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(ESTABLISHED IX THE YEAR IS'!’,).
C. HEARD,)
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VOL. XVII.
niark Antony's Oration Over
4'nesn r.
[K. W. Criswell's “New Shakspeare’’]
Friends, Romans, countrymen ! Lend me
your ears ;
I will return them next Saturday. I come
To bury Cmsar, because the time are hard
And his folks can’t afford to hire an under
taker.
The evil that men do lives after them,
In the shape of progeny, who reap
The benefit of their life-insurance.
So let. it be with the deceased.
Drutus hath told you Caesar was ambitious.
What does Brutus know about it ?
It is none of his funeral. Would that it
were !
flere under leave of you I come to
Make a speech at Cmsar’s funeral.
He was my friend, faithful and just to me;
He loaned me $5 once when I was in a
pinch,
And signed my petition for a post-office.
But Brutus said he was ambitious.
Brutus should wipe off his chin.
Cmsarhatli brought many captives home to
Rome
Who broke rock on the streets until their
•ransoms
Bid the general coffers fill.
When that the poor hath cried, Cmsar hath
wept,
Because it didn’t cost anything
And made him solid with the misses.
[ Cheers.
Ambition should be made of sterner stuff.
Yet Brutus said he was ambitious.
Brutus is a liar and I can prove it.
I on all did see that on the Lupercal
I thrice presented him a kingly crown,
Which lie did thrice refuse, because it did
not tit him quite.
Was this ambition ? Yet Brutus says he
was ambitious.
Brutus is not only the biggest liar in the
c 'untry,
But he is a horse thief of the deepest dye.
[ Applause.
If you have [tears, prepare to shed them
now. [ Laughter.
You all do know this ulster,
I remember the first time ever Cmsar put
if on.
It was on a summer's evening in his tent,
With the thermometer registering 00° in
the shade ;
But it was an ulster to be proud of,
And cost him $3 at Marcaius Swartz
moyer’s,
Corner Broad and Ferry streets, sign of
the red flag. „
Old Swartz wanted S4O for it,
But finally came down to $3, because it
was Cicsar!
Look ! in this place ran Cassius’s dagger
through;
Through this the son of a gun of a Brutus
■ tabbed,
And, when he plucked his cursed steel
away,
Good gracious ! how the blood of Csesar
followed it!
[Cheers, and cries of‘■'Give us something
on the Chinese bill !” "11l him agaM"
etc.
I come not, friends, to steal away your
hearts.
I am no thief as Brutus is.
Brutus has a monopoly in all that business,
And if he had his deserts he would be
In tbe penitentiary, and don’t you forget
it.
Kind friends, sweet friends, I do not wish
to stir you up
To such a sudden flood of mutiny,
And, as it looks like rain,
The pall- bearers will please place the
coffin iu the hearse,
And we will proceed to bury Cmsar,
Not to praise him.
— • •■■■—-
The Niew Xiirtlmcst.
fHarper’s Magazine ]
Far away in tbo Northwest, as
far beyond St Paul as St. Paul is
beyond Chicago, stands Winnipeg,
the capital of Manitoba, and the
g*teway of anew realm about <o
jump from its present state of track
less prairies, as yet almost devoid
of settlement, to the condition of
our most prosperous Western
States. Here, bounded on the
south by Dakota and Montana,
west by the Rocky Mountains,
north and oast by the great Peace
River and the chain of lakes aod
rivers that stretch from Lake Ath
abasca to Winnipeg, lies a vast ex
tent of country, estimated to con
tain 300,000,000 acres, or enough
te make eight such States as lowa
Or Illinois. Not all o r it is fertile,
it is true, yet it may be safely said
that two-thirds of it aro available
for eetilement and cultivation.
In fact, the extent of available
land in these new countrios is apt
to be underestimated, for if the
traveler does not see prairies waist
deep in the richest grass, he is apt
to set them down as barren lands;
and if ho crosses a marsh he at
once stamps it as land too wet for
cultivation. Those, however, who
remember the early days of Illi
nois and lowa have seen lands then
passed by as worthless stamps now
held at high prices as the best of
meadow-land. This is a land of
rolling prairies and table lands, wa
terod by navigable rivers, and not
devoid of timber.
