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C. HEARD, )
PROPRIETOR. j
VOL. XVIL
Fullivr's a Drunkard.
Out in the gloomy night sadly I roam,
I have no mother dear, no pleasant home ;
No one cares for me, no ne would cry
Even if poor little Bessie would die.
Weary and tired, I’ve been wandering all
day.
Asking for work: but I’m too small, they
say;
On the damp ground I must lay my bead—
Father’s a drunkard, and mother is dead.
We were so happy till father drank rum,
Then all our sorrow and trouble begun;
Mother grew pale and wept every day—
Baby and I were too hungry to play,
Slowly they faded, till one summer night
Found their dead faces all silent and white;
Then, with big tears slowly dropping, I
said,
Father's a drunkard and mother is dead !
Oh ! if the temperance men would only find
Poor, wretched father, and talk very kind;
If they would stop him from drinking—
why then
I should be so very happy again.
Is it too late, temperance men ? Please try,
Or poor little Bessie must soon starve and
die!
All the duy long I've been begging for
bread
Father’s a drunkard, and mother is dead !
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“Only Waiting.”
BY GLEN ELLIOTT.
Only waiting for a husband
With a pocket full of cash;
Only waiting to be married
In a satin robe and sash.
For I know that youth is fading
With the light of closing day,
And the star of Hope is passing
“Through the twilight soft and gray.”
Only waiting for a loved ouc
To accept me for his own ;
Only waiting—yes. I’m waiting
And my heart is sad and lona.
How I long to hear his footstep—
Yet I fear hf’ll miss the way;
Still I’m watching, wishing, waiting,
“Only waiting to obey.”
Only waiting for an echo.
Of a distant nightbird’s song;
Only waiting in the shadow.
Oh! why don’t he come along!
Ah ! how I mistook his meaning
In his accents soft and low
If he wishes me to have him,
Well, perhaps, I might say, “No.”
Anatomical Analysis—The
Stomach.
The stomach is the best friend of
naan, but he uses it as if it was his
worst enemy.
It is supposed to hold about three
pints, but if a man can’t put four quarts
in it he feels disappointed and “hun
gry.”
When a tr.an gets hold of anything
he don’t know what to do with he puts
it in his stomach and takes all the
risks. And he never learns any better,
though he suffers the torments of the
noblest ever after.
It is generally considered that the
stomach is a hopper into which any-,
thing can be thrown, with the assur
ance that the digestive machinery, will
take care of it. This is not so. Fried
shingle nails and frieassed hair pins
will not assimilate with the human
system any easier than leathery flap
jack* or lobster salad and milk.
It is erroneous to suppose that when
the stomach is packed with solid food
of seventeen different varieties it is
capable of holding several quarts of
different sorts of liquid. It will fail to
make a oomfortable feeling swill tub of
itself.
•‘The older a stomach grows the
stronger it is,” is an error. A ten
year-old stomach will get away with
green appbs and peanuts, shells and
all, while a forty-year-old stomach will
•imply pet away with itself and all
that’s in it.
It is useless to attempt to pave the
inside of the stomach with conglomer
ate. Nothing but the best Belgian
pavement should be used, and that
should be thoroughly masticated \ou
can eat Belgian ju.-t as safely as you
CBD a thousand things you do eat.
In making a beer vat of your stom
ach, under the impression that you will
thus become a walking brewery you
will fimftout your mistake. You will
merely put on a bay window which will
be expensive to live up to.
A sea voyage is an excellent revela
tion of the capacity of (he stomach
There is no danger of losing it alto
gether in the process, though you fre
quently feel the fastenings break. A
tew hours on land will bring it to its
“hungry."
The first thing a man does when hie
stomach feels bad is to put some medi.
cine in it to make it feel worse. He is
looking ahead for the happy contrast
when it will possibly feel better
The more medicine a man puts into
his stomach the more that organ seems
to crave, and the more money the pa
tent medicine mar, getsho circulate his
ill-looking portrait in the nowspapers.
Occasionally a stomach is obliged to
go empty. If those who overfeed them
selves were obliged to fill these empty
stomachs with the surplus they eat.and
don’t need, there would be no starva
tion in these parts.
