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by 3. P. SAWTELL.
E. H. PURDY,
Manufacturer of
Sales, Harness ani Treks,
And Wholesale and Retail Dealer in
All kinds of Sadlery Ware,
Corner of Whitaker and Brjan Sts.,
SAVANNAH, GA.
j 3g- Orders for Rui.ber Belting, Hose and
Packings also, Stretched Leather Belting,
Hlled promptly. » e P iy - 6m
L. J. OtTILMARTIN. JOHN FLANNERY.
L. J. GUILM&RTIN & CO.,
Cotton Factors,
AND
General Commission Merchants,
Bay St., Savannah, Ga.
Agents for Bradley's Super Phos
phate of Lime , Powell's Mills
Yarns and Domestics, etc.
Bagging Rope and Iron Ties, al
ways on band.
j qg- Utual Facilities Extended to CadfoSners.
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A, J. MILLER & CO.,
FURNITURE DEALERS,
150 Broughton Street,
SAVANNAH, CJEOROIA.
WE HAVE ON HAND, and are con
tinually receiving, every variety of
Parlor and Bedroom Sets,
Bureau*, Waehutands, Bedßtead*, Chaim,
Rockers Wardrobes. Meat Sates, Cradles,
Looking Glasses, Feathers, Featherbeds, Pil.l
lows. etc. . _ , , ' ,
Hair, Moss, Shuck and Excelcior Matrasses
‘on hand, and made to order.
Jobbing and Repairing neatly done, and
with despatch.
We are fnlly prepared to fill orders.
Country orders promptly attended to.
All letters of inquiry auswered promptly.
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MARIETTA MARBLE YARD.
J AM PREPARED TO FURNISH
Marble, Monuments,
Tombs, Head and Foot Stones,
Yaces, Urns, Vaults, etc.,
At very reasonable terms, made of
Italian, American and Georgia
MARBLE.
■IRON RAILING Put Up to Order.
For information or designs address me at
'this place, or
DU. T. 8. POWELL, Agent,
Cutlibert, Ga.
Address,
J. A. MSATVER,
sep!7-6m Marietta, Ga.
GEORGE S. HART & CO.,
Commission Merchants,
And Wholesale Dealess in
Fine Bntter, Cheese, Lard, etc.,
1)9 Pearl and 28 Bridge Sts., N. Y.
tw Batter and Lard, of all grades, pnt up
in every variety of package, for Shipment to
Warm Climates. sepu-Om*
reedlglarke;
31a. 22, Old Slip, New York,
DEALERS IN
PROVISIONS,
Onions, Potatoes, Butter, etc.
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ELY, OBERHOLSTER & CO.,
Importers and Jobbers in
Dry Goods,
J Fos. 329 tfe 331 Broadway,
j Corner of Worth Street.
«ej»ls-6m New York.
Mill Gearing,Shaftint&Pulleys
ToQU « Hfl{^%riMOßi§ -
vLCsend foracirculai
r GEORGE PAGE & CO.
jVo. 5 JV. Schroeder St., Baltimore.
Manufacturers of
PORTABLE AND STATIONARY
Steam Engines and Boilers
IPATENT *J MPROV®D, PORTABLE
Circular Saw Hill
(fatty, Millay and Sash Saw Mills ,
Grist Mills, Timber Wheels, Shingle Ma
■chines, &«. Dealers in Circular Saws, Belt,
ing and Mill supplies generally, and mautifac
tnrer’s agents for Lefl'ol’s Celebrated Turbine
Water Wiieel and every description of Wood
Working Machinery. Agricultural Engines
a Specialty.
X3ff~ Send for descriptive Catalogues & Price
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CUTHBERT §M APPEAL.
Farmers’ Warehouse,
CUTHBERT, GA,
J. M. REDDING & CO.,
Proprietors.
WE TAKE THIS METHOD of inform
ing the citizens of Randolph and ad
joining counties; that we have put our Ware
house in a goo J state of repair and are still in
the
• WAREHOUSE
AID COMMISSION BUSINESS,
And have ample arrangements for the Storage
an« Sale of Cotton aid other Supplies.
Truly grateful for past favors, and with a
full consciousness of having done our duty
to patron* in the past, and a determination
to do so for the future, we hope to merit a
full share of public patronage.
