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CHEROKEE ADVANCE.
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VOLUME V.
“We had rather be right than to be President.'
CANTON. GEORGIA, SATURDAY MORNING.
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FIRE AND LIFE INSURANCE CO
Office in stose of J. M. Me VFEE,
W. I K G. I. TEISLY,
ATTORNEYS at, LAW,
CANTON, GEORGIA.
Will g y • primpt attention to nil bus-
I 'f»s iniiuitfd to them. Wl 1 pmctlc*
i i b'I the court* o, the o unty, and In
the Superior couiti of tha B:ne Ridg,
drenit, [ j i 7 1 y
JOHN II. DELL
Carpcntor,
Having permanently locate! IrCir-
t >r—He i< now propped to do *’l k ndi
n< carpenter's woik. Building *nd re
pniripg comply done *1 sail fse'on
Ar *' e ® C0 , T1 * (,,n t , -*t!nR building
will find it to their interest lo pet m
price* before closing cjntrrc * with oth
er woikm n. J. if. OEM .
TIN SHOP.
J. H. STEADMAN,
M*nuf-oturer oi *11 Tinware, roofing
guttering. stovo pipe*, gsi p pos, *tean
pipi * *» d any thine made of tin, etc.
Rkpaiiuno.—Will repair any and i t
try thing from a tin cup to a forty horn
et gine at short notice. All charges low
•«d work warranted. Marietta *treet,
Canton, Qa. [m»i25 82 ly
MEDICAL CARD
DR. N. SEWELL return* thank* to Mia
eitl*eu» of Canton *nd ylcinity, for the r lib
er*! patronage.
Being permsren'ty located, will continue
to practice medicine, turnery n id midwi'ery.
Hoping by indnutry. energy and strict ap-
pi-cation to bunion*, to merit an increased
patronace and confidence.
Office in Dr. W. A. Green’* Drugstore.
Residence adjoining W. H. War!ick.[nov9
J. M BiJRTZ,
ATTOIREY AID COllSKLLOR AT LAW
CANTON, GEORGIA.
Office in the Court House, [mar25 ly
GEO. R. BROWN,
Attorney at Law,
Will practice in Die Superior Court*
r 1 Oiibb, Milton, For.-yth, Pickens and
D,w*"n counties, and in the Superior
inri Ju tic 1 Ouirt* o* Cherokee.
< Hi • i v r J >* M. M -Afee’* store.
S, i cisl attention g yen to the coilec-
iion of claim*.
Htislr r** respect ully solicited.
.1 n 1’, 1883
PAINTING!
BRIDGES & FORRISTER,
House ani Sip Paiita,
Will paint wagons, buggies, furniture,
and ail other plain ano fancy painting.
S e or nddres* J. W. BRIDGES cr J. B.
FOl.R SIER Canton, Gi. [feblO’83
COME
AND
SEE ME.
JT HAVE just opened a Complete Stock
^Ldirect from the manufactory ot Fancy
Candies, Mixed Candies, P ain Candies,
I j/rackera ot all sons. Also Fresh Raisins,
<Muts, Oysters, Canned Goods, and every-
CaA>i°K wanted in this line. I respectful-
Orrf ask patronage of my frienda, both in
Ty the store and job work. Blanks, Deeds,
Ac. always on hand.
CLAUDE F. EDGE.
Not 18,1882.
I
R. E. CASON.
DENTIST,
lli- inw I cited in OartersTille. He
i cii- patronage from his old frhnds
.. ft r- bi» professional servioe* to all.
ii . n Ffeb8'83fcf
Cl*..
(tuil * flerr
G. W. EVANS,
GainesTille Street, : CAN ION, GA
tur the Railroad Depot
Horses and Buggies at reasonable
prices.
Carriages and Horses always ready..
Will send to any part of the country,
with careful driven and gentle teams!.
All kinds ol stock fed and well cared
for.
HAULING AND DRAYING
done at lew rates.
Customers will be politely waited on
st ell hours, day or night.
G. W. EVANS,
nov26 81 til Proprietor.
THB—
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FOR 1*82-8.
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Address Tub Constitution,
Atlanta, Ga.
TJIK YOUTHFUL PILOT.
On the bosom of a river,
Where the sun miblml* its quiver,
Or the starlight stream* forever,
Sailed a vessel light and free.
