Below is the OCR text representation for this newspapers page.

VOL. VI. THE APPEAL. FUBLIgHED EVERY FRIDAY, By J. P. SAWTELL. Terms of Subscription: Oxb Yeah....s2 00 | Sri: Months. ... SI 25 INVARIABLY IN ADVANCE. w No attention paid to orders for the pa iper uu'ess accompanied by the Cash. Rates of Advertising. 12 Months (> Months. 3 Months. 1 Month. S*. Sqr's. 1 8 3.00 $ 6.00 $ 9.00$ 12.00 2 5.00 12.00 16.00 20.00 3 7.00 15.00 22.00 27.50 4.... 8.00 17.00 25.00 33.00 £ c 9.00 22.00 30.00 45.00 | c 17.00 35.00 50.00 75.00 1 c 30.00 50.00 75.00 125.00 2 c 50.00 75.00 One square, (ten lines or less,) $1 00 for the first and 75 cents for each subsequent inser tion. A liberal deduction uiade to parties Who advertise by the year- Persons sending mi vertisementsshould mark the number of times they desire them inser ted, or they willtbe continued until forbidand 'barged accordingly. Transient advertisements must be paid for at the time of insertion. If not paid for before the expiration of the time advertised, 25 per went, additional prill be charged. Announcing names of candidates for office, $5.00. Cash, in all cases Obituary notices over live lines, charged at regular advertising ra'es. All communications intended to promote the private ends or imcrteta of Corporations, So cieties, or individuals, will be charged as ad vertisements. Job Work, such, as Pamphlets, Circulars, Cards, Blauks, Handbills, etc., will ho execu ted in good style and at reasonable rates. All letters addressed to the,Proprietor -wil' he promptly attended to. The €liil<l. UY MKS. PAKK.HU RST. You ask me why so oft,, father, The tears poll down my check. And think it strange that,l should own A grief I daro not speak ; But oil, my kml is vfcry sad, My brain is almost wild'; It breaks my heart to think that I Am called a drunkard's child My playmates shun me now, father, * Or pass me t>y with scorn, Because my dress is ragged, and My shoes are old and torn : And if I liped them hot, "there goes The drunkard's £ii'l, ! ’they cry, Oh, then, how ipueli I wish that God Would only let me die. You used to love me once, father, And we had bread to cat ; Mamma and I were warmly clad; And life seemed Very sweet. You never spokb unkindly then. Or dealt the angry blow.; • Oh, father dear, ’tis sad to think That rum hath changed you so. Do not be angry now, father, Because I tell you this, But let me feel upon my brow Ouec more tby loving kiss ; And promise me, those lips no more With di'iuk shall be defiled, That frdm a life of want and woe Tbou’lt save thy -.weeping child. Put it Down.— Young man, why will you do it ? You cannot afford to drink. That single glass of whiskey that you take cost you on ly twenty-live cents, does it ? Let us see. It cost your father a shud-. der. It cost your mother a heart' ache. It cost you, the loss of your purity. It digs deep into your manliness. It cost your young friend, perhaps, his soul, for he fol lowed your example It counte nanced a traffic in human lives and souls. It dishonored God. It helped on the field-tide of drunk enness in which our land is drown ing. It “put an enemy in your mouth to steal away your brains.” — It unfitted you for steady, thought ful work. It paved the way for another drink, and that for anoth er, and that for another still, and these for numberless others, and all together will make you a sot, and . pave your way to a drunkard’s yave, aud a drunkard’s Hell. Young man, for God’s sake, for the sake of everything true and good, put down that glass. Slander. —Yes, you pass it along whether you believe it or not; and that one-sided whisper against the character of a virtuous female of an honorable man, you don’t believe it, but, you will use your influence to bear upon false report and pass Into the current. Strange creatures are men and women. How many hearts have been bled by whispers. How many benevolent deeds have .been chilled by the shrug of a sboul .der. How many individuals have been shunned by a gentle myste rious hint. How many chaste bosoms have been wrung with grief by a single nod. How many graves have been dug by false reports. Yet you will keep it above water hy the wag of your tongue, when you might sink it forever.