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No. 81.{ Athens, Georgia, Wednesday, June 2, 187S,
5 OLD SERIES—Volume LHI.
\ NEW SERIES—Volume ID.
Poetical.
Business & Profes’n’l Cards.
PBFsidM^r
Vtclllitj.
Office at the T>xug Store of R. T. Druraby A Co.,
Cellcfe Avenue, Aihene, lia. 2l-tf
S.
M. HERRINGTON,
Notary Public and Ex-Officio
Justice of the Peace.
OBrn arer L. J. Liariiri' atom. March Sl-dm.
P G. THOMPSON,
• Attorney at Law,
•portal attention paid to criminal practicn. For
sKnaea apply la u. Unr. T. li. WalU and linn,
•avid Clapton, Montgomery Ala. OtBca over
Feb.3.tf.
ITbn following teaching and boaatll’nl poem la
from the pen of Edwin W. Foliar, of Loulsburj,
N. C., tbs anthor of " The Angel in the Cloud,”
•• Sea Gift,” ale. It waa written upon Ihcdnath of
his little daughter, and Is dedicated to hla wife:]
Do not futen the lid on the eoffln yet.
Lot me hare n long look at the duo of my pet.
Pleas* all quit th# chamber, and poll to the door,
And lenre mo alone with ay darling once morn.
It thla little Elbe', to cold and no still?
Bent, bent, breaking heart, njnlnat God’s mystic
will;
Bcmember, nh I Christ, Thon didst dread Thins
own cap.
And while I drink mice lot Thlneurm boar ms op.
But the moments an fleeting, I moat stamp on my
brain
Each dear little feature, for never again
Can I touch her, and only God measures how
much
Aflllctlon n mother conreya by her tench.
Oh! dear li* tie heed ; Ob, dur little hair;
So allken, so golden, so soft nod an fair;
Will I i.«Ter more amooth It, obi help me my
God,
To bear this went atreke of Ike cbaatenlag rod.
Tboee bright little eyes that naed to folgn alaep,
Or sparkle a > merrily playing at peep,
Closed forever; and yat they teemed closed with
aalgh,
Ae If for our saket the regretted to die.
And that daar little month; so warm and so soft.
Always willing to kiss you no matter how oft.
Cold end rigid, witbent the least tremor of breath;
How could you claim Ethel, oh I pltlleaa death t
Her hands, no—'twill kill me to think how they
Through my dally sslatcnce a tissue of lore;
Each finger a print upon memory'! page.
That will brighten, thank God, and not fade with
my age.
Sick or well, they ware ready at a very request
amuse us. Sweet bands, they deserts n sweat
rest |
Their last little trick was to wipe “ Bo-peep."
•r«.
Their last little gesture ta warn ns good-bys.
Little feet, little feet, haw dark the heart's gloom,
Where year patter la hushed in that desolate room;
For oh, 'twaa a a ght sweat beyond nil compare
To aaa little “ Frisky " rock back In her chair.
Ob, Father, hare mercy and girt me Thy grace
Tn see through thla Downing tha smile on Thy
face;
To fool that this sorrow la aent forth# bast,
And to learn from my darling n lesson of rest.
Asa M. Jackson,..
. L. W. Thomas,
JACKSON & THOMAS,
Attorneys at Law
A then*, Georgia.
"lOBB, ERWIN & COBB
Attorneys at J,aty,
ATHENS, CA.
OUee la tha Dauprea Buildine.
R. LITTLE,
Attorney at hair,
CARNiiSVILLE, OA.
c
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JOHN T. OSBORN.
Attorncy-at-Linv
ELBERTON, GA.
Wlil praiiM In tb« counties of thi Northern
Circuit. IS inks, Franklin sad llibarsham of the
Wcit-rn Circuit; wl ! nice special attention to
*U claim* entrust * 1 to Ms care.
Jan. 10, 1874—ly.I*
T S. DORTCII,
” * Attorney at Z,an>,
CAUSES VILt.E, GA.
e. aTwilliamson,
PRACTICAL
WATCHMIKER and JEWELLER
At Dr. King’s Drug litore,
BROAD STREET ™ATHENS, OA.
■B* All work dona in a superior manner, and
warranted to giro satisfaction. jsnS-tf
WILEY CIIILDERS,
T OCATED in this city, is prepared
LJ to «to all kinds of Carpenters' Work In the
kett Btjlo, and at ramonable rates, with dispatch,
tfhap In the rear o| the CUj Clerk's Office.
