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THE MONROE JUI ADVERTISER.
t.KORfJK A. KING A CO.
vol. xxm.
Professional Cards.
R 1,. 11 MINER. C. A. TI’RNEK.
BERNER & TURNER,
ATTOKInTHYS at law.
FOUHjmi. * :::::: ; ; UEOhOIA
W I LI. practice in alt the court}-'- Prompt at
tention given to all business entrusted to
hem Tlo collection of claims a specialty.
Oilice Up stairs in Pye’s Hall. octl7
T. C. BATTLE,
T'X’OXhdShJEi'Y .a.t hlaew,
I’OUSVTII, CiKO.
Will practice- in tlmSuperiorCourtsof Mon
114 anil adjoinin'' counties Also in the Su
preme Court. Will give close attention to all
b.i-in< entrusted to hint. ( olleclingdoubtful
< ,iii. a *pe .ally Hi' ' >dt -e in Com t house.
novlS tt.
J \. HUN 1. r. 0. JACOB.
Hm ci-vUle, Korsftli.
Hunt & Jacob,
Attorneys At Law,
iroitsvm <i\
Will practice in all the courts. State and
Federal. _ , .
t?.-Mr. Hunt will he in Forsyth whenever
required. lebld tf
Dr. L. B. ALEXANDER
< (Her his professional services to the citizens of
FORSYTI I
aim suii'Amding country. Culls may he left
at his residence'or at the Drug Store of F. O.
jjlaysi and will receive prompt attention.
jj, Ale.ajiihT resjtcel fully announces that
lieidofore his plantation m Houston county
has required his übs< nee from home occasion
ally for several days at a time, hut his arrange
ment* are such now us to enable him to devote
bis 1 mire time to the practice of medicine, and
lie will always be found at home or at his
nllire when not professionally nguged-
Foisyth, duly 15. 1878. if
DENTISTRY.
I have opened t,n office in Ihe AnvKlt
-IIM'.II building (first room to the right, up
atici-) and am prepaired to do all kinds of
C: dental
GSM work
m a faithful Hud satisfactory manner. U'lh 11
parties are not prepared to dome to my office,
j! notified 1 will cheerfully call at their res-
T. E. CHAMBERS.
*
LABORATORY
v
!pe und< rsigped. having forpicd a copart
|,ip in the practice of Dentistry beg leave
i jniittunee t.> tlie eiti/ensof d/on’roe and ad
joining counties that they have fitted up an
Ellice and laboratory up stairs in the
PYE HALL BUILDING,4
(South side Court-homo square, Foisyth, <la )
w here they arc fully prepared to do any kind
of dental work at short notice and in a supe
rior st\le Our charges arc reasonable.
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rsw ADA v to Agents canvassing for the
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l ine Art in Bankruptcy-
The New York Herald of a late date printed
in its financial column the following adver
ti-.emei.t:
If you contemplate Bankruptcy you can
pres uie $48,000 good, genuine, regular securi*
tics; no more of same kind exist; have never
been offered ; terms to suit contingency. Ad
dress, confidentially, Attorney, liox 112 Iler
ald-office.”
A reporter of the World, contemplating, not
bankruptcy, but u good story, answered this
advertisement under an assumed name and re
ceived the following reply:
Dear bin:—Your favor referring to bank
ruptcy dated 14th instant was duly received
ami contents noted- If convenient please call
on me to-morrow at 11 am., or from 2 to 3
v. m , here at my office, that we may talk the
matter over as requested. I remain, confiden
tially yours, H- H. Hadley, Att’y.
The reporter culled on Mr. lladley at his
office and found him busily engaged with two
elderly and eminently respectable looking
gentlemen. After waiting some time the re
porter was ushered into the lawyer’s office.
I pon representing himself as the special part
ner of a firm of hatters who were almut to
fail, he received the greatest and most respect
ful attention.
“Ilow much do you owe?” Mr. Hadley
asked. “ About $75,000,” was the reply. “How
much assets have you got ?” “ A bout $20,000.”
‘‘ What have you done with the rest?” “Spent
it.” “Who?” “1 and my partners ” “How
much have you drawn ?” about $6,000.” “How
much did you put in the firm?” “$20,000:
that is, $12,000 cash and SB,OOO I still owe.”
“Ah! Is your book-keeper all right?” “He
is.” “Can he go change the books as to make
it appear that you drew all this $12,000, and
that in return for if apd as security for the
SB,OOO you owe, you gave $50,000 of securi
ties without further recourse to you?” “He
can.” “ Will he?” “He will, sure” “That
will do,” said Mr. lladley, “my client has
$50,000 worth of Southern land bonds; they
may (with a smile) some day he worth their
face value. They are for lands granted to
him on the Chattanooga and Cincinnati Bail
road- lie will sell them for SI,OOO cash.
“ Good” replied the reporter, “ hut how am
I to show where 1 get them from?”