- Destroy the passion for telling. L.sp not a word that will injure the character •of another, and as far as you are concerned, the slander will die. Neeties made of leather with gill bucxles, are said to have been pro-- posed as the fashionable novelty for gentlemen's wear the coming winter. CUTHBERT WM APPEAL. A Cheerful Home. A single bitter word may disqui et an entire family for a whole day. One surly glance casts a gloom over the household ; while a smile, like a gleam of sunshine, may light up the darkest and weariest hours. Like unexpected flowers which spring up along our path, full of freshness, fragrance, and beauty, so do kind words, and gentle acts, and sweet dispositions, make glad the home where peace and blessings dwell. No matter how humble the abode, if it be thus garnished with grace and sweetened with gladness and smiles, the heart will turn longingly toward it from all the tumults of the world, and home, if it be ever so homely, will be the dearest spot beneath the circuit of the sun. And the influences of home per petuate, themselves. The ’gentle grace of the mother lives in her daughters long after her head is pillowed in the dust of death ; aud fatherly kindness finds its echo in the nobility and courteay of sous who come to wear his mantle and to fill his place, while, on the other hand, from an unhappy, misgov erned, and disordered home go forth persons who shall make other houses miserable, aud perpetuate the sourness and sadness, the con tentions and strife, and railings which have made their own early lives so wretched and distorted. Toward the cheerful home the children gather “as clouds and as doves to their windows,” while from the home which is the abode of discontent, and strife, and troub le, they go forth as vultures to rend their prey. The class of men that disturb, and disorder, and distress the world are not those born and nur tured amid the hallowed influences of Christian homes;' but rather .those whose early life has been a scene of trouble and vexation—who have started wrong in their pil grimage, and whoso course is one of disaster to themselves and troub lo .to thosp around them. Go Slow. —Believe in traveling ' on step by step ; don’t expect to be rich in a jump. Slow and sure is better than fast and flimsy Perse verance by its daily gaiu enriches a man far more than fits and starts of fortuuato speculation. Little fishes are sweet. Every day a thread, makes a skein in a year. Brick by brick houses are built. We should creep before we walk, walk before wo run and run before we ride. In getting rich, the more haste the worst speed, llaste trips up its own heels. Don’t give up a small business till you see that a largo one will pay you better. Even crumbs are bread. Better a little furniture than an empty house. In these hard times, he who can sit ou a stoue and feed himself had better not move. From bad to worse is. poor improvement. A crust is hard fare, but none at all is harder.— Don’t jump out of the frying-pan into the fire. Remember many men have done well in very small shops. A little trade with profit is more desirable than a great con cern at a loss; a small fire that warms you is better than a large fire that burns you. A great deal of water may be got from a small pipe, if. the bucket is always there to catch it. Large hares may be caught in small woods. A sheep may get fat in a small meadow, and starve iu a great desert. He who undertakes too much succeeds but little. Save Youa Dimes. — We say to all the children, save your dimes. Don’t cat them. Many children spend all their dimes for candy or something of the sort, and then eat the candy. It amounts to about the same thing as eating the dimes Better save them till enough is gained to buy a good book, then read the book carefully, and you benefit your mind, which is equiva lent to putting the dimes into your mind, where they will always stay. A dollar’s worth of knowledge well stored up is something that will never leave one and will always be of service. AgaiD, save your dimes till you have enough to invest in some piece of property, a pig, a sheep, a calf, a fruit-tree, or something of the kind. Such property could be easily made to increase iu Value, so that in a few years a snug little property would be acquired. So save your dimes and use them well. —Exchange. A green carleton dress contains • arsenic enough to kill a man. CUTHBERT, GEORGIA, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 27, 1872. A Mother’s Control. There is in many families an im pression that the boys soon grow beyond their mother’s control or in fluence, and that, while it is expect ed that the girls should still be obe dient to their mother, the sons must at a certain age be left to the control of their father. Thus in sensibly they imbibe the feeling that they are above their mother’s authority. The mother feels that she has no power to govern them; the father’s whole mind is engross ed with other cares, and the boys are left uncontrolled. This is the influential cause of the rum ol thou sands of families. Probably there is not one who will read this who can not recall to mind many illustrations of the truth of this statement. Here is a son dying in the forecastle of a ship, far away upon the ocean. Why is hfe there, far away from