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Will ohill the wannest heart.
Yet kindred, comrades, leren. friend.
Are fated all to part;
But this I’tc seen—and many a Dans
Has pressed it on my mind—
The one who goes is happier
Than those he leaves behind.
No matter what the journey be,
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To the wild deep or bleak frontier.
To solitude or war,
Still something cheers the heart
In all of human kind,
t * , *y who go are happier
Than those they leave behind.
***«• go®8 to the bridegroom’s home
With doubting and with tears
But does not Hope her rainbow spread
Across her cloudy fears ?
Alas the mother who remains,
... What comfort can she.find ?
But this—the gone ia happier
Than one she leaves behind.
Hare you a friend, a comrade dear,
An old and trusted friend ?
c aure your term of sweet concourse
At length will hare an end !
W , hC “ you part—as part you will—
JNO. N. HUDSON,
attorney at law,
f/.i.l YILI.E. - - - GA
O take it not unkind
That be who goes is happier
Than those he leaves‘behind.
God wills it so—and so it Is;
The pilgrims on their way
Though weak and worn, more cheerful
Than all the rest who stay;
C B. WOOTEN,
attorney at law;
Albany, - - Georgia.
yriLL practice in the Stale Courts and in the
And when at last poor man subdued
Lies down to death resigned,
i Savannah.
Preserving His Credit at Home'.
Dr. J. N. CHENEY,
momma physician,
ELLAVIIAE, GA.
practice aa Loietofur
W ILL ci;
All bills due when services
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C. B. Hudson,
attorney at j.aw,
ULAX1LLE; - - - - GA.
GEO. E. THORNTON,
attorney at law,
TRESTON, GA., *
s ami collections.
Jno. N. Scarborough
ATTORNEY at raw,
F.UA VILLE, - - - - GA.,
i Circuit. Office in Court house.
H. K. HINES.
ATTORNEY AT LAW
No. Ct> Chebuy Street, Macon, Ga.,
[over J. H. Ecrtz & Co.]
I N addition to local buainess I will give special
attention to cases ent -listed to me in the Al-
lont and Southwestern Circuits, and in the
l‘uited States Circuit and Bankrupt Courts for
Ov.r^ia. octlCtf
S. Wise Parker,
Attorney eat Law,
Americas, Georgia.
FILL practice in United 8tates and State
If Courts. Office—Hawkins* building, Cot-
•b avenue. June 3 tf.
EUGENE A. HAWKINS
Hawkins & Hawkins,
ATTORNEYS AT LAW,
IMKRICUS GEORGIA.
a 14 tf
ALLEN FORT,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
AMERICUS, - GEORGIA,
W ILL practice in the counties of the South
western Circuit, in the 8upreme Court of
State, and in the District and Circuit Courts
“'lit* United States. Special attention given
; dinif, head of Cotton avenue.
lumpert, Pickett t King’s
tton avenue. oct23tf
N. A. SMITH.
Attorney eat Zia
AHERI0U8, : : GEORGIA.
V ILL practice in the Coarts of Sumter and
adjouiing Counties, and in Circuit Court oi
L '»'‘ted States.
Office on College street, next to
feb 2o tf.
B. P. HOLLIS,
ttornoy »t Ini'
AMERICUS, GEORGIA,
r Office in Hawkins’ Budding, Cotton
JanS-tL
COOK db ORZSZ*.
ATTORNEYS AT LAW
AMERICUS. GEORGIA.
DULL practice in the Counties of ilaoon,
", Dooly, Schley, Webster, Sumter and Loe,
" Hi* Supreme Court of Georgia and the U. S.
ow.net Courts. The partnership does not ex-
to criminal business.
Office over National Bank. april 8 ly
J. R. McCLESKEY,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
IIIER1CUS, ~ - - GEORGIA
AFFICE fronting Court Honsc, with entrance
v next door to Dr. Eldiidgee Drag Store.
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Guerry & Son,
Attornoy* At l,aw
S| )UCITORS IN EQUITY
Auebiccs, Georgia,
ItTILL practice in the Superior Courts of
" Sum!..* ir.am. Tlnnl* Im 'Tar.
Bumter, Schley. Macon, Dooly. Lee. Ter-
-* *'—* *ics;in the 8u-
in the Uni ed
; l knd Cotton Avenue.
E. G. SIMMONS,
Attorney at Law
AMERICUS, OA.
QFF1CE ovei Grange Warehouce. Will prao-
l,throughout Southwestern Circuit, Bu-
L, ( ,' Jurta °« Georgia, U. 8. Courts at At-
U and Savannah.
Dr. G. F. COOPER,
Will give his
f TIME
and solicits a share
ttffjp Patronage. ^ Call* left ,t the Drug
® T. Eldridge, or his residence.
» Female College, wUl receive prompt
MI S CEL LAN EOUS.
Mrs. Jones was standing in her back
yard feeding the chickens, when Stone"
wall Jackson came running in, crying as
though his heart would break, and told
her that Bill Brown had slapped him for
nothing. Mrs. Jones never said A word,
but sho grit her teeth bard fend went in
to the house to cut cabbage; 4»nd chopped
it so fine, thinking it was- Bfll* Brown’s
head, that you might have silled it
through a cobweb. While Jones bat
eating his dinner that evening, Mrs.
