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THE HENRY COUNTY WEEKLY.
VOL . XIV.
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jjU. a. I*. CAIIIMIRM,
DENTIST,
MoDonoi <;h, (!*.
Am imc desiring work done can lie :u--
ron-.mmlated either bv cstling on me in per
son or addressing me through the mails.
Terms cash, unless special arrangements
are otherwise nmde.
Gko AT. Bn van | AV.T. Diokkn.
UR YAK .V ItlthiA.
ATTORNEYS AT LAW.
McDoxoinii, i!a.
Will practice in the counties composing
ihe Flint Judicial Circuit, the Supreme Court
of Georgia and Jhe United States District
Court. ’ apr27-ly
i \«i. ii. rntAT.K,
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attorney yt law.
MoDoKot'oti, ll*.
Will practice in the counties composing
the Flint Circuit, the Supreme Court <n
Georgia, and the United States District
Court. marl H-1 y
p .1. UKA«AK.
attorney at law.
McDonocoh, Ga.
Will practice in all the Courts of Gvar.-ia
Special attention given to commercial and
ot her collect ions. Will attend all the Courts
at Hampton regularly. Office upstairs over
Schaefer’s warehouse. janl-ly
| F. AVAIA.
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
McDonough, Ga .
Will practice in the counties composing the
Flint Judicial Circuit, and the Supreme and
District Courts of Georgia. Prompt attention
given to collections. octo-’flt
yy A. M ROW A’.
* ATTORNEY AT LAW,
McDonough, Ga.
Will practice in all the counties compos
ing the Flint Circuit, the Supreme Court of
Georgia and the United States District
Court. janl-lv
|| i . PKtiriAS.
ATTORNEY AT LAW.
Hampton, Ga,
Will practice in all the counties composing
the Flint Judicial Circuit, the Supreme Court
of Georgia and the District Court ot the
Upitcd States. Special and prompt atten
tion given to Collections, Oct S, ISSK
Jno. D. Stkavart. j R.T. Daniel.
NTIIIVART .V OAKII.F.
ATTORN FA'S AT LAW,
Gbikein, Ga.
T|lt. R. .1. tinoi it.
Hampton. Ga,
I hereby tender my perfessional service to
the people of Hampton and surrounding
country. Will attend all cal’s night and
day.
LAW CARD.
1 have opened a law office in Atlanta, but
will continue my practice in Henry county,
attending all Courts regular’y, as heretofore.
Correspondence solicited. Will he in Mc-
Donough on all public days.
Office—Room -Jt), Gate City Bank Build
ing, Alabama street, Atlanta, Ga.
JOHN L.-TYE.
January 1 st, 1 SBJ.
JVicElree’s Wine of Cardui
and THEDFORD’S BLACK-DRAUGHT are
for sale by the following merchants in
IleYirv County:
D. Knott & Co. McDonough.
llill & Parker, Lovejoy.
A. V. McYicker, Babb.
Perry cfe Bran nan, Fiippen.
Dr. W. 11. 11. Peek, Locust Grove.
J. C. Bostwiek, Peeksville.
,1. W. Hale. Sandy Ridge.
W. 11. Gilbert A Co. Stockbridge.
11. F. Harlow, Tunis
Mewlng.MafhinepnTlTl
h. - <Khh
' *i. ' " KS-v our *nachine»i ■l■ 11 1
' Jr? .mil giK>d» where the people can see
- : r-r... ~ ■- them, we will send free to one
"* Si* ~ “** tn each lont.ily,the very
' 0 b**t **'•■ rg-machiae uiade in
"i -•? fi L ibe world, with all the aitschments.
We wiil tl3 ° undfreea complete
/ • i ■ I I w ,ytf Jt lint of our coitljr and valuable art
V* c , * I f
-j C * i * t 'Ajf Jdmw what we send, to those who
* f 'J>j . e ..-fCuisy cai. at your home.and after 2
* m - "»* *lnwnlh» all snail become your own
J'X V. |pr n P*rtv. This yiand machine is
v ? V jßJoadc ufter the Siut'vr patents,
i rV which have run out: before patent*
P 'k run out it sold for ®»», with the
/ , §^ —Yaitachmesta, and now sells for
\'T: '/wi ?T *®r» »>. Boat, atronfceat, most use
* JL JPful machine in the world. All i«
* H $ No capital required. Plain,
ii, . •ustractiuna given l hoae who write to us at once can ae
c-s.i irec the bs«! a»winfr-maehino in the world, and the
fbi «» ue of works of high art ever shown together in America.
'A* iiln CO.. Itot 110, Augusta, Maine.
