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EDUCATIONAL PAPERS.
BY MISS A. C. BAFFORJD.
SO. 11.
SYSTEMS OF TEACHING.
Our first paper took the ground
that those who would be teachers re
quire a thorough training for the
work, just as doctors, lawyers and
other professional men need it for
their chosen profession.
Premising that such training has
been given, the next inquiry is as to
the system on which its benefits shall
be imi>artod to others. Probably in
the earlier years of a teacher’s life
some particular routine would be
propsed in reply, but, as with pass
ing time, the mind learns to take
broader views, the liest teachers be
come eclectic, choosing the good from
all systems, and rejecting the evil.
The object of instruction should be
the greatest good to the greatest
number, and in devising a course of
study for girls, especially, care is
necessary to select such branches as
will give the most liberal breadths of
reason united to a true love for the
beautiful and good, fitting each girl
to be a contented, useful woman ; not
subsiding into a drudge, not flying
off on a tangent for woman’s rights,
nor sinking into a forlorn, sour crea
ture, “ fit only for cats or croquet.”
It will not do to narrow teaching
down into any particular groove ami
thus engender that terrible “mental
pauperism” which is the consequence
of a one-sided education.
Not many years since, the belief
was universal that a knowledge of
Latin, Greek, and Mathematics, was
the one thing needful intellectually.
It was not asked whether a pupil
had capacity or taste for their acqui
sition. Without regard to this, he
was dragged through the classics, in
text books which were a dreary wil
derness of technical notes and useless
exceptions, and often the finest au
thors were read with no note of their
literary beauties, with no attention
to philology, but in drilled lessons
that ignored the thinking powers,
and mado pedants instead of scholars.
In the same way mathematics was
taught, from pages bristling with
“ practical examples” unheard of in
practical life, with equations, series,
and theorems, until it seemed that
the mind, working so exclusively
amidst abstract numbers, was in some
danger of emulating a calculating
machine.
A revolution has now taken place,
inaugurating a system which gives
more variety and richness and brings
into greater prominence the various
branches of natural science, and
modern languages and literature.
An English Reviewer, speaking of
teachers in a recent article, says:
“ They have begun to ask why the
best years of many lives should be
devoted to obtaining an imperfect
smattering of a very few authors of
the factitious and second-hand age of
Latin literature, while Chancer, Spen
cer, Shakespeare, Milton, Pope, Gold
smith, the long range of essayists
from Earle to DeQuiney, the histo
rians from Froissart down, are barely
the shadows of names in many
schools.”
Oxford and Cambridge in England
have ignored, in large measure the
dead traditions of a past epoch and
based their systems on broader and
more philosophical principles. In
America, the University of Virginia,
Harvard, Yale, Princeton, and scores
of other colleges, have organized and
extended their course of study to
keep pace with the “ progressive
standard of education,” and “have
provided the means for advancing in
special pursuits those who develop a
strong aptitude for them.”
Contending opinions are still fierce
ly bandied between the partisans of
either system; but the former falls so
far behind the age, is so “oldfogy
ish,” that the time is near when its
warmest advocates will admit that
education is not the arbitrary devel
opment of one or two faculties but
the drawing out equally of each one,
pressing into service every available
branch of human knowledge, nor
claiming that one set of studies can
give an accurate, many-sided culture.
I once knew of a Female College
whoso President’s ideas running in
“ little narrow streaks of specialized i
knowledge,” formed his curricu-,
lum with a sole view to giving wo- ;
men an ability to dig amongst the |
roots of dead languages, and to deni-'
onstrate mathematical and logic- j
al propositions. One fact weighing
more than half a dozen theories, I
have watched with interest —the re
sults of this system on various grad
uates. Some were made mere me
chanical operatives, others have
developed into hard, egotistical char
acters, looking with supercilious
contempt upon everything not in
unison with their own little heresy,
and placing more stress upon the
small s' res gathered from two or
three \ oars of study than many learn
ed men do upon the researches of a
life time.
I disclaim the notion that these
studies are not useful. They are em
inently so, if pursued in tiie proper
connection and with moderation, and
in this opinion I have taught them
for years. All I assert is that they
are not the only, or even the chief,
studies.
A certain amount of mathematical
discipline is indispensable, and “I
have an immense respect for a per
son of talents plus the mathematics,
but the mere power of dealing with
numbers is a detached lever arrange
ment which may be put Into a migh
ty poor watch.”
The power to trace words back to
their root-meanings in the noble old
tongues, aud to read classic authors
“ with the spirit and understanding”
is truly desirable, yet it is better for
a girl to be able to express herself
clearly, modestly, and concisely, in
English, than to learn as many do a
“mongrel Latin interlarded with
scraps of doubtful Greek.” A little
reverence for antiquity does not hurt
us, an unreasoning homage does.
1 ake an analogy from nature:—Bread
is the stall of life, but man would
choke if fed on dry bread alone.
A teacher must have sufficient pen
etration to select thoso studies most
Likely to be useful to a pupil in after
life. If a young lady has time, taste,
and capacity, let her take the ancient
languages and mathematics as parts
of a full course, including, besides the
common branches, Natural and Mor
al Science, Mental Philosophy and
Criticism, with English Literature,
and as many of the modem langua
ges as she can master.
On the contrary, if she can study
but one language, let it be a modern
one, for what use under the sun has
she for a smattering of a dead tongue?
If her time at school is limited, after
having learned Arithmetic and Al
gebra well, instead of taking up the
higher mathematics let her enter the
school of Natural Science, and study
experimentally a few of those
branches which will open to her some
of the secrets of God’s beautiful crea
tion, teach her the uses of common
things, and cultivate the imagination
in the study of plants and flowers, of
the human frame so fearfully and
wonderfully made, of the mysteries
veiled in nature’s grand laboratory,
or of those “ stars which are the po
etry of heaven.”
Whatever defects a training may
have, make sure that a scholar un
derstands thoroughly her own lan
guage and its capabilities; and
whether she can construe Virgil and
Cicero, read Horace, or expatiate on
Xenophon and Thucidydes, or not,
let her know the poets, orators, his
torians and philosophers of England
and America, and the history of the
lands from which they sprung.
