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1878. Athk-.s, Ga., M*y SOtli, 1878. Ki> tor Banner: 1 have found among old family paper*, in my wiles possession, quite a number of fugitive pieces of poetry written by her father, Judge Augustus S. Clsytcn. Borne of tlo'in filled with tin tendercst pathos and others glittc-ing with the keenest sarcasm, lie has been dead nearly 40 years, so that even his name is lost to all except some of our older citizens. Bui these pieces are as bright and fresh us when inspired by his genius, and therefore from time to time, With your consent 1 will re p • '.t ea <omcof th in. Yt*zs Ac. Wx. Kino, M. I). Say what you will, ’tis flat’rys strain 1 most delight to hear ; Though some believe ’twill make me vain, ’Tis music to my car. Let no one think to make me blush Because they laud my eyes; j.et no one strive their praise to blush But praise me to the skies. Call my cheeks rosy—luir my neck— Mv lips as rubies bright; 1 have soothing strains I will not cheek For they my soul delight. Talk of my mind nnd say ’tis stored With every gift diviue; Say that my gait and torm* adored And does each graco combine. Si y this, nnd mort, for more will plsase, If decked in flat’rys strains; That woman does not live in ease That loss than this obtains. Athens Minstrel Tub 1 ate Jcdqe Clattok. u 4 HILL ARP.” William Smokes the Pipe of Peace. REFLECTIONS AND DEDUCTIONS— DUOS AND THINGS—TDK RISE AND * FALL OF PRESIDENTS AND PREACH* BRS—A HIGH-MINDED MULE—A LITTLE POLITICAL DISCOURSE— SOLDIERS OF THE CAMP AND SOLDIERS OF TUB CKOSS. jFpecial Correspondence of the Constitution.} Mr. Editur : I love to meet a nabor ami hear him say, “ how’s craps.” I continue to like fannin. I *ike it hotter and belter, exsep that wheat is sumwhat doubtful about makin a crap. A little long bug with a tail at both eepds lias got in the joints and sucked the sap out, and its fallin do wn in patches. Looks like there is always sumlhiu preyin on sumthin, and unthin is safe from disaster in this suhloonary world. Plies and bugs and rust prey on the green wheat. Weevils eat it up when its cut and put away. Rats »at the corn—moles eat the gubbers —hawks eat the chickens—the minks killed three of our ducks in one night—cholera kills the hogs— and the other night one of my labors’ mules cum along with the bliud stag gers and fell up a pair of 6even steps right into my front gate and died without kiekin. Then there is briars thd nettles and tread safts and smartweed and pisen oak and Spanish needles and cuckle hurra aud dog fennel and snakes, thats alwaya in the way on a farm and muat he looked after keerfully, especially •makes which are my eternal horror, and I shall always believe arc sura kin’ to the devil himself. I can’t tolerate such long insects. But we ■ farmers hav to take the bad with the good, and thare is more good than S^ad with me up to the present time. My corn begins to look splendid. These warm nights it grows while I wm asleep—just like the intrust on them darn little just debts you owe —excuse me, Mr. Editor, I don’t know for Berlin that you owe any, but it’s a reasonable presumption, Ronsiderin your bisness, and its no disgrace, nohow. Most everybody owes em from the United States of \meriea down to the noblest individ uals, of which last I am whom. I look upon it as a charitable act to i>orrow from a man who has a sur plus. I think a heap of Gov. James and Gen. Austel, and all such, and it *would greve me to hav their money get musty and would rust and rot for lack of borrowers. I sometimes take a little just to encourage ’em, fer they are human beings, and just ns much entitled to a livin’ as the best of us. Mr. Editor, its a great comfort to nte to set in my piazzer these pleas* ant evenings and look over the farm, nnd smoke the pipe of peace, and marinate. Ruminate upon the rise and fall of empires and parties and presidents and preachers. I think when a man has passed the Rubicon of life, and seen his share of trouble, smokir.’ is allowable, for it kinder reconciles him to live on a while longer, and promotes pliilosofic re flections. I never knowd a high tempered man to be fond of it. Old Aunt Patience told me she had been smokin, for fifty years, and I heard her advisin’ Mrs. Arp to try it awhile, for, sez she, “ missus, it makes a body so quiet and peaceable.” But my wife, yon know, was raised a Metho dist, and they are foment it. Just like all other denominations, they make a close run on sum things, and on others a little loose in the socket. I’m now livin’ in a Methodist settle ment right under the drippins of Dr. Felton’s chapel, and they are a good people around me, and I’ve been wonderin how the doctor kept em all so strait while he was so far away. It does look like a pity to see his meet- in house closed every Sunday, and maybe, when he comes home again, a kind Providence will conclude to lei him abide with his flock. But then, on the other hand, it may be more important for the doctor to use his influence with the rascals at Washington to keep em from stealin and lyin, and at the same time attend to our political iulrust and continue to send us reliable gardin seed, it may be all for the best. The good Lord knows, I don’t. Therefore I haven’t made up my mind about sending him back again, You see there is Gen. Wofford, who is my friend, aud he moul want to go, and he built a finer meetin’ house than anybody, and anybody is welcome to preach in it who is heavenly minded and a good democrat. The general is no ^preacher, bnt then he can run the camp while the doctor is runnin’ the cross. Then there is iny friend Gns Wright, and he mout want to go. He aint get any meetin’-honse of his own, but then he preaches all around generally, and dips *em add washes the* - saints’ teet, and so forth, lie was] a genera), too, and can run the M cainp aud the cross both, and I' always wondered' why he dtdent build him a sinnygog or sumthin’. I like to see every man work up to the full measure of bis capacity. Yon sec the preachers nnd the soldiers have got the country sorter in a swing, aud no other sort need-mt unr for office till the thing wears out. Nobody needent try to get in on the eternal principles of the Jeffersonian democracy. Therefore, if we hav got to take ’em, lets take the very best we can git. Mr. Editur, I read the other day that there was'thirty-seven preachers in congress, and they was all Metho* dials and Baptists, and it dident look exactly fair to me. Cant we have a few Presbyterians and Episcopalians sent on just to keep the scales on a balance? But then they couldent go, for their churches won’t let ’em. I’ve ruminated a power over these things, and aiut hide bound about it neither, for my doctrine is not to fuss about what you cant help. I recken its as proper for a soldier of the cross to go to congress as a sol dier of the camp, and them two sorts seem to be a gainin’ ground among the people every day. I wonder if a soldier of the cradle will ever stand any chance? Solomon said if a man had his quiver full of children he should stand in the gates, or words to that effect, and Solomon was a smart man, but it looks nowadays like a poor feller with ten or a dozen dident hav mutch time to stand aronnd a gate or swing on it cither. But I forbear for the present. Yours truly, Bill Arp. P. S.—Ax Harris if he can tell why a hop vine winds round a pole with the sun, and a bean vine climbs it the other way? He never answered my first conundrum yet, and, in my opinion, he’s basted. B. A. N. B.—Take notice.—I had a sick mule yesterday, and seven men cum along and told me what to do for him, and so I give him lie soap and para- gorio and salt and whisky and butter milk and molasses and sweet milk and epsom salts and keroseen oil and lard, and bled him in the month and rubbed him with a rail and he got well. Please ax Harris what cared him. B. A. European Congress. A Specialty, by the best Slioer in Georgia. G-imssnithing. Guns. Pistols, locks, etc., repaired at short notice aud satisfaction given. STF.EL WORKING. Axes, Mill Pioxs, Hoes, etc., of the finest temper.- Work warranted. PLANTATION WORK. Plows, Wagons, Carriages, etc., repaired in the best manner and at short notice. Solo patantee of Bassett’s plow stock. JoT-lt-l Basseti. irarcli20-ly. T. S. X-TJQAS, DEALER IK It is said that the Congress.will be attended by the following delegates: Prince Bismarck and Count Von Bulow, for Germany; Lords Bea* consfield, Salisbury and Odo Russell, for Great Britain; Count Schouvaloff aud M. d’Oubrie, Russian Abassador at Berlin, fur Russia ; Coant Andras- sy aud Von Haymerle, for Austria; M. M. Waddington and de St. Val- Iier, for France, and Count Corti and Count de Lnunay, for Italy. It is not yet known who will be the rep* resentative of Turkey. Attention