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VOL. VI.
THE APPEAL.
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The Uast Mile Stones.
BY PEARL RIVERS.
Sixty yenrs through shine and shadow —
Sixty years, my gentle wife,
You and I have walked together,
Down the rugged road of life.
From the hills of Spring we started.
And through all the Summer land,
And the fruitful Autumn counter,
We have journeyed band in hatfd.
We have borne the heat and burden.
Toiling painfully and slow ;
We have gathered in our harvest,
With rejoicing long ago.
.Leave the uplands to our children
They are strong to reap ;
Through the quiet Winter lowlands
Our level way we keep.
’Tie a dreary country, darling,
You aud I are passing through ;
But the road lies straight before 1 us,
And tiic miles are short and few ;
No more danger to encounter —
No-more bills to climb, true friend ;
Hothing now but simple walking,
Till we reach our journey’s end.
We have had our time of gladness ;
. ’Twas a proud and bnppy day—
Ah ! the proudest of our journey,
When we felt that we could say
■Of the children God had given,
Looking fondly on the ten ;
“ Lovely women are our daughters—
Our eons arc noble men !”
We have had our time of sorrow
Our time of anxious fears.
When we could not see the mile stones
Through the blindness of our tears.
In the sunny Summer country,
Far behind us little May.
And Willie, too. grew Weary.
And we left them on the w- y.
Are you looking backward, mother.
That yon stumble in the snov ?
I am still your guide and staff, deat.
Lean your weight upon me. so !
Our road is growing narrow ;
And, what is it, wife, von say ?
Yes,,! know our eyes are dim dear,
•But we have not lost the way.
•Cheer thee ! cheer thee ! faithful-hearted !
Just n little way before
Lies the great E'ernal City
Os the "King that we adore
I can see the shining sp'res
And the King, the King, mv d"nr
We have served Him long and humbly ;
Re winWess tis.'do not fear.
Ah ! the flnow falls fast and heavy,
Row you.shiver with the cold !
Let me wrap your mantle closer.
And my arms around yon fold.
Wc are weak, and faint, and weary,
And the sun low in the West.
We have reached the gates, my darling,
Let ns tarry here and rest.
The “Morgan Story”
Again.
Every few years the question
“‘was Morgan murdered by the Free
masons ?” comes up in the newspa
pers, and is discussed with as much
fervor as if the transaction it refers
to was a matter of yesterday. It
will sadden those .who delight in
mystery to know, on so good au
tbority as that of Morgan’s son ,
/.hat the supposed victim of the
fbrethnen of the mystic tie was neither
lied to a stone and sunk, had his
throat cut, or was torn asunder,
acording to the general custom in
fiuch cases. On the contrary he lived
.until nearly thirty years after his
abduction, and finaly ended his days
in corpulance and contentment at
liobartown, Van Diem’s Land,
where he for some years published
a newspaper, the Advertiser—
■which is still in existence. Accor
ding to the statement of the son re
fered to, Morgan was released on
condition of his leaving the country
forever. He was accompanied to
Quebec, where he entered the Brit
ish navy and was placed on a ship
which left soon after for England.
Later he accompanied a government
vessel to Australia, and his period
of service being ended he < hese to
take up his residence in that quarter
of the world. His son is a resident
of San Francisco, and is responsible
for the statements hero given.
1
CUTHBERTff J APPEAL.
Code of Ethics
Os the Southern Dental Associa
tion, adopted by the Georgia
State Dental Association.
ARTICLE V —MEMBERSHIP.
Sec. 1. After the formation of
this Society, every applicant for
membership shall be examined by
the Board of Examiners ; (the Ex
ecutive Committee) and in order to
he received as a member, he shall
sustain a satisfactory examination
in either the surgical or mechanical
department of Dental Science ; shall
have been engaged in the study
and practice of Dentistry for a pe
riod of not less than two years;
shall be twenty-one years of age,
and give sufficient evidence of good
moral character. Provided, That
in case the applicant elect to be ex
amined in only one department of
practice, he shall give to the Board
of Examiners satisfactory assu
rances that it is his intention to
practice only in that department in
which he elects to be examined.—
And provided also, That whenever
such member shall intend to prac
tice in both the above departments,
he shall undergo an examination by
the Board of Examiners, in that de
partment in which he was not pre
viously examined.