What this age needs is practical
training to tit girls for practical life ;
not the training that would qualify
an Edna Earle to write an essay on
“ Who smote the marble gods of
Greece ?” or lead one to expand a
mathematical series whilst the pud
ding burns, or the baby cries, and
missing buttons and strings drive her
lord “almost clean daft.” In every
system the dictate of common sense
is to account the pupil above the
method, not the method above the
pupil.
The system of Object Teaching, dis
cipling as it does the senses by de
veloping habits of observation, is in
valuable. The more easily knowl
edge can be acquired through at
tractive illustrations the tetter it it is
for the pupil. Tell a class how an
air-pump is contructed, aud they
have a vague idea of what it is; show
the same class the pump and let them
work it, and they will never forget
either the construction or the princi
ples it illustrates.
Let the same class be told about
the seven colored rays of the spec
trum, and they learn the fact by
rote; use a color chart and prism in
explanation, and through the eyes
you have placed the impression in
delibly upon the brain.
At the blackboard, from map and
charts, and pictures, from every out
ward object possible, instruction
should be given and observant eye
and listening ear taught to draw les
sons of the pure and lovely from na
ture and from art.
Every system should give special
care to the primary department. Ile
was a wise man who said, “ There is
no lesson ever taught in any school
so important as the alphabet. Let
me have the control of the young
during the first four years of their
school-life, and I care not who has
their subsequent management.”
It is a ruinous mistake to neglect
children and think it a drudgery to
teach them.
Indeed, it takes peculiar talent to
train the little ones, for
“Thcmind, impressible and soft, with case
Imbibes and copies what it hears and ‘" sl ' s i
Anil through life’s labyrinth blast the
clew,
That first instruction gives It, false or true.”
The children should be taken care
of as precious treasures, requiring ex
traordinary attention and pains.
Whatever method be chosen, if
teachers tiring into the school room
fresh, energetic minds wedded to no
special “ ism,” knowing and sympa
thizing with youthful nature, they
can impart breadth and depth to
their routine of education, and bring
up scholars for that true life which
makes the best of each faculty God
has given, and acts out a loving,
cheerful heart in every phase of ex
istence.
TO TIIE CITIZENS OF BARTON COIXTY.
CONTINUED FKOM OUR EAST. j
Until parents fully appreciate the j
necessity ami importance ofa uniform j
series of text-books, and the County
Board of Education shall prescribe j
and rigidly enforce the same, com- j
paratively little advantage can be ex
pected from schools, whether public j
or private. This board is, “ Averse j
alike to flatter or offend,” but must!
be allowed to speak plainly upon a
subject of such vital moment as that
of education among the youth of the
land. To render common schools
efficient and permanent, the sinues,
money , is indispensible. This is
“bearding the lion,” “facing the
music,” though in so doing toes may
be tread upon, and a tender chord
vibrated. As money is the vital ele
ment it then becomes the question of
! all others touching the promises.
: Much has been said and written rela
tive to the organization and main
tainanee of public schools.
Some press the claim of education !
on the basis of religious obligation, j
Others support it from a sentiment of
patriotism, and as being essentially
necessary to the civilization and his- !
torical development of a great peo
ple.
While in learned addresses to the
people and labored memorials to leg
islative assemblies, the notion is
strenuously advocated that all taxes
for school revenue must bead valo
rem, and of course levied upon prop
erty only, it is gravely announced
that according to a well settled rule
of political economy, the owner of
real estate, upon which a tax is asses
sed and collected, does not really, but
nominally, pay the tax. The reason
assigned is, that he receives it back
in the form of increased rents! This
species of refined logic may do to
! amuse visionary schoolmen, but is
| entirely inapplicable to the subject in
hand, and not at all satisfactory to
those directly concerned. This mode
of reasoning is not according to Adam
Smith, however closely akin it may
be to that in favor of protection.
This argument smacks of that so- j
phism, once so rife in the United ,
States, of raising the tariff for pro tec-!
tion, and then depleting the trea.su- j
ry by distribution, in order to raise
the tariff again for the same purpose.
This sophistry, which caused such
estrangement between the States of
this Union, and acted so powerful a
part in bringing about the war be
tween the States has, it is to be
hoped, sunk like lead in the sea of
oblivion. To show the embarras
mout and difficulties under which the
Legislature has labored in the at
tempt to enact a school system ac
cept] ble to all, by a uniform taxation,
a few quotations from the Constitu
tion of the State of Georgia becomes
necessary, Act Ist, Section 27th, 2d
clause, provides, “ And taxation on
property shall be ad valorem only,
and uniform on all species of prop
erty taxed.” This clause prohibits ail
specific taxation on property. And
but for this organic provisions, a tax
could be levied on dogs sufficient to
educate all the children in the coun
ty, or cause a great reduction in the
number of useless consumers.
Again: “ Act Ist, Sec. 29th, Con.
Ga. provides, “No poll tax shall be
levied, except for educational pur
poses, and such tax shall not exceed
one dollar annually on each poll.”
This is plain, unequivocal language
and full of significance. The fram
ers of the Constitution not only in
tended property should pay all the
expenses of both State and county,
including pauperism, prosecution of
criminals, etc., hut educational pur
poses also, to the exemption of all
others, save one dollar. This policy
is discriminative, unjust and oppres
sive, and against which this board
enters its solemn protest. The only
policy in the estimation of this board
which can conciliate opposition, do
justice, and command tne respect and
hearty co-operation of the people, is
to establish a system of common
schools ba.sed upon a uniform capita
tion tax of five dollars to be levied
and collected upon each able-bodied
man, white ana black, between the
ages of twenty-one ana sixty. This
policy, it is confidently believed, will
meet the ends of justice, effectually
disarm opposition, remove prejudice,
secure concert of action, give general
satisfaction, and receive, throughout
the country, the enthusiastic endorse
ment and support of all who appre
ciate education. To this policy, sev
eral objections are urged. First, it
is said, there is no precedent to be
found in the entire history of com-
mon schools, reaching back for a cen
tury in the past. This board rejoins,
that precedents are often sought and
pleaded to bolster a w r eak cause, and
that if indispensible to all claims,
the time has fully arrived for estab
lishing a preedent in the premises.
