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janlt ly
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Georgia.
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. Georgia.
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Juuel'. , > )K74-tf
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May 1,1874-tf.
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jn1y21,1871-tf
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June 20,1873-tf
J. F. I.AJNGSTOIV,
ATTORNEY at LAW, QtuneavUle. Gcorqia.
Jan.l, 1875-ly
JAMES M. TOWERY,
Attorney at law,
Gainesville, G.
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ATTORNEY AT LAW, Homer, Ga —Will practice
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Jan. 1, 1876-ly.
The Glineswlle Eagle
Dcvolod to PolWca, News of tlie Day, Tlie Farm iterests, Home Matters, and Olioiee Miscellany!
VOL X.
the CONVENTION qi ESTION.
Speech ol lion. A. D. Candler, of
Hall, Delivered in the House of
Representatives, January 27th,
IS7<>.
[Reportedfor the Augusta Chronicle <t: Sentinel .]
The House of Representatives ha v
ing under consideration the lull to
provide for holding a Constitutional
Convention, Mr. Candler said:
Mr. Sptrilcr: It is perhaps necessary
for me in the beginning of this debate
to answer the question which has been
often asked why the delegates to be
elected to tho proposed Convention
are not to be elected from tho counties
instead of the senatorial distriefs. Why
each county is not allowed delegates.
In 1801, each county had one or more
delegates, so also, in 1805 every county
had its representation. To this inquiry
I answor that the Constitution of 1808
is to-day the organic law of tho State,
and wo are bound by solemn oaths to
support it until it is amended by com
petent authority. That Constitution
provides for its own amendment in
two ways—first, by the concurrent ac
tion of two consecutive Legislatures,
ratified afterward by the people at tlie
ballot-box; and, secondly, through a
convention of tho people as proposed
by the bill now undor discussion, but
tho same instrument in tho section
whicli authorizes the holding of con
ventions for its amendment, declares
that tho General Assembly shall not
call a convention of tho people in
which representation is not “based
upon population.” If the committee,
in view of this provision, had so ap
portioned the representation in tho
convention as to allow each county to
elect one delegate—if in other words
they had taken tho population of tho
smallest county in tho State as the
basis of representation, it would have
swelled the convention to more than
five hundred—a body so large, so ex
perience has shown, as to bo not only
expensive and exceedingly unwieldly,
but the result of its labors would be
loss wise than if the body had been
smaller. The bill, as it stands, pro
vides that the delegates to tho conven
tion shall be elected from the senato
rial districts on a basis of one delegate
to eaeli six thousand inhabitants. This
gives an aggregate of one hundred and
ninety-lour delegates -a body at once
small onovjgli 1 ■.■ l, not unwiiddiyj and
at tbo same time large enough to secure
wise and prudent, action. This much T
have deemed it necessary to say in
toply to gentlemen who have inquired
why each county was not allowed a
representative.
The friends oi the hill on your desk
invite a free, open and h .norable dis
cussion ol the question and propose to
abide the result. They do not desire
any snap judgment in the matter, but
recognizing it as the most important
measure that has been before the Leg
islature since tlie people of the State
reclaimed tho control of their govern
ment they desire that it have tho con
sideration which tho importance of so
grave a question demands, and that it
ho disposed of in such a way as to se
cure tlie best possible results to the
people of the State. Two years ago I
opposed, on tho floor of fids House,
the calling of a Constitutional Conven
tion, not because I did not recognize
fatal errors in the instrument which
wo are all bound to recognize as the
fundamental law of the State, Iml be
cause I thought tho time had not
come for a calm, dispassionate revision
of an instrument spawned upon us
when wo were prostrate by a Conven
tion of aliens, enemies and emancipa
ted slaves—because I thongt it better
to bear our “present ills than fly to
those we know not of” by giving our
unscrupulous enemies who held con
trol of every department of tho Fed
eral Government, a pretext to inter
fere in our domestic affairs and re
enact the scenes of 18G8, when the du
ly olectod representatives of tho people
of Georgia were driven out of her capi
tal at the point of the bayonet and ig
norant negroes and thieving carpet
baggers were installed in their stead.