June 3.1971
GEO. W. COOPER,
Carriage and Baggy
Tbamns fitreat, opposite Cooper’* Liter; Stable.
■PARTICULAR attention given to
X BEFAIR JOBS, Ordera left with A. A. Bell.
a. wixisr,
WITH
GROOVER, STUBBS & CO.
Cotton Kactors,
—AND—
General Commission Merchants
Savannah, Ga.
Bagging, Ties, Rape, and ether Supplies fur-
•l.had. Ala., Liberal Cash Ad ranee, made an
Anslgn meats for sals er shipment tn Llrcrpool
Northern ports. mytt-tf
Lirery. feed and Sale Stable
ATKBNS, A.
GANN A REAVES....PROPRIETORS
WILL BE FOUND AT THEIR
VV old stand, nor Ptaaktta Hoeae bolldlng.
Theutatatraat. Aaap always on band good Tura-
NU aa« earnlul drirara.
Kiock wall cared for when entrusted teonrearn.
■leak an hand for ml* at nil times, dselfotf
THE
Enterprise Long Looked fori
FRANKLIN HOUSE
Meals can he had at all haura, for
yxi-r-y cents each,
, This Hotel has bean tboronghly ranawalad and
newly furnished. The Treacling Public will be
gewiaailand with Beard and Lodging for
TWO DOLLARS FEB DAY.
A FINE OYSTER SALOON
latlan connected with this Hotel. This la th*
(laaa taget tty alert, Flak, Beef buka, Haas aud
• fta.de. (lyatera will he sold by lb* quartern!
gadea, to tbesa wh* with them. Of
and w* will plaaaa y*«.
_ s-tSsa,}
METER (JET DISCOURAGED.
Never |e; discouraged.
Though your efforts seem to fail,
If right, hire faith end patience
And year cause will yet prevail.
The
With
men who goes to buttle
th flABCklnf coward’s soul,
rill nev&wear the laur^s
While the yeara in order roll.
Never get discouraged;
Put your shoulder to the wheel;
Let your will be kke to iron.
And your nerves to finest steel.
Let the filtering call yon foolish*
Let the weak In heart deride ;
If a neighbor stop your progress
Tut him gently to the side.
Never get discouraged,
Tho* the sky seem dark as night.
For th* Bun will shine to-morrow,
And God will aid the Right.
Miscellaneous Selections.
JEFFERSON DAVIS' SPEECH
A TTHE TEXAS STA TEFA1R.
Ladies, Countrymen, Friends
and Fellow-citizens of Taxas
(for I am proud to 1>c one) : I
have hml two many evidences of
your affection not to be entitled
to that honor. I have for ninny
years, desired to pay u visit to
your State. I was prepared for
ail that hospitality could offer. I
was prepared for all that generos
ity could give. In tho day of
trouble and disaster, you would
not turn your backs upon me.
This is your honor, that, while
other nations have held their lend
ers responsible, and received them
with curses ns the authors of their
misfortunes, you have not chosen
to hold me responsible for your
miseries. The welcome with
which you have received me,
makes mo almost unfit for utter
ance. Yon are the descendants
of those bravo men who, true
to their Anglo-Saxon instincts,
achieved a glorious victoiy on the
soil of Texas, from the smoke of
which the Lone Star rose and
shone with bright effulgence.
With the recognition of your in
dependence, you becatao fit to
take a place among nations. You
achieved all that could bo
achieved; but your hearts yearned
Imck towards tho Union from
which you came. Four times
and thrice happy to stand in the
presence of such men. Five times
and four am I proud. It has been
said that the last war was a war of
womeu. It so, I hug the change
to my breast; I am proud of it.
I was told that I was not ex
pected to deliver a formal address;
nor shall I do it. But upon com
ing here, I find that this is the
opening of the State Fair, and it
would be like the play of ’Rich
ard’ with King Richard left out,
if I did not make a speech. Your
purposes are agriculture, mechan
ics, commerce. Agriculture was
the first employment of man.
From the record of creation—that
record which we know to be true
—we learn that when the Creator
. had separated the land from the
oit, nan trial wa t er> created the fishes and the
birds, one thing more was wanted
to utilize this creation—man to till
earth and made a living spirit.
But something more was required,
something nobler for the creation
of woman—that dost etherealized
and ennobled was used for. the
creation of woman, and we are all
tho descendants of the Adamic
race. By tilling the soil wealth
is created, manufacturers change
the condition of the products of
the soil, and increase their value;
commerce interchanges their loca
tion, airl thus increases their val
ue; but agriculture alone, pro
duces wealth. But it may not be
that agriculture shall look down
on commerce and manufacturers.
