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THE MONROE JUL ADVERTISER.
GKOROK A. KING & CO.
VOL. XX) 11.
Professional Cards.
T. W. KING,
Justice el the Peace.
Office in the Court-house, up stairs.
Will attend to any collections intrusted to
his care. feblatf
H I. ItFIINKK C. A. TURNER.
BERNER' & TURNER,
ATTOKNEYS AT LAW,
KOK.IYTH. :::::: : . : GEORGIA
WILL practice in all the courts. Prompt at
tention given to all business entrusted to
hem. The collection of claims a specialty.
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T. C. BATTLE,
ATTOKNEIT -A.X LAW,
I'OKfcITII. - iiLO.
Will practice in the Superior Courts of Mon
ie and adjoining counties Also in tbu Su
preme Court W ill give close attention to all
iiu*iin -e, entrusted to him. Collecting doubtful
< lim.i a-penalty- Office in Courthouse.
m\ 111 if.
Hr. L. B. ALEXANDER
(>(! i his professional services to the citizens of
FOKSY r m
ami surrounding country. Culls may he left
at his residence or at the Drug Store of F. 0.
Mays and will receive prompt attention.
Dr- Alexander respectfully announces that
heietofore his plantaiion in Houston county
has required his absence from home occasion
ally for several days at a time, but his arrange
ments ate such now as to enable him to devote
his entire time to the practice of medicine, and
lie will always be found at home or at his
office when not professionally engaged.
Forsyth, July 15. 187 m. if
DENTISTRY.
1 have opened en office in the Apvkr-
Tisi u building (first room to the right, up
stair.') and am prepaired to do all kinds of
qteepQ dental
OTf WORK
in a faithful and satisfactory manner. When
parties are not prepared to come to my office,
it notified 1 will cheerfully call at their res
idences.
T. E. CHAMBERS.
-AND:
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LABORATORY
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The undersigned having formed a coparl
worship in tlie practice of Dentistry big leave
to announce to the citizens of d/on roe and ad
joining counties that they have fitted up an
office and laboratory up stairs in the
PYE HALL BUILDING,
(South side (Yurt-house square, Forsyth, Ga'
where they rue fully prepared to do any kind
of dental work at short notice and in a supe
rior style Our charges are reasonable.
L. S. MOUSE, - C. L, MOORE,
marl!) ly
FORSYTH
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Not many yearn ago, one of the most beau
tiful valleys of the far West was cursed as the
resort of a murderous band of robbers who
bad for a chief, a villian whose vile and cruel
deeds spread terror wherever his name was
known.
Almost a giant in stature, a man of remark
able strength, cunning and brute courage, The
Border Scourge, as he was called, had gained
a notoriety second to none upon the frontier
for devilish wickedness.
His bund, composed of a set of congenial
devils, hesitated at no wickedness their chief
led them to, and many a settler and well
frightened emigrant train paid the toll de
manded by this frontier scourge, or paid the
penalty of a refusal with their lives.
Murder had driven the Border Scourge from
the marts of civilization, and the same crime
kept him predominant in the Western wilds,
and his motto. “Dead men tell no tales,” was
acted upon to the very letter-
A large reward had been offered for his
head, and many adventurous sp rits, impelled
by the love cf gain, had lost their lives in seek
ing to rid the country of the reckless ruffian,
for the Border Scourge had his spies every
where throughout that portion of the country,
and the man who set forth to track him to
death was certain to find his own grave at the
end of his journey.
In a settlement not many miles distant from
the retreat of this robber band, dwelt a farm
er who, years before, went to California, as a
minet, and having gained sufficient means to
buy him a home and make himself comforta
ble, be bad settled there in the West; and after
a few' years found himself in easy circum
stances.
Sixteen years before Tom Abbott had
left his Eastern home, driven from it by mis
fortunes that had come upon him in the fail
ure of his business, and the death of his wife,
leaving him with a daughter, of two years of
age. to care for.
Then he decided to seek his fortune in Caii
forma, and, placing his daughter Edith in the
cate of his w ife’s mother, he sailed for the
Golden State.
Having rendered himself comfortable in his
Western home, he at length determined to have
his (laughter come and live with him, and with
joy he looked forward to the day of her ar
rival, for in all these sixteen years he had not
seen her.
He had her picture and gloated over the
beautiful face, and there was not a settler for
miles who had not seen it and praised its lov
liness, so that when it was rumored that Tom
Abbott’s beauty was coming, the whole valley
was turning out to welcome her, fora woman
was a rarity there in those days, and a pretty
woman aa exception.