Secondly, it is said a poll tax of five
dollars is impracticable, for the same
reason that the present poll tax is
not collected—in many cases, only
when voluntarily tendered. The re
joinder is, that every man, w hite and
colored, in Bartow county, resides
either upon his own land or upon
that of another; and, if upon his own,
it is subject to his tax, and if upon
another’s land, then let the Tax Re
ceiver notify the owner of said land
in the nature of a garnishment, and
the tax is secured. To convince any
reasonable man of the expediency
and economy of the policy above in
dicated, allow’ an example by w r ay of
illustration:
Suppose a sub-district, containing
two hundred able-bodied voters, be
tween the ages of twenty-one and
sixty, without distinction of race or
color, levy a poll tax of five dollars
on each, and you have the sum of
SI,OOO 00. To this sum add the prob
able quota from “State Fund,”
of S2OO 00. You have for one sub
district, $1,20000. Six teachers can
teach all the children of the suppos
ed sub-district at a cost of forty dol
lars per month, each, making $240 00.
Then for five months you have
$1,200 00.
In this section of country, the farm
ing interest will not allow' of more
than five months for educational
purposes.
This policy commends itself as be
ing the most economical of any other,
w hether private or public. It pro
vides a school in every vicinity for
five months, for the small sum of
five dollars, regardless of the number
any one jierson may send. What
more need lie said to those who wish
to educate their children ?
In conclusion this board earnestb'
appeals to every friend of educe’ 1 ’ 011 *
and an enlightened civilize^ 00 * 10
ponder the general subjei“presented t
the suggestions made -* ac l the policy
indicated. Come Mother in prima
ry meetings, n/ocuss the issues pre
sented, should you indorse the
poliev of this board, then request—
instruct—your representatives
to move the initiatory steps, at the
next session of the General Assem
bly, to change the Constitution of
the State to the end that a system of
taxation may be enacted on the cap
itation plan, for educational purposes,
which will be uniform, just, and in
discriminate, and which will insure
a school fund, amply sufficient to rid
the county of the stigma of illiteracy
among both w’hite and colored.
Tiios. Tumlin,
I. O. McDaniel,
Wm. Rogers,
T. YV. Milner,
D. B. Cunytts,
11. C. Saxon.
Matrimony. —The Wit and Senti
ment, a sprightly new monthly pub
lished in Philadelphia, by Wm. How
ard, at 7-5 cts. a year, has the follow
ing “ matrimonial:”
We have received from a “ Down
Easter” the following communica
tion, to be inserted as an advertise
ment at a charge of twenty-five cents
for six months, to be “taken out” in
pumpkin pie at ten cents a slice, eight
slices to the pie. As his note bears
neither date nor address, those inter
ested and wishing to reply are recom
mended to first obtain a list of all the
Ebenezers to be found throughout
New England, and then write to as
certain whose out-buildings have the
relative positions indicated in the no
tice here given:—
Any gal what’s got a cow, a good
feather bed with comfortable fixins,
500 doll, in good, genuine, slap-up
greenbacks, that has had the small
pox, measles, and understands tend
ing children, can find a customer for
life by ritin a small william ducks ad
dressed X. Y. Z., and stick in a erak
of Uncle Ebenezer’s barn jinin the
pigpen.
Practical Joke.—An Irishman
took the contract to dig a public well.
When he had dug about twenty-five
feet deep, he came one morning and
found it caved in—filled nearly to the
top. Pat looked cautiously around
and saw that no person was near, then
took off his hat and coat, hung them
on a windlass, crawled into some
bushes and waited events. In a short
time the citizens discovered that the
well had caved in, and seeing Pat’s
hat and coat on the windlass they
supposed he was at the bottom of the
excavation. Only a few hours of brisk
digging cleared the loose earth from
the well. Just as tiie eager citizens
had reached the bottom, and were
wondering where the body was, Pat
came walking out of the bushes, and
good naturediy thanked them for re
lieving him of a sorry job. Some of
the tired diggers were disgusted, but
the joke was too good to allow any
thing more than a hearty laugh,
which soon followed.
Good. —We learn than an Irish
man, who had been employed at the
Cemetery, some time since went to
Washington to draw his pay. After
receiving the amount, the paymaster,
discovering a sabre cut on his face,
remarked: “ You were in the army
during the war?” “Yes,” said he.
“What command were you in?”
“In General Fitzhugh Liee’s com
mand,” said he. “Did you have the
audacity to apply at a Federal Ceme
tery for work, when you were in the
rebel army?” “ Yes,” replied the
Irishman, “I helped to kill them,
and I thought I had a right to help
bury them.”— Culpepper Ofwtrver.
CARTERSVILLE, GEORGIA, THURSDAY MORNING, APRIL 4, 1872.
The Volunteer Council.
A THRILLING STORY.
John Taylor was licensed when a
| youth of twenty-two, to practice at
the bar. He was poor, but well edu
cated, and possessed extraordinary
genius. He married a beauty who
afterward deserter! him for another.
On the 9th April, 1840, in the court
house in Clarksville, Texas, was
crowded to overflow ing. An exciting
case was aliout to be tried. George
Hopkins, a w ealthy planter had offer
ed a gross insult to Mary Wilson, the
young and beautiful wife of his over
seer. The husband threatened to
chastise him for the outrage, when
Hopkins went to Ellison’s house and
shot him in his own door. The mur
derer was bailed to answer the charge.
This occurrence produced great ex
citement, and Hopkins, in order to
turn the tide of popular indignation
had circulated reports w'hich would
operate against her character, and she
had sue<l him for slander. Both suits
were pending—for murder and slan
der.
The interest became deeper w r hen
it was known that Pike and Ashley,
of Arkansas, and S. S. Prentiss of
New Orleans, by enormous fees, had
been retained to defend Hopkins.
Hopkins was acquitted. The Tex
as lawyers were overwhelmed by
their opponents. It was a fight of
dwarf against giant.
