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WH IT V KISS >1 AY DO.
Little Susie's on my knee,
Laughing in her play;
Telling me a simple tale
In her childish way.
From her lips I steal a kiss
As the words they speak,
But iu pay she quickly turns
And slaps me on the cheek.
Then in “makelike” way I cry,
Just to please the pet;
“If oo don't hush up,'' she says,
“I'll s'ap oo harder yet.”
Again she slaps ; to no avail;
Louder still I cry;
She pulls my hair and makes lier threats
To whip me till I die.
She cannot force me; this she sees;
For shame her fat cheeks blush;
Then hugging me, she whispers low,
“I’ll tiss oo if oo'll hush.’’
I can't withstand such wmds as these;
Straightway 1 clear my face;
And quickly end our quarrel with
One long and warm embrace.
Dear child, this lesson you have taught
To me this summer's day;
That should a friend unconsciously
Offend us in some way.
Smarting blows and cold, harsh words
Will all be quite amiss;
But in a gentler way we can
End it with a kiss.
Home and Farm.
BARBARA'S UNCLE.
Barbara --at in her little room, busy with
her Mtwiuf.- machine. Around her wore
great piles of vests, which she had just
finished. Though the room was so small,
thesmilight came in and tinged every thing
with its golden light. Indeed, the sun is
no respecter ot' persons, and steps as freely
into the dwellings of the poor, as into the
mansions of the rich.
The young girl paused in her work to
listen to the song of a robin under her
window; then site began to sing to herself
in a care free, happy way. J usi then she
heart! an old body hobbling up the stairs,
and afterward came a knock at her door.
Barbara went to open it. An aged man
stood before her ninety lie might have
been, t-s judge by his wi hered face.
"Is this Barbara Honrich?” lie asked
in a piping voice.
“Yes,” said Barbara, smiling. “Come
in. ”
The old man put his hand to his car,
as if quite unable to catch a word.
“Come in,” she shouted; and ho follow
ed her into the room.
“I’m your Uncle Jacob,’ f sere •mod,
as if she were as deaf a- himself —"your
mother’s only brother; and I have come
to find you.
“Ay, ay," said Barbara, with whom
the love of kindred was very string.
The longer she gazed into his face, the
more she saw the look of tier mother.
There was the same kind smile, the same
merry glance in the twinkling, gray eyes.
So she fell to hand-sh .king in her hearty
(ierman fashion; then came the tears, and
it all ended by throwing her arms around
his neck and kissing him.
A short time afterward, Barbara began
to set the table, for to talk with her old
uncle was impossible. Just as she had
fin'shed, by placing a huge platter of cab
bage as a centre dish, up the stairs came
iter brothers, Conrad and Joe. They were
much the worse ft r lager, a- they ti -ually
wore at night, and when they saw a
decrepit old man sitting at their table,
they were anything but pleasant.
"It’s our Uncle Jacob,” said Barbara,
softly, “come to us from Germany—our
dear mother’s only brother. I wish he
wasn’t so deaf, I so want to talk with
him.’’
A moment afterward, as Conrad and
Joe began to swear, she was glad that he
could not hear them. Barbara gave the
old man her bed; then she sat down to do
a little extra work, that she might buy
comforts for him. At length she lay down
upon a hard couch, but sleep soon eatue,
for she was young and healthy. Next,
morning, Uncle Jacob was too ill to rise.
“Send the old body to the poor-house,”
said the brothers in a breath; “it’s too
much to expect us to .support ail our
pauper relatives.”
“Indeed he shall not go,” said Barbara,
with spirit; “our mother ioved him too
well for that. Don’t you remember how
she used to talk about him? He was her
only brother, and lias neither chick rior
child to care for him. Just see how like
mother he looks—as she did in her very
last sickness."
The young men answered her roughly,
and, putting on their boots, stalked out of
the room. Barbara bathed the old man’s
and with a few soft touches about
the pillow, that love alone can give, she
went back to her work.
That night the brothers came home
more drunk than usual —to pick up their
things and start for the West, they said.
“You’d better go with us, Barbara.
