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CUTHBERT gjgf APPEAL.
13Y SAWTELL & GROTJBY.
TRUMAN & GREEN!
Macon, - Georgia.
Wholesale Dealers and Manufactnrers of
TIN "W ARE!
And Dealers In
STOVES, CUTLERY, CROCKERY, ETC.
OIJU Cntlery being IMPORTED DIRECT frum Sheffield, we are able to sell as low or
lower than New York prices.
We are sole Agents for the noted
Charter Oak Stoves,
Which we gnarantee the best Stove made, or will refund tbe money and pay freight back to
us .
The trade of Wholesale Buyers especially solicited, and prices gnaranteed.
octi6-3m TRUMAN & GREEN.
E. TAYLOR. THOS. WILLINGHAM, Jr.
GRANGE AGENCY,
4tli STREET, MACON, GA. ’
We have established an Agency in this city for the benefit of 3*at
-I*olls, under the firm name of
TAYLOR & WILLINGHAM,
And will Store and Sell Their Cotton at Special Rates.
gpy* We will receive and sell for them any Product raised on their
Farms, and make Liberal advances on same. Send forward your
Cotton, liny, Peas, Syrup, Etc.,
And try us octß-ct
THAT CANNOT IllZ
nmm
THE undersigned is still in the Warehonsc and Commission Rnsiiuss. at his new and
commodious location on Depot Stieet. with siipeiior inducements to those of dormer
yew*. To the Planters of Randolph and adjacent counties, lie hopes, by personal attention to
hniness, to uiv-e aeiieral satisfaction and merit a liberal patronage.
Lit eral advances made on Colton in store, for sliipm nt to bis triends in Macon, Savannah
and New York.
Personal attention t/iven to the sale of Cotton, Bagging, Ties, Bacon, Lard, Flour, Smrar,
Coffee, Svrup, Corn, Meal, Oats, Rye. Tobacco, Snnff Snap. Potash, Soda, Starch, Candles.
Oysters Cheese, Crackers Sa'dines, Yeast, Powders, Cotton Screws, Gins, Buggies and Har
ness, Wagons good as the best, cheap as the cheapest, warranted twelve months. Agent, for
Wilcox Giht.s & Co.’s Manipulated Guauo.aud Phoenix Guano, the best Fertilizers now in
1180 at t he price.
Wagon and Stock yard with ample arrangements for feeding and tieing, Well, Rooms
with Hrcplares furnished teamsters free.
seplß-4rn E. MCDONALD.
AYER’S. lIARTEK’S,
STRONG’S, JAYNE'S,
WRIGHT'S, PETER’S,
RAHWAY’S,
DEE.M’S, COOK’S,
McLEAN’S, McLANE’S,
TUTT’S, PROPHETTS
LIVER PILLS,
SIMMONS’
Liver* Regulator,
In Powder and Prepared.
For sale by J. T. KIDDOO & CO.,
Successors to J. J. McDonald.
GO TO
Thos. Wood’s,
(Next to Lanier House,)
Macon, - - - - Georgia,
To buy your
FURNITURE AND CARPETS
Cheaper than ever.
ALL kinds of Bedsteads from $4 to $l5O.
Walnut Bedsteads at $10 —Good.
Chairs, Tables, T Vashstands, Mat
tresses, Window Shades,
Wall Paper.
METALIC CASES and CASKETS,
Cast, Wrought Iron, and Sheet Metal,
Wood Coffins and Caskets,
Of every description. sepll-6m
Pure
BRANDIES,
WHISKIES,
GINS,
RUMS,
WINES,
CIGARS, of
all Grades,
TOBACCOS, common and fine,
For sale at Drug Store of
J. T. KIDDOO & CO.
Shoulder Draces,
FOR
Ladies and Gentlemen,
For sale by T. 8. POWELL,
Druitgist, Bookseller & Stationer.
Violins, Accordeons. Flutes,
Fifes, Banjoes, Tamborines,
Harmonicans and thaws Harps ,
Fo s ie by T. S. POWELL,
Druggist, Bookseller and Stationer.
