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Hamilton flllpi Visitor,
THE PIANO TUNER’sVtOUY.
“ A ou are a pair of precious young
fools, and that’s the best I can find to
say about you!” said Aunt George.
Iler name was Miss Georgianna
Anderson; but the sweet abbrevia
tion, “Georgie,” was never used to
her; as soon might one think of ven
turing on familiarities with a bishop!
Everybody called her “Aunt
George;” and, as she walked with a
measured heavy tread like a grenadier,
the name didn’t seein at all inappro-
priate.
She was L'zzie’s Aunt George—
not mine. And she had brought Liz
zie up in her queer, downright fash
ion, never giving her a kiss or a ea
ress, or an endearing word, yet withal
being kind to her after her own way.
I wish I could describe Lizzie An
derson to yon as she really was.
A little, dimpled, blue-eyed creature,
with long shady lashes, and ashy way
of looking at you, like a child; a girl
whose voice was low and flute-sweet,
and who moved about quetly and
noiselessly, like a sweet spring wind
rustling the flowers. And only eigh
teen too; that was what aggravated
Aunt George the most of all,
“I wasn’t married till I was five
and thirty!” said aunt George; “but
yon young people can’t be contented
without rushing headlong into the
vortex. It would be different if you
were rich; but, dear me!” and she
rubbed tier nose perplexedly. “Joe
is nothing on earth but a poor pian
oforte tuner, and you haven’t one
solitary penny of your own, Lizzie ”
“We shall he very economical,
Aunt George,” Lizzie answered cheer
fully.
“ And you’ll have to he,” answered
the old lady grimly.
It is my intention to be perfec'ly
frank with the reader. I shall not
disguise from him the fact that I had
in onr confidentail talks, asked Lizzie
if she thought Aunt George would
do anything for us in pecuniary way.
“Oli, dear, no!” Lizzie had an
swered, shaking her brown curls in
a most decided fashion. “She al
ways told me never to expect any
thing from her; and besides, Joe, she
has really nothing to give!”
There was no getting over these
two facts, taken either together or
separately.
“There’s one comfort, Lizzie,’’ said
I stoutly; “ we are young and strong
and bravehearted, and we’ll not ask
aid of anybody,”
“Of course we won’t Joe,” said
Lizzie, her bine eyes sparkling like
dew-wet violets at sunrise.
I did wish, once or tw’iee, that my
business bad bpen something more
lucrative than piano tuning; but it
was what I had been brought up to,
and I had a pretty good run of cus
tom on the whole; and, as Lizzie
said : “ A little will go a great way
when you are careful of it.”
“You’ll see, Joe,” she added blithe
ly, “ that I will make a splendid house
keeper.”
We had just seventy-five dollars
to furnish our little second floor with :
but I can assure you our two rooms
looked delightfully cozy, with the
red and greeti carpet, and neat stain
ed furniture. Lizzie said it looked
like exactly like a doll’s house, and
perhaps she wasn’t very far wrong.
“ Such a pair of fools !” reiterated
Aunt George, in prophetic mood p
“but there’s one comfort—it won’t
last long.”
“Why shouldn’t it, Aunt George ?”
asked Lizzie, coloring and smiling
in that pretty, flower-like way of
hers.
“Humph!” said Aunt George.
“If you come to that, why don’t the
sunshine last forever ? ”
“So it might if there were no
cloud,” Lizzie answered softly.
“ Ah, child,” sighed Aunt George,
“you’re young now, so enjoy it as
much as you can. We can’t be young
twice over, more’s the pity.”
So we were married quietly, as be
came our humble estate and moder
ate expectations, and went to spend
a few days in the country, where I
i had a sister living on a breezy, old
| fashioned farm. Do you think Liz
-1 zie and I will ever lorget-those days,
! even if we live to he as old as Methu
selah ?
It was a November evening when
we came to the “doll’s house,” w here
the red merino draperies glowed
, wrrmly in thernddy shine of the fire,
and the tin kettle was singing out its
i homely way of welcome.
HAMILTON, HARRIS CO., GA„ FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 12, 1875.