IcDnnd icMe works
AND
- BRASS FOUNDRY.^
V\fc announce to the public that we are
\ ? now rendv lo do all kinds of Machine
Repairing, suich as
Steam Engines, Potion <«ins,
Separalor and Hit! Ha<-tiin
ery. I'il i ng and Uumniing
<«'in Saws :i .'Specially.
We keep constantly on hand all hinds of
Brass Fittings, inspirators (of anv size),
Iron Piping and Pipe Fittings ; Pipping Cut
and Thread d any Size and Length, We are
prepared to repair your machinery cheaper
than you can have it done in Atlanta. All
w ,i!c guaianteed to gin- satisfaction.
J. J SMITH.
May 24, 1888
tr i Y f ll[?fl Agents in-every Town
?\ .A A I Ij 1 ' and County to sell our
(foods. Send ns One Dollar, and wc w ill
send vou samples that s. ils lor three dolin'?
and start you in business tln.t will pav van
Irom $lO i to $lOlO per month.
Address
THK RICHMOND PUBLISHING CO .
RICHMOND, VA.
ffVTTTCf "P A T>T7T? nwv h. firms on gle at Oaa,
JL n.A.O £ Al X-d-EV I*. j&oweil & Co's Newspaper
Advertising Ihireau (.0 Spruce Bt.l, where ad' •rt i*iof
•uauajiluuer u. uuwla ig t it IN N£W VtIKMU
MIMIXonUL GA.
i McDonough, a i-rvii nj I.OiM) iiihaLHant*,
s the cr.ufitv s«tr cl H«»nr v, one of the Inr*
iropl and in*s«t r>«q*ul ckis conn!it*s in mitidlc
Georgia. is <iiu tli*d on the Last Tetm., \a.
i tin, U’v.. t\v» -.tv ti* ht miles south of \t
lnntn, the csipitfl ot !*o‘ t ilt*. It is also
the north* in form inn* ot* the Georgia Mid
land & Gulf K\v, which has its southern
ermines at Colnmlms, Ga., “the Lowell of
the South. ’ The Central of Georgia run*
through the we.-tern portion o. the com tv,
thus giving it three first class lines ot rail*
w ay.
Farm lands can Le Lon "lit from $5. to
sls. or acre: on which can be grown ro
ifiunerative crops of Cotton, Corn, Wheat,
Oats, liyc, LurLv, Hire, Millet, Sugar-cane,
Sorghum, Sweet and Irish Potatoes, Ground
and Field Pea ami the finest Watermelons
(both as to size and flavor) in the
wo'-hl.
All kinds ol fruits do well b re. Quite a
fruit industry oas sprung up some fourteen
miles to the southwest of McDonough, and
is conducted bv an intelligent set of immi
grants from the north, who bought the lands
cheaply, and which have afwcciati d from
$lO. to SIOO. per acre. Thoie arc thousands
of acres just as good in Henry county await
ing development by industrious immi
grants.
There are eight railioad tow ns in Henry
| county-McDonough, Hampton, Stockbridge,
Locust Grove, Flippen, Greenwood, Tunis
and Louella. In point ot population they
rank as gi*'en
Tho climate is mild and equable. There
is not a day in the year that out of door
work cannot be item* on account ot cold
weather, 'i lie atmosphere is pure and en
tirely free from malaria. A ease ot yellow
fever was never contracted in L>o miles of
this section. The county lies 1.100 feet
above sea level, and is gently undulating
in its topography. Wood and water of the
best quality an' abundant, building mate
rial is cheap and plentiful. Undressed lum
ber can be bought at «$9. per M. and dressed
lumber at from sl2, tosl 1. M. and shingles
(first class)ut $3. per M,
Our people arc kindfy dispos towards
all well-meaning new comers. Politically,
our people believe in “a free ballot and a
fair count.” There is a standing reward of
SSOO. for a single' instance where a men
has not been allowed to vote his political
conviction —whether he be democratic or
republican. hit* motto is, “Let bygone* be
bygones; and let all unite in the up building
of our goodly heritage. W c know no south
no north.” We desire to bend our united
energies to bringing our bcautib 1 lands to
that degree of perfection which brawn and
brain have done for less favored sec
tions.
The manufacturing industries of this
section have received a wondertul impetus in
the last lew years. Gridin, a sprightly
town of 5000 inhabitants only eighteen miles
south <ff us, has built two splendid cotton
mills in the last three years —costingin the
aga regate $300,000. on which amount they
declared a dividend ot 30 per cent, last year.
