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promote any private enterprise or interest, will be
pvrd as other advertisements
tdvertisers are requested to hand in their favors ns
ilv in the week ns possible
fit atuve le ms loill he strictly adhered to.
LEGAL ADVERTISING.
■s heretofore, since the war, the following are the
f,.r notices of Ordinaries, Ac.—to bk paid in ad
vmck :
Tlity Days' Notices •• $ 5 00
H:y Days’ Notices 6 25
gAs of bin Is. Ac pr. sqr of ten Lines 6 00
Silty Days’ Notices 7 00
H (< N ice* 10 00
frr Day'’ Notices of Sales pr sqr 2 00
HitKKiFPr’ Salks—for these Sales, for every fl fa
■ rd.
Sales, per square. $5 00
■ After I hegnn to advertise my Ironware freely,
■imes Increased with amazing rapidity. For ten
■ s nast i have spent £30.000 yearlv to keep my
■erior wares bes ire the public. Had I been timid in
■ nWuie. I never stvuld have possessed my fortune
■fkati, DnO''. —Mcheort Belton, Birmingham.
■ Advertising like Midas’ touch, turns everything to
■>l Hi it, your daring men liraw millions to their
c«ers Stuart Clay
■whit audacity is to leva, and boldness to war, the
tfnl use of printer’s i it, io to success in business.” —
The newspapers made Fisk.' I —J. Fisk, Jr.
’ithnnt the aid of advertisements I could have done
nnjtfn my 'peculations. 1 have the most complete
■i in "printers’ ink.” Advertising is the “royal road
to 1 u&iness ’’—lSarnuin.
■professional Curtis.
F. REDDING, Attorney at Law,
■ ' Barnesvil'e, Pike co. Qa.. will practice in the
ties comprising the Flint Judicial Circuit, and
■There by special contract AL huisness promptly
■niit"! to. Office in Elder's building, over Chamber's
■ Store. augt>-ly.
\l r T. WEAVER, Attorney at Law,
’ • Tlmmaston, (la. Will practice in all the
the Flint Circuit, ami elsewhere by special
rilc t. june2s-ly
■ (, RN [. HALE, Attorney and Counsellor
■ Will practice in the counties composing
■ Fint Circuit. In the Supreme Court of Georgia,
■hi the District Court of the United States for the
■|hern and Souihern Districts of Georgia.
■lumaston, Ua., June lsth, 1870-ly.
THURMAN. Attorney at Law,
■ f.- R . :l^" k , me - ,ia - Wid Practice in the Courts of
■ i>n (lrcuit, and ElseMheae by Special Contract.
■ ••tteniion given to all collection of claims.
!| [[ SMITH, Attorney and
■ omiMdlof a t Law. Office Corner Whitehall and
■V r , <ets wtlsinta, 6a. Will practice >n 'he Su
it? / U ? °f Coweta and Flint Circuits, the Su-
IT State, and the United States’ Dis-
K nt . All communications addressed to him at
111 "HI receive prompt attention. aprilD-ly
I <DERSON & McCALLA, Attorneys
H , *’■ Covington, Georgia. Will attend regu-
U ‘ ,l * 1 ractice in the Superior Courts of the
■ ' ’>! Newton, Butts, Henry, Spalding Pike,
! t pson, Morgan, DeKalb, Gwinnette and Jas
dec O-ly
M, MATHEWS, Attorney at
. l| 'H ), ’tton, Ga., will practice all the count ies
the Cliatiahouchee Circuit and elsewhere by
(ieclO-ly
M & WILLIS, Attorneys at Law
n h ®-ompt attention given to
our hands? -
W '-RRT P. TftIPPE. Attorney at Law
rs s't)>, Oa Will practice in the State Conris
R niu> <! States' District Court at Atlanta and
■J “ ,G *’ dec O-ly
fl. HUNT, Attorney at Law, Barnes*
( ' a " practice In all the counties of
llcu it and Supreme Court of the State.
■ A L HI OV BET II UN E, Attorney at
of photon, Ga. Will practice in all the
tke Chattahoochee Circuit, and Upson and
counties. declS-ly
BEALL. Attorney at, Low,
Ga - NVill practice in the Flint Cir
' 'here by special contract. decl3-ly
Hi nf 'EIIS will Continue the nr totioo
'.’Bf u ioe. Office at B. D. Hardaway’s Drug
decleMy
, ! is plan-sod to
Uaetice ?, zen8 °f Upson that ho will continue
■"‘SSGo, (i a ' C'belae In Itep arlous brunches at
m declß-ly
■ V'V.
