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TOL. II.
Mn. Nevin—Sur: In these try in
‘.imes I think every man ort to clo
'he very best he can. George Wyatt
axed for my vie ws upon the situation,
tnd tliats exakly what I told him.
’says J, “George do you go home to
four hash house and do the very
jest you can.” George seemed to
mderstand me and made "tracks for
lis tavern. He'll cum out all right
—George will. When possums get
scace he can live on koon.
The main islioo in this crisis seems
:o be a little diffikulty in excliangin
die products of the country. Every
body says there is plenty of every
thing but tlieres no money to keep j
t movin. Sum foaks who used to ,
credit right smart are now runin the
rash skedule, which amounts to a j
:egular blockade. I should think a
hinatik w ould know that its the wors j
time in the world to begin a cash j
system wher there aint no cnsli. If
everybody would swap round what j
they have got to spare it would soot ;
most of us mity well. Anybody_ is :
ivelcem to swap with me for anything ;
v my line of bisness, and if my price !
don’t soot em I’ll cum down to theirs !
rather than break a trade, for you j
mow the margin on my side is big j
mud to allow right smart room for:
lodgiu. At all events I intend to do 1
die very best i can.
The credit system is good enuff
•or me, and in my opinyun it is a
highly harmonious and friendly insti
tution. it makes people respectful
and respektable. \\ hen I owe a
good hearted man he feels kindly to
wards me jest bekaus be has befriend
ed me. Me feels sorter like I was
one of his pet lams. W hen lie reads
over the parable of the good Samar
itan he unkonshiously says to him-
self, “that’s me. I helped Arp and i
his luvly offspring when nobody else j
Wouldent.” I think it would be a 1
good idling if evrybody owd one anotb
er all around. It improves the tone
of society. It enlarges the heart and
has a good effekt on the liver. ^ It j
settles ones dinner, and hence Mr. .
Solomon writ about bowels of mercy i
and bowels of compassion. I never j
knowd a man who paid cash for ev- j
rything who had cash to lend a poor j
feller without sekurity, A cash man I
is always an independent man,-and !
you caut joke with him to do any 1
good. I dont like them sort much.
They tbiuk their money is a little bet
ter than any body elses money.
They live at home and board at the
same place, but the latch string dont
hang outside much. They dont want
anybody to borrow their wheel-bar
row nor get water out of their well.
Still, I suppose they are trvfn to do
the very best they can.
I like a man who cant refuse a
poor feller credit when he needs it
and is try in to pay. In fakt its bet
ter to credit him and lose it than to
lie dodgin round the truth to keep
from it or to die of ossifikasliun of
the heart, aud peck rocks in the next
world for a livin. I lenowed a poor
shoe maker oust to ax a store keep
er to trust him for a pair of shoe pin
chers. The store keeper told him
he would do so but that he dident
have a pair in the house. The poor
feller looked round sadly and hap
pened to see em upon the top shelf,
with one pair outside the rapper.
“\\ hy, there’s sum, Mr. Mack,” says
_ke. Mack wilted for a moment, but
he rallied aud says, “Them up there
are steel pinchers and are worth just
two dollars and a half.” Joe knowed
they were iron and worth 37] cents,
but he inersently remarked that he
had never had a steel pair aud he
believed he would try em. Mack
SAKDEBSVJLLE. GEORGIA, NOVEMBER 28, 1873.
; JCIy. JETHRO AlililNE. B, L. RODGERS.
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POETRY. = '
•■rise Wife's Reflections.
