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THE SOUTHERN ENTERPRISE.
VOL XXII
1855. thb: 18??.
SOUTHERN ENTERPRISE,
ESTABLISHED ISJS.
PUB LI SHED EVERY WEDNESDAY
at
TIIONISVILIE, GEORGIA.
CHAS. P. HANSELL. - .... Editor.
IER.
Published every Wednesday at *WO
dollars per annum iuvaiiably iu advance.
advertising rates.
The following rates have been agreed upon
between the publishers of the Southern En
terprise and Thomasville Timet, and will
be strictly adhered to.
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Notices in local column will be measured
separately—no space counted less than a
square—ami charged 50 |er cent additional on *
regular advertising rates.
Notices of Concerts, Exhibitions, Pro
fcssional Announcements, dec., See.,
of one square or less, one insertion..ss.oo
Communications of a political character, or
articles written in advocacy or defence of the
claims of aspirants to office, 10 cents per line.
Announcement of Candidates $5.00, cash-
Yearly contracts will be made with Her
chants for a certain space in our advertising
columns, subject to a change of style and mat
ter at their option. This will be the best mid
cheapest investment for parties who advertise
largely and frequently
LEGAL ADVERTISING.
Sheriff's sales, per levy , $5 00
“ Mortgage Fi Fa sales per square, 500
Citations for Letters of Administration, 500
“ .'* “ Guardianship.-. 500
Application for Dismission from Ad- ) .00
ministration J J OO
Application tor Dismission from Guar- / _OO
dianship J 000
A pphcation for leave to sell Land.... - 5 00
Su es of Land, per square 5 00
Sales of Perishable Property, per squ’e, 500
Notices to Debtors and Creditors H 00
Foreclosure of Mortgage, per square. 500
Estray Notices, 30 days 5 00
LEGAL ADVERTISEMENTS.
Administrator t, Executors, or Guardians:
All sales of Land by Administrators, Execu
tors or Guardians, are required by law to be
held on the first Tuesday in the month, between
the l ours of ten o’clock in the forenoon j and
three in the afternoon, at the Court House in
which the property is situate. Notices of these
sales must be given in a public gazette- forty
days previous to the day of sale.
Sale of Pc rsonal fdbperly .-—Notices of the
sale of peraitaal property must he given at least
ten days previous to the day of sale.
Estate uebtors and. Creditors :—Notice to
Debtors and Creditors of uu estate must he
published forty e.
Court of Ordinary Lcace to Sell: —Notice
that application will be made to the Court of
Ordinary for leave to sell Lauds, must be pub
lished once a week for four weeks.
Administrators and Guardianship: —Cita
lions for letters of aduiisttration must be pub
lished thirty days ; for Dismission from Ad
ministration, monthly for three months ; for
Dismission from Guardianship, 40days.
Foreclosure of Mortgage: —Rules for Fo ie
Insure of Mortgage must be published monthly
or four months.
Establishing Lost Papers: —Notices estab
lishiug Lost Papers must be published for the
full term of three months.
For compelling titles from Executors, wlier
bond Ims been given by the deceased, the full
space of three months.
will always be continued
according to these, the legal rei|uiremeuts, on
otherwise ordered.
BOOK.
AND
JOB
PRINTING
OF ALL KINDS, PROMPTLY AND
NEATLY EXECUTED
A T THIS OFFICE .
/CHASE P. IIANSSELL, \
V JPropvictor. /
8. G. McLendon,
Attorn’y at Law,
THOMASVILLE, GA.
P/oinpt attention given to aM business en
trusted to him.
OFFirr —Over Pyles A: Co.’s Drug Store
jan 12.1 y
K. T. NacLcaii,
Attorn’y at Law,
THOIIASVILLE, GA.
Special attention given to the collection of
claims.
OFFICE —Corner Broad and Jackson
streets, up-stairs. (jan 51y
Dr. W. F. DeWitt,
RESIDENCE.
