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BY J. P. SAWTELL.
E. H. PURDY,
Manufacturer of
Sales, Harness and Trunks,
And Wholesale and Retail Dealer In
All kinds of Sadlery Ware,
Corner of Whitaker and Bryan Sts.,
SAVANNAH, GA.
Oiders for Rubber Belting, Hose and
Packing; also, Stretched Leather Belling,
Hilled promptly. sepl7-6ra
t. J. GUILMARTIN. JOHN FLANNERY.
L. J. GUILMARTIN & 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 Tics, al
ways on hand.
Usual Facilities Extended to Customers.
sepl7-fiin
A, J. MILLER H CO.,
FURNITURE DEALERS,
150 Broughton Street,
SAVANNAH, GEORGIA.
WE HAVE ON HAND, and are con
tinually receiving, every variety of
Parlor and Bedroom Sets,
Bureaus, •Washstands. Bedsteads, Chairs,
Rockers, Wardrobes. Meat Safes, Cradles,
Looking Glasses, Feathers, Fcatheibcds, Pil
llair. Moss, Shuck and Excelclor Matrasses
on hand, and made to order.
Jobbing and Repairing neatly doce, and
with despatch.
We are fully prepared to till orders.
Country orders promptly attended to.
All letters of inquiry answered promptly.
scpl7-6m.
MARIETTA MARBLE YARD.
J AM PREPARED TO FURNISH
Marble, Monuments,
Tombs, Head and Foot Stones,
Vaces, Urns, Vaults, etc.,
At very reasonable terms, made of
Italian, American and Georgia
MAM B L. E .
IRON RAILING Put Up to Order.
For information or designs address me at
this place, or
DR. T. S. POWELL, Agent,
Cuthbert, Ga.
Address,
J. A. BISAWER,
sepl7 6m Marietta, Ga.
GEORGE S. HART & CO.,
Commission Merchants,
And Wholesale Dealers in
Fine Butter, Cheese, Lard, etc.,
39 Pearl and 28 Bridge Sts., N. Y.
Butter and Lard, of all grades, put up
in every variety of package, for Shipment to
Warm Climates. sepltfmi*
REED&CLARKE,
No. 22, Old Slip, New York,
DKALEIIBSw
PROVISIONS,
Onions, Potatoes, Butter, etc.
sept.l7-6m
ELY, OBERHOLSTER & CO.,
Importers and Jobbers in
Dry Goods,
Nos. 329 tfc 331 Broadway,
Corner of Worth Street.
Aew York.
iisl
IMWaTER WHEEL,
Mill Gearin&Shaftm§& Pulleys
3 , oolE«Hl)#%lMoßis'
'.r FORACIRCULAR_J^'
GEORGE PAGE a CO.
No. g N. Schroeder St., Baltimore.
' Manufacturers of
PORTA.BI.K ANT) STATIONARY
Steam Engines and Boilers
PATENT IMPROVED, PORTABLE
Circular Saw Mill
Gang, Malay and Sash Saw Mills,
Grist Mills, Timber Wheels, Shingle Ma
ohiaes, &«. Dealers in Circular Saws, Belt
ing and Mill supplies generally, and inxnuiac
tm-er’s agents for Lettel's Celebrated 1 urhine
Water Wheel and every description of Wood
Working Machinery. Agricultural Engines
a Specialty.
Send for destri, tiCatalogues & Price
List. sep!7 ly.
CUTHBERT W3m 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 onr Ware
house in a goo J state of repair and are still in
the
WAREHOUSE
A\D COMMISSION MM,
And have ample arrangement* for the Storage
anil Sale of Cotton aid other Supplies.
Truly grateful for past favors, and with a
full consciousness of having done our duty
to patrons 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 Cotton and
Goods in Store.
As we intcud to close oat our Sto k of
Dry Goods, we will give our entire attention
to a strict and close
WAREJIO USE B USINESS.
A full assortment of PLANTERS’
SUPPLIES always on hand.
