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VOLUME IV—NUMBER 41.
Thomson High School
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Xi OYS A N I) GIRLS.
T
IHE Spring Session of this School will
open on Monday the 19th day of January,
and will continue six scholastic mouths. '
The Fall Session
WILL BEGIN AUGUST 10,1874
and continue four scholastic months.
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at sls. per month.
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Thomson, Ga.
iy
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CQSmSSiGH MERCHANTS,
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Limn Beans. Grt on Corn, Fresh Salmon.
Fresh Mackerel, Fr-sh Fa. h«-. Fine Apple*.
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THOMSON, McDUFFIE COUNTY, GA, OCTOBER 14,1874.
POETICAL.
A Psalm of Life.
WHAT THX LEART OF THE YOUNG MAN SAID TO !
THE PSALMIST.
Tell me not in mournful numbers,
“Life is but an emtpy dream,”
For the soul is dead that slumbers.
And things are not what they seem. j
Life is real, life is earnest!
And the grave is not its goal;
“Dust thou art, to dust returnest,”
Was not spoken of the soul.
Not enjoyment, and not sorrow,
Is our destined end or way;
But to act, that each to-morrow
Finds us nearer than to-day.
Art is long, and time is fleeting,
And our hearts, though stout and brave.
Still, like muffled drums, are beating
Funeral marches to the grave.
In the world’s broad field of battle,
Tn the bivouac of life,
Be not like dumb driven cattle,
Bea hero in the strife !
Trnst not future, however pleasant!
Let the dead Past bury its dead !
Act—act in the living Present!
Heart within, and God o’erhead !
I ives of great men all remind us
We can make our lives sublime,
And. departing, leave behind us
Footprints on the sands of time—
Footprints that perhaps another,
Aiding o’er life’s solemn main.
A forlorn and shipwrecked brother,
/Seeing, shall take heart again.
Let us then be up and doing,
With a heart for any fate ;
/.Still acheiving still pursuing,
Learn to labor, and to wait.
11. W. Longfellow. |
SELECT MI SC ELLAS Y.
LOVE UP A GUM TREE.
New South Wales is a colony peculiarly
liable to floods. Its rivers generally take
their rise in ihe lofty mountain rangCß,
and m the early part of their course are
joineil by numerous tributary streams.
When the rainy season lias set in—which
generally commences about the middle of !
May—the down-pour sometimes continues
for six weeks at a time, and then these
rivers over flow their hanks and flood the
surrounding country far and near, form
ingin many places miniature seas. Upon
these occasions hundreds of farmers are
ruined, thousands of sheep and cattle j
generally destroyed, and not nnfrrqueutly
manya-valowhle human lives sacrificed.
Perhaps the district most liable to
disastrous floods in the whole country is
the Hunter, where, every few years,
thousands of acres arc submerged with a
suddenness that i* truly appaling,—
Houses ore frequently buried to the
chimney tops beneath the waters, which
rapidly form an inland sen of at leasts
hundred miles in length by a!i acre in
breadth.
In the year 1866 I was quartered at
Windsor, a liitle township about twenty
five miles distant from Snydey, the
metropolis of the country, and for some
months I had chiefly been engaged in the
; ldnous andbyno means romnnticdnty of
hunting for illicit stills, of which it was
supposed there were several in the neigh
borhood.
I certainly did my best to discover
their whereabouts, but was completely
unsuccessful, and after traversing the
country day after day, in every kind of
disguise, until I must have traveled
hundreds of miles, I at last gave the
matter up as a bad job.
If I had not found a still, however, I
had in the course of my wanderings
discovered what gave me far greater
delight, for I bad fallen across one of )
the prettiest and most loveable little girls
that sin Australian or any other sun ever
had the honor of shining upon, and what
was better, I had so ingratiated myself
in her good graces as to win her promise
that she would never marry any one but I
me.
