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VOL. VI.
THE APPEAL.
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Hioman’s Work.
Darning little stockings
For rcstkl< little feet;
Washing little faces
To keep them clean and sweet ;
'Hearing little Bible lessons ;
Teaching catechism \
Praying lor salvation
From heresy and schism—
Woman’s work.
Sewing on the buttons ;
Overseeing the rations ;
Soothing withs kind word
Other’s lamentations ;
Guiding clumsy Bridgets,
And couxing sullen cooks ;
Entertaining company
And reading recent books—
Woman's work.
Burying out of sight
Her own undeuling smarts ;
Letting in tbe sunshine
On other clo ded huarts ;
Binding up ti e wounded,
And healing ot the sick ;
Bravely march, ng onward,
Through daogers dark and thick—
\\ Oman’s work.
Leading little cbildreh,
And bles»ing manhood’s years ;
Showing to the sinlul
How God’s forgiveness checks ;
Scattering sweetest roses
Along another’s path ;
Smiling by tbe wayside,
'Content with what she hath—
Woman's work.
Lastly coraeth silence -
A day of sweet repose
Her locks are sweetly braided.
Upon her breast a rose ;
Lashes resting geutly
Upon a marble cheek ;
A look of blessed peace
'Upon the forehead meek !
Pale bands softly folded,
The kindly pulses still,
The lips now know no smiting.
The noble heart no tbrill ;
Her conch now needs no smoothing,
’She cravetb for no care ;
Lore’s tenderest entreaty
Wakes no responseses there,
- A fresh grave in the valley—
Tears, bitter sobs, regret ;
'One more solemn lesson
That life may not forget,
The face forever hidden,
Tbe race forever run
“ Dust to dust,” a voice saith,
And woman’s work is done.
To Prevent a Town from Thri
ving-—Tbe following is Horace
Greely’s idea of doing it, and we
reproduce it for the consideration of
some of our own citizens ;
“If you wish to keep a town from
•thriving, don’i put up any more
buildings then you can conviently
•occupy yourself. If you should ac
cidentally have an empty dwelling,
and any one should wish to rent it,
ask him three times the value of it.
Demand a Shylock price for every
spot of ground God has given you
stewardshipovur. Turn cold shoul
der to every mechanic and business
»man seeking a home among you. -
Look at every new workman. Go
abroad fur wares rather than deal
with those who sees to do business
in your midst. Fail to advertise or
in any other way to support your
fiaper, so people abroad may not
know whether any business is going
on in your town or not. Wrap
.yourselves up within yourselves of
impervious selfiishoess. There is no
more effectual way to retard the
growth of a town than the actions
like those enumerated. There are
people in every town who are pursu
ing the above course every day pf
their lives, and to whom the above
remarks are most respectfully of
fered for their consideration.
A young couple who were not
yet from under the parental author
ity, tried to bring their unsatisfacto
ry longings for ooe another to a fo
wls by getting married in Columbus,
Wednesda'y. Just as the fatherly
old J. P. was about to commence
the joining process, in steped the
girl’s father and broke up the tea
party, by carrying his truant fem
inine child home. The would be
bridegroom was very restless that
night.
CUTHBERT §§§f APPEAL.
For the Cuthbert Appeal.
Le Savoir Faire !¥d. 3.
BY ESPRIT FORT.
If there is, to any appreciable ex
tent) ft disposition among as to ape
or honor and permanently adopt
Northern or European manners, I
do not hesitate to sayj with empha
sis, that it should be cheeked at
once. Our churches and schools
should set their faces and exert their
influence against it; our press
should back-ball it everywhere; the
social circle should arm and en-
trench itself against it. It
may be presumptuous and arrogant
to assert, hence I will only express
the opinion, that there is no people
on the globe whose religion is more
uiidefiled ; whoseintegrity and mor
als are less contaminated; whose
courage, moral and physical, is of a
higher standard ; and whose virtue
in the aggregate, and of individu
als, is of a more heavenly type;
and who have less to gain and more
to loose by an abandon ment aod
exchange of normal manners, than
we of the Southern States. And I
protest; in the name and memory of
our departed ancestors, against the
wonton sacrifice of this heritage'
they left us.
