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VOLUME VII.
SBKTE V.
WAITING.
BT MILXOJJ U. MARBLE.
I have waited fur thy cowing
Till the moon has sunk ,to .rest,
Far behind the distant mountains.
In the gorgeous blushing west.
And the stars look down upon mo,
Wondering why I linger here ;
Jjut I shall not tell the story,
1 will keep it many a year.
At the sound of each faint footstep,
Made by gentle, fiiry tread,j
I start up, with hope returning,
Of a vision that has fled.
E’en the stars will not betray mo,
Tell the secret to thy ear;
bo I wait, alternate hoping,
p, ;I die voice I fain would hear.
But the one light, merry footfall
Will not come, itneeuib to me;
And 1 fail to hear the music
Of that voice of richest glee.
Yet I wait, as I have waited,
Though the grass is moist with dew,
For thy light and lairy footstep,
Hoping still that thou art true.
MIS CELL AMY.
Re Something.
It is the duty ol every one to take
flome active part as an actor on the
stage of live. Some seem to think that
they can vegetate, as it were without
bring anything in particular. Man
was not made to rust out his lifo. It
| is expected he should ‘act well his
part.’ He must be something. lie
n lias a work to perform which it is his
duty tu attend to. We arc not placed
here to grow up, pass through the
various stages of life and then die
without hiving done anything for the
hmt it of the human race. Is a man
to be brought up in idleness? Is ho
to live npou the wealth which has an¬
cestors have acquired by frugal indus¬
try?. Is he placed here to pass through
life an automaton? Has he nothing to
perforin as a citizens of the world? A
man who does nothing is useless to his
country as an inhabitant. A man
who dues nothing is a mere cipher
lie does not fulfill the obligations for
which lie was sent into he tworld, and
when he does, he has not finished tho
work that was given for him to do
He is a mere blank in creation. Some
arc born with riches and honors upon
their heads, but does it follow that
they have nothing to do in their caree
through life? There are certain duties
tor every one to perform. Be some¬
thing. Don’t live like a hermit, and
die unregretted.
Dark Days.
lew people are so fortunate that
diey are always happy and contented
"’itli the world—most of us know
many dark days. The world wears
the smile bright face it had on yester¬
day. 1 he bees swing homeward lieav
d)’ laden. The soft wind sighs through
the leaves, and the shadows chase
each other over the grass. All is full
grace and beauty. Summer reigns;
an( l the earth is robed in bridal gar
-nents. But what is it all to her who
feels so weary and discouraged that
t'he cannot lift her heart up from the
daikness of despondency? She finds
liei self wishing that a gray sky and
gusts ol rain were here, to sympathize
"itli her mood, which is mocked by so
•uueli bloom and brightness. All she
-lies for is to get through the listless
da ys, ami feel that night has brought
^ er r °lease from care and the need of
’t' ng agreeable. It is a day dropped
At. And yet, dear friend, conscious
't havidg ever nursed and petted the
and dumpish and unworthy
temper of mind, of which such-gloomy
fancies are born, do not entertain it
* lj y longer with complacency. There
Biere nothing brave in being morbid*
is nothing heroic in self-pit}’.
i>atlier come out of yourself. Think
the happy days past, and of those
'Tiich are to come, and trample out
v ' n evil mood while you have the pow
er to do so.
When some years ago an eminent
Australian was inspecting in that coun
a lunatic asylum,miserably defect¬
ive in construction aud appointment,
he asked what was the special feature
ln the lunacy of a certain patient. ‘He
tbinks he is in hell, sir ” wag the re
‘If tha’ts all hU delusion.’ was
the rejuinder, ‘I think he has very
^stantia] a
basis fin it.’
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MARRIED HIS SISTER.
flow a Long Separated Brother and
Sister Met—-Loved Each Other
and Got Married.
The Terrible Discovery .Made
After Diving together Six
Years.
Michael Lawton will answer for the
man s name, and he recently died in
Garret county, Maryland, one of the
finest b»ts of mountain country in the
United States, and of his life history,
the Reading (Pennsylvania) Eagle
says : Ho bought a small farm, aud
came to live on it one fall some ten or
twelves years ago, and on it lie died.
He seemed to have enough ready
money to satisfy his needs and to pay
for his land. He never spoke of friends
or relatives, and after some abortive
attempts to discover his past history,
the neighbors gave it up in disgust.
