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THE DAWSON WEEKLY JOURNAL.
15Y WESTON & COJIBS.
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PCRLISUKI) IVKRT THORSDAT,
TMIMS— Strictly in ,ltltanie.
Throe months $ 75
Six mouths 1 25
Oue year 2 00
advertising RATES :
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ONI MONTH.
TWO MONTHS.
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ONE TEAR.
ONE. $ 30055 00 $ 700 sl2 50 S2O 00
two 500 7 60 10 00 18 00, 25 00
three 7 00 10 00 12 Oo 20 00 30 00
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frOtJR 9 00 12 00 15 00 25 00 40 00
f 10 00 18 00 25 00, 40 00 60 00
i 16 00 25 00 35 00 60 00 110 00
1 cm.. 25 00 40 00 60 00 110 (HV2OO 0
To •.■tllverttscrfi :—The money for ad
vertUug considered due after first iuser
lion.
Advertisements inserted at intervals to be
charged as new each insertion.
An additional charge of 10 per cent will
be made on advertisements ordered to be in
serted on a particular pago.
Advertisements under the head of “Spe
cial Notices’’ will he inserted for 16 cents
por line, for the first insertion, and 10 cents
per line for each subsequent insertion.
Advertisements in the “ Local Column,”
will be inserted at 25 cents per line for the
first, and 20 cent- per line for each subse
quent insertion.
All communications or letters on business
intended for this office should be addressed
to “The Dawson Journal”
gtaml tote.
TSTcTft- mqore, =
INTENDING to locate petmanentlv in Daw
son, Ga , tenders hig proses-ions) servl es
to the citizens of the place and vicinity. K> otn
Bis long experience in the treabnci t of lit—
in (■ M T . Geqrgit, he flatters l.’rn-elf
*hat he will ne able to give entire sbisfac
tq-D. lie nisv.be found, for tin- p esint,
when not professionally enea?> and, during the
cay at one of the Drug S' o, .■■-■, and at L: . t
at the residence of J. W. Reddick.
Refers to any of liis former patrons.
scpt.l4 ts
Lyon, BoGrolTenrie.l and Lvia.
Attorneys at Law,
N3 U f>7, - - - GEORGIA.
■\VTILL give attention o profeeUotui bus
ty ineas in the Macon, 'h.ot b western k
J’wtaula Circuits ; in the U and Couit*, at. S
avannah, and aidants, and by speci.l con
tract in any part of the State.
~F. NL. HrYFtUMifU
jlttojiiey ajid Calijijellcf at Laty
o,s.
DR. G. wTTaRRAR“
nAS located in this citv, and odors Ids
Pio'eseional services to the public -
Office next door to the “Journal Office,” on
Main Street, where he c.n be found in the
dav, unless ptofesaionally et giged, and at
night at his residence opposite the Baptist
church feb. 2-tt:
K. J B ~V/A~ RR EN,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
sjaHiKsriLEE, - - ft»i.
G W. WARWICK,
Att'y at Law and Solicitor in Equity
SMITHVILLE, GA.
Will practice in South W and Tatau la
circuits. Collection i irotn P tl y remitted.
It A COL.-“- C. T. CIIEVES,
TOWNS house,
fUiOVIF ST.,
ALIiANY, GA
BY
B. A. COLLI KBS & CO.
McAFE HOUSE,
At Smilliville, La.
undersigned having fitted tip the Me-
L Afee House at Smithvtlle, takes pleasure
in notifying the travelling public that the
above house is now in the “full tide”of sue
cessful administration bv himself. He will
spare no expense to make it a First-Class
Hotel. M/eals ready ou the artival of the
rain. ' W. M. McAFEf'h
Si” TfUI j
We are now prepared to soil
PROVISIONS ON TIME
cimjiatuckeh.
M Ja26, tf
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Campbell &. jones
Agaia offer their services to Planters and
Merchants, as
Warehouse <fc Commission
MERCHANTS.
ask a coutinuance of he patronage?*)
liberally given them the past season.
Close personal at-eotion given 10 the Sfor
oge and Sale of 6’otton, and to the filling of
orders for Bagging aud Ties and Plantation
Supplies.
Refer to the patrons of the past season,
•/iemember the place—
Iron Warehouse,
Poplar sit., MACOS, ©A.
• P. S.—Agents for the Winship Improved
Co'ton Gin and John Merryman k Co.’s Mm
moniated Oissolvcd Bones, which we now of
fer at & reduced price. septH Sm
Dawson Business Director},
I>ry Goods Merchants.