The slander case was for the 9th,
and the throng of spectators grew’ in
number as well as excitement; pub
lic opinion was setting for Hopkins—
his money had procured w itnesses
who served his powerful advocates.
When the slander case was called,
Mary Ellison was left without an at
torney—all had withdrawn.
‘Have you no counsel?’ inquired
Judge Mills, looking kindly at the
prisoner.
‘No, sir, they have all deserted me,
and I am too poor to employ any
more,’ replied the beautiful Mary,
bursting into tears.
‘ln such case, will not some chival
rous member of the profession volun
teer ?’ said the Judge, glancing around
the bar.
The thirty lawyers w r ere silent.
‘I will, your honor,’ said a voice
from the thickest part of the crowd,
behind the bar.
At the sound of that voice, many
started—it was unhealthy, sweet and
mournful.
The first sensation was changed into
laughter, w'hen a tall, gaunt, spectral
figure elbowed his way through the
crow and, and placed himself within the
bar. His clothes looked so shabby
that the court hesitated to let the ease
proceed through his management.
‘Has your name been entered on
the rolls of the State?’ demanded the
Judge.
‘lt is immaterial,’ answered the
stranger, his thin, bloodless lips curl
ing up w’ith a sneer. ‘Here is my li
cense from the highest tribunal in
America!” as he handed the Judge a
broad parchment. The trial went on.
He suffered the witnesses to tell
their own story, and he allowed the
defense to lead off. Ashley spoke
first, followed by Pike and Prentiss.
The latter brought dow r n the house in
cheers, in w hich the jury joined.
It was now the stranger’s turn, he
rises—before the bar, not behind it—
and so near the wondering jury that
he might touch the foreman with his
long, bony finger. He proceeded to
tear to pieces the argument of Ashley,
which melted away at his touch like
frost before a sunbeam—every one
looked surprised. Anon he cam© to
the dazzling wit of the poet lawyer,
Pike. Then the curl of his Up grew
sharper, his smooth face began to kin
dle, and his eyes to open, dim arid i
dreary no longer., VIVI( J as light
ning, red as f, --globes, and glaring j
as twin m nteors. The whole soul w r as 1
in the -ye j the full heart streamed
ol ,f or his face. Then without be
ritowing an allusion to Prentiss, he
turned short round upon the perjured
witnesses of Hopkins, tore there testi
mony into shreds, and hurled into
their faces such terrible invectives
that all trembled like aspens, and two
of them fled from the court house.
The excitement of the crowd was be
coming tremendous. Their united
souls seemed to hang upon the burning
tongue of the stranger—he inspired
them with thepporerw r er of his malignant
passions—he seemed to have stolen
nature’s long hidden secret of attrac
tion. But the greatest triumph w r as
to come.
His eye began to glance at the as
sassin Hopkins, as his lean taper fin-
Sers assumed the same direction. He
emmed the wretch with a wall of
strong evidence and impregnable ar
gument, cutting off all hope of escape.
He dug beneath the murderer’s feet
ditches of dilemma, and held the slan
derer up to the scorn and contempt of
the populace. Having thus girt him
about with a circle of fire, he stript
himself to the work of massacre.
Oh ! then it was a vision both glo
rious and dreadful to behold the ora
tor. His voice became as impetuous
as the motion of an oak in a hurri
cane. His voice became a trumpet
filled with wild whirlpools, deafening
the ear with crashes of power, and
yet intermingled all the while with a
sweet undersong of the softest cadence.
His forehead glowed like a heated
furnace, his countenance was haggard
like that of a maniac, and ever and
anon he flung his long bony arms on
high as if grasping after thunderbolts.
He drew a picture of murder in
such colors that in comparison hell it
self might be considered beautiful.
He painted the slanderer so black that
the sun seemed dark at noonday,
when shining on suchUJan accursed
monster, aud then fixing both por
traits on the sinking Hopkins, fasten
ed them there forever. The agitation
of the audience nearly amounted to
madness.
All at once the speaker descended
from the perilous height. His voice
wailed out for the murdered dead
and living —the beautiful Mary
more beautiful every moment, as her
tears flowed faster—till men wept and
sobbed like children.
He closed with strong exhortation
to the jury, and through them to the
bystanders; he advised the panel, af
ter they should bring in a verdict for
the plaintiff, not to offer violence to
the defendant, however richly he
might deserve: in other words ‘not
to lynch the villian, but leave his pun
ishment with God.’ This was the
most artful trick of all, and the best
calculated to insure vengeance.
The jury returned a verdict of fifty
thousand dollars; and the night after
wards Hopkins was taken out of bed
and beaten almost to death. As the
court adjourned the stranger said :
‘John Taylor will preach here this
evening at early candle light.’
He did preach and the house was
crowded. I have listened to Clay,
Webster and Calhoun—to Dwight,
Bascom and Beecher, but never heard
anything in the form of sublime words
even remotely approximating to the
eloquence of John Taylor, massive as
a mountain, and widly rushing as a
cataract of fire.
The following, we are assured, is a
verbatim copy of a letter recently re
ceived by a school-master in Indiana,
from a householder in his locality:
“ Cur, ass you are a man of no legs, I
wish to intur my sun in your skull.”
The obscurity and seeming offensive
ness of this address disappear on
translation. What was intended to
be written was: “Sir, as you are a
man of knowledge, I wish to enter my
son in your school.”
A dose of fifty or sixty drops of
tincture of iron every six hours, has
been known to cure rheumatism in
some cases where the heart was im
plicated.
THE CON HECTOR SOLD;
Or how the Old Lady (ot a Free Pass to
TsWof*.
BY A BAY- SREEf DRUMMER,
Some weeks since I was traveling
on the day freight <n the A. A G. R.
