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CUTHBERT lj§l APPEAL.
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His Wife’s Mother.
He stood on bis head on the wild sea shore,
And danced on his hands a jig ;
Iu all liis emotions, as never before,
A madly hilarious grig.
•And why ? In that vessel which left tbe bay
His mother-in-law had sailed
To a tropicul country some distance away,
Where tigers snd serpents prevailed.
He knew she had gone to recruit her health
And doctor her rasping cough,
But wagered himself in a profusion of wealth
That something would carry her off.
Oh, now he might look for a quiet life,
And even be hap, j yet.
Though owning no end of neuralgicnl wife,
And up to his collar in debt ;
For she of the specs and curled fal e front,
And the black alapaca robe,
Must pick out a sailor to suffer the brunt
Os her next daily trial of Job.
He watched while the vessel cut the sea.
And humpiebly upped and downed,
And thought it already she quaiuiidied could
lie
He’d consider the edifice crowned !
He'd borne the old lady through thick and
thin.
Till slic'd lectured him out of breath ;
And now, us be gazed at the ship she was m.
lie howled for her violent death —
Till ever the azure honizou’s edge
The bark had retired from view
When he leaped to tbe crest o! a chalky
ledge,
And pranced like a kangaroo.
And.many a jubilant peal he sent
O’er the waves wbicli had made him free.
Then cut a jart caper estutic, and .vent.
Turning somersaults, homeward to tea.
—A great many of the mortifica
tions ive experience in life have
their root in seli conciousijess. We
think so much more about our
selves than any one else thinks
about us. Mow om ears tingled
- when we made that unlucky slip in
grammar, but the person was. talk
1 ing with us, intent on what, he was
to say presently, did not observe
either our mistake or our embarrass
*■ ment, Someone fails to bow to
your sensitive man in the street,
and he spends half the day in won
dering why. He believes that he
has been cut and insulted, while the
truth ts that his acquaintance, ab
sorbed in some scheme of his own,
never eveu saw him The sharpest
barbed arrow of scandal derives its
.most venomous sting from undue
self-ooViciousness. We are of so
great importance to ourselves that
we fancy we are similarly impor
tant to others, and we wince at our
own conception of what people are
saying about us long after interests
more immediate and personal have
banished ns from their minds alto
gether. In three years after the
deatffof all but the very greatest
men the general public has so far
forgotten them that if they are reca 1-
ed at all, you hear one say to an
other : “Why, let us see, he died a
few years ago, didn’t he ?” It is a
safe rule to conclude that we are uo
more important to other people than
they are to us.
The Danbury (Conn.) News
says : “A young lady in a
ing town has taken up dentistry foi
a living. All the gentlemen pat
ronize her. When she puts her arm
around the neck of the patient and
caresses his jaw for the offending
member, the sensatiou is about as
nice as they make ’em. One young
iuanha3 become hopelessly infatu
ated with her. Consequently he
hasn’t a tooth in his head. She had
pulled every blessed one of them,
and made him two new sets and
pulled them. She is now at work
on his father’s saw. He holds the
saw 7 .
—The influence which woman
exerts is silent and still, felt rather
than seen, not chaining the hands,
but restraining our actions by 7 glid
ing into the heart.
For the Cuthbert Appeal.
te Savoir Faire—Ho. 2h
BT ESPBIT FORT.
Reading is a cheap and almost
universally accessible method of
passing time agreeably, and acquir
ing knowledge. Nevertheless, our
people generally read but little.—
They miss the fairest practicable
opportunities, and pass the really
pleasure bearing period, of life in
sighing and pir.ing for things they
are unable to attain, and in the
trial of methods that are either un
productive or hurtful, and find
when it is too late to fully remedy
the evil, that by their own neglect,
life has been rendered a compara
tive failure.
