7:40 am Lve Atlanta 2:45 p m
Ar Athens 12:30 am Ar Gr’nsbo’ 5:21 pm
“ Gr’nsbo’lo:ls “ “ Athens... 7:15 “
Ar Atlanta 1:00 pm “ Augusta 8:05 “
NO. 1 WEST—DAILY. NO. 2 EAST—DAILY.
Lv AvrgustalO 30 a m Lv Atlanta 825 a m
“Macon.. 710 “ “ G’boro’.l2 09 pm
“ Mil’dge. 918 “ Ar Athens 445 pm
“ Camak.l2 29 “ Ar "VVasli’t. 255 “
“ Wash’t.ll 20 “ “ Car.iak. 1 57 “
“ Athens. 905 “ “ Mil’dge. 449 “
Ar G’boro’. 215 pm “Macon. 645 “
Ar Atlanta. 545 p m Ar Augusta 355 p m
NO. 3 WEST —DAILY. NO. 4 EAST — DAILY.
Lv Augusta .9 00pm LvAtlanta.B 50pm
Ar G’boro’. .1 44 a m Ar G’boro’ 146 a m
Ar Atlanta.. 640 “ Ar Augusta 6 10am
iSTSUPERB IMPROVED SLEEPERS
TO AUGUSTA & ATLANTA.
Train No. 27 will stop at and receive
passengers to and from the following
points only: Berzelia, Harlem, Thomson,
Camak, Crawfordvjlle, Union Point,
Greenesboro, Madison, Rutledge, Social
Circle, Covington, Conyers, Stone Moun
tain and Decatur.
Train No. 28 will stop at, and receive pas
sengers to and from the folllowing stations,
only, Berzelia, Harlem, Dearing, Thomson,
Camak, Crawfordville, Union Point,
Greenesboro, Madison, Rutledge, Social
Circle, Covington, Conyers, Stone Mountain
and Decatur.
The Fast Line has Through Sleeper from
Atlanta te Charleston and connects for all
points West and Northwest, East and South
e-ist.
E. R. DORSEY,
General Passenger Agent.
Jno. W. Green, Gen’l Manager,
n /k RPETB
flouse Furnishing Goods. The largest stock
south of Baltimore. Moquet, Brussels, 3-
ply and ingrain carpets, window shades,
lace curtains,cornices and poles, wall papers,
chromos, cocoa and Canton mattings, rugs
and mats. BAILIE & COSHERS Ma
pozuc Building, Augusta, Ga. junß
NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.
NEW AND NICE
GOODS.
1 1 mm ki,
WHITE PLAINS, GA.
Prints, assorted styles and solid
colors, Piques, Lawns, figured and
solid colors. Nice Alpaca Dress
Goods solid colors only cents.
New lot of Bleaching, Sea Island
and Homespuns. A well assorted
lot of Cottonades and Domestics.
Something nice in Ladies’ and
Children’s Hosiery. New things
in the Notion line.
New thing in Shirts. Ask Judge
Mapp for the Scratch pocket fine
Shirt. Buy our unlaundried Shirt,
none better for sl. New lot of
Shoes just in—more to follow. The
above and hundreds of other things
we keep are among the necessaries.
We keep also the substantial.
Bacon, Sugai, Coffee, Tea, Rice,
Meal, Flour, Lard, and the nicest
and sweetest Syrup we ever had in
store. Try it.
We keep such goods as are in
demand and all articles usually
sold in a general merchandise bus
iness. "
We thank the public for their
liberal patronage in the past and
solicit a continuance of the same.
Very Respectfully,
W. M. Tappan & Son,
WBIFE PLAINS, GA.
B@“Our Geo. W. Tappan has
German Carp for sale. mar!9
The Model Sodfi JTater Establishment of the South.
GINGER ALE, SODA WATER,
EQUAL TO ANY THAT IS IMPORTED.
