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THE STANDARD AND EXPRESS! PU3LISHE D WEEKLY. VOL. 14. THE Standard & Express I* published ovory THURSDAY HORSING BY 8. H. SMITH & CO. SUBSCRIPTION rillLE: $2 per auuuni, in advance. Frofessioual and Business Cards JOHN W. WOFFORD. TfIOMAS W. MILNER WOFFORD & MILNER, ATTORNEY AT LAW, CAHTGRS\ILLE, GA. OF KICK up (tains, Rank Block. 8-6-ts. Q C. TUMLLN, attorney at law, CARTERSVILLE, GA. Office over the Bank. JOHN L. MO ON, ATTORNEY AT LAW, CARTERSVILLE, GA. Will practice In the counties comprising the Cherokee Circuit, Office over Liebman’s store. II W MtitPH LY, ATTORNEY AT LAW, CARTERSVILLE. GA. Will practice In the courts of the Cherokee Circuit. Particular attention given to the col cctiou of claims. Office with Col. A bila John son. Oct. 1. P. WOFFORD, ATTORNEY AT LAW. CARTERSVILLE, GA. OFFICE in Court-House. Jan 26 M. FOIIT E, ATTORNEY AT LAW, CARTERSVILLE, GA. ( With Col. Warren Akin,) Will practice in the courts of Bartow, Cobb, Polk, Floyd, Gordon, Murray, Whitfield and ad joining counties. March 30. R. mcdaniel, ATTORNEY AT LAW, CARTERSVILLE, GA. Office with John W. Wofford. jan ’72 W. D. TRAMMELL. ATTORNEY AT LAW, CARTERSVILL.S, GA OFFICE W. Main St., next door to Standard & Express Office. Feb. 15,1872 —wly. rjp nOM A 8 W . DODD, ATTORNEY AT LAW, CAUTKRSVII.I.E, GEORGIA. OFFICE over the Bank. Janlßlß72. DR. J. A. JACKSON, PRACTICING PHYSICIAN AMD SCRCEGN. OFFICE in W. A. Loyless’ Drug Store, next door to Stokely & Williams’. oct27 W. It. Momitcastle, Jeweler and Watch and Clock Repairer, CARTERSVILLE, GEORGIA. Office in trout of-A. A. Skinnor & Co’s Store. KEN. W. T. WOFFRD. JNO. H. WIKLE Wofford fib Wiltlo, ATTORNEYS - AT - LAW, AND R eal Estate Agents, Cartersville, Ga. SPECIAL ATTENTION given to the pur chase and sale of Ileal Estate. -28-6 m. Dental Card. raft THE undersigned, a practical dentist of 18 years experience, having purchesed prop erty and located permanently in the city of Cartersville, will continue the practice in rooms opposite those ot Wofford & Milner, in the new building adjoining the Bank. With experience i and application to my profession, charges al ways reasonable aud. just, I hope to merit the patronage of a generous public. Office hours, liom November Ist proximo, 8 to 12 A. M., 2to6P. M. Sabbaths excepted. Galls answered at residence, opposite Baptist church. R. A. SEALE, 10-17—ts Surgeon Dentist. \)R. CHAS. D’ALYIGNV, DENTIST, Cartersville, Ga. CJPECTAL ATTENTION given to children’s £5 teeth. ti-15— TO PLANTERS. BOWEN & MERCER’S Superphosphate, SBB PBR TON. Warranted equal to any Phosphate manufac tured. Send for the Pamphlet of Certificates and Analysis, by Professors Means, Piggott and Stewart, to BOWEN & MERGER, 65 South Gay St., 12-12—wlm. Baltimore, Md. J. W. Lamrop. J.L. Warren. J. W. Lat&rop, Ir J. W. Uthrop & Cos., COTTONFACTORS,- AND COMMISSION MERCHANTS. 98 BAY STREET, SAVANNAH GEORGIA. «-18.0 m. ST m This unrivalled Medl uxe s warranted not to contain a single particle of Mkrcuky, or any injurious mineral substance, but is PURELY VEGETABLE. For FORTY YEARS it has proved its great value in all diseases of the Liver, Bowels and I Kidneys. Thousands of the good Hiidcrout in 1 all parts of the country vouch for its wonderful and peculiar power in purifying the Blood, stimulating the torpid Liver ancl bowels, and imparting new life and vigor to the whole sys tem. Simmons’ Liver Regulator is acknowl edged to have no equal as a LIVER MEDICINE. It contains four medical elements, never be fore united in the same happy proportion in any other preparation, viz : a gentle Cathartic, a wonderful Tonic, an-unexceptionable Alter ative, and a certain Corrective of all impurities of the body. Such signal success has attended its use that it is now regarded as the GREAT UNFAILING SPECI FIC for Liver Complaint and the painful offspring thereof, to wit: Dyspepsia, Constipation, Jaun dice, isillious attacks, Sick Headache. Colic, Depression of Spirits, Sour Stomach, Heart Burn, Ac., &c. Regulate the Liver and prevent CHILLS AND FEVER. Simmons’ Liver Regulator Is manufactured only by J. H. ZEILIN & Cos., MACON, GA., AND PHILADELPHIA, Price sl, pr package; sent by mail, postage paid 11.25. Prepared ready for use in bottles, $1.50. SOLD BY ALL DRUGGISTS. Beware of all Counterfeits and Imitations STERLING SILVER-WARE. SHARP A FLOYD No. 315 Whitehall Street, ATLANTA. Specialty, Sterling- Silver-Ware. Special attention Is requested to the many new and elegant pieces manufactured express ly to our order the past year, and quite recently completed. An unusually attractive assortment of novel ics in Fancy Silver, cased for Wedding and Holiday presents, of a medium and expensiv character. The House wo represent manufacture on an unparalleled scale, employing on Sterling Sil ver-Ware alone over One Hundred skilled hands, the most accomplished talent in Design ing, and the best Labor-saving Machinory, en abling them to produce works of the highest character, at