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FACTS FOR THE CURIOUS.
The date of the earliest eclipse of the
euii, recorded in the annals of the Chi
nese, when “ on the first day of the last
month of autumn, the sun and moon did
not moot harmoniously in Fung,” or in
that port of the heavens defined by two
stars m tlie constellation of the Scorpion,
has lieen determined by Prof. Von Op
polzer, of Vienna, to have been the
morning of Oct 23, 2187 B. C.
A oorhhhpondent of the London
Times gives the' following singular but
interesting information for the lienefit
of those who are interested in the study
of the transmission of hereditary qual
ities : The following coses are taken
from a list of seventeen candidates for
election to an institution for the instruc
tion of deaf and dumb children : 1. A.
B. has six brothers and one sister, two
of the brothers and the sister lieiug deaf
and dumb. 2. C. D. has four brothers
and one sister, two of the brothers being
also deaf and dumb, 3. E. F. has two
brothers and one sister. Father, mother,
two brothers, grandfather, two uncles
and an aunt are deaf and dumb.
A rapid penman can write thirty
words in a minute. To do this he must
draw his pen through the space of a rod,
sixteen and a half feet. In forty min
utes his pen travels a furlong. We
make, on an average, sixteen curves or
turns of the pen in writing each word.
Writing thirty words in a minute, we
must make 480 to each minute ; in an
hour, 28,100; in a day of only five
hours, 144,000 ; in a year of 300 days,
43,200,000. The man who made 1,000,-
000 strokes with his pen was not at all
remarkable. < Many men, newspaper
writers, for instance-, make 4,000,000.
Hem we have, in the aggregate, a mark
of 300 miles long to be traced on paper
by such a writer in a year.
The proportions of the hufllan figure
ure six times the length of the feet.
Whether the form is slender or plump,
the rule holds good. Any deviation
from it is a departure from the highest
beauty in proportion. The Greeks made
all their statues according to this rule.
The face, from the highest point of the
forehead, where the hair begins, to the
chin, is one-tenth of the stature. The
hand, from the wrist to the middle of
the forefinger, is the same. From the
top of the chest to the highest point of
the forehead is a seventh. If the face,
from the roots of the hair to the chin,
is divided into three equal parts, the
first division determines the place where
the eyebrows meet, ami the second the
place of the nostrils. The height from
the feet to the top of the head is the
distance from the extremity of the fing
ers when the arms are extended.
Happy Mothers.
I may say, rather, cheerful mothers,
but I do not, liecause there is no real
sunshiny cheerfulness possible without
happiness in the heart. And there may
be happiness, if the heart be rightly
placed and strong in love and faith, even
when the outlook in life is dark, and the
clouds upon the path are heavy. There
may be little money in the purse. Tnere
may be a dear one lying pallid on the
couch, and fading by degrees. There
may lie a narrow grave in the cemetery,
ami a vacant seat at the table. But yet,
my sister, if Christ be your friend, abid
ing with you and holding fast your hand,
there may be a strange gladness min
gled with your sorrow.
We all want our little children to l>o
happy. Now the happiest children arc
those who have happy mothers. The
young life, which grows up in the
shadow of a discontented, repining and
gloomy mother, is like a plant unwatered
by kindly dews. It is apt to be dwarfed
and stunted. So, even when things are
crooked, and temptations to ungentle
ness come, let the mother, for her sons’
and daughters’ sake, try to lie happy.—
Margaret E. Songster.
Sir William Harcourt.
Twelve gentlemen, whose spirits were
high, once agreed to dine together to
Greenwich, England, on a fixed day,
and, on the principle of “the more the
merrier,” it was arranged that the num
ber of tlie party should be doubled bv
each bringing a friend. The “friend
in question was to be the man whom
each of the original twelve severally and
respectively disliked the most heartily.
When the guests arrived at the Trafal
gar there proved to be but thirteen in
all, everybody having invited Mr. Ver
non-Harcourt. So runs the story, which
is probably as true as most For
some unexplained reason, Sir William
Harcourt has nt-ver been a popular per
son. Probably two reasons militate
against his social success. He is ex
tremely learned, and has a habit of dem
onstrating to gentlemen who argue with
him that they are proportionately igno
rant of the subject under discussion. As
was said of Macaulay, “he is so con
foundedly cocksure about everything.”