Don’t mistake your stomach for a
receptacle of everything that tastes
good, but use it rationally, that it to
gentle doses of strength-giving, nutri
tious food, moderate quantities of milk
drink, .exhilarating exercise, a little
fresh air occasionally, and you will
reach that happy elevation of good
health and spirits which will render
you totally oblivious of the fact that
you have a stomach at all. A man who
is thoroughly aware of the presence of
his stomach is not well. - [New Haven
Register.
VI T astMl lo see Hie Show.
A low moan caused the city editor
to look up from the work of writing s
notice of Col. Bumper, who had mere
ly called to announce his arrival, de
daring that “these newspaper fellows
will find it out anyway." Another low
moan, like the coo of a wounded dove
“Can I do anything for you, madam’’
She removed a tattered shawl and hail
ded the scribe a paper, which, in bad
ehirography, stated that Mrs. Milkrip
p!e was a poor widow with six obildren.
“I an) sorry your husband to dead.
madam. Died of yellow fever in Mem
phis several years ago, I suppose; or
was prob bly recognized as a St, Louis
man and shot?’'
‘‘No, sir," she answered, with a sign,
“he was killed by a mule.”
“You, draw a large draft on my sym
pathies madam; but I am moneyless. —
You have heard of Stanton’s moneyless
mao ? Well, that piece of poetic liter
ature was dedicated to me.”
“You mistake me, sir. I do net
want money.”
“Then you want bacon and flour ?’’
“No sir. I aui poor and my child
ren are in Deed, but I do not want any
thing to cat."
“ Want to get a relntion out of the
Penitentiary V
“No, I have no relatives thers,"
“Then what can I do for you 7”
She turned loose several thimblefuls
of tobacco spit, said in a low voice:
“You see, we are denied much of
this world’s pleasure, being so poor.
There’s going to be a man hung next
Friday, and I want tickets of admission
to the jail yard. Give me the tickets
and my children will siDg your praise.
We have missed all the theaters, aDd
as Friday will be my son Jim’s birth
day, and as lam too poor to give a
suitable entertainment, I thought that
Pd take the children to the hanging ’
—[Ex.
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llrtming Conclusions-
Wife—“My dear do, you not think
Jonny has a wonderful geuius for
drawing ?”
Husband—“l do, iudecd.’
W—“ Perfectly remarkable. It
seems to uie we should be guilty of
willfully flying in the face of Provi
dence if wc did not recognize the fact
in selecting a profession for him. Mi.
Virgil Williams, the picture maker,
assures me that all Jonny needs is in
struction.’’
11.—‘ Just my idea; and I mean to
apprentice him to a earner grocery for
instruction in drawing molasses.”
W “Oh, you insincere man.”
II.—“Oh, you dorable woman.”—
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O YI I.V
AN ESSAY ON WOMAN BY OUR RE
LIGIOUS EDITOR.
After roan came woman.
And she has been after him ever
since.
She is a person of free extraction
being made of man’s rib.
I don't know why Adam wanted
to fool away his ribs in that way,
but I suppose he was uot account
able for all he did.
It costs mors to keep* a woman
than three dogs and a shot gun.
But she pays you back with in
terest—by giving you a house full
of children to keep you wake at
nights and smear molasses candy
over your Sunday coat.
She is handy to swear at when
ever you cut yourself with a razor
and don’t feel like blaming your
self.
Woman is the superior being in
Massachusetts.
There are about sixty thousand
more of her sex than males in that
State.
This accounts for the terrified,
hunted down expression of the sin
gle men who emigrate from the
east.
Woman was not created perfect.
She had her faults such as
false hair, false complexion, aud so
on.
But is great deal better than her
neighbor, and she knows it.
Eve was a woman.
She must have been a model wife
too; for it cost Adam nothing to
keep her in clothes.
Still I don't think she was very
happy.
She couldn’t go to sewing circles
and air her information about eve
rybody she knew, nor excite the
envy of other ladies by wearing
her new winter bonnet to church.
Neither could 6he hang over the
back fence and gossip with her
neighbor.
All these blessed privileges were
denied her.