Cash Advances on Potion and
Goods in Store.
As we intend to close out ottt Sro k of
Dry Goods, we will give our entire attention
to a strict and close
WARE HO USE B USINESS.
A fttfl assortment of PLANTERS’
BUPPLIES always on band.
Our Patrons will be furnished
with ample accommodations for
Stock and Teamsters FREE I
Consignments solicited.
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JAS. S. ANTHONY,
Manufacturer of
Plain Tin Ware,
And Dealer in
Stamped, Japanrt and PlanisM
ware,
Wood Ware,
And all other Goods generally kept
in a first-class Tin House.
Roofing, Guttering, Job Work
And Repairing Generally,
Promptly attended to.‘
J. S. ANTHONY,
East side Public Square,
octßct Cuthbert, Ga.
ELDER Sc BROWN,
MASTER BUILDERS,
CUTHBERT, GA.,
ARE prepared to erect, at short, notice, first,
class STORES, PRIVATE DWELL
INGS, CULVERTS, etc., etc., from beauti
ful native Hock, quarried from an inexhausti
ble bed of the material, within a half mile of
tlie out skirts of the city. Either
Tin or Slate Roofs Supplied
If desired, and both Wood Work and Mason
ry warranted to be of the best description.
For particulars inquire of either of the
firm. .JOHN ELDER,
sep24-ly JAMES A BROWN.
PALMER & DEPPISH,
WHOLESALE AND RETAIL DEALEItS IN
HARDWARE,
RUBBER BELTING,
AGRICULTURAL IMPLEMENTS,
Powder, Shot, Caps and Lead.
14R Congress & 67 St. Julian Sts.,
SAVANNAH, GEORGIA.
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Crockery and Glass Ware.
A full Assortment of
Granite and C. C. Crockery,
And many useful Articles of
GLASS WARE,
Just received and for sale by
JAS. S. ANTHONY,
At His
House Furnishing and Tin Store
East Side Public Square,
octßct Cuthbert, Ga.
HAVE ON SAXE
A large Stock
TOILET SOAPS,
WASHING SOAPS,
STARCH.
BLUING,
Violin STRINGS,
Guitar STRINGS
Musical Instruments
CUTLERY, CURLING IRONS,
PHOTOGRAPH ALBUMS, Etc.,
For sale by T.S. POWELL, Trustee,
Druggist, Bookseller and Stationer.
COOKING and HEATING
STOVES,
And COOKING UTENSILS
Os every description, with a gTeat variety of
House Keeper’s Goods generally
For sale al live Tin Store of
J. 8. ANTHONY,
oct&et Cuthbert, Ga.
CUTHBERT, GEORGIA, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 18, 1870.
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Autumn.
BY JOHN C. C. BBAIXARD.
Thedesd leaves strew the forest walk,
And withered are the pale wild flowers,
The Irost hangs blackening ob the stalk,
The dew drops fall in frozen showers.
Gone are the Spring’s gr ;en sporting bowers,
Gone Summer’s rich and mantling vines,
And autumn, with her yellow hours,
On hill and plain now shines.
I learned a clear and wild-toned note,
That rose and swelle’d from yonder tree—
A gay bird, with too sweet a throat,
There perched and raised her song for me.
The winter comes, and where is she ?
Away—where summer wings will rove,
Where buds are fresh, aud every tree
Is vocal with the notes of love.
Too mild the breath of southern sky,
Too fresh the flower that blushes there,
The northern breeze that rustles by,
Finds leaves too green and buds too fair!
No forest tree stands stripped and bare,
No stream beneath the ice is dead,
No mountain top with sleepy hair
Bends o’er the snow its reverend head,
Go there with all the birds—and seek
A happier clime with livelier flight;
Kiss with the sun the evening’s cheek,
And leave me lonely with the night,
I’ll gaze upon the cold north light,
And mark where all its glories shone—
See—that, it is all fair and bright,
Teel--that it all is cold and gone.
Reprove Not with Anger.
Be ever gentle with the children
God has given to you; watch them
constantly; reprove them earnestly,
but not in anger. In the forcible
language of Scripture, “Be not bit
ter against them.” “Yes, they are
good bJ\vs,” we once heard a kind
father
much, but I do not like to beat my
children; the world will beat them.”
