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The Gainesville Eagle. ITIKL3SHEI) EVERY I’lilllAY MOKMMI. UEDWINK Ac KWTKS, Editors ami Proprietors, JO H N BLA TB, PiMMwr. Ii .KMS : $2 A-Yeay, in Advance. OFFICE Ul> stairs la Candler Hall building, north-west corner Public Square. Agents for Tim Eagle. .1. U. Rica, lilairsville, Ua.; .1. D. Howabd, Hiwas soo, Ga.; VV. M. Handkuson, llaysville, N. (J.; l>a. N. 0, Ohhoku, Buford, Ga. Hif The above named gentlemen are authorized to make collection*, receive and receipt for subscription to Thk Kao lb oflir-e. jjgh. li.ji I -i- of A<lv<;rtissiug-. < )iih dollar per square for firat insertion, and fifty ceutH for each subsequent insertion. Marriage notices and obituaries exceeding six Hues will be charged for as advertisements. Personal or abusive communications will not be i userted at any price. Communications of general or local interest, under a genuine signature respectfully solicited from any source. Itahs of Legal AilvertiMing. 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Advertisors who desire a specified space for 3, (1 or 12 mouths will receive a liberal deduction from our regular rates. - tCir All bills duo after first insertion, unless special contract to the contrary be made. GMEttAL piRECTOHY. Hon. George D. Rico, Judge S. C. Western Circuit. Emory Hpoer, Solicitor, Athens, Ga. COUNTY OFFICERS. J. B. M. Wluhuru, Ordinary. J. L. Waters, Sheriff. J. J. May no, Clerk Superior Court. N. B. Clark, Tax Collector. 8. Simmons, Tax Receiver. V. Whelchci, Surveyor. Edward Lowry, Coroner. Samuel Leaser, Treasurer. CHURCH DIRECTORY. I’bkhbytkuian Ghueoii Rov. T. V. Cleveland, Pas tor. Preaching every firs; and third Sabbaths, and every Sabbath night. Su day School at o'clock, a. m. Prayer meeting Wednesday evening t 4 o’clock. Methodist Chuiich Rev. I>. 1). Cox, Paßtor. Preaching every Sunday morning and night. Sunday School at 9a. m. Prayer meeting Wednesday night. Baptist Ohuboh Rov. W. 0. Wilkes, Pastor. Preaching Sunday morning. Sunday School at 1) a. in. Prayer meeting Thursday evening at 1 o’clock. FRATERNAI. RECORD. Alleghany Royal Ak<t; Jiiaptkr meets on the Sec ond iind Fourth ’Cues ley evenings in each month. *J. T. Wii.son, See'y. A. VV. Caldwell, 11. P. Gainesville Lodge, ho. 219. A.*. F.*. M.*., meets on the First and Third Tuesday evening in the month W. A. Brown, Sor’y. J. K Rkdwine, W. M. A la-Link Lomhc, No. 64, I. O. O. F., moots every Friday evening. C. A. Lilly, Sec. W. K. Harrison, N. G. Gainksvilli'. <K\N<;r. No. 310, meets on the Third Saturday un ii irs*. l’i<-.-.l v iu each month, at one (dock, p. in. J. E. Kedwinb, Master. F/. I>. CuesuißK, Sec. Mok.yino Star Lodge, No. 313, I. O. G.T., meets ev ery Thursday evening. J. P. CALDWELL. W. S. 11. B. liATIMKR, W. C. T. Morlb-Eastern Star Lodge, No. 385 I. O. G. TANARUS., moots every iHt and 3d Saturday evenings, at Antioch Church. F. S. Hudson, W. 0, T. W. 13. Bolding, W. B. GAINESVILLE POST OFFICE. Office hours: From Ba.m. to p. m., and from l‘a p. in. to 6‘£ p. m. MAILS olohk: Atlanta, .... 5:30 a.m. Southoru and Western, - - 5:30 “ New York .... 6:30 p.m. Kadern and Northern, .... 5:30 p.m. Dahlouega (Stag.), Daily) - - 8:30 a.m. ’offorson, (Stage, Wednesday and Saturday) 9:oo i. m. llttveUnd, (Stage. Monday and Friday) K:ot> a! m. Homer, (Horse, Friday) 12:30 p. m. Walioo •6:00 a.m. DawHonvillo, (Horse, Saturday) - 7 30 • MAILS ARRIVE: -tlautii, Southern and Westo>'ii, - - 6:42 p.m. New York, Eisteru and Northern, 6 :33 .m. Dali louega, 3:00 p.m. Jefferson ( Wednesday and Sal. rday) 6:00 p. m, Cleveland. (Monday and Thursday) . 