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IF®lf3Sf
THE
Time rolls away, and bears along
A mingled mass of right-and wrong ;
The flowers of love that bloomed beside
The margin of the summer tide,
The poison weeds of passion torn
From dripping banks, and headlong borne
Into that imhorizoned sea
Which mortal call eternity.
Noiseless and rapid as a dream,
Forever flows the widening stream ;
While every wave ; or transient hour,
Throws up a weed and takes a flower,
'file isle of life, that seemed to be
A continent infinity,
Grows bleaker, narrower day by day,
And chaneelled by a salter spray.
Professional and Business Cards.
I. Ii. SAFF0L1)j Jr.
Attorney and Counseller at Law,
SANDERSVILLE, GA.
Will practice in the counties of Wash
ington, Montgomery, Tatnall Emanuel and
Jefferson of the Middle Circuit, also the
counties of Telfair and Irwin of the South
ern Circuit. Office in Sandersville.
February 22, 18 4—tf
Like shipwrecked men who closier flock
To the bare summit of the rock, *
When the loud storm thats wreck’d them
flings,
Billow on billow 7 from his wings—
We climb from youth’s wave rippled strand
With colder heart and feebler band
Up the gray rock of age. w hose peak
Time’s mounting billow’s surge and seek.
made the festal and Washington the guest.
And rare aud rich was the revelry at the
palmy period of Virginia’s festal age; for
of
many were gathered to that marriage,
the good, the great, the gifted, and they
with joyous acclamations, hailed in Virgin
ia’s youthful hero a happy and prosperous
bridegroom.
“And so you remember when Col. Wash
ington came a courting of your young mis
tress?” said the biographer to old Cully, in
his hundredth year. “Ay, master, that
do,” replied the ancient family servant, w’ho
had lived to see five generations; “great
times, sir, great times—shall never see the
[For the Central Georgian ]
LICENSE vs. LIQUOR.
like again!” “And Washington looked
There from the barren top espy
A girth of tears—an ashen sky.
Bow’ed heads, dead hearts and palsied feet
Up ages pinnacle retreat;
And the dull tide that swells below
Pursues them with a steady flow;
The rock is hid—the waves beat high—
And lo!—an ocean and a sky !
[Boston Post.
H
IL Ed JL
Washington’
s Courtship
ASO MARRIAGE.
BEVERLY D. EVANS,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
SANDERSVILLE, GEORGIA
Beautifully situated on the banks of the
Paumuu'.ey, is the mansion known as “the
White House.” It stands on the site of the
one in which Washington was married.
From Custis’s Life of Martha Washington,
we extract the account of his courtship and
marriage:
It was in U758 that Washington, attired
in a military undress, and attended by a
body servant, tall and militairc as his chief,
crossed the ferry call Williams’s, over the
Paumunkey, a branch of the Y ork river. On
the boat touching the southern or New
Kent side, the soldier’s progress was arrest
WILL practice in the counties ot V ash - - , -
1 , , „ • „ Fn , „ T ,„ ed bv one of those personages who give the
ington Burke, Jefferson, Sen veil, Emanu el ■ - ' . . ° &
. beau ideal ot the Virginia gentleman ot the
LsTurena, Wilkinson and Hancock.
(Office in Court House on Lower Floor.) ! of kra<l»M. mi
-i i„ hospitality. It was in vain the soldier urg-
beb. 1, 18o3. 1—1} 'iii- „ u-ii- . • ,
- ed his business at Williamsburg, important
communication to the Governor, &c. Mr.
Chamberlayne, on whose domain the niili-
JAMES S. HOOK,
Attorney at L.a\v,
SANDERSVILLE, GEORGIA
WILL PRACTICE IN THE COUNTIES OF
) Washington, Burke, Seriven
Middle-circuit. ^ j c .p’ erson and Emanuel.
Southern Circuit. | - - - - Laurens.
(Jcmulgee Circuit | - - - - Wilkinson
[Office next door to Warthen‘s store.]
office. jan. 1, 1852. 51—ly
R. L. WARTHEN,
Attorney at Law,
SANDERSVILLE, GEORGIA,
feb. 17, 1853. 4—ly
Jan
JNO. W, RUDISILL,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
SANDERSVILLE, Ga.