his own pleasant fireside, and the love of home ? Because his mother relin quished her control over her dar ling- boy. Here is a mutilated corpse upon the battle field. The form is that of a graceful youth, whose fair cheek is hardly browned by the scorching sun. Why has this young man plunged into the bull-dog scenes of human butchery, and come to this untimely end? It is because bis mother did not try to retain that influence which only a mother can exert. The idea is a totally erroneous one, that a son by nature feels that there is any inferiority in a woman, and that it is not manly to obey his mother. The natural feeling is just the reverse, and a judicious mother can retain control ovei a §on as long as she can over a daugh ter ; indeed, a well educated young man feels a peculiar pride in being obedient to his mother. There is a chivalrous feeling, a sense iff honor, connected with such submission, which is highly pleasurable to every ingenious mind, Napoleon, who was one ol the keenest of observers, attributed the formation of his character to his mother’s influence. “ The man,” said he, “is what his mother makes him.” The memories of Wesley—who has perhaps exerted as powerful, an influence as any other man upon the destinies of the world—are till ed with' illustrations of this contin ued influence, of a mother guiding her apostolical son in all the con flicts of his laborious and glorious career. Read the letters of the mother of John Quincy Adams, and you will bo at no loss to account for the in vincible moral courage, the unvary ing principle; and the almost super human energy which have shed such lustre \ipou his life. Before her noble mind he was ever proud to bow in homage. He was always, even, in his-most exalted manhood, his mother’s child, ever prompt to do her bidding, and ever feeling himself honored in honoring her. In fact every young man wants to be proud of his mother. He loves to feel under her control. He delights in having a motlibr who is truly ca pable of guiding him. Aud she who virtually abandons the govern ment of her boy just as he is enter ing upon the fiery temptations of impetuous youth, inflicts upon him an injury, and is almost unpardona bly traitorous to her sacred trust. Get the entire control of your child in the earliest period of infancy.— Hold to that control bj affection, and firmness, and decision, as years glide along, and your son will love you, and by his virtues bless you while you live, and adore your memory when you are sleeping in the dust. And this should also be kept in view by every mother in the educa tion of her daughter. She is to be trained up to be a wife and a moth er. If she has a weak mind and a frivolous education, and has been prepared merely to shine, while in her teens, in the circles of pleasure, and ostentation, and fashion, what will become of her when her chil dren gather around her knee, and her son, growing into vigorous boy-' hood, with an energetic mind, is looking to her for intellectual guid ance ? He feels ashamed of his mother! He is mortified at the indications of her inferiority, and is thus often led to feel that woman is but a weak animal, who was nev er intended to be an intellectual companion for man. —IE you want to have a man your friend, don’t get the ill-will of his wife. Public opinion is made up of the average prejudices of wo mankind.- A Bad Practice. One of the most reprehensible features of modern journalism, says the Baltimore Methodist, is that which has begun to characterize the weekly press in some of the large cities, of giving publicity to social gatherings of ladies and gentlemen, describing the personal appearance and characteristics of those present, as well as of others in society, and even mentioning the probability of the marriage of certain ladies to certain gentlemen. . This indecent ahd disgusting practice was begun by the New York Herald and now has its imitators, we are sorry to say,, in various parts of the country. The Washington Capitol and some of the Baltimore weeklies come out every Saturday with this personal gossip, which is no doubt found more likely to pay than §mything else in their columns. There are males and females in the world silly and shallow enough to bo pleased -with suck notoriety, and consider it a feather in their cap. But to people of sense aud refinement the whole thing is simply revolting.