Attention,
PLANTERS and MERCHANTS,
riOHK undersigned beg leave to call the at-
JL tention ol the Planters of Randolph and
surrouixiing counties to ti e tact that they will
continue the business of
Warehouse and Commission,
At the
FARMERS WAREHOUSE,
In the city of Cuthbert, Ga., wlieie they will
car. y on the
Wrehons e
AND
COMMISSION BUSINESS,
In all its Branches; and where they will be
pleased to see all their old customers and
friends, and as many new ones as may wish
to patlo.e.ze them. And they hope, by close
attention to business, and an earnest endeavor
to work tor the interest of their Patrons, to
merit a laige share of public patronage
Ti.e business will be conducted solely by
J. M Redding as heretofore.
A full supply of
Bagging, Ties and Plantation Sup
plies,
Will be kept on hand.
TUT* Good Lots and good water for stock,
and house for drivers.
Casa Advances made on Cotton iu store
and for shipment.
JNO. M. REDDING,
ang2Stf AaROX PRICE.
The Celebrated
(gCHAFFHAUSEN SPECTACLES,
3CHAFFIIAUSEN EYE GLASSES,
RUBBER EYE GLASSES,
CHEAP SPECTACLES.
WATCH GUARD AND RIBBONS,
FINE ENGLISH WATCH KEYS.
By tiie aid of the Optometer can suit your eyes
with proper Glasses,
For sale by T. S. POWELL,
Druggist. Bookseller and Stationer.
!S. JACOT,
Watchmaker and
JEWEL E It .
HA\ ING Removed to the buildiny imme
diately East of the Appeal Office, on
College Street. I am now butter prepared to
serve my customers than heretofore. All
woik promptly and neatly done and
Satisfaction Guaranteed.
Clocks and Watches left in my hands
tor repairs, if not taken out within one year,
will be sold tor repairs on the same, a rllt
HERE.
rjIOWEL RACKS, TOWEL HOLDERS,
HAT RACKS, CLOTHES RACKS,
AND
Picture Frames in Great Variety.
Also a full line of Gilt and Black Walnut
3r*ictixi*e Moulding-,
For sale by
_ T S POWELL
Drmrgist, Bookseller and Stati. >ner.
Burelta Diapers
For Sale by T. S. POWELL.
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All letters addressed to the Proprietor wil'
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BETHEL FEMALE COLLEGE,
CUTIIBERT, GA.
fX'UIE FALL TURN begins September 7th.
A and continuing Five (scholastic) Months,
ends January 2'Jth, J 875. There will be a re
cess of ore week at Christmas.
Expenses, per 'Perm of 20 Weeks:
Tuition in Literary Dep’t from sls to $25 00,
“ “ Music on Piano, 25 00,
Use of Piano, 5 00,
Board, exclusive of Washing, 75 oo’
Incidental Fee, ] 00.
Vocal Music, Calisthenics and Elementary
Drawing, tree of charge.
THE FALL TERM
U ill close with a Public Examination ; the
.•spring Term with an Examination and Com
mencement exercises
For lull information, as to Terms, etc., ap
ply to g. G, IIILLYER, Jr.,
aug2B-4m President.
ANDREI FEMALE COLLEGE
CUTIIBERT, GA.
Hoard of Instruction ,
A. II FLEW ELLEN, A. M., President,
Mrs. A. H Flkwei.lex , M. A.,
Miss Janie Ward, M. A.,
Miss Manik C. Bkthcne, M. A.,
Miss Flora C. Keith.
AI a sic Department ,
Mrs. E. B. Russell, M. A.,
Board and Tuition, per annum, $175 GO
Music, “ li “ 'SO O’)
Everything furnished except Towels and
Bed Clothing.
Dress Uniform Black Alpaca.
23T“ Fall Term begins September 14th.
A. H. FLEW ELLEN,
aug/t.f President.
Empire Yurserr,
Hear Georgetown, Ga.
A. J, SURLES&CO., Proprietors,
"ATTE offer for sale the present season a
T T large lot of
Well Selected Fruit Trees,
Either in large or small quantities, and at
prices to correspond with the times.
Our Select List
We warrant to he of the very best sorts for
Southern culture, and will produce on suita
ble soil, with good cultivation, as fine fruit as
can be raised in the United States.