“Liisie,” said I softly, “are you
glad to come home ? ”
And she answered, more with her
eyes than lips, “Oh so very, verv
glad! for we are going to be hnppv
here. I know it as well as if I saw
the years stretched out before me on
a map.”
Our first year w as very blissful, es
pecia'ly alter the baby came to make
our lives musical with his little coo
ing voice; but after that the hard
times came. Not that we repined.
Lizzie and I were brave to endure
whatever we could bear together,
yet it went to my heart to see her
growing pale and thin, through sit
ting up at night to sew and earn a
little extra money, because my busi
ness was dull. And, almost before
we knew it, the hills began to accu
mulate, and rent got behind.
“ This won’t do, Joe,” said Lizzie
gravely. “ VVe must do without
meat.”
“That is nothing,” add I, laugh
ing, although I felt little enough in
clined to bo mirthful; “but we can
not very well do without a roof over
onr heads.”
“ Don’t fret, Joe,” said my little
heartsome wife. “We shall not
want. Something will he sure to
happen.”
“But what can happen, Lizzie?—
The days of miracles are over. There
are no Elijah’s and ravens in these
times.”
“Yes, there are, Joe,” said Lizzie
cheerfully, “although wo don’t al
ways know it at the time. There is
an order for yon to tune a piano up
in South street; isn’t that a raven ?”
And she held the little strip of pa
per triumphantly up before me
When I came back from South
street Lizzie met me at the door
with humid eyes and a troubled face.
“What is the matter?” I cried
out, anxiously. “Lizzie —not the
baby? Nothing has happened to
him ? ” i
“No,” Lizzie answered; “he is
quite well, and fast asleep like a lit
tle while lamb. But—Aunt George
is dead.”
“ Aunt George 1” l replied va
cant 1 v.
“Yes; she died this morning, and
T could not be sent fcfl- in time to re- j
ceive her last breath. Oh, Joe, she i
was very kiqd to me.”
Are we men naturally so selfish, or
was I, hunted and driven by want an
exception to the ordinary rule? For
I confess that as Lizzie stood there
looking tearfully up into my face the
first 1 bought that follow the entrance
of this unexpected news into my brain
was, Would Aunt George leave us
anything? I supposed Lizzie was
her sole living relation, and in
all ihese years, though her income
was small, she must have saved some
thing. But lam thankful to remem
ber that. I never told Lizzie what was
in my mind.
“ She wms very old, dear,” I said
striving to comfort my grieved wife;
“over three score and ten. It is tlie
allotted age. of humanity, and she
had grown to be very feeble.”
“And I know she is better off,”
said Lizzie; “but, Joe, she is the
only mother I ever bad.”
We went to Aunt George’s funeral
and her will was read —a very brief
document —in which she bequeathed
her simple household furniture and
belongings to a nephew in Wisconsin,
and “to Elizabeth, wife of Joseph
Allen, as a token of the affectionate
remembrance of:] ; vised her piano.’
A tuneless, jangling instrument,
half a century old, w ith carved spin
dle legs, ornaments of inlaid brass,
arid keys as yellow as Aunt George's
own complexion. I laughed con
temptuously when I heard the words.
But Lizzie laid her hand gentiy on
my arm.
“It was Aunt George’s, dear,”she
said softly, “and we must cherish it
for her sake. Besides,” in a whisper,
“ think how it will amuse the baby.”
And that was the end of all my
expectations of an inheritance from
Lizzie’s Aunt George.
The old pinto was duly carted
home the next day. If it had been a
fashionable instrument, of modern
make, they could have never gotten
it up the narrow staircase; but it
looked quite friendly and home-like
opposite the fire] Dee, its" lank pro
portions covered by a faded green
cloth.
A shrank back with a little gtimuce
alodzzie touched the keys to make
the baby laugh
“Of course it is out of tune, Joe,”
she said, merrily; “but you’ll soon
set that right,. And 1 shall rub up
my practice again hi tio time.”
