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VOLUME V.
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I’AKTI 11.
Parted, after years of joy together,
After years of summer weather,
By one thoughtless, angry word;
And that word by you was spoken.
It was thus love's chain was broken.
Still my pleadings were unheard.
Parted, and that bright elysian
All has passed fceforo our vision
Never to return again; *
Now alone in grief and wonder,
On the past 1 sadly pundt-r,
While my heart is tilled with pain.
Parted, bat I can’t forget you,
Since the day when I first met you
1 have loved you until now;
I have asked you to forgive me,
I have asked you to believe me,
Keeping sac red every vow.
All in vain, 'twas unavailing,
All my prayers were useless, failing,
To recall the words you said;
Through this life wo roaui as rangers.
For one word we meet as strangers.
To bo forgotten when I’m dojd.
For the Gazette.]
I.OQI’ACIT Y.
Loquacity, a hieli, according to Walker,
! means ‘‘too much talk,” is a fault as dis
agreeable as it i- common. It is not
! K’strieted to either-ex. The reader must
: not suppose that 1 judge women to ho
j more luulty in this respect than men. In
• either it is unlovely, and, when indulged
■to exec s, becomes reprehensible in
the estimation of all judicious people.
Loquacity is objectionable because it
| savors el vanity. It indicates that the
| speaker wishes to bring himself into notice
| by a display of words; and consequently
j that he presumes much upon his own iu
[ telligonce, and upon the i rtioranee of
I others, .is if they knew nothing till he
| enlightened them.
The talkative indiviuual seems also to
take it for granted that his neighbors
have leisure and patici.ee to be lectured
| by the hour on any subject which laucy,
; inclination, or accident, may lead nim to
j introduce. This is a great mistake in
j most eases. Such a character would do
i well to study the import of Solomon's
j maxim, “A fool’s voice is known by mul
titude id’words.” Again, loquacity is
j troublesome. It breaks in on the regular
| calling of ail who have the mislortuuo to
|bo as. ailed by it. Few things are more
! annoying to a man of business, nr a man
| of study, than to be frequently interrupted
by the idle and loquacious It embai
rasses him in bis necessary avocation, and
| of course chafes his feeling-, and, unless
I he posse.-ses uncommon forbearance, lays
I him under temptation to rudeness of
\ manner. There are individuals in every
j extensive community who seem to have
no employment hut to talk. They are
j generally very willing souls to give direo
I tions concerning the business of others,
while they neglect their own, for as
Solont m said, ‘Every fool will be med
dling:” but they are as poor counselors
j ;.s they are unpleasant companions.
Let it not. he supposed that talkative
| characters are p culiar to this ago or
j country. Raul said, ‘ There are many
! unruly and vain talk'rs and deceivers,
1 esp eialiy they of the eiicumcisi n -whose
mouths must he stopped,” and he in
structed Tuns to “rebuke them sharply.”
! It is frequently observed that they who
| talk most do it to least purpose. Public
j speakers of a loquacious disposition are
! generally diffusive. They often lack point,
j and ob-eure their arguments by a super
j abundance of words. If they are mem
j tiers of deliberative bodies they are apt to
i become troublesome, lose their influence,
I and sometimes secure to themselves an
| unenviable notoriety. Such orators might
, profit by the advice of St. James, “J.el
| every man be swift to hear, slow to speak,
| si w to wrath.”
A loquacious disposition leads to many
' indiscretionn, of which some examples
! may here he furnished. It influences
confidential fiends to divu’ge secrets,
betray confidence, and produce open
: ruptures between neighbors. It leads
i families to discuss their private business
iu the pre-eiioo of strangers, which is
improper. It betrays many individuals
into ihe very impertinent and annoying
practice of catechising civil travelers as
to their residence, destination, name, arid
business. This is an extremely rudo
practice. Loquacity interrupts the har
| mony of conversation, for a talkative in
; dividual will often break in upon another
j while speaking, which is embarrassing
1 and uncourteous. It makes people appear
I self-important and unteacbable. For ex
ample, when a minister of the Gospel calls
on a talkative family, instead of being
heard as their religious teacher, he is
compelled either to keep silent and listen
to their desultoiy harangues, perhaps ali
speaking at once, till his time and patience
are exhausted, or to retire abruptly. To
visit such a family, except for the purpose
SUMMERY 11.1,K, GEORGIA, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 21, 1878.
of touching them better manners, is a
waste of time.