Morning dewdrops hung like manna
On tha bright folds of her banner,
While the sephyrs rose to fan bar
Safely to the radiant aoa.
At her prow a pilot, beaming
In the flush of youth, stood dreaming,
And he w»* in glorious seeming,
Like an angel from above ;
Through his hair the breeaes sported
And, ss on the waves he floated,
Oft that pilot, angel-throated,
Warbled lays of hope and love.
Through those locks so brightly flowing
Buds of laurel bloom were blowing,
And hi* hands anon wore throwing
Music from a lyro of gold,
Swiftly down the stream he glided,
Soft tho purple wave* divided,
And a rainbow arch abided
O’er his canvas’ snowy fold.
Anxious hearts, with fond dovotion,
Watched him sailing to the ocoan,
fraying that no wild commotion
Midst the elements might rise |
And ho Heomed some young Apollo
Charming summer wind* to follow,
While the water-flag'* corolla
Trembled to hi* music-sigh*.
But those purple wavo* enchanted
Boiled be*ide a city haunted
By an awfnl spell that daunted
Every comor to her shore j
Night shades rank the str encumbered,
And pale marble statues numbered
Lotos-ester*, wliero they Rluntkered
And awokn to life no more.
Then thcro rushed with lightning qnickne**
O’er hi* fscc a mortal sickno**,
And death-dew* in fearful thickness
Gathered o’er his temples fair;
And there swept a mournful murmur
Through the lovely Southern summer,
Ar the beauteous pilot comor
Perished by that city there.
Still rolls on that radiant river,
And the sun unbinds its quiver
Or the starlight streams forever
On its bosom, as before ;
But that vessel's rainbow banner
Greets no more the gsy savannah,
And that pilot's lute drops manna
On the purple waves—no more.
» Julia Pr.raaA.vT*,
The Deacon’s Week.
BY BOSH TERRY OOOKB.
J. M. HARDIN,
House, Sign, Carriage
—AND —
Ornanental Fainter.
FREBCO & SCENIC ARTIST ALSO
Oriental and Grecian painting. Mi z>
Tinting, Cardo-Tintinp, painting Sepei
and India Iok.
Twenty-five per cent saved by apply
ing to me before contracting with other*.
Material lurniahed at bottom price*.
Satisfaction given or no charges made.
See or address,
J. M. HARDIN,
Mar.l0-’83. Canton, Georgia,
C. D. MADDOX,
ATTORNEY at LAW,
CANTON. GEORGIA.
Refers by Permission to John Siivey &
Oo., Thoe. M. Clarke & Co., James R.
Wylie end Grambling & Spalding, all
Atlanta, Ga. Mar.10 ’ 83
H. H. McENTYRE,
Brick, Flas^erlngr.
AND STONE WORKMAN,
CANTON, GEORGIA.
I am fully prepared to do any kind of
Masonry or Pastr ring at the lowest possible
rate*, and solicit the patronage of tho'e tie
siring work in my line. H. H. McEntyrk.
A NEW WORK SHOP.
D W. Bridges has opened a shop one
■loor i b vc Geo. Lathem’a store. He
build.* homei, mills. Bridges makes and
epairs nil kinds of furniture, and does
anything that can be done with wood.
C ill and aee him. [janl883tf
J. W. JARVI8,
JEWELER AND PHOTOGRAPHER,
CANTON, GEORGIA.
Can be found at hia G tilery, at any
time where he is always rta1y to do good
work at a lew price. [Julyl6tf
ita’n't; so I thought I'd try on that to : »i i n * ,
begin with. I toll you it come bard I I ' . ♦ ?
hankered after that drink of coffee dread-I% ” P /T 1 f 1 * ®
Seemed as though I couldn’t oat I , % , L"?* , ^ J7° f uo “
breakfast without it. 1 feel to pity a i ft hoiw1ncl '°' Blah, but 111 come in a
.that loves liquor more’n I ever did “‘“f* 1 min ‘* that, for women
iy life before; but l feel sure they ^e h.mn aches, and I was ,es a
H. W. »« T MtX .
JVO T ATT WAY
NEWMAN & A'lTAWAY,
Attorneys at Law,
CAN ON,
QEORGId.