It happened to he a very dull time
just then ; so I had nothing else to do
hut to take Lizzie’s advice; and in
just half an hour I had the old in
strument nearly dissected, much to
Mr. Baby’s edification, as ho sat
gravely ou the floor in the midst of
the interior developments of the an
cient piano.
And now eontes the most marvel
ous part of my story.
All piano tuners know' that when
yon take away the front piece above
the keyboard there is a hollow place
of considerable extent, in any instru
ment of ordinary size. And as I
stopped to blow the dust away from
this placo I saw a bundle or roll of
bank notes* fastened round with a
yellow slip of paper, on which was
written, “For my nicer, Lizzie.”
“Lizzie!” I cried, breathlessly.
“Lizzie!” and site was at my side in !
an instant.
And, if you will believe me, there
were five thousand dollars, the accu
mulated savings of Aunt George’s
ftugal life; and this what she
had meant by giving her piano to us.
1 hat five thousand dollars was
the starting point of the snug little
fortune we have since scraped to
gether, and if Aunt GoOrge could
know how* much her bequest has
done fur us, I think it would do her
kindly heart good.
Baptized by Kistak •,
The following is taken from ill 1 '
Rome (Gad < .otnerei.il:
Some oi hid worthy colored breth
ren of the Baptist persuasion had a
baptism in the Oosianattla a few Sun
days ago, which a! ..'acted a consider
able crowd. Mrs. ’s colored
servant girl was very anxious to be
present,.and, as it was not her Suns
day out, she slipped away from the
house while the dinner was cooking,
and went around in her working
clothes.
Her interest was so intense that
she stood close to the minister, who
was in the water while the ceremony
was being performed. After six or
seven had been dipped, the clergy
man, filled with enthusiasm, seized
her and pulled her into the water.
She resisted, but the preacher imag
ined that she was merely afraid of
the coldness of the water, so before
she could explain the situation he
soused her. She came up splutter
ing, and exclaimed: “What you
doin’? lermne go I tell you.” But lie
exerted his strength and sent her
“ ker chunk ’’ below the surface again.
She emerged clawing the air wildly
and shouting, “G’way from here,
don’t you chuck me unJer agin, you
nigger 1” But the clergyman was in
exorable, and he plunged her under
a third time, and held her there for
a minute, so as to let it soak in and
do her good. Then she came up and
made for the shore, and, standing
there, looking like a draggled mer
maid cut in ebony, she shook her fist
at the astonished pastor and shrieked:
“Oh, I’ll fix you! I’ll bust the head
offen you, you or’nary trash ! Sous
ing mo in dnt dare Oostanaula and
nearly drowned me, when you knowed
well enough all de tirno dat I’se a
Methodist, and been christened by
dent dal’s Iyer oe.ters, arid knows
more about eligiori dan all the Bap
tises dat e ;er shouted, you misera
ble black scum! And me got de
rheumaiiz enough to set me crazy!
Oh! I’ll see what de law can do for
you. I’ll have you ’rested dis berry
day, or my name is not Julianna John
son, you wooly headed herrin. You
hear me?” Then Julianna went
home to re-dress, and the ceremony
proceeded. Julianna is now persua
ded that die Baptists are not any
better than Pagans.
0” A Cleveland woman recently
married a Coin ,ic . ;undiyman, and
in three days thereafter the unhappy
Celestial appeared at a barber’s *hop
and ordered hi- pigtail cut off saying,
iri explanation: “Too muchee d-m
yank.”
*er “No, dolly,” said a little girl
to her china baby as she was going
out yesterday afternoon, “ I tant
take ’ou down town ’id me—-’ou ain’t
dot no ’pin back.”
“ I am bound to have my
rights,” as the man said to the shoe
maker who had soid him a pair of
boots, both lefts.
*5?" Enterprise. The Chicago
Times sold twenty thousand extra
copies on the strength of the editor’s
going to jail. *
i .
Special Correspondence of the Visitor,
FLORIDA.
A Tisit to Miiriiinnn.—Somethi*itf
about Politics.— E'lovniTms Tax
ation.— Crops.--Society.--Visit
ing, etc., etc.
