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The Gainesville Eagle. I > ‘iUSH EOKVKKY FRIDAY MORMXG. 14 El) WI N E&EMT EH, Ertitoi’s anil Proprietors. .1 011 N !{ L ATS, Publisher. TERMS : A-Year, in Advance. OFFICE I'p stairs in Candler Hall building, north-west corner Public Square. Agents for The Eagle. J. M. lilCil. Ulairsvllie, Ua.; J. £>. Howakd, Hlwas see. On.; vf. 31. Sandkuson, HaysviUe, N. C.; Du. K. 0, Osuoits, iiulord, Ga. tHr Che above named gentlemen are authorized to iua:.u colioclione, receive and receipt for subscription to Tins Eaglk ofdce. f ■ j i-i liutes of Advertising. One dol ar per square for first insertion, and fllty cento for each subsequent insertion. Marriage notices and obituaries exceeding six lines will be charged for as advertisements. Personal or abusive communications will not be inserted at any price. Communications of general or local interest, under a genuine signature respectfully solicited from any Rates of liCgal Advertising. 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Advertisers who desire a specified space for 3, 6 or 12 mouths will receive a liberal deduction from our rogil* , r rates. bills due after first insertion, unless special contract to the contrary be made. gi-:\ 1:21 \ 1/ biiiKCTOKY, ilon. George D. Rice, Judge 8. 0. Western Circuit. Emory Speer, Solicitor, Athens, Ga. COUNTY OFFICERS. J. i’. M. Winburn, Ordinary. .J. L. \\ ators, Sheriff. J. J. May no, Clerk Superior Court. N. B. Clark, Tax Collector. J. H. Simmons, Tax Receiver. V. • ’ • diel, Surveyor. K Iward Lowry, Coroner. Samuel Lesser, Treasurer. CHURCH DIRECTORY. Prksmytkrian Church—Rev. T. P. Cleveland. Pas tor. Preaching every Sabbath—morning and night, xccpt the second Sabbath. 8u - day School at 9a. m. Prayer meeting Wednesday evening at 4 o’clock. Methodist Church Rev. D. L). Cox, Pastor. Preaching ev.;ry Sunday morning and night. Sunday School at 9a. m. Prayer meeting Wednesday night. Baptist Church Rev. W. 0. Wilkos, Pastor. Preaching Sunday uioruing. Sunday School at 9 a. L'l. Prayer meeting L'hursday evening at 4 o’clock. FRATERNAL RECORD. Allkojiasy Royal Arch Chapter meets on the Sec ond and Fourth Tuesday evenings in each month. J. V. Wilson. Soo’y. A. W. Caldwell, H. P. Ga inks viLi.i£ Lodge, No. 219 A.-. F.-. M.*., meets on the First and Third Tuesday evening in the month W. A. Brown, Bec’y. J. E Rkdwink, W. M. \ir-Li Lomic, No. 84, I. O. O. F., meets every Friday evening. C. A. Lilly, Sec. W. H. Harrison. N. G. G‘-iNESVfLLK Grange No. 340, meets on the Third Saturday and First Tuesday in each month, at one clock, p. m. J. E. Ukdwhui, Master. ! i. i >. CHKBHIRE, HOC. Mounixu Stir Lodge, No. 313, I. O. G.T.,meets ev ery Thors h*v evening. J. P. Cam -well. \V. S. 11. B Latimer. W. C. T. North-E-istcru St*r Lodge, No. 385 I. O. G. TANARUS., mt-oifl every Ist and 31 Saturday evenings, at Antioch Church. F. S. Hudson, W. C, T. W. E. Bolding, W. 8. GAINESVILLE lOST OFFICE. Office lioars: From Sa. cu. to 12'; p. m., ami from * *•; p. m. to p. m. mails close: Mlb - - - 6 p.m. • . . . x * r o3tern, • • S:SO “ ( t:?ighty yea. . . . : op. m. . (i-f-ii:.. * ‘ t - - - . 5:30 p. m Huh-. •• -r-.'Ji county, . . gDlOa. m. “ Nitur-Uy) 9:00 p. m. mail.U \UKi VU'.A-I 1M 1,113 3,1 12:30 p. m. Oil! hiM’tf JUI(I VV*OHtrt*ll, ■ 1 The arts*?*#* .**■ . K..4|.<ruii4 Norlhuru, • T3O :i - 4*,, largg&u? W-'.lii'Mil tv n.it-1 -r - • 6:42 p.m. , (M.m.lay mi l filern, . tn:a.m. '■ri.iay) .v. L. Ir.yk . . - :4;op. m. •. ,* o'a.i .l Sat r-lay) 6:0 p. m. llo.'U tile City ,ity and Thursday) • G:(K) “ -o) - - 1*2:00 m. vw! .. 6:0 )a. m ifivillo, (l*\ i l.iy) - - 6:00 p. m. M. U. AUG UK t*. P.M. W&amaxxasax ~iTmi irunn niiiiiwior llMll■■ll^^ll^l^l■■l■^ IVoi’cssioiul mid Business Cards. a . j. nha ff r: it , lE-itac c-sioian AND K 1 It G E O i\, Oi'.iiuvKvillo, <in, Office) and iiooms at Gaimw’ Gaiuesville, Qa. •u2l-dy tU .1M Pl 5 10L 11OIJHE, (Corner Of DihhGii* and Ivio Streets, near Oar Shed.) Atlanta, Gta. MV FRIENDS from G.tiuesville ami Toceon City *v> .MMpe.otfuliy Invited to call on me at this pl&oe. I {jfnaianteo satißfaotiou. jauas-ly THOMAS LITTLE. Jt IX Fi IS MAHY, FOR THE TREATMENT OF DISEASES OF WOMEN, AND OPERATIVE SURGERY, At tli- Gaines’ Hotel, Gainesville, Ga, by j 11)28 tf A. J. SHAFFER, M. D. V nn.l M K ll ART, M. !