Wi * prsefire in 11.e X ipr r'or Court ot
Check e a, ii adjoining count'e*. Promot
a't nt on li'-'n It .->11 i.usio* * pbtosdin
their Ulhee in the Court House.
The communion service of January
was just over in the church at Sugar
Hollow, and people were waiting for Mr.
Furkea to give out the hymn, but he did
not give it out; he laid his book down on
the table and looked about on hie
church.
Ho won a man of simplicity and sin
cerity, fully in earnest to do Lis Lord’s
work, and to do it with all bis might,
but bo did sometimes feel discouraged.
His congregation was a mixture of farm
ers and mechanics. So lie had to con
tend with the keen brain and skeptical
comment of the men who piqued them
selves on power to hammer at theologi
cal problems ns well ns hot iron, with the
jealousy and repulsion and hitter feeling
that has bred the communistic hordes
abroad and at home; while perhaps lie
had a still harder task to awaken the
sluggish souls of those who used their
days to struggle with barren hillside and
rocky pasture for more food aud oloth-
ing, and their nights to sleep the dull
sleep of physical fatigue and mental
vacuity. The minister spoke: “My dear |
friends,” he said, “you all know, though ,
I did not give you any notice to that cf- !
feet, that this week is the Week of
Prayer. I have a mind to ask you to
make it for this once a week of praotice
instead. Perhaps you will find work ,
that ye knew not of, lyiDg in your
midst. And let us all ou Saturday even- i
ing meet here again and choose some one
brother to relate his experience of the
week. You who are willing to try this
method, please to rise.”
Everybody rose except old Amos
Tucker, who never stirred, though hia
wife pulled at him and whispered to him,
imploringly. He only shook his grizzled
head and sat immovable.
Saturday night the church assembled j
again. The cheerful eagerness was gone ,
from their faces; they looked downcast, j
troubled, weary—as the pastor expected. !
When the box for ballots was passed j
about, each one tore a bit of paper from
the sheet placed in the hymn hooks for
the purpose and wrote on it a name.
The pastor said after he had counted
them, “ Deacon Emmons, the lot has
fallen on you.”
“I’m sorry for’t,” said the deacon,
rising up and taking off his overcoat. “I
ba’n’t got thebest of records, Mr. Parkes,
now I tell ye.
“ Well, brethren,” he said, “ I am
pretty well ashamed of myself, no doubt,
but I ought to be, and maybe I shall
profit by what I have found out these
six days hack. I’ll toll you just as it
come. Monday, I looked about me to
begin with. I am amazing fond of coffee,
and it a’n’t.good for me, the doctor says
hankered after that drink of coffee dread
ful!
my
man
in my mo Delore ; but I feel sure they
(’an stop if they try, for I’ve stopped,
nnd I’m going to stay stopp'd.
“Well, come to dinner, there wns an
other light. I do set by pie tho most of
anything. I wns fetched up on pie, as
von may say. Our folks always had it
three times a day, and tho doctor* lie’s
been talkin’ and talkin’ to me about
eatin’ pie. I have the dyspepsia like
everything, and it makes me useless by
spells, and onreliahle as a weather-cock.
And Doctor Drake, he says there won’t
nothing help mo but to diet. I wns
readin tho llihle that morning while I
sat waiting for breakfast, for ’twas Mon
day, and wife was kind of set hack with
wnsliin and nil, and I came across that
part where it says that the bodies of
Christians are the temples of the Holy
Ghost. \\ ell, thinks I, wo’d ought to
take care of ’em if they he, and see that
thoy ro kep’ clean and pleasant, like tho
church; and nobody can lie clean nor
pleasant that has dyspeimy. But, coiuo
to pip, I felt ns though T couldn’t 1 aud,
1° ye, I didn’t I I eat a piece right
against my conscience; facin’ what I
knew 1 ought to do I went and done
what I ought not to. I tell ye my con
science made music of mo oonsider’hle,
aqd I said then I wouldn’t sneer at a
drinkin’ man no more when ho slipi>od
up. I’d feel for him an’ help him, for 1
bog just how it was. 8o that day’s prac
tice giv’ out, but it learnt me a good
deal more’n I knew before.