— The press ought to have something better to do than this. If it can only live by pondering to the ab surdities of the weak and vain, and demoralizing society, it had better not live at all. There is little enough left, at best, of the seclu sion and sacredness of home life, in this country, and there will be none at all" when the coarse and in delicate practice referred t© be comes general. If “ Young Amer ica” of both sexds is to be trained up under such influences, society, in the generation, may be expected to exist with as little freedom from inspection and observation as the American Indians, and with scarce ly a fig leaf to cover its nakedness. That invaluable jewel of female character, modesty, will be as much improved as it was.whemthe shame less literature and drama of Eng land were blighting all within reach of their baleful influence. Pay as You Go !—Tne habit of •running in debt is one of the dev il’s ingenious arrangements to tempt people to -ruin by living beyond their means.' Many ladies pride themselves on running up large bills at fashionable stores. The fact that pay-day comes round oft en enough to keep their husbands cross, and perplexed to raise funds, is a little cloud too often ignored. It seems a thankless task to pay for a suit of clothes after they afe worn threadbare and out at the el bow. Debts of gratitude are much pleasanter ones to cancel, if people only knew it, but few do. —Last week a lady iu Lexington liy., received the following choice billetdonx : “I saw you at shurtch last Sunday nite, and I want to form with you an Acquanetans. lam a man of good karicter, and get a celery of SSOO per anum. Please address poost ofis.” The young la day returned this reply : “To the Young Man with the Bad Spell The wish to form an acquaintance is not reciprocal. But if you call at my.house about six o’clock in the evening, ray brother will make your acquaintance with some first class calf-skin. Perhaps you would prefer making the acquaintance of our dog. He will take to you nat. urally. He always had a taste for calves.” Genuine Fools. —He who wipes bis nose on a nutmeg grater, and picks his teeth with a razor. • She who says “no” to a propo sal of a gentleman when she has reached thirty. He who gets so drunk at night, that he puts his clothes to bed, and hangs himself ou the back of a chair. She who rubs her cheeks with brick bats in order to give them color. She who pinches and slaps a child to make it quit bawling. A Detroiter lost a pocket book with seven cants in it, and went daily to the police station for a week to learn if any tidings bad come of it. Finally the sergeant, tired of his questionings, gave him seven cents, which he received thanufully, remarking: “I tell you it made me feel bad, as I saw the poor house looming np before _ ?> roe. —A wealthy, but miserly old man -dining in London one day with his son at a restaurant, whispered in his ear, “Tom, you must eat for to-day hnd to-morrow.” “Oh, yes,” retort ed the half starved lad, “but I havn’t eaten for yesterday and day before yet, father!” Curiosities of Lift/ Lay your fingure on your pulse, and know that every stroke some immortal passes to its maker ; some fellow being crosses the river of death; and if we think of it we may well wonder that it should be so long before our time comes. Half of all who live, die before they are seventeen. Only one person in ten thousand lives to be one hundred years old, and but one in a hundred reaches sixty. The married men live longer than the single. There is one soldier to every eight persons, and out of every thousand born, only ninety-five weddings take placd. If you take a thousand’ persons that are seventy years of age, there are of orators, clergymen and pub lic speakers, 43 ; farmers 40; work men 33 ; soldiers 32 ; lawyers 20; professors 27, and doctors 24. These statements .are very in structive. Farmers aud workmen do not arrive at good old age as often as the clergymen and others who perform no manual Tabor ; but this is owing to the neglect of the law of health, inattention to proper habits in life, in eating, drinking, sleeping, dress, and the proper care of themselves after the days work is done. These farmers eat a heavy supper of a summer day and sit around the doors in their shirt sleeves, and in their tired condition and weakened circulation, are easily chilled, laying the foundation for diarrhoea, lung fever or consumpi tion. —An Indiana editor lays down his shears for a few minutes to write, a double-leaded editorial, in which he plaintively remarks: “We are the recipant of half a peck of nice onions, two watermelons, and a bottle of ginger beer from one of our subscribers. The gifts were like the shadow of a rock in a wea ry land. We are gald someone re membered us in the midst of our labors and cares, and evinced that remembrance in so delicate a man ner. We dote on onions and love melons dearly ; and so long as the fragrance of the former and the gripes of the latter linger about us, we shall hold thejkind donor in af fectionate remembrance. Os gin ger beer, we have never been able to speak enthusiastically, but may say that our children enjoyed it greatly while the empty bottle ad ded not a little to the effective force of our office armory. These little acts inspire us to renewed exertions but our subscription price will re main the same.” Female Society. —What is it thart, makes all those men who asso ciate habitually with woman supe rior to those who do not ? What makes that woman who is accus tomed and at ease in the society of men, superior to her sex in gener al? Solely because they are in the habit of free graceful, continued conversation with the other sex.