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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. c.TT....rr. .....T... ..... r.7.7.T.T.7...v;; 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,