“ I started out next day to look up mv
Bible class. Well, ’twonld tako tho even
in’ to loll it nil, hut I found oneroid Hick,
boon abed for three weeks, and wns ho glad
to aee me that I felt fair ashamed. Thon
another man’s old mother sayB to mo,
before lie come in from the shed, says
she, 1 He’s been a sayin’ that if folks
practice what they preached you’d ha*
conic round to look 1dm up afore now,
hi® he rcowimed you kJbder'XNlkedMoWn
on mill-hands. I’m awful glad you
come. Brethring, so waa I. I tell you
that day’s work did mo good. 1 got a
jioor opinion of Josinh Emmons, now I
tell ye, but I learned more about the
Lord’s wisdom than a month o’ Sundays
ever showed me.
“ Now come fellowship day. I thought
that would be all plain sailing; seemed
as though I'd got warmed up till I felt
pleasant towardst everybody ; so T went
around seein’ folks that was neighbors,
and ’twas easy; but when I come home
at noon spell Pliilury says, says she,
' ’Square Tucker’s block bull is into th’
orchard a tearin’ round, and he’s knocked
two lengths o’ fence down flat I’ Well,
the old Adam riz up then, you’d better
b’liovo. That black bull has boon break-
in’ into my lots ever since we got in th’
aftermath, and it’s Square Tucker’s fence,
and ho won’t make it hull-strong as lie’ll
oughter, and that orchard was a young
ono just cornin’ to hear, and all the now
wood crisp as cracklin’s with frost. You'd
better b’liovo I didn’t have much fcller-
feelin with Amos Tucker. I jest put over
to his houso and spoke up pretty free to
him, when he looked lip and says lie,
‘ Fellowship meetin’ day, a’n’t it, Dea
con?’ I’d rather he’d ha’ slapped my
face. I felt as though I should like to
slip behind the door. I see pretty dis-
tiuot*what sort of life I’d been livin’ all
the years I’d been a professor, when 1
couldn’t hold on to my tongue and tem-
)x*r one day!”
“ Breth-e-ren,” interrupted a slow,
li.i.rsli voice, somewhat broken with emo
tion, “I’ll tell tho rest ou’t. Josinh
Emmons come around like a man an’ a
Christian right here. He asked me for
to forgive him, and not to think ’twas
I he fault of his religion, because ’twas
liia’n and nothing else. I think more of
him to-day than I ever done before. I
was the one that wouldn’t say I’d practice
with the rest of ye. I thought ’twos
everlasting nonsense. I’d ruther go to
forty-nine prayer-meetin’s than work at
bein’ good a week. I b’lievo my hope
has been one of them that perish; it
ha’n’t worked, and I leave it behind to
day. I mean to begin honest, and it
was seein’ ono honest Christian man
fetched me round to’t.”
Amos Tucker sat down and buried bis
grizzled head in liis rough hands.
1* Bless the Lord I” said the quaver
ing tones of a still older man from a fa/
corner of the house, and many a glisten
ing eye gave silent response.
“Goon, Brother Emmons,” said the
minister.
“ Well, when next day come, I got up
to make the fire, and my boy Joe had
forgot the kindlin’s. I’d open my mouth
to give him Jesse, when it come over me
sudden that this was the day of prayer
for the family relation. I thought I
wouldn’t aay nothing. I jeat fetched
goin’ to say so, when I remembered tho
tox’ about not being hitter against’em,
so I says, ‘Pliilury, you lay abed. I ex-
l>ect Emmy and me can get tho vittlea
to-day. ’ I declare, she turned over nnd
give me secli n look; why, it struck rigid
in. Thcro was my wife, that had workinl
lor nn' waited on me for twenty odd
years, ’most senr’t because I spoko kind
of foolin’ to her. I went out and fetched
in tho pail o’ water sho’d always
drawod herself, and then I milked tho
cow. When'I came in Pliilury was up
fryin’ the potatoes, aud tho tears a
shinin’ on her white face. Sho didn't
say nothin', she's kinder still, lint she
hadn't no need to. I felt a lectio mean
cr'n I did the day before. But ’twau’t
nothing to my condition whou I was go
in’, toward night, down tho sullar stairs
for some apples, so’s tho children could
have a roast, and I lieered Joe up in the
kitoliun sny to Emmy, 'I do h’lieve, Em,
pa’s goin’ to die.’ 'Why, Josiar Em
mons, how you talk!' ‘Well, I do;lie’s
so over last in’ pleasant an’ good-natoml
I can't hut think lie’s struck with death.’