OTL PiEJ-SE BEAU THIS CAKEFUULX. I
► thinks I am silly for wanting a kiss
V a he leave me at morning to go to his
[store;
notion ir. weak in a gay world like this
i the process to him is a hindering bored’
3 I watched him go humming away down
]tke street,
Vn 1 a tear tills my eye, though ’tis hard to
[confess,
n 1 T van not think how delightful an 1 sweet
bald that whole Hay have been with that
[little caress. |
to my work; if seems heavy and long, _ j
\Vhen that little kiss would have made it j
[light; |
ind I try to grow lively singing a song,
' put it dies in a sigh for that one little slight. ]
!i i 0 ve him. I’ll cling to him unto the end, j
Aud make him us happy as love l.as the j
[bower,
l.ml who knows but an eye-glass some angel j
[may send, j
To show how long for one lover-iike hour ! ]
SELECT MISCELLANY, j
From the home Commercial. j
Bill Arp on the Panik.
•'everybody ort to do the very best ;
HE CAN.” •
always declared them pinchers was > mea l and a few potat
? s f] d tllQ llc never got the I family till times git
money. I think, however, that every I know" a
man ort to do the very best he can.
But of all times in the world Hook
upon the credit system as just the
tiling for a panik— not that the pan
ik is anything pertikler to me. By
ces will do my |
git better, and 11
dosen clever farmers who !
trust me for that. Farewell sirkus j
—fare well, old clown! There’ll be a j
big gap in your aujience this time, I
shore. Me and the boys can make !
up a respektable ring and play hos ;
no means, I ve been-nght in the mid- Rt home if we want to, aud Airs. Arp i
die ox one all my life. I’ve never RRd the girls can set around find hol-
seed the time that there wasent a I lur , whoopee. At any rate we are '
crisis at my house. I was born in a ! bound io do the very best we can.
strain, and its followed me up like a j Lastly, Mr. Kevin, I want to re-
shadder ever since. I’ve got akklima- ! mark that these paniks, these eol-
ted to it, as the doctors say. Its ; lapses, these bust ups, these “top
of my daily entertainment to contrive j notscum down,” are just as necessary
for future supplies. It keeps me live- ! for the good of the country as an
lv and polite .and amble. I hear j emetik is to an overcharged stum-
these merchants tawkin about “bridg- j mac. Munny to be helthy must be
in over ’ and “hedgin in” anddiggin : scattered around so‘ that evrybody
a hole to-day to be filled up to-rncr- i can git sum. When its most all pii-
row. Well, every man and woman • ed up in a few pyramids the least
in these times ort to do the very best jostle will tumble it to the ground,
he or she can, but as for hedgin and ! If I was King Id fix a remedy for
bridgin, I could liav got a patent ; bloated fortunes mity quick. Id tax
right for all that sort of bisness twen- : a man liuthin on an income of 5
ty years ago, and had it renewed for j thousand dollars and under. Id tax
improvements every year since. No, j 10 per cent, on all between 5 and 10
sir; Ive no idea of jinin tbe cash : thousand; 20 per ct. on all between
system at my time of life, and cs- i 10 and 20 thousand, aud so on, doub-
pesliualiy just at this pertikler period, lin up to 50 thousau.—Above that
My constitution wouldent stand it. 1 Id take it all, every dollar. I tell
Its go in to be jest all that a feller ’ that will git em. That will keep
Wall street rings. It
per- i win jet a man hav enuff for all de-
ish to deth in two days if my exis- cent purposes, and after that he must
tonce depended on the cash. Its j do his sheer for them who swet and
goin to take a dubble team to pull ! toil and havent been as smart or as
through this mud hole, shore, and mean or as lucky as himself. It will
right smart pushin behind.—Were ! put a limit upon a man’s averice and
all got the breechin on at my house, keep munny in better employment
and we’ll go through if the hame than payin §50,000 for a horse or
string dont break aud the durned 100 thousan for a diamon pin.
thing dont last too long. One of; When this new law is passed, Mr.
these lougwinded paniks would strain Nevin, our family supplies will be so
my credit system powerfully, but cheap that the likes of me and you
j-t-75 tu ue juoii ilii uiiil it lUilUI ; tuccu win out.
can do to git through this squeeze on ; down these Wall
a credit, and as for me I would per- ; will Jet a man hav
everybody must do the very best he,
she or it can, and trust to Providence
for the sequel.