Rut those dangers are now past. Rea
| sou and justico have been re-enthroned
and the sceptre is fast slipping from
the grasp of the usuper. There is now
no danger of Federal interference.
The great Democratic party now has
complete control of the sword and tho
purse of the nation, and !he people of
Georgia and every other State can
now dare to do right without fear of
molestation.
Bat the opponents of this bill ask
why do you want this convention?
What changes do you propose to make
in the organic law ? I answer we pro
pose to make such changes ns will en
able us to return to the old landmarks
of our fathers—such changes as will
restore to Georgia her ancient pres
tige and make her again the “Empire
Stato of the South.” There is too
ranch friction in the running of our
State government. It is not that
smooth, lightly runn.ng machine that
the Georgia of old was. It is a harsh,
heavy running machine, crushing the
people under a burthen of taxation
which they can bear no longer. By a
GAINESVILLE, GA., FRIDAY MORNING, FEBRUARY 11, 187(5.
j comparison of the reports of the Comp
troler-General for 1855 and 1875 it
will he seen that in 1855 with an ag
gregate wealth of about a thousand
millions of dollars to pay the interest
on the State debt and administer the
State government, and now in 1875,
with an aggregate wealth of only one
fourth what it was in 1855, there is
wrung from the people iu
ly and indirectly over three millions
annually. Why is this ? It is true our
population has increased some but has
it grown in proportion to the expenses
of administering the government ? It
is easy to see why tho per centage of
taxation should bo greater now than
in 1855, because our aggregate wealth
has been so fearfully diminished, but
we are not speaking about per centage,
we are talking about the actual dollars
and cents required then and now to
carry on the affairs of tho State. But
to bring tho question closer home to
the representative of every county in
the State, let us refer to a few of tho
counties and see how this burthen of
taxation is affecting them now as com
pared with twenty years ago. Tho
county of Chatham was required then
to contribute to tho support of the
State government $22,000; now she
pays SIOB,OOO, an increase of over 400
per cent. Tho county of Sumter paid
in 1855, State tax to the amount of
$7,700 —now she pays SIB,BOO, or two
and a half times as much. The county
of Irwin in 1855 paid sß4o—now she
pays $1,580. The county of Richmond
then paid slo,ooo—now she pays $76,-
000. Tho county of Gilmer then paid
SBO0 —now she pays $5,000, and the
county of Hall, which I have the honor
to represent, then paid s2,ooo—now
her people are required to surrender
to the State SIO,OOO a year out of their
hard earnings, and for what? Why
this fearful increase in taxation V Be
cause our property has been destroy
ed? This does not afford a satisfac
tory solution to tho qnostiou. We had
as many institutions to sustain in 1855
as we have now. Justice had to be ad
ministered then as well as now; the
govornmont had to be carried on then
as well as now. Why, then, are wo re
quired to groan undor so much heavier
burthens ol taxation now than then ?
The answer to these questions can be
found only in radical defects in the or
ganic law. The Constitution of a State
is the eornt.r stone of tho fabric, and if
must first bo reset before you can re
build tbo fabric. Our Constitution
must be revised and made to conform
to the genius of our people before wo
can return to the methods of economy
and good government, practiced by our
fathers. The first change in the or
ganic law that I would indicate as im
peratively demanded by tho people, is
the abolition or material reduction of
our enormous homestead. Its exis
tence has paralyzed Aery enterprise
and east a blight over every industry
iu the State. It is fast reducing our
small farmers and our mechanics and
laborers in the white districts of Geor
gia to the condition of serfs. Under
its baleful influence tho rich are grow
ing poor and the poor poorer. There
is no confidence between man and man.