>., •‘olkville, Ga., THTTIi.L VR.VOITCK MEDICINE in all Us bnnebes. VV Speci.,l attention give a to Chronic Diueases of vromou and children. fob 18-6 m D it. ii . B . A1)xl iu, DENTIST, (iuimisville, O u. i * e.' ly MA It 811 A L L. SMITH, Attorn uy and counsellor at law, DawsonoUle, Dawson county, Ga. JauU-tf .lOM B. ESTES, VTTORNEY-AT-LAW, Gainesville, Hall county, . Georgia. v. j. wellborn” * TTOKNKY-.AT-L AW, Blairsville, Union county, A. Georgia. SAM 1! EL C."DUN LAP, A TTORNEY AT LAW, Qainatville, Qa. t V Office in the building of Prater A Stringer, S. W. Corn Public Square. aprStl’. VV. K WILLIAMS, A TTORNEY AND COUNSELLOR AT LAW, j\_. Ctevelami. White Go., Ga., will practice in the Courts of the Western Circuit, and give prompt atten tion to alt business entrusted to his care. Juuol2, 1874-tf WIEU BOYD, ATTORNEY AT LAW, Dahlonega , Ga. I w l Practice in the counties of Lumpkin, Duvvson, Gilmer. Fannin, Union and Towns counties in the Blue Ridge Circuit; and Hall, White and Rabun • the Western Circuit. May 1, 1874-tf. . F. WOFFORD, TTOiIN'KY AT LAW, Homer, Ga. ill Wd! execute promptly, U business entrusted to his cure. Mnreli 21,1874-Iy. JAMES A. BUTT, VTTO RN EY AT LAW A LAND AGENT, Blairsville Ga. Prompt attention given to all business entrusted to his care. june 2,1871-tf B! V. A. MARTIN, TTORNF.Y at LAW, Dahloncga, Qa. julylt, 1871-tf • S K CHRISTOPHER, Attorney at law. uiantttt. Ga. Will oxocute promptly ell business entrusted to his care. uorlfitf THOMAS F. GREER, * * TTORXBY AT LAW, AND SOLICITOR IN ; V Equity mid Bankruptcy, EUijay, Qa. Will prae ti-'o m lie State Couris, and in the District ami Cir cuit Courts >f the IT. S., in Atlanta, Ga. June 20,lsTJ-tf M. W. RIDEN, A TTORNEY‘AT LAW, G'.itne&vilte, Georgia. • jfA Jab. 1, 1876-1 y JAMES M. TOWKRY, t TfOKNFY AT LAW, Gainesville, Q m . j_ j. K.NBULL, Jl'A TTORNEY AT LAW, Homer, Qa -Will practice ■jFVm ail the counties composing the Western €tr- Ke;ut. Prompt attention given to all claims entrusted •tto his care. ■f Jan.l, 1876-ly. The Gainesville Eagle. Devoted to Politic!**, News of* tlie Day, The Farm Interests, Home Matters, and Choice Miscellany. YOL. X. BLUE AM) GRAY. “Oh, Mother, what do they mean by blue And what do they mean by gray?” Was heard from the lips of a little child As she bounded in from play. The mother’s eyes filled up with tears; She turned to her darling fair, And smoothed away from the sunny brow Its treasures of golden hair. “Why, mother’s eyes are blue, my sweet, And grandpa’s hair is gray, And the love we bear our darling child Grows s ronger every day.” “But what did th y mean ?” persisted the child; “For I saw two cripples to-day, And one of them said he fought for the blue, The other, he fought for the gray. “Now, he of the blue had lost a leg, The other had but one arm, And both seemed worn and weary and sad, Yet their greeting was kind and warm; They told of battles in days gone by, Till it made my young blood thrill; The leg was lost in the Wilderness light And the arm cn Malvern Hill. “They sat on the stone by the farmyard gate And talked for an hour or more Till their eyes grow bright and their hearts seemed wa m With fighting tlieir battles o’er. And, jarting at last with a friendlj grasp, # lu a kindly, brotherly way. Each called on God to speed the time Uniting the blue and the gray.” Then the mother thought of other days— Two stalwart boys from her riven; How they knelt at her side, and, lisping, prayed “Our Father which art in Heaven;” How one wore the gray and the other the blue; How they passed away trorn sight, And had gone to the land where gray and blue Are merged in colors of light. And she answered her darling with golden hair. While her heart was sadly wrung With the thoughts awakened in that sad hour By her innocent, prattling tongue: “The blue and tho gray are the colors of God; They are seen in the sky at even, And many a noble, gallant soul Has found them passports to heaven.” Tlie Mica Mine. Gainesville, Ga., April 14, IS7G Editors Eagle: I had the pie. sure of accompanying a very intelligent party of ladies and gentlemen from Connecticut to-cTay to see the mica mine, two miles from the city, which is now being opened by Mr. Merck. We traveled on foot, over about as rough and broken ground as exists anywhere, with the addition of half a mile, through the tangled ruins of a recent cyclone, which prostrated all the large trees. Yet wi h all these obstacles the ladies pushed on till \wi reached the mine, where we were amply repaid by the display of the wonders of nature, not only in the beautiful clirystals of mica and itsac-, companym nts of gold and kaolin, but the wild profusion of a?:alias, violets, the trailing arbutus and the snow white Cur nun Florida, which enriches our forests from Canada to Florida. The most interesting feature of this mine is the ruins of ibe mining opera tions of the extinct ‘Mound Guilders,’ whose magnificent relics of antiquity are found throughout Georgia and the Great West—from the Appalachian Mountains to tile Rocky Mountains— proving a powerful empire and a semi civilized people; but altogether unlike the Indians, Mongols or white race in their anatomy or physiology. They worshipped Idols, which have been found in Georgia and other places, al ways accompanied with copper sacrili cial vessels, (from the native copper veins on Lake Superior,) the elegant margenella shell from the Gulf of Mexico, and the mica mirrors from thiamine. From evei y archse ilogical and geological tact, no doubt exists of there being pre-adamites, and placed in this province more than one hundred thousand years ago. We hope soon to hear that