Sec. 2. Every candidate recom
mended by the Board of Exami
ners, shall be ballolted for, and on
receiving three-fourths of all the
votes cast, may become a member
of this Society, upon signing the
Constitution, and paying las initia
tion fee.
ARTICLE VI- PRIVILEGES OF MEMBERS.
Sec. 1. Active members shall be
entitled to debate, and vote on all
questions discussed in the Society,
and be eligible to any office in its
gift.
Sec. 2 Corresponding and Hon
orary Members shall be entitled to
a seat in the meetings of the Socie.-
ty, and have the privilege of dela
ting all questions not involving pe
cuniary expenditure, hit shall not
be eligible to office.
ARTICLE VII —STUDENTS.
. No member ot this Society shall
take a student for a less term than
•two (2) years, unless he shall liave
studied Denisiry with some other
Dental practitioner a sufficient
length of time, so as to make his
term of pupilage equal to two years;
he should possess a good moral
cbaiacter, and at least a good En
glish education, aud lie shall be
required by his preceptor to attend
and graduate at a Dental College.
ARTICLE VII EXPULSION.
Any member may be impeached
by three (3) members, for violating
the Laws of the Society, for mal
practice, or other- gross misconduct.
The member so impeached, shall
have furnished to him a written
copy of the i i(.ieaciiineiiT, with n<>
tice oi tue ones hearing before a
committee o, rh.ee (3) nn mbei-s
app inter! tor that purpose* 1 then if
the report ot Saul committee sus
tain the impeachment, the Society,
at tlfe next regular meeting, may,
by ballot, suspend or expel such
member, by a two-thirds vote of
the members present.
ARTICLE IX —MEETINGS.
The meetings of this Society
shall be held at least annually, and
ottener, if the Society so determine.
The time and place of holding th.e
annual meeting, shall be fixed at
the annual meeting next preceeding.
ARTICLE X —’QUOliUMt
Seven (7) active members shall
constitute a quorum for the trans
action of business.
ARTICLE XI —ORDER OP BUSINESS.
1. Organization of the meeting
2. Calling the Roll of members
and collection of dues.
3 Reading the minutes of the
previous meeting and action thereon
4. Application for membership
and the election of members.
5 Report of the Executive Com
mittee.
6. Reading and consideration of
reports of Standing Committees,
together with voluntary papers up
on the same subjects, in their con
secutive order.
7. Election ol Officers.
8. Appointmentoi Committees.
9. Unfinished, new and miscella
neous business.
10. Adjournment.
ARTICLE XII.
This Society shall be governed
by Parliamentary Usage.
ARTICLE XIII—AMENDMENTS.
These By-Laws may be altered
or amended at any regular meeting,
by a unanimous vote of all the
members present.
CUTHBERT, GEORGIA, FRIDAY, MAY 10, 1872.
. CODE OF ETHICS.
ARTICLE I.
THE DUTIES OF THE PROFESSION TO
THETR PATIENTS. ' 1
Sec. 1. The Dentist should ever
be ready to respond to the wants
of his patrons, and should fully
recognize the obligations involved
in the discharge of his duties to
ward them. As they are, in most
cases, unable to correctly estimate
the character of his operations, his
own sense of right must guarantee
faithfulness in their performance.—
Ilis mannei should be firm, yet
kind and sympathizing, so as to
gain the respect and confidence of
his patients, and even the simplest
case committed to his care, should
receive that attention which is due
to operations performed on living,
sensitive tissue.
Sec. 2. It is not expected that
the patient will possess a very ex
tended, or a very accurate knowl
edge of Professional matters. The
Dentist should make due allowance
for this, patiently explaining many
things that may appear quite clear
to himself, thus endeavoring to ed
ucate the public mind, so that it
will properly appreciate the benefi
cient efforts of our Profession.-
He should encourage no false hopes
by promising success, when in the
nature of the case there is uncer
tainty.
Sec. 3. The Dentist should be
temperate in all things, keeping
both mind and body in the best
possible health, that his patients
may have the benefit of that clear
ness of judgment and skill, which is
their right.
ARTICLE 11.
MAINTAINING PROFESSIONAL CHARAC
TER.
Sec. 1. A member of the Don.
tal Profession is bound to maintain
its honor, and labor earnestly to
extend its sphere of usefulness. He
should avoid everything in lan
guage and conduct, calculated to
dishonor his Profession, and should
ever manifest a due respect for his
brethren. The young should show
special respect to their seniors ; the
aged, special encouragement to
their juniors.
