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Newspaper Page TextCUTHBERT jggf APPEAL. VOL. V. THE APPEAL. HCBI.tgHKn EVERT t'KIOAT, BY SAWTEIL St CHRISTIAN, Terms of SubsdHiHiWti! b.\E Year. ...$3 00 | Six Months.:..s2 00 INVARIABLE in ad-vakOe. nr No attention paid to order* for the pa per un'ess accompanied by the Cash. Rates of Advertising : One square, (teii lines or less.) 91 09 for the nr*t and 75 cents for each subsequent inser lion. A liberal deduction made to parties’ Who advertise by the year- Persons sending ssivertieements should mark the number of times they desire them inser ted) or they will be Continued until forbid and chftrjftjd 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, chaffed at regular advertising ra*es. . 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 Rood style and at reasonable rates. All letter* addressed to the Proprietor will be promptly attended to. Church Directory. MtfTHODIST CIItJRCH—R B. Lester, Castor. Preaching at 11, A. M. & 7 1-2, P. M. Sab bath school, 3, P. M BAPTIST CHURCH—F M Hariri., Pas- ItOf. L Preachinß at 11, A. M. & 7 1-2, P. M. Sab ■bath'School 9 1-2, A M. Presbyterian chcrcti-j. s. cob KiY, Pastor. '’Preae'hiiiif at 11, A. M. Sl 7 1-2, P. M. . Sab ibitfli 1 Ai jY J </" ';■■■ [For the Oiithlxrrt Appeal. Love and Pleasure. „ * Ilf ElillO.. Ere melancholy, long ago, Hod thrown her beautiful shadow o’er mo, My lithesome twart f 'exempt from woe, Saw none but joyous days before me. I lingered, npt with Beauty tlten, Nor prizett her as a heart-born treasure ; I smiled at Lave : “We’ll meet again,” I said, “ when I have done with Pleasure.” But Love, offended, flew away, And gentle Pleasure, now repining, At once withdrew her cheerful ray, No mote upon my breast recliuing. ’Till strolling late, beneath a gjove, My heart absorbed in pensive sadness, A maiden met me. leadigg Love And Pleasure with her wonted gladness. Franklin, Ga. 1871. Through the World. Some hearts go hungering through the world And never find the love They seek ; ■Some lips with pride or scorn are curled , To hide.the pain they may.not speak. Tile eye may flash, the month may smile. The voice in gladder music thrill, And yet beneath them all the while The hungry heart be pining still. These know their doom and walk their waj t With even steps and steadfast eyes, Nor strive with fate, nor weep, nor pray— While others not so sadly wise. Are mocked by phantoms evermore, And limed by seetnings of delight, Fair to the eye. but at the care Holding but bitter dust and blight. I see them gaze from wistful eyes, I mark their sign on fading cheeks ; I hear them breathe in smothered sighs." And note the grief that never-speaks ; For them no might redresses wrong, No eye with pity Its impelled. Ob, misconstrued and suffiring tong, Oh, hearts that hunger through the world ! For you does Ute’s dull desert hold No fountain shade, no date grove fair, No gush of waters clear and cold. But sandy reaches wide and bare. The loot may fall, the so si may faint, And weigh to earth the weary frame, Y'et still we muke no weuk complaint. And speak the word of grief or blame. Oh. eager eyes which gaze afar ! ■ Ob, arms which clasp the empty air! Not all unmarked your sorrows are, Not all unpitled y«ur despair. f •Smile, patient lips,so proudly dumb— When life’s frail tent at last is furled, Your glorious recompense shall come. Oh, hearts that hunger through the world, The Girls. God bless the girls 1 I love them all; (I couldu’t help it if I would ;) I love the short, I love the tall; (I wouldn’t help it *if I could,) I love the girts with sunny hair, with bright and laughing clear blue eyes, with skin transparent, white and fair, and cheeks that with the red rose vies. And then, I love the dark bru nette, with glossy curls like raven’s wink ; with teeth like pearls and eyes like jet—l love to hear their laughter ring. Oh! yes, these roguish dark brunettes will bring ■ our hearts into our throats, they latigh at all our woes; hut yet I say—God bless the petticoats. Oh! Woman, what would this world be without thy kind and gen tle sway? for all we have we owe to thee; how can we e’er thy love repay ? for don’t you sew our but tons on ? and darn our socks and mend our clothes and spend our stamps’till they’re all gone? but can’t tell how the money goes. Oh! yes, I love.all womankind; they’re gentle* loving, good and true ; some may not quite just suit my mind, but what is that to me or you ? I love the darling, loving girls ; love them as hard as e’er I can ; that is, in a general way, you kno w—for bless you—l’m a mar ried man! —Those parties who cry “Ho 1 for the West,” are going to hoe for a living. Only a Dollar, “ She sews very nicely,” said Mrs. Wbarton, “ really, very nice, indeed. And if ygu have any work you wish to *bVd<Jfte well and very cheaply, I w r ould advise you to em ploy her.” Mrs. Wharton was sitting before the fife ifi hel* dtimson silk morning wrapper, with her glossy hair as smooth a9 satin, and her pretty hands loaded with rings, lying in her lap. She felt that she was do ing a charitable deed In employing this poor soldier’s widow, and a still greater one in recommending her to her friends. It is so easy to be a good Chris tian under such circumstances. “ Why, I shall certainly send f<tr her,” said Mrs. Marvin ; “ what did you tell me her name and address were f" “ Oh, she is called Mrs. Leggett, and she lives in one of those horrid, musty-tenement houses—No.