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MOODY’S ADVICE TO YOL'N'U MEN’ t j . : , ' I A Word About Work. A tll reused to t il i‘iii|tlu) od Mon. Mr. Moody, in the progress of a dis course at Chicago, a few ownings ago, de livered tlie following advice to unemployed men: And mnv a word about work. Kara the bread you eat. i would rather earn five cents than someone give me five dol lars. There is no hope of a man's reforma tion who does not go to work. Laziness belongs to the old creation. I don't know what to do. and I don't see what God can do with a lazy man. If you can get only twenty-five cents a day. go to work for that. Someone once tried to abuse a sen ator by saying that he used to black boots. “ Didn't 1 black them well?'’ he answered. Work is honorable. Any honest work is better than idleness. Black boots, or carry a hod, or carry in coal, and if you can only ■earn live cents a day, live on five cents a day. Don't go in debt. “Some ol' you think it is hard that there is no work to be found : tiiat people arc so suspicious of you. Well, they have rea son for at; you are only just out of the rum-shop : you are just getting up to the first round of the ladder; but if they find that you are really a true man. then there will he people to trust you and give you employment. It is because there are so many hypocrites in the wor'd that people are afraid to put confidence in you. and predict that you will not hold out. Don't think you are stooping because you have to work lor less than you got before. Do your poor rough work well, and you will Wind better work to do. f Another thing. Some of you are in the r habit of lying. I have heard of one who professed to be a reformed man who has ' been lying; and what a disgrace that is to a good cause, Now, let me say to 3 r ou, be truthful. If you have to tell the worst about yourself, don't lie. Own up to the truth, for it is better and safer that the Worst should he known. Here is annul just out of the penitentiary who gets a place of trust, and one of his old pals Romes in and threatens to blow on him un less he puts up 820. But if he can answer, My master knows all about me,” he is a r k man, in spite of his past disgrace. V pvant you to take this advice kindly; 1 H give it from my heart. If you don't get on as veil as you wish, don't go back into sin. Oneif the young converts was tempted to go t>sell liquor again ; but let your motto be, Trust in God,” and you can resist temjation, and come off victorious over the vorld, the flesh and the devil. Prosorvc the Fences. Wc’>j£an the rail fences. There are several Ways' uy of our ; fetlceS eai| be pi "S\ iry'fn enumer ate a few, not that \rc expect to add to what every practical farmer already knows, but in order to refresh his mind by way of remembrance. One of the essentials in preserving rails is to keep the fence row clean. Weeds, briars and sprouts should not be permitted to grow up in fence corn ers. The row should be sown to such grasses as is best adapted to the soil and thus every foot of soil can he utilized. The bottom rail, usually known as the “ worm ” should have a chunk under the corner, half the length of the rail whatever the length may he. A frequent handling of the rails is a great advantage to their lon gevity. The fence should not be permitted ito stand more than three years if old rails, or more than live if new ones, without throwing down and rebuilding. -By this plan the position of the rails are changed and many of them are given anew lease on life. A common practice is, that when re-setting a fence is to place new and unseasonable rails at the bottom, this is done because new ones are thought to be more durable than the old ones. All who have noticed results know that green tim ber /ots more rapidly when brought in J contact with the ground than does seasoned i timber. Experience has proven that the i df :ost durable rails arc those made before | he sap is in full How, or just as the llow is sufficient for the bark to slip as the rails dry. Made at this season of the year and *• ricked ” until fall or winter, they handle much better and make a better fence than if used immediately after they are made. The economy of hauling dry rails is quite an item if the distance be far or the rails heavy, and every light in which we may view this subject, we arrive at the conclu sion that in making rail-fences it pays to dry them before .using. A Ilot Game of “ Freeze Out.