Credit is destroyed and one failure
in a crop forces tho small farmer to
abandon his little farm for want of
something on which to live while he
cultivates it, and become a hireling to
his more opulent neighbors, who is
able to supply him with bread for his
hungering children. A man must be
worth over $3,000 or lie is liable by
one year’s failure to become a beggar-
Confidence must bo restored before
there can bo any prosperity in tho
Stato, and confidence can only bo res
tored by a change in the organic law,
whereby this unreasonably largo home
stead is destroyed or materially reduc
ed. This enange is demanded not for
tho opulent, for they are able to take
care of themselves; but I demand it in
tho interest of the horny-handed sons
of toil, whose sweat made Georgia the
envy of her neighbors and the Empire
State of the South in tho better days
of the llepnblic before she had been
devastated by fire and sword and
drenched in the blood of her children.
I have examined the Codes of a num
ber of States, taking such as I could get
my hands on most conveniently, and I
find out of thirteen States that none of
them have so large a homestead as
Georgia. Indeed, the largest are in
Kentucky and Illinois, and theirs aro
only one thousand dollars. Most of
the States have none at all, and those
which have made them very small.
Oregon has none at all; Wisconsin,
forty acres of land; Maine, five hun
dred dollars worth of real estate; Min
nesota, eighty acres of land; Vermont,
no homestead; New Jersey, no home
stead ; lowa, real estate not exceeding
five hundred dollars in value, and all
the rest in about the same proportion.
Where the homestead is the least pros
perity is greatest. The men who as
sembled in this city in 18G8 to frame a
Constitution for Georgia were from all
of these States, but they did not en
graft on our fundamental law the pre
vailing ideas of the State from which
they came, as is demonstrated by these
figures. They legislated not for the
benefit of Georgia, but for her oppres
sion and for the purpose of perpetuat
ing tho power of the unholy political
party to which they owed allegiance.
The homestead was not intended for
the good of tho honest masses of the
State but for tho benefit of the unpa
triotic allies ol its framers—recreant
sons of Georgia—the miserable scala
wags who wanted to evade the payment
of their honest debts.
It has been said that if a Convention
assembles it cannot frame a better
Constitution. Is it possible for a Geor
gian seriously to entertain such an
idea ? Away with such a thought. It
degrades tho man who entottains it.
The sons of this proud old Common
wealth unable to improve on a consti
tution made by alien enemies, emanci
pated slaves and unscrupulous adven
turers ! I cannot bolieve it possible
for a Georgian to harbor -such a
thought. Another objection to holding
a convention is that it will be an enor
mously expensive affair, will remain in
session for months and cost the State
two hundred and fifty thousand dol
lars. To this I reply no convention
that ever assembled in Georgia has
cost so much—’not oven the piebald
concern of 1808. In 18G5, whon the
very mud sills of society had been up
turned and the government of tho
State was ‘without form and void’ a
numerous convention of the people—
much more numerous than the one we
propose—assembled in Milledgeville
and remained in session twelve days
at a cost to the State of about thirty
thousand dollars and made tho best
constitution Georgia ever had.
Mr. Harrison, of Quitman —What
about the stealage ?
Mr. Candler—We propose to send
mou here who will not steal. Wo sent
such men in 18G5. Wo sent as good
men as ever trod the soil of Georgia,
and we will do it again. The Conven
tion of 18G5 had everything to do.