Ma riamia is a small (own of five or
six hundred inhabitants, and is si:ti
nted on the banks of the hoatiti.'V lit
tle river Ohipola.
This is the capital of Jackson coun
ty, and has once been an active and
lively place, but is now on the de
cline —in Tact, the courthouse is the
only building on the square that re
flects any credit on the town or peo
ple. The merchandise sold in Mari
anna is yearly becoming less, and will
continue to do so until the merchants
attain to that respectability that is
too high to buy seed cotton at night.
There is ono newspaper t-üblished
here, which deserves a better local
patronage from the merchants id an
it receives. Trade from this placo
is being diverted to Greenwood, and
the latter place is becoming quite a"
live town The Courier advertised
Marianna gratis, a few weeks since,
and thereby the people found out that
merchants, hotels, schools, boot and
shoe makers,tinners,blacksmith shops,
carpenters, were all to he found in
the place; otherwise it would prob
ably have been utiknow ;. There are
several • ice dwelling .own, and
from the neatly in- '.wed flower
gardens, one would judge that the
I,'tT ‘s de , i've the cr- " rtlte ap
pearance of life. Many of uo houses
show signs of negligetie.j and decay,
and, so far as Marianna is •erned,
the world might as w :!1 v.-in.i up at
once, tor Tie interest t.h”v lake in it.
POLITICS IN JACKSON.
The political complexion of the
country is the worst feature to be
discovered here. Nature bine
her share to make beautiful ■ -i
--ralile this fair land, but tin , ry
and degenerate t ms of nio. by
sires have Uiuh -A its go .r .
and brought disi.onor who--- public
virtue onco reigned supreme. The
elections are conti oiled by ignorant
negroes,-over- whom the conservative
class of white men have no ini! • ,t: '.
Consequently, these men are im.i vt.ul
in office who consider it no di-grace
to sacrifice tin it country’s g ;.i and
their own respect, for the advancing
of their own corrupt political for
tunes. The consequence of corrupt
legislation is the enormous
TAXATION,
imposed upon the people. The tax is
about three per cent, and !,h • fewest
number of negroes pay no tax at
all, until forced to do so, and then it
is a fat thing for the officials. A case
carno under my own observation last
w'eek, where the original tax was
two dollars, and the cost ran it up to
seven dollars and fifty cents, and the
negro “antiod up” in corn at seventy
five cents per bushel. So much for
the glorious privelege of voting. The
taxes in the main are paid in “county
scrifi,” which the official'’ buy at 00c.,
sell to the taxpayer at ’ -c., and turn
over to the govorrnent par. That
is tho way the money goes. While
individuals are reducing expenses and
! practicing economy, the taxes go up,
! up, and increase the burden of tax
; payers. No wonder that largo num
bers of real estate owners want to
sell out. Notwithstanding the polit
ical corruption and embarrassing tax
ation irnposdl upon the people of
this section, as individuals they seem
to be in a better financial condition
than many of the c : ms iu the more
favored and neig ion ;ug States. I
account for this fro ■ ’hew energy and
perseverance in fighting against don
tiny itself. In Hi it.:y they raise
i hoi)• own supplies t.o a largo extent,
and, as a rule, live within 0 sir means,
crops.
It is more pleasant to talk about
crops, even though they are pool,
than to talk about the political out
look, that is an embodiment of cor
ruption; and glad y is *t subject
changed.
j The corn was cut off ’ • cou
| tinned drought during 1 inner,
but the amount housed ■ u all
probab : q .;< soilieioti r otno
consumption, an I the f rrners wili
not have to look to We r r : markets
for teed for stock. The fro”, .ast fall
killed mm- .of the seed < ant which
forced the farmers to grind it upland
but few made enough to grind this
fall, as thny are reserving it for -.eed;
hence the usual sugar-boilings are
non eat. Asa general thing they are
not without sugar and syrup for the
next year. Potatoes, peas, turnips,
| etc., are about, ail ordinary yield
Now a word about „
Ci frov.
In proportion to the area planted,
and the labor employed, this section
of Florida contributes largely in swot
ling the aggregate of the fleecy sta
ple; and from her geographical posi
tion, occupies a permanent place in
the cotton belt <4 the United State:..
