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Newspaper Page TextTHE CUTHBERT APPEAL. By J. F. SAWTELL.] OUR PLATFORM: ‘‘FEAR THE LORD, TELL THE TRUTH, AND MAKE MONEY," [Terms: $1 60 in Advance. VOL. XVIII. CUTHBERT, GA., .FRIDAY, MARCH 14, 1884. NO. 11 THE APPEAL Published Every Friday Horning. TERMS: ONE YEAR fi 5(1 SIX MONTHS 75 (lavsrublyin advance.) t? All paper* stopped at expiration of a paid for, antes* in cases where parties • continuance. Advertising Rates Moderate. Don’t Enow Chicken from Turkey. DT Ul.UK K. BARB. Helen Is tbe handsome*! girl of her race, She’s an elegant term and an exquisite face And ilie dresses with perfectly consummate grace; But ahe doesn't know chicken from turkey. She kno*s many languages, living and dea<l art known to barsaponaible and they desire , In science and fletlou is very well read ; But she cannot cook meat, and ahe cannot make bread, Ana she doesu't know chickeu from turkey. She can play a ‘•Fantasia’’ or ‘‘Nocturne” with skbl, Can sing up to “B,” baa a wonderfull trill, Can write a good story or sonnet; but still Sbe doesn't know chickeu from turkey. Sbtf’s been up the Tiber, the Rhine, and the Nile; She’s a painter in every popular style— Can decorate china, a plaque, or a tile; But she doesn't know chicken from turkey. She's always self satisfied, grateful and cool; A critic, both just and correct, a* a rule ; And known every stitch ol the Kensington school, But she doesn't know c'ticken front tuikej. She can work a design by Lousing or Burt; But she cannot cut out for her childri skirt, Or make for iierhuabtnd a well-gtting shift; She doesn't know chicken from turkey. POWDER Absolutely Pure. ad Latin and I’m willing a girl should Greek, Should German, and French, and Latin speuk, And be ‘‘up’ in the latest aesthetic*I freak If she only knows chicken from turkey. I’d like her in music nud song to lake part. Head poetry, science, nud cultivate art. If husband and children were fust in her knew chicken from turkey— Mitchell's Eye Salve, A Certain. 8»f. »nJ EDrcilv. U.m..ly f..r Sore, Weak £ Inllameil Eyes, I'roilucinjt Isms-8iirliiciliiw», xml lNs'ir* ing the Higlit or ilm Old. Cures Tear Props, (irannlmh Relief and IN unit Cure. >, equally efflracions maladies sucli as Uln re. Salt III.rum, Hu ver iiillainail.iri exi* may be used In imIvhii Sold by all Dinggist nl Kre |.n*U- (juiek ANDREW Female College, CVrilBKltT, o.i. 0|>eiia Ita ne«l annual •ee*i»n September 10 f 1883. ItuTldiiiK* Ml deal red. Oi Faculty composed led (fei'tlei all tin u>Merinc thr .rk U thorn “EIlHm't. Ci.ll. have well oipKnizot depart man, French Vocal and Inal and Art. No extra eliaigea lu Calisthenit a, flats »IiikI» ah to. ^ ^ ^ advantages alVur.led. For Catalogue or oin- •r Information, wliita to th* INcWlrut, Bov. HOWARD W. KEY, A. M. TUTT’S f PILLS . TORPID BOWELS, Disordered liver, mptoms indicate Lbelr existence: I^oas of k»UU, Dowels costive, Hick IKsad- h«, fttUnm after eating, aversion to ||pil^§pl [bo uso of a remedy that mda d l rrctly a and hklnU a! to prompt s removing WfcurMes through these three **»«av- P&ssg§sgi CBS. mo iunju or rM m lutcifti. ’S HAIR DYE. aassvssw Just Opened. N EW Stationery, FUtnre Frames, Album*, Scrip Books. Feather Dusters, Lunch Haekna, IUckgamrcon Beards. Checker Boards Buck Parses and Pocket Books. Spectacles, Eye Ghweea sud Goggles, Fapie Maeha fipeetaele Cases. Accordeona, Harmonicas snd Banjos. ** p Druggist sud Bookseller. The Great Lamp Emporium. 11TE have just reeeivtd the largest and YV most Watiful supply of Lamp Goods ever hnuNtht to this market We have variegated colors of glass, which is entirely sew. Especially do we invito yoa to call and SO* bow cheap we sell them. y F. TUNQMJW * WW>. cw a tart from a slew, a broil from a fry ; cut into the market to buy. Jl chicken fioin turkey, a homo happy, all kitowi- I Art. science, and service their benefits lend; Then, ladie* so clever and wise, cond-.vccud j To know about chicken and turkey. |—The Continent. Domestic - Very. j It takes nil sorts of people to j make a world. Many w. 11 encour age a young lady to devote three or four years to music, “because i she m iy hive to teucli some day | f'*r a living,” hut neglect to teach her how to cook or do anything of | housework, never dreaming