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The Cartersville Semi-Weekly Express.
Published on every Tuesday and Friday Mornings
VOLUME X.
The Carlersvillc Express
Is published Semi-Weekly cm every TUE -
DAY AND FRIDAY, by
S. H. SMITH & Cos., Editors and Prop’rs.
Iu the town of < artersville, Bartow County, Ga.
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John W. Wolford,
ATTORNEY AT LAW.
CARTERSVI LLJC - GEORGIA.
Office over Pinkerton’s Drug Store. Oct. 17.
A. P. Wofford,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
CARTKRSVILLH, GEORGIA.
Office in the Court-House,
June 28,1870.
R. W. Wurpliey,
ATTTORNEY AT LAW, .
CAETERSVILLE, GEORGIA.
Will practice in the courts of the Cherokee
Circuit. Particular attention given to the col
lection of claims. Office xvitb Col. Abda John
son. OcC 1.
John 4. Jones,
ATTORNEY AT LAW & REAL ESTATE AGENT,
OARTERBVILLE GEORGIA.
Will attend promptly to all professional busi
ness entrusted to his care; also, to the buying
and selling of Real Estate. Jan 1.
Jcre. A. Howard,
Ordinary of Bartow County.
OARTERBVILLE, GEORGIA.
Jan 1,1870.
A. M. Ponte,
ATTORNEY AT LAW.
ARTERSVILLE GEORGIA.
( With Col. Warren Akin,)
Will practice in the courts of Bartow, Cobb,
Polk, Floyd, Gordon, Mmimy, Whitfield and ad
joining counties. March 30.
T. W. >ll J.NKU, . 0. n. MILNER.
Milner A Milner,
ATTORNEYS ‘AT LAW.
CAUTERSVILLE, GEORGIA
Will attend promptly to business entrusted to
their care. Jan. 15.
Warren Akin,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
CARTKRBVII LE, GEORGIA.
Will practice in all the courts of the Sl ate.
Sam. IV. Patillo,
Fashionable Tailor and Agent
for Sewing Machines,
WILL attend promptly to the Cutting. Ite
paifir.it, and Making Boys’ and Mens’
'•Clothing; also. Agent for the sale of the cele
brated Grover & Baker Sewing Machines. 01-
iflcc over Stokely & Williams Store. Entrance
'from the rear. feb 17.
%V. R. Monntea.sile,
■Jeweler and Watch and Clock
Repairer,
'O ARTERSVILLE, GEORGIA.
Office in trout of A. A. Skinner & Go’s Store.
Kcnnc.saw House,
MARIETTA, GEORGIA.
18 still open to the traveling public as well as
summer visitors. Parties desiring to make
arrangements for the season can be accommo
dated! Rooms neat and clean and especially
adapted for families. A tine large piazza has
been recently added to the comforts of the estab
lishment. FLETCHER & FREYER,
junelSwtf Proprietors.
S. O’SHIELDS,
Fash ion able Ta iior 9
Cartersville, Georgia.
HAVE just received the latest European and
American styles of Mens’ and Boys’ Cloth
ing, and is prepared to Cut and Making to or
der. Office upstairs iu Liebmau’s store, East
side of the Railroad. sept. 29.
Dr. 4. A. Jackson,
PRACTICING PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON,
OFFICE IN THE ME W DR UO STORE.
CARTERSVILLE, GEORGIA.
Jan 4th, 1871.
WM. 0. BOWLER,
MANUFACTURER OF,
AND DEALEH IIST,
SINGLE AND DOUBLE
HARNESS,
Saddles,
COLLARS, LEATHER, &C.
KErAIRISti IM>.\ i:
With neatness and dispatch.
afiy-Shop « n West Main Street, near the old
Market House, CAItTJEIISVILLE, GA.
feb 21-wly WM. O BOWLER.
GEAR SHOP." hv
w. c. mwmm,
CARTERSVILLE, GA.
M/nufacturer of Harness, Bri
tilt s, Gear, etc*, and Dealer in
« , Saddles, Leather.
Repairing done on short, notice. Work war
ranted to stand the test. Hides Wanted,
jan. 24,187t.-swly
~ 1 I>»*. Me.
JoUiwon,
,)EXT,ST *
'iff •• 5 Cartersville , Ga.
Teeth drawn without pain, by the use oi nar
cotic spray. inch 9.
J. T. OWEN,
JEWELER,
Main Street, Cartersville, Ga..
Will furnish anything in his lipe as cheap as
It can be bought anywhere.
Tie is'always at his post, ready to serve liis
customers.
Every thing war an ted to give satistaetiou.
SHARP &ELOYD,
Successors to Geo. SHARP, Jr.,
ATLANTA, GA„
Wholesale And Retail Jewelers,
We Keep a Large and Varied Assortment of
FINE WATCHES, CLOCKS,
DIAMONDS, JEWELRY,
AND
SPECTACLES.