On Smith Avenue, 2d door from
Hansell Street.
Office over McGlashan’s store.
nplG.ly THOMASVILLE, GA.
Change of Schedule
GEN’L SUPERINTENDENT’S OFFICE, >
Atlantic & Gulf Railroad Co*,_ >
Savannah, Ga., May (i, 1877. j
On and after THIS DATE Passen
ger Trains on this Road will ran as follows:
Leave Savannah daily at 4.00 P SI
Arrive at Jesnp daily at 7.10 1 SI
“ Bainbndge “ 740 A M
“ Albany “ 0-4(> A M
Live Oak “ 3.50 A M
“ Jacksonville “ 10.00 AM
“ Tallahassee “ 0.2 U A M
Leave Tallahassee 3.30 P. M
Leave Jacksonville “ 3.00 P M
'* Live Oak “ B.aOPM
Leave Albany “ 7 nn and
Leave Baiubridge “ 4.00 P M
Leave Jesnp “ ?}
AlTive at Savannah “ j.oh am
Kophgnuo of cars between Savannah and
Passengers ffOfti Suvoiuiah to Tallahassee
take this train. ■ . . *
Passengers for Brunswick and Darien take
this train. . . .. . .
Passengers for Macon take this tram.
Passengers leaving Macon at 7.d0 p. gi. dai
ly connect at Jesnp with this tram lot Sa\iu-
Waving Macon s.t 7 30a. m. (dai
ly except Sunday) connect at Jcsup with tflis
train for Florida. ... , . , .
Passengers fiom Florida by ibis train con
nect at Jeeup with train arriving m Macon at
5.20 p. m. (dally except Sunday.)
No change of cars between Montgomery and
cars run throhgh to and from
Montgomery and Live Oak on this train.
Connect at Albany daily with Passenger
trains both ways on Southwestern Railroad to
and from Eufaula, Montgomery, New Oi leans,
<:t Mail steamer leaves Bainbridge, for Apalach
icola every Saturday; for Columbus lluusday
and Saturday roowigs.
Close connection at Jackgßiiyjlle danv (Smi
days excepted) for St. Augustine, Palpfe ami
E ’Ssln B. and A. R. R. leave junction
going want. Monday, Wednesday and hnday
For Brunswick Tuesday, ail^
urday at 4.40 p.m. ■
ACCOMMODATION TRAIN—WESTERN
DIVISION.
Leave Dupont (Sundays excepted.) at 5.00 A M
A,, Y eat San 3aM
Tbomaaville U-}?AM
heli l 6 lUe 3JO P M
fe’S;
Arrive at Dugout
Wav Freight train, with passenger aye. o )? l
modatUs, leaves Savannah and. lv at 6 4?a m
(Sundays excepted,) arriving at ba\ annali o.
p. in. < Sunday a excepted.)
Gbo S. Haines, Gen’l Tiekct Ag’t.
11l S. HAINES, Gen t Sup.
THE STJN,
18-jr. KfcW YORK. ISTT-
The different editions of THE SUN during
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Will on week days be a sheet of lour pages,
and on Sundays a sheet of eight pages, or 5b
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will employ for this purpose a numerous and
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pedally, will be full, accurate, and learless;
and it will doubtless continue to deserve and
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dering the Treasury or by usurping what the
law does not give them, while it will endeavor
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The Sunday edition alone, eight pages, $1.20
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The WEEKLY SUN, eight pages of 56
broad columns, will he tarnished during 1877 at
the rate of flyear, post paid.
The benefit of this large reduction from the
previous rate for the Weekly can be enjoyed
bv individual subscribers without the necessity
of making up clubs. At the same timo, if any
of oar friends choose to aid in extending our
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every such person who sends us tea or more
subscribers Irom one place will be entitled to
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THE SUN, New York City.
JUS. JKLiUEK.
JSlmaker
Jewels r.
Corner Broad and Fletcher St*,
TIIOMASVIIjLE, ga.