I■ Uoan e(> ‘ (-, TALKER A r torn(‘v at L-»w
4n( j‘ ' R ''Jll practice in Circuit Courts o
ne Qited >tatea District ourts.
™E Pimm ,n "
- I I.pvp ni ved up to
i '“ 1 “In iv L ,, ll ,V ars r lienpv and Allen’s new huild
lK Qll Pf pate,! t/ enßM Ked in the practice of medi
mt' if I j,... .*" Hl any time Persons wishing
atLe wiH „ n ®y office, can call on \l-ssrs.
can also t0.,,,"' lawyer’s and obtain if.forma
d' livtred. 0 tLt ‘ re > which will
I DR J. O; HUNT.
THOMASTON, ga SA.TITRDJVY MORISTUNTG, AUGUST 18, 1870.
The systems of liver
■CI I 11 it a .. f, .0 complaint are uneasiness
IV I ill 111 0\ C I nR4 puin in the 6id «
1 ill iJI \J ij & Sometimes the pain f« In
j I the shoulder, and is mis
takeii for rheumatism.
The stomach is afT.-cted with loss of appetite and sick
ness, I owcls in general costive, sometimes alternating
with lax. The head is troubled with pern, and dull
heavy sensation considerable loss of inemorv, accom
panied with painful sensation of having left undone
something which ought to have been done. Often com
and low fcpirita Some-
-v. iiu<'B, gome of the above
F I IT It n I sym toms attend the dis
-11 I ■/ If K I eas ’ aD< - at ot her times
Dl| Jj II | very few of them; but
| the Liver is generally the
C.TlU.L.r.i.t, lniol ' ed -
DR. SIMMONS’
I*iver Regulator,
A preparation of ror t* aid herbs, warranted to be strict
ly vegetable, and c.n do no Injury to anyone
It bafi been used by hundreds, and known for the last
35 years ns , ne of the most reliable, efficacious and
harmless preparations ever offered to the sufferim- ]f
takcn_rcgalarlv md persistently i is sure to cure
fa ”* *JUfft J/"JiD'i 1 Dyspepsia, headache,
B nnmTi ■ mn ra B i 'undice costiveness,sick
& «! f i TOR i h’-adache, chronic diarr-
I UW U ILI I U KI«I hcea, afli cMons of the
■ B bladder, camp and vsentery,
«lTeetfbn» ot the a? lney«,
fever, nervousness, chills, diseases of the -kin. Impurity
of the blood, melancholy, or depression of spirits, heart
hum, colie, or pains in the bowels, pain in the heed
fever and ague, dropsy, boils, pajn <n back and limbs
asthma, erysipelas, female nfiVctions, and bilious dis
eases generally. Prepared only by
J. 11. ZEII,I\ & CO.,
Trice «1: by mail $1.85. Druggists, Macon, Oa.
The following highly respectable persons can fully at
test to the virtues of this valuable medicine, and to
whfftti we most respectfullv refer:
Uen. W. S. Holt, President S. \V. R. R. Comnanv
R’v J. Felder, Perry, Ga.: Col E. K Sparks. Albany]
Ga.; George J Lunsford, Ksq.. Conductor S. W R. i:.-
C Mastewon, F,«q , Sheriff Bibb conntv; J A. Putts’
Bainbridge, Ga ; Dykes & Sparhawk. Editors Floridian]
Tallahassee; Rev. J W. Burke. Macon, Ga.; Virgil
Powers Ksq., Superintendent 9. W. R. R ; Daniel Hu!
lar.l, Bullard's Station. Macon and Brunswick R. R
Twiggs county, Ga ; Grenville Wood, Wood's Factory]
Macon, Ga; Rev. E F. Easterlinn, P E Florida Con
ference; Major A. F. Wooley, Kingston, Ga.; Editor
Mac n Telegraph.
For sale bv John F ITenry, New York, Jno D. Park,
Cincinnati, Jno. Flemming, New Orleans, and all Drng
apl2-ly
I) I SSOLUTIOX.
r C'HE Co-partnership of Sattt^ititry,
I Cherry & Bi.asinoame te- minates, and is hereby
dissolved, from this date. Signed,
James L. Saulsrury,
William A Cherry,
James P. BlasingaMe.
Macon, May 1,1870.
CO- PARTNERSHIP.
r |''llE undersigned hnve this day formed
n Co-partnership, commencing the first dav of
May ensuing, under the firm name of SAUI.SBURY,
RESPESS A CO., for the transaction of a Warehouse
and General Commission Bush ess in this City.