Bv the State Comptroller’s report of
1879, it appears that the colored people
of Georgia own 541,199 acres of land,
which is equal to six and one-tenth acres
i>er poll. This is an increase in holding
by colored people from 338,769 acres in
1873, and shows a rapid growth in their
wealth.
“ I suppose,” said a punning lady to a
sailor whom she saw holding the rudder
of a boat, as she was sauntering on the
seashore, “ I suppose that your favorite
tree is the ’elm?’ “Yes, madam,” he
responded, “ and I see that your favorite
is the beech. ”
Cards are said to have been invented
in France in 1391, to amuse Charles IV.
during the intervids of a melancholy dis
order. Piquet and all the early games
are French.
The North Georgian.
VOL. 111.
OUR YOUNG FOLK*.
Our lUvby.
Two little hlmnw,
Out at the
Trotting about
Where'er mother go**;
Boiled glngluun drown,
Ihit ou just now—
They do get ao dirty,
No one known how;
LlttK* black faoe.
Black im«4i wee hand— .
Been making mud
And playing in muul.
Dear, procioUH Ikmul,
Tonseled and rough;
Bright, laughing eyes,
Can't see enough;
Thi» in our baby
All day.
Two tittle fwt,
Itoay and Imre;
Two chubby hand*,
Folded in prayer;
Tired little head.
Dark-ringed with hair;
Soft Ixby face.
Dimp’ed and fair;
Panay-blue eyen.
Heavy with al<*ep;
Bilv’ry aweet voice,
Lixping - “ Father, ub keep;”
Thte if our baby
At night
Old llaimlbtil.
“ No, mother,” said Col. Dnnwav to
his wife, at the breakfast table, “I shall
ride the black colt on parade to-day.
Hannibal is too fat and too old.”
“ Too old ? He and Burry are just of
an age.”
“ And Barry’s only a little colt yet ?
Well, you may bring him and Prue out
to the grand review in the afternoon, but
I guess I’ll ride the black this morning.
You con put Hannibal in the carryall.
Perluq»s he’d like to take a hoik again at
a regiment of troops in line.”
Barn' and Prue listened with all their
ears, They knew there was to be a grand
parade of soldiers that day, and they
were prouder than they knew how to
tell of the fact that their father was to
wear a uniform, ami ride a horse, and
give orders to some of the men.
“Prue,” said Barry, “father’s going
to ’speck them. ”
“In-speck them,” whispered Prue,
correcting him. “Nobody else knows
how. ”
That might be, for Col. Dunway had
been an officer of the regular army, and
he was now Colonel of a regiment of
militia; but there was one thing he hail
said that puzzled Burry and Prue dread
fully.
“Barry,” said Prue, after breakfast,
Pis Nibble old?”
“Father says ho is.”
“And he said he was fat.”
“Dr. Barnes is old, and he’s fat.”
“ But his head’s bare.”
“Nibble isn’t bald, and he isn’t gray,
cither. ”
“ He’s brown.”
Mrs. Dunway hail told the exact truth
about Hannibal, or Nibble, as the chil
dren called him. He and Burry were
just of an age, and he had been a mere
2-ycars-old colt when Prue was a baby
in her cradle. It was after that that
Col. Dunway hud taken Hannibal with
him to the army and brought him home
again. He had been a war-horse, the
Colonel said, and so it would not do to
turn him into a plow-horse, and the con
sequence was that Nibble did not have
enough work to do, and he grew fat too
fust. Yet ho and Barry were only 9
years old apiece. That made eighteen
years between them ; and, if you added
seven yours for Prue, it would only have
mode twenty-five, and everybody knows
that is not very old, if you hail given
them all to Hannibal. Burry and Prue
would have given him almost anything
they had, for lie was a groat friend and
crony of theirs.
“Prue,” said Barry, “let’s go out to
the barn. I’ve got an apple.”
“ He can have my bun.”