To those who have money to invest, we in
vite them bvccTue to McDonough, which is
one of the best building sites in the south,
owing to its being in the midst ol the.eotton
fields, and on a line of railway where cheap
coal can be had. it has been demonstrated
that capitalists cannot make a mistake in in
vesting in southern manufacturing enter
tciprises. A cotton mill, an oil mill or
guano factory would all pay a handsome div
idend if erected and put in operation
here.
To the capitalist, tiie mechanic, the ma
chinist. tip.* sturdy, thrifty northern and
western farmers we invite you to come and
examine our section brfbrc purchasing in the
bleak, treeless northwest. We will accord
you a hearty welcome and happy, sunny
homes.
Sample copies of Tun Weekly’ forward
ed to any address on receipt of a one cent
stamp.
All parties corresponding with us will
please inclose stamps to insure reply.
Speer \ Turner, Pubs.,
McDonough, Ga.
Absolutely Pure*
This powder never varies. A marvel of
purity, strength and wholesomeness. More
economical than the ordinary kinds, and
cannot he sold in competition with the mul
titude of low test, short weight alum or
phosphate powders. Sold only in cans.
Royal Baking Powhkr Co.. 100 Wall street,
New York. novl3-ly
GRIFFIN FOUNDRY
AND
Machine Works.
VI Je announce to the Public that we are
? prepared to hulk tun- Engine Boil
ers ; will till * orders tor all kinds of Boil
ers. We are prepared to do all kinds of
repairing on Engines Boil- i s ai d Machin
ery, genera’ly. W<* keep in stock Brass
fittings of all kind ; also Inspirators, In
jectors, Safetv Valves, Steam (beiges,
Ripe and Pipe Fittings and Iron and Brass
Castings of ov« cc Oes-Tiption.
A WAffifOlT,
MARVELOUS
MEMORY
DISCOVERY.
Only Genniie System #f Memory Training.
Four Books Learned in one reading*
Mind wandering cared.
Every child and iidait arantly beneflttnd.
Ore,it inducements to Correspondence Classes.
Prospectus, with Opinions of F>r. Wm. A. Ham*
mono, the world-fam«d Specialist in Mind Diseases.
Daniel Greenleaf Thompson, the srreat Psychol
ogist, J. M. Buckley, D.D., editor of the Christian
Advocate. S. F-, Richard Proctor, the Scientist,
Hons \V. XV. Antor, Judffe Gibnou, Judah P.
Beniamin, and others, sent post free by
Prof. A. XOISETfE, 237 Fifth At*., N. Y.
McDonough, ga.. Friday, may. 24, pshd.
MR. AND MRS. DOWSER
Some of my readers may have fotrrtcri
t!m o; ii * ion that Mr. Bowser is egotis
| tical. Such i- not the case—not par
ticularly. Ho is simply taverage
husband. The avi rage husband knows
it all Without being egotistical. And il
any one has formed the idea that Mr.
Bowser is obstinate, I wish to disabuse
Ins mind on that point. Mr.
Bowser never c needesto me, but that
isn’t obstinacy. That is simply the
way of all husbands.
The other morning I ashed Mr. Bow
-er if he wouldn’t s. ud up a carpenter
to bang the screen door to the kitchen
and, after a moment’s thought he re
plied :
••I’m in no hurry this morningand I’ll
hang it myself.”
“‘But it’s got to have a spring on,
you know.”
“Well, what of it?”
“Can vow—you ?”
‘•lf 1 can’t I want tube knocked on
the head lor an idiot! I’ve put on
move door and gate springs than you’ve
got hairs in your head.”
tie got the door down from the lo’t,
and after running up and d"wn and
backwards and forwards for half an
hour his assortment of tools consisted of
two saws, an anger, a brace and hit, a
plane, a screw-driver and screws, a
square, a com pas, a mitt e-box and a
! tape line.'
“Poes it require all those tools to
i lianjr a screen uoor ?” I queried.
“It may and it may not,” he replied.
“(’an I assist you?”
“Can you a-sist me! Mrs. Bowser,
you talk ; s if you didn’t regard me as
a half-baked. When I want your vul
liable assistance I’ll send you word on a
p stal card! ”
I retired in good order and remain d
out of sight twenty minutes. When I
return' d he had fhedooi on and seemed
well satisfied.
“Y'ou’ll have lo make a slight chat ge
in that, Mr. Bowser.”
“How {”
“You’ve hung it top to bottom.”
“I have, eh? I’ll bet you $10,000,-
000 to n cent I haven’t.”
“Well, look at the knob and the
catch and the moldings on the pan
els.”