But if foreign manners we must,
have; if we must iVnitaVe the dress,
and address of people remote from
us, let us by all moans select the
good in preference to the bad;
graceful and becoming models and
not those that mar our beauty and
detract from the ijgreeableoess of
our effect upon each other. Let us
not take as models, the exotics, the
excentrie, the unnatural seeking
distinction by differing from the
masses of their own people. Let us
wait and learn the habits, styles,
modes, and details of life on the
part of the good, the pure, the vir
tuous, the 'really prosperous and
happy: If vvfe are bound to imitate,
let it be sometbfng which will not
hurt but benefit us as a people. As
we have seen, cannot learn it by
travel and persona! communication ;
nor can we absorb it from their fic
tion and fashion plates. The one
shows us the guilded fancy or a
cloistered author seeking fame for
himself, or money by sensation, in
lieu of real life. The other shows
ns the costume of a ciass we have
not the ability and should not have
the will to imitate. <t
When we stand in the midst of a
mountainous region, and behold at
a distance the high ranges and tow
ering peaks, we are impressed with
their grandeur, and filled with
pleasurable emotions. Hut they
convey to our understanding no just
conceptions of the extended plains,
and deep valleys and ravines that
lie between us and them, and be
tween each other. We have but a
poor conception of the want of ease*
and comfort, that would at once
distress us, if elevated to the bleak
ness and isolation of their shmmits,
compared with the peace and plen
ty, the warm friendship and -genial
hospitality at their base.
When we follow the heroine c>f a
tale, be it never so well told,we trav
el over the mountain peaks of life,
and the imaginary ones only. They
are such as we can only gaze at and
admire, though the spectacles of im
agination furnished as by a skillful
deceiver—skilled in creating unreal
images of grandeur; and in hiding
ihe real pathway of human life.
When we unfold the fashion
plates, we are set to admire, and ad
monished to follow the cold and >s
olated eminences in, and exceptions
to a happy, peaceful and virtuous
community Those who have the
vanity to r alize that they are hand
some or witty—who have th#*- inex
pressible passion for mould'd dis
tinction and attentioext. W who
have the means to diss rah&h them
selves in folly. Wf.it. ninety
nine in a hundred of our people,
have not the means, and if they had
a proper appreciarion of their own
worth and personal charms, their
modesty and virtue, and their de
sire for real comfort, peace, and
happiness, should repress forever,
the desire for such distinction. It
is only now and theD our kind
Heavenly Father makes a man of
real greatness, compared With the
multiplied millions of His creatures.
It is about as rare that a woman of
faultless and transcendant beauty
has graced the world. How unphi
losophical then must be a prevailing
fashion, intended c- ly to attract at
tention, and whf' j s n almost qvery
case, adver/ie; .|,| rt ,e graceless de
fect, that l <y styles could
eonceal, jfco be overlooked.
How au a> convince the vain
and fooli( a of all things that
CUTHBERT, GEORGIA, FRIDAY, APRIL 5, 1872.
tend to affect their real happiness,
distinction is the least to be de
sired 1
The faultless and transcendant
beauty of persons of which I speak,
like that of tbe mind and heart,
needs no advertisement to give it
celebrity, and to draw around it
tbe homage and admiration due to
attributes so lovely. It needs no
feathers or plumes, or gorgeous
drapery; no ribbons and bands
with outlandish and fantastic fold
and tie, or gay colored streamers;
no rude exhibition of limbs, so sym-
and bhest of heaving rc»
tundity, to excite the admiration,
of men; no drops borrowed from the
grape to give flow to her Soul in
words and allusions that freeze the
spring of virtue,- or to give lustre
to the eye. She need** not the gen-i
tie touch of painter’s brush to inii
tate the warm, rudy current of
health and life upon her cheek—nor
yet a foreign growth of nature’s fa
vorite adornment, to give grace and
proportion to her head. Her beau
ty is like that of the diamond, wheth
er under the star-light or moou-light,
or the brilliant array of lamps and
schatideliers, the cultivated eye of
admiration wanders involuntarily
to it for repose.
While beauty, of the quality I
speak of, is as rare amoDg women,
as true greatness among men, the
woman is an exception among her
sex, who is not Messed with enough
of personal gVaCe and beauty to make
her lovely, with proper mental and
moral culture, natural and graceful
manners, and with dress is in -har
mony with her native.beauty.