Price List Furnished Gratis.
The best of reference will he given on ap
plication. “ 0ct.30 tf
Looking Glasses or Mirrors,
Various sizes and prices.
For sale by
T. S. POWELL,
Druggist, Bookseller and Stationer.
Tffm, Three Hundred
i Thousand Feet of
Seasoned Lumber
jlligsafe for stile, by
j McK Gunn>
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SOUTHERN CULTIVATOR,
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T. S. POWELL, Agent.
Druggist, Bookseller & Stationer.
A FINE ASSORTMENT OF
PHOTOGRAPH ALBUMS,
For sale by T. S. POWELL.
Druggists, Bookeller and Stationer.
Important to Planters !
THE undersigned Warehousemen in the
city of Cnthbert, are pleased to announce
to their planting friends that they Imve per
fected arrangements with buyers of cotton,
which will release them from half the usual
rates of expenses on lirst month. Half of
which expenses will in future be paid by the
puichaser. REDDING & PRICE,
sep!B-tf E. McDonald.
Ambi*osil Oil
FOR Rheumatism, Neuralgia, Sprains,
Bruises, etc.
At T. 5. POWELL’S,
Druggist, Bookseller & Stationer.
CUTLERY, CUTLERY
FINE, Medium and Cheap. Nice assorted
For sale !>v
T. S POWELL,
Druggist, Bookseiler and Stationer.
CUTHBERT, GA., FRIDAY, NOV. 27 1874.
JYeed and Wish.
I need not what I cannot have ;
The north wind swept from me this folly—
With l. zy, shivering whine to crave
Some comfort against melancholy
Which haunts us all, when dreams go by
01 what might be if life were other
Than life is ; therefore every sigh
la working songs I strive to smother.
You need not what you cannot have ;
Though torrid gusts of hopeless passion
Through every untamed impulse rave
And mould your words to fiery fashion.
What if your wild desire would seize
Some other heart’s delight and glory ?
Fate reigns not your one will to please ;
Fot yours the only tragic story.
None needs tbe thing he cannot have ;
The gods know bow to give right measure;
Through seeming lass their souls they save ;
They will not leave us slaves of pleasure.
Yet sweet is longing, sweet is trust !
The royal wish speeds brave endeavor.
Covet the best gifts ! for we must!
By this path we ascend forever.
Never Give up. — Who are our
rich men, our distinguished men,
our most useful men? Those who
have been east down, but not de
-Btoye when the storm of
adversity swept away their props,
sought new standard, pushed on,
looked up and became what you be
hold them now. A glorious sen
tence, and a worthy motto for every
young man’s life —Never give vp !
Men are not made —they make them-
Selves. A steady perseverance, a
determination never to sink, though
mill-stones were hanged about thy
neck is the true doctrine. It is this
that has made the wilderness to blos
som, that lias given wings to the
ocean, filled valleys, leveled moun
tains, and built up tbe great cities of
the world. \\ ho is a suckling, and
cowers before a cloud ? Is it you,
young man,stout,strong and healthy
as you are? Shame—shame on
you? You are big enough to pos
sess an iron heart, and to break
down mountains at a blow. Up, and
let this be a day of your redemption.
Resolve to boa coward no longer,
even if you are obliged to stand
a red hot iron upon your brow.
Never give up.
There is a story of a young Ten
nesseean who di I not believe in
dreams. lie dreamed one night
that he was smashed up on a rail
road train, and bad a very vivid,
shivering feeling of falling from a
great height in company with a lo
comotive, and beating the hissing
monster to the bottom of the abyss,
where they lay in a common ruin.
The smash up woke him, and he
told his dream to his father. To
show that he despised vision and re
pud i a Led dreams and rose above hal
lucinations, he took a railroad trip
that day and placed himself on the
sale side of suspicion of his bravery
and hardihood. He had no other
object than to express his opinion of
dreams and dreamers, lie was kill
ed on that trip in less than twenty
four hours alter he had dreamed of
Ids death by rail, very much in the
same manner iu which he had been
frightened out of his sleep the night
before.
llow to Grow Fat. —lf any one
wishes to grow flashy, a pint of
milk taken before retiring at night
will soon cover the scrawniest bones.