He was fairly beaten, and he real
ized it, hut inst.-ad of acknowledging
the corn he looked at it for a moment,
and then quietly said :
“I slipped it on that way to see if
you would notice it, hut you’d have let
it pass if I hadn't, called your atten
tion to it.”
In the course of half an hour ho
made the change and was putting on
the spring when 1 came back. lie had
never put a spring on a door in his life,
and it would not have detracted from
his dignity to ask my advice, but he
would have died first. He measured
for it and began to bore a hole fop the
scieen. After he had worked for two
or three minutes I asked :
“Mr. Bowser, which way are you !
turning that gimlet ?”
“What do you mean ?” he demanded \
as he stopped work.
“You have been turning to the left ”
“Of course I have ! Whoever heard j
of turning a boring tool any other
way ?”
“I have. You may work all day
that way and not accomplish anything, i
I hat gimlet and all other gimlets turn
to the right.”
“ 1 hey do, eh ? What a smart wife j
i have! You lmd better deliver j
a series of lectures ou mechanism.”
“Will you turn to the right?”
“No ma’am !”
He bored and bored, determined not
to give in, and at length I pushed him
aside, and turned the gimlet to the
right and had it into the wood in no
time
“Didn’t I tell you so, Mr. Bowser ?”
“W ell, the man who made that gim
let deserves state prison ! It’s the tirst
one 1 ever saw that turned to the right,
and 1 had seen millions of them bef re
you were born.”
“Can you put the spring ou alone '?”
“Mis. Bowser,” he answered, after '
glaring at me in a chilled steel way tor
haif a minute, “perhaps I ought to be
in the idiot asylum, and perhaps 1 do'
not know enough to come in when it j
rains. \' o u will oblige me very much I
by going into the house and knocking
that .squalling young’un on the head.”
It was half an hour before I dared
make an excuse to get out again. By
that time Mr. if wsCr had the spring
ou, hut ti e door stood open instead of
shut. He was standing in a deep
study.
“I know what ails it, Mr. Bowser.”
“How shrewd !”
“When vou tightened the spring up
you turned it to the right. That
throws the door open. Jf you’ll tight
en to the left, the door will spring
shut.”
He sat down on the steps and look id
at me With twelve different shades of
irony and sarcasm in his expression,
and finally deigned to reply :
“Where did you learn all you
know ?”
“V\ ill you fix that spring as I tell
you?”
“No, ma’aai, I won't! I’ve been
looking it over, and I know where the
trouble is. It’s a spring fora lett hand
door. J should have seeu it at the out
set if you hadn t been bothering
aiound.”
* 1 can ma ,e that s; ri * g work on
this d or.”
•■.Mrs. Bowser, 1 wouldn’t have your
< onceit tor no money. No wonder you
haven't a single friend in this neighbor
hood.”
‘ I have all I want, and I can fix that
spring in two minutes.”
“Nevei ! You situ, lyl want mop
port unity to break it. YYu'd tear the
whole kitchen do vn for the sake of
I carrying your point. Go in ami maul
j that baby s -me more ”
1 grabbed the wrench from his-hands,
I loosened the spring and then turned it
the other way, audio! the door shut
and was held stiff in its place, as was
designed.
“ t here ! Mr. Bowser !”
“There what !”
! •.“The spring shuts the door.”
“I don’t see it.” J
“But look '. Did you ever see a door
j wmk tiie- r?”
“It doesn’t work At all”
“But see.!’’
"1 see a ruined door, just as 1 expec
ted to see. and now I xiust get an en
tire new screen ! Mrs. Bowser, 1 have
home from yon until the limit is about
reached. Don’t provoke me to despe
ration. Husbands rendered desperate
by persistent and ; >alieious nagging
have been known to irisv at jniduigbt
and wipe out the wkoh* ftsSnily V ’
Frc-iileii t l.ivingNlon Wrili-snu
lin port ii ut I.i-ttcr.
Coka, Ga., May 9th, INB9.
Mu. Editor: —Y'ou ask how best
| can the farmers get the benefit of the
contract made recently in Augusta by
| the bagging committee? The commit
i tee did not contract outright for the
I cotton bagging. In their wisdom they
| thought best to open the way, giving
details of agreement by which each far.
mer or county Alliance could secure
' cotton covering for cotton by prompt
I action. So far so good, hut now comes
the difficulty. Will the farmers so long
used to relying on some ouo else to lay
down at his door the necessary articles
for the faun and so unused to transac
ting business of this kind, realize and
appreciate the condition the committee
left this matter in and his relation and
duty to the premises? 'i tie committee
has done well, in that they have settled
several doubtful questions and import
ant ones to Alliance cotton producers.