True greatness among men is of
rare occurrence. Stiil there are thou
sands in every age and country, who
are largely endowed with talents
that, for all practical purposes, fit
them for the various stations of
usefulness to mankind. The same
is true of women as to their intel
lectual powers, and their personal
beauty. vVhile a Mary Queen of
Scotia, or Madame Deßacatnier are
as rare as a Napoleon or Lee, there
are immense numbers of women in
this country, bolh in public a’d pri
vate stations, so gifted in personal
charms ns to be able, through their
magic influence, to wield a vast
amount of good or evil upon man
kind.
And even where these do not ex
ist, we find that a kind providence
h s strewn thickly every where
among women, the native graces of
mind and heart. The question for
them to solve is, will they bring
these out in their strength and pow
er to bless themselves aud the
world by intellectfial training, and
moral culture, and by grace, ease,
and propriety of manners, or will
they burry these out of sight in a
vain attempt to win favor and ex
ert power by what nature has with
held from them surjyassing person .
al beauty ?
In considering the suitableness of
other people’s dress, there is one
tett that aids no little in reaching a
conclusion. It is whether the dress
belongs to the person, or the
to thh dress; and which is superior
in the estimation of the wearer. If
a man, and he appears to be im
prisoned by, and Subordinated to
his cloth, boots, beaver, and neck
tie, and to the kinks and frizes the
barber has given bis hair and whis
kers ; then no matter how well
formed in body and features, how
well his mind is stored with knowl
edge, or how good natured he may
appear, he is sure to be, to some
extent, an uncarreot issue at the so
cial exchange. If a woman, and to
use no stronger 1 word, if she is uu
der restraint in body, mind or spir
it, by the profuseuess or richness
of her attire, and she makes the
impression that it is the dress and
not the person that wo are to be
hold and admire, then, people, in
their shrewdness and disposition to
be amiable in such matters, will
yield a leady compliance, and set a
small estimate upon the latter, while
they may or may not admire the
former. It is not expected that any
considerable number will entirely
agree in things that relate to style
and taste in dress. They are mat
ters in which great liberty is award
ed by general consent; and about
which there can be no disputing as
we have generally been told. Still,
to acquit my own conscience, I shall
adhere to a rule suggested by com
mon sense, upon the subject of
dress. The points to be considered
are important in order as follows:
The fit, including the covering of
all parts, that comfort or delieacy
requires to be covered, and the har
monious conformation of folds and
drapery to the outlines ofrperson.
The ease with which it is worn,
that it shall be so adjusted as not to
repress the action of vital organs,
suppress comfort, check the flow of
spirits, or to burthen others behold
ing it, with a sense of anxiety. The
material of which it is made, and its
adaptation to the use, the occasion
and circumstances. And last, not
the abundance oi redundancy of or
naments and trimmings, but
freedom from all unnecessary addi
tions of that kind.
Twenty Years Ago. —A gentle
man who went to California from
Davies county, Missouri, twenty
years ago, returned recently to vis
it a married daughter. He went to
her residence, and giving a ficti
tious name he began asking his
daughter questions about her pa
rents, ants as to the probability of
her knowing her father alter so long
an absence *‘Knt>W him ?” she re
plied, ‘‘why, I’d know him as far off
as I could see him.” She then pro
ceeded to describe him as he ap
peared twenty years before, ahd
grew eloquent in her praises of the
beauty of bis jet black hair, stately
walk, and “his voice,” she added,
“I’ll never forget that ; I’ll know
that voice when I hear it mi heaven!”
The gentleman was so overcome
with his emotions that he could
sham no longer, but clasping his
daughter in his arms ho proceeded
to administer a shower of kisses,
much to the bewilderment of her
husband, who happened to step in
to the room just at that moment.
He soon comprehended the situa
tion, howeVer, as did also several
grandchildren of the returned Cali
fornian, and soon there was a joy
ous time in that household.
Somebody’s Heart.
My heart is waiting for somebody ;
Somebody, where can he be ?
Somewhere on earth he is waiting,
Waiting and watching for me. .
My heart shall be faithful tip.d true then,
To that somebody, wherever he be ;
•Yes ! my heart is locked firmly and fast,
But there's some oue possessing the key.
How shall I know who’* the somebody ?
My heart will fell faithful and true?
You wonder who can be the somebody
Well, somebody, darling, is you.
How to Put Children to lied.
Not with a reproof for any of that
day’s omission or commission. Take
any other time but bed time for
that, If you ever heard a little
■creature sighing or sobbing in its
sleep, you could never do this.