“ He shall give you a bill of sale; you shall
turn over to him segue stock in exchange—he
vyill furnish if ftp yqq—apd you give him the
SI,OOO besides. Hie hill of sale will be dated
back as far us you like, so as to make the
whole transaction look genuine, and of course
you explain to your creditors that your unfor
tunate land speculation has led to your failure.
You give th' in a few thousand in cash, then
bonds and what stock you may have on hand
and go on your way rejoicing. Twig?” The
reporter did twig. He asked how this sort of
thing would stand the sending of a Court.
“ Why, first rate," vvas the fcnjy. “. \Y e did it
pi Plqhidelpbbf {i few days ago; turned in
smek like that wouli nothing, and Judge Cad
walader ordered It put in the schedule of assets
as worth 93 cents on the dollar. All you want
is to have your book-keeper with you. If he
don’t understand how to tix liis books let him
get new ones for the past two or three mouths
and understand that with the $12,000 you have
drawn and the $8,900 you owed on the part
nership you owed the firm $20,000. To secure
them you gave them $50,0(1(1 in Soqtßern land
hpfuls, which they apcppfefj without further
recourse to you. Unfortunately the bones
gave turned out worthless and you fail. See ?”
“ But,” said the reporter, “ won’t I be asked
how I came to buy such securities?”
“ No,” was the reply, “or you can refuse to
answer- You bought them in a legitimate
transaction, as the transfer 1 will give you will
show. You gave them to a third party, and
then your share in the business ends. But,” he
added, “ we must be careful to eover our tracks
all along. I shall require you to engage
attorney f yyjll feppqiffiejid fo you, as i do not
vyaut any shyster to come in and demand the
return of the SI,OOO from my client.”
“ Oh, that’s all right,” the reporter assented;
“ that we will fix when I bring my partner to
see ypu.”
“ All right,” Mr. Hadley assented, entirely
reassured, “ you understand me, J suppose. If
I talk to you thus ffankjy if is bepause we are
ahne and tfiiqe is no third party to act as wit
ness. If w’e meet jq the presence of a thiid
party I shall require you to speak before him
as if everything was straight, and especially
in regard to your book-keeper -as if the books
were all square.” Mr. Hadley added : “ Aou
need not be alarmed at all. This thing is done
every day. Why, those gentlemen you saw
just now are clients of mine—men on the
Stock Exchange—whom 1 have put through
Trust to me and I’ll see you all right. But
remember that you must have your books show
all right, your securities on hand, and your
stories learned by heart. If you conclude to
take these bonds I guess I w ill have the trans
fer made by a man I know luge, who qsed to
be on the London Stock Exchange, where he
failed for $1,006,000. lie is a bright fellow,
and they can’t gel anything out of him ou
the witness stand.
A Modei. of the lloi.t Land —A great
attraction this yiai at Round Lake, added at a
cost of SIO,OOO, is on a scale of two feet and a
half to the mile. A hundred workmen were
employed during March. April and Mav in its
construction, under the direction of the Rev.
Dr. Wythe. Round Lake, a pretty sheet of
water, represents the Mediterranean Sea. The
surface of Palestine, w ith all her villages, and
therm ot Jerusalem is produced in miniature.
The \ isitor can riue in a small boat to Joppa
and reach Jerusalem by a veiy brief walk.
Mount Ilermon towers to a height of twenty
five feet, and the Jordan is a very fine stream-
The coloring is natural, and all is accurate*
Everything is labeled, else the spectator might
almost believe that he wa® looking at the real
Palestine the wrong way through a powerful
field ulass.
The Detroit Free Press recalls sevei a! recent
drowning accidents resulting from the rocking
of V>ais ill which wire pleasure parties, by
some member of the party w ho w anted to show
his own bravery and the timidity of others.
This kind of business is compared t<> the point
mg <*i a ssuu *r pistol at a person, and the Free
Press adds: - There is just one arguuuul that
should be us. d with a boat:nark ef. A vigor
ous and well directed blow with an oar on the
top of the head generally discourages him for
the time beiug The moment he a&sumes his
self confident smile and begins to rock, hit
him and hit him hard.”
FORSYTH. GEORGIA. TUESDAY MOBXINO, SEPTEMBER 3, 1878.
The Horrors of Siberia.
A Russian convict never knows until he
reaches Siberia what sort of life is in store for
him, for in pronouncing sentence of hard la
bor, the judge makes no mention of mines.
If the convict has money or influential friends,
he had better use thu time between his sen
tence and transportation iu buying a warrant
which consigns him to the lighter kinds of
labor above ground; otherwise, he will itiva*
riably be sent under earth, and never again
see the sky until he is hauled up to die in the
infirmary. The convicts are forwarded to Si
beria in convoys, which start at the commence
ment of spring, just after the snows have
melted and left the ground dry. They per
form the whole journey on foot, escorted by
mounted Cossacks, who are armed \yith pis
tols, lances and long whips; and behind them
jolts a long string of springless tumbrils, to
carry those who fall lame or ill on tlie way.