Poor Eve she’s dead now.
And the fashion she inauguiated
is dead.
If it hadn’t been for the con
founded “snaik” perhaps the la
dies of the present day would dress
as economically as Eve.
But the only place where her
primitive style emulated is in cer u
tain portions of Africa, where the
women consider [thom3elves in full
dress when they have on but a
postage stamp stuck in the center
of their foreheads.
What a beautiful example in sim
plicity of dross is shown some of
the followers of fashion by that do
mestic animal, the cat, which rises
in the morning, washes its face
wiih its right hand, gives its tail
three tremendous jerks, and is al
ready dressed for the day.
Woman is endowed with tremen
dous fund of knowledge, and a
tongue to suit-
She has the capacity of learning
everything she was divinely inten
ded to know, and a few extra items
besides.
Young ludies take a good deal
o f stock in classes and learn fast.
When you sec a young lady stu
dent from Va9Bar, with an absorb
ed look in her eye, and her hands
and hor lipe moving, you under
stand at once she is memorizing a
passage from Virgil.
But perhaps a closer inspection
will reveal the fact that she is only
chewing gum
The happiest period of woman’s
life is when she is making her wed
ding garments.
The saddest is when her hus
band comes home late at nights and
yells to her from the front door
step to throw out a handful of key
holes of differeut sizes.
f EST. J TiUSUEI) IX Til!' YEAH ixX, )
There is some curiosity in fern
inine naturo.
For instance, I once knew a
young lady who could easily pass
another one on the street without
looking round to see what she hail
on.
Poor thing she was blind.
One of the worst habits a wo
man can get into is a riding habit.
But it is not much worse than
the modern walking dress, which
ladies persist in wearing 4 on the
streets.
When a woman approaches the
crossing, she pauses for one fleet
ing instant, gives a sudden kick
that would fire the envy of a Mexi
can mustang, and catches her train
on the fly.
The averago age of woman is
about twenty-two.
She never lives to be very old.
Some ot them look to be well ad
vanced in years, but you shouldn’ l
judge by appearances.
If you will take the trouble to
ask a-woman how old she is, you
will get at the real facts of the case.
And discover that shf is qn to
young. She seldom passes her
thirtieth birthday.
About that time she begins to
tear out certain leaves in the o ! d
family Bible.
Scientific men are trying to ex
plain why women can’t throw
stones with the force and piemsion
of the sterner sex.
This is glaring nonsense.
Women may not he able to throtv
stones with force and precision,but
they cau hit the m irk every time
with a gridiron or a stick of etove
wood.
Experience has taught me that
Women as a general thing, are
hard to manage. I know but one
way to keep a woman in check.
And that is for her to dross in
gingham. [Ex.
A Cure lor tsmall l*ox.
The following remedy for small pox
has the merit of cheapness and sim
plicity. It is also harmless : “I am
willing to risk my reputation as a
public, mao," write Edward Hines to
the Liverpool Mercury, “if the worst
case of small pox cannot be cured in
three diys, simply by the use of cream
of tartar dissolved in one pint of hot
water, drank at intervals when cold, is
a certain, never failing remedy. It has
cured thousands, never leaves a mark,
never causes blindness and avoids tes
dious lingering.”—[Ex.
Six Hundred Victims of
Whisky,
The Cor'in during her voyage to
Alaska landed on St. Lawrenoe island,
having orders to investigate the whole
sale starvation of the natives. At the
first village at which they landed all
were dead; 90 also at the second, where
fifty-four dead bodies were counted,
nearly all full-grown males. At an
other place 150 persons—men, women
and children were dead. At the next'
settlement, twelve dead bodies, and at
the following thirty wore found. All
the inhabitants on the north side of
the island, where whisky traders sold
liquor, are dead—not one escaping.—
The general starvation occurred two
years ago last winter. Since then tbe
presence of the Corwin in tho Arctic
has broken up this inhuman whisky
trading. The empty whisky kegs are
seen strewn all about. The total num
ber ol dead bodies found on St. Law
reice island was over 600. The sur
vivors say that whito traders from
Honolulu sold whisky, which the na
tives bought and got drunk, remaining
so during the season for laying iu their
winter supply of walrus and saal.—
[Ex.
mrn •
02P"Tbe philosophy of the great rush to
C. A. Davis & Go’s: “The bust value for
the money.”