The cotton crop has had many disad
vantages to contend with, the present
year—the drought, the caterpillar,
and the abominable “cotton tin ”
The buying . f seed cotton in ‘he
night has assumed such a niagnitn le
that it is really discouraging to ;ar
mors t< aiv- pt to raise It, or , -
gitiruate merchants (of which !•■•.*
are a few) to sell goods. TL
try abounds with these lit:' > • •
horse st i- *, that buy cotter at •-
hours of the night, and in nay e ■-
tines, in exchange for good-;. 1
negro has so much oneoui agement
to steal, that, it is a hard matt - ■
get him to work, ns they consiu r it
cheaper to pick the cotton at night.,
and carry it to one of these “abomi
nations. 1 ' than to labor honestly for
wages.
.SOCIETY.
It is freshing to leavo an
other unpli subject, and branch
out on smm y; and among the dilc
hero if is 1 . plus uHm .” S .'nr : s
in tel Ii gee ' 'moment and modesty
are oonco . .**ckson count- ui
not be o No stranger ilio
conics he t . he bears the
mendatio l i gentleman, ca i p
being sin.•-* with the uni fore
tesv with which lie’meet.-. m
young men take pleasure in iutrt el lin
ing those who visit, hero—the young
ladies entertain them charmingiy—
while the old folks treat them iu reg
ular old Virginia style.
1 have just returned from a mot -
delightful
\ isiT 'j o 10j„ m’b.
Mr. B. was enough to scud I j
bran net: i . t or me, and after
treating me t , a mugmiiceut slipper,
we rode ad stano: of two miles to
seethe young .adieu. At Col. Mv,
we found two tho > ■ o'-t.leauti
and aeco;i,j lisl.ed young ladies in
Florida,-a. :ir good looks am. ,
oomplir.hhmt.t.i are only excelled b
their sv, :< t.. id 'cheerful dispos'di - .
It was like ..ucluuttment to listen !
the Sweet music discoursed by Mi s
J.; and Miss A. made us very mac!:
her friend by a nice repast of oran
ges. Tho visit will long bo remem
bered as a bright event in life, and
“their bright smiles haunt me still.”
If“Senex” will excuse mo, 1 will
imitate him once more, and tell you
of hunting, fishing, etc., tit. another
timo. Yn.i i-,.
Women and Devils. — 0\
ston v. t t gro preacher in Vi • ;
and his -'Jeas of theology and tut i'
nature • - often very origi •
A g tlcvnan thus accostc: tin old
man, one Sunday: “ Win*’-' > un
derstand you believo every ian
has seven devils. llow can you i, - jvo
it?”
“ Well, sah, did you tv . and iri
do Bible how seven debines wore
cast ou' . : irj Magaliu ? ”
“Oh, yes. I’ve read that.”
“Did you ebber hear of ’em bein’
cast oi, . ! any odder woman, tab ?”
“No i never did.”
“ Wiion, all do odder* got ’em
yet.”
If it - True. —An infidel said,
“Thei one thing that mars all the
pleasure my life.”
“ ii . . ' replied his trim, i, “v. hat
is that ’. ”
He ~ red i “I am a M the
Bible t If I could kuo . er
t.aiu it death is an tier;: ’•: , *p i
should . happy. My joy i be
complete! But here is ~•■ thorn
that stings me ; this is the ■■■ ! that
pierces my soul; if the Bible is true,
I am lost forever.”
“A horse! a horse! my ! g
dom for a horse ! ” cried a co! h-., .1
tragedian. “ Wouldn't a j - -' do
ar well!" ir.qf <.J an affected :• *
roan, rUinc it: h ; s seat. “ Y
umphaitdv .nred the actor, “ just
step up V f- . ;y, .ir.” Tho young
man sat A v .
The At' •; > <1 -/ian sat’:-: • r
are nov . Univer.Jtjr s ,n;<• •
less the . iiro hundred .students. ■
are all c ierly and steady, i,u
prose; v.’ i their duties vigoro „
Undoubteiily more w ill come in.