*’ Denver (Cul.) Xews. A bad story conics from Deadwood about an old Denverite—l). Tom Smith. The ► writer says Tom has been behaving beastly for some time past, threatening to kill his wife and several other people in town. Re cently, on a certain evening he went into a saloon where the Mayor, City Marshal and two others were engaged in a game of freeze out.” lie pulled off his coat, took a corner from which he could cover the players and the barkeeper, and then “ pulled his gun,” cocked it and held it at a present upon whoever made a motion to rise or change his position. lie told them that he came in there for murder, and meant murder, but they might go on with the game. The game did go on with a great deal of solemnity. The writer says : “it was probably the most solemn game of freeze out ever played in the Hills.” No one of the five present wanted to be a martyr. But the City Marshal kept work ing his chair around, and at last suddenly ducked his head and made a spring for JL). Tom. At that instant the latter “turned loose ” his battery. The shot passed through the crown of the Marshal's hat. out through the side, through the back of his coat, crossed the tab’e and struck the Marshal’s late partner square in the fore head. between the eyes, where it split in two, and one-half traversed the skull in each direction, finally stopping near the temples ou each side. But the Marshal $1.50 A VEAR. got Tom before he bad time to pull again, and now lie has gone to Yankton for con finement and trial. The man he shot is getting well. If he had been killed they say Tom would have died rather suddenly. —.— How Many A]i|tlcs Adam mill Eve F.iil. Some sav Eve 8 and Adam "2, a total of 10 only. Now we figure the thing out far different. Eve 8 and Adam 8 also. Total. ]<>. —Bos ton Journal. H'c think the above figures are entirely wrong, if Eve 8 and Adam 82, certainly the total will be i)l). Scientific men, how ever. on the strength of the theory that the antideluvians were a rnae of giants, and consequently big eaters, reason something like this : Eve 81st. and Adam 82. Total, ITS.—Gloucester Advertiser. Wrong again; what could he clearer ! than if Eve 8 1, and Adam 8 1 2, the total was 893? —Lawrence American. If Eve 8 1-1 st, and Adam 8 1-2 would not the hold he 1,62 if .—Boston Journal. 1 believe the following to be the true so lution : Eve 8-14 Adam, Adam 8-1-24 Eve. Total, 8,938. — Veritas. Still another calculation is as follows : If Eve 8 -1-4 Adam, Adam 8 1-2-4 to oblige Eve, total 86,056. We think, however, this not to be a sufficient quantity, for though we admit that live 8-1 4 Adam. Adam if he 8 >-8 1-4 2 keen Eve company, total, 882,050. —_V tr York Mail. The above estimate is wrong, altogether wrong. If Adam ate as is estimated 808,- 142 apples we presume that Eve ate an equal number. We have no account that he ate any only what Eve gave him, now it is not reasonable to suppose that a modest young groom like Adam would cat more fruit than his bride, nor is it probable that she would have given him more than his share, consequently we conclude: that it Adam 8 808,142 apples that Eve ate the same number, which would make 1.010.f --284,—Toccoa Herald. Hold on ! That isn't correct yet. Now , if Adam and Eve ate 1,610,284 apples, it gave them both the stomach-Skc. Tl Js i aCTting ftj more, wdav'j e a V . uHof Cdftirtilts' in the Right Style. “Git emit, you nasty puppv —let me alone, or I'll tell my ma !" cried out Sally to her lover, Jake, who sat about ten feet from her, pulling dirt from the chimney jam. *• T ain't tcchin’ on you, now, Sal,” re sponded Jake. “ Well, perhaps you don’t mean to nuther, do you ?” “ No, l don't!” “Tause von are too darned scan*, you long-legged, lantern-jawed, slab-sided, pig eon-toed, gangle-kneed owl, you liain’t got a tarnel bit o' sense; git along home with you.” “ Now, Sal, I love you, and can't help it. and ef you don't let me stay a fid court you, my daddy will sue yourn for that cow he sold him t'other day. By jingo, he said he'd do it.” “ Well, look here Jr.kiv—if you want to court me, you'd better do it as a white man does that thing—not set off there as if you are pizen I” “ llow on airth is that. Sal?” “ Why, side right up here and hug and kiss me. as if you really had soiio of the bone and sinner of a man about you. Do you s'pose a woman's only made to look at, you stupid slink you?” “ Well." said Jake, drawing a long breath, “ ef I must, 1 must, fori love you, Sal;” and so Jake commenced sliding up to her like a maple poker .going to battle. baying his arm gently upon Sal's shoul der. we heard Sal say : “ That's the way to do it, old boss ; that is acting like a white man orter.” ••(). Jerusalem and pancakes!” ex claimed Jake,” if this ain'l better than any' apple sass inarm ever made, a darned sight. Crack-ee ! buckwheat cakes,, slapjacks and lasses ain’t no wliar long-side of you, Sal ! Oh. how I love you !” Here their lips came together, and the report that followed was like pulling a horse's hoof out of the mire. — The Deluge Demolished. In New York Sunday evening Dr. Boyn ton spoke on *• ’I iie Deluge in the bight of Science. He began with a quotation from St. Raul which tells us to believe all things. Dr. Boynton does not believe in this man ner. He pins his faith on investigating all things. He classified the deluge with the expedition for the Holden Fleece and other classical legends of ancient history, and treated its traditional place in history as •virtually a myth. He conceded that asub ' .stratum of truth might have