—MANUFACTURED AND FOR SALE BY —
MftHat W©t£s
1348 BROAD ST., AUGUSTA, GA.
■HTOrders filled promptly and shipped by Express in Clinton’s Patent Shipping
Cases. No goods misrepresented. feb29 83
6. H. U.
TIIE GREATEST ARTISTS OF THE
WORLD ACKNOWLEDGE THE SU
PERIORITY OF THE PIANOS
AND ORGANS SOLD BY
G. 0. ROBINSON & CO.
They are selected from ten of the BEST
Makers, and are so much Superior
to .Others at Prices so much
* Less that Pcrchasers
Save from
$lO to SIOO
By visiting or writing to
6.0. ROBINSON & GO.
E.1.0.M,—L.P.Q.S-
Large and increasing sales of musical
merchandise verify the fact that G. O.
ROBINSON & CO. SAVE MONEY for
EVERY PURCHASER.
SHEET MUSIC, the LATEST PL’BLI
CATIONS, MUSIC BOOKS of every de
scription: the latest Italian Strings.
The Latest and Most Popular Sunday
School Book
“LOVE ill Ml,”
LOWEST PRICES, at
G. O. ROBINSON & CO’S.,
831 BROAD STREET, AUGUSTA.
DKVOTED TO TPIE GENERAL WEii’ARE OF THE PEOPLE.
GREENESBORO, GEORGIA, FRIDAY MORNING, MAY 9,1884.
NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.
DANGER!
Under the first impulses of the
moment we will resort to all kinds
of remedies for
PILES,
making them worse by so many dif
ferent remedies. External reme
dies are known to relieve but noth
ing more, whereas by an internal
treatment we are relieved at once,
and cured permanently. The
ESSLIU FILE Bill,
for internal use is prepared ex
pressly for piles in their various
forms. . Send for pamphlet, or ask
your druggist for it.
Schumann’s Pharmacy
ATLANTA, GA.
may 2 84
OPIUM
AND Reliable evidence
WCTTSSir 'V B iven an<l reference
VY llADiv, A, to cured patients &
HiBiTS physicians. Send for
( __ my book on tlie lmb-
CL7EE. it and its cure, free.
Out of the Jaws of Death
The gentleman who outlines his case below
Is a man considerably advanced In life, and Is
noted for his sterling integrity. His post-office
Is Yatesville, Upson County, Georgia. The fol
lowing is
Mr. John Pearson’s Statement:
In the Spring of 1882 I was attacked with a
very bad cough, which continued to prow
worse until Fall, when I pot so weak that I
could not pot about. I tried a preat many
kinds of medicine, but continued to prow
worse. I was notified that I had consumption*
and would probably die. Dr. Holloway finally
told me to try Brewer’s LUnp Restorer. They
scut to Ward’s Store and pot a bottle, and I
commenced taking it right away After taking
two or three doses, I began to improve, and by
the time I had used up one bottle I was able to
Set on my feet again. I am now in excellent
ealth. lam confident that the Lung Restorer
saved my life, ami iny neighbors are of the
same opinion. It is the best Lung Remedy
ever made, in my opinion. Dr. H. promised mo
that he would write to the manufacturers and
tell them of the wonderful cure it made id my
case.
Statement of Mr.Benj.F.Hearndon:
Early jn November. IfIRL while the.
machine, my wife was taker with pain ,
Inncrsifie, which wa soon lollowed by hemor
rhages from her litt/few and a mrvere cough.
Fever commenced, Jibe could neither eat nor
sleep, and in a few weeks she was reduced to a
living skeleton. The attending physician told
me that he thought one of her lungs was en
tirely gone. She could not retain the most
delicate nourishment on her stomach. I then
agreed with Dr. Sullivan, my family physician,
to call Dr. Holloway in consultation. They
made a final examination of the patient, ana
pronounced the case hopeless. Dr. Holloway
then suggested the Brewer’s Lung Restorer as
a lust resort. I sent for a bottle, and gave her
a dose. I found that she could retain it on her
stomach, and after about the third dose I began
to notice some improvement in her condition.
