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FOLDED A IF Alt.
Day by day, we fold away
Soma treasnre that our hearts hold dear,
Some cherished thing to which we cling
And bless with many a kiss and tear.
A shred of lace may hold a place
That jewels rare could never win ;
With love untold a rihhnn old
Is laid our dearest shrine within.
A Utile tiess we fondly press
Unto a heart that aches with pain ;
'l'beo with u sigh for duys gone by,
We fold it from our sight again.
And is there not a hollowed spot,
In memory's casket lying low,
Where day by day we fold away
Our heurt-thougbts, lest the world should
know T
Many a one, now lost and gone,
In awret day dreaminps we behold,
Who, in our sleep, rome bnek to keep
With us their vigils as of old.
And yet, alas ! sorh dreams must pass ;
Lilt’s sterner duties must be met.
Quickly we turn and strive to learn
That cruel lesson—to forget!
When from the gleam of love's sweet dream
Our hearts awake in sad surprise,
Bow dimly burn, where’er we turn,
J'he lesser lights that meet our eyes I
When o’er the dead our tears are shed—
While on the silent lips we press
The lasi fond kiss—oh, is not this
The summit of lilt’s loneliness f
And yet we know, thoogh all lie low
Whom we have ever loved or known,
Still we must live and learn to give
To earth the claims it calls its own.
0 grief untold ! with hearts grown old,
Like flowers blighted in a day,
flow fondly then from sight of men
We fold our dear dead loves away.
The Importance of Education.
II is generally admitted nnd believed that
success in worldly matters depends upon
education. Large fortunes in almost every
instance, unless inherited, are the direct
Wsult of discipline, patience, brains and
method. Genius cannot force success by
the strength of itself alone. It must have
the foundation to build upon which educa
tion has planned and executed. Luck is a
mythical expression, with hut little point or
coneiquence. How importantlhen, that the
people of this enlightened age should store
themselves with acquisitions in which every
man or woman has sufficient capacity to
make considerable progress, and from which
every common occasion of life may reap im
mense advantage.
The great defect in our American activity
-•-intellectual and physical—is that we are
not trained to our work. Schools, acade
mies and colleges exist in such abundance
that there is uo valid excuse for ignorance,
and we are somewhat apt to boast of our
superior opportunities. Hut an established
error in nil car institutions of learning. Irom
one end of the land to another, is the classi
fication of children and youth without proper
discrimination as to individual taste and
propensity. It is rank mismanagement to
require the same school lessons from a row
of pupils of different views and cupaeilies,
and, not infrequently, ages, solely because
they happen to st#nd on a par in some minor
matter or branch of study. Years are
thrown away—utterly wasted—which might
have been employed in fitting masters of
professions, developing lenders of thought,
infusing practical principles of mathematics
into the mechanical mind, or guiding the
thoughtful into that general culture which
will enable them to sympathize with and
appreciate co-workers in every department
of labor. In the mass, who can descry more
than a mere handful of lawyers, doctors,
editors, teachers, writers, or even clergymen,
jierlectly educated in their respective voeo
tious? r J bey do their work, it is true, but
not evenly aid with that indescribable finish
and proportion which is the unmistakable
product of careful preparation. And in
business of every sort, how few can we find,
let us go where we will, who ure fortified
against blunders in ordinary transactions,
through the refined and necessary knowledge
which leads to success, even when there is
no Jack of innate capacity, shrewdness, or
energy in the workers themselves.
It has been argued that we cannot expect
attention from teacbeis to the particular
abilities ar.d designs of the pupil from the
trifling Balary paid upon sorb account. Then
l#t us increase the salaries of teachers. The
price that is thought soflicient to reward u
persou of teaming for instruction bestowed
upon the youth of this generation is an
abominable consideration. The encourage
ment held out to those who wish to make
teaching a profession is much less than that
which secures a gardener or a coachman, j
1 herefore men cannot afford, as a rule, to
teach for a living. They accept situations
in our schools as stepping-stones to some
thing which pays better, or to provide bread
while climbing higher. And women, whose
opportunities for self-support are narrow at
the best, fall Datnrally into the employment |
(il they cud obtain a situation) while wailing
for a husband. How much heart can such !
teachers have in the work ? This condition |
of things should be remedied. There is no j
occupation deserving higher respect and !
honor than that of fitting the growing public
for the duties of life. There is no profession i
which should be cherished with more tender
consideration by the American world than
that of teaching. There is no direction in
which money tan be appropriated with more
certainty of full returns than in the cause of i
education.
