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About Weekly Gwinnett herald. (Lawrenceville, Ga.) 1871-1885 | View Entire Issue (March 2, 1881)
The «V*«V **O»WD*V »V p££ ;PLES & 30Wu£S. sL BSt i:il»ri<)N kvte»: ‘ , i -2 ,u»B., in advance. 3 eo }b . n)S , .75 in advance. 1 c J P- ;! ‘ .51) in advance. 1 cop. 5 m •” , oW Enough for Everybody *“• - <nMb.l/. .-—.SMI pv >ld I H V. The Erring. Think gent'y of tile erring! y e know n >t of the p nv.r tffith which the dark temptations cm re, In soiuo nngav.le 1 hour. le may nut know how earnestly The'v struggle, or how well, 7'iit.il the hour of weakness rime, Ain! sadly thus th y fell. Peal gently with the erring ! Oh, do not thou forget, However darkly stained by sin, Ho is thy brother yet. Hull’ of the self same heritage ; Child of the self same bod, He hath but stumble 1 in the path, Thou hast in weakness trod. Speak gently to the err-'ng : . For is it not enough That innocence and peace hare gone Without thy censure rough ? It sure must be a weary lot That sin crushed heart to bear, Ami they who share u hapgitr fate Their eludings well may spare. Speak kindly to the eiring ! Thou yet may at win them back With holy words and tones of love. From misery’s thorny track. Forget not thou hast often sinned And sinful yet must be— Deal gently with the erring cne, As 6’od has dealt with thee ! i\i ISCELLANY. TERRI BLE KXPEJRII2N(JE. While in the harbor of Valpa raiso, aboard the sloop-of-war Virago, one of our midshipmen touched me on the shoulder and informed me that Lieutenant Bar ilolph wanted to see me. ‘I have heard that you was soma thing of a naturalist >• ’ ‘Mo. sir,' I replied, ‘no natural isf, although I t ike interest in— ’ ‘tdi, wed, never mind,’ quoth ‘the Lieutenant. ‘You have seen 1 or clivin ' bell.’ answered, ‘Yus,’ when the den infoiT. od mo tlr.t he want '■ me co i down midi r the sea "dh nur boatswain, It mdolph, Lr.nerly a pearl diver, to look for "'ivi -m fish which, on the day previous, had been pierced and killed with a pike. In form, the l; *h resembled a serpent, was Mont thirty inches in length, and W upon both sides of its neck a PM of singular appendages, some t!lin o like wings. Its most etrik- >ng pemiharity, however, was one L TJ > of a gre nisli c dor, si.uited 011 the top of its lisa 1. () i being ' irck with tin- pike the creative 1 1 rolle 1 over, apparently dying, m 1 then d ive out of sight. 11 link, continued the Lieut., ‘■ n t such a curiosity is worth ob tuning, an i I have picked you °«t to go with Randolph, behev ln g that you are interested in uatu I *l history. B-side, I will pay you * guinea if you will go.’ M. v month v.Vere 1 ; bottles of iJH-tHiirafc and the b'ack eyes of P-cttj Chilian d.mauls dincel be fore tny min i I bowed acquies nQ2B, anl wait a.viy to m iko Preparations. Mie diving bell soon was on leady to be hoisted and "'uugovir the side. The instru. llfil d was a little damaged, but ehui K uidolph nor I anticipa ted dan "or 0 "ere presently in our pla ep- singing out “All right!” when f Je gan to descend. 1 ' >own ' down, down—lower and ~W or' e glance l round us on 0 f o ,PS ’ as saw n ithing ■ s ti'Huge fish. Curious-look ft specimens of the finny tribe, ■ttever, greeted us in many di i ms. \y a could see t!io sword 1 l.u, pist vvifcj, long, pro * Jone we ipm ; the globe j i J le fish and the spite ti e >o k‘ u d shark, swept through o'een waters, almost brushing r LeH with tails and fins. lOW •■ n £»ilar !’ I ejaculated.— Weekly Gwinnett Herald. TYhKU M. PKKI’LK* ) l.mron ano I’kopiukto'i. f ‘Like a vision of the delirium tre mens, as I have heard that disease described.’ ( t talk of delirium tremen dons here!’ growled Randolph, with dissatisfied air. ‘Cdrog is too scarco, do you see,for that Tants is touts everywhere, but blow me. if they don’t somehow seam to have dwindled mighty small about Virago.’ Now we hung suspended in raid sea. T.e air had become somewhat impme, sa we opened the step cock and let it out, feel ing, a moment after, a fresh sup ply, sent down to us through the India-rubber ‘pipe’ or hose secur ed into the top of the bell. Jtan dolph was about touching the sig nal cord to intimate our desire to he lowered still further, when we felt a sudden jerk, felt the bell go ing down faster than we had antic ipateJ, and, to our horror, realiz ed that the rope by which the in ! strament was suspended had part ed from the hook to which it was | attache 1. Away went the ‘pipe’ at tbs same moment, and we only saved ourselves frem instant destruction by stopping up the aperture thus left in the top with a thick hand kerchief. Otherwise, the water beneath, no longer meeting the re sistance of the air, that element es caping, must have filled the hell in a brief space. We heard the water roaring and gurgling around us as we descend ed ; our descent, however, became each instant slower, until finally the resistance of the confined air in the bell kept us suspended about two feet above the bottom of the sea mi. - - * had by this time become almost un bearable, not only from its being so densely compressed, but also from long confinement. Terror stricken, we glanced at each other. The eyes of Randolph protruding from his held, looked bioo 1 shot nod tinged vita a cer tain green color, while his dusky skin seemed to shrink like shrivel ed parchment. The most start ling change in his appearance was the sudden apparently superannu ated lo«k of his visage. A nian'of 50, he seemed at least thirty years older. Presently his teeth began to rat tie in his head, his form was bent almost double, he throw his arms ; around him in agony as if clutch ing at something. How horribly useless this pan to.ni>re seemed to me! He want ! e l fresh air—to clutch at air ! I What a mockery ! ‘.Starbuck,’ lie presently gasped, I—I —wouldn't know you. You look to be 50 ! You and I a e a dy ing, (iod have mercy ou us ! What shall we <io V I could only stare at him, stupid with despair. The air in the bell became more stifling, The boatswain flew to my side, and squeezed me in mad agony, until my bones felt as if they would crack ‘Air ! air ! air!’ he shrieked in my ear. 1 endeavored to speak, but only a hoarse rattling in iny throat obeyed my will. My brain began to whirl. I gasped hard for breath. A terrible oppression was upon my lungs. The boat swain had now released me. I staggered against the side of our prison ! my senses gradually seem ed deserting me. Through one of the glass cases in the instrument Randolph now pointed out to me a huge shark, which, with led, gloating eyes, peered down upon us, as if antici pating our fate, and considering how it should get at us. Gradually, however, the eyes of the monster seemed to my con fused sight, to my whirling brain, to mingle with the water ; to van ish n a dark, red. misty cloud that floated up ah urjuu 1 the bell Lawrenceville, Ga., Wednesday, March 2, 1881. My head now felt as if it would : burst ; it sank upon my shoulder, j Terribly oppiessed, I fell upon mv knees, and would have fallen all together but for the boatswain, who now held me. ‘Star-Star buck, dying!’ w®ro the words faintly reverberating on my brain. Then all began to grow i dark around me, and I knew that I was losing consciousness. My 1 name was again shrieked into nir ; ear. With a superhuman effort I raised myself and looked around rue, feeling like oue groping in the dark. Bewildered, full of the most agonizing pain, I became aware that something was sway ing up an 1 down before my sight; up and down in the red mist cloud, mingling with the water. I , made another effort—a great es fort to comprehend what it was, this swaying thing, and 1 at last did so : understood that it was a 1 hook attached to the end of a rope lowered to U 3 from the Virago, so . far above ! ‘Starbuck !’ gasped the boat swain, ‘I will dash open the lens —this was of glass—in the top of tlit* bell ; then you stand by to hook it on the inside !’ I just managed to hear the words, and they strengthened me with wild hope, although I was so be wildered that I could scarcely now see the swaying hook. The boatswain’s arm was before my eyes. With oue powerful blow of his huge fist, dealt with the re mains of his great strengt’, he shivered th* lens. There was a great roaring sound like thunder; it was the upward rushing of the water into the bell as the air escaped ni ». • t _ i *—- x thrust my arm through the apert ure and drew in the hook, quickly attaching it to the top of the in side of the instrument. The next moment the water came bubbling over the head of the boatswain and myself, and that was the last I remembered of what transpired in the bell. When I recovere 1 my senses I found myself in the steerage with the ship’s doctor bending over me. ‘A narrow escape,’ were his first words. ‘Where is Randolph ?’ I exclaim ed. ‘Here,’ answered a feeble voice, and, rising, I beheld the boatswain in a bunk under me. ‘lie had a narrower escape than vou had,’ said the doctor. ‘The thumb of his right hand was bit ten off by a shark, which made a spring for it just as we pulled yon two into the cutter, after the div ill" bell was hauled to the sur- O face.’ The shark, ! doubted not, was the same one I had seen on the outside of the bell while under water. ‘You may both feel very thank ful for your safety,’ continued the doctor ; ‘and, by the way, here is your guinea,’ putting a gold piece into my hand and giving another to the boatswain, ‘which the Lieu tenant charged me to g ; ve you on your recovery.’ Both Randolph and I thought the guinea a hard earned one, al though we had not succeeded in finding the wonderful fish. Fresh young man to a Inly he had just escorted to the dining room at a literary gathering—'Are vou partial to ‘Lamb’s Tales?’ Indignant young lady, after exhib iting uucalle 1 for snprise—‘-No, nor ‘mutton heads,’ either,!” A gentleman complained to a friend that some mrlicious person had cut off his horse’s tail, which, as ho meant to sell him. would be a great drawback ‘Then,’ said the friend, ‘you mnst sell him wholesale.’ ‘Wholesale, how so?’ •Because you canrot re tail him.’ How often laws have created the evil, which they are afterwards supported (o check. Willow Janes’ Cow. Goodman Jones died at the age of fifty, and was gathered to his fathers, leaviug a widow about hi* own age. About the same time Aunt Smith died too, and her case was parallel to Goodman Jones in all except her sea ; we presume she was gathered,to her mothers, bhe left a disconsolate widower, over who. e head' just as many years had rolleS as the widow Jones had ;o tinted. This was al lowed on all hands to be an aston hulling coincidence All the women pitied widower Smith, poor man, and all the men commiserated with widow Jones, poor woman. Widow Jones had a large farm ; so had the widower Smith. As to tho acres of mow ing, tillage and wood land, each had an eqn- 1 share ; and in child ren Providence had blessed both alike. “What upon airth' either could do with these vast posses sions alone, the old women declin ed they could not tali. Tliiß diffi eulty suggested a ready remedy, and gossips did n#tlet the defunct man and woman get cold in their grave before they, spade up their minds the relics should be yoked together, an 1 the estates, heredita ments and property, personal and real, be held in joint proprietor ship. Matches, they said, were made in heaven, and that this was there made, they considered ths essential preparation of widow ! hood, in each case, positive proof. | Widow Jones and neighbor Smith were not long in hearing w’,> it gossip was astir ; and it had even been insinuated that each had arrived at the conclusion above named before anybody had thought of them. It is certain, that each requested the prayers of the congregation that the bereave meut might be sanctified, widow er Smith looked pretty steadily over the vail of his pew at the seat of widow Jones ; and they. widow •tones moved her liankerchief from her eyes just long euough te see ment supported himself. After cliureh they walked beside each other so far as the road* lay tegetli er, and once during the next week widower Smith paid widow Jones a short visit of condolence. So far so good—but visits of condolence go eut of date, like al marines and cannot be used as a pretext after a certain season.