Tho Confederacy had fallen, the slaves
had been emancipated, society was
disorganized, and yet they accomplish
ed thoir work in twelve days. There
is no use for this Convention to cost
much. It will not cost much. The
savings ono year will pay its expense
twice over. The people demand this
Convention as a first step towards that
reform necessary to restore prosperity
to the Stato. The twenty or
five thousand dollars Ufift ih3'CoTi
t.iou will cost will bo saved, 1 repeat,
twice over iu ono year-—yes, live times
over. The last point to which I desire
to allude is tho objection that lias been
urged that tho assembling of this Con
vention will endanger the success of
the Democratic party. It is too late
for the Democratic party to be de
ranged by a convention. Alabama has
recently held a Convention to revise
her Constitution, and the people have
ratified the proposed amendments by
an overwhelming majority, and the
Democratic party is stronger than it
ever was in that State. North Caro
lina held a Convention, and wo hear
no complaint of damage to the
party there. Far off Texas lias hold a
convention lately, and the party has
not been damaged there. Arkansas
even resorted to revolution to seenre a
convention to form a row Constitution
and shake off the shackles of Radical
ism, and the people not only" ratified
the new Constitution but. elected a full
Democratic State ticket by such a
majority as was unprecedented in tho
history of that or any other State. I
beliove as firmly as I do in the exis
tence of a God that tho prosperity of
this nation doponds upon tho success
of tho Democratic party, and I will
not be instrumental in endangering its
success. All these grave apprehensions
are entertained by those who are in
terested—who hold fat officos that they
do not want to give up, or by those
who are too timid, and magnify mole
hills into mountains. The Radicals
have never carried Georgia but once,
and then they were marshaled by
Akerman, Bullock, Brown, Blodgett
and Farrow, and backed up by the
army of tho United States, and aided
by those unsafe leaders of the Demo
cratic party who advised the people to
stay away from the polls and ‘let the
negroes have ii, all their own way.’ ‘lt
was a nogro concern,’ and even then,
‘sharp’ and ‘quick’ as they were, they
barely carried the State, and no one
supposes for a moment that they did
it fairly. A fair count would have
made the gallant Gordon Governor.
Thirty thousand of Georgia’s best and
most intelligent men were disfranchis
ed. Where then is the ground for fear
of Radical success ?
Mr. Furlow, of Sumter: Will you
tell the House what changes you wish
to make ? I have asked several cham
pions of tho measure and they have
always failed to give a satisfactory an
swer.
Mi - . Candler: That question could be
asked more pertinently of the Conven
tion. I, however, have no opinion to
conceal. I want the homestead reduced
or abolished and my people do. We
want changes in the judiciary. We
want the eternal seal of condemnation
put on the fraudulent bonds so that it
will be out of the power of the Legis-
a^’@ ever P a y them. We want
B ° f Changes in the terms of certain
olfi-jL There is too much centraliza-
the present Constitution. These
are j)me of the changes that are de
manted.
b*'Pitman, of Troup: Can’t you
rediK the homestead by legislative
euacoient?
Candler: Yes, but the gentle
man being a member of the medical
profusion knows the importance of
admijistering medicine to the patient
at th proper time. Delays are dan
gerotg. Goorgia is sick, very sick, sick
unto loath and she cannot survive the
slow -rocoss of legislative enactment
to (Iqyrny the homestead. We must
have 7 more active remedy. These are
a few of the reason why the people of
Uppc Georgia demand a Convention
and (.jniand it at once.
It 1 said of man, as he thinketh in
h* s so is ho. A man’s thoughts
form 4.1a character. A man may, to
all public appearance, be a pure man,
an< f yv, if he is indulging unclean an
unhoJ thoughts in his mind, he is
form; ft b ase character and is becom
ing nse man. If a man be intend
ing to krong, though he may not utter
witliiiis lips; though he may not
conun fticate the conception to his
dearoM friend—he is destroying his
own tiki character. The world is of
tentimli astonished by base actions on
the pff t of men supposed previously
to have been good. It is an old say
ing th.t no man bocomes suddenly
base, ft is by entertaining wrong
conceptions, by indulging wrong
thougbvs, by familiarizing himself with
impr&| a scenes, and by harboring
wrong purposes, that the barriers
against -sin are finally broken down,
and he s led to tke commission of evil;
and \vf rever there are influences fa
voring i such thoughts, socioty is un
safe. ,
MamLi man is rich without money.