Seal their closing eyelids with a
kiss and a blessing. The time will
come, all to soon, when they will
lay their ’heads upon their pillows
lacking both. Let them at least
have this sweet memory of a happy
childhood, of which no future sor.
row or trouble can rob them.—
Give them their rosy youth. Nor
need this involve wild license. The
judicious parent will not so mistake
my meaning. If you have ever
met the man or the woman whose
eyes have suddenly fifled when a
little child has crept trustingly to
its mother’s breast, you may have
seen one in whose childhood’s home,
dignity and severity stood where
love and pity should have been.
Too much indulgence has ruined
thousands of children; too much
love not one. —Fanny Fern
Social Hon ok. —Every person
should cultivate a nice sense of hon - -
or. In a hundred differant ways
this most fitting adjunct to the lady
or gentleman is. often tried. For
instance, one is the guest of a family
where,prehaps,the-domestic machin
ery does not ran smoothly. There
is sorrow' in the house unsuspected
hy the outer world. Sometimes it
is a dissipated sob, whose conduct is
a shame and a grief to his parents ;
same times a relative, whose eceen
tricities and peculiarities are a cl"ud
on the home. Or, worst of ail, hus
band and wife may not be in accord,
and there may be often bitter words
spoken and harsh recriminations
In any of these cases, the guest is in
honor bound to be blind and deaf,
as far as people without. are con
cerned. If a gentle word within
can do any good, it may well be said ;
but to go forth and reveal the
shadow of an unhappy secret to any
one, even your nearest friend, is an
act of indelicacy and meanness un
paralleled. Onee in. the sacred p§e
cinets of any hocse, admitted into
its privancy, sharing its life,all that
you can see and hear is a sacred trust.
It is really as contemptible to gossip
of such things as it would be to steal
the silver or borrow the books and
forget to return them.
One hundred acres of land in
Houston county brought SBO last
week.
Female Education.
For thirty years out* young wo
men, or rather girls, have studied
the aocient languages, but if a thor
ough, classic scholar has been de
veloped among them she has bid
den her light under a bushel and is
unknown to fame.
They have studied mathemadics,
but where ar«r female mathemati
c ans?
They go to college and study
Latin, Greek, mathematics, miner
alogv, geology, zoology, astronomy,
botany, rhetoric, logic, phyßiolpgy,
natural history, natural philosophy,
chemistry, English literature and
composition, and music, with French
and German added.
Is there in this State any woman,
a graduate of a college, Who has at
tained eminence in a single one of
the scientific or mathematical stud
ies which she began or pursued
while iu college ?
The truth is, it is simply a ridicu
lous impossibility for the immature
mind of a young girl—a graduate
at eighteen—to acquire in four
short years an insight into scientific
studies) which is the result only of
years of intense labor and thought
on the part of rtlen of mature minds
and of men .who concentrate their
energies upon one subject.
Education is but a means to an
end. It is, or ought to be, the
preparation which enables us to un
derstand and fulfill our duties in life,
and its success or failure must be
judged of by the fitness we exhibit,
each for her individual sphere.
What would be thought of the
man who studied law in order to
practice medicine? And, yet, it is
customary for a woman, who, it is
reasonable to suppose, will one day
become a wife and mother, to study
surveying.
Our women have been studying
mathematics ever since they became
college students, for the .purpose of
strengthening their minds, but, as'
yet, no feminine mental Sampsons
have appeared ; and is it not a mat
ter of regret that the invaluable
time of early youth should be spent
upon studies not half comprehend
ed, and that have little or no con
nection with the duties that
when the same length of time, devo
ted to preparation for the actual,
aud not the ideal } lives these young
women are to lead, would save
them years of trial ? .
The severe mental labor necessa
ry to tbe success of scientific inqui
ry is impossible to the woman who
has the care of a household on her
hands, aod who, when she hat
watched all night with an ailing,
fretful child, will have but small
inclination, on the following night,
to enter into astroniwical calcula
tions, and will find the prospects of
a good night’s rest infinitely more
interesting than even tbe probable
discovery of anew star.
And thus it is with every scien
tific pursuit A woman’s first duty
is to the helpless children she has
brought into being, and not science
Nature has made this duty so
much an instinct, as Well as a labor
of love, that a failure in it, so far as
each woman understands it, is most
rare.
A gentleman, a physician, brought
his daughter to a teacher, and said,
“I wish to place my litte girl under
your care. She is not very bright,
and is rathfer backward, so you must
make her do double work. She
ought to study twelve hours a day.”