— Some other arrangement must ba trumped uv, and widower Smith was not long in finding it. His wagon stopped one morning be fore wi-lew Jones’ door, and he gave the usual country signal that he wanted to see somebody in the house, by dropping the reins and sitting double with his elbows on his knees. Out tripped the wi low, as lively as a cricket, with a tremendous white ribbon on her snow white cap s i ood morning' was said ®n both sides, and the widow waited for what was further to be said. ‘Well, Madam Jones, perhaps you don’t want to sell one of your cows, nohow, for nothing, anyway do you V ‘Well, there, Mr. Smith, yen could’nt have spoken my mind better. A poor lone woman like mo d os not know what to do with so many creatures ; and I shall be glad to trade if we can fix it.’ So they adjourned to the mead ow. Farmer Smith looked at Roan—then at the widow; nt Brin die—then at the widow ; at the Downing cow—and then at the widow again ; and so through the whole forty. The same call was made every day for a week, but Farmer Smith could not decide which cow he wanted. At length on Saturday, when widow Jones was in a harry t» get through her baking for Sun day, and had ever so ranch to d » in the house —asull farmers wives and widows have on Saturday— she was a little impatient. Farm er Smith was as irresolute as ev er ‘That ’ere Downing is a pretty fair creature, but ’ He stopped to look at the wid ow's face, and then walk around her—not the widow but the cow. ‘That We short horn Durham is not a bad looking beast, but I dunno ’ Another look at the widow. ‘The Downing cow I knew long befor* the late Mr. Jones bought her.’ Here he sighed at the allusion to the late Mr. Jones ; she sighed and both looked at each other.— It was a very interesting moment. ‘Old Roan is a faithful old milch and so ia Brindle —but I have known better.’ A long stare succeeded this speech ; the pause was gettihg awkward, and at last widew Jones broke out: Law, Mr. Smith ! if / m the cow you want., do say so ! The intentions of widovvi r Smith and widow Jones were duly pub lislied the next day, ivs is the law and custom in M iss.icbusetta, and as soon as they were “out publish ed” they married. Old Folks at Home An old joker gives the following whimsical amusing account of an adventnre of his in York State. Unless he exagerates, there must be a place out there where tie “King of terrors” has for s long time back failed to enter sml take toll. Had our informant been a little more explicit, and given the precise locality of the occurence he describes, no doubt a swollen tide of emigration would have at once set thitherward, made np of 6ucli an, “through fear, are all through life time sub ject to bondage. The oldest man, apparently, that ever I saw in all my life, was sitting on a wood pile by an old ifar-tn house, crying bitterly. I called and inquired of him the cause of his trouble. And what do yon think was the unexpected j reply ? “.Father whipped me.” Half doubting the iutirm gray beared's sanity, for it seemed im i possible that any one so aged should have a living parent, I : asked : ‘•Where is your father 1” “In the house,” he answered amid his tears and sobs. Curiosity led mo in the house, and then* I saw—-Methusaleh, as I verily believe. The sight made me start “Si*-,” said I, “is this your son at the door, crying 1" “Yes,” replied the aucieut, grub fly. *‘A n prr»Ti what iTid you w hip ’*•111 for ?” “\\ by. th* good for nothing I block head threw a club at his I grandfather !” I left amazed. Hut if ever Igo that way again, I am determine to see his grandfather. m • J*sh Billings’ Wisdom —The man who gets bit twice by the same dog is better adapted for that kind of business tlrau any other. There is great dea 1 of religion in this world that is like a life preserver, only put on at th* mo ment of immediate danger and then half the time put on hind side before. Ifixprience is a school where a man learns what a big fool he has been. The man who doseu’t believe in auy hereafter has got a drearl fnl mean opinion for himself and his chances. There are two kinds of fools in this world—those who c in’t change their opinion and those who w on’t. 1 A geod doctor is a gentleman to whom we pay three dollars a visit for advising us to eat less and exercise more. Out in the world men show us two sides of their characters ; by | tb* fireside only one. The world is filling up with ed ucated fools —mankind read too much and learn too little. Every man has his follies, and oftentimes they are the most in terecting things he has got- | \Vo*ds o^Wisoom —Nothing can constitute good breeding that has not good nature fer its foundation. Some people think it an excess of magnanimity to forgive those whom they have injured. Speak ol people’s virtues, con done their infirmities ; if yon can say no good, talk no ill of them. The tongue of a fool is the key , of his 9ounseL, which, in a wise man, wisdom hath in keeping. We appreciate no pleasures un less we are occasionally doprived of them. Restraint is the golden rule of enjoyment. * *1 wonder uncle, said a little girl, if men will ever live yet to be 500 or 1,000 years old?’ ‘No my child,’ responded the old man, ‘that was tried once, and the race got so bad the world had to be; drowned.’ jVol. X.—No. 5.0 A Joke on the Wrong Party Mr. Wagon was the victim. His sou Jolmie is a mischievous lad, and one day resolved to play a trick on his brother H- arrau ged certain attachments to that brother’s bed, worked by cords running to his own room, and then want off fishing. While he was gone, lus Li-ether was suit away to bo absent over the night, and a lot of company arrived at the house. Mr. A agon gave np his own room to them and occupi ed the absent son’s bed. Johnny got home late at night, and wholly ignorant of this change of arrange ments went to his room, which was next to his mother's, and prepared to perpetrate his designs upon his brother. The first proceeding was a haul on a cord which ran between the blankets and spread on his broth er’s bed, and, being fastened at th* top, would pull the cloths off the bed. Mr. Wagon was comfort ably tucked in when suddenly th* cloths began teslip, and lie fotiml himself uncovered. He thought ho might have kicked them off, and sat up and took hold of the cloths to pull back. Meanwhile, Jo uny had yanked another cord which pulled the pillow off the bed. Mr. Wagon discovered his loss and reached for the pillow, and when he got it, the cloths went off again. He was much excited at that, and again went after the cloths and again lost his pillow. That time the pillow went un der the bed and Mr. Wagon went after it, and immediately came out again and swore prodigiously, for the floor was strewn with chest nut burrs, and he had gotten into them. He resolved to scold tire chambermaid for leaving so many pins on the fleor. Once more he attemped to get the pillow, and, as it was under, he made a frantic dive for it, aud just then Johnny, who was shaking with laughter, pulled the last cord aud the whole . bed mine down upon Mr. Wagon and jammed Lim upon the burrs. His frantic howl brought his wife and friends to the rescue, and he was fish«d out Ami the gas was lighted and somebody discov I the cords running to Johnny's room. Mr Wagon at oi ce has tened there. The lad explained thai lie thought his brother was in the bed. but it didn’t make any difference. Ilis yells were mista ken by a man sleeping half a mile a.vay for a cry of lire, and lie jumped out of bed bo hard that he sprained a toe. And the next day when Johnny Wt.nt to school lie got spanked again because lie wouldn’t sit down, and is now re solved to run away from home the first chance he can get, as this part of the country is a mighty discouraging region for a boy.— Ex. Pntliion Notes Earrings are not, either, as much worn as they have been for some years. Spanish net with large balls of chenille is the latest novelty for evening toilets. For dinners and evening pur poses, a variety of surah and lace pelerines are made. Collars with large plaits r.re worn. They are of surah or lawn, with lace insertion*. The low necked corsages are cut in very deep points, front and back, and filled with narrow plis ses of lace or on founbation. Painted satin muffs, for evening wear, match painted collarettes, | cuffs, fichus, hood and little reti : cnle that swings at the waist. The newest fichus of crtstlv lace have wide Medici collars attached. | Roman sandals are the daintiest and prettiest low *hoes now im ported. Many house dresses have the corsage cut pompadour or heart shaped, and filled in with a full sherring of brocaded Spanish net, arid a high ruching of the same j lace about the neck. All the men in the entire county in Minnesota turned out on a wolf hunt the other day. The result was thirty six dog fights and the