P, 1 * 1 ”’ * T't'CKnt, Dealer, in
Drv Goods Clothing, Roots and Shoes
Groceries Ac. ,4!so agents for some of the
most approved Fertlli* «. Main Street.
la ■’ ' *D»V Aii IF, Dealer in
j IV Staple and Fancy Dry Good-, Groceries
Hardware, Cioekery etc.
( 1 'V- F. Dealer In Fancy and stg.
r 1 ,,,?7,! 30 ?‘ 18 > Mai! ‘ next door to
J. W. Reddick a.
CirocLiy ’JcrctiiiMls
HOOt>, B. EE, Dealer in Groceries and
Family suoolies generally, at W. F.
Orr’s old stand, under ‘Journal” Office
Main at.
J" OA F,IAS, J, E. Grocer and Com
mission A/erchant, Dealer in Bacon,
Flour, Liquors, ke.
Iy 1. It*.’ Et. si, ,f. Gmeer dealer in Ha
lt coil, Flour, Lard, Tobacco, &o.
H A RDWAK E.
T KE «fc ItItOJTIECt, Dealer, in
Ad Hardware. Iron ~.,d ■.aid, V/agon Tiin
bars, and Plantation Tonis. Also Manufac
frets of Tin Ware,Main st., at J. 15. Perry’s
old stand. 1
p.n.IHVIA, ANDREW. Dealer
k.J in Dr? Goods, Groceries, Hardware Cut
terly, Furniture, Ist door from the Hotel.
DiugSisls.
f SEE E A ? ESA7J, c. A., Druggist and
\J Physician. Will visit by day or night,
patients in Town will presoribe for
any and all the ills that flesh is heir to.
Keeps a complete supply of Drugs and Med,
icit.cs, School Books anJ stationary—Gar
den Seeds &s , ic., At his old stand, The
Red Drug Store on Slain St., .TEI!A/S Slrict
ly Cash.
Y
el Drugs, A/'dicines, Oils, Paiuts, Dye
Stuffs, Garden Seed, kc., k c.
Livery FtaS»le.
PIC3*CE, S. €?. & A. K„ Sde,
* Feed and Livery S ,'de. Carriages
Hacks, Buggies, Drays, W.i-ons, Harness
and Mules for sale or hire. Hoi res boarded
at reasenab e rates. fir Dot Rtieet.
BLifEhanTil f-lim*.
\r.lUB, BASHAM.. Will make
? A and icp.iir Wi-gon*, Rucgies Plows,
Dickson Swk p, Shoeing horses, near Post
Office-. Always ready to towoG; good and
cheap Jan. IP 1 v
8O i - “J ss2o
Are respij fully solicited (or the. rctioa of
MON TJ MSNT
TO THE
CnifeateDad of Gaorgia,
And tbr.s ■ Soldiers from r,:h.-r Confederate
Stales who were kill, and or died iu this S’ate.
THE MONUNENT TO COST *5 >,uoo.'
Tiie Cot > , r S'r.e. - it is propo-t and sh ill b.-
laid nti the 4th of July, or so soon thereafter
is ’he reeeip's will permit.
For cYfiv Five Doll-sra subscribed,
wiU be given a certificate °f Rile Members tip
to the the Monumen:al This
ceitificate will entiUe the owner thereof to an
equal interest in the following property, to be
fli t’ibuted as soon as requisite uunibeis ot
shares are sold, t* writ :
Hr st, Nine Hundred and one acres
ot Laud in Lincoln county* Geor
ph, on which are the well
Mi cruder Gold ai.d Copper -vl ine«»
valu’ and at *l5O 000
And to Seventeen ‘i’jtidred and horns
four shares irt One Hundred Thousasd Dol
jur t fl s °h
isn.ircoi. s iouo 5,00
~ „ 2, Sir) 5,t.n0
-5 2,WJ 2n,n°<>
, l,en<) K),(in,i
Si “ auo in..ua
« ltM 1(1,0110
'2OO “ 50 KMSO
400 “ 25 10,000
UXjU “ 10 10,000
SIOO,OOO
The value of the separate interest to which
the holder of each certificate will be entitled,
will he determined by the Commissioners,who
will announce to the public the maDner, the
time and place of distribution.
The following gentiemeu have consented
to act, ns commissioners, and w ill ei'her by a
committee from their own bodv, or by spe
cial trustees, appointed by themselves, re
ceive and take proper charge of tho ronney
for the Monument, as well «s the Real A'-ttate
and the U. S. Currency off-te las induce
ments f r subsciiption, and will determine
upon the plan for the Monument, the inseiip
tion thereon, the site therefor, select an ora
tor for the occasion, and regulate the cere
monies to be observed when the corner
stone is laid, to-wit :
Generals L MeL-tws, A. R- Wright, M. A.