25, 1853 52—lv
■ MULFORD MARSH,
Attorney and Counsellor at Law
Office, 175, Buy street, Savannah, Ga.
feb. 22, 1853. 4—ly
S, B. CRAFTON.
Attorney at Law.
SANDERSVILLE, GEORGIA,
Will also attend the Courts of Emnnu
Laurens, and Jefferson, should business be cm
rtustedto his care, in either of those countie- ; den time without guests) and above all, to
| the charming widow. Tradition relates
taire had just landed, would hear of no ex
cuse. Col. Washington was a name and
character so dear to all Virginians, that his
passing by one of the castles of Virginia,
without calling and partaking of the hospi
talities of the host, was entirely out of the
question. The Colonel, however, did not
surrender at discretion, but stoutly main
tained his ground till Chamberlayne, bring
ing up his reserve, in the intimation that he
would introduce his friend to a young and
charming widow, then beneath his roof, the
soldier capitulated, on condition that he
should dine—only dine—and then by pres
sing his charger and borrowing of the night,
he would reach Williamsburg before his Ex
cellency could shake oil’his morniug slum
bers. Orders were accordingly issued to
Bishop, the Colonel’s body servant and
faithful follower, who, together with the
English charger, had been bequeathed by
the dying Braddoek to Major Washington,
on the famed and fated field of Mononga-
hela. Bishop, bred in the school of Euro
pean discipline, raised his hand to his cap,
as much as to say, ‘Wour orders shall be
obeyed.”
The Colonel now proceeded to the man
sion, and was introduced to various guests,
(for when was a Virginia domicil of the ol-
feb. 11.
J. B. HAYxNE,
Attorney at Law.
SCARBOROUGH, GEORGIA. '
Will atteud promptly to all business en
trusted to his care in any of the Courts of the
.Middle or Eastern counties.
March 14, 7 —ly
M, & R. M, JOHNSTON,
ATTOB.r7F.lTS AT IAW.
SPARTA, GEORGIA
Will practice in Hancock and the ad
joining counties, and the Supreme Court.
MARK JOHNSTON, | R. M. JOHNSTON.
March 22, 1853. 8—tf
W. L. HOLLIFIELB,
SURGEON DENTIST.
SANDERSVILLE, GEORGIA
may 16,1852. , 16—tf
Dr. William L. Jernigan,
HAVING permanently located him-
Tw self in Sandersville, respectfully offers
his professional services to the citizens
of the Village, and comity. When not oth
erwise engaged he may be found at his Office
at ali times.
Sandersville, March 8,1853. 6—ly
SO&ANTOffi JOHNSON dtCO
GROCERS.
Savannah, Ga.
®* T. SCRANTON, ) „ ,
JOSETH JOHNSTON. \ Savannah.
W. B. SCRANTON,
No. 19, Old Slip, N. -Yor
4—ly
feb. ,22 1853.
that they were naturally pleased, on this,
their first interview—nor is it remarkable;
they were of an age when impressions are
strongest. The lady was fair to behold, of
fascinating manners, and splendidly endow
ed with worldly benefits. The hero was
fresh from his early fields, redolent of fame,
and with a form on which “every god did
seem to set his seal, to give the world assu
ranee of a man.”
The morning passed pleasantly away,
evening came, with Bishop, true to bis or
ders aud firm at his post, holding the favor
ite charger with one hand, while the other
was waiting lo offer the ready stirrup. The
sun sunk in the horizon, and* yet the Colo
nel appeared not. “’Twas strange, ’twas
passing strange:” surely he was not wont to
be a single moment behind his appoint
ment—for he was the most punctual of all
men.
Meantime the host enjoyed the scene of
the veteran at the gate, while the Colonel
was so agreeably employed in the parlor;
and proclaiming that no visitor ever left his
house at sunset, his military guest was, with
out much difficulty, persuaded to order Bish
op to put up the horses for the night. The
sun rose high in the heavens the ensuing
day, when the Enamored soldier pressed with
his spur his charger’s side, and speeded on
his way to the seat of government, -where,
having despatched his public business, he
retraced his steps, and, at the White House,
the engagement took place, with prepara
tions for marriage.
And much hath the biographer heard of
that marriage, from the gray haired domes
tics who waited at the board where love
something like a man—a proper man—hey
Cully?”