— Women in this way lose their friv olty, their faculties awaken, their delicacies and peculiarities unfold all their beauty and captivation in the spirit of rivalry. And the men lose their pedantic, rude, declama tory, or sullen manner. The coin of the understanding and the heart changes continually. Their asper ities. are off, their better natures polished aud brightened, and their richness, like gold is wrought into finer workmanship by the fingers of woman than it ever could be by those of men. The iron and steel on their characters are hidden, like the character and armor of a giant, by etuis and knots of good and precious stones, when they are not wanted in actual warfare. Being Sociable. —Some people display a wonderful tact for unsoci' ability. It is not so much by their silence, their modesty or their re serve, as by a peculiar disposition they manifest—an indefinable at mosphere in which they envelope themselves, so as to. repel the ad vances and resist the invitations of others. Siephen Girard’s Rule. —I have always considered advertising, liberally and long, to be the great medium of success in business and a prelude to wealth. And I have made it an invariable rule, too, to advertise in the dullest times, long experience having taught me that money thus spent is well laid out; as, by keeping my business contin ually before the public, it has se cured me many sales I would oth erwise have lost.- Keep Straight Aliead. Pay no attention to slanderers and gossip-mongers. Keep straight on in your course, and let their backbiting die the death of neglect. What is the use of lying awake nights brooding over the remark of some false friend, that runs through your brain like forked lightning ? What’s the use of getting into a worry and fret over gossip that has been set afloat to your disad vantage, by some meddlesome bus ybody, who has more time than character. These things can’t pos sibly injure you, unless, indeed, you take notice of them, and, in combating them, give them stand ing and character. If what is said about you is true, set yourself right at once ; if it is false, let it go for what it will fetch. If a bee stiDgs you, would you go to the hive and destroy it ? Would not a thousand come upon you ? It is wisdom to say little respecting the injuries you have received. We ere generally losers in the end, if we atop to r* fute aU the backbitings and goa* sipings we may hear by the way. They are annoying, it is true, but not dangerous so long as we do not expostulate and scold. Our char acters are formed and sustained by ourselves,, and by our own actious and purposes, and not by others.— Let us always bear in mind that “calumniators may usually be trust ed to time and the slow but steady justice of public opinion.”' Fashion (*ossip. Our lady readers will soon begin to think about their fall bon nets, and the following, from the gossip column of the Hartford Times will therefore interest them all: * The earliest importations of fall millinery have arrived. New bon nets retain the high front and sloop iug crown of last season. Many frames have heavy rolling coronets. In their trimming strange combina tions of color appear, such as reseda with blue, dark sage green with pink, and bronze with tea rose. Pale sky blue is used with dark sapphire blue and with very dark shades of various colors. The tur quoise silk introduced last spring— a soft, lusterless fabric—is largely imported in the pew dark tints. It is shown in olive, bronze and pea cock shades; in verti de gris , sage and tea colors ; Moselle, anew soft blue ; and in a delicate, pink-pearl shade that is new and very lovely. Turquoise silk will be Used for trim ming principally, but bonnets will also be made of it and trimmed with velvet. Pattern bonnets have such quantities of trimming that the material with which the frame is covered is almost entirely concealed. Flowers, feathers and jet ornaments appear on each bonnet. Ostrich plumes are long and very much curl ed ; Jfanciful feathers and sharply pointed wings are colored to display two or three of the new tints in con trasting shades. Many jet band eaux are imported. Round hats present a variety of shades, some of which are very eccentric. We have mentioned the Parisian fancy for broadbrimed sailor hats worn far back on the head. This caprice it is said, will appear here in the au tumn. Evening, Much of our lifetime is composed of the evening hours, which may, if We choose, become the. pleasantest, most profitable part of our lives.