James L. S altar pry,
John R. Respeps,
William T Rf.ppaps,
James P. Bl^inoame.
J AMES L. S.YULSRL'KY. jr.
Dated Macon, April 29, IS7O.
In retiring from the late firm of Saulshury, Cherry
& Bliisingame, 1 take occasion to recommend their
successors, Messrs. SAULS BURY, RESPJkS APQ -~
in every respect worthy of the fullest confidence of m>
friends, and solicit for them their patronage and imm
ence. WILLIAM CHKttRY
We beg leave to add in connection with the above
announcement regarding the new firm, that we will
take pleasure in the transaction of anv business en
trust' and to our care, with the promise that our best ex
ertions will be given to promote the interest, of our
patrons. We have ample facilhies for affording our
Customers reasonable accommodations when required,
either upon cotton in store or for purposes of making their
growing crops Special attention will be given to fill
ing orders for supplies upon the most favorable terms,
may 14- tm BAULSBURY, RESPESS & CO.
1 Tn the Superior Court,
„ , ... a . 1 Present the Honorable Jas.
Rule 2* t o*. , hv. (Jreene, Judge of said
J Court.
Yeatman, Shields i%c.. j Mortgage, Ac.
vs V
Georgiana Timmons, t May Term, 1870.
C'a EORGI V - Upson county.—Tt appearing to the
T Court by the petition of H. T. Yeatman, B. F.
Shields and G. W Sheilds partners doing business un
der the firm name and style’ of Yeatman, Shield A Cos ,
accompanied hv the note and Mortgage deed, that on
the firs’ day of December (IS6S) eighteen hundred and
sixty-eight, the defendant, made and delivered to the
plaintiff her prornisory note bearing date the day and
year aforesaid, whereby the defendant piomises three
months after date of said note to pav the plaintiff or
bearer Eleven hundred and fifty-seven dol ars and
eighty-one cents for value received. And that, after
wards on the day and year afore=aid the defendant the
better to •‘unire the payment of the said note executed
and delivered to the Plaintiff her deed of Mortgage,
whereby the defendant mortgaged to the plaintiff. Lot
of Land No. (11 one situate, lying Mid Lriug in the
South west, corner of the West Front Square of the
town of Thomastm, also Lot of Land on the West
fiont square of said town of Thomaston. upon which
.James M. SmiffTs Law office formerly stood, in the'
county aforesaid. And it further appearing that said
note remains unpaid It is therefore, ordered ilmt, (he
said d* fondant do pay into Court, on or before the first
day of the next Term thereof, the principal interest
and cost due on said note, or show cause to the contra
ry if any they can. And that on she failure of the de
fendant to do so, the equity of redemption in and to
said Mortgaged premises be forever thereafter barred
and foreclosed, 'nd it is further ordered that this rule
be published in the Georgia Hera'd for four month-*
previous to the next Term of this Court, or served on
the defendant or her special Agent or Special Attorney
at. least three months previous to the next Ternßof this
Court. By the Cou-t,
HALL, COTTF.N & WEAVER.
May Term 1870 Petitioner's Attorneys.
It further appearing to the Court that the defendant,
Georgiana Timmons, resides out of this Smto and re
sides in the State of Tennessee. It is therefore ordered,
that the foregoing rule he served on the said Georgiana
Timmons by publication in terms of the Statute.
By iho Court. May Term. 1870.
HALL, COTTF.N & WEAVER.
Petitioner’s Attorney's.^
I certify that the above and foregoing isairo'-
tr.act minutes of the Court ««. o. o.
Upson Mortgage Sale.
vtt ILL be sold before the Courthouse door, in the
Y\ town of 1 homaston, Upson county, Georgia, on
the first Tuesday in October next, between the legal
hours of sales the following property, to-wit:
Lot of Land No. 2-7 in the 11th District of l pson
county, containing 202 X acres SS
upon as the property of George W. Ohilds, deceased, o
satisfy a mortgage fl. fa. issued from the Superior Court
of Upsen county in favor of Ambrose Murphy, agnins
Busan Childs now Bus m VVi left., Executrix of Geo .
Ci tlds, deceased,'an IM. P. Willett in rurht of his wife.
Said land sold subject to the wi mw’s dower. 1 roperty
pointed out in the mortgage ft. fa.'
y aug6-td O. C. BIIARMAN, Sheriff
I |\SO\ SHERIFF’S «iML
ITTILL he sold on the first Tuesday in S- ptember
W nex’, be ore the Courthouse door, in the town of
Tboinaston. tips n county, bet - een the legal hours ot
ssle the allowing ptopert.vt- wit: .