All work executed promptly an 1 in tlie most
workman-like-mauncr.
Stock of Jewelry. Clocks, fcs. exteusive
and prices exceedingly low.
jail ]-fv
AND
FIRST CLASS WORK.
Having leased the Brick Yard formerly
worked by Eaves, Keys & Cos., tbe under
signed now bason hand
330,000
GOOD BRICK
which he will sell at the kiln or lay them in
walls
FOR FRONTS
and other ornamental work can be accommo
dated low dowu for cash.
Thomasville abounds in specimens of his
work, and lie is now, as ever, ready to
Contract for and Execute
jobs of Masonry, of every description. Those
desiring first class smoothe brick
Orders left at this Office.
JOHN FARNEMi,
1 Thomaßville, Ga.
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(.lie publishers do not consider that they have
reached thp yfltima thule of excellence —they
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and they propose to conquer them.”
The prospectus for the new volume gives
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trated,) by writers of the highest merit. Uu
der the head of
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we have “a Winter on the Nile,” by Geu. Mc-
Clellan ; ‘’Saunterings About Constantinople,”
by ChsrleeDudly \Varner; “Out of My Win
dow at Moscow, by Eugene Schuyler ; “Ail
American in Turkietan,’' ptp. Three serial
ffloriee ale announced:
’ “NicHolas Miniurn,”
By the Editor,
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satisfaction to tiie readersof the Monthly.
The sfteuje of this latest novel is laid on the
baiits of the Hudson, ’fbe hepo is a young
man who has beeu always ‘’tied to a woman’s
apron strings,” but wlio, by the death of his
mother, is left alone in the world,—to drift on
the ciiiyent of life,—with a fortune, but
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Another serial ‘Tfia Inheritance,” by M<ss
Trafton, wiil begin on the completion of “That
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Tjiere are to be, from various pens, papers on
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Also, practical suggestions as to town and
country life, village improvements, etc., by
well-known specialists.
Mr. Barnard’s articles on various industries
of Great Britain include the history of ‘‘Some
Experiments in Co-operation,” ‘‘A Scottish
Loaf Factory” in the November number, and
"Toad Lane, Rochdale ”in December. Oth
er papers are, “The British Workingman’s
Home,” "A Nation of Shopkeepers,” “Ha’-
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THOMASVILLE, GEORGIA, WEDNESDAY, JULY 18, 1877.
f TIME CARD.
iigßgpgiglia<Silk.
Eufaula Lina
Leave Savannah 4 0(J Pi M-
Leave Jacksonville, Fla. 3 00 P. M
** Live Oak ** 8 50P.Mj
Arrive at Thomasville 5 00 A. M
Leave Thomasville 5.10 AM
“ Albany 9-40 A M
“ Eufaula 4.05 P ¥
Arrive a*. Montgomery 7 50 P
“ Nashville 815 A'TAp
“ Louisville 3.40 P. M,
“ Cincinnati 8.00 P. Ml
“ Cleveland 7.10 A. M,
“ Chicago 7.30_ A. M.
“ St. Louis 8,25 A. M.
Arrive at Mobile 5.25 A. M.
“ NewOrleans 11.25 A.M.
Palace Sleeping Cars through from Thomas
ville to Louisville, Nashville, Mobile aud Npw
Orleans with only one change.
Passengers by these trains save twelve hours
mid two changes cars, arriving iu Louisville
and Memphis ior dinner, Cincinnati for sup
per, and Slobile and New Orleans for break
fast the next day. Entire train through Mont
gomery to Louisville. No extra charge for
seats in 111 rough ears.
J. B. CHISHOLM, Depot
S. J. CASSKLS, City Ag’t,
Thomasville, Georgia.
REAU CAMPBELL, G. P. A.,
Montgomery, Ala
T. I’. WELLS, G.T.A.,
Montgomery & Eufaula R. R.
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M FASHIONABLE
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AND
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Address IfcENNESAIV GAZETTE,
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THE MIHI Hill
for isrr.