It. w estw ard. A bolt 10 o’clock, a.
m., the train stopped at a small way
station and took atxard several pas
sengers who were farad there await
ing it. None of then attracted my
attention except an old lady, who,
w’ith some difficulty got aboard the
coach—there w’as a passenger coach
attached to the train—and (mine pus- <
ting and blowing from her exertions |
down the aisle to her seat. As she
bustled in, I had a Avorable oppor
tunity for a survy of her entire
make-up. She was,l should judge, j
about sixty years oiage. She was
not the wrinkled, (tawny, witchy
woman of sixty yogs, but a hale,
hearty, buxom old lass, who had
paid but little attenfon to the strokes
of time, and on t Isom they had
lightly fallen. Whit she had lost of
youth, she had gainid in flesh, and
the form which in youth or young
womanhood had be-n, I dare say,
graceful and little eamgh, was now
of that bag-of-fealliett form w hich in
dicates the absence o' all disturbers of
natural comfort, and which no cor
set could with any ortainty control.
She was dressed in fie style known
in our fashionable cirdes as cracker
ish, though remarkable cleanly, and
carried the proverbial sotton umbrel
la with W’hich old ladies are usually
pictured. On her heal was a verit
able bonnet—not one of the new’- i
fangled fancy things deity wear, but j
a real old-fashioned gingham bonnet,!
like those our grandnother wore— j
with whiteoak splits for stiffening,!
and a skirt amply suflfcient to shade
the small portion of teck which in
creasing flesh had lefther.
The old lady took hir seat a little
distance in front of me to the right,
and on removing her ionnet display
ed a face round, ruddy and raefient,
and upon which the ciows had left
but few foot prints, aid which was
full of good humor, kindness and
motherly tenderness. Her mouth,
with here and then a remaining
tooth, over which ier rather full
lips closed with decisive firmness,
was indicative of considerable
strength of character, though in its
general expression it showed more of
the milk of human kiadness in her
disposition than sternness or obstina
cy. The wide-awak*expression of a
pair of eyes, which it youth had evi
denly been deep blui, but which the
light of many yeajs had failed to
greyishness, bore eudence that this
W’as her first raiiroadtrip. They had
the w’ondering, hai,-scared stare of
amazement, which unaccustomed
sights will produce ujpn the untrav
eled.
The old lady had just got comforta
bly seated, when the vhistle sound
ed and the train movid off. In a
few’ moments the conductor came in,
and after collecting the fare of one or
two others who had got aboard at the
last station, approached the lady.
“ Your fare, madam,” said the con
ductor.
Old Lady—“ A little louder, ’f you
please, I’m sorter deef.”
Conductor—“ Your fare, madam.”
Old Lady—“ Thankee, sir, you’re
very civil. I was counted pretty fair
when I was young, but I’m old
enough for your grandmother now’,
and—”
Conductor—“ Your ticket, if you
please, madam.”
Old Lady—“ Ticket ? bless you, I
did not buy one. I thought I could
pass free, as—”
Conductor—“ Have you a pass ?”
N°* I han’t—and
What S more, i uuiri num T»m
a respectable—”
Conductor—“ Then, madam, I
must have the money for your pas
sage.
Old Dady—“ Well, but let me tell
you I’m gwine down to see —”
Conductor—“ It can’t make any
difference to me, madam, who you
are going to see. I have my orders
and must obey them. It is a very
diagreeable duty, but I shall be com
pelled to put you off the train at the
next station unless you pay your
fare.”
Old Lady—“ Well, you see I orter
go free. Women as travels on mis
sions like mine orter go free—and my
daughter’s husband says the same
thing, and he knows, ’cause he’s been
a mighty traveler, and—”
Conductor—“ Can’t help it, mad
am, must obey orders. You must
pay your fare or get off at the next
station.”
Old Lady—“ But, mister, I liain’t
got the money.”
Conductor—“ I am very sorry,
madam, but duty is duty, and—”
Old Lady—“ Well, see here, stran
ger, I don’t think you orter put a
woman as travels on the business I
does off. Its agin human natur. Be
sides, ’taint my fault that I am on
your railroad, so I orter go free.
Mine’s pressin’ business. You see,
Billy Peeples’ wife’s sister Sary sent
for me to come to see her at once and
not to tarry, cause as how she expects
tli is very night to have a—”
To-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-t, toot, toot,
toot, toot, toot, toot! went the whis
tle, and in a moment the old lady
was forgotton.
A dozen windows flew up, as
many heads popped out, and the
conductor, ever watchful for the safe
ty as he was for the welfare and the
comfort of his passengers, rushed to
the platform to see what danger was
ahead. The cause for alarm, what
ever it was, subsided, the heads were
drawn in, the windows let down,
and the conductor returned to collect
his fare from the old lady.
She commences:
“Yes, you see, it’s jest as I tell
you. Biily Peeples’ wife’s eldest sis
ter Sary is expecting at any time to
have a—”
Conductor—“ I have nothing to do
with these people, my good woman.
I could not pass you without a ticket
or the money if you was going to a
funeral.”
Old Lady—“ But, tain’t no funeral
Its jest as different from a funeral as
it can be. I’m gwine to see Bill Pee
ples’ wife’s oldest sister Sarah—Sa
rah Beard’s her name—’cause she’s
been a suffrin a long time, poor cree
tur, and well, to tell you the real
truth of the matter, this very night
she expects to have a—”
To-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-t sounded the whis
tle for the next station, and the train
moved slower until it stopped, and
the brakesman announced “ Valdos
ta.”
The conductor approached the old
lady at this point and very kindly
told her that he would have to put
her off here unless she paid her fare.
Old Lady—“ What place is this ?
Conductor—“ This is Valdosta.”
Old Lady—“ W-h-a-a-t?”
Conductor—” This is Valdosta.”
Old Lady—“ Why, my goodness
gracious! You don’t tell me so! I
didn’t think we were half way there.
If you hain’t been foolin’ me all the
time, hain’t you? This is the very
place whar I was to go off to go and
see Sary Beard. You did pass me
free after all, didn’t you ? Though
you never orter fooled me that way.
But then it was mighty clever in you
to pass me, sir ; so it was. Thankee,
sir, thankee, sir,”
And under a torrent of thanks he
helped her off the train.
The conductor did his best to ex
plain to the old lady that she was
under no obligations to him, and
need not thank him; but she only
grew warmer and louder in her ex
pressions of thank fullness to him.
