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J - JANES,
ATTORNEY at law,
CAWS oy, - GEORGIA.
1 ov<ir JW. J'h nst ou’s store. Jan 7
Medical card
OR JNO. aTgUDDEN,
tvi £V y ' : GEORGIA >
\ I , ’ "is proteasional services to the
tt.na°j P*U*®nn. AH call, promptly
iu. * 0 ' Erst side of the pahlie
Sept 20,
tul Mil cnuilcu DO, trine.
There s come a sing’lar doctrine, Sue,
Into our church to-day:
1 W cur’us are what the new
l OUng preacher had to say:
I hat literal everiastiu’ fire
' V as mostly in our eye;
lhat sinners dead, if they desire,
Can got another try;
'* u " armer eliine
ti v , . world could be proved;
•TT ’ii' ° hlM l’ fear some tirno
Hell get his doubts removed.
I’ve watched my duty straight an’
true,
And tried to do it well:
Pai t of the time kept heaven in view,
An part steered clear o’ hell;
An now half of the work is naught,
it 1 must list to him,
And this ere devil I have fought
r \\ as only just a whim!
Vain are the dangers I have braved,
1 lie sacrifice they cost,
For what fun is it to be saved
If every one else is lost?
Just think! Suppose, when once I
view
The heaven I've toiled to win,
A lot of unsaved sinners, 100,
Come walkin’ grandly in!
An’ acts at home, same as if they
Had read their titles clear;
An’ looks to me, as if to say,
We’re glad to see you here?
As if to say, while you have be’tt
So fast to toe the mark,
We waited till it rained, an’ then
Got tickets for the ark ?
Yet there would be some in that
crowd
I’d rather like to see ;
My boy Jack—it must he allowed,
There was no worse than he 1
I’ve always felt somewhat to blame,
In several different ways,
That lie lay down on thorns o’ shame
To end bis boyhood days;
And I’d he willin’ to endure,
If that the Lord thought best.
A miuuite’s quie hot temperature,
To clasp him to my breast.
Old Captain Barnes was evil’s son—
With he.erodoxy crammed;
I used to think he’d be the one ,
If any one was dammed:
Still, when I saw a lot o’ poor,
That he had clothed and fed,
Cry desolately round his door
As soon as he was dead,
There came a thought I couldn’t con
trol,
That in some neutral land,
I’d 1 ke to meet that scorched up soul
And shake it by the hand.
Poor Jennie Willis, with a cry
Of hopeless, sad distress,
Sank sudden down, one night to die,
All in her ball room dress;
She had a precious little while
To pack np and away;
She even left her sweet, good smile—
’Twas on the face next day; '
Her sottl went on unclothed by even
One sticli of saving grace;
llow could she hope to get to heaven
And start from such a place?
Hut once when T lay sick an* weak,
She came and begged to stay;
She kissed my fadded, wrinkled
cheek—
She soothed my pain away;
She brought me sweet boquets’ of
flowers
As iresh as -her young heart— ■
Through many long and tedious
hours
. She played a Christian part;
And ere 1 long will standnin’
The ringin' saints among,
1 11 try to take some water down
To cool poor Jennie’s tongue.
But tears can never quench my creed,
Nor sinooih God’s righteous frown,
Though all the preachers learn to
read
Their Bibles upside down.
I’ll hold mine right side up with care
To shield mine eyes from sin,
An’ coax tiie Lord with daily prayer,
To call poor wanderers in;
But if the sinners won t draw nigh,
An’ take salvation’s pain,
I'll have to s' and an’ see ’em try
To dodge hell if they can.
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leivcstigiitiou on Butter.
Good, fresh butter posi-esses the
well known Agreeable taste and a
slight smell of milk, while rancid
butter smell* very disagreeably. The
lattdr maybe converted* into an eat
able food by treatment with water, in
which case the soiuhio rancid parts
are lemoved. The taste and color oi
tho butter drpond upon the class of
animals and the fodder used. Its
color is oftou adulterated by means of
small quantities ot beet loots orother
plants possessing coloring power.