And we want education for oar bright,
promising boys and girls, in its complete
significance. Not simply lessons recited in
a tread-mill routine from day to day, with
weari. ess, aud back-aches, and wicked pro
pensities to opeet the nesi boy's inkstand
ar.d bide bomble-bees slyly under his cravat,
iodnlged in and coming between ; not gram
mar, or geography, or history committed to
memory by the yard, without the slightest
comprehension of the meaning, use, or appli
cation of principles aud pages. We are
reminded, in this connection, of a child of
sewu who, with a grasping intellect, was
permitted, once upon a time, to swallow, so
to speak, the entire production of one of our
learned grammatical and rj v
prodigy of a certain school. A half dozen
years later no advance had been made in
grammatical knowledge by the preooeions
pnpil, nod not only that, but a positive dis»
ta«te had been acquired for the ‘ stupid jum
ble of words,” which were as meaningless to
the young inind as a Hebrew dictionary
Onr desire is to see the chi'dren in our
schools, public nod private, comprehensively
disciplined in nil that informs nod enlightens
the understanding. We would have I heir
minds imbued with the principles of art.
science, morals, religion and behavior. We
would have every suitable means employed
for their improvement, correction and
growth. We would have their dispositions
and qualities studied by those whom we have
placed over them; not by a nondescript
professor, n jack-of-all-trades, who igiqtially
ready to leach engineering and Latin com
position, and who has no more exalted idea
of his mission than to confound lazy or'un
wiping minds with eusy questions so many
hours a day, and thankful if his quarter’s
salary is not clipped at both ends for school
room Gres, or to whitewash the sehool-house
fence.
And we would have « wise and judicious
selection of definite objects for study, inde
pendent of the consecrated system of classes.
Quality is ol infinitely greater importance
than quantity. We would have talent de
veloped Without any forcing process—driv
ing no boy through a mill in three years by
steam and electricity—but giving time for
the mind to mature slowly; and we would
impose no fetters upon ger.ia». For such as
incline naturally to the severer studies—the
classics, metaphysics and sciences—we would
(urnisb avtnuea with which to open the path
to manly und independent research.
'I he importance of education is nowhere,
perhaps, more glaringly apparent than iu the
mall talk of society. We are every day
brought face to lace with the most nanseat
ing ignorance displayed by editors, lawyers
and would-be critics. It is not their fault
so much as their misfortune in having as
sumed positions for which they were not
fitted. Hut we can only strike the root of a
legion of evils by reforming our means and
our methods of training the rising genera*
tions in all that is needed for the various
walks to which they are destined With
scholarship and culture should also be ad led
the formation ol manners and all the little
accomplishments which constitute good
breeding.
Vacation.
This is the time of the year at which the
dry goods clerk receives permission to go
cfl ioto the country for two weeks to rusti
cate. He receives his fortnight’s pay in
advance, and is as happy ns a butterfly on
the bosom of a tulip as he glides out ol the
city. He generally goes to visit some farmer
relative, for then be can have all the fresh
milk he wunts, and besides won’t be obliged
to puy any board. The latter is the lenture
which makes the farm preferable to a fash
ionable watering place. H“ never visits the
tarmei u second time, ns he is discovered to
be a philosopher of no mean order. He
tells the young man that as he has been con
fined in a close store for a year, all he wants
to brace bint up is to dig u little, so he lakes
him out and introduces him to a two-acre
lot ol potatoes which needs hoeing. Of
course he cuu’t decline and offend bis host,
so he shoulders the hoe and goes to woik in
a manner which would leud u casual observer
' to imagine him to be committing murder
j undir a special contract. The way he makes
that hoc fly around his head and the number
of potatoes he chops in liulf ought to be a
warning to the agriculturist to call him ofl.