Twelve hours a day of mental la
bor fora dull brain 1 It was simply
an impossibility. The child could
have been forced to sit for an indefi
nite length of time with a book in
her hand— as too many unfortunate
dull children are compelled to do—
but the words of the lesson would
convey no idea to the weak mind,
tired with a half hour’s work. It is
as cruel to require hard manual la
bo; of a weak mind, as a weak body.
Fanny Thomas.
—Atlanta Plantation.
Mrs. Nancy Griffin, in the upper
part of Brooks county, has sixty
grandchildren and one bundled and
thirty-two great grandchildren.
Notwithstanding this pressure, she
is hale and hearty.
in ♦ —
The Supreme Court of Kentucky
has decided that in order to main
tain a breach of promise case it is
not necessary that a promise shonld
be made on either side. This ruling
applies to both sexes, and the faeires
es of the Blue Grass region are
likely to have a good deal of court
ing of both descriptions when the
decision becomes well known.
MUs Bell Goodwin, of Selma, who
was burned at the Cantata at the
opoTa house in Selma, some five or
six weeks since, died on the Ist in
stant.
Trip Lightly.
Trip lLrhtlv over trouble,
Trip lightly over wrong :
We only make grief double,
By dwelling on it long.
Why clasp woe’s hand so tightly T
Why sigh o’er blossoms dead T
Why cling to form unsightly T
Why not seek joy instead ?
Trip lightly over sorrow,
Though ail the way be dark,
Tbe sun may shine to-morrow,
And gaily sing tbe lark )
Fair hopes have not departed,
Though roses may have fled,
Then never be down-hearted,
But-look for Joy instead.
Trip lightly over sadness,
Stand not to rail at doom,
We’ve pearls to string of gladness,
On this side of the tomb.
Whilst stars are nightly shining.
And the heaven is overhead,
Encouraging, not repining,
But look for joy instead.
Seven lites In the Air.
Messrs Glaisher and Cox well,
the great balloonists of England, at
one time rose to a region wdiich has
never been visited before, and
probably will not again soon.
Their precise elevation could nevfir
be known positively, but it was prob
ably 37,000 feet, or seven miles.
This famous assent was made in
18^2,from Wolverhatnpion. When
aeronauts had soared to a height of
five or six miles, Mr. Glaisher sud
denly, discovered that one arm was
powerless, and when he tried to
move the other, it proved to have
been as suddenly stripped of its
strength. He then endeavored to
‘shake himself, but strange to say, he
seemed to possess no. limbs. His
head fell on his left shoulder, and
upon his struggling to place it erect
it reeled over to the right. Then
his body sank backward against the
side of the car, whilst one arm hung
helplessly downward in the air. In
a moment he found that all the mus
icular power which remained in his
neck and back had deserted him at
a stroke. He tried to speak to his
campanion, bat the power of speech
had departed as well. Sight still
continued; though dimly; but this
too, speedily vanished, and dark
ness, black as midnight, drowned his
vision in an instant. Even con
ciousness itself remained only a
short time, and he was utterly ob
livious to everything. But, fortu
nately, this was not -of duration.
He was roused by Mr. Coxwell, but
at first could only hear a voice ex
horting him to “try.”. Not a word
could he speak,not an object could he
see, not a limb could he move. In
a while however, sight returned;
shortly afterward he rose from his
seat, and fotmd. sufficient tongue to
exclaim: “I have beeu insensible!”
To this bis companion gave an af.
firmative response* and said that he
himself bad almost gone. At the
time Mr. Glaislier was smitten with
paralysis, Mr. Coxwell had climed
the ring of the balloon, in or
der to free the valve-rope, which
had become entangled. There his
hands were so frozen that he lost
the use of them, and was compelled
to drop down into the car. His fin
gers were not simply blue, but pos
itively black, with cold, and it be
came necessary to pour brandy
over them to restore the circulation.
Observing on his return that Mr.
Glaisber’s countenance was devoid
of animation, he spoke to him, but,
receiving no reply, at once drew the
conclusion that his companion was
in a state of utter unconsciousness.