prices UN APPRO ACHED by any cempetition. Our stock at present is the lar gest and most varied this side of Philadelphia An examination of our stock and prices will guarantee our sales. OUR HOUSE USE ONLY 925 BRITISH STERLING, 1000 an4—tf Wm, Gouldmith, Manufacturer and dealer in METALIC BURIAL CASES & CASKETS Also keeps on hand WOOD COFFINS of every description. All orders by night or day promptly attended to. aug. 22 NOTICE TO FARMERS! y OUR attention is rsspectfully invited to th Agricultural Warehouse OF ANDERSON & WELLS, ATLANTA, GEORGIA, DEALERS IN Guanos, Field and Garden Seeds, FARM WAGONS, PITTS’ THRESHERS. Size 26 to 32 inch cylinder, with or without down and mounted horse powers. SWEEPSTAKES THRESHERS. Size 26 to 32 inch cylinder, with or witgout down and mounted horse powers. Bali’s Reaper and Mower, Buck-Eye Reaper and Mower PLOWS—ONE AND TWO-HORSE BUGGY PLOWS. Also General Agents for {i Pendleton’s Guano Compound,” Cash, $67 per ton of 2,000 lbs.; Credit Ist Nor.. $75 per ion 2,000 lbs. ‘ ‘ Farmer’s Choice, ” Manufactured from Night Soil, at Nashville, Tenn.—Cash $45 per ton; credit Ist Nov., SSO; And all other kinds of implements and ma chinery, which we sell as low as any house in the South. Call and see us, or send lor Price List. ANDERSON & WELLS. 52 Theo. GOULDSMITH, Agent for GEORGIA MARBLE WORKS. Cartersville, Georgia. fob. 8 SAMUEL H. SMITH k COMPANY, EDITORS AND PROPRIETORS. CARTERSVILLE, GEORGIA, THURSDAY MORNING, JANUARY 16, 1873. THE GEORGIA LEGISLATURE. SENATORS. First District—R E Lester. Second District—H W Mattox. Third District—J C Nichols. Fourth District—J M Arnow. Fifth District—M Kirkland. Sixth District—John D Knight, i Seventh District—W L Clarke. Eighth District—B F Brinberry, Rad. Ninth District—Reuben Jones. Tenth District—W A Harris. Eleventh District—L C Hoyl. Twelfth District- J E Carter. Thirteenth District—R C Black. Fourteenth District—C C Kibbee. Fifteenth District—D W Cameron. Sixteenth District—J F Roberson. Seventeenth District—J S Cone. Eighteenth District—J G Cain. Nineteenth District—Columbus Heard- Twentieth District—John A Gilmore. Twentytfirst District 1 B D«veaux, col. Twenty-second District—Thos J Sim mons. I wenty-third District—l H Anderson, col. Twenty-fourth District—B H Crawford, Twenty-fifth District—W P Maddox. Twenty-sixth District—W W Mathews, Twenty-seventh District—E Steadman. Twenty-eighth District—J W Hudson. Twenty-ninth District—W M Reese. Thirtieth District —Robert Hester. Thirty-first District—VV S Erwin. Thirty-second District—W H McAfee. Thirty-third District—M Van Estes. Thirty-fourth District—Samuel J Winn. Thirty-fifth District—G Hillyer. Thirty-sixth District—George L Peavy. Thirty-seventh District—G W Reddy. Thirty-eighth District—J A Blanco.' Thirty-ninth District—J P Brown. Fortieth District—H W Cannon. Forty-first District—J A Jervis. Forty-second District—John W Wofford. Forty-third District—L N Trammell. Forty-Fourth District—W H Payne. REPRESENTATIVES. Appling—Sellers Lee. Baker—Wm H Hargard. Baldwin—Wm M Williamson. Banks—James J Turnbull. Bartow—Thomas II Baker, Thomas Tum lin. Berrien—Wm II Snead. Bibb—C A Nutting, A O Bacon, A M Locket. Brooks—J H Hunter. Bryan—Henry E Smith. Bullock—Robert DeLoach. Burke—J A Shewmake, J B Jones, II C Glisson. Butts—M V McKibbin. Calhoun—Thos J Dunn. Camden—Ray Tompkins. Campbell—Thos M Latham. Carroll—Benjamin N Long, Rad. Catoosa—Nathan Lowe. Charlton—Geo W Roberts. Chatham—T R Mills, Jr, G A Mercer, A G McArthur. Chattahoochee—J M Cook. Chattooga—Robert W Jones. Cherokee—W A Teasley. Clark —H II Carlton, Frank Jackson. Clay—John B Johnson. Clayton—L C Hutcherson. Clinch—Joseph Sirmons. Cobb—W D Anderson, J D Blackwell. Coffee—John Lott. Columbia—Simmons C Lamkin, Wm Mc- Lean. Colquit—John Tucker. Coweta—A Moses, Auselin Leigh. Crawford—J W Ellis. Dade— Dawson—Samuel N Fowler, Rad. Decatur—T A Swearingen, A Nicholson Rads. DeKalb—Samuel C Masters. Dodge—James M Buchan. Dooley—Hiram Williams. Dougherty—Wm H Gilbert, Thomas R Lyon. Douglas—F M Duncan. Early—R O Dunlap. Echols—R W Phillips. Effingham—C F Foy* Elbert— J L Heard. Emanuel—Green B Sponce. Fannin Duggar. Fayette—R T Dorsey. Floyd—John R Towers, Fielding Hight. Forsyth—Robert A Eakes. Franklin —R D Yow. Fulton—C Howell, W L Calhoun, E F Iloge. Gilmer—N L Osborne. Glasscoek—Abraham Brassell, negro. Green—G H Thompson, Jack Heard, ne groes. Gordon—R M Young. Gwinnett—James IV Baxter, B A Blake - 1 y• Habersham—James H Grant. Hall—Allen D Candler. Hancock—George F Pierce, Jr, John L Culver. Harralson—R R Hutcherson. Harris—John W Murphey, Flynn Har gett. Hart —Moses A Duncan, Rad. Heard--M C Summerlin. Henry—Elijah Morris. Houston—G M T Fagin, W A Mathew, C H Richardson. Irwin—Jacob Dorminy. Jackson—Greene K Duke. Jasper—Lucius B Newton. Jefferson—Marcus A Evans, James Staple ton. Johnson—Robert J Hightower. Jones—Charles A Hamilton. Laurens—JolinT Duncan - J ee—H B Lipsey, W F Sadler. Liberty—Hendley F Horne. Lincoln—W D Tutt. Lowndes—Joseph A