Our acquaintance had commenced in a !
romantic manner enough. I had rescued j
her from a wild cow, who would certainly I
have gored her had I not interposed and I
shot the brute. She was too frightened j
to walk home alone, and so I accompanied j
her, was introduced to her parents, as a !
matter of course, and they were profuse j
in their thanks, and begged me hence- |
forth to look upon their house as my !
home, and so forth.
I promptly took them at their word, |
and on every other evening, and some- •
times even every evening, and sometimes I
oftener, my charger would be comfortably j
stalled for hours at a time in fanner !
Mai tin’s stable; and meanwhile, the I
pretty Gertrude and myself would be j
either wandering by the river bank j
studying poetry together in the old sum- j
iner house, or, as the cold weather drew 1
on, playing chess in the snug little back j
parlor.
These things continued until the rainy !
season set in, but instead of being deter- |
red by the down-pours, my visits became, ;
if possible, more frequent, and through
the slushy lowlauds, where the water was
often atiove my horse’s knees, I nightly
jogged, like a marine centaur, to revisit
my inamorata.
By and by the father’s suspicions were
moused. Could it be possible that a
mounted trooper, wearing English un
iform, would ride nightly through mud
and rain, thmulpr end lightning, and hail
and wind, to drink a glass’ of grog and
smoke a pipe with an old man of sixty?
Common sense answered “No,” and,
havinga fair stock of that oommody, so also
said farmer Martin. “The girl lie’s after,
and it’s time to put a stop to this non
sense,” was the conclusion he arrived at.
And so the very next evening T rode
over, and before Gertrude and I could
finish our third game of chess, Mr.
Martin put bis head into the door, and
said, in a dry, dignified kind of way :
‘ ‘Hem ! Could I speak with you a few
minutes in the front parlor, Mr. Rush ?
I thought I knew what was coming,
and so did Gertrude, for she grew very
pale, and upset the chess-board in her
agitation, so that kings, queens, bishops,
knights, and all the smaller fry, went
rolling over the room.
Meanwhile, I followed the old gentle
man into the front parlor—that horrid
room wherein everything was buried
either in chintzes or yellow muslin, and
where a tiro was never lighted more than
once a year; and here he opened the
trenches, not angrily, but collectedly,
calmly, determinedly, informing mo that
his daughter never could he mine, for
that he was a tolerably wealthy man, and
he had resolved never to wed his child
to one who was not possessed of a portion
equal to her own.
| In vninl told him howmueh I loved his
j daughter, that she loved me in return,
and that we never could exist apart from
ench other.
The old man merely smiled sarcastically,
! and said :
) “The man whose very coat is not his
j own, and whose pay is only seven shillings
j and six pence a day eiumot marry my
heiress.”
He laid a long stress on the last word,
and T don’t know what possessed me but
I replied :
“And what may be the extent of your
present wealth, Mr. Martin ?”
The question was certainly a very rude
one, but the old gentleman did not seem
to regard it ns such, for he answered;
“Well, three months ago I had fotir
! housand pounds inthe Bank of Australia,
1 lmt I took it all out, and expended it in
the purchase of additional stock and
improvements on my farm. I dure say
I am worth, altogether, twelve thousand
pounds, and Gertrude will be the sole
j possessor when I die.”
j “Then you don’t object to mo in my
j self, Mr. Martin, but only because I’m
| poor?” I said, bitter’-/.
“Just so, my boy. 1 object on princi
ple ; but to show you that I bear you no
personal animosity, come into the kitchen,
and we will honor your last coming among
us by a glass of ray best grog, and some
tobacco such as you have not tasted for
many a day.”
j “Stay a moment,” I cried. “Were I
! as rich as you, Mr. Martin, would you
give me your daughter !”
“Aye, tliatlwonld, lad, rightwilliugly,”
was the reply.
“And directly I am as rich as you, if
Gertrude is then single, will you consent
to om marriage ?” I persisted.
