The Paulding new era. (Dallas, Ga.) 1882-189?, April 16, 1886, Image 1

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Newspaper Page TextI V / THE PAULDING NEW ERA. VOLUME IV. DALLAS, GEORGIA, FRIDAY, APRIL lfi, 1886. NUMBER 19. Vonr Ctilii, I know not, love, how flrat yon funnel me, What instifut led yp„ here; 1 know the uwUl has changed around me Since anoelvou came ao near. I yield a thoasanil claims to noarish this, At last thocleirest hope, the nearest tie; And looking kilt to you for happiness, Happy am I. <How lightly Iwied the maiden leisure That youth'yud freedom chose, ■- The careless da A of peace und pleasure, The nights ^f lure repose 1 Bo swift a tout i, could set the tune am in) So brief a stmlow blot the morning sky! Tet if the heart be made for happiness, U*>py ami O lose, yom - ooiiing taught me trouble; Your parting taught me pain. My breath grewnuick, ray blood ran double— It leaped in niry vein. Yet, ah! has Tine outdone the lover’s kiss, The look-'-the turning look—the low reply! If these be^dl he holds of happiness, Happy an I. Yon lend to earth a vague motion; Myself a stranger seems; Your glance is nilxpl with sky and ocean; Your voice is heard in dreams. The good I choose !w weighed with that I mlsa, My idlest laughter mated with a sigh, And moving only in your happiness, Happy am I. —Dora Read Goorfole- in Harper's. THE MAJQR'S FARM. A TALE OF A FICKLE RIVER. "Whatever soil is washed up on a shore of the old Missouri River belongs by law to the owner of the shore. Sometimes a whole farm gradually changes hands by crossing the wicked river in solution. Then the surveyors put a little crook in the Missouri on their maps and say that it has shifted its course. Major Dugro Buckhingc was born on a little farm not far below Omaha", and the prrtty white furm-house in which he first s«w light .was not over five hundred feet 'from ^ Major had lived happily on the farm. His father and mother were buried on the side of a hill close by, and he could see the red roof of the school, whero mor ality and modern ideas . were whacked intodiim, from liis doorstep., When the Major was not out in his cornfield swear ing at the hired man, he was at home Tcadsng the Bible or playing with his wife* and little ones. lie was rough, but he was good. When he was at home he complained that the Missouri was the crookcdcst anfl dirtiest and the snagiest stream in crea tion, but when he paid a visit to New York he knocked a man down and jufnp cd on his chest' for denying that it was the most glorious waterway in the world. On Sundays the Major taught in the Sun day-school near,his place. It was two years ago that the river be gan to wash away thi; farm and cast up the soil on the opposite shore, which be longed to Lawyer Deeming, of Now Or leans. The Major had not lived there all his life not to know what that meant. Each week a foot or two of land was gone. Then the water seemed to double its thievish energy and, as it undermined the soil sometimes ten feet would cave in at once and disappear. The Major’s farm was a long, narrow strip of land, and be fore a year had passed there was nothing left but the house and about thirty feet of the furm. The Major knew nothing about law, but he had a very long heud. One day he fastened ropes around his house, hired all the horses in the neighborhood and had the house hauled out iilto the stream. His wife waded out with the little ones and then the Major poled the house into the deep water and let it drift. Mrs. Buckhingc and the children sat in the parkifr looking back at the dim Nebraska shore and the old red-topped school- house, while the Major stood in the back door of the kitchen and kept his eye on the great and growing State of Iowa, to which his farm had been taken by the river. “Wherever the house lands I’m a-goin’ to settle,” he said, “for I’m drifting just house was hauled high ami dry, and the Major marked off with stakes tho amount of land which he considered was his own. Then he had his farming implements brought over, and iu a little while erect ed a good stoat fence mound his wayward Then the Major got out his rifle and declared that he was prepared to de fend his property against all comers. During the winter the Major mado friends with his neighbors, and swore that of nil the States in the Union Iowa was the Idol of Ids heart. He worked ins way into the village Sunday-school and was elected as an elder in the church, and, on the strength of that, borrowed •eed for next year’s crop. In the spring the Major worked hard. He ploughed up his land, sowed his early crop and got things in good shape. A lawyer came down from Omaha in May and hunted for the Major. The two met in the village. “Atcyou Mr. Buckhingc?” asked the lawyer. “I am,” said the Major. “Well, I learn that you