The State Alliance has resolved to use
cotton as a covering for cotton hags in
stead of jute. County and Farmers
Alliances in Georgia have endorsed that
action, pledging themselves, collective
ly and individually, to stand by the
State Alli-nce. These determinations
have he-ii puhli-hed to the world. 'J he
comrnitte appointed to open up the wav
by which this determination could lie
made piactical wiih as little loss and
inconvenience as possible to the indi
vidual Allianceman, have acted and
turned over their plan to he accepted
and made operative. So much is in
tlue past and cannot he changed or
amended if not entirely satisfactory to
every one*interested i >r the want of
time. The spinners must begin very
soon to till orders or else hut few can
be supplied in time for haling their cot
ton. The price agreed upon is very
high (12. j cents per yard f o. b.j for
two reasons. First, cotton is now sel
ling for two cents per pound. $lO per
hale, more than when ii left the farmers
hands. Second, the machinery to he
used is not such as should he lor the
purpose, and necessarily entails addi
tional expense in the manufacture of
such cloth as contracted lor, and we
might add the third reason, that the
stuff must be stored and held at the
manufacturer’s expense until the far
merit are ready to use it,. The agree
ment on the | art of the “cotton spin
ners association of the south” to give a
premium of ten cents per hundred for
cotton haled in cotton, will lessen the
cost of cotton bagging to that amount,
and wbil - it is true that the agreement
does not bind others that will purchase
cotton thus baled, yet it will have that
effect to all intents and | urposes, es
pecially with such an organization as
the Farmers Alliance to demand and
enforce it.
As before stated, now comes the on
ly hitch likely to he had in the ereett
tiou of onr resolutions and the plan of
the bagging committee. Will our Fat
mers Alliance at once proceed to avail
themselves of the oily wav known to
us by which we can free ontselves of
the jute combine and at the same ben
efit the cotton producer and our own
section of this great country ? There
is no time or sense for hesitating, Let
every Alliance estimate the amount of
bagging required for their use next fall
and either give a joint note or their in
dividual notes, properly assessed, where
doubtful, to their cotton warehouse
men, their Alliance store or to some
merchant, stating the time for delivery
and let their agent, he he who he may,
place the order in the hands of either
parties mentioned in the circular. The
manufacturers will till all orders in
their turn, “tirst come first served.”
Let every Allianceman in Georgia
be as enthusiastic about this as lie was
to adopt the resolution to use cotton
instead of jute. Ido hope that we w ill
demonstrate to the world that our or ;
der is not a paper* concern, but that we.
are deteimined, deliberate, censerva
tive, self reli .nt, and a unite in all
that we attempt. We now have the
vantage ground in this contest atid
when one good squat e and righteous
victory shall have been won we will
only he the better nerved and prepared
for the many conflicts that yet await
us, and the fir-t of all victories to he
won by an Allianceman. is to conquer
himself and thus alligti himself with his
lellows “shoulder to shoulder” thus
promoting the Alliance, thus promot
ing a unit. Will you kindly urge our
people to immediate action, having
them remember that the “Gods help
those who help themselves ?”
Allow me to thank you for the un
selfish, manly and persistent course
taken in y< ui paper, the Farmer and
Fkmt Grower, in 9uppoit of the
principles ot the Alliance. Qur order
in Georgia has unofficial * rgan, there
fore we are to a great extent dependent
on those controlling Hie piess of the
state not only for such information as
j we desire the public to him, hut for a
fair, truthful and unbiased presents
-1 lion ol our objects and interests. All
this you have done ami well done with*
many other papers in Georgia helping
on tiie same line, and 1 as mi re you and
all others thus siding, assisting and cd
! ncating the public to a proper under
; standing and appreciation of our effort
to hotter the condition of the farmers
iml wage earners of this our South
land that the farmers now laboring,
hoping and confident of a better day,
will fully and properly appicciate the
work done in their behalf. May the
day of freedom, the day of universal
prosperity soon come to ev* ry citizen
of Georgia, and may we love this land
of our fathers and stiive li t-only for
ourselves, but for our whole people,
that all may he prosperous, peaceful
and happy.— /.. F. J.mMft/sttat, in
Farmer and Fruit Grower .
1m I.lf© is I’ll 11 ■■ re.
A strange question has come tinder
[ discussion of late—a question symbol
i i/.ing the audacity of the age and some
i tiling of its lack of reverence—namely:
| “Is life worth livins ?” Is it not
| strange that such a question should he
asked in soberness am) sincerity, as
though it were debatable? There is a
philosophy in the world that lias tins
as its main thesis, because this is a had
world, not only had but the worst pos
sible world. It is not difficult to de
tect the genesis of this brave philosophy.