Mr. Nevin, Sur—Now is the time
for foaks to show what metal they
are made of. Now is the time fbr
ip that the likes ot me ami you
and our wives and children can frolik
half our time. I think your tother
leg would grow out and the hair cum
back an tbe top of my head, the
place where the hair ort to grow.
Until that glorious time, let us all
foaks to hold up their beds aud havo j do the very best we can.
confidence. If evrybody who has a ' Tours,
surplus would lend to them who has- j Bill Arp.
ent, (one of whom I am which) things j •—
will git equalised and regulated in no
time. There is a plenty of monev
and plenty of truck for evrybody if
it is divided out right. Ive always
manged to git my sheer, though at
times it required more strategy to
keep the little Arps in vitels and
cloaths than Bonypart displayed in
his retreat from Moscow. I tell you
Marriage.
It is the happiest and most vir
tuous state of society, in which the
husband and wife set out early to
gether, make tkeirproperty together, j
and with perfect sympathy of soul j
graduate all their expenses, plans, j
calculations and desires, with refer- j
nee to their present means, and to |
whats a solemn fakt, a whole passel their future and common interest,
of children <n- all sizes, from a sad- Nothing delights me more than to
die tack up, will sharpen a poor mans ! enter the neat little tenement of the
wit-s quicker than anything in the i young couple, who within, perhaps,
world—-espeshually if the old lien two or three years, without any re
keeps up a respektable cacldin in the ; sources but their own knowledge or
rear. “Keep a movin, old man, ’ industry, have joined heart and hand,
says she, keep a movin and never
say die. Bull Runs shoes are out at
the toes, Chickahominy hasent got a
whole coat to his back, and you kno
hes beginin to notice the girls a little,
and wants to go decent; Shenandoah
must have a mariner dress for the
winter, and the baby is obleeged to
have a pair of little blankets for his
crib. Five or six of the others want
•shoes and stockings jest as soon as
you are able to get em. The sbugar
is out, aud the coffee is low, and last
weeks washin amt paid for, and you
must send a inan to fix that leak in
the roof to-morrow.
My good wife is a thoughtful oman,
and when she tells me she wants
anything as soon as I can git able,
1 know what that means. It means
she wants it by tomorrow night, if
not sooner, and I tell you I always
display my finest taktics in such -em
ergencies. In fact, I do the very
best I can. Its the comfort of my
life to look back and say, Ive almost
always worked up to her schedule.
If the future looks dark, I yimt my
eyes and dream over the past. I
like Ed Newton bekaus he keeps his
spirits up. Hes a drummer iu New
York, and he sed that in all this tre-
mengious crisis which hav slink the
nation from centre to cirkumfereuce,
the New York drummers had stood
firm and solid as the rock of gibrawl-
ter. He sed they was all a doin the
very best they could, bid Hughes
is an envious man, I reckon, for he
sed the New York drummers was
even with the world, and had nothin
to bust on. Well, I know that Ed is
mity clever, for he give me a hat—
which hat, however, hav excited some
invidious and randein remarks sinse
I got home. Sich remarks are very j y singular revival occurred at a
natural when a man goes to wearin : Quaker meeting in Richmond, Ind., ,
new cloths before he pays for the j a f e w nights since. The converts I
old ones. j stripped themselves of all articles of j
My motto hav always been to do j jewelry and devoted them to the
the very best you can, and keep one j Lord. T\ omen parted with their ■
eye open to the bright side. The wedding rings, and men with their \
mountains most always disappear j watch-chains, until the ladies ap- '
jest before you get to em, and if you i pointed to receive them had about
do hav to climb over ockasionally, I three hundred dollars’ worth of [
you are shore to find a few flowers on j trinkets in their possession. One.
the way up if you look for em. A ! man, a Knight Templar, added his
and engage to share together the re
sponsibilities, duties, interests, trials j
and pleasures of life.