It was a beautiful thought, though
not elegantly expressed. Yes, there
is not one child in the circle round
the table, healthy and happy as they
look dow, on whose head, if long
spared, the storm will not beat.—
Adversity may wither them, sick
ness fade, a cold world frown on
them ; but, amid all, let memory
call them back to a home where a
law of kindness reigned, where the
mother’s reproving eye was moist
ened with a tear, and the father
frowned “more in sorrow than in
anger.”
Origin of thf. Term Blue
Stocking. —Boswell, in the life of
Dr. Johnson, relates that about the
year 1781, it was much the fashion
for several ladies to have evening
assemblies, where the fair sex might
participate in conversation with lit
erary and ingenious men, animated
by a mutual desire to please. The
societies were denominated “Blue
Stocking Clubs” from the following
circumstances : One of the most
eminent members was Mr. Stilling
fleet, whose address was remarka
bly grave, and in particular it was
observed that he wore blue stock
ings. Such was the excellence of
his conversation that his absence
was felt as a great loss, and it used
to be said, “We can do nothing
without Blue Stocking.” And
thus, by degrees, the title was es
tablished.
—A gentleman “out west,”
whom so many clever things come
from, has hit upon a novel plan for
“realizing” on his bad debts. He
publishes a list of his debtors giv
ing the amount due from each, and
advertises to sell such debts as are
not paid by a given date at public
auction. This plan has many good
points. In the first place, a portioti
of the debtors having, perhaps,
some little shame left, will pay up
to prevent the publication of their
names as defaulters. Others will
be unwilling to submit to the hu
miliation of having their credit sold,
and finding out at just what figure
it is rated in the community. Be
sides these advantages, whatever
the debts are believed to be worth
by those who know the debtors will
be obtained in ready cash. On the
other hand, the public will know
the price of their neighbors in the*
market, and be cautious of invest
ing in the honesty of those who sell
at a low figure. We may expeet
soon to see various men quoted like
railroad stocks, in Chicago and oth
er enterprising Western cities.
There are two directly oppo
site reasons why some men have
poor credit —one because they are
not known, and the other because
they are kuowu.
The Unconscious Confession.
“Make haste, gentlemen, the rail
way omnibus is waiting!” cried
the voice of the hall porter at the
“Royal Hotel,” at Long Beach.
A tall, handsome young gentle
man, at the summons came down
the staircase, two steps at a time,
and almost ran over a matronly la
dy some five years his senior, who
was crossing the hall of the hotel.
“What! going to leave us ?’ said
the lady, in some surprise, and more
meaning in her looks than in her
words even.
“Yes; it’s no use,” was the reply.
“Thanks for your good wishes,
which I can see in your lodes, Mrs.
Maxwell. But lam tired of play
ing the fool.”
“Pshaw !” said the lady, putting
her arm familiarly into his, and
leading him into the coffee-room,
which, at the hour was deserted,
“Faint heart never won a fair lady,”
Mr. Hastings. Listen tome. The
•omnibus will wait a moment.”
“It’s not a question of faintheart,”
answered the gentleman. “But
Kate won’t have me. See here,
Mrs. Maxwell, she refused me point
blank last night.”
“And what if she did ? I refused
Mr. Maxwell the first time myself.
It’s a way some of our sex have.
Come, stay and try again.” .
“I’m a proud man,” was the reply,
“and don’t like being trifled with.
But I’d stay if I thought it would
do any good. But it won’t. She
isn’t anywhere about, you see,
though I told her I would go away
to-day. And when I told her, she
actually laughed. And yet, con
found he, I can’t help lovingher.”
Mrs. Maxwell would like to have
laughed also. But she knew better
than to do it just yet.
“She was a little hysterical or she
would have laughed,” she said.
“The truth is, Herbert, you are a
pair of fools. You are proud, as
you say, and don’t brook refusals.
Kate is, perhaps, a bit of a flirt,
but I sincerely believe she loves
you. All she needs is a little more
urging. You must storm the for
tress till it surrenders. Give her
no quarter; tfcat is my advice;”
and now Mrs. Maxwell, seeing his
face brighten, ventured a laugh.