I continued the medicine regularly, and by the
time she had taken two bottles she was able to
walk about the house. Sho is now in better
health than she has enjoyed for several years.
I believe the Lung Restorer saved her life.
Mr. Ileamdon’s post-office is Yatesville, Up
son County, Ga. tie is a thoroughly reliable
man in every particular.
LAMAR, RANKIN, & LAMAR,
MACON, GA.
WOOD WORK,
BLAGKSMITHINB,
—AND—
General Repairing,
—BY—
j. i. eii & a,
GREENESBORO, GA
XV'E have just opened business at the
Cope'.an Shops, in Greenesboro, and
are prepared to do all kinds of work in our
line.
BLACKSMITHIN G,
making Wheels, Turning, Shoeing, Forging
and repairing of all kinds. We ask for the
public patronage. We do first-class work,
and guarantee it in every instance. Terms
CASH.
-W-^OO^TS.
, One-horse Wagons, S4O to $45. Two
horse Wagons, $62.5Q to^7o.
J.M.HOWRLL& SON
GREENESBORO, GA.
jan4 84
ml Send six cents for postage and
I receive free, a costly box of
1 goods which will help all, of
J, either sex, to more money
right away than anything else
in this world. Fortunes await the workers ab
solutely sure. At once address True & Cos.
Augusta, Maine. mch. 7 ’B4
CANARY BIRDg*
FINE IMPORTED CANARY BIRDS
guaranted good singers, also the finest as
sortment of Cages in the city. Plain and
Mixed Bird seed, Gravel Song Restorer,
Mocking Bird food etc. etc. Orders by
mail promptly attend to and satisfacton guar
anteed at
E. J. HICKEY,
Fashionable Hair Dressing
Saloon!
No. 212 Bth Jackson Street, rear of E.
R. Schneider’s,
AUGUSTA, - - - GA.
WEDDING
Presents in large variety in Solid Silverware
and Jewelry. Send for illustrated Catalogue.
. J. P. STEVENS & CO.,
Atlanta. Ga*
LEGAL ADVERTISEMENTS.
GREENE r,l,r \TY
SHERIFFS SALES.
-
WILL be Ss iln on tli "rst Tuesday in
June, 1884, jbefon the court-house
door in Greenesboiit Gtr'-)c county, Geor
gia, within the le s4 Ixci t of sale, to the i
highest bidder for casiijk following pro
pert}', to-wit:
One tract of land, ce,£ ,4ng 200 acres,
more or less, adjoinir , lands of V. D.
Gresham, J. T. Greshnji , Wm. Armstrong
and others. Levied on; a the property of
W. H. Crawford, to satjf y a mortgage fl fa
issued from Greene Supr ;or Court in favor
of A. W. Foster & Cos. la W. H. Craw
ford. Written notire— <. tenant.
C. C. N< 'TON. Sheriff.
May Ist, 1884,
GRESSHS ifi! 1 ■bz&m'''
Will be sold in Ore before the
Court House, cn the firs>i Tuesday | n June
next, between the legaqhours.of. sole the
following property to-wiii
Two mules, ODe bay Iforse, one sow and
8 pigs, 0 shoats, 6 cows *nd calves, 8 year
lings and 21 sheep. Lefed on as the prop
erty of L. B. Willis to satisfy a Superior
Court fl fa in favor of Joel F. Thornton,
Ordinary, for use of Luther T. Sanders vs.
Lewis B. Willis et al.
J. S. HALL, D. S.
April 30, 1884.
NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.
WANTED.
I will pay forty cents per hun
dred pounds for all BONES de
livered to me at Greenesboro. Go
to work and bring them in.
M. J. ROSS MAN,
mayS GERI>\’ESBORO, GA.
HARDWARE!