In some instances loquacity is an in
firmity of old age; and in others of partial
insanity; and in all such cases it should
be endured with patience: but in young
and sane persons it is usually a defect of
education, or of natural judgment, or both
together. It leads some very young per
sons, like saucy children, to monopolize
the time in Conversation, to the exclusion
of the aged and experienced. This is
very indiscreet. Few things ~re more
disgusting than the frivolous conversation
of young people to each other in the
presence of seniors. Well educated and
sensible young people of both sexes
always pay respect to strangers and
seniors, however inferior their accom
plishments may he. Hut the ignorant
and talkative respect no one, and of
course no person respects them. They
are radically defective in sound under
standing and in civility, and therefore in
troduce their uncalled for questions and
topics without, regard to circumstances.
A lew individuals of loquacious habits are
sufficient to cause general confusion in a
large social company: because no one of
then is willing to be a hearer: they all
speak at once, which produces sound
without sense, very much resembling the
gabble ol* a large flock of geese. Hence
it. is that social parties seldom afford any
instructive or profitable conversation on
subjects, of g me: al interest.
1 have not the vanity to suppose that
this short essay on loquacity will reform
any confirmed talker; but it may possibly
be the means ol preventing some in
dividuals from becoming such, and with
that result 1 should not only be content,
but feel amply rewarded for the labor of
writing.
It is admitted that there is an opposite
extreme to loquacity that is taciturnity,
or habitual silence. This is also a fault
to be guarded against. Very diffident
and reserved persons are most liable to
fall into this error- Often, when a few
words tnigh be spoken to the edification
' of si me individual or company, (hey keep
silent from timidity or dixiru lir.atioti to
talk, and thereby lose all opportunity of
doing good. Alan is a social being; it is
wisdom in all to cultivate social habits anil
feelings, and one of the Test means of
doin- so i- a-familiar and friendly eon
vernation. \V lien we engage in social
converse, it should be to instruct, impress,
amuse, or gain information; and as some
one of these objects may be off reted with
any civil companion, there is no necessity
for confining our conversation to a few
select lti"ii Is. Extreme taciturnity is
not profitable or coniine,id able. Still 1
urn of the opinion that to say too little is
a less fault than to say too much, and
indeed that it is belter to say nothing
than to spead unadvisedly. There i-,
: between the two extremes of loquacity
and taciturnity, a happy medium—-that
of speaking on a suitable subject, at the
right time, and in a proper manner, so as
to accomplish some good purpose. It all
would endeavor to speak thus, much idle
and unprofitable talk would be di-pen -ed
with.
Fine colloquial powers are among the
choicest accomplishments of human life.
If properly employed, they may he ren
dered exceedingly entertaining and in
structing. They afford their possessor
ready and easy access to society, and great
facilities in accomplishing any object for
which he is dependent on the co-opera
tion of others, provided always that they
be not used too freely. To be able to say
enough on ail occasions, without saying
too much, is a rare attainment. It is the
perfection of human converse, which
every individual should aim to approx
imate as far as practicable.
Tcloga Springs. YV- 11. Casey.
Germany has presented to England and
Russia albums containing the portraits of
all her criminals of note, that they may
be recognized in a foreign land in case they
abruptly change their residence. .Similar
volumes will be presented to all the gov
ernments of Europe and to the United
States, and copies will also be furnished
to large cities and seaports. The nations
to whom such volumes arc sent will no
doubt return the compliment. I3y such
an interchange of albums between the
police authorities of the different govern
ments of the world, information will bo
given which may come into practical use,
and the material for a curious library will
be produced.