Stovall, W, M. Gardiner, Goode Brvon, Colo
nels, C. Snead, Win. P. Crawford, M jera
Jos. B. Camming, Geo. T Saehsan, Joseph
Ganahl, I. P. Girardey, lion. R. H. Mas,
Adam Johnston, Jonathan M. Miller, W. H.
Goodrich, J. D. Butt, Heury Moore, Dr. VV.
F. Dealing.
The Agents in the respective counties wnl
retain ttie money rect ived for the sale of
Tickets until the subscription books are
closed. Iu order that the several amounts
may be returned to (he Nitare-boldere, in case
the number of subscriptions will not war
rant any further proceedure, the Agents will
report to this rjffiee, weekly, the result of
their sales. When a sufficient number of
the shares are sold, the Agents will receive
notice. They will theu forward to this office
the amounts received.
L. A A. 11. MoLAWS, Gen. A 'ts,
No. 3 Old P. O. Range, Melr.thsh st..
Afar 18 ts „ Aus ;"r , ’?'i
VV. F. Combs, of Dawson, Ga , wifi be glad
to give information and receive subscriptions.
LAWTON * IVIGLMGIIAM,
Bi!OOPFeors to
liAAYTOA & LAWTON,
fourth STRUCT,
Nacon, Georgia,
W A. K E tl OUR Ha
Cotton and Commission Merchants.
m«d<* on Cotton in Store w licn
defirtd. Guano I <aUis. aug. M o
Terrell Court of Ordinary
At Chambers, S.pl 13,1871.
IT Is ordered that the following per centum
be and the same is hereby levied on the
tate’Tax, as a County Tax for Terrell coon
y for the year 1871, to-wit : Twelve and one
half (121) per cent, sot the salines ol the
District Judge and Solicitor ; ninety-two and
one fourth (925) per cent, for building fund
sever and three-fourttn (7*) per ceut. for
educational fund ; three (»> per cent, for
bridge fund ; twenty-seven and on- half
C'7l) P" r cent for county purposes; seretis
teen (17) per cent, for pauper fund; and fif
teen (16) per ceut. for Jury fund,
septlltf 1 M. JUNES, Ord’y.
DAWSON, GA., THURSDAY, OCTOBER 5, 1871
THE TRUE AIASOA.
BT ZETA.
No .1/aaon l» he who is ileaf to the wallings
Os those who misfortune hath placed under
ban;
mho is harsh, unforgiving towards other mens
failings,
Oi does any act that debates the man.
i/e may seem a good brother iu sight of his fel
low.
He high iu Ids order, and lenru'd in Its code;
Hut still his pretentious are truthless sud shal
low,
And he is no .Vason is sight of his God,
Authe’s a true Mason whose BOulevcr riseß
Above the small honors and glories of earth»
JFho all the poor glitter of tinsel despises,
And loves to be measured alone by his worth.
With tiie square and the plumb-lead as emblems
to guide him.
■FFoin the line of strict duty he scornß to do
part:
With the rule aud the compass, both ready be
side him,
He rears a true temple of God iu his heart.
Hit thoughts are as pure as the enow when It
fulleth,
Ills zeal is enlisted on rectitude's aids ’
No fear of meu's scoffing his courage appall
eth,
As he stands the oppressed and the friendless
beside
At the cry of misfoitunc his love is awakened,
Large-A/inded, he succors with naught of dis
play,
71te widow, the orphan*.'the hungry,and nuked,
From his portals are never sent empty away,
In precept, thougli firm, he ia soft ss a mathcr,
Who seeks in affection her offspring to mould,
More apt by example to win a lost brother,
Aud waverers keep in the Good Shepard’s
field
Unsullied by contract with lusts that surround
him,
Large-hearted, he loves with a God like re
gard
lie lives a rich blessiug to all who ore round
him,
Aud dies to receive the true Afason's reward.
Freemason's Afigasinc, London.
!H5 CHA.YCE FOii BOA’S.
T its I > t’iiiteiifi»r} surd l!’.«
Mu use vs Itet ugctheir
_ Only GuiUk
From the C liicngo Tribune.