Half Lot ot Lad N<*. 91 in the IMh 1)1 tii< t. r g.n
allv Monroe, now Upson county, contuinihg one hnn
dred one and one quarter acres more or less. Also part
of Lot o' L- nd No 78 in said 15ih I a.-triet an l county,
containing forty-five acre- ra re or Lss. Also one cot
ton tin, o e grain thrasher, one fa-, and one gin
band la-vied --pon as the property <>f ~t ph- ns it l
lmsworth. bv virtue of a ft fa. issued from the • upeiior
Court of Upson county, in favor of < diver B nith against
S ephen Hcllin w.-rth and -I hn A Cock ram Admints*
tr »og6-ta p '« pr wp i»'»;'«"||>r A iJ“",'^ Bb ,.Hff.
TJGNTI TRY.
rpHE nn'lprsigned Iteing; perm»n°ntly
[ located inThomston,still tenders thicr professional
sei vices In the practice of Dentistry to the ci mens of
Upson and a-ljoining counties Teeth inserted on fit 1
silver, adamanti eor rubber. All work
a g.> and fit guaranteed. Office up stairs over N .L^O_.
SA YERB store. v . «-• *. a & wytr
dec9 ts »RAAN * SAW YEK,
Poflrti.
ADDRESS TO THE MOON.
By Maggie b.
Fur the Herald.]
Pale descent moon with tranquil beams,
1 hat nightly through my casement streams,
And with thy soft and silvery light
Dispels the gloom of ebon night.
After I gaze on thy fair face.
Forgetting time, forgetting place—
Wrapt in sweet visions,— airy dreams
Carried by thy soul-enspiiiDg beams.
Sweet memories of by-gone days,
I trace, within thy smiling rays,
When hand In hand with her I loved,
Beneath thy gentle light we roved.
But with that sister, loved one dear, —
No more I'll gaze on beauties here;
“The angids came across the river,
And bore her home to heaven forever.”
Shinn on bright orb, God placed the there
Up in the blue ether!;d air,
lie gave to thee thy sceptre bright.
And hade the rule, —the queen of night.
Willow Df.ll, Ga.
JUisfctlanfons.
China and the United States.—Tbe
Chinese que-Pi -n in its various phases, is
growing in importance every day, and
is now engaging the serious thought ard
attertion of all clas-es of our people. N>t
only have recent treaty stipulations, taken
in connection with the completion of rail
rood communication with our Pacific coast,
placed us in important commercial relation?
sxiti) this ancient empire, but the advent of
large numbers of her people on our shores,
the advance guard of multitudes who are
to so low, is a matter now attracting wide
spread and thoughtful interest and inquiry.
Chinese immigration, and the introduction
of Chinese labor into our country, are likely
to affect very materially a large variety of
interests among us.
That the relations of capital to labor will
be influenced thereby is certain. What
changes will be wrought, and whether flu
good or iil, perhaps cannot now be deter
mined. Certain it is that the movement
already inaugurated involves questions of
far reaching importance appealing alike to
the citizen and statesman. First of all the
people want information with regard to the
Chinaman ; his character, capacities, and
adaption to our wants. This information
we find very fully given in a volume just
issued, entitled “China and the United
States/’ by Rev. Wm. Speer, D. D., formerly
M issionary in China and to the Chinese in
California. We have examined this volume
and find it a work of great interest, and
especially full and satisfactory in the infer- I
Avoiding errors of most works on China,
which almost invar'ably devote a great
deal of space to the Chinese mythology,
instead of to toe living, breathing 'ssues
comprised in the political and commercial
relations of t >at interesting country to the
outside world, the able and observing author
in his work has succeeded in giving us not
only a g >ud photograph of China as she is
at present, but a most satisfactory sketch of
Chinese history for the forty centuries of
of existance that marvellous government
has achieved.
Moreover, there is nothing hurried or
careless in the work, since there is hardly
a topic which the inquirer into Chinese
customs would wish to investigate, which
is not discussed and described in this work.
It explains the origin and causes, and
traces the history of the rqpent changes in
the foreign and domestic policy of this
remarkable people, and discusses the ques
tion of Chinese immigration, the character
of the Chinaman as an immigrant, his
habits and capacities. Containing besides
nearly forty well executed lithographs,
illustrative of life and habits there. The
reader will rise from the perusal of this
volume with the feeling that he is well
p *sted in the history of a country and peo
ple, every day filling more and more space
in the world’s regards.
Altogether it is a most timely and valua
ble work, and undoubtedly will meet with
an extensive sale.