Its climate is hardly such as
one would select for a lazy man’s
paradise, for the winters are long
and cold, and the summers short
and fiercely hot, though their
shortness is in some measure eom
ponsatod for by the great length |
of the midsummer days. -Never
theless, it is a land whore wheat
and many other grains and root
crops attain their fullest perfection,
and is well fitted to be tho home of
a vigorous and healthy race. Man
itoba, of which wo hear so much
now, is but the merest fraction of
this territory, and, lying in the
southeast corner, is as yet the only
part accessible by rail. * * *
Over this vast region, and in
deed all that lies between it and
the Arctic Ocean, for two hundre'd
years the Hudson Bay Company
exercised tsrritorial rights. Till
within a few years it was practical
ly unknown except as a preserve
of fur-beariDg animals; and prior
to 1870 it was hard to find inform
ation as to its material resources or
its value. The Company discour
aged every attempt and threatened
to interfere with the fur-bearing
animals or the L.Jiuns who trapp
ed them; still it became known
that some of this vast region was
not utterly worthless for other pur
poses; the soil looked deep and
rich in many places, and in the
western part the buffalo found a
winter subsistence, for the snows
were seldom deep, and in the pure
dry air and hot autumnal 9un the
grasses, instead of withering, dried
into natural hay. The early ex
plorers, too, had brought back re
ports of noble rivers, of fertile
prairies, of great beds of coal, of
belts of fine timber. But what
cared the Campany for these? The
rivers, it is true, were valuable as
being the homes of the otter, the
mink, and other fur-bearing ani
mals, and furnished fish for their
employes, and highways for their
canoes. For the rest they had no
use. At last, in 1870, seeing that
they could no longer exclude the
world from these fertile regions,
the Hudson Bay Company sold
their territorial rights to Canada,
which now began to see its way to
a railroad across the continent, to
link the colonies from Nova Scotia
to British Columbia. * * *
Now it is evident that the growth
of this region will be rapid, proba
bly more rapid, indeed, than that
ef our own Western Statei that
lio beyond the lakes; far in them
there had been a slow but steady
increase of population from a com
paratively early day, and when the
railroads began to gridiron the
country from the great lakes to the
Rocky Mountains, the States east
of the Missouri already possessed
a considerable population.
In the new Northwest, however,
we see a land that has remained
isolated fro’m the rest of the world,
untrodden excepf by the Indian or
the trapper, suddenly thrown open
for settlement, and on terms as lib
eral as those offered by our govern
ment or land grant railroads.
Tho Canadian Pacific Railway is
already completed 150 miles west
of Winnipeg, which is already oon
nected with our Northwestern raiU
roads, and it is hoped, not without
reason, that another 500 miles will
Devoted to tliu Cause of Truth and Justice, and the Interests of the People.
GREENESBORO’, GA., THURSDAY, .JULY 27, 1882.
be completed toward the mountains
the present year. To build two or
even three miles a day across such
a country as this division traverses
would be no extraordinary feat in
modern railroading. Branches,
too, north and south, will be rapid
ly constructed, not to accommodate
existing traffic, but to create it.—
Now it seems a3 if nothing short
of some financial panic, some gross
blundering or stupidity, could de
lay the construction of the rail
road, or check the flood of immi
gration that must surely pour in.
Can it be that, with the govern
ment Canada enjoys, one as free
and fully as democratic as our own,
the shadow of monarchy will delay
the occupation of this land by other
races than that of the Briton ?
Here we shall have a chance to
seo bow Canadian enterprise com
pares with our own. The Norths
ern Pacific Railway has its agents
far and wide trying to induce set
tlers to purchase its lands and fur
nish traffic for its lines. The two
railroads are not far apart,and the
Canadians have quite as good, if
not better, lands to offer. Will
they be as energetic, as successful,
a3 their cousins across the line ?