When he died, a distant relative came
into possession of a little farm and a
few household articles he left behind,
and then all trace of the career and
almost all recollection of the existence
of Michael Lawton passed away. Tne
writer knew the man well, and once
when on a fishing expedition with him
he related the
PATHETIC AND REMARKABLE STORY OF HIS
LIFE,
pait of which was published some
years ago and attracted a great deal of
attention at the time. The outline of
the story is vouched for, but the names
of places and persons are changed for
evident reasons: Years ago a family,
consisting of father, mother and two
children, lived in a small town in west¬
ern Ohio The head of the family,
Mr. Lawton, a lawyer and speculator,
and had been a merchant. He had
grown rich, very rich for those days,
and was noted for Lis keen business
sagacity and his history and kindly
heart. Ills wife had been a delicate,
pretty girl when he married her, and
after her second child was born, her
health broke down and she became a
confirmed invalid. The couple had
two children—a boy named Michael,
who was at the time referred to about
eight years old, and Mabel, who was
then 'baby,' was about five years old.
MABEL WAS A PRETTY CHILD,
and her parents petted her and dress¬
ed her in a style that made her the
envy of all the mothers in the neigh¬
borhood.
One day Mabel went into her moth¬
er’s room and told her she wanted to
go and play with some other little
girls who lived on the next street.
Mrs. Lawton gave her consent, but
told her to be sure to come home to
dinner. Mabel promised, kissed her
mother gayly and ran out of the room
—out of the world as far as the poor
mother w'as concerned, for she never
saw her again. Mabel did not come
home to dinner, and at supper time
Michael was sent after her. lie soon
returned with a pale frightened face,
and told his father that his sister had
started for home at noon, and no one
knew where she was. Search was
made for her in every direction, but
without avail.
NO TRACE OF THE LOST ONE
could be discovered. A month after¬
ward the mother died heartbroken,
and the father sold his property and
became a homeless wanderer, with but
one object in life—the finding of his
lost one. Taking his son with him he
traveled from State to State, visiting
public institutions where children were
cared for, and going through
making inquiries which he thought
might lead to the desired result. From
the United States the search was ex.
tended to Europe, and finally, in a
Spanish city, Mr. Lawton caught $
local fever and died in a few days,
leaving his son, then a boy of nineteen,
all of his fortune. Mr. Lawton told
his boy that he had no near relative,
except a brother who had gone to
California in the first flush of the gold
fever, and had never been heard of af¬
terward.
Michael , . Lawton t . came back , . to . U™
country, entered a college m the L,i.t,
£ it’"
York lawyer,and after being admitted
to the bar he went west and made his
home in a* newly settled State, where
lie soon built up a good practice. One
winter Lawton weut to New York to
visit a college chum, Marcbmouut, who
hud married and gone into business,
Marchmount had several young sis
ters. and one afternoon Lawton was
EASTMAN, GEORGIA, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 4, 1S79.
introduced to miss MABEL LETCHER,
a young lady who was their music
teacher. She was exceedingly pretty
and a lady in mauuer and mind, and
Lawton fell violently in love with her,
and before he left the city he asked
her to many him, and she accepted
him. They were married the follow-*
ing spring and went to Lawton's west
ern home, where they lived happy for
six years, during which time two chil
dren were born to them. Miss Letcher
told Lawton after their engagement
that she was an orphan, that her pa¬
rents had died when she was a child,
and she could not remember them at
all. She had been named by a kind
hearted lady in eastern Ohio. She
had taught a school aud made suffi¬
cient money to enter a school in the
East, where she studied music, and
after she had „ raduate d she K ot a class
0 f g j,.] s for p „ p ;i 3j and KllUe thu8 en¬
gaged she met Lawton.
Lawton was sittiug in his office one
day when an odd-looking elderly man
came in and asked for Mr. Lawton
An introduction took place, and after
the usual preliminaries the stranger
said he was
A LAWYER FROM SAN FRANCISCO,
lie theu askel Lawton if he would tell
him his friend’s name and where he
had been born. Although surprised
at the questions, Lawthu complied,
and the stranger then explained his
errand. “You have heard your father
speak, I suppose, of a brother who
went to California a good many years
ago, and who did not write home ot
his doings. Well, 1 am his represent¬
ative, and I was his friend to the hour
he died. Years ago he weut to (men¬
tioning the towu where Lawton was
born) and there he heard of the man¬
ner in which your little sister disap¬
peared aud of your father’s departure.