This he would do if he knew the damage
that wug being done; but he doesn’t—he
otdy sees the hue fly around, and thut makes
him smile and exclaim :
"Well, now. I swan if he ain’t a gosh
blamed lively b >y!’’
Alter that he is asked to ehop some wood
and turn a grindstone for nn hour or two,
the farmer asserting that these things are
extremely healthful in the.r tendencies, and
witlml quite the thing lor a young nia i who
weeks in a store all the year.
Ou the following day he is asked to help
fix a stone wall, and, being rather slender
and light, is selected as the most available
person around the place to lie lowered down
the well to fasten the bucket to the chain.
After he has been in the country for about
two days he hegins to sigh for the city, and
to be back again in a store in charge of a
cross-grained employer with yellow hair.
He is by that time completely us*d up, and
wonders if he has fallen down stairs or been
mn over by u lumber wagon. He thinks
eveu a residence in Zululand, with fever and
ague thrown in, would be sweeter, lie feels
like asking the farmer to pension him. Iu
an ecstasy of despair ho gets his brother to
telegraph to him saying there is a death in
the family und he must return immediately ;
and us he departs the farmer remarks that
be doesn’t stem to “take on” much, and that
he is about the bappiist mourner he ever
saw in bis life.
A i.ady not accustomed to raising poultry
set a hen on some eggs, and in due course of
time a brood ol chickens was hatched A
friend coming in four duys after watd, no
ticing that the little things looked wtuk and
puny, asked how often they were fed. “Fed I”
was the reply, “why, 1 thought the Leu
nursed them.”
People often complain of hard times from
a mere natural tendency to growl, but a
Georgia darkey, tbe other day, said : “Neb
ber Retd such times since I been born. Work
all day and steal all night, and blessed if 1
can hardly make a liviu’.”
A yobnu man who went to Lendville, six
weeks ago, writes cheerfully back to his
trieods : ‘ 1 have gained three pounds since I
came here, aud gained it all in ball-ounce in
stallments. Haven’t btcu shot io the Lead
yet.”
“Tell me,” exclaims Dr. Mary Walker,
“how would Venus have looked if she had
worn corsets!” Dear Mary, if she hadu’t
worn anything else she would have looked
ridiculous, especially at au evening party.
A man in Michigan swapped his horse for
a wile. Au okl bachelor acquaintance said
he’d bet there was something wrong with
tbe horse, or its owner would never have
fooled it away in that reckless manner.
When a man tells you bow he had a peach
stone extracted from his throat, where it had
hecomn fiUi'j),£»u io-bc making.
fwT bow xtf shall never meet agmn
ZIMRI, THE BEAUTIFUL.
Zimri, the beautiful, excellent of earth,
Journeved across the desert, and his soul
Fainted within him. Weary and sore of foot
lie toiled to reach the isle of waving palms
That marked the fair oasis’ grateful rest.
And his sinking heart grew. stronger than
the leopard’s paw,
hen ’oeatb bis feet he felt the springing
turf;
Beside the palm-crowned well lie knrlt and
drank,
And praying Allub for his gracious aid,
Sate down upon a gum-wood stump to rest.
* * Then he arose.
A sad, sweet smile—such as he wears who
dreams
Kestutic visions—=pread athwart his lovely
Countenance. From his parted lips
There fell the desert cry. A long, long wail,
Like a steam whistle with the mouth-piece
cracked
And all the joints wide open.
The Bi-ddoee girls,
That heard his fearlul wail, started, up rose
And scooted lor tall timber. Frightened
birds
Added their clamor to the dolorous noise,
And all the desert by the racket, knew
Zimri, the beautiful, h id sot upon a wa=p,
One of the steel bine kind. — Hawkeye
Culture and Training.
