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To Those About to Marry
That certain little hypocrisies are
sometimes practiced upon each oth
er by young ladies and gentlemen
in the matrimonial mood is scarce
ly a matter of doubt; but. the ap
' pended simple narrative of one of
the devices by which an ardent
maiden may be able to preserve an
appearance of invincible amiability
before her lover—although given
upon the authority (partially re
vised) of one “ W. C. Q.” in the
Rochester Union—seems-
ALMOST INCREDIBLE.
When Jacob courted Mary Jane.
A lass without a fault he thought her.
And cv’ry cv’ning, fair or rain,
Attired in all bis best he sought her.
She’s honest, true, and kind said lie;
As she is pretty in her features;
And if she’ll only many me,
Weil be the happiest of creatures.
Ilis parents, hearing lioW he felt,
■ And noticing liis eager flurry,
Said : *• Son, be cautious. She won't molt
Don’t be in such a precious hurry,
Her family are not renowned
For being quite’as meek as Moses,
And some who married in it found
No end of thorns among their roses.'’
' I’H try her temper,” Jacobserid.
“ In all the. ways by spite invented ;' r
But-e’er a dozen tricks lin’d tried;
Ilis own good nature sore repented.
The mqre lie teased, to make her mad,
Instead of vixen spunk revealing,
She only seemed as meekly sad
-As comes of wounded tender feeling.
No longer seeing room to doubt
That she was mild beyond expression,
'Our Jacob brought the question out,
And she surrendered at discretion.
In proper course the wedding came,. "
With orange blooms, and tears and
laughter ;
A bridal tour to crown the same, - -
And pretty cottage home thereafter*
But, ah, alas, for Jacob’s peace l .
Ere yet the honeymoon was over,
His Mary's temper broke the lease
He thought lie had oh life in clover.
From beiug gentle as of old.
And shedding tears when he’d offend her,
She-turned into a perfect scold,
As ugly as the Witch of Endpr!
Astounded at the feai ful Change,
And wond’ring how he had been blinded,
The hapless ntan could not arrange
The question’s answer as he minded ;
Till at her father’s house, one.day ;
lie put the querry, quite emphatic : •
■“ HoW did you take me in, that Way
Said she, "I’ll show yon in the attic.”
And then they climbed the garret stairs,
Till, standing under beams unnumbered.
The lady showed, with mocking ail’s. -
A central post, with braces cumbered ;
You see it’s nearly worn iu twain,
Or seems to be, with weightit’sjearried ;
But with my teeth I gnawed the grain,
A fortnight, just, before we married !
“ Whenever you would tease me most,
And then had gone, aud left me beamiug,
I r Uscd to come and gnaw that post,
To keep myself fiom raging, screaming !
I knew you’d never knowyouVmind,
If temper I should show forbade you.”
Said JaSob, “ that, my dear, was kind ;
But don't I wish some other had you !”
A teacher questioning little boys
about the graduations in the scale
«of being, asked: “What comes
next to man ?” And here a little
shaver, who was evidently smart
ing under a defeat in the previous
■question, immediately distanced all
competitors by promptly shouting:
“His under-shirt, ma’am !”
--A local minister, in announcing
n lecture by an itinerant brother,
paid the following high compliment
to the lecturer’s great eloquence:
“I have often heard the most fa
mous men in America ; but there
are times when the flame of liis
.pathos licks the everlasting hills
wifh.a roar that moves your soul to
the depths fathomed by lew other
men.”
. The following composition has
beei) turned out by an American
scholar, aged 13: “A boy without
a father is an horpbau, -without a
jnoihar, a double horphan, but is
oftenest without a grandfather and
a grandmother, and then he is an
Jiorphanist,”
CUTHBERT 111 APPEAL.
For the Cutbbert Appeal.
A Tour Through Texas, <
- ' OR -
Information for Emigrants.