Georgia’B next governor—
Gen. A. 11. Coltjuitt,
$2.00 A YEAR.
WIT and HUMOR,
rmrae of a Bergen county cen
*" n, recently deceased, was Let
tus Steel, lie was no politician ei—
Janet} Welch, of low a, got mad
and stopped his newspaper, and then
because the withdrawal of his patron
age didn’t kill the paper, he went and
killed himself. .
A lady whose family was very
much in the habit of proposing con •
nr,drums, was one evening asked by
ior husband, in an excited tone!
“Why are nil these do >rs left open ?”
“ 1 give it up,” instantly answered
the lady.
It* what vehicle did the mart rida
who was driven frantic ? When a
man revolves much in his mind, does
if, make him fliz-v? If all things ard
for lliu Wi. win US the rations for
t.lio second he,' :ne from? What
is tho exact of a broad grin?
Politeness ia <he mother of peaoc.
She keeps fntni I rity and Impodenoo
from being knocked to death, and
often saves horse!! a broken head. .
When a Pennsylvania farmer sold
Lis farm to an oil company he went
to town the day he got his cash, and
bought his wife two hundred dosed
clothes-pitis-and twenty-five ehothes
lines. lie said he’d had jawing and
growling , -wound that house. -
A youii- ’ la;* required to
write a com oi < - upon some por
tion of the h - -<ly, selected that
which unites t head to the body,
and expounded 'followsi “A throat
is convenient. b avo— especially to
roosters and t. misters. Tho former
eats corn and crows with it; the lat
ter preaches through his’u, and then
t ics it up. This pretty much sii I etui
think of about necks.”
The Kennebec Journal don't wtfflt
to hear any more about smart babies,
lit, it takes delight in telling of an
nftintile acquaint,anoo just one week
old which Is Had a tooth pulled by
a dentist.
A South Boston u-.y wag recently
Interrogated h a. benedict as to why
hi did not get. tea .‘usd. She replied:
■a urefur to bt an old maid.” 110
and he did ntli !:evo it, as he felt
ho envied his wife, “Oh, 00l
would bn breaking the command
ment (Then siiiilt not oovot thy neigh
bor's ass.”)
“You have boon here a long time;
I snppose?” said a traveller to an old
hunter in Oregon. “ You may eay I
have,” said tho hunter; and then,
pointing to Mt. Hood, he continued:
“ You see that mountain over there?
Well, sir, when I first came to this
country, that mountain was a hole in
the ground.” *
It is said that iron is a good tonic
for debilitated young Indies. We do
not know about this, but do know
that ironing is.
The stupidest boy that ever success
fully resisted the attempt to propel
the etymology of the word baker into
his intellectual system will display
more ingene tv and knowledge of
strategy in robbing an apple orchard
than the co > i of a militia regi
ment.
When a man wants a plug of to
bacco the grocery ttiree-fourths of a
miio off is only.a step, but if his wife
wants a drink of cool water from a
neighbor’s well opposite, by soma
mysterious agency that well suddenly
becomes removed more than half a
mile away.
A repot r being called to account
for the ?. t • ,l that a certain meet
ing writ: ad respectable one,
when only a ter person besides
himself was present, insisted that his
report was literally true, for, said.lc,
“I was large ..J the other raau wls
respectable.”
An Irishman, on arriving in this
country, took a fancy to a Yankee
girl, and wrote to his wife: “Dear
Norah, these melancholy lines are to
inform you that T died yesterday,
and hope you arc enjoyiDg the same
Lie ing, I recommend you to marry
Jerry O’T? i.trke, and take care of the
chihler. a your affectionate hus
band lit! J •• ;lh J*
The three ndew of tbo world at
ire ■ t. arc i fluff accumulates
vest j cci '.; ~ ere the pins go to,
md why, i man comes out of a
fit.! job, he to ! - ’ one v/ay and goes tho
:■ ,hor.
The di." rc-oe between persever
ance ami obstinacy i 8 that one often
comes from a ctrong will, and tb.o
other from a strong won’t,
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