Tliousr m of men with nothing in their
pofcktrtw and thousands without even a
cofestif-Cion, a good stomach, a good
heart, if id good limbs, and a pretty
good h-v.d-piece, is rich. Good bonos
are botir than gold; and nerves that
Hash file and carry energy to evory
functioii are bettor than houses and
better than a landed es
the i ;ght kind or jf father
and ijlwncv. Good breeds and bad
breeds exist among men as really as
among herds and horses. Education
may do much to check evil tendencies
or to cjovolop good ones; but it is a
great tiling to inherit the right propor
tion of i faculties to start with. The
man is | ich who has a good disposition
—who naturally kind, patient,cheer
hil, hopeful, and who has a flavor of
wit anil fun in his composition.
The Jove that survives the tomb is
the noblest attribute of the soul. If it
has wo-is, it has likewise its delights;
and \vl;t>n the overwhelming burst of
grief is lulled into a gentle tear of re
collection, then tho sudden anguish
and convulsive agony over the present
ruins of all wo most loved are softened
away into pensive meditation of all
that it was in the days of its loveliness.
Who would root such a sorrow from
tho heart? Though it may sometimes
throw n passing cloud over tho bright
hour of gaiety, or spread ad. epor sad
ness over tho hour of gloom, yet who
would exchange it for tho song of plea
sure or tho burst of revelry? No;
thoro is a voice from the tomb sweeter
than song; there is a remembrance of
tho dead to which we turn even from
the charm of tho living.
Let patience have her perfect work
and bring forth her celestial fruits.
Trust God to weave in jour little
thread into the great web, though the
pattern show it not yet. When God’s
people are able and willing thus to la
bor and wait, romeipber that one day
is with the Lord as a thousand years,
and a thousand years as one day; the
grand harvest shall come to its reap
ing, and the day shall broaden itself to
a thousand years, and tho thousand
years shall show themselves as a per
fect and finished day.
Take care I If the pilot had taken
care, the ship would not have gone
among the breakers. If the coachman
had taken care, the stable and horses
would not have been burned. If the
druggist’s clerk had taken care, he
would not have put up the prescrip
tion wrong and destroyed a life. Take
care what books you read. Take care
what company you keep. Take care of
your time. Take care of your thoughts.
Take care of your health. But above
and beyond all, take care of your soul.
The best wife is she who keeps her
husband away from temptations. The
best husband is he who lovingly stands
by his wife to guard, cherish and pro
tect her. The best parents are those
wkp teach their offspring that in all
the world is no such dear and life-lift
ing place as home. When to this,
those who are married agree, good an
gels come in to bless them; and the
happiness that kindles to Heaven doth
abide and grow in their hearts.
A Desperate Situation.
It was the second time he had •ac
companied the young lady home from
one of thoso little social parties which
are got up to bring fond hearts a step
nearer to each other.
When they reached the gate, she
asked him if he wouldn’t come in. Ho
said he would, and he followed her
into the house.
It was a calm, still night, and the
hour was so late that ho had no fear of
seeing the old folks.
Sarah took his hat, told him to sit
down, and she left the room to take off
her things.
She was hardly gone before her
mother came in, smilod sweotly, and
dropping down beside the young man,
she said:
‘I always did say that if a poor but
respectable young man fell in love with
Sarah he would have my consent.
Some mothers would sacrifice their
daughter’s happiness for riches, but I
am not one of that class.’
The young man gave ft start of alarm.
He didn’t know whethor ho liked Sa
rah or not, and he hadn’t dreamed of
such a tliiug as marriage.
‘She has acknowledged to mo that
she loves you,’ conlinued the mother,
‘and whatever is for her happiness is
for mine.’
iho young man gave two starts of
alarm this time, and he felt his cheeks
grow pale.
‘I—I hav’n’t ’ho stammered,
when she said:
‘Oh, never mend—l know you hav’n’t
much money, but of course you’ll live
with me. We’ll take in lodgers and
get along all right.’
It was a bad situation. He hadn’t
even looked love at Sarah, and he
felt that he ought to undeceive the
mother.
‘I hadn’t no idea of—of—’ho stam
mered, when slio held up her hands,
and said:
‘I know you hadn’t; but it’s all
right. With your salary and wh t the
lodgors bring in wo shall get along as
comfortable as possible.’