that she is to become a wife some day It is very touching to seo a mother in the kitchen bending over a wash tub, every hone in her body aching, tint she may enable her duughter to sit in the ptrlor and paw ivory, mid sing “who will care for tuolh er now,” through her nose, when the gill is a great dial better adapted to the melody of the wnab hoard, and would understand the notes letter. Raise y« ur girls bj useful us W'II ns ornamental, 'ami ih- re wdl he leas prematurely broken down mothers in tbe coun- t'J- A. Ward's Courtship. The following in Arlemua Ward’s description of why ho courted Betsy Jane: “There were many affectin' tie* which mado me him* ker after Betsy Jane. Her fath- er’* farm jined ourn; their cows and ourn squelched tbeir thirst al the same spring, our tnnres both had stars ou the forehead; the meas es broke out in both families at nearly the same time; our pan rents (Betsy Jare end mine) slept regularly every Sunday in the same meetiu’ bouno, and tbe neighbors tiaed to ol serve: *How thick tbe Wards and iho Pcasleyi nir.’ It was a sublime sight in the spring of the year to see our several mothers (Beley and mine) with their gowns pinned up, so that they couldn't site ’em, effectionately bil in' soap together and abooetn’ their neighbors,” Ashes and common salt wet and mixed, will stop cracks in a store and prevent smoke escaping. Are Ton Exposed To malarial influences ? then pro tect your system by using Parker’s Gir.gcr Tonic. It strengthens the liver and kidneys to throw cfl malarial poisons, sud is good for general debility and nervous ex haustion. 1® You can keep your hair slim* daut and glossv, and retain ita youthful color, with Parker’s Hair Balsam. 1® Time and Expense Saved. Hard workers arc subject to bil lions attacks which may end in dangerous iliusts. Parker’s Gin ger Tonic keeps tbe kidneys and liver active, and I y preventing tbe attacks save* sickness, time snd expense— Detroit Trees. lm The Three Srides, “Do yon see,” said the sexton, “those three hillocks yonder side by side? There sleeps three brides, whose history I am about to relate. Look there, sir, ou yonder hill, you may observe a little deso late house, with a little strag gling fence in front, with a few stauuted apple trees on the ascent behind it. It is sadly out of re- pairjnow, and the garden is over grown with weeds and brambles, and tbe whole placo has a desolate Appearance. If the winds wert high now you might hear the era xy shutters flapping against the sides, and the wind tearing the gray shingles off the roof. Many years ago there lived in that bouse un old man who cultivated the few acres of ground that belonged to it. “The father was n self-taught man, deeply versed in the mysteries of science, and he could tell the name of every flower fhut blossom ed in the wood, or grew in tbe garden, and used to sit up lute at night at his books, or in reading the mystic story of the starry hc*v ens, men thought ho waj crazy or bewitched, and avoided him n< the ignorant ever shun the gifted and the enlightened. A few them were, and among other*, the mi'dit- ter, the lawyer and .the physieiau of the place, who showed u will ingness to afford him countenance, for they found the old inuti was somewhat reterved and moio.e, moreover their vanity was wounded in d.scovering the extent of his knowledge. “To tho minister he Would quote the fathers and the scriplures in iho original tongue, and showed himself well armed with tho weap ons of polemic controversy. He astonished tho lawyer with bi» profound acquaintance with juris prudence; nud the physician was surprised at the extent of hi* med ical knowledge. So all of them d verted him, and the minister, from whom he el.ffcrcd in some trifling point of doctrine, spoke ry lightly of him; and by and by 1 «oLcd on the self educated farmer with eyes of aversion. “He instructed his son in ull his lore; the language, literature, his tory, philosophy uud science, were unfolded one by one, to the enthu siastic sou of the solitary. “Ye.rs rolled away mi l tho old mau dieJ. He died when a storm convulsed tho fuco of nature, when tbe wind howled around tho she-U tired dwelling, and lightening played above the roof, and, though he went to heuvtn in faith uud purity, tho vulgar thought and said that the Evil One claimed his own in the elenuuls. 