SMB MSm WME,
A SPECIALTY.
We Mamifactuae Tea Sets, Forks, Spoons.
Goblets, Cups, Knives, etc.
Tfi?emiumß Ifor t .Agricultural Jfaitis.
We are prepared to fill any order for Fairs at
short notice; also to give any information in
regard to Premiums.
Orders by mail or in person, will receive
prompt and careful attention. We ask a com
parison of Stock, Prices and Workmanship with
any house in the State.
Watches and Jewelry carefully Repaired
and Warranted. Masonic Badges and Sunday
School Badges made to order.
AH Work Guaranteed.
ENGRAVING FREE OF CHARGE.
SHARP & FLOYD.
May 28, sxvly.
R EA D
IT is well known to
Doctors and to Ladies
that Women are subject L yv
to numerous diseases pc- Ji WA
culiar to their sex—such
as Suppression of the JFvmi.-AiO*'
Menses, Whites, Painful
M’nthlv ‘Periods.’ Rheu
mutism of the Back and vR-A
Womb, Irregular Men- •'•
struation, lfemorrhage.
or Excessive ‘Flow,’and AS|jjgpJssNfigP»
Prolapsus Interior Fall
ing of the Womb. ,*
These diseases have sol ■-=
dom been treated successfully. The profession
has sought dilligeutly fbr some remedy that wo’ld
enable them to treat these diseases with success.
At last, that remedy has been discovered by
one of the most skilful physicians in the State of
Georgia. The remedy is
Bradfield’s Female Regulator.
It is purely vegetable, and is put up in Atlan
ta, by braDkield & CO.
It will purify the blood and strengthen the
system, relieve irritation of the kidneys, and is
a perfect specific for all the above diseases; as
certain a cure as Quinine is in Chills and Fevers.
For a history of diseases, and certificates ofits
worderful cures, the reader is referred to the
wrapper around the bottle. Every bottle war
ranted to give satisfaction or money refunded.
LaGrangk, Ga., March 23,1870.
BRADFTELD & CO., ATLANTA, G A.:
Dear Sirs: T take pleasure in stating that 1
have used, for the last twenty years, the medi
cine you are putting ,ip, known as OR. J. BRAD
FIELD’S FEMALE REGULATOR, and con
sider it the best combination ever gotten to
gether for the diseases for which it is recom
mended. r have been familiar with the pre
scription both as a practitioner of medicine and
in domestic practice, and can honestly say that
1 ttonsider it a boon to suffering females, and
can but hope that every lady in our whole land,
who may be suffering' in any way peculiar to
their sex. may be able to procure a bottle, that
their sufferings may not only be relieved, but
that they may he restored to health & strength.
With my kindest regards, I am, respectfully,
W. B. FERRELL, M. D.'
We, the undersigned Druggists, take pleasure
in commending to the trade, Dr. .T. Bradfield’s
Female Regulator—believing it to be a good and
reliable remedy for the diseases for which he
recommends it. W. A. LANS DELL,
PEMBERTON, WILSON, TAYLOR & CO.
RE DIVINE & FOX,
W. C. LAWSHE, Atlanta, Ga.
W. ROOT & SON, Marietta, Ga.
ACTS with gentleness and thoroughness
upon the Liver and General Circula
tion-keeps the Bowels in Natural Motion
and Cleanses the System from all impuri
ties- ! 1 . Never
tail s'„ ~", ' 'to Cure Li
v e rimr. 0. S. rrOphltTSlPisease in
an y|| x | jform. Tor-
l >i«11 - “ „ u , „ " ' t.y. Enlarg
ment, Dyspepsia, Indigestion, Loss of Ap
petite, Nausea, Sour Stomach, Heart Burn.
Debility, Low Spirits, Cold Feet and Hands,
Costiveness, Listlessness, Colic, Chronic
Diarrhea, and Chronic Chills and Fever.
Compouned in strict accordance with
skillful chemistry ami scientific pharmacy, this
purely veg-1 " ' -—-“T- - iteta b 1 e
Compo un and | [has. after
the severe- II CELEBRATED | lest test of
t w entyj I lyears in
cessant usej ' """"J.-..'.' ;~Tfi>eon stvl
ed the Gkkat Restorative and Recuperant
by the enlightened testimony of thousands us
ing it; so harmoniously adjusted that it keeps
the Liver in healthful action; and when the
directions are observed the process of waste
and replenishment in the human system con
tinues uninterruptedly to a ripe old age, and
man, like the patriarchs of old, drops into the
grave full of years, and without a struggle,
whenever i* ' ' r ~”’*** ID hath
claims his ~ , ! 'preroga
tive. Ada- irLiver Medicme.iiptedto
the most! | | Idclicate
tempo r a-^~* ; 11 ~~, ‘“‘inont &
robust constitution, it can be given with equal
safety and success to the yeuug child, invalid
lady or strong man.
j line 2,1871,
Bridles,
HR. O. S. PROPRITT’S
Anodyne Pain Kill It.