Owing to want of sin plus means,
domestic and business engagements’
and encumbrances, but lew are able
to travel to any considerable extent,
and of those who do, fewer still,
comparatively, appear to derive to
themselves, or to confer on others,
any appreciable benefits, from it.—
In truth, in the ordinary accepta
tion of the word, and in the gener
ally adopted modes, travel has but
few facilities for acquiring.or im
parting knowledge of men, man
ners, principles or things, except as
it is connected with, or superindu
ces reading. Thus limited, those
facilities do not compare in rapidity,,
cheapness, or correctness, with the
overflowing consent of religious,
scientific, literary, professional,
and miscellaneous literature of
the period in which we live.—
It is a constantly gushing, and
gurgling, beautifully rippling,
and magnificently winding stream
of pleasures and profits, that flows
by.us from youth to old age. We
refuse to gaze upon its beauties, to
listen to its sweet music, to be re
freshed or cleansed by ils cool and
lympid waters. We sleep upon its
sterrile banks, and vainly dream,
that, at some place where good for
tune will at some period carry us,
there is an ocean of pleasure and of
knowledge.
A man can learn more from one
day’s issue of the press, than he can
from a month of hard and hazard
ous travel in Railro and ears, and
steamers, in hotels, parks, and
crowded streets; gazing at the
surf and billows; the shore will) its
<>;reeii burners, its rocks and peaks ;
*r the inland beauties ot farms and
woodland, valleys and mountains,
lakes and rivers—unless he learns
while traveling, from reading. Bend
a stranger t<* S ifitoga and Long
Branch, X ■- V >rk and Boston,
Pliiladeiphi , Washington, Savan
nah and New Orleans, Louisville,
Cincinnati, Chicago, St. Louis and
San Francisco. Let him spend a
w eek at each place. Then let him
cross the oceai , and visit, Paris,
London, Edinburgh, Berlin, Rome
St. Petersburg, Vienna and M idrid.
and stay as long at each place with
out having read, a line and what
has he learned ? Not so much as
he could have learned, iu the inter
vals of business from well selected
periodicals, which vv: uld only ,-osi
a few dollars, while his trip wdl
have cost him as many thousands.
Applying our premises to the
matter in hand what can a Georgi.
an, by a flying trip, learn of life and
manners in New England ? IL
may see with pleasure, the outside
aspect of the country ; the fields,
barns, residences, churches, school
houses, cities, manufactories ; how
the people dress on the streets and
railways, and in hotels; how they
smoke and drink and discuss poli
tics and other topics in mixed
crowds; and how uon9t nean
themselves in public al °d/> e *Abnß.
But when lie return* 1 * 411 P a Y*fhat he
has not learned frolihling, 4 s , news
papers and magazine l *^ 9 he know
of their modes of li^ e and
social style, manner a w habits, the
vices practiced, the ’Plates inculca-
ted and enjoyed, the lAitiments and
tastes cultivated; and the real and
practical means by which they de
rive their happiness, and the causes
from which their troubles spring ?
only a moments reflection will satis
fy us that it is, comparatively,noth
ing at all. And the difficulty in
that direction is increased, when
we travel into foreign countries, un
der diferent governments, and
among people who speak unknown
languages.
Countries, sections, and commu
nities, are more isolated, and sepa
rate from eacti r as to the ord
inary mantle P IOC V and each more
or *in this, than in
any other 10 whatever We
i can s£nd •' , on, rice and sugar,
;to any pf con gie world where they
! may be I, and with the pro-
CUTHBERT, GEORGIA, FRIDAY, MARCH 29, 1872.
ceeds of their sale, buy of raw ma
terial or manufacture, whatever any
country on the globe produces for
sale. constantly issu
ing literature of the period, we can
keep ourselves informed of their
discoveries in the arts and sciences,
their movements in religion, poli
tics and arms but we cannot buy
their manners or sell them ours.—
They are indiginous, and can only,
by slow degrees, and the perma
nent intermixture of peoples, be
transplanted from country to coun
try; from section to section; and
from community to community.—
The manners of a community, are
composed of the manners of the in
dividuals who compose the commu
nity; and they are to the commu
nity in presentation and social ef
fect, what the dress of an individu
al, is in one respect. It may be of
good material oi bad, may fit grace
fully or awkwardly' ; and may make
an agreeable impression, or it may
offend or disgust those who be
hold it. Our manners may be
natural or assumed and foreign;
they may spring out of our pecunia
ry, material and social condition,
conform to'our comfort, be in har
mony with our religion, our morals,
our principles, sentiments and tastes;
our social and domestic virtues ;
and our grades of intellect and in
telligence ; and our degrees in
cultivatiou , or they may be unnatu
ral, and adapted to other peoples
and countries; they may be bor
rowed or stoleu ; real or attempted
imitations of peoples and communi
ties as remotely, as they are difer
eutly situated from us. By the
plainest rules of common sense, may
we have reason to respect and felic
itate ourselves, and to command the
good opinion and receive the re
spect of other peoples and commu
nities in the one case ; and in the
other to lower and depreciate our
selves in our own enlightened opiu
ion ; and to excite feelings of dis
taste if not disgust toward us, from
other peoples aud communities.