the indefatigable labors of Prof. Henry, of the Smithsonian In stitute, will enable him, like Champo lion, to form an alphabet, so as to read the history of this long lost race. The far off dinner bells warned us that we mv.a„ leave, and we wended our way back to the city, with many specimens of interest to science; and t*e fact that the ladies evinced greater energy and courage than the men. M. S. Bible Rruiliti;'. The discussion about rtadiug the B ble in the public schools will, it is hoped, do this good, if no other,— namely, draw attention to the subject of Bible-readiug in general. The Bible is read altogether too much. Of course, it is not read too much by peo ple who do not read it enough, or who do not read it at all, or who know how to read it a great deal, and to edifica tion. But there is not auother good book iu the world with which so many Christian people bore themselves, and bore their neighbots. Some people read and read the Bible till beauties and consolations have little or no effect upon their minds or souls. In fact, the Bible has been made so trite, that only by indirection and at rare intervals are we apt to get clear im pressions of its incomparable wealth of poetry, passion, and religion. We knew a good soul who used to read the Bible literally “on his knees who read it three times a day ; who read the genealogies with the same steadiness of purpose as the Psalms or the Beatitudes, aud who confessed that he got less good out of the book than when he became a kind of heathen and stopped reading it almost altogeiher. The experience of this person suggests an intelligent middle course, which we leave to the parsons to point out. The Secular Side of It. There is no surer sign of a coarse aDd vulgar nature than a contempt for that spiritual earnestness which it can not share. One may be saturated with human philosophy, dextrous in the well-worn dialectics of unbelief, quite comfortable in his slough of negations, satisfied with his theories of the emo tions, deeply read in the history of imposture and self-deception, a skeptic by nature confirmed in his skepticism by his education; yet if his head has not quite got the better of his heart, he will hear with pleasure that any fellow-creature in this woful and weary world has found peace for his soul. Why inquire too critically ? Why predict relapse too confidently ? Why be eager to hope for it ? Why submit these awful phenomena to the frigid test of the understanding V Why be ready with ridicule when a mortal, believing himself brought face to face with judgment and an eternal death, violates some rule of finical decorum as he wrestles with the enemy of souls and fights the battle which is to save him, if only he can win it, from a fate too dreadful to be calmly con sidered ? Apart from the more solemn pro fession of the religious convert, is his promise that he will be honest and kindly; that he will neither lie nor cheat nor steal; that whatsoever of good his hands find to do, he will do it; that he will refrain from the vices which degrade and impoverish and kill; that he will no longer be selfish and ungenerous, and that his works shall prove the vitality of his faith. Tuere has been so much loose talk lately about religion and churches and preachers, that we are in danger of forgetting that during all our lives wo have been surrounded by thousands of excellent men and women, made gen tlemen and ladies by grace, full-heart e 1 and full-handed helpers of the sick, the needy, and the suffering, doers of the work whenever and wherever op portunity has offered, lovely in their lives and creditable because involun tary witnesses of the reality of their faith. To the number of these, a sea son of marked religious interest must, unquestionably make large additions; for though the weak may fall away, the most vociferous may prow silent and the warmest cold,there will always be a remnant of stronger natures abid ing to the end. it can not, be denied that a ‘revival of religion,’ as it is called, adds large ly-to the mere moral strength of s ieia ty, and increase the number of those who honestly mean to do right. Every reader has known, within his i ersonnl experience, more than one personal ex perience, more than one instance of a bad nature made better, of a degrad ed character elevated, of an unwise life, made true and rational, by the acquis ition of religious motives. Hypocrisy, humbug, conceit,, vanity, fanaticism— these are words which fall .easily f om our tongues; hut the fact remains,that hundreds and thousands are really in earnest. These accessions to the right doing side of the population can not be otherwise than of good import. It is unfair to weigh ordinary spiritual experience against that of larger na tures of Feuelon or of Pascal, of Wes ley or of Ohanning. The real question is, Have we here a man who has re solved to walk uprightly in this world for the rest of his days ? If so, then society gains a good man in the place of a bad one, or one who might at any moment have become bad; a good citi zen instead of a possible felon; a good mechanic or tradesman instead of a cheat; an honest merchant instead of a fraudulent bankrupt; a devoted in stead of a neglectful parent; a good Samaritan instead of a liver for self alone. These surely are acquis itions which even the world need not despise. Tlie Difference. ‘Willie, why were you gone so long for water ?’ asked the teacher of a little boy. * ‘We spilled it, and had to go back and fill the bucket again,’ was the prompt reply; but the bright, noble face was a shade less bright, less noble than usual, and the eyes dropped be neath the teacher's gaze. The teacher crossed the room and stood by another, who had been Wil lie’s companion. ‘Freddy, were you not gone for the water longer than was necessary ? For an instant Freddy’s eyes were fixed on the floor, and his face woro a troubled look. But it was only for an instant —he looked frankly up to his teacher’s face. ‘Yes, ma’am,’ he bravely answered; ‘we met little Harry Braden and stop ped to play with him, and then we spilled the water and had to go back.’ Little friends, what was the differ ence in the answers of the two boys ? Neither of them told any thing that was not strictly- true. Which one of them do you think the teacher trust ed more fully after that ? And which was the happier of the two ? GAINESVILLE, GA., FRIDAY MORNING, APRIL 27, 1876. The Blue auil the Gray. There are living within the corporate limits of this city a gentleman and his wife, from whose life history we glean the following remarkable chapter, the truthfulness of wh’ch we vouch for, having known some of the facts prior to their citizenship here—facts that are known only to Ihe husband, the wife, her family and a few of her old Missouri acquaintances. The names of the parties are not given or ob vious reasons. The gentleman has been a resident of Kansas for a number of years, and, when the country called for defend ers, was the first to respond to that call. He enlisted as a private in a Kansas regiment that won distinction upon many a battle field, and was ever at his post, being off cf duty not a single day for many months. He participated in several hot battles, but fortune favored him, and, when mus tered out of service, he had not a sin gle scar to show. In after years he drifted to Platte County, where he re mained some months, during which time he became acquainted with,wooed and won his present wife. She was a young girl about seven teen years of age when the tocsin of war was sounded, and having been born and raised in the South, very na turally was a sympathizer with the ‘lost cause.’ She had had a brother killed in some of the first battles around Springfield, Mo., and she vow ed that she would be that brother’s avenger. Unbeknown to any one, she cut her long hair, donned a suit of a younger brother’s clothes, encased her feet in rough brogans, and one night left her home to become a soldier. The somewhat noted Cy. Gordon was then operating in Platte, Clay and Buchanan counties with as dare-devil a band as ever drew saber. She sought out lrs camp and followed nis black flag through many a hot engage ment. She was never suspected. Who would suspect a woman in that outcast band ? She rode like a trooper, there wore few better pistolshots in the company, owiug to early training giv en her by her brothers, and out-door exercise hand browned and tanned her otherwise fair complexion. To he brief, she served for three years the cause of the Southern Confederacy—a portion of the time with an Arkansas regiment, was opposed at one 1 ime in battle by the Kansas regiment to which her husband belonged. She came home when tho war ended, and she resumed her place in the family circle which her absence had broken. She met the man she now calls bus band, as we have previously stated, in Platte County,, Mu, loved him and finally married him, and they are now residents of this city. They often talk over the days when they went a ‘soldiering,’ and, while she yet believes the cause for which she periled her life was just, she cheerfully accepts the ‘situation.’ —Atchison Patriot. TUe Worth of a Dollar, A farmer came into our office on Monday and paid us a dollar on sub scription, and we observed that it was the same old ragged dollar that we had received from another person on the day before. So we put a detec tive on the back track of the dollar to see what it had been doing since Sat urday. We remembered having paid it out to a printer, and learned through the detective that he had paid it out for board; the hash house market-woman had paid it to a butcher for beef; the butcher had paid it to a farmer as part pay on a fat steer; the farmer had paid it to a merchant for a calico dress; the merchant had deposited it in a bank; the bank had paid it out on a check drawn by another merchant to pay a teamster for hauling goods; the team ster had paid it to a miller