Jones told him of the outrage that had
been committed, and asked him what he
was going to do about it. Jones ponder
ed. Bill Brown was fully twenty one
years old, a shining light in the fire de
triment, pitcher in a base-ball club, and
tad the general reputation amongexperts
nf being a “good man.”
After considering these things careful
ly, Jones came to the conclusion that
the best course to pnrsne was to “treat
Brown with silent contempt," and so he
told his wife, adding, by way of paren
thesis, “My dear, such cattle are beneath
r notice."
‘All right, Mr. Joues,” said Mrs. J.,
“if you’re not man enongh to protect your
family, thank God! I’ve a brother," and
she swept from the room with a look
that Jones knew only too well. He had
eeen that same look on his wife's face
once before, when he brought a friend
home to dinner on washing-day, and he
knew it meant war. There was no help
for it; it flashes upon Jones with the
swiftness of lightning ] there would be no
peace in the Jones family until the in
sult of the morning had been wiped out.
with blood.
That night the boys were all sitting in
a neighboring beer saloon, and its genial
proprietor was telling them what he
would do if ho got the nomination for
alderman. This gentleman, whom we
will call Mike, because that was not his
name, was ao ex-prize-fighter, oould bare
ly write his name, and was in many re
spects espcciolly qualified for an alder
man. He kept good beer, and offered it
with that lavish liberality and reckless
ness of expenditure for which Vicksburg
candidates are famous. Jones came in,
took his pro rata of beer, and sat himself
down to meditate upon the Brown affair.
At last a happy idea seemed to strike
him; he called for another “shoo-fly,”
and rubbed his hands and slapped his
knees in gleeful anticipation.
At last he said to Mike, with a care
less air, “Mike, is Bill Brown. one of
your supporters ?’,’ • .■> q > 5
‘You can just bet- your mucky mack
that," says Mike] “there’s a boy I do
stand solid with. 1
“That’s strange,” said Jones, looking
down at the floor.
“What’s strange?” said Mike, with
that uneasy, suspicious air*so common
among candidates.
“O, nothing,” said Jones, mysterious<
lyj “I don’t think J ought to tell."
“Jones,” said. Mike, solemnly, “if yon
arc a friend of mine, yon would tell.”
Well, I will,” said Jonesj “but you
must keep it confidential.”
All right; go ahead/' said Mike,
anxiously.
“Well, said Jones, “I just came from
the Centennial bar-room, and beard
Brown say that you didn’t know your
head from a shot-gun] that he caught
you, one day, reading a newspaper up
side down ] that he’d sooner vote for the
lowest down nigger in the ward than yote
for you, and that if you were elected,
city scrip would go down to five cents in
the dollar, and taxes go up so high you
ceuldo’t reach them with a balloon.”
Mike put on his hat and ooat, and
made a bee line for the Centennial bar
room.
Jones went home and sat down on the
front gallery, smoking his cigar with
that peace of mind which ooly one can
. , _ * • j~.i _:»t. it..
DEMOCRATIC
FORM.
We copy from the Missouri Republi
can, of St. Louis, the corrected text of
the National Democratic Platform, which
in every paragraph was badly mutilated
in its transmission by telegraph to all the
Southern journals i-
We, the delegates of the Democratic
party of the United States in National
Convention assembled,'do hereby declare
the administration of the Federal Gov-
ernment to be in urgent need of immedi
ate Reform; do hereby enjoin upon the
nominees of this Convention, and of the
Democratic party of each State, a zealous
effort and oo-operation to this end j and
do hereby appeal to our fellow-citizens of
every former political connection, to
dertake with us this first and
ing patriotic duty.
For the Democracy of the whole conn-
we do here reaffirm our faith in the
permanence of the Federal Union, our
devotiqnto the Constitution ofthe United
States with its amendments universally
accepted as a final settlement of die con
troversies that engendered civil war, and
do here, record our steadfast confidence
in the perpetuity of Republican Self-
Government
In absolute acquiescence in the will of
the majority—the vital principle of re
publics ; in the supremacy of the civil
over the. military authority j in the total
separation of Church and State, for the
sake alike of civil and religious freedom]
in the equality of all citizens before just
laws of their own enactment j in the lib
erty of individual conduct, uovexed by
sumptuary laws j in the faithful educa
tion of the rising generation, that they
may preserve, enjoy and transmit these
best oonditions of human happiness and
hope, we behold the noblest, products of a
hundred years of changeful histoiy; but
while upholding the bond of our Union
and great Charter of these our rights, it
behooves a free people to practice also
that eternal vigilance which is tho price
of Liberty!
Reform is necessary to rebuild and es
tablish in the hearts of the whole people,
the Union, eleven years ago happily res
cued from the danger of a Secession of
States j but now to be saved from a cor
rupt Centralism' which, after inflicting
upon ten States the rapacity of carpet
bag tyrannies, has honeycombed the of
fices of the Federal Government itself
with incapacity, waste, and fraud ] infect
ed States and municipalities with the
contagion of misrule, and locked fast the
prosperity of an industrious people iu the
paralysis of “Hard Times.”
