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Chihli'CEß Worn 1 .
Sometime?, when the day grows dusky,
And the stars begin to come,
When the children, from their playing,
Come singing and laughing home,
I think, with a sudden sorrow,
As they press through the open dose,
Os the faces es the children
That we shall never see any more.
Children in snow-white casketes,
Laid away to tlicir rest,
Their still hands lying folded
Over their pulseless breast 1
Children who came and tarried
As only it were for a night,
And passed, at the break of the morning,
On a journey far out of sight.
On a long and lonely journey,
Where we could not help or hold.
For we saw but. the closing of eyelids,
The fading of locks of gold ;
And knew how now was but silence
Where once had been prattle and song,
Aod only a chill and a shadow
Where was sunshine the whole day long.
Away from our care aud caresses,
God knows where they are,” we say,
And we know that we tarry behind them
Only a little way ;
For we, too, haste in our journey,
And we know it will not be long.
Till we come to the City Eternal,
The rest and the rapture of song.
Yet oft, when the sun is setting
In unspeakable splendor of light,
Or the day grows dim and dusky,
And the Shadows stretch into the night,
When the children, tired with their playing,
Come in through the open door,
I think of tlfc dear, dear children,
Who never will come any more.
Tlic Unwearied of She
Heart.
The effect of everything that
touches the heart is multiplied by
the intensity of the heart’s own
changes. Hence it is that it is so
sensitive, so true an index of the
body’s siate. Hence; also, it is
that it never wearies. Let me re
mind you of the work done by our
hearts in a day. A man’s total out
ward work, his whole effect upon
world in twenty-four hours, has
been reckoned about 350 foot-tons.
That may be taken as a good “hard
day’s work.” During the same
time the heart has been working at
the rate of 120 foot-tons. That is
to say, if all the pulses of a <juy and
night could be concentrated and
aud welded into one great throb,
that throb would be enough to
throw a ton of iron 120 feet in the
air. And yet the heart is never
weary. Many of us are tired after
but feeble labors; few of us can
hold a poker out at arm’s length
without, after a few minutes, drop
ping it. But a healthy heart, and
many an unsound heait, too—
though sometimes you can tell in
the evening, by its stroke, that it
has been thrown off its t balance by
the turmoils and worries of life—
goes on beating-through the night
when we are asleep, and when we
awake in morning, we find it at
work, fresh as if it had only just be
gan to beat. It does this because
upon each stroke of work there fol
lows a period, a brief but a real pe
riod, of rest; because the next
stroke which comes is but the nat
pral sequence of that rest, and made
(to match it, because, in fact, each
beat is, in force in scope, in charac
ter, in everything, the simple ex
pression of the hearts own energy
find state.
A TuF.iLi.iNG Romance. —Chap-
ter 1. She stood beside the altar,
with a wreath of orange buds upon
Jiev head upon her back the rich
est kind of duds,
CUTHBERT §§§g APPEAL.
The t’oiilE.
The banking Bouse of Coutts &
Cos. is the repository 7 of all the old
English aristocracy, who, from the
Queen down, mostly bank there. —
There are rich old dowagers, maid
en ladies and honorable.?, the real
old English baronet with his estate
in the rich pastures of Berkshire
and Kent, and his “shooting-box”
up in the north; the statesman,
peer, and foreign ruler —they all
intrust the house of Coutts & Cos.,
with their funds. The Queeu has
banked there lor years; and, in
deed, the immense wealth of Miss
Coutts and of the bank is totally
due to the patronage of royalty be
stowed upon her ancestors —the
founders of the bank. Her “ pass
book” is a most handsome book,
inlaid with gold, bearing the royal
arms, in which all the entries are
made in the handsomest and most
ornamental of writing. Indeed it
is one’s work to attend to her maj
esty’s account, which is superin
tended by the “ keeper of the privy
purse.” The Emperor Nupoleon,
too, much as ho would like us to
believe to the contrary, kept an ac
count there, and the house, prior
to the fall of the empire, was con
stantly leaking purchases of En
glish consols to his order. There
is no doubt that Napoleon had a
short time ago a considerable sum
invested in these English securi
ties, as have most European poten
tates at the present time.