Although now-a-days we sec a great
many fleshy females, there are many
lean and lank ones who sigh for the
fashionable measure of plumpness,
and who would be vastly improved
in health and appearance coulu their
figures be rounded with good solid
flesh. Nothing is more coveted by
thin women than a full figure, and
nothing will so rouse the ire and
provoke the scandal of one of thosa
“clipper builds,” as the conscious
ness of plumpness in a rival. In
cases of fever and summer complaint
milk is now given with excellent
results. The idea that milk is “fe
vering” has exploded, and is now
the phys’eians’ great reliance in
bringing through typhoid patients
of those in too low a state to be
nourished by solid iood. It is a mis
take to scrimp the milk-pitcher.—
lake more milk, and buy’ less meat.
Look to your milkman, have large
sized, well tilled milk-pitchers on the
table each meal, and you will also
have souud flesh and light doctor’s
bills.
It is stated that an exceptional
ly large group of spots is now visi
ble on the surface of the sun.
they may be perceived with smok
ed glass without the aid of a teles
cope. According to Mr. W. F.
Denning, of Bristol, England, the
spots cover an area of nearly 78,
000 miles.
What is the use of talking of this
world’s brightness and sunshine to a
man that has tight boots?
Two Ways of ISeanng
Trouble.
It was a cold, dismal evening in
November, that two laborers might
have been seen wending their way
along the streets of a large manu
facturing town.
Slowly they proceeded, with de
jected countenances, not exchang.
ing a word until the one, whom we
shall call Smith, halted before a
neat little house and unlatched the
gate. Then there was such a look
of utter misery and despair gleam
ing from his eyes, that his compan
ion murmured :
“We must trust in God, Smith.”
The words were unheeded, and
his companion passed on, while
Smith entered the house.
A tall, dark-eyed woman was
flirting about, getting supper. She
gazed up as be entered, exclaim
ing
“You are late to-night !”
“Yes,” he articulated gloomily,
and going to the cradle he took the
six weeks old baby and sorrowfully
pressed it to his heart.
“I do wish you would put that
child down and get ready for sup
per,” exclaimed his wife after en
during his gloominess for some
time.
lie slowly obeyed, and then seat
ed himself at the tabic with a deep
sigh.
“What in the world is the mat
ter with you to night ?” she asked,
as she sat down opposite him. IDs
voice trembled as he replied :
“I suppose you might as well
know first as last. I have been
discharged.”
“There !” exclaimed his wife,
quick!}’ pushing back her chair.—
* Just what I might have expected!
Winter coming on and all. Id -
clare, Smith, you will torture me to
death !”
“I am very sorry, Lydia, but I
cannot help it.”
“Sorry ! No, you are not sorry at
all. You would just as lief see
your wife and children starve as
not. It’s nothing in the world but
your poor managing.”
“Lydia, you are cruel. Instead
of helping me to endure my great
trouble, which is bearing me dow T n
to the very earth, you make it ten
times harder for me to bear. 1
was not the only one discharged.—
There was Jim Hawley and ever so
man}’ others. Business is dull.”
“Business is dull !” she mimicked
after him. “Always an excuse for
a worthless man. To think that
you should be discharged now, just
as our rent is due ; and then we
are out of wood ; and look at my
shoes, won’t you ?—my feet almost
on the ground. I wish I had never
seen you,” and a very dark look
accompan’ed the last words.
The poor husband now covered
his face with his hands and groaned
aloud. This seemed to encourage
his wife to go on ; for she uttered
words more and more bitter, until
at last, almost in a state of frenzy,
the wretched man rushed from the
house to the tavern, and there
sought to bury bis thoughts of the
past and the future in the rum-cup.
Iu the meanwhile, James Haw
ley, his companion in labor, entered
his home with a very sad counte
nance. But before he had stepped
over the threshold, a loving pair of
arms were thrown around his neck,
and a pair of sweet lips were press
ed to his. He returned the salu
tion sadly, and then inquired for
the baby.