“Never seed the like, sir—never the like
of him, though I have seen many in my
day—so tall, so straight! and then he sal
on a horse aud rede with such an air! Ah
sir, he was like no one else. Many of the
grandest gentlemen in the gold lace were
at the wedding; but none looked like the
man himself.”
Strong, indeed, must have been the im
pression which the person and manner ot
Washington made upon the “rude, untu
tored mind” of this poor negro, since the
iapse of three-quarters of a century had not
sufficed to efface it.
The precise date of the marriage the bio
grapher has been unable to discover, having
in vain searched among the records of the
vestry of St. Peter’s church, New Kent, of
which the Rev. Mr. Munson, a Cambridge
scholar, was the rector, and performed the
ceremony, it is believed, about 1759. A
short time after their marriage, Colonel and
Mrs. Washington removed to Mount Ver
non, on the Potomac, and permanently set
tled there.
“This union,” says Sparks, “was in every
respect felicitous. It continued forty years
To her intimate acquaintances and to the
nation, the character of Mrs. Washington
was ever a theme of praise. Affable and
courteous, exemplary in her deportment, re
markable for her deeds of charity and piety,
unostentatious, and without vanity, she
adored by her domestic virtues the sphere
of private life, and tilled with dignity every
station in which she was placed.
Previous to his acquaintance with Mrs
Custis, Washington had been pleased with
other ladies. The author above quoted on
this point says, that in 1756, “while in New
Yolk, he was lodged and kindly entertained
at the house of Beverley Robinson, between
whom and himself an intimate friendship
subsisted, which, indeed, continued without
change, till severed by their opposite for
tunes twenty years afterward in the revolu
tion. Il happened that Miss Mary Phillips,
a sister of Mrs. Robinson, and a young la
dy of rare accomplishments, was an in
mate in the family. 'The charms of this
lady made a deep impression upon the heart
of the Virginia Colonel. He went to Bos
ton, returned, and was again welcomed to
the hospitality of Mr. Robinson. He lin
gered there till duty called him away; but
he was careful to intrust his secret to a con
fidential friend, whose letters kept him in
formed of every important event. In a few
months intelligence came, that a rival was
in the field, and that the consequences could
not be answered for, if he delayed to renew
his visits to New York. Whether time, the
bustle of a camp, or the scenes of war had
moderated his admiration, or whether he
despaired of success, is not known. He nev
er saw the lady again till she was married
to that same rival, Captain Morris, his for
mer associate in arms, and one of Braddock’s
aids-de-camp.
“He had before felt the influence of the
tender passion. At the age of seventeen,
he was smitten by the graces of a fair one,
whom he called a ‘low land beauty.’ and
whose praises he recorded in glowing strains,
while wandering with his surveyor’s com
pass among the Alleghany Mountains. On
that occasion he wrote desponding letters
to a friend, and indicted plaintive verses,
but never ventured to reveal liis emotions to
the lady who was unconscious of the cause
of his pains.”
New Spelling.—The most original spell
ing that we have ever seen, is the follow
ing. It beats phonetics :
80 you be—A tub.
80 oh ! pea—A top.
Be 80—Bat.
See 80—Cat.
Pea 80—Pat.
See O ! double you—Cow.
See you be—Cub.
See a bee—Cab.
Be you double tea—Butt.
Be a double ell—Ball.
\ let clamour come from what quarter it may
increase the penalty which falls upon the
offender himself, for be assured the retailer
Men are prone to embrace anything \ will not force liquor down his throat with
A Western editor thus sums the pecu
liarities of a cotemporary:
“He is too lazy to earn a meal and too
mean to enjoy one. He never was gener
ous but once, and that was when he gave
the itch to an apprentice boy. So much
for his goodness of heart! Oi his industry,
he says the public may judge, when he
states that the only time he worked, was
the day that he mistook castor oil for hon
ey-
“My dear,” said Mrs Dogberry to her
daughter, “you should not hold your dress
so very high in crossing the street.”
“Then ma,” replied the maiden, “how
shall I ever show the beauty of my flounc
ed pantalettes, that have almost ruined my
eyesight to manufacture ? I’m sure I don’t
care if the beaux do look at me.”