Another great feature with the
house us Coutts & Cos., is the large
deposits of jewellv, family papers,
titles and other articles of value
that are left.in it for safe keeping
There are hundreds of large, heavy
family cases in their vaults, and
during the season in London, la
dies go daily “to the bank” (they
like to make use of the phrase) to
take out some valuable ornament
for the opera, etc., or •to return
some after use. There are clerks
whose special duly it is to see to
the wants of these ladies.
The great success of Contts’s
banking house is due almost to'ac
cident. Burdett Coutts, one of the
founders, was a modest banker on
the Strand, London, in George’s
lll.’s reign, and he made it a prac
tice, as his bank was some distance
from the so-called “ city,” in order
to keep himself “posted” in the fi
nancial movements going on. there
to dine with some of the leading
city-bankers and bank-managers as
often as opportunity would permit:
It was during one of these re-unions
that a bank official casually re
marked his surprise that Lord
bad been refused a loan of 10,000
pounds that day at his bank. The.
circumstance was noticed by 7 the
West-End banker,'and, the dinner,
over, ho repaired at once to the
house of the nobleman, and left Ins
card, requesting bis lordship to
call at his office on the following
day on business of . great impor
tance. The next morning Lord
was announced to Mr. Coutts, and,
on his inquiring what business had
necessitated this visit the banker
said he heard that his lordship had
desired a loan of 10,000 pounds,
and he respectfully offered his set - '
v ices.
“ But I can give you no security,
Mr. Coutts,” said, his lordship, as
the banker commenced counting a
small package of crisp bank-notes
that were on his desk.
“ Your lordship’s note of hand
will be quite sufficient,” gallantly
responded the West-End banker,
and be handed him a note to sign.
“ But I do not think I shall want
as much as 10,000 pounds” hesita
ted the nobleman.
“ That is immaterial, your lord'
ship” replied the banker.
“On second thought I will take
the ten thousand pounds, and, as I
shall only need five thousand, you
will please place the remainder to
my credit as an opening of an ac
count with you and my name.”
The banker thanked his neiv cus
tomer, escorted him with much po
liteness to his carriage at the door,
and then bade him “Good-day.”
The action of the banker was a
long sighted one. It was a good
investment. The balance was soon
increased, the loan returned, and
the nobleman commenced to tell the
story round at the Court of St.
James of the wonderful accommo
dating spirit of the West-End
banker. Others soon deposited
their money in his hands, and the
story so well circulated at the pal
ace that the king’s curiosity 7 was
excited, and informed the bank
er’s patron of his desire to meet the
banker. Coutts went finally 7. He
was introduced to the king, and
his quiet modest manners Avon the
CUTHBERT, GEORGIA, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 6, 1872.
favor of the Court. His presence
at Court created quite a sensation,
for it was soon afterward reported
that the king had given his private
finances into the keeping of Bur
dett Coutts. The rest of the Court
soon followed the example of the
king, and thus was secured to the
house the wealthy patronage of the
aiistocraey of England.
Miss Burdett Coutts has, as is
well-known, the interest of the em
ployees of the bank at heart. It is a
hard matter to get into the bank.
Noblemen’s sons now seek position?
in the establishment, and some of
the*partners are noblemen. Col
lege educated men are alone taken
as clerks, and then an examination
is gone through, which is conduc
ted with the same strictness as is
the examination into the family,
reputation, and general recommen
dations of the applicants. For ev
ery vacancy there are hundreds of
applicants. But, when admitted
a clerk has a fine position. lie
will be told, on his being admitted
that he must not wear a mustache
but simply side-whiskers; and in
bis dress, although nothing will be
said to him about it, every modest
ly of style will be expected of him
This is done on account of the great
dislike the real aristocracy of Eng
land have for the gaudy, showy fop
of the middle classes, who so often
in his ignorance and self-conceit,
apes the gentlemen. The clerks
are all supplied with dinner inside
the establishment, at the personal
expense of Miss Burdett Coutts,
and they owe their good fortune
(for the dinner—“lunch, as it is call
ed—is first-class) merely to acci
dent.
It appears that on one occasion
Miss Burdett Courts . entered the
bank shortly after 1 o’clock, and re
marked to one of the partners that
the bank seemed very empty.
“Where are the gentlemen she in
quired.
“They have gone to lunch,” an
swered the partner, “and they gen
erally do so every day about this
time.”