Ousley. Lumpkin—M F Whelchel. Macon —Leroy M. Felton, William H Wil lis. Madison—John F Kirk. Marion—Edgar M Butt. McDuffie—Alfred E Sturgis, Mclntosh—T G Campbell, Jr, negro. Meriwether—John B Roper, R A I. Free man Miller—lsaac A Bush. Milton—A S Hell. Mitehell—John B Twitty. Monroe—Wm J Dumas, A H Shi. Montgomery—John Mcßae. Morgan—Seaborn Reese, James G Bost wick. Murray—B‘F Wofford. Muscogee—John Peabody, Thos J Watt. Newton —A B Simms, W F Davis. Oglethorpe—J T Hurt, Willis M Willing ham, Paulding—Robert Trammell. Pickens —A P Loveless, Rad. Pierce—B D Brantley. Pike—John R Jenkins. Polk—E D Hightower. Pulaski—T J Bankwell, C H Colding. Putnam—Wm F Jenkins. Quitman—Henry M Kaigler. Rabun— Randolph—Wm Colman, Charles A Har ris. Richmond—W A Clarke, P Walsh, H C Foster. Rockdale—James A Stewart. Schley—C B Hudson. Screven—John C Dell. Spalding—William M Blanton. Stewart— Wm VV Fitzgerald, John H Lowe. Sumter —Allen Fort, James II Black. Talbot—Roland M Willis, Charles B Leitner. Taliaferro—Samuel J Flynt. Tattnall—George M Edwards. Taylor—Bennet Stewart. Telfair—T J Smith. Terrell—W Kaigler. Thomas—A Fred Atkinson, Jasper Bat tle, 001. Towns--Judge G Stephens. Troup—Francis M Longley, John L Hill. Twiggs William Griffin, Rad. Union—Marion Williams. Upson— F F Mathews. Walker—J C Clements. Walton—Henry D McDaniel. Ware—John B Cason. Warren—C S Dußose, T N Poole. Washington—P R Taliaferro, W G Mc- Bride. Wayne—Daniel Hopps. Webster—John P Beaty. White—A Merritt. Wilcox -George P Reid Wilkes—Thomas A Barksdale, John W Mattox. W r ilkinson—W C Adams. Whitfield—Jackson Rogers. Worth—Dugal McLellan. BACON AND GREEKS. I have lived long enough to be rarely mistaken, And had my full share of life’s changeable scenes; And my woes have been solaced by good greens and bacon, And my joys have been doubled by bacon and greens. With a thrill of remembrance e’en now they awaken Os childhood’s gay morning and youth’s merry scenes— When each day we had greens and a plateful of bacon, And the next we had bacon and a plateful of greens. Ah ! well I remember, when sad and forsaken, Here wrung by the scorn of a miss in her teens, How I fled from her sight to my loved greens and bacon, And forgot my despair over bacon and greens. When the banks refused specie, and credit was shaken, I shared in the wreck and was ruined in means; My friends all declared that I had not saved my bacon, But I lived, for I still had my ba con and greens. If some fairy a grant of three wishes could make one. So worthless as I, aud so laden with sin, I’d wish for all greens in the world, then the bacbn, Then wish for a little more bacon and greens. Oh ! there is a charm in this dish, rightly taken, Which from custards and jellies an epicure weans; Stick your fork in the fat, wrap your greens round the bacon, And you’ll vow there’s no dish like bacon and greens. BARNUM’S GORILLA. A TOUCHING TRIBUTE TO HIS MEMO RY. The Missouri Democrat contains the following obituary notice of one of Barnum’s great curiosities which is supposed to have been destroyed in the last fire. It is seldom that we are called up on to note a more painful fact than that which we now record, and which is nothing more nor less than the ru mored death of Barnum’s gorilla, who is supposed to have perished in the flames of the Museum, recently consumed. The news of his untime ly and frightful end will cause a feel ing of heartfelt agony to fill the bo som of his many friends throught the country, who witnessed his playful antics in his cage wherever Barnum went on his last summer’s tour, or enjoyed his society at a beer saloon when the labors of the day and evening’s exhibitions were ended. The deceased gorilla was a young man of exemplary habits, and by his versatile industry supported an aged father and mother in Jersey City, who can hardly bear their present loss. His original name was Briggs, and he was of Yankee, not Celtic or igin, as has been erroneously stated. Mr. Barnum became acquainted with young Briggs many years ago, and, keen observer of human nature that he is, he soon saw that the boy pos sessed talents which would, if right ly applied, bring him into public no tice. Mr. Barnum first employed Briggs as a mermaid, but his nerv ous, sanguineous temperament unfited him for wearing a wig and a cod fish skin, and he was short ly after promoted to the position of wild man. In this he achieved no success, and it was not until Barnum put his great traveling show on the road in 1870, and gave Briggs the position of gorilla, that he develop ed those eccentricities that have made him famous. For two years no bet ter specimen of the gorilla tribe has been seen on this continent. Though naturally convivial and social in his taste, he sat in his cage an object of wonder and admiration to thousands, and submitted to being stirred up with a long pole for the benefit of country clergyman, who stood by ex plaining to their youthful Subbath -school scholars how fearfully and wonderfully we are made. No