-- , ——— street, the back ropm, in the third story,” Mrs. Marvin entered the details in her little pearl bound tablet, and took her leave internally convicted that Mrs. Wharton was a good Sa maritan of the very highest class. Meanwhile the latter was gazing dreamily into the fire, Wondering what toilette would be most appro priate for the morrow evenings soi ree. “There’s, my pca : green s tin,” mused MrW Wharton, checking -off flic various garments on the tips of her white fingers; but I’ve worn it already. And there is my Marie Louise blue silk, if the skirt was on ly gored a little more. The lemon colored buckle is not becoming to me. I’m sorry I bought it. And the white grenadine was worn at Mr. Armyt’s. My wine colored with the ruby set would look very well if the odious Fanny Palmer hadn’t got one just like it. O, dear! I really think I must get something new. A rose colored tissue, per haps, or a white india muslin. My wardrobe is getting dreadfully be hind. Dear me, who’s that ? How you startled me, Mrs. Leggett!” “ I beg your pardon, ma’am, I am sure,” said the slender, mock look ing little seamstress,rustling gently forward in her garments of shabby well-black ; “ but I knoeked several times and you did not answer.” “ Then you should knock louder next time,“said the irritable fine la dy ; “ however, now you are here, you may as well sit down. Good gracious ! how wet you are—posi tively dripping f” “Yes, ma’am, it rains very hard, and I have no umbrella.” “No umbrella! dear me, how shocking. Well did you bring home those tiling? ” “ Yes, ma’am, here they are.” And the seamstress produced a neat packet from beneath her shawl. “ I hope to goodness they are not wet. No, they seem tolerably dry. What is the bill ? ” “Six dollars, ma’am.” “Six dollars! isn’t that high?” inquired M r ®- Wharton, in a discon tented planner. “ I worked eleven days faithfully on them ma’am.” “Well, I suppose I must pay what you ask said Mrs. Wharton, ope ning her purse and slowly exatnin ing its compartments. • “ Dear me, I have only a five dollar bill; I sup pose you could not change a twen ty ? ” Airs. Leggett smiled bitterly. “ No, ma’am, I could not.” “Well, then, we will call it five dollars, won’t we ? A dollar isn’t much, either way, and the five is all I have got.” “A dollar is a great deal to me, Mrs. Wharton.” The lady's smooth brow contract ed. “ I have given you a great deal of work, Mrs. Leggett.”, “ I know it ma’am, and I am very much obliged to you for all your kindness.” “And I should be sorry to have so trilling a thing as a dollar partus now'.” Mrs. Leggett w r as silent; She did not know what to say. “ Call it five dollars,” said Mrs. Wharton, tossing the bill into the lap of the soldiers widow. “A dol dar don’t signify, and then recom mended my friend, Mrs. Marvin, to employ you this morning.” . “Thank you, ma’am,” said the poor woman, faintly, as she took the money, inw'ardty feeling that she was defrauded, yet«perfectly aware that she had no means of redress. “ Ma’am, if you please said Mary, waitress here is the newspaper boy, lie says master told him you vvould pav the bill this week.” “ How much is it, Mary ? ” “A dollar, ma’am.” “ How provoking, I have not a dollar in the house.” “He says he has orders not to leave the house until it is paid.” “He is very impertinent,” said the lady, coloring up, and, for the first time in her life feeling the want of- a dollar. Mrs. Clarence Fitz Gerald was the next person announced —a lady of the utmost style, whose acquaint ance Mrs. Wharton had just suc ceeded in making. “You stare at my being out in tliis storm, my dear, but-1 am rais ing a dollar subscription for a poor musician who has just broken his arm. Os course I may depend on you for a donation.” Mrs. Wharton colored. “I will send it around in the jiiorning.” “ That won’t do,” said Mrs. Fitz Gerald shrugging her shoulders ; “I am determined to settle the busi- CUTHBERT, GEORGIA, FRIDAY, MAY 12, 1871. ness to-day.” t am very sorry,” said our mor tified heroine, “but I bave not a sin gle dollar in the house.” Mts. Fitz Gerald bowed coldly; evidently she did not believe the protestation, and Mrs. Wharton