That would lie as if the hand
should say to the head rud the
heart, ’What use have I for thee?’
Mechanics and coramcW'follow
in the footsteps of agriculture.
One of the two sons of Adam kept
flocks and herds, and so you who
live on the vast plains of Texas
arc included in the list of labor
ers. You have now reached a
point where manufacturers are
springing up in Texas. As a
Southern man, 1 have often been
ashamed that the very broom-eoru
which grows in our fields is taken
to a Northern village, where tim
ber is less plenty than it is with
us, and made into brooms, brought
back, and that our blessed women
are required .to sweep their floors
with a Yankee broom. Why not
make our own wagons, carriages
and wheelbarrows ? Why not spin
our own yarns? The profit would
be greater aud the freight less.
Then, you may go on and make
cloth; but it will uot be until you
have a crowded population, that
you can produce finer fabrics. 1
am not ot those who would have
you turn away from fields to seek
the profits which agriculture would
give you more readily. I do uot
intend to tax your patieucc by
telling you all I know about farm-
ing.
[Mr. Davis here made a grace
ful allusion to the Grangers, and
the advantages to be derived irom
a concentration aud accumulation
of capital.*}
1 hope the time will come, he
continued, when Texas will make
all her own agricultural imple
ments, and that our women may
have time to read as many novels
us they please, without being
forced to help their husbands com
pete with Illinois iu the cultiva
tion of their fields. To get our
full benefit of good, we must hare
direct trade
increase tho profits aud diminish
the cost. Direct trade will en
able you to send out ships, which,
like Noah's dove, will go to and
fro over tho earth promoting the
peace of nations. Then, if ever,
arc nations to be unified, swords
laaten into plough shares, and
spears into pruning hooks.
State. He prophesied that when sources of those two sections of
artesian wcUs shall have been dug, 'country, so diametrically opposed
tho arid plains will become great to the one practiced by the Con-
grape-growing regions, and that federates when they iuvaded Ma-
there was a man on the platform tyland and Pennsylvania, under
abundantly able to bring artesian their great Commander, Gen. R.
water to the surface. In condcf- E. Lee. AY hen I saw the cinacia-
sion, the orator returned, in a ted forms and wretched condition
voice all tremulous with emotion, of onr returning Southern prisou-
his heartfelt thanks for the sym
pathy extended to him, and the
honor and hospitality of his recep
tion.—Galveston. News.
THE
BEAUREGARD AND
BLACKFLAG.
The following is Gen. Beaure
gard’s recent letter:
New Orleans.La., April 23.
Dear Sir:—Your favor of the
18th inst. has been received, en
closing the form of an invitation
adopted by a general meeting of
the soldiers, sailors aud citizens
of Chicago, to bo seut 'to ail who
recognize the American flag ns an
emblem of nationality, undivided
aud undivisable, to attend a grand
reunion of all the soldiers
MR, I again advocated the hoisting
of the black flag, willing at any
time, to forfeit my life in the
deadly struggle. Notwithstanding
these views, I always treated my
prisoners with humanity and
proper consideration. I had the
fortune of taking many thousands
.of - them at Manassas, Shiloh,
Charleston, Drury’s Bluff, Bermu
da Hundreds and Petersburg,
most of whom are, I suppose, still
alive, and can (and certainly
would) testify to tho fact.
After the fall of Fort Sumter,
in April, 1861,1 granted to tbo
garrison the same considerate
terms which I had offered before
the attack. Through my inter
cession, the Federal surgeons aud
held at Chicago, May 12, 13 and
14, 1874,’ aud enquiring bow
much truth there is in the re
marks of a certain General Frank
Sherman, who objected to the in
vitation being sent to me, as ’ he
was not in favor of extending an
invitation to a man who had said
lie was in favor of shooting all
prisoners taken under the Ameri
can flag.’ I had hoped that the
passions and enmities occasioned
by tho late war were replaced by
there are hearts still
enough to be ever
again iuto a flame the dying em
bers of tho w:.v
In this section of the country,
sueh chulicinns of animosity are
confined to those who, during the
war, were furthest from the ene
my, gathering up the spoils in the
wake of the contending armies.
1$ net this General 1*rank Sher
man one of these despicable char
acters?