murmur of discontent ever escaped his lips, except at Terre Haute, In diana, last July, when he was heard to remark that he be d—d if he could stand it much longer wearing a hair overcoat in hot weather, on a salary of $lO a week. His salary was at last elevated to $12.50 a week, and he was allowed ice in his den thereafter, and no better behaved specimen of his tribe was ever placed on exhibition. Mr. Barnum, we are informed, with characteristic energy, has tele graphed to Africa for other specimens of rare and wild beasts, to supply the places of those destroyed by the late conflagration. He may procure ele- E bants, lions, tigers and cockatoos, ut he can never fill the place of Gorilla Briggs. Not even Dr. Liv ingstone, with all of his experience in African jungles, can capture so fine a specimen, one who could caper so nimbly around his seven by nine cage, and dance to the lascivious tick lings of his keeper’s club with such patience. Gorilla, adieu, and may the hairy four legged Phoenix who arise from your ashes possess your noble qualities of mind and heart, and give entire satisfaction to a delu ded public for the usual pricO of half a dollar. Last week 350,000 cigars, valued at $25,200 were shipped to New York bj 7 Key West cigar manufacturers. The business steadily increases. Arkansas squirrels crass the Mis sissippi on bits of tanbark. A plan ter lost 200 cords in a single morning. QUEER DOG-DOINGS. ANECDOTES ILLUSTRATIVE TO CAN INE SAGACITY. The writer of a philosophical trea tise on the consciousness of dogs, in the Bi'ilish Quarterly lie vine gives among others the following interest ing anecdotes illustrative of the hab its of “Our Poor Relations:” The Dowager Lady Stanley of Alderly some years ago took her skye-terrier with her in a close barouche from Grosvenor Crescent to London bridge. At London bridge Lady Stanley em- ! barked in a steamer for Gravesend, where she left Smerock with her j children, and returned to town. — j Next day the governess wrote to say the dog had escaped from her charge at Gravesend, and the same night the animal appeared in Grosvenor Cres cent, alone, foot-sore and covered with mud. An equally remarkable case was that of a hound, which was sent by Charles Cobbe, Esq., from Newbridge, county Dublin, toMoyn alty, county Meath, and thence long afterwards, conveyed to Dublin, and the same morning made his way back to his old kennel at Newbridge, thus completing the third side of a triangle by a road he had never trav eled in his life. Mr. George Jesse gives series of similar stories; a butcher’s dog slipping his chain and running home 120 miles, which he had been taken by railway; an offi cer’s dog returning 180 miles, also originally traversed by rail, etc. The only situation in which animals seem to lose themselves is in the streets of a great city* where the very cleverest of dogs, even, notably, retrievers (as the keepers of the admirable home for lost dogs will testify), fail to find their way for very short distances. — In the opinion of the writer, the the ory which best explains the ascertain ed facts is, that the creatures in ques tion have a certain sense of the mag netic currents sufficient to afford them a sort of Internal mariner’s compass,, marking the direction in which they travel. We know that the magnetic currents affect the needle, and the hypothesis that they may also affect living frames, with special organiza tions, seems no way incredible; while the fact that a dog, who can find his way for a hundred miles in the open country, may lose it in five hundred yards in a town, seems to point to the multitude of streets turning at right angels as the cause of confusion to a sense which simply indicates a straight direction. Chivalry and magnanimity may nearly always be calculated upon in dogs, and wife-beating is an offense to which the four-footed beast never descends. Rover was a Labrador dog, and much attached to a small dog named Aline. On one occasion, Aline was missing for several days, and at last it was discoyered that she had a lit tle family of puppies, which she had hidden In a hole, in a bank on Asuott Heath, aud thither for many days Rover had carried her some of his dinner. Rover also fought with an other dog and wounded him severely, after which he persisted for a long time in bringing his enemy a portion of his own food until ho had recover ed. Another anecdote is equally as good: A large well-led dog was observed, on a very rainy day, sitting under shelter in his own den in the yard of a country house, and watching a strange dog who was standing drench ed through, in a miserable plight.