He tried to find him for awhile, but did
not succeed, and then he ivent homo
again. He made up his mind to find
your sister, if it was possible. He
employed
SEVERAL SKILLED DETECTIVES
and spent a great deal of money in the
search. A year ago he died, and in
his will he d'rected that you should
be his heir unless your sister was dis¬
covered. In that event she was to
have half of his property. I saw your
name in a paper some weeks ago, and
on making inquiries, I became con¬
vinced that you were the nephew of
the man who was my friend aud who
trusted me with the care of his affairs.
And now “and here the speaker pau¬
sed an instant —‘‘now I have somes
thing still more strange to tell you.
We have found a trace of your sister.
She was stolen by a party of vagrants
for the clothes and trinkets she wore,
and was taken to Eastern Ohio, was
taken very ill,aud was left with a good
hearted lady, who
ADOPTED HER AS HER DAUGHTER.
After her recovery she could not re¬
member her name or where she had
lived. When this lady died Mabel
taught school for several years, and
then she went east to study music.
After she left school I think she went
to New York, but I cannot say. We
have n0 traee of hci . , or s ; x Jear8 , she
was named alter the lady who adopt¬
ed her, and was known as Mabel
Letcher.’
‘Known as what?’ screamed Law
ton.
‘Mabel Letcher.’
‘Great God.
SHE HAS BEEN MY WIFE FOR SIX YEARS.
It was so indeed. Further examin¬
ation showed beyond question that
Mabel Lawton and Mrs. Michael Law
ton were one and the same person
roe agouy of the two people cau be
In their eyes the, had s.n
ned beyond hope of redemption. They
8e P arated -, Mrs. Lawton is still living
in a town in Massachusetts, where she
has been for many years. The chil
dren are at school and Michael Law
ton * u ^i s grave. He gave up all his
business, giew fiightfully dissipated,
antd attel s P en( I' n g nearly all the mou
rece i y ed f° r himself he wan
dted to the lovely little Maryland farm
wheie he strove to bury his past and
where he lived a life ot toil. Tne clo
ver blossoms are as fragrant about his
^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ag
er east! iou<*lit le w! jo sleeDS
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Old Mrs. Cur says she has always
noticed that in the summer time when
it is not needed the sun is always as
hot as an oven, while in winter, when
a warm suu would be very agreeable,
it is always as cold as an
We have noticed this, too. It must
be the fault of the almanac makers.
HONESTY FEAItED.
A Striking; Story of the Late
Czar Nicholas.
Of the late Czar Nicholas, 'A Rus
sian Nihilist’ tells, in the North Ameri
can Review, a striking story. A
young student, a relative of the wri
ter. had, with a few friends, formed a
literary society in which the works ot
contemporary political economists,
publicists and philosophers were read
and debated. The secret police de¬
nounced this society as a revolutiona¬
ry organization, and the young stu¬
dent was imprisoned and condemned
to Siberia. All possible influence
was brought to bear upon the Czar,
but in vain, and at last the youug
man’s mother, meeting the Czar one
day in the Summer Garden, knelt and
implored her son’s pardon, asserting
his innocence. The Czar seemed
touched, and promised to give the
youth a personal interview. The lat¬
ter was brought to his Majesty the
next day, and the Czar, forcing him on
his knees before an image of the Sa¬
vior, exclaimed: ‘Can you swear be¬
fore the Almighty God that neither
you nor your associates had an}' crim*
inal design against my life? Can you
swear that you believe in the holiness
and eternity of the Russian autocracy?’
The surprised prisoner answered : ‘I
can swear to your Majesty that nei¬
ther I nor any of my friends had the
remotest idea against your safety. As
to the autocratic form of government,
I cannot conscientiously swear that I
believe in its eternity. The history of
other counties teaches us that the time
must come, even in Russia, when the
people itself will take part in the gov¬
ernment.’ The Czar tenderly embra¬
ced the student,and, giving him a ring
drawn from the imperial finger, said:
‘This is a token of respect from your
Czar. You have been sincere and
truthful to me, and there is nothing I
hate so much as a lie.' He then ap¬
proached the writing table, where lay
the student’s sentence of exile, and
with one stroke of the pen—signed
the paper! ‘I pity you from the bot¬
tom of my heart,’ said; ‘you are an
honest man, and au honest man, true
to his convictions, is more dangerous
to autocracy than an unprincipled
rascal. Therefore I must punish you,
though never was this duty more paiu
fnl to me than now. God bless you,
my son, and judge me mercifully if I
should appear to be in the wrong.’