He endeavored to approach, but
found that he himseif was lapsing
into the same condition. With
wonderful presence of mind, howev
er, he attempted to open the valve
of the balloon, in order that they
might escape from this deadly re
gion, but his hands were too much
benumbed to pull the rope. In his
fearful extremity he seized the rope
with his teeth, dipped his head
downward two or three times, and
found, to his relief, that the machine
was rapidly descending into a more
genial sphere. Fortunately, the voy
agers reached the ground in safety,
without feeling any lasting mischief
from their audacious excursion; but
it would be difficult to invent a
scene better calculated to make the
nerves shudder than that of a bal
loon floating at the height of near
ly seven miles, with its ooou pants
awakenjpg from a state of insensi
bility to discover that their limbs
were entirely powerless, that the
rope which might enable them to de
scend was dangling beyond their
reach) and that there they must re
main until the cold, which had turn
ed every drop of water into ice,
should eat away tbe feeble relics of
vitality from their frames.
The Greatness of London.
Some idea of the size of London,
and what is required to keep up this
city, can be formed from the recent
census, and some other facts. Ac-<
cording to tile last census, the pop
ulation is 3,383,002. This vast mul-
titude is more than the combined
population of New York, Philadel
phia, Brooklyn, St. Louise, Chicago,
Baltimore, Cincinnati, Boston, New
Orleans, San Francisco, Buffalo, and
Alleghany City, Pennsylvania. To
lodge these people, 770,000 dwell
ings are required, and the people
consume annuity about 4,000,000
barrels of flour, 420,000 bullocks, 2,-
975,000 sheep, 40,000 calves, 61,250
hogs, and one market alone supplies
annuity 7,043,750 head of game.
This, together with 5;200,000, sal
mon, irrespective of other fish aud
flesh, is washed down by 75,600,000
gallons of ale and poter, 8,500,060
gallbns of spirits, and 113,679 pipes
of wine. To fill its milk and cream
jugs 23,750 cows are kept. To
light its streets at night 620,000
gas lights are required, consuming
every twenty-four
cubic feet of gas. Its water system
supplies the enormous quantity of
77,670,834 gallons per day, while
its sewer system carries off 16,629,
770 cubic Feet of fefuse. To warm
its inhabitants a fleet of 1,800 sail is
employed in bringing, irrespective
of railroad* annully, 5,250,000 tons
of coal. The smoke of-this immense
quantity of coal is sometimes so
dense as to be plainly seen thirty
six miles from the city. To clothe
this multitude we find there are 4,
160, tailors,so, 400 boot and shoe
makers, nearly 70,000 milliners and
dressmakers, and 297,401 domestic
servants. The streets of the me
tropolis are about two thousand in
number, and if put together would
extend about four thousand miles.
The principle ones are traversed by
about 1,500 omnibusses and 4,000
cabs, besides private carriages and
carts, employing 50,000 horses.
Hard Times for Farmers.—A
farmer in debt always will have
hard times, as those who have
land and have a comfortable home,
free from all incumbrances, can not
Mly comprehend. Mr. Beecher,
who knows the cost of farming,
perhaps, better than its profits, says
candidly -: ’‘No blister draws sharp
er than interest does. Os all indus
tries, none is comparable to that of
interest, which- works all day and
night, in fair weather and foul. It
has no sound in its footsteps, but
travels fast. It gnaws at a man’s
substances with invisible teeth. It
binds industry with its film as a fly
is bound m a spider’s web. Debt
rolls a man over and over, binding
him hand and foot, and letting him
hang upon the fatal mesh Until the
long-legged interest devours him.
There is but one thing on a farm
like it, and that is the Canada thist
le, which swarms new plants every
time you break its roots, whose
blossoms are prolific, and every
flower the father of a million seeds,
every plant like a platoon of bayo
nets, and a field of them like an
armed host. The whole plant is a
torment and vegetable Curse —and
yet a farmer had better make his
bed of Canada thistles than attempt
to rest at ease upon interest-.”
The Grkatkul Millnier.—-A
gentleman from one of the provinces
went to a fashionable establishment
in Paris to purchase a bonnet for
bis wife, which he requested the
mistress of the establishment to
select for him. The lady selected a
very elegant hat and when the gen
tleman inquired the price she an
swered that it was paid for. The
gentleman was much surprised, and
desired an explanation.
‘Sir,’ said the lady, ‘ten years ago
you bought some apples of a little
girl in the sreets of Paris. The,
poor child had not enough to change
a gold piece yob gave her and wheu
she mentioned that her mother was
very sick at home you told her keep
the money till she had enough to
change it- The little apple mer
chant Dow stands before you. I
have married a jich man, awl most
beg of you to except the hat as a
testimony of my gratitude for the
gift which saved my poor mother
from mtich suffering.