The industrious wife is cheerfully |
employing her own hands in domes
tic duties, putting her house in or
der, or mending her husband’s clothes j
or preparing the dinner, whilst, per- j
haps, the little darling sits prattling
upon the floor or lies sleeping in the j
cradle—and everything seems pre
paring to welcome the happiest of 1
husbands and the best of fathers,
when he shall come from his toil to ■
enjoy the sweets of his little paradise, j
This is the true domestic pleasure |
—the “only bliss that survived the j
fall. "Health, contentment, love, 1
abundance, and bright prospects, are
all here. But it has become a pre
valent sentiment that a man must
acquire his fortune before he mar
ries—that the wife must have no
sympathy, nor share with him iu the
pursuit of it, iu which most of the
pleasure truly consists; and the
young married people must set out-
out with as large aud expensive an
establishment as is becoming those
who have been wedded for twenty
years. This is very unhappy.
It fills the community with bach- ;
elors, who are waiting to make their ;
fortunes, endangering virtue and j
promoting vice ; it destroys the true •
economy and design of the domestic ;
institution, and it promotes idleness 1
and inefficiency among females, who !
are expecting to be taken up by a :
fortune, aud passively sustained with
out any care cr concern on their
part-; and thus many a wife becomes,
“not a help-mate, but a help-eat.— j
Winslow. *
Gen. J. B. Gordon’s. Views. j standing the reprehensible conduct
The following is General Gordon’s 1 of so “ e of th f e institutions, she
own recapitulation of his opinion “ ore tha ; n quadrupled her produc-
about tbe financial muddle: : a “ d resources. Her circulation
The present system induces the 0j - Th 000,000 sterling was based up- j
undue flow of money io New York { ? n S cla °* not excGeam S half a mi11 ’ |
—it encourages speculation—it ad- j lon , n g- ,, , j
mitsof manipulations by heavy cap- ,, A sln!lkr P°, ]lc T wu]l us ) vould
iialists—it placec the whole property i the sur^ road to - resumption, and
of the country at the mercy of Wall ! at tinae > ; or *!? e debt-bur- !
street—it prevents contraction and I Jened South the best bankrupt law
expansion, save to a very limited ex- Wlfh
tent and as government pleases—it
does not anil cannot furnish suffi
cient circulating medium for the
wants of the people—it gives encour
agement to communism—it prevents
competition and thus ensures a high
rate of interest, which is destruction
to the debtor section—it makes cur
rency scarce when it oufiit to be
plentiful and redundant y hen least
needed; and finally gives greater
power to the government than is
safe in a republic. What then shall
Congress could enact. With rigid
economy, cheap freights and low in
terest for money we would soon find
our way out of our troubles. Re
sumption now is impossible; to force
it at any time would be disastrous.—
What need have we of gold, except
in settling foreign balances ? It is
not essential to domestic trade,which
all experience proves and political
economists agree, affords the great
est revenue. If every dollar of gold
were banished from the country, and
every gold and silver mine on the
artli-
we do with it? Shall we patchrit and continent were sunk by an earth-
try it again ? This I presume will be q^ke, it would not destroy oui
n l ° -i wpii rh nov f pcrpflsp r nni’ TYroRnfiritv.
the course pursued.
In my opinion, there are but two
modes which can possibly cure these
evils and prevent their recurrence.
Either to amend the law so as to al
low the “public to convert treasury
notes into government obligations,
bearing a low rate of interest, reeon-
vertible at the option of the holder,
principal and interest, into legal ten
der eurrencreceivable for all dues
to the government, or else abolish the
tax on other bank issues, and permit
a ret mot to the old sy stem of banking.
The former was suggested in 1855
by an old financier, and has since
steadily commanded an additional
support. It would furnish a currency
always equal to gold, because received
by the government for all dues. It
would admit of expansion, as the
legitimate wants of the people de-
wealth nor decrease four prosperity,
provided, in lieu thereof, we possess
ed a currency which would meet the
wants of domestic trade.