Then, once more embracing the stu¬
dent, he dismissed him to Siberia.
Trained Housekeepers.
It is absurd to neglect a girl’s do¬
mestic education until she is ready to
become a wife. Tbe idea that a wo
man must learn to keep house by her
own experience is both foolish and
hurtful. Does a man put off learning
a business till it is time to start for
himself? Still, housekeeping must not
be considered the Alpha and Omega
ot these duties. Deeper than this lie
other qualities, quite as indispensable,
and still more necessary to a hus¬
band’s or even a wife’s happiness. It
would consume too much space to
enumerate them all, but we say sum
them up by saying that daughters
should be taught to be womanly. For
a truly-womauly woman has much
ihe best chance of being loved by a
truly- worthy man. The ordination of
uature has made a tender, affection¬
ate, sympathizing woman more likely
to attract strong, earnest, heroic men
than one of a different stamp. Men
love by a fine instinct, which gener*
ally leads them aright—that is, when
they love in the pure sense of the
term ; and they would love oftener in
that seuse if women were true to that
ideal womauhood which even the lost
reverence and acknowledge. The
best dower, therefore, a mother can
give her daughter is the dower of per
Let womanliness, for a womanly wo
man can enter into her husband’s
weaknesses, adapt hersejf to his fan- j
cies, and, by a pleasaut fiction, at
least, adopt his tastes.
______
Brown.— ‘Can you break me a $5
blll? ’ Jones—'I should like to break it
but
'Throw him a rope/is the proper
thiug to say when you see a friend of
y° urs over-bored. The effect is mag
lcal -
It too often happens that in pursu
ing haypiness we are, as it were, ouly
chasing a pig with a greased tail.
Unappreciated Talent.
After supper.and about half an hour
before sundown certain Yilliages begin
to gather on the tavern steps. The
wagon-maker, the blacksmith, the
gignpainter, the horse-doctor and oth
ers, can generally be found in the
crow d, chairs titled back, and pipes
| or sugars alight but the convention
does not proceed to busines untill a
certain arrival. This 'certain arrival
is a fat, stout man with a fatherly
countenance, and his clothes average a
little better than the others. Every
evening in summer he is to be found
on the steps, and every evening in
winter he has a chair by the big stove
inside. He is the man who has trav¬
eled. lie was the grst Justice of the
Peace in the county. He gave the
first dollar toward the first meeting¬
house thereabouts.
‘Why, sir,’ explains the hostler in a
careful whisper/that ere man kin draw
out plans for buildin’ barns jist as fast
as he kin handle a lump of chalk, and
he isn’t any more afraid of railroad
Presidents than I am of horses. If I
knode what he knows I wouldn’t hang
around this tavern for less than $12
per month 1’
As soon as the fat man gets settled
back in his chair, there is a general
hitching around so as to face him and
to be ready to agree with his state¬
ments. If he says it looks like rain
every head nods an affirmative; if he
predicts short crops every man on the
steps is ready to back him.
‘.Why, sir/ whispers the hostler
again, ‘that ’ere man can quote more
Bible than all the preachers I ever
heard! We han’t got a man here that
wouid dare tackle him nohow on sacred
paragraphs. And he’s traveled clear
to Missouri one way and as far as
Canada the other.’
The fat man now gets warmed up to
his work a little. Referring to the
last Fourth of July oration, he tender¬
ly selects a dozen or fifteen bad mis¬
takes made by the orator as points to
prove that oratory is not a trade.
‘Oh! if I could only spit out the or**
atory he can!’ sign the hostler as his
eyes lose sight of the big man for a
moment. ‘Why, sir, if I could stand
under a shed and tell about 1TT6 the
way he can, I wouldn’t take a back
seat for even the man who shoots off
the fire-works!’
The fat man here incidentally refers
to the proposed Christopher Collumbus
monument in America, and rather car¬
ries the idea that the town would be
expected to subscribe liberally.