NEVER FAILING!
KILLS PAIS IN EVERY FORM.
Cl URES Pain* in the Back, Chest, Ilips or
j Limbs, Rheumatism, Xcuralgia, Coughs,
Colds, Bronchial Affections, Kidney Diseases, Dys
pepsia, Liver Complaint ; Colic, Cholera, Cholera
Morbus , Pleurisy, Asthma, Heart Burn, Tooth
Ache, Jaw Ache, Ear Ache, Head Ache, Sprains,
Bruises, Cuts, Contusions, Sores, Lacerated-
Wounds, Scalds, Burns, Chill Blains, Frost Bites.
Poisons, of all kinds, vegetable or animal. Os all
f|pAIN KILL IT!
the Remedies ever discovered for the relief of
suffering humanity, this is the best Pain Medica
tor. k>uncn to Medical Science. The cure is speedy
and permanent in the most inveterate diseases.
This is no humbug, but a grand medical discovery.
A Pain Killer containing no poison to inflame,
puralize or drive the inflammation upon an in
ternal organ. Its efficiency is truly wonderful
—Relief is Instantaneous. It is destined to
banish pains and aches, wounds and bruises,
from the face ol'the earth,
may 6, 1871.
CERTIFICATES:
We, the undersigned, haved used Hr. Proph
itt’s Prepaartious, and take pleasure in recom
mending them to the public, as being all he
claims for them:
Col. R J Henderson, Covington, Ga.; 0 T Rog
ers, Covington, Ga.; O S Porter, Covington, Ga.;
Prof. J L Jones, Covington, Ga.; Rev. M W Ar
nold, Georgia Conference; Rev. W W Oslin, Ga.
Conference; K M Swanson, Monticello, Ga.; Ro
bert Barnes, Jasper County, Ga.; AMRobinson,
Monticello, Ga.; James Wright, Putnam county,
Ga.; A Westbrook, Putnam county, Ga.; Judge
,TJ Floyd, Covington, Ga.; W L Bcbce, “Cov
ington Enterprise,”; A H Zachry, Conyers, Ga;
George Wallace, Atlanta, Ga.; Dick Lockett,
Davis county, Texas; W Hawk Whatley, Cus
seta, Texas; W C Roberts, Linden countv, Tex
as: Tommy & Stewart, Atlanta, Ga; W A Lans
dell, Druggist, Atlanta, Ga; R F Maddox & Cos.;
Atlanta, Ga.; Uriah Stephens, Cartersville, Ga.;
A N Louis, Lowndes countv, Ga.; Joseph Land,
Lowndes county, Ga.; J as. Jefferson. Carters
ville, Ga.; W I. Ellis, Dooly county, Ga.; W A
Forehand, Dooly county, Ga.;John B. Davis
Newton Factory, Ga.; B F Bass, Lowndues eo.
CARTERSV ILLE, BARTOW COUNTY, GEORGIA, SEP’T 'I'Z 1871.
Church Directory.
Methodist Church,
Rev. John T. Norris, Supernumerary.
The pulpit of this Church is filled, the first Sab
bath in each inonth. by Rev. Wit. H. Felton;
the 2nd Sabbath in each month, by Rev. Jas.
W. Harris; the 3rd Sabbath in each month,
by Rev. j so. T. Norris; the 4th Sabbath in
each inonth, by Rev. I)k, W. W. Leak. Ser
vices every Sunday night. Prayer meeting
held on Wednesday evening of each
week. Sabath School Sunday mornings, com
mencing at 9 o’clock.
Baptist Cliurcli.
Rev. Robert H. Headkx, Pastor.
Preaching every Sunday and Sunday night by
the Pastor.
Prayer Meeting held on Thursday' night of
each week.
Sabbatli School every Sunday morning com
meucing at 9 o’clock.
Presbyterian Church.
Rev. Theodore E. Smith, Pastor.
Preaching every Sunday morning and night,
by the Pastor.
Prayer Meeting held on Tuesday evening of
each week.
Sabbath School every Sunday morning,! com
mencing at 9 o’clock.
Episcopal Cliurcli.
Rev. Alexander J. I>rysdale, Rector.
Preaching every Second Sunday in each month,
commencing at half past four o'clock, p. m.
Services, in the future, will be held in the
building belonging to JDr. W. W. Leak,
in the rear of the new Methodist Church.
THE CAUSE ANDCure OF CONSUMPTION.