Before proceeding to notice par
ticularly, the social and home cir
cles, and the public congregation,
I offer the following general basis
of a code of manners applicable to
both sexes and all classes :
Everything that tends io give
pleasure, that is free from guile and
harmless; every thing- that tjtnds
to promote tlie happiness of the
parties; to elevate the feelings ; re
lief of pain and trouble, either
physical or mental; and to make
the meeting and stay together a
benefit and blessing, is admissible
and commendable. Every thing
that has the opposite tendency
should be avoided. All that I say
and do in tlie presence, sight or
hearing of my friend or a stranger,
male or female, that confers a real
benefit or produces a pleasing emo
lion to that person, without actual
injury to myself, is a benefit aud
means of happiness to both ; aud to
that extent, fulfills the obligations of
civilized humanity ; and gives it an
upward tendency in purity, strength
of virtue, and capability for enjoy
ment, and it continues and increases
w th the repetition and frequency
of tlie offices of kindliest and civil
ity given and received
Ou the contrary, all I do and
say to, or in the presence of others,
to be affected in interest or feeling
bv my actions,- and which sayings
and actions* 'end to wrong and in
jury; or without cause to mar the
feelings; and repress the pleasures,
tend directly to violate the obliga
tions of my humanity, and give it a
downward tendency towards de
pravitv and misery. In depriving
others of their rights of things, of
place, of person, of pleasurable
emotion, they are entitled to deriv 7 e
from association, I not only inflict
an inexcusable injury on them, but
I do great damage to my own
ecart, my means of pleasure and my
actual enjoyments. The party to
ward whom I have so behaved, may
forget or forgive; and as soon as
rid of my forbidding presence, be
cured of all the harm received.—
But I am a criminal against society 7 ,
condemned at the bar of my own
heart and mind, and doomed to
carry the sting in my conscience,
until my soul festers with it. Then
if my conduct has provoked its
like from another weak vessel of
humanity, there are two who are
both givers and receivers, of injury
by the meeting; and that meeting
is to both, a destroyer instead of
promoter of happiness.
The solution of man’s obligation
to man, is, that we owe respect to
the religious sentiments of our fel
low creatures, obedienceto those in
authority over us, and justice, bu-
manity and clemency to those over
whom we have authority; we owe
reverence to our superiors in age,
station aod attainments ; respect to
our equals, feelings of kindness and
justice to those beneath us, and in
violability to the behests of refined
delicacy between the sexes; and
being under these obligations which
the laws of our being and tbe de
mands and restraints of society im
pose, to observe and keep them un
der all circumstances and conditions
in life.
Igo forth from day to day aad
meet other men in business,- or for
pleasure, I wish to so transact my
business, as to get what is -due to
me ; give what is due to them ; re
ceive all the benefits I can and no
injury, in person, property or feel
ings. In order to accomplish this
it is my duty and policy to presume
and concede by my actions, that
those persons derive the same thing;
that they have intelligence to know
their rights; firmness to insist upon
them ; feelings that are susceptible
of being wounded ; and resentment
that may be provoked; and cour
age to repel injury and repress in
suit. It is not only my duty to
presume the existence of the most of
these qualities in females w’hom I
may meet, but also that they are
fully possessed of the delicate and
refined feelings of the sex.
When Igo into the company of
men or women, or receive them in
to my company for the purpose of
passtime, or enjoyment, it is my
right to expect all the pleasure they
can confer on me by reasonable ex
ertion, and without pain or injury
to themselves, and I recognize a
corresponding right in them and
duty Irom me to them. I have a
right to expect they will refrain
from whatsoever they have reason
to believe Will incommode, or give
me pain in body or mind, or abate
my.pleasures, and they have a cor
responding right from me.
The Bottom of the Atlantic.—
The soundings which were made
between Ireland and Newfoundland
before laying the Atlantic cable
have made the bottom of the Atlan
tic almost as well known as the sur
face of Europe or America. It is
covered with a fine mud, the remains
of microscopic insects, which wil!
one day doubtless harden into chalk.