I have been requested to give a
chapter on Mechanical and Mannfac
turing Labor,and will endeavor to do
so. Those desiring to engage many
of the ordinary mechanical pursuits,
after going to Texas, can find encour
agement at good prices in almost all
‘parts of the State- I believe me
chanic’s labor, commands about the
same prices here in coin as in cur
rency iu the Northern States—
prices range from $2,00 to, $5,00
per day in specie. Buildings' and
other improvements are in demand*
in nearly all the towns, and new
towns are constantly springing up
all over the State. Those who un
derstand the different trades and
manufacturers will here find a de
mand both for their skill, and ample
opportunity for profitable invest
ment, if they can bring capital.—
Here we have an unequaled supply
of tanning material in oak barks,,
and in the west an inexhaustible
supply of the tanning substance in
the native raesquit, the. entire tree
being used for that purpose, and
considered superior to any other
material in the great- rapidity with
which it penetrates through the
thickest-hides. And' yet they are
now sending nearly all their hides
to the North to get them
and then paying several times the
price they get for them, to get them
bacK again in leather, and paying
heavy charges both ways. Surely
it cannot bo long before the manu
facture of leather will be found to be
th*o most profitable business in Tex
an. And is there not an equally
inviting field for the manufacture of
boots, shoes, harness, sadlery, etc. ?
I have not heard of a sipgle instance
of failure -when this business has
been properly undertaken, in the
other Southern States'; and there is
certainly no greater demand for it
in any State than in Texas. But
no branches of business cau *uc
cessfutly prosecuted by,any except
those who understand them, and
our misfortune has been that the
scarcity of skilled labor among us
is such tli at most of the-first at
temp's in pursuits requiring bo h
skill and experience were made by
those who neither, and whose ef
forts are nothing but crude experi
ments. ■ Texas offers great induce
ments to skill and capital in almost
every branch of manufacture.
But we cannot dismiss .this sub
ject without calling the attention of
Northern Manufacturers of cotton
and wool to the inviting field -pre
sented to thenr in the South, and'es
pecially in Tex'as,-for carrying -on
their Manufacturing business.—
.Were they to transfer their machin
ery to Texas in the midst of our
cotton districts, we venture the
assertion that they would more than
double their present profits. I have
demonstrated this in previous is
sues of this paper, and any intelli
gent man, in order to be satisfied of
its correctness, lias only to look at
the great saving *in the baling,
handling, and transportation of the
cotton by.land and sea, the una
voidable loss that always takes
place in the weight, and the still
greater loss in the injury done to
the staple or fibre by the tremen
dous compression it undergoes *to
reduce each -bale to the .smallest
size possible in order to save freight,
and then again the breaking of the
fibres by the machinery in order to
restore t]ie hard compressed cotton
to the condition it was in, when
•first coining from the gin, so as to
fit it for manufacture. To this
should be added the loss of time,
and the Interest of the money in
vested in this process of carrying
the raw material two op- three thou
sand miles to the factory, and then
bringing the fabric back again to
be sold iu the South, and thus ad
ding another charge for transporta
tion, commission, storage, etc. We
repeat that every iutelligent manu
facturer of the North' when he
properly considers this subject in
all its bearings, will hardly fail to
be convinced that lie could double
his present profits by carrying on
his business in the great cotton pro
ducing State of Texas. Mr. Sprague,
of Rhode Island, seems to under
stand this important subject, and is
hence establishing factories in the
South. I also noticed a paragraph
iu the papers to the -effect that the
Passaic Cotton Mills at Paterson,
N. J., are about to be removed
with all the machinery to Flat
Shoals, DeKalb County, Georgia.—
We predict that this move will be
.followed by many others, and that
CUTHBERT, GEORGIA, FRIDAY, JUNE 7, 1872.
it will not be many years before the
'Eduth will have its full share of
manufacturing capital, enterprise,
and skill, introduced from the
North. And whatever may bo said
to the contraryby designing politi
cians, I here assert that Northern
people thus coining to Texas will
be received not % only with hearty
welcome, but with rejoicing.
\ . T. M. -A.
hmiiait Immigration.