1 cannot point to you the grief of the son ul his bereavement The luiuistor came and muttered a few hollow praises in Ins ear, and a few neigh bors impelled by curiosity to see tho iuleri >r of his dwelling came to the funeral. With a proud and lofty look the son stood abovo the dust and tho dead, in the midst of tho band of hypocritical mounters, with a pang at his heart, butsereu iiy upon his brow. Ho thanked bis friends for tbeir kindness, ac knowledged their courtesy, and then strode away from the grave, to bury bis grief in tho privacy of the deserted dwelling. “He found at last the solitude of the mansion almost insurportable, and he paced the ebony floor from morning till night, in all the agony ol woe and desolation, vainly itn- portuning heaven for relief. It uuine to him in the guise of poetical inspiration. He wrote with won** derful ease and power, l’age after page came from bit prolific pen, almost without an effort, and there was a lime when he dreamed (vain fool) of immortality. Some of his productions came before the world. They were praised aud circulated, and inquiries set on foot in tbe hope of discovering the author. He, wrapped in the veil of impene trable obscurity listened to the voice of applause, the more delicious be • cause it was obtained by stealth From the obscurity of yonder loue mansion, and from this region to send lays that astonished tbs world, was indeed a triumph to tho vis ionary bard. His thirst for fame bad fcen gratified, and be now began to yearn for the companionship of some aweet being of the softer sex, to share with him the laurels he baa woo, and to whisper consola tion in bis ear m tho moments of despondency, aud to supply the void which the death of a father had occasioned. He would picture to himself the felicity of refined iutorcomse with a highly intellect ual and beautiful woman, and he chose for bis motto, “Whatever has beeu done may bo done,” and he did not despair of success. “Iu this village lived three sis ters, all beautiful and accomplish ed. Their names were Mary, Ad elaidu aud Madeline. I am far enough past tho ago of enthusiasm, but never can I forget the beauty of those three young girls. Mary was tho youngest, and a fair hair ed, more laughing damsel never danced upon tho greeu. Adelaide, who was a few years oldor, was dark haired and pensive; but of tbe three, Madeline, the eldest, possessed the most file, spirit, cul tivation and intellectuality. Their father, a man of taste and educa* tion and bcieg somewhat above tho vulgar prejudices, permitted the visits of tho hero of uiy story. Stili he did not encourage the af fection hu found springing up be tween Mary and the poet When, however, ho found thut her affec tions were engaged, ho did not withhold his consent from their marriage, uud the recluse boro to his mansion the young bride of his affections. Oh, sir, tho house as sumed a new nppearance witLiu aud without. “Boses bloomed in the garden; jessamines .peeped through the I at ices, aud the fields about it smil ed with the effect of more careful cultivation. Lights were seen in the parlor in tho evening; and many a time woqjd tho passer by pause at the garden gate to listen to struiiiH of tho sweetest mtl-ic breathed by coral voices from the cottage, if the mysterious student and his wife hud been neglected by the ncighbois, what ctred they? Th ir enduring mutual affection mado their home a httle paradise- But d.'ttth came to Eden. Mary suddenly fell sick, and after a few hours illness, died in tho arms of her husband and her sister Made- lino. This was the student's sec* ud heavy afllicli >ns. “Days, months', roll'd on, and the solace of the bereaved was to sit with the si.ter of tho deceased snd talk cf the lost otic. To Ado lino hu offered hi* widowed heart. The bridal was not one of revelry and mirth. Yot they lived happi ly, and iho roses again blo-somed iu the garden. But it teemed if fatality pursued this singular man. When the roses withered, aud the leaf fell, iu the mallow uutunin of tho yeur, Adeline too sickened and died like her sister, in the arms of her husband and Madeline. “Perhaps yiu will think it strauge, young man, that after all, the wretched survivor stood