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SUMMERVILLE, GEORGIA, APRIL IS). 1877.
I'll Love No One But Thee.
Wlt>n far away from home and frientln,
And ull that, s dear to me.
There’s one tluvt'B ever in my mind.
And that, dear otto, isthtv;
And if wc ne'er should meet again
Upon life's stormy sea,
I s:.v to you these words are true,
I'll love no one but thee.
*T!■- iha- ■ ~> ejuers love,
IT.I mi! i. m • until bo!
]■. .*• win. .. , .. ,-s p’.ss slowly by,
M v It • a:. si ill 4iii;:s ft. thee;
Yes, c.!in.;s t.> .. t . •wa ! love as strong
And pure :.s gold ran be;
Until l sleep where willows weep
I'll love no one but thee.
The mother bird may leave her young
To starve within their nest
The points of compass change about,
The en- t be in the west;
The suu shall rule no more the day.
The world in chaos lit*.
And still, when all these changes come,
I'll love no one but thee.
Church Etiquette.
“Some go to church to take a walk,
Some go there t o laugh and talk,
Some go there to meet a lover,
Some go there a fault to cover,
Sonic go there t o doze ami nod.
The good go there to worship God.”
it is decidedly proper that church going
people should know what rules to observe
and observe them strictly.
In entering church with a lady it is
proper to precede her in ascending llio
steps, as also in securing a seat, you act
i as a sort of shield to her modesty, and
I then you save her the emtuToii of select
ing a pew.
It is proper, if you are a believer to kneel
or stand at prayer, according to the eus
i.iiii ol the church. To disregard these is
vulgar—at least it shows too much false
pride, or too little reverence for the re
quirements of Christianity.
Excessive whispering during service is
leeidedly vulgar. It is sometimes necos
-ar.v to address an undertoned remark to
your companion, but seldom.
If you ehew tobacco, do not use it in
church. It is annoying to those around
you. an 1 tie u the sexton gives you je-s s.
>,ev . ■:■ ... luri.i" service un
less it i absolute iry—-as ill siek
ness, a house :i-iii> i des-ionil call.
1 1 i- vulgar to ... Sometimes
it is unavoidable—a i m v,-lies to dis
play anew dress a , i .-a chain or per
haps a beau. :• will occur sometimes
t hat a poor go.i-e :■i■ - to Lie driven Iron!
his seat —then u .- proper enough also.
These causes and the like excuse late
coming and tin: congregation endure
them. Any other delay is unendurable.
In entering and in leaving dent walk too
slow i ke the shod-lie.., nor too last like ,
the hushfuls. In tho one ease, people
ridicule you for allectatiou. in the other
there is danger of knocking down the pews
or running over somebody. “Hasten
slowly.”
When you look around too much in
church, people hink vou want to show
your profile, or that you want to attract
attention to yourself, or that you want to
marry, or that, like poor wheat, there is
not weight enough about your head to
keep it still.
—a a-
Wanted a Bill.
A cay Lothario appeared before the
grand jury a few days since for the pur- 1
pose, as he stated, of getting a true bill, 1
and that, too, against a woman. The ;
foreman looked sympathetic and rather 1
surpri ed that the witness should ho so
ungalhint; but complied with his duty to
interrogate, and asked him to tell the
jury all about it.
‘•Well,’’ said the witness, “it was just ;
like this. There i- a snatching lookin gal
living in our neighborhood, and I went in
lively t-> m irry her. Alter telling her all .
the .sweet, things 1 knowed about love,
moon: him: and--ueli, 1 popped the ques
tion. She said yes, provided i would get
her a pair of them pretty shoes she show- 1
ed me when we were in town together.
I knoived she would have them after Ihe 1
knot, was tied, so 1 got them for her.”
“'That, was right.,"said the foreman.