Our Patrons will he furnished
with ample accommodations for
Stock and Teamsters FREE !
I©"' Consignments solicited.
sepl7-tf J M. REDDING & CO.
J AS. S. ANTHONY, "
Manufacturer of
Plain Tin Ware,
And Dealer in
Stamps, Japannefl ai Planished
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,
octSct Cuthbert, Ga.
ELDER & 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 Rock, quarried from an inexhausti
ble bed of the material, within a half mile of
the 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 eitiier of the
firm. JOHN ELDER,
sep24 ly JAMES A BROWN.
PALMER & DEPPISH,
WHOLESALE AND RETAIL DEALERS IN
HARDWARE,
RUBBER BELTING,
AGRICULTURAL IMPLEMENTS,
Powder, Shot, Caps and Lead.
148 Congress 4 67 St. Julian Sts,,
SAVANNAH, GEORGIA.
net 1-6 m
Crockery and Glass Ware.
A full Assortment of
Granite anti 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,
octSct Cuthbert, Ga.
HAVE ON SALE
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 great vaiiety of
House Keeper's Goods generally
For sale at the Tin Store of
J. S. ANTHONY,
octßet Cuthbert, Ga.
CUTHBERT, GEORGIA, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 23, 1870.
A HOME-MADE
FERTILIZER,
For #3S.
To Planters : Having received
many inquiries relative to chemi
cals and other material for Fertil
izers, we propose to furnish them
the coming seasons, and have pro
cured a formula, which _ has been
used in this and other sections with
most satisfactory results, being ful
ly equal in effect to those Phos
phates w hich cost the farmer §75
to S9O per ton. It is composed of
Sulphate of Lime, Dissolved Bones,
Sulphate of Soda, Nitrate ot Soda,
Sulphate of Ammonia, Common
Salt and Potash.
To save trouble, we have made
arrangements to furnish these arti
cles mixed and ground together,
put up in packages sufficient for one
ton, at a cost of $32, leaving the
farmer simply to mix it with muck
or dry swamp earth. We can also
furnish the chemicals separately,
for those who prefer formulas dif
ferent from ours. The formula,
with directions, will be exhibited to
any one calling on us or any of our
authorized agents. Planters have
now the opportunity of knowing
exactly what they are buying and
can protect themselves from impo
sition. We have appointed agents
at all the principal towns, who will
take orders and give information in
regard to the compound.
L. W. HUNT & CO.,
WHOLESALE PR UG GISTS
Macon, Ga.
The Cheapest
And Best
BY 100 PER CENT,
Extract from the Report of a Com
mitteei, consisting of 3lessr.s. H.
A. Clinch, R. B. Baxter and
Frank White, appointed by the
Hancock County Agricultural
Club, on Fertilizers :
“Your Committee, having again
carefully inspected the results upon
corn and cotton, of the Home-Made
Fertilizer, beg leave to report our
examination of the experimental
plat, of Mr. R. Papuan, at White
Plains, Greene County: these pick
ings we carefully weighed and noted.
Three rows, each 18S feet, fertilized
with lot manure, weighed 42 pounds,
cost per acre, #l9 80. Three rows,
each 190 feet, fertilized with Pen
dleton Manure, weighed 42 pounds,
cost per acre, #l9 80. Three rows,
each 188 feet, fertilized with Peru
vian Guano, weighed 31 pounds,
cost per acre, #22 50. Three rows,
each 186 feet, fertilized withHoMß-
Made Fertilizer weighing 40
pounds, cost per acre $9 00.—
Three rows, each 186 feet, fertilized
with Sea Fowl Manure, weighed 43
pounds, cost per acre, #23 03.
Three .rows, each, 186 feet, fertil
ized with Hoyt’s Superphosphate,
weighed 35 pounds,’cost per acre,
#2l 00.
“The Committee are universally
of the opinion that the number of
unopened bolls on the Home-Made
Fertilizer were in excess of the
other Fertilizers.”