On the Ist of January, 1877, the Morning
News enters upon its twenty-seventh volume,
anu It i*® conductors, upon a pros
perous yeai. Every returiiitt™ “"uiversary
lias witnessed its extending influence, and to
day it is the text of the political faith of thou
sands of readers. Its uniform consisteucv and
steadfast devotion to priuciple has gained for
it the confidence of the public, thus enabling
it to contribute largely to the triumph of the
Democratic party.
Iu the future, as in the past, no paius will be
spared to make the Morning News in every re
spect still more deserving of the confidence
and patronage which has been so liberally ex
tended to it by the people of Georgia and Flor
ida. Tiie ample means of the establishment
will be devoted to the improvement of the pa
per iu all its departments, and to making it a
comprehensive, instructive and reliable medi
um of the current news. Its stall' of special
correspon dents—at Washington, Atlanta,
Jacksonville, Tallahassee, and other points of
interest —has been reorganized with a view of
meeting every -possible emergency that may
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mercial news, foreign aud domestic, cc-Delete
and reliable.
As we are about entering upon the new
year, we desire to call especial attention to our
club rates of subscription.
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character in the South.
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est papers published, uud is a welcome visitor
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ueatly printed four page sheet, compactly
made up, and contains the political and current
news of the week ; a comprehensive summary
of the telegraphic dispatches and local news,
and interesting sketches and stories. It also
contains full reports of the markets. Thus,
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TIIK.NOS THAT NEVEIt DIE
The pure, the bright, the beautiful,
That stirred our hearts in youth ;
The impulse to a worldless prayer,
The dreams of love and truth,
■- The longiDg after something lost,
The spirit’s yearning cry,
These strivings after better hopes
These things can never die.
The timid hand stretched forth to aid,
A brother in his need, *
The kindly word in grief’s dark hour,
That proves a friend, indeed, —
The plea for mercy, softly breathed,
_ When justice threatened high,
The sorrow of a contrite heart—
These things shall never die.
The memory of a clasping hand.
The pressure of a kiss,
And all the trifles sweet and frail,
That make up life’s first bliss ;
If with a firm, unchanging faith,
j And holy trust and high,
jy'Tbose bands have clasped and lips have met
j These tilings shall never die.
i The cruel and the bitter word
’ That wounded as it fell ;
j v Tkc chilling want of sympathy
fool nerw f ell , f
hard repulse that chills the heart
jWwhose hopes were bounding high, '<
wn an unfaded record kept—
These things shall never die.
Yet nothing pass,-for every hand
Must find some work to do ;
Lose not a chance to waken love,
Be firm, and just, and true,
So shall a light that cannot fade
Beam on thee from on high,
And angel voices say to thee,
These things shall never die.
(From th e Rxview of Antioch Debating Club.
Mr. Editer —l hav thot for a
long time that I would rite your
paper a letter jist for the purpus
of lettin n no part of my sufrin
mind on a few things that I no on.
U see, Mr. Editor, I belong to the
jlebatiu club, and thatsa mity good
institushun for young folks like
me to be in. Well, u see I jest
jined to learn to be a public man
Tike the captin that wintto the leg
islator and I hear he is thar agin.
Well, we took for the subject to
'Speek on “which is the mother of
the chicken, the one that laid the
aig or the one that hatched it ?”