Probably the mild-eyed goat is the only
animal ever invented that can eat twenty
four hours a day, and then get up ari hour
before day and devour a flour-barrel and
seven old fruit-cans for a lunch!
A (imil) CAMPAIGN DOCI MKNT.
The Treasury Hopartnient has recently
issued a document, wlii h contains ex
cellent campaign material for the Democ
racy. It is a statement showing tlie rc
ceqits and expenditures of the government
by fiscal years from 1555 to 1878 inclusive
The information contained it) this state
ment, with the exception of that for the
y ar 187.8, can he found in the Financial
Report for 1877; hut as this is inaccessible
to many, the Treasury Depiiitment is
entitled to thanks for the superior
opportunity it lias aflorded for the more
general dissemination of the inf relation.
Like other matter which bristles with
figures, the document must he studied
before it reveals its rich stores of com
parison favorable to the control by the
Democracy of the purse-strings of the
nation.
By analyzing the statement it appears
that for the fiscal year preceding the war
the expenditures of the government, ex
clusive of those for pensions and for the
management ol the public debt, were as
follows:
Civil und miscellaneous $28,1207,010
W ar Department 22,981, L r >()
Navy Department 12,420,887
Indians 2,811,458
Total $61*510,405
It appears, further, that during the year
ended June 30, 1871, after the heavy ex
pense attendant on the reduction of the
army had been paid, the expenditures of
the government, excluding, as before, the
payments for pensions and of interest on
the public debt, as well ns the premiums
on loans and purchase of bonds, were as
follows:
Civil and miscellaneous $00,481,310
War Department 35,799,991
Navy Department 19,431.027
Indians 7,426,997
Total $123,139,331
That is, the expenditures for the same
purposes were in the aggregate just double
what they wo;e ten years before. There
was a fine field here lor the further cutting
down of expenditure. But with a Repub
lican House to lavishly vote away money
iri appropriations, there was ,a large in
crease in 1872 in the expenditures for the
purposes named over those for 1871; and
a very large further increase in 1873, the
excess in that year over JB7l being
$28,000,000, or nearly ha f the entire ex
penditures in 1861, for the purposes in
dicated. The next year showed a small
reduction from 1873. In 1875 there was a
deerta.se of several millions, hut the figures
were larger than in 1872 or 1871, and in
1876--the last year for which a Republican
llou e made opprupriations when a
gigantic effort was made to cut down ex
penditures so that the Democratic House
sh mlu have barren fieldi in which to
work, a fui tin r reduction of nearly six
teen million dollars was made. This was
heralded as the very quintessence of re
trenchment and economy, and in a speech
made at the first session of the Forty
fourth Congress, Hale ruled it on so thick
on Garfield, who had been Chairman of
tin: Committee on Appropriations, that if
the latter had been at all a modest, person
he would certainly have been overwhelm
ed Yet. not withstanding all t his boasl ing,
the expenditures classed under the four
general heads above given, being those
peculiarly within the control of Congress,
were actually larger t han they had been live
years before, as the following statement
for 1876 will show:
Civil arid miscellaneous $ 66,958,373
War Department 38,070,888
j Navy Depurtm r.t 18,963 309
: Indians 5,906,558
Total $129,959,128
Thus the expenditures for t he fiscal year
ended June 30, 1870, for the purposes
enumerated were $6,800,000 larger than
they were June 30, 1871, and $68,400,000
—nearly $7,000,000 more than double
greater than they were June 30, 1801.
This was the situation when Democratic
economists too : the pruning knife in hand.