underlain this great legend of the flood, inasmuch as there was undoubtedly an extensive flood in the southern portion of (Babylon. It probably embodied, in the <hqf r's opinion, a great physical change tha, me over the globe, and which, perhdp -as the cause of the migration of the \ Dr. Boynton ar rived at these res;, nt ffrom examination of the fossil remains a Erthe most recent geo logical iuvestigationJKTlie doctor will hard ly succeed, howev.c|Vn getting people to dismiss forever N'TJBfs beloved and famil iar ark. with all tlMlnimals m it. together with all the otlter MJ-rished paraphernalia of the deluge. MM HARTWELL, GA., WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 21 1877. A WINKING INDIVIDUAL. How lie IDM Inin Troultlc In n Willlnc ry Shop. Kenkvk Constitution. Sanders is a great wild er. lie can't talk to you two minutes without enforcing his point with a drop of one of his upper eyelids; he never takes a letter out of the office without winking at one of the clerks; I he winks when-he duns you, and gives you a sly one when he pays a hill. When he meets and greets you on the street, it is always with a significant closing of the left eye, and when he has a stunning piece of news to tell you his wink is one of the greatest import. The world moved along smoothly enough with Sanders until last Friday. Ip to that tune he had gone wink ing and blinking along peacefully enough, and no clouds had obscured his happiness ; but a pall is hanging over Sanders now, and life has no charms for him. It's all his wife's fault, he says. She find no business sending him to a millinery store. She wanted a bow to match one on her hat, and she started Sanders off to procure it. lie entered the store whistling, and when one of the shop girls approached and said, “ Good morning,” he winked and replied, “ Good morning.” The girl blushed and looked nervous ; Sanders displayed the how and said : “ Got anything to match that?” and he winked again. The girl vanished to the back room with darning cheeks, leaving Sanders to stare after her in open-mouthed wonder. In a minute or two the boss milliner, who had been informed of his actions appeared. She was highly indignant, and as sue slam med the door behind her she said : “ Sir—” “ Good morning, madam,” said Sanders. “Fine day, ain’t it now.” and a wink was unconsciously slung at' the lady. She bridled up instantly. "Sir. the conduct—” " Oh, that's all right; never mind her— little bashful, eh?” Another tremendous wink. “ I cannot permit such conduct, sir. It is shameful and insulting.'. “Not at all; not at all."' sa s Sanders, ate\.- f * r/itMifc. worn; we understand each other.” Another portentious wink. The milliner vanishes, slamming the back door behind her, and Sanders sinks into a seat ejaculating, “ Well, I'll be dog goned !” But he bounced up quick when j a gentleman entered, and calling him “an old hippopotamus,'’ proceeded to divest himself of his coat, and squaring off at Sanders, cried out; “Now, then, come on !” “ Why, why, bless me, what does this mean?” said Sanders. “ Oh, yes, you're a nice one, you arc. What kind of a place do you take this for, coming around and insulting women and girls with your winks? Come on !” and lie danced around Sanders. lie got one in on Sanders over the eye ; his left duke felt of Sanders’ mug, and when he got through with Sanders that in dividual was as badly demoralized as a pig in a whirlwind, and he never found out what it was all about until the milliner's husband, who had ascertained his habit, called on Sunday and apologized. San ders shook hands, said it was a right, anil was just about to wink again, when he checked himself and said : “Blame it. I'll swear off from that habit! and then he turned and winked at the wall to enforce his oath. A Dover's quamL Bridge* Smith'* Paper. They went to the Catholic fair, the other night. On the way, she promised by all that was good and bad that she wouldn't dance with any man save her escort. This she fuliy resolved to do, but when the band begun one of Strauss’ waltzes, anti u spruce young man sidled up to her with a smile, asked if lie could have the pleasure of her company, she forgot her good reso lution, and the next thing her escort saw was the light of his heart floating about the hall with a young man's hand around her waist. This is what occurred oil his way home : “ Thought \ou were nottgoing to dance, Julia.” “Well, I didn’t intend to.” “ But you did. didn’t you ?” “ Yes, 1 danced a little.” < x “ Will you send me my ring and letters to-morrow ?” ** Yes, of course I will.” Here ensues a pause. The escort grits Ins teeth and bats bis eyes. She bites her lips and feels like she lias just lost a thou sand dollar bill. They reach the gate. He lingers, but hasn't anything to say. ** Won’t you come in, Mr. Jones?” “No. T believe I’ll hurry home.” “ When are you coming again?” “ Well, I don't reckon I'll come any more, liotf.” “ Why?.” “ Because. I don’t think I ought to come now; besides, I'll be very busy next week.” She softens. “ I’ve got something good to tell you if you'll come. C'au't you come to-morrow night?” "I’ll see about it. If that fellow you danced with at the fair won’t object, 1 may come.” “ Pshaw ! That was brother Tom.” He looks blank, but draws nearer. He takes her hand and tries hard for a word. “Good night. Mr. Jones.