What there was left of it, that meant,
for Prue’s little white teeth had lieen at
work on the bun. That had been a
troubled morning for Hannibal. Before
ho had finished his breakfast a party of
mon rode by the house, and one of them
was playing on a bugle. He had set
Hannibal's mind at work ujx>n army
matters and war; so when Barry and
Prue came to see him he would not
. even nibble. He smelled of the apple,
and he looked at the bun, but that was
all.
“ He’s getting old,” said Barry.
“ And fat,” added Prue.
“Tell you what, Prue, let’s take him
out into the lot. I know mother’d let
ÜB.”
That was likely, for Mi’s. Dunway al
ways kept safer about them if Nibble
were keeping them company.
“I’ll get on his buck.” ,
“And I’ll lead him. Wait till I fix
the halter.”
Prue climbed up on the side of the
stull where Nibble was, and he stood
perfectly still while she clambered over
to her place on his back. Barry knew
exactly what to do, and the old war
horse began to think he did himself. He
must have been thinking, for he half
closed one eye as he was walking out,
and opened the other very wide, with a
wonderfully knowing look. He was
looking down the lane, and he saw that
the front gate was open, and just at that
moment there came up the road, very
faint and sweet, the music of the cavalry
bugle.
“ Nibble ! Nibble ! ” exclaimed Barry,
“ where ore you going ? ”
Hannibal did not answer a word, but
walked on down the lune very fast in
deed, and Barry lost held of the halter.
As for Prue, she was not scared a parti
cle, for she had ridden in that way many
a time, and her confidence in herself and
old Nibble was unbounded.
“Cluck, cluck, cluck—get-ap.”
“Stop, Prue, stop! He’s going
faster.”
“Get-ap! Come, Barry. Oh, there s
mother at the window ! ”
Mrs. Dunway was not frightened any
mor© thap Pru'e, for she said .to herself:
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“Too old, indeed I Well, they’re more
like three ohildren, when they're to
gether, than anything else. I’m glad he
is fat. Ho won’t go t<x> fast for Prue.”
He was in tlie road now, and ha
seemed disposed to keep Barry from
again getting hold of that halter.
“Oh, dear,” said Buriy, “the parade
ground's down there. ”
Hiumibol knew that, by the music,
and he was almost trotting now. In
fact, he was looking younger and
younger, somehow, every minute, and
Barry felt more and more as if he ought
to have hold of the halter, instead of
merely running alongside and shouting
to Brno.
Tlie regiment was drawn up on the
great bare field where tlie review was to
be that afternoon, and they kxiked
splendidly. Col. Dunway was saying
so, ns he sat in front of them, on lus
handsome black colt, mid a number of
other officers who were riding with him
stud the some, and so did the ladies who
were keeping them company.
Just then the bugle sounded again,
from the head of the column, and Prue
had to hold on hard, for Hannibal sud
denly began to canter, and he answered
the music with a loud, clear whinny of
delight. Burry was half out of breath
with running, but he kept up with the
other two, and in a moment more Han
nibal halted, proudly arching his neck,
mid treading daintily upon the grass,
right in front of the regiment.
“I declare.” exclaimed Col Dunway,
“ the old fellow has come to review the
troops.”
“So has Prue,” said one of the offi
cers.
Barry hardly knew whether to laugh
or cry, but the soldiers suddenly broke
out in a wild “hurrah."
They were cheering Prue and her war
horse, mid Col. Dunway himself was
compelled to let the “ three children”
stay and keep the place Hannibal chose
for them nt the head of the regiment.
There was plenty of apples for Nibble
that day.
Manners Two Hundred Years Ago.
A curious little book, called “The
Rules of Civility,” which was published
in 1675, throws amusing light on the
manners of our ancestors two centuries
ago. “ Being in discourse with a man,”
we read on one page, “ ’tis no less than
ridiculous to pull him by the buttons,
to play with liis band strings, licit or
to punch him now and tnen on the
stomach.” Again, “It argues neglect
and to undervalue a man, to sleep when
he is discoursing or reading. There
fore, good manners command it to be
forbid ; besides, something may happen
in the act that may offend, as snoring,
sweating, gaping or dribbling.” Moro
explicit are the rules for behavior ut ta
ble. “In eating observe to let your hands
be clean. Feed not with both your
hands, nor keep your knife in your hand.