It was a clear, musical laugh, and
it cheered Herbert still more. He
hesitated. If another five minutes
could have been granted to Mrs.
Maxwell, she would have prevailed.
But at this mement a voice cried
‘‘Here he is. Make haste, Has
tings. We’ve looked for you every
where. The coachman says he
won’t wait another moment. Ah,
Mrs. Maxwell, our holiday is over,
you see. Good bye.*’
That interruption decided Her
bert. He shook his head in reply
to Mrs. Maxwell’s entreating look,
wrung her hand, and dashed out of
the coffee-room. The next minute
the omnibus dashed away from the
hotel.
It was a mile to the station; and
ere it was reached, Herbert half re
pented what he had done.
“Perhaps I have been too hasty,”
he said to himself. ‘What if Mrs.
Maxwell is right? I’ve a great
mind to go back,’ he thought.—
“Hold on, driver,” he cried aloud,
“Ive changed my mind. Stop till I
jump out.”
Before his companions could ask
what he meant, he had left the om
nibus, had lit a cigar and was plod
ding along the beach on his return
to the hotel, carpet-hag in hand.
Meantime, where was the offen
ding Kate? To do her justice, she
was not aware how much she loved
Herbert Hastings until she had re
fused him. It was not altogether
coquetry that led her to say “No.”
The answer had been given in the
first surprise and embarrassment of
the proposal. She was frigbtend
to find almost immediately, how
much she misunderstood herself.—
She grew more and more embar
rassed in consequence; nnd her
manner afterwards, at which Her
bert took such offense, was as Mrs.
Maxwell had suggested, really the
result of nervousness. Even before
he left her, she bitterly repented
what she had said. Had he perse
vered a little longer she would have
confessed the truth. She did not,
however, believe he would leave
Long Beach, even after he had said
so. Hence, early in the morning
she had started for a long walk on
the sands, hoping to meet him there
as usual; for hardly a day had
passed within the last month that
these two had not so met.
There was an old wreck, at that
time about a mile or more above
the hotel, which had been a favor
ite haunt of theirs ; and thither she
repaired. She tried to read till
Herbet should appear; but her eyes
wandered from her book continu
ally. Meantime, an hour passed
without Herbert appearing. Her
heart began to fail her. She spent
the time examining her real feel
ings ; and the more she scrutinized
the more she felt that her love had
gone from her forever. By-and-by
the hot tears began to flow. She
knew how proud Herbert Hastings
was and she said to herself ho
would never come hack.
The sea rolled heavily in; the
wind blew fresh from the eastward;
the sun shone dazzling bright. She
gave up all hope at last and began
to w r alk back towards the hotel.-
But after a while she sat down again
on the beach above the sands. She
would not yet abandon the chance
of seejng him. Gradually she fell
into a sort of reverie, and began
half to trace Hcr-
bert’s name in the saud with the
point of her parasol.
It was at this juncture that Her
bert, walked along the top of the
beach, discerned her. His heart
began to beat fast. Here was the
chance he had wished, yet dared
not hope for. It surely was a fa
vorable sign that she had gone to
their usual rendezvous. He hasti
ly bent his steps towards her.
He thought she would hear him
as he approached. But she did not.
She was evidently too much absorb
ed; in what, however, he could
not yet discover. He came nearer
and nearer. What with the roar
of the surf, and her own absorp
tion, Kate still remained uncon
scious of his presence. He ap
proached so close at last that he
could look over her shoulder. —
Blessed vision! Could he believe
his own eye? She was writing
with her parasol in the sand the
word—“ Herbert.”
His first impulse was to snateb
her to his arms. He was loved,
then 1 Mrs. Maxwell had been right.
But he restrained himself, wait
ing with baited breath to see what
she would do next.
She did nothing for a moment. —
Then she sighed, and went on tra
cing slowly other words. They
were—“ Herbert, I love you r’
Hastings could control himself no
longer. Stooping over her, he
caught Kate’s face in his hands,
and kissed her full on the lips. She
sprang up, with a half scream, and
turned to face him, angrily, for she
did not suspect for a moment who
it was. But when she recognized
her lover she blushed over throat,
cheek, and brow even, and covering
her face with both her hands, would
have run away if Herbert had not
been too quick for her.