“I tell ye, brethren, I set right down
on them sullar stairs and cried. I did,
really. Boomed as though tho Lord had
turned and looked nt me jest ns He did
at Peter. Why, tliero wna my own
children never seen mo act real fatherly
and pretty in all their lives. I’d growled
and scolded nnd prnyod at ’em, and
tryed to fetch ’em up jest as tho twig is
bent the treo’B inclined, ye know, hut I
hadn't never thought that they'd got right
an’ reason to expect I’d do my part as
woll as their’n. Boomed as though I
wns findin' out more about Josinh
Emmons’s shortcoming* than wns real
agreeable.
“ Come around Friday I got hock to
llie store. I’d kind of left it to tho boyB
the early part ot the week, and things
wns a little entering, but I did liavo
sense not to tear round and usu sharp
words so much as coihinon. • 1 lx gnu to
think ’twas getting easy to practice after
live days, when in ooino Jimge Herrick’*
wife after some cnrt’in calico. 1 had
Itan’Bome piece, all done off with*roses
an’ things, hut there was a fault in the
weavin’, every now and then a thin
streak. She didn’t notice it, hut she was
pleased with the figures on’t, aud said
she’d take tho whole piece. Well, just
ns I wrappin’ of it up, wlmt Mr. Parkes
here said aliout trvin’ to act just os the
Lord would in our place come across me.
Why, I turned ns rod os a beet, I know
1 did. It made mo feel all of a tremble.
Thcro was I, a doorkoopor in tho tents
f myGod, as David says, really cheatin’,
and cheatin’ a woman. 1 tell ye brethren,
I was all of a sweat. * Mis’ Herrick,’says
f, ‘ I don't believe you’vo looked real
closo at this goods; ’tniu’t thorough
wove,’ says I. So she didn’t take it;
but what fetched me was to think how
many times heforo I’d done such mean,
onreliahle little things to turn a penny,
and all the time sayin’ and prayin’ that
think of goodness before. Then I went
to another place jest like that—I won't
call no moro nnmos ; nnd sure enongh
there was ton children in rags, the hull
on ’em, and the man half drunk. He
giv’ it to me, too; aud I don’t wonder.
I’d never lifted a hand to serve nor save
'em lieforo in nil these years. I’d said
consider’hle about tho heathen in foreign
parts, and give some little to convert ’em,
and I hod looked right over the liradH of
them that was next door. Seemed ns i!
I could hear Him sny, ' These ought ye
to have done, and not have loft tho other
undone,’ I couldn’t face another soul
to-day, brethren. I como home, and
here I bo. I’ve been searched through
and through and found wantin’. God
lie merciful to mo a sinner!”
He dropped into his seat, and bowed
liis head ; and many another bent, too.
It was plain that tho deacon's experi
ence was not the only one among the
brethren. Mr. Pnyson rose, and prnyrri
ns he had nover prayed before; the
week of practice had fired hiB heart
t«x). And it began a memorable year
for the church in Hugar Hollow; not a
year cf excitement or enthusiasm, but
ono when they licnrd their Lord sny-
ing, as to Israel of old, “Go forward,”
ami they obeyed His voice. Tho Sun
day school flourished, tho church ser
vices were fully attended, every good
thing wns helped on in its way, amt
|x>nce reigned in their homes and
hearts, imperfect-, perhaps, as new
growths are, hut still an offshoot of the
peace past understanding.
And another year they will keep an
other week of practice, by common oon-
«eut.—The Vnnsjrr.fjafionaliat
The Paris Workman.
The Paris ouvrier is no idler. He
makes upon an average 250 dnys in tho
year, the hours Ixdng ten in tho sum
mer and eight in the winter; 46 per
cent, of the workmen in Paris make
300 days in the year, besides overtime,
They work by the hour in most trades,
aud earn from 6 to 8 francs s day.
About 10 per cunt, do not work on
Hq-bday, hut evun these make no ftijac
tion when required to do so. The
remainder do not regard Sunday, lmt
take a holiday when convenient. The
flint Sunday in tho mouth, however,
being pay day, is generally a holiday.