“Yes," rejoined the witness; “all right
for th : gal; but sin: got the shoes, and !
she’s backed out. Now, I want to know
if 1 can't get. the shoes, tlie gal or a bill j
against her for obtaining goods under
false ji’.otense.”
“You said she was a snatching looking j
g i:” raid tbe f• i email.
“Yes, sir; and lie is the takingest gal j
in lb. settlement.”
“Well, then, you ought to have known
that sue would have taken tho shoes, arid i
as tl.n act doe- noi come within the pur- j
view ofthe statute, you cannot get a bill, j
but yen might sue her for breach of !
promise, and claim damages amounting
to the value of a pair of shoes. An at
tor: ey will bring the suit Corah ut j
“Well, ’Squire, I believe 1 will try to
git the gal, and It t the lawyers, court.-,
arid grand juries alone. Women i- mighty I
deceitful and uncertain, hut they can do [
more for a mar ’s injured affections and !
tore up mind than any of them.” He
departed in disgust —Troy Enquirer'
6ur G p: i i.-.ophy.
There is probably n .- n people in
which the soupgrape philosophy i- more j
marked than in the narrow minded, sill
assertive, eminently re.-pent ame portion ol
the so-called “religion world. M ith an |
exemplary “nose —ii one may he allowed
the expression—for speculative heresy,
their scent is no less keen for imaginary
evils in practice, Readily condemning ail
who do not chime in with their rigorous
illiberality, they are not disposed to
acknowledge the good wherever it is to be
met. They look upon a flaw in anything
outside their own charmed circle much a-
Falstaff regarded the flea that had attack
ed Bardolph’s fiery nose—it was a “black
soul burning in hell. There are few
amusements which they deem permissible
--fewer still which they do not nfleet, to
despise. Themselves they paint black for
purposes of humiliation; hut they have
thoir consolation in bestowing upon the
world innumerable coats of that dismal
color. Their wisdom teaches them to
build the walls of separation between
themselves and their lellowmen thick and
b :h, and their ap mires of outlook nar
row. Hut who can set limits to tho at
i motive force of a blushing cluster ol for
I hidden fruit? Accordingly they have
[ produced the most oomplet: and ingenious
practical application of this philosophy
extant; for, not content with narrowing to
he smallest width the dingy stripe of
window through which thyy look upon
the universe, they stain it with jaundiced
hues, lest the contrast between cell and
field should overpower him.
On the other hand, men ofthe world aro
equally disposed to scoff at real goodness
and seM'-denial when it does not proceed
fro.ii tli ) e with whom they happen to
have any points of sympathy. They can
not he brought to see anything hut can't
and hypocrisy iu revivals, prayermeetings,
and such like proceedings. Is it because
t hey have air Tag s t| ic on that, if the e
be in any way its fruits, then godliness is
a plant whose clusters grow for most part
beyond thoir reach? Wo can fancy, us
lie: been related, Charles 11 guilty of a
certain curious sensation ol satisfaction
when a hole was picked in good men's
reputation. Had the grapes been taken
down for examination, and had they really
proved sour, with wli.at a superb air
Master Reynard would have uttered his
“All I told you sut
The Spider.
Uertio and Lonnie had lived the most
of their lives m the city of Savannah.
When the terrible yellow fever came
there last summer, they left and went to
the country.
They Ii :d never eaten much corn bread
for children the meal (hat the Savannah
people get is not good and sweet like that
got in the country—but when they bad
run around in the woods and played until
they were tired and Ii mgry, they thought
corn bread was so nice.
One day Bertie had been visiting a
neighbor, and when he earn : home wo
noticed lie seemed very much pleased at
something, and while we were at dinner
it came cut.
He said, “Mamma, I will tell you how
to make good corn bread. 1 taw them
mi. kin. oa! M'-s Wilke: . Yon put
the spider on the fire, then you put in
some grease in that, then put the bread
in and let, it cook, and it is good, i teil
you.”