The formula for Home-Made Fer
tilizer, mentioned above, is the same
as published by us, and we will take
pleasure in exhibiting it to planters
and giving all necessary informa
tion in regard to it. We are pre
pared to furnish the chemicals, &o.
with directions how to make it, at
a cost of #32 00 per ton. In order
to insure prompt delivery, orders
should be sent in early. Address,
Very Respectfully,
L. W. HUNT & CO., Druggists,
82 and 84 Cherry St.,
MACON, GA.
Agent at Cuthbert, T. S. Pow
ei.l, Trustee. nov2s-6m
~~ A LARGE SUPPLY
Linseed Oil—Boiled & Raw.
Paints, Colors, Varnishes,
SPIRITS TURPENTINE, TRAIN OIL
LUBRICATING OIL,
Best Quality Kerosene Oil, Sweet
Oil, Castor Oil, Fine Sewing
Machine Oil, etc.,
At the Drug Store of
j. j. McDonald
Be sure to at
J,J ' McD ONALD’S
l it'’SSp Drug Store,
tcZMF&a&D*' On the South-east cor
ner of the Square, and
you shall not go away dissatisfied, either as
to prices or articles. 0e129-ly
A ineg’ar Bitters,
IIOSTETTER’S « c
PLANTATION «‘
SOLOMON’S ‘ ‘
LI PHAN’S ‘ ‘
WARD’S EUREKA ‘ ‘
For Sale by
j. j. McDonald.
L. S. JAIIOT,
Watchmaker and Jeweler,
Is at his old stand, (opposite Gillespie’s
Saloon) prepared to do work of all kinds in
his line, at satisfactory prices,
Watches that have been in Miy possession
twelve months, unless taken out immediately
will be sold for repairs
All work warranted.
FARMERS
Take Notice
FULGY SUPPLIED
TOR THE
ILL TRADE!
Burdick Bros.,
«3 THIRD STREET,
MACON, GEORGIA,
(On the North Comer of the Alley above
Hardeman & Sparks’ Warehouse.)
Have a Large Stock of
Bacon, Flour, Mfeal, Salt,
Arrow Ties,
BAGGING, BAGGING TWINE,
CORN, OATS, HAY,
Lard.,
Hams, Sugar and Coffee,
FISH, in all Sized Packages,
Etc., Etc., Etc.
We are prepared to fill orders as
Low as Any House
In this market, and we respectfully
refer to all who have favored us with
their patronage for the past five
years, regarding our promptness and
fidelity.
Respectfully soliciting the trade
of our old customers, we hope to
gain many new ones this seasoD, and
will use our utmost exertions to
PLEASE ATT..
BURDICK BROTHERS.
octl 3m
BAFHSf FEMALE COLLEGE,
Cuthbert, Georgia.
THE Board of Trustees take pleasure in
announcing, for tile benefit of all con
cerned, that- they have secured a corps of ex
perienced and competent Teachers, to take
chaige of the above named Institution, and
that its exercises will be resumed on
MONDAY, January Bth, 1871,
Repairs have already been commenced on
the Building; which will be pushed forward
rapidly to completion.
Board in good famlies can be secured at
from fifteen to twenty dollars per month, in
cluding washing, fuel and lights.
Tuition about the same as in other Institu
tions of like grade.
The city of Cuthbert is easy of access, and
proverbial for its health and refinement. It
is therefore a desirable place of residence for
persons wishing to educate their families.
For particulars, apply to
novlß-6t W. B. SEALS, President
Lumpkin Telegraph, Americus Republican,
Dawson Journal, Albany News and Bain
bridge Argus, please copy and send bill to this
office.
IF YOU WANT A
KICE CHEAP DAMP,
Os any size or style ; or if yonr old Lamps
Need New Burners, Chimneys, or
WichLs,
Go to J. J. MCDONALD'S
oct29-Iy DRUG STORE.
HARDEMAN & SPARKS!