—The primary cause ofConsumption is derange
ment of the digestive organs. This derange
ment produces deficient nutrition and assimila
tion. Ry assimilation I mean that process by
which tlie nutriment of the food is converted
into blood, and thence into the solids of the
body. Persons with digestion thus impaired,
having the slightest predisposition to pulmon
ary disease, or if they take cold, will be very
liable to have Consumtion of the Lungs in some
of its forms; and I hold that it will be impossi
ble to cure any case of Consumption without
first restoring a good digestion and healthy as
similation. The very first thing to be done is
to cleanse the stomach and bowels from all dis
eased mucus and slime, which is clogging these
organs so that they cannot perform their func
tions, and then rouse up and restore the liver to
a healthy action. For this purpose the surest
and best*remedy Is Schenck’s Mandrake Pills.
These Pills clean the stomach and bowels of all
the dead and morbid slime that is causing dis
ease and decay in the whole system. They will
clear out the liver of all diseased bile that has
accumulated there, and rouse it up to anew and
healthy action, by which natural and healthy
bile is secreted.
The stomach, bowels, and liver are thus clean
sed by the use of Schenck’s Mandrake Pills;
hut there remains in the stomach an excess
of acid, the organ is torpid and the appetite
poor. In the bowels the lacteals are weak, and
requiring strength and support. It is in a con
dition like this that Schenck’s Seaweed Tonic
proves to be the most valuable remedy ever dis
covered, It is alkaline, and it use will neutra
lize all excess of acid-, making the stomach
sweet and fresh; it will give permanent tone to
this important organ, and create a good, hearty
appetite, and prepare the system for the first
process of a good digestion, and ultimately
makegood, healthy, living blood. After this
preparatory treatment, what remains to cure
most cases of Consumption is the free and per
severing use of Schenck’s Pulmonic Syrup. The
Pulmonic Syrup nourishes the system, purifies
the blood, aiid is readily absorbed into the cir
culation, and thence distributed to the diseased
lungs. There it ripens all morbid
whether in the form of abscesses or tubercles,
and then assists Nature to expel all the disease
matter, in the torm of free expectoration, when
once it ripens. It is then, by the great healing
and purifying properties of SchencVs Piumonic
Syrup, that ail ulcers and cavities are healed
up sound, and my patient is cured.
The essential thing to be done in curing Con.
sumption is to get up a good appetite and a
good digestion, so that the body will grotv in
flesh and get strong. If a person has diseased
lungs.—a cavity or abseess there,—the cavity
cannot heal, the matter cannot ripen, so long
as the system is below par. What is necessary
to cure is anew order of things,—a good appe
tite, a good nutrition, the body to grow in flesh
and get fat; tlieu Nature is helped, the cavities
will heal, the matter will ripen and be thrown
otf in large quantities, and the person regain
health and strength. This is the true and only
plan to cure Coi sumption, and if a person is
very bad, if the lungs are not entirely destroy
ed, or even if one lung is entirely gone, if there
is enough vitality left in the other to heal up,
there is hope.
I have seen many persons cured with only one
sound lung, live and enjoy life to a good old
age. %'his is what Schenck’s Medizmesfvvill do
to cure Consumption, They will clean out the
stomach, sweeten and strengthen it, get up a
good digestion, and give Nature the assistance
she needs to clear the system of all the disease
that is in the lungs, whatever the form may
be.
It is important that while using Schenck’s
Medicines, care should he exercised not to take
cold; keep in-doors in cold and damp weather;
avoid night air, and take out-door exercise only
in a genial and warm sunshine.
I wish it distinctly understood that when I
recommend a patient to he careful in regard to
taking cold, while using my Medicines, I do so
for a special reason. A man who has but par
tially recovered from the effects of a had cold
is far more liable to a relapse than one who has
been entirely cured; and it is precisely the
same in regard to Consumption. So long as the
lungs are not perfectly healed, just so long is
there imminent danger of a full return of the
disease. Hence it is that Iso strenuously cau
tion pulmonary patients against exposing
themselves to an atmosphere that is not genial
and pleasant. Confirmed Consumptives’lungs
are a mass of sores, which the least change of
atmosphere will inflame. The grand secret of
my success with my Medicines consists in my
ability to subdue inflammation instead of pro
voking it, as many of the faculty do. An in
flamed lung cannot, with safety to the patient,
he exposed to the biting blasts of Winter or the
chilling winds of Spring or Autumn. It shoul
be carefully shielded from all irritating influ
ences. The utmost caution should he observed
in this particular, as without it a cure under
almost any circumstances is an impossibility.
The person should he kept on a wholesome
and nutritious diet, and all the Medicines con
tinued until the body has restored to it the nat
ural qunnity of flesh and strength.