ugaib at tho altar. Madeline I I well re' member her. She was a beauty iu tho truo senso of the word—she might have sat on a throne, and tho most loyal subject, the proud est peer, would have sworn the blood in her veins’ descended from a hundred kings. She loved the widower for his power and his lame, and she wedded him. “They wore married in that church—it was a summer after noon-1 recollect it well. During iho ceremony, tho blackest cloud I ever saw overspread the bcaveiis, and tbe momeut this bri lo pro nounced her vow, a clan of thuu" der shook the building to Us cen tre. All tbe females shrieked, but the bri«lo herself made the res- (ioiiso with a steady voice, and her eye glhtencd with a wild fire as she gazed upon her bridegroom. When arrived at tho house, she sank up on the threshold; but this was the timidity of the maiden. •• When they were alone, he clos]>ed hor hand, and it was os cold as ice! “ Madeline,” said he, “ what means this ? Yottr cheek is as pale as your wedding gown." The bride uttered a frantic shriek. “ My wedding gown 1’* exclaimed she, “ no, no; this is my sister’s shroud I The hour of confession hu arrived. It is Qod that impels me to speak. To win you I lost my soul l—Yes, yes—I am a mur deress I She smiled ou me in the joyous affection of her young heart —but I gave her the fatal drug I Adeline twined her white arms around my neck, but I administer ud the potson ! Take me to your arms—I have lost my soul for you and mine you must be l” “ And then,” continued he in a hollow voice, “ at that moment catne the thuuder, and the guilty woman fell dead on the floor!” The countenance of the narra tor expressed as he felt. “ And the bridegroom ?” asked I, “ the husband of the destroyer and the victims; what became ot him ?' “ Ho standi before you I” was the thrilling answer. The Hypocrite, No man is born a hypocrite. If he were born with this faculty to dissemble and deceive he would not bo a hypocrite. It wculd be his ualure, aud a hypocrite is one who lives wlmt he is not. His re ligion is a fraud; bis business is a deception; he makes love to a wo man for selfish purposes, and sol emnly promises to love her, comfort her, houor and keep her in sickness aud in health, when, at the same lime, he simply means to use her ns a steppingstoue for his owu social or business advancement. Look about you and see how mauy such there are. Tho world is full of them ! The man who begius by wrouging bis wife, if he is a con summate hypocrite, always enlarges his field and practices decept upon tbe world. After all bis fiiie vows to the woman who gave up all else for him. and clung to him with arms of faith, he neglects her for “ tho boys.” For the balm of her breath he gives her tbe fumes of whisky, and, to sum up a long und bitter story, sbe sinks quietly into tbe gruvo wills a broken heart. The pitiless clods that full upon her cofliu-lid are no colder than his heart laid been fot ber. Now that bis wife lias lain down to that dreamless slumber, your nice mau begins to reform. He is seen at church, and wears a pious air. He takes a great interest iu the cause of religion, and, being a business man, secs “ money in it.” lie goes to church with great regularity, and every day’s experience con vinces him that religion is a good thing, lie gives a nickel to the poor, announces in the .paper thnt lie gave a dollar, and thus he lend- ith to the Lord. He is opposed to tippling, makes on occasional speech against tho accursed cup, aud going hou.o mixes a three-ply toddy for his larnyx strained in the cause ot tcmpcrauco. Slavery still exists iu China, and is carried on with all those painful hardships and fiendish barbarity that have characterized it for ecu- turi' i. Male slaves, however, are few compared with female ones. The former are nearly all defcccn* dutils of rebels captured in war, whilo it is tho pruclico of girls to voluntarily become slaves in order to tave their family from penury and death. Iii p«or families, where girls arc numerous, it Is the cus- tom if they do not drown them when born, to sell them to wealthy families as domestic servants. The price paid, of course, depends upon the ago, health, and personal ap pearnnee of the girl. Tbe average price is from $30 to $50 each. The market for