IV(-Vo suing to make money like dirt; and
SCMMERVILLE, GEORGIA. THURSDAY, DECEMBER 5, 1878.
as to staying hero and supporting an old
pauper, wo will not do it.”
“No, indeed, 1 will not leave him,”
said Barbara. But when she saw them
going down stairs with their satchels on
their arms, the lozo of kindred, which
was so strong in her heart, made her
’ follow them. “Let us shake hands,” she
said softly, “we may never meet again:”
and, rough as they were, they returned
her warm kiss, and said, "God bless
you," ere they departed.
When they were gone, Barbara went
back to her room and cried as if her heart
would break. In the midst ol her weep,
ing, there was a well-known footfall on the
stairs, and in a minute more, her frier,d
Fred Heibergcr, was beside her.
“Don’t fret,” said the young man,
kindly, taking her hand in his; “you'll
get along better without Conrad and
J oe.”
“I couldn’t turn away uiy mother’s
brother,” said Barbara, sobbing.
“No, indeed; you’re a brave girl, and
you've done right.”
Then ho began to tell her about a little
baker’s shop that was that day vacant and
could be had for two hundred dollars a
year. There w ere two rot nts above with
sunny w indows, in which, he said, her
lilies and roses could hut grow.
“Shall 1 (ak, them, and we be married
at once?” he asked.
“No,” said Barbara; “somethingmight
happen -let us wait. You’d have to
borrow the money, and 1 could not sleep
with an unpaid debt.’’
“Yes,” said Fred, “there’s a risk.
But it was such a good stand, and my
heart ran away with me. I said to myself
that 1 would make good bread, and give
honest weight, and perhaps have a penny
for (he poor and needy.”
Barbara’s face brightened as he spoke,
but she answered:
“It will all come right in time —let us
work and wait."
“Perhaps so,” said Fred, with a sigh.
Barbara resolved to sew harder than
ever, so that, besides supporting her aged
uncle, sire might n 'W and then lay up a
penny.
The ncx: day, ll'iele Jacob requested
his little valise to he brought to him, and
spent the afternoon in examining its con
tents. Then he called Barbara to him and
said:
“You have been very kind to me, and
l want to give you something—all 1 have
to give- my old German Bible. Yotir
mother and I used to read it together. Be
sure you search its pages.”
The tears came to Baihara's eyes, and
she fondly stroked his hair in testimony of
tier heartfelt gratitude. When evening
came, she i pencil the book. Carefully
looking along, her eyes fell upon a small
bundle of papers To her surprise, they
were drafts to a large amount, and in her
name. Just at that moment, Fred came
in.
“Do look here,” said the amazed girl;
“what can this mean?”
"I am sure I don’t know,” said the
young man, equally surprised.
“It means," said the uncle, with alow
chuckling laugh, “that I am most done
with the money, and J want to give ir. to
someone who deserves it. Kh, eh, child,
I’ve been foolin' you. Conrade and Joe
wanted to cart these old bones to the
poor-house; would they do it now, think
you?’'
“And do you mean to give so much
money to me?” said Barbara.
“Y T es: why not? I haven’t a child of
my own, and why shouldn’t 1 give it to
Barbara’s children; especially to the one
that was willing to share her last crust
with me? It’s all coming out right.”
“Then why tnay we not marry, Fred?”
inquired Barbara.
“ sure enough,” said the uncle. “This
young man si all go at once for the micis
j ter, for this sickness is no sham, whatever
; may be said of the deafness. Well, l shall
. soon be gone.”
So Fred went for the minister, two or
; three neighbors came in, and, standing
I close by Uncle Jacob, the words wore
pronounced that made the young couple
! one. Then they knelt by the bed and
Uncle Jacob himself offered the prayer
and gave the blessing.
“Now you can t ike the bakery,” said
Un .le Jacob, when the guests had gone,
and the three were left to themselues.
“It is on the corner, you say, arid has
two sunny windows above. Be sure you
always give honest weight, arid have a
penny for the poor.”
“I am so glad you can hear me,” said
Barbara, laying her hand on his withered
cheek. "1 hope we shall yet have many
good talks together.”
“Net so, my child, for I shall soon he
gone. But did you notice, my dear, at
what part of the Bible you found the
drafts?”