‘But, madam—but ’
‘All I ask is that yon bo good to her,’
interrupted tho mother. ‘Sarah has a
tender Jieart, and a loving nature, and
if you shall ho cross and ugly it would
tiyeak her down within a week.’
The young man’s eyes stood out
like cocoa nuts in a shop window, and
he rose up and tried to say something.
He said:
‘Groat heavens, madam, I can’t per
mit ’
‘Never mind about., tho thanks,’ she
interrupted. ‘I don’t believe in long
courtships myself, and let me suggest
an early day for the marriage. Tho
eleventh of September is my birthday,
and it would be nice for you to he
married on that day.’
‘But—but—but —’ he gasped.
‘There, there, I don’t expect any
speech in reply,’ she laughed. ‘Yon
and Sarah settle it to-night, and I’ll
advertise for twelve lodgors right awo,y.
I’ll try and be a model mother-in-law.
I believe I am good tempered and
kind hearted, though I did once follow
a young man two hundred miles and
shot the top of his head off for agree
ing to marry Sarah and then jumping
the country.’
She patted him on the head and
sailed out, and now tho young man
wants advice. Ho wants to know
whether ho had bettor get in tho
way of a locomotive, or slide off the
wharf.
They have some queer girls over in
Colorado. One of them, who resides
in the Cache la Poudro Valley, had
been receiving the attentions of a
young man for about a year, but be
coming impatient at his failure to
bring matters to a crisis, she resolved
to ascertain his intentions. When he
next called she took him gently by the
ear, led him to a seat, and said:
‘Nobby, you’ve bin foolin’ round this
claim fur mighty near a year, an’ hev
never yit shot off yer mouth ou the
marryin’ biz. I’ve cottoned to yer on
the square clean through, an’ hev stood
off every galoot that has tried tor chip
in; an’ now I want yer to como down
tu business or leave the ranche. Ef
yer on the marry an’ want a pard that
will stick rite to ye till ye pass in yer
checks an’ the good Lord calls ye over
the range, jist squeal an’ we’ll hitch;
but ef that ain’t yer game, draw out
an’ give some other feller a show fur
his pile. Now sing yer song or skip
out.’ He sang.
A young man in Chicago was recent
ly found dead in his bod, and the
supposition was that ho had commit
ted suicide by poisoning; but upon
analyzing the contents of his stomach
nothing but the following were found
in it:
Pickles, pound cake, lemonade, cold
turkey, lager boor, friod oysters, cold
punch, ham sandwich, sponge cake,
beef tea, minfie pie, champagne, lob
sters, game pie, fruit cake, tea, chick
en salad, whisky, coffee, bologna saus
age, port, cheese, sardines and sherry.
The jury returned a virdict of “Died
through the visitation of friends.”
Fisbt it (itii.
A story is told of a daughter of a
prominent, person now in the lecture
field, whieLj is peculiarly interesting
and suggestive of unconscious wisdom.
A gentleman was invited to the lee
turer’s house to tea. Immediately on
being seated at tho table tho littlo girl
astonished tho famdy circle and the
guest by the abrupt question:
‘Where is your wife ?’
Now, the gentleman, having been re
cently separated from tho partner of
his life, was taken so completely by
surprise that he stammorod forth the
truth:
‘I don’t know.’
‘Don’t know!’ replied the enfant ter
rible. ‘Why don’t yon know ?’
Finding that tho child persisted in
her interrogatories, despite the mild
reproof of her parents, ho concluded
to make a clean breast of tho matter
and have it over at onco. So he said
with a calmness which was the result
of inward expletives:
‘Well, we don’t live together. We
think as we can’t agree we’d better
not.’
He stilled a groan as tho child began
again, and darted an exasporating look
at her parents. But the little torment
would not bo quieted until she ex
claimed:
‘Can’t agree! Then why don’t you
fight it out, as pa and ma do?’