Lonnie, who was sitting at the table
also, stopnod eating when Bertie conn
nieiioed talking,, and his brown eyes grew
larger and larger. Directly ho hurst out:
“Well, Bertie, I reckon you have to
catch the spider first, before you can put
tin: grease in him.
This raised a laugh around the table.
The little fellow had never known any
thing about a cooking spider, and ho
supposed, of cauie, Bertie meant the in
sect. Acanthus.
Not too Short.
I’apa was getting ready to go down I own.
I I was very warm and pleasant in the cosy
sitting room, where the fire burned so
cheerful upon the hearth, but it was over
so cold out iu the streets, where the wind
blew in such stiong, cutting blasts.
So papa took his great, coat down from
tho rack and cominonced to draw it on.
“Let me help, you, papa,” said little
Nellie, as she saw him tugging tit the
sleeve.
“ low/” said papa, raising his eyebrows
in such a funny way, and smiling down
upon the little mite at his side. "You?
Why, you are 100 short, my dear. Vou
could never reach halfway up. ’
‘ <), 1 guess I could, papa, if you would
only let me try. I will stand up in the
chair. There, sou! I can reach way
up now!”
Klie had climbed into the chair as -he
spoke and was holding out her chubby
little hand.
“What a dear little monkey, it is!” said
papa as the coat was drawn smoothly on.
“Give papa a kiss midget, I will never
say again that you are too short.”
Remember little folks that you are never
too short, never too small, to do anything
useful. Papa thought Nellie too slim tto
help him on with his coat, but there was
the chair close by, and mounting into it,
the dear little woman helped pupa—oh I
ever so much!
I wander how many of these brave,
helpful little Nellies are reading this? —
The Acanthus.
Moral education, or the education ■ f
:iur youth in the elements of moral ob
ligation, is the most essential thing in any
system designed for the people at large,
whether maintained by 'he Slate or by
my other method- History shows, and
3 very day now passing shows, that some
if the most noted viliians in society have
been “well educated” in the common ac
ceptation ofthe phrase. Secular educa
:iou will not e irb the bad tendencies of
liuiuan nature. Moral training', and that,
;00, from the start, and all the way
Trough, must accompany the secular;
ind moreover, the moral, to have any
proper effect, must he based, at last, on
lie broad foundation of religious truth.
Men are what their mothers made them
Vou may as well ask a loom which weaves
luckaback why it does not make cashmere
is expect poetry from this engineer or a
Tiemical discovery from that jobber.
A Yankee Boy.
A tourist tells the following story: We
recently met our friend, l)r. Lord, form
erly of Boston' He has been a resident
of this section for about six years. He
was extensively outraged iu buying wool,
an 1 on one occasion, becoming bewildered
in the multi plication of the roads over the
broad prairies, lie rode up to a small
cabin inclosed in a clump of locust trees,
and addressed a white haired hoy perched
on the top ofa lieu-coop, with:
“Hello, boy!”
“1 reckon you’re a stranger,” was tho
I response.
“Look here, sonny.”
“1 ain t your sonny.”
“No not my sonny, hut if you will
jump down and come hero, 1 will give you
a dune.”
I'll ■ hoy s| rang as if alighting front a
wa p’s nest, and coming to the stranger,
exclaimed:
“Well, old hosivhat is it?”
“I’re lost my way and don't know
where I am. Can you toll me?"
‘A cs; on your horse.”
Mr. L ud laughed at the boy’s wit and
Ijanded him a dune. The boy took the
money, and looking up with mingled ieel
ings ol wonder and delight, said'
"Reckon you must have a power of
money.”
“Why so, my hoy?”
“ ’Cause you slather it away so.”
“W hut's your father’s name?" inquired
Mr. Lord.
“Bill Jenks,” was the reply.
“Ah! yes, 1 know him,” exclaimed Mr.
Lord. “He grows wool doesn’t he?”
“No, but his sheep does.”