saw her enter her coupe and drive away with the comfortable consciousness that she would be invited to no more of Mrs. Clarence Fitt Gerald’s de lightfully exquisite parties. “ Mrs, Wharton,” Said the cook, “there is a boy at the door from the fruiter’s; he has an elegant pine-ap ple that Mrs. Pepper sent round.” “It will be just the very thing I want for desert said, Mrs. Wharton; ‘how much is it? ” “A dollar, ma’am.” “Once more the everlasting dol lar ! ” Mrs. Wharton bit her lip with vexation/ “Tell him to leave it, Bridget, and I will call and settle with him for it tomorrow.” “He says, ma’am, Mrs. Dalton wants it if you do not happen to’ have thq money handy. Pine ap ples does ‘not go beggin’ for custo mers this season of the year.” “Let Mrs. Dalton have it, then ; I’ll never buy another article of Mrs Pepper.” Mrs. Wharton was now consider ably annoyed. “To think a dollar should be such a useful thing,” she muttered to her self, taking up her portfolio. A half finished letter lay there— one to he r sister, who was the wife of a clergyman out West, with a flock of little children around her. The last words she had written were, “I send you a dollar to buy a doll for the baby, my little name-sake.” “ llow provoking ! ” she exclaim ed, “I can’t even finish my letter for lack of the everlasting dollar ! ” She leaned back in the velvet cushions of. her ijiair, drowsily Watching the blaze, and listen to to the patter of the rain on the win dow, fell fast asleep. Whore was she ? In the spectre boat of Charon, gliding over the river Styx—and as the bark touch ed the shores of the other world the ghastly toll-gatherer extended his hand relentlessly :—“ your fare, if you please, ma’am.” Mrs. Wharton had her face ready; she handed it up, eager to pass through the gates where she could see the musical wave of the palm tree, and sparkle of glittering tides that flow beneath the shadow. “ Short by a dollar, ma’am. Short by the single dollar you cheated the poor seamstress out of. You cannot enter.” Mrs. Wharton then drew out a hundred dollar bill. The grim Cha ron shook his head. ■ “If yon had ten thousand it would not do; nothing will serve our pur pose but that oue dpilar.” Charon turned the boat briskly around; Mrs. Wharton was just opening her lips to utter a wild cry of anguish, pleading, when she awoke. She shuddered; somehow the dol lar had assumed preternaturally very large dimensions. “Charles! Charles!” Ilow wel come Were the footsteps of her hus band upon the stairs. “ Well, what is it ? ” “ Have you a dollar ? ” “ Half a dozen of them if you want.” “ But I only wanted one—just a dollar bill.” He gave it to her, and she imme diately rang the bell. “ John, I want you to put on your India rubber cloak, and take this around to Mrs. Leggett, and tell her it is what I owe her ! ” John departed, and Mrs. Whar ton breathed more easy. “ Perhaps they will let me in the gates, now,” she said dreamily “My dear, what do you mean ?” demanded her astonished husband. And Mrs. Wharton told him the story of her days adventurers, and the dream that closed them. “ Helen,” said her husband grave ly, “ let this be - a lesson to you, nev er to neglect the just dues of the poor. A dollar is not much to us— to them it may be the last frail bul wark between them and starvation.” But there was no danger of Mrs. Wharton ever forgetting the lesson she had received. How to Ruin a Reputation.— Anybody can soil the reputation of an individual, however pure and chaste, by uttering a suspicion that his enemies will believe and his friends never' hear- of. A puff of the idle wind can take a million of the seeds of a thistle and do a work of mischief which the husbandman must labor long to undo, the float ing particles being too fine to be seen aud too light to be stopped. — Such are the seeds of slander, so early sown, so difficult to be gath ered up, and yet so pernicious in their fruits. The slanderer knows that many a wind will catch up the plague and become poisoned by his insinuations, without ever seekiug the antidote. No reputation can refute a sneer, nor any human skill prevent mischief. —A San Francisco journal states that California has proved a trjie El Dorado to ex-Governor Leland Sanford. He quitted Albany some twenty years since for the Golden Gate, with no money to speak of, and is now worth 10,000,000. — Among his possessions are named several first-class hotels, the Pacific Railway, a line of steamers, three lines of coaches, thirteen gold mines, nineteen factories and forty five farms. He is called the Astor of San Francisco. An Extraordinery TriaL Many years ago, a gentleman, fol lowed by a servant in livery, rode into an inn in the west of England, one evening a little before dusk.