— After thinking about it for some time, the big dog suddenly sprung up, crossed the yard, jumped, as he was accustomed, at the latch of a woodhouse door till it opened, and then, leaving the door open for the wet dog to enter, returned to his own abode, and rolled himself up in the peace of a mens conscia red. Like his human brother, the dog frequently goes through the some what complicated mental process in volved in conscious deception. He pretends to be asleep, or invents ex cuses to lag behind in a walk, or af ter stealing food, when he hears a step at the door, shrinks back into his kennel and lays himself down in an attitude betokening long unbrok en repose. The most diverting in stance of a beast’s hypocrisy of this kind which we hear is one thus de scribed by Mrs. Symonds, of Clifton: “The dog was a poodle puppy call ed Baldi. One night, after we had all gone to the play, supper having all been ready for our return, we found the pigeon-pie in this condi tion: one pigeon having been ex tracted, and the whole cleverly filled up with a bit of damp inky sponge, which my father (the late Mr. North) always kept in a glass on his writing table to wipe his pens on. Baldi looked terribly guilty, and there was no doubt where the pigeon was gone; but why he should have thought of concealing his guilt by filling up the hole, I have not an idea.” Mr. Froude, in his awful descrip tion of the death of Mary Queen of Scots, tells us how her little dog was found to have followed her to the scaffold, hidden under her flowing robes, and that, when her head had fallen, the poor creature, in the ago ny of its grief, lay down precisely in the severed place of the neck. Is it imaginable how the sympathy of a dumb mourner could be more forci bly expressed ? Another story of a lighter sort was recently published in the entertaining pages of “Animal World ,” and illustrates the same sen timent in a less tragic way. A lady was seriously ill and con fined to her bedroom, to which her favorite dog was rarely granted en trance. The servants of the lady, daily made beef tea for her, and threw T the meat, after the juice had been extracted, to the dog. Appar ently the brute came to the conclu sion that his dear mistress was be ing starved, or at all events, that his piece of meat would do her good.— Waiting a favorable opportunity, in the evening he stole into her room with the beef in his mouth, and when she awoke she found it deposi ted as an offering of affetion on her pillow-. Strongest and most suggestive of all the anecdotes recorded of dogs are the numerous histories of their drowning themselves under condi tions w T hich almost compel us to class the act as voluntary and conscious suicide. Not long ago many news papers copied a mournful story of a poor dog who was cruelly discarded *n his old age by his master, and after ineffectual efforts to find shelter in another house, was seen deliberately to stand gazing at the rushing waters of the Loire, then painfully lift him self on Ms crippled limbs, and leap into the stream. The spectator held out a stick to save him, but the beast gave him a look of despair, turned away his head, and floated down without au effort to save himself.— Similar incidents are to be found in Jesse’s “Anecdotes of Dogs,” where we are told of the suicide of a hand some and valuable Newfoundland dog belonging to Mr. Floyd, a solici tor at Holmfirth. The animal show ed low spirits for some days, and then was seen to throw himself into the water, where he endeavored to sink by keeping his legs perfectly still.— Being dragged out, he returned time after time to the river, till at last he succeeded in keeping nis head under water long enough to extinguish life, j LET THEM AMUSE THEM SELVES. BY HENRY WARD BEECHER. In old-fashioned times boys and girls were left to their own wits for i amusements, nor do I think that this : was a very bad thing to be left with. I never go into a toy-shop, especially one of those magazines in New York, where ten thousand toys are ; heaped together, without pittying the modern family. Once the dear old aunt promised the little girl that if she would be good she should have a doll made for her. Already she had had little thin and crinkly paper dolls, and picture dolls on slates, and handkerchief dolls folded and pinned, which could be opened out again, on pressing need, to the uses of a handkerchief. But there shall be a brand new doll, set apart and consecrated to the high ends of doll life, but it shall have eyes, and nose, and mouth, marked off with ink, and set forth in the sight of all men and girls. The joys of an ticipation almost equal the rapture of possession. At lenght the creative work is done, and the little girl comes into possession of a cotton doll stuffed with bran, and the face brought out in a manner that would make an old Egyptian hieroglyphic dance with envy. A bit of well-worn calico, ten years ago flaming new, in a dress that excited envy, a shred of worn out lace, a scrap or two of ribbon— these are the whole stock in the child’s hand. But what joy do they produce! Ah, no poet has yet sung one of the gen tlest, richest, and most fruitful of earthly joys—the joy of a pet-loving little girl, with her first real doll.