human flesh ia dearer now, and a father may now get $100 for a good looking girl 12 years old. If sbe is healthy a con tract is then executed, by which the purchaser is bound not to sell her for immoral purposes, under taking to provide her with ^hole- some food and drink until she is 19 or 20, when he must find her a husband. What cannot bo mado out of paper is something which cannot yet be lately decided. A Hart ford (Conn.) man has lately taken out patents for devices by which very beautiful and aubstantial car pets can be mado of paper at prices much lower than the cost of com mon cotton matting. This new fabric even seems to have qualities entirely superior to ordinary car pets. It can be doctored so as to resist water, fire and insects with* out losing any of the sott elegance which ia common to fine woolen carpets. So iayeth the inventor and his fiiends. If you have great talents indus try will improve them; if moderate abilities industry will soppty their deficiency. Nothing is denied to well directed labor. Nothing Is ever to be attained without it. A Crapping Mortgage. “And what is that?” asked a stranger. “Why," said the old man, “do you pretend to tell us that you do not know what a crapping mort gage is ?” Hurh were his pretensions. “Then you are no Southerner,” the roan continiud; “so I will tell you something about it A crap ping mortgage—well, I give one o' them dtirued things once myself. The way of it was just this:— You see I alters managed to keep a little money aliead to buy the little things wo needed ou tho plan tation and I generally went down to our little town to buy them once a week. Well, as I was down there trading one week tbe store keeper he said to mo, sez he: “What’s tbe use of bothering along this way every week paying out your small change—Why don’t you give ine a crapping mortgage, and then g.-nd when you want any thing and let me put it on tbe books, without bothering about tho change, and then when your crap is ia you can send down a bag o’ cotton aud pay it all off at one swoop. Well, it didn’t look like a bad idea—sounded sorter easy like, eo, I told the storekeeper I thought I’d do iL So he filled out a crap ping mortgage, which t.e had al ready printed, and as I couldn’t read very well, 1 signed it on his. word that it was all light.” “Well, sir crapping mortgages is curious things! Before I got half way home with my load I got to studying about it. As soon a* I’d signed it the storekeeper ho told mo that now my name was good in his store for anything I wunted, and to scud right aloug as often as I pleased. That was what 1 was studying about and then pret ty soon 1 got to studying up what I wanted and what 1 needed, and thut infernal crapping mortgage or something else made uio think of things that I never wanted before. You *co, I bad fought sby of debt ail my lifo, but all tho neighbors was trying bands on crupping mortgages and I thought I’d be in for a little too.” Well I did. “I kept on wanting things ! and I kept ou gettiug things. We all got along fine, and the storekeeper sold the old woman lots of things that wo never bad wanted before, but that we was bound to have after I signed that crapping mortgage. They breed wants, they do. "At last the crap came in and 1 sent a bale of cotton down to the store to pay off the crapping ruort gage. It didn’t do it. Then I sent down another bale—that wasn’t enough. Next I sent down all the cotton I had, and finally, all my corn and fodder and as it wasn’t ■till paid, the old woman got all her chickens, and ducks, and tur* keys, and sent them down—still that miserable crapping raorlgags wasn't sat'sfied. So I went down to see him about it. The store keeper said it was all right—all paid but about two hundred doh jars and that didn't make any dif fercnce; I could still hive anything I wanted on it, “But, air, somehow or other I aid not like bow things was going, so I took and paid the balance on the crapping mortgage aud took tho blame thing homo with me though 1 couldn’t help thanking the storekeeper for offering to let me still have goods slier my crap was ail gone. When I got home me and the old woman, we put on our specks and took a look at tbe crapping mortgage and wbat do yoo think? Why I'll be dod burn ed if that