“ “tiood night, Julia; tou needn't send that ring back—l was only joking. Noth ing on earth could separate us now.” He is happy. “ 1 was only joking, too, Mr. Jones—it was not my brother, only a friend—but you don't care !” He releases his hold on her hand, and goes down the steps. He walks slow, anti shivers when he bangs tlie door. He looks back at the house; sees nothing. Then he whistles a long whistle, cuts it short with r. snap, and says : “ Ain't 1 a cling fool?” I'lrrmuNtaiirm Alter l <trw. Mew I'urk Herald. “ Mrs. Flyn, ” said his honor at the fifty-seventh street police court, "you are charged with being an inebriate.” “ I'm not, sir. I'm a widdy.” “ Well then, you are a widow who is ac cused of being drunk.” “ As for that, yer honor, T may have taken a dhrop too much of something sthrongcr thin tav.” “ Well, Mrs. Flyn, I shall have to—” “ Now thin, judge.” interrupted the prisoner, “sureyou wouldn’t be -fter sin din' me to the Island just for takin' a wee dhrop o’ the crather, such a foine, hand some. good-lookin' smart judge as ve is?” “ Mrs. Flyn, considering the fact that you think mo fine—” “ Yis.” “ Handsome —” “ Yis.” “ Good-looking—” “ Yis.” “ And smart—” “ Yis.” “And that you were very drunk, 1 have concluded to send you to the Island for ten days.” “Oh, Lord! had luck to yecs for an ugly, disagrayable, ignorant spalpeen. May the divil Hy away wid ye.” shouted the “ widdy ” as a policeman carried her down stairs like a sack of potatoes. A Dk' Only liruiik. Here is an anecdote with a sharp moral that comes to us ail the way from Austra lia : “Sixty years ago, when 1 was a teacher in Kilmaleum parish,” says John Fraser, “I was using whisky bitiers for my stomach's sake. One day I dipped a piece of cake in it and gave it to the dog. lie grudgingly ate it curling up his lips to avoid the taste. Ere long he became tipsy—he howled most piteously, and unnaturally looked up in my face as if for help, lie began to stagger and fall like a drunken man. The appearance of his face and eyes was extraordinary. Be lay on the floor and howled until the effects of the drink wore off. The dog never forgot the trick. Whenever afterward I went to the dresser for the bottle he hastened to the outside of the house. One day. the door being shut, he sprang at one bolt through a pane of glass, to get outside. So much for the wisdom of the dog—infinitely surpassing that of foolishing drinking men.” To Kill ii Town. To kill a town in two years, closely and promptly observe the following rules : Ist. But up no more buildings than you are obliged to occupy yourself. 2nd. If you should nave an empty build ing to rent demand three times its value. 3d. Look sour at every new comer and give the cold shoulder to every merchant or mechanic who desires to come among you. 4th. Go abroad for your goods ana wares; by no means purchase from your own mer chants and manufacturers even at the same price or less. sth. Don't contribute one cent to the cause of religion or education. Finally, put a thorough finish to vour work of vandalism by killing your local newspaper, by refusing to subscribe or ad vertise, so that persoris at a distance will not know that any business is being done in your town. Art* You Keaily. Rev. Dr. Kidd was a Scotch minister of some prominence, and very eccentric, and one who had bis own way of doing things. One of his parishonerS says : ‘•I was busy in my shop, when in the midst of iny work in stepped the doctor.” “ Did you expect me?” was his abrupt inquiry, without even waiting for a saluta tion. “ No,” was the reply. ** What if it had been death?” asked he, when at once he stepped out as abruptly as he came, and was gone almost before I knew it. What a question ! What a thought for every one of us ! Does not death come to most, if not all, as unexpectedly as this ? And does not the inquiry impress the les son from our Savior's lips. " Be ye also ready, for in such an hour as yc think not the Son of man cometh ”? Evkry Max Woman and Child at this season should take Dr. J. 11. Mc- Lean's Strengthening Cordial and Blood Purifier, because it purifies and enriches the blood, gives vigor, strength and vitali ty to the whole body and system Dr. J. H. McLean’s office, 314 Chestnut, St. Louis. PA RAG RAIMIS OK THE PERIOD. The only female sovereign in India wears breeches. A girl with downward eyebrows is gener ally willful. Blue lamp chimneys are recommended for weak eyes. A fanner gathers what he sows, and a seamstress sews what she gathers. A granddaughter of Robert Burns, the poet, is living In Guelph, Canada. Plow deep while the sluggards sleep, and you’ll have grain to sell and to keep. “Ah, ha!'