"No,” said Barbara, I did not.”
“It was right by the thirty-fourth psalm.
Read it carefully, and you will find that
every verse is a treasure. It is full of
advice and promises of help.”
All night Fred and Barbara watched by
Uncle Jacob, whose life, though flickering
brightly for tho moment, was fast going
out. At daybreak, just when the birds had
begun their morning song, the aged uncle
like Jacob of old, gathered up his lectin
the bed, and gave up the ghost.
SHiti'HKßi) irons.
The Scotch eolley dogs are remarkable
lor great intelligence; an instinct which
seems sometimes-to surpass reason; won
derful endurance and activity. Witln ut
these dogs, sheepkeeping in many dis
tricts, useful for no other branch of
agriculture, would be impossible. The
home of the breed is the Scotch highlands,
a locality of rooks and hills, interspersed
with grassy valleys; elevated table lands,
hearing scanty herbage, and “moors,” or
level or slightly undulating tracts covered
with gorse, heather, low bushes, boggy
places, and scattered rocks. Upon these
bills sheep are kept in large flocks, ex
pose and from day to day to all the vicisitndes
of storms, mists, rains, and snows, with
no other shelter than is afforded by the
lee side of abrupt precipices, overhanging
rocks, stone walls, or in rough sheds of
poles ami heather. Without his dogs the
shepherd would he helpless to manage his
flock in this rough country. In countries
where arable land bears a very high price,
only such land as cannot be plowed is
given up to sheep pastures, and here the
dog is invaluable; and not only here, for
he is made useful upon the more civilized
hillsides of the Scotch lowlands; upon the
grassy downs of Kngland, the rich farms
where sheep keeping is only incident to
high culture, and upon our Western
plains. Everywhere, where sheep are
kept, a sheep-dog of some kind is found
useful; and’ of all the different varieties
the Scotch eolley is considered the most
valuable. He possesses a rare instinct for
his work, which comgs as a see. nd nature
to him. Ho often knows tho way of
sheep better than his master, and under
stands the signals of the shepherd, when
far out of hearing, with great precision.
Cases have been known in which the dog
has discovered the absence of some lag
gards of the flock which his master had
not missed, and has returned to the
pasture for them unbidden- He can
range his flock upon one side of a road
when meeting other tfheep, and thus keep
them from intermingling with the
strangers. He will discover by his aeuto
sense of smell sheep that have been over
whelm'd in snowdrifts, and will conduct
the shepherd to the place. If no help is
available, he has been known to dig into
the drift and release imprisoned sheep,
and to warm chilled lambs by huddling
close to them. He is valiant in their
defence, and will give battle to a wolf
without hesi.ation. No vagrant dog will
he permitted to approach a flock of which
ho has charge. He will bring hack strag
glers when upon the march, and will re
turn to find the sore-footed on- sthat have
lingered by tho way. For a fatm dog he
is of special value, as he can easily be
trained to mar age with gentleness any
kind of live stock. He is domestic in his
habits. While kind and affectionate to
his owner and his herds, he is watchful
and suspicious of strangers and strange
animals. His good disposition gives him
great influence over his charge, and
causes them to have confidence in him.
When a floe:; is afraid of the shepherd’s
dog it shows wrong management on the
part of the shepherd, and that the dog
has been badly trained. The Scotch
eolley has long and woolly hair, a bright,
mild eye, a sharp nose, an intelligent
aspect, along, bushy tail, curling upward,
with the end clear of the ground, and in
color is usually black and tan, variegated
with a little white. Not the least won
derful or useful characteristic of the dog
is his tenacious memory by which he is
able to remember ail the turning points in
a journey of hundreds of miles, and to
recognize at sight every member of the
flock to which he has become attached.
With all his good qualifications, however,
he sometimes lapses from virtue, and no
other dog is so destructive in the fold as
a sheep dog becomes when demoralized
by bad companions. A traitor is tho worst
of ene m ies. —A merican Agriculturial.
A religion that, never suffices to govern
a man, will never suffice to save him.
That which does not distinguish him from
a sinful world, will never distinguish him
from a perishing world. John Hov e.
THE ERA OF HOOD FEHI.INO.