The annual products of our land
and labor, let me repeat, are our
wealth. Let these he fostered and
developed to their full extent, and
our cotton and grain will bring to us
all the gold needed for canceling any
foreign debt.
For either of the amendments I
have discussed I am prepared to
vote, but I prefer the latter. I pre
fer to “divorce the government from
the banks.” Very respectfully,
J. B. Goreon.
Georgia Agricultural Statistics.
Georgia, we believe, is the first
Southern State to collect by official
_ ^ _ enumerations full returns of the acres
manned, and prevent an undueinfla- | planted in corn, cottton, wheat, rye,
tion by furnishing to the bankers of barley, oats, sweet pota
the interior a profitable, safe, tem
porary investment for surplus capital
aud deposits, when not employed in
the legitimate business of the county.
At another time I hope to furnish
the facts and arguments upon which
I base these opinions. They are
withheld now only because this com
munication would be unduly extend
ed by their insertion.
The latter nmmendment I prefer.
potatoes, sugar cane and other crops
in any one year. No census of the
United States ever gave these im
portant ■statistics. It has a guessing
machine to do this mathemateal
work. We find the complete re
turns for Georgia for 1873 in the
Plantation for October, published
in Atlanta at $1 50 a year. Acres in
cotton, 1,760,559 ; acres in corn, 1,-
927,646; in wheat, 300,342] ; in rice,
Whatever objections may lie against i 26,940; in oats, 371,015; in sweet
tlie old system, it at least possessed j potatoes, 36,292; Irish potatoes, 2,-
tlie wants of trade—was free Komi 091; tobacco, 435; sugar cane, 6,467;
the manipulations of government
and the control of Wall street—and
permitted a competition which kept
^he price of money within the reach
of the planter. Even in periods of
suspension it served to move the
produce of the country and prevent
ed stagnation, which is death to in
dustry. But it was not money—it
was not equal to gold. True nor is
it essential to the general prosperity
that it should be. The financial his
tory of this aud every other nation
furnishes abundant evidence of the
fact, that specie payment does not
prevent commercial disasters, and
that the general prosperity of the
country does not depend upon the
price of gold. A low state of pros-
sorghum, 3,570 : in clover and seeds,
18,138. Richmond county, which
has Augusta for its capital, has 1,-
256 acres in mellons, and Bibb county
has 143 goats. Georgia rejoices in
the possession of 122,318 dogs; sheep,
369,012; hogs, 758,935 ; mules and
horses, 139,672; neat catjle, 559,340;
cotton factories, 30; spindles, 104,-
462 ; woolen factories, _2; spindles,
2,884; iron furnaces and foundries,
14. It is instructive to see what
branches of industry are receiving
most attention iu that large and en
terprising State. It lias very little
over five million acres under culti
vation of any kind, leaving the large
area of thirty-two millions unpro
ductive. While possessiug so large
purity and even a great poverty may, | a range for grazing purposes, it has
and do coexist with an abundant
supply of gold and silver. This is
illustrated in the history of most
European nations. Spain and Portu
gal, for example, where gold and sil
ver furnish the only medium for ex
change, and where they are most
abundant, and where their export is
discouraged by law, became the most
beggarly countries in Christendom.
England, on the other hand, during
her wars with Napoleon andfor more
than twenty years, discouraged the
payment of specie and enjoyed a
no Bermuda nor other grass to re
port.—Aaush vide Union and American.
Some of Our Resources.
Northern Georgia is one of the
most prolific and interesting sections
of the Empire State of the South.