She expressed herself as not ap
proving of“tho gentlemen” going j
out in all weathers from one coffee
room to another in search of a meal ;
and she then inquired if there was j
no remedy lor it. She then asked
why they could not dine at the
bank.
“Extra expense,” suggested the
partner, whereupon Miss Burdett
Coutts authorized the providing of
a meal regularly for the gentlemen
and her account to be debited with
the necessary expense. And thus
it is ever with her. She is always
on the watch for the opportunity
to do some benefit with her wealth.
To say that those clerks worship
her and her good heart docs not
exaggerate their feelings of love and
respect for her.
Timid People.— lt is the habit of
some people to laugh at the terror
which is experienced by others at
a heavy thunder crash or the flash
ing lightning. This is both cruel
and wicked, since the victim is no
more to blame for it than the color
of his eyes and hair—in fact, like
them, it is hereditary. Such per
sons should be pitied and soothed,
and allowed during these periods
to be always near someone whom
they love and confide in. More es
pecially is this true of children,
some of whom suffer more than
words can tell from this as well as
from other causes of fear. Deal
gently with such; it is the only
way to eradicate their fears ; ridi
cule and harshness will only confirm
them. The child “ afraid of the
dark” should never be forced to en
counter it unattended and unwatch
ed. Idiocy has often been the sad
result of contrary treatment. Let
both parents and teachers, then, be
thoughtful in these regards
Texas.— The State of Texas
would contain the entire population
of the United States without mak
ing it any more thickly settled than
Massachusetts, and the same State
would hold the entire population of
the French empire, (or Republic
that now is,) and leave uninhabited
a margin of sixty miles around the
boundary of the State.
—A colored preacher at Sparta
was heard to say in a funeral ser
mon of a deceased brudder: “He
ruminates no longer among us ; he
have exonerated from the syllogisms
of this world’s discrimination, and
when he gits to de cold dry stream
of de river Jordan, the Kerosines
and Perapheiies will meet him dare
to row him over on dry land to the
silverstering city.”
The height of a young lady’s ara
-1 bitiou —two little feet.
[From the Loudon Times.]
Europe in Ilnrtial Array.
This is the season of the year at
which we have the opportunity of
realizing what is meant by armed
peace. The hosts of Europe are be
ing marshaled in numbers sufficient
to invade and conquer kingdoms.—
They are provided, at an immense
cost, with the full equipment and
and the most scientific apparatus of
war; they are commanded by Gen
erals who feel, it is said, all the res
ponsibilities of a campaign, and offi
cers earnest to obtain the practical
knowledge of their profession; they
engage in the most complicated op
eration, and all to prepare for that
coming war which the policy of ev
ery European ij'ute assumes to be
inevitable. The Russians common
ced their grand maneuvers this week
aud are still in the midst of them.
It is to be hoped that in their north
ern latitude the heats from which
we are suffering are a little temper
ed. TuePrusians enter into the cam
paign on the Ist of August, and for
nine days the operation will proceed
with as much precision as if the ar
mies were once more marching on
Paris. The great heat prevented
the French review the other day,
but the autumn will not have begun
before the reconstructed army of the
republic will be tested as openly as
its chief can venture to* recommend,
considering the susceptibilities of
Berlin. The Austrians, ever beaten
but ever confident, and with a mili
tary machine which, to the profes
sional eye, is always in perfect or
der, will not be behindhand. No
State has labored more at army re
form and organization than Austria
during the last six years, and she
will take her usual pride in exhi
biting her new weapons and her
new uniforms on the largest scale
to millitary cities. Passing over
minor continental States, which are
all ready to spend their last shil
ling on soldiers, we come to a coun
try in which there is more fuss
about military mutters than in any
other, though the people, with the
utmost sincerity, protest their peace
fulness, and boast of thdir freedom
from the warlike passions. We, too
shall have our autumn maneuvers
to display, and instruct a select por
tion of a national force which, as
far as numbers go, is really
formidable, and which is. cer
tainly far larger than Great
Britain has ever maintained in Wine
of peace. Between the present time
and the end of September, the gov
ernments of Europe will have set
in the field whole armies, the choi
cest levies of a body which can not
be reckoned ;>t less than four mil
lions of jnen.
To Cure Heartburn. —Persons
troubled with heartburn will find
speedy and perfect relief by eating
one or two kernels of the peach just
as soon as the suffering manifests
itself. This remedy is simple,
cheap, harmless and effectual.