An advertisement in the Trilune for
an office boy will he answered before
19 o’clock by not less than 100 appli
cants, and if the place be left open a
week the number who will seek it will
not fall much short of 500. This is
not only true of Chicago, but of all
other large cities. There are daily
hundreds of boys here, from fif
teen to eighteen years of age, who go
from store to store and office to office,
anxiously and often piteously seeking
employment. It is sometimes assert
ed that these boys are idlers, and that
if they wanted to work for a living
they would hire themselves out to
learn some useful trade. But the
statement is not true. Assuming that
there are fivo thousand boys in Chica
go oi a proper ago to learn a mechan
ical trade, and they were all presented
to the employers, it is not likely that
muro Hi an a thousand could hud an
employer who dare give him a place.
The right to apprentice oneself and to
learn a trade is no longer recognized
in the United States. Boys may pre
sent themselves by legions—employers
can not take them except at tho risk
of closing their shops and having no
other workmen
Tho trades-union of the country
have enacted laws which exclude all
but a limited number of boys from the
mechanical trades. Each trade has
prescribed the number of apprentices
who shall be permitted to work. This
number varies in tho several trades.—
Thus, in one trade, tho allowance w ill
be one apprentice to five journeyman;
and this limitation is not regulated by
the aggregate number in any one
shop, or any ono master. Thus, where
the regulation is that one apprentice
shall be allowed to every five journey
men, if there be six, 6even, eight or
nine journeyman in that shop, only
one apprentice can be employed. If
the employer have ten journeymen,
and thus be entitled to two aprentiees,
and, for want of work or other reason,
should discharge one journeyman, he
must also discharge one apprentice.—
Ordinarily, under that limitation, where
there are two hundred workmen of a
particular trade engaged in a city,
there ought to be forty boys learning
tho business ; But, in fact, these work
men being distributed in irregular
numbers among thirty or forty shops,
it may happen, and as a rule it is the
case, that tho number of apprentices
does not exceed twenty. In all shops
employing less than the regular num
ber of journeymen, no appreutb e is
allowed ; and thus in ten shops em
ploying four journeymen each not an
apprentice cud be found, nor would
one bo tolerated. We are confident
that there are thousands of boys in
Chicago to-day who would willingly
learn a trade, but no employer dare
engage one of them.
The evil of this is two-fold. A boy
may want to be a carpenter, but can
not gain admission to a shop. lie
must abandon all idea of learning a
trade, or he must accept whatever way
bo open, and thus a boy who would
have made a skillful carpenter becomes
an indifferent blacksmith, or ono who
would be an excellent moe auist be
comes a wretched cooper or brieklay
er ; while the boy whose taste would
have made him a finished painter, be
comes, perforce, a boiler maker. —
Boys have no choice. An expenditure
of money may purchase an appoint
ment to the Military Academy; but to
make the same boy a plunder or a
printer involves the upheaval ol the
labor system ol America.
Another form iu which this evil af
fects society, is that it increases the
number of persons seeking profession
al or mercantile employments. An
advertisement for a boy or man to
drive a grocer’s wagon, attend iu a
store,to run errhnds, serve on tho po-
! lice, or work as a porter, will bo an's
weied by whole regiments of men and
boys. These applicants honestly seek
to labor ;-_jhey are neither idle nor lazy,
intempevu- nor dishonest; they wuni
to earn tho bread they eat, and all,
more or less, have somebody depend
ent upon them for food, home and
shelter. The ranks of this class of
unskilled labor are constantly increas
ing, they lar exceed any employment
that tho city affords, and in the win
ter time they constitute that immense
class of honest, industrious poor, who
suffer, not lest severely because silent
ly, for the want of fuel, clothing, and,
perhaps, food. Belonging to this class
are tho groat army of boys, growing up
to be men of the future, wanting
to work, but as effectually denied tho
privelege as if they were conspirators
against the peace of soceiety. In fact
as a boy in Baltimore a few weeks
ago informed a public officer, “the
only ohane« wo boys have to learn a
trade is te bo Befit to tho Bonitentittry or
the House of Kefuge.” There are at
this timo in tho reformatory institu
tions of Chicago about COO boys learn
ing mechanical trades ; that is the only
chance tho majority of them have—
first to become vagi ants or criminals,
and then the State furnishes them
with the opportunity to learn mechan
ical trades.