How well they have wielded iteanbeseen
by the following statoment of expenditures
, fur Juno 30 1 1878, made under the appro
priations:
Civil and miscellaneous $ 53,177,703
; War Department 32,154,147
Navy Department 17,305,301
Indians 4,029,280
Total $107,326,431
Here is a direct cut of $22,000,000 from
the expenditures made under authority of
appropriations of the last Republican Con
i gress; arid it was made in the face of a
hosti'e Senate, and notwithstanding the
necessity of heavy appropriations to meet
charges contracted by the Navy Depart
ment before a Democratic House had a
voice in appropriations, A Democratic
•Senate and I louse cordially acting together
in efforts at retrenchment would do more
than bridge 'ho difference per at pita ho
tween expenditures in 1861, and 1878. A
comparative statement of per capita ex
penditures in 1861, 1871, 1870 and 1878
shows the following:
1861 $1 96
1876 2 99
I'7B 2 58
Every Democratic Representative in
Congress participated in the good work
done since a Democratic House has had
control. The annual expenditure for the
purposes enumerated was about SBO,OOO
less for each Congressional district in 1878
than it was in 1876. These figures show
how desirable on economical gr unds is the
election of; Democratic Representatives.
Detroit Free Dress-
THE NEW GEOMETRY.
The following is from the New York
Sini, and is designed lor practical use in
schools and colleges:
Question- -What is a point?
Answer. —The smallest possible concep
tion of a purely imaginary thing.
Q. —Give an example of a point.
A —Hayes’ conscience.
Q What is a line?
A. —Something that has length without
; breadth or consistency.
Q. —Give an example of a point.
A.—William M. Evarts, or one of
William M, Evarts’ speeches.
Q. - W hat is a plane?
A.—A flat.
Q. lllustrate what you mean?
A. Carl ischurz is a plane.
Q. —What is a solid?
A. —The evidence of the fraudulent
bargain with Nichollsatid Hampton.
Q. —What is a square?
A. —Something ou can’t get round.
' Q. —For instance?
A. —The fact ti nt Samuel J. Tilden
was legally elected President in 1876 by a
majority of the electoral vote. That’s a
square.
Q. —What is a right, angle?
A.—Fishing for facts to prove the
! Fraud.
(J.—What is an obi use angle?
A- —Fishing in the wrong pond.
Q What is an acute angle?
A.—One of General Butler’s cross-ex
amination*.
Q.--Define an axiom.
A.—A truth that is disputed only by
knaves and fools.
Q. —Recite some of the leading axioms.
A —l. Ten thousand lies don’t make
one truth. 2. Fraud vitiates everything
it touches. 3. There are only two sides
to every question —the right and the wro'g
side. 4. Eight to seven don’t make a
title. 5. There’s a judgment day for
thieve • and forgers. 6. The receiver is as
had as the thief.
Q. —Very good. Now take, one of
those axioms. Can you prove it?
A.—Not mathematically. You can’t
prove an axiom. You must keep hammer
ing it in.
Q. VYliat is a lemma?
A.—A put up job to help out a bad
case.
Q, Can you name any lemmas?
A.— Y r es. Eliza Pinkston and Agnes
Jenks.
Q. —What is a postulate?
A. —Senator Thurman’s financial at
titude.
Q, —Not so fast! Why do you call
Senator Thurman's financial attitude a
postulate?
A.—A postulate is something assumed
for an occasion.
Q. Pi fine a proposition.
A.—A truth not quite as fundamental
or obvious as an axiom, but amply demon
strated by the ; equal.
Q.—State a specimen proposition.
A. —Tbo shortest distance from Con
gress to private life is by way of a vote
for a resolution declaring Fraud sacred.
Q —What is a sphere?
A.—lt’s what Mr. Hewitt is out of.
Q —What is a scalene triangle?
A. —Ao irregular, disreputable figure,
that there's nothing square about.
Q.—Well?
A. —Stanley Matthews is a scalene tri
angle.
Q. —What is your idea of the pons
asinorumi
A.—The platform that the third termers
stand on.
Q. —What is tho reductio ad absur
d.aini
A- —Hayes’ civil service reform.
Lost, strayed, or stolen: The Southern
cluims scare, the bloody shirt, the awful
peril, and wimdi other Republican bag
gate, which disappeared on or about tho
ate of the Maine election. l{aliet/li (AL
t ' ) News-
NUMBER 43.
GEORGIA NEWS,
Gold mining about Dahloncga is quite
active.
Atlanta is afflicted with a plentiful crop
of young thieves.