The New York Express has a
letter, from Berlin, which gives a
striking picture of a “social move
men ti’ now going on in many parts
of Germany. Large masses of the
rural population are swarming
across the Atlantic. The lines to
Hamburg and Bremen are all
crowded with intending emmigrants
villages are'half emptied, and forc
ed sales of property, at twenty-five
per cent, belowits real value, testi
fy to the eagerness of owners to
hurry away to the western land of
promise. 'lt is stated that the ma
jority of these emigrants are skilled
mechanics and artisans, and as
such can scarcely fail to exereise an
important influence upon the indus
trial development of the country.
It is just this class, of imigracts
that is needed to restore and build
up the waste places of our beauti
ful Southern country. But the
best mode and manner of getting
them is what should first interest
otir people. The West presents
rich and fertile plains, the North
the factory and work shop, besides
they, have a regular system for pre
senting these claims to those who
are expecting To leave the-old coun
try, and upon their landing in New
York, t{tey are taken in charge
and immediately put aboard a
train Westward bound, or march
ed off in solid column to the work
shops" in.the city, and once at work
never seek other changers, but com
municate to friends across the wa
ter their location, -and at once
seek .to draw theln in that direction.
The South wants emigrants—
needs them. But untie a regular
systematic course is adopted, and
acted upon, wi ll funds sufficient
to enable par agents to properly
lay*our claims before them, on both
sides of the Atlantic, we may nev
er hope to-receive them.
Wo have on our table an elabo
rate ■and w.ell-preprtred memorial to
the people of the South, from the
pen of Frank Schuller, of Clarke
county, upon .the subject of {‘lmmi
gration of capital and -population
to the South,” which, from our
hasty glance at its. contents, pre
sents the most feasible and practi
cable solution o's this important
question we have seen, and which
should be engaging the minds of
our entire country.
We trust the subject of Immi
gration will bo discussed in general
, by the planters, land owners, cap
italists, press, and legislators, and
let spine plan be instituted that will
turn the tide of immigration to
this* the'brightest field on God’s
green earth.
.Thoughts.
And, after all what is wealth ?
and in the end what matters pover
ty? The rude box that contains
the poor man’s remains is as soft a
resting place for the dead as the
splendid receptacles, prepared for
the rich.
The briny tear of the poor man’s
child shed in grief over her father’s
grave, - is as heart born and pure as
that of a princess shed at the tomp
of the kiog.
The wild rose', planted by his dis
consolate wife to mark the spot
where her hopes lie buried, is a no
ble tribute to his honest fame as
the stately monument of marble or
brass erected to the memory of the
rich.
And at the last day when the
trumpet shall sound to awaken the
dead, it will as soon arouse the
poor man from his humble sleep be
neath the sod as the rich man who
reclines in a princely vault, and the
green sward that covers the one
yields up its charge as readily as
the marble tomb tbat contains the
other.
What, then, is the distinction be
tween the rich and the poor, the
high and the low, the noble and
the ignoble .by birth ? Miserable
worms that we are, The span of
life is but a dot on the cycle of eter
nity ; and yet we live in arrogance
and. folly as though our days were
not numbered.
—“Talk about the jaws of death!”
exclaimed a mau who was living
with his third scokling wife; “I
tell you they are no touch to th 6
‘jaws of life,” ' '
General J. B. Gordon to
Ku-Klhv Committee
man—A Rasper.
We find the following letter from
General. John B. Gordon,- of this
State, in the Washington Patriot'
of Wednesday:
* New York, May 20, 1872.
Hon; John Scott, United States Sen-'
ator from Pennsylvania:
Sir :—My attention has been call
ed to some remarks made by you in
the United State§ Senate on Friday
the 17th instant, in which you al
lege that “General J. B. Gordon, of
Georgia, was among the organizers
and earliest leaders” of the Ku
klux.
Not satisfied with the prompt de
nial by two of your Brother Sena
tors, you sought, in furtherance of
the political object which is appar
ent tltfOughot your remarks, still to
impress the idea that “General Gor
don refused to tell all he knew upon
the subject,” and you effect to be
lieve that I bad concealed facts with
in my knowledge for dishonest pur
poses. It is hot for me to contrast
my motives, or my honor with
yours; but your persistent reitera
tion, in your place iu the council
chamber of the nation, of a state
ment already stamped as a false
hood, demands some notice from
me.