Recent accounts state that the cot
ton crop will yield finely, in spite of
the damage done by caterpillars, and
what is still better, the farmers of
that section will realize remunera
tive nrices for it, because, having
season of unexampled prosperity. : raised plenty of provisions, they will
Eetthe effect of her subsequent forced j be able to "hold their cotton until
redemption furnish us a warning. It
curtailed her productions, depressed
the energies of her people, entailed
heavy losses upon every industry of
the Commonwealth, and a degree of
distress and suflerfng which it is
difficult to exaggerate.
I would not be understood as op
posing resumption, wkeu it can take
place without violation of the estab
lished laws of trade. What I op
pose is any ferced. resumption. Offi
cials and the public, feverish wfth
anxiety, rush to the conclusion that
compulsory resumption is to relieve
us, and when experience and history
appear as witnesses against the wis
dom of such a policy, these witness
es are condemned and put out of
court, so great is the force of precon
ceived opinions. Let it be born
they can eommand its full value.
There are three large iron furna
ces iu full blast at Cedartown—the
“Tecumseh,” “Etna,” and “Stone
wall.” About two thosand men are j
employed, a majority of whom get
one hundred dollars per month as
wages. Capital invested one million \
dollars.
General Warner, formerly of Gen
eral Sherman’s staff, is superintend
ent of the Toeumseh Works. The
•pig iron maoe is shippe via Selma,
Rome and Dalton Railroad, to the
North, where it readily brings sixty- !
five dollars per ton. Com in this !
mining region sells for fifty cents per i
bushel.
Really the natural wealth of Geor-
gia is not computable: her resources ;
have scarcely been touched. When
steadily in mind that wealth does not ! industry and capital shall combine
Chestnut burr has got a sweet nut
hid away in the middle of it. There
is a heap of good things with burrs
over em, and hes a sensible man who
regalia and sword to the treasures.
Several Irishmen were disputing |
ona day about the invincibility of
knows how to git the goodies out their respective persons, when one of
without sticking his fingers. Im not
going crazy about a panik or lost
money, or busted banks or any other
transitory circumstances. A little
them remarked, “Faith, Tin a brick.
And indade I’m a brick-layer, said
another, giving the first speaker a
blow that brought him to the ground.
depend upon the price of gold, hut
upon the manufactures and agricul
tural products of a people. Goldhas
steadily decreased in price with us
since the war; but, has our prosper
ity proportionately increased? Re
sumption will be easy, safe and spee
dy, if we can encourage by a full,
but not redundant supply of cheap
money, the productions of this vast
cotton and grain growing country.—
Even redundency, which must be avoid
ed, is better thanjnsufficiency. Within
a short period after Scotland charter
ed private banking companies and
doubled her circulation, notwith-
in systematic plans for the develop
ment of the wealth which lies above
and in the soil of our State, most
wonderful results will be achieved.—
Christian Index.
Gen. *Tohnston’s book, now in
press and soon to beissued by D. Ap
pleton <fe Co., and called a “Narra
tive of Military Operations,” will be
sold by subscription, and will con
tain correspondence between him
and the Confederate authorities at
Riehmone that will throw much light
on many matters not now very clear
ly understood.
Talmage ou Sin. I A Cheerful Home.
Sin comes to the young man. It j 2£Of all the blessings enjoyed by
says, “Take a game of cards—it human beings, there is none" better
won’t hurt you. Besides that, it is or more desirable than a cheerful,
the way men make their fortune.” happy home. It is, therefore, the
It is only a small stake. See how first duty of every one to endeavor
easy it is. The young man plays 1 to promote^the most amicable lela-
and wins a horse and carriage and a tions in the home circle. A single
house—wins a fortune. “See how bitter word may disquiet an entire
easy it is,” says sin; “it don’t cost family for a whole day. One surly
you anything. Look at those young i glance casts a gloom over the house
men who stick to their salaries, away , hold; while a smile, like a gleam of
down to the foot of the ladder, while | sunshine, may light up the darkest
you are in great prosperity.” The j and weariest hours. Like uuexpeet-
young man is encouraged. He goes . ed flowers Jwhich spring up along
and plays larger aud larger ; the tide | our path, full of freshness, fragrance,
turns against him; he loses the horge, | and benutv, so the kind words, and
the carnage, loses the house, loses j gentle acts, and sweet dispositions-,
the fortune. Crack ! goes the sheriff s ; make glad the home where peace
mallet on the last household valua- | and amity dwell. No matter how
tion. Down lower and lower the ! humble the abode, if it be thus gar-
mau falls, until he pitches penuies j nished with goodness, and sweeten-
for a drink, or clutches for devils that | ed with kindness, and smiles, the
trample him in wild deiiram. “The heart will turn longingly toward it
way of the transgressor is hard. ’ J from all the tumults of the world;
Sin comes to a young man and and home, though it be ever so home-
says, “Take this glass—it won’t hurt ly, will be the dearest spot on earth.