— ’Tis then we gather around the home circle, and enjoy, uninterruptedly, the society of father, mother, broth ers and sisters, or receive the social call of friends, devoting the evening hours to rational enjoyments pleas ant convene, readings, musie and song. Here in the twilight hours, in each a pure social atmosphereic, among friends of sympathy and affection, true happiness may be secured. Evenings spent thus exert an in fluence for good over our lives, which is felt even until the shadows of our closing days fall upon us.— How many young men have pander ed from truth, temperence, honesty and respectabity, simply because the evenings of their youth where misspent. When the hours of dark ness are falling around »s, and the day gone never to be recalled, ’tis then we should find our pleasantest hours, our best and purest pleasures, our most noble and inspiring ambi tions. Then strive to make “Home the dearest spot on earth.” —An old man, ninety five years of age, having moved frofn Ver mont to Kansas, was asked his rea son for doing so. “Well,” said he, earnestly, “I’ve lived in Vermont now nfigh on to a hundred years, and I rather think the climate is bad for my constitution, and so I thought I’d come out here, where I’d stand a chance to live to a re spectable old age.” i Ao Sabbath. In a prize cassv on the Sabbath, written by a journey man printer in Scotland, which for singular power of language and beauty of expres sion, has never been surpassed,there occurs the following passage. Read it; and then reflect for a while what a dreary nnd desolate page would this life present if the Sab bath were blotted out from our cal culation : “Yokefellow 1 think how the ab straction of the Sabbilth would hope lessly" enslave the working classes, with whom we are identified. Think of labor thus going on in one monotonous and eternal cyle, limbs forever on the rack, the fin ger forever straining, the brow for ever sweating, the feet forever plod ing, the brain forever throbbing, the shoulders forever drooping, the loins forever aching, the restless mind forever scheming. ‘‘Think of the beauty it would efface, the merry-heartedness it would extinguish, of the giant strength it would tame, of the re sources of nature it would crush, of the sickness it would breed, of the projects it would wreck, of the groans it would -extort, of the lives it-would immolate,‘and of thecheer less graves it would prematurely dig ? See them toiling and moil ing, sweating and fretting, grinding and hewing, weaving and spinning sewing and gathering, mowing and reaping, raising and building, dig ging And planting,striving and strug gling—in the garden and in the field, in the granary and in the barn,in the factory and in the warehouse and in the shop, on the mountain and in the ditch, on the roadside and in the wood, in the city and in the country, on the sea and on the shore, the days of brightness and of gloom. What a picture would the world present if we had no Sab bath. Sir Toby reports the ease of a good little boy, whose parents en couraged the habit of early retiring by permitting him to take cake to bed with him. One evening he as tonished his affectionate mother by the following prayer: “ Now I lay me down to sleep, • I pray the Lord my soul to keep ; If I *kou!d die before I wake, Give sister Jane my piece of cake.” Manners, says the eloquent Ed mond Burke, are of more impor tance than laws. Upon them, in a measure, the law depends. The law cannot touch us here aud there, now and then. Manners are what yex or soothe, exalt or debase, by a steady, uniform insensible opera tion. They give their whole color and form to our lives. According to their quality they aid morals; they supply them, or they totally destroy them. Not a tempest sweeps through the earth that is not needful; not a trouble breaks hpon the human heart that is not necessary. If so, let us take heart and rejoice that we are in the road that leads up ward to God, that we bear the sig nature of his children, and if chil dren then, heirs of God, and joint heirs with Christ. “La me 1” said Mrs. Partington, “here I have been suffering for three mortal weeks. Frst I was seized with a bleeding phrenology in the left hampshire of the brain, which was exceeded by a stoppage of the left ventilator of the heart. This gave me an inflammation of of the borax, and now I’m sick with chloroform morbus. There is no bleesin, like