The start is always made in the night, and
care is taken that the convoys shall pass
through towns on their road only after dark.
Each man is dressed in a gray, kaftan, having
a brass number plate fastened to his breast,
knee-boots and a sheep-skin bonnet He car
ries a rug strapped to his back, a mess-tin, and
a wooden spoon at his girdle. The women
have black cloaks, with hoods, and march in
gangs by themselves, w ith an escort of soldiers,
like tlie men, and two or three female warders,
who travel in carts. In leaving large cities
like St. Petersburg, all the prisoners are chained
with their hands behind their backs, but their
fetters are removed outside the city, except in
the case of men who have been marked (lan
gerous. These Uayc ty> jeg chains pf four
pounds weight, all the way, and some of the
more desperate opes arc yoked threes to a
beam of wood, which rests on their shoulders,
and is fastened to their uccks by iron collars.
Nobody may approach the men to inspect
them. The Cossacks crack their whips loudly
to warn persons off, and scamper up and down
the line with lanterns tied to their lance-points,
which they lower to the ground every moment
to see if letters have been dropped. Murderers,
thieves, Nihilist conspirators, felon cl. rgymen,
mutinous soldiers and patriotic Poles all tramp
together us fast as they go and perfectly silent.
Then come the vvqipeu, shjveriug, sobbing, but
not daring (o cry out, because of those awful
whips.
Kcniiukuble Vision of a Farmer.
An optical illusion or mirage was seen by
three or four farmers, a few miles from Park
ersburg, W. Va., a few days since, the appear
ance of whirl) n<i or,' is LL. i-l.ilosophieully
to account for The facts are these :
A farmer, while plowing in a field with sev
eral others about 7P. xi, happened tq glapce
toward the sky, \yhjph was eimulka.s, and saw
apparently about a mile off in a westerly direc
tiun an opaque substance, resembling a white
horse, with head, neck, limbs and tail clearly
defined, swimming in the clear atmosphere.
It appeared to be moving its limbs as if en
gaged in swimming, moving its head from side
to side, always ascending at an angle of forty
five degrees. lie nibbed his eyes to convince
himself that he was not dieaming. and looked
again; but there it still was, still apparently
swimming and aspyndjng i\i el|iey. lie palled
the meg, about ope bundled yards off,and told
them tt! look UP and tell him wbut they saw.
They declared they saw a w hite horse swim
ming in Uie sky, and were badly frightened-
Our informant, neither superstitious nor nerv
ous, sat down and watched tlie phantasm (if
we may so call it) until it disappeared in space,
always going in the same direction and mov
ing in the same manner. No one can account
for the mirage, or illusion, except upon .the
uneven state of toe atmosphere. Illusions of
a different appearance haye hgeq geep at dif
ferent BpiUm the wP<m vicinity, frightening
the superstitious and laughed at by the ski p
tieal
—
Ilow It Feel*.
That it is exceeding unpleasant to lie struck
by lightning, the account which Mr- Wilson
gives of tlie scene at the Gospel Tent in Phila
delphia, last Sunday, goes far jo proye. “I
was getting things ready for animal in the after
noon,’' he says. ‘‘There were only Mr, Conner
and myself, of the adult members of our con
gregation, and seven or eight children who
sought shelter from the rain. I was standing
near the two little gil ls who were injured, and
the entire parly were around tent poles. We
laid not the slightest warning. Tlie first thing
I knew was a terrible shock to my whole sys
tem. particularly to my head, and I was knock
ed senseless. When I came to myself the tent
was burning, and some of the benches. 1 busied
myself in putting out the fire, ah the time feel
ing like a man iu a dream, and when I came
over home I asked my wife if my head yvas
not broken open. That \yus the sensation I
felt—t'pgt my head had been split into two
parts." A Mr. Wilson spoke his hand* invol
untary sought the top of his head, a proceed
ing he repeated several times during the con*
versatioq.
Here is sure enough a ease of bravery. A
very pretty young lady in Washington woke
from her sleep in the middle of the night with
a composed seme of somebody standing over
her. She reached out her hands, w hicli fell on
the head of a burly negro burglar. She clutch
ed her bands in the wool quickly and firmly,
and shouted at the top of her voice, “Sorpe
body come here quick. I’ve caught a nigger!”
The ingle members qf the family pushed in
just as the strength of the young girl gave
w ay, and the burglar escaped- He was, how
ever, subsequently caught, and confessed that
he had a knife in his hand, w hich he bad in
tended louse if he was attacked, but he could
n>>t help laughing at the words of the young
girl
A small hoy approached the great showman
Barnum at Montpelier, the other day, and usk
ed him what he would give for a cherry col*
ored cat. “Ten dollars,” replied Barnum, if it
really is cherry colored ” Soon the hoy re
turned lo Birmnn’s hotel, and unloaded a
black cut at llarnjum's feet. The showman
saw the point, and paid the youngster $lO.
with the remark, "Boy, you havp stolen q,y
trade.”