The coloring matter may be detected
by treating the butter with strong al
cohol. Butter fat is a complex sub
s'ante, containing varying proportions
oi eight different acids. Bure butter
dissolves reacily in other lortning a
c'oar lemon yellow liquid while hog 6
lard, beef fat, mutton L.t and ta:low
form turbid milky solutions. 'I he fat
of pure butter when saponified with
sodajye, yields a soap less hard aod
firm than that produced by adulter
ated butter.
DAWSON, GEORGIA, THURSDAY, MARCH 14 1878.
A YOUNG WIFE'S LESSON.
“Indeed, Charley, I don’t think
yon ought to expect it of me!”
( lara Arden stood coloring, and
evidently annoyed,in the midst of her
pretty little drawing room, while her
husband leaned against one of the
pulled damask chairs, pulling uncon
sciously at his long beard.
“It won’t be too much, Clara,”
said he. ‘Tcnwiek is too sensible a
fellow to expect any great perform
ance from so young a housekeeper as
you are.”
"That’s all nonsense!” said Mrs.
Arden.
‘A es, but Clara, darling—”
“1 here’s no use wasting any furth
er argument on the question,” said
C lara, setting her lips together - .
■AV lien you invited him to dinner
without consulting me, you made a
very grave mistake.”
“But what am I to do? I’ve asked
him, and there is no alternative!”
“A es there is. Do as other gentle
men do, and invite him to the res
taurant—that is, if you must keep
this headlong engagement!”
“But I never did such a thing in
my life before!” said the perplexed
Cli alley. *
“And I hope you never will again!”
retorted Mrs. Arden, with some
acerbity. “That is, so far as invit
ing without any sort of forethought
goes!”
Ti e color rose to Charlie Arden’s
cheek!”
“Clara,” said lie, “if you had asked
people here, my only thought would
be how best to welcome them!”
“You are not a housekeeper,” said
Clara, coldly, “with a sick cook and
everything in disorder.”
“Pshaw!” said Mr. Arden, as he
went out, closing the door behind
him, with more emphasis than was
absolutely necessary.
“Men are so selfish, so inconsider
ate,” she said to herself. “As if I
would brave the criticism of Oscar
Fenwick, who has dined at Paeisian
restaurants, and knows half a dozen
aristocratic families, where they keep
men cooks, and battlers, and regular
dining-room servants. It’s quite out
of the question, nncf so Charle may
as well understand first as last. If
Bridget not ill with the inter
mittent fever, I might, perhaps, have
tried to get up a dainty little dinner:
but as it is, no one but a man would
expect it of me.”
So Mrs. Arden adjusted her pretty
shining braids of brown hair in the
glass, and nestled down in the oor
ner of the sofa, to forget the weri
spme trials and vicissitudes of real
life in the pages of the morning pa
pers.
It waslate in the afternoon whep
a visitor was announced, with rather
starling abruptness, by the red-armed
maid—maid 01-alb work—who was
trying to supply the vacant place of
the disabled Bridget, according to
the best of her ability.
“Please, mam, it’s Mrs. Marley.”
Clara started up, half ashamed of
being caught in her morning robe so
late’ia the day.
“If it were any one birt you, Mrs.
Marlcv,” said she, laughing and
blushing, “I should apologize for my
shortcomings. ’ As it is, you are just
in time to take off your things and
stay to dinner with me. lam alone
to-night, and j our society will be a
real charity.”
“Why, where is your husband?”
asked tho visitor, in surprise.
“J lining out.”
“W here f ”
“I don’t know. The fact is, he met
an old college friend this morning,
and iu a burst of inconsiderate hospi
tality—so like a man, you know—in
vited him to dinner. Of course, I re
fused to ratify the invitation. What
could I do, with Bridget ill in
bed ? So I told hhn he must take
his friend to a restaurant, or some
such place. He a scented with rather
bad graee. I must confess, so here I
am, alone.”
Mrs. Marley was a pretty, fair-com
plexioned lady, with hair as white as
snovr. One of these gentle, hopeful,
motherly sort of persons, who are in.
valuable to their friends. She shook
her head as she listened to Mrs. Ar
den’s story.