6(h ’•* Homer, (Friday) - 12:00 m. Walioo “ C, D) a m Dawsonvillt). iFuda.\) omii P *. w ’ M. It. AUOHEK. P.M. KVILROU) Llim:. HCHEDUT.E OF THE Atlanta 4 Richmond Air-line R. R. UdIITNINU KXI-KWB-Tlianu.il. lUSSKNORII. Pans, train aoing Mast, j Pass. tralu Being Went, Leave Atlanta ... -LlUpiu Gouvo Noit lc J’uH.OO m Arrive Goodwill’s 4.16 “ Arrive Charlotte....B. ll “ Doravlle .. 4.59 “ Garabaldi.,..B.44 •• Inilutb 5.26 “ “ King's M’t’no". s3 “ ’* Suwauee... 6.11 “ “ Black’s.... 10.33 “ “ Buford ..5.67 •* •• Gaffney’s. .10.67 “ “ Flo’ry BrYlt 6.17 “ “ Spart’burg.ll .66 “ " Gainesville 6.49 “ *• Wolford . 12.27 am “ Bsllton 7.41 “ “ Greer’s . 12 50 •* “ Mt. Airy 8.16” “ GreenviVb’l.2S •• “ T-n’OOa . . .9.00 •• “ Hanley 151 “ West.miiiHtor9.sl •• “ Central 2.30 “ Hen'ea C’ty 10.21 •• “ Sen’a City... 3.09 “ Central 11.02 “ “ \VestmiiistT3.3i “ Easley... 11.39“ •* Tooroa 1.34 *• ” Greenville 12.14 am “ Mt. Airy ... .5.15 “ •• Greer’s 12.50“ “ Hellion 5.60“ Well ford... .1.11 “ '• Gainesville.. 633 ~ “ Hpnrtanbiuy|.46 “ •• Flowery 8.. .6,60 “ “ Gaffney’s. . 2.49“ •• Buford' 7.18“ | “ Black’s 3.13 *• “ Suwannee.. .7.31 “ “ King's Ml'ii 3.45 “ “ Duluth.. .7.7.49 “ " Gastouia 4.24 “ “ Norcross... .8.24 “ “ Garahaldi....4.sß “ “ Dovaville. ...8.45 “ ‘ Charlotte.... 6.23 “ • Goodwin’s...B.s7 “ “ NOIt R J’n 6.30 " “ Atlanta 9.30 “ JOHN B. PECK, Master of Transportation. Professional and Business Cards. I>R. R. B. ADAIR, DENTIST, Giiinosvillo, Oa. janlt ly MARSHAL L. SMITH, ATTOHNHV AND OOUNSICLLOU AT I.AW, Dawsonvillc, Hamsun county, Ga. Janlt tt' JOHN B*. ESTES, ATTORNEY-AT-LAW, Gainesville, Hall county, Georgia. C. .1. W ELLBOKN, ATTORN EY-AT-LAW, Blairsvlllo, Union county, . Georgia. SAMUEL C. DUNLAP, ' ATTi >It\KV AT LAW, Gainesville, Ga. Ollieo in the Imililin.: of I'rsler Jfc Strinuror, S, W. Corner I’ublio Hquure. aprstf. IV. li. WILLIAMS, 4 TTOUNKY AND COUNSELLOR AT LAW, A Clnxlmul, White Go., Ga.. will practice in the Courts of tbo Western Circuit, ami ivo urompt atten tion to all business entrusted to his care. Juuel'. , > )K74-tf W IER BOYD, Attorney at law, Duhionef/a, an. 1 will Practice in the counties of Lumpkin. Dawson, Gilmer, Fannin, Union and Townseountie.s in the Blue Ridge Circuit; and Hull, White and Rabun :n the Western Circuit. May 1,1874-tf. B. F. WOFFORD, Attorney at law, ndw,, Ga. Will oxoculc promiitly, nil business entrusted to his cure. Mareh 21,1871-ly. JAMES A. BUTT, ATTORNEY AT LAW A LANDAGENT, Btairsvillc Gw. Prompt attention given to all business entrusted to his care. juue 2, 1571-U' REV. A. MARTIN, ATTORNEY AT LAW, DaUUmega, Ua. jn1y21,1871-tf S. K. CIIRISTOIMIER, Attorney at law, mwatsec, r, a . Will execute x>romptly all business entrusted to his care. novltitf THOMAS F ORI.I R, A ttorney at law, and solicitor in A Kipiity and Bunkruptey, Eliiiny. Ga. Will prno tiee in the Stale Courts, and iu the District and Cir cuit Courts of the U. S., iu Atlanta, Ga. 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. J. J. TURNBULL, ATTORNEY AT LAW, Homer, Ga —Will practice in all the counties composing (lie Western Cir cuit. Prompt attention given to all claims entrusted to his care. 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.