Tt*
People generally will t>e glad to know that
charcoal has been discovered to be a sure cure
for burns. By laying a small piece of cold
charcoal on the burn the pain subsides imme
diately. Dy leaving the charcoal on for an
hour the wound is heified, as has been detuou
: straled op seyepal occasions.
“In Grod w© Trust 99
Alcoholic- Drinks Iu France.
Dr. Lunier, a most indefatigable and zealous
apostle of temperance, and one of the Temper
ance Society of France, has lately brought out
a work on the production and consumption of
alcoholic dunks in this country, and their in
fluence on the physical and moral health of
the population. The volume under notice,
which is the 'completion of a memoir read by
Dr. Lunier before the Temperance Society- of
Paris in 1873, is, as may be inferred from the
title, a most interesting production—interesting
alike to the vendors as it is to the consumers
of wines and spirits ; and even philanthropists,
political economists, and the medical profos
siou. imuMlerive
the work.—From WSr-tofflehri'-ppsitiocraS In
spector General of Lunatic Asylums and Pris
ons in France, Dr. Lunier has been enabled to
consult documents from which he has obtained
authen Is*information on the following points:
1. The proportion of offenders agaiust the law
prohibiting drunkenness in public; 3, The
proportion of accidental deaths determined by
excess of drinking; 3. The proportion of in
sanity caused by alcohol; the proportion of
suicides attributed to alcoholism. On these
divers questions, Dr. Lunier has arrived at
conclusions which would make one shudder;
end he has showu'that the abuse of alcohol,
whatsoever the form iu which it is taken, will
almost surely lead to crime, insanity, and sui
cide, if not to a lingering disease and eventual
death. These, however, are only tffe immedi
ate or direct consequences of the drunkard’s
evil habits ; but when one contemplates the
effects od the innocent victims that surround
him, sucb as misery :\t home, brutal treatment
of wife and Children— the Jattet affected with
idiotism, imbecility, convulsions, scrofula, pul
monary phthisis and a host of other maladies,
which are perpetuated even to the third and
fourth generations—the picture is something
awful, and no punishment cun lie severe
enough for such offenders
Dr. Lunier, therefore, deserves the highest
praise avid gratitude of all right thinking men
and women for his laudable efforts to put
down the degrading vice < and if he had but
a few more imitators, such scenes as are dai
ly witnessed among drunkards and their fam
ilies would he reduced to a minimum, society
would benefit by the change, and the physical
and moral condition, stringent laws and over
taxation of alcoholic beverages would be no
avail, unless, as Dr. Lunier observes, the pop
ulations received the benefit of elementary in
struction and moral education, so that tlu-y
might lie able to read and learn for themselves
the dangerous consequences of tffe abuse of
alcoholic liquors. Dr. Lvmier suggests other
measures fur (he suppression of drunkenness,
for which 1 must refer your readers to the
work itself,
Wonderful Phenomena.
Nothing strikes a stranger more forcibly, if
he visits Sweden at this season of the year
when the days are longest, than tlie absence
of night. Dr. Baird relates some inteiestinj
facts. He arrived at Stockholm from Gotten
burg, four hundred miles distant, in the morn
ing, and ip tf;B afternoon went to see some
friends. He returned about midnight, when
it was as it is it England half an hour before
sunset. You could see distinctly but all was
quiet in the streets, it seemed as all the inhab
itants had all gone away or were dead. The
sun in June goes down in Stockholm a little
before ten o’clock. There is a great illumina
tion all night, as the sun passes around the
earth toward the north pole; and the refrac
tion of its rays is such that you can see turead
at midnight without any artificial light. The
first morning Eff. Bain 1 , awoke in Stockholm
lie vvas surprised to see the sun shining in his
room. He looked at his watch and found that
it was only three o’clock The next time lie
awoke it was five o’clock, but there were per
sons iu the streets. There is a mountain at
the head of Bothnia, where on the 21st of
June the sun does not appear to go down at
all. The steamboat goes up from Stockholm
for the purpose of conveying those who are
curious to witness tlie phenomenon. It occurs
only one night. The sun reaches the horizon
you can see the whole face of it, and iu five
minutes more it begins to rise. At the Nortli
Cap#, latitude seventy-two degrees, the sun
does not go down for several weeks. Iu June
it would bejabout twenty five degrees above the
horizon at midnight. In the winter time the
sun disappears and is not seen for weeks;
then it comes and remains for ten fifteen, or
twenty minutes, after which it descends, and
does not set at all, but makes a circle around
the heavens. Birds and animals take their
accustomed rest at the usual hour, whether
the sun goes down or not.