The climate of thi3 region is far
from what one would expect from
its northern latitude While it can
not be said te be entirely safo from
early frosts as far north as Dunve
gan, in latitude 56 deg., there is
seldom any from the middle of May
till September, and even the tender
cucumber attains maturity. Wheat,
barley, and vegetables ripen every
season at the various posts along
the Pearl River. Wheat ripens
even as far north as Fort Simpson,
in latitude 62 deg., while wheat
and barley from the Lake Athabas
ca district took a medal at the Cen
tennial. These crops, it is true,
have been raised on the bottom
lands along the river; and though
the table lands on each side are
several hundred feet higher, they
are protected by that very eleva
tion from those late and early frosts
every where prevalent on low-lying
bottom lands.
THIS RUTCnillt.
[Texas Siftings.]
A butcher is a man who wears
an apron like that of a barkeeper,
hence it frequently happens, par
ticularly in Austin when the Leg
islature is in session, that belated
revelers, who are returning home
early, just about sunrise, frequent
ly drop into a butcher’s shop and
request him to prepare them a ton
ic. Or perhaps it is the smell of
tho butcher’s breath that draws the
belated reveler into the shop, for
the number of trips a butcher takes
to the nearest s-aloon to his stall is
simply incredible. llis ostensible
object in going to tho saloon so
often, is to "get change.” When
ever he sells a dime's worth of
meat, he has to rush off to the sa
loon to get change. He never
omits on such occasions to change
his breath, or rather to strengthen
it, for he usually adhores to whis
ky straight. If you hand him a
five cent piece for a piece of meat
for the cat, he will say. "excuse
me until I get some small change,*'
so absent minded has he become
from the force of bad habit. A
gentleman of a statistic al turn of
mind measured the distance from a
San Antonio butcher's stall to the
nearest saloon, and found that the
butcher traveled seventeen miles
every morning just to get change
to accommodate bis customers, al
though, like Polonious, he became
a little weak in the hams toward
the latter end of the walking match.
If one of the ends of the track is a
saloon door, almost any butcher
will distance the best trained pe
destrian in the country.
Perhaps some butcher will say |
that he spends his own money for
tonics, and it is none of the public’s
business what he does with his own
resources. That is just the point
|we are going to elucidate, right
now. We shall demonstrate that
the convivial walking matches of
the butcher are not entirely at bis
I own expense. The hungry public
! has to come down liberally with
gate money to see that walking
match. When you ask for a por
terhouse steak, ho produces a bone
that looks as if it belonged to a
mastodon, with a little meat hang
ing to it. lie hooks this bone on
to his badly adjusted scales, swings
himself on it, and yells “five
pounds!” You pay for five pounds
of meat, but you only carry off
throe pounds f bone and six ozs.
of meat. And the worst’of it is,
you do not get all that, for lie pro
ceeds to chop off the bone, which
he keeps, and afterwards sclh it to
a hotel to make soup out of. That's
the kind of a philanthropist some
butcher's are.
There are others who are not
quite ao enthusiastic. They do
not swing themselves clour off the
floor when they weigh meat. They
only keep a hand as big as a can
vass-covered ham on tl e meat te
prevont it from blowing off the
scales. In law and equity, you
are entitled to the butcher's hand
along with the meat, for you have
! bought it and paid for it, lut he
never delivers the goods. Ho needs
that hand in his business It is so
i handy in weighing He sells that
hand at eight or ten cents a pound
forty times a day, but he always
keeps it on hand, as it were, it be
ing so useful in making change,
lifting up beer mugs, and in re
moving a customer who wants lo
have the meat weighed over.
The butcher can be very sarcas
tic if be tries ( Possibly his trade
has some thing to do with his mak
ing cutting remarks. Besides, he
is a man of brains, having more on
hand than ho has any use for,which
may account for the fact that he
is never sent to Congress or the
Legislature.