Edith Abbott had received a good educa
tion, and had been reared in a pleasant home
of refinement; but without a word she relin
quished all, to live in the far West with her
only parent.
Perhaps there was another reason for this
sacrifice upon her part. Edith had a lover, a
certain handsome, dashing cavalry officer,
Captain Oscar Mowbray, who had been order
ed with his command to the frontier, to le
stationed at a post within a day’s ride of the
settlement in which Tom Abbott dwelt.
Thus the young girl had taken advantage
of a military escort to reach her home, and
one pleasant afternoon a courier reported the
coining of the soldiers, escorting the fair beau
ty-
A crowd of settlers, among whom were a
few women, had gathered in the front of Tom
Abbott’s comfortable and commodious cabin,
and conspicuous above all, was the tall, burly
figure of the Border Scourge.
Why he was there none knew, and the right
he had to thus presume could not gainsay ;
for the settlers eared not to bring upon them
selves his vengeance; and well did they know
that he was not there single-handed.
\\ hen the maiden with her escort at length
arrived, and the fond father was about to rush
forward and greet his daughter, the Border
Scourge suddenPf stepped forward and raising
Edith from her saddle;drew : her arm in his,and
led her to where her horror stricken pareut
stood.
“This is your father, Miss Abbott. Permit
me to welcome you to your new home.” And
without a word, he turned upon his heel and
walked away.
“Have you no word of welcome for me. dear
father?” and the beautiful eyes filled with
tears.
“My daughter!” regaining his self-command.
Tom Abbott clasped the maiden to his heart,
Edith and Oscar Mowbray had looked upon
this net as a mere token of welcome, believing
him to be one of the settlers; but when the
young Captain learned the truth, with a bound
he was in the saddle, and calling upop his men
to fol.ow him, darted away in pursuit, regard
less of the cries of the settlers.
The Border Scourge had gone but a few
hundred yards, and seeing that the voting offi
cer was after him, turned, raised his revolver
and fired.
The hall took effect in the head of the horse
Oscar Mowbray was riding, and falling, the
animal hurled his rider to the ground.
Soon he was upon his feet, hut the robber
had been supported by a body of his men, was
mounted end dashing away, and then the
young cavalryman saw it was useless to fol
low him, but determined upon revenge at some
future day.
Tom Abbott welcomed the brave young sol
dier to his cabin; his meu were made comfort
able, and soon all was happiness itt that Wes
tern home.
Edith told her father of her engagement to
Oscar Mowbray, aud received his sanction,
and thus it was arranged that in three months
more the Captain should return and claim her
for his btide.
A month after the scene related above, Cap
tain Oscar Mowbray was seated, late one
night, at the mess U.ble with his brother offi
cer'. w hen an orderly entered, and touching
his hat, said;
“An Indian scout would be pleased to see
you, sir ”
“Send hint tn. Orderly.” Aud the next mo
tnent a “son of the forest” entered, aud Oscar,
rising to meet him, received a small bit of pa
per, upon which was written:
“If you love me, Oscsur, come to my aid. I
am in danger.” Edith.
Turning pale as death, the youug officer
staggered as if about to fall; but recovering
htuisclf, asked:
“ Who gave you this ?”
FORSYTH. GEORGIA. TUESDAY MOBNING, OCTOBER 1, 1878.
“Tom Abbott's Beauty,” answered the In
dian in good English, speaking of Edith by
the name she was known by in the settlement.
“"When did she give it to you V”
“When the Great Spirit hid the sun ”
“At dark, then. Colonel Wynkoop, read
this;” and Oscar handed the paper to his com
mander, who in an instant returned :
“Take your company, and go at once. Lose
no time. The Indian will serve as guide.”
Tne sun had not long been above the hori
zon, when Captain Oscar Mowbray, at the
head of his gallant company, and wiitti their
horses reeking with foam, drew up at the spot
where had stood the cabin of Tom Abbott.
Smoke was rising from the ruins, and no
sign of the settler or his daughter was viaUde;
only the blackened ruins, still smoking, of the
cabin, to mark w lieie once bad stood the happy,
home. E * ‘
A settler drew near, and Oscar Mowbray-,
in hoarse tones, asked:
“ Who has done this?”
“The Border Scourge. He never forgave
your attack upon him, captain,” answered the
man.
“ Where Is Toni Abbott and Edith.”
“ Poor ’Dim lies dead yonder, in my cabin.
The Scourge killed hint.”
“ And Edith ?"
“ Carried off. But I feared this when the
Beauty came out here.”