CHLAJ^CPIOIT
REAPERS & MOWERS,
Buckthorn Wire Fencing, Eureka Post
Hole Diggers, Ice Cream Freezers, Ma
han's Vehicle Seat Sunshades, Fairman’s
Ice Crushers, Sarven Patent Wheels, Car
riage Makers’ Supplies, Jacobs’ Patent
Wheelbarrows, Plain and Stamped Tinware,
Richardson’s Celebrated Handsaws. Fishing
Tackle and Seine Twines. A full line of all
kinds of Hardware. Write us for prices
before buying. No matter wliat others sell
at our prices are idwaVswwer.’
Thorne
AUGUSTA, { : : : oA. ’
"Will the coining man smoko V* was set
tled by Prof. Fisk in his charming- pam
phlet. Ho says, moreover, that the rational
way to use tobacco is through the pijio.
All agree that only the beet tobacco should
be used. Which is the best? That to
which Naturo has contributed the most ex
quisite flavors. Blackwell’s Bull Durham
Smoking Tobacco fills the bill completely.
Nearly two-thirds of all the tobacco grown
on the Golden Tobacco belt of North Caro
lina goos into the manufactory of Black
well, at Durham. They buy the pick of—
the entire section. Hence
■Mil Blackwell’s Bull Durham
WM I wf* Smoking Tobacco is the
jM&JtS best of that tobacco. Don’t
KJoBSKr h® doceived when you buy.
The Durham Bull trade
in ''fgrdt every genuine
Blackwell’s Genuine Bull Durham
is the choice of all Jurigus of
WOMAN.
Her Health and Happiness are Mat
ters of Great Concern to all
Mankind.
Near Marietta, Ga.
Some months ago I bought a bottle of Dr.
J. Bradfield’s Female- Regulator, and used
it in my family with .great satisfaction. I
have recommended it to three families, and
they have found it to be just what is claimed
for it. The families who have used it are
now in perfect health and able to attend to
their household duties.
Rev. H. B. Joiinson.
State of Georgia, Troup Ckunty.
I haye examined the recipe of Joseph
Bradfield, and pronounce it to be a combi
nation of medicines of great merit in the
treatment of all diseases of females for
which be recommends it.
Wm. P. Beaslet, M. D.
Dr. J. Beadfiei.d: Dear Dir —My daugh
ter has been suffering for many years witli
that dreadful affliction known as Female
Disease, which lias cost me many dollars,
and notwithstanding I had the best medical
attendance, could not find relief. I have
used many other kinds ot medicines without
any effect. I had just about given her up,
was out of heart, but happened in the store
of W. W. Eckier several weeks since, and
he, knowing of my daughter’s affliction, per
suaded me to buy a bottle of your Female
Regulator. She began to improve at once.
I was so delighted with its effects that I
bought several more bottles of it; and,
knowing what I do about it, if to-day one
of my Family was suffering with that awful
disease, I would have it if it cost SSO a bot
tle, for I can truthfully say it lias cured my
daughter sound and well; myself and wife
do most heartily recommend your Female
Regulator to be just what it is represented
to be.
Respectfully, H. D. FEATHERSTON.
Treatise on the Health and Happiness of
Woman mailed free.
The Bradfield Regulator Cos.,
Box 28, Atlanta, Ga.
SELECTED POETRY.
-
ADVICE TO BOYS.
Life is a contest. In for the fight!
Up and at it with all your might.
Dread no hardship, talk not of luck ;
Off with your coat I and show your pluck.
Up and a-doing! stir up a dust!
Ply your muscle, rub off the rust.
Take hold of plow, spare not the hoe,
Turn up the earth and make things go.
Always frugal, don’t run in debt,
Shun the race course, and do not bet.
Always prudent, never got “tight 1 ’
Avoid the wrong, pursue the right.
When with the vile, dare to be odd,
Act like men ! and fear thou God.
Search.for the truth, strive to he wise,
Only workers can win the prize.
Then push along, keep a moving,
Daily gaming, still improving.