We once suggested to a butcher
that he put his scales where the
customers could see the dial, not
necessarily for publication, but
merely as a pledge of good faith.—
“Oh, yes,” he replied, scornfully,
“1 suppose after a while, when
you buy a five cent soup b*ne, you
will expect me to put on my swal
low tail Sunday coat and ray stove
pipe hat, hire the finest back in
town and a brass band, go in pro
cession to your shanty, and deliver
the soup bone.” We assured him
he was mistaken, that no such idea
had ever entered our head, but we
never afterwards enriched him with
any more suggestions how to ac
quire the esteem and respect of his
fellow citizens. We may mention
right here, incidentally, in closing
these remarks, that they do not*ap
ply to all butchers, irut principal!)
te the one who did not seem to
need any advice where to hang his
scales.
The Study of Shakspeare off
Use Staße.
Of late years men have come to un
derstand that off the stage
is far superior to Shakspeare on the
stage. Two men, Goethe aod Cole
ridge, have contributed largely to this
result. To theui are we mainly indebt
ed for that new method of criticism
which has lifted the great dramatist
out of tho company of mere play
wrights, and exalted him to a Iran
scendent position among philosophic
thinkers. The characteristic of this
criticism is that it deals with the laws
of mind as mind. Its fundammta
principle is that Art is gcoe.dc, aod
Such founded in the essence of our na
ture. At the same time it regards
arts as specific—functionally differen',
although integrally tho same. No
sooner was this view accepted than
Shakspeare rose to the rank of an elect
genius among philosophers and poets
And his supreme excellence was seen
to consist in the fact that behind the
dramatist was a man who combined in
a marvellous degree of symmetry and
strength the distinctive attributes of
the abstract and concrete mind. No
partition st x>d between his faculties
Each was eminent in its place. But it
was their ease of instant co-operation,
and the facility with which one glided
into tho other, that mado him the
typical representative of Art in its
wholeness. Shakspeare’s merit is not
in this or that perfection of a specializ
ed quality. History, fiction, oratory,
physiology, law. statesmanship, m‘lie
ties, poetry, may claim a share of him
—only a share, however — and mean
time the man himself is undisturbed,
and holds his peisonality intact. And
it is this man, William Shakspeare.
standing back of these fragmentary
shapes of himself—all of them fluctu
ant attitudes of a steady and Tast sub
stance—that is the educative and in
spiring Shakspeare. It is not the
brilliaut constellations in the noctur
nal hea- ens which fill us with a sense
of infinity, but the heavens themselves
containing these in the scope of their
infinitude. So, too. it is not. Hamlet.
Macbeth, Julius Caesar, that furnishes
a student with an adequate conception
of Shakspeare. For it is not his
thoughts, hut his thought., not his
ability, but his capacity, nut his reali
ty, but his ideality, that endows
Shakspeare with such 'immeasurable
influeocj over one who has learned, as
the consummation of all his learn ins
how to study him as the master-tcaih
er outside the H dy Scriptures.
So far as my observati u has extend
ed. nothing has impiessed me more in
the recent advances in education, aud
especially in seminaiics, colleges, and
universities, than the importance) st
tached to the study of Shakspeare.—
For years past I have been engaged in
teaching Shak-pearo, and I speak from
long experience when [ say that I have
never found an author so useful to ad
vanced university students. The utili
ty is of a peculiar kind. I attach Hut
little value to Shakspeare in training
the acquiring faculties, though I have
witnessed very considerable results in
this respect among the higher grades
of scholars in high schools and semi
naries. The special worth of Shak
spenre lies in arousing the intellectual
consciousness, arid making known one’s
power to one's self by quickening the
suggestive faculty, and through it the
creative functions. Of course this
pre-supposes rigid mechanical train
ing, Unless this has been undergone.
Shakspearc is not of much use. M3
best students have been tboso accus
tomed to the discipline of tho ancient
classics, of logic, and mental philoso
phy. I have noticed, furthermore
that the percentage of satisfactory pro
gress has been unusually large. The
quality of the success, moreover, ha*
been uniform, while the quantity has
varied by reason of mental idiosyncra
sies One effect, as might, have been
expected, was very marked, viz , the
increase of original activity, as appa
rent in essays and speeches. So then
I have concluded that Shakspeare sur
passes all writers in exciting the spon
taneous energy of educated young
minds. At a certain period of devel
opment this is just what is wanted.—
Too much stress can not be laid on
strict and continuous formulation in
the education of young girls and boys.