“ Indeed, indeed, sir, you have
been powerful obliging, and I shall
tell Billy Peeple’s wife’s oldest sister
Sary how good you was to fetch me
down free to see her, and if it only
happens to be a boy, sir, I’ll make
her call it for you,* you dear, good
man. Oh, you needn’t shake your
head. I’ll do it sure and certain, mis
ter, and—”
Toot, toot! and off moved the train.
Old Lady— Running up the plat
form and holding up her cotton um
brella] —“Stop, stop, mister. What
mought be your name?”
Conductor —! Hurrying aboard; —
“ Never mind.”
Old Lady—“ But, vou see, I want
to-”
But the train moved rapidly out of
hearing, leaving the old lady looking
after the conductor with a face beam
ing with kindness and gratitude, and
muttering to herself: “ Well, no
matter, Bill Peeples can find out his
name, and if it jest happens to be a
boy, I’ll calUit for him certain.”
Agricultural Department.
TO REJI YIXATE AY OLD GRAPE VIYE.
The editor of the Practical Farmer
says:
Having on our premises, planted
by former owners, probably twenty
two years ago, half a dozen old grape
vines with large weather-beaten
trunks or steins, which made annual
ly but little new’ wood, and yielded
but very few poor grapes; two sea
sons ago we cut off the branches, cov
ering the ground around with about
a foot of fresh earth. Vigorous and
fresh shoots sprung up in a great
abundance—the weak ones of which
w’ere broken off, and leading ones at
the proper distances trained to the
arbor. The new growths are very
clean, healthy and strong, sufficient
entirely to cover the large arbor the
present season; we look for bushels
of fruit from the new bearing wood.
We see old grape vines everywhere,
doing no good, and which could be
made young and thrifty by this pro
cess.
THE OLD IIOHESTEAD,
What endearing recollections gath
er around the scenes of early days.
“ The orchard, the meadow’, the deep
tangled w’ild-w’ood,” w r ere free and
unfettered as the mountain air our
lightsome footsteps w’ere w’ont to rove
—the rustic church to w’hich, with
the returning day of peaceful, holy
rest, led by the hand of parental af
fection, we used to repair—but above
all, the home of our domestic enjoy
ments, the sanctuary of the family
circle, w’here, under the guidance of a
father’s counsel and a mother’s love,
we passed the sunny hour’s of life’s
sweet springtime, all rise in grateful,
fond remembrance, full of purest de
light and tenderest associations.
And these reminisences lose none
of their interest from the circum
stance that the same spot which was
consecrated to hope and gladness was
in the onw’ard flight of time, destined
to be visited by disappointment and
sorrow’. It w’as not only the abode of
the fondly loved, but there we wit
nessed the departure of the early lost.
There, too, a father blest us with his
dying breath, and bade us meet him
in the better land. There a mother
looked and smiled upon us, to look
and smile no more. Sadness and joy,
commingled thus, hallow’ the place
W’here we enjoyed their fellowship in
life, and w’here they now’ repose in
the unbroken silence of their sepul
chral rest.
Who would not fain preserve these
cherished domainsfrom vandal hands
—who would not prize the privilege
of there passing the evening hours of
life, and of there being gathered to
his fathers ? Or if this must be deni
ed, at least of being permitted to re
turn at times to the peaceful scenes of
youth, with the cheering reflection
-Sni'ffiaf WiW, AIM 9 ,«$! IS
our own ?
A Remedy for the Headache.
—Dr. Warburton Begbie (Edinburgh
Medical Journal) advocates the use of
turpentine in the severe headache to
which nervous and hysterical w’omen
are subject*. “ There is, moreover,”
he says, “ another class of sufferers
from headache, and this is composed
of both sexes, who may be relieved
by turpentine. I refer to the frontal
headache, which is most apt to occur
after prolonged mental effort, but may
likewise be induced by unduly sus
tained physical exertion—what may
be styled the headache of a fatigued
brain. A cup of very strong tea of
ten relieves this form of headache,
but this remedy with not a few’ is
perilous; for bringing relief from pain
it may produce general restlessness,
and—worst of all—banish sleep. Tur
pentine in doses of twenty or thirty
minims, given at intervals of an hour
or two, will not not only remove the
headache, but produce in a wonder
ful manner that soothing influence to
which reference has already been
made.
Pastures for Horses. —Winter
or summer, except in stormy times,
there is no place so comfortable for
colts or tired work-horses as a good
pasture lot. To tie up a tired horse
at night, in a narrow cell, with a
plank floor to stand on, is a species of
cruelty that civilization should be
ashamed of. If the poor animal must
be confined like a convict in a dun
geon, for pity’s sake let him have his
head, and give him at least twelve
feet square, with a soft, dry floor for
him to stand or lie on. In the larger
cities, land is worth more in money
than horses are, but on the farm there
is no excuse for such economy. Ask
the horse what he wants, and he will
tell you-that a place where he can
walk around, lie down and stretch
his tired limbs, and roll over from one
side to the other, gives him more
ease and comfort, after a day of hard
work, than the most costly plank stall
with all the accompaniments of cur
ry-comb, stiff-bristled brushes, rubber
cloths and dexterous hostlers that can
be produced.
Handling Hogs.— A practical
breeder gives the following advice,
which, in the main, we think sound,
for those whose herd is not too large,
and who are engaged in mixed hus
bandry : “To handle hogs to the best
advantage, a pasture is needed, of
mixed grasses, clover, blue grass and
timothy, and it is best if there is no
running water or stock ponds in
the lot. Hogs do better where there
are no branches or stock ponds to wal
low in. In place thereof, have good
well water pumped for them. Have
troughs made and nail strips across,
eight inches apart, to keep the hogs
from lying down in the water, and
let these be put upon floors, to keep
them from digging up wallowing
holes. If any feed be given, it should
be soaked in swill-barrels for twelve
hours before feeding—no longer—and
fed to them as drink” —Germantown
Telegraph.