for a sack of flour; the miller had paid it to a farmer on a load of wheat; the farmer had paid it to a book store for school books; the book store had paid it to a grocer for sugar and coffee; the grocer had paid it to a farmer for butter and eggs, and the farmer who last received it, paid it to us on subscription as.J above stated. , Thus we see the work of one dollar had paid thirteen dollars of debts be tween Saturday night and Monday af ternoon, without a cent of silver or gold, to back it. In the proper under standing of the work of this dollar lies the secret of prosperity. Keep your money moving and there will be no hard times and no more panics. The “marriage knot” among the Burmese is very easily undone. If two persons are tired of each other’s society, they dissolve partnership in the following touching but conclusive manner : They respectively light a candle, and, shutting up their hut, sit down and wait quietly until one is burned out. The one whose candle burns out first ge.s up at once and leaves the house, (and forever,) taking nothing but the clothes he or she may have on at the time ; all else becomes the property- of the other party. Old Maids. All through the land, in homes and outside of them, I find these women, unwedded, in the vulgar parlancq of every day speech called ‘old maids,’ with a shrug of the shoulder, and with a light dash of scorn in the finer language of sociologists and essayists denominated ‘superfluous women.’— They have been brave enough to elect to walk through life alone when some man has asked theai in marriage whom they couldn’t love; with white lips they have said ‘no,’ while tiieir hearts have said ‘yes,’because duty demanded of the sacrifice of their own happiness. Their lives have been stepping stones for the advancement of younger sis ters; they have earned the money to curry brothers through college into professions; like the Caryatides of architecture, they stand in their places and uphold the roof over a dependent household; they invert the order of nature and beconpi mothers to the aged, childish parent, fathers and mother's, whose failing feet they guide gently down the of life, and whose withered hands they by and by fold beneath the daisies; they carry words of cheer and a world of comfort to households invaded by trouble, sick ness or death. The dusty years stretch far behind them; beauty and comeli ness drop away from them, and they are faded and careworn; they become nobodies to the hurrying, rustling, bustling world, and by and b•• they slip out into the gloom—the shadow will vail them forever from earthly sight—ihe great surprise of joyful greeting will welcome them, and they will thrill to the embrace of the heavenly Bridegroom. Ah! Stewart, who, from your §100,000,000 of earth ly treasure, have given $1,000,000 to the working women in a pleasant home! Peabody, whose gifts of libra ries, institutes and educational funds were princely! Ah! Vanderbilt and Drew, who have put millions into endowments of schools and colleges— these poor women have given and are giving more than ye all. For out of your abundance ye have given but little, and these superfluous women hqyo givyin their loving >.fi:r.h their possibili ties of happiness; with their dreams of' the future! Ah! three-starred Grant and Sherman, not v>,o heroic was your inarch through the fearful, bristling wilderness, and lr>m Atlanta to the ■ a, as is tlie lonely passage of this life made by :>u unmnted woman whose do. olate celibate Ifffi serves to point a j ;s', .or add cynical pleasantry to a at-u-y. Ye weie stiiiulated by the cheers and prayers ofi a nation, while the gaze of a world'followed you. But the path oi these was through the hot shot of ridiculejand satire. ■* Plain Women. Among women qfyajfdted rank who have been wanting in beiuty are Mar garet of Sweden; Matilca, Empress of Germany, and Christiana of Sweden. Fulvia, wife of Antboiy, had but few personal charms; nor: had Terentia, vv it oi Cicero mueC beauty, if one may trust to the mlrity of histori ans; but most of have found some admireis biographers. Neither Annie ot w Catherine of Aragon was ing; still for awhile, they sway'•'•’A fickle heart of their Bluebea;-*.’i ."land. Queen Anne was a down Mless woman in her best clays. jpTs wife was plain. When Quee-LY nv.f of Bohemia came to England a Jig, there was a pageant at Clw of a castle with two towers, t,y;;;;;;;;*u sides of which ran fountaij®""“3*ae; and we are told that the girls who blew gold-leaf in tF ,I '”.'.7.°f the king and queen caused * bride to look plainer; yet pe her way into the good grace and peo ple. In France the >d pleasure loving plain woman K—■ .fined many iaureis. Madame de 72.1 is a mem orable instance, thoiiplfno one was more conscious of her..