In no other way can the spinal brain,
the medulla, and thu cerebellum be
trained to the service of the orrebrum.
and through it to the offices of intel
lect. Habits have their basis in tin
lower forms of the brains above men
tioned, and habits are fundamental to
education. Isut this is a short-lived
season. Hetween the ages of sixteen
and twenty years most minds expand
in the direction of spontaneous aetivi
ty. The higher instincts, which had
been wisely kept dormant, begin to
awake and to demand recognition.—
And whereas in the former period—a
pciiod of probationary apprenticeship
by means of mechauical routine —the
I main thing had been to train the in
tellect by volitional attention as the
1 only way Insecure habits of acquiring
knowledge, the distinctive feature of
the subsequent period is the initial
transition to spontaneous or creative
energy. Just at this epoch in the his
tory of the mind’s normal growth I
have found Shakspeare admirably
suited to carry on the change, and for
ward the instinctive movement in the
right direction After twi n'y years’
trial 1 have met with no author com
parable with him in thi* specific work.
—[A. A. Lipscomb, in Harper's Mag
azine for August.
—
Ail Imitative Itiicc.
The colored voters are beuinniftg t>>
understand polities as well, if not bet
ter, than ino-t white voters. Their
natural disposition to lie and steal, an
crops out in the caes of Whitaker and
Flipper, is of great advantage to them
during a political campaign. O c ol
the candidates fur an office at the mu
nicipal election in Austin, not long
sines, rcl.ed on the fidelity of an old
family servant lo help him out among
the colored voters. The candidate was
beaten. Alter the election ho was
told that the colored political friend
had voted against him. lie diu not
believe it, hut meeting him oue day the
cx-candidate said :.
“I’ll give you a dollar, Jim, to tell
me whom you voted for
“I voted agin you, boss.”
‘‘Well, here is the dollar for your
candor.”
“Look, hcah, bos', ef ycr am gwincj
ter pay for do candor, 1 ui<>ut as well
own up I voted agin you free different
times. Three dollars u.oah, if you
plrase, boss.”
This is almost as had as to e ’jay
Senator Voorhees treated our repre
sentative IlcaL’an. [Texas. Siftings.
—aMWV •
I’rceejil him! Practice. ,
A good story is told of a minister,
who, happenii.g.ouc day to pass by the
open dour of a room where his daugh
ters aud some young Irictuis were at
semblcd, thought,, from what lie ovci
heard, that they were uiakin/ Loo lice
with the character of their neighbor-;
and after their visitors had departed,
he gave his children a lecture on the
a lifulne-s of .-caudal. They answere :
But father, what shall wc talk about ?
If you can't do anything td-c, replied
he, get a pumpkin and roll it about;
that will at least be innocent diversion
A short time after, an association ol
ministers met at his house, and during
the evening some discussions on points
of doctrine were earnest, and their
voices were so loud as lo indioitc the
danger of losing their Christian tem
per; when his eldest daughter over
hearing tl.otn, | roduced a pumpkin,
and, entering the room, pave it to her
father and said: There, father, roll it
about. The minister was obliged to
explain to his brethren, and good I n
mor was instantly restored. —[Ex.
Wc asked a Fort Worth man, yes
terdav, what was the real cause of
Wellborn’s sudden uopopnlarity in-
Dallas “I cannot imagine,” was the
reply, “unless the Dallas folks think
he has gone back on them by joining
the church.” —[Texas Siftings.
Arkansas has a mule that will stop
kicking if the Lord’s prayct is repeat
ed to him. It so amazes him to hear
an Arkansas man pray that he forgets
all about kicking.
IJItCL FO 1C DIVORCE.
Lizzie Battle. 1
vs. - > Libel for Divorce.