“Aye, verily, I will, on my word of
honor, Mr. Rush. But you talk of im
possibilites,” he added: where are you
going to realize a sudden fortune ?”
Al), where was I ? My heart sank as
I asked myself the question, and I follow
ed the old man into the kitchen in almost
heart-broken silence.
A bright fire was burning on the hearth,
for grates are still very rare in Australia
—in faet, they would be ill adapted for
the logs of red gum wood that form the
invariable fuel.
Presently glasses and pipes were laid
on the table, and I did my best to rekindle
I hope within my breast by the aid of
Holland and Barret’s twist, but it was
no good.
(In the other side of the fire sat Mrs.
Martin, a comely dame of fifty years,
fully as broad as she was long, and with
a mind wholly given to the concerns of
I the dairy, and the making of orange
marmalade. Gertrude, knowing that
| something was wrong, butscarcely guess
| ing what, nestled up to my side, and to
| my great joy, her father did not rebuke
i her.
Ami thus wc sat for a long time, neither
I of us speaking a word, but listening to
; the falling rain and howling wind without,
j and to the great forest trees as their
! branches were swayed and tossed by the
j blast. Anon came another sound —a
! loud but yet a soothing murmur, like
the sighing of a summer breeze amid a
I cork wood.
I No one seemed to notice it but me, and
j I only did so wondering how so gentle
arid so musical a murmur could make
itself so audible above the uproar of the
wind and tempest. Suddenly, however,
there broke upon onr ears the dashing
open of a gate, anda man’s voice shouting:
“Martin, if you value your life, look
sharp ? The river has overflown its bank,
and the waters are out.”
Then we heard the “splash, splash, !
splash,” of horses' feet, as the warning 1
visitor rode away.
“Water out!” impossible, muttered
the old farmer. “Why, bless my heart, I
the river was not on a level with the j
banks by some inches this morning, and
we’ve had no rain to speak of since.”
“You don’t know what weather it has
been among the mountains, Mr. Martin,”
I said. “And hark 1 put your ear to the j
floor. Heavens! the warning wasa timely :
TERMS—TWO DOLLARS IN ADYANO E.
one. We have not a moment to lose.”
We all bent our heads down and listened
and now we could hear a hollow, gurgl
ing sound under our feet, and little jets
of spray leaped up from between the
crevices of the flooring.
The house, according to the common
custom in the colonies, was built on piles, j
and thus the downstairs room were about j
four feet from the ground, between which j
and the flooring, the angry waters were
now fretting and fuming, and dashing j
against the stout woodwork with momen
tarily increasing power.
The women began to cry, the farmer
was too stupefied to move.
“This will never do,” I said; “there
is not a moment to lose. I can take one
of you up behind me on my horse, and I |
know that Carlo and I will get through
it somehow. The rest had better get up j
stairs—or, if poosible, on the roof—and j
with the first peep of dawn I’ll send a j
boat to bring you off. Now, who am I
to take charge of ?”
I was very much afraid he would bid .
me take the old lady, but to my great j
relief both the parents cried out :
“Save Gertrude!”
I lost no time in acting. I flew down
the four steps that led to the garden, and
with the water above my Napoleon boots, ;
made my way to the stable. Mine was
the only steed there—for Australian
settlers seldom stable their horses—aud
he, poor fellow, was very miserable and
frightened, •
I did not stop to reassure him, but led
him around to the house door in a minute,
and then Gertrude, after bidding a weep
ing adieu to her parents, sprang up
behind me, and away we dashed.
It was indeed a wild and fearful night,
the moon shone brightly, but every
minute or two its light was obscured by
black, pall-like clouds, that was tearing
with mad velocity across the sky, and
then it was so dark I could not see my
horse’s head before me.
In the brief intervals of ghastly white
light, I could perceive that we were
surrounded by a sea of waters, and that
scarcely a speck of dry laud was to be
seen. True, they were as yet very shal
low, scarcely above Carlo’s knees, but I
knew how rapidly they would deepen,
ari l I urged the good horse in the direc
tion of the town.