Mrs. Dogberry spoke of the “sin of vani
ty, and the beauty of decorum,” and walk
ed off into her chamber.
which has tli6 semblance of moral reform at
the first blush, without the trouble of reflec
ting or investigating for themselves. And
when the clarion is sounded, there is a cer
tain class of men, who, never exercising
their own reasoning power, rush heedlessly
to the rescue. But experience proves that
this veiv class refered to, often retrace their
steps, and are found foremost in denouncing
that, which upon a superficial view, they
just now have been warmly advocating and
approving. So it is apprehended with le-
gard to the effort now being made, to pro
hibit the sale of spirituous liquors by retail,
and the abolition of the system of license
laws now existing in Georgia. This move
ment, from the clamour raised in its favor,
and the importance with which it is sought
to be invested in the event of its success,
possesses in an eminent degree, the sem
blance of a great moral leform. But when
the reasons for and against the movement
is well weighed and considered, all its im
portance as a panacea for remedy of the
evil of intemperance vanishes into air, thin
air. But it derives an importance from the
fact that if it succeeds, it is an innovation
upon a usage that has existed time whereof
the memory of man runneth to the contra
ry, it is no moral reform, it is inviting and
specious in theory, but is not practical.—
Why ? Because if you have the power gran
ted you by the constitution, to prohibit the
sale of a gill of intoxicating liquor, you have
also the power to prohibit the sale of fifteen
gallons, yea five hundred, five thousand gal
lons. And no sensible man in view of the
commercial interest of the country, will as
sert that you have any such constitutional
power to prohibit its sale in the latter quan
tity, nor will, it is apprehended, any man
in Georgia assert that the legislature is cloth
ed with the power to prohibit its manufac
ture, or to prohibit its introduction and im
portation into the State. If you have the
power to prohibit the sale of a gill, the pow
er to do all the rest necessarily follows.—
It is said above, that it is no moral reform,
and to prove which is as easy as to assert it.
Why is it not a reform opponents will ask ?
Simply, first, because the man who desires
to drink, will visit the confectionary, and
bu^ one gallon, call up bis friends and ac
qnaintances to drink with biin, without cost
and the temptation being so strong, having
a double power to persuade, all hands will
indulge, aud directly some other friend
when the gallon is out, will call in another,
& all hands will indulge again, «fc so on un
til all become gloriously in for it. The evils
consequent upon intemperance, will speed
ily follow, to wit: quarreling, riots, slabbing^
murders, manslaughters, when, as if there
had been a retailing one glass, perhaps
would have been all that might have been
purchased, and all have gone into the bosom
of their families sober. Now which is the
most alluring to the inebriate, the one drink
which is bought and drank by the purchas
er, or the one gallon free for all hands ?—
Y r ou now perceive it will not work well prac
tically, therefore impolitic, inexpedient, and
useless, as a remedial law, notwithstanding
it is a pill sugared over with the nice and
inviting bait. Let the voters of each county
decide for themselves. It is a trap to catch
the unreflecting. It is seen now, that pro
hibiting the sale of small quantities is no
remedy for the evil acknowledged an evil
by every body. But if the movement be
successful, (as perhaps it will in some coun
ties,) it will only be a milk and mush poul
tice for the bite of the rattlesnake. If it is
as sincerely desired to suppress the evils of
intemperance and the monster itself, as
some would have the public believe, there
is a more legitimate way of accomplishing
the object, than the one proposed, may be
resorted to, to wit: Drunkenness in any per
son (white is meant) if convicted after being
regularly tried by a jury, is punished by
fine, five shillings for every single time by
law, which law may be found in an old edi
tion of Prince’s digest, in the penal code of
Georgia. How do Governments act to de
ter from the commission of every crime
embraced in the penal code, does not the
penalty imposed, correspond to the frequen
cy of a commission and magnitude of the
offence. Now let the legislature proceed
in reference to inebriety, as it does in pro
portioning penalties to all other offences
against her laws, punish the inebriate him
self. What, shall the Legislature blow with
a hot breath now, and a cold breath then.