‘Ah! that’s another of his carious
traits,’ whispered the hostler as he
feels for his empty wallet. ‘That ’ere
man wouldn’t ’low one of us to sub**
scribe one single dollar for that’er
monument. No, sir. He means to pay
for the hull durned thing out of his
pocket? That’s the kind of a fence
picket he is, sir, and why in thunder
this ’ere country don’t git right down
on her marrow boues and beg of him
to run her for a couple of terms is
more’n I kin see through. I don’t say
nothin’for myself,’cause I expect to
allers be a hostler, but I tell ye its
awful tuff to see a man like him dump
ed down into a town like this, where
even the man who has a mortgage on
the church dou’t pnrtend to know why
it is that a hand-organ knocks all the
pianers in town for music that melts
the soul!’
The Glorious Gospel,
Preach the gospel to every creature
•—that is, go tell every man without
exception, whosoevery his sins be,
whatsoever his rebellions be—go and
tell him those glad things, that if he
will come in, Jesus will accept him his
sins shall be forgiven him, and he shall
be saved.
The gospel method of salvation re¬
sembles a well-drawn picture which
seems to look every person in the room
in the face. In like manner gospel
truth has something in it suitable to
every one’s case that reads or hears it,
and that as particularly as if it spoke
to every gospel hearer my name —W
Arnot.
, , .
from tbe widening of womanly influ
ence,must be surely ennobled and beu
efitted proportionately with the wider
sympathies of a more enlightened
motherhood, Tenderness is not in
compatible with a reach of intellect
nor have head and hear been so COD'
stituted by tbe All-Father that they
must dwell in perpetual rivalry/
Sea Wonders.
The ideas about coral which people
have who have neve seen it in its liv¬
ing 6tate, are gennerally erroneous.
They know it is a beautifully white
ornament under a glass shade, or in
delicate pink branches in their jewelry
and they imagine living coral is like
these. Their ideas are helped along
by the common misnomer ot trees and
branches, as apslicd to coral. I have
never seen it in the South Sea. Island
but throughout the E istern seas the
most common variety .takes a lamina¬
ted form, not unlike the large fungi
to be met with any summer's day in an
English wood, growing out of the ok
der trees’ Flat, circular tables of
dingy brown, growing over one anoth¬
er with spaces under each. These
attain a great size, extending for years
without a break so that the bottom of
the sea is perfectly level. This kind
is much sought after by the lime burn¬
ers. Another species grows in detach¬
ed bosses, like chick-stemmed plants
which the gardener has trimmed
around the top. Those clumps grow
out of the sand, and stand up in dull
brown against the white flooring. A
third pattern is spiked like stag’s
horns tangled together, and is of a
dingier brown than the first; its spikes
collect the drifting weed, and its ap¬
pearance ss, consequently untidy.
There are scores of varieties of corals
and madrepores, but the three men¬
tioned are those which principally
make up the mass which is evergrow¬
ing under the still waters inside the
reef. At Maheburg the reef is dis.
tant seven miles from the shore, and
the whole of this great lagoon is in
process of filling up by coral. There
are one or two holes, left capriciously
and a channel which the river has cut
to the reef which it pierces in what is
locally ‘ a pass/ Everywhere else the
bottom is only a few feet under water
and is always slowly rising. The va¬
rious corals, the patches of silver sand,
the deep, winding channel, lend each
a tint to the water—sapphire blue,
where it is deepest, sea-green with
emerald flecks, or cerulean blue shot
with opaline tints, in the shallows.
The reef is a solid wall, shelving to¬
ward shore, absolutely perpendicular
toward the ocean, and varies in width
from twenty to one hundred years.
Against the outer face the rollers rage
incessantly. Swell follows swell,
smoothly and regularly. There is to
hurry, for her there is no shelving
bottom to keep them back. On they
come,separating their ink-.blue masses
from the tumble of the ocean, rearing
aloft their crests, like living things
anxious to try their strength, and fall
with a roar on its.edge as it stands up
to meet them. You can stand within
a few feet of the practically bottomless
sea and watch them tumble, with the
water no further than yaur knees, as
the surge of their onward-rush carries
it across the reef. To stand so and
watch them coming on appears, to one
not used to the slight to court de¬
struction; the wave is so vast, its ciest
rising higher as it advances shuts out
the sea beyond, nothing can be seen
but a wall ol water rolling on; its
strength is so apparent so irresistible
and the pause it appears to take, as
the top curls over seems to check your
breath. The rocks aud lumps of deal
coral with which storms have strewed
the reef are high and dry; the pools of
iimpid water in these sink down and
drain away, their surface glassy, and
their depths full of color and strange¬
shaped living things; and then the rol
ler breabs and sends a surge of water
hissing by, and the reef has suuk be¬
neath the foam and bubbling water.