Reform is necessary to establish a
sound currency, restore the public credit
and maintain the national honor.
We denounce the figure for all these
eleven years of peace to make good the
promise of the legal-tender notes, whieh
are a changing standard of valne in the
hands ofthe people, and the non-payment
of which is a disregard of the plighted
faith of the nation.
We denounce the improvidence which
in eleven years of peace has taken from
the people in Federal taxes thirteen times
the whole amount of the legal-tender
notes aud squandered four times their
sum in useless expense without accumu
lating any reserve for their redemption.
We denounce the financial imbecility
and immortality of that party which,
during eleven years of peace, has made
no advance toward resumption, no pre
paration for resumption, but instead has
obstructed resumption by wasting our
resources and exhausting all our surplus
income ] and, while annually professing
to intend a speedy return to specie pay
ments, has annually enacted fresh hin
drances thereto. As such a hindrance
we denounce the Resumption-day danse
of the act of 1875 and demand its re
peal.
We demand a judicious system of pre
paration by publio economists, by official
retrenchments, and by wise finance which
shall enable the nation aooo to asnire the
whole world of its perfect ability and its
readiness to meet any of its promises at
the call of the creditor entitled to pay
ment.
We believe such a system, well divised
and, above all, intruded to competent
hands for execution, creating at no time
an artificial scarcity' of currency and at
no time alarming the public mind into a
withdrawal of that vaster machinery of
credit, by which 95 per cent, of all busi
ness transactions are performed—a sys
tem open, public, and inspiring general
confidence, would from the day of its
adoption bring healing on its wings to all
our harrassed industries, set in motion
tho wheels of commeroe, manufactures,
and the mechanic arts, restore employ
ment to labor, and renew in all its natu
ral sources the prosperity of the people.
Reform is necessary in the sum and
modes of Federal Taxation, to the end
that capital may be set free from distrust
and labor lightly burdened.
We denounce the present Tariff, levied
upon nearly 4,000 articles, at a master
piece of injustice, inequality and false
pretence. It yields a dwindling, not a
yearly rising revenue. It has impover
ished many industries to subsidize a few.
It prohibits imports that might purchase
the products of American labor. It has
degraded American commerce from the
first to an interior rank on the high seas.
It has cut down the sales of American
manufactures at home and abroad, and
that sum for the Federal Government
alone. We demand a rigorous frugality
in every department, and from every of
ficer of the government.
Reform is necessary to pat a stop to
the profligate waste of publio lands and
their diversion from actual settlers by
the partyin power, which has squander
ed 200 millions of acres upon rail-roads
alone, and ont of more than thrice tliat
aggregate has disposed of less than a sixth
directly to tillers of the soil.
Reform is necessary to correct the
omissions of a Republican Congress and
the errors of our treaties and our diplo
macy which have stripped our fellow-
citizens of foreign birth and kindred race
recrossing the Atlantic, ofthe shield of
American citizenship, and have exposed
our brethren of the Pacific coast to the
incursions of a noe not sprung from tho.
samegremtparent stock, and in fact tiow
by law domed citizenship through natu
ralization aa being neither accustomed to
the traditions of a progressive civilization
nor exercized in liberty under equal laws.
We denounce the policy which thus dis
cards the liberty loving German and tole
rates the revival of the coolie trade in
Mongolian women imported for immoral
pnrposes, and Mongolian men hired to
perform servile labor contracts.
A Man of Parts.
“What do you think of tho ticket ?”
asked Mr. McGruder, in the boarding
house, last night
“Toler’ble,” said Mr. McGuffin, “tol*
er'ble.” Down in the Cnstom House
this morning I saw a clerk behind the
counter trying to stave off a lot of fel
lows who wanted to get their invoices
verified. I asked him what he though
of it, and Le stopped work at once.
“Think of it ?” he said. “It’s a blaz
er. It’ll draw like a house afire.”
“Think Governor Hayes will be a Re
former?”
Reformer! I don’t know anything
Reform is necessary pnd can never be
effected bat by making it the controlling
issue of the elections, and lifting it above
two false issues with which the office-hold-
1. The false issue with which they
would enkindle sectarian strife in respect
to the public schools, of which the estab
lishment and support belong exclusively
to the several States, and which the De
mocratic party has cherished from their
foundation, and is resolved to maintain
without prejudice or preference for any
class, sect or creed, and without largesses
from the treasury to any.
2. The false issue by which they seek
to light anew the dying embers of sec
tional hate between kindred people once
estranged, bnt now reunited in one indi-
‘ sable republic and a common destiny.
Reform is necessary in the Civil Ser-
vice Experience proves that efficient,
economical ouodnctm the governmental
business is not possible if its oivil service
be subject to change at every election, be
a prize fought for at the ballot box, be a
brief rawanl of party zeal, instead of
posts of honor assigned for proved com-
>etency, and held for fidelity in the pub
ic employ; that the dispensing of pat
ronage should neither be tax upon the
time of all onr public men, nor the instru
ment of their ambition. Here again
promises falsified in the performance, at
test that the party in power can work out
no pratical of salutary reform.