— He told the landlord that he should be detained by business in that part of the country for a few days, and wished to know if there were any amusements going on in town to fill up the intervals of time. The landlord replied that it was their race and assize week t and that he would, therefore, be at no loss to pass the time away. On the gen tleman’s making answer that this was lucky, for that he was fond of seeing trials, the other said, that a very interesting trial for robbery would come on the next day, on which people’s opinions were much divided, the evidence being very strong against the prisoner ; but he himself persisting resolutely in de claring that he was in a distant part of the kingdom at the time the rob bery was committed. His guest manifested considerable anxiety to hear the trial; but, as the court would probably be crowded, ex pressed some doubt of getting a place. The landlord told him that there could be no difficulty in a gen tleman of his appearance getting a place; but that, to prevent any ac cident, he would himself go with him and speak to one of the bead les Accordingly, they went into court the next morning, and the gentle man was shown to a seat on the bench. Presently after, the tri al began. \Y bile the evidence was giving against him, the prisoner had remained with his eyes fixed on the ground, seemingly very much de pressed ; till, being called on for his defence, he looked up, and see ing the stranger, he suddenly faint ed away. This excited some sur prise, and it seemed at first, like a trick to gain time. As soon as he came to himself, on being asked by the judge the cause of his behavior, he said, “Oh, my lord, I see a per son who can save my life ! That gen tleman,” (pointing to the stranger) “can prove I am innocent, might I only have leave to put a few ques tions to him.” 1 he eyes of the court were now turned on the gentleman, who said lie felt in a very awkward situation to be so called upon, as he did not remember ever to have seen the man before, but that he would an swer any question that was asked him. “ Well, then,” said the man, “don’t you remember landing at Dover at such a time?” To this the gentle man answered, “that he had landed at Dover not long before, but that he could not tell whether it was on the day mentioned or not.” “Well, said the prisoner, “but don t you recollect that a person in a blue jacket and trousers took your trunk to the inn ?” To this lie an swered, that, of course some person had carried his trunk for him ; but that he did not know .what dress he wore. “But,” said the prisoner, “don t you remember that the per son who went with you from the packet, told you a story of his be ing in the service, that he thought himself an ill-used man, and that he showed you a scar he had on his forehead ? • During this last ques tion, the countenance of the stran ger underwent a considerable change; he said he certainly did recollect such a circumstance; and on the man’s putting his hair aside, and showing the scar, he became quite stire that he was the same per- SOll. . A buzz of satisfaction now ran through the court; for the day on which, according to the prisoner’s account, this gentleman had met w ith him at Dover, was the same on which he was charged wdth the rob bery in a remote county. The stranger, however, could not be cer tain of the time, but said that he sometimes made a memorandum of dates in his pocket-book, and might possible have.done so on this occa sion. On turning to his pocket book, he found a memorandum 5f the time he landed from Calais, which corresponded with the pris oner’s assertion. This being the only circumstance necessary to prove' the alibi, the prisoner was immedi ately acquitted, amidst applause and congratulations. Within less than a month after this, the gentleman who came to the inn, attended by a servant in livery, the servant who followed him, and the prisoner w r ho had been acquitted, were all three brought back together to the same goal, tor robbing the mail. A Perfect Horse. —One who is considered as authority in horse matters, states that a perfect horse is one about fifteen and a half or sixteen hands high ; a lengthy, arch ed neck ; sharp pointed ears; a large, full hazel eye; broad between them; not two long a face, but a straight one ; a large, open nostril; a strong under jaw to food well; . a good round body ; a big, full chest; large around the girth, denoting plenty of lung pow er, thin withers, and an animal standing erect on his fore legs.