As the long looked for nite cum
at last and I run and give the ole
mare whats harae peggy two ears
of cobs and- a bundle of shucks and
fed bloss and the bob-tale pig that
pap got from ole man Snoddleberg,
and off I went without my supper,
for’l hav hearn when u want your
brain clear don’t fill up your stom
ie, and I was in fur the hen that
laid the aig, fur I knowed she laid
ar aig and she was the lawful
So I wus bent on her bei,
mammy and the other one
the step-mammy ; aud I wint on to
the schule lious shakin my fist at
cvry tree that looked -like it sed
she wernt; and a speekin power
ful to myself jest like I wus speek
in to a big crowd and Sally Stal
ling (thats my sweethart) a sayin,
huraw, Peleg, hit him agin. Well,
arter a while I got thar and they
commenced to speok and I felt
mity bad and in spite of me my
throat got ful of sumthin, I dont
no what, and I liked to choked to
deth wiieri Ley called on me, but
f puled up by the back of a bench,
for I had to git up aud say sum
tftirf or they’ed make me pay five
cents, and I tried to swallow that
chunk what was in my neck, but
couldn’t. I harked aud spit and
gSlched and at last I got out “Mr.
President, I haint got nothin to
say to-nite and I hope u will ex
cuse me,” and down I sot harder
than thunder could bump a stump.
Now, Mr, Editer, what I want
to tell u about is them good bread
boys what belongs to the club, fur
evry time they are called on to
speek they jest try to make fun of
me by sayin that same speach and
set rite down. Yes, aud some of
these times I’ll jest quit that club
and what will become of them
then? My lite is gittin bad so I
wijl close. No more till deth.
Peleg Q,. C. Stone,
fT'V.'B. —These few lines leaves
the toothake, hope u are
enjoy in the same blessin. Peleg.
Mini* ill Finnic*
s The catastrophe in the stellar
system—the conflagration of a
*tar —which caused so much com
motion in astronomical circles a
few months ago, is made the sub
let of an article iq Belgravia by
Richard A, Proctor, lie says
that this catastrophe happened
probably a hundred years ago; the
messenger which brought the news
to us, though travelling at a rate
sufficient to circle the earth eight
times in the course of a second,
had traversed millions upon mil
lions of miles before reaching us
last November. If a similar ac
cident happened to our sun the
creatures on that side of the earth
’turned toward him would be do
stroyod in an instant, and the rest
very quickly afterwards. The
hea\ ous would be dissolved ami
the elements would melt with lbr
vev-t heat. The question is asked
wffether the earth is in this danger,
and whether warning would be
giv.cn of the coming destruction ?
The answer may be gathered from
the facts mentioned in the article.
There have been other solar con
flagrations before that which was
madif known last fall. The first
on record—observed by Hippar
chus—occurred 2,000 years ago.—
It was seen blazing in full day
light, showing that it was many
tinics brighter than Sirius, the
blasting dog star. It was called a
new star because it had ever been
invisible, until its conflagration
made its light temporarily visible.
The next new star (or stellar
conflagration) appeared iu the re
gions of the heavens between Ce
pheus and Cassiopeia three times,
A. D. 945, 1264, 1572, and is ex
pected to be seen on fire again be
fore long. This star remained
burning at its last appearance for
sixteen months. It appeared larg
er than Jupiter and brighter than
Sirius. It did not attain this lus
tre gradually, but shone forth at
once in its full size and brightness
as if it had been of instant crea
tion. In 1556 Fabricius observed
a rcw star in the neck of the
“Whale” constellation, and in Sep
tember, 16Q4t a -new one was dis
covered inJDphinchus. In 1670 a
new star appeared in the constella
tion Cygnus, remaining visible for.
nearly two years. In 1848 anoth
er was seen which has continued
in existcnce’sincc its apparent crea
tion. By the aid of the telespec
trascope—an instrument combin
ing the telescope and the spectros
cope—it was found that the in
crease in the star’s light, rendering
the star visible, was due to the.
abnormal heat of the hydrogen
surrounding that remote sun. But
it could not be so easily decided
whether this hydrogen was aglow
with the heat of the star or wheth
er absolute combustion was in pro
cess.
In other words, was it as a red
hot piece of iron or like a red-hot
coal? These star conflagrations,
it is believed, are caused by con
tact with other heavenly bodies—
meteoric flights travelling on ec
centric paths, or those in atten
dance of the comets. The meteors
attendant on a comet continue to
follow in its path years after the
comet has disappeared. The tail
of the comet of 1843 must actu
ally have grazed our sun. New
ton’s comet nearly approached it.