have squatted upon some land owned by ono of my clients.” “Oh, you have, have you?” The Maj or became frcczingly polite. A little party of church friends who were with him drew away. “Yes, I huve; and wlint’s mere, I now hand yon a notice to quit.” The Major crumpled up the bit of white paper which was handed to him and stamped on it. “I'm a man of peace, and I have deep religious feelings,” he said, “hut if I ketch you around my house I’ll fill you so full of lead that it'll take two horses to draw your hearse.” Then they parted. The Major went home nnd cleaned his rifle. After the family yrnyers his wife sat. up until mid night moulding bullets, while he himself In the iqorning two marshals came out to the farm and ordered the Buckhinge family to leave. The Major got out his rifle, but before he could make a move he was thrown on his bnck and disurmed. Then he was handcuffed and taken away to jail. Mrs. Buckhinge vowed that she would be true to her husband, nnd she made a loophole in the door of tho house, and when tho mnrshals came back she poked the muzzle of the rifle out and said -that she would die rather than give up her home. The marshals retreated, but in the afternoon they came back and opened fire on the house with rifles. The poor mother at last crept out of the hbusc with her children and wandered nway half nnked. Kind neighbors fed the family for awhile, nnd the Major was at lust set free when ho promised that he would abandon the farm. The first tiling lie did was to Hire horses and haul the old home up the shallows until he had taken it far enough to float over to the thirty feet of tho old farm which the Missouri had spared. The house wus dragged up to its old foundation, As there was no farm left the Major tyld his family to take cure of the house until he came bnck. When he sturted away to search for a living the Major cried for tiie first time in his life. He earned a little money here and there at odd jobs and sent all he could to his wife and children. All lust winter lie worked in St. Jo, heart hungry for home, but afraid to go back to the farm-house lest he might lose a dollar and thus de prive the children of some little comfort or luxury. One morning last spring he got this letter: Dioxit Husnxxo: Come home at once. last nothiac delay yon. Your wife, JKAN'. With a quaking heart the Major hurri ed back to the furm house with his rifle over his shoulder. What was his sur prise to find that the Missouri had chang ed its course a half mile above and had washed the old farm back again with an addition of twenty acres. The neighbors had joined together to surprise the absent PEARLS OF THOUGHT. ** A* you love me, let not your tongue give way to slang.” Air and light are amoyg the best med icines known to man. - A mecr is often the Weak subterfuge of imprudent ignorance. The silent eye is often a more powerful conqucrer than the noisy tongue. In your homo study refinement and comfort, bat study economy also. If a married couple avoid the first quarrel they will never havo a second. No success in lifo con fie so desirable that man can afford to sell liis integrity for it. The yoke • man creates for himself by wrong-doing will breed Rate in the kind liest nature. Nothing more clearly indicates the truu gentleman thun a desire evinced to oblige or accommodate. There are three things tn speech that, ought to be considered before they are spoken—tho manner, the p|aco and the time. For the Orphans. A Detroit poultry buyer was in Macomb County a few days ago on business, when, just about dark, his horse became fright ened at some object along the road and ran away. The man wan thrown out of his vehicle, but not badly hurt, and after he had pulled himself together he started on after the horse. Pretty soon he cn- couutcrcd three stalwart tramps, each ono of whom hud a club. As they ob structed the roud ho was forced to halt, when one of them snid; “Being ns you arc a well-known phil anthropist, mebhc you’d like to donate a couple qf dollars toward j* orphan asy lum." “?fift“'ncur U 61fncngor rriUh’I just re member the exact dimensions of the building, nor the number of little kids as is cryiu’ their blessed eyes out fur their dead pnrients, hut I know they is sudly in need of money. Ain’t it so, boys?” “You bet!” replied his two compan ions. “If* I give y< u $3 will the orphans ever see it?” asked the Detroiter. “Will they! Won’t we >u raced right there and give it to ’em afbro Saturday night? You don’t take us ur a posse 1 of gents without fcelin’s, do y V” slliniu uic miiQiCi JuwCC, In an hour the little house grounded on a point which had been newly made by the river. Tho Major ordered his household to forage, while he bustled around for horses. , Before night the -os my property did and I’m bound to ™n. They contribtued seed, ploughed the land and sowed the early crop. The Major wept as ho embraced his little wife nnd then he knelt down and offered up ft thankful prayer. He now lives a life of contentment and true hap piness.