WE deem it wholly unnecessary to inform
the PLANTERS of Middle and South
western Georgia, that we are still engaged at
our Old Stand in the WAREHOUSE AND
COMMISSION BUSINESS, where for bo
many years we have served yon as Factors
and Commission Merchants. We have left
no stone unturned to aid you in carrying on
your farming interest, and in turn we now
bespeak a continuance of the very liberal pat
ronage extended us in the past. Your cotton
shall be weighed on the level, sold and ac
counted for on the square.
By closely guarding your every interest,
we intend to merit your patronage.
To our old friends of many years standing
we return onr grateful acknowledgments ; to
new ones who may try us, we promise our
best efforts—backed by the experience of
many years to serve them faithfully and well.
Orders for supplies will meet with prompt
attention. O. G. SPARKS,
sepl7-3m T. HARDEMAN Jr.
JOKES & ELDER,
Brick and Stone Masons,
CUTHBERT, GA.,
KEEP constantly employed a competent
force of first-class Mechanics, and are
prepared to execute work in Stone or Brick
at short notice aud moderate rates.
nov2s-6m
Bemember,
r’ is my DETERMINATION to keep EV
ERY ARTICLE usually kept iu a
First-Class Drug Store,
octv9-ly J. J tycDONALD.
®!\t dntjjktt Upfal.
Terms of Subscription:
One Year. ...$3 00 | Six Months $2 00
invariably in advance.
£3F“ No attention paid to orders for the pa
per unless accompanied by the Cash.
Rates of Advertising :
One square, (ten lines or less,) $1 00 for the
first and 75 cents for each subsequent inser
tion. A liberal deduction made to parties
who advertise by the year-
Persons sending advertisements should mark
the number of times they desire them inser
ted, or they will be continued until torbid and
charged accordingly.
Transient advertisements must be paid for
at the time of insertion. *
Announcing names of candidates for office,
$5.00. Cash, in all cases
Obituary notices over five lines, charged at
regular advertising ra*eg.
All communications intended to promote the
private ends or interests of Corporations, So
cieties, or individuals, will be charged as ad
vertisements.
Job Work, such as Pamphlets, Circulars,
Cards, Blanks, Handbills, etc., will be execu
ted in good style and at reasonable rates.
All letters addressed to the Proprietor will
be promptly attended to.
Lines.
BY GEORGE D. PRENTICE.
Sweet moon, I love the, yet I grieve
To gaze on thy pale orb to-uight;
It tells me of that dear eve
I passed with her—my soul’s delight.
Hill, vale and wood and stream were dyed
In the pale glory ol tby beams,
As forth we wandered, side by side
Once more to tell love's burning dreams.
My fond arm was her living gone,
My hand within her hand was pressed,
And love was in each earnest tone,
And rapture in each heaving breast.
And many a high and fervent vow
Was breathed from her full heart and mine,
While thy calm light was on her brow
Like pure religion's seal and sigu.
We knew, alas ! that we must part,
We knew we must be severed long,
Yet joy was in each troubled heart,
For love was deep and faith was strong.
A thousand memories of the past
Were busy in each glowing breast,
And hope upon the future caet
Her rainbow lines—and we were blest.
1 crave a boon—Oh ! in that boon
There was a wild, delirious bliss—
Ah, didst thou ever gaze, sweet moon,
Upon a more impassioned kiss?
The parting came—one moment brief
Her dim and fainting form I viewed—
’Twas gone—and there I stood in grief
Amid life's awful solitude.
Tell me sweet moon, for thou can’st tell,
It passiou still unchanged is her—
Do thoughts of me her heart still swell
Among her many worshipers ?
Say, does she sometimes wander now,
At eve beneath tby gentle flame,
To raise to heaven her angel brow
And breathe her absent lover's name ?
Oh when her gentle lids are wet,
I pray thee, mark each fulliuggem,
And tell me if my image yet
Is pictured tremblingly in them !