And at the close, your work all done,
Receive the crown of “Faithful son.’ 1
— Rev. A. B. Cabaniss in Western Recorder.
GROPING IN DARKNESS.
DR. TALMAGE ON ADVAN
CED THINKERS.
PEOPLE WUO Al£E AT SEA IN REGARD
TO RELIGION—THE FRUITS OF THE
TRUE TREE—A SERMON OF SOLID
REASON.
From, the New York Dun.
Dr. Talmage bad fire in bis eye
when be came into tbe Brooklyn
tabernacle last ' Sunday morning,
and the ocean of people seated be
fore him began to grow restless in
expectation of some awful procla
mation. “A London fog has fallen
upon some clergymen,” said Mr.
Talmage gravely, and his bearers
were at once relieved of tbe trepi
dation tbev bad felt concerning
their own vulnerability. “They
are at sea concerning the inspira
tion of tbe Bible. Gensis to them
has become a myth, and they will
finally drift upon a continent of
mud, from which, I fear, they will
never be able to extricate them
selves. The Bible is -safe in its
jg*'* Lape. had been
** - went cl weakness^or decept
ion in it, the book would have long
ago fallen to pieces. The fact that
the Bible stands intact in spite of
all the attacks upon it is proof to
my mind that it is a miracle that
came from God. When I see these
advauced thinkers trying to im
prove upon the word of the Lord
God Almighty,” shrieked Mr. Tal
mage, dashiog across the platform,
wildly waving his hands and roll
ing his eyes, “I am filled with dis
gus-s-t. These thinkers pretend
to tell God what he ought to have
done. What did God do without
them, I wonder, and I wonder what
he will do without them after they
are dead ? “These men, who pride
themselves on being advanced
thinkers will he atheists if they
live long enough. They are doing
more damage to the cause of Chris
tianity than could be done by five
thousand Bob Ingersolls in a solid
phalanx. lam in favor of liberty
in religious discussions, but if I
should change my views I should
not preach them here, because this
building was erected by people
who believe in a Holy Bible. The
man who enters the ministry of
the church and takes a solemn
oath to maintain its doctrines and
who then preaches different views
is out and out a perjurer.” Mr.
Talmage’s manner and voice was
intensely severe and his caustic ut
terances sent a thrill through bis
congregation, who listened in pro
found silence until he had finished
the last quoted sentence, when they
broke forth in a hum of surprise.
“People have said,” continued tbe
speaker, that orthodoxisis have flat
foreheads and are victims of gulli
bility. I say there is no splendor
outside of Heaven equal to the
magnificence of ortodoxy.
As soon as the missionary be
gins to doubt the story about the
Garden of Eden and future punish
ment he returns from India and
goes into the insurance buiness.
[Langhter.] “Ninety-nine chur
ches out cf every hundred,” said
Mr. Talmage, “were built by men
who believe in the whole Bible.—
They may preach some other doc
trine now, but it is a heterdox gun
on an orthodox carriage. Theo
dore Parker preached against or
thodoxy in Boston, and when I was
a boy I thought to mv6elf, down
goes the Bible sure. The Park
Congregational church was on the
corner opposite, and they called it
derisively the hell-fire corner. But
Theodore Parker died and his
church died with him, while the
Congregational church still stands
on hell-fire corner thundering or
thodoxy as though Theodore Par
ker had never lived. AU that was
ever worth receiving came throngh
orthodox channels from heaven.
John Milton, Martin Luther, Rufus
Olioate, Daniel Webster, and John
Calhoun were orthodox from scalp
to heel. Where did yon couie
from ? I say to the man who be
lieves in tbe Bible in spots. ‘Ob,
in generations back there was an
ourangoutang,‘a pollywog ora tad
pole, from which in those millions
of years I have been evoluted.’—
“Where do you expect to go ?’ I
ask to this man. ‘Oh, when I die
I’ll go into the everlasting to be ;
then I’ll get into the great some
where and then I’ll be transported
to the glorious anywhere and final
ly I’ll fetch up in the great no-
where/ Brooklyn or. New York
with Sing Sing, the Tombs, Ray
mond street jail and all tbe small
er hospitals emptied into them
would be more preferable to heaven
if there were no hell. And if this
be true, then I turn aside from
such a debauched heaven. If this
be true there would be congrega
ted side by side Tom Paine and
the great Whitfield, Jesabel and
Florence Nightengale, John Wilkes
Booth and Abraham Lincoln,
Charles J. Guiteau and James A.