Not from any regard to sueh
windy declarations, nor for the
man mean enough to sink to such
false pandering to popular passion,
but out of respect to myself, aud to
that cause whose high and hoi)’
purpose historv will some da,
vindicate, I wilt very hlalj tl
frankly state the position I took
in regard to the conduct of the
WWWIH, mu A- cuciui our^cuua uuu
sailors of the United States, to be ?L i,,Uter8 of tho Gospel taken at
Manassas, were released without
exchange by the Confederate Gov
ernment. The day after that bat
tle, oue of the Federal officers
(whose friends I know in New
York) applied to me for a small
loan for himself and friends, which
I furnished at once from my pri
vate funds. It was faithfully re
turned.
Shortly after tho battle of Shi
loh, I sent, under n cartel, a cer
tain number of ublo-bodied Fed-
kindlier feelings, but it seems that C ™ 1 P ri8on ? rs *? G r e,K Hallcck,
thorn nrn bnt?ri« still nnront... who, several weeks after, returned
rancorous: , , . - ,
anxious to stir an C< 1 ,,: ;‘ number of convalescents
Vooksfe Telacraph Instrument.
B y tbs aid of one of thaw little in-
atrumeal*. any o«« can learn ulwraphlac
April
to do this, we must have ports,
aud we will have them. I am glad
to ses that the works begun for
the improvement of the harbor of
Galvestou are succcssliil, and that
there is an equal prospect of the
improvement of your owu bayou.
The river Clyde was a smaller
stream than your bayou, suitable
only for sloops and schooners; but
they have dredged it out until its
artificial channel accommodates the
largest ship-yards of the English
navy.
Mr. Davis here alluded at same
length, to the invention of a ship
that proposed to carry ten thou
sand bales on sixteen feet of wa
ter. By the aid of sueh ships, he
thought that the harbors of the
Gulf would be sened. This ship
hud been tried and found to suc
ceed, making one knot more to
the hour than other vessels. Their
great breadth of beam, so he ar
gued, would accommodate immi
grants in large numbers. This
brought Mr. Davis to the question
of Immigration, ni.d he urged upon
the people the necessity of pro
viding for immigrants, establish
ing ageucies in Europe, and aigucd
that it would be better cveu to
pay for the passage of imYnigraiits,
than to not get them at all. Mr.
Davis laid great stress upon the
necessity ot making no promise
which could not be sacredly kept.
He showed bow the railroads bad
succeeded iu bringing immigrants
to the country, and ho thought
that if they could do it to North
ern lands, Texans, who had the
advantage of them in soil, climate,
and other facilities, could do more.
Passing in brief, he reviewed the
products of the countiy, and said:
’ But it is only after you have
raised everything that a man wants
to eat, that yon can do this. AVhen
yon go to an inhabitant of Great
Britain and tell him that Texas
produces all kinds of fruit and
grain, and then that you import
your meat and flour from the
Noith. he may not tell yon that
he don’t believe you, but he
hardly does. Yon must not buy
a barrel of beef and pork, or of
_ flour; yon must have a plenty to
the soil. Right well has your feed the hungry in all parts of the
President told yon of the honor State.’ Busing from agriculture
and duty of work. But there was to mining, Mr. Davis, in a rapid
still one thing more wanted. Man’review, referred to the develop-
waa created out of the dost of the ‘aunt of the metalie resource ofthe
_ late civil war, as concerned Fed-
Direct trade will eral prisoners. After the luittle
- 1 of the first Manassas, when it was
reported that the Federal Govern
ment refused to recognize Con
federate prisoners as ' prisoners of
win',’ that Christian hero ami able
soldier, Gcn./rhomas J. (Stone
wall) Jaekson aud myself advo-
c ited that the Confederate Gov-
But 1 eminent should then proclaim a
' war to the kuif,’ neither asking
nor granting quarti r. AVe, more
over, thought that tha war would
thereby come sooner to an end,
with less destruction, fiti'dly, of
life and property. AVe thought
also that such a mode of warfare
would inspire greater terror in
the armed invaders of our soil,
and reduce greatly the number of
army followers, bummers, etc.,
who were ever, the curse of all
armed invasions.
Subsequently, when the Fed*
crals had penetrated certain por
tions of the Sou til, and developed
a system of warfare iu their ope
rations in Louisiana, Mississippi
and Virginia, and the inexcusable
burning of Atlanta and Columbia,
aud the destructive march of Gen.