Dip not your fingers in the sauce, or
lick them when you have done. If you
have occasion to sneeze or cough, take
your hat, or put your napkin before
your face. Drink not with your mouth
full nor unwiped, nor so long till you
are forced to breathe in the gloss.”
There are rules also for the drawing
room. “If a person of quality be in the
company of ladies, ’tis too juvenile and
light to play w ith them, to toss or tum
ble them, to kiss them by surprise, to
force away their h<xxls, their fans, or
their mils. It is unhandsome among
ladies, or any other serious company, to
throw oil' one’s cloak, to pull off one’s
peruke, to cut one’s nails, to tie one's
garter, to change shoes if they pinch, to
call for one’s slippers to be at ease, to
sing between the teeth, or to drum with
one’s fingers.”
Runaway Horses.
Tlie horse that has once acquired the
habit of running away will bolt on the
first opportunity. If you suspect his in
tention, the best plan is to check it the
moment he begins to move, taking hold
of one rein with both hands, and giving
it one or two such violent jerks that the
rogue must pauseortura around. Then
stop him, and, if you doubt your being
able to bold him, get off. Perhaps a
too-vigorous “plug ’ may make him
cross his legs and fall—not a pleasant
contingency, but anything is better than
being run away with in a street. In
open country you may compel the runa
way to gallop with a loose rein until he
is tired, or to move in a constantly nar
rowing circle until he is glad to halt. A
ten-acre field is big enough for this ex
pedient. But the great point is to stop
a runaway before he gets into his stride;
after he is once away few bits will stop
a real runaway—a steady pull is a waste
of exertion on the rider’s part. Some
horses may be stopped by sawing the
mouth with the snaffle, bnt nothing will
check the old hand. Another expedient
is to hold the reins very lightly, and or
the first favorable opportunity, as a ris
ing hill, for instance, to try a succession
of jerks. Bnt the cunning, practiced
runaway is not so much to bo feared as
the mad, frightened horse. The mad
horse-will dash against a brick wall, or
jump at spiked railings of impossible
height. I once saw a runaway horse,
after getting rid of his rider, charge and
burst open his locked stable-door.
A recent observing tourist in Portu
gal says that he has never been in a
Roman Catholic country where there
are so few outward signs of religious
feeling, or even of worship. It is rare
to find a service of any kind being cele
brated in the churches, which are nearly
always shut. A light is seldom burning
before the altar, the few shrines and
images by the road are neglected and
often in ruins, and the monasteries have
all been suppressed.
SOUTHERN NEWS.
Selma, Ala., is growing rapidly.
Tomato eider is a now drink in Texas.
A negro woman 103 years old died
near Fort Valley, Ga.
Nashville ships fifteen car loads of
lumber northward every day.
Five negroes wore elected to the Geor
gia Legislature at the recent election.
The ladies of Mncon propose to make
a vigorous winter campaign in the tem
perance cause.
The people of Clarendon, Texas, are
building alxxle houses. They arc made
of sun-dried bricks.
A colored couple were married in the
poor-house at Barnesville, Ga., the groom
110 years old and the bride only forty.
The three richest men in Georgia are
Joseph E. Brown, of Atlanta, and Fer
dinand Phinizy and John A. White, of
Athens.
Barnum is having bad luck in Texas.
An elephant, two tigers, a giraffe, a train
ed oxen and a number of smaller animals
in his show have died.
The tobacco outlook has increased the
value of timbered land in Buncombe
county, N. C., at least fifty per cent,
within the last three years.
In Schley county, Ga., a freedman,
with one mule, this year made twenty
three bales of cotton, weighing over 500
pounds each, and 200 bushels of corn.
A young man died at San Antonio,
Texas, after licking cotton from the ef
fect o' poison put on the cotton to kill
insects. His brother is ill from the same
cause.
A colored girl named Lizzie Hampton,
in Union county, S. C., has given birth
to twin children, which arc joined to
gether by a union of the breast bone,
having but one naval, but supposed to
have two sets of intestines confined in
©ne cavity.