This whole life is but one
great school. From the cradle to
the grave wo are scholars. The
voices of those we love, and the wis-.
dom of past ages and our experience
are our teachers. Afflictions give
us discipline. The spirits of depar
ted saints whisper to us—“come up
higher.”
Prejudice does a great deal with
some people, but the most iuveter
ate prejudice will hardly induce any
man who prefers Democratic princi
ple to Radicalism to support Grant
in preference to Greeley, since the
first is a centralizationist, neiter
knowing nor caring anything about
the constitution, and the latter the
representative at once of local self
government and nationality.
A dealer in music down East
exhibited in his window a song
“ You have loved me and left me’
for twenty-five cents.
If lemons are placed in ajar filled
with wat£r, and the water renewed
every day or two, they will keep
fresh and sound for several weens.
A Connecticut sheriff says: “If
any man doubts the Bible doctrine
of human depravity, only 7 ask him
to be sheriff of this county one
year.”
—An elderly maiden lady, hear
ing for the first time that matches
are made in heaven, declared that
she didn’t care a snap how soon she
left this siuful world for a better
land.
—“Arthur,” said a good- natured
father to his “young hopeful/’ “I
did not know till to-day that you
had been whipped last week,”
“Did’ntyou, pa?” replied hopeful,
“I knew it at the time.” '
Bieam Superceded.
Are we on the eve of another
great revolution ? Not a civil war,
but such a revolution as resulted
from the invention of the locomo
tive and the electric telegraph. On
ly thirty years ago Prof. Morse was
struggling to get aid of Congress to
make a trial of his wonderful in
vention. And now another inventor
has gained permission of the gov
ernment to make an experiment
which may yet become as interest
ing event in history as the trial of
the famous electric wire between
Baltimore and Washington. The
coming man is Albert Brisbane, for
a time a resident of Irvington, and
his invention is a kind of pneumatic
tube by means of which time and
space are to ho annihilated. Ilis
unremitting efforts last winter suc
ceeded in getting from Congress an
appropriation of $15,000. for the
purpose of laying a tube between
tiie Capitol, at Washington, and
the Government printing office, a
distance of half a mile, and if the
experiment proves satisfactory; an
other app opria ion will l e granted
for the construction of a tube between
Washington and Baltimore, the
ground of the first telegraphic tri
umph. The method of transit will
be by hollow sphere, propelled
through the tube by eompresed air,
and some idea of the velocity with
which they can be driven may be
got from Mr. Brisbane’s prophecy
that the New York papers will bo
sent to Chicago and St. Louis in
time for the 8 o’clock breakfast ta
bles. The general establishment of
this mode of transportation would
be a sad blow to the railroad sys
tem of the country. An immediate
loss of freight traffic would ensue to
the railroads, and they with steam
boats that ply our rivers, would be
consigned to the insignifiieance of
mere pleasure excursion party con
conveyances.
Although Mr. Brisbane’s inven
tion has been achieved upon the bn
sis of an old theory, he will deserve
none the less credit, in case of suc
cess, for the man who most deserve
the world’s gratitude is 113 by
whose effort the world’s derives
practical benefit. The inventor’s
confidence in the result, and the
generally acknowledge feasibiliy of
a practical application of the pneu
matic theory seem to promise suc
cess, and it is to be hoped that .the
coming experiment may be a satis
factory one.— Exchange,
American Literature and Art.
—The truth is’that the defect in
average American literature and
art lies in the haste with which all
material is worked up and thrust
crudely before the public. Two
weeks in the Yosemite or Yellow
stone region gives' us a mountain
painter in Smith; a chance week in
a yacht deluges us with marine
views for years afterward from
Brown.; an hour’s ride in a railway
car fills the note-books of our many
“coming American novelists” with
characters. Our artists with both
pen and pencil work as it were
from hand to mouth ; their bread,
in housekeepers’ phrase, is made of
raw flour. It would bo worth their
while to compare Hawthorne’s
notebooks with his finished work,
to observe bow long the ideas were
suffered to lie fallow before they
were slowly tilled and brought forth
into fruit so perfect and enduring.