“She is sleeping sweetly in her
cradle. She lias been a perfect lit
tle darling all day. Supper is wait
ing, so make haste. Here are
warm water and towels. Are you
not later than usual to night ?”
“Yes, Mary, and I bring bad
news to you.”
“Bad news I’’ she exclaimed,
turning pale, as, for the fiist time,
she noticed that something was
wrong.
“Yes, I was discharged to-night,
and Ido not know as I can get
anything to do before spring. Bus
iness is so dull.”
“Is that all ?” asked his wife,
with a sigh of relief. “I thought it
was something terrible, the way
you looked.”
“And is it not terrible enough ?
What will become of us this win
ter, if I am out of employment?”
“The same God who feeds the
sparrow and clothes the lilies of
the field will not let us' suffer, dear
James.”
“God bless you, Mary ? There is
sweet comfort in your words.”
“And now let us have supper,”
exclaimed his wife, cheerfully.—
“See I have your favorite dish
shortcake and toast. Do not iet
your troubles impair your appetite,
and then, after, tea, we will talk it
all over. God doeth everything
for the best. “And as our day, so
shall our strength be.’”
In the evening it was determined
that tbe quarter’s rent should be
paid immediately, anew supply of
coal obtained, and the remaining
portion of the money placed in the
wife’s hands, to be dealt out as
sparingly as possible. Then Mary
suggested that all her pretty parlor
furniture should be put away in the
garret, and the front room iet out.
Further than this they could lay no
plans, and as the husband went out
to pay tbe rent the future looked so
dark to the young wife ill at she
could not altogether restrain her
tears ; but, seeking strength from
on high, her face wore the same
cheerful smi’e when her husband
returned, and little did he know
(hat during all that long night,
while lie and his baby were so
soundly sleeping, his wife lay awake
planning out the future.
Three months have passed, with
scarcely a day’s work in all that
time, and now another quarter’s
rent is due. Iu vain the laborer
thrusts his baud away down into
his empty pockets, and in vain
racked his brain for come solutino
of the problem how that lent is to
be paid. The lodger had paid his
money monthly ; but then that was
uot enough to meet the sum, if he
had it, and of course his wife had
spent that as fast as she had re
ceived it, and it was an every-day
wonder to James how Mary man
aged so well.
With feelings of deep d'spair he
entered the house. The table was
spread with the same favorite dish.
There were the shortcake and toast,
flanked with a golden lump of but
ter, a plate of honey, and a deep
dish of roas.ed applo3 to be served
with sugar and cream, while at his
wife’s plate sat (lie steaming teapot.
As James took it in all at one
glance, he greatly wandered at the
j ugal, yet comfortable, way of liv
ing. llow his wife had been able to
make the small sum of money last
so long was a mystery to him, and
yet he could uot help wishing in
wardly that she had been more
economical ; then, perhaps, the
rent might have been paid ; and he
felt .hat it would have been beiter
to have subsisted on one crust of
bread rather than to be turned out
of doors homeless. lie refused to
sit at the table, pleading that he
had no appetite. And great tears
arose in the strong mau’s eyes as he
informed his wife that on the mor
row they would be turned from
their home, to go, ho knew not
where, as he had not a dollar in his
pocket to secure them a room else
where.
“ Is that it ? ” exclaimed his wife
in a soft tone ; and, tripping upstairs
she soon returned and placed two
ten-dollar bills in his hands.
“ Where did you get them ? ” he
asked, eagerly turning them over
and over in his hands, as though to
ascertain whether they were really
genuine or not.
“ I earned them,” replied his wife
gayly. “I knit afghans, shawls,
children’s hoods, sacques, and socks,
at first only those whom I provident
ially heard of wished articles of the
kind ; afterward I was employed to
furnish a trimming establishment
with my work.”
“And kept it all a secret from
me?”
“ Yes, because I thought you
would be worried for fear I was do
ing too much. I love to knit dear
ly, and consider it more of a pleas
ant pastime than labor.”