—New York World. ‘If he docs,” snid one of :ho others, as ceeived them he spit on his hands and gi pped his club afresh, “I must clear my re, utashun. I’ve alius been known ns the friend of tho orfans, nnd I cun’t ’low no ody to throw out hints that I’m a liar an a hypocrite!” 'Audit’s the same wilpmc!” added the third. The Detroiter handed (Jrcr two silver dollars, and the tall trump with: ‘Now, that's right, won’t give to the orpham him down as too mean to l|ve. On behalf of the lcotle angels, many ff which enn’t remember their paw nor you. If you ever come oujway stop and sec the children and hear: cm bless your name. Tom, you and Jin road and let the public philanthropist pass on. I’m surprised t|it you'd stand in a gentleman’s way! G fel. Heaven will surely Detroit Free Plena. iVhen a mun you kin sot id night, old ward you!”— Coring Frost l es. Dr. Lapatin, in the Proceedings of the Caucasian Medical 6 jety,” advises that fingers and toes w ch have been slightly frostbitten, nnd which subse quently suffer from burnii itching, und pricking sensations, sho' 1 he painted, at first once and nfterwari twice a day, with a mixture of diluted trie acid nnd peppermint water in equ proportions. After this application has ;cn made for three or four days the in becomes darkened and the epide is is shed, healthy skin appearing dcr it. The cure is effected in front t to fourteen days. The author has f< id this plan very effectual among sol rs who were unablcd to wear their b ts in conse quence of having had froz feet. They were, in this way, soon re ;rcd capable of returning to duty. . Courts in New Mexico. To go into a court in Now Mexico In, ns it were, to lie translated to another couutry, says a Chicago Timet corre spondent. Even tho United States court, sitting at Las Cruces, is opened and closed in the Spanish tongue, - and tho English seems to lie tho only language foreign to the officials. Tho laws, which are administered in Spanish, are also enacted in that lan guage. Of the twelve members compos ing the “eonsejo legislative” only a third are Americans. All debates arc con ducted' in Spanish and the acts and jour nals are kept in the same tongue, a trans lation being kindly made for the inform ation of the ignorunt Americans. Amer icans are powerless to send anyone to represent them except a native. Tho people aro nearly evenly divided on party lines, and the Democratic and Republi can feeling is as intense among those citizens alien in language os among our own people. To an American nothing can bn more absurd than to see the platforms erected in the plaza of the New Mexican town and the orators yell for “El Cqroncl Ry- nerson” if they be Republicans and for “El Senor Antonio Jose do Tnos” should they be Democrats; and the elections, whore you do not vqte the Republican or Democratic ticket, but tho “bolcta re- publicana” or the “bolcta demoeratiea,” os the cose may be. Then there is tho bonrd of registration, composed of Mexi cans, who decide if you be entitled or not to tho franchise, and, deciding in your favor, change your baptismal namo from John to Juan nnd from Harry to Enriques, and for ten days bang it up in the public pluces for the scrutiny .of the electors. Two Tame Turtles. One bcnutifuljuinpjr West street, was surprised to find at tho gate opening from her ynrd in the alley two turtles, one a lmrtl turtle and the other a ground turtle. She took them both in, and they have since become regu lar household pets, following her around the house like dogs, allowing her to pet them nnd handle them with impunity. They have made friends with the three household cats which Mrs. Robertson keeps, and, although of different species, they frolic together in u dignified manner nil day, except at meal times. "When their meul, consisting of bits of meat and sometimes a couple of bones, which they are expected to polish, is given them, it is amusing to sec their race for the dish in which it is set out, nnd the one reach ing the dish first is sure to be attacked by the slow one. Since the advent of cold wenther the turtles have buried them selves in the ground under the cellar floor and will remain there until the warm weather comes again. Tom nml Jerry arc the names given to these two curious pets by Mrs. Robertson, and she has be come very much attached to them.