Sherman through Georgia and
South Carolina, whoso track was
marked hy smoking mins and
blackened chimneys, to the sug
gestion of Gen. Halleck to destroy
Charleston and sprinkle salt on its
site that not even grass should
grow thereon, to which General
Sherman replied that no salt would
be needed, as one of his most re
liable corps formed the right wing
of his army, and that it always did
its work thoroughly; to the de
vastating march of Gen. Sheridan
through the Shenandoah valley,
rsfttive to which he reported to
the General-in-Chief of the United
States armies that 'a crow flyiug
over the country would have to
carry its own rationsbut he did
not say what became of the old
men, women and children, who
thon lived in that fertile valley 1
AVith regard to tho mortality of
prisoners on both sides, the AVash-
iugton Union (Radical) of Octo
ber, 1868, contained the following
article:
’ In reply to a resolution of the
House of Representatives, calling
upon the Secretary of War for the
number of prisoners of either side
held, and that died during the
war, he makes the following re
port:
’Number of Union prisoners
South, 360,940; died, 22,595;
number of Confederate prisoners
North, 200,000; died, 26,435
That is, two of the former ont
of every twenty-two, and two of
the latter out of every fiftoen.
Comment m hero tranecessaiy
from St. Louis to Fort Pillow.
The officer in command there, re
fused to receive them, because
several of them were just from
the small-pox hospital. Gen.
Hal leek failed afterward to mnkc
g-iod tho exchange.
At Charleston, I authorized
Admiral Dahlgrcn to send sup
plies of clothing, etc., to the pris
oners wo had taken from him;
those supplies were scrupulously
issued to them.
At Bermuda Hundreds, in May,
1864, when passing in front of a
large body of Federal prisoners,
who had gallantly defended a po
sition which I considered iudispen-
to us, I took off my hat to
, and they answered this sal-
ut.ttion with cheers.
Terribly as I desired the effects
of the war to fail ou all armed in
vaders of our country, I wanted
exempted from them, non-com
batants—that is, the old men.
women and children—and wished
also that private property, not
contraband of war aud not needed
by the contending armies in the
field, should lie entirely protected
from seizure or destruction. Such
would have been my course, bad
I penetrated with an army into
Federal territory, unless it were
in strict retaliation for materia!
departures by the Federal troops
from this civilized mode of carry
ing on tho war
I remain, dear sir, yours most
truly, G. T. Beauregard.
To his Excel lency. Governor
Janies D. Porter, Nashville, Ten
nessee.
A Puzzled Darkey.—Not a
hundred miles from Griffin a col
ored American citizen keeps a
stand for tho sale of newspapers,
cigars, apples and other knick
knacks. Thither one day went
a burly engineer, given somewhat
to practical joking, and asked for
a nickles worth of peanuts. The
elongated were immediately meas
ured and handed over.
Dcrodey arc, .ah.
Let me liec, said the engineer
thought fully, I don't believe I
want these after all. Take ’em
back and give mo cmiple of apples
in place of them.
All right sah, and the exchange
was made in a twinkling.
The engineer still hesitated,
fumbling the apples in an undecid
ed manner. Finally—
Dum my buttons, I don’t be
lieve I want these either. “ I’ll
trade ’em tn you for a cigar.
Tho dicker was made without
objection, and the engineer, after
leisurely lighting his cheroot,
turned away.
Hoi’ on dnr; you don't go and
foigct to pay for that cigar.’
Certainly I paid for it. I gave
yon the apples for it.
But you din’t pay for tho ap
plet.
Yes, I gave you the peanuts
for them.
You didn’t pay for tho nuts.
AVell, I didn’t keep ’em did I?
Dot’s so, dat's so !* aud while the
puzzled darkey was scratching bis
wool the engineer made bis escape.
Before taming tbo comer he
glanced hack and beheld the dar
key with bent head in a rumina
ting attitude, evidently satisfied
that as a commercial transaction
it was all straight, but woudering
where he bad made anything out
of the dicker.
in view of the condition and re- rowing unbuttoned!
Wakefulness—Eyes all the time
fUtljioist Georgian
PUBLICATION OFFICE:
No. 7, GHANITJB XO 7i,
(Fp-Stalra,)
ATHENS, GEORGIA.
Kates of Advertising:
Transient gflaetUeanienTe. of one square or acre
$1 00 per square for Iks Arallaasrilea, and TSeests
for each sabsequonl Inaertloa.
aauAll adTcrUaeaaenla considered translcat
einft arhers special contracts art uad*.
Twelve Haas apace *f thla type (or en* Inch)
make one square.
CB-For contract prices, a** schedule.
THE SOUTH TO BECOME THE
GREAT IRON MART OF THE
WORLD.