Os the inequalities of the ocean bot
tom, Prof. Huxley says:
“It is a prodigious plain, one of
the widest aud most even plains in
the world. If the sea were drained
off, you might drive a wagon all the
way from Valentin, on the west
coast of Ireland, to Trinity Bay in
Newfoundland. And, except upon
one sharp incline, about 200 miles
from Valeutia, I am not quite sure
that it «Cukl ever be necessary to
put the skid on, so gentle are, the
ascents aud descents upon that
long * rout. From Valentia the
road would lie down hill for about
two hundred miles, to the point at
which the bottom is now covered
by seventeen hundred fathoms of
sea water. Then would come the
central plain, more than one thou
sand miles -wide, the inequalities
of the surface of which would be
hardly perceptible, though the debth
of the water upon it varies from
ten thousand to fifteen thousand
feet; and there are places in which
Mont Blanc might be sunk without
showing its peak above water. Be
yond this, the ascent on the Amer
ican side commences, and gradually
leads for about three hundred miles,
to the Newfoundland shore.”
The idle hour is the- devils opor
tunity.
Charity is an eternal debt, and
without limit.
A poor spirit is pdorer than a
poor purse.
It is fruition and not possession,
that renders us happy.
Whatever makes man really hap
pier, makes him better.
Gravity is the inseper.able com
panion of pride.
It costs more to avenge wrongs
than to bear them.
There is a heroic innoqpnce as
well as a heroic courage.
A mild tempered woman is a bal
sam that heals matrimonial sor
row.
Hope is like a bad clock, forever
striking the hour of happiness,
whether it has come or not.
We should uot retain the remem
brance of faults we have once for
given.
The grand essentials of happi
ness are something to do, some
thing to love, and something to
hope for.
Sut Lovengood at a Can
dy Palling.
I had a heap of trouble last Christ
mas and I’ll tel! you how it happen
ed :
Dekin Jones gave a candy pul
in’ and I got a stool, as they say in
North Carolina, and over I goes.
Sister poll and I went together,
and vyhen we got to Jone’s the
house was full. Dog my cats es
thare was room to turn around.
There was suze Harkin—she’s
as big as a skinned horse—
and six other Harkins and Sim
mones, Peddigrews, and the school
master and his gal, beside the old
Dekiuand the Dekiness, and enough
little dekinesses to set up a half a
dozen young folks m the family
biziness.
Well, bimeby the pot began to
bile, and the fun begun. We all
got our plates ready, and put flour
on our hands to keep the candy
from slickin’, and then we pitched
into pullin.’
Wasn’t it fun ? I never saw such
laffin’ and euttin up in all my borne
daze.
I made a candy bird for Em Sim
mons. Her and mo expect to trot
in double harness some of ♦ hese
daze. She made a candy goose for
me
Then we got to thro win’ candy
balls into one another’s hair, and a
runnin from one house to tutlier,
and out into the kitchen, till every
thing upon the place was gummed (
over with candy.
I got a pine bench, and Em Sim
mons sot close to me.
Suze Harkin—confound her pic
ture ! throwed a. candy ball stock
into one of my ize.
I made a bulge to run after her,
and heard something rip.
My stars alive ! wasn’t I picled ?
I looked around, and thar was
the gable end of my bran new
breetches a sticken to the pine
bench.
I backed up agin’ the wall, sort
crawfish like and grinned.
“Sut,” said sister Poll, “what’s
the matter?”
“Shut up 1 ” saz I.
“Sut,’* says Ein, “come away
from that wall ; you’ll get all over
grease.”
“Let her grease !” sez I, and sot
down on a washboard that was ly
ing across a tub, feelin worse than
an old maid at a vvedden’.
Party soon I felt something hurt,
and party soon it hurt again.
Ice— whis —I jumped ten feet hi,
over the tub, out flew old Jones’
Christmas turky, and you ought to
seen me git.
I cut for tall timber now, jumped
staked and rider fences,and mashed
down brush like a runaway herikan
till I got home, and went to bed and
staid there two daze.
Es old’Joncs’ barn burns down
next winter, and I'm arrested for it,
and es any body peers as a witness
agin me, I'll bust his dogone’d hed !
There’s my sentiments !