"If you knew me, my lad, you would
he more respectful in your replies. lam
a friend of your father’:.:; my name is
Lord.”
“Oh! yes, exclaimed the astonished
lad; “l heard pap rea l about you in the
Bible.”
And starling off for tho house on a dead
run. lie bawled at the top of his lungs:
“Mother, mother, the Lord isout here
on horseback, and has lost his way”
Texas Ef <per.
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Wit and Humor.
Mother—“ Charlotte, how do you like
your new teacher?” Charlotte—“ Oil,
she’s a ,splendid loacher. She don’t care
whether we know our lessons or not.”
If a young lady wishes a young gentle
man to ki- her, ivhat paper.-, should she
mention? No Spectator, no Observer,'
i but as many Times as you please.
“1 bale to hear people talking behind
one's hack,” as the robber said when the
constable iva- chasing him and crying:
“Stop thief."
“You never saw my hands as dirty as
that,” said a petulant mother to her little
girl. “No, but your ma did, I'll bet,”
was th : reply.
“It doesn’t take me long to make up
my uiind, 1 can tell you,” said a conceited
fop. “It's always so where the stock of
material to make up is small,” quietly
remarked a young lady.
“She must, be crazy to try to sing that,”
was remarked of an avenue belle at the
piano at, a party the other night. “Ah,
yen don’t believe that cracked belles make
music, then,” was the response.
A witicss in a law office dc bribed the
poverty ofa field of corn as follows: The
crop was so stunted and sliort that the
toads could sit oil their hauaehos and
pick bugs off the tassels.”
The Secret.
“Mother," said a girl of ten years of
age, “1 want to know tho secret of your
going away alone every night and morn
ing.”
“VV by, my dear? ’
"Because it must ho to see someone
you love very much.”
“And what leads you to think so?”
“Because 1 have always noticed that
when you come back you appear to he
more happy than usual.’
"Well, suppose 1 do go to see a friend
I love very much, and that, after seeing
him and conversing with him, I am move
happy than before, why should you wish
to know anything about it?”
“Because I wish to do as you do that I
may be happy al ;o.”
“Well, my child, t leave you in the
morning and in the evening it is to com
mune with my Saviour; I go to pmy to
him I ask him for his grace to make me
happy and holy, I ask him to asss-d me
iii all the duties ofthe day, and especially
to keep me from committing any sin
against him, and, above all, l a-k him to
have mercy on you and save you from the
influences of those who sin against him.”
“If that is the secret,” said the child,
“then 1. must go with you.”
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Every year brings something new in the
shape ef Yankee invention or enterprise,
amt it is with no little interest and curi
osity that the development: of one season j
after another are awaited. During the
last winter and the present, spring tiie
manufacture of “home made" molasses
candy in plain sight of the public has been
the sweet expression of now ideas to take |
t lie lead <I as light i.-1 lie time for going |
through the candy making process, and a
good broad front window is requisite to
give it the Hue effect. Attached to a
bright nickel hook the saccharine mass is !
passed backward and forward, becoming I
whiter and stronger with every motion,'
until the tenuous threads fairly gleam in
the light, and what began a very dark,
murky and uninviting fluid i, transformed
into a toothsome ami tempting product.
NUMBER 16
Tho hoy who spends an hour each
evening lounging idly on the street cor
ner.: wastes, in the course of a year, 365
I precious hours, which, if applied to study
would familiarize him with the rudiments
of almost any of the familiar sciences. If,
hi addition to wasting an hour each even
ing. ho spends ten cents for a cigar,
j which is usually the case, the amount
tlnn worse, than wasted would pay for ten
of the leading periodicals of those times.
Think how much time and money you are
wasting, and for what? The gratification
afforded by tho lounge on the corner, or
the cigar is not only temporary, hut hurt
ful- Vou i aniint indulge in them without
seriously injuring yourselves. You ac
qure idle and wasteful habits which will
cling to you with each succeding year.