Commenting on the recent ship
ments .to England of Alalmma aud
Georgia' pig-iron, the United
States Economist says it lias been
the opinion of American iron
masters for some time past, that
irou ore was destined to become
an important article of commerce
between the United States aud
Great Britain. This view was
based on tho superior mineral
wealth of this country, nnd also
on the character of the ores, which
requires comparatively little min
ing. But the shipments from
Rome, Ga., indicate that the time
has come a little sooner, and in a
somewhat different shape than was
expected. It will be found on
examination, however, that the
shipments arc from tiie shortest
or most direct line from tho area
of production. At present, trans
portation from the Pennsylvania
iron fields is too muck in the
hands of monopolists, and is too
costly to permit it to be seriously
thought of. Tho remarks of the
Economist upon the important re
sults foreshadowed by this initial
movement are so apt and just,
that we transcribe them entire:
The shipments already made,
consist of pig-irou from Alabama
and Georgia, constituting a por
tion of what is probably the cheap
est nnd richest mineral deposits in
the world. From Tennessee to
Alabama, iron ore may be ob
tained with comparatively little
labor and capital, and tbo only
wonder is, that the atteution of
capitalists had uot long since been
directed to it. But the country
was almost sealed up to enterprise
before the war, and it is only since
the recovery of peace, that its
importance bus been fully demon
strated. It may not be generally
known that during the last few
years large amounts of Northern
capital, and the .largest propor
tion from this city, Lave iiccn in
vested in Southwestern mines. In
this connection, we may mention
the names of Moses Taylor, AVm.
B. Astor, John Jucob Astor,
Thomas Dickson, and Leroy
Cannon, among the heaviest in
vestors. Probably still larger in
vestments have been made on ac
count of English capitalists
The merchants and capitalists
who invested their money in these
undertakings did not intend that
it .should be idle, and it is uot im
probable that the shipments of
iron above alluded to, may be the
fruits of the far greater tide that
is to conic. Once establish the
faet that raw iron can be produced
in this country as cheaply as it can
be produced in England, aud we
shall sec the mineral regions of
the Southwest converted iuto the
centres of industry.
But, apart, even from all con-
sidenitiens of rivalry with Eng
land, wc still have iu the mineral
resources of the Southwest, the
bases of most flourishing indus
tries, and of a mighty commerce.
Oil the Kanawha mountains, on the
line of the Chesapeake aud Ohio
railroad, the iron ore may be de
tached by crmvliars, and placed
oil the railroad cars for transporta
tion. It is nearly tho same in the
long mineral belt, extending
through Tennessee beyond Chat
tanooga mountains to the south
ern spur of the Allcghanics. The
supply seems wcll-uigli inexhausti
ble. It will be huudreds of years
before it will become necessary to
resort to the deep mining the same
as in England. AVith such ad
vantages, the United States sho.ii.ld
become the chief iron-producing
country in the world. AH that is
required to accomplish this des
tiny, is tho removal of the burdens _
on labor which render this tho y° u without any wood cut; I stay
dearest producing country in the "P- to 'Vn when I ought to be at
world. AVith n moderately lib- homo ; I spend) n*mcv for drinks
oral commercial policy on the part ““d cigars, when I. ought ta bring
of Congress, we should soon re-! home to you; I—'
cover tho markets in South and j * J’ 011 don’t, cried the wife;
Central America, and also iu the 1 ’ ,V° U do nothing of tho kind. I
AVest Indies. i like to see you enjoy yourself; I
It only remains to notice the! should be unhappy, were you to
facilities ter transportation be-jdv otherwise tliau exactly as you
tween the South western coal and do!’
iron fields and the seal ward. The ; * God bless yoiiy little wife!’
Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad cried_ the now thoroughly subju-
A CONJUGAL LESSON.
After having been maried some
weeks it came into the head ot a
young husband in Virginia, one
Sunday when he had little to oc
cupy his mind, to suggest to his
wife that they should plainly and
honestly state the faults that each
had discovered in the other since
they had been man and wife.
After some hesitation the wife
agreed to the proposition, but
stipulated that the rehcrsal should
lie made in all sincerity and with
nn honest view to tho bettering
ot each .other, as otherwise it
would he of u<> use to speak of
tho faults to which marriage laid
opened their eyes. Tho husband
was of the sutuc mind, and his
wife asked him to hsgin with her
faults. He waa somewhat reluc
tant, but his wife insisted that he
was tho first to propose the mat
ter, and as lie was the head of the
house, it was his place to take
tho lead. Thus urged he began
the recital. Ho said:
My dear, one of the first faults
I observed in you after we began
keeping house was that you a
good deal neglected the tinware.