R. A. Hyslop, a gentleman living in
Norfolk county, Vn., recently captured
an ordinary live turtle possessed of two
well-formed heads. The turtle was
brought to bay in the woods by a dog,
and is considered such u curiosity that
Mr. Hyslop has decided to send it on to
the Smithoilinn Institution at Washing
ton.
Leprosy exists to a considerable extent
in the parish of Lafourche, La. An at
tempt to make in official investigation
was lately resisted with arms, the lepers
and their friends believing that the suf
ferers were to be isolated on an island in
the ocean. The report of the pl ysicians
is that the disease is not gaining ground.
Baton Rouge, Ln., has no public
schools open. The siiine is true of St.
Landrey, and the Democrat, of the latter
parish, says: “ We have school officials,
State and parochial, all the time, but no
schools. What is the use of having an
organization that accontplishcß nothing?
The public school system of this State is
a delusion and a snare.”
Samuel Hawthorne, who killed McGee
at Vicksburg in September, has been sen
tenced to the penitentiary for life by a
jury of twelve colored men. This is the
first case in Mississippi in which a white
man has lieen convicted by negroes. The
jury is said to have exibited every evi
dence of maiked attention, and brought
in their verdict intelligently.
The Vallambrosa Place, near Dublin,
Ga., once the home of Gov. George M.
Troup, but recently the residence of Col.
Robert Wayne, who married a grand
daughter of Gov. Troup, was destroyed
by fire. The family pictures and fine
old silverware were all lost, and many of
the historic oaks were killed by the fire.
Col. Wayne has suffered losses from fire
four times within eleven years.
In Tennessee, under the law o' 1874,
no liquor can be sold within four miles
of an incorporated school of learning,
unless located in an incorporated town
or city. The friends of temperance are
taking advantage of the enactment in
Home portions of Shelby county by secur
ing charters of incorporation for schools
in their neighborhood, in all cases near
some little village where the inch iating
fluid is dispensed.
The King’s Mountain Centennial As
sociation reports a surplus of funds re
maining after defraying the expenses of
the recent celebration. It has deter
mined t« build an iron railing around the
monument and construct a dwelling
house on the mountain near by for the
keeper of the monument, who is to lie
selected hereafter. The Association is a
perpetual organization and it has been
| determined to maintain it, holding meet
ings from time to time as may be required
for this purpose.
M). 44
Singular Climatic Effoets.
Says the Denver (Clol.) Great West:
It is a singular fact that almost every
body loses flesh on coming here from
the East The average loss in weight
sustained is about one-eighth. For in
stance, in tlie course of two or three
months a 260-pound man loses twenty
five pounds and becomes a 175-pounder.
This is due to the high altitude of Den
ver—a mile above the sea to tlie dry and
light atmosphere, to the scarcity of vegi
tation and tlie comparative abundance
of oxygen, which consumes the tissues
and taxes the vital functions to a greater
extent than ou lower altitudes. Higher
up it is much worse than here. At Liyid
vule, for instiuioe, which is two miles
above the sea level, the diminution in
weight does not generally fall short of a
sixth or seventli, and it takes place
much more rapidly than hero. In that
high altitude, too, lung diseases, such as
pneumonia, very frequently set in, and
they prove fatal in about 30 per cent, of
the cases attacked. But very tew dogs,
except hounds, cun live in Leadville,
and no cats survive there. In Denver,
however, we have a multitude of both
dogs and cats, and they appear to ex
perience no special difficulty about liv
ing and getting fat. Yet it is a
noticeable fact that animals and men lose
a share of their strength after coining
here. After being hero two or three
months their muscular power is not near
so great as in the East. Eight hours of
continuous lalxir does more to exhaust
and prestrate a man here than ten hours
in Illinois or Wisconsin. And when
worn out and prostrated a feeling of las
situde and drowsiness that it is very dif
ficult to dispel comes over one. In such
instances many hours of rest are requi
site to repair tuid rebuild the wasted en
ergies. Mental labor is even more ex
hausting than physical. A healthy man
may do manual labor for eight or ten
hours a day and experience therefrom no
special evil effects ; but let mental labor
be pursued with like assiduity and tin
nenrous system becomes weakened and
irritable. In time the physical powers
become disordered and weakened by
sympathy and by the strain upon them
to supply the brain waste. Those facts
arc more predicable of new-comers than
of those who have resided for a year or
more at high altitudes. Persons and an
imals thoroughly acclimated do not ex
perience these drawbacks. Indeed, theso
could not look better anywhere than
they appear here. The great difficulty
is in getting acclimated. _
Rewarded for Sinking His Ship.