You cannot be ignorant of the
fact that I distinctly stated iu my
testimony, that I knew nothing of
any such order as the “Ku-klux,”
save what I had seen in the news
papers; that I had belonged to an
organization of gentlemen, the na
ture of which was that of police'for
the preservation of-the peace in the
disorganized-state of our society;
that there was no political idea in
it; that it had never, wjthin my
knowledge, called a meeting of its
members; that.l had never seen or
heard t>f a disguise in Georgia, ex
cept. those worn by two c apt a red
robbers, who wer6 members of, and
fit represenatives of, your own po
litical party', as it exists id many
portions of the South, and these two
I believe are now iti the . Georgia
Penitentiary. This is my impres
sion, as stated in testimony before
the investigating committee in
W ashington.
If your Vision, sir, has not been
distorted by a prejudice which, I
respectfully submit, is unworthy the
high position you hold as a repre
senative of a great nation, you
would have seen upon your own
Southern tour what every honorable
man who goes among us -sees, viz :
that whatever crimes have been
committed in the South are the
direct outgrowth of the wrongs
perpetrated by tho in'famou's’ State
governments you have set over us.
1 challenge your denial of the fol
lowing facts ;
Whatever apprehensions were felt
at the cessation of the war for the
peace of society and the safety of
citizens, in consequence of the over
throw of our local governments, the
disbanding of an army suddenly
made paupers* and the emancipa
tion of a whole race of slaves,-these
apprehensions were all soon allay
ed.
The kindliest relations existed
between the two races, peace, and
observance of law were everywhere
found. And never, sir, until your
carpet-bag governments, . through
the fears and cupidity of the pool
deluded negro, had embittered* him
against us,.and by his aid and yours
had robbed our treasuries, plunder
ed our corporations, blighted our ag
riculture, blasted our hopes, and
hung debt like a millstone about
our necks, never until then, and un
til the administration of law became
a mockery, and political subservi
ency a passport to Executive clem
ency for efime, wirs- the pease of
the South ever broken or ill-will en
gendered between the races. And
it is this diabolism you would con
tinue m the south.. Like the tor
mentor in the Spanish bull’ fights,
you continually fling the bloody flag
in the face of.the negro, and goad
the white man to desperation with
the bayonet,, that the inevitable con
flict may furnish the excuse for the
perpetration of your despotism.
I pray that the American people
may rebuke this spirit m the com
ing elections, and let the reign of
constitutional government be once
more inaugurated. 'But be that as
it may, I shall not permit* you by
'my silence to" bolster up the for
tunes of a political party by thus
dragging mj T name into notoriety,
without asking you to carry the re
sponsibility of the wilful falsehood
you have perpetrated in the effort.
I am, sir very respectfully, yours,
J. B. Gordon, of Georgia.-
The Production of Iron.— One
hundred and forty thousand opera
tives are employed in the produc
tion of iron in the United States.
Forty-two thousand of these are
e in preparing ore and
fuel; 25,000 in preparing fuel for
rolling mills; 42,000 in rolling mills;
12,500 in bloomeries ; 800,000 are
engaged in manufacturing'articles
of iron. Thus we have a total of
940,000 men employed in the iron
interest. The value of pig iron
manufactured last year was" $75,
000,000. The product of the roll
ing mills and forges was $65,008,-
000, and the value of other manu
lactures wa§ $762,000,000, aud the
entire value of manufactured iron
for the year was $900,000,000, .
—Every column, of a newspaper
contains from ten to twenty thou
sand distinct pieces of type. • The
displacement of a single one makes
an. error. Is it strange that errors
occur ?. *
In l iigrafel'nl Railroad.