Idle Daughters. —lt is a most
painful spectacle in families where
the mother is the drudge, to see the
daughters elegantly dressed, reclin
ing at their ease, with their drawing,
their music, their fancy work and
their reading; beguiling themselves
for hours, days and weeks, and never
dreaming of their responsibilities, but
as a necessary consequence of neglect
of duty, growing weary of their use
less life, laying hold of every newly
invented stimulant to amuse their
drooping energies, and blaming fate
when they dare not blame their God
for having placed them where they
are. These individuals will often tell
you, with an air of compassion—for
who can believe it real ?—that poor,
dear mamma is working herself to
death. Yet no sooner do you propose
that they should assist her, than they
declare she is quite in her element
in short, that she would never be hap
py if she only had half as much to do.
LIGIITIYG FIRE l.\ A STOVE.
Many persons have noticed the ex
treme difficulty encountered in light
ing the fire in a stove, especially in a
still, damp morning. The stove at
first w’on’t draw’, even vigorous “blow
ing” will not suffice; anil then when
it does start, it is with a sort of explo
sion or outward rush of air, which
fills the room with smoke and gas,
oftentimes puffing the unpleasant
fumes into the face of the operator.
This trouble is caused by the difficul
ty encountered in overcoming the in
ertia of the long column of air in the
pipe or chimney, by the small column
of air that can f** forced up through
the interstices of the wood and coal at
the bottom of which the fin* is kin
dled. All this may be remedied by
simply putting a few’ shavings or bits
of dry paper on the top of the wood
or coal, and first lighting that: it im
mediately bursts into a blaze, because j
the air has perfectly free access to it
from all sides, the heated air forces its
way into the chimney and establishes
there an upward current. The match
can then be applied to the kindling
under the fuel, which will readily
light, and if dry burst into a brisk
blaze.
Hot Bread.— One of the most
injurious dietetic habits of Americans
is that of eating fresh hot bread, cake,
and biscuit. The Prussian Govern
ment compels bakers to keep their
bread at least one day before selling.
If Americans would follow’ their ex
ample, there w’ould be few’er dyspep
tics than at present. There is not one
dyspeptic German where there are a
dozen dyspeptic Americans. This,
however, is but one of many causes
for this marked difference. The only
fresh, hot bread that is wholly unob
jectionable, is the unleavened bread,
crackers, or gems.
Agriculture does not stand still,
and it is well to learn, as soon as
possible, the best ways and means, as
time is short, and no man lias time to
try everything for himself.
A French physician has investigat
ed the effect of smoking on thirty
eight boys, between the ages of nine
and fifteen, who were addicted to the
habit. Twenty-seven presented symp
toms of nicotine poison. In twenty
two cases there were serious disorders
of the circulation, indigestion, dull
ness of intellect, and a marked appe
tite for strong drinks ; in three there
was heart affection ; in eight decided
deterioration of blood ; ten had dis
turbed sleep; and four had ulcera
tion of the mucous membrane of the
mouth.
To Keep Hams in Summer.—
There are a number of modes given
to keep hams through the warm sea
son free from the attacks of insects.
Some bag them and whitewash the
bags, which is troublesome and some
what expensive; some cover them
with dry wood-ashes and pack them
in barrels and cover thoroughly with
pine*shavings; but w’e think the best
plan of all, and certainly the least ex
pensive with all who have a smoke
house, nil every farmer should have
a good one, is to keep the hams hung
up in the smoke-house, which should
be kept perfectly dark at all times.
We have eaten hams so kept tw’o
years old, and they were among the
best we ever tasted. Uniform dark
ness is a complete protection against
the attack of insects. —Germantown
Telegraph.
LIGHT WITHOUT MATCHES.
The Paris “ Figaro” gives the fol
lowing method of obtaining light in
staneously, without the use of match
es, and without danger of setting
ItllUfcO Mil Hi. . till MIjImUU
at of the whitest and clearest glass
put in it a piece of phosphorous
the size of a pea, upon which pour
some olive-oil heated to the boiling
point, filling the phial about one
third full, and then seal the phial
hermetically. To use it, remove the
cork and allow the air to enter the
phial, and then recork it. The whole
empty space in the bottle will then
become luminous, and the light ob
tained will be equal to that of a
lamp. As soon as the light grows
weak, its power can be increased by
opening the phial and allowing a fresh
supply of air to enter. In winter it is
sometimes necessary to heat the phial
between the hands to increase the flu
idity of the oil. Thus prepared, the
phial may be used six months.
This contrivance is now used by the
watchmen of Paris in all magazines
where explosive or inflammable mate
rials are stored.
Enraged Mules.— Out in Marion
county, lowa, a farmer butchered a
hog and got some blood on his coat
sleeve, and when he went into the
stable to hitch up bis mules, they
smelled the blood and became furious,
raving and snorting, and attacked
him with great violence like wild an
imals, striking and kicking and bit
ing with all their might. Tliey inflict
ed a severe wound on his head, and
doubtless w'ouhl have killed him, had
he not crawled under the manger,
where they could not reach him. He
was finally rescued from his danger
ous situation; but the mules contin
ued so enraged that for a number of
days no person ventured to attempt
to unharness them. The mules had
always been perfectly gentle and do
cile before.
The Warrenton Clipper tells this
story:
The delegates to the late Conven
tion of the Agricultural Society speak
in the highest terms of the princely
magnificence of the residence of Com
modore Green, of Savannah, and the
hopitalities so liberally extended by
him. As one of the delegates from—
well, we won’t say Warren county—
was curiouslv examining the large
and beautiful collection of statuary
which adorns his palatial residence,
Mr. Green, who, it seems, was every
where and with everybody, tapped
him on the shoulder and said : “ Mr.
beautiful; would you not like to in
spect some of the fine arts?” “ Well,”
said the delegate, as he deposited a
well masticated quid of Virginia
weed outside the window, “ I don’t
care if I do, as I am a little dry.”
A celebrated clergyman recently
said that he had found more good in
bad people, and more bad in good
people than he ever expected.
“ Mother, where is the man to
sleep?” asked a girl of fifteen of her
mother, who had just offered a trav
eler a night’s rest in their out-of-the
way hut. “ I’ll put him in with you
and Jake and Sue and Kate and Bet,
I suppose,” was the reply, “ and if it
is too crowded one of you must turn
in with me, dad and Dick and Tom
and the twins.”
The yolk of an egg, rubbed thor
oughly into the hair, and then wash
ed out with soft water, cleanses the
scalp and the hair remarkably.