Ay, tell me, docs her bosom thrill
As wildly as of yore for me—
Does her young heart adore me still,
Or is that young heart changed like me ?
Oh let thy beams, that softest shine,
If still my love to her is dear,
Bear to her gentle heart from mine
A sigh, a blessing, and a tear.
Fruit as a Medicine.— The
worst case of dyspepsia can be
cured without the least particle of
medicine, simply by eating nothing
in which lard is an ingredient, using
butter sparingly, eating bread made
of unbolted flour, and making free
use of fruits, especially apples. In
fact most persons would be much
better off if they ate meat only
once or twice a week, and used fruit
and vegetables instead. Pork and
lard are great promoters of dyspep
sia, and fevers and bilious diseases
are fed by keeping up bodily heat
of mid-winter through June and Ju
ly, August and September, but nev-.
er changing our diet from the heavy
meats of January. An eminent
French physician says that the de
crease of dyspepsia and bilious af
fections in Paris is owing to the
increased consumption of apples;
a fruit he maintains, which is an
admirable preventative and tonic,
as well as a very nourishing and ea
sily digested article of food. The
Parisians devour one hundred mill
ions of them every winter, and we
doubt not that these statements are
perfectly correct. In fact instances
have come under our observation
where fresh fruit had an immediate
effect in checking bilious tendencies
in individuals, and we have heard
of whole districts where bilious dis
eases become prevalent u on the
failure of the fruit crop. Fruit
growers may, therefore, count upon
a constantly increasing demand for
the products of their orchards and
gardens, as the health-giving prop
erties of fruit become known.
One measure in which ail civ
ilized nations agree—The church
yard.
Why don’t farmers like a bad
summer ? Os course it goes against
the grain.
Doctors talk about paying
their visits when at the same time
it’s their visits that pays them.
A man’s credit must be bad
indeed when lie can’t even borrow
trouble.
From Arthur's Ladies’ Magazine.
What Five Dollars Paid.
Mr. Herriot was sitting in his of
fice one day when a lad entered and
handed him a small slip of paper.
It was a bill for five dollars, due to
his shoemaker, a poor man who
lived in the-next square.
“ Tell Mr. Grant that I will set
tle this soon. It isn’t just conven
ient to-day.”
The boy retired.
Now, Mr. Herriot had-a five dol
lar bill in his pocket; but, he felt
as if he couldn’t part with it. He
didn’t like to be entirely out of
money. So acting from this im
pulse, he had sent the boy away.—
Very still sat Mr. Herriot for the
next five minutes; yet his thoughts
were busy. He was uot altogether
satisfied with himself. The shoe
maker was a poor man, and needed
his money as soon as earned—he
was not unadvised of this fact.
“ I almost wish I had sent him
the five dollars,” said Mr. Herriot
at length, half audibly. “ He wants
it worse than I do.”
He mused still further.
“ The fact is,” he exclaimed,
starting up, “ It’s Grant’s money,
aud not mine ; and what is more, he
shall have it.”
So saying, Herriot took up his
hat and left the office.
“ Did you get the money,
Charles ?” said Grant, as. his boy
entered the shop. There was a
good deal of earnestness in the
shoemaker’s tones.
“ No, sir,” replied the lad.
“ Didn’t get the money ?”
“ No, sir.”
*“ Wasn’t Mr. Herriot in?”
“ Y T es, sir; but he said it wasn’t
convenient to-day.”
“Oh ! dear, I’m sorry !” came
from the shoemaker, in a depressed
voice.
A woman was sitting in Grant’s
shop when the boy came in; she
had now risen, and was leaning on
tho counter; a look of disappoint
ment was in her face.
“It can’t be helped, Mrs. Lee,”
said Grant. “ I was sure of get
ting the money from him. He never
disappointed me before. Call in'to
morrow, and I will try and have it
for you.”
The woman looked troubled as
well as disappointed. Slowly she
turned away and left the shop. A
few minutes after her departure
Herriot came in, and after some
words of apology, paid the bill:
“ -Run and get the bill changed,”
said the shoemaker to his boy the
moment his customer had departed.