So soon as one begins to doubt the
goodness of God, one begins to doubt if
life has much value. So soon as there
is a suspicion that there is not an eter
nal goodness behind and under life, it
changes color and grows cheaper and
poorer.
Suddenly some poor, foolish man dis
covers that the world suffers and that
man is selfish. He lms learned to dis
sect life with alarming accuracy, but
lie has not learned how to put it to
gether.
Whenever there is doubt as to the i
source, there will he doubt of the value
of whatever flows from it. If God is
not good his greatest gifi may not he
good. If the eternal tide flows with!
indifference to happiness, happiness will
be a rnatti r of chance. The Puritan
mother of Samuel Mills, who, when
her son under the stress of morbid
feeling, cried out, “Oh, that I had never I
been born,” said to him, “my sou, you
are born, and you cannot help it,”
was more philosophical than he who
says, “J am, hut I wish I were not.”
A philosophy that flies in the face of
the inevitable, forfeits its name, and n
philosophy which having found life un
desirable, [iroposes to get rid of it by
educating the race to universal suicide, i
lias a difficult matter in hand, the end
of which need not awaken concern.
There is another issue before mankind
that is not self extinction.
Life may he very poor and worthless,
but the greater part of mankind will
prefer to live it out to the end. We
may rail at existence, hut we cmnot|
escape it. Whether the pessimist is
aware of it or not, his doleful doctrines
will be heard as jests. Men have al- j
ways been ready enough lo see the evils '
in life ; that side of existence has been
well attended to, hut the good side has
not been fairly estimated. The great
masters write tragedies and comedies,
one serious, the other in jest; hut
these have never been the color of
truth. For life must not be suspected.
If it is not of supreme value it is of n«
value When the glory of life is tar
nished, it does not need to he east
away ; it is gone already. One who
holds existence cheap, destroys the basis j
of achievement. Character is gradu
ated by the estimate put upou that
which holds character. One may die
cheerfully at God’s bidding, or gladly
for a cause, hut, the cause must he wor
thy of the sacrifice.
Life, like Emerson’s flower, “is its
own excuse Lr being.”
Lite represents an unquenchable
force, and can never he less than it is.
It is a pool philosophy that, shrinks out
of life because it cannot conquer all
the forces of the world ; better to say,
“I cannot conquer hut J can endure.”
Life is a fire, not to blast and re
duce to ashes, hut to fuse.
Life is a reconciliation «*f diversities
and antagonisms.
What is evil, when there is a soul of
gxtdness in all things?
What is sin, when it is redeemable?
What are toils, and what are storms,
alien there is a heaven to be reached ?
It is fushiomble now to derogate from
the dignity and glory of life. There is
doubt that it leads to anything but its j
own end.
A weakened sense of God suggests
a poor and low estimate of it. “Let
us eat and drink for to-morrow we die,”
is a sentiment that hovers in the air.
A fresh incoming of faith in God is
needed—faith in Him as the father
of men, arid the ordainer of life, with j
its laws and its ends: faets revealed in i
a true sou of God, who came that men j
might have life and that thej might
have it more abundantly.
For truth is truth, as God is God,
And Irulli the day mu-t win.
To douht would Is- disloyalty,
I o falter would he sin.
Kiiyings ofa Xrntliteller.
Where ignorance is bhss, ’tis folly to i
he otherwise.
All play and no work makes Jack a
great shirk.
Peiseverance succeeds sometimes al
most equal to success.
The rat will never wait for the cat
that s’ops to wash its whiskers.
It is easier to get ten ideas into a
man’s head than it is to get oi.e out.
LITERARY WOMEN.
I lie li story of no literary family is
j>o renin, kabl© as that of the three sis
! ters, t'haih tte, Emily and Anne
; Bio le. They lived in a secluded
f hamlet in the north of England, and
their first volume feil dead from the
press, making a gap of over SSoO in
their slender income It was a volume
oi poems supplied to he the production
of three brothers, Currer (Charlotte),
Ellis (Emily) and Action (Anne) Bell.
Charlotte atterward achieved populari
ty as tin- autli r of “The I’r fessor,”
“Jane Eyre,” etc When she called
upon her publishers tliov discovered
•hat (,'urrer Bel), instead of being a man,
was a d minutivo and demure country
gitl* clad in rural simplicity. They
woul 1 not believe that she was the an
thor of such keen studies of social life
and character until she pres uted their
business correspondence as u proof.