You dou’t keep it scoured as
bright as it should be. My moth
er always took a pride in her tin
ware, and kept it bright as a dol
lar.*
* I am glad that yon have men
tioned it, dear,’ said the wife,
blushing a little, ‘ hereafter you
you shall see no speck on cup or
pan. Pray, proceed.’
I have often observed, Raid tho
husband, ’that you often use your
dish-rags a long time without
washing them and finally throw
them away. Now, when at home,
I remember that my mother al
ways used to wash her dish-rags
when she was done using them
and then hang them up where
they would dry, ready for the
next time she would need them.’
Blushing, as before, the young
wife promised to amend this fault.
The husband continued with a
formidable list of similar faults,
many more than we have space to
enumerate, when he declared that
lie could not think ofanytbiugmore
that was worthy of mention.
’Now,’ said ho, 'my dear, yon
may begin and tell me of all the
faults you have observed in me
,6inee wc have been married.’
The young housewife sat ill si
lence ; her face Unshed to the
temples, and a great lump came in
her throat which she seemed to
be striving hard to swallow.
’Proceed my dear; toll me of
all tho faults you have observed
in me, sparing none.’
Arising suddenly from her scat,
the little wife hurst into tears,
and throwing botli arms around
her husband's nock, cried:
’My dear husband, you have
not a fault in the world. If \ au
have even one, my eyes have
been so blinded by my love for
j’ou that, as long as we have been
married, I have never once ob
served it. In my eyes, you are
perfect, and all that you do seems
to be done in tho best manner,
and just what should be dune.’
’ But, my dear,’ said the hus
band, his face reddening, and his
voice growing husky with emo
tion, .’just think; I know I have
many—te.i times as many faults
as you have or ever will have.
Let me hear them.’
’Indeed, husband, it is as I tell
yon; you have not a single fault
that I van see. AVhatever you do
seems right in my eyes, and uow
that I know what a good-for-noth
ing little wretch I am, I shall at
once begin with the work of re
form and try to make myself more
worthy of you.’
’ Nonsense, my dear, you know
I sometimes go away and leave
used to spend dollars, and can
never be kept from home half nn
hour whan ho is^tot at work. Ho
seems nluiost to worship that wile
of his.’
WI1Y MEN BECOME BA CD.
Because ibey wear cl<ve hats and
caps. Women are never b ilit. Some
times, Irom long-cmitinuecl tipailaelie,
heat in the scalp, bad Iminlresriugand
some other causes, women may have
bare iq*>t* here .anil there; but uith all
these combined, yon never see a wo-
niaii with a bare, ninny, bald head.—
And you never see a man lose a hair
heimv where the hnt touches the fkull.
It will take it oil as clean as you can
shave it down to exactly that lh.e, hut
never a hair below, not if he has ttecta
b.a!d filly years. The common black
still hat, as impervious ns sheet iron,
retains the heat and (terepiraliiin. Tile
little hair gland*, which hear the name
relaiion to the hair that the seed wheat
docs tit the plant above ground, be
come weak from the presence of the
mobutire and heat, ami filially become
too weak to su.*tain the hair.* It fall*
out, anil baldness exbt. A fur cap we
have known to produce complete bald
ness in a single wliiter. A inau with a
good head of hair need* very little pro
tection where the hair grows.. Womeu
who live much witlu.i doors, and who
are therefore, su«eeptitde t<> the cold
oil their hairatid plaster it down hart)
and fiat upon their skulls, so as to de
stroy nine-tenths ot its power as a non
conductor, have worn for ysars postage-
stamp* of iHinnet* stuck on the hack
of their skulls, nnd then going ont of
furnace-heated parlors, have ridden
f<ir hours in a verv cold temperature
without taking coiii aud without com
plaint.
Man, with his greater vigor ami hab
its of outdoor life, and with hi* hair
not plastered down, but thrown up
loose and light, could no doubt go to
the north pole, «o lar ns that- part of
hi* person is concerned, without any-
artificial covering. Aud yet we men,
wear immensely thick fur caps, and do
not dare to step out in a chilly atmos
phere a moment lost wo take cold. It
is a silly, weak and very serious error..