“ God be praised for giving me
such a wife ! ” exclaimed her hus
band earnestly; and, pressing his
wife and child closely to his bosom,
he said : “Her children arise up and
call her blessed , her husband also,
and he praiseth. her, for many
daughters have done virtuously, but
thou excellest them all! ”
A man who was taking the reg
istry of births io a neighboring
city went to the house of a some
what hard man, and not finding
any one at homo, asked a young
lady, who was just eoming out of a
neighboring house, if there had
been any births in that house
the past year ? “No,” she replied
immediately “but the man who lives
there ought to be born again.”
Several years ago a hopeful young
minister left the shores for the Can
nibal islands as a missionary. On
arriving at the end of his journey
the natives weighed him and cut a
sliver oil' his leg as a sample. lie
came home by the next boat, and is
now the traveling agent i v v a cir
cus,
Am African Daiuiy,
T\ ho would suppose that a wild
African, whose only dress is a piece
of skin, would trouble himself about
fashions ?
To be sure, he feels no interest in
style of coats or hats, but be is just
as much absorbed in the great bus
iness of adorning himself as though
he followed the fashions of Paris.—
Curious styles he has too, as a Ger
man traveler has lately told us.
To begin with, the hair is the ob
ject of his greatest care. Its train
ing begins in tbe cradle, —or would
if he had a cradle, —when it is tor
tured into some extraordinary form,
and kept there by means of gum
arabic and ashes, till after long
years it will retain the shape of it
self. Sometimes it is like a cocks
comb, and sometimes like a fan.—
One [tool* baby’s hair will be train
ed, so that in time it will stand up
in rolls ovei the head, like the
ridges on a melon, while another’s
is taught to stand out like the rays
of the sun, as usually represented
in pictures. With some Africans,
part of it hangs down in long, reg
ular braids or twists, aud the rest
is laid up in monstrous puffs on
each side of the head. But the
drollest one of all is made to look
like the glory around the head of a
saint—in pictures. The hair is ta
ken in single locks, stretched out to
its great length, and fastened at the
ends to a hoop. The hoop is held
in place by strong wires, and its
edge ornamented with small shells.
The effect is very comical.
In most of these wonderful ar
rangements the hair is parted iu the
middle (I wonder if our young
gentlemen imported that style from
Africa), and is kept iu place by
plenty of gum and ashes, or clay.
All this elaborate liair-dressing
is on the heads of the men. The
women of the country wear their
hair in the simplest manner, per
haps for the reason that the wife
does the cooking, cultivates the
laud, adorns the body of her hus
band with paint, and dresses his
hair, which must be enough to keep
her time well occupied.
Ilis hair once dressed, this Afri
can dandy turns his mind to the
further decoration of his body.—
First he rubs Ins skin with a mix
ture of greaso and ashes,or powder
ed wood of a red color, puts on his
one scanty garment, made of the
skin of some animals, or of bark,
occasionally trimmed with the long
tail of a monkey or other animal,
and then he is ready for his orna
ments.
Across his forehead, just under
the edge of his hair, like a fringe,
he hangs a string of teeth. They
may be teeth of dogs, or other ani
mals, or, if he is a great warrior, of
his human victims.
Next he adorns his breast with an
ornament made of ivory, cut to re
semble lions’ teeth, and spread out
in star-shape. Around his neck lie
hangs several necklaces made of
strips of skin cut from the hippo
potamus, and finishes up with paint
in various styles; dots, or stripes,
or zigzags, squares like a checker
board, or marbled all over. —From
“African Fashionsby Olive
Thorne , in St. Nicholas for De
cember.
Common-sense is an element in
which many persons are sadly
wanting. Common-sense implies
sound perception, correct reason,
mental capacity, and good under
standing. It is not to be acquired
entirely by education; it is a sort
of instinct. It may be polished and
made more acute by experience.
There is a great deal of sound phi
losophy in a little common sense
sometimes, and the exercise of it
upon certain occasions would save
many men from much subsequent
humiliation.
If our Maker thought it wrong
for Adam to remain single when
there was no woman on earth, how
criminally wrong are the old bach
elors with the world full of pretty
girls !
Next to a rooster in a rain-storm,
or a man with his mother-in-law,
on his arm, the most wretched
looking thing in the world is a can
didate who has just overheard some
friend wanting to bet three to ono
that ho won’t be elected.