Culture in its widest sense is, I take it,
thorough acquaintance with all the old and
new results of intellectual activity in all de
partments of knowledge, so far ss they con
duce to wellare, to correct living, and to
rational conduct ; that is, culture is to the
intellectual man what heredity has been to
the physical man. Culture is concerned only
with results, not with demonstrations, and
does not look to new advances; while tech
nical training is concerned with methods and
proofs and values the results of the methods
and investigations of the past onlv as they
contribute to new udvunces Technical
training looks to progress in some one defi
nite line, one radius of the growing circle of
the domain of human intelligence, and ignores
the rest of the circntnle ence. It is to the
intellectual mun what variation is to the
physical man. By culture we hold our own,
and by technical training we advance to
higher levels. Both are equally important
to human welfare, and the great problem of
the future is how to secure each to the great
est degree without sacrificing the other. 'The
nnulogy of the lest of the organic wor'd
would seem to indicate that this is to be ac
complished by - division of labor." If the
female mind has gained during its evolution
an especial aptness for ncqiliring and apply
ing the results of past progress, by an empi
rical method and without the necessity for
studying proofs and reasons, it would seem
especially fitted for culture, as distinct Irom
training, while the male inind is best fitted
lor education by that process of inductive
training by demonstration and experiment
which leads to new advances. The methods
employed in the general instruction of young
men and young women sliould not therefore
be identical. With ttie one the field may be
very wide and the methods empirical, and
with the other the range more narrow and
the methods more strictly logical. Iu this
way each type of mind will be developed in
the muoner fir which it has an especial fit
ness; and we have the strongest giounds for
the belief that this method would also grad
ually result in the extension of that congen
ial acquaintance with nature which is the
coniruou stock ot the race, and would thus
leave more time for the special training of
those minds which are by nature best fitted
to receive it.— Popular Science Monthly for
July.
Don't Elope in It libbers.
An infal'ible indication of the approach
of summer is the number of elopemeots whirl)
are chronicled in the local columns of the
domestic exchanges. One of the most touch
ing idyls of the season is told in limpid prose
by the Dayton Democrat■ He was poor, she
was young, her parents were sensible. He
wus forbidden to enter the house or she to
leave it. Her chumber was in the second
story nnd underneath the window was a
grape arbor or reck. At the hour appointed
for love’s adventure he mad- the precon
certed signal from a shady corner of the
street, and she answered it. Bhe had a
change of clothing safely stowed away in a
vulise, which she hud borrowed from her
brother without bis knowledge. She opened
the window and lowered the valise to the
ground. Then ctawliog out of the window
ai;d straddliug one ol the rafters of the grape
rack, she crept down to the post and thence
to the g<oui,d. Everything looked uuspic
ious, and they were in great glee when, to
her horror, she huppeued to observe that she
had on a pair of old rubbers instead of her
shoes, which she had thrown off in her room,
und had forgotten to throw out on the grass.
This was a sad slate of affairs, as it would
not look well lor a young lady to go travel
ing among strangers with a pair of rubliers
uud noth ug else in the lorm of shoe leather,
uud besides, as it wus dump und cold, ber
health would be endangered Ju-t what to
do greatly distressed their urdent young
hearts. A preposition that he should cbiub
up to the room and get the shoes was oot
highly entertained by the dashing young
mau, but while they were discussing it, their
pretty little scheme suddeuly col lapsed. The
big brother turned up unexpectedly at the
frout gate. Tbe girl sat dowu ou the door
step and burst into tears, and her lover dis
appeared over the fence with uncommon
agility. There was a domestic tableau in
the parlor uud the youog lady was scut to
bed
As editor has oue advantage over a king.
When the editor goes out riding iu his open
batouebe drawn by four milk while steeds
he is never shot at by a socialist. You have
probably remarked this yourself.
“ Thb only real bitter teats,” says some
one, "are those shed in solitude.” Guess that
philosopher uever saw a ten-year old boy
coming out of a woodshed iu company with
his lather and a strap.
Thx house flies held their regular annual
convention all over the couulry tbe first of
the month, and unanimously resolved to
adopt last year’s platform without auy
changes.