— Sacrechgeographers have long search ed for the position of Eden. We don’t know about the old one, but the door of young paradise is placed not far from the corner where the lit tle girl has laid her doll to rest. Her imagination supplies all that is lack ing. This is not a corner of a garret, nor a nook in the closet. It is a splendid room. Those are not cob webs, but tapestry hangings. Those bits of crockery—is there in Dresden or Sevres manufactories any ware so fine in their eyes as this delph is in the little girl’s? But now-a-days children are buried down under the loads of toys which are upset upon them. Dolls? In one little girl’s treasury house I can count twelve —small dolls, large dolls, chi na dolls, wax dolls, with eyes that move, and eyes that don’t, speaking dolls, creeping dolls, and white and pink—with chairs, and doll sets of china, and beds, bureaus, stoves, houses, carriage, wagon, and wheel barrow, till the very inventory be comes burdensome. Do not children enjoy these? Cer tainly. But. no more than aforetime children enjoyed the home made and scanty provision for amusements. It is the creative faculty in children that furnishes them their chief de light. If the imagination is killed by the superabundant supply, it has no chance to create, all is done for it. — This suppression of imagination by overloading is not confined to amuse ment. It is a deadly sin in art, liter ature, oratory, and all other depart ments which have for their object the moving of men’s thoughts. A chest of tools—not too many—is a far better present to a lad than a cart-load of wagons, machines and finished things. No boy ever flew a kite that he had bought with half the pleasure that he experiences to see the work of his own hands rising heavenward. Some of our happiest hours were spent in damming up a brook. We toiled at stones, we burdened our selves with loads, we worked for days, and days, at spare hours, in laying the ledge across the stream, in stuffing in clods, in adjusting boards, to carry a sheet out as a water-fall, and in a hundred wriggles of ingenu ity that were an intense pleasure, at the same time that they were stirring up ingenuity and serving as a real education. A good knife and a ball of twine is a good enough capital. Let the boy make his kite, make his base-ball, make his sled, make his bat, his lad der. All true pleasure consists in the creative activity of the human facul ties. Stir up boys and girls to amuse themselves. Then amusement be comes a hand-maid to education— lV. Y. Leader. TOO MUCH FOR WHISKY STILLS | A certain town of Eastern Tennes see boasted in having four whisky stills. The son of the man who start ed the first one went into it one Sun day morning and drank so freely as to get drunk. He then went to a distant church, and made such a diturbance that they were compelled to turn him out. Going into the woods, he remained until he got sober. He then resolved never to get drunk again and to work until the whiskystills were all broken up. Meeting with an active agent of the American Sunday School Union, he secured his advice and assistance in organizing a good Union Sunday-school near these four distilleries. They have all since been closed. The owner as he shut up the last one for want of business, said, “ That Sunday-school is too much for us. Anything but this singing the Bible into folks. Its no use to fight that.” Governor Vance, of North Caroli- Ina, is now giving lectures. THE RETURNING PRODIGAL. To Thee, insulted Father, God I turn these melting eyes ; I weep o’er paths which I have , trod, The paths Thou dost despise. I Long have I wandered from Thy j ways Long left Thy smiling face; Long spent the best.of all my days, Abusing Thy rich grace O, wounded Father, throw Thine arm Around Thy straying one ; Secure from wandering, shield from harm, As Thou hast often done. ThedyingSaviour’s blood’s still free To cleanse the sin-stained soul; Has not this blood atoned for me, The weak one of the fold ? O, gracious Spirit, hear my cry, And dwell within this heart; That I may. henceforth ever try To act the faithful part. ‘ W. J. Mitchell,. From the Homo Commercial.] BILL ARP ON A BUST-LE. See here Mark Antony—if I was you I wouldn’t take on so about the fashuns. They don’t bother me. It’s none of your bisness what the women put on or put off so they behave them- j selves and look just as purty as they can. They are a heap better than you or me anyhow, whether they behave or not. I wouldnet give one woman for several men no time, would you ? ' Now see him smile and pat that off foot. If women want to wear bussels, let em wear em. I thought that pan nears was the best because they stuck out side ways and wasent in the way ofleaninback when they sat down, but they know which is the best side to stick out on, and it’s nobody’s bis ness but theirs. They may wear any thing they want to, bussels and hoops and hangovers and convexes and col lapses and whimmadiddles and stick outs and topknots come down and anything else so there is a woman hid away somewhere inside of it all. It’s all a sham—that rubber buasel— there aint no substance nor