you. It has a very find flavor. Take —
a glass in the morning ; it will be ail j On a crowded Mississippi steamer
appetizer. Take a glass at noon ; it | the usual throng were gathered
will aid digestion. Take a glass at j about the stove in the “gentleman’s
night; it will make you sleep well.” j cabin.” A gentleman in company
You are in a glow while others are j with several others remaked, inei-
chilly. How bright it makes the eve | dentally:
—how elastic it makes the step ! One I “Now iu New Jersey where I live
day you meet him and you say, j —”
“What are you doing here at noon? j Instantly an old man, who had sat
I thought you were at business.” ; moodily and silently pondering by
“Lost your place ?” God have mercy 1
upon the young man when, through j
Ids misdemeanor, he loses his place, j
Every temptation of hell takes after >
him. Hobbled and handcuffed at ;
thirty years of age by evil habit! ;
Save that young man; he is on the j
express train that stops not until it ;
tumbles over the embankment of |
perdition. “The way of th
gressor is hard.”
tile stove for some time, sprang to his
feet and exclaimed:
“Stranger, are you from New , cr-
s e y?”
“Yes.”
“And willin’ to acknowledge it?”
“Yes, sir, proud on’t.”
“Hurrah! Give us you hand,”
cried the old man,- fairly dancing
trans- with exultation; “I’m from New Jer-
! sey too, but never felt so afore. I’m
Sin comes to a young man and says, j an old man. I've been in every
“Take a dollar out of vonr employer’s I city in the West—steamboated on
drawer; lie won’t miss it; you can i the Ohio and Mississippi—been to
put it back after a while. Take an- i California, over the plains, and
other! take another! Don’t you j around ihc Horn—took a voyage
see how easy it is? Hundreds of once to Liverpool—then to Denver
dollars added to your income in a J and Pike’s Peak, but in all my trav-
year!” One day the police knocks j els hang me if this ain’t the first
at the door, and say, “I want you.”
Discovery has couie; disgrace, im
prisonment, loss of the soul. “The
way of the transgressor is hard.”
But you need not look through the
wicket of the prison to learn this,
and to find the frozen feet, and bruis
ed brow, aud to hear the coughing
lungs, resulting from crime. Every
man lias found out in his own ex
perience that the way of the trans
gressor is hard. Sin demeans us;
sin is desperate—it lacerates, mauls
the soul, it chains you like a dog, it
time I ever heard A man acknowl
edge that he kum from New Jersev,
The ex-Empress Carlotta is now
so completely insane that all remem
brance of her former life has faded
away from her mind. She cannot
even be made to know that Bazaine,
who deceived and brought her hus
band to death by his treacherous
conduct in Mexico, suffers now tho
consequences of a similar treacbero,
and is quite likely to have his career
terminated in the same tragical man-
whips you with innumerable stripes j uer in which her poor Maximilian
like a dog. There is a legend abroad j suffered death.