There arrive in tho United States
annually, from all parts of tho world,
large numbers of skilled laborers;
these constitute the governing power
in all the American trades-unions. —
They admit to membership every fresh
arrival; but they deny to the native
6tock the privelege ot being skilled
workmen. The rousons given for this
exclusion aro numerous, but tho main
reasons are two: 1. That tho only
protection workmen have against em
ployers is that of striking; that so
long as an employer has. a largo num
ber of apprentices, more or less pro
ficient, ho can only defy a strike, and
in time can organize a body of women,
fl. That to admit as apprentices all
who wish to learn tho trade, is to cre
ate overstock of skilled labor, thereby
reducing wages. There may be other
reasons, but these embody all that can
be said in support of this unjust poli
cy. The fir.-ff reason is censured be
cause, in case of a strike, the employ
er has only at his command unskilled
labor, which, upon becomeing skilled
will abandon him ; that ho cannot car
ry on business with 6Uch labor, and
though his apprentices may for a time
enable him to protect himself from a
total suspension of business, he must
eventually suspend, if ho has no oth
er labor. Tho second reason assumes
that the man who makes shoes lias
a monopoly, and that, until he dies,
no other man shall bo authorized to
take Lis place. It is an assumption
oi flavine right vim , Lj ... v
principle of justice. Tiie right that
tiie shoemaker of to-day had to learn
his trade is a right common to all
other men. To roconizu this monopo
ly is but to roconizo tho right to pro
hibit the use of tho employment of
machinery, to prohibit the use of wa
ter or steam power, or of railroads or
steamboats, or, if carried to its full
logical consequences, M ould authorize
any particular craft to sis tho number
of its members, and to starve ail iu
excess of that number. That there is
au immense field lor skilled labor here
is shown by tho rush of operatives from
Europe to this country. As these ar
rive they unite with ihose who prohib
it any accession except by immigra
tion. Is it wise to havo any such
classification of our people 'i Is it
expedient that the skllod laborers
shall all bo foruigu ? Does not socie
ty need for its protection some other
schools for the education of Ameiiean
mechanics than the pemteniuries and
reformatories 'i Does not the public
good require that these arbitrary reg
ulations, which fetter the right of any
person to learn any trade or profession
and to have a free and equal chance
in the race of life, shall be abrogated
and broken down, quite as much as
it requires tho passage of an eight
hour law? Os all monopolig, and the
country is cursed with many, the mon
opoly of a right to adopt and follow a
trade is the most unjustifiable aud in
tolerable.
To Every Soldier who Worth
ily wore Ihe toiritv.
The first Confederate soldier killed
in the war between the btates was
Henry YVyatt, of North Carolina, who
fell at Bethel, and is buried in Holly
wood Cemetery, at Richmond, Yrirgin
ia. A brief inscription on his tomb
stone telling the eventful history, at
tracts the attention of every visitor to
tho cemetery ; and on Memorial Day
no Confederate grave is moro lavishly
decorated than that of young YVyatt.
The dead son is remembered while
tho living father is neglectod or for
gotten.
John YY r yatt, tho father of Ilenrv
Wyatt, is now in the poorhouse in
Pitt county, North Carolina. The
boy, who would havo been the prop of
his old age, shed his blood for us iu
the first battle of the war, and it rests
with his surviving comrades to save
the patriot father from further humil
iation. A trifling contribution from
the Confederate soldiers will make
the venerable old man comfortable for
tho rest of his days, and wo sinccrely
hope that every Southerner, who MO.’e
the gray with honor, will send a few
pence for tho father of Henry YVyatt,
to Captain W. J. McKerall, of Marion
South Carolina, vho has kindly vol
unteered to forward all these dona
tions to their d> -filiation. Those who
prefer so doing may send their dona
tions to the editor of tho News, who
will cheerfully take them in ccargo
and hand them t Capt. McKerall. —
Charleston Netct.
A CSWLD AT FKAYLIt.
“Now lay mo” -Buy it darflug*
“Lay me,” lt iped tho tiuy Up*
Os my dtttiin?, Landing, bonding
O'er l»e- tiuy ttugor-tipr
“Down to eleep**—*‘To sleep,’ Bliemurwu-cd
And hor curly bond dropped low.
“I pray the 1.0 rd,” / gently added—
“ You can »ay it ail, l Uuovr.,*
“Fray tiie Lord” the fhintly.
Fainter rtlll, “My soul to kotp”-
Then the tired head fairly nodded
Aud the child waa fast asleep.
ISut the dewy eyca half opened,
When 1 clasped her to my brentd t
Aud the dear voice nofl!y whispered—
“Mamma, God kno'.rs all the rest.”
Only a EabySaiail.
Only a baby small
Ihrept from tho skies*
Only a laughing face,
Two sunuy eyea.
Only two chubby lipi,
Oue chubby nose,
Italy two little hands,
Ten little toes.