Jones had heard of a widow' wlio
had saved* a train of cars from de
struction by warning t,he engineer,
as the train approached, that a cer
tain bridge had been washed away;
who was liberally rewarded, receiv
ing- a pass for life on nearly all the
railroads in the country, and a pres
ent of ten thousand dollars from
the company whose train she sayed,
so Jones thought it pretty profits*
ble business and concluded he’d try
it.
He lived near a railroad bridge,
and lie anxillmsiy watched and
waited for it to wash away, feeling
sure that it must go sometime.
Every-rainy' night he got up and
paced the floor by spells, aud then
took his umbrella and went to see
if the bridge was beginning to go,
but it was no go.
At last he concluded if an acci*
dent would not happen*of its own
accord he would make one to order,
so he got upon a high bank at the
side of tho track one afternoon, and
rolled a big stone down upon the
rails.-
It' was just a few minutes before
the lightning express train was due,
and tln'owing off liis coat and hat
so as to' appear as excited as possi
ble, he .went forth to meet it. He
saw it coming in the distance, so he
tied a red cotton handkerchief to a
hoe handle, and waved it above-his
head in a wild excited manner, as a
signal of danger. But he present
.ed such au appearance that the en
gineer thought him a crazy man es
caped from a neighboring asylum,
and so paid no heed to him, and
tha train thundered on.
There was a sudden whistle of
down brakes, a rapid reversing of
the engine, then a terrible crash.
The train was wrecked ; the engin
eer and fireman were killed instant
ly, the conductor and all the brake
men dangerously -if not fatally
wounded ;. and about ten per cent*
of tho passengers horrible mangled.
Jones didn’t got a pass for life on
the principal railroads and a purse
of .610,000 -but he got ten years in
the penitentiary for manslaughter,
having been seen by a neighbor
when in the act of rolling the big
rock on the track which caused the
calamity.
And now he is learning to manu
facture shoes by the original pro
cess, and is of the opinion that rail
roads are a curse to the country.
A Masonic Story.
Two men had beenfast friends. Iu
an evil hour they quarreled. They
did not speak, and had not spoken
for years. Mutual friends tried the
art of reconciliation in vain- Oue
of them became a Mason after the
estrangement, and it happened that
the other remained ignorant of the
fact. One evening he too was ad
mitted to the lodge. Almost the
first voice he heard, and certainly
the..first face he saw was that of.his
enemy, who presided over, the cere
monies'of initiation, and was obli
ged, accordmg to usage, to address
him as “brother.” This was a pecu
liar situation, and a severe ordeal
for both. After the lodge was
closed, the Apprentice sought the
Master, and without any prelimina
ries, the following colloquy ensued,
commenced by the newly made. M
ason :
“Are you . a member of this
lodge ?”
The answer was, “I am.”
“Were you present when I was
elected ?” .
“I was.”
“May I ask' if you voted ? ’
“I did.”
“Now will you tell me how many
votes it requires to reject a candi
date on ballot-for admission ?”
The Worshipful Master answered
“One.”
There wa.- nothing more to say.
The initiated extended his hand,
which was warmly grasped by
the other, and uttered with thrill
ing accents, deep emotion mellowing
lns.yorce,f“ Friend ! Brother! you
have taught mo a Lesson I shall nev
er forget.”
This is a little. raj r of Masonic
light. . No language is so eloquent
as the silent.throbbing of- a heart
full*of joyful tears. While this
kind of cement is used in our moral
edifice should it not be ensuring ?
Masonic Trowel.
—Two Deivs boys were stand
ing before a cigar store, when one
asked the other, “Have- you got
three cents?” “Yes.” “Well, I
have two cents ; give me your three
cents,'and I will buy a five center.”
“All right,” says No. 2 handing
quL the money. No. 1 enters the
store, procures the cigar, lights it
and 'puffs with a.great deal of satis
faction. “Come, now, .give us a*
pull, said Nq. 2. Ifurnished more
than half the money!” “I know
that?’ said: the smokerA “hut then
I’m president, and you, being only
1 n stockholderj you caii spit.”
A Touching' Story.