~———*T
(* Friday mi Unlucky Day?
Friday, long remembered as a day of ill
omen, has been au eventful one in American
history and Americans ought not to be afraid
of it.
Friday, Christopher Columbus sailed on his
voyage of discovery.
Friday, ten weeks afterward, he discovered
America
Friday, Henry VII. gave John and Sebastian
Cabot the commission which led to the dis
covery of North America.
Friday, St. Augustine, the oldest town in
the United States, was founded.
Friday, the “May Flower" with Pilgrims
arrived at Princetown, and on Friday they
signed the august compact, the forerunner of
the present Constitution-
Friday, George Washington was born.
Friday, Bunker Hill was seized and fortified.
Friday, the surrender of Saratoga was made.
Friday, the surrender of Cornwallis occurred.
Friday, the motion was made in Congress
that the United States were, and of right
ought to Ik*, free and independent.
The First Locomotive.—The average citi
zen will be taken by surprise when told that
the first locomotive engine ever placed on a
track on this continent was “ steamed up” and
started just fifty years i\go this Btfi day of
August. The trial trip was made at Honea
daic, £**--, by the “ Stourbridge Lion,” an engine
built in Stourbridge, England, and the credit
for this pioneer enterprise belongs to theDcla
Ware and Hudson Canal Company Mr. ij.
Alien, now 77 years of age, and a resident of
South Orange, J , was the man who pulled
the first throttle valve on that day, and to
whom the charge of building the engine was
intrusted by the company when he was sent to
i England.
To Hurried Folk#.
The first year of married life is a most un
portaut era in the history of man and wife.
Generally, as it is spent, so is always subse
quent existence. The wife ami the husband
then assimilate their views and their desires,or
else conjuring up their dislikes, they add fuel
to their prejudices and animosity forever af
terward. I somewhere read, says Rev
Mr. Wise, iu liis “Bridal Greeting,” of a bride
groom who glorified in liis eccentricities. He
requested his bride to accompany him to the
garden a day or two after their wedding, lie
then threw a line over their cottage. Giving
his wife one end of it he retreated to tlie other
side and exclaimed;
“ Pull tire line!”
She pulled it it ..is request as far as she
could. ~ —"
He cried, “ Pull it ovjerfN
**.l can’t,” she replied. .. -- _
“ But pull with all yoiir might,” shouted'the
whimsical husband. „ , v_.
But vain were all the efforts of the bride to
pull the line so long as her husband held on
to the opposite end But when he came round
and both pulled at one end it came over with
great ease.
There, said he, as the line fell from the roof,
you see how hard and ineffectual was our la
bor when we both pulled In opposition to each
other; but haw easy and pleasant it was when
We both pulled together. It will be just so
through life, my dear. If we oppose each
other it will be always unpleasant to live. Let
us always pull together.
Iu this illustration, homely as it may be
there k a sound philosophy. Husband and
wife must naturally bear and concede if they
wish to make home a retreat of bliss.
One alone cannot make home happy There
must be unity of action, sweetness of spirit
and great forbearance and love in both hus
band and wife, to secure the great end of hap
piness in the domestic circle.
Tlie Teaching of Gin mimic,
I have been sendin’ my darter Nancy to
skool, and last Friday I went over to the skool
to see how she was gettin’ along, and I seed
things I didn’t like by no means. The skool
master was lamin’ her things entirely out of
the line of eddycation, and, as I think, im
proper. I set a while in the skool house, and
lieerd one class say their lesson. The lesson
that Nancy said was nuthin but the foolishest
kind of talk. The ridiclist word sed was “I
love.” I looked at her for being so improper,
nut sue went right on and sen, “ Thou lovest,
and he Invest ” Aud I reckon you never
heerd such rigmarole in your life—love, love,
love, and nothin’ but love. She sed one time,
“ I did love.” Sez I, “Who did you luv?”
The skolars luffed, but I wasn’t to be put off,
and sed, “Who did you love, Nancy?” The
skool-mastei said he would explain when
Nancy had finished the lesson. This sorter
pacytied me, and Nancy went on with her
awful love talk. It got wus and wtis every
word. She sed, “I might, could, or would
love.” I stopped her again, and sed I reckon
I would see about that, and told her to walk
out of that Louse. The skool master tried to
interfere, but I would not let him say a word.
He sed I was a fool, and 1 made him holler in
short order. I talkt the strata thing to him.
I told him I’d show how liede lurn my darter
grammar. I got the nabors together, and we
sent him off iu a hurry, and I reckon thar’U
he no more grammar teachiu 1 in tL’ese parts.
Cicttiiitf Close Figure#.
A newsboy with three or four morning pa
pers under his arm, called into a Woodward
avenue jewelry store yesterday morning and
inquired :
“Kin you tell me the price of a woman's
gold watch—one o’ them kind as winds up by
the twistin’ the knob ?”