Judson Battle. )
f'l KOKGIA. Greene County D >|’P C,U '-
\J ing to the Court that t he Defendant
in the at>ove stated ease is not to be touud
in the county, and it further appearing
that the Defendant does not reside in the
State of Georgia. It is ordered that service
he perfected by publishing this notice in
the Gnr.KNKSBeRo’ Herald once a month
for four mouths preceding t lie next regular
term of said Court,
TUGS. G. LAWSON,
Jedge S. C. O, C.
A true extract from the minutes of,
Greene Superior Coiir>, .March l’ertn, 18X2. j
JESSE P. WILSON, Clerk.
April 13, ISB2—lni-tm
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DOcts and $1 25. Fluting Machines $2 25, J
$3, $3 50, S4, just opened—C A Davjj &
Cos.
. iSpg. mte bleached Underwear *ud
Gauze Summer Shirts.—C A Davie & Cos.
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Feb. 0,1882-6 ms ATLANTA, G.
A. A. JKUNUUN. \V Y . ErADAMS’.
Drs. JeTnigan & Adaius,
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I'ln/yicinns and, Surgeons,
Offer I heir professional scrriecs l
all who may need them.
Greene County, Cm, March, 2, 'B2.— it.
(~t EOHOIA (JrrCne County.
I All persons concerned are.btreby n
tietid, that, the Estate of Moilie Ziinmsr
tnan, dec-cased, Is unrepresented, and that
Letters of Administration on said Estate
will tic vested in .lease f“. Wilson, Clerk f
Superior Conrt of said county, or some oth
er tit and propor person on his own bond,
on (lie find Monday in May next.
.It'lit, F. THORNTON, Ord’y.
March 27, 1882.
RICHMOND and DANVILLE R. F.
PASSENGER DEPARTMENT:
ON and after SUNDAY, February 2ft,
IbSJ, Passenger Train Service on the
Atlanta and Charlotte Air-Line Division
v-ill be as follows;
M mi. and Eytbess. M ah,
Kmtward —No. 51. No. 53.
Leave Atlanta. 2.15 pin 5.00 m
Arrive Gainesville, I 54{p in 7.55 a m
do Lula, 5.20 pni 830a fa
do Kubun (Jarp In 0 pin 9.13 afa
do Toccna. 7.0 bp m 10.06 a m
do Seneca, 8.21 piu 11.20 a m
do dGrccnvilL , 1t*.07 p m 1.25 pra
do Spari.uiLurg. 11.40 p m 2.58 p m
do Gastonia, 2.(0 a ra 5 10 p
do Charlotte, 3.15 a ni 0.00 p m
Maii. and Mail.
Westward— No. 50. No. 52.
Lea vp riiurlottp, 12.4 ft a m 11.05 am
Arrive Gastonia, 1.15 ain 11.05 am
and • Spaid.-ml in jr, -4.04 ani 235 y ai
do Gre. uviile. 5.32 a hi 4 09 y m
do Seneca, 7.15 a ni 5 p u\
do Toccoa, 8.28 a in 7.05 p m
do Knbuu Gap J*n 9.32 a in 8 00 p m
do Lula, 10.18,1 ni 8.43 pm
do Gainesville, 10.51 nin 9.16 p m
do Atlanta, IjO.p in 12.05 a m
T. M. K. TALGOTT,
General Manager.
J V. SAGL, Superintendent.
A. POP®,
General Passenger and Ticket Agent.
Dr.JJ.lirl
RESIDENT
* -jaßor
GieciiesboroGa.
Iliave al! the Modern improvements ■
oessary to render operation* as bear
able as possible, and expeditons. Th*
utmost care and consideration will be exer
cised in all operations.
SATISFACTION GUARANTERD.
dec,R,’SO.
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/ T EOIM.IA —Greene County-
VI Mrs. Lucretia Mapp, GuardiAfrMtd'
cx-)tllcie Administratrix of the Jfrfate of
Sallic Lou Mapp, deceased, has applied for
Letters of Dismission from said Estate, anj
such Letters w ill be granted on the first
Monday iu July next, unless good objec.
thins arc tiled.
JOKL F. THORN’TOK, Oxd’y,
April 3rd, 1352—3 ms
NO. 29.
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