Sec. 2. Thu person and office ar
rangements of the Dentist should"
indicate that he is a gentleman ;
apd he should sustain a high-toned
moral character.
Sec. 3. It is unprofessional to ro
sort to public advertisements, cards,
handbills, posters, or signs, calling
attention to peculiar stylus of work,
lowness of«prices, special modes of
operating; or to claim superiority
over neighboring practitioners; to
publish reports of cases, or certifi
cates in public prints ; to go from
house to house to solicit or perform
.perations; to recommend or cir
culate nostrums ; or to perforin any
other similar acts.'
See. 4. When consulted by the
patient of another practitioner, the
Dentist should guard against in
quiries or hints disparaging to the
famil. Dentist, or calculated to
weaken the patients confidence in
him, and if the interests of the pa
tient will not be endangered there
by, the case should be temporarily
treated, and referred back to the
family Dentist.
Sec. 5 When general rules shall
have been adopted by members of
the Professions practicing in the
same localities in relation to fees,
it is unprofessional and dishonora
ble to dep rt from those rules ex
cept where variation of circum
stances require it. And it is ever
to be regarded as unprofessional to
warrant operations or work, aB an
inducement to patronage.
ARTICLE m.
THE RELATIVE DUTIES OF DENTISTS
AND PHYSICIANS.
Dental Surgery is a specialty in
Medical Science. Physicians and
Dentists should both bear this in
mind. The Dentist is Profession
ally limited to diseases of the Den
tal organs and the mouth. With
these he should be more familiar
than the geuera! practitioner is ex
pected to be; and while he recog
nizes the superiority of the Physi
cian in regard to the diseases of the
general system, the latter is under
equal obligations to respect his
higher attainments in his specialty.
When this principle governs, there
can be no conflict or even diversity
of Professional interests.
ARTICLE IV.
TIIE MUTUAL DUTIEB OF THE PROFES
SION AND THE PUBLIC.
Dentists are frequent witnesses,
and at the same time, the best
judges of the impositions perpetra
ted by quacks; and it is their duty
to enlighten and warn the public in
regard to them. For this and the
many other benefits conferred by
the competent and honorable Den
tist, the Profession is entitled to
the confidence and respect ot the
public, who should always discrim
inate in favor of the true man of
science and integrity, against the
empiric and impostor. The public'
has no right to tax te time and tal
ents of the Profession to examina
tions, prescriptions, or in any way,
without proper remuneration.
A Warning.
Among the convicts on their
way to work on the railroad Mon
day, we noticed a genteel, pleasant
looking young man. Ilis appear
ance at once enlisted our sympa
thy as Well as our curiosity, and
entering into a free and easy con
versation with him, lie told the
following short story:
“I am twenty-two years old.
Quite young to begin such a life
as this. But I rejoice that lam
no older. One year is not long;
and when I get through I’ll be a
new man. I intend, by the help
of God to make this terrible year
a blessing to ine. Father died
when I was quite young but left
plenty to. sustain the family. I
think I was considered a good boy
until a few years ago. I quit
school, got a situation in a bank,
and -soon concluded to room with
some friends in the bank building.
And tliis, sir, was the beginning of
my ruin. A mother’s warning and
a sweet sister’s pleading could not
induce me to change my mind and
“stay at home ” Tlvey saw where
I was drifting; and at every meal
“do come back home” was sure to
enter every conversation, until l—
an ungrateful wretch —became tired
of their loving importunities—or,
rat. er, ashamed to face these dear
ones—and almost quit.going home
to my meals at all. All this time I
was being led further into wicked
ness, until one fatal night, under
the distracting influence of liquor,
I fought another boy—lie too ol a
respectable family, with a pleasant
home, but “ rooming out” like me.
We were both wounded ; and he
died. My sister’s heart is broken
Mother is weeping herself away
—I am ruined — but not for all time,
I hope. And it all comes from my
leaving home to room out.”—JSTor
cross Courier.
Defective Cotton Seed. —We
hear very serious complaints fiom
planters in Burke, Jefferson and
Columbia counties about the defect
in cotton seed. We are informed
that three-fourths of the seed saved '
tor planting have been found, upon
examination, to be defective—the
germ entirely destroyed. It is
thought that the continued rains
of the early picking season, and
the extreme moisture of the atmos
phere during the entire winter,
caused the seed to “heat’’ when
thrown up in heaps in the gin houses.
