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THE STANDARD AND EXPRESS. jty SMITH, WIKLE & CO.] Written for the Standard A Express.] 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. LAW SHE & HAYNES, ATLANTA, GA. 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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, cat 26—ly