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NIGHT PASSENGER—UP.
Leave Atlanta 8:00 pm
Leave Cartersville ........ 4:53 pm
Leave Kingston <j:iy P 111
Leave Dalton 7:10 p m
Arrive at Chattanooga ~ . ... . , 8:47 pm
NIHTIT PASSENGER—DOWN.
Leave Chattanooga 5:25 p m
Leave Dalton . . . y 7:10 pm
Leave Kingston ......... * 8:39 pm
Leave Cartersvilie 9:05 pm
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DAY PASSENGER—UP.
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Leave Carteisville 7:23 a m
Leave Kingston 7:40 am
Leave Dalton 9:2lam
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DAY PASSENGER—DOWN.
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Jueave Dalton 8:10 am
Leave Kingston 9:43 am
Leave Cartersville. 10:11am
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Leave Rome Tuesday
Arrive at Gadsden Wednesday .... bam
I,cave Gadsden Wednesday 7pm
Arrive at Rome Thursday “P m
Leave Rome Friday . a m
Arrive at Gadsden Saturday jam
Arrives at Greensport
Arrive at Rome Saturday . . . . • • “ P lll
j. M. ELLIOTT, President and Gen’l Sup t.
CHEROKEE RAILROAD.
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on this Road will run daily as follows (Sunday
IjeaVeCartersville . S-30 ain
•Arrive at StilesbdVa 8.30 an
Arrive at Taylorsville a
Arrive at ltockmart 10-00 a
Arrrive at terminus 10.00 a m
RETURNING.
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Arrive at Taylorsville ...... 4:45 pm
Arrive at Stilosboro 5:13 pm
Aarrive at Cartersville . . . •_• 6:00 p m
ROME RAILROAD COMPANY.
On and after Monday, November 17, the Rome
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MORNING TRAIN.
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Return to Rome daily 10:00 a m
EVENING TRAIN.
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THE DALTON CITIZEN.
Two or three weeks ago we had to call
the attention of the above-named paper
to account for calling us “a strong radi
cal.” As is well known by the readers
of that paper it is mentally dyspeptic. Its
editor has not the clearness of perception
to see, nor the liberality to concede, that
a man may be a democrat without being
‘•organized,” and is in the habit of stig
matizing his superiors in democracy and
ill biain who have the boldness, the inde
pendence and manhood to refuse to be
led and controlled in elections by a few
who meet in some hack room or else
where and assume to be the democratic
party. So we-had become tired of the
mean and contemptible flings of certain
journals at independent democrats, and
we made the dyspeptic Citizen an exam
ple of our contempt for such duplicity.
After quoting two paragraphs from The
Free Press the Citizen ayss:
Now, we did not say, nor never have said, that
Willingham is a radical; but we do say he is a
very poor democrat. We never “blew hot and
cold” for democracy—never abused Felton like
a pickpocket, and then turned around and sup
ported him and pitched into the party we pro
fessed to belong to. In this particular we have
been consistednt. Willingham has not.
The Citizen did say in effect that we
were a radical and we told it in substance
that it lied. As to the quality ot our de
mocracy we leave the public to judge as
between Whitman and ourself. Now, we
have not “blew hot and cold” for democ
racy, but, on the other hand, we have
endeavored to keep the party out of the
hands of irresponsible political dead
beats, who have been democrats for only
what they could make out of it, and w ho
were either silent abetters or open actors
in the days of reconstruction when the
people were being robbed in all sorts of
ways—and not one of the least was the
useless publication of thousands of gub
ernatorial proclamations which every
man of intelligence ought to have known
was a robbery of the state. We say from
the leadership of such men we have es
caped, determined not to be controlled by
them any further. We deny having
abused Felton like a pickpocket. We
opposed his election to congress twice,
and in doing so, we treated him courteous
ly for which it is known that he several
times thanked us. We have been con
sistent in the support of Dr. Felton for
the reason that he is a better democrat
than his opponent in 1878 was. The Cit
izen says, we twit it about the Bullock
praelamations and adds;
“True, we printed his proclamations, but not
to the extent of $2,200— nothing like that amount.