Reform is necessary even more in the
higher grades of the public service. Pres
ident, Vice-President, Judges, Senators,
Representatives, Cabinet officers these
and all others in authority are the peo
ple’s servants. Their offices are not a
private perquisite] they are a private
trust.
When the annals of this republic show
the disgrace and censure of a Vice-Pres
ident j a late Speaker of the House of
Representatives marketing his ruling? as
a presiding officer ] three Senators profit
ing secretly by their votes ss law makers]
five chairmen of the leading committees
of the late House of Representatives ex
posed in jobbery j a late Secretary of the
Treasury forcing balances in the publio
accounts; a late Attorney-General misap
propriating publio funds j a Secretary of
the Navy enriched or enriching friends,
by per centages levied off the profits of
contractors with his department ] an Em
bassador to England censured in a dis
honorable speculation] the President’s
Private Secretary barely escaping convic
tion upon trial for guilty complicity in
frauds upon the revenue j a Secretary of
War impeached for high crimes and mis
demeanors,—the demonstration h corn-
know whose bosom is distended with the
, « • • * manuiauturcs at uuuie auu auruuu, wu
proud consciousness of having done » V dep i etc d the retnrns of American agricul-
Un.2-tr*
NOTICE.
FJjg. RLOUB mule at my merchant milt
fcTS* piles south west of Americas.
R. C, BLACK.
good action .
About half ao hour afterwards he said
to his wife who was sitting inside:
“Mrs. J. I don’t think Bill Brown will
hit our boy any more.”
“Why?”
“Come and see.”
Mrs. Jones stepped to the window and
looked out. They were bringing Brown
home on a shutter, vith both of his eyes
bunged up, and his nose dripping blood
at every pore.
Mrs. Jones turned to her husband,
and said:
Darling, can you forgive me ?
J'“i " u e, '-“a*
“Jones drew • himself tip haughtily,
and replied, with withering sarcasm,
“Mrs. Jones, I don’t think I’m able to
protect this family j you had better send
for your brother.”
Mrs. Jones was crushed.— Vicksburg
Herald.
tore—an industry followed by h*ir our
people. It costs the people five times
more than it produces to the treasury,
obstructs the processes of production, and
wastes the fruits of labor It promotes
fraud, fosters smuggling, enriches dis
honest official and bankrupts honest
merchants. We demand that all custom
house taxation shall be only for revenue.
Reform is necessary in tho scale of
Pablic Expense—Federal, State and Mu
nicipal. Our Federal taxation has swol
len from GO millions gold, in 1860, to
450 millions currency, in 1870; our ag
gregate taxation from 154 millions gold
in 18G0, to 730 millions currency in 1870]
or in one decade, from less than $5 per
head to more than $18 per head. Since
the peace, the people have paid to their
tax gatherers more than thrice the sum
ofthe national debt, and more than twice
what he
thought of the ticket.
“Think of it ? It’a a roarer.’*
“Believe the Governor will pitch ii
for reform ?”
“I don’t know what he’ll pitch in for;
but will you just cast your eye on his
war record? I was in a regiment that
served under him at Antietam. The
Governor was brandishin’ his sword and
shoutin’ to the boys to git in, when along
come a bullet and snaked off his left arm.
He just shifted the sword over to his
right hand, had a hasty toorniqnet put
on the stump of his left arm, and then
bolted into the fight again. Draw ? Ho’U
draw like a blast furnace!’'
“Happening in at the Post Office 1
asked one of the boys who were ‘rastlin'
the mails how the ticket struck him.
“It’ll sweep the country J”
“Do you suppose Hayes will reform
the Government?”
“Hey ? 1 did’nt catch that]” and the
roung man put his hand up to his ear*
[ repeated the question.
“Oh, yes j reform. Well, now, I real
ly can’t cay whether he’ll be a Reformer
or not] but will you just- let your eye rest
on his war record for a moment ? I was
a regiment that served under him at
Gettysburg. The Governor was brandish
in’ his sword and hollerin’ to tho boys to
let ’emselves loose, when along come a
bullet and carried away his right leg.—
The Governor stopped just long enough
to have his leg coopered up, and then hi
pfete, that the first step in Reform must
be the people’s ehoioe of he
choioe of honest men from
another party, lest the disease of one po
litical organization infect the body politic
and lest by making no change of men or
parties we get no change of measures and
no real Reform.
All these abases, wrongs and crimes,
the product of sixteen years ascendancy
of the Republican party, create a neces
sity for reform confessed by republicans
themselvef] but their reformers are voted
down in convention and displaced from
the Cabinet. The party’s mass of hon
est voters is powerleaa to resist the
80,000 office-holder*, its leaders and
guides.
Reform can only be had by a peaceful
Civio Revolution. We demand a ehange
of system, a change of administration, a
change of parties, that we may have a
ehange of measures and of men.
In a Boy’s Pocket.
A noise one day breaking the silence
of the school-room, the offender was
swiftly brought to justice, and his spool
confiscated. Another minute, and another
noise from the same delinquent, this time
a file. Reflecting that economy of time
might be useful in the case, I desired
Master George to bring me all he had
and reluctantly there was poured forth
suoh an unending stream of treasures
that I dispatched an assistant fora saucer
of a flower-pot in whieh to place them.