At any time we might be visited
by a comet mightier than either,
travelling on an orbit intersecting
the sun’s surface, followed by
flights of meteorio masses enor
mous in size and many in number,
which, falling upon the sun, would
excite his whole frame to a degree
of heat far exceeding what he now
emits. We have evidence of the
tremendous heat to which the sun’s
surface would be excited in such a
case. In 185.9 two meteoric masses
came with the
■The downfall of these two bodies
only affected the whole frame of
the earth at the very time when
the sun had been thus disturbed.
Vivid auroras were seen where
they had never been seen before,
accompanied by electro-magnetic
disturbances all over the world.—
In many places the telegraph
struck work, the signal men re
ceived severe shocks, and at Boston
a flame of flre followed the pen of
Bain’s electric telegraph, which
writes the message upon chemical
ly prepared paper. This was the
effect of two meteors. The effect
of a coniet, bearing in its flight
many millions of meteoric masses
falling upon the sun—should that
take place—can be understood.
Our sun, seen from some remote
star whence ordinarily he is invis
ible, would shine out as anew sun
for a few days, while all things
living on our earth and whatever
other members of the solar system
are the abode of life would inevit
ably be destroyed. If a comet
came out of that part ot the con
stellation Taurus, arriving in such
a time as to fall upon the suu in
May or June, the light of the sun
would act as a veil, and we should
be instantly destroyed without
knowing anything about it. If it
fell in November or December we
should see it for weeks, and as
tronomers would he able to tell us
when it would fall upon the sun.
The chances *are largely against
such an accident. Our sun is one
among millions, any one of which
would become visible to the eye
under such an accident, yet during
the last 2,000 years less than twen
ty such catastrophes have been re
corded. ’"Mr. Prohor, moreover,'
reassures us in another way. He
says, in effect, that all hut one of
these conflagrations have appeared
in the zone of the Milky Way,
and that oue in a region connected
with the Milky Way by a well
marked stream of stars; that the
process of development is still go
ing on in that region ; but that if
there be among the comets travell
ing In regular attendance upon the
sun one whose orbit intersects the
sun’s globe, it must have struck
before the era of man, and that in
our solar system we may fairly be
lieve that all comets of the de
structive sort have been eliminat
ed, and that for many ages still to
come the sun will continue to dis
charge his duties as fire, light and
life of the solar system,
Tire i’nirer-Mnhinx t’nelii*.
The deserts of California pro
duce many interesting specimens
of the cactus family, among which
is the cactusgigantcus. Some time
ago it was but little known, and
by all.considered worthless. Judge
G. W. Walker two years ago in
Philadelphia, found that the prop
erties of the plant, which is one
mass of fibres, adapted it well for
paper-making, and that it requires
much less chemicals than any other
substance, and that it is different
and distinguishable from anything
so far known, and that the cost of
production much less. He shipped
/ TERMS \
V 53.00 per_Anni3iu, iu Advance.'
on a whole carload of this plant
from the Pacific States, anil con
verted it into beautiful white pa
per at the Ledger mills. The raw
fibre bleaches into pulp as white as
snow, and resembling eotton as to
texture.
The judge secured very valua
ble patents on the material, as an
improved paper stock, and within
the past year built a very sub
stantial mill on the Southern Pa
cific lailroad, at a cost of thirty
thousand dollars. This road cuts
through this section for Several
miles, and is run by a switch direct
to the mill. To make paper the
material is first carved into blocks,
then pressed down a sliute to a shed
ding machine, boiled in immense
vats and beaten up into a-pulp in
ray engines. It was afterward
treated in the ushal way. Hitherto
California lltt* imported nearly all
of its paper froth the east, but all
this will soon be at an end. It is
estimated that we spend $2,000,000
annually iu this way, all of which
will be saved to us under the new
process. Not more than a few
weeks will have elapsed before
this paper will be sold to the
trade.