“Oh ! This i3 hard to hear. But I swear
to hunt the Border Scourge down; and by my
own right hand he shall die, Oscar Mowbray’s
eyes blazed as lie spoke.
“Many brave men have hunted him down,
Captain, but found him too big game for them,”
answered the settler kindly.
“ I will not fail, but hunt liint"dcrwii to the
bitter end.” And then taming td.lys lieuten
ant, Oscur continued:
“ Thornton, return with the company to
camp, and tell Colonel Wynkoop that I have'
taken the liberty of absenting myself for a
few days.
Lieutenant Thornton knew his superior, and
understood that anything he might say to the
contrary would be useless; so bidding him
adieu, and wishing him success, he started
upon his return to camp, followed by his men,
who sympathized deeply with the sorrows of
their noble young officer.
Oscar watched them out of sight, and then
turning to the Indian who had brought him
the message from Edith, and guided him back,
he said:
“You are a faithful friend. Go and find
out where the Border Scourge has taken
Edith.”
“ I look for Beauty. Come, tell you at cabin
yonder. Tom Abbott saved my life. I save
his papoose.” And without another word the
Indian disappeared in the forest, while Oscar
accompanied the settler to his house, where
poor Abbott lay dead.
At midnight the Indian returned, and to
Oscai’s eager questions, said;
“ Border Scourge take Beauty to cabin in
mountains. She give me this for white chief.’’
Oscar seized the paper and read :
“Oscar— l have noticed the Chief often,
while on my march hither gazing upon me
from the forest; so I write and drop this when
he next sees me, hoping he w ill find and bear
it to you, for I know you have come to save
me. The Border Scourge has sent me off to a
retreat in the mountains, and gives me one
month to consider whether I am to become
his wife, or be punished with death. Save, O
save me! lam watched — Edith.
“ This is well, Chief. Now conic into my
room with me.”
An hour afterward, two Indian chiefs, in all
the glory of war paint, and heavily armed,
left the cabin of the settler, and soon disap
peared in the gloom of the forest.
In the month that followed after the capture
of Edith, the Border Scourge discovered that
he had a dangerous foe upon his path Often
had the clear ring of the rifle started him,
when riding at the head of his baud, and nar*
rowdy had the bullet missed its mark. Then
again, w hen seated around the camp fire by
night, time and again the sharp report, fol
lowed by* the whistling hall, showed him that
he was never safe
One by one his band was cut off, either fiom
around the camp tire or upon the tramps, and
terror began to seize them, for no clue could
they gain to their unseen and terrible foe.
Three weeks had passed, and in that time
seventeen of the hand had bitten the dust
before the unerring aim of the secret foe; but
yet some guardian devil scented to protect the
Border Scourge, for although twice he had felt
the sting of the bullet, it had never even
wounded him.
Finding that they were thus hunted down,
and being unable to discover whom it was
that tracked them, the men gradually deserted
the camp and left the country, until, at the
expiration of a month, the Border Scourge
found that he must flee for his life.
But he determined upon revenge, aud sought
his mountain retreat, Intending to wreak ven
geance upon his captive, and then with the
spofls he had gained in his years of plunder
ing, to fly from the country.
\\ ithout a word to* his few remaining men
he left the camp, and mounted upon his pow
erful horse, sought the mountain retreat, where
his prize and spoils vvi re hidden away.
In that lonely cabin sat Edith Abbott, pale
and worn from her weeks ..f suffering, and it
was with a look of horror site saw the Border
Scourge enter.
“Moll, Beauty, my dear, I have come to
make my promise good. \on are to become
my bride, or—the bride of Death.”
“ Better the latter, a thousand times.”
“ Oue or the other. I may be a horrible
bridegroom, but death is a worse one.”
“ (Live you no mercy V” entreated Edith.
“ Mercy, w hat is mercy ? I never show
mercy.”
‘‘Neither do If and a tall form, clad ns an
Indian Chief, sprang into the cabin, and pass
ed quickly between the robber chief and his
belt of arms, wbLli he had laid upon the table
when entering,
\\ ho are you?” shouted the ruffian, starting
back.
“ I am the man that has bunted you down.
I am the one that has tracked your band ni.-ht
and day, and out* by one cut them off, until
the country is nearly freed from the terrible
curse.*
“ You, the Border Seeing,*, I have come for
now ; and sueii m rey as you have meted out
to others, 1 now mete out to you Die f And
and ere the Border Settuige could ?priug to-
“In God we Trust ”
ward his antagonist, the Indian Chief raised
his weapon and sent two bullets crashing
through the outlaw's brain, who fell dead upon
his face. “Edith, I have saved you, and hunt
ed him down ”
And all disguised as he was in his paint and
Indian costume, the maiden sprang into the
arms of Oscar Mowbray, who continued:
“ Here is one who has aided me. Come,
Chief.”