The real difference, perhaps, lies
in the fact that in one casfl the
work is done .from tho life-long
love of art, in the other from the
daily necessity of money; but until
that difference is recognized the
prospect for both our art and liter
ature is but that of a fungus growth
strong and rank for the time it lasts
but that time will be but a day.—
New Y~ork Tribue
—lt is not possible to ask a mail
to return borrowed goods, books,
money, or anything else, without
putting in peril the beautiful friend
ship on the strength of which he
fleeced you. lie was a wise man
who said to-his friend wishing to
borrow, “You and I are now good
friends. If I lend you money and
you do not pay it, we shall quarrel.
If I refuse to lend you, I suppose
we will quarrel. There are two
chances of a quarrel, and I think
I will keep the money 7 rather than
run the risk of losing it and you.”
He had in mind the old song:
‘T bad my money and my friend,
I lent my money to my friend,
I asked my money of my friend,
I lobt my money and my friend.”
“ Did it rain to morrow ?” in
quired a Dutchman of a French
man. “Me guess ii was,” replied
the Frenchman.
The Valley oi Death.
A spot almost as terrible as the
prophet’s valley of dry bones, lies
just north of the old Mormon road
to California, a region 30 miles long
by 30 broad, mid surrounded, ex
cept at two points, by inaccessible
mountains. It is totally 7 devoid of
water and vegetation, and the shad
ow of bird or wild beast never dar
kens its white glaring sands. The
Kansas Pacific railroad engineers
discovered it, also some papers
which show the fate of the “lost
Montgomery train,” which came
south from Salt Lake in 1850, gui
ded by a Mormon. When near
Death’s Valley some came to the
conclusion that the Mormons knew
nothing about the country 7 , so they 7
appointed one of their number a
leader, and broke off from the par
ty 7 . The leader turned duo west;
so with the people and wagons and
flocks ho travelled three days, and
then descended into the broad val
ley, whose treacherous mirage
promised water. They readied the
centre, but only the white sand,
bounded by 7 scorching peaks, met
their gaze. Around the valley they
wandered, and one by one the men
died, aud the panting flocks stretch
ed themselves m death under the
hot sun. Then the children, crying
for water died at their mother’s
breasts, and with, swollen tongues
and burning vitals the mothers fol
lowed. Wagon after wagon was
abandoned, and strong men tottered
and raved and died. After a week
of wander,ing, a dozen survivors
found some water in the hollow of
a rock in the mountain. It lasted
but a short time, when all perished
but two, who escaped out of the
valley and followed the trail of their
former companions. Eighty-seven
families with hundreds of animals
perished lure : and now,after 22 years
tho wagons stand still complete, the
iron work and tires are bright, and
the shriveled skeletons lie side by
side. — Springfield Republican.
- Paste For Scrap Book. —You
have had inquiry for a good* paste
that will keep. In reply I will say
that after an experience of thirty
years daily, I may say hourly use, I
have found none so good as ‘flour
paste made with alum water; say 7 a
piece of alum large as a small wal
nut to a few drops of oil of cloves ad
ded to the paste when made. The
-prevents the fermentation, and
the oiLNaleMructivo to vegetable
mould. Paste made this way will
keep for weeks in the wannest
weather. Add the water to the
flour cold and bring to a boil.
More Boys Than Girls. —From'
thecensus statistics which havejust.
been completed it appears that the
number of children in the United
States under five years old is
4,513,343, of which 2,795,8 87 are
male, 2,717,426 female. The male
children from five to nine, inclu
sive, are 2,437,442, and female 2,-
377,271 ; total, 4,814,713. The
number of male inhabitants of all
ages under twenty-one is 10,050,-
563 ; female 9,975,307 ; total, 20,-
026,870.
Marriage. —The importance at
tached to the institution of mar
riage is not at all an exaggerated
one. To select one from the mass
of mortals ' with whom yon are
henceforth to share the good and
ill of life in common ; one whose
tastes, pleasures, interest and affec
tion, arc to be yours, whether your
twin journey be along the ‘please
ant aud flowery valleys of existence
or up its steep and precipitous path
one whose morning and evening
prayers are to ascend with your
own to God; one whose unclosing
ey 7 es are to greet the morning sun
when yours do; one who is to eat
at the same table, to drink of the
same cup, and to be, in a word, like
the “lamb which Nathan’s beauti
ful parable described as “lying on
the poor bosomand all this is
not for a few years only, but till
death part you. To select a part
ner like this, ought, indeed, to be
a grave, almost an awful task.