It is published by the National Publish
ing Cos., Memphis, Tenn. And is sold only
by subscription.
See the advertisement of this work in
our column of New Advertisements.
M arriage Maxims.- The following “mar*
raige maxims” are worthy of more than a
hasty reading. Husbands need not pass
them by, for they are designed for wives;
ane wives should not despise them, for they
are addres ed to husbands.
The very cultivation on
. ba lTMes of absolute unselfishness.
Ne*er talk at one another, either alone
or in company.
Never both angry at once.
Never speak aloud to one another —un-
less the house is on fire.
Let each one strive to yield the oftenest
to the wishes of the other.
Never find fault unless it is perfectly
certain that a fault has been committed ;
and always speak lovingly.
Never taunt with a past mistake.
Neglect the whole wcrld besides, rather
than one another.
Never make a remark at tbe expense of
each other; it is meaness.
Never part for a day without loving
w *rd- t'» thmk *t dur ng absence.
Nev r mee' without a loving w leomc.
Nov«r let the sun go down upon any an
gt r or grievance
Novel- let any fault you have committed
go by, u« til you have frankly confessed and
aek*-d t<>r _ i-eness
forget the happy hours of early
love
Never sigh over wha f might have been,
make the best of what is.
Never forget that marrioge is ordained of
G' and, and that his blessing aloue can make
it what it should be.
Never let your hopes stop short of the
' eternal home.
When a Buffalo alderman wishes re
election he takes an influential friend ono
side and offers to nauio an ulley after hnu.
EDGAR A. POE.
TIIE STORY OF HIS SONG OF “THE BELLS.”
I he following incident was related by a
member of the Baltimore bar, who, at the
time of its occurrence, was but recently
admitted to praetiefc. The truta of tbe
statement may be depended on, and even
the Conversation introduced I give. I think,
nearly word for word as reported to me.
period referred to there were sev-
fiifigle-etoried houses on the east side 1
of ot. Paul stfeef, between Lexington and
Saratoga streets, each of which contained
but two rooms. They were rather mas
sively— -according jo present idea—con
structed, of .brick, bttt have been for a long
time displaced by tall and stately building,
One of these single-storied houses was
occupied by the informant. Tbe front
apartment was occupied as a law office, the
rear as a sleeping room.
One calm and clear moonlight winter
night, when the snow lay deep upon the
city streets and roofs, Mr. was making
pieparations to retire to bed, when the
front-door bell was rung. He aroused his
negro servant boy, who was nodding on his
stood by the chimney corner, and sent him
to open the door to the late visitor. The
boy almost immediately returned, alone,
lie said that nobody was at the door, but
that a gentleman was standing in the snow
in'the middle of tbe street, talking to him
self and tossing his arms about.
Air. now went to the front door
himself. When he opened it he found one
who was evidently a gentleman —he could
see that by tbe moonlight—standing on the
pavem tit facing him.
‘ IVas it you who rang my bell?” he
asked.
“Tes, sir,” was the reply. *T owe you
an apology for disturbing you at an hour so
unseasonable; but the fa<’t is, some
thoughts have come into my head which I
wish to commit to paper, and seeing a light
in your back window” (the house 6t«>od
upon the corner of an alley), “and consid -
ng it a matter of course that a lawyer’s
dfice is supplied with stationery, I took the
lberty of ringing your boll.”
“You are very, welcome, indeed.” said
tie young lawyer. “Walk in, sir.”
Tbe stranger followed him into the inner
apvrtment, whore the bright fire was burn
ing in the giate. The manner of this guest
waiso impressive of intellect that Mr.
offered him his bed; but the visitor only
asked the use of a chair, tablo and writing
materials. So tbe negro boy lay down
upon his pallet on the floor, and the young
lawyer retired to his bed, leaving the
stranger bending over the table writing.
When Mr. awakened in the morning
his strange visitor was sitting in a chair,
with his head upon the table, asleep. The
motion made by the young lawyer on
awakening aroused the stranger. The lat
ter Seemed at once to be wide awake. He
IVHpit'an*?}his seat, thanked his host for his
his intrusif n ’ .T rut
was thi»< abouMo previous rnght. He
w You are forgetting your manuscript,”
said tbe young lawyer, pointing to some
paptr on the table.
“I have a copy of what I have composed,”
said th« stranger, “and leave the original
with yiu as some acknowledgement of your
kindneis under circumstances so trviog.”
The stranger left. The lawyer did not
know tntil a long time afterward, when
the son; of “The Bell *—of which he still
has tbe original —had been published and
became famous, that his singular visitor
was Edgar Poe.