Gertrude’s arm encircled my, waist and
she clung to my arm with fear. Often I
turned my head to speak to her a few
words of encouragement and hope, but I
| was too anxious to secure her safety and
| my ow n to say much,
j She was warmly wrapped up in shawls
and wraps, and as she was an excellent
horsewoman, I had no fear of failing off,
though the wind was blowing hard
enough to whirl her from her seat,
j Before wo had got moro than a mile
from the farm, the rain re-commenced
with doubled fury, and in a few minutes
we were wet tnrongh. The wind, too,
grew from a gale to a hurricane, and
amid the continuous roar of the thunder
and flash of the pale lightning through
the air, we now and then hoard a mighty
crash, ns some aged monarch of the plain
fell prone to the earth.
Suddenly a flash of lightning darted
right iu front of Carlo’s eyes, and. with a
snort of fear, he reared nearly upright.
“Hold fast, Gertrude !” I cried, en
deavoring to throw my right arm around
her to keep her from falling off.
I was too late—she had fallen. I heard
n splash in the water, a cry, and the
darkness hid her from my sight. Just,
however, as I was about to give way to
despair, another flash revealed her to be
standing amid the flood, at not a dozen
yards distance.
I spurred toward her, and presently
I she was again on Carlo’s broad back.
I The excitement of this event, and the
| turning of my horse round and round,
had made me forget the proper direction
j to the town, so that we now rode on not
I knowing whither we were heading,
j Meanwhile, the flood grew deeper each
moment, and presently I discovered that
Carlo was swimming. I had not felt j
fear until now; but I must say, that j
which ever way I guided my charger, he
could not touch the ground. I knew j
that weighted as he was, he could not
keep afloat long, and each moment he
seemed to sink deeper and deeper into
the water.
At the critical juncture of affairs, the
moon shone out again, and lighted up
the scene as though it had been broad
daylight. Far as the eye could reach, j
not a speck of dry laud was now visible ;
but to my great joy, I perceived, close
by, a blue gum tree whose boughs were
so disposed as to be easily scaled.
“ Do you think you can climb that
tree, Gertrude?” I asked. “It is our
only chance of preserving our lives now.”
She answered feebly in the affirmative,
and with some difficulty I swam Carlo
alongside. Under the tree he regained
his footing, and I was glad of this, as he
was enabled to stand steady for my poor j
, little companion to cliinbiutothe branches
from his back.
When she had accomplished this feat,
I took off his bridle, so that he should
notcatchliis feet in it if he had toswim for
his life, and then Gertrude aud I got some
twenty feet higher up iu the blue gum,
and paused to rest. Shawls and wraps
had long ago fallen off her and been lost,
and now poor Gertrude was exposed to j
ali the inclemency of the weather, in the
low-necked, short-sleeved dress she had
worn during the evening.
How her plump, white, and beautifully
moulded arms were scratched by the
rough tree bark in climbing, and as the
rain poured down through the unprotect
ing vertical foliage, the drops glittered on
her polished shoulders, and trickled
down her plump, snowy bosom.
“Why, Gertrude, you look a veritable
Undine,” I said, and, having no cape or
overcoat to protect her, I doffed my un
iform, and made her to put it on.
We then sat side by side, and putting
my arm around her neck, I told her all
about my interview with her father that
evenmg.
“And did papa say when you were as
rich as himself he would let me marry
you, Willie ? she asked.
Yes, Gertrude; he gave me his word
of honor to that effect,” I responded,
“Then he won’t break it,” she replied.
“Poor papa I this night has made him a
beggar. All his money was invested in
improvements on his laud, and an increase
of stock. It is all lost now, so you may
claim me sooner than you thought for,
Willie.”