Emily, who wrote “.NY qthonug
Heights,” though timid*as a fawn In
■■society, was a woman of rare nerve.
Un one occasion she was bitten by a
dog supposed to be mad. She walked
to the kitchen, took a hot iron from the
stove and cauterized the wound with
out flinching, the scar being visible ttp
ou her hand until the day of her death.
She did not tell l.oi sisters of the acci
dent until weeks afterward. There
was something almost tragical about the
rapjdity with which the three sisters
followed each ot her to the grave.
Mrs. Le.vcs, whose maiden name
was Marion G. Evans, wrote under the
masculine guise of George Eliot. She
deceived the general public, hut not
Charles Dickens. He wrote to Mr.
Blackwood in praise of her genius,
whereupon Mi. Blackwood wrote hack
that the great novelist should not say
her but Ids. Diekeus was not to he de
ceive!, and when “Adatu Bode” ap
peared his suspicious were confirmed.
While the style was full of masculine
power in its penetration and the depths
of its philosophy, the female characters
were far more ably drawn than the
male ones.
When Mr. Jet dan first saw “L. E.
L.,” (Letita Elizabeth Landoii), ho was
almost as much astonished as the pub
lishers ol “June Evre” were when they
learned that Currer Bell Was u woman
and not a man. L. E. L. was brought
into public notice by Mr. Jerdau while
editor of the London Literary Gazette.
He was struck with the delicately pas
sionate sentiment of her poetry, and all
he knew of her was that she was quite j
young and wrote with graceful ease. |
in a little while her poetry begun to he I
quoted, praised anil talked about. The t
author was living with some old maids
who had educated her, and ono day he
received an invitation to call on her. i
The ladies welcomed him heartily and i
had a great deal to tell him about his i
gifted contributor. While seated at an ]
open window he saw a little girl trund
ing a hoop along the gravel walks in
the garden. He noticed that her figure
was petite, her face expressive hut
childlike and her eyes very brilliant.
“Dear me,” ho said, as the little
creature continued her sport, “I won
der when that little girl will stop?
That play with the hoop, on a hot day
like this, must fatigue her very much.”
“Little girl!” exclaimed one of tiie i
cldetly ladies, bristling up. “Why
that is Miss Landon, the young poetess
of whom wo are so proud, and whom
yon have appeared anxious to see!”
Mr. Jordan had expected to see a
young lady, hut certainly not a diminu
tive creature not yet Hi years old.
Alice Carey fought her way to sue-!
cess against more than ordinary difficul
ties. Her stepmother thought that all
study was a waste of time- She kept 1
hut at household drudgery during the
day, and denied her candles at night.
But her ambition was not to he crush- '
ed so easily ; she read and wrote until j
midnight; a saucer of lard with a rag :
lor a wick furnished her with light.
Miss Alcott’s first book, “Hospital
Sketches,” which she always affirmed
was the best of her works, fell dead
from the press. But she was too
plucky to be disheartened. She pro
duced “Eittle Women,” and it met
with immense favor at once, and she
followed it with the other pleasing
hooks that brought her a royalty of
about Ifßo,ooo. And yet the publisher
to whom she first offered “Little Wom
en” returned it to her with the father
ly admonition that she had better stick
to school teaching and give up author
ship.
George Sands smoked in her old
days. For months before her death
j she suffered intensely without uttering
the least complaint. In her last sick
ness of eight days she covered her face
during the deepest anguish, as the Bo
mans used to do when they felt that
their end was drawing near.
/ Some female writers ol a generation
ago, whose liist hooks were a success,
scarcely live in our memories now.
Among them might he named Fanny
Fern, whose “Fern Leaves” reached a
sale of 95,000 copi< s ; Fanny Forester,
whose “Alderbrook” reached a sale of
40,000 copies, and Miss Cummings, au
thor of the “Lamp-Lighter,” of which
lUO,OOO copies were sold.
The average longevity of literary la
dies would indicate that activity of the
brain has the effect of lengthening their
lives lather than siioitening them.
Mrs. Somerville and Caroline Iler
schel reached the age6of92 and 98 res
pectively. Mrs. Barhauld and Miss
falgeworth diet! at 82. Miss Harriet
]>ee attained 95 and Ylrs. Marcet 89.
Jane Porter died at 74, Haunah Moore
at 88, Miss Milford at (59 and Mrs
liadcliffe at 50. The average longevi
ty of the ten ladies named was 82
years.
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II i‘ <»«• I»i-< i>u 1:1 " nt.