. A few years since a family of
poor imniigrants—.a widow and her,
daughters—returning from the lar
West to. their old home in Ohio,
halted in a little grove bordering
an Illinois prairie, a large tract of
which, though it was dotted over
with comfortable’dwelling houses
and productive farms, had no buil
ding yet, consecrated to Hie worship
of the Lord. They had halted to
bury their dead—a child of ten
years old called as in a moment —
the only son and brother, the light
of his mother’s eyes, once the pride
of the father’s heart. The body
had been lowered into the earth,
and the sods were being piled
above it, and the woman seated on
the trunk of a fallen tree was ga
zing with dry eyes, and a stony look
in her face, at the spot she would
most likesly never "see again.-
The youngest of the two daugh
ters, a slender, feeble girl, with
eyes unaturally bright and deeply
flushed cheeks, was briefly telling
to a few of us, who had gathered
around the strangers, the sad story
of her mother’s life—the hopes,
unceasing struggle, repeated dis
appointments and the present des
pair. The horses had remained
hitched to the wagon. It was late
autumn, and tha remainder of the
fair, sweet day must 'be spent' in
prosecuting the now doubly Weari
some journey. When tho last sod
was returned to its place and the
window, lifting , herself from the
earth, was moving away from the
little mound, the men who had been
performing the last sad officers for
the dead drew near each other and
exchanged a few words, and then
one of them, taxing a paper and
pencil from liis pocket, steped to the
woman.and.suid in a low, pitying
tone : ‘(Your child shall not be in a
nameless grave ; what shall bo put
on the stone wo will place .here to
his memory ?”
lie was oblidged to repeat the
words before the bereaved mother
comprehended their, import, but
when she did understand, .the
numb cold, stern look gave place to
one of deep gratitude. The hard
toil worn hands seized the pencil
and paper—warmth seemed, to dif
fuse itself through her whole frame
—and she began to write carrefully,
as if she was engraving—that dear
name upon the—“ Mark,” And then
she paused and glanced down upon
the solitary grave and then toward
the clear blue sky. “His name is
written in heaven,- she said, and it
will always stand there !” Let the
sum you would raise, that it may
be remembered liere for a little
while be my contribution to the
building of a house—His name shall
be heard—who is the resurection
and the life.”
It was little she did ; but we who
to day bend tlie knee in St. Mark’s.
thank the Lord that the poorwidow
tarried with us a few hours on that
sad autumn day ; and though her
life may seem to . herself but one
only of “strife and loss,” we believe
that she will not ,go omptyhanded'
to her master - when called.—Ex
chanye.
. The Washington correspondent
of the Savannah News telegraphs
the following on the 21st:
The officials at the White House
are very much exercised over a
telegram from prominent Georgia
Republicans, conveying information
that the Republican delegation
from that State to the Philidelphia
Covention were not instructed to
vote for Grant; that through the
manipulation of certain parties com
netted with the Savaimah Custom
House Ring, the entire, delegation
was cast with a view of throwing
its strength for Boutwell.
It has been decided by- a Now
Jersey court that legal notices re
quired by law to be printed in a pa
per published in the county where
the process of law is to be executed,
can not be properly printed in a pa-,
per with patent outsides printed out
side the county. It has also been deci
ded that such papers are not enti
tled to the benefits of the provision
of the post office law which allows
papers to go free to any part of the
county in which they are published.
—A fashionable mother’s advice
to a newly married daughter . “Do
not get in the habit of taking your
husband with you to evening par
ties. Nothing is so stupid as a
husband at a party, nor so everlast
ing in the way.
To' Cuke Soke Throat. —Take
the whites of two eggs, and beat
them with two spooutuls of white
sugar; grate a little Aulmeg, and
then add a pint of lukewarm water.
Stir well and drink often. Repeat
the prescription if necesSary, and
it will cure the most obstinate case
of hoarseness*in a short tiiue.
The South as a Manufac
turing Power.
It is not often that John \V. 'For
ney has anything good to say of
the South, says, the Savannah Re
publican,. either present or prospec
tive; hence the following view of
our future under the influence of
the great staple, cotton, riiay be
regarded as candid as it is ’true.