“ Now,” said be, as soon as the
change was placed in his hands,
“ take two dollars to Mrs. Lee, and
three to Mr. Weaver across the
street. Tell Mr. Weaver that lam
obliged to him for having loaned
it to me this morning, and sorry
that I hadn’t as much iu the house
when he sent for it an hour ago.
“I wish I had it, Mrs. Elden.—
But I assure you that I have not,”
said Mr. Weaver, the tailor. “ I
paid out the last dollar just before
you came in. But call in to-mor
row and you shall have money, to a
certainty.”
“ But what am I to do to-day ? I
haven’t a cent to bless myself with;
and I owe so much at the grocer’s,
where I deal, that ho wont trust me
for anything more.”
The tailor looked troubled, and
the woman lingered. Just at this
moment the shoemaker’s boy enter
ed.
“Here are three dollars Mr.
Grant borrowed of y’ou this morn
ing,” said the lad. “He says he’s
sorry he hadn’t the money when
you sent for it a while ago.
How the faces of the tailor and
his needle woman brightened in
stantly, as if a gleam of sunshine
had penetrated the room.
“ Here is just the money I owe
you,” said the former, in a cheerful
voice, and he handed the woman
the three dollars he had received. A
moment after he was alone, but
with the glad face of the poor wo
man, whose need he had been able
to supply, distinct before him.
Os the three dollars received by
the needle-woman, two went to the
grocer, on account of her debt to
him, half a dollar was paid to an old
and needy colored woman who had
earned it by scrubbing, and who
was waiting for Mrs. Elden’s re
turn from the tailor’s to get her
due, and thus be able to provide an
evening and a morning’s meal for
herself and children. The other
half dollar was paid to the baker
when he called toward evening to
leave tho accustomed loaf. Thus,
the poor needle woman had been
able to discharge four debts, and
at the same time re-established her
credit with the grocer and baker,
from whom came the largest por
tion of the food consumed in her
little family.
And now let ns follow Mrs. Lee.
On her arrival home, empty-handed
from her visit to the shoemaker,
who owed her two dollars for work,
she found a young girl, in whose
pale face were many marks of suf
sering and care, awaiting her re
turn.
The gill’s countenance brighten
ed as she came in ; but there was
no answering brightness in thecoun
tenance of Mrs. Lee, who immedi
ately said—“ lam very sorry, Har
riet, but Mr. Grant put me off un
til to-morrow. He said he hadn’t a
dollar in the house.”
The girl’s disappointment was
very great, for the smile she had
forced into life instantly faded, and
was succeeded by a look of deep
distress.
“Do you want the money very
badly ?” asked Mrs. Lee, in a low,
choked voice, for the sudden change
in the girl’s manner, had affected
her.
“Oh ! yes, ma’am, very badly. I
left Mary wrapped up in my thick
shawl, and a blanket around her
feet to keep them warm; but she
was coughing dreadfully from the
cold air of the room.”
“ Haven’t you a fire ?” asked Mrs.
Lee, in a quick, surprised tone.
“We have no coal. It was to
buy coal that I wanted the money.
Mrs. Lee struck her hands to
gether, aud an expression of pain
was about passing her lips, when
the door of the room opened, and
the shoemaker’s boy catne in.
“ Here are two dollars. Mr.
Grant sent them.
“ God bless Mr. Grant!” The ex
clamation from Mrs. Lee was invol
untary.
On the part of Harriet, to whom
one dollar was due, a gush of silent
tears marked the effect this timely
supply of money produced. She
received her portion, and, without
trusting her voice with words, hur
ried away to supply the pressing
want at home.