—Phil adelphia Newt. „ The Value of Time. “One to-day,” remarks a wise man,” is worth two to-morrows.” Oh, is it, then? You go into the market with to-day and see how many to-morrows you can get for it. You can’t get one. Not a solita ry one; you can’t even get to-morrow morning for it. But if you hnve a to morrow that you want iO put on the market you might get a whole week of to-days for it. The onl^ man who wouldn’t offer to-day for it is the man who is going to be hanged to-morrow and lias consequently very little use for it. What he wants to trade for is about two months of yesterdays and a couple o weeks before last. —Burdette. A Judge’s Charge. Tennessee’s distinguished historian Judge Haywood, was once presiding in a ease where a woman wus being tried for some offense in which the evidence was clearly against her. At the close of the trial the Judge, in giving the" ease to the jury said; “Gentlemen, you have heard the evidence and you know the luw." Then, after a pause: “There is nopunish- nicut a man can inflict upon a woman and still be a man.” The woman was acquitted by the jury without leaving the box. THE FAMILY FHYSICIAS RMI am* IsifMllnii A cup of hot water drank before meal* ■will prevent na&scu and dyspepsia. One in a faint should be laid flat on his back; then loosen his clothes aud let him alone. Tho Atmtralian jO/iemiat and Druggut says that essence of 'peppermint painted on a bum causes tire pain to cease at Once. It is said by one who has tried it that cayonno pepper sprinkled upon hot flan nels will afford instant relief to persona troubled with neuralgia. Never \ rash in warm water before go ing out in the cold air. Such a practice will roughen the skin. Warm water should be used only before retiring. A growing inability to sleep in sick ness is ominous of a fatal result; in ap parent health, it indicates the failure of the mind, and madness; soon the othei hand, in disease or dementia, a very slight improvement in the sleeping should be hailed as tho harbinger of restoration. Oa ‘^Letting It Aloae.” Says the Leeds, (Eng.) Mercury. Them is notlting in which mun do more wisely, when they agree to net upon the princi ple of letting things alone, thnn when they apply this rule to tho slanders and misrepresentations which are directed against themselves. If only they can possess their souls in pntiencc, and sit down in quietness and self-control when they arc misunderstood or misrepresent ed, they may rest assured that they will gain a much more certain and easy vic tory tlmn if they insist upon doing battle ' with all whom they regard as their ene mies. The truth is great, and it wilf pre vail, snys an old proverb. . One may go further, and say that, after nil, the truth luurilVjiiends to 1m/ bol»n«i l—-— " - '*’ ninife Its way by its own weight; it will prevail by reason of its own strength. So when the angry storm of slnnder ruges, when jealousy has begotten fierce nnd bitter passions which in their turn havo armed themselves with cruel weapons of falsehood and inuliee, tho wise mnn will learn the wisdom of letting things alone. Let the storm blow past; but do not bruise yourself in fruitless attempts to hurl hack tho remorseless blast. Lcnvo it alone, and it will shriek afound you harmlessly, and by and by the hurricane will have blown itself out, and you will be exactly where you were licforc it be gan to rise—thut is, provided you havo had the wisdom to let. it alone. Frost Proof Men. Just as I regard a frost proof lower ani mal, so also do I respect the frost proof higher one, man himself. I ran see little to admire in the organization of one who fears the frost; because, whutever his mental endowments may be, he lacks an essential of the perfect physicial man, that is, manhood. As for boys they are like persimmons in this, that they neve, approached maturity until the frost has sweetened them; nnd removed the peculiar acerbity of some green things. The iad who has never gathered shell barks when his fingers tingled, or never brushed the October frost from the clover stubble with his bare feet, lias missed an experience in early life which would havo sent him into the world with harder mus cles and steadier nerves for duties which might await his coming. Your vigorous men with ruddy faces are of supremo goodnature, for “life is sweet to them.” It is the confirmed dyspeptic who lias tho monopoly of that worstformof ill humor, chronic peevishness.—Outing. A Valuable Invention. You arc a stockholder in the Cross Cut Railroad, sir?” he asked. •‘I am,” said the stockholder. “I have a new device for registering money receipts that lays over any ” “Yes, sir, hut our present system is perfectly satisfactory. Our conductors cannot ” “Excuse me, but my invention has nothing to do with conductors. It's a protection agninst presidents and super intendents. Shall I take a chair and ex plain it to you?” “If you will be so kind,” said tho stockholder.—Life.

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The Paulding new era. (Dallas, Ga.) 1882-189?, April 16, 1886, Image 1