— Such animals, it should be the ob ject of breeders to produce, and this requires both j udgment and care. —“ It is a settled principle, your honor,” said a lawyer, “ that causes always produce effects .” “ They al ways do for the attorney,” blandly responded the judge; “ but I’ve sometimes known a single cause to deprive a client of all his effects !” A Westarn Liquor Law. Something of a novel experiment is being tried in Ohio, w'hich seems to be working better for the shut ting up of liquor saloons than any thing yet tfied. The law provides that “ Every husband, wife, child, parent, guardian, employer or oth er person, who shall be injured in person, property, or means of sup port, by any intoxicated person, or in consequence of such intoxication, shall have a right of action, against both the persons who sold the liquor and the landlord who owns the prem ises on which the sale was made.” The constitutionality of the law has been affirmed, and therejjis no loop hole of escape there for the saloon keepers; and within the last few weeks three or four actions against them have resulted in the recovery of damages from their indirect vic tims. One lady—the widow of a physician—obtained a verdict of five thousand dollars against the rum seller who had supplied her husband with the liquor that killed him; another was awarded two thousand eight hundred dollars tor the loss of a son under a similar state of facts; while in a large num ber of instances that have very late ly transpired various smaller ver dicts have been recovered by the friends of those who have fallen in to the drunkards grave. The l&vc further provides that any fine im posed upon a saloon keeper or house owner, or any judgment obtained in a civil suit instituted under the above mentioned circumstances, shall become a lien upon the premi ses until fully discharged, aftd that in case of default stud premises be sold at sheriff’s sale. So that every facility is given to the sever al plaintiffs to prosecute their claims to a successful termination, and no possible loophole left for the esCape of the offender. The scheme thus sketched has only been in operation for a few montlis, but the most ben eficial results have marked its pro gress. Indeed, the Ohioans, in Urg ing other Legislatures to follow their example, claim that the law is the most effective one ever conceived, and is attended by the greatest amount of fear and trembling by those engaged in the liquor traffic. The Southern Pacific. This railroad company having or ganized will probably soon begin operations New York to San Francisco, by the Northern Pacific, is 3,373 miles. From New York to San- Diego, by the South ern Pacific, 3,094 miles—an advan tage in distance of 279 miles. The following are the distances : New York to Washington, 226 miles; Washington to Chattanoo ga, 626 ; to Meridian, by the Ala bama and Chattanooga Railroad, 295 miles ; to Vicksburg, by the Vicksburg and Meridian Railroad, 149 miles; from Vicksburg to the eastern boundary of Texas, via Monroe and Shreveport, 188 miles ; from eastern boundary 'of Texas to El Paso, 783 miles; through New Mexico on the 32 parallel, 578 miles, and through California, on the same parallel, to San Diego, on the Pacific, 160 miles—making 3,- 094 miles. Toe Eastern connection of the Southern Pacific will be at Shreve port and Chickasaw, the former with the Vicksburg and Meridian Railroad. The road will b° a straight shoot for 250 miles of'prai rie. In 850 miles will be six bridges, none over 400 feet. The road runs through a rich country, with fertile soil, fft for cotton-and grains, tim ber in plenty, rich, mines contigu ous.. The route can be used the whole year round. The company has all the usual powers; cap issue stock, buy and consolidate with other railroads; purchase lands -of other companies, issue bonds, etc. We may look for an .energetic prosecution of this great enterprise, and when completed, an accession of benefit to the entire South, in calculable in its magnitude and im portance. The Truth. —A Mississippi pa per says : As long as the best and purest, citizens of the South are treated by the reigning government as traitors and outlaws, and its of fices tilled with such damnable spec imens of dishonesty, vile partizan ship speculation and hate, just so long will its moral support be with held, and the Government, which a trusted people would respect and support, will be despised, and all its “ whipped in ” overtures, be spit upon and spurned. The Government may dot every hamlet with its tented emblems of authority, may cumber its statutes with every cunningly devised mach ination, for forced obedience and respect.to its glaring wrongs and oppressions, and it will find that nothing but respect and confidence will bring that obedience and es teem necessary to harmony' and prosperity in aH its co-ordinate branches. —Knoxville Tenn., boasts of a young Samson, named Louis Knck ert. One of his feats is to lie flat on his back on the floor and stretch his arms above his head, with the palm of his hand upward, and for a heavy man to place a foot in either hand, when he will raise him with ease, and get up on his feet. He has lifted men weighing