“ O kitten ! in our hours of ease,
uncertain toys and full of fleas;
when paiu or anguish hang o’er men,
we turn you into sausage then.”
Thousands of poor men are
spending as much for newspapers
as would buy theoi a goo! mint-ju
lep every day.
VOL. VIII-NO 48
Ifiis bailie was Abel.
Recently an excited individual,
with his hat standing on two hairs,
and his eyes projecting from hi*
head like the horns of a sDail, rush
ed into the office of Coroner Ilolrae*.
The coroner is by profession a den
tist, and his first thought, as he
glanced at the man, was that he was
well nigh distracted with tooth achej
he was soon undeceived, however,
as the frenzied individual cried out
as soon as he could catch his breath
after running up the stairs, “Been
a man murdered!”
“A man murdered!” cried the cor*
oner; “how? where?”
“In a garding, I believe; with a
club or a rock.”
“How long ago?” cried the coro
ner, seizing his hat and cane.
“Been done a good while, and no
police or constable hasn’t never done
nothing about it. Never been no
coroner set on bis body nor nothing
of the kind; no verdict —”
“What’s the dead man’s name?—
who was he?” cried the coroner.
“His name was Able.”
“Able?—Able who?”
“Don’t know; never heard noth
ing but his first name.”
“Well, what is the name of the
man who killed him? do they know?
any one suspected?
“Well, I’ve heard that a fellow
named Cain put out his light. Cain
was the brother of Abel, and—”
Coroner smells a mice, and, flour
ishing his cane,cries:
“ You git down them stairs, my
fine fellow Git, and don’t show
yourself here again.”
With a loud guffaw, the fellow
went down stairs three steps at a
time, the doctor calling after him,
“ How dare you trifle with an offi
cer in this way, sir?”
May I not Smoke ?—Tobacco is
< lie of the most virulent poisons in
nature. It acts not only upon the
l.rain and spinal chord, hut especial
ly upon the great sympathetic sys
tem of nerves, which is the very
citadel of organic life, and which
supplies the norvous influence re
quired by the heart, arteries, lungs,
and digestive organs, to enable them
to perform their f unctions.
If a small drop of the oil of to
bacco be rubbed on the tongue of a
cat, it brings on convulsions, and
death in two minutes; a single leaf,
dipped in hot water, and laid upon
the pit of the stomach, or applied
to a spot where the external surface
of the skin is abraded, produces
fearful and often fatal results,—
Smoking deadens the intellect. Na
poleon 111, issued an edict forbid
ding the use of tobacco by certain
classes of students, and this is his
reason : lie placed a number of stu
dent, non-smokers, with equal nnm
her of students did smoke, and, af
ter a year’s study, it was found
that the won smokers were thirty
per cent, ahead of their smoking
competitors. This is a pill, for our
students who smoke “to digest.”'
Tobacco smoke also injures the
lungs ; and last, but not least, the*
morals. One cigar a day leads to a.
dozen : thence to drinking, its merit,
able accompaniment, and from m*>d'
erate drinking, to excess, and so on.
We ii ight increase our argument
tenfold, but verbum satsapienti
Science of Health.
The man who has not anything?
to boast ef but his illustiious anoes- B
tors is like a potato plant— the onljrl
good belonging to him is under tho|
grouDd.
A lady in a menagerie being ask
ed why she so closely scanned tha
elephant with her opera glass, ro-.
plied that she was “looking for th%
keyhole of his trunk.”
A teacher asked an advanced
school girl why beer in French was
leminine. She replied that it was
probably owing to the fact that
boys liked it 80 WfU,
Sir Isaac Newton, a little beforQ
he died, said: “I don’t know what
I may seem to the world, but, a&
to myself, I seem to have been on
ly like a boy playing on the sea-,
shore, and diverting myself in now
and then finding a smoother or %
prettier shell than ordinary, whilst
the great ocean of truth lay all un
discovered before me.”
None but those who keep up ap,
pearances against heavy odds can
understand what servitude pretenca
imposes upon the sensitive soul.
The sting of confessed poverty is
not nearly so burning as is the rea
lity of being poor while seeming tq
be rich.
A Chicago sausage maker adver
tises his wares as ‘dog cheap,’