—Heel bolts, heel slides, plow rods,
clevises, single trees, single tree irons,
hauies, traces, back bands, plow bridles,
lap rings and links.—C. A. Davis Si
I Cos,
(test Antidote Against Injec
tion.
It is terrible to read of infectious
diseases with which we are still
troubled. There are whole dis
tricts now trembling for fear that
smallpox will invade them or spread
within them; towns aro dreading
the coming of malarial fevers;
others are already suffering under
diptheria. while scarlet fever, roea
sics, etc., are not even mentioned.
We think that a certain class o
antidotes have never become suffi
ciently appreciated in these cases
There is one especially which we
would wish to mention, the fumes
of boiling malt vinegar.
They dispel infectious particles
rapidly and kill their virulence,
particularly if used in time. Where
these fumes are used, windows and
doors should be closed and not
opened for about twenty minutes.
Alter this time the fresh air can be
freely admitted Whon these fumes
are used repeatedly, disease will
assuredly be kept off.
This is also an excellent preren
live among cattle and sheep against
infection, and even a curative in
corlnin cases. The great power ol
acids to dispel and kill malarial
particles is not sufficiently appre
ciated. and any one can make a
trial in the simplest form by all- w
ing the fumes of boiling vonegar to
spread ab (, ut. [Food and Health,
i Attach (tin ||i-r Ssj:?! (tf Jug
gernitui.
An attack has been made upon
the Idol of Juggernou f , t Poorcc,
the most sacred shrine i:i India,by
a body of fanatics.
The rioters, who numbered
twelve men and three women, arid
were almost in a slate of nudity,
succeeded in 'ntering the temple,
and triod to force their way into
the inner recesses. Although up
ward of 1,000 pilgrims were pre
sent, they wore not expelled with*
out a severe struggle, in the course
of which one intruder was tram
pled to death. The re9t were ar
rested. and sentenced to three
month’s imprisonment. The in
quiry showed that they belonged
to a set of Hindoo dissenters late
ly founded in the Sumbulporo dis
trict, and known as Kumbhupatias
from the fact that the followers
wear ropes of bark around their
waists.
They allege that their religion
was revealed to sixty-four persons
in 1664, by a god incarnate, whom
they style Aleknewamy—that is,
the Lord—whose attributes can not
bo described in writing. They be
liove in the existence of the 300,-
000,000 of Hindoo deities, but do
not respect their images, saying it
is impossible to represent a Su
preme Being whom no one has ever
seen. They are subdivided into
three classes, two of which re
nounce the world and make no dis
tinction of caste, while tbo third
lead a family life Their habits
are said to be very filihy, and. like
some European sects, they take nr
medicine in illness, but rely solely
on divine help Their attack on
the Pooree temple was prompted
by the belief that if the Juggernaut
were burned it woul 1 convince the
Hindoo of the futility of their reli
gion, and the whole world would
then embrace the truth.— [Calcut
ta Gazette.
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( EDITOR.
TIIK XOVEIiTY
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r I'SHE LOGS remain stationary the raw
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/ A EOP.GlA—Greene County.
V.J Oscar E. Fluker, Administrator of
the Estate of John C. Fluker, deceased, ap
plies for Letters of Dismission, and such
Letters will be grantodon the first Monday
in March, 188‘2, unless good objections are
tiled. JOEL F. THORNTON, Ord’y,
November 30, 1881 —Sms
llotioe.
riAHE UNDERSIGNED has sold his mer
.l. cantile interest, together with the
Notes and Accounts of said interest, to
Messrs. I’hinizy & Cos. of Augusta, Ga. H
is employed by these gentlemen to look
after this interest, and will take much
pleasure in waiting on his old customers at
the old stand in White Plains. Coeds
sold only for cash, but at very isdueed
rales.
Those having unsettled papers are urged
to make early settlement.
J. U. M APP.
White Plains, Ga. Jnn. 12Mi, iQM—tf.
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