crapping mortgago had n’t been spread over my laud, my horses, my mules, my stock, my farming ntensils, my household and kitchen furniture-everytning I bad was flung into it, and if it bad stayed there another year I’ll bet high everything I had would have gone through iu Well, let me tell yoa—don’t yoa never sign one, Yoa never alii get through paying it and when them store fellows tell yoa how easy it ie to get things now and pay for ’em in tbe fall, you remember what I tel) yoa about crapping mortgages.” And having finished his descrip tion ot these little engine* of op pression he palled,out a twist of home-made tobacco that looked as rich and brown as walnut wood, cut off a chew with hU horn-bundle knife, put it in his mouth, put the knife un<J tobacco back into bis breeches pocket, aud walked away. He turned around after walking a little ways then said reflectively: “Don't you never sign one iu the world; if you do, you will uover get through paying it off.” He might have added; “For the reason that you will be sure to buy hun dreds of things that jou could have got along without buying did you have tc pay the cash down.” That thing called 'good credit" id a most remarkable thing! "Our Little World. Some physical results of the Java distui bance help us to understand how etqall the world is. Take a bowl of water, agilafe the fluid the center, and the undulations you excite propagate themselves In smooth-swelling concentric rings till they lap against the rides of the bowl. There they break, and slop up iu mimic tidal waves. This is an exact illustration of the oscillations of the soa reported from both .hemispheres. The tidal irregularities, as might be cx peeled, were most violent on the northwestern seabord of Australia, which lies right opposite tho scene of the Java disturbances. On that coast the sea retreated and advanced a hundred yards. A day or two later oscillatious i ppeared on tbe Atlantic seabord of Ameri ca. The particulars undulation which, on the fifty day out, slop ped up on tho oust coast of New Zealand inu*t have como by way of Cape of Good Hope and Cape Horn, and bad nearly completed tho circuit of tho globe. Australia lies as a breakwater bt tween us and Java by the direct route. It gives one a new conception of the littleness of what Henry Ward Beecher calls “tbe fi’pcnny'ha'pen ny world,” when a man can stand on the Ocean Bcuch at Dunedin and watch the ripples flora a splash made iu the Struits of Suuda.— Ota (jo Times. Answering Children’s Questions. It is well to answci these trou blesome little, questions, oven if 'they do try the patience a little. Children hunger after now things and new ideaa. They will learn with plessurc facts of l.Ltorj or of science from the lips of paienta or of teachers, which would seem like drudgery if learned by roto Irom books, and they take great delight in listening to the convcuation of intcl'igont people; then-toie th»y should be allowed to remain in tbo drawing room or the library, if they will not interrupt tbe convir- nation, nud havo been taught to couduct lliciuseives properly.— Mauy a man owes his success in life to the conversations lie has listened to in his father’s home, when bis parents had not tho least idea he was not olJ enough to take auy interest iu what interested them; but bis young mind was drinking in draughts of wixuom which wore of incalculable benefit to him. He that does not fill a place at home cannot abroad. Ho goes there only to hide bis iusignificanco in a larger crowd. You do not think you wHl find anjthiag there which you have not seen at home? The stuff of all countries Is the What is true anywhere i« true everywhere. And, let a man go where he will, ho can find only so much beauty or worth as be car- rits. __ It is said that the plow ia gener al uso in-Mexico nowadays is the same the Egyptians used 5,000 years ago. It consists of a crook ed stick with an iron point trailed to it or tied to it wiith a piece ot rawhide, a small handle for the plowman to steer with and a polo to hitch a yoke of oxen to. This so called plow will scratch a fur row in tho soil three Inches deep. “What is the Sta'o of religion in your town ?’