Only a golden head,
Curly and soft,
Only a tongue that wags
Loudly and oft,
Only * little brain
Empty of thought,
Ouly a little heart
Troubled with naught.
Only a tender flower
Sent us to rear.
Only a life to love
While we are here,
Only a baby small,
Never at rest,
Small but how dear to us
God knoweth best.
A from Life.
Novttr rose the sun ou a brighter
(lay or shod its glorious beams on a
fairer bride or more noble bridegroom
than on the day uheu Agnes Lynne
and Chester Moore stood before tho
altar aud plightod their troth to ono
another.
It was a bright and joyous bridal,
aud no sign of tho dark cloud that was
to overshadow.
Loving one another with a rare and
steadfast devotion, little dreamed they
that the timo would come when their
lips would be sealed to ono another,
aud tho eyes that looked only now,
would bo coldly averted as from the
face of an enemy.
Ere the first month of married life
had passed, a studied coldness had
grown up between them ; why, neith
er knew or sought to know. JIo was
reserved and overbearing iu his man
ner ; she, proud, fiery and unyielding.
‘My daughter,’ pleaded the anxious
mother, ‘yield a little to yovr husband’s
wishes, for sweet love’s sako. You
are making a shipwreck of your own
happiness as well as his.’
‘1 take pride in your independence
of character, Gear Au- 2u -fc> i “ j>-" -
new lire us you intend to end it. Let
your husband see that ho cannot bend
you to bio will,’ said oue who had suc
ceeded in making her husband feel
tho strength of her will.
‘Listen to me, Chester, l.ofore it is
too Into, and your happiness ia de
stroyed forover. Humor aud pot your
wife a littlo more,’ said an old and
tried friend, who with pain had mark
ed their growing estrangement. ‘Ag
nes loves you truly, hut remember that
all her life she has boen tho petted
darling of her mother, and your un
called-for severity of manner galls hor
to tho soul. Be mure lenient with her
caprices, and her great love for you
will enable hor to overcome that iiu
[tetuosity of temper that annoys you so
much.’
‘Chester, my boy, you are an exam
ple to all young men contemplating
matrimony. (Ateh you giving way to
a woman’s whims, if she is your wife
and does cry a little. Hold out the
way you havo begun, and you will
lead a model life,’ laughed the bosom
friend of tho young husband, to whom
he had been giving a history of his
infelicities.
Thus counsoled, the tvvo who had
promised before God and man to love
and cherish otte anothor till parted by
death, went on from coldness to bitter
recriminations, and finally, in a fit
of uncontrollable passion,.the husband
exclaimed : ‘Would to God I had nev
er married ! My life has been a con
tinual torment since that ill-omened
day!’
Away to the further corner of the
room, flew a sacred betrothal ring,
shot thither by the indignant wife, and
she herself, with a blanched and res
olute face, but with trembling limbs,
was hurrying from her husband’s
home before he fully realized what had
happened.
‘Let her go,’ ho muttered, with a
bitter sneer on his lips, but with a
vague feeling of alarm and remorse in
his heart at his hasty words aud their
unlooked for effect.
‘Better have her cry out at home
than here : I do hate so to see her
cry,’ ho said to himself as he lighted
his cigar and prepared to go out. ♦
‘She will be sure to be at homo
again when I come in to-night. To
go after her would spoil everything.’
j And yet ho could not satisfy him
self with any reasoning Go where he
I would, the white, horror-stricken face
' of his wife as lie lust saw it rose up
before him But in accordance with
the laughing advice of his friend, he
put the pale image to one side, resolv
ing not to be removed from his proud
1 position by a woman’s angry tears,
j To his great surprise and uneasiness
| Agues was not at home when he
I reached there at a late hour that
night, nor did she return the next day,
nor the next. Still his pride, bolstered
up by his friend’s approval, would not
allow him to seek hor.
‘Now is the turning-point in your
hifo, Chester,’ said this false and care-
I lons adviser to the now wretched hus
u*nd.
‘Yield now, and be a slave to a wo
man’s whims all tho rest of your life.’
Then came a long letter from the
young wife’s mother. She deplored
their unhappy misunderstanding, but
her daughter would never return to
his home nguin until the cruel words
that had driven her forth wero re
called.
. Love and all the nobler qualities of
liis nature pleaded loudly for his iu
suited wife, but again his stub bora
pride stifled tho yearnings of his heart,
and more than a week had paused
siuco the lottor was received from Ag
nes’ mother.
At tho end of that time the voice of
love could no longer be disregarded,
tire yearning desire to bo reconciled to
his young wife would not bo crowded
down any longer.