I was myself cured by this treatment of the
worst kind of Consumption, and have lived to
get fat and hearty these many years, with one
lung mostly gone. I have cured thousands
since, and very many have been cured by- this
treatment whom L have never seen.
About the First of October I expect to take
possession of my new building, at the North
east Corner of Sixth and Arch Sreets, where I
shall be pleased to give advice to all who may
require it.
Full directions accompany all my Remedies,
so that a person in any part of the world can he
readily cured by a strict observance of the
same.
J.H.SCHENCK, M D,,
Philadelphia.
JAS. W. STRANGE,
Dealer In, and Manufacturer ,0f
TIJf WARE, A\D
House-Furnishing' Goods,
ALSO DEALER IN
First-Class Stoves At
The Lowest Cash Prices .
WILL BARTER
FOR COUNTRY PRODUCE, RAOS, AC.
Cartersville, Jan. 20th, ’7l-ly.
Brick and Stone
Mason,
CARTERSVILLE, GA.
]»• prepared to do any of the above work
upon short notice ami at low figuera
“Onward arid Upward.”
g 9 E . __
A GEORGIA VOLIATEEK.
BY XARIFr.
We find tbe following touching lines
in the Richmond -Eaquirer. They
were written by Mrs. Townsend, at a
neglected grave of one who was a
member of the Twelfth Georgia, a reg
iment whose gallantry was conspieious
on every field where its colors waved,
and which won praise for peculiar
daring even among the ‘‘foot cavalry”
of Jackson:
Far up the lonely mountain side,
My' wandering footsteps led:
The moss lay thick beneath my feet,
The pine sighed overhead.
The trace of a dismantled fort
Lay in the forest nave.
And in the shadow near my path,
I saw a soldier’s grave.
The bramble wrestled with the weed
Upon the lowly mound,
The simple head board, rudely writ,
Had rotted on the ground;
I raised it with a reverent hand,
From dust its words to clear;
But time had blotted all but these—
“A Georgia Volunteer”
I saw the toad aud scaly snake
From tangled coverts start,
And hide themselves among the weeds
Above the dead man’s heart;
But undisturbed in sleep profound,
Unheeding, there he lay—
His coffin but the mountain soil,
His shroud, Confederate gray.
I heard the Shenandoah roll
Along the vale below,
I saw the Alleghanies rise
Towards the realms of snow.
Tbe “Valley campaign” rose to inind-
Its leader’s name—and then
I knew the sleeper had been one
Os Stonewall Jackson’s men.
Yet whence he came, what lip shall
say,
What tougue will ever tell,
What desolated hearths and hearts
Have been because he fell ?
What sad eyed maiden braids her hair,
Her hair which he held dear ?
One lock of which, perchance, lies
with ’ •
The Georgia Volunteer.
What mother with long-watching eyes,
And white bps eeld aud dumb,
Waits with appalling patience for
Her darling boy to come ?
Her boy, whose mountain grave swells
up,
But one of many a scar
Cut on the face of our fair laud
By gory-handed war!
What fights he fought, what wounds
he wore,
Are all unknown to fame:
Remember, on his lonely grave
There is not e’en a name !
That he fought well, and bravely, too,
Aud held his country dear,
We know—else he had never been
“A Georgia Volunteer
He sleeps—what need to question now
If he were wrong or right,
He knows, ere this, whose cause was
just
In God, the Father’s sight.
He wields no warlike weapons now,
Returns no foeman’s thrust—
Who, but a coward, would revile
An honest soldier’s dust ?
Roll, Shenandoah, proudly roll
Adown thy rocky glen;
Above thee lies the grave of one
Os Stonewall Jackson’s men !
Beneath the cedar and the pine,
In solitude austere.
Unknown, unnamed, forgotton lies
“A Georgia Volunteer !
The first willow tree ever planted in A
merica, was out on the line of the present
Third avenue, New York city, one hundred
and eighty years ago. It was a willow twig
which came in a package of figs from Baby
lon ; was stuck into the ground, and in two
years became quite a large tree. This is in
all respects true.— Lexington Dispatch,
The Atlanta Fair commenc-s October the
16th and continues for five days. Ten thou
sand dollars in premiums are offered, and
provisions have been made for the comfort
of twenty five thousand visitors.
We return thanks to Mr. Sam’l A. Echols,
Secretary, for a complimentary season tick
et.
The Gainesville Eagle learns that some
Ohio capitalists have recently bought, some
valuable property on thp Chestatee river, on
the line of Hall county, Ga', and will change
the current of the river, so as to work out
the gold, of which the bed is full. Cartecay
river in Gilmer county, at Cartecay mines,
is also being turned, for a like purpose.