Strength of Memory.— The strength of
Mr. Chiate’s memory was one of the most
remark-ole things about that remarkable
man. Le not only read everything, but he
remembered ever Mb-mg he read, lie knew
where tie bock was in which the desired
infoqjaition could be found, the very page,
and the precise location of the book in the
library vhere it happened to be. While
trying tie celebrated sewing-machine case
before Judge Woodbury, I heard him re
quest a friend to go to the Athenaeum am
get him a volume of a set published by
Chambe’R. The article he wanted was on
the manufacture of silk. Lie described the
set, the nora in which it was kept, and the
very sp*ct io the library where it could be
found. He wrote down nearly everything
in a case that he could. Lhe act of writing
fastened the thing in his memory, and it
was ready for instant use. In the tiial of
a cause be kept two sets of notes one ihe
testimony, the other a digest and the
argument. He was ready to argue a case
the moment the testimony closed. lli|
memory enabled him to talk on
introduced. He was at homejjn the blacky
letter law, knew familiarly the
English law of entail, and could discuss
of any nation as intelligibly as he
could a common act of assault and battery.
I with him from the court-house on
celet,rated eulogrojA't.el'b^r/Dh/
mouth College. He had p CQn before the
U.nited States Court,
cate trial, the heat like that of a tropical
climate. We went into the barber-shop
under the Broomfield House, for he said, “I
must be shampooed daily, or I should die.”
Tbe eulogy on Webster, I think, was to be
delivered on Tuesday. This was Saturday,
and the intervening Monday was to be con
sumed in the journey to Hanover. I said
to him : “Os course your eulogy on Web
ster is completed.” He drew himself up to
his full height, and laying his hand on my
shoulder, he said : “Mr. , as I live not
a word of that eulogy is written.” Yet it
was delivered as announced—delivered
without notes, fully written out ami com
juitred in writing, i knew one instance in
which he completed his lecture at the office
a short time before the train started that
was to carry him to his appointment. He
: loft 'he manuscript <*n his d ,j sk. and gave
the lecture, he su'd, as near verbatim, as he
desired to, and that without a scrap before
him.
Fanny Fern w sites this sentence of hers
to put m Uie crown of the gen' lemon’s bats .
| »*A fol of either sex is the hardest animal
to drive nit ever required a bit. Better
one who jumps a fence now and til* n. than
your sulk/, stupid donkey, whose rhinoce'
] ros back bels ne ther pad nor goad.”
Paris kdies have their “lower limbs”
, vacc’.na'w, They will not submit to scarred
arms
WRITING FOR TIIE PRESS.
Thi following rules should be clipped and
posted on the desk of every writer for pub
lic print;
!• Do not s«y, “I write in a hurry, please
correct all mistakes/’ You have fen times
the opportunity to do this that the editor
has. 11 is time ia wofth from fifty cents to
ten dollars an hour, and he will be likely
to correct your errors bv fi* y>, and then they
will never trouble any one any more. You
must do your own work if you want it done.
It is said that Newton wrote his chronolo
gy over fifteen times before he was ?ati-tied
with it, and Gibbon wrote out his memoir
nine times before sending it to the press.
No beginners ought to erfpect Letter success
for less labor than such learned men.
11. Do not write poetry. Most who try,
do not know what poetry is. and .they can
not be fold till they have learned a great
deal more than they know now. Niuefy
nine one hundredths of the rhyme written
is good for three things: 1. To give to
f r iends who prize it for the giver’s sake.
2. It makes passable kindlings. #. It will
bring about three cents & pound at the
paper mill, to work up with old rugs.
Write prose ;—poetic prose is far better
than prosaic pootry.
111. Do not write long articles, or long
sentences. Write as you would a telegram,
where each word costs a dime, or an adver
tisement, which costs a dollar a line.
IV. Do not ask an editor to return your
manuscript. Keep a copy. With a hun
dred ietters a day to read, h * has som ‘thing
to do besides hunting up last year’s manu
scripts, received, rejected, and buried, or
burned, long ago.
V. Do not get angry because your first
article is rejected. Quite likely if it is
printed, you will live to wish it iiad been
burned, or sent to the paper mill. The
first pair of shoes a cobbler makes are not
likely to sell very readily; and it takes
more skill and longer practice to write
good articles than to make good shoes.
VI. Keep trying and sending on ; the
practice will do you good ; and if writing is
i‘a you it will come out. But if you cannot
stand criticism, und rejection, and fault
finding, you will make a poor author, and
may as well know it at onco. The writer’s
first article was rejected ; he kept it a while,
sent it to the same paper agaiu, and it was
printed.