Bcanty anil Song.
How beautiful is earth ? Every
feature impressed with the finger
of its Creator, and marked as
God’s own handiwork! From the
tiny flowers blossoming by the
wayside to the lofty arch that
makes our world one vast temple
whose dome reaches heaven, one
can see God’s presence. It is writ
ten in living characters, breathed
in notes of song. All we require
to perceive it is an eye made by
faith, and a heart tuned in harmo
ny. Beauty and song in the flow
ers opening their sweet eyes to the
sunlight; in every leaf quivering
in the breeze; in the. drops of
dew sparkling with a thousand
diamonds; in the tiny stream, like
a vein of molten silver, wandering
away to the distant sea. But if
earth is so fair, how vainly does
the mind strive to picture heaven.
Earth is fair, but heaven is fairer ;
earth is bright, but heaven the
brightness of God illuminates;
earth our abiding place, but heav
en our home. Oftentim.es weary
in this our earthly habitation,
there we shall be at rest. No
aching brows or throbbing hearts,
no quivering sighs or burning
tears, no sorrow to mar its beauty.
Evil shall no more dwell with us;
suffering shall flee away. There
shall be never-fading beauty;
songs, whose music never wearies;
leaves that fade not and flowers
that bloom eternally; green pas
tures and living streams of waters;
light and joy never quenched in
darkness; heanty and song never
hushed in tears. May we have
Patience, Hope to buoy us up
while Faith shall grow brighter
and brighter until lost in glorious
sight.
The Orer-Excllcmcnt of Business.
It is not without a shade of mel
ancholy that we notice in almost
every daily journal the record of a
faltering in the ranks of business
mens This successful merchant or
manufacturer has impaired his
health by over-work, which means
too much nervous excitement, aud
he starts for Europe in the hope of
building up his health on a broken
foundation. Another professional
man is aroused from his dream of
ambition with the frightful con
viction that phthisic has fastened
its deadly grasp upon his vitals,
and the grim image cff weakness
and decay henceforward fill his
vision. There has been an alarm
ing increase of disease within a
few years, lirving its drigiu in the
causes we have named, and the ef
fect of it should be to produce
greater moderation. What if the
profits are less ? They can be con
tinued longer and life made hap
pier. There is no necessity for
this waste of life—it is a sheer de
lusion, the eliect of a foolish am
bition. Better accept the heritage
of poverty or a moderate success
than the infallible necessity of an
early disease.
Good Word* About Women.
“There are but two fine things
in the world,” says Malherbe,
“women and roses.” Lessing ex
claims: “Women is the masterpiece
of the universe.” Bourdon says:
“The pearl is the image of purity,
but woman is purer than the pearl.”
Thackery writes: “A good woman
is the loveliest flower that blooms
under heaven.” Bolzac says:—
“Even the errors of women spring
from her faith in the good.”—
Coltario declares: “All the rea
soning of men arc not worth one
sentiment of woman.” Lamartine
asserts that “women have more
heart imagination than men.”—
Otway exclaims: “Oh, women !
lovely women ! Nature made thee
to temper. We had been brutes
without you.” To which Mark
Twain adds: “But for you we
should be nothing, for we should
not be here,”
Sonic people imagine that it is
very difficult to get rich. Nothing,
however, could be more fallacious.
All that is required, is to earn a
dollar every time you spend ninety
cents.
Mrs. Partington says that j ust
before the late war circumstances
were seen round the moon nightly,
shooting stars perambulating the
earth, the desk of the sun was cov
ered with black spots of ink, and
comics swept tlie horizon with their
operatic talcs. Everybody said
that it profligated war, and sure
enough war did come.
NO. 29.
luxury and Fatigue.
