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(ESTABLISHED IX THE YEAR IS'!’,). C. HEARD,) PROPRIETOR. } 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 Fluting Scissors 2octs, hand Finters i 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. f Ei- T. LEWIS, (. EDI 'TOR. j fM*? \ JaU jfj^ s ! if Jw S* | '*"■ Jt£ i; - ' .-'• f. I **:•s;'* I IS <| always I p ORDER I L7\ST l i \ U T\ Li FETi MESJ >, *' 30 UNION SQ. NEW' - Chicago ill. -o— -*— v & Orange mass, j Now Homo Sewing Maeii®o Cos., 2f> Whitehall Street, Feb. 0,1882-6 ms ATLANTA, G. A. A. JKUNUUN. \V Y . ErADAMS’. Drs. JeTnigan & Adaius, :0: 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. -V + . e~— / 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. DENTIST