“You mean a stem winder,” answered the
clerk “you can get a pretty good one for
about sixty dollars.”
‘ Jist sixty ?”
“Yes”
“And liow much for a diamond pin —one
most big as a bean ?”
“Well, about three hundred dollars.”
“Three hundred’) take it, will they?”
“Yes.”
“Thanks,” said the boy as lie backed out.
He sat down with his hack to the wall, figur
ed with a pencil on tlie margin of one of his
papers, and presently soliloquized :
“Three hundred for the pi#, and sixty more
for the watch—that’s three hundred and sixty.
Them’s my Santa Claus presents for maw and
paw, aud I’ve got, eighty-one cents on hand
and two weeks more to work iu ! Yere’s your
momin’ papers!”
Ail African Financier.
A night or two ago, a knot of colored citi
zens were standing at a corner discussing the
financial affairs of the government. A variety
of views were advanced on the subject when
when one speaker took it up after this style;
“It don’t make no diffence what sort of
money dey makes, nobody ain’t gwine to ghe
me none of it; but I's gwine ter have my
share as long as I kin work for it. Ef dey
makes gold money. I’ll git my sliere, or ef dey
makes silver money, I’ll git my sliere or it, or
ef dey makes paper money, I’ll git my sliere
of dat; but dey may make any kind of it by
de ship load and you and me will never git a
cent dat we don’t work fur. Dey talk abopt
makin’ moDey plenty, but it will never git to
be so plenty dat anybody is gwine ter give it
away. One thing certain, de Guverment ain’t
gwine ter give yer none. ,r
This is about the true philosophy of thr fi
nancial question.— Telegram.
The kissograph.a new invention, will enable
lovers to sit ten feet apart and stealingly in
dulge in osculatory exercises in the presence
of the old folks. This is a great desideratum
certainly, but unless each end of the instru
ment is sweetened with some substance forty
degrees sweeter than the best refined sugar in
the market, the kisses will not taste as good as
it the old folks were in the bed or and -stag iu
the kitchen.
A t*bseiiher .ks “how to scald a goose.”
There are several methods Perhaps the b.-*t
way would be to wait until some evening wLen
the goose comes around to sereuaus yaitr
daushti r, and while he is in the middle of
“ Sweet B) e and Bye," pour a kettle of boil
ing water on his bead from a second story
i window.
A Night * Reflect ion*.
BY JOHN* D. DON ELAN.
[From the Savanuah Recorder.]
Ah ! what a cruel world is this of ours,
Where man has ever some fresh cause to
mourn,
dreams a future that is spread with
flow’rs,
And where fame’s trumpet sounds its loud
est tone;
M here realms of glory rear their grandest
bowers,
And grief and disappointment are unknown.
But all! ’lis but a dream, we all will find,
When stem reality awakes our mind.
Amidst the tumult of this life I’ve seen,
Hearts inly burning with ambition's flame,
\\ hose object was to roam and -shine-Tween,
Amid the stars tha.t gtqu.fhc sky of fame. ~
But oil! what from that jesiie did theyglean ?
Or what of earthly glory can they claim ?
Alas! they’re link’d with rrfittfons that have
■_ shone. -- .*•-••
Att hour in .its firmament aud are gone.
Gout'where? Alas;l know not! nor do you;
The grave unveils not to this sinning world,
What joy or misery doth then ensue,
When ’neatli its dusty coverlid wu’re
If we could look its clay-cold portals through,
And see the dark eternity unfurl’d,
Say, would man seek death’s vast and-depth
less tide, ,
His disappointed hopes of lifo to hide?.
For oft wheu man is winning iu life’s game,
Do not a throng of slanelerjnonger* rise,
To stain the purity of that, fair name,
With calmfiny, the worst of human lies?
And are there many that outlive that sham#?’
Ah! few withstand those shameful calumnies
But plunge in death, their earthly woes loquelL
Seeking repose, if such there is ie hell.
Oh! reader, think not, even in a vision,
I’ve seen the worlds behind the- screen of
death;
Yet as I think there’s a hell, my decision,
I pen upon tins page without regret.
And if yon think there’s not, scorn or derision,
Ne’er will cause me at thy belief to fret,
Yet when you die, I hope you’ll never find,
That I was right, and you were wrong, now
mind.
When you shall die? ah yes ! that is a doom,
W hich you and I will meet with soon or late,
Amt fill tlie ghastly and terrible tomb
With this our wonderful and sublime pate;
This pate of ours, that can the world illume,
With all its wild conceptions grand and
great;
Ambition’s startling and exciting throne,
When in man’s heart, deep thoughts of fame
are sown.
Yet there are spirits that the tongue of man,
Can never wound with its suspicious lies.