Let.them not do it, at least for consistency’s
sake. Let them not depart from an estab
lished rule, or usage. They should not do so,
a funnel. For it may be said by a major
ity of them, that they will not persuade
men to drink to excess, however gratifying
and penurious they may be. Tnis is with
in the observation of all men. The Legis
lature has recently enacted a law authori
zing a divorce for drunkenness, quite a
broad hint it is
There is one argument in favor of the move
ment refered to which deserves notice, and
that is: it is said slaves are depraved and
corrupted by the retail of spirituous liquors
Now allow this assertion with due differ
ence and respect for the opinion of others
to be examined ; a negro leaves his mas
ter’s farm for any purpose, to return at a
certain time, he returns intoxicated, how
has he become so? He has become so be
cause some white man has purchased with
the negro’s money, liquor for him. So far
so good ; but stop a little ; do you enquire
whether be became intoxicated from apply
ing bis mouth to a gallon jug, or a glass ?
The result of the enquiry is, that the slave
has in his possession a jug full, and other
negroes have become intoxicated with him.
Well has the retail law made the negro
drunk, or the wholesale law ? Now can it
remedy this evil to prohibit the retail of li
quor ? No, it will not. It is rice soup given
as an antidote for arsenic. What then is a
remedy 7 for this evil ? Keep order at home
among your domestics, and have constantly
on hand a vigilant patrol; this is a remedy.
Now you strike at intemperance alone,
give it distinction and eminence as the mon
ster vice. Are there no other vices that
has combined with this to prostrate govern
ments, disrobe them of ther power and glo
ry. VS here’s Rome, Greece, and all iD the
catalogue that has fallen, and the fall of
which has been contributed to by vice.—
Why do you direct all the fire from your
batteries upon intemperance alone ? Look
you at pistols, daggers, sword-canes ; are
not murders committed with them, why do
you not clamor for the prohibition of tbe
sale of them as you do the retail system, has
the legislature the power to say what you
shall or shall not eat or wear ? It has if it
can prescribe what you shall drink. Often
men eat too much and die with cholera
morbus. Shall the legislature close the
markets and provision stores, because some
one has over eaten himself? Shall the leg
islature leave it to a vote cf the counties
whether candies shall be retailed in them,
simply because some child has gormandized
until it died? Will the legislature disrespect
the wishes of a minority when only one vote
turns the balance in favor of prohibition ?
Beautiful spectacle ! one roan by his vote
saying what a whole county shall do or not
do; this would be legislating with a ven
geance. Voters, be you not deceived, and
deceive not others when you are voting
for members to the State Legislature, know
your man. WILKINSON.
Irwin ton, April 25, 1853.
[Correspondence of the N. Y. Tribune.]
The Cuban Prisoners—Sentiment
of the Creole Women—Attemp
ted Rising in the Public Prison.
Havana, Monday, April 11,1853.
Ten of the political prisoners} out of the
forty eight in the first batch tried, are oft'
for Spain. They sailed on the lOthirtst.—
They are: Count Pozas Du Ices, Juan Gon
zalez Alvarez, planters ; Joaquin Miranda,
Gassie, and Pinto, lawyers; Luis Edward
Cristo, Proprietor Balbin, Jose Perdoiud,
Valdez, and Joaquin Furtun, the scfn of a
tbough’t" bj'aTinlbriite"! G , eDeral - X , n pri fP »«">
® J ited by a large number ot ladies; many of
whom, on their last
visit, went with their
haircut short, and with ribbons of red and
blue round their necks. Such is the spirit
of our Cuban ladies; nor will our men fail
to show some, when they have a chance.
They have fought well in Spain, and it is
strange should they not act bravely in Cu
ba, when the time shall be favorable. But
what can they do, when so many are op
posed to their freedom ? For example:
there is old bloated John Bull, and the po
matum merchant (his neighbor,) and not a
few of our godly sixpence saving friends in
the North, who are arrayed agaiust him;
besides hosts of Jesuits and others, who are
amongst you, who are incessantly misrepre
senting the state of Cuba. These last would
make it out to the world that Cuba is all
contentment and smiles, and its governors
angels. To return to the unfortunate men
exiled from their native country. They
were well taken care of by their count ymen
who collected a very large sum for them,
and paid their passages in the cabin of the
vessel. As some rich Spaniards contributed
to the fund, the Diario de la Marina came
out on Sunday, with one of its partly unin
telligible articles, in which it accuses the
rich of not declaring heartily in favor of the
present Government, and tells us, that it is
ready to sacrifice everything belonging to
it, and also foreigner’s property in favor of
SpaiD. As usual, it is furious against de
mocracy, and against the perfidious foreign
ers, and lauds the Cronica, of New \ r ork, for
its strong aud tnreateniug language against
the United States. As this is from the
Government, we may excuse the editors of
the Diario, and presume that such articles
as I allude to meet the approbation of but
few, and only of those who have no care for
the future.