A correspondent of the Baltimore Sun,
writing from Rockingham county, Va,, says:
“A strange freak of nature has taken
place in the track of the severe hailstorm
that occurred in this region some three
weeks ago. We are not aware of anything
of the kind occurring heretofore. It is this:
that all the orchards in thetrack of the hail
storm' have come out in full bloom. Some
orchards are in as full bloom as they ever
were in the springs Not only are ..he ap
ples in bloom, but the locust trees ip many
places are also in bloom. A gentleman
came to my house, last week, and told me,
ou his road here, he saw an apple tree with
several bushels of ripe apples on it, and
thousands of blooms on the same tree. A
very pretty but strange sight.”
jfcaT New corn has found its way to
the Knoxville market, and sells at iif
ty cents per busheL
&b & r&i on a.
ELSEWHERE REST.
“I am very lired, Master ;
Weary of the day,
Bid me lay my toil aside,
Sleep the noon away.’*
But the Friend who knows and loves me best,
Breathes in gentle answer, ‘Elsewhare rest.’
“I am very tired, Master,
Weary of my sin.
Bid Thy Spirit haste its work,
Make me pure within,”
Clean and pure in peaceful whiteness dress
ed.” •
But the Master whispers, ‘Elsewhere rest.’
“I am very tired, Master,
Weary of my pain.
One sweet healing touch from Thao
Makes me sound again.
Is there not a Gilead balm confessed V*
Still the voice respondeth, ‘Elsewhere rest.’
“I am very tired, Master,
Weary of the strife
Os the heavy armor borne,
Os the shock ciflife ;
Touch with blessed balm both brow and
breast.
Hark! “Fight on, my soldiers—‘Elsewhere
rest,”
“I am very tired, soldier,
When I bore thy pain,
Fought thy fight and shed my blood
For thy garments’ staiu ;
Fainted with thy burden on the tree!
Wilt thou not endure an hour—for Me t”
“I am very tired, Master,
But my love is strong,
I will follow Thee, my Master,
Though the way be long,
Till the hot sun seaks the dewy west,
And tlie “Elsewhere” brings the blessed
“rest.”
THE BEAUTIFUL GATE.
Lord open the door, for I falter ;
I faint in this stifled air,
In dust and straightness I lose my breath ;
This life of self is a living death ;
Let me into thy pastures broad and fair,
To the sun and the wind from thy moun
tains free;
Lord, open the door to me !
There is a holier life and truer
Than ever my heart has found ,
There is a nobler work than is wrought—
within
These walls so charred by the fires of
sin,
Where I toil like a captive blind and bound :
An open door—to a freer task
In Thy nearer smile I ask.
Yet the world is Thy field, Thy Garden ;
On earth art thou still at home ;
When Thou bendest hither Thy hallowing
eye,
My narrow work-room seems vast and
high,
Its dingy ceiling—a rainbow dome ;
Stand ever thus by my narrow door,
And toil will be toil—no more.
Through the rosy portals of morning,
Now the tides of sunshine flow
Over the earth and the glistening sea,
The praise thou inspirest rolls back te
Thee,
Its tones through the infinite arches go ;
Yet crippled and dumb behold me wait,
Dear Lord 1 at the beautiful gate.
CHILD AT PRAYER.
“Now lay me”—say it, darling.
“Lay me,” lisped the tiny lips
Os my darling, kneeling, bending
O’er her tiny finger-tips.
“Down to sleep”—“To sleep,” she mur
mured,
And her curly head dropped low.
“I pray the Lord,” I gently added—
“ You can say it all, I know.”
“Fray the Lord”—the words came faintly ;
Fainter still, *‘My soul to keep”—•
Then the tired head fairly nodded,
And the child was fast asleep.
But the dewy eyes half opened,
When I clasped her to my breast:
And the dear voice softly whispered—
“Mamma, God knows all the rest.”
s£2FH)ne of the most graceful stanzas
ever addressed a woman, was that of an
English nobleman, Lord Herbert, to an
Italian Nun:
“Die when you will, you need not wear,
At Heaven’s Court, a form more fair
Than Beauty at your birth has given ;
Keep but the lips, the tyes we see,
The voice we hear, and you will be
An angel ready made for Heaven !”
[Exchange.
Heaven help the man who im
agines that he can dodge enemies by
trying to please everybody! If such
an individual ever succeeded, we should
be glad of it—not that one should be
going through the world trying to find
beams to knock and thump his head
against, disputing every man’s opinion;
fighting and elbowing, and crowding
all who differ from him. That, again,
is another extreme. Other people have
their opinions; so have we. Don’t fall
into the error of supposing they will
respect you more for turning your coat
every day to match the color of theirs.
Wear your own clothes, in spite of
wind and weather, storm and sunshine.
It costs the irresolute and vascilating
ten times the trouble to wind atid shuf
fle and twist than honest, manly inde
pendence to stand its ground.