And the door opened, and in walked the
brave Indian warrior, and warmly did Edith
thank him.
Captain Mowbray carried Edith back to the
fort with him, and there they were mairied by
the Chaplain of the regiment, Colonel Wyn
koop giving the bride away. A year after
Oscar resigned his commission in the army,
rebuilt the old home of Tom Abbott, and there
The young couple uow live in happiness, while
around their fireside circle the brave Indian
Chief ever finds a w arm w elcome.
A nan Who Died fbr Men.
The members of the Nashville Bar and many
-■other citizens of that place held a meeting on
"the 10th inst., to take steps to secure funds for
the support of the orphan children of Col.
Butler P. Anderson. A committee was ap
pointed and u considerable amount of money
was immediately given into their charge.
This move is worthy of imitation elsew here,
white the memory of Col. Anderson’s noble
daring and self-sacrifices is fresh in the minds
of men, and dees credit to the citizens of Nash
ville, for too often are the sacrifices of men
forgotten and their families neglected. Sure
1)’, “ greater love hath no man than this, that
a man lay down his life for his friend.” But
when that life is freely offered and laid down
in the cause of humanity, without the claim
of friendship, and simply as a sacrifice that
man ow'es to his fellow-man, then indeed does
the action rise to a nobility than transcends
the comprehensions of malty minds. - *r-
Butler Anderson was a noblo man and true,
but he is not alone in his martyrdom: there
are many others who have volunteered and
joined the forlorn hope, battling desperately
with the skeleton death that stalks through
the doomed cities, and have gone down in the
heat and hurry of battle to nameless graves.
Their names should be handed down with his
to future generations. Heroes have died upon
the battle field, facing the foe; but it takes a
firmer courage and a nobler manhood to face
the death that comes like a thief in the night
and strikes with the stealthy hand of an assas
sin. Honor the brave who have fallen ; honor
the brave who survive!
And truly, no nobler epitaph could he given
any man than that of Butler P. Anderson;
“ A man who died for men !"
Wliaf a Diver Sees,
“In the course of your life you must have
seen a great many things under the water?”
“The divers who work for wrecking compa
nies see many curious things, and have very
strange experiences. I will give you one in
stance by way of illustration. You remember
the wreck of the Atlantic off the coast of Maine?
Well, John O’Neil, the Eastport (Me ) diver,
was employed to raise the bodies. lie made
several descents but failed to open the cabin
doors. At last lie succeeded. As the cabin
door was opened, the first thing he saw was
two women fully dressed suspend
ed in the water. The rush of water car
ried them toward him, and they appeared to
lie alive. lie stepped back in horror, and it
was sometime before he gained sufficient cour
age to enter the cabin. There he found the
women who were passengers on that ill-fated
ship kneeling and holding each other by the
hands, as if they bad been engaged in prayer
when the steamer went down. He then went
in the smoking room. The cabin was in tke
wildest disorder. Chairs and tables were
turned upside down, bottles were scattered
about, and the men lay on the floor as if they
had perished during a drunken revel. Most
of them had pistols in their hands. Scenes
like this are common in sunken vessels which
carry passengers down with them.”
A Geneva watchmaker has just completed a
“ full-sized hunter,” which is said to be the
most complex and wonderful piece of mechan
ism of the kind ever produced in that city.
On one side is a dial with the ordinary mark
ing-hour, minute, and second hands—togeth
er with a large independent cluonographic
hand in the centie, making the one fifth a sec
ond and flying bace XII; and to this dial cor
responds a repeating mechanism, striking
hours, quarters and minutes. If the watch is
tinned over, a second dial is perceived, having,
besides the ordinal}’ marking, a perpetual cal
endar-months, days of the week, date and
places of the moon—and also a little regulator
for the timing. This watch can keep two dif
ferent times, for instance, Paris on one side
and London on the other, while there is only
one knob on the stem for setting both dials to
time without the addition of a pusher on the
rim of the case. The mechanism for setting
t ie hands to time actuates only the finger of
the dial that is uppermost at the moment.
ll is said that thirty-seven men have been
employed for a year in making for the re
mains of the late A. T. Stewart a burial vault,
for which the marble alone cost $210,000. The
carvings, in both design and finish, will be ex
quisitely beautiful, and when completed it
willbethe finest piece of sculpture in this coun
try. If, with a hundred millions in cash, we
had done no more for Heaven and humanity
than did the “merchant prince” of Broadway,
w r e should feel a little too conspicuous in crawl
ing out of so gorgeous a mausoleum when
Heaven’s thunder shakes the world below
Courier Journal.