One gentleman informs us that he
examined very carefully a four
horse wagon load of planting seed
the other day, an i failed to find a
single sound seed. This load of
seed iiad been pm chased by a plant
ing friend of his, whose own seed
he found were unsound, and for
Which he paid one dollar per bush
el. The neighbor who sold the
seed doubtless thought them good,
and planted his entire crop with
the same kind. These reports of
bnsound seed are not confined to
particular localities. In some the
uefect-is more severe than in others,
put throughout the whole of this
dortiou of the State the complaint
is general, and would stem will
founded.— Augusta Chronicle.
Density of Population in Lon
don. —The population of London
was stated at 3,251,804 in the pre
liminary report of the census of
April, 1871; the revision at the oen
sus office has shown the true num
to be 3,254,260. In 1801 the popu
lation was but 958,862. The re
vised area is given as 78,080 acres,
or 122 square miles; this, includes
2,718 acres of the Thames. The
mean density of population in this
area, as shown by the census, is 42
persons per acre.
Col. W. if. Phillips, of Atlanta,
bought for 875, one thousand acres
of wild land, belonging to the es
tate of W. T. Williams, bankrupt,
of Griffin.
Death of Hon. A. J IValicer.
—Judge A. J. Walker died yes
terday, in the fifty-third year of his
age, at his „residence in this city,
after an illness of ten days, caused
by an affection ot the heart.
These sad tidings will cause a
feeling of profound sorrow not only
in this community, but throughout
the State, for Judge Walker was
prominently identified with the
history of Alabama, aud beloved
throughout her borders alike for
his private worth and distinguished
eminence a sa jurist .—Montgomery
Mail, 26.
What three authors would a per
son name who witnessed the great
Chicago fire ? Dickens, Howit,
Burns.
Useful Words about Scar
let Fever.
The following advice comes to us
from a successful physician, regard
ing the best method of avoiding
contagion in scarlet fever.
1. On the first appearance of the
disease, the patient should be placed
in a separate apartment as near the
top of the house as possible, from
which curtains, carpets, bed-hang
ings and other needless articles of
furniture should be removed, and
no person except the medical at
tendant and nurse or mother per
mitted to enter the room.
2. A basin containing a solution
of lime or carbolic acid should be
placed near the bed for the patient
to spit in.
3. Handkerchiefs not to be used,
but pieces of rag instead, for wip
ing the mouth and nose of the pa
tient ; each piece after being used,
should immediately be burned.
4. A plentiful supply of water
and towels should be kept for the
use of the nurse, whose hands of
necessity will be soiled by the ex
cretions of the patient. In one
hand-basin the water should be ini.
pregnat,ed with Condy’s fluid or
chlorides, by which the taint on the
hand may at once be removed.
5. Outside the door of the sick
room, a sheet should be suspended
so as to cover the entire doorway ;
this should be kept wet wit a solu-.
tion of lime. The effect of this will
be to keep every other part of the
house free from infection.
6. The discharges of the bowels
and kidneys of the patient should
be reeoived into vessels charged
with disinfectants, such as the so
lution of carbolic acid, or chloride
of lime, and immediately removed.
By these means the poison thrown
off from interval surfaces may be
rendered inert, and deprived of the
power of propagating the disease.
7. The thin skin or cuticle which
peels off from the hands, face, and
other parts of the body in conva
lescent patients, is highly cofita.
gions. The plan recommended for
preventing the poison from the skin
being disseminated through the air
is to rub oil or lard all over the
skin. This practice is to commence
on the fourth day after the appear
ance of the eruption, and to be con
tinued every day until the patient
is .yell enough to take a warm bath.
These baths should be administered
every other day for four times,
when the disenfection of the skiai
may be regarded as complete. This,
however, snould not be done with
out first consulting the medical at
tendant.
The foregoing directions will ap
ply to all kinds of fever, small pox
and other contagious diseases.
MODE OF DISINFECTING A SICK-ROOM.