A mas never is aware how much vital ac
tivity be has about him until he puts on a
Jn>ir.oUitH .seasou’a pauts and finds au early
mViTrf'iij iMv’i.vtjiv- •
NEW FIRM!
Copartnership Notice.
IB AYE this day sold a half interest in my
business to (5. F. Turner, and the name
and style of the firm will be known in future
as Harper -fe Turner. R, T. HARPER.
January 9th, 1879.
We respectfully solicit a share of the pub
lie patronagp, believing w* can show as fine
and well assorted stock of goods us will be
found anywhere. Our stock of
DRY GOODS
Is complete in pvery particular, and includes
a fine assortment of loidves’ Dress Goods,
Linens, Bleachings, Domestics, und Faney
Notions of all kinds.
Clotnins 2
A new and elegant lot of Olothing, of every
style and quality. Gents’ Underwear a spe
cialty.
HATS AND CAPS
To suit the tastes of the masses, and at prices
that will meet the requirements ol the trade.
BOOTS AND SHOES!
Our stock of Boots and Shots, having been
bought at a bargain in the Northern mar
kets, we ean afford to sell cheap, and are pre
pared to offer extra inducements to the trade.
Furniture 2
We have also a large lot ol Furniture—Bed
steads, Bureaux, Washstauds, Wardrobes,
Tables, Chairs,,’ etc —which we will sell at
extremely low figures. Bed room setts a
specialty.
GROCERIES.
Special attention is called to our stock of
Groceries, which is quite large, aod com
prises every article kept iu that line.
Our stock is beiug constantly replenished
with Goods that are carefully selected by ex- i
perienced buyers, and are bought lor cash
from first hands, thereby enabling us to set! to
advantage—both to ourselves and customers.
W ith all these facilities we are prepared to ex
hibit at all times a complete general stock,
and parties wishing to buy can always fiud
some specialties at very low prices at our
store. GiveusacalL
Uighs but about three
St living person (about
l it at feast orac tv-try
and other impurities
m strained or filtered from it. Life is the natur.il
Wj purgative of the bowels, and if the Liver becomes
torpid it is not separated from the blood, but car
ried through the veins to all parts of the system,
in trying to escape through the port* of the
skin, causes it to turn yellow or a dirty brown
” color. Thesioniach becomes diseased, and Dys-
M pepsia, Indigestion, Constipation, Headadhc Hifx
m ou&ness, Jaundice, Chills, Malarial Ftrersj yHc*,
Sick and Sour Stomach, and general debuity fo’ v
* low. Merrbll’s Hspatinb, the great vegetable
Pf discovery for torpidity, causes the Liver to throw
WofF from one to two ounces of bile each time the
bloodjpasses through it, as long as there is an ex*
W cess of bile; and the effect of even a few doses
upon yellow complexion or a brown dirty looking
skin, will astonish all who try it—they being the
I first symptoms to disappear. The cure of all bili
ous diseases and Liver complaint is made certain
by taking Hepatine in accordance with directions,
fleadache is generally cured in twenty minutes,
and no disease that arises from the Liver can exist
if a fair trial is given.
SOLD AS A SUBSTITUTE FOR PILLS
BY ALL DRUGGISTS.
Price 25 Cents and SI.OO
'LUNGS
The fatality of Consumption or Throat and
Lung Diseases, which sweep to the grave at least
|T" one-third of all death's victims, arises from the
M Opium or Morphine treatment, which simply stu
rfs Defies as the work oi death goes on. SIO,OOO will
be paid if Opium or Morphine, or any preparation
of Opium, Morphine or Prussic Acid, can be found
W in the Globe Flower Cough Syrup, which has
y] cured people who are living to-day with but one
remaining lung. No greater wrong can be done
g than to say that Consumption is incurable. The
}r Globe Flower Cough Syrup will cure it when
Q all other means have failed. Also, Colds, Cough,
j Asthma, Bronchitis, and all diseases of the throat
and lungs. Read the testimonials of the Hon.