And such am I. Tho’ multitudes should plan,
To stigmatize my name beneath the skies,
So the world might look, my vices to scan,
Ami gaze upon me with contemptuous eyes;
My mind, regardless of the passing storm,
Remains unshaken in its soul-lit form.
A Defence of Pretty Women.
After all, is the world so very absurd in its
love of pretty women ? Is woman so very ri
diculous m her chase after beauty ? A pretty
woman is doing a woman’s work in the world
but not making speeches, nor making pud
dings, but making life sunnier and more beau
tiful Man has forsworn the pursuit of
beauty altogether. Does he seek it for bint
self, he is guessed to be poetic, there are whis
pers that his morals are no better than they
should be. In society resolute to lm ugly
there is no post for an Ad-mi*, but that of a
model or guardsman. But woman does for
mankind what man has ceased to do. Her
aim from childhood is to be beautiful. Even
as a school girl she notes the progress of her
charms, the deepening color of her hair, the
growing symmetry of her arm, the ripening
contour of her cheek. We watch, with silent
interest, the mysterious reveries of the maiden
she is dreaming of coming beauty and parting
for the glories of eighteen. Insensibly she
becomes an artist, her room is a studio, her
glass is an academy. The joy of her toilet is
the joy of Raphael over his canvass, of Michael
Angelo over his marble. She is creating
beauty in the silence and loneliness of her
chamber; she grows like any part of creation,
the lesult of patience, of hopes, of a thousand
delicate touchings and retouchings.
Woman is never perfect, never complete. A
restless night undoes the beauty of the day;
sunshine blurs the evanescent coloring of her
cheek; frost nips the tender outlines of her
face into sudden harshness. Care plows its
lines across her brow; motherlnxxl destroys
the elastic lightness of her form; thu bloom
of her eyes fades and vanishes as the years go
by. But woman is still true to her ideal. She
won’t know wheu she is beaten, and she man
ages to steal fresh victories even in her defeat,
felie invents new conceptions of womanly
grace; she rallies at forty, aud fronts us with
the beauty of womanhood ; she makes a stand
at sixty', with the beauty of age. She falls
like Caesar, wrapping her mantle around her
—“buried in woolen ! ’twould a saint provoke !”
Death listens pitifully to the bulging of a life
time, and the wrinkled face smiles with some
thing of the prettiness of eighteen.
Facts Uur.li Knowing.
A correspondent sends us the following as
sertions, which he claims are absolutely the
truth:
There never was a woodcock seen on the
Pacific coast.
There never w r as an ocean steamer that ever
burst the boiler.
There never was a dog went mad west of
the Rocky Mountains.
There never w as a beech or sycamore struck
by lightning.
There uever was on eel caught on the Pa
cific coast.
There never was a locomotive or a steamer
struck by lightning. —Ex
Laura Hartley was a sweet faced, tender
little miss of Sedalia, Mo., who loved Alfred
Giltuer better titan all the world. She was
nineteen and he was twenty-two, and he had
circled the whitest of her white fingers with a
bit of plain gold. Alfred and Richard Smith,
both of well to do religious families, were a
few weeks ago detected iu counterfeiting sil
ver money. There was no doubt of their
guilt ami they were lodged in jail. Laura was
ao shocked at the disgrace that she dieu a few
minutes after it came to her ears.
A good story is told ot a Rochester (N. Y-)
deacon, who thought he lecognized a young
lady friend leading a little i*oy up a street, and
stepping to her side he asked : “ Why, Mary,
where did you gel that child?” The scarlet
face instantly turned to his was that of an en
tire straiig r. and her quick repfy fully satis
tied him. ** 1 c.une by it honestly,” was all
she said, and the good old nun had something
to thin . about all the way home to dinner.
PUBLISHERS AND PROPRIETOR
Whole Fodder Tor Cows.
A series of experiments have been instituted
and carried out by a Mecklenburg agricultural
society, with a view of determining whether it
is better to give cows their fodder in its nat
ural condition as to length, or in short pieces,
as when it has passed through a hay cutter!
The general results arrived at are tints sum
marized :
t irst—\Y hoje fodder is to le preferred be
cause the saving it effects without detriment
to the yield of milk, or weight, or general
health of the animal.
Second—This saving is due to the whole
fodder being better chewed and re-chewed
and mixed with saliva, whereby it isTurned to'
“better account. A ilislinjfiisKtJPvefcfiidry'*
surgeon has shown that when - Cut' uj>‘ TmK a v
considerable proportion otThe fodder passes
at once into the second stomach and. ao is not
Te-chevyed end is, consequently, only partially,
utilized.
Third—The decrease in the auiounf eaten at <N
first, observed when whole fodder is" "use, Js.
•explained bp the greater demands
"makes upon the masticatory apparatus.
is especially noticeable in the older cows.