Garfield, and all the murderers and
their victims. Don’t jump over
boa-d from the staunch old Great
Eastern orthodoxy until something
better is presented to you. Don’t
take to the fantastic yawl that
leaks at the bow and leaks at the
stern, and which has a steel screw
for one oar and a glib tongue for
the other one ; which dips one
side and then to the other, until
you don’t know whether the pas
sengers will be swamped or landed
on the breakers of heresy.”
SIL.LY TWATTLE.
The Atlanta correspondence of
the Augusta News, gives the f®l
- in relation to S’* l - Phillips
church, in :
•<o* Easter Sunday, Rev. Dr.
Armstrong, of Grace Church, Rich
mond, officiated for the congrega
tion. and his style and the matter
of bis sermon so pleased the church
officials that, they have made him
an offer to assume the charge, Tbpy
offer him 83.500 per annum, the
use of the parsonage and his ex
peuaefo tuiAoraL fo Lliisi pnml
While Dr. Armstrong is getting a j
larger salary in Richmond, it is
thought he may be induced to come
here. There seems to be a want
of agreement between him and the
Bishop of Virginia upon certain
matters of ceremony. The Bishop
is said to be rather low church aod
democratic in his ways while Dr.
Armstrong is inclined to High
Church forms and strict adherence
to ecclessiastical traditions and
dignities. Snch a man will.just
suit St. Philli’ps, which is officered
and patronized by people of wealth
and pride. I have no doubt that,
should the Doctor take the charge,
he will make the church one of the
most popular and conspicuous in
the diocese.”
We know nothing of the correct
ness of this statement, but we do
know that Virginia has a right to
be proud of her chief pastors, her
clergy and churchmanship. The
silly twattle about high and low
church, we had hoped had subsi
ded. It has repelled, we doubt
not from the Episcopal commnnio'n,
thousands of worthy people.
What the correspondent of tbe
News means by “democratic ways,”
in “tbe household of faith,” we
think even St. Paul and St. Peter
would be puzzled to know. With
that wise and conservative head
light, the Southern Churchman, the
prince of good papers, tbe Episco
pal chnrch in Virginia will hardly
fear an extreme up or down grade
in her churchmanship.
—The charities that soothe, heal
and bless lie scattered at the feet
of men like flowers.
—lt is not so much the anxiety of
the half paid pastor that cripples
him in his work; it is the humilia
tion that takes the heart of man
hood out of him. The finest souls
suffer most from this cause.
—Since I have known God in a
saving manner, painting, poetry
and music have had charms un
known to me before. I have re
ceived what I supposed is a taste
for them, for religion has refined
my mind and made it snsceptible
of impressions from the sublime
and beautiful.—Henry Martyn.
—The world’s foreign missions
show an increase of 308,643 com
municants for the past year, and
expenditure of about eight and a
half million dollars, yet it is calcu
lated that Protestant Christendom’s
annual contribution to this cause
does not equal the sum spent for
intoxicating liquor for two days in
Great Britian, or for three days in
the United States.
TERMS $2.00 per Annum, in Advance.
WHOLE NUMBER 569,
ADVICE TO A YOUNG MAN.
My son did yon ever think what
a fool you are for swearing ? That
profanity isn’t an ornament to auy
speech ? That the story that has
to bo pointed with a dash lasts
only so long as it is being told ?