Accidents in workshops are often
met by a common assurance fund, to
which masters nnd ouvriera equally
subscribe. Many employers refuse a
man unless lie consents to this small
tax on his work, which amounts to
about one centime the hour, or two
sous a day. It is reckoned to cost the
employer about 15 francs a year for
each man. In case of accidents which
are curable the injured man receives
2 francs 50 centimes a day; if he bus
lost n member, a pension of 300 francs
year; and if killed, liiH widow or
family receives a sum of 7,000 francs.
Wlmt to Teach Children.
A Massachusetts clergyman in his
Fust Day sermon said:—“The demorali-
- - , /.at ion which lends to gambling, specula-
I wanted to be like Christ. I kep K . turn, the haste to bo rich, tho planning to
trippiu’ of myself up all day jest in tho nnei ono i : ui.
trippiu’ of myself up all day jest
rilinary business, and I was a peg lower
down when night come than I was a
Thursday. I’d ruther, us far as tho hard
work is concerned, lay a mile of four-
f(N)t stone wall than undertake to do a
man’s livin’ Christian duty for twelve
workin’ hours; nnd the heft of that is,
it’s because I ain’t used to it and I ought
to 1)6.
“So this mornin’ camo around, and I
fi lt a mite more cherk. ’Twas missionary
mornin’, and seemed as if 'twas a sight
easier to preach than to practice. I
thought I’d begin to old Mis’ Yedder’s.
So I put a testament in my pocket and
knocked to hor door. Buys I, ‘ Good
rnornin’, ma’am,’ and thou 1 stopped.
Words seemed to hang, somehow. I
didn’t wont to pop right out that I’d
come to try’n convert her folks. I
In-mmed and swallereil a little, and fln’lly
[ said, says I, ' We don’t see you to
mootin’ very frequent, Mis’ Vedder.’
“ ‘ No, you don’t I’ ses she, as quick as
a wink. ‘ I stay at home and mind my
business.’
“‘Well, we should like to hev you
come along with us and do ye good,’ says
f, sort of conciliatin’.
“ ‘ Look a here, Deacon 1’ she snapped,
‘ I’ve lived alongside of you fifteen year,
and you knowed I ueverwent to meetin’;
we a’n’t a pious lot, and you knowed it;
we’re poorer ’n death and uglier ’n sin.
Jim he drinks and swears, and Malviny
dono her letters. Bhoknowsa heap she
hadn’t ought to, besides. Now what are
you cornin’ here to-day for, I’d like to
know, and talkin’ so glib about meetin’ ?
Go to meetin’ ? I’ll go or come jest as I
darn please, for all you. Now get out o’
this ?’_ Why, she come at me with a
broomstick. There wasn’t no need on’t;
what she said whs enough. 1 hadn’t
never asked her nor her’n to so much a«
get an $8,000 houso for $5,000 begins with
our Hystcm of education. We are teaching
our boys to regard themselves as con
sumers, not producers to undertake to
live without work. We keep a boy in
school from 16 to 18 and then turn him
Into ti.i world with no trade and no
knowledge of business. Political econo
mists affirm that a healthy seven-year -
old child is able to pay his way. Be that
os it may, the system of education,
which does not hold out to every mem
ber of the family the opportunity of be
ing a help in the family, be the lath r
rich or poor, is defective. The boy of
to-day spends his strength on the oar,
the bat or the bicycle. It were better
for him if, like the youthful Christ, he
were taught either to make or follow the
plow.
We teach our girls no handicraft, and
the waste of an American table would
keep a French family in better style.
The young man with a small income and
a wife lacking the knowledge of how to
make it go the farthest who complains
that tho world owes him a living
will find that the world only pays for
wlmt it needs.
A Swindle.—The swindle planned by
a Cincinnati showman consisted in ad
vertising for a treasurer for a minstrel
show, and getting $500 from a candidate
as pretended security. A country grocer
was caught by the prospect of making n
tour of the couutry on a salary of $25 a
week, with all expenses paid, and he
supposed that he was safe agaiust fraud
because a company was ready to actually
start out. But the performers were
amateurs, lured into the affair at no cost
to the manager, who fled with all the
money after the first performance. The
grocer committed snicide.
The only man who never went back on
his friends is the man who never had any
friends.