neftrly two hundred pounds in this manner. —A Chicago sausage-maker, with unusual candor, advertises his wares as “ dog cheap.” Old Fashioned Division of Time. The ancient divisions of the dav differed widely from the customs of our own time. “ ! !i ’ 1 . The Chaldeans, Syrians, Persians and Indians, began the day At sun rise, and divided the day and night into four parts. This division of the day into quarters Was in use long before the division into hours. The Chinese, who begin their day at midnight aud reckon to the mid night following, divided th3 inter val into twelve hours,-eflcli equal to two of otirs, and known by a name and particular figure. In Egypt the day was divided into equal hours. The clock, in vented by Ctselbivs, of Alexandria, B. 0. 250, was so contrived as to lengthen or shorten the hours, by. the flowing of water. , The Greeks divided the natural day into twelve hours, a practice derived from the Babylonians. The Romans called the time be tween the rising and the setting of the sun the natural day, and the time in twenty-four hours the civil day. They began and ended their civil ; at midnight, and took thqir practices from their ancient laws and customs and rites of religion, in use long before they had-any idea of the division into hours. The :first sun dial seen at Pome was th ought from Catalia, in Sicily, in the first Punic war, as part of the spoils of that city; and after this they divided the day into four. An officer, called “accensris,” at one time proclaimed the hours, and at the bench of Justices an nounced every three hours the time of day. .j; i: , In the Turkish empire time is reckoned by certain portions'of the natural day, resembling the “watch es” of the anolbnt Jews and Ro mans. I’ublic clocks not being in use there, divisions of time are pi-p --el aimed from the minarets. A Woman’s- Defense op Dress. —For myself, I should be thankful to return to the habits of our grand- a bonnet v which would do to wear ten years ; have three dresses, two for. every day aud one for “nice,” and wear them year after year till they wear out, without alteration; also twist ’np my hair in a plain wad at the back of my ihead. -I should then have more time fOr reading and study, and more money to spend in books, pictures, and traveling, to say noth ing of the unlimited'titri© aud mon ey for doing good. And I know of very many women who would be only too happy do throw aside the wearisome shackles of fashion. But what would be the result? With the maidien, no more beaux ; with the wife a cessation, of.devotion on the Sart of her husband —results too ireful to be contemplated for a mo ment. I speak what I kno w ahd testify to what I have seen. I have myet-lt becq.to parties sensibly and economically clad, and I was de spised and rejected of men ; 1 have been snore fashionably and expensively attired, and I had more beaux: than I knew what to do with By the way,, why don’t some of the wise and sensible bachelors cqurt and marry among the vast army of working-girls ? They are dressed simply, sirid are accustomed td hab its of economy.; - They would be glqd enough of gop,d hollies, and . would make excellent wives. They and personally attractive, and I doubt riot, are quite as refined and intelligent as the averageof fashion able women. \Vhy is there not a greater demand for tfieTn as .wives,* and why are not the Flora McFlimn seys a drug in the market? Let thq, facts speak for themaelvesi Be not deceived, O, my brethren 1 With you lies the fault;, from yon must come the remedy. Refuse to pay court td silks, panniers, frills and chignorris, and we would go over to calico in batatllions. j Eating Without Appetite.— lt is Wrong to eat without appetite, for it shows that there is no gastric jnice ’ in the stomach, and that nature does not need food, and there being no fluid to pecive and act upon it, it would remain there only to putrify, the very thought of which should be sufficient to deter any man from eating without an appetite for the remainder df his life. If a tonic is taken to whet- the appetite, it is a mistaken course; for its only result is to cause one to eat more, when already an amount has been eaten beyou'd what the gastric juice sup plied is able to prepare. The object to be obtained is a larger supply of gastric jume, not of a larger supply of food ; and whatever fails to ac complish that essential object, fails to have any efficiency towards the cure of dyspeptic disease : and as the formation of gastric juice is di rectly proportioned to the wear and waste of the system, which is to be the means of supplying, and this wear and waste can only take place as the result of exercise, the point is reached again that the efficient remedy for dyspepsia is work out-door work—beneficial and suc cessful iu direct proportion as it is agreeable, interesting and profita table. Lye Hominy.