A list is in order,
A rubber ball gnawed at one side, four
yards of twine, three peewees, two slate
pencils^ piece of soap, a copper, six board
nails, a pickle, a fish hook, a bun, a letter
whieh had once been pink, but now^las!
five lozenges, a doll’s boot with a handle
in it, a gold stud weepingly confessed as
My Mamma’s,” a patent lock, key attach
ed,a piece of gum with tooth impressions,
a leaf from a speller round a treacherous
piece of tar, two kite-knobs, a scissor, a
watch key, a pipe-bowl colored and
scented after the latest epicurean style, a
shoe string, a whistle, fonr scarlet beans,
an inch doll, two bobbins, an Irishman’s
jack-knife, a Jampwick, three pieces of
rainbow coal, five jackstones, a photo
graph,- a tack hammer, a ring, a skillet
leg, a metal toe, a rabbit’s tail! Total
sixty-five!
Satin Gloss Starch, for fancy Laundry
use. Pure Gloss Starch, Laundry Blue
ing, Laundry Soaps, Washing Soda, Ball
and eau Potash, at Dr. Eldridge’s Drug
about that, but just look at his war rec
ord./ I was in a regiment that served
under Hayes at Shiloh. The Governor
was a brandishin* his sword and urging
the boya when along come a bullet
and'knockea off his right arm. He just
shifted his sword to his left hand, had a
tourniquet put oq the stump of his right
arm^md then plunged iuto the figu; again.
Good ticket ? I should say so 1”
“Over in the Appraiser’s Office I
found the enterprising young man that
1 to put the figures in Charley Law-
se’s invoices. Tasked him wl
dove into the battle again." Good ticket?
The country was crying for it!”
Then 1 dropped iu atone of the Unit
ed States Court rooms, up stairs, and
asked one of the officials what he thought
ofthe ticket.
A boon to tho country, sir ] a sweet
boon.”
“Think he’ll root out the corruption
that defiles the service ?”
‘Just how much rooting he’ll do I am
enable to state; but may J invite yon to
consider for a moment his war record ?
I was in a regiment that served under
Hayes in the Wilderness. The Gover
nor was brandishin’ his sword and callin’
on (he boys to rush forward, when along
came a ballet and lopped off his left leg.
The Governor did’nt even get off his
horse. He jost tied a waist belt around
the leg and went ahead again. Will the
people vote for him? My friend, they’ll
have to enlarge the ballot boxes.”
In a room across the hall I met a U.
S. Marshal makiog out a bill for extra
charges. I asked him about the ticket.
“Magnificent!” he said “magnificent!”
Think the Governor is likely to reform
the Administration ?’.
“Now, really, I had’nt given'the re
form question much consideration j but
let me ask you to look at his war record.
I was in a regiment that served under
him at Cold Harbor. The Governor was
brandishin’ his sword and whoopin' the
boys forward, when along came a shell
and struck him square on the breast.—
It hasted inside of him and tore him into
fine hash. We raked him into a rubber
blanket^and • were carrying him to the
bivouac of the dead, but the Governor
wouldn't have it. He jumped out of the
blanket and sprung on his horse'and went
forward, brandishin’ his sword.. Will he
be elected ? Just you wait andsee!”
“Anatomically speaking, Mr. Msgru
der, the Governor is, or was, ’a-man of
parts] much so} but I don't believe they
can get him together in time for ’lec
tion.”
A Few Golden Rules.
Take hold of duties pleasantly.. Walk
side by side with gentleness, courtesy
aud true love for your fellow beings.
Never tease or taunt] no good comes
from it, and your taunts may be remem
bered with resentment for years. Let
the whole of your life be mapped out
carefully, with the view of making the
best possible use of it, and foster a love
for honorable industry with au eye open
benefit.
toward steady saving for future
He who would be wealthy must save.
If your companions do not believe in it,
break away from them, abandon the
countless trifles that are hourly presented
to you. Smoke fewer cigars, go to thea
tres less, and within a year you will be
on a road to wealth, while they haunt the
corners, the theatres and the bar rooms,
spending money on vioe and that whieh
makes no good returns. It is a fake pride
which would make the average young
American “free as water” with his money.
Save it, for old age will soon oome, with
its vents for benevolence] perhaps then
you can dispose c/it with better judgment
When the aged oak sends forth its
faded leaves one by one in the autumn
blast, its time scarred bark turns black
and the tree dies from old age, and it is
of no more value in the earth] perchance,
then there shoots forth an infant oak
which will take pattern after its aged
friend and mature to future worth and
beauty. So, if a man strives by indus
try sobriety and civility to win an hon
orable life, he will inevitably win wealth
and an honorable position in the hearts
of all, while all aronnd him will spring
up hosts of imitators.
Fine Toilet Soaps, Constantines Tar
Soap, Packers Tar Soap. Carbolic Toi
let Soup, at Dr. Eldridge'a Drag Store.
Fifty-six Years an Invalid.
[From the Boston Globe, June 21.]