This viow of the case had never struck
me before, and I nearly jumped oft' the
gum-tree in, I fear, a most selfish ecstacy
of delight. I was bound to control my
self, however, and exert all my attention
iu comforting Gertrude, who now that
the exitement attending our escape was
over, began a thousand fears concerning
the fate of her parents.
At last I succeeded in convincing her
that it was a matter of impossibility for
the flood to cover the house before rescue
came in the morning, and'tbereupon she
became composed, and our own thoughts
reverted to our own hopes aud fears, and
amid the rain and howling wind, aud the
still rapidly rising waters below, she
nestled in my arms, and we talked of
love until the cold, gray dawn aroused us
from our seventh heuven of bliss. Well,
then, to make a long story short, after
another three hours’ perch, we perceived
some boats coming from tho direction of
Windsor, and by the aid of a brilliant
scarlet handkerchief that I fortunately
possessed, we signalled them# attracted
oar attention, and were indue time taken
on board.
At my instigation, we then rowed to
Mr. Martin’s farm, am! saved the old
man ami his wife from a cliimney-top
whereon they were both sitting, with
I their feet laid up out of the water. We
[ were only just iu time.
'• Two months later, Gertrude Martin
j became .Mrs. William Rush. The old
| man stuck to his word, and our position
i was uot so bad, after all, for a month
; previously to our marriage, I came into
, an nnmi ty of a hundred and fifty pounds
! per annum, on the death of a distant
relative in England, so that, with my
i pay of seven-aud-sixpence per day, we
were able to begin housekeeping pretty
| comfortably.
i Mr. Martin lias retrieved his loss, and
j is now the owner of a capital farm at the
; Ryde, New South Wales.
A Touching Incident.
i We heard a story told the other day,
that made our eyes moisten. We have
determined to tell it, just as we heard it
| to our little ones :
A company of poor children who had
been gathered out of the alleys and
garrets of the city were preparing for
their departure to new and distant homes
in the West. Just before the time of
starting on the ears, one of the boys was
noticed aside from theother and appeared
very busy with a cast off garment. The
superintendent stepped up to him, and
found that he was cutting a small piece
out of the patched linings. It proved to
be his old jacket, which, having been
replaced by anew one, had been thrown
away There was no time to be lost.
“Coine, John, come,” said the super
intendent, “what are you going to do
with that old piece of calico ?”
“Please, sir,” said John, “I am cutting
it to take with me. My dear mother
put the lining into this old jacket for me.
This was a piece of her dress, and it is all
I have to remember her by.”
And as the poor boy thought of that
dear mother’s love, and of the sad death
scene in the old garret where she died,
he covered his face with his hands and
sobbed as if his heart would break. But
the train was about leaving, and John
thrust tho little pieoe of calioo into his
bosom to remember his mother by,
hurried into a car, and was soon far away
from the place where he had seen so
much sorrow. We know many an eye will
moisten as the story is told and re-told
throughout the country, and a prayer
will go to God for the fatherless and
motherless in all great cities and places.
Little readers, are your mothers still
spared to you ? Will you not show your
love by obedience ? That little boy who
loved so well, surely obeyed. Bear this
in mind that if you should one day have
to look upon the faoe of a dead mother,
no thought would be so bitter as to
remember that you gave her pain by your
wiifuluess and disobedience.— Ex.
An honest old former, on being in
formed that one of his neighbors owed
him agrudge, growled out: “Nomatter;
he never pays anything.”
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WISE AND OTHER WISE.
Teas for gossipers’ tables—T. T.
The ready money system—Dun, or be
done.
How to make a slow horse fast—Don't
feed him.
Injun probabilities l "Mel)be snow
next week; mebbe heap dam hot.”
A darkey's instructions for putting on
a coat were, “First do right arm, den
de left, and den give one general oon
wulsion, ”
The editor of the Parkersburg, tnd.,
Express denies that he has committed
suicide. But against denial, printed
in a single country paper, there are the
reports of more than a dozen dailies. —*
Os course nobody will believe him.