Fretting is the doctor’s best
friend all over the world.
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A Sad Warning (o Husband*.
In a village not a thousand miles
from West Union lives a family. The
house of this family was visited one
day by a peripatetic vendor of cheap
dry goods, who inveigled the calico half
to select finery to the value of ten dol
lars, for which she guaranteed her hus
band to pay. Meeting him on the
street, payment was demanded and
peremptorily refused. Mr. Pedler
would have pay or his goods. Mr.
Familyman told him to gnaw a tile
and tlee nnto the mountains of Hepsi
dam. The merchandize fouud its way
again to his pack. The pot boiled,
and stewed, and fumed, and by the
time the lord and master found his
way home there was the devil to pay—
if not the pedler. The way the brooms,
mops, wooden bowls, tin pans and
dishes flew about his head was start
ling to timid nerves. She’d learn him
not to pay her bills, the miserable scoot!
That was all she kept him for, and if
he couldn’t do that he might git! As
the crockery was getting a little more
numerous, he considered it advisable
to git! He now paftakes of his hash
at a hotel and anxiously awaits the ar
rival of a flag of truce with an an
nouncement that terms of peace will
be considered. All husbands can see
the warning.
[ West Union (loica) Gazette.
The Fallen Youth.
I went, a few days ago, into a jail to
see a young man who was once a Sab
bath School scholar.
The keeper took a large bunch of
keys, and led us through the long,
gloomy halls where sat the young man
we had come to see. The walls of the
room were of course stone, the floor of
thick plank, and before the windows
were strong iron bars.
Without, all was beautiful; the green
fields, the sweet flowers and the sing
ing birds were as lovely as ever, but
this young man could enjoy none of
these—no, never again could ho go out,
for he was condemned to death. Yes,
he had killed a man, and now he him
self must die. Think of it; only twen
ty years old—and a murderer.
I sat down beside him, aud talked
with him. “Oh,” said he, as the tears,
rolled down his cheeks, “I did not
mean to do it, but I was drunk; then
I got augry, and before I knew what I
was about, I killed him. Oh if I had
minded my mother, I should never
have come to this—l should never
have been here.”
It would have made your heart ache,
as it did mine, to see aud talk with
him. Once he was a happy, playful
child like you, now he is a poor con
demned, wicked young man. He did
not mind his mother, did not govern
his own temper, aud as he grew' older
he went with bad boys who taught
him bad habits; and he became worse
and worse, until, as he said, when
drunk, in a moment of passion, he kill
ed a man, and now', after a few weeks,
he must suffer the dreadful penalty.—
As I left him, he said, “Will you pray
for me ?” and he added, “Oh tell the
boys everywhere to mind their moth
ers and keep away from bad company.
[ American Messenger.
A C hapter on Butter,
“Why is it my son, that when you
drop your bread and butter it is al
ways on the butter side ?”
“Don’t know. It hadn’t orter, had
it? The strongest side ought to be
up, and this is the strongest butter I
have ever seen.”
“Hush—its some of your aunt’s
churning.”
“Did she churn it, the great lazy
thing?”
“What, your aunt?”
“No, this here butter. To make the
poor old woman churn it when it’s
strong enough to churn itself.”
“Hush, Zep, I’ve eat a great deal
worse in the most aristocratic houses.”
“Well, people of rank ought to eat
lt * ‘Why ?”
“Cause it’s rank butter.”
“You varrnit, you ! what makes you
talk so smart?”
“Cause the butter has taken the
skin off my tongue.”
“Zep, don’t lie ! I can’t throw away
the butter.”
“I’ll tell you what I would do with
it; keep in to draw blisters. You
ought to see the flies keel over as soon
as they touch it.”—index.
•Sk-The following is the latest ver
sion of the difference between the ages
of ladies at 16 and 60, as given by
“Chawles:”
“At 16 careless and happy;
At 60 hairless and eappy 1”
Oh, the creature! the miserable
creature!
“Sir, did you intend to spit in my
face ?” “I did.'" “You did, ha ? Well
youd better not repeat your insult too
often, for if you should once arouse
the sleeping lion in my bi east, no one
can imagine what m.ght be the conse
quences 1”
At a lladical barbecue the other
day a black “man and brother” offer
ed the following toast; “De Gubnor
of Alabama—he cum in wid berry lit
tle opposition; he will go out of ofliis
wid none at aIL”
Jolly Saratogans when the fun
eral bells begin to toll, bet on the age
of the deceased.
S. 11. Smith ,?• Cos., Prnpriti,,^.
avioftoij, -
A Kacy Incident.