Wedding Celebrations. -
Three days—Sugar. •
Sixty days—Vinegar..
Ist anniversary—lron.
sth anniversary—Wooden.
10th anniversary—Tin.
15th anniversary—Crystal.
20th anniversary—China.
25th anniversary—Silver.
30th anniversary—Cotton.
35th anniversary—Linen.
40th anniversary—Woolen.
46 th anniversary—Silks.
50tb anniversary—Golden.
£sth anniversary—Diamonds.
NO. 14
About the Loyc of Wo
men.
We woufd as »oon undertake to
predict the hour and minutes when
the sun aud the earth will come
into collision, and everything be
again reduced to chaos that was
before the creation, as to attempt
to give any rational explanation of
the coarse of woman’s love. Why
a girl should prefer one specimen of
the masculine gender of
homo rather than another, is one
of those things which, in tbe lan*
guage of Lord Dundreary, “no fellah
can find out” But yet girls do it
as regular as the daily 7 paper issues
from the pross. There are, doubt
less, some persons egotistical
enough to believe that they art; fully
conversant with the motives that
move feminine will; all we have to
say to them is that they are only
wise in their own conceit. The fe
male sex, like transcendental phi
losophy, cannot be understood by
ordinary mortals of the other sex.
We believe it was Roehefaucult
who said that love is the creation of
flattery; at first blush there appears
to be a great deal of truth in this.
Admit that all women are vain, and
there is a basis for such a belief.
But observation shows that the
saying falls far short of being a gen
eralization from facts. Women
may 7 , sometimes, give their hearts
in exchange for a skillful praising,
but they do not so always, or even
iu the majority of cases. Flattery
is a powerful instrument for gaining
the good will of any human being
male or female, young or old. Nev
ertheless, sycophants do not, as a
rule, succeed in the world. Politi
cians are generally the most success
ful practicioners of that art; but we
doubt whether they find it the most
profitable course in the end. And
so it is with those who act on the
French philosopher’s maxim
endeavors to win a damsel’s heart.
She appears to have a pretornatural
instinct for divining his thoughts,
and can tell almost unerringly,
whether he is in earnest or not in
what he says. There is no telling
how her love can be made to come
and remain. There is more in her
than our wisdom can fathom.
A Game at Cards.
This life is but a game of cards
which each one has to learn : each
shuffles, cuts and deals the pack,
and each a trump does turn. Some
bring a high card to the top* and
others bring a low 1 : some hands are
very flush of tramps, while others
none can show. Some shuffle -with
a practice hand, and ]mck their cards
with care* so you may know when
they are dealt, where alt the leaders
are.
Thus fools are made the dupes of
rongues, and rogues each other
cheat, and he is very vise indeed
who never meets defeat. In playing,
some play out the ace, their counting
cards to save; some play the deuce,
and some the ten, but many play
the knave. Some play for money,
some for tun, and some for worldly
fame, but not untill the game’s play
ed, out can they count up their
game.
When hearts are trumps we
play for love, and pleasure rules
the hour; no thought of sorrow
checks our joys in beauty’s rosy
bower. We sing, we dance, sweet
masic make, our cards at random
play, and while our trumps remain
on top our game’s a holiday.
When diamonds chance to crown
the pack,tbe players stake their gold,
and heavy sums are lost and won,
by gamblers yonng and old. Intent
on winning, each his game does
watch With eager eye, how he may
see his neighbor’s cards and beat
him on the sly.
When clubs are trumps, lookout
for war, on ocean and on land, for
bloody horrors always come when
clubs are held in hand. Then lives
are staked instead of gold, the dogs
of war are freed —as late throuhout
onr glorious land see clubs have had
the lead.
Last game of all is the spade’s
turned by the hand of time—he al
ways deals the closing game iD
every age and clime. No matter
how much each man wins, or much
each man saves, the spade will finish
up the game and dig tbe players’
graves.
—Three little boys were disputing
as to whose father said the shortest
graoe. My father says, ‘Lord, we
thank you for these provisione.’ Seo
ood, And mine says, ‘Father bless
this food to us.’ Third boy—«Ah,
but mine’s the best of all. Mt
shoves his plate toward mama, a
and says, ‘Darn ye, All up.’