We have never denied this—never thought we
violated any principle of democracy in doing so,
as we never supported the first single principle of
the Bullock administration; but on the other
hand was as much a democrat then as we are
now. The publishing of the proclamations was
purely a business, not a political, transaction,
for which we gave value received as we do for
any other advertising.
We did not and would not publish Bul
lock’s proclamations because we under
stood the object of that patronage as ev
ery inteligent man did. The publica
tion of these proclamations was useless
to the interests of the people, but were
valuable to those in power because the
pay for them was so much “hush money”
to certain journals in the state. The
truth is, the whole affair was a robbery
of the people, and every journal that ac
cepted the patronage and took the money
was particeps criminis in the business
whether they thought so or not. Oh! yes,
we have often heard it referred to as
a purely business transaction at the time
the patronage was being extended to
those who would accept it purehj as a busi
ness transaction. It was a big
business transaction for the over
taxed people! Every journal that
accepted this proclamation business,
intended as a bribe by those giving
it, violated one of the highest principles
of democracy in not exposing the pur
poses of the scheme instead of abetting
it by taking the money and doing the
work.
But, thank God! there were true dem
ocratic journalists who did raise the cry
of alarm and made the proclamation bus
iness so odious that even the Atlanta Con
stitution, carrying its columns richly
laden with this kind of “sugar,” threw
up the patronage and bravely joined in
the crusade against the nefarious scheme
of subsidizing the press which seemed at
the time likely to stifle the voice of the
people! This war was begun by the La-
Grange Jteporter, of which we were the
editor at the time. It was a grand tri
umph of a portion of the press that could
see the scheme of proclamation printing
more in its truly insidious character than
as a mere business transaction. Oh! who
was the best democrat, the editor who
fought the vile attempt at subsidizing tlie
press under the specious plea of a “purely
business transaction,” or the man whe
continued to receive the royal pay, and
now says he violated no democratic prin
ciple ? Let the people answer.
Yes, and we stand for the party to
day as we did then. We stand for the
party for its principle and not at the dic
tation of a few tricksters. We are demo
cratic from principle and not from being
“organized.” We answer to no cabul for
our democracy. We ask no tricksters
what must be our conceptions of democ
racy or our practice of its principles or
tenets. True democracy is an inborn
spirit of the right of conscience and ac
tion. Any other kind of democracy is
political, it is the most servile, slavery.
We should not have referred to these
things but for the fact that our democra
cy is°cailed into question by men, who,
in some way, reaped money out of the
Bullock regime, either as retainers, lobby
ists or proclamation printers at the sac
rifice of the interests of a struggling,
over-taxed people, whom we never de
serted, and will never desert for money
or price, honor nor place.
CARTERSVILLE, GEORGIA, THURSDAY MORNING, MARCH IS, 1880.
WHY HE QUIT.
One of our subscribers, the other day,
requested as to stop sending him our pa
p*r on the ground that we# abuse the
democratic party, as he thinks. Now,
this subscriber is a good, honest man of
our town. He is a pious Christian gen
tleman, attends church regularly and is
sharp and honest in trade, and yet you
couldn’t make him belieye for a moment
otherwise than that we do abuse the dem
ocratic party. If we were to tell him a
thousand times a day that we didn’t it
wouldn’t change his mind about it all.
So we made no reply to our honored sub
scriber’s objection to The Free Press.
Now, the truth is, our friend is full of
the faith and good works of being “or
ganized.” He construes all criticism of
its leaders as an attack upon the demo
cratic citadel as he innocently believes.
There are many good meaning, honest
men just like him. They think no man
can be a democrat unless he submits to
the dictation of “organized” rule. If the
political position of one of the so-called
leaders is in the slightest manner criti
cised adversely, even if the criticism be
intended for the good of the party, they
regard it as an assault upon the demo
cratic party.
So it is with our friend, to the extent
that he believes we are fighting democ
racy because we oppose the course of cer
tain so-called democrats who assume to
be the leaders (the masters) of the party.
Now, The Free Press is thoroughly
democratic, but liberal and conservative
in its views, more so by far than our
friend. It is a part of our religion to be
tolerant in politics and religion.
“A NORTH GEORGIA DEMAGOGUE.’’
Col. Carey W. Styles, of the Bruns
wick Appeal, can throw more vim into a
short paragraph to a less purpose and
with less effect, than any man of his jour
nalistic ability and experience among the
members of the Georgia press. Here’s a
specimen:
A “prominent citizen” oi the seventh district
has asssured the Constitution, that Qen. Wm. T.
Wofford will certainly be an independent candi
date for governor, and that Alex Stephens will
support him. Wofford is a demagogue of the
genuine north Georgia type, and his friends af
fect to mistake his chicane for sense and his bush
whacking aspirations for statesmanship.
All of which (as to Gen. Wofford being
a candidate for governor) is news to his
neighbors. We doubt if the general has
ever authorized any one to make such a
statement for him or of him. He re
mains very elosely at home attending to
his very large landed and agricultural
interests. But, we have this to say, if he
should conclude to run for governor, and
successfully, the people will have cause
to thank heaven that no purer man, or
one who loves his state with greater de
votion, ever occupied the executive chair
of Georgia.
But the last sentence of the above quo
tation contains more of misrepresentation
of Gen. Wofford’s true character than we
have ever seen published. He is less the
demagogue than any man we know of,
and no man would dare to charge him
with chicaney and bush-whacking aspi
rations who knows him.
The truth is, Gen. Wofford is taking
very little interest in politics. As we
haye said, he is taking care of his own af
fairs.
The editor of the Rome Courier is ocr
casionally facetious in a mild way. This
is his last effort after a desperate strug
gle :
Willie Felton stood on the burning deck, eat
ing ’Simmons by the peck, whence all but him
and little Aleck and Bennie had fled. The flames
that lit the battle-wreck shown round him o’er
the dead for about a minute, and then there came
a fearful explosion, and Simmons, O, where was
he!
As we do not know the editor’s Chris
tian name we shall use that which comes
nearest of identifying him:
Rip Roaring stood on the burning
deck, eating “goobers” by the peck,
whence all but him and his little post-of
fice petition had fled. The flames that
lit the battle-wreck shown around him
o’er the dead for about a minute, and
then there came a fearful explosion, and
Hayes, O, where was the Rome post-of
fice !
“Shall we have conventions?” inno
cently asks the Albany News. Why, of
course, you can have as many as you
want. This is a free country. We may
as well ask the News, Si)all we vote for
whom we please? It would have to an
swer, Of couse so, as that would be dem
ocratic and this is a free country.
The fifteen puzzle, which is sending a
gaeat many to the lunatic asylum over
the country, reminds us of the situation of
the “organized” in the seventh district.
They don’t know how to place the figures
so as to beat Felton; they can’t determine
the man capable of solving the problem.
—
The Rome Courier has taken on anew
dress and presents a neat appearance.
Financially, the Courier is the most suc
cessfully managed paper in Georgia. It
has made money enough in the last twen
ty-five or thirty years to have married
Dvvinell off a dozen times.
“The Milledgeville Recorder says Dr.
Felton should tie known hereafter as Sim
mons regulator.” No, no; he is known
up this way as the man who knows how
to wean mule colts. For further infor
mation enquire of “Our George.”
Since Col. Styles has taken charge of
the Appeal, there seems -to be some life
in Brunswick. Some how or other, we
know more about the town than ever be
fore.
Ben. Russell, of the Bainbridge Demo
crat, says whenever Ben Hill quits
the democratic p irty, he will take the ma
jority of it along with him.
THE CALHOUN’S.
The Family of John C. Calhoun, of Whom
Composed and Where Located.
Atlanta Constitution.]
In compliance with tl‘e request of a
Constitution reporter, Mr. Patrick Cal
houu, of this city, has kindly furnished
the follow iig interesting geacs’ogieal
particulars concerning the descendants of
the lamented John C. Calhoun, his
grandfather. At his death the great Car
olinian left seven children—five sons and
two daughters. Their names were : An
drew Pickens, John C., Patrick, James
Edward, William Lowndes, Anna and
Cornelia Calhoun.
All are dead. Cornelia, Patrick and
James Calhoun died unmarried, Anna,
who married Mr. Thomas G. G’lemson,
left only one grandchild, Isabella Lee,
who lives with her father at his beauti
ful home on the Hudson river. Her hus
band, Thomas G. Clemson, still resides
at Fort Hill, S. C., the old homestead of
her father.
Andrew Pickens Calhoun, the eldest
son, died in March, 1865, in his home at
Fort Hill, leaving a family of exactly
the same number of his father’s —seven.
These grandchildren ot John C. Calhoun,
with two or three exceptions, bear the
same names as his own children. Their
names were Duff Green, John C., An
drew Pickens, James Edward, Patrick,
Marguerite and Lucretia Calhoun.
Strange as it may seem, there were five
sons and two daughters in the immediate
family of the great statesman and five
sons and two daughters in the family of
his eldest son. Owing to the broken up
condition of affairs in Soutlx Carolina
just after the war these five grandsons of
the great man determined to seek their
fortunes in the west.
Duff Green Calhoun went to Texas,
and at first located near Bonham. At
the time of his death he was engaged in
planting and practicting law. He left
one child, a son, Andrew Pickens, who
resides with his mother in Paris, Texas.
John C. Calhoun, is married and lives
in Chicot county, Arkansas. He is a
large and successful planter—cultivating
a magnificent plantation on the Mississ
ippi river. He has one child, James Ed
ward. Andrew Pickens Calhoun located
in Louisiana, and at the time of his
death was a successful planter and con
tractor.
James Edward Calhoun located with
John C. in Arkansas where he died.
Duff Green, James Edward and An
drew Pichens—mentioned above —all fell
victims to the same disease—malarial
fever.
Patrick Calhoun, the youngest son, lo
cated in St. Louis where he engaged in
the practice of law for two years. But
the climate did not agree with him, and
on account of failing health he decided
to come south. The lamented Col. Rob
ert Alston having heard of bis intention
wrote and asked him to come to Atlanta
and enter into a law partnership with
him. Before accepting Colonel Alston’s
offer Mr. Calhoun came to Atlanta on a
tour of inspection and was so well pleas
ed with the place, that on the Bth of Ju
ly, 1878, he made it his home. The re
porter is responsible for the statement
that Mr. Patrick Calhoun is s>ne of the
most promising and popular young men
at this or any other bar in the south.
Mis Marguerite Calhoun, his eldest and
only living sister, resides with Mr. Pat
rick Calhoun, and his mother, Mrs. M.
M. Calhoun, at his home near Edgewood.
Miss Lucretia Calhoun died in early
childhood. This disposes of the children
of the eldest son of the great John C.
Calhoun.
We now come to the second son, Dr.
John C. Calhoun, who lived and died in
Florida. He left two children—both
sons. The one named for his father,
John C. Calhoun, graduated with the
first honor at the university of Nashville.
He is a civil engineer, is married and
lives in St. Louis. The other son, Benja
min Putnam Calhoun, is a young lawyer
of fine ability and great promise. He
has one child, Edward Noble. He is
practicing law in Jacksonville, Fla., hav
ing formed a partnership there with Mr.
William Hartridge, brother of the la
mented Julian Hartridge, of Savannah.
William Lowndes Calhoun left two
sons, one of whom William Lowndes
first cousin to Mr. Patrick Calhoun, has
recently removed to Atlanta from Flori
da. He is now a rising young lawyer of
this city. From the above it will be seen
that only six grandchildren of the great
John C. Calhoun are now living. Three
of these—Mr. Patrick Calhoun, Mr. Wil
liam Lowndes Calhoun, and Miss Mar
guerite Calhoun, live in Atlanta. Of the
others, one lives in Arkansas, one in St.
Louis, and one in Jacksonville. The one
living in Arkansas is the only living
brother of Mr. Patrick Calhoun of this
city. All the South Carolina Calhouns
were related. Four brothers, one of
them being the grandfather of the great
statesman, settled in South Carolina
about the same time. They were the
only Calhouns who ever went to South
Carolina, and therefore all their descend
ants are in some way related.
In a short time the reporter will pub
lish a number of interesting incidents
concerning the Calhouns of South Caro
lina. He thanks Mr. Patrick Calhoun
for the above facts, which are now pre
sented to the public for the first time.
It also appears that the great man lias
four living great-grandchildren, to-wit:
Andrew Pickens, of Texas, James Ed
ward, of Arkansas, Edward Noble, of
Florida, and Isabella Lee. of New York.
It is reported that T. P. Osborne, of
New Haven, Conn., a member of the ju
nior class of Yale College, has invented
and patented a machine for bolting flour
by the application of frictional electrici
ty. It is said further that he has already
been offered fifty thousand dollars for the
patent.
TARIFF REFORM.
j A Letter on the Subject from Dr. W. 11.
Felton.
Washington, D. C., March S, 1880.—
Editors Constitution: 1 see from your ed
itorials and from some communications
sent from this city by your correspon
dents that it is necessary for me to give
the facts in regard to some votes I gave
in the committee of ways and means on
the tarifl'question.
1. The question concerning sugar was
one to regulate the tests to be be applied
and the manner of determining the
amount of saccharine matter in the su
gars imported into this country. The
question related to the color of sugar,
Dutch standard—polariseopes, etc. —and
in my judgment a reduction of the tariff
was not involved in the bill voted upon.
The whole question involved a wrangle
between the secretary of the treasury and
the importers and refiners of West India
sugars. I voted for the Gibson bill, and
after it was defeated I voted to postpone
the subject, hoping and still believing we
will get an arrangement more in in
terest of the consumer than any yet pro
posed.
2. There was a proposition made in
committee to refer the whole subject of
tariff revision and modification to a epe
cial committee with instructions to report
at the next session of congress. 1 was
in favor of this proposition. Some mem
ber of the committee moved to laj T this
proposition on the table. The following
is the vote on the motion to table this
wise and much needed reform :
Yeas—Wood, Morrison, Mills, Gar
field, Kelly, Conger and Frye 7.
Nays—Gibson, Tucker, Phelps, Car
lisle, Felton and Dunnell—G.
3. There was a proposition to postpone
indefinitely the bill, reducing the tariff
on “steel rails,” to ten dollars per ton. 1
voted for this postponement, and permit
me to say the issue was one between the
railroads and the iron industries of this
country. It was demonstrated that the
people would reap no benefit from this
reduction in the way of cheapening trans
portation. The trace chains and farming
tools of our agriculturalists were not in
cluded in the proposed reduction —all the
gain was to insure to the advantage of
railroad corporations. Such men as .
11. Vanderbilt and Jay Gould, who are
said to own and control one-fourth of the
railroad interests of this country, were to
be beneficiaries of this reduction on steel
rails —while the thousands of men in the
seventh congressional district of Georgia,
who are interested either as owners or
employes in furnaces, rolling mills, iron
and manganese ore beds were to be crush
ed out, just at the time when they
are struggling to increase the
wealtji and influence of upper
Georgia. Let me say, whenever
the contest is between railroads and ex
tortionists on the one side and the labor
and prosperity of the seventh congress
ional district of Georgia is on the ot’ier
side, I shall in the future, as in the past,
stand by the laboring men in the district
which I have the honor to represent. W.
H. Vandeabilt is said to have at this time
thirty-one millions of dollars registered
United States bonds deposited in the
treasury building in this city, upon which
bonds he draws every ninety days as in
terest, four per cent, and not one dollar
of taxes does he pay upon this invested
sum, and now he seeks to persuade the
government to make him richer and my
constituents poorer. God fortid !
Very truly, W. 11. Felton.
p. S. —1 will say I will vote to reduce
the tax on paper, and am decidedly in
favor of free quinine. W. 11. F.
A NEW MISDEMEANOR.
The habit of treating is receiving the
attention of the lowa legislature. That
body is likely to pass a law making treats
in drinking a misdemeanor. Comment
ing on this facts the Columbus Enquirer-
Sun concludes that the law is a much
needed one. The habit of treating tends
to produce drunkenness:
“If one takes a drink with another the
guest feels forced to reciprocate in a
brief while if they remain togeiher. V e
have known groups to become glorious
simply because one of the party desired
wine and bitters and invited the rest to
join him. Each In truth asked the re
mainder to nominate their presidents,
and before they left the apartment wheie
stimulants were served for a considera
tion each was full to the brim, and so
confused in brain that no difference could
discovered between fifteen cent whiskey
and Chattahoochee river water. Besides
helping out the bar till, we cannot else
where see the benefit. It certainly is
not courtesy, for politeness surely de
mands that friends should not encour
age one another to put an enemy in their
mouth to steal away brains. It is not
hospitality to make an exhibition of a
companion and self on the street. It is
not generous to spend money which one
cannot afford, and set an example forbad
imitations. Men ought not to attempt
luxuries when they and theirs are lack
ing necessities. Many take comforts
from families in order to avoid the appear
ance of closeness in a saloon. Many have
become intoxicated who intended to take
only one drink, and would have done so
had it not been for the false idea of so
ciability. On the European continent
every man settles his own score, and
though the people may drink collectively,
they pay individually. Persons are thus
not tempted to excess by the acceptance
of a half dozen or more invitations to im
bibe. They take what they desire and no
more. If an invitation be accepted, it is
for the pleasure of company, and each
pays for his own. Where the system of
“treats” and ‘■‘health” is in vogue, as in
this country, the generous drinker has
frequently to be watched by the police
and sometimes he rests and slumbers on
the floor of the guard house.
NUMBER 36.
COST OF AN ORANGE GROVE.
Mr. Seth French, of Jacksonville, Fla.,
an old and experienced orange grower,
gives the following as an estimate of the
cost of an orange grove, according to lo
cality :
Cost of 10 acres of land for a grove,
SSO to $100; cost of clearing, SIOO to
$150; cost of fencing, SSO to $75; cost of
breaking, S2O to $25; cost oi setting out
500 trees, S2OO to $300; cost of care and
fertilizing, five years, SSOO to $1,000; to
tal cost, SO2O to $1,540. In addition to
this the young trees cost, ready for set
ting out, from 35 to 50 cents each. At
the age of nine or ten years from the
seed the trees begin to produce, the av
erage being about 500 oranges to the tree.
For the next two years the increase in
production is rapid, being about 1,000
oranges per tree each year. There are
quite a lot of trees in Florida that pro
duce 10,000 oranges, but these are aged,
having been planted before the war. Or
anges, like apples, have their “off”
years, but at fifteen years from the seed
ii is safe that the trees will produce
on an average 3,000 oiang's each.
There are 500 trees to one acre, according
to Mr. French’s figures given above,
though it is usual to set out COO, which, at
3,000 oranges per tree, would give 1,500,-
000 oranges as the yield of the ten acres.
These, at one and a half cent a piece as
they hang on the tree, the average price
this season, would give $22,500 off the
ten acres. This estimate, let it be borne
in mind, is a low one, for some Floridians
are this year realizing $25,000 from six
acres. The Florida orange crop this year
is nmed larger than ever before. From
such counties as are easily accessible, the
figures point to a crop of about 440,000
boxes. In Putnam county alone the 1870
yield was nearly 5,500,000 oranges, and
next year, with the large number of
blooming trees that will come into bear
ing, the crop will amount to 25,000,000
oranges. It will require a train of ten
cars once a day for ninety days to trans
port the crop of this county.
DELICATE HANDS AND HARD WORK.
I wonder why it is that some women
think that because they have to do their
own work their hands must be black,
hard and rough. I often hear, “Oh, she
don’t have to work much, her hands am
too white and soft.”
If ladies would only give some thought
to their hands they would find that a lit
tle care would greatly improve them.—
llow can a woman expect to have any
thing but rough, red hands, if she will
put them into water, hot enough to al
most cook them ? I find that a good way
to keep tlie ( palms of the hands soft is to
wind the broom handle, mop handle,
pump handle, and the coffee null
handle, with old cloth that is soft.
Have a number of thick holders hanging
up near the stove so that there, is no ne
cessity of burning the hands with hot,
stove or kettle, handles. Make a pair of
mittens of tvofr cloth, with one side doub
le, to work in when out or Uwro. t use
a glove when ironing, as it protects my
hands from the heat of the iron,
Too much soft soap will make the
hands crack. They should always be
washed In clean, soft water immediately,
after dish-washing or mopping. Five
cents worth of borrx dissolved in a quart
bottle of soft water should always be
found on the washstand, and it is drsira
ble to rinse the hands in a little of the
borax water two o three times a day. My
hands are a perfect nut brown; that is
their natural color, but they are never
rough or red and I can handle the softest
zephyr without their feeling disagreeable.
Linden, Mich. Chips.
EDITING A NEWSPAPER.
There are people who think it an easy
matter to edit a newspaper; there are
those who think any man of education
can succeed in the profession. But the
truth is, there are comparatively few
men who succeed in it, and for the reason
that they do not regard it as a profession,
requiring study and preparation. It is
also a laborious professions when pursued
with industry sufficient to insure success.
The Boston Post furnishes a paragraph
which gives a great, deal of truth in a few
ines: A good editor, a competent news
paper conductor is,dike a general or poet,
born, not made. On the London daily
papers, all the great historians, novelists,
poets, essayists and writers of travels
have been tried, and nearly all have fail
ed. We might say all, for after a display
of brilliancy, brief, but grand, they died
out, literally. Their resources were ex
hausted. “I can,” said a late editor ot
the Times to Moore, “find any number of
men of genius to write for me, but very
seldom one of common sense.” The
“Thunderers” in the Times, there fire,
have so far as we know been men of com
mon sense. Nearly all successful editors
have been men of this description. Cam
bell. Carlyle, Bulwer and Disraeli failed.
Barnes, Sterling and Philips succeeded.
A good editor seldom writes for his pa
per; he reads, judges, selects, dictates,
alters and combines; and to do all th s
well, be has but little time for composi
tion. To write for a paper is one thing,
to edit a paper is another.
Near Middelbjirne, West Virginia, last
Thursday, a young man named Charley
Thompson, about twenty-one years old,
committed suicide by shooting himself
in the head with a shot-gun. He was
married a week before to Miss Emma
McHenry. Ilis wife was visiting her
parents, who lived near, and she staital
in the evening to take her home. His
father, who was absent from home,
while returning discovered the lifeless
remains of his son in the path. No cause
is known far the rash aet, but a letter
was found maki ig Imposition oi the
proper!)' oi wmuu ue was possessed.
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