■But by this tiino tho tongue of scan
dal was busy with their names, and
ho found that Agues could bo oven
more unyielding thTtn himself would
bo. Sho would listen to no reasoning,
aud all liis impuasionod pleading 101 l
on heedless oars.
Aud thus at tho end of six months
of married life they wero as w idely
separated as though the oceau rolled
between them.
Two years fraught with bitter grief
to both was drawing ,t<> a close, aud
mankind were preparing to welcome
the over precious period of ‘Boace on
earth’ that should bring good will to
ward men, whatever cause has divided
them tho whole twelvemonth before.
The Divine birthday dawned bright
and beautiful, aud, for the first time
iu two long weary years, Chester
Moore wended lib way to his old ac
cumtonied place of worship before tho
sud blight fell upon his life. Ills
heart yearned toward his still fondly
idolized wife, and he determined to
gaze upon her face once more, howev
er coldly she might frown upon him.
As ho expected, he saw her iu her
accustomed place, and finding a seat
nour her, ho entered into the sacrod
worship with greater fervency than
ever before.
Agues was pale and pensive, and
more than once ho detected a fugitive
glanoe in his direction, but her eyes
wore quickly withdrawn, and she
seemed absorbed in hor devotions.
The deep tones of the organ, touch
ed by a master’s hand, rose and fell
and the incomparable voices of the
choir singing a glad anthem, made a
glorious melody, almost too grand fur
earth.
‘l’oare ! peace ! peace ! rang tho
glad refrain, and during tho outburst
of heavenly sound the styes of tho long
parted husband and wife rnet,*not to
be hastily withdrawn, but to gaze wi h
a depth of meaning that spoke plainer
than words.
u'j— j mat tueir bitter past
was blotted out forever, and that anew
life, full of a happy promise, was op
ening before them.
Tho organ stilled pealed, and tho
colostial anthem still filled their oars,
and mingled with tho feelings of holy
devotion excited by the grandeur of
tho worship, was ono of deep gratitude
that there was at least peace between
(hem, which would nevor more be
broken. No more sonsoloss bickering
no more cross purposes, no more wick
ed pride, but henceforth they would
wala hand in hand down tho rugged
path of life, bearing each othor’s bur
dens, and abating each other’s joys
until death parted them.
Givo without grudging. It is not
enough that you simply givo. You
must do it beautifully. Your generos
ity must not be clownish. It must bo
line. It must bo noble. Wo aro to
be easy to bo entreated.
There is nothing so graciously in
clined toward us as Uod and our own
conscience, because no other knows
the manner in which things happen
within us, und the inner workings of
our souls.— [ltaiiol Naruh gou you
Euse.
O wives aud mothers be wiso*beforo
it is too late ! I.ive so as to enjoy ev
ery day of your life, l'eu years hence,
orevon tomorrow, you may dio. Liyu
so that your presence will gladden the
the lives of your dear ones, more than
anything your hands can Min for
them.
The noblest thing on earth is the
man who rises to the diguity of -self
mastery. The man who can refuso
indulgence to a clamoring desire ; can
hold the craving appotite ungratilied,
and can say to the rising passion,
“I’cace, bo still,” ia a hero above Alex
ander or Hercules.
A minister asked a little boy who
had been converted, “Does not the de
vil tell you that you are not a Chris
tian ?” “Yes, sometimes.” “Well,
what do you say to him?” “I tell
him,” replied the boy, with something
ol Luther’s spirit, “that, whether I am
a Christian or not, it is none of his bus
iness.”
Endeavor to take your work quietly.
Anxiety and over-action aro always
the causo of sickness aud lecklessness.
We must use our judgment to control
our oxcitomont, or our bodily strength
will break down. YY r o must remem
ber that our buttlo is to bo won by a
strength not our own. It is a battle
that does not depend upon the swift
and strong.
When a father takes up a child to
j show him pictures, ten to ono ho holds
I tho book at such an angle as to suit
! his own vision, aud not that of the lit
| tie one. Yet the little ono’s sight is
i the one to be favored. How true it is
I that the preachers and toachers of
I religious truth too often hold that up
1 where they can tho best seo it, and
| not where those of whom they have
charge can best see it.
VO fa. VI. —NO 34.
SE#SE AND SKaVA iJItLVr.
To be happy ia not the purpose of
our being but to deserve happiness.—
[d ichte.
I havo fire-proof, porennal enjoy*
meats called employments.— [Jean
I’aul Richter.