“ The unpardonable sin in
nran is from good grain to make
poor whisky ; and in woman, from
good flour to make poor bread.”—
The latter is a crime of frequent
occurrence, aud has nothing to ex
cuse it, for it is just as easy to al
ways have sweet, light, wholesome
bread, as to ruin one’s digestive or
gans with hot saleratns biscuit, or
to disgust one’s olfactories with
“ salt risings.”
—An exchange prints a chapter
of the Bible without credit. How
on earth are publishers to know
where it came from ?
Dosi’t toe too Sensitive.
There are some people, y 7 es many
people, always looking out for
, slights; They cannot carry on the
daily 7 intercourse of the family with
out some offense is designed. They
are as touchy as hair triggers. 11
they meet an acquaintance in the
street who happens to bo pre-occu
pied with business, they attribute
his abstraction in some inode per
sonal to themselves, and take um
brage accordingly. They lay on
others the fact of their irritability.
A fit of indigestion makes them see
impertinence in every one they
come in contact with. Innocent
persons who never dreamed of giv
iug offense are astonished to find
some unfortunate word or moment
ary taciturnity mistaken for an in
sult. To say the least, tho habit is
unfortunate. Jt is far wiser to take
the more charitable view of our fel
low beings, and not suppose a slight
is intended unless the neglect is
open and direct. After nil, too,
life takes its hues in a great degree
from the color of’our mind. If we
are frank and generous, the world
treats us kindly. If, on the con
trary, we are suspicious, men learn
to be cold and and cautious to ns.
Let a person get the reputation of
being touchy, and every body is un
der more or less constraint, and in
this way the chances of an imaginary
offense are vastly increased;
Drinking.— No man ever became
a drunkard, lived a drunkard’s life,
died a drunkard’s death, and filled
a drunkard’s grave, as a matter
of free choice. No one ever became
an excessive drinker, who did not
begin by r habit of being a moderate,
a very moderate drinker. If it
were the habit of all not to take
the first step, and thus become mod
erate drinkers, the unuterable hor
rors and woe, the destitution and
crime which results from this mas
ter evil of in temp ere nee would
cease. Wives and children, com
munities would not mourn over
loved ones thus dishoned and lost.
But it is the habit of drinking be
coming the law of their being and
of their daily life, the lack of resist
ing power resulting from this ter
rible thraldom, the fever of habit
ual temptation and appetite, which
causes that y T oarly death march of
sixty 7 thousand of our people to the
saddest of all graves, followed as
mourners by half a million of worse
than widowed wivek and worse than
orphaned children.
—llow dangerous to defer those
inomenteous reformations which the
conscience is solemnly "preaching to
the heart. If they are neglected,
the dfficulty and indisposition are in
creasing every month. The mind
is receding degree after degree,
from the warm and hopeful zone;
till at last it will enter tlie article
and become fixed in resentless and
eternal vice.
—A good, finished scandal, fully
armed and equipped, such as circu
lates in the world, is rarely tho pro
duction of a single individual, or
even of a coterie. It sees the light
in one, is rocked and nutured in an
other, is petted, developed, and re
ceives its finishing touches only af
ter passing through a multitude of
hands. It is a child that can count
a host of fathers, and reikly 7 to dis
own it.
Dreary Homes. —Of all the drea
ry places deliver us from the drea
ry farm houses, which so many
people call home. Bars for a front
gate; chickens wallowing before
the front door ; pig-pens elbowing
the house in the rear; scraggy trees
never cared for, or no trees at all,
no cheering shrubs; no neatness.
And yet a lawD, and trees, and a
neat walk, and a plasant fence
around it, don’t cost a great deal;
they can be secured little by little,
aud at odd times, and the expense
hardly felt. And if the time conies
when it is best to sell the farm,
fifty dollars so invested will often
bring five hundred.
For a man is a brute who will not
insensibly yield to a higher price
for such a farm, when he thinks of
the pleasant surroundings it offers
to his wife and children. Farmers
beautify and adorn yoitr farms; set
out orchards, shrubery lay of lawns,
build good fences; put up good
gates aud paint or whitewash your
out houses and fences.