* “Bad, sir, very bad; there are no Chriitians except Da vie and me, and I have my doubts about Davis ” “1 woader wbat has taken away my appetits for breakfast?”asked a festive city man. “I suspect dear, it was your happy tight last night,” replied his wife. It ia understood that the girls havt adopted the following as thtir motto for leap year: “If you see wbat you want, ask for it.” Living in % Whirl To-day we live in a wbire. We cultivate civilisation at the expense of mental health. It is one grand rush from the rising of the sun to tbe going down of the same; a scramble for richer, for fame, for place, for power, for bare existence itself. We rush -to catch trains and ferry-boats, and having conght them lurit to get out. We walk*— when we do walk—in a hurry, talk in a hurry, think in a liutry, are taken ill in a hurry, and die with scarcely time to say our prayers. That this abnormal cordition of unrest pervad. s nil classes of work ers, paiticularly hi ain-workers, is an admitted fact. We have, as a people, got into a way of rushing things which it seems difficult to avoid. Competition has kept pace with high-pressure dtsires, and now a man must keep pace with the times, or sink out of sight. Instances are thick as leaves in au'umn of persons in the primo of lifo breaking down under tbe strain of over-work and over-wor ry. Tho streets arc filled with men who carry about with them spots on their brains—the victims of speculation, overwork or ex treme business cares. They may be found al the bar, in the pulpit, at the editorial table, in tho bank ing-house, the office, the studio and tho study. English advices inform ns that William Bluck, the novelist, who ia still a young man, has already worn his nervous system out, and that Sullivan, tbo brilliant com poser, is a menial and physical wreck. Such deplorablo condi tions could undoubtedly have bceu avoided bad theso two men been content to grow old slowly aud gracefully, and to acquire futno and fortune is a moderate and sensiblo way. Lifo is worth living if a man will only make it so. There is a time to work and a time to pUy. It is tbe true phi losopher who understands how to make the best of >both. The most colossal fortune that was ever amassed, the proudest uamo ever acquired, arc not worth the sacri fice of health and happiness. Tbo bumble sbepho'd on tho hillside, with his dog, “his clean hearth- Mono, his tin illy wife’s smile,” the man who knows no physical pain, no mental unrest, is a happier be- iug by far than tho Bothsohild alio cannot sleep, or the Carlyle whose lifo is one long sorrow. Am bition is all as a stimulant; where it becomes a craze it is a poison. Each human brain is ouly capable of accomplishing so much; It should make a point of studying just how much that is. Every man should strive to be, as far as lie* in his power, a philosopher. Philosophy might teach him that happiness at the heart is tho truest mental - hygiene, and that auoh happiness can ouly bo obtained by doing the duty that lie* nearest, by looking upon ambition m A means to an end, by tbe pursuit and enjoyment of refined pleasures, by cultivating domestic peace, by curbiog the temper and by per* forming kindly sot*.—New York Hour. ,i. Sumter Republican; Capt, John A. Cobb gives us ao item of in* formation very important^o farm ers, aud which he learned by act ual experience. He sayg that if cottou aood are pat in tbd ground sad cotton seed meal spread over them the protoxide of potassium ia tho meal will kill all seed plant- ed st tbo samo time and in tbo tame farrow and prevent them from coming up. The meal and seed, be says, should be first put In the ground and the ground* turned under and e new fkrrow- made end the com and oottou planted in it. 8aya an experienced bachelors “Ti e best thing to take when yoa go to kiss a pietty girl—take time. Tbe more you take tbe better elm Ukee U.” - In Germany they have a kind of Imp year ell the time. It it •aid that nearly three times at many women pop the question ie Happiness—A curtained, worm room; a little, little light, oat chair, two lovers, night and A die* abled dock. Odors from boiling ham, cabs bags, etc, may be prevented by throwing red pepper pode or A few pieces of charcoal into the pot.

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The Cuthbert appeal. (Cuthbert, Ga.) 1866-1884, March 14, 1884, Image 1