VII. Remember an editor may have a
peek of better articles than yours is, which
he wrote himself, and yet does not think
them worth publishing, lie will do the
best he can, consistently, by you. He is
more anxious to enconrage good writers
than you are to write.
VIII. Do not expect a poor editor to set
up a reading school, spelling school, gram
mar school and writing school, for the
benefit of those who have not improved their
’Whirrs "AJWBDKjTb* O
your ignorance on an editor, and the won
nonsense. Sftti id ilAt/f "uj)
the type for your article. Every cent you
save by using pale ink, poor paper, and
writing carelessly because you are in a
hurry, or writing finely, or crosswise, to
save three cents’ postage, will cost the
printer in toil, delay, and eye-sight, at
least fifty times as much money as you
will save, besides causing him to commit
blunders for you to scold about. Do you
wonder such article are rejected? I can
write an article for the press in half the
time I could correct such a one ; and I have
often copied over entire pagtjs, rather than
torment a compositor with illegible manu
script.—Ex.
Trip. Mason’s Grave —ln all ages the
the bodies of Masonic dead have been laid
in graves dug due east and west, with their
laces toward the east. This practice has
been borrowed and adopted by others, until
it has become nearly universal. It implies
that when the great day comes, and when
He who is Death’s conqueror sh*Ql th«
signal, his ineffable light sftall Joe first seen
in^the east: that from the east he will make
bis glorious appearance ; will stand at tbe
eastern margin of those graves, and with
his mighty power—that grasp, irresifftably
strong, which shall prevail —will raise the
bodies which are slumbering therein. We
shall have buried, long decayed*
Friends, relati^^Hp- a » nearest anß
dearest, will cease to remember where they
have laid us* The broad earth will have j
undergone w>nderous changes, moun
tains leveled, valleys fHItA!. *he seasons 1
will then have. other in many
fitful rounds. Oceans, jffWfcd into fury by !
•the gales'of to-morrow will have sunk like j
a spoiled dak! to thei® slumber. Broad
'trees withbroader roots. have in
terlocked and knobbed as they
are. 'above* Jived , {and after
centuries of life, they foo will have followed
cur 'example of morality,.aod long strug
gled w*th decay, at least will have
obliterating the poor testimony that
has even lain here. So shall we be lost to
human sight. But the eye of God, never
theless; will the spot, green with
everlasting verdueo»f faith ; aud when the
trumpet’s blast shall shake the hills to
their bases, our astonished bodies
impelled upward byan irresistable impulse,
and we shall standnAce to face with our
Redee m er.
Old Sile Doty, <jf Hillsdale county— s
that moet notorious evil-doer* thief, receiver
of stolen goods, burglar, and everything
tLe bad—was Vqrraigned before Judge
Pratt (afterward of'Honolulu) for horse
-Bte.ilif g. As usual, a clear case was
proved against him, ana he was brought up
for sentence.
Pratt was abrupt in manner, rough in
tone, and severe in expression. These
traits were rather enha ced than mollified
upon this occasion. He broke out with.
“S'and up, prisoner at the bar. Prisoner,
how old are you ?”
• Fifiy-three years, five months, and
twenty days,” was the reply
The judge took * ut his pencil and figured
| for a moment; then said ;
“Prisoner, I sentence you to hard labor
in the State prison fur sixteen years, six
months, and ten days That brings you to
seventy years, beyond which my jurisdic
tion don’t extend. Sheriff, rornovo the
prisoner!”
FOCR-Y EAR-OLDS.
Uortry, mamma," said a’ tittle innocent,
with bis cot snj*er ; “hurry, it’s leaking.”
A little California boy Raid Adam and
Eve “were stampeded off the ranche” sos
eating the apple.
A little Fir! being £*ke<f what dtrst wa
replieJ that it was, “mud with the tuioe
squeezed out of it.”
A little girl, excited by the brilliant dis
play of her aunt’s gold plugged front teeth,
exclaimed: “Oh, Aunt Mary, tow I tie*
wish I had copper toed teeth like you.”
A youngster, seeing tho sky very red a
night or two before Christmas, * called:
Mamma, Oid Santa Claus is gett ng ready
to bake cakes. ”
A little girl Who was seut oat to hunt
eggs thought it strange she did not find
any, as there were several hens “standing
about doing nothing !” a
* old are you?” asked a conductor
o. a nttie girl whom her mother was try
ing to pass on a half ticket. “I am nine
at but in the cars 1 am only six and
n fill.