Boys. — We lean; from the Rome Courier that there will be sold at the Presbyterian festival on next Thursday evening about a dozen young ladies of our city. The sale will be at auctiou and delivery made to the highest bidder. The purchaser has the privilege of taking the prop* erty bought to supper, and just as far on life’s journey as the parties 'ran agree upon. This is a fiue opportun ity of getting’a geod|bargain at much less than its true*worth, more espe cially as the adinisson to] the festival is free. All young men desiring partners for a short time or longer, are invited to hid. The young ladies will be disguised by wrapping each in a sheet and drawing a pillow case over the head, leaving only the eyes’visible through two small holes in the pillow case. Yonng men, youjean piow exercise ingouuity in finding outj whom you aro bidding for. The auction will commence at 9 o’clock precisely. An Aged Man. And now the story comes of a living man 180 years old. Hi* name is A^iguel Solis. He is a hardy far mer in the toot hills of the Sierra Mesila, New Granada. No one earth 1 ever knew Miguel when be was not a white-haired parchment skin ned old inau. When the octogen arians of his district were hoys Mig uei soiw was» famous couteuari^^Had Aslhjn a Thirty Years tlim and known llim r .... . Baltimore, February3,1S75. 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What other* *ay about TutVs Expectorant, They have seen him aud known him living on ever since, and there can be no mistake about their knowledge"of eighty years, a The year that *weut before cannot be traced and counted so certainly. Miguel acknowledges himself to 180 years of lite. The name of Miguel Solis appears iu a docu ment still preserved naming the con tributors to the building found of a Francisco monastery, near San Ses bastin, which was founded in 1712, and the present abbot is positive this Miguel Solis is the same man. In fact Miguel himself says he is. He says his secret of life is never to (get drunk and never to overfeed. He eats hat one meal a day and drinks much water as he wants. His teeth are as good as ever and his eyes as bright. Ho still works his farm and does not feel his age. “I have had Astlnna thirty year*, and never found a medicine that had Midi a ha-pv efleet " W. F. HOGAN, Charles St. A Child’s Idea of Merit. New Orleans, November it. 1876. M Tutt'f Expectorant is a familiar name in my house. My wife thinks itthe best medicine in the world, and the children say it is ‘nicer than molasses candv.* ” NOAH WOODWARD, 101 N. Poydru 8t. “Six, and all Croupv.” ••I am the mother of six children; all orthem have been erouny, Without Tull's Expectorant, I don’t think they could have survived some oi the attacks. It is a mother’s Idcssing.” MARY STEVENS, Frankfort, Ky. A Doctor’s Advices “In my practice, I advise all families to krep Tutt’a Expectorant, in sudden emergencies, tut coughs, croup, diphtheria, etc Tl P. ELLIS, M.O., Na/vsrk, N. J. foU by alldruggists. Frlrr / ««. ojjice 35 Murray Street, AV.e l urk. SXMMONS Liver Regulator. Hepatine Comp. Cathartic Pills. Tutts Pill, Porus Plasters. Worm Candy and Vermifuge, Sarsaparilla, Buchu. Tutts aud Hambleton’s Hair Dye. Aniline prepared for use. Long’s German Cologne. Long’s Cologne. Lead, Oil, Glass attd Varnish. Morphine, Opium, Chemicals. ( Hair Brushes and Combs. Perfumery, Toilet Soaps. And everythin* in the Drug Line, at lowest prices at C. W. LONG & Co.’s Drug Store, Athens, Ga. septll.ly. LIVERY, FEED AND SALE STABLE, oar care. Stock on band for sale at all times. declStf. SAM HARRIS Boot and SHoe-Malcer, ATHENS, GEORGIA, (Orkb Jacobs & Michael’s Stork.) *£Flnt class work turned oat on short notice, til liberal prices. Give me a call and get goo* material and fine work. Fetgos marchlS-tt “THE TREE IS KNOWN BY ITS FRUIT.” “ Tutt's Pills are worth their weight in gold.” REV. I. B. SIMPSON. Louisvitts, Ky. “ Tutt’s Pills are a special Messing of the nineteenth centurv.” REV. F. R. OSGOOD. New York. “Ihave used TutcTTITIs for torpor of f - liver. They are superior to any medicine tar biliary disorders ever made.” I. P. CARR, Attorneys! Law, Augusta, Ua. “I have used Tutt’^Ml^Rve yars in mv foo dy. They are nneqnaled tor coMivnivss a • d I .!- lousnesa."—F. R.WILBON, Georgetown,Texu. “I have used 'I’uJT^hledirine wi’h prvt benefit.’’-W.W. 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