A remarkable instance of presence of
mind ou the part of the Captain of a
man-of-war is related by the St. Peters
burg papers. The Russian war frigate
Olaf, which had accompanied the yacht
of the Czarowich to Copenhagen, was
lying at anchor among hundreds of other
ships in the harbor, when a fire was dis
covered in the coal linnker below, which
was only a few feet from the powder
magazine. There was no time to put out
the fire before it could reach the maga
zine, and an explosion of the large stores
of cartridges and gunpowder contained
in it would probably have destroyed not
only Hie Olaf, mid the surrounding ships,
but part of Copenhagen itself. Capt.
Rehbinder, the commander of the Olaf,
saw at once that the only thing to be
done to’ prevent a catastrophe was to
sink the ship. After sending away the
crew with the ship’s papers, cash boxes
and valuable instruments in boats, he
ordered the carpenters and engineers to
make a leak in the vessel, and half an
hour afterward she sank in not very
deep water. Next day she was raised
again, mid after some provisional repairs
was taken to Cronstadt. The damage
done is stated to be comparatively tri
lling, and a court martial held on the
officers of the vessel unanimously ex
pressed the highest praise of the conduct
of the Captain and men. The Emperor
has appointed him his aide-de-camp,
which is one of the highest honors con
ferred on Russian nuvid officers, and
men under him have received gratuities
from tlie Emperor’s privy purse.
The Small Days of Chicago.
New York and Boston, about 250
years old, have respectively 1,000,000
and 350,000 inhabitants. Chicago made
up her half million in little over forty
years. In New York and Boston one
sees the graves of eight generations, and
the relics of colonial times. In Chicago
Mr. Gurdon S. Hubbard is now living,
an active man, 78 years of age (and
looking 60), who came to the spit when
there were but two houses there.
The site of this great city, a favorite
one with the Indians, was early visited
by some of those splendid old “pioneers
of France in the New World,” who have
been made famous in this generation by
the pen of that accomplished and genial
historian, Mr. Parkman. Old Pere
Marquette was there in 1673, and re
turned in the winter of 1674-75. It was
also known to Joliet (for whom a town
not far off is now named), Hennepin, and
La Salle. Tlie name is of Indian origin,
eheeewgm meaning “strong,” and lic
ing also the term for a kind of wild
onion found on the shore of the lake in
old days. The place is first known to
geography as the “Fort Checagou” of a
French map published toward the end
of the seventeenth century. Fort Dear
born was built by our Government in
1804, and the late John H. Kinzie, an
eminent pioneer and citizen of Chicago,
celebrated the first anniversary of his
birthday on its site, his father having
arrived three days before, in company
with Maj. Whistler and his command.
The Fort Dearborn massacre, perpe
trated by the Indians, was in 1812, and
the bones of the soldiers were lying un
buried near the shore when young Kin
zic returned from Detroit in 1816.
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Gohlen Words.
The following extracts are culled from
an address by Hou. Horatio Seymour to
the young-lady students of Wells Fe
male College, Aurora, N. Y.:
Youth is beautiful in the eyes of age,
and it looks with admiration upon tho
courage with which the young confront
the uncertainties of the future, and the
faith that leads them to look forward to
happiness and success.
Self-cheating is the most common,
kind of fraud. It is a good rule, when,
you find that subjects of importance or
objects of .value are matters of indiffer
ence, to conclude that there are some
things which you do not, but which yort
ought to, know.