— To one gallon of shelled corn add one pint of strong lye (or one quart strong ashes, if you have no lye,) add sufficient lye to boil Boil'until the hull becomes loose, then wash thoroughly, put on and boil a few minutes, then pour off the lie water and add fresh wa ter. Boil now thoroughly done, and you have “ lye hominy,” good enough for any one. Making Love. In Seville, which is popularly supposed to be in Spain, there is in use a most felicitous invention in the. way of making love clandestine ly. After dark, young caballeros steal beneath their ladioW’ farffl.'eV —Which; perhaps, is in the'third story—and softly unscrewing the? handle of their walking sticks, pro ceed to extract from the same, which arp hollow, length ' after length»of hollow tubing, screwing' them together after the fashion of a Japanese fishing pole Or the old aparatus wherewith sweeps clean chimneys. A mouth piece Is fitted into each end, and one raised tb she window above. Soon, by the aid of this im provised speaking tube, two souls with a certain unanimity of thought, and two hearts with a possible uni son of pulsation, are softly com muning. - /; ,i Now all this is very nice, seduc tively romantic, and all that sort of thipgfjfiu.t mark what the knowl edge of it brought to a certain youth of Baltimore. He had read Os it, or heard of it, and happening to have a sereptitious affection for a young and wealthy lady, which she. sereptitiously reciprocated, lie determined with her connivance to avail himself of it. tin pipe of the desired length made by a tim ner, and in each end of it plabfed, for want of a better mouth-piece, a funnel. Delicious conversation went on, he sitting oh the top Os a water bar rel and fche leaning from a window above. They would oonverso for hoars, and. exchange all the soft nonsense in the world, and then he would unship his apparatus, put tlie funnels in his pocket, wrap the pieces in a hews-paper, and go home in a condition of etherial bliss. The course of true love never did run smooth, and one evening the old gentleman, smoking in theback garden at an unusual hour, saw the young gentleman arrive, fix up his apparatus and commence his soul- CQmmuning operations. He made up his mind in a mipute. He went into the kitchen and asked for a pltdfcbf Os boilMg water ;• it was handed to him, and off ire posted, up Stairs. J ust as he reached his daughter’s door he commenced calling her. So telling her lover to wait a moment, "she came to the door. “Nelly, my dear, run to my room and get my spectacles; I’ll wait here till you come down.” She disapeared up stairs and he stole cautiously to the window. . The moment he touched the funnel the amorous and unsus pecting youth clapped his mouth to it to resuffie where he had broken off—“my darling you cannot imag ine how—.” Just then the old gen tleman commenced assiduously fill ing the funnel with hot water, and the rest of the miserable youth’s sentence was never heard. He wore flour on his face for a fortnight after, and declines to go into socie ty just at present. Temperance and Tobacco.— At the iate meeting of the Kentucky Conference of the Methodist Epis copal Church, at Louisville, the com mittee on temperance and tobacco submitted the following resolutions: ' Resolved, That every member of the Kentucky Annual Conference be requested to identify himself with, the organized temperance movement of the State, and avail himself of every opportunity to in culcate and maintain a true and healthy public sentiment upon this vitally momentous subject. Resolved, That we, as conference, take the advance ground of the temperance reform, demanding po litical action in order to secure our ultimate aim, and unqualified legal prohibition. Resolved, That we urge all our ministers and people to abstain from the very needless, expensive, and pertinacious use of tobacco— chewing, smoking, snuffing and dip ping. Mr. Cote wanted .the “dipping” portion of the resolution stricken out. He pleaded, “Now don’t put that in. Giye our old sisters that liberty if they want it.” The appeal created a discussion, iu which several of the members participated. The resolution to strike out “dipping” was not car ried. Several members argued that when a member voted for this res olution against t-obacco he should discontinue the use of it. Several of the members had done so on the passage of a similar resolution at lust Conference, believed it was incumbent upon them so to do. The report was finally' adopted. The Dandy. —The effeminate man is % weak poultice. He is a cross between root beer and ginger pop,'the cork left out, afresh water mermaid found in a cow pasture with hands filled with dandelions. He is a tea cup full of sylabub; a kitten in pantaietts ; a sick monkey with a blonde