The New Havan Register says the
genius who in an unguarded moment
wrote, ‘Woman is God’s best gift to
man/ never had to match three shades
of worsted for his wife, who had sent
down from her summer retreat for a
few skeins ‘to finish a smoakiug-cap
for a friend.’
They were speaking yesterday of
Mr.--who has been appointed to
a foreign mission. ‘He's a bad egg/
says tersely one of the interlocutors,
who had frequent cause to complain
of him. ‘Oh, but you know/ said the
other, ‘that he is very capable.* ‘Yes
—capable of anything.
'Johnny/ said a fond mother to her
b >y, 'which would you rather do, speak
French or Spanish ?‘ T would rather,
said Johnny, rubbing his wustband
and looking impressiAely at the table,
would rather talk Turkey/
NO. 56.
WIT AMD HUMOR.
A fashionable belt for the feminine
waist is called buss band.
Ought a baker to drive a thorough¬
bred horse ?
A girl may smile and smiley but be
unwillin’ still.
Tho height of the season—100 de¬
grees.
A stick in time save nine boys out
of ten.
A drunken brawl may well be styled
a spirited contest.
A man cares little for his wrongs
when getting his funeral rites.
Unlike the Ilea, when you put your
finger on a hornet, he is there.
Members of the “Cant’t-Get- Away
Club wear a sort of durn-yer resort
expression.
When alias no mind of Ins own his
wife generally gives him a piece of
hers. u
West Point has a “flirtation walk,”
where the cadets learn the tactics used
in engagements.
The clergyman who announced a
sermon to old ladies had an audience
of men.
If you have a little pig you can give
it a whey and keep it still. This is a
curdling joke.
It must have been in tfie green**
cherry season that Tennyson wrote#
“From our waist places comes a cry.”
When the woodman shoulders his
ax and starts for the woods, tho Bos¬
ton Post says he does so for a tell
purpose.
It ain't so mutch what a man kan
lift, as what lie kan hang onto, that
shows hiz aktual strength.— Josh Bii—
LINGS.
It is deeply regretted that Noah did
not kill the two mosquitos who enter*
ed with the other promeuaders iuto
the ark.
Scene : Recitation in mental sci*
ence. Professor—“How do you know
anything ? Senior—“I don't know /
Copper is coined exclusively for re«
Iigious purposes. It enables a man to
fea4 that he has contributed to the
spread of tlve gospel without drawing
too largely on his income.
“Thermometer's up to ninety, Mr,
Butane all,’ said a visitor to a State
street broker ; I/et ’em go up to par,’
said the man of margins, abstractedly j
Thu not short on ’em.’
A little \Vaterloo Sunday school
miss was asked by her teacher ‘What
must people do in order to go to
heaven V ‘Die, I suppose,' replied the
little 'one. The teacheer didn’t ques¬
tion her any further.
‘I would box your ears,’ said a young
lady of Belllefaste to her smpid aud
tiresome admirer, ‘if*— 'If what?’
he anxiously asked. ‘If,’ she repeat¬
ed, 'I oould get a box large enough.'
A circular advocating a summer re¬
sort calls attention to “numerous cozy
seats in forked trees and elsewhere—
some of them just large enough foi
two persons.
Ma, why dou't you speak ? Why
dout you say something funny ?‘—
‘What cau I say ? Don't you see I'm
busy making cakes V ‘Well, you
might say : 'Jem, wou‘t you have.u
cake ? That ’ud be funny for you.
‘John has five oranges ; James gives
him eleven, and he gives Peter Beven.
How many has he left?’ Before this
problem the class recoiled. ‘Pleaso
sir,’ said a young lad, 'we always do
our sums iti apples.
Josh Billings; ‘I wouldn't give you
10 cents a yard for all tbe pedigrees in
the world; if a man has got a level
head on his shoulders and an honest
heart in hit body, he has got all tlie
pedigree 1 am in search of/