A Washington correspondent of the
Baltimore S,.ii, writing to that paper on
the 11 th ult., says:
There was a regular kivofeast and ex
perience meeting at the White House to
day, with embracing of long lost brothers,
etc. Secretaries Evarts, Sehtirz and
Sherman, Assistant Postmaster General
Tyner, Hon. Zacli. Chandler and Repre
sentatives Jorgensen, of Virginia, and
Thompson, of Pennsylvania, were among
those who clasped hands with the Presi
dent and talked over the fight which cul
minated on Tuesday last. The President
was beaming all over with pleasure.
Representative Thompson, of Pennsyl
vania, has not darkened the White House
doors with his presence since the time
when ho and Harry White, of the same
State, shocked the moral sensibilities of
the President with sundry expressions not
suited for ears polite, because a friend of
theirs was not appointed Register of the
Treasury. Mr. Jorgensen, of Virginia,
like other Southern Republicans, has not
heretofore been much of a visitor at the
White House. As for the Hon. Zaeh.
Chandler, he has indignantly refused to
go near the President or have anything to
do with him since Nicholls ami Hampton
were recognized as the Governors of
Louisiana and South Carolina. But all
these gentlemen arc so happy that they
are willing to let bygones he bygones, and
the lion- Zuch. was even so condescending
as to nod to Carl Scltui z, who he has been
in the habit of characterizing ns “that
Dutchman.” He went out to Michigan
with the avowed purpose of sending a
solid Republican delegation to Washing
ton and succeeded, although common
rumor, which he does not deny, has it
hat it cost him many a ducat. The old
ateran to-day recalled with pleasure his
memorable dispatch: “Hayes has one
hundred and eighty-five votes, and is
elected ” He told the President that the
Republican party is stronger than ever.
He thinks I hat either Blaine or Grant can
lead them to victory in 188 U. He was in
such a good humor that ho came near in
viting the President to take a bottle of
Mumtn’s extra dry, but recollecting him
self in time he changed the invitation to
a bottle of Appollinarig water. Mr. Jor
gensen said he had a very exciting and
laborious conre.-t in his district, and his
hard money principles, hesaid, had helped
him a great deal, many Democrats voting
for him for this reason. He also instanced
the fact that tha colored people thought
the Republican party in the North had
deserted them. This meeting at the
White House to day of prominent Repub
licans who have heretofore been at
variance with the administration was
significant, particularly in the case of Mr.
Chandler. The Presidents own anticipa
tions of the harmonious reunion of the
warring elements of his‘party were set
forth in those dispatches a week ago, and
the scene of to-day shows that his sagacity
was not at fault. The President has
great reason to feel happy over the present
situation, for he has never faltered iri the
expieasion of his opinion that the Repub
lican party in all its entirety would and
must rally around his administration.
A PALACE FOR THE KINU.
A site has been selected with about one
half mile of liver front, on which will he
erected cotton warehouses sufficient to
handle 2,000,000 bales of cotton each sea
son. 'j hese warehouses will he in ten
divisions, and will be built with blick walls
and iron roofs: no wood whatever in any
part of this structure. Each division will
i>e divided into sections, and each section
will he furnished with storage cribs made
of wrought gas pipe, perforated with
small holes, and so arranged lhat every
hale of cotton rests on the pipe, arid not
on any other bale. Every hale will he
exposed to view for selection, and any one
bale can be taken out w ithout moving any
other one in the tier. The cotton will be
stowed in the crib tiers and taken out by
traveling hydraulic cranes. More cotton
can be stowed by this plan on the same
area of ground than is now done. The
perforated gas pipe crib tiffs are so con
nected that a current of heated air can at
any moment he thrown around every bale
of cotton in the press and dry it if re
ceived wet, and keep it perfectly dry in
wet weather; and in case of fire a shower
of water can bo at once thrown upon all
sides of every hale of cotton in the cress
and immediately he followed by a shower
of heated air until it is dry again. The
air wili ho heated by the escape steam of
the presses, and thrown in by fan blowers
and the water supplied from elevated
cisterns, always kept full by a steam pump.