“Don't you think I did right,”
! Clara asked, impulsively. “Just con
sider how I an) situated!”
“It would have been some trouble
and responsibility,” said Airs. Mar
ley, “to superintend the preparation
of such meal as you would like to ask
your husband’s guest to sit down to;
hut I think I should have advised
you to try.”
“But why?”
“In the first place as a compliment
to your husband.”
Clara shrugged her shoulders.
“We are old married people now,”
said she. “Only think, it is nearly
three years since our wedding day—
and all this sentimental billing and
cooing is worn out.”
“Real sentiment between husband
and wife should never wear out.” said
Mrs. Marley, mildly, “Depend upon
it,' my love, your husband will appre
ciate any delicate attention now quite
as much as in the days of your en
gaged life. But this is not all. Let
me tell you a little experience of my
own. I had a brother once—a very
dear brother. He died of delirium
tremens:”
“Ob, Mrs. Marley!” Clara Ardeu
placed a spmpathetie hand in that of
her friend, for she saw that the pret
ty old lady had grown pale and trem
bled.
“Yes, my dear,” went on Mrs.
Marley. “He had a gay, pretty,
young wife, who disliked the cares
of housekeeping—and it was an un
derstood thing between them that
any gentleman guests whom it fell
Clement’s lot to entertain should be
taken to some hotel or restaurant.
Well, my dear, you knowhow it
the wine flowed freely—there was no
feminine presence to restrain the
fit!se idea of good fellowship. Clem
ent acquired the fatal habit of indis.
criminate drinking, and the upshot of
it was that he filled a drunkard’s
grave. Perhaps I was uncharitable,
but 1 have always thought that had
his wife made her home agreeable
to her husband and his guests,
things might have ended different
ly.”
“But, Mrs. Marley,” cried Clara,
much shocked, “this is quiet a differ
ent thing.”
“I do not say that it is not, Clara.
I only want to warn you against the
rock on which my poor sister-in-law’s
life was wrecked. Of what use is all
our sad and hardly-won experience,
if not to caution others a little ?”
Clara was silent for a moment
or two, and when she spoke again,
it was on quite a different topic. Mrs,
Marley stayed and dined with her off'
the cold joint and simple salad, and
went home at about eight o’clock.
And then came the long and lone
ly evening, during which Clara sat
by the window, wai ing and listent
ing for every soufVd, nervously impa
tient for her husband’s return.
“Of course, he is not the sort of
man to drink too much,” she told heY
self, over mid over again; “but—but I
nm almost sorry I whs so obstina'e
iihou' not asking Air Fenwick to din
ner. It would not have been so very
much trouble, after all, and I think
Ohatley was vest'd about it.”
Niue o’clock struck—then teu —
then elveven —and Clara sprang up
and began pactng tho room in her
nerousnees.
“Yes I passed him. A policeman
has just walked him off to the station
house, So you were frig burned
eh ?”
Clara’s face wasradieut as she turned
up the low jet of gas.
“I am so glad you have cooie Char
ley” said she. “I have had a great
many compunctions of conscieuceThis
afternoon, 1 didu’t make Air. len
wick wtdeomo to the best I had in tho
house instead of sending j'ou off to a
icstauiant.”
“V\ e went to Leoude’s” taid Char
ley. “The dinner was stylish enough
but nothing better thau you could
have given us at horns.”
“Aud Charley” ud led Clara softly
“tho nrxt time you mvite a friend to
dine with you, you way be certaia that
my welcome will be ready.”
“That’s my cwn dear little Clara,”
tatd Charley. And the harty satis
faction in his lace we a reward for
any sacrifice she might be calhd u •
on to make.
“A fellow likes to foel you know
when he meets an old chum that he
has a home to a-k him to, anil a wife
that will meet him with a smile.”
“But I am sony about Mr. Fen
wick.”
“Never mind. He will be in town
again one of those days and dun we’ll
show him what a home-made dinner
is—eh, Ciarra ?”
And Oiaru’s smile answered him.
She had had iter lesson. She was
not likely to forget it.
“I wish he would come !” she cried
wringing her hauds. “I wish be
would come!”
Jit*: then there was