“Darling,” he whispered, clasp
ing her in his arms and drawing
her to him, “heaven bless you for
those words! I had come to try my
fate once more. Say that dear con
fession over again.”
Kate was silent for awhile. But
his caresses soon dried her tears,
and made her jf'orget her momenta
ry shame. By and by she looked
saucily, and exclaimed, “Well, lis
teners never hear any good of them
selves, and if I’m such a flirt as
Mrs. Maxwell tells me I am, you
haven’t much of a bargain. There,
will that do ?”
“Then you do love me ?” insist
ed Herbert, eager to hear the ac
knowledgement in her own sweet
accents.
Kate’s eyes were full of mischief.
“What is written on sand, you
know, is the simile for a woman’s
fickleness.”
But even as she spoke, her spark
ling eyes lost their saucy look, and
gazed at him with such love, that
Herbert took her in his arms again
and kissed her rapidly.
What a happy hour it was that
followed! The lovers paced up and
down the strand, far out of sight
of any intruders, exchanging con
fessions as to when they first began
to be interested in each other. Ah !
that fiist hour of mutual acknowl
edged affection. Is there anything
in life ever after half or quarter so
blissful ?
Mrs. Maxwell happened to he
standing on the hotel balcony when
Hastings and Kate returned, to
ward luch-time, arm in arm. She
understood all at a glance, but she
could not forbear a little raillery.
“Ah, you are back again Mr.
Hastings,” she said. “I thought,
you’d such imperative business in
town, that, if you didn’t gel there
to-day, the world would come to an
end. And you, Kate, my dear,
you said you had a dreadful head
ache. Will walking in the sun cure
it, child ? Bless me, how red your
cheeks are ! Really, you must use
some violet powder
Kate stayed to hear no more of
this badinage.
Taking her arm hastily from
Herbert’s, though not without a
last look of love, she fled up the
staircase like a frightened deer. —
Mrs. Maxwell laughed softly,
watching Kate till she was out of
sight. Then she turned to lias
tings.
“I congratulate you,” she said,
pressing his hand warmly. “You’ve
won a real treasure. So much, too,
for taking an old woman’s advice.”
“I wish all old women, as you
call them, were as kind and beauti
ful as the one I know,” answered
Herbert, gallantly kissing her hand.
“But how did it come about ?”
“Ah ! that’s my secret,” answer
ed Herbert, with a knowing twinkle
of the eye.
And to this day he has never be
trayed Kate. Only he and she
knew in what way she made her
unconscious confession.
The other night, a convivially
disposed gentleman, retiring late,
walked somewhat noisily up the
stairs and corridor to his room.—
“Why what a noise you make!”
said his wife, “how heavily you
walk!” “Well, my dear,” was the ■
gruff response, “if you can get a
barrel of whiskey up stairs with
any less noise, I should like to see
you do it!”
—A colored poet of Memphis has
reduced the Fifteenth amendment
and the Enforement Bill to rhyme,
as follows :
«It is a sin to steal a pin,
A crime to cut a throas —
But a darned sight bigger to stop a nigger
From putting in his vote.”
S. C. Knott and A. VY. Shott
fought a duel. The result was that
they changed conditions. Knott
was shot and Shott was not. It
was better to he Shott than Knott.
The Gulf Stream of the Pacific.
BY T. B. MAURY.
The Equatorial Current of the
Pacific is wider and grander even
than that of the Atlantic. It moves,
as do all such currents of the ocean,
on the line of a great circle, and
this circle intersects the equator at
an acute angle of only a few de
grees. It sweeps to the westward,
in “ uninterrupted grandeur.” as
one expresses it, around three
eigths of the circumference of the
globe, until diverted by the conti
nent of Asia, and split into innu
merable streams by the Polynesian
Islands. Reaching the Ladrones,
it imparts a much warmer climate
than it has given to the Sandwich
or Marquesas. The Phillipines are
made opprossively hot even in win
ter, and one familiar with it has
said: “The fervor increases as we
reach Malacca, is all aglow in India,
and becomes stifling in its intensity
as these equatorial waters, after
travelling fifteen thousand miles
and being fully three hundred days
under a vertical sun, Are thrown
against the eastern shores of Afri
ca.” This Equatorial Current is
as broad as the Torrid Zone, and
out of it comes the “ Kuro Si wo,”
or Gulf Stream of the Pacific.