—“lf there is anybody under tho
canister of Heaven that I have *in
utter exerescence,” says Mrs. Par
tington, “it is the slander going
about like a boy constructor circu
lating his calomel upon honest
folks.”
NO 36.
A Eat Story.
The following cat and rat story
comes from one of the best busi
ness men in Cincinnati, whose ve
racity, nobody acquainted with him,
will question. Wo therefore give,
it to our readers in the full belief
that it is true to the letter 1 ‘‘ Edi
tors of the Leader—l have just
read an article in your paper of the
29th hist., on a cat and- a rat exper
iment. I will give you a cat’s ex
periment which came under my own
observation. When* living on
abeth street, some seventeen years
ago, we owned a very fine female
cat, who, one cold winter’s morning,
brought a large addition to her fam
ily. Miss Puss had always been
death on rats. Her progeny were
short-lived, being consigned to a
barrel of water, where they found a
watery grave. Puss during the
day was in the deepest distress and
refused to be comforted. In the
evening we found her on the bed,
purring aud showing by her every
movement that she was perfectly
happy. Puss being a pet of my
wife she would not suffer her to be
removed. Before retiring I lifted
up the cat and underneath her wero
nestled, unconsciotis Os any danger,
three half-grown fats, and there
they lay tor sonic time until one by
one they were dispatched. Here is
o case of maternity, the eat had
substituted the offspring of its
deadly enemy to supply the loss of
its own, and it must have been
done without any fear on the part
of the rats. The cat must have
caught and deposited on the bed
each one separately. I have often
since regretted the killing of thn
rats, as the result might have been
in pussy’s domesticating the rats.—
But she never forgot it, never af
ter this would she molest a r;rt. ”
Neioport {Eg.) Leader ,
Prentice Mulford writes from
London to the San Francisco Bulle
tin : “I have beeii obliged to purt
ly relearn the English language.—
Words here do not always convey
tho same meaning as in America. —
There are no railroads but ‘rail
ways,’ no depots but ‘stations,’ no
fire-men but ‘stokers,’ no cars but
‘ carriages.’ There seem to be no
buggies in England; but they keep
‘ cars’ on lure at the livery stables.
There are no stores but ‘shops.’—
Neither an inn nor a public house
is obliged to ehtertain travelers with
other accommodations than beer or
spirits. To be fed and lodged, one
must go to‘ a • tavern or hotel.—
When you ask for beer, they give
you porter. ‘ Lager’ is unknown.
There is no washing and ironing
but ‘washing and miffigling.’ Beans
are known as ‘haricots’ (the plebe
ians terni them ‘aricots’). The
word corn stands for most any
kind of grain. There is no Indian
meal but ‘ corn flour.’ A streak of
sunshine, once an hour, constitutes
a ‘fine day.’ No street cars but
‘tramways,’ ho pitchers but ‘jugs,’
no glasses but ‘tumblers.’”
“Wheii ti sthinger treats mo
with want of respect,” said a poor
philosopher, “ I comfort my sell
with the reflection that it is not my
self that he slights; but my old and
shabby hat and cloak, which, to say
the truth, have no particular claim
to adoration. So, if my hat and
cloak choose to fret about it, let
them ; but it is nothing to me.”
“Doctor what is the matter with
him do ye think
A corrustified exegesis antispas
medically emanting from the germ
of the animal refrigerator producing
a prolific source of irritability in the
pericranial epiders of the mental
profundity.
“Ah ! that’s what I told Betsy,
she ’lowed it was wurrums.”
A Beautiful Thought.—' The
sea is the largest of all cemeteries,
aud its slumberers sleep without
monuments. All other graveyards,
in other lands, show some distinc
tion between the great aud small,
the Hell and poor; but in the great
ocean cemetery, the king and the
clown, the prince and the peasant
arealike undistinguished. The same
wave roll over all; the same requi
em by the minstrels of the ocean is
sung to their honor. Over their re
mains, the same storm beats, and
the same sun shines.; and there, un
marked, the weak and powerful,
the plumed and unhonored, will
sleep on until awakened by the
same trump.
W asn’t it rough on Clara, just
as she was telling Fredrick at lunch
how ethereal her appetite was, to
have tlie cook bawl out: “Say! will
you have yei* biled pork aud beaDs
now, or wait till yer feller’s gone ?”