\fisonal defects. Even licr name was i tower in itself. The great Napoleon to be so jealous of her; ‘ uence that no would indVJ him to allow her to return to Fr a*4 de Yespinaisse, one o| the most fas cinating women of he day, who exer cised a marvellous in tence on those around her, was ma: ed with small pox. Madame a plain woman, Madame d’Eptay was neither beautiful nor clever, b\ti most attrac tive. Madame de JlVllj was the plainest woman of theiolirt. Maria Leezinski, daughter Stanislaus, King of Poland, wife o Louis XV., was good, but unintereing; and that famous Palatine wife of Philip, Duke of At- ••• e- other of Louis XIV., and mot! \ Y<ae Duke oi' Orleans, the regetre vnpg Louis XY.'s minority—a won” ? iuo exer cised more sway than an-.i-u her time —was coarse of featui.-lad so un gainly that her large {passed into a proverb. She was ofOcnline hab its, clinging to the castoiiibf Germa ny, ami wore a short ck..'. .:lg .like a man's. •' ft?* * ** 1 A Rich Man on Riches. The following story, says the M 7 ay side, is told of Jacob Ridgeway, a wealthy citizen of Philadelphia, who died many years ago, leaving a fortune of five or*six million dollars: ‘Mr. Ridgeway,’ said a young man, with whom the millionaire was con versing, ‘You ai - e to be envied more than any gentleman I know.’ ‘Why so,’ responded Mr. Ridgeway. ‘I am not aware of any cause, for which I should be particularly envied.’ ‘What, sir?’ exclaimed the young man in astonishment. ‘Why, are you not a millionaire ? Think of the thou sands your income brings you every month!’ ‘Well, what of that?’ replied Mr. R., ‘all I get out of it is my victuals and clothes, and I cau’t eat more than one man’s allowance, or wear more than one suit at the same time. Pray can’t you do as much ?’ ‘Ah, but,’ said the youth, ‘think of the hundreds of fine house you own, and the rental they bring you.’ ‘What better am I off for that ? re plied the rich mau. I can only live in one house at a time; as for the money I receive for rents, why, I can’t eat it or wear it; I can only use it to buy other houses for others to live in. They are the beneficiaries, not I.’ ‘But you can buy costly furniture, and costly pictures, and fine carriages and horses; in fact, anything you de khre.’ ‘And after I have bought them,’ re sponded Mr. R., ‘what then ? I can only look at the funiture and pictures —and the poorest man who is not blind, con do the same. I can ride no easier in a fine carriage than you can in an omnibus for five cents, with the trouble of attending to drivers, foot men and hostlers; and as to anything I desire, I can tell you, young man, that the less we desire in this world the happier we shall be. All my wealth cannot buy me a single day more of life; cannot purchase exemption from sickness and pain; cannot procure me power to keep afar off the hour of death; and then, will it avail when iu a, few short years at most, I lie clown in the grave and leave it aIT forever ? Young man you have no cause to envy me. Perfection. He who boasts of being perfect is perfect in folly. I have been a good deal up and down in the world, and I never did see either a perfect horse or a perfect man, and I never shall till two Sundays come together. You can not get white flour out of a coal sack; nor perfection out of human nature; he who looks for it had better look for sugar in the sea. The old saying is, ‘Lifeless, faultless.’ Of dead men we should say nothing but good, but as for the living, they are all tarred more or less with the black brush, and half an eye can see it. Every head has a soft place iu it, and every heart has its black drop. Every rose has its prickles, and every day its night.— Even the sun shows spots and the skies are darkened with clouds. No body is so wise but he has folly enough to stock a full stall at Vanity Fair. Where I could not seo the foolscap, I have nevertheless heard the bells jin gle. As there is no sunshine without some shadow, so is all human good mixed up with more or less evil; even poor-law guardians have their little failings, and parish beadles are not wholly of heavenly nature. The best wine has its lees. All men’s faults are not written on their foreheads, and it’s quite as well they are not, for hats would need wide brims. An amusing story at the expense of Bishop Haven (Methodist Episcop al)| is told by a correspondent af a Pitts burg (Pa.) newspaper: “Dr. Nowhall, the former president of Delaware Col lege, at Newark, Del., and a personal friend of Bishop Haven, was very sick, and for some days he thought himself immortal, and refused to take any food. The Bishop visited him and tried to prevail upon him to take some nour ishment. ‘No; Ido not want any thing,’ said he. Tam immortal. lam in heaven. This is heaven.’ Then pausing for a moment and looking at his visitor with a troubled air, he said: ‘But, Haven, how in the world did you get here ?’ There is an Irishman in Toledo who served in the rebel army during the war, and is never tired of boasting of the valor of the boys in gray, especial ly of those in the Western army— where he served. The boys were teas ing him in a saloon the other evening, and one Baid: ‘Yes, but why did you run away and leave Fort Henry ?’ ‘Why, be jabers, because we couldn’t take it along wid us,” and the laugh was on his side. She was a Cincinnati belle —her father stuck pigs for a living—aid as her impatient adorer urged the ap pointment of a day, she could not but pity him. ‘I yearn as much as you do, Alphonse,’ she said with a sigh, ‘but we must wait *Taller’s down and pork’s flatter’n ever.’ Ah Eviction in Ireland. Did you ever see an eviction ? I have. In my checkered life I have been a | private soldier, and between ISIS and l 1850, I was in the county Cork, sta | tic necl at Ballancholy. Those of you j vv ’i lo fi( 'e Irishmen will want no de ; script ion of that beautiful valley of the Lee, which winds between the hills Irom Cork, and in summer seems like a very paradise, green grass growing to'the water’s side, and burnished with gold in the morning, and rudely to very crimson in the evening sunset. I was there on a November day. I was one of a troop to protect the law officers, who had come with the agent from Dublin to make an eviction a few miles from Inniscarra, where the river Bride joins the Lee. It was a miserable day —rain freezing iu sleet as it feel— and the men beat down wretched dwelling after wretched dwelling— some thirty or forty perhaps. They did not take much beating down; there was no flooring to take up; the walls were more mud thau aught else, and there was but little trouble iu the lev eling of them to the ground. We had got our work about three parts done, when out of one a woman ran and flung herself on the ground, wet as it was, before the captain of the troop, and asked that her house might be spared—not for long, but for a little while. She said her husband had been born iu it, he was ill of the fever, but could not live leng, and she asked that he might be permitted to die in it in peace. Our captain had no power; the law agent from Dublin wanted to get back to Dublin—his time was of importance, an I he w’ould not wait, and that man was carried out while we were there—iu front of us, while the sleet was coming down—carried out on a wretched thing—you could not call it a bed—and he died there while we were there, and three nights afterward, while I was sentry at the front gate at Ballancholly barracks we heard a cry, and when the guard was turned out we found a poor woman there, a raving maniac, with one dead baby on one arm, and another in the other, clinging to the cold nipples of her lifeless breast. And if you had oeeu brothers to such a woman, fath ers of such a woman, would not rebel lion have seemed the holiest gospel you could hear preached?—Charles Bradlangh. Poor lint Proutl. Our readers have doubtless heard of Ibe proud but impecunious individual who, at Ins meals in a restaurant, al ways asks the waiter, in a tone so loud that everybody can hear him, if he has any roast turkey, and then sotto voce calls for a fish-ball and a potato—the only luxuries which a depleted purse •fill allow- him to indulge in. But the best thing iu this line is the following, which shows how some people are giv en to keeping up appearances: While seated in a certain hotel, I saw a dil apidated individual enter and take a position by the stove. Upon inquiry I w r as informed that he was a man wno had seen better days, but who, j laving drank to excess, had run through all liis money, and ivas now very hard up. The opportunity being favorable, I commenced a conversation with him, during which he informed me that he was slightly unwell, having eaten a large quantity of baked beans —which did not agree very well with bis once-aristocratic stomach. Just at this point of our conversation another man entered, and my friend of the shabby appearance nudged me,saying: ‘My dear sir ! please don’t say .any thing about those beans.’ I promised not to say anything about them, and he approached the new-comer and asked him how h j was getting along. ‘Quite well,’ said he. ‘How is it with you‘Oh ! I do not feel very well. I have just had a quail dinner, and am afraid that I have eaten too much.’ Just as he got through speaking the new-comer gave him a familiar rap on the i tomach, and in an instant up came about a quart of baked beans! This created quite a laugh, and the new comer asked: ‘How is this ? I thought you had been eating quail ?’ ‘So I have !’ said my shabby friend, with a groan. Tf jou have eaten quail,where did those beaus come from ?’ asked the other. ‘Why, that is only the scuffing! You' don’t think I'm such a blasted fool as to throw up the quail, too!’ If there ever was a time when ele gance of manners will be demanded from the American people it will be during the six months of our Centen nial year. That other nations surpass us in gentility, courteousness, refine ment, we are forced to admit, but why suffer it to be so any longer ? Let the work of improvement, of refinement in behaviour, civility, not alone to our superiors but to everybody, *be woven into our very being. Fathers, mothers, set the example to your children. Teachers, upon your efforts depend the honor of the nation. Lrothers,sis ters, everywhere, be polite. ‘As in smooth oil the razor best is whet FEATHERS. A bullion yield of $21,150,000 is promised from the Utah mines this year, more thau half of which will be silver. A little child was once asked bow she became a Christian, and answered, ‘Why, I just saw the door open, and I went in.’ The dread that we have that pre cious hopes never will be realized, is more than half of the burden that we have to bear. Somebody asked a young lady what Easter was noted for. She said she thought everbody knew; it was tho day you put on your spring bonnet. There is a female evangelist named Emma F. F. Snyder successfully work ing in Southern Illinois who publishes a list of her converts regularly iu the papers. Probably one of the most trying times in a man’s life is when he intro duces his second wife, seventeen years old, to his eldest daughter, who is past twenty. ‘Don’t,’ exclaimed John, while his ‘better half’ was energetically belabor ing him over head and ears with the broom stick, ‘don’t, wife, you are tir h.g yourself all out.’ New York Sun: It looks as if Brother Blaine must speedily go to that political bourn from which no traveler ever returneth. His suppor ters may as well order their crape. Gen. Subert Oglesby, who command ed the division of Gen. Jackson’s army nearest the river at the battle of New’ Orleans, is still living in Texas. He was one hundred years old in Februa ry last. A thoughtful boy, upon whose back his mother was expressing her resent ment with both slippers, felt too proud to cry, and kept up his courage by re peating to himself : ‘Two souls that beat as one.’ Philadelphia telegraphs one hun dred and twenty-eight words to Lon don and gets a reply of one hundred and eight words in forty-five minutes. How did our old dads get along with stage coaches and packet-ships? All which happens in the whole world happens through hope. No hus bandman would sow a grain of corn, if he did not hope it would spring up and bring iorth the ear. How much more are we helped on by hope in the way to eternal life. A Preston man has been missing for three days, and as he was recently married, grave doubts exist as to whether he is sitting round in a hay loft somewhere, meditating on the price of spring bonnets, or has merely drowned himself. A captain who had a sound sleep mate, caught an Irish boy in the mid dle-watch frying some pork and eggs he had stolen from the ship’s stores, and the captain called out to him, "\ou lubber, you; I’ll have none of that.’ ‘Faith, captain, I’ve none for ye,’ replied the lad. Briggs set a hen on ihirteen eggs, and she came off with one chicken, and as ho took a stick and knocked it on the head, he was heard to ex claim : ‘lt sno use for me to try to be a farmer. That chick’—here he gave another rap—‘cost me three dollars, not counting the hen’s time any thing.’ A French statistician says that tho ordinary man, 50 years old, has slept (5,000 days, worked (5,500 days, walked 800 days, played 4,000 days, eaten 1,- 500, and been sick 500 days. He has eaten 17,000 pounds of bread, 16,000 of meat, 4,600 of vegetables, eggs and fish, and drank 7,000 gallons of liquid. An Indianapolis wife caught her hus band kissing the family dressmaker—a woman decidedly repulsive in form and features and, instead of flying into a rage or fainting away, she simply re marked, in a touchingly sad tone of voice, ‘John! I must say that your taste is more to be condemned than your morals.’ NO. 17 A lady called upon her milliner the other day to get the character of her servant. The respectable appearance of the latter was beyond questioning. ‘Lut is she honest ?’ asked the lady. ‘I am not so certain about that,’ re plied the milliner. ‘I have sent her to you with my bill a dozen times, and she has never given me the money.’ One of the best puns ever perpetrat ed was that of the witty essayest.Chas* Lamb, who when once walking out with Theodore Hook, on turning a corner, discovered a boy running away from a legend he had not com pleted, and which read, ‘Day & Mar tin’s B ’ On observing this,Lamb quickly remarked, ‘Ths rest seems to be lacking.’ ‘Every man,’ said Mark Lemon, one evening at his club, ‘has his peculiari ties, though I think I am as free from them as most men; at any rate, I don’t know what they are.’ After a while Albert Smith asked, ‘Which hand do you shave with?’ ‘With my right hand,’ replied Lemon. ‘Ah,’ returned the other, 'thats your peculiarity; most people shave with a razor.’ They were sitting together, he and she, and he was arduously thinking what to say. Finally he burst oat with: ‘ln the land of noble achievements and undying glory, why is it that women do not come more to the front; why is it that they do not climb the ladder of fame ?’ ‘I suppose,’ said she, putting her finger in her mouth, ‘lt is all oa account of their pullbacks.’