*•
Prof. Y\ atson, of Ann Arbor, Michigan, in
his observations of Vulcan at the time of the
eclipse, discovered two planets instead of one.
The second planet is larger than Vulcan, and
its position is 8 degrees, 9 minutes, and 24
seconds right ascension, and declination is 18
degrees, 3 minutes north. Prof. Watson says:
“ There are no known stars in the places which
they give, and hence I cannot be mistaken as
to the identity of the objects ”
William came running into the house the
other day and asked eagerly*, “ Where does
charity begin ?" “At home,” was replied, “in
the words of the proverb.” 44 Not by a good
dt a I,** rejoined the boy, “it begins at sea, (C.
The greatest height in the atmosphere
at.y human being has ever reached is 23,000
feet.
Matrimonial.
“No fear! No fear !
Sleep, timid heart, sleep safely here.”
lie was a young man who had seen about
twenty-three years of turmoil and cheap water
melons, and he entered the parlor in a timid,
hesitating way, and looked all around to make
sure that a third party was not present.
“Can I speak to you in confidence?” he
finally inquired.
“T ou can, sir. What passes between us
will never be known to the villainous public—
not a word of it ”
Tne voting man blushed, hitched around on
his chair, and finally remarked that he thought
about getting married. 1
“ Perfectly proper—so do t” was the en
couraging reply.
The girl loves me and would marry ute to
morrow,” continued the lover, “ hut her mother
hangs off.”
“ Just the way with ’em,” growled Bijali—
“ wants her daughter to marry a golanda, I
sposc.”
I m getting ten dollars a week and steady
work, but her mother says we can’t get along
on that. Sarah and 1 have figured, and we
see how we could live like boud-holders and
save money, but the old lady is obstinate and
says she shan’t marry for five years to come ”
“ The liard-harted old tartantula—she must
be brought to her senses! Young man, have
you any of your figures with you ?”
The lover produced from his wallet a paper
headed: “What it will cost Sarah and me to
live one week,” and passed it over to the old
janitor. It read as follows:
Ten pounds flour * 40
One pound butter, * jq
Three pounds meat, gn
Two pounds sugar, iq
Four ounces coffee, jq
Two ounces tea, 0 a
Potatoes, g
House rent, .
Incidentals, ' 1 gjj
$3 45
“That’s a liberal estimate,” remarked the
lover, as Bijali conned the figures. “My sal
ary is $lO per week, and you see we could
save over $0 and yet live extravagantly.
“So you could—so you could. Six dollars
a week for fifty-two weeks or a year makes
sol 2 per year. You can figure on living forty
years. That would make $12,480. Why that
girl’s mother must be a regular absconder. If
the girl doesn’t marry you she deliberately
throws away a fortune of over $12,000. Well,
well, people are coming to a pretty pass !”
“And what shall Ido?” sighed the young
man. °
“Boy! I was once placed in this same sit
uation,” replied the old man, as he looked out
of the window at the waving hollyhocks. “ I
was getting a salary of sll a week, cash down,
when the bell struck six on Saturday. I loved
a girl, and we oould figure on living like roy
alty and saving up $7 a week. Her mother
wanted her to marry an Italian Count, who
was worth a gold watch, a race horse, and a
store lull of second hand furniture. Tears
and entreaties and threats, and presents of
boxes of snuff, and spectacles and French
hccled shoes would not soften her heart. One
night ah, how well I remember it, she not
only turned me out doors, but bit me in the
back with a flatiron as 1 went. Excuse my
emotions, young man, but I remember how
that chunk of iron thumped my ribs and laid
the foundation for this dyspepsia.”
There was a painful silence and the old man
continued:
“ But the Kiri loved me. We eloped to Indi
ana on horseback, were married, and in four
weeks the old lady took tea with me, ate four
pieces of pie and called me the best husband
in the State of Ohio.
And do you advise us to elope V” was the
eager query.
I never advise,” was the solemn reply.
“ Well, if we ain’t married in less’n three
days then I don’t deserve her 1”
“ \ um,” was the only reply Bijah made.
es, and we’ll be happy,” said the lover as
he went out.
Bijah looked fixedly at the glaring glass
eyes in the head of the India rubber cat, and
mused: “Love is a big thing,and old folks
musn’t forget it. If I had seventeen darters
I’d nevei crook a finger, even if all married
astronomers.”