What is Love Like. —Love is
like the devil, because it torments;
like heaven, because it wraps the
soul in bliss, like salt because it is
relishing; like peper, because it often
sets on fire ; like sugar; because it
is sweet; like a rope, because it is
the death of a man like a prison, be
cause it makes a man quite misera
ble; like a woman, because there is
no getting rid of it; like a ship, be
cause it carries one to the wished
for fort, like a willo’tb-wisp. because
it often leads one .into a bog; like a
fierce courser, because it often runs
away with one; like the kiss of a
pretty woman, because they both
make a man run mad; like a goose,
because it is silly; like a rabbit, be
cause there is nothing like it. In
• a word it is a ghost, because it is
like everything and like nothing—
often talked about, but never seen,
touched or understood.
Matrimony —The Wit and Sen
timent, a sprightly new monthly
published in Philadelphia by Win.
Howard, has the following “matri
monial
Auy gal what’s got a cow, a good
feather bed with comfortable fixins,
500 dolls, in good, genuine, slap-up
greenbacks, that has had the small
pox, measles, and understands ten
ding children can find a custimer
for life by ritin a small William
ducles addressed X. Y. Z. and stick
in a crack of Uncle Ehenezer's barn
jinin the pigpen.
—lt will afford sweeter happiness
in the hour of death, to have wiped
one tear from the chedk of sorrow,
than to have ruled an empire, to
have conquered millions, or to have
I enslaved the world.
The Value of a Scrap
Hook.
Every one who takes a newspaper
which he in the least degsee appre
ciates, will often regret to see a
number thrown aside for waste pa
per which contains some interesting
and important articles. A good
way to preserve these is by the use
of a scrap-book.
One who has never been accus
tomed thus to preserve short arti
cles can hardly estimate the pleasure
it affords to sit down and turn over
familiar pages. Here a choice
piece of poetry meets the eye,
which you remembered you were so
glad to see in the paper, but which
you would long since have lost had
it not been for your scrap-book.
There is a witty anecdote—lt
doe* you good to laugh over it,
though for the twentieth. time.
Next is a valuable recipe you have
almost forgotten, and which you
have found just in time to save
much perplexity. There is a sweet
little story, the memory of which
has cheered you many a time when
almost ready to despair under the
pressure of life’s cares and trials.
Indeed, you hardly take up a pa
per without perusing it. Just
glance over the sheet before you,
and see many valuable items it con
tains that would be of service to
you a hundred times in life. A
choice thought is far more precious
than a bit of glittering gold. Hoard
with care > the precious gems, an 1
see at the end of the year, what a
treasure you have anticipated. A.t
change
The Paris Figaro gives the
following method of obtaining light
instantaneous, without the use of
matches and without danger of set
ting things on fire: Take an ob
long vial of the whitest audclcaiest
glass, put in it a piece of phospho
rus about the size of a pea, upon
which pour some olive <>il heated to
the boiling point, filling the vial
about one third full, and then seal
vial hemetricaily. To use it remove
the cork and allow the air to enter
the vial,afidThen recork it. The
whole empty space in tlie bottle will
then become luminous, and the
light obtained will be equal to that
of a lamp. As soon as the light
grows weak its power can be in
creased by opening tbe vial and al
lowing a fresh supply of air to en
ter. In winter it is necessary to
heat the vial between tbe hands to
increase the fluidity of the oil.
Thus prepared tlie vial may be
used for six months. Tins contri
vance is now used by the watchmen
of Paris in all magazines where ex
plosive or inflamable materials are
stored.
Good Advice. — If you cannot
speak well of your neighbors, do not
speak of them at all. A cross neigh,
bor may be made a kind one by kind
treatment. The true way to be hap
py is to make others happy, io
do good is a luxury. If you are not
wiser and better at the end of the
day, that day is lost. Practice kind
ness, even if it be but little eacn
day. • Learn something each day,
even if it be but to spell one woi and.
Do not seem to be what you are not.
Learn to contioll your temper and
your words. Say nothing behind
one’s back, that you would not say
to his face.
The field is too wide, the har
vest too great, the world to broad,
and humanity too precious, eiethei
for delays, for jealousies, or for
strifes. Indeed, this human life is
all too short to allow the indulgence
of vain regrets. And when the
sense of weakness, or of guilt and
sin, overbears the weary head and
heart, I can but remember the trus
ting and triumphant joy of the
Apostle.- John Andrew.