Alexander H. Stephens, Gov. Smith and Ex-Gov.
W Brown of Ga., Hon. Geo. Peabody, as well as
those of other remarkable cures in our book—free
Bto all at the drug stores —and be convinced that il
j you wish to be cured you can be by taking the
Globe Flower Cough Syrup.
« Take no Troches or Lozenges for Sore Throat,
W when you can get Globe Flower Syrup at same
M price. For sale by all Druggists
| Price 25 Cents and SI.OO
IBLOOD
•
jgi Grave mistakes are made in the treatment of all
diseases that arise from poison in the blood. Not
m one case of Scrofula, Syphilis, White Swelling,
O, Ulcerous Sores and Skill Disease, in a thousand,
is treated without the use of Mercury in some form,
Mercury rots the bones, and the diseases it pro
duces are worse than ariy other kind of blood or
skin disease can be.® Dr. Pemberton'sStillin
gia or Queen's Delight is the only medicine
upon which a hope of recovery from Scrofula, Sy
m philis and Mercurial diseases in all stages, can be
W reasonably founded, and that will cure Cancer.
£IO,OOO will be paid by the proprietors if Mercury,
H| or any ingredient not purely vegetable and liarni
-1 less can be found in it.
rfs Price by all Druggists SI.OO.
” Globe Flower Cough Syrup and Morrell's
IHepatine for the Liver for sale by all Drug
gists in 25 cent and SI.OO bottles.
A. F. MEBEELL !c CO., Proprietors,
' PHILADELPHIA, PA.
Gullett’s Improved Cotton Gin.
Plantkrs are respectfully invited to ex
amine this Gin before buying I will keep
sample Gin, with Feeder, Condenser and
Gullett’s Double Revolving Cotton Press
(dispensing with a lint room.) always on hand
lor exhibition. We guarantee the most per
feet satisfaction to purchasers, in every par
ticular. The price will be reduced next sea
son from $4 to S 3 50 per saw on the Gins
and from $1 25 to SI on the Feedeis. I
refer all to the accompanying certificates ol
our cotton buyers and planters of last year,
and to the certificates of well known planters
who are using Gullett’s Gins, as to the extra
prices obtained lor cottou sinned on them.
J. A. BEEKS, Agent.
Griffin, Ga., March 19, 1879.
Griffin, Ga , March 1, 1879.
We, the undersigned, are using IbeUuliett
Improved Light Draft Cotton Gin The
Gin is of superior workmanship For fust
ginning, safety in running and light draft, (to
do the same work,) we think it has no equal;
but the most important feature is the attach
ment for opening and improving the sample.
The best cotton is improved by it so as to
bring from to % cent, and stained and
dirty cotton from >4 to I cent per lb. more
in the Griffin market than on other Gins
(Signed) W J Bridges, T W Mauley, J T
Manley.
Griffin, Ga , May 17. 1878.
To J A Beefc, Agml for the GulleU Gin
Man’f’g Co , Griffin, Ga : —At your re
quest, we, planters and dealers in cotton, give
to the public <>ur opinion of your Gin. We
take pleasure in saving to ail in oeed of new
Gius that it is now a well established fact
that cotton ginned 011 these Gins brings a
higher price in our market than any other,
and the Gins are growing in public favor.
Cotton ginned on them sold last season at
from to 1 cent per pound above the mar
ket price. Mr. Gullett’s attaenraont for im
proving the sample of cotton, we are satisfied,
is wbat he claims for it. The Gin appears
to have reached perfection in gin machinery.
A. C iSorrel, T J Brooks, R P
McWilliams, S B McWilliams, .D W Pat
terson, R H Sims T J Bloodwortb.
I am also agent for the celebrated Eclipse
Portable Engine, manufactured by Frick &
Co, for the counties of Butts. Spalding.
Fayette and Clayton. J. A. BEEKS.
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CINCINNATI, O.r-
L C N EB I NGER. Manager
*arFor sale by G. E. Wise, Hampton,
Ga. sepl3-Iy.
Job Work, solicited and executed with
neatness.
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