capture of a fellow who hud run away from his wife. m • • m —— A Monitor Indian, who was recently convieted of murder, expressed bis opinion of the law yer who defended him with deli cions frankness; “Lawyer too much talk ! Heap fool! AS An A(lrrr/4sivf/ Jfcdfinm The 11 Ell A LI) it UHtqvuUd 6y reason of its nfmtivt rircuiotu it ai d rt marlrub/y loir i-a Us. Huuntti men should rtfiumher tin*. BLANKS! BLANKS ! L»-/ M* 8 (am. KINDS Kb.ATI.Y I’MMHI) FOR SALE AT THE HE HAL!) JO It Or FILE Sumo itr-niHi kuble Trees I'oston is said to own the two first horse chestnut lieis 1 luligjit to this country. They are reputed to be 108 years eld. A ring does not. always denote a year, for the blue gum tree of Australia sheds its bark twice a year. A tree recently hewn, that was kuowu to bo only 18 yeass old, showed thirty six distinct rings of growth. Old oaks and yews ill England arc not unneommon. Several oaks felled in Sherwood forest, about a quarter es a century ago, exposed, on being sawn up, the date 121*2 aud the mark or cipher of King John ; and it has been calculated and these trees must have been several centuries old at the time the marks wire «iade. Berks, I’a, claim* the largest chestnut tree in country. It mens nres thirty eight feet four inches in circumference; the lowest limbs me fifteen feet from th* ground, and measures fourteen feet in civoninference at the base. The top of the trees is reached without danger by steps that are fastened between the limbs. It is estimated that this tree continues about seventeen cords of wood. It Htill yields about three bushels of chestnuts annually. The oldest, yew tree in England, which is situated in Gowhurst churchyard, was mentioned by Aubry, in the reign of Charles 1-, as then measuring ten yards in circumference at a height of five feet from the ground. It is said, on the authority of De Candelle, |to be 1, 450 years old. Its prev ent growth is about thirty-three feet. In 1820 this old tree was I hollowed out, and acannon ba 1 was found in the center. In 1825 a severe storm deprived it to its up right branches A door has been made to the inside of the tree, where seats are to be had fur twelve persons comfortably. How Tluj Got ltlcli ‘You see that man just crossing the street?’ remarked a C icagfe man to a New Yorker whom he was towiug around to see tin sights. ‘Whell, that man sold popcorn in this city for 22 years, and he is worth 15U,0U0.’ ‘Did he make it selling pop corn?’ ‘Oil, he made his pile buy ing lake front lots.’ Pretty soon the guide, calling his attention to a man standiug iu the door of a bank, addedn ‘That man opened the first Bi ble house west of New York oity. Thirty years ago and was rat poor. To day he runs that bank.’ ‘Did he make his n on >v sellmg Bibles ?’ ‘Oh, no ; he bought prairie land, and held on to it.’ In the course of ten minutes a big building was pointed out as belonging to a man who reached Chicago nineteeu years ago with only 50 cents in hi* pocket. He opened a night school and now revellcd*in his wealth. ‘Did ho make it all teaching school ?’ asked the New Yorker. ‘Oh, no : he went into the dray business as socn as he had money enough to buy ahorse.’ After several more like 'ca*e3 had been refered to, the visitor asked; Have you one man in Chicago who made money in the business he first started into?’ •Have .re ? Let’s see. Let's see. Yes. we have. I know a man on State street who went into tbe whiskey bnsines* twenty years ago, has stuck right to it and is worth a hundred thousand dollars. If he had only been sharp enough to turn around after ten years and open an undertaker’s shop and bury his custoners he’d now been a millionair 1’ — e • m* A country girl at a fashionable hotel in New York noticed that all the guest used their forks only in eating their pie. Upon her return home she reported the fact to the old lady, who comforted her by observing, “You shouldn’t mind ’em, Jemima ; it’s all because they ’re two tarnel lazy to use their knives.” The difference between a rich man and a poor man is this : The former eats when he pleases, and the latter when he can get it.’ When a man urgues from a defi nition, or builds a discussion upon a term, you may set him down a* a mechanical thinker.