How to Keep Eggs. —Take a
lump of quick lime as large as a
quartjineasure; slake in a water pail;
dissolve half a pint of coarse salt
and add to it —then fill the pail with
clear water and let it stand till set
tled —pour the clear liquid over the
eggs, which must be set on the small,
end, iff a tub after having been ex
amined to see that none are cracked.
Eggs put up in this manner will
keep six months.
Two little school girls were
lately prattling together, and one of
them said : “We keep four servants,
have got six horses, and lots of
carriages. Now, what have you
got ?” With quite gs much pride
the other answered : “We’ve dot a
skunk under our barn.’’
—He who serves well need not
be afraid to ask his wages.
Bad Habits. —Undersand clearly
the reasons, and all the reasons,
why any habit is injurious. Study
the subject till there is no lingering
doubt on your miud. Avoid the
places, the persons, and thethonghts
that lead to the temptation. Fre
quent the places, associate with
the persons, indulge the thoughts,
that lead away from, temptation.'
Keep busy'; idleness is the strength
of bad habits. Do not give up the
struggle when you have broken
your resolution ' once, twice, ten
times. Tiiat shows how much need
there is for you to strive. When
you have broken your resolution,
just think the matter over, and en
deavor to understand why it was
that you failed, so that you may be
upon your guard against a reoccur
rence of the same circumstances. Do
not think it a little or an easy- tiling
that you have undertaken. It is
folly to expect to break off bad
habits iu a day, which have been
gathering strength in you jbr years.
The Coming Comet. — The com
et of M. Plan tumour is not, howt v.-r,
one of the tamed, domesticated and
eminently respectable comets of our
system, biit a wild and dangerous
wanderer from the interstellar wil
derness. Os its constii ution, wheth
er gaseous or sound, it is yet impos
ible to judge, but we are assured
that it is of enormous size, and is
heading directly toward the earth.
Should it consist of burning hydro
gen', it would hardly fail to add
very unpleasantly to the heat of
August, while if it is a solid body,
it will undoubtedly smash tlie earth
to pieces, and convert it into scores
of small meteoric bodies.— N~ew
York Times..
Mingling with Strangers.—
The effect of mingling with new
people who have new methods of
thought is very salurary.
Ahvay r s to see the same people, do
the same things, feel the same way,
.produces a stagnant condition of the
mind and heart that is very distress
ing to behold. There are thousands
of invalids who might be greatly
benefitted by getting from home, if
only for a short time, to mingle with
strangers, :nd be touched with the
magnetism of the great world as it
courses in its accustomed rounds.
And there arc mental and moral
invalids who need the §ame changz
•to get their minds and heart enlarged,
and let in a little more of the great
light of life. Outside influences are
very well trained by healthful influ
ences in early youth, so that they
can avoid the snares and pitfalls
into which these so often blindly
fall.
The Southern State?. —The
London Chemist and Druggist, of
recent date, says truly of the South
ern States: “If the Southern Uni
ted States are not the garden of
the world, it is rather the fault of
those who are responsible fortheir
cultivation and development, than
from any other cause on the face
of the earth.' Cotton, sugar and
tobacco are products of such im
mensity as Jo dwarf those which
other lands bring forth. Vast quan
tities of wheat and rice are expor
ted. Luxurious but uncultivated
vegetation also testifies to its im
mense resources which are forth
coming. Watered by the grand
est rivers, rich in every variety of
soil, millions of acres of swamp yet
unreclaimed, make a territory which
will supply the world.”
A fancy farmer of Sqott county,
Kentucky, is said to have built a
$2,000 hog pen, which is painted
and grained, furnished with hot and
cold water, wanned with steam, and
lighted with gas. There is a fine
library, where can be found Cobb’s
Elementary Works, the works of
Bacon, inquiry regarding the descen
dants of Hams, Hog’s poems, Cobden
on the corn laws, and tbe popular
little poem, “Root Hog or Die. ”
The troughs are rrfUhogany, inlaid
with Ivory, aud furnished with
Phelan cushions. Whenever a hog
is led out for execution, chloroform
is administered. Georgetown
Times.
A wag, in “what he knows of
farming,” gives a very good plan
to remove widow’s weeds. He
says a good looking man has only
to say “Wilt thou,” and they writ.