“Them Feet.”
For half an hour before the circus opened
yesterday, an anxious looking middle aged
man was observed walking around nervously,
as if he had a free ticket and was afraid the
show was on the point of busting up. When
the ticket wagon opened he made a rush for
it, and bought a paste board, but while on his
way to the tent, ticket in hand, a woman
dodged into the procession, seized his collar,
and for half a minute the air seemed full of
heels
“ Going to the circus, eh ?” exclaimed the
woman, as she slammed him around. “ Sneak
ed out of the back way and made a bee line
for here, did you ?”
Let up on me—stop—for heaven’s sake!
step this disgraceful conduct!” he ejaculated,
as he tried to keep her at arm’s length.
"Gentlemen,” s L .e said to the crowd as she
held up one foot and then the other, “see
them shoes? Ive worn ’em better nor a year,
and there han’t nothing left but heels and shoe
strings. All the children are just as bad off,
and we don’t have half enough to eat. That
explains why I’m bouncing him—why I’ll
make his good for nothing heels break his
good for nothing neck !”
They feel over a rope as she grasped him,
and in the confusion he broke away, leaving
the ticket lvirg on the ground. A boy handed
it to her, and wiping the mud off her nose
with her apron,she said;
“ I han’t seen no giraffes, nor clowns, nor
snakes, nor hyenas, for twenty-five years, and
being this ’tre ticket is bought, I’U walk in
and view the gorgeousness, and the children
shall come to night, if I have to pawn the
wash tub tc raise the money!”
“ I have calculated,” said the eminent arith
metic man, “ that the average man speaks
hours a day, at the aveiage speed of one hun
dred words a minute, say twenty nine octavo
pages an hour, or six hundred a week ; conse
quently, in the course of a year the average
man talks fifty-two large volumes.”
“ Sir,’ said one of the audience, “ docs vour
calculation apply to women ? ”
“It does, sir,” coldly replied the eminent
arithmetic-man; “all yon have to do is this,”
and he puts and 0 after the 52.
“Wouldn’t You.”
He told me my face was the sweetest
And fairest he ever had known,
The bobolink envied my singing,
And the nightingale mimicked’its tone :
My dimples they quarreled with cherries,
Just uuder eyes tender and blue:
My tresses they angered the sunbeams:
I smiled on then,"wouldn’t you?"
He told me my fingers were dainty,
My lips only moulded to kiss,
“And wouldn’t I give one of the sweetest
r or such a poor bauble as this ?”
Maybe I ought not to’ve done it,
But he looked so beseeching and true,
And the ring was so pretty I took it.
And gave him a kiss, “wouldn’t you ?”
lie told me there was a dear cottage
Just down near the rocks by the sea,
M here the sweet roses nodded a welcome,
And the mocking-birds waited for me,
W itlr himself, of course, for a master—
’Twas made plenty large for us two,
I forgot what 1 said, but I’m thinking
I kissed him again, “wouldn’t you ?”
Why Should I Abstain.
For me it is easier to abstain altogether than
it is to driuk a little ami stop at the indefinite
line which the moderate drinker declares to
exist between temperance and intemperance.
No man goes into the drunkard’s path or grave
by a single leap. He is led on by moderate
drinking, and taking here a little anil there a
little until he has formed an appetite which
pleads for gratification as the famishing wolf
thirsts for blood. When tills appetite is thus
formed, it defies all law and overcomes all rcv
straint.
Again, it is easier for me to abstain Ilian to
drink. If I should indulge in drinking, 1 am
afraid I could not stop at the liue which many
call temperance, but should become a slave to
the habit, and, like many others of stronger
nerves and a firmer purpose, go down to a
drunkard’s grave. If I indulge lam not safe.
If I abstain, my child will not be curse<l with
a drunken father. We talk of the purity and
dignity of human nature, and rely upon our
self-respect for security; but there is no de
gradation so low that a man will not sink into
it, and no crime so hellish that he will not
commit it, when drunk. There is nothing so
buse, so impure, so mean, so dishonest, so cor
rupt, that a man will not do it when uuder the
law of sin—of appetite. Safety is to be found
in not yielding ourselves to that base law.
But if it could be proved conclusively to my
own mind that I might drink and never he in
jured, yet, with my views of the subject, it
would be my duty to abstain. I could not be
certain others, seeing me ilriDk, might be in-,
fluenced by my example to drink also, and,
being unable to stop, pass oh in the path of a
drunkard. My example would, in that case,
be evil. But, you ask, “Am I my brother’s
keeper? ” Yes; lam responsible for my in
fluence, and lest it shall be evil, I am under a
high moral and religious obligation to deny
myself that which may not injure me. but
which will injure him. If I neither taste, nor
touch, nor handle, nor countenance, then my
example will not lead others to become drunk
arils.—Bucki,ngham.