A few doors from the residence
of Mrs. Leo lived a man who, some
few months before, had become in
volved in trouble with an evil dis
posed person, and had been forced
to defend himself by meaus of the
law. He had employed Mr. Herri
ot to do what was requisite in the
case, for which the charge was live
dollars. The bill had been render
ed a few days before, and the man
who was poor felt very anxious to
pay it. lie had the money all
made up to within a dollar. That
dollar Mrs. Lee owed him, and site
had promised to give it to him du
ring this day. For hours he had
waited, expecting her to come in ;
but now had nearly given her out.
There was another little bill of
three dollars which had been sent
in to him, and he had just conclud
ed to go and pay that when Mrs.
Lee called with the balance of the
money, one dollar which she had
received from the shoemaker,
Grant.
Half an hour later, and the pock
et book of Mr. Herriot was no lon
ger empty. His client had called
and paid his bill. The five dollars
had comeback to him.
The Josh Billings Papers.
TBE FOX.
Os all the beasts who roam the
hill tops, or clime the planes, there
iz none who makes so few blunders,
and so many good hits as the fox.
His shrewdness is more than a
match for the lion’s strengh, his
logick is more than a match for the
malice of the wolf, and his polite
ness and deference makes him the
fop and gentleman of the forest.
The fox iz a literary cuss ; he haz
been the hero of history, fable and
song, from the fust dawn of oral
or written knowledge. He waz a
poet, skoller and sage before the
days of Homer and Herodotus, and
now, in our times, he iz the Ben
Butler ov diplomacy and the Brig
ham Young ov matrimony.
The fox iz purely a game bird. It
costs on an average fifty dollars tew
ketch him, and when he is caught
he aint worth more than ten shil
lings. He follers no regular bizzi
ness for his sustenance, but lives on
the changes and on his w ts.
He’s a flesh-minded sinner, and
his blandness iz too much f or the
quaintness ov the goose, the melan
koly reserve ov the rooster. They
awl neei tew the logick ov his
tongue, and fiud thcirselfs at rest
in his stummuk.
He lovs ham and green peas, but
will diskouut the peas rather than
loose his dinner, and will go a mile
out of his way to be polite to a duck
or goslin.
Bat the most lively trait in the
fox is his cunning; lie alwus petty
fogs his own ease and wins a great
deal oftener than he loses.
Foxes are not like men, kritters
ov habit; they never do a thing
twice with the same figures, and
often alter their mind before they
do a thing once. This iz tho effekt
ov two mutch genius.
There iz this difference between
genius and common sense in a fox;
common sense is governed bi cir
cumstances, but circumstances iz
governed bi genius.
The fox has no moral honesty,
but he haz got a grate supply ov
politkal honesty. If another fox
in his parish wants a phatt goose,
he will work hard and get the
goose for him, and then clean the
meat all oph from the outskirts ov
the goose petty-fogging the case,
and give his politikal friend the
bones, and tell him, with a smile in
the left corner ov his eye, that “ev
erything is lovely and the goose
hangs high.”
Foxes hav leant this piety’ from
watching men git geese for each
other, and if the animals don’t want
their piety tew git sour they must
keep away from the men weekdays.
The fox iz congenial in hiz tem
per; he iz no hermit, he don’t git
mad at society bekause they don’t
flatter him, and pitch headlong into
solitude, and chaw rutes, and drown
out his stummuk tricing to drink a
a spring dri, and think he iz virtu
ous bekauz there aint any chickens
in his naborhood to steal.
The fox is tow mutch ova polyti
cian to invest his religion in enny
such indigenous trash. He knows
that society has claims on him, and
are indebted tew him for sum goose,
YOL. V-NO. I
and expekt tew oe for several more.
This iz a noble trait in the fox, and
shows that he aint a child ov ingrat
itude.
Foxes cum out ov the ground,
but whether they are made ov dirt
I kant swear with much certainty.
They cum out ov the ground
through the instrumentality ova
hole, hut whether the hole begins
at the surface and runs into the
mountain, or whether it begins in
the mountain and runs tew the sur
face, don’t make a cusid bit ov dif
ference.