‘Vengeance is mine,’ laughingly re
torted the visitor, after ‘pa’ and ‘ma’
exchanged looks of holy horror, fol
lowed by tho inevitable roar.
A Leap-Yea i* Tragedy.
They stood together in the entry be
neath the hall-lamp. ‘Then, Henry,’
she said, in a low voice, wherein were
blended determination, melancholy
and love, ‘you refuse my suit ?’ ‘Yes,
Ella,’ he replied, in accents that were
firm, though tho speaker’s voice trein
blod. ‘I admire you; I will be a broth
er to you, and watch with pride your
course through life,, and if over trouble
should befall you there will at least be
one friend to whom you can come for
succor; but 1 can never, never be your
husband.’ Tt is not because I am poor,
Henry ? For, oh, if that wore ail, I
could toil gladly from morn till night
for you, and strive and win a homo for
you, lmmbje it might be, lint, our own.’
Tt is useless to attempt to induce me
to change my determination. Though
I am but a poor, weak man, I can nev
er, novel- change my mind.’ ‘Then,
cruel young man, so fair 'and yet so
lalse, farewell. To-morrow you will
see my mangled remains on the lecture
platform, and know that it has been
your work. But it will lie too late,’
and, clasping him to her bosom in a
wild embrace, she lied into the outer
darkness.
‘Young ladies have the privilege of
saying anything they please during
leap year,’ she said, eyeing him out of
the corner of her eyes with a sweet
look. His heart gave a great bound,
and, while he wondered if she was go
ing to ask the question which lie had
so long desired and feared to do, he
answered, ‘yes.’ ‘And the young men
must not refuse,’ said she. ‘No, no !
How could they?’ sighed he. ‘Well,
then,’ said she, ‘will you—’ He fell on
his knees and said, ‘Anything, any
fching you ask, darling.’ ‘Wait till I
got through. Will you take a walk,
and not hang around our house so
much ?’ And ho walked.
Tho Suffolk Herald says: A gentle
man who lives not quite a hundred
miles from Franklin, a few nights ago
thought that ho would have some fun;
so procuring a mask representing the
face of a hideous negro, ho went to the
door of his house and knocked, his wife
came to tho door and unbarred it; lie
marched in, and waited for her to
scream and run, but she didn’t scream
or run either worth a cent. She just
raised that door bar and struck him a
blow over the head that knocked him
out of the door and half way down the
steps. The knot on his head is about
tho size of an egg.
A fellow iu Kentucky ran away with
a farmer’s daughter and horse, and
was hotly pursued. The farmer got
within close range and flourished a
revolver. ‘Don’t shoot, for heaven’s
sake!’ shouted the lover. ‘I won’t,’ was
the reply, ‘cause I’m afeard I’ll hit thor
boss. Just leave ther boss and take
thor gal.’ The compromise was ac
cepted by the young folks, who walked
on to the preacher’s house, the father
riding home on his horse.
A little son of Prof. Cook, of Pough
keepsie, aged six years, asked his fath
er how gunpowder was made. ‘I have
not time to tell you now,’ was the re
ply; ‘but think it over, and form some
opinion of your own, and I will explain
when I am not so busy.’ The little
boy was silent a few moments, then he
exclaimed, suddenly, ‘O, I know! they
stir up a little black dirt and put some
lightning into it.’
The man who truly loves a girl or
woman will do her no wrong. Girls,
remember this when a man says he
lows you.
Small Economies.
A writer in Cassell’s Family Maga
zine says: If any who read these lines
are conscious that their pockots are
made of such materials that whatever
money is put into them will burn a
hole until it gots out, I would advise
them, whenever they cake tho air, to
leave their money at home, or belter
still, lo keep an exact account of every
half penny they spend. It is astonish
ing how foolish small extravagances
appear, when they have to be put
down in black and white, after the
temptation to indulge in them is over.