The latter possesses a tempo* a
ture more striking in its contrast
with the surrounding waters than
even the Gulf Stream of the Atlan
tic.
Striking off at Formosa from the
Equatorial, it moves with majestic
power, heedless of the fiercest g&Io,
and to the eye of the thoughtful ob
server is bent upon the discharge of
some momentous mission. Reach
ing the fortieth parallel •of north
latitude, it seems to turn aside from
its course, and curve away to the
American shores. On the track of
its northeasterly flow the map ma
ker writes another name, as if some
mighty power had diverted it. But
it has not been turned; only a little
of its foamy surface has been borne
along in the easterly set. The vast
torrent is only skimmed. The re
curvation which pours around the
southern coasts of Alaska, and lave3
the western shores of Sitka Island,
is but a drift. The tremendous
bulk of equatorial water rushes on
in a changeless course. It is mov
ing in obedience to a steady and al
mighty hand. Every drop feels
the impulse ot a force it cannot re
sist. Every drop is lighter than
the drop of polar water, with which
it is hastening to exchange places,
lest the •equilibrium of nature be
overthrown.
But on its way it receives, every
moment an impact from the earth’s
rotation. And thus it moVes on
the line of a great circle to the
northeast, and entering Behring’s
Sea knocks for admission at the
very gates of the Polar Ocean. In
its course its pathway is strewed
with the marks of its thermal and
climatic power. If the Gulf
Stream has clothed Ireland with its
robe of verdue and made it the
“ Emerald Isle,” tho Kuro Siwo
has done as much for the Aleutian
Islands and Alaska. They are man
tled with living green. The flocks
scarcely need sheltor in winter. If
their soil is treeless, their Gulf
Stream richly supplies them with
timbei for their canoes, and cam
phor wood of Japan and China for
their furniture. —Atlantic Monthly.
Causes of Sudden Death.—
Very few of the sudden deaths
which are said to arise from dis
eases of the heart do really arise
from that cause. To ascertain the
real origin of sudden deaths, expe
riments have been tried in Europe,
and reported to a scientific congress
held at Strasburg. Sixty-six cases
of sudden death were made the
subject of a thorough post mortem
examination ; in these cases only
two were found who died from dis
ease of the heart. Nine out of six
ty»six had died from apoplexy,
while there were forty six cases of
congestion of the lungs—that is, the
lungs were so full of blood they
could not work, there not being
room enough for a sufficient quanti
ty of air to enter to support life.—
The causes that produce congestion
of the lungs are cold feet, tight clo
thing, costive bowels, sitting still
chilled, after being warmed with
labor or a rapid walk, going too
suddenly from, a close, heated room
into the cold air, especially after
speaking, and sudden and depress
ing news operating on the blood.—
The causes of sudden death being
known, an avoidance of them may
serve to lengthen many valuable
lives, which would otherwise be
lost under the verdict of “ heart
complaint.” That disease is sup
posed to be inevitable and incura
ble ; hence many may not take the
pains they would to avoid sudden
death, if they knew it lay in their
power.
“Ben. Franklin once wrote :
“He who by the plow would thrive,
Himself must either hold or drive.”
These lines were very popular in
their day, and even now are occa
sionally quoted by old fogies. But
some person has eclipsed them by
bringing out the following:
“He who by his biz would rise.
Must either bast or advertise.”
And this, in turn, seems to be a
condensation of the following dis
tich :
“Who in their business most would thrive,
To each detail must be alive ;
And nine in ten, though e’er so wise,
Will fail unless they advertise.”
To my Mother in Heaven.
I am dreaming, dearest mother,
Ot the bright and glorious pasl ;
Ere the ‘ valley ol the shadow,”
O’er my soul its gloom had cast—
Dreaming of my happy childhood,
Scenes of peace, of hope and joy,
Os a mother’s love, that treasure,
That pure gold without alloy.
Oil, I miss thee, dearest mother,
Miss thy kind and thoughtful care,
Who didst guide my infant footsteps,
To the holy shriue of prayer ;
Loving memories of goodness,
With thy gentle presence fraught;
Come,.to soothe my heart in anguish,
By the lessons thou hast taught.