Cotton stealing seems to bo somewhat
lively in Talbot county.
Ti m ell & Carter, merchants of Coch
ran, have failed. Liabilities, about
: $50,000.
Col. M. E. Thornton has withdrawn
final the race for Congress in tho fifth
disti ict.
A sturgeon eigiit feet thick and fifteen
feet long is said to have been captured in
tbo Little Ogeeeheo river lately.
One McElroy was killed, and 'Thomas
Roberson seriously wounded in DeKalb
county, on the night of the Gtli inst.
J. L. Nicholson was lately arrested and
put in jail in Macon for fraudulent acts as
agent for the sale of J. R. Black & Co,’s
fertilizer.
The ten prisoners in jail at Waynesboro
assaulted the jailor on the 3d inst:, and
secured his pistols and the keys; but lie
had fired one shot, which attracted
enough to prevent an escape.
W. 11. Harris was arrested iu Ameiious
cn the 29th ult., charged with h iving
killed u man near Pollard, Alabama,u
years since. His friends claim that 1"
has not been out of the State within the
time mentioned.
W. Lambkin, employed at Smith’s
steam mill, in Walton county, was recently
grinding on a grindstone turned by the
engine. The stone burst, and one of tho
fragments struck him on the forehead
killing him instantly.
Portraits of Generals Lee, Gordon,
Tcornng, and T. It. It. Cobb, of Senator
Hill, Gov. Brown, and Judge Loebrune,
by Albert Guerry, of Atlanta, are spoken
of as masterpieces. All except the first
arc to he placed in the portrait gallery of
the Young Mqji’s Library Assceiatiun, of
Atlanta.
A train on (lie Macon & Western rail
road ran over some object lying cn tho
track near Milner, on the night of tho
j 28th ult. The train was stopped as soon
|as possible and search made. A negro
| man was found, his head, one arm, and
both k gs having been cut entirely off by
| the wheels. He is supposed to have
been drunk, as a whiskey flask was picked
up near him. Tlis name was Jeff Wynn.
Alonzo Jordan has been working for
James Story, of Marion c unty, most of
the year, but was discharged a few wee! s
ago, continuing to live ou the place and
working about in the neighborhood. On
the 29th ult.. Jordan, on his way to work
with a gun on his shoulder, passed along
where Story was fixing to start to town
with a load of cotton. Some words pas od.
they got to scuffling, and Story, jerking
Jordan's gun, struck him over the head
with it. Jordan died that night.
FORMATION OF CHARACTER.
If you ever watched an icicle as it
formed, you would have noticed how it
froze, one drop at a time, until it was a
foot long or more. If the water was clean,
the icicle remained clear, and sparkled
brightly in llie sun; Hut if the water was
slightly muddy, the icicle looked foul, and
its beauty was spoiled. Just .10 our
characters arc formed. Orio little thought
or feeling at a time adds its influence.
If every thought is pure arid right, tho
soul will he bright and lovely, and will
i parkle with happiness, but, if there Ee
thoughts and feelings impure and wrong,
the mind will be soiled, the character
deleaved an l darkened, and there will bo
final deformity and wretchedness. How
important then, that we should been our
guard against every evil impulse and
desire. — Ex.
The best recipe we know of, if yon n
to be miserable, is to think abou’ .. .i
1 self, how much you have lost, I.
you have not mude, and the poor pic- ;
for tho future, A bravo man with a -■. ul
j in Him, gets out of such pitiful ruls, and
laughs at discouragements, rolls up bis
sleeves, whistles and sings, and makes tho
best of life. This earth was never intended
, for a paradise, and a uian who ri-es above
his discouragements and keeps iiis man
hood, will only be the strong r arid better
i for the adversities. Many a noble hip
; has been saved by throwing overboard it..-:
: most valuable cargo, and many a man is
better and more humane after he has lost
his gold.— Ex.
If a man is on his way to t he woods to
commit suicide and a hull suddenly gives
! chase the chances are that he will run for
I hi.- lifi'. Graphic.