A Novel Suit— We learn from a gentle
man, who recently returned from Wayne
county, that Mr. John lugrain was applied to
for work by a poor man, whom lie told in jest,
to get lid of him, that he would give him a
thousand dollars for three thousand lizzard
hides. The man agreed to undertake the job,
provided Ingram would give him his note pay
able when the skins were delivered. Ingram
complied, the note was signed and witnessed,
and the man with his wife and children re
paired to the mountains and commenced war
on the reptiles. He was so pleased with the
result of his first day’s work that he continued,
and, iu a much shorter time than it seems pos
sible, he had gotten the three thousand skins,
and, taking them to Mr. Ingram, demanded
the thousand dollars promised. The joke bail
now turned, and Ingram explained that he
was just in fun about the affair, but the lizzard
hunter was terribly in earnest, and persisted
in being paid the money. Ingram refused,
and a suit will be brought at once—and the
lizzaid man will win it without doubt. —Stan
ford ( Ky .) Journal.
In these days of doubting historical state
ments the story of Romulus and Remus being
brought up by a wolf, who kindly clothed and
fed them, besides sending them to a district
school, bus been disbelieved. Whether this
ancient anecdote is true or not is of small ac
count, as the Ingham County (Mich ) Rows
vouches for an instance that rather throws the
wolf episode in the shade. It says: Henry
Freeland, of Etchel’s Corners, received a letter
from his brother John, of Reed City, in the
northern part of this State, last week. telliDg a
rather strange though true hear story. A
three-year old child of oue of his neighbors,
named Flinn, suddenly disappeared and after
a neighborhood search, lasting twenty-four
hours, it was found with a big bear whose cubs
bad recently been killed. The old bear seemed
very loth to give up her strangely adopted
child, for which it bad conceived a strong at
tachment ; but the child was recovered from
its day’s frightful captivity without a scratch.
In bis Greenville speech Governor Hamp
ton made this good point:
“ I was told the other day by a distinguished
clergyman that be bad bad a discussion with
one of bis old colored friends, and bad asked
him, among other things, why be was not a
Democrat The old man said that he had
been taught that it was contrary to the teach
ings of the Bible. The clergyman wonderiug
ly asked where that doctrine could be found,
and the old man replied that as the Good Book
only spoke of two political parties- the’l’ubli
cans and the Sinners—lie thought he must
choose between them and be either a 'Publican
or a sinner, which was but the Bible name for
a Democrat. [Laughter, in which some of the
colored hearers joined heartily.] The old man
had evidently never observed how many of
his party were both ’publicans and sinners
[Renewed laughter and tremendous display of
dental anatomy.]
Diogenes, being presented at a feast with a
glass of wine, threw it on the ground- When
blamed for wasting so much good liquor he
answered: ‘ Had I drank it, there would have
been a double waste. I, as well as the wine
would have been lost
—
Man}’ a true heart that would have come
hick like the dove to tlie ark, after the first
transgression, has been flightened lieyond re
recall by the nmrry look and menacing taunt
—the savage charity of an unforgiving soul.
PUBLISHERS AND PROPRIETORS
PrcHcripiiouK f*r Fit*.
For a Fit of Fusion— Walk out iu the open
air. You may speak your mind to the winds
without hurting any one, or proclaiming your
self to be a simpleton. “Be not hasty iu thy
spirit to be angry, for anger rcsteth in the
bosom of fools.”
For a I* it of Idleness.— Count the ticking of
ft clock. Do this for one hour, and you will
be glad to pull off your coat the next aud
work like a nun. “Slothfulness casteth into
a deep sleep, and an idle soul shall suffer him*
ger.”
For a Fit of Extravagance and Folly—Go
to ta(Vworkhouse, or speak with the ragged
and wretched inmates of a jail, and you' will
b& convinced
“ niakes his bed id luiar am] thorn
Jlust be content to lie forlorn,”
' W here!ore do ye spend money lor that which
is not bread ?■ and yotir labor for that which
satisfieth not ?"
h or a hit of Ambition.—Goto tue church-,
yard and read the gravestones They will tell
jou the end of man at his best estate. “ For
what is your life? it is even a vapor that
appeareth for a little time and then vuuishelh
away. “ Pride goeth before destruction apd
a haughty spirit before a fall.”
tor a b it ol llepining,— Look about fpj the
halt ami the blind, und visit the bedridden,
the afflicted, and the deranged; and tfi*y„will
make you ashamed of complaining aj, jrour
light afllict’ous. “\\ herefore doth a "ffving
man complain ?”