backbone in it. I’ve seen em flat and seen em blowed up. There aint a bit of harm in em, but I never see one on a wo man that I don’t want t > hit it just hard enuf to make it pop. I golly, wouldent she jump high and holler? But I’m not a going to do it; no, sir; I’ve got too much respect for women. Their bussels don’t hurt nobody, and I do despise to see a man always pickin at a woman’s close. If they didcnt wear something to disguise em the men would quit bisness when they cum about. Purty women al ways did wear something to skeer the men away. I’ts been so forever. During the war I seed one woman who jest dressed as nateral as life, without any paddin or stullin, and when she cum along the boys jest laid down and rolled over and hollered. They warent fit for bisness for a week. But I couldent bear to see em go with their faces all tied up like they do in Turkey. That would mighty nigh kill me. If I can look into their blessed countenances I can put up with their fore riggin and their hind riggin and t<op riggin and all. A good, sweet, purty face speaks for all the balance of the craft. I wouldent marry narry girl on the earth till I see her face, and not then if she did ent suit me. If the eyes, nose and mouth are all right, natur is an en dorser for all the balance. Paint aint nothin—shape is everything. They can’t paint a shape, nor a glance of the eye. You may paint a house ev er so white, but that don’t signify what’s inside of it. But when you see bright roses and posies and blos soms in the front yard, and a vine over the.door, and clean, clear win der glass a shining, you may bet yonr hat on the balance. You needent worry about the bussel nor the back. Women have been doing that way ever since old Solomon wrote about em. If they do lean a little as they go, it’s all right. They can straight en up when it is necessary. JSTo spi nal disease about that. Thems the very sort what can lift two bushels of meal without crackin a bone. It’s only a passing fashun—and will last till something else comes along. Na ture made ’em that way, and you can’t change it. The more you try, the more you can’t. The more you abuse their bussels, the more they’ll stick ’em at you—so let ’em alone, I say. They are all the same about fashions, and the last one would put em on if they had their own way and plenty of money. I wish I was jest rich enuf to give every lady in the land a string of diamonds and a hat full of pearls. Good gracious! how quick that Methodist dissippliu would be busted on the jewelry bisness.— Well, I do like to see em look purty, and so far as I am concerned, if rib bons and flowers and flounces and furs will help do it, it’s all right.— ’ Some of the “birds are dressed up mighty line, and I reckon their pride aint much of a sin after all. But un derstand. me, Mark; I don’t hanker after bussels, tho they do say it makes the nicest little shelf for the arm to rest on in the world, when a feller is dancin around with his gal. That’s all right, provided the feller aint a dancin with my gal. If he is, why he may take her and keep her, that’s all. Bill Arp. Dressing for Church.— There was a time when good taste demanded the use of the plainest clothes in the sanctuary, when the wealthiest were distinguished for their conspicuous ab sence of personal adornment, and sar torial display was a mark of vulgarity at such times and places. But now it would almost appear as if, whatever might be thought of a modest garb in other places, the proper costume for the house of God, where, theoretically we all go to be reminded of our com mon origin or destiny, were an ag glomeration of all the jewelry, and all the chignons, and all thepaniers, and | all the feathers and furbelows in one’s i wardrobe. The wearer is to carry all ; this piled agony to the sanctuary as I to a fair—as if her errand were not so 5 much to praise as to be appraised—and there employ the sacred time in envi ous comparison of her own mountain of millinery with the Himalayan tri umphs of her neighbor.— Exchange. SUBSCRIPTION : $2 per annum. Agricultural Department. COFFEE. For a long time 1 used the coffee ground as coarsely as it is usually sold in the shops. Although procur ing the best berries possible, I did not uniformly succeed in obtaining at the breakfast table a first rate bev erage. I consulted many wiseacres, some of whom said that the water used should be hotter, others that the coffee should be first soaked in cold water, etc., etc. By accident one day, I happened to have tho coffee re-ground to the fineness of snuff.