Patience, hope and faith, dear mother,
Thou didst teach thy wayward child ;
Thou, a pure and humble follower.
Os the Savior “meek and mild,”
True believer, faithful servant,
Thou hast gained thy “Home above ;
By the blood oi thy redeemer,
Happy in that Saviour’s love.
For thou'rt sleeping, mother, s’cep lag
Five long years beneath the rod,
And thy ransomed soul rejoicing
la the presence of our God 1
And I’l* longing, hoping, prayir",
For tfee rest tbat now is thine ;
Swiftly, swiftly, speed tire moments
When thy home in Heaven shall be rune.
May Myrtle.
About Marrying too Young.—
Mrs. Elizabeth Cady Stanton says :
“Girls do not reach their maturity
until twenty-five: yet at sixteen
they are wives and mothers all over
the’laud, robbed of all the rights
and freedom of childhood in mar
riage, crippled in growth and de
velopment, the vital forces needed
to build up a vigorous and healthy
womanhood are sappod and perver
ted from their legitimate channels
in the premature office of produc
tion. When the body is over-taxed,
the mind loses its tone, and settles
down in a gloomy disoontent that
enfeebles the whole moral being.—
The feeble mother brings forth
feeble sons; the sad mother, these
with morbid appetites. The con
stant demand of stimulants among
men is the result of the morbid
conditions of these mothers.
Healthy, happy, vigorous woman
hood would do more for the cause
of temperance than any prohibitory
or license laws possibly can. When
woman, by the observance cf the
laws of life and health is restored
to her normal condition, maternity
will not he a period of weakness,
but of added power. With that
high preparation of body and soul
to which I have referred, men and
women of sound inind and. body,
drawn together by the sentiments
of affection, might calculate with
certainty on a happy home, with
happy children gathering round
their fireside.”
A Lady’s Opinion on
Picnics. —A young lady having
been invited to attend a pic-nic,
thus declines, which will be found
to be but the experience of great
many people:
“J.f to broil, and to bake, and to
butter—to bottle, to slice, and to
pack; to get off before you are
ready, ajid before you are ready
come back ; if taking a seat on a
pie-dish, and losing your meat in
the grass, and having bugs drop in
your pudding, and snails take a bath
in your glass ; it toads holding hop
on your sandwich, and beetles in
specting your bread; when bram
bles and thorns catch your feet, and
worms pelt down on your head; if
scattering every direction to seek
for foliage and cover, and find you
have been outstripped by some Sa>
rah Jane and her lover; if, in gath
ering up all the fragments of such
an Arcadian feast, you can t tell
whether ’twas most like entertain
ment for man or for beast; if that
kind of thing is enjoyment, in lon
ger and shorter measure, and you’re
simple enough to believe it so, why
then help yourself to the pleasure ;
but for me’(l speak from experience,
the subject I’ve closely persued,)
the reply will be found in the Scrip
tures, “I pray you to have me ex
cused.” — Pomeroy's Democrat.
Aunt Susan about seventy
years of age, is “unanimous” on man.
She says: “If all the men were ta
ken off, she’d make arrangements
for her funeral forthwith.” She al
so says, “Suppose all the men were
in one country, and all the women
in another, with a big river between
them. Good gracious! what lots
of poor women would be drowned !
Mr. Green sued a lady for
breach of promise. Her friends of
sered to settle it for two hundred
dollars* “What!” cried Green,
“two hundred dollars, for ruined
hopes, a shattered mind, a blasted
life and a bleeding heart! Two hun
dred dollars for all this! Never!
never ! never ! Make it three hun
dred, and it is a bargain !”
_ «The fact is,” said an orderly
wbfe, “a man does not know how to
straighten up things. He does not
know where to commence. I don’t
wonder,” she .-remarked in conclu
sion, “that when God made Adam
he went right to work and made a
woman to tell him what to do.”
' A little boy in the infant class
of a Sunday-school out West, was
asked by his teacher if he had learn
ed anything during the past week.
“Oh, yes,” said he. “What is it
that you have learned ?” “Never to
trump your partner’s ace,” was the
reply.
VOL. IV—NO. 48
God manages the seasons bet
ter than we; in a day, or i n an hour
perhaps, the cloud will pass, and
the heavens glow again upou our
ungrateful heads.”