He says in the Philadelphia Press
of the 20th, and we desire to call
to it special attention.
“Hitherto, it is said that less than
one-fifteenth of the cotton crop lias
been worked up in Southern facto
ries. Yet.-water power and coal
abound in the cotton districts, and
if the peeper efforts were made skill
ed labor and capital could be ob
tained there, as easily as elsewhere,
and by' thus bringing the factory
and the plantation together a large
item in the cost of transportation
is saved.
“The time is coining when one
third, if not one half the eotton of
the South will be made into yarns,
at least, in that section, and, when
it does come, what has been the
poorest portion of the eouutry will
become the richest. Stimulated by
the greatly increased home market
for food, grain, farming and gra
zing will then be no less profitable
than eotton growing. Thus there
will boa ; practical diversity of in
dustries with its resulting prosperi
ty, and there will be no longer ah
excuse for exhausting and abandon-
to a worse than their primitive
wilderness whole tracts of land.
“Let but the Southern people
generally be stirred by this indus
trious awakening, eschewing ran
cors of politics, except to see that
neither demagogues nor carpet-bag
adventurers misrepresent them, n£l
a glorious future awaits them, an
era of wealth, business activity,
peace, and good feeling, which shall
consign to a perpetual oblivion the
distraction, disolation, and bitter
hatred which resulted from the
war.”
The" Local Department of a
Paper.-— ls there is any poor devil
upon the face of the earth who
needs the charity of liis race, it is
that unlucky individual, the local
editor of a newspaper. He is ex
pected to be everywhere, and to be
a creature of circumstances in its
broadest sense. If a correct ver
sion of some ugly affair is given,
who it is too harsh for ears polite;
if the private grudge of every man,
who has anything against another,
arid lie has not the courage to face
his object of hate, is not paraded
before the public, he is" charged
.with-corruption or fear. If a friend
ly noticed of some worthy individ
ual is made, he was paid to do that,
and it is disgusting. The local edi
tor is expected, in short, to serve
up-every morning something to
please the taste of every body.—
There is no business on earth so
much abused and censured as that
of the newspaper, and -we are yec
to find the first of these fault find
ers, but who could, in his own esti
mation, run a paper successfully,
and we have' never yet seen one of
them who had capacity or educa
tion enough to write a sensible par
agraph. “ That’s what sort" of a
fellow” these chronic fault finders
are.— Griffin jVews, 24th.
* Swiftness of Birds. —A vulture
can fly at the rate of 159 miles an
hour. Observation's made on the
coast of Labrador convinced Major
Cartwright that wild gee3c could
travel at the rate of "90 miles an
hour. The common crow cau fly 25
miles, and swallows, according to
Spallangain, 92 miles an hour.- It
is said that a falcon was discovered
at Malta 24 hours aftei the depart
ure of Henry IV from Fontaine
bleau. If true, this bird must have
flown for 24 hours at the rate of
57 miles an hour, not allowing him
to rest a moment during the wholo
time.
When you find a newspaper
on a ballroom floor it is not always
proper to pick it up -and wonder
where it came from and ask un
necessary questions concerning the
peculiarity of the fold. A young
man did that not long since, and
he couldn’t get another girl to dance
with him during the whole evening
Accidents will, happen in such a
bustling throng of peoplo as are
generally congregated upon a ball
room floor.
—-A citizen of Gosport, Indiana
the other night, mistook his wife’s
yteast bottle for his favorite brown
jug, and took a “long pull and a
strong puli” therefrom. He is now
regarded as it rising man.
—A man having announced that
he wanted to marry a girl that had
plenty of snap in her, a paper adr
vises him to “go for the Wiscon
sin girl who swallowed forty per
cussion caps the other week.”
To Keep Butter. —A wiiterin
the Hearth apd Home wraps each
churning separately in rags dipped
in strong brine, and pack it in a
box dr barrel of dry salt. It does
not become too salty, and is as
good in winter.as when nc-w.