The patient having been removed,
all linen articles, such as sheets,
towels, pillow cases,* and body lin
en, are to be disinfected by placing
them in a large vessel comaining
either Cond’s fluid or the solution
of chloride of lime or soda. The
blankets, counterpanes, and woolen
articles of clothing, are to be sus
pended on lines, and matresses and
beds on the backs of chairs, the fur
niture is also to be removed from
the walls, the windows closed, pa
per pasted over the crevices, the
chimney opening of the fire place is
also to be stopped up. An open
iron vessel is next placed in the
middle of the room, intoetvhich put
a quarter of a pound of stone brim
stone; the brimstone is then to be
ignited, and the person who does it
must immediately leave the apart
ment, close the door, and paste pa
per over the crevices. At the expi
ration of twenty-four .hours the
room may be entered and the doors
and win lows‘thrown open to allow
the fumes of sulphur to escape. By
thi« process the room and every
thing in it may be considered to
have been thoroughly disinfected. —
Hosne and Health.
Bedbugs —One who has tried it,
gives this way of exterminating the
repulsive bedbug: “If any of your
readers need a sure remedy for bed--
bugs they can have mine, and
cleanse the house of this trouble
some vermin without expense.
They have only to wash with
salt water, filling the cracks where
they frequent with salt and you
may look in vain for them.”
Olive Logan commenced oue of
her lectures at Newark recently,
with the remark, ‘Whenever I see
a pretty girl, I want to clasp her in
my arms.’ ‘So do we,’ shouted the
boys in the gallery. For a moment
Olive was nonplussed, but recover
ing her self-possession, she replied,
‘Well,boys, I don’t blame you.’
Advice to Southern Farm
ers.
The Department of Agriculture
has not relaxed its earnest efforts to
assist in reorganizing the rural in
dustry, and developing the agricul
tural capabilities of the South, and
has continued, with as much liberal
ity as its means would permit, the
distribution of such cereal, grass,
and vegetable seeds as are best ad
apted to the climate and circumstan
ces of that section. It is gratify
ing to know that the commissioner’s
expressions of interest in Southern
agriculture have been appreciated,
and that the aid, which the Depart
ment thus far has been enabled to
render that section, has been at
tended with encouraging results.
A letter was recently addressed to
the Commissioner by the Secretary
of the Beech Island Farmer Club of
South Carolina, asking information
as to the most effectual methods of
regulating the change system ol
labor at the South produced by
emancipation, and desireing partic
ularly so know how it is that, with
a soil and climate producing crops
that give a much larger money yield
per aero than in the northern and
Western States, the South is not
able to-pay one fourth the wages
that ai'e paid there. In response to
those inquires the Commissioner
has communicated to the secretary
of the club, and through him to the
farmers of the South, some hints
about farming, which will be espe
cially useful to them, and which arc
of general application.
Premising that the short experi
ence at the South does not justify
the conclusion that the work cannot
profitably be done by hired labor,
the Commissioner instances an ag
ricultural district in the interion of
Pennsylvania, where, as he shows,
a farm of a hundred and twenty acres
may be carried on by a farmer an-d
one son and one hired man, with
occasional extra help in harvesting,
at a net peculiary profit, after sup
porting the family, at one thousand
dollars a year. For instance, the
farm being stocked with six horses
or mules, eight cows, and as many
young cattle, twelve sheep, and ten
to fifteen hogs, the average product
would be 800 bushels of wheat and
1,200 each of oats and corn, worth
in the aggregate, after deducting
the necessary quantity for bread and
seed, and the sum paid for hired
help, say $1,385. In addition to
this theie would be realized from
the sale of vegetables, butter and
eggs, S6OO, making the aggregate
value of products $1,985, and leav
ing, an expenditure for clothing the
family, blacksmith’s bills, and repair
of implements, a cash balance of
SI,OOO. This is an account of the
operations of thrifty husbandry by
a farmer who understands his busi
ness, and is irdustrious and vigilant
in the conduct of it; and is deigned
to show what, with similar prudence
and energy, may be accomplished
at the South, its superior climate
and greater money value of the pro
duct.of its soil. The Commission
er recognizes the fact that a hired
laborer at tire North will do twice
as much work as a black man at the
South, but attributes it to the dif
ferent circumstances under which
the two have been educated to work,
and believes the time is coming
when free labor will produce the
same result cvery-wliere.