. following rules are posted
in a JNew Jersey school house “No
kissing the girls in school hours;
no licking the master during holi
days.”
Someone wants to know—if
the fashionable Parisian man milli
ner leaves Paris, will that city be
Worth-less ? -
■f— A young man in Louisville is
advertised to marry a Breekinridgo
County belle in the Mammoth Cave.
Ibis looks line running matrimony
into the ground.
Men don’t commit suicide in
Memphis. When tired of life they
go out and insult someone, and are
at once shot dead.
A Pennsylvania farmer states
that he cured his daughter of the
Grecian bond by pouring water on
her and holding her opt in the sun
until she warped back again.
Fame is like a shaved pig with
a greased tail, and it is only after
it has slipped through the hands
o. some thouHnds, that soma fellow
by good luck holds on to it.
—-A little one, after undergoing
the unpleasant operation of vaccina
tion, exclaimed: “Now, I won’t
have to bo baptised, will I?”
—“Ma,” said Fred, “I should rath
er be a wild turkey,' and live my
lile out on the prairies, than be a
tame turkey and be killed every
year.”
A Philosopher * says, if yon
want a pair of bools to last four
years, melt and mix four ounces of
mutton-tallow, apply while warm,
place the boots in a closet, and go
barefoot.
Texas has anew gamo in cards.
One holds a revolver, the other
holds the cards. A coroner holds
the inquest.
“Jim, what makes your cats
keep up such a cursed mewing all
the night ?” “Don’t know, Bill; I
suppose, though, it’s on account of
their mew-cuss membrane.”
“What is home without a
mother?” as the young girl said
when she sent the old lady to chop
wood.
Plato being told that he had
many enemies who spoke ill of him,
said: “Isis no matter; I will live
so that none shall believe them.”
A Chicago boy being asked if
he had a mother, said he didn’t
know, a8 he hadn’t been home since
morning, and when he left his fath
er and mother were quarreling,
with odds in favor of his father, as.
he had the hatchet in his hand.
• Boarding-house chicken-soup*
can be made, it is said, by hanging
uji a hen in the sun so that her
shadow shall fall into a pot of salt
and water. The only trouble is that,
on a cloudy day the so-»p ift. liable
to be weak.
A local editor of su Columbus:
paper having recently got married,,
a contemporary says“ May his
fatherin-law die rich,, and enable
poor Stephens to retire from the
printing business and set up a cake
shop at a railway-station.”
“Dick,” said a certain lawyer to<
a countryman who was considered,
more fool than knave, “what would
you call the two greatest curiosi
ties in the world?” “An honest
lawyer and a river o© fire,”
Dick. *
A learned doctor has given his;
opinion that tight lacing is a pub
lic benefit, inasmuch, as" it kills off
the foolish girls and leaves the wise
ones to grow into women.
A young man. wants to knom
what business he had better go into
that will enable him to occupy a.
high position in society.. Let him.
try the roofing business.- In that
trade a smart man will soon get to*
the top of the ladder.
—lt is in vain to stick, your fin
ger in the water, and pulling it out,
look for a hole; and equally vain to*
suppose that, however large a spaco
you occupy, the world will miss yon.
when you have passed on.
A young lady at a Western
temperance meeting said : “Breth
ren and sisters, cider is a necessity
to me and I must have it. If it is
decided that we arc not to- drink ci
der, I shall eat apples and get some
young man to squeeze me r for I
can’t live without the juice of the
apple.”
A jilted swain spitefully says ;
“Eve did not know as much as her
daughters of the present day- Had
they been in her place, instead of
being deceived, they would have
deceived the devil.”
---A little girl being sent to the
store to purchase some dye-stuff,
and forgetting the name of the ar
tide, said to the clerk ; “John, what
do folks dye with?” “Hie with?
Why cholera, sometimes,” replied
John. “Well, I believe that’s the
name \ I want three cents worth.”
An editor recently got off the
following appropriate item, if true :
“I had a dream the other night,
When everything was still,
I dreamed each subscriber
Como up and paid his bill.
■Each wore a look of honesty,
And tears were in each eye ;
And they han led out the stamps,
Saying, “How is that for high i”