Ami they must, be put down in detail,
and not conveniently classed together
under the general heading of ‘sun
dries.’ The item ‘sundries’ is never
admitted into well kept household ac
counts. No one who has not tried il
would believe what a chock it is upon
personal expenditure to keep a, thor
ough account of money spent, and not
only a check, but a help; for prices
may be compared, and thus lessons
learned from experience.
Generally speaking whenever large
savings have been made, they have
been effected in little sums. Very few
persons of ordinary honesty deliber
ately sot to work to make large pur
chases which they can not afford, and
yet numbers spend just as much in tho
long run in littlo things that they
scarcely think worthy of notice. It is
very difficult to realize fully the value
of small sums. If the half pennies
and pennies that lie loose in the
pockets wore properly appreciated,
there would not be so much pecu
niary ombarrassment in tho world as
there is. ‘Many a mickle makes a
muckle,’ this is true of nothing more
than of half pennies and pennies.
These littlo savings, as a rule, must
bo made in personal expenditure more
than in anything else. What is spent
over household is generally neodod,
but the small personal luxuries which
cost so little are not. And when any
saving is made in this way, the money
should be put aside as saved, instead
of being mixed with the spending fund,
and additions made to it as frequently
as possible; that will make you under
stand as soon as anything what small
economies amount to.
NO. 6
Take Time to Tliiuk.
Wc have lately seen it slatod, that
in one town, four girls were married
at the same hour, about eighteon
mouths ago. Two of them have sepa
rated from their husbands, and tlie
other two are trying for divorces.
Such things ought to wake up tho girls
to a sense of their danger. Girls talk
and laugh about marriages as though
it was a jubilee, a jolly, gladsome thing,
a rose without a thorn. And so it is,
if it be all right, if they go about it as
rational beings, instead of merrymak
ing children. It is a serious tiling to
marry. It is a life business, and that
0® heart and happiness. Therefore,
never do it in haste; never run away
to get married; never steal a marriage;
never marry fqj- wealth, or standing,
or fine person, or manners, but only
for character, for worth, for tlie qual
ities of mind and heart, which make
an honorable man. Take time; think
long and well befoie you accent any
proposal. Consult your parents, then
some judicious friend, then your own
judgment. Learu all that it is possi
ble for yon to learn of your proposed
husband; when all doubts have been
removed, and not till then, accept him.
Tho young man who conceives in the
vanity of his mind that he can pursue
a course of evil to a certain length and
stop, is in fearful danger. Ho- who
says, ‘I am strong, I am a tower of ad
amant, I can conquer toinptation,’ and
then runs into temptation’s way, goes
out upon the field and courts a passage
at arms with the foe; that young man
will fall.
Let not sleep fall upon your oyes
till you have thrice reviewed the trans
actions of the past day. W here have
I turned asido from rectitude ? What
have 1 been doing ? What have I left
undone which I ought to have done ?
Begin thus from the first act, and pro
cedo; and, in conclusion, at tho ill
which you have done, bo troubled, and
rejoice for the good.
No matter what comes upon you
don’t give up to it! Look it square in
the eyo 1 Don’t let it see you flinch.
If sorrow enter your life and render it
bleak and cheerless don’t bow down
before it like a ‘reed shaken in the
wind,’ but swallow it, shako it out of
your existence, cut it up root and
branch; don’t let it put you down un
der its feet.
It is of immense importance whether
the very earliest impressions are for
or against religious truth. Even be
fore any intelligent estimate can be
made there may bo an unconscious
bent of thought, a mental attitude
taken, which is of the greatest conse
quence. Such a bent of the mind may
color all subsequent teaching.
There is in the moral straits a cur
rent from right to wrong, but no reflex
from wrong to right, for which desti
nation wo must hoist our sails and ply
our oars incessantly, or night and the
tempest will overtake us, and we shall
shriek oat in vain from the billows and
irretrievably sink.
Show us a young lady who reads the
papers, and keeps posted with the
current events of the times, and we
will warrant that she makes an
amiable, accomplished and companion
able wife.