The Commissioner urges upon
the South the necessity of erecting
barns, for the saving and better pre
servation of crops, expressing the
belief that fifteen per cent, of the
products of grains and hay are was
ted in cutting, gathering, stacking,
and threshing, while the crops
should be hauled in in good time
and stowed away in a barn, wh- re
the threshing may be done at leis
ure, aud the hay, fodder, and straw
fed to cattle in the barn or its yard
by which means much manure
would be saved that is otherwise
comparatively lost. A careful rota
tion of crops is likewise urged, as
essential to successful and profitable
farming. This material point is
believed to have been fatally neg
lected at the South.
The Commissioner takes occasion
to remind Southern gentlemen who
are peculiarly an agricultural people
of the indifferance and carelessness
in respect to the condition of their
farms, which are observable in bro
ken-down fences, gates out of order,
buildings out of repair, implements
lying around, and the generally
slovenly aspect of their premises—
a condition of things bnt too obvi
ovsly unfavorable to economic*,
management. Industry and dili
gence in employers must be enfor
ced by the vigilant oversight and
example of the farmer, and habits
of order and neatness are indispen
sable to the profitable conduct of a
farm Disorder and confusion lead
inevitably to a waste of time and
means; while neatness and systemat
ic watchfulness of details excite a
spirit of pride and emulation, which
not only promote economy, but are
diffused through all the operations
of the farm, and affect, and regulate
the actions of every man and woman
employed. In conclusion, the Com
missioner strongly commends the
use of lime, as being one of the large
constiuent properties ol grass, es
pecially clover, without the use
of which no successful farming can
be accomplished.— Washington
Patriot.
Roiioi* Yotir Business.
It is a good sign when a man is
proud of his work or his calling.
Yet nothing is more common than
to hear men finding fault constantly
with their particular business, and
deeming themselves unfortunate be
cause fastened to it by the necessity
of gaining a livelihood. In this men
fret, and laboriously destroy all
their comfort in the work ; or they
change their business, and go on
miserably, shifting from one thing
to another till the grave or the
poor house gives them a fast grip.
But while occasional} 1 a man fails in
life because lie is not m the place
fitted to his peculiar talent, it hap
pens ten times oftener that failure
results from neglect and even com
tempt of an honest business.
A man should pat his heart into
every thing that he does. There is
no profession that has not its pecu
liar cares and vexations. No man
will escape annoyance by changing
his business. No mechanical busi
ness is.altogether agreeable. Com
merce, in all its varieties, is affected,
like all other pursuits, with trials’
unwelcome duties, spirit tiring ne
cessities. It is the very wantonness
of folly for a man to search out the
frets and burdens of his callings and
give his mind every day to a con
sideration of them. They are inevi
table.
Brooding over them only gives
them strength. On the other hand
a man has power given him to shed
beauty and pleasure on the homlicst
ton, if he is only wise. Lot a man
adopt his business and identify it
with pleasant associations; for Heav
en has given us imagination, not on
ly to make us poets, but to enable
all men to beautify homely things.
Heart varnish will cover up innu
merable evils aud defects. Look at
the good thing. Accept your lotas
a man does a piece of rough ground,
and begin to get out the rocks and
roots, to deepen and mellow the
soil, to enrich and plant it. There
is something in the most forbidding
avocation around which a man may
twine pleasant fancies, wiut of which
he may develop an honest pride.
Manners. —Before you bow ,to a
lady on the street, permit her to
decide whether yon may do so or
not, by at least a look of recogni
tion
“Excuse my gloves” is an unnec
essary apology, for the gloves should
not be withdrawn to shake hands.
When your companion bows to a
lady, you should do so also-. When
a gentleman bows to a lady in your
company, always bow tojiim in re
turn.
A letter must be answered, unless
you wish to intimate to the writer
that be or his subject are beneath
your notice.
A visit must be returned in like
manner, even though no intimacy
is intended.
A smiling countenance is pleas
ant, but excess of laughter should
be avoided, especially when it is
possible for any one to suppose
himself derided by it.
Whispering in company is always
offensive, and often for reasons that
persons suspect that they are the
subject of it.
—A wretch broke off an engage
ment for the following cogent rea
son: ‘You know a cigar case is a fear
ful nuisance, and I always carry
my segars loose in my vest pocket.
The necessary amount of affection
toward Molly was awful rough on
’em. Never came away from that
house but every one of ’em was
smashed. Couldn’t expect a fellow
to waste good tobacco that way,
could you ?’