A little four-year-old boy in Richmond,
\ a., on being asked by his mother if be
would not like to be an angei and have
wings, replied, “I'd a hftep rather be a
hawk and live on chickens.”
We heard another Sunday School reply a
day or two since. A little fellow brought
in from the streets was asked “Why were
Adam and Eve turned out of the garden
of Eden ?” 4 Because they sarsed God,” was
hia reply.
A little boy in the infant class of n. Sun
day School out west, was asked by his
teacher if ho had learned anything during
the past week. “O', yes.” said he. ' “What
is that you have learned?” ‘-Xevor to
trump yonr partner's ace,” was the reply.
Ghesr a.vd Gooses.—“Mamma,” said
Harry, what 8 the difference between
goose and goese ?”
\\ hy, don't you know,” said four ypars
old Annie; “une geese is a goose, and a
whole lot of gooses is a geese.”
A teacher, wishing to explain to a littlo
gin the manner in which a lobster casts its
shell when it has outgrown it, said: “What
do you do when you have outgrown your
clothes ? You throw them aside, don’t
you ?” “Oh, no,” replied the little one ;
“we let out the tucks,”
Master Charlie, aged four years, was not
pleased on being reproved by his mother
for some mischievous prank, and showed
his displeasure in his face, when his moth
er remarked, “Why, Charlie, I am astonish
ed to see you making faces at your moth
er. Charlie brightened up at once, and
iini', v Aiy .JL'tflppker.”'
J .„uiug tarciy, a
Ducinjoc “-fir-pmlosophcr, after a silent
and apparently profound scrutiny of the
heavens, asked his mother abruptly where
the stars came from. Mamma replied, “I
dou’t know*, Willie.” “Yes, you do, too.”
“No, Willie, I don’t know where tho stars
came from.” “Well, you bet / do. The
moon laid ’em.” This was a “settler” lor
mamma.
Little four-year oM Carrie went with her
aunt to church. The preacher was very
earnest in hin delivery, and she was much
interested. “Mother,” said she, when she
came home, “I have heard such a smart
minister. He stamped and pounded, and
made such a noise ; and then he got so mad,
he shook his fist at the folks, and there
wasn’t anybody dared go up and fight
him.”
Little been doing something
which her mamma told her she mustn’t do.
She had been eating currants, and, of
c xirso, got her mouth all stained. That’s
the way she got found out. Her mother
said, “You know you w pro forV»;«Jdcu to eat
currants 1” “But, Mother, Satan tempted
me!” “Why didn’t you say, Get thee be
hind me Satan 1” “I did say, Get thee
behind me, Satan, and he went and got
behind me and pushed me right into the
Currant bushes 1”
Babies. --We love babies, and everybody
who does love babies. No man has music
in his &o£fl who don't love babies. Babies
wyjre made to be loved, especially girl ba-
Jfes when they grow up. A man isn’t
worth a ifhyuck who hasn’t a baby, and the
same rule applies to woman. A baby is a
spring day in winter, a hot house rose in
mid winter; a ray of sunshine in frigid
winter ; and if it is healthy, and good na
tured, it is a bushel of sunshine, no matter
how cold the weather. A man can not be
a helpless case so long as he loves babies—
one at a time. We love babies all over, no
matter how dirty they are, Babies were
born to be dirty. We love babies because
thev are. haKioo. a« tbolr mothers
were lovable and lovely women. Our love
for babies is only bounded by the number
of babies in the world. We always look for
babies, we do, with anxiety and paternal
affection ;we do, indeed we do. We always
! have sorrowful feelings for mothers what
have no babies, end don’t expect; any.
Women always look down-hearted who have
no babies ; and men who have no babies
always gamble, and drink whiskey, and
stay oi t nights trving to get music in their
i souls; but they can’t comd it. Babies are
babies, and nothing will take their place.
Pianos play oat, and good iiving plays out,
| unless there’s a baby in the house. We’ve
i we know, and we say there's noth-
I ing like a baby. Babies are a productive
! subject, and we intend to talk more about
babies in the future. We intend to tell our
young friends if they want to be happy in
this world they must bate a baby in tho
| house—one of their own is preferable.
Babies stimulate exertion ; they make a
your.g man scratch gravel ; and in this view
of the case, they are all the wniie laying
golden eggs. A roan is hardly ever worth
three red cents until he gets a wife and
baby. They push him to it. Wh'le he is
making enough for their support, he is sure
to have something nver.
There is only one woman in the town of
Lost Trail, California, and her husband
can’t sleep nights because so many men
stand in front of the house and grate their
teeth.— Western piper
no. ;*>.