— Herein lay the mystery. I have never since failed to obtain a strong full-flavored beverage, and that too without using so large a quant itv of coffee. A correspondent of the Independent travelling in Sweden, was intensely delighted with the coffee served oil the steamboats and hotels. “At Ur sula, we determined to find out how they made such perfect coffee as wo had just drank, and stepped into the neat little kitchen of the little hotel, and this was the report: Take any kind of coffee pot or urn, and sus pend a bag made of felt or very hea vy flannel, so long that it reaches the bottom, bound on a wire just fitting the top; put in the fresh ground pure coffee, and pour on freshly hoik'd water. The fluid filters through the bag and may be used at onceneeds no settling, and retains all the aroma. The advantage of this over the ordi nary filter is its economy, as the cof fee stands and soaks out the strength, instead of merely letting the water pass through it.” A French chemist asserts that if tea be ground like coffee before hot water is poured upon it, it will yield nearly double the amount of its ex hilarating qualities.” Anothe writer says: “If you put a piece of lump su gar, the size of a walnut, into a ten not, you will make the tea infuse in half the time.” Persons who have tried this last experiment say that the result is satisfactory.— Boston Journal of Chemistry. THE COMPOST HEAP. The winter is the time to prepare the compost heap—to gather the ma terials and incorporate them, so that in spring they will be in a condition for the crops to digest easily. It is a work which is easy of accomplish ment if it is steadily pursued; but unfortunately it is one which receives but little attention from the majority of Southern planters. There are ve ry few places where the materials for a large heap cannot be collected dur ing the winter months, if we will on ly take the necessary trouble. The fallen leaves from the woods, all re fuse vegetable matter, creek mud and a little lime, will make an excel lent compost with stable manure, cotton seed and all other matter which will produce fermentation and decomposition. It is astonishing what a large pile of fertilizing mat ter can be collected in a short time if attention is given to it every day.— Wherever river mud or muck can be had without too much hauling, noth ing is better when mixed with slack ed lime in the proportion of a bushel of the latter to half a cord of the for mer.—Marietta Journal. The above advice is timely and good, except that part of it which re commends the mixing of lime with stable manure. Such a mixture would set free the ammonia contain ed in the manure, cause it to escape and be lost. It would be much bet ter to mix clay, sand, or gypsum with the stable manure, in order that it may be absorbed and retained. TO HAVE GOOD HAY CROPK The question is how to get good crops of grass and hay, and this ques tion was touched upon in the discus sion upon this subject at the last meeting of the State Board of Agri culture of Massachusetts, when Mr. Johnson said: The first thing which a farmer must do in order to increase his hay crop is to look to his manure. We cannot prepare the ground for seed properlv unless the manure heap is cared for. That is the first thing. Then it is important that we should plow our ground properly, that it may be in a suitable condition to receive the ma nure and seed. If the ground is not plowed to the depth of seven or eight inches, possibly nine, we cannot get a surface cultivation so thorough that the roots will not be liable to dry up. We can not get mould enough, to ase that term, by shallow plowing to in sure our crop against the dry seasons. And it is also essential, as every far mer well knows, that we should'have a proper quantity of manure, in or der that the soil may have a plenty of food, and that we may have a pay ing crop of grass. It does not pay to mow ground where we do not get more than ten or fifteen hundred pounds to the acre, high as labor is now. I should say that on most soils about fifteen cords of compost ma nure should be applied to the acre in planting the ordinary farm crops preparatory to seeding our grass WINTER CLOTHING. In his experiments to determine the heat conducting power of linen, cotton, wool, and silk, Sir Humphrey Davy found not only that these ma terials conducted heat in tire order given above, linen b£ng the best, but also that the tightness or looseness of weaving possessed an important in fluence. It is therefore evident that in the selection of winter clothing, and especially of that to be worn next to the skin, the materials of least conducting power, as wool and silk should be chosen, and the fabrics should be loosely woven. As regards the external garments the same rujes apply with equal force, but in this case care should be taken to remove overcoats and shawls when in a warm room; especially should this precaution be observed in the in stance of furs worn by ladies. The habit of wearing these articles for hours in succession while shopping and visiting, often so weaken the powers of resistance in the wearers that they become the ready victims of inflammations of the throat and lungs. To such an extent does this occur in New York that many of the most skillful physicians advise their patients to discontinue the use of fun?, and the advice is often followed K ith the most satisfactory result.— Scrifr ner's for November. NO. 3-