It is luxury to get thor
oughly tired. The only way to
hilly enjoy rest and sleep is to get
tired first. Many persons have an
idea that idleness is pleasure.—
There cannot be a more erroneous
notion. Idle persons.enjoy noth
ing. A sense of languor haunts
them through the day, and of rest
lessness through the night. Nor
on the other hand, does mere phys
ical exercise qualify one for the
highest enjoyment of repose. It
is the happy combination of men
tal and bodily labor, requiring
recreation for hqth bpdy apd mind,
which alone qualifies one for the
complete realization of the luxury
of the change to rest and sleep
And it is only from such sleep that
we awaken greatly strengthened
and refreshed.
Did 1 ever, ever love any other
girl ? ’ repeated a prospective
bridegroom in answer to the tear
ful query of his intended. “Why,
darling, of course not, how could
you ask such a question ? You are
my first, my only love. This heart
knew no wakening until the sun
shine of your love streamed in and
awoke it to ecstacy.” And then
he kissed her tenderly and went
home, and said to himself, ‘I must
hurry them things out of the way
right off' or there will be a row,’
and he collected together a great
pile of letters, written in all kinds
of feminine hands, with lots of fad
ed flowers and photographs, and
locks of hair, and bits of faded
ribbon, and other things, and when
the whole collection had been
crammed into the kitchen grate,
he drew a deep sigh and said to
himself, ‘there goes all that is left
of fourteen undying loves—let ’em.
flicker.’
A writer in Scribner has an. ar
ticle on the subject, “How to keep
the boys on the farm.” He evi
dently means well, but he doesn’t
touch the point. To keep boys on
the farm, the. farm should be well
paved, and lighted with gas, and
have a band stand, and billiard ta
bles, and its own bar and race
course. We hope our farmers are
just as anxious as they appear to
keep their boys on the* farm, but
they don’t seem to take any defi
nite action. —Danbury News.
Good I nngungr.
Young people should acquire
the habit ot correct speaking and
writing, and abandon as early as
possibly any use of slang words or
phrasesi The longer you put this
off the more difficult the acquire
ment of correct language will be,
and if the golden age of youth, the
proper season for the acquisition of
language, be passed in its abuse,
the unfortunate victim will most
probably be doomed to talk slang
for life. You have merely to use
the language which you read, in
stead of the slang you hear, to form
a taste in agreement with the best
speakifrs anj poets in the country.
A Detroit woman has been
thinking over tlm matter a good
deal, and she has concluded that
the host way to keilp furs through
the summer is to put them in a
refrigerator. —Detroit Free Press.
The difference between happi
ness and wisdom is, that the man
who thinks himself most happy is
so, while he Avho thinks himself
the most wise is generally the re
verse.
There is no work of art which
can do greater honor to the talents
and taste of a married woman,
and which she ought more
readily polish, than her—daugh-*
ter.
They who, when about to mar
ry, seek their happiness in the
mere gaining of fortune and per
sonal beauty, evince a heartless
disposition, and their folly is often
punished in their success.
Straws swim upon the surface,
but pearls lie at the bottom.—
Showy parts strike every common
eye, but solid ones are only to be
discovered by the most accurate
observers of the human
human heart*
A clergyman recently. aroused*!
his sleepy audience by asserting in’
the most positive manner that “not
withstanding the hard times, the
wages of sin had not been cut
down one iota.”
When you see a bee backing up
toward you, spreading his coat-tail
as he comes, and there is no other
avenue of escape, cut your throat
from ear to ear.
The baby has got anew tooth,
but the old lady is laid up with a
cold in the head,” remarked a
gentleman to a defeated candidate.
“What do I care?” was the reply.
“Before the election you used to
take me aside and ask me how my
family was coming on, and I’ve
been hunting you all over town
to tell you and that’s the way you
talk to me. But it don’t make
any difference, I voted for the oth
er candidate anyhow.”
A youth refused to take a pill.
His crafty mother thereupon se
cretly placed the pill in a pre
served pear, and gave it to him.—
Presently she asked : “Tommy
have you eaten the pear ?” He
replied: “Yes, mother; all but the
seed.”
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