You may in after life shake them off, hut
the probabilities are tli.it the habits th is
formed in early life will remain with you
to your dying day. Be warned, then, in
time, and resolve that, as the hour spent
in idleness is gone forever, you will im
prove each passing one, and thereby fit
yourself for usefulness and happiness.
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A citizen of Hickory county, Mo., last
week met with a singular piece of good
fortune. While at Kansas City, in Sep
tember, 1 Stiff, lie purchased an old trunk,
advertised as “unclaimed property,” by
the United States Express Company,
which proved to contain only some valu
able articles and dirty clothing. On his
arrival home the trunk was converted into
a receptacle for wood, for which purpose
it. was used (ill a week since, when being
j partially demolished, it was converted
| into kindling wood. Between the wood
and zinc bottom was found $3,055. The
trunk bore no marks to indicate who the
owner might have been, and the most
reasonabl: supposition is that it was
shipped to some fictitious name, and con
tained stolen money, which, either by tho
interference of arrest, or from (ear of de
tection, remained uncalled for.
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The latest triumph of Yankee ingenui
ty is sour milk jewelry, made at Mansfield
Mass. The milk comes in the shape of
curd from the butter and cheese making
counties in New York, and looks, upon
its arrival, a great deal like popped corn,
hut before it leaves their shop it under
goes a wonderful change, and receives the
name of American coral. The secret iu
making it up is carefully guarded, hut it
is certain that it has to be heated very
hot, during which coloring matter is in
troduced, followed by a very heavy pres
sure. Some of it is colored black and
called jet, while some appears as cellu
loid. It makes very handsome jewelry
and is made into all kinds and stylos
known to the trade.
An Augusta editor says: “Wo have
taken wood, potatoes, corn, oggs, butter,
onions, cabbages, chickens, st me, lumber,
labor, sand, calico, sour-krout, second
hand clothing, toon skins.ond hug juico
on subscription-, in our time, and now a
man writes us to know if we would send
the paper six mouths for a large owl.
There are few tilings an editor would
refuse on subscription, and if we come
across any fellow who is out of owls, and
is in need of one, we’ll do it.”
“A little personal experience teaches
us,” says a newly wedded rural editor in
Illinois, “that the proverb, ‘Gall ii i man
happy until be is dead,’ should read,
‘Call no man happy until ho is mariie 1
Very true, mid you needn’t bo in any par
ticular hurry about it, even then. It
can't he denied that —
“There’s not in this wide world a happier life,
Than to Hit by the stove pipe and tickle your wlto
o ki.HHher warm lips in your moments of glee.
And twist the ca ’s tail when she jnmps oh your
knee.”
Ask no woman her age. Never joku
with u policeman. Do not play at chess
with a widow. Never contradict a man
who stutters. Be Civil to rich uncles an 1
aunts. Your oldest hat, of course for ail
evening party. Always sit next the
carver, if you can, at dinner. Ke.pyour
own secrets. Toll no human being you
dye your whiskers. Wind up your con
duct, like your wale! , onje every day,
minutely examining whether yen are fast
or slow.
<•.-*.*.
At a little gathering the other evening
somebody asked a man if he was fond of
opera. He said he was, passionately,
lie always liked that part where the lady
rides around and jumps through the
hoops!
How small a portion of our lives is that
we truly enjoy! In youth wo are looking
forward for things that are to come. In
old age we look backward to things that
are past.
Wealth is a weak anchor, and cannot
support a man; this is a law of God, that
virtue only is firm and cannot he shaken
by a tempest.
No man is a hotter merchant than 1 e
who lays out his time upon God, and his
money upon the poor.
There are two classes of men generally
in the wrong, those who don't knew
enough, and those who know too much.
Hoyle says: “When you are in doubt,
take the trick.” That's just, what tho
immortal eight said, with the addition,
"doubt or no doubt, take the trick any
lioty,”