of some one of whom it was fore- " T p * _
told that she would die of a serpent’s ■ ,° . LL :\ Ao ? SE s AaE - ^ 10
bite. The father to keep her away | | owin 8 ussam to be a sure test of a
from that, built a castle far out in j worses age : After a norse is nine
the sea. He said no serpent could ! } ea is old a wrinkle comes over the
crawl there; but one day a boat j W e hd, at the upper corner of the
came under the castle, and the j K ’ Rud every year thereafter he has
daughter saw grapes in it, and, let- ' one , defined wrinkle for each
ting down a rope, she got the grapes | 3 ear ° L ' 11 * s a 4R over nine. It, ior m-
and was eating them, when she found
a serpent entwined in the cluster. It
stung her and she died. Sin may
seem luscious and ripe, and to have
all the wealth of the vineyard, but
at the last “it biteth like a serpent
and stingeth like an adder.” Oh!
have nothing to do with its approach
1 stance, a horse has three wrinkles he
-is twelve years old. Add the num
ber of wrinkles to nine and you will
always obtain his exact age.
i ’ ' • ' ‘
The way to be happy is to have a
clean conscience, a young and hand
some wife, fine children,good health,
will fill you with wormwood. It prom
ises you a throne. It will drive you
into a kenuel.
In Proportion.
The whole human figure should be
six times the .length of the feet.
’Whether the form be slender or plump
the rule hfffds good; any deviation
from it is a departure from the high
est beauty of proportion. The
Greeks made all their statues accord
ing to tliis rule. The face from the
highest point of the forehead where
man has these, he can calmly lay his
hand on his stomach and say, “lean
do without the luxuries and super
fluities of life, such as false hair and
teeth and chills and fever.
Kind Words aud kind deeds are
more precious than diamon d s.
Diamonds only please the eye but
kind woads and acts charm the hearts
of those who utter and of those also
who-hear and see them.
A POSTAL card was received at Port-
tke hair begins, to the chin, is one- j land, Me., recentlv, having a dollar
third of the whole statue. The baud, j bill sewed on one "side of it, and di-
from tue wrist to the middl finger, is | rectly above the bill was written : “If
trie same. I rom the top of the fore- | this is stolen, it will be after it leaver
iicad is a seventh. _ If the face, from the Kittery postoffice.”
the roots of the hair to the chin, be
divided into three equal parts the
first division determines the place
of the nostrils. Height from the
feet to the top of the head is the dis
tance from the extremity the fin
gers when the arms are extended.
They tell a queer story about the
doctors in a certain California town,
who were all away last summer, to
attend a medical convention. They
were absent about two mouths, and
on their return they found that all
their patients had recovered, the
drug-stores hail closed, the nurses
had opened dancing-schools, the
cemetery was cut up into building .
lots, the undertakers had gone
making fiddles, and the hearse ]j ac ]
been painted and sold for jv circus
wagou.
“John,” said a doW parfjn t to
her rather insatiable h 0 y,” can yon
eat that pudding with "impunit'y
“I don’t know,” replied young hope
ful, “but I guess I can with a spoon.’.
“Why,” asked a governess o' p er
little charge, “do we pray to Q; OL [ to
give us our daily bread? Y . j iV don’t
we ask for four days, or f ‘ vg f [ a ys or
V i ; e h ? ” • ™ nt 'it"fresh,"‘’re
plied tue ingenious chi]( ._
Nothing is IT j — , the
earnestness r e , ' UI q W i.»
awelldevei ; the s^htof
eight hor J ? 7 creature spend-
out a d
P ants.
rs a d ay {j. trying to wear
'/ S° 0 ' Js box with the seat °
iness t P " Anichasreached Utah. -Bus-
are r f eD ’ aoc , ordin g to an exchange,
~, e , reunciug their number of wires
£ ettia 3 rid of ad other out
standing obligations as fast as possi-
! U quoted^iLTanlj^Tbf news
| -Ldt enme and “devilment” is on tho
increase m Atlanta. ' 0
Love is to the mortal nature wlmf
the sun M to the earth. *