Miss Ruth W. Burgess, who died in
Plymouth on Saturday, afc the age of
sixty-four years, began to be afflicted
when about eight years of age, by having
fits or convulsions, and finally a paralysis
of the right eye. Soon after this she
was afflicted with dropsy, and her cure of
this disease has a somewhat remarkable
incident, ner brother being in Dema-
rara consulted a French physician in
regard to her, who gave him some med
icine that effected a cure. Upon being
investigated it proved to be cannabis, or
Indian hemp, which from that time has
been used by the faonity herewith great
success in cases of dropsy. Soon after
this she recovered the use of her eye,
but lost her - eyesight entirely for some
time, and hasjhad only partial sight since.
Soon after this her health improved
materially, so that she was able to walk
across the room, bnt in a short time she
began to have spasms, or convulsions, of
tho most painful character upon her left
side. Her left leg would be drawn back
and twisted until the sole of her foot
would rest upon her right shoulder.
This was gradually brought back, but
had to be tied in order to keep it in its
place, and from that time until her
death had generally to be secured. It is
now about twenty years since this has
been necessary. After this a contraction
of the organs of the throat came on so
that she was unable to swallow. A set
of instruments was made in Boston under
the direction of her physician by which
the constriction was partially removed,
so that semi-liquid substances could be
forced down her throat with an instru
ment made for that purpose. Never
after was she able to swallow any but
very soft substances. Indications of con
sumption now showed themselves, and
the soon presented every appearanco of
~ person in the last stages of this disease
> much so that her physician on going
off for a few weeks told her mother that
he should probably never see her again.
Yet, wonderful to tell, she recovered
entirely from this. She then began to
have abscesses of the liver, and her body
was so swollen that her breast bone was
even with her chin. Bnt a cough set in
and she began to rake matter in some way
almost incredible to physiologists for
about six days, when a change took place.
Her swelling went away and left her al
most a skeleton, so reduced was she.
Daring these years, and while under
going all this, she had the measles, scar
let fever, small-pox and itch, and these
diseases went through their regular
course. She had been bed-ridden now
for more than twenty years, living in
this manner, and has survived a family
consisting of father and mother, four
brothers and two sisters, all of whom were
of good health and constitution. During
some of the attacks of convukions her
head and feet would be drawn backward
so that they would meet and remain in
this position eighteen hours. Under all
these afflictions she bore up a sweet and
patient temper. For some time she kept
a little shop, having shelves put up on
the wall by her bed, and within reach of
her right hand, the only one she was
able to use, and hero she sold a little
confectionery and small things. She
was very industrious, and always doing
whatever she could. She did much fine
sewing and dressed dolls for the children,
even when unable to see. For about
twelve weeks she has been now gradually
failing, and has at last passed away, and
it is said by the physician who attended
her sickness—himself an old and experi
enced surgeon— that he does not believe
if there was a post mortem examination
made, that any organic disease would be
found, all her manifold ills having been
functional, and none organic. The pase
of Miss Burgess has been one of great
interest to the medical faculty, end she
has been visited by many physicians as
a physiological curiosity.
here and your talk disturbs her. She's
lost fifteen pounds of fat since you began
coming here.”
It isn’t at all likely that the lawyer will
deliver any Fourth of July oration. It
wouldn’t pay him to “hire* a hall,” and
go where he will in the suburbs some one
will ask him to wipe off his vest, pull
down his chin, or suspect him of designs
against hen-roosts. The day before the
Fourth he will telegraph the committee
that he has a congestive chill and oratory
will be left to some chap who talk through
his pose and mixes Putnam’s wolf den
and the sword of Banker Hill into his
hash.
A Strange Suicide.
An account ofa strange suicide, which
was lately committed at Foo^OHow-FoO,
is given in the China Mail. It seems
that a young lady, an inhabitant of that
city, who had the misfortune to be left a
widow while yet in her teens was urged by
some injudicious relatives to enter again
into the bonds of wedlock. The thought
thus suggested of supplying the place of
her late husband was so repugnant to
her feelings that, in order to escape from
the persecution of her advisers, she deter
mined to “ascend to heaven on the back
of a stork**] or. io other words, publicly
to commit suicide. Having arrived at
this determination, a day was fixed for
the ceremony.
Early on the fatal morning the lady,
dressed as the Queen of Heaven, and
surrounded by a Urge following of ad
miring relatives and friends, started from
her Uto husband’s bouse in an open sedan
chair for the scene of her self-inflicted
death. By tho way she vkited her pa
rents, to bid them farewell, and stopped
occasionally en route to taste the viands
which were placed at intervak along the
side of the road, as at a funeral. On ar
riving at an open space at the back of
the Hai-chaou Temple, she mounted on
a scaffolding which had been erected for
the vast crowd which had assembled to
witness the proceedings she cried with a
loud voioe, “Heaven aud earth! and my
friends! I am quite satisfied to die in this
manner.”
Having said this she stepped on to a
chair on the platform, and thrust her
head through the noose of a red cord
which hung suspended from a cross-beam
above her. At the same moment a red
cloth was placed over her head and face,
and then, without the least hesitation,
she jumped off tho chair. Death was
almost instantaneous, and she expired
without the least apparent struggle.