Learning, or the acquiring of new habits of
any sort, becomes more dillioultas year* - ad
vance, and learning to chew -is no exception
to the rule, lienee it is advisable tovbegin
feeding whole fodder - while the cows are
young. , ...
- Fourth—'The greater .slimness of the belly
when whole fodder is given is explained by
Ahe more complete disintegration such fqpd un
dergoes. None of the stems pass intact, and
consequently mere or less hollow, into the
stomach to distend it and put on the stretch.
Fifth—The increased desire to drink-is :dti6
to the increased employment of the saliva.’*
Sixth—The general emprovement in health
and condition under this form of feu Hug is
due to its being*mora agrteable-to natureC:
Fan the Truth Overtake a 1-1. c.,
Investigation discloses the fact that the lady
reported in the Associated Press dispatches,
about August 10, to have died in Chicago,
after two weeks’ use of some reputed remedy
for corpulency, had not taker Allan’s Anti-Fat,
but had used a preparation put up by a regular
physician in Luzerne, Pa. Allan’s Anti Fat is
manufaetured in Buffalo, N. Y., by the under
signed. We have already sold 100 000 bottles
of it. It lias therefore been taken by thou
sands, and we challenge proof that it has ever
harmed anybody, unless the reduction of obese
persons from 20 to 00 pounds, leaving them
lu-ulthy and strong, is considered a misfortune.
Furthermore, we hereby offer $5,000 reward
lor evidence showing that it contains poison
oils or injurious ingredients. V> e also offer
$5,000 if we cannot prove that si lias reduced
numbers of persons us stated herein, and al
ways without injury. It is said a lie will out
travel the truth any time; but we trust that
those new.-papcis that have misled the public
by saying that physicians attributed the lady’s
death to the use of Anti Fat (which is only
put up by us, the term “Anti-Fat” being our
trade mark), will correct the false impression
they have conveyed, by publishing the refuta
tion. Botanic Medicine Cos,
sep2 Buffalo. N. Y.
* * •
M inega N on Ilorscs.
Wiudgalls on horses are usually caused by
sprains, and the treatment should be astring
ent lotion made by steeping oak bark,
or by dissolving alum in water. Wet the ban
dages in these solutions and put on rather
loosely at tirat, iucreasimi the pressure front
day to day until the galls disappear. In some
instances blisters will be required, but with
the simple windfalls bathing with astringent
lotion and bandages will he sufficient. But
you must have patience, as it usually requires
several weeks to effect a cure. The bandages
need only be applied while the animal is at
rest in the stable; or commence by putting
then, on two or three hours daily, after which
leave on all night.
Spasmodic Advekiisiau. —The practice of
advertising a little now and then may be of
small benefit, but as a contemporary remarked,
“ is only a drop compared with a standing ad
vertisement in the columns of an influential
and respectable newspaper.” All the prosper
ous men of to-day, who have made their mon
ey legitimately in their business, have done it
by steady and persi-tent advertising, and not
by spurts and jerks. Irregular advertising is
like raising a sign one day and tearing it down
the next, and so on indefinitely.
Better to do this than not at all, but how in
finitely w iser to keep your name and business
constantly in view.—Exchungc
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Chicken Choi. Kit a — The chicken cholera
is the most formidable disease w e have to con
tend witli in tliis country. At the Fanners’
Club meeting iu this city, Col. McHenry said
lie had tried the following receipt, and found
it not to fail in curing the complaint if takeu
in time. When you first see any symptoms of
the disease give the fowl about as much calo
mel as will lay on the point of a pen knife—
say one grain put in a lump of corn bread or
dough, and in a few days another dose if not
appearing well. It is claimed that the com
plaint is caused by a diseased liver.— -yj-ithern
Fanner.
A clergyman, a widower with seven grown
up daughters, left home a few days ago for a
neighboring city, anti wrote back that lie had
some news that would surprise them—he had
just married a widow with six children- The
.seven grown up daughters ha 1 an awful time
till he returned—alone. One of them muster
ed up courage to ask, “Where is our mother?”
‘ln heaven, I hope.” “But I mean the widow
with six children tLat you married ?” “O. I
married her to another man.”
A German peddler sold a man a liquid for
the extermination of bugs- “And how do you
use it?” inquired the man after he bought it.
“Ketch de bug and drop one leetle drop on
bis uiout,’’ said the peddler. “The duce you
do !” exclaimed the purchaser. “I could kill
it in half the time by stamping.” “Yell,” calm
.y exclaimed the German. “ lot is ag*o l vav*,
too.”
At a Texas bail a large number of married
women, who had brought tneir babies f>>utid it
impossible to dance unless some of the young
men became nurses The young men loos th#
babies into another room and chauged their
clothes, so that when the mothers reached
home that night there was Consternation over
the interchanges
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“There is no widow so utterly widow e-din
her circumstances as she who has a drunken
husband ; nor orphan so destitute as Lfc who
has a drunken lather*”
NO. 37.