that of health, partic ularly when you are ill.” A man who passes through life without marrying is like a fair mansion left by the builder unfin ished. The half that is completed runs to decay from neglect, or be comes at best bat a sorry tenement, wanting the addition of that which makes the whole useftil. A quarrelsome couple were discussing the subject of epitaphs and tombstones, and the husband said : “My dear,' what kind of a stone do yon think they will give me when I die?” * Brimstone, my love,” was the affectionate re- P 1- w< - A young man asked a young lady her age and she replied: “ Six times seven and seven times three added to my age will exceed six times nine and four, as double my age exceeds twenty.” The young man said he thought she looked much older. There are many people who not only believe that this world re volves on its axis, but they believe that they flip ?r* a - NO 39* Where Thoughts Come From. The humau miud is like a ponder ous engine. A small point of iron at a switch will turn it to the right or left—seffding it on its preper course, or perchance causing to go' over an embankment or into another train, crushing both in shapeless' destruction. The sight of some ob ject, or a word spoken or read, will give one’s train of thougbt a new direction, or some direction quite different from what it would other wise have taken. Upon iery small things depend all of one’s future course in life. Parents, teachers, guardians, in fact, every one, may well ponder this. We are all influ encing each other, giving direction to thought, every day every hour every moment. A family read a journal for ayeaf and at the end of that lime do noi recall any particular advantage therefrom —but how many new channels of thought have they been led into by what they have read.— Hovtf many plane have insensibly and indirectly come from what they could have read. How much of vacancy there would be if they blot entirely from thfeir minds all the information they have gained, and all the new ideas and plans of their ofrn, suggested only, and indirectly at that, by what they have read du ring’the year. The truth is, one cannot read and think too muck about his daily labor. If he gets not one postive piece of useful in formation, the thinking developed by readiug other men’s views and ideas can but be useful in reasoning to intelligent labor—that labor itr which his head aids his hands. La bor without intelligence is mere brute muscle in exercise. —“Have you the Exile of Sibe ria here ?” asked a lady a few days since, of a clerk in a bookstore. “No, ma’am,”- was the answer ? “haint got no egg’s ile, but we’ve got a prime article of bar’s ile, if that will answer.’'. « w : • I would say to all yonng men/ marry your second wife first, and keep out of debt by all means, even if you have to borrow the money do iL—[Twain. “ Gentlemen of the j ury,” charged a western judge, “in this case, counsel on both sides are in credible, and the plaintiff de fendant are both such characters that to me # is indifferent which way you give a verdict.” “What shall we name our little boy ?” said a young wife to her husband.* 1 Call him Peter.” Oh no, I never knew anybody named Peter that could earn bis salt. “Well call him Salt Peter, then.” Some of tfye Western newspapers are establishing buzz saws in their editorial departments. These de structive instruments are intended for the fiend in bumfan shape who' drops in regularly to wrestle with exchanges. Mrs. Clark, who edits a newspa per at Sacramento, goes for Train' for President, and excitedly ex claims: “Never mind platforms. We want a man !” An artesian Well in Lincoln,* Neb., is so magic that it will draw a tin cup toward it. That’s nothing/ though, for a Small black bottle will often draw a whole crowd toward it." —"I am speakibg,” said a long winded orator, “for the benefit of posterity.” “ Yes,” said one of his hearers, “ and if you keep'ob much longer your audience will be here.” —Ui A grocer, when complained to' about the quality of his eggs, ex cused himself by saying, “ At this' time of the year the bens are not well, and often lay bad ones.” The man who never told an editor how he could better his pa per, has gone out West to marry the woman that never looked into a’ looking-glass. “How wonderful,” exclaims Some unknown philosopher, “are the laws governing human exis tence ! Were it not for tight-lacing all civilized countries would be over run with women.” The Senatorial Convention of the 12 th District, composed of Quit man, Webstet and Stewart coun ties, met last week i n Lumpkin/ decided that Stewart was entitled to the nomination, and nominated Dr. J. E. Carter as Senator. His principal opponent was Mr. J- K.’ Larnum. Nomination made unaer-' raous.