‘Well, Sambo, is your master a
good farmer?’ ‘He manes two
crops in one year.’ ‘How is that,
Sambo?’ ‘Why, he sell all his hay
in the fall, and makes money once;
den in de spring he sell all de hides
of de cattle dat die for de lack of de
hay, and makes money twice;’
NO. 19
Death of the Largest Wo
man in the World.
Mrs. Amelia Brooks, said to be
the largest woman in the world, and
weighing between 900 and 1000
pounds, died at St. Louis last week.
Her profession was that of a nurse,
in which business she was engaged
until very recently. She was eight
hours dying. As no eoffiin could be
found large enough for her, a box
was built six feet long, twenty-eight
inches broad and twenty-six
in depth. Even this was not suffi
ciently w ide, and it was found nec
essary to press the form nine inches,
but as that was the widest box that
could be got into the room without
tearing out the front of the house it
was thought more charitable to re
duce the clay than to injure the
premises, ller dimensions were
five feet ten inches in height, twen
ty-eight inches across the shoulders
and thirtyseven inches across the hip.
Her arms were thirty-six inches in
circumference and lur thighs six
teen inches in diameter. Wheu she
had been arrayed in burial vest
ments it was found impossible for
seve i men to lift her. Finally the
box was tilted on one side and she
was rolled in while the priests chan
ted the services of the dead. She
was then placed in a large wagon,
which proceeded carefully to Calva
ry Cemetary. The wagon was
backed up to the grave and eight
men and six rollers combined their
exertions to lower her into her nar
row bed.
—lrritants—People who examine
and buy nothing.
There are no less than 3,642 spo
ken languages.
—ls all flesh is grass, hay must
be beef ala mowed. Don’t it.
—The mother’s heart gives 4th
joy at the baby’s Ist 2lh ; and ‘y’
not.
—An irreverent Terre Haute re
porter calls church “Gospel dress
parade.”
To Keep Milk Sweet —A teas
poonful of fine salt in a pan of milk
will keep it sweet several days.
An old bachelor says; “it is bet
ter to be laughed at for not being
married, than to be unable to laugh
because you are.”
—“Come into the Varden,
Maud,” is the way in which musical
mamas urge their daughters to try
on their new calico dresses.
- Loving wife at Long Branch :
The herald surf makes me keep my
mouth shut.” Sarcastic husband:
“Take some of it home with you.”
If you want to talk heavy science,
say “protoxyd of hydrogen” instead
of ice. It sounds bigger, and not
one man in a thousand will know
what you mean.
—The local of a paper in Boone
county says, “Come where my love
lies dreaming—and see how she
looks without any paint on her
face.”
An exchange tells us that In
dianapolis has a firm with a woman
as silent partner. Was the poor
creature born that way, or was it
the result of an accident.?
—ln Boston a poor man who, less
than one year ago, had only one suit
of clothes, went into the newspaper
business, and now has eight suits.
Seven of them are for libel.
—The reason assigned for so
many ladies learning to play the vi
olin of late years is, that the idea of
having four strings to their bow is
irresistible.
—Three things, the New York
Standard says, a woman cannot do
—sharpen a pencil, lie up a bundle
and carry and umbrella. She has
proven her ability for all else.
—A young lady, the other day, in
the course of a lecture, said ; ‘Get
married, young man, and be quick
about it, too. Don’t wait for the mil
lennium, hoping that the girls will
turn to angels, before you will trust
yourself to one of them. A pretty
thing you would be alongside of an
agel, wouldn’t you?’
—Brown and Smith were met by
an overdressed individual. Do you
know' that ebap, Smith?” said
Brow n. “Yes, I know him ; that
is, I know of him, —he’s a sculptor.”
“Such a fellow as that a sculptor?
surely you must be mistaken.” “Ho
may not be the kind of one you mean
but I know that be chiselled a tailor
out of a suit of clothes last week.”
Hoggish.—lllinois is the bog
State of the Union, having packed
the past season 1,607,718. .Ohio
ranks next, with 848,758. Chicago
has earned the title of being called
the Porkopolis of the West, having
slaughtered 1,201,926 hogs, while
Cincinnati reports only 630,301.
The country imports $15,000,000
worth of spool cotton yearly from
Great Britain.
Doubt, discontent, deceit and
debt, are deadly fpes to peace of
mind.