Mankind one day serene and free
appear >
The next dayAhe’re cloudy, sul
len and sovore.— [Garth.
A day laborer is better off than ft
millionaire, who always has a goldkoy
tied to his heart.—[Auerbach.
| Repentance without amendment
jis ltlrn continual pumping in a ship,
without stopping tho loaks.— [Palmer.
Richmond has a hen that has the
tail, comb and brilliant plumage of a
chicken cock; crows like one, yet lays
®gTKs*
The greatest cave in tho world is
the Mammoth Cave of Kentucky,
whoro ono can make a voyage on a
subterranean river, and catch fish
without eyua.
Ihe largest valley in the world is
. tho Valley of Mississippi. It contains
! fivo fiuiiu.’ ,A d thousand square miles,
is one of the most leitllf? f“ r,, ioii a the
globe.
The largest lake in tho world is
Lake Superior, which is truly an in
land sea, being four hundred and thir
ty miles long, and ono thousand feet
deep.
The greatest natural bridge in the
world is tiie natural bridge over Cedar
creek, in Y irginia. It extends over a
chasm eighty feet in width and fif
ty foot in depth, and at the bottom
ol which tho crook flows.
YV hen a man has done something
to delight tho M’orld, the world will
henceforward take care that ho shall
not do it a second time.—[Goethe.
Everything that looks to tho future
elevates human nature, for never is
life so low, or so little, as when occu
pied with tho present.— [Landon.
Inviolable fidelity, good humor, and
complacency of temper, outlive all the
charms of a fine face, and make tho
decays of it invisiblo. —[Tatlor.
Wit is not leveled so much at tho
muscles as at tho heart; and the lat
ter will sometimes smile u hen there is
not a single wrinkle on tho cheek—•
Lyttlotou.
Known unto God aro all future
events aud contingencies. I havo
thrown myself blindfold, and, I trust,
without reserve, into liis almighty
hands.—[ YVhitefleld.
i\<.oorro jrvur conscience always
soft and sensative. If but ono sin
force its way into that tender part of
tho soul and dwell there, tho road ia
paved for a thousand iniquities.
Os all the duties, the love of truth,
with faith aiul constancy in it, ranks
li. st aud highest. Truth is God. To
love God aud to love the truth aro
one and tho sarno thing.—Silvio Polli
co.
YVhon I see the elaborate study and
ingnuity displayed by womaniutho pur
suits of trifles, I fool no doubt of their
capacity for the most herculean under
takings —[Julia YVard Howe.
As it respects general habits, a par
ent can scarcely teach a child a more
valuablo art than dispatch without
bustle; nor can any one that values
his time cultivate a more valuable one
for himself.
Notice in tho soed tho germ of tho
tree. Cut it open ; study it under tho
microsoopo. Root, trunk, branches
loaves, are all there. So in the Chris
tian’s heait is planted the germ of all
that makes a son ol God.
Man is a feeble reed, trembling in
the midst of creation ; but then he is
endowed with thought. It does not
need tho universe te arm for his de
struction. A breath of wind, a drop
of water will suffice to kill him. But,
though the universe wore to fall on
mini and crush him, ho would be
greater in his doath than the universe
in its victory ; for he would be con
scious if his defeat and it would not
bo conscious of its triumph.—[Pascal.
Be loyal to the nature you boar,
consecrate your lives to every good and
noble work, fuithfully labor for the el
evation and perfection of our common
humanity, and the angels will sweetly
smile upon you, and you will be happy,
both in this life aud that which ia
beyond the grave. If you would bo hap
py. you must do all witliin your power
to bless others. By making others
happy, you fill your own lives with
sunshine and happinness.
A straw will make an impression
ou tho virgin snow ; let it remain there
but a short time, and a horse’s hoof
can scarcely penetrate it. So it is with
the youthful mind. A trilling word
may make an impression upon it; but
after a feM - years the most powerful
apnea's cease to influence. Think of
this, yo who have the training of the
infant mind, aud leave such irapres
sious therecn as will be sate for it to
carry amid tho follies and temtpatious
of the world.
I observe thaf God has chosen the
vino, a low plant that creeps upon the
helpless wall; of all beasts, the soft
and patient lamb, of all birds, the mild
and guileless dove. Christ is the rose
of the field and tho Illy of the valley.
When God appoarod to Moses it was
not in tho lofty cedar, nor in the stur
dy oak, nor the spreading palm, but
in & bush—an humble, slender, ab
ject bush. As if lie would by theso
selections, check tips conceited arrog
ance of man. —jFcU xuaa.