—Time is the cradle of hope, and
the grave of existence; and while
it deprives beauty of her charms,
transfers them to the canvas on
which they are delinated.
—Our most in different actions
have the impress of individuality ;
we may convey an impression not
to be effaced for years by au un
considered word or gesture.
—Man is but a reed, ami the
weakest in nature ; but then he is a
reed that thinks. It docs not need
the universe to crush him ; a breath
of air, a drop of water, will kill him-
«♦»
—lt hasbeen ascertained that seme
ladies use paint as all fidlers do rosin
to aid them in drawing a beau.
NO. 13
—To be at once in any great
degree lcvc and praised is truly
rare.
—Whoever wishes the welfare
of others, has already advauced
towards securing his own.
An individual wants to know
if Worcbester spells Wooster, why
Rochester don’t spell rooster.
—The world would be more
happy if persons gave up more
time to an intercourse of friend-*
ship.
—All is hollow where the heart
bears not a part, and all is peril
where principle is not the guide.
—The follies of youth become the
vices" of manhood and the disgraeo
of old age.
Some ladies have hearts as brittle
as glass. lie that would leave an im
impressiou must'use diamonds.
It is your tall fellows who are
luckiest in love. The young ladies
are all in favor of Ily-men.
—As the flint and steel stricken
together produce fire, so the con
flict of men’s minds elicits truth.
—A newspaper is the only instru
ment tyjiich can drop the same
thought into a thousand minds at
the same moment.
—Hail an omnibus in bad weather,
and it wdll stop to aid you ; but
hail a friend in adversity, and see
what notice he will take of you.
—Human life is a gloomy cham
ber, in which the images of tbe
other world shine the brighter, the
deeper it is darkened.
—Very few in the world have
their passions adequately occupied;
almost everybody has it in them to
be better than they are.
—To neglect at any time prepar
ation for death, is to sleep on our
post at the siege ; but to omit it in
old age, is to sleep at an attack.
—A young gentleman who had
just married a little beauty says:
“Shy would have been taller, but
she is made of such precious mate
•als that nature couldn’t afford it,”
Men are too prone to view their
own errors and failings with indul
gence, whilst they visit those of
at hers with unspairing reprehen
s ion.
—Friendship is the cordial of
life, the lenitive of our sorrows, and
the multiplier of our joys; the
source equally of animatioh and of
repose.
—ln Dade county, some time ago
a Mr. Richard A. Dam was mar
ried to Miss Laura Beach under
very peculiar circumstances. He
simply said to her, “You be Dam,”
and she refered him to his future
father in-law.
A book has been exhibited in
London whose contents are “thirty
three thousand, five hundred
and thirty-five ways of spelling
“scissors.”
—“Do you like novels ?” asked
Miss Fitzgerald of her backwoods
lover.—“l can’t say, ” he replied *
“[ never had any; but I tell yon
I’m death on ’possum.”
A Young lady wants to know
whether a girl may be sure a man
loves her uouterably when he sits in
her presence for an hour without*
speaking.
Most of the troubles and vexations
of this life consists in the anticipa
tion of calamities whicli are never
realized.
A lady caromed on the red head
of her husband, through the window
of a billiard room, with a brickbat.
He ended the game with a vigorous
run.
A negro woman was relating her
experiance to a gaping congregation
of color and among other things she
said she had been in heaven. One
of the ladies asked her—‘Sister, did
you see any blacks in heaven?*
Ob, git out! You s’pose I go in de
kitchen when I was dar !’
“Why don’t you wash the bot
tom of your feet, Johnny ?” asked
a grandmother of a boy when
he was performing the operation
before retirisg for the night; to
which ho gravely replied : “Why,
granny, you don’t think lam go
ing to stand up in bed, do you ?”
Dr. Dean Clark, lecturer on spir
itualism, has challenged Rev. A. T.
Spauldmg, or any other clergyman
in Atlanta, to a public debate upon
the subject. Dr. C.' has been de
nounced as an impostor, and is
strained to follow this course to
vindicate himself. He proposes to
discuss the following resolution :
“ That modern spiritualism is a de
monstrated truth, based upon mani
festations identical with the ‘ spir
itual gifts’ of the ancient prophets,
seers, "and apostles; that it is the
fulfillment of the promises of Jesus
of Nazareth; that natural science
confirms and explains it, and the
Bible sustains and corroborates it.”