moustache He is a vine without any tendril ; . a fly drowned in oil; a paper kite in a dead calm. He lives like a butter fly—nobody can tell why. He is as harmless as a cent’s worth of spruce gum, and a shirt button without a hole. He is as lazy as bread pills, and has no more hope than a last year’s grasshopper. H e goes through life on tiptoe, and dies like cologne water spilt on the ground. —North Carolina is about the on ly Southern State that never wishes to revert to the Holden time. NO. 20 VARIETY. Oaths are the weapons a cow ard. wields,, , A dead reckoning— Calculating onojs, fuuerel expenses. —'A defines snoring as letting ; Happiness, .grows at our own fire-sides, typl is .yot to be nicked up in stranger’s gardens. 0 . bring forward the bad ac tions of others to excuse our own is* like washitfir ourselves In mud. Innocense, Jjipu art genuine Only when, a child, thou knowest not thyself; the moment of thy consciousness is that of death. It is often said of rich £metl, that they began life as poor boys when in fact they began life very fat -babies. The last instance of* modesty is that of a lady who refused to wea*. a watch in her bosom because it had hands. 1 A Chicago hair restorer agent vfent out, into the suburbs, stuck his posters afl over the church pulpit, and then asked the minister to call attention to tliem.'''' - A New York school-teacher is accused of being drunk because he read from the Dibit*; ‘ And the cock wept thrice, and Peter went out and crew bitterly.” Tfie man who married three sisters in succession, excused him self for doing so on the ground that he got op; with only one mother-in law. —■ l He who is conscious of his ignorance, viewing it in the light of misfortune, is wiser than one who mistakes superficial polish for real knowledge. —A chap who was told by a cler gyman to remember Lot’s wife, re plied that he had trouble enough with his own without remembering any other man’s wife —A shoddy woman who return ed from Europe with some paint ings, was asked if they were land scapes. She said “No; over one. half of them are waterscapes.” —Proverb o£ the slow but sure man—“ Large oaks from little acorns grow.” Proverb of the tight boot-wearing man—“ Large aches from little toe-corns grow,” A reader writes that he takes no stock in the “new woman’s club.” He says the old woman’s club is enough for him and frequently too much. epitaph on a penurious man. At rest beneath this slab of stone, Lies stingy Jimmy Wyett; He died one morn ing just at ten, And saved a dinner by it. Milwaukee has got a Turkish bath. An editor there was run throngh, and on going home his wife hunted him out of the house, and wouldn’t believe it was he till he showed’her his railroad pass. Some people are never content ed. After having all their limbs broken, their heads smashed and their brains knocked out, they will actually go to law to get more dam ages. .. • !., A poetical Western editor says: “ We are in receipt of two poems, one on . the “ Throbbing Brain,” and the other on a “Beating Heart.” We will wait until we re ceive on the “Stomach Ache,” and publish all three together.” A mother was amnsed the other day to hear this bit of “argu ment ” from her little boy: “ Mama, I don’t see how Satan should have turned oat to be such a had fellow —there wasn’t any devil to put him up to it! ” A contemporary in Indiana tells how a brakeman, who was left by his train the other day, took a short cut on foot, and beat his cars fifteen minutes in a walk of five miles. A locomotive, at an average speed of thirty mile?, an hour, would reach the moon in eleven months, and the sun in three hundred and fifty-two years. Light travels from the sun to the earth in eight min utes. —An eminent British physician recently publicly stated his belief that death from drowning under ice is one of the most rapid of deaths, and is completed, he believes, with so quick an extinction of conscious ness as to be actually painless. Do right, though you have en emies. You cannot escape them by doing wrong and it is little gain to barter away your honor and integ rity and divest yourself of moral cunrage, to gain what ? Nothing. Better abide by the truth—frown down all opposition, and rejoice in the feeling which must inspire a free and independent man. —I was not aware that you knew him,” said Tom Smith to an Irish friend the other day. “ Knew him! ” exclaimed he in a tone that comprehended the knowl edge of more than one lifetime I knew him when his father was a boy! Liniment for Animals. —An ex cellent liniment for wounds, bruises, sprains and swellings, may be made as follows : A pint of good vinegar, a pint of soap, a handful of salt and and a tablespoonful of saltpetre. Mix thoroughly and bottle for use. This is very efficacious, and is cheap ly and very easily prepared.