If you have the ear-ache put a fun
nel in your ear, after the manner of
an ear trumpet, and let the steam
from boiling vinegar enter it.
An Irish doctor advertises that all
Eersons afflicted with deafness may
ear of him in a house on Ditfey
street, where also blind persons may
see him daily from three to ten
o’clock.
A news paper advertisement calls
for a plain cook, able to dress a little
boy five years old. And vet we send
missionaries to the Fejee Islands !
A true religious instinct never de
prived a man of a single joy.
THE WILL OF A DRI.YE.ARD.
I die a wretched sinner aud 1 leave
the world a worthless reputation, a
wicked example; a memory that is
| only fit to perish.
I leave my parents sorrow and bit
terness of soul all their lives.
I leave to my brothers and sisters
shame and grief, and a reproach of
their acquaintances.
I leave to my wife a widowed and
broken heart, and a life of lonely
struggling with want and suffering.
I leave to my children a tainted
name, a ruined position, a pitiful ig
norance and mortifying recollection
of a father, who, by his life, disgrac
ed humanity, and at his premature
death joined the great company of
those who art* never to enter* the
Kingdom of God.
Germany has five daily and four
teen weekly papers published by wo
men.
The famous Island of Corsica now
contains three hundred thousand in
habitants.
It requirt's one ton of steel to make,
on an average, one million of steel
pons.
Disputations leave truth in the mid
dle and party at both ends.
It has been beautifully said, that
“ the veil which covers the face of
futurity is woven by the hand of
mercy.”
The growing wheat crop in Califor
nia will be 50 per cent, greater than
in any previous year.
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VOL. 12-NO. 39
The Western Antidote !
McCUTCHEON’S
CHEROKEE INDUOITTIRS.
This highly valuable Indian iUm.dr is
too well known, whenever it has besa assd,
to require special notice.
«
Those who are unacquainted with its won
derful operation upon the system will had
it a certain remedy in all Diseases of the
Kidneys, Bladder and Urinary Organs. It
is very useful in Rheumatism, Liver Ce».
plaint, Ague-Cake Dysentery and etker
complaints. It warms the stomach and
bowels; cures Colic an! Obstructions of the
Breast; sustains excessive labor of both bo
dy and mind; cures the Piles, promotes ike
Appetite, assists Digestion; prevents ua
pleasant dreams and frights; strengthens As
judgment; cures Nervous. Asthmetical and
Hysterical Affections; removes all the dis
orders of wenkues and debility ; purifies the
Blood ; cures Neuralgia and Dispcpsia. to
gether with most Diseases peculiar to Fe
males.
Old and young, male aud female, have beoa
greatly benefitted by its use, as hundred* o.
letters from all parts of the United Btat«i
will certify. Let those who are unac
quainted with McCutcukon’s “(herokee In
dian Bitters, ’’ before saying this ia toe
much, try a bottle, and nil who do so will
unite in testifying that the half has not hems
told.
Cherokee Indian Bitters possesses an ener
gy which seems to communicate new life t*
the system, and renovate the feeble, fainting
powers of nature. Its operation upon tha
tissues of the body does not consist in affoch
ing the irritability of the living fibre, bat in
imparting a sound and healthy stimuli!* te
the Vital Organs.
It strengthens substantially and durably
the living powers of the animal machine; is
entirely innocent and harmless; may bead
ministered with impunity to both sexes, and
all conditions of life.
There is no disease of any name or na
ture, whether of young or old, male or fe
male, but that it is proper to admin : ster it,
anu n it oe uone seasonably and persever
ingly it will have a good effect. It is per
fectly incredible to those unacquainted with
the Bitters, the facility with which a heal
thy action is often in the worst case restor
cd to the exhausted organs of the system ;
with a degree of animation and desire for
food, which is perfectly astonishing to all
who perceive it. This Medicine purifies the
blood, restores the tonic power of the fibre#,
and of the stomach and digestive organs ;
rouses the animal spirits, and substantially
fortifies and reanimates the broken dew*
constitutions of mankind.
Indians are the most healthy of the human
race. They take an abundace of physiea!
exercise, breathe pure air, and live on sim
ple diet. When sick, they use no mineral
poisons, but select roots, herbs, and plants
“from the great drug store of their Crea
tor.” McCctciikon’s “ Chkrokkk India*
Bittsks” is a combination of these vegeta
ble substances which render it entirely in
nocent to the constitution of the most defl—
cate male or female. The wonderful powwr
which these “Bitters” are known to pos
sess in curing diseases, evinces to the world
that it is without a parallel in the history
of medicine, and afford additional evidence
that the great benefactors of the country are
not always found in the temples of wealth
nor the mazy walks of science, but among
the hardy sons of Nature, whose original,
untutored minds, unshackled by the forma
of science, are loft free to pursue the dic
tates of reason, truth and common sense.
Since the introduction of this remedy in.
o the United States, thousauds have boon
raised from beds of affliction whose lire*
were despaired of by their physisians and
pronounced beyond the reach of medicine
McCutcheon’s “Cherokee Bitters” has
driven the most popular medicines of every
name, like chaff before the whirlwind, from
every city, town and village where it has
been introduced, and is destined ero long to
convince the world that the red man’s rem
edies are the white man’s choice. For din
eases peculiar to the female sex there in
nothing better. Old and young, male and
female, have all been greatly benefilted by
its use. Hundreds of certificates, from all
parts of the United States, which are enti
tled to the fullest confidence, speak of it in
the most favorable manner. * These arc no
only from persons who hare been eared by
it, but also from some of the most eminent
physicians and druggist who have success
fully tested it in their practice, and volun
tarily offer their testimonials in its favor
For sale by all Dealers.
gPCCiAL Notice. — drug
gists doing business at a distance from tke
railroad, when ordering my-‘Cherokee In
dian Bitters,” will please state the depot t«
| which they have their goods shipped, hy
so doing, I can sometime# supply their
wants much earlier.
Address all orders to
*. H. McCUTCHBOM,
Marietta, •».
Whe alone is authorized to ataaufaatere
the original and genuine,
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