The Creator knew want he was about
when he covered a man’s skull with
hair. It ha* a very important function,
in protecting the brain. Bablnes* is a,
serious misfortune. It will neveroccur
iu any man who will wear a common
black high silk hat with five hundred
holes through the top, so that there
shall he inure hole than hat. This
costs nothing; the hatter will do this
for you when you purchase youi linK
If the nap be combed track the wrong;
way, ami after the holes arc made It ho-
combed the right way, no one will oli-.
serve the peculiarity. Tits hat willt
wear quite as long—the hatters say
considerably longer—been use it is dry
instead of moist. In brief, there :* not
a single objection to it, while it will
ccrtahilv prevent baldness and keep
the top of the head coo! and prevent
much headache.
will be completed to Norfolk with
in a short time, thus affording n
magnificent outlet for the mineral
resources of the Virginias. In
Tennossee and the States further
gated husband. ’ From this mo
ment, you have nbt a fault in the
world ! Indeed, yon never had a
fault, I was lint joking—don’t re
member a word I said.’ And he
South, the existing facilities are i kissed away the tears that still
ample, und will become still more
so on tho completion of Capt.
Eades’ jetty improvement at the
trembled iu the little woman’s
eyes.
Never again did the husband
mouth of the Mississippi. In this j scrutinize the tinware nor exam-
view, Charleston, Savannah, New
Orleans, and even St. Louis will
become, if there is any truth in
the alleged economic relations
between producers and consumers,
the great iron marts of the world;
and the Southwest seems destined,
at no distant period, to resound to
the hum of important industries.
* o.\ .
‘iNo# sir,” said a woyty-looking
man on a street car, to an individual
by his side. ■“ I wouldn’t raapgr the
best woman alive. I’ve been % dry
ine the dish-rag, never an much as
to mention one of the limits he
had enumerated, but soon the
neighboring wonjen were wont to
say:
’ It is wondjeifftil how neat Mn,
M mu keeps, everything about her
house. Her tinware is always as
bright as a new dollar; and I do
believe she not only washes, but
even irons her dish-rags!’ And
tho ueighbor men were heard to
say: ’ AVbat a steady fellow
M —■ has got to be ot lute! He
good* rierk too long for that..'' * don't spend a dimo now where he
The following extract i* from a
Sermon of the Rev Henry Ward
Beecher? Yet along the mad which
comes up to my cottage at I’ackskill,
there is not a tree, nor a brunch, which-
has r.ot in it tho prophesy ot another
year; and what that is you will find,
out next June. And those trees which
I saw hare last Orlofcer, every one had
in it that which it uow is showing.
All tho banners that arc waving in tho
warm sun today were wrapped up.
and held in readiness last Ku vent Iter,,
and when the lazy, laggard May came
on and tho latter days sunshine begun,
the bink abounded again. What cre
ated them ? They had gon° through
the winter, and were where they were
last fall. There is not a singte flowee-
that dies out iu the field that has nut
got in it spring time. There i*. not a,
man that grows old, as our brotbey
Worth ditl, that has not got his buds
formed, and when he seems to die, lie
leaves this life, only that he may enter
into this June to blossom again;
Now, when you go into the country
there is just oue impulso every where
in Nature. The birds are building or
have built. They are all singing of
love. New hird * households are com
ing. The spider begins to spin his
web and 611* hi* birder with, inflects.
All things are springing into life.
All flowers nye putting out their tints,
and every thing is working toward life,
and beauty, ami they had the impuls*
and preparation for it la-t November. ■
Now. when i go into the country ut
such a time os this 1 feel that I would
make the month of June typical ot the
resurrection of the Lord Jesus Christ.
To- me, those days and those month*
are nil of them full of npiyitu.tl mean
ings. 1 keep nevertheless, a little cal
endar of my own, in which I draw a
parallel between the netutal, seasons
and the moral life. I look u(>nn nil-
these things uot «v* a poet oras nu artist,
but as .a Christian man, for iii the
flinging of the bints, and the murmurs
of the brooks, there is til meanuuwiiu
ten •cripture, God’s new revelation, a
message full of hop . full of gladness,
and I rejoice in the summer . because
He tells me of things far beyond itself.
FI »wer* speak of oilier flowers; growths
are but the sign* and symbol* of noble
developments. But above all there
comes to me from the new opening
bud* God’s tokens, that death has no
power over his children who have bud
ded into a close life with him, sod that
I shall meet beyond the great company
of Christian men and women with whom
I have been associated so many years
'And now, when another and another
drop*. I do not staod and weep for the
withered stem, but I rejoice when you
die, for then vou live. I rejoice at
your death, and I give yon head, moth
er, Child, companion, friend, .mv well
beloved, I give you warning. I shall
shed no tears of sorrow when you go;
and if these yott leave behind call me
to your funeral. I shall go, n cheerful
minister, believing that. you who ure
dead live. Tbeautiimn means spring,
the wuiterflummer.