“Pretty rough, this Oklahoma bust
i ness, but no rougher than Texan was
when I first went out there,” said the
man with the sandy goatee ns lie laid
aside his paper.
“ Wvre you ranching ?’’ asked one
of llio group.
‘ No. sir; I was a railroad station
agent.”
“Must have seen a great deal of law
lessness ?”
“Ocean* of it, sir; oceans of it. I
had to kill five men in the year 18GG.”
“You did!”
“Yes, sir, and wound as many more.
Didn't want to do it, you know, but it
was lull or lie killed. The crowd let
me alone after awhile, hut the Indians
were a great nuisance. I was just
counting up how many L killed in tweu
ty eight months, and I am great'y dis
anpointed ’’
“llow many did you make out?”
“OnlytiMrijr-iour, Ut-t lam satisfied
that 1 have left out seven or eight
somehow. When such a thing as that
is once off your mind : t is hard to re
call exact figures.'’
on have had some narrow es
capes f”
“Over a hundred, sir, and been
wounded sixteen different times. The
boys once put up a job on me to try
my nerve.”
“How was it?”
“They caught five big follows, and
turned ’em4oo.se in my office while I
was at supper. When I returned L
was very busy thinking, and so walked
right in ou them without warning.”
“Mercy on me ! And then ? ”
“I got seated at my desk, and the
serpents began to rattle and menance
me. . Three of the hoys were looking
in at the window, and I was determin
ed not to show a sign of weakness.”
“Hut you might have been bitten.”
“I was bitten. Three of the snakes
struck me in the left leg ”
“And you didn’t die ?”
“As you see.”
’ * i I it L—you —you ”
“I bad a quart of whisky, and 1
I drank it and counteracted the poison.
It wasn't quite enough, however, and
there are days now and then when I
.feel very queer.”
“What is the exact sensation?”
“Very dry in my throat, and I al
ways make bold to ask any gentleman
near mu if he carries a flask. If any
of you gents happens to have such an
article with you I shall he ever so
grateful. I think l feel the premonito
ry symptoms."
i “Hut wft haven't. We are all dele
-1 gates to the temperance convention at
Dubuque.”
“You are! Well, I took my chan
ces and lost. That’s the last time I
tell that lie unless I see the bulge of a
flask in someone’s pocket before I be
gin. This is the third time to day, and
I haven’t got the first smell of" any
thing but ice water.”
A t'liloml liel'o,
Just below Natchez and at about 10
o’clock in the forenoon there was a
wil l shout of “man tverhoard,” and
the engineer at once got the signal to
stop. Those of ns sitting aft saw a
black man struggling in the water a
few feet astern, and as wo rose up to
throw him a life-preserver a second
wooly head appeared beside him. Some
one had jumped in to rescue him, and
he did his work well. The fust one
was a poor swimmer and badly fright
ened, but the second had a powerful
stroke and was evidently a*, home in
the water. He seized and held the
unfortunate up until they drifted down
and a rope was thrown them.
“Hy George !” exclaimed the colo
nel as they were pulled in, “but that
fellow deserves a medal!’’
We rushed down to interview him,
and as he leaned against a pile of
freight, wet but not a bit exhausted,
the colonel said :
“My man, that was a brave act.
Did you see him fall overboard ?”
“Why, 1 dun chased him oher!” was
the reply.
“1 low ?”
“lie dun stole my terbacker an’ I
was arter him. Dat’s what I saved
him fur—didn’t want to lose mil dat
■Hit n't »V on I Much.
“I like to ask you some questions,”
he said to the sergeant at the central
station last evening.
“Do ahead.”
“Yh;is dere some newspaper in New
i York called—called ”
“Called what ?”
“Vhell, I haf forgotten der name.
Let me see ? 1 gif it oop. I can’t re
member.”
“Well ?”
“Vhell, vhas dere some reporter
named—named ?”
“Named what ?”
“it vhas gone oudt of my headt. I
doan’ remember him l vlias to die.”
“What did you want to get at?”
Vhv, dot man writes up my place
for ten Hollar, und 1 pay him half iu ad
vance.”
“Hut you can’t remember either bis
name or that of the paper?”
“No.”
“Well, what do you expect us to
Jo ?”
“1 like you not to tell anybody T
vhas such a fool as dot. Dot vhas all.
Good day.”
“Excuse me, but your poem lacks ar
tistic finish.”
“But there’s jingle in it.”
“Jingle doesn’t take.”
“Oh, it dosen’t eh ? Maybe you uev
.er heard of ‘Mother Goose’s Melodies’,,
did you ?”
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