I have not heard of any more arrivals of
negroes, and in town the only affair in the
least remarkable has been a conspiracy
amongst the felons in the public prison,
which was headed by a German. They had
in some manner obtained arras, but their
object is as yet not known to the public.
Tied Down at Home.—A friend of ours,
living pot far from Pontiac, was importun
ed one pleasant day lately, by his wife, to
The Boy and the Bricks.—A boy hear
ing bis lather say, “ ’twas a poor rule that
would Dot work both ways,” said, “If fath
er applies this rule about liis work, I will
test in my play.”
So setting up a row of bricks, three or
four inches apart, he tipped over the first,
which, striking the second, caused it to fall
on the third, which overturned the fourth,
and so on through the whole course, until
all the bricks lay prostrate.
“Well,” said the boy, “each brick has
knocked down firs neighbor, which stood
next to him ; I only tipped one. Now I
will raise one, and see if he will raise his
neighbor. I will see if raising one will
raise all the rest.” He looked in vain to see
them rise.
“Here father,” said he “is a poor rule ;
’twill not work both ways. They knocked
each other down, but will Dot raise each
other up.”
“My son,” said his father, “bricks and
mankind are alike, made of elay, active in
knocking eaeh other down, but not disposed
to help each other up.”
“It is too often the case that when men
fall, they love company ; but when they rise
they love to stand alone, like yonder brick;
take her a sleigh riding. The gentleman, aud J see otber3 trate and below them.”
being a man ot business, plead his engage-
roenls, when the wife replied with old sto
ry and that she must be tied down at
home. The husband rejoined that if any
person would furnish him clothes to wear
and enough to eat and drink, that he would
be willing to be tied down at home.
A few days after, the gentleman came
earlier than was bis custom, and being fa
tigued, lay down upon the sofa and fell
into a sound sleep. His wife took some
cords and slyly tied his hands together,
served his feet the same way and made him
fast to the sofa. She then set a table, with
all that the house affoided, and placed an
extra suit of clothes within his reach. This
done she started to pay a friend a visit.
Upon her return late in the evening, she
found her subject of domestic discipline as
she left him, except that he was wide a-
wake, and very mad.
‘What on earth does all this mean ?’
says he.
‘Nothing,’ quietly remarked his wife,
‘except the consumation of your earthly
wishes—enough to eat, drink, and wear,
and to be tied down at home! That cou
ple were seen sleigh riding the next day.--
Detroit Advertiser.
‘Father, are there any boys in Con
gress ?”
‘No, my boy, why do you ask that ques
tion ?” t
‘Because the paper said the other day
that one of the members kicked Mr. Cor
win’s Bill out of the house.’
A man once applied to be shipped before
the mast. “Are you an able seaman or
green hand !” asked the shipping master-
“W 7 by no, not able seaman, but yet not ex-'
actly a green hand. I have some know!?
edge of the water.” “Ever been a voyage’
“No.” “Ever been on the river craft?*
“No.” “Well, what then do you know a-
bout the sea?” “Why, I have tended saw
mill!”
When George the First came from Ger
many, he put his head out of his carriage
window and thus addressed the populace
which was cheering him : “I am come for
all your goods” intimating, as far as his
bad English would enable him to convey his
meaning, the benefit which he intended to
confer on the people; but a sarcastic rogue
in the crowd, interpreting the expression
literally, shouted out* “Yes, I have no
doubt of it, and for our chattels, also!”
An Editor out West, upon receiving a
communication from one of his subscribers
complaining that be did not find news-
enough in his paper, replied to to the grum •
bier that when he wanted any thing new
he had better read his bible; and an Eas
tern Editor lately published an entire chap
ter from the Bible, adding that he suppos
ed it would be new to most of his readers,
The Remedy.—‘0 ! Doctor.’ said an eld
erly lady to Dr. H , the celebrated
bone setter, in describing the effect* of a
diseased spine, ‘I can neither lay nor set!
‘Then replied he I should recommend the
propriety of roosting.’
A Cobbler in Mobile, who also professee
to teach music, has the following over his
door:
‘Delightful task, to mend the tender boot
And teach the young ideas how to flute.’