NO. 23
Riuts Tor Young Mothers.
The three "requisits soy babies
are plenty of sleep, plenty of food
and plenty of flannel. The saying
that man is a bundle-of habits 'is as
true of babies as it is of grown chil
dren. If an infant is accustomed
to sleep from G o’clock at night till
day light,'the habit of early sleep
will be formed, and the mo'ther can
have all her evenings- to herself. If
the baby sleeps all night, a long
morning nap will naturally come
about dinner time, after which the
child, except when very young
should be kept awake till 6 o’clock.
Pcrseyeranfc in this routine will
' soon result in securing quiet eve
ning for ’both child and parent.
Some mothers have a long season
nearly every morning and every
night getting the baby asleep. An
infant can be accustomed by a little
training to go to sleep itself for
a morning nap’as well as for the
longer rest at night. While the
mother should exercise a constant
care in securing its utmost physi
cal -comfort, she should secure
rest and recreation for herself. In
no other way can she keep fresh in
feeling and bouyant in spirit.
Nothing is so wearing as the un
ceasing tending of a fretful baby.
Every means should be employed
to aid the child in taking care of
itself and giving as little trouble as
possible. It may learn in babyhood,
to amuse itself with toys or watch
ing movements going on around it.
Fashion as well as good sense re
quires infant dresses to be made
with long sleeves and high in llio
heck. Fashion requires childreif of
all ages to be warmly clad. Flan«
nel should incase the wholo body
with the exception of the head and
.hands. The fruitful cause of colic
in infants is the nakedness of their
necks and arms. Regularity in
feeding is as important as either of
the other requisites. Babies cry
as often fromjx'ing over-fed or fed
too frequently as fiom hunger.
Let the mother obey the dictates of
common sense in this matter and
not force food into a baby’s stom
ach for every little complaint it
makes. Let the young mothers
who read this column experiment
upon these few suggestions, and we
are sure they will have many an
hour in the nursery for reading and
thought. l
Ai'iiold’s Treason.
A noted man used to enquire,
wheneverhe heard of the perpetra
tion of any great crime, who the
woman was :—From the exclusion
of Adam to the fall of Jirii Fisk,
‘women have made much trouble.,
We are reminded of this remark
in reading an article on Benedict
Arnold’s wife, by James Parton.
Site was tbe daughter of Edward
Shippen, an opulent Philadelphia
merchant, who was inclined to the
King’s side during the Revolution.
Margaret Shippen was a reigning
belle in Philadelphia in 1778, when
the British army was there, and at
a grand festival given on the retire
ment of Sir William Ilowe from
command, she was one of the beau
tiful young ladies dressed in Turk
ish costume. She wore in her
turban one of the favors for which
the knights contended in the tourn
ament, and Andre was one of the
knights.
After the British left, Arnold 'as
sumed command there and married
Margaret Shippen. A year after,
he was in command at West Point,
and when the treason of Arnold was
discovered, she appeared to be
frantic with grief. This is Colo
nel Hamilton’s story. But Colonel
Burr, who had known her from in
fancy, declared in his old age that
she knew all about Arnold’s trea
son from the beginning. He also
says that when Mrs. Arnold was
sent from West Point to her fa
ther’s house, she stopped at Mrs.
Provost’s over night. Colonel Burr
was there, and she told the C.olpnel
and Mrs. Provost that she had de
ceived General Washington and
Colonel Hamilton by her frantic
outcries, and declared that she not
only knew of the treason, but that
it was she who induced her hus
band to commit it. This ijs Colo
nel Burr's story. The autorities of
Pennsylvania believed with Burr
that she was a traitor.
A charact<wistic anecdote ia
related of an out-at-elbow poet who,
by some freak of fortune corhinginto
posession.of-a five dollar bill, called
to a lad and said : “Johujry,iuy boy*
take this , William., and get it
changed” “ do you nioan by
calling it William?” inquired the
wondering lad. “Why Johnny,”
replied the jioet, “I am not euffi
ciently familiar with it to take the
liberty of calling it Bilf.*