For a Fit of Envy.—Go and see how many
who keep their carriages are afflicted with
rheumatism, gout, and dropsy; how iJTtJny
walk abroad on crutches or stay at home-vttap
ped up iu flannel; and how many are subject
to epilepsy and apoplexy. “ A sound heart is
the life of the flesh. Envy is the lotten
uess of the bones.”
Ai Old l’uzzlc Rewritten.
“If you please sir, I’m a poor boy, but I’m
awfully smart, and I want to work.”
Ihe storekeeper looked at his customer iu
astonishment. The boy was a little bit of a
fellow, und his chin came just over the top of
the counter.
Well, said the storekeeper, “you seem to
have a pretty good idea of yourself.”
“Thai’s so,” said the boy, “I last my last
place ’caUae I was smart.”
All right, then, I’ll show yoh where you
make n great mistake when you you are
smart. Do you see that jug over there?"
“No, sir,” said the hoy, looking hard at a
green box marked, “six gross safety pins.”
“Not there; way back iu the store."
“Oil yes,” said the boy.
Now that jug is full of vinegar; it holds
eight quarts. I’ve an order for four quarts,
but haven’t any empty measures excepting one
holding three and another noldingfive quarts.
Now, if you re as smart as you say you arc,
perhaps you can measure the four quarts from
the eight quarts by using the three and five-”
I can do it, said the hoy, “just as easy as
fishing.”
If \ou do, 111 givcj'ou two dollars a week
und your clothes. No guessing, now, you
must measure exactly.”
All right,’ saiil the hoy, “have your tailor
here iu fifteen minutes to measure ihc, please.”
'lhe tailor might have come even earlier, as
the boy had the four quarts of vinegar meas
ured out in less than five minult s.
ii> w did he do it?
■ • .
Stay on the l-'unn.
Stay on the farm. There, at least, you have
plenty to cat and wear. You can find some
thing to do there which will pay you better
than anything here, where for every vacant
place there are a hundred young men and wo
men. In such circumstances it is a manifesta
tion of folly for people to crowd into the city,
there U; scramble for the little employment
that is going. Every charily has more recip
ients than it can provide tor, and more suffer
ing than its fund can alleviate. You can’t live
by picking pockets, lor tLi re is nothing in
them, ami burglary is dull. If you are a young
man, stay where you are. If a young woman
one peep into the many employment offices of
the city, where day after day young girls sit
almost vainly waiting for a chance for honest
labor that will save them from their dishonor,
will cure you of any desire to <ro to the city.
Ucliuvlor In t.’lmrcli.
There is no sight more pitiable Ilian that of
fieople who havn’t good breed nig enough to
behave in church. Sad, indeed, must that ptr
eat feel whose daughters or sons go to the sol
emn sanctuary of the Most High to indulge in
levity, and disgusting disrespect of not only
the listening portion of the congregation and of
the minister, but of the Almighty Himself.
Church is the place of all others where opin
ion is formed of character, and no man or wo
man cam escape the severest criticism who dis
regards the sacredness of the place and the
proprieties of conventionalism. If people can
not cooform to the laws of God and to the
conventional forms of society when they at
tend church, they have no business to insult
their Maker and to contemptuously disregard
the ordinary demands of refined society.
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\V EAXixo Lambs.— When lambs are taken
away from their dams at the weaning period
if the ewes have large udders, they should be
milked several times, or inflammation will fol
low in the glands of the bag and teats, and
next year the udder may be spoiled. The lamb
of a large ewe last year nearly starved before
we found out what was the matter- We
thought at litst, the lamb was sick, as the ewe
had a xull bag ; but on close examination we
discovered that the milk could not be drawn
through the teats. Neglect the year before
had caused the stoppage This year the ewes
are milked. If they are shut up and fed dry
food for a week, i* will hasten the drying up
of the milk, and save the trouble of going to
the field foi them.— Moore'* Rural.
Bi*oxut-CAKE Cukam Lie —Oue tea cupful
of sugar and one Ua cupful of fi ur well
mixed with a level tea spoonful of Imkiug
powder; •line beaten eggp. Bake in a square
tin, and when cold -pin open and spread with
creuin, |>ri| Hired a> follows : \\ hip pint of
sweet cream until very Muontli and miff*, sweet
en and flavor to Insti*, ami >pread ••etween fhv
cake, A delicate delicious desert.
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