Anew game called “grauger seveu-up”
is announced. Thres persons play for
a can of oysters. The first man out gets
the oysters, last man out gets the
oyster can, and the “middle man”
don’t get anything,
Avery fat man, for the purpose of
quizzing his doctor, asked him to pre
scribe for a complaint, which he declared
was sleeping with his mouth open. “Sir,”
said the doctor, "your disease is incura
ble. Your skin is too short, so that
when you shut yotir eyes your mouth
opens.”
Susan B.
Sat on the knee
Os T. T.
Naughty Bessie came and peeked—
Susan B. ran off and shrieked—
This giddy, giggling Susan B.
The editor of the Clarksville Tobacco
Leaf has written for his paper a story
entitled “The Spirit of Croly Place,”
which he is printing in weekly instal
ments. The heroine is named “Emel
via. ” Emelvia is a sweet, sweet name.
If we could find a girl name Emelvia we
should love her to death. Or if we
didn’t we’d murder her in some other
way.— Louisville Courier-Journal.
They use mules for pulling the Clove*
land street cars, and the drivers are not
allowed to swear while on duty. They
are given a full day each week, however,
to go to the woods.
We cannot be too careful how we play
with the English language. One day
this week a married lady of this city,
while admiring the falls from Warbilrton
avenue bridge, reinared, “Isn’t that dam
nice ?”
A young man asked for a copy of
Homer’s “Odyssey” at a bookstore in
Norwich, Conn., the other day, and the
clerk not finding it, remarked in a
reflective way, “Well, we haven’t any
of Homer’s latest works in at present. ”
Two young men out riding were pass
ing a farmhouse where a farmer was try
ing to harness an obstinate mule.—
“Won’t he draw?” said one of the men.
“Os course,” said the farmer, “he’ll
draw the attention of every fool that
passes this way.” The young men
drove on.
Exercises in Articulation for the
Juveniles i “‘to be Repeated Rap
idly
The following examples in articulation
we clip from an exchange, Many of
them are old, but still not altogether
worn out. Some of our younger readers
may play “twist-the-tongue” with them
for a while during the holidays .
Os all the saws I ever saw saw, I neret
saw a saw saw as this saw saws.
Crazy Craycroft caught a crate of crickled
crabs !
A crate of crickled crabs Crazy Cra
croft caught;
If Crazy Craeoft caught a crate of crick
led crabs,
Where’s the crate of crickled crabs
Crazy Cracroft caught?
Thou wreath’d and muzzl’d’st the far
fetch’d ox, and imprison’dst him iu the
volcanic Mexican mountain of Pop-o-cat
a-pet-1, iu Co-to-pax-i.
Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled
peppers ; a peck of pickled p spper Peter
Piper picked. If Peter_ Piper picked a
peck of pickled peppers, where’s the
peck of pickled peppers Peter Piper
picked.
When a twister twisting, would twist him
a twist,
For twisting a twist three times he wiU
twist;
But if one of the twists untwist from
the twist,
The twist untwisting, untwists the twist,
Robert Rowley rolled a round roll
round; a round roll Robert Rowley rolled
round. Where rolled the round roll
Robert Rowley rolled round?
Theopliilns Thistle, the sucessful this
tle-sifter, in sifting a sieve fuU of thistles,
thrust three thousand thistles through
the thick of his thumb.
Amid the moist and coldest frosts,
With barest wrists aud stoutest boasts.
He thrusts his fist against the post,
And still insists he sees the ghosts.
Peter Prangler, the prickly pear picker,
picked three pecks of prickly, prangloy
pears from the pirangley pear trees on
the pleasant prairies.
Villey Vite and Vise vent on a voyage
to Test Vinson aud Vest Vindkam von
Vitson Vednesday.
I saw Esau kissing Kate;
The fact is, we all three saw;
I saw Esau, he saw me,
Aud she saw I saw Esau.