* said a farmer to the corn. “ Oh, hoc !” said tha corn to the farmer. Don’t linger where your love lies dream ing. Wake her up and tell her to get the breakfast. A wife full of truth innocence and love is the prettiest llower a man can wear next to his heart. Brown, in his honey-moon, calls his wife a saint; Jones, ten-years married, sadly echoes his ain't. A child thus defines gossip: “It's when nobody don’t do nothing and somebody goes and tells of it." A Rochester woman picked out of her knee the other day a needle that she sat down on twenty-live years ago. It is a sad moment for a bachelor when he finds that his hair is so (bin that ho is unable to hold a pen back ofliis ear. A Japanese maiden, now being educated in this country, says that all her people want is Christianity, scissors and wedding breakfasts. NUMBER 2F>. The New York juipers tell about a “drawback on sugar." Thai's nothing. There has been a fearful “pull-back ” on lasses all summer. A daughter of a wealthy Watertown far mer has distinguished herself by raising eight little pigs on a bottle. Suck-ccss to her lit-er-ary efforts. A young man at Kember’s Bluff,in this State, acquired the habit of tossing a cock ed pistol in the air nml catching it by the muzzle as it fell. The last time he caught it was just a moment before he died. A country clergyman, seeing a young man standing in the doorway of a church and looking hesitatingly about, paused in the middle of his sermon, and exclaimed: “ Get out, young man ; she is not here !” An educated young man went to Mis sissippi a few years since. His friends were proud of him, and said he would be heard of in the world before many years. They were right; the young man now heats a gong at a railroad station. The bulldoze cocktail has iust made its appearance at the fashionable bars. You must tilt about a teaspoonful of water into thf* nrfi it with r_v,?h .... ... ..... ."m.. W lIIUW whiskey as the glass will hold. Then when the count is made throw the water out. A minister was telling a young girl who was about to become a bride, that she must remember that man and wife are one. “Lord !” said she, “ if you were under my father and mother's window when they are quarreling you’d think they were at least a dozen.” A minister going to visit one of his sick parishioners, asked him how he rested du ring the night. “(), wonderfully ill, sir,” he replied, “ for my eyes have not come together these three nights.” “What is the reason ofthat?” said the minister. “ Alas ! sir,” said he, “ because my nose was be twixt them.” “My dear boy,” said a lady to a pre cious youth of sixteen, “does your father design you should tread the intricate and thorny paths of profession, and straight and narrow paths of the ministry, or travel the Howery paths of literature ?” “No inarm ; dad says he’s going to set me to work in the tater patch.” The Boston Herald: A gentleman inct a citizen of.Somerville recently, and said to him, “Your homo is in Somerville, I be lieve?” “No,” replied the Somerville man, “my home is in I leaven.” “Let me give you a little advice,” said the gentleman. “You hurry and get a postal card and write your folks that you are not coming home.” “ This is my last call,” said a flippant young gentleman to a young lady who was soon to be married, on a recent occasion. “I never call on married women or unmar ried ladies after they have reached twenty five. “You do well, sir,” gravely remark ed an elder lady present. “At that ago, and after marriage, they begin to know the value of time, and do not wish to waste it.” A Delaware gentleman who roomed with Senator Saulsbury said one day : “Senator, I often meet a servent in the morning taking two cocktails into your room. Do you al ways drink in duplicate?” “Sir,” replied the Senator, “ I order two cscktails every morning, and when I have drank one, it makes me feel like another man. Then, sir. I am bound by courtesy to treat that other man, so I drink the second.” Now that Grant has pardoned all but one of the St. Louis whiskey thieves, the Cou rier Journal thinks they ought to unite in presenting him some suitable testimoni al of their gratitude, when he comes to re tire to the unsalaried shades of private life, with no one to love him, none to caress, he would find a forty-gallon barrel of ten-year old Bourbon, with an amber hung hole and silver-plated hoops, a mighty handy thing to have about the house. “It is au axiom of law,” says Senator Sherman,” that legislative powers can not be delegated; if the power to make laws can not be delegated, how can Congress delegate the power which controls the vote of the States to a picked tribunal?” The character of this conundrum is not wholly unlike that of that celebrated arithmetical problem which lias so long baffed the skill of the ingenuous youth of the Country, t. <\, “if a lot of Irish poturnips cost each sixty two and a half cents a peck by the dozen in Podunk, how far is it by the overland route from Harper’s Ferry to Christinas?”