Soon after the opening of the E**t
Tennessee and Georgia railroad, there
chanced to be traveling over Jthe line
in a car where there were but a f e *
passengers, a gentleman who was seat
ed opposite the stove, wrapped np i n
his shawl and meditations. Night
came on. Presently in bounded a
brakeman, loudly slamming the door
behind him —one of those country
geniuses, who, with a laudable ambi
tion, had a day or two agone abandon
ed the girls, the fiddle and the plow
tail, to climb in the world ’ and be
came a brakeman. He had been tho
the neighborhood frol
ics, at thenouse raisings, at the con
shuekings, and at the cross road’s dog
gery fighting ground, and now he felt
sure that he was kingbee on railroads.
Strutting up to the stovo, he slammed
down his mntern, kicked the mud from
his huge boots on the foot- board of
the seat, spit tobacco juice copiously
and noisily on the hissirg stove, cross
ed his muscular thighs, took a survey
of the aforesaid boots with harness
leather straps, and then belhougUt
himself of the ’customer’ sitting oppo
site, on whom he proceeded to bestow
a lengthened and saucy look, as though
he doubted the ’ customer’s’ right to
be in coach at all.
At length he sought knowledge:
“Whar ar you gwine, mister?’
‘To Dalton, sir,’ responded the geu
tleman, quietly.
‘Preacher, ain't you ?’
‘No sir, lam not; but why do you
ask?*
Oh ! nothing, only I thought I saw
‘Hark from the Tombs sticking out
all over you, like the measles. You
know me, I reckon ?’
‘I am sorry to say I do not.’
‘Well, I’ll just be derned; why, whar
the devil where you raised ?’
,At Maryville, East Tennessee.’
•Oh! that excuses you, for if ever I
heard tell ov that settlement afore I
wish I may be durued, aud I knows
every place, I dua.’
‘You seem to be well acquainted
with the place you are occupying,’ re
marked the stranger, almost choking
with efforts to suppress his laughter.
‘What place do you mean, Mister ?
This ere red bench, covered with dried
skins of cow’s tongues, ar my office.’
‘I alluded to your office, and by the
way, what is your position on the
road ?’
‘Brakeman ! By the jumpin gemi
my I thought everybody knowed that:
brakeman over the Yeast Tennessee
and Georgia railroad.’
‘Unfortunately, I did not know it/
‘Well, you’d soon found the fac’out
if you’d cut up any shines ronn hero,
huggin’ wimruin, or cussing, or trying
tobteal anybody’s carpet bag, or talk
ing sassy, to the conductor, or sich
—Why, I’d a chucked you bottom
foremost thru’ that winder, like dar
tin’ clap-boards thru’ the cracks ova
barn, for I mean to run this ere train
on high moral principles, I dns. An’
you didn’t, know I was the brakeman
on this yere railroad V
'lndeed, sir,l did not T
'Well, old Slideeasy, all I has to say
is that for a man of your looks you
knows les3 than any uian I ever saw.
How do rau manage to make a livin’
euyhow 7*
‘I receive a salary; I am President
of this road; Wallace is my name; but
I have not the pleasure of knowing
yours; will you be kind enough to in
form me ?’
All symptons of ’ king bee’ disap
peared at this thunderbolt announce
ment. and in the stead were seen tim
id humility, crushed pride of place, a
strong ’ ge f - up and git’ expression*
and a , doggoned ’ appearance gener
ally. The Brakeman slid.
kgU “A Tennessee farmer who went
to Texas to buy a farm, was greatly
prejudiced against the cour.try he
thought to settle id, from the fact that
a doctor whom he cal!ed to attend
him when he was seized with a fever,
began trying on his clothes immediate
ly after a prescription. The fact that
while the doctor was trying on his
coat, the chambermaid was examining
his handkerchiefs, and the porter was.
struggling with his boots, lent wings,
to his imagination, and doubtless
an influence in regard to his. speedy
exit from the State.”
A Yankee having told an Englishman that
he shot, on one particular occasion, 9'jO
snipe, his interlocutor asked him why h*
didn’t make it a thousand at once.
“No,” said he ; “not likely I’m going to
tell a lie for one snipe.”
Whereupon the Englishman rii*«U
and determined not to he outdone, began t*»
tell a long story of a man having swam from
Liverpool to Boston.
“Bid you see him?” asked the yankeo
suddenly. “Did you see him yourself!”
“Why, yes; of course I did. I was com
ing across, and our vessel passed him a mile
out of Boston harbor.”
“Well, I’m glad you saw him. stranger,
’cos you’re a witness that I did it- %***
was me” — Patriot.
At a school in Newcastle, the
ter asked a class of boys the
of the word
pause, one little boy T ANARUS, * v
6ir:. whea I’m eatin’ I a PPJ»
when I’m done I’m tight.
whom he was coiut g^
before »
girl arrested for that.
M'MIiKR.H