The yards will all he covered with glass
loof’s, so that cot'on can bit classed and
NUMBER 49.
weighed in al! weather. The entire levee,
from tho warehouses to the front of
the wharves, will bo covered with an iron
roof, so that receiving and shipping cotton
can go on as well in wet as in dry weather.
The flooring of the whole will bo of grauito
blocks, faced perfectly level.
There will he eight presses, each capable
of turning out 2,000 halos of compressed
cotton every twenty-four hours, or Ifi.OOO
hales altogether. Steamboats will dis
charge their cotton at the press wharves,
and cars from all of tho railroads will un
load under the sheds at the rear of the
press. Whips and steamers will load at
the press wharves.
The main office will be in the business
centre of the city, and connected by tele
graph and telephone with each division
lof the press, so that sellers, buyers,
i brokers, shippers and ship Captains can
at any moment step in and learn the con
dition of their cotton, or transmit any
orders to their classers; weighers, press
j clerks or their ships. There will also he
: a pneumatic tube for the instantaneous
transmission of written orders, samples of
cotton, etc., such as arc now used in many
large cities.
The loss to the distant spinner from
damage by stain, resulting from wet bag
ging and mttd to which bales are now ex
posed, will he entirely saved when the
cotton is IhiiiUJ in a dry, clean house
under cover and always kept dry in the
i warehouse until put on board ship. This
j loss to the spinner is now fully twenty
' pounds per hale, and after the first crop
■ is sent forward in this improved condition
Orleans ootton will command at least ono
; dollar per hale more in distant markets
1 than cotton from other ports. —Ao
Orleans Democrat-
RUSSIAN FINANCES.
The finances of Russia are notin a very
wholesome state just now. Gen. Greig,
the new Finanrc Minister, has prottyiuuch
made the tour of Europe in quest of a
foreign loan, and is now in Paris attempting
new negotiations. No more money can
he obtained at home, end the difficulty
that has interfered with the loans sought
to be made in "Berlin, Amsterdam and
Hamburg is that (he revenues of Russia,
overtaxed already, cannot he relied on to
provide promptly for meeting the interest
and sinking funJ for an added debt. Tho
sec irity demanded in Paris for anew loan
is sai'l to be either the concession of a
tobacco monopoly for the whole Empire
or else the hypothecation of the Imperial
woods and forests, which yield now a
large revenue. This weuld be a hard
measure, but Russia must have money and
cannot get it at home. The paper currency
is so much depreciated by ever issue that
it cannot be inflated any more. Fivo hun
dred millions of paper roubles were added
to the circulation daring the late war,
while the in'ercst-bcaring debt has been
increased over a thousaed millions of
roubles. These figures are from tho
Journal Je St. I'ttcrshurg, which certainly
would not overstate them. “Retrench
ment being impossible,” says the Journal
“especially in the military department,
an increase of taxes and customs due is
contemplated. The tariff ia to bo once
more raised fifteen percent, an income tax
is to be introduced, ami there will be an
increased excise on spirits, as well as on
railway receipts, legacies, ooal, tobacco,
gold exported, and other iteuiH. J>oan(i
are announced to facilitate the withdrawal
of the redundant five hundred millions of
paper currency, and the people are ex
horted to improvo the quality of agricul
tural exports, so as to render competition
with America possible.” Savannah,
Nmcs.
A few days since a middle-aged lady,
living in the suberhs of Springfield, 0 ,
died from some mysterious disease located
io the head. The symptoms had long
been manifested, but no treatment seemed
to have permanent effect. After death
there was an examination made, in which
Cincinnati physicians took part, arid which
resulted in the unanimous dicision that
death was caused, primarily, by tho use,
for a long period, of chemical compounds
for dying the hair. There is said to have
been a coating formed over the brain,
causing something like paralysis of that
organ. (’incinnati Oa::ettn.
An individual who recently called his
creditors together showed a surplus over
liabilities of $2,000, and his lawyer pro
posed a settlement of fifty cents on the
dollar, at which the creditors objected, in
sisting on at least seventy five. “Oh. no,
1 can’t do that,” interrupted the debtor,
i “for I should have hardly anything left
| for myself. ’ ’ A fact. Boston Commercial
1 Bulletin,