Unfortunately the effects of thisyoun^
hdy’s self-devotion did not end with her
life, for so deep an impression did her
conduct make on some boys, who had
witnessed the spectacle that they amused
themselves on the following day by making
believe to follow her example. By
misadventure, while one of them \
adjusting the rope round his neck, his
playmates ran off, and on their return
they found that he had "ascended to
heaven on the back of a stork.”
Fourth of July Oratory-
[From the Detroit Free Free*.]
A tnonth or so ago, a certain lawyer
was invited to deliver a Fourth of July
oration in an interior town, and having
never delivered one, and being anxious
to distinguish himself, he commenced a
week ago to fit himself for the task. He
isn’t a man to stand up and read a speech
and he isn’t the man who would break
down delivering one. He planned to
S end an hoar in a grove near Harper
ospital each morning, and he would
have hit the nail on the head if folks had
let him alone. Everything passed off all
right tho first morning. He made half
a dozen good hits at tyranny, got in a
left-hander on tho nose of monopoly, and
cuffed high taxation all around the grove.
He praised liberty, patted Bunker Hill
)n the back, extolled Washington, and
iprinkled sad tears on the memory ofthe
rusting Pilgrim Fathers. But the sec
ond merning brought the boys. They
had ascertained his object, and were there
ahead of him. When he mounted a log
asked an imaginary audience to go back
with him to the birth of freedom, a boy
behind a brush-heap groaned.
The lawyer went on. With one hand
on the sacred old bell of Independence
Hall, and the other on the tomb of Wash
ington, he said:
“Hark! ’Tis the thunder of cannon
at Yorktown. ’Tis tho tread of your pa-
triot grandsires marching toward the sun
rise or freedom.” .' >
“ Taint neither—it's a freight train
bellering for the Woodward avenue cross
in’,” yelled a boy in a fence corner.
The lawyer couldn’t get aronnd those
boys, aod he had to quit. He went an
hour later next morning and avoided
them, but while he was getting off a beau
tiful thing on the happy household of living an exalted life, lie to-day of
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States, an old woman came crawling
through the fence and wanted to know if
he had seen any stray geese aronnd there
and then intimated that he looked like a
man who would steal a whole flock of
geese on the slightest provocation.
The lawyer was in the grove at sunrise
next morning, and for half au hour he
had *11 his own way. Then a man with
a big nose eame along and said he had
a lease of that grove and wanted no lu
natics hollering around there.
“But I won't hurt your grove," pro-
tested the lawyer.
I know you won’t hurt tho trees,”
answered tho man, “batlpasture my cow
Business Habits on the Farm.
As most fanners labor with a view to
profit, is it not a little strange that the
yarions operations on the farm are not
conducted on business principles ? Is it
not strange that scarcely any effort is ever
made by farmers io ascertain the actual
cost of a bushel of grain, or a pound of
pork, beef or wool ? How ctn the farm*
er know that his business is profitable
unless he takes some means to ascertain
the cost of production? How can he
know whether he is producing a crop at
a cost far less than it commands in the
market if he does not keep an account of
the expenditures in producing it? We
venture to say that not one former in fif
ty recognizes or carries into practice this
fnnd&mental principle of business, so im
portant to success in any other occupa
tion. How is it possible for the farmer
to prosper unless his income is greater
than his outgo ? It is a serious question,
and one which every farmer should ask
himself—Is my income sufficient to ex
ceed the amount of my outgo?
Herein lies the necessity of the great
est care in keeping a strict account of the
cost of production andthecostof patting
the products of the form upon the mar
ket, at the most favorable times and in
the most economical manner. If one
does not know what his expenses are,
how is he to know whether he is daily
becoming poorer and poorer or not ?
Hard as the times are, it will be some
satisfaction to know that one has kept
the expenses of the farm and the house
hold within the limit of. his income. It
is only by close attention to economy in
little things, and by the practice of con
stant self-denial, in such hard times as
the present, when there is a constant
shrinkage in values, that one can ex
pect to prosper. Not only should the
successful farmer keep an accurate ao-
count ofthe real cast of labor, rent of
premises and cost of living, but, when
cropping season is over, he should devise
some means to continue clearing expens
es. His teams should not be idle, for it
is better that they do enongh to pay for
their keeping than they should stand idle.
If largo wages cannot be earned, small
wages can, and it is better to take small
wages and keep hands and teams busy
than to remain idle, and thus consume
what has already been earned. We re
peat, then, that it is not only necessary
that we should keep posted as to cost of
production, the kinds of stock which are
the most profitable, but- we should follow
farming as we would any other occupa
tion, in a business way, if we expect to
make it a pecuniary success.—Rural
World.
Tiie Rev. Adirondack Murray said
a sermon recently: Heaven is not
populated with singing thieves, or psalm-
bearing bankrupts, who settled with
their creditors at twenty-five cents on the
dollar on Wednesday, and ride to church
the next Sabbath in a thousand dollar
coach.” Now we would like to hear
from the men who hold the other side of
the argument. Will Reverend Mr. Win-
slow or pious old Daniel Drew please de
fend themselves ?
Number 21.
-——-.-BBS.