But philosophers hev argued
about this hole Dizziness for years,
sum ov them say it runs in; and
sum of them be darned if itdnx;
and right here we can sec the atnax
ing difference between tie logick
of the philosophers. While they
stand fiteing at the mouth ov the
hole, the fox iz stealing their ducks
and goslins.
If eunybody feels as though they
had enny reasonable doubts about
the genius ov a fox, let them look
at one in liis innocence, chained at
a post.
Let them notis iho small verti
cle head, the little unesy eye, the
pert ear, alwuz on end, the smirk
ing countenance, the lean and lithe
body, the anxious spirit leaking out
at evry pore, royal marks of tha
cunning rogue.
Foxes are like cunning men—•
they hav but few brancs, and but
a small place to keep them, but
what few they hav got are like
angleworms in hot water— full ov
anxiety and mizery,
Cunning iz a branding iron ; the
letters on it are small,but always red
hot, and they read thus— Look out
for the fox.—A r . Y. Weekly.
Fifteen Follies.
First—To think that the more a
man eats, the fatter and stronger
he will become.
Second—To believe that the more
hours children study at school the
faster they learn.
Third—To conclude that if exer
cise is good for health, the more vi
olent and exhausting it is, the more
good is done.
Fourth—To imagine that every
hour taken from Bleep is an hour
gained.
Fifth to act on the presumption
that the smallest room in the house
is large enough to sleep in. *
Sixth—To argue that whatever
remedy causes one to feel immedi
ately better is “good for the sys
tem,” without regard to more ulte
rior effects. Thg “soothing syrup,”
for example, does not stop the cough
of children, and does not arrest diar
rhea, only to cause, a little later,
alarming convulsions, or the more
fatal inflammation of the brain, at
least, always portraits of the disease.
Seventh—To commit an act which
is felt in itself to be prejudicial,
hoping that somehow or other it
may be done in your case with im
punity.
Eighth—To advise another to try a
remedy which you have not tried
on yourself, or without making spe
cial inquiry whether all the condi
tions are alike.
Ninth—To eat without an appe
tite, or continue to eat after it has
been satiated, merely to gratify the
taste.
Tenth— -To eat a hearty supper
for the pleasure experienced during
the brief time it is passing down
the throat, at the expense of a
whole night of disturbed sleep, and
a weary waking in the morning.
Eleventh—To remove a portion
of the clothing immediately after
exercise, when the most stupid
drayman in New York knows that
if he does not put cover on his horse
the moment he ceases work in the
winter, he will lose him in a few
days by T “phneutnonia.
Twelfth—To contend that because
the dirtiest children in the street, or
highway’, are hearty and healthy,
therefore it is healthy to be dirty ;
forgetting that continuous daily ex
posure to the pure, outdoor air in
joyous, unrestrained activity, is such
a powerful agent for health, that
those who live thus are well, in
spite of rags and filth. .
Thirteenth—To presume to repeat
later in life, without injury’, the in
discretions exposures, and intem
perances which in tho flush of youth
were practiced with impunity.
Fourteenth—To believe that warm
air is necessarily impure, or that
pure cold air is necessarily impure,
or that pure cold air is necessarily
more healthy than the confined air
of a close crowded vehicle ; the lat
ter, at the most, can only cause
fainting and nausea, while entering
a conveyance after walking briskly,
lowering a window thus while still
exposed to a draft, will give a cold
infallibly, or an attack of pleurisy
or pneumonia, which will cuiso
weeks and mouths of suffering, if
not actnaly death within four days,
Fifteenth—To “remember tho
Sabbath day” by’ working harder
and later on Saturday’ than on any
other day in the week, with a view
to sleep late next morning, and stay
ing at home all day to rest, con
science being quieted by the plea
of not feeling very well.
llow to take ink out of linen —
jerk an editor out of his shirt.
We’d sooner be possessed of
divers pearls than of pearl divers.
Why is the world like a p : ano ?
—cause it is full of sharps and
flats.
Why are elections like tents ?
Because the canvass ends at the
polls.