That the brightest gems in English
poetry and the most eloquent pas
sages in all oratory, live through
centuries of admiration and criti
cism, and thrill the sonls of peo
ple to-day, as they thrilled the now
pulseless hearts that caught their
inspiration hundreds of years ago
with never a “damn" in a line?
Did you ever stop to think why
you Bwear in a bar room bnt never
in a parlor? You can’t improve
Shakespeare by mixing in the lines
a little cow-boy profanity. If Bry-
ant had written
“To him who in the love of nature holds
Communion with her dash, dashed visible
forms
She speaks a blank, blanked varied lan
guage,”
the poem would have been ruined.
And it ruins the force and beauty
of your conversation, just the same.
Moreover, indulgence in the habit
ruins the force of your profanity.
Nobody cares for the swearing of a
habitual swearer. His volleys of
profanity have no terror in them.
They mean nothing. It is the man
who never swears who scares you
out of your boots if once in a life-
tune he does swear. So far as we
can learn, Washington only swore
once during all the eight years of
the Revolutionary war. But that
one time counted. It turned back
the tide of retreat, changed a rout
into a victory and made things
hum. But the fellow who swears
on all occasions, and swears hot
and cold with the same mouth, tbe
intellectual pauper who ekes out
his barren supply of ideas with an
abundant crop of profanity, whose
conversation is a long chain of mill
privileges and who talks as a bea
ver works, his swearing is weak, va
pid, tiresome, disgusting. So if you
want to swear with any effect, my
boy, be very seldom about it. Be
exclusive in your profanity. If
von can’t get along without it,
bring it oat occasionally, like rare
old family djAlßaafet it
Tinning'six or eight s hours a day,
like the kitchen hydrant. And—
you won’t be offended, my son—
wui will. observe closely,yon
will perceive that young - men, boys,
fledgings of about your age swear
more than men. More frequently ;
more awfully ; with less point and
direction. A man becomes asham
ed of it. It belongs to the ciga
rette and matinee period of life, my
boy. It is a habit that flourishes
in the bread and butter days, along
somewhere between the school and
the college and while the blue rib
bon on the diploma is bright. It
belongs to what Puck so aptly calls
iho “unsalted generation;” tho
fresh young men. So put it away
and put on manly things.
And just one word more. Sup
pose you are given to a habit of
profanity. You enter into a con
versation with a man who never
swears; in other words, a gentle
man. By and by you begin to per
ceive that he is the superior man.
Your remarks have a tame, flat, fee
ble sound to your own ears. Your
cheeks begin to burn with a sense
of your friend’s excellence. Your
pert little damns sound rough and
coarse and vulgar, as they are.
They begin to drop out of yonr
sentences, ashamed to remain in
the company of good, honest En
glish words, until as you discover
that you are carrying on your part
of the conversation without swear
ing, you feel easier and your intel
lectual statue is increased by a
foot. Just observe this, my boy,
and see if lam not right. But you
will rip out some time. Oh, yes,
in some way you will, I know some
good men, some of the best iu the
world, who will confound it, and
even dog-gone it, and in New Eng
land even a deacon has been known,
under a terribble strain, to “con
demn it.” Bnt as a rule, my son,
don’t do it. Don’t swear. It isn’t
an evidence of smartness or world
ly wisdom. Any fool can swear.
And a great many fools do. Ah, my
son ? Ah, if I could only gather up
all the useless, uncalled for, inef
fected swears I have dropped al
ong the pathway of my life I know
I would remove stumbling blocks
for many inexperienced feet, and
üby own heart would be lighter by
a ton than it is to-day. But if you
are going to be a fool just because
other meu have been, oh, my son,
my son, what an awful, what a co
lossal, what a hopeless fool you
will be.—R. J. Burdette.
—A curious fact has been rela
ted to us by tbe beef market men
of this place. They find in the
stomach of every cow they kill that
has been fed on slops in town, more
or less nails of various sizes. The
largest number found in the stom
ach of one cow, was twenty-two,—*
Washington Gazette,