Habit
Two proverbs about habit are daily
quoted: “Habit Is second nature,” “Man
is a bundle of habits.” They are both
half-troths of considerable value. It
would be more correct to say habit is
nature, and a man is described or defined
by his habits. For, we mean by a habit
some permanent trait in a man’s conduct
or character, and at last conduct Is the
shadow of character. “A good man out
of tin good treasure of his heart bringeth
forth good things, and an evil man out
of the evil treasure of his heart bringeth
forth evil things.” It is tho habit in r
man that makes a markon his neighbors
and he is said to have much or little
character according to the firmness and
force of his contact with other men.
And we repeat that this is at last hab
it. The babe was pulp, the man was hard
muscle and bones. So the inner nature
grows into hard and fixed lines. It is
too common to assign to habit only afield
in the external life] that which we con
stantly see without is the sign of some
thing constant within. It is equally in
accurate to speak of habit as a short way
of saying bad habit] for there, is nothing
permanently good in a man that may not
6e defined as a habit.
We are apt to think of habit as a low
er life because of its resemblance to au
tomatism. Here, too, we are careless in
our thinking. That is hot a lower life
which is markedly a steady stream to
tendency unless the tendency is down
e could not become anything if
we could not by repetition of acts and
states advance to facility in doing those
acts and living those states. The will is
not free in the sense of unlimited and
infinite capacity for capricious choosing]
to life is nigh and spiritual by virtue
of an ever present and growing power of
yonr nature is its yesterday a little mod
ified] you cannot escape that yesterday
by merely resolvingthat yon will, when
God lifts you up into the arms of his
grace and renews your nature, there is a
new force, a new love, and therefore a
new man. Bnt this new life must take.
on the hardness of habit, must be intrench
ed in yonr being by habitual exercise, or
the old yesterday will be back upon and
ipreme again.
To many thousands of recent converts
the most important matter is tho forma
tion of religious habits—the getting of
hard,fixed religious character. Lotus
suppose that the new life has began in a
storm of emotion] it cannot always be
■storm with yon, bnt the underlying love
1 of God Christ, and the resolution to live
a clean and prayerful life, may be ought
to be, permanent. It will be very sad
for you if the storm should drift away
and leave to the yesterday of yonr being.
It is very sad to fall on that yesterday,
for months it may often be easier than
to live in these new tempers and work
these new works. A babe in Christ, you
have to learndiow to use all yonr spirit
ual muscles, to get hard bones, and firm
footing, and the case of customary living.
Do not despise any means that look t6
your habitual religiousness. Yon must
be much in prayer, in social meeting in
the atmosphere most favorable to your
growth in grace. It will bo easier as
C m go on; be encouraged by this very
w and habit. Get it on your side as
soon as possible.—iV. Y. Methodist.
The fewer Secrets the Better.
The moment u girl has a secret from
her mother, or has received a letter she
dare not let her mother read or has a
friend of whom her mother does not
know, she is in danger. A secret is not a
good thing for a girl to have. The fewer
secrets that lie in the hearts of women
at any ago* the better. It is almost a
test of pnrfey:; She who hasuone of her
own is best and happiest.
In girlhood hide nothing from your
mother] do nothing that, if discovered
by your father, would make you blush. •
When yotThre' married, never, ‘ never
conceal anything fromyqur husband.
Nevpr allow yourself to write a letter
lb at he may not know ail about, or to
receive one that yon are not quite willing
he should read. Have no mysteries
whatever. Tell those who are about yon
where you go and what yon do. Those
who have the right to know, I mean, of
A little secretiveness has eet many
scandals afloat, and as muoh is said about
women wbo tell too much, they are much
better off than women who Udl too little.
A man may be reticent and lie under no
suspicion] not so with a woman.
The girl who frankly says to her moth-
Ihave been here. I met so and so.
Such aod such remarks were made, and
this or that was done, will be certain of
receiving good advice and sympathy. If
all was right, no fault will be found. If
the mother knows out of her greater ex
perience that something was improper or
unsuitable, she will, if she is a good
mother,-kindly advise against its repeti
tion. .
It is only when mothers discover that
their girls are hiding things • from them
that they rebuke or soold. Innocent
faults are always pardoned by kind pa-
,|m% ! ;i /t’rjy-r • r.-T *..*
You may not know, girls,.jast what is
right, just what is wrong yet. You ean’t
be blamed for making little mistakes,
bnt you will never do-anything very
wrong, if from the first you have no se
crets from your mother.
Governor Oonnor, of Maine,| has ten
dered to ex-Speaker Blaine the appoint
ment of 8enator to fill the vacancy amused
by the resignation of Lot Morril, Blaine,
it is understood will accept. The Nash
ville American thinks Blaine and Morton
in the Senate at the same time la' exces
sive. Morton’s presence should have ex-
(presence
empted it from Blaine’s. Aa the creole
said
when asked how it was there v
yellow fever in New Orleans daring Ben
Bntler’s regime : “Mon Dieu / it oonld
not be possible to have Zheneral Boutier
yellow fevairo at re same time.”
Mk. EvaBTS AND THE TlLDEN TlCKJST.
—A Washington dispatch says: A ,
tleman just from Philadelphia s<
daring the Fourth of July c'
Fresh Bread, Hot Bolls and Nice Cakes
»» »*»wra. baked daily at 8. M. Cohen’s.