There is nothingyon can learn aliout any
subject which will not give it new inter
est m your eyes. The deeper your learn
ing the better, but the quality of knowl
edge is like that of gold,which, althoughit
is reduced to the thinnest loaf, yet makes
till tho things glitter that it touches.
Surface knowledge is lightly spoken of
by the learned, but it is information
worked out in the past by toil and study
until it is brought within the reach of
all.
In the course of my life I have studied
all classes of men with care, and, as a
rule, I have found those to be the most
cheerful and wise whose habits and ob
servations have given the widest range
to their mental action, and have brought
within the scope of their thoughts the
most varied topics, although they may
not have lieen learned with regard to any
of them.
Men do not live in the same world.
When we look around us wo see that
they live in very different houses; some
are humble houses, lint poorly finished ;
others are costly residences, adorned
with paintings and statuary, and every
thing that art can do to gratify the
taste.
We make the world in which we live.
It is more disreputable to live in one
that is dull and barren than it is to
make our home in poor and dilapidated
houses.
Intelligence will enable us to cope
with the problem of life, to endure its
misfortunes with fortitude, and to bear
its successes with moderation and wis
dom.
The office of the eye is to give facts to
the mind. Things are not seen in a
true sense merely because they are
breught within tho range of the vision,
but when they have stirred the mind and
thoughts have been evolved.
So strong are the enjoyments of look
ing upon famous objects, or of treading
upon ground made sacred by events,
that men cross broad oceans to visit
them. And through after life they are
wiser and happier for the knowledge
thus gained.
It may be that some are gifted with
aptitudes in certain directions beyond
others; that some have faculties for
learning, for arts, or for science, that
gives them peculiar advantages in their
pursuits.
When I am visited at my farm by
those who fed no sympathy with nat
ure, and say they have no taste for
country life, I make up my mind they
do not like it because they do not know
enough about the world around them to
sn-joy its beauties.
No one who has reached the age of
three-score years and ten would, upon
reflection, be willing to mb out from
the experience in life the sorrows which
have softened his character, tho mis
takes which have taught him wisdom,
or wrong-doings which he has ever re
gretted, and wliieh, by their influences,
have made tho golden threads which
may be formed in the texture of his
moral character.
Weather Wisdom.
“Gem’len,” said the President, “I
fink dat de inhabitants of dis kentry am
payin’ altogether too much ’tenshnn to
dis wedder queshun. Dar’s a groan o’
dispair when it’s hot an’ a growl o’ dis
pleashur when it’s cold. If it rains
somebody raises a row, an’ if it’s dry
somebody else has a bone to pick wid de
powers nlKive. Ebery red-headed, ono
hoss white man—ebery broken-down old
two-cent darky, has got de ideah in his
head dat de Lawd am boun’ to send liim
long jist de sort o’ wedder he wants, no
matter 'bout de rest of do kentry. Do
ole man Rubottom, liltin' up dar by my
cabin, has got about fifteen cents wort o’
garden truck back of his house, an’ when
it’s hot or cold or wet or dry, he am so
agitated dat ho forgits dat any odder
soul in dis kentry has sot out an onion
or planted a ’tutor. Mo’ dan fifty y’ars
ago I come to tie conclusion dat I mus’
put up wid sich wedder as de Lawd gim
me, no mutter wbedder it brought ou
chilblains or rheumatics, an’ it was a
great burden off my mind. I take it jist
as it comes, keepin’ de ole umbrella in
good repair, an’ I doan’ know nuflln’
’bout almanacks an’ I doan’ want to.”—
Linv-Kiln Club Proceedings, Detroit
.Dree Press.
Dress-Coat Misery.
A man of considerable note in the
journalistic and literary world was at a
crowded evening party in New York,
some years ago, standing in an up-stairs
corridor.
To him a lady, in a magnificent dress,
and sparkling with jewels, came with
great eagerness. Though she was un
known to him, he naturally supposed
she had recognized him by the light of
his genius, shining on his Hyperion
brow, or knew him by reputation. Ho
was, therefore, prepared to receive her
with smiles.
“ Are you the waiter ? ” she demanded,
“No!” retorted he, with looks of
thunder. “ Are you the chambermaid ?”
And he darted down stairs.