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VOLUME VIII.
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A Mormon haw married a Methodis
lady in Falkville, Ala.
B;ukson, Tennessee, is to have a cotton
factory.
The total income tax assessed in Vir
ginia for 1880, was $3,322,4G0.
Ove r 80,00 > pounds of tomatoes have
heeii shipped from Chattanooga during
the season.
Montgomery, Alabama, has an arte
sian well that discharges 25,h'00 gallons
of pure drinking water every day.
An oak tree on the Feysor farm, Page
county, Va., is twenty:two feet in cir
ni inference.
The death rate in July in Chat
tanooga, from a basis of 17,000. popula
tion, was only a little over 18 per cent,
per thousand.
Robert Thomas, a colored man of Cocke
county, Tennessee, lias bought the Car-
Mii farm of 205 acres, near Dandridge,
for $8,525.
Jetterson’s old clock at Monticello is
being repaired. Ttis a remarkable time
piece on a grand scale, and a splendid
piece of mechanism.
A Mississippian by the name of Darl
ing P. Dear, has died at West Enter
prise. Wonder if the “1\” stands for
Tet?
The Coosawlmtehie swamp in Hamp
thi county is drying up rapidly, and
quantities of fish are being devoured by
the buzzards.
•John Colbert, of Etowah, has lost
three wives, being married thirty-six
years, lias buried twenty-two children,
has lost one arm and thirty horses, and
is but fifty years old.
lathe death of Colonel Randolph I,
Mott, of Columbus, (la., the Macon
Volunteers lost the last of the originrl
an 1 charter members. The company
was organized April 23, 1825.
Cork tree's are being successfully raised
in Georgia. The cork on some of them
is already thick enough for use. It is
supposed these trees can be successfully
raised in most of the Southern Stalls.
\ palachieola, Flirida, has a popula
tion of over 2,000 souls, forty or fifty
vessels engaged in the sponge and fishing
trades, and five large mills, with a ca
pacity of over 250,000 feet of lumber per
day.
Coal oil has been discovered near May
flower, Arkansas, and two local compan
ies have been formed, who are leasing
all the land in the neighborhood. Pros
pectors and speculators are flocking in
in great numbers.
John Boswell, colored, formerly State
Senator in Florida, and a prominent
candidate for Congress from that State,
is now working out a sentance for dis
orderly conduct in the street-gang of
Galveston.
A bill declaring a wife a competent
witness against her husband, where he
commit ts an assault upon her, has passed
the Georgia Senate. Likewise, one to
make it a misdemeanor to carry intoxi-
Oating drinks to any public gathering.
The Georgia Redater says “the House
has on hand over 900 bills, or enough,
if each sheet were detached and pasted
together, to encircle, the city of Atlan
ta, which is nine miles in circumference.
No adjournment in sight, even with a
first-class telescope.”
The farmers in South Geo’gia suffer
so much from watermelon thieves that
they poison fine melons frequently to
catch the thieves. A few nights since a
party of young men of the best families
of Decatur county were out latent night
and took a melon from a neighbor’s
patch. All were desperately siek and
one ha- died.
One of the finest light houses in the
world is being erected at Cape Henry,
in Chesapeake Bay. It measures from
top to base 155 feet; diameter at the
base, thirty feet; at the top, 1-5 feet. It
has six stories, and above there is a serv
ice room, watch-room and lantern-room.
It is constructed of cast-iron, and the
interior is sheet-iron. The light room is
a circular steel frame, twelve feet in
diameter and nine feet high. The glass
U'-ed for the chimneys will be of French
glass.
A negro boy living in Chailottsville,
irginia, fell from a tree about six weeks
ago upon a sbarpstake, which penetrated
his liver. A portion of the organ pro
truded from the wound. Dr. William
C. Rogers attended the case. He clipped
a piece of the torn and protruding
liver about the size of a marble and
*e"'ed up the orifice. He expected the
boy would die, but lie got better from
tiiH fir-t ;ind is now running about as
usual.
ih void to Industrial Inter st, the hiffnsiwi ef Truth, the BstaMisfamit ef Jntiet, and the Preservation of a Peopli’s tonnatat
TOPICS OP THE D VT.
Guiteau is anxious to be admitted to
bail.
The Grange idea has just reached
Brazil.
Prohibition was overwhelmingly de
feated in North Carolina.
Jim Keene, the great speculator, is
not in good standing in London, report
Bays.
There are 500 men in Now York worth
$3,000,000 and over. We hold that they
are lucky.
The President is now anxious to try
his legs, but his back is a little bit too
sore for that.
The yield of wheat in Indiana is esti
mated at 24,000,000 bushels against 47,-
000,000 bushels fur 1880.
It has been decided by a Tittsburg
Judge that insanity is not suflicitnt
grounds for divorce.
May blessings flow profusely upon the
heads of correspondents who have ceased
k> dilate upon the lunatic Guiteau.
A thoroughbred Indian has been
appointed a clerk in the Indian office,
and “ things is a workin’.”
Mr. 8. RutiTj refuses to ride on the
•ars. He thinks they want to get him
where they oan break his neck.
Ex-Minister Ghristiancy lias paid to
Mrs. Ghristiancy and counsel so far, for
aliMony and counsel fees, over $24,000.
m *•
The real and personal property in the
United Btatcs is valued $70,000,000,000.
It don’t look like very much on paper.
Some time ago Senator Ben Hill had
a cancer cut from his tongue, since
which time he has been unable to
talk.
The anti-treating law in Wisconsin is
a dead letter. The people—that is, the
drinkers—drink together just as they
always did.
Canada is not accused of stealing,
but at the same time the Postoffice De
ment thinks they like to use our mail
bags up there mighty well.
A St. Lours Fenian has a plan for
■ending up balloons and dropping down
torpedoes on the hated Saxon, as a
means of “ freeing Ireland. ”
Tins bullet iu tho President’s body
has been located by tho aid of Bell’s
electric machine, but for the present the
doctors will let it romain where it is.
TnE Paris of America is called Cin
cinhotter by the Louisville Courier-
Journal. Watterson refers to excessive
warmth. He is familiar with the topic.
Lawton B. Evans, of Atlanta, eigh
teen years of age, is the youngest Master
of Arts in the country. Ho received the
degree from the State University at
Athens.
A high peak on one of the mountains
opposite Cornwallis, Mon., fell with a
terrific crash the other day, thousands of
tons of rocks being hurled into the val
ley beneath.
The Philadelphia Herald says if you
will catch a few fiies and stick them in
the butter you oan imagine yourself at a
seaside resort. The Philadelphia Her
ald is a pseudologist.
The Uto Indians will bo removed to
their new reservation about the Ist of
September. They consist of Uncom
paghre, Uintah and While River Indians,
numbering in all about 2,700.
The Russian Jews are crossing the
German frontier in considerable num
bers, intending to form settlements in
America. No obstacle is offered to their
departure by the Government.
The white woman in Ohio who re
cently married Wah Sing, a Chinese
lftundrvtnan, has eloped with a white
man. She get enough of the cheap
labor business in a pretty big hurry.
In one of his verses, Oscar Wilde, the
nesthetic poet, alludes to “ the barren
memory of uukissed kisses.” An un
kissed kiss probably is the barrenest
thing within the range of human experi
, once.
Europe will not want much bread
studs this year, and while the fanners
may not be particularly pleased with
this news, the poor man may laugh in
his sleeve. Our granaries will not be
overstocked from present indications.
An exchange says “it is much safer
to fight a duel in Europe than it is to
call a man a liar in Kentucky,” and we
INDIAN SPRINGS, GEORGIA.
may add, the man who does not believe
it had better try it, but fight the duel
first to bo sue you will experience both.
Captain C. A. Cook, of Brownsville,
Ohio, made himself great by slapping
George Morrison in the mouth for hop
ing the President would die. The way
the’ cent subscriptions are pouring in
upon him, ho will be able to buy him
self a farm.
A French newspaper tells a pretty
tough story. A millionaire who lost all
of a large fortune hut 100,000 francs,
died of grief in twenty-four hours. His
brother and sole heir died of joy on the
sudden receipt of what he considered so
large a fortune.
Latest reports state that Jay Gould
owns 7,000 miles of railroad valued at
$140,000,000. He seems to be getting
tho bulge on us. If King Kalakaua was
smart now he would cultivate Gould’s
acquaintance. lie could buy up his do
minion and not miss the money.
C. A. Cook, Brownville, Licking
County, Ohio, is the address of the man
who was fined $lO and costs ($32) for
slapping a man named Morrison who
aaid he hoped Garfield would die. Mor
rison, at the time, was flourishing a re
volver in protection of his right to his
views.
The Steubenville Herald, a little folio
paper containing only twelve columns to
the page, is seventy-five years old. Its re
markable vigor may be attributed to that
risible genius, J. W. Lampton, whose
“mixed drinks” have been known to
intoxicate whole families at one sitting.
The spot where Gen. McPherson fell
is described as a small enclosure, railed
in with musket barrels, capped with
spears, and covers a little glade in the
forest, two and a half miles from Atlanta.
From a granite base in tlio center a
thirty-two pound cannon rises in the
air, its square cut face rounded by a
shell held in tho mouth.
A woman belonging to tho sect called
Perfectionists undertook to run herself
to death at Dallas, Texas. She got the
idea from the Scriptural passage about
“running the-race to the end,” that if
she ran till she died she would go direct
to heaven. She could not kill herself
by pedostrianism, however, and resorted
to drowning instead.
Mississippi County, Missouri, is the
great watermelon region of the world.
Over 4,000 acres are this year devoted
lo watermelons alone, and the yield is
about a car-load an acre, so that 4,000
car-loads will bo shipped to St. Louis,
Cincinnati, Detroit and Indiana. Con
tracts liavo been made with many farm*
at sllO a car. The general prices run
from S6O to $lO6 a car during the season.
The homoeopathic physicians of Wash
ington City are endeavoring to establish
a liomoeopathio hospital there. There
are now 7,000 homoeopathic physicians
hi the United States, and tho school
maintains eleven colleges, thirty-eight
hospitals, twenty dispensaries, sixteen
journals, 105 local societies, twenty-three
State societies, and one national society.
There are thirty homoeopathic physicians
in Washington.
Miss Montague, Farpaugli’s ten-thous
and-dollar beauty, got sick, and as she
had to be left behind, and it wouldn’t
do to be without a ten-thousand-dollar
beauty, a Miss Josie Sutherland was em
ployed to succeed lier. Miss Montague
now sues Forpaugli for the SIO,OOO
which, the surrounding circumstances
would make it appear, she never got.
On with the music, and let these tilings
all come out.
Mr. Henry Villvrd predicts that the
Northern Pacific Railroad will be com
pleted within two veal's. He also states
that the Oregon Trans-continental Com
pany, which controls the Northern Pa
cific and Oregon Railway and Naviga
tion Companies, will probably build 800
miles of tributary railway east of the
Rooky Mountains and will have 2,000
miles of tributaxy roads completed by
the time the trans-continental line is
open, and that the entire system will
embrace about 6,<300 miles of railway.
Dcring the past year over two hun
dred men and women have emigrated
from Georgia to Utah, converts to the
Mormon faith. Several Mormo%
churches flourish in Haralson and adjoin
ing counties of the State. A bill has
been introduced in the Georgia LegiS
lature to suppress Momionism in
Georgia. It provides that any person
convicted of teaching such principals or
! endeavoring to decoy emigrants to Utah,
i shall be fined not exceeding SI,OOO or
i imprisoned not more than one year, or
| both, at the discretion of the Court.
A man’s good breeding is the best
security against other people’s ill-man
ners.
FEELING THE EARTH MOVE.
A<?connt of Koine Cnrioaitic* or the Wind
by a Pliiloaoplier on the Roof.
[New York Sun.l
“Would you like to feel the motion of
the earth whirling on its axis just as you
feel the motion of a buggy by the air
driven against your face?''
The man who asked this singular
question looked both sane and serious.
As he spoke ho touched with his finger
a small globe, which, with the slight
impulse thus communicated, began to
revolve smoothly and swiftly within a
brass ring and a broad wooden zone, on
which were pictured the odd-looking
figures that represent the twelve sign*
of the zodiac. The green painted oceans
andThe variously tinted continents on
the little globe blended into a confused
jumble of color with the motion. Europe
and America, the Atlantic and the
Pacific lost their outlines. Greenland
made a dark circle about the pole like
a streak on a boy’s top.
“Yon know the earth is whirling like
that—many times faster than that,” said
the philosopher, “and if the atmosphere
did not partake of tho same motion there
would be a constant hurricane blowing
at the rate of a thousand miles an hour.
Most persons accept the explanation
that the atmosphere revolves as fast as
the solid ground without inquiring any
further, and so they lose sight of one of
the most startling facts in nature. Just
step up here.”
The reporter followed the philosopher
to the flat roof of tlie house.
“Don’t you feel that?” asked tho phil
osopher, putting his hand to his
cheek.
“I feel a wind from the northeast,”
replied the reporter.
“Well, that’s it, then,” said tho phil
osopher. “As the surface of the earth
revolves eastward, it meets a current of
air flowing from tho north, which has
not yet acquired a velocity of rotation
equal to that of the ground it passes
over. So objects on the earth arc driven
by the earth’s motion through air that
is moving more slowly to the eastward
than they are. The result is that the
wind which started to blow from the
poles toward the equator, instead of
moving straight from north to south ap
pears to come from the northeast. The
reason of this will be plain the minute
yqu-look at a revolving globe. You see
that close to the poles the revolution of
the surface is, very much slower than at
the equator, just as a point on the hub
of (i wheel moves more slowly than a
pofc . on the tire.
i, \ on must not, however, suppose that
every wind from the northeast is the re
sult of this curious law. In fact, in this
latitude it is very difficult to say when
the true wind of revolution, if I may so
speak of it, is felt, because there are so
many local causes that govern the direc
tion of the wind. Nevertheless, when
ever a current of air starts from the far
nortli toward the equator, this phenome
non will be experienced in all the places
it passes over, although it is very often
obscured by the changes of direction
caused by ranges of mountains, great
valleys and local temperatures. But tho
curious fact remains that we can feel in
tho wind the whirling of our globe about
its axes. In tho tropics this phenome
non manifests itself perfectly in the fa
mous trade winds. In fact the west and
southwest winds that prevail here a large
part of the year are the returning trade
winds. In this case the air, moving
from the equator, where the revolution
is fastest toward the poles where it is
slowest, has, as it advances, a westward
motion greater than that of the surface
over which it passes. So marked is the
prevalence of this wind that sailors call
it “down hill’ from here to England on
accouut of tho easy sailing with the
wind. So, yon see, that, although the
winds alone would never enable us to
detect the fact that the earth revolves,
yet now that the fact is known, we see
in them one of its most striking re*
suits. ”
Graves at Culloden.
Many will be interested to learn that
the graves or trenches in which the bod
ies of the unfortunate Highlanders
wpre buried after the battle of Culloden
are being cared for by the present pro
prietor of the estate of Culloden. Formerly
the graves were distinguishable in the
level green sward at the roadside only
by the slightly-raised sod. But stones
bearing the names of the clans have just
been erected at the head of each trench.
On one stone is inscribed the names of
the clans “M’Gillivray, M’Lean and
M’Lauchlan,” and there are separate
stones for “Clan Stuart of Appin,” “Clan
Cameron,” and “ Clan Mackintosh. *
Two graves are marked “ Clans mixed.”
At the abortive “great caifn” a slab
has been placed bearing the following
inscription: “The battle of Culloden
was fought on this moor, 16th April,
1746. The graves of the gallant High
landers who fought for Scotland and
Prince Charlie are marked by the names
of their clans.” The interesting prehis
tor e remains at G*va have also received
some attention from the owner of the
property. Some of the standing stones
which had fallen down have been set up;
unfortunately, one or two have been
made to face in the reverse way from
what they did originally. The place
otherwise has been improved. In clear
ing up the ground round the largest
circle, paved, or rather cause
waved, paths have been discovered lead
ing from the base of the cairn in a
straight line to three of the outer standing
stones. Local archaeologists have also
found a great number of “cup mark
-I U. , 8 • ou the stones in this locality. One
stone discovered had cup marks upon
loth sides —said to be a very unusual
thing. — Edinburgh Soot*/tum.
The Ways of Plants.
1b a great many cases leaves aro said
to sleep; that is to say, at the approach
of night they change "their position, and
sometimes fold themselves up, thus pre
•enting a smaller surface for radiation,
and being in consequence less exposed to
cold. Mr. Darwin has proved experi
mentally that leaves which were pre
vented from moving suffered more from
cold than those which were allowed to
assume their natural position. He has
observed with reference to one plant,
Maranta arundinacea, the arrow-root,
a West Indian species allied to Canna ,
that if the plant lias had a severe shock
it oannot get to sleep for the next two
or three nights.
The sleep of flowers is also probably a
case of the same kind, though, as I have
elsewhere attempted to show, it has now,
I believe, special reference to the visits
of insects; those flowers which are ferti
lized by bees, butterflies, and other day
insects, sleep by night, if at all; while
those which are dependent on moths
rouse themselves toward evening, as al
ready mentioned, and sleep by day.
These motions, indeed, have but an in
direct reference to our present subject.
On the other hand, in the dandelion
( Leontodon), the flower-stalk is upright
while the flower is expanded, a period
which lasts for three or four days; it
then lowers itself and lies close to the
ground for about twelve days, while the
fruits are ripening, and then rises again
when they are mature. In the Cyclamen
tho stalk curls itself up into a beautiful
spire after the flower has faded.
The flower of the little Linaria of our
walls ( L . cymbalaria ) pushes out into
the light and sunshine, but as soon as it
is fertilized it turns round and endeavors
to find some hole or cranny in which it
may remain safely ensconced until the
seed is ripe.
In some water-plants the flower ex
pands at the surface, but after it is faded
retreats again to tho bottom. This is the
case for instance, with the water-lilies,
some species of th ePatamogcton {Trapa
natans). In Valisneria, again, the
female flowers are borne on
long stalks, which reach to the surface of
the water, on which the flowers float.
The male flowers on the con
trary, have short, straight stalks, from
which, when mature, the pollen
detaches itself, rises to the surface,
and, floating freely on it, is wafted about,
so that it comes in contact with the fe
male flowers. After fertilization, how
ever, the long stalk ooils up spirally, and
thus carries the ovary down to the
bottom, where the seeds can ripen with
great safety. —Sir John Lubbock, in the
Popular Science Monthly.
The Style.
Though it would seem that tho people
of all countries arc equally vehement in
the pursuit of this phantom, style, yet in
almost all of them there is a strange
diversity in opinion as to what consti
tutes its essence; and every different
class, like tho pagan nation, adores it
Under a different form. In England an
honest citizen packs up himself, his fam
ily, and his style in a buggy or tim
whisky, and rattle away to spend Sun
day. A baronet requires a chariot and
pair; a lord must needs have a barouche
and four; but a duke, O! a duke, cannot
possibly lumber his style along under a,
coach and six, and half a score of foot
men. This style lias ruined the peace
and harmony of many a household, for
no sooner do they set up for style, than
all the honest old comfortable sans cere
monie furniture is discarded, and you
stalk cautiously about, amongst the un
comfortable splendor of Grecian chairs,
Egyptian tables and Etruscan vases.
The vast improvement in furniture de
mands an increase in the domestic estab
lishment, and a family that once re
quired two or three servants for conven
ience, now employs half a dozen for style.
Bell Brazen was one of these pattern p
of style; and "whatever freak she was
seized with, however preposterous, was
implicitly followed by all who would be
considered as admitted in the stylish
arcana. She was once seized with a
whim-wham that tickled the whole court.
She could not lay clown to take an after
noon’s 101 l but she must have one ser
vant to scratch her head, two to tickle
her feet, and a fourth to fan her delecta
ble person while she slumbered. The
thing took—it became the rage, and not
a sable belle in all Havti but what in
sisted upon being fanned and scratched
and tickled in the true imperial style.
Sneer not at this picture, my most ex
cellent townswomen, for who among you
but are daily following fashions equally
absurd. —lrv i ny.
Husbands and Wives.
A good husband makes a good wife.
Borne men can neither do without wives
nor with them; they are wretched alone
in what is called single blessedness, and
they make their homes miserable when
they get married; they are like Tomp
kins’ dog, which could not bear to be
loose, and howled when it was tied up.
Happy bachelors are likely to be happy
husbands, and a happy husband is the
happiest of men. A well-matched couple
carry a joyful life between them, as the
two spies carried the cluster of Eabcob
They are a brace of birds of Paradise,
They multiply their joys by sharing them,
and* lessen their troubles by dividing
them. This is fine arithmetic. The wagon
of care rolls lightly along as they pull to
gether; and when it drags a little heavily,
or there is a hitch anywhere, they love
each other all the more, and so lighten
the labor. —John Ploughman.
“In what condition was the patriarch
Job at the end of bis life?” asked a Bun
day-school teacher of a <piiet-io<kmp
!kv at the foot of the “Dead,
calmly replied the boy.
SUBSCRIPTIOB--$1.60.
NUMBER 52.
BITS OF INFORMATION.
Sir Humphrey Davy invented his safe*
tv lamp, to prevent accidents which are
liable to occur in coal mines, bo early as
1815.
The signature of “Boz,” used by
Dickens, was adopted from “Moses,”
pronounced through the nose—a nick
name of his younger brother.
The phrase “piping hot ” originated
from the custom of a baker blowing a
pipe or horn in the villages of England
to let the people know he had just
drawn his bread hot from the oven.
Molasses, liquorice paste, a decoc
tion of figs, and glycerine are used in the
manfacture of plug tobacco to impart a
sweet taste, give color and prevent rapid
dryiDg ; common salt and other salts are
used for flavoring ; anise aud other aro
matics aro added for their flavor.
Bancroft, in his history, has the fol
lowing*in regard to the introduction of
slaves into wliat is now United States
territory: “In the month of August,
IGI9, a Dutch man-of-war entered James
river and landed twenty negroes for sale.
This, indeed, was a sad introduction of
negro slavery in the English colonies.”
The most of the authorities make the
date December, IG2O.
Mrs. Sarah J. Hale, lifo-time editor
of “ Godey’s Lady’s Book,” wrote
“Mary Had a Little Lamb.” The or
igin of the poem is this : A daughter
of Mrs. Hale s neighbor was taken very
ill, and the doctor was asking the girl’s
mother what she had been eating. Mrs.
Hale, avho had just come over to the
house, heard the mother say : “ Mary
had a little lamb, and Mary loves lambs,
you know.” These simple words touched
Mrs. Hale so deeply that she went home
and wrote the immortal poem.
It is said that the custom of present
ing eggs at Easter is the survival of an
old pagan custom celebrating the anni
versary of the creation or the deluge.
The egg presented by the pagans was an
allusion to the mundane egg, for which
Ornutzd and Aliriman were to contend
till the consummation of all things.
The custom of dyeing eggs at Easter is
very old and common to all countries,
but may have been taken back to the
East by Christian travelers.
The house of John o’ Groat’s was sit
uated on Duncan’s Bay Head, the most
northerly point in Great Britain. It re
ceived its name from John of Groat and
his brothers, who came from Holland in
1489. Hie house was octagon in shape,
being one room, with eight windows and
eight doors, to admit eight members of
the family, the heads of different
branches of it, to prevent their quarrels
for precedence at table, which on one
occasion nearly proved fatal. By this
contrivance each came in at his own
door, and sat at an octagon table, at
which, of course, their places were all
alike.
The Spaniards visited Canada previ
ous to the French, and, finding no gold
or silver which they were in search of,
often said among themselves, “ Aca
rnxda,” there is nothing here. The In
dians learned tliis sentence and its mean
ing. The French arrived, and the In
dians, who did not want their company,
and supposing they were also Spaniards
on the same mission, were anxious to
inform them in the Spanish sentence
“acanada” The French, who knew
as little Spanish as the Indians, sup
posed this inoessant recurring sound was
the namo of the country, and gave it the
name of “ Canada,” which it has borne
ever since.
Some Definitions.
One of Thackeray’s daughters has just
published a little book about her friend,
Miss Evans, in which she prints some
delightful definitions made by that lady.
Some of these are as follow:
“A privileged person—One who is so
much a savage when thwarted that civil
ized persons avoid thwarting him.”
“A liberal-minded man—One who dis
dains to prefer right to wrong.”
“Radicals—Men who maintain tho
supposed right of each of us to help ruin
us all.”
“Liberals—Men who flatter Radi
cals. ”
“Conservatives—Men who give way to
Radicals. ”
“A domestic Woman— A woman like a
domestic.”
“Humor—Thinking in fun while we
feel in earnest. ”
“A musical woman—One who has
strength enough to make much noise,
and obtuseness enough not to mind it. ”
Kissing.
A lady of experience gives advice oa
kissing to a younger lady friend, an
follows: “Be frugal in your bestowals of
such favors. In the first place I would
cut off all uncles, cousins, and brathers
in-law; let them kiss their own wives
and daughters; and I would not kiss the
minister, or the doctor, or the lawyer
who gets you a divorce.” Yousee this la
dy understands her business, and does not
leave out the editor; he of all others
needs these oscillatory attentions to
“lighten up the gloom;” she’sajoUy,
sensible woman, with a heart in the
right place.
Hath the Hawkey e solemnly: “Yes,
daughter, you should go somewhere this
summer. Yon cannot stay at home dur
ing warm weather and live. To be sure
your mother, who hasn’t been out of
town since she was married, can stand it,
but then she is old-fashioned and doesn’t
know any better, and besides, she has
fun enough doing the washing and iron
ing. By all means go. Get a linen
duster and a basket and go at onoe.”