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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. -Hock, As*iisse & Rodgers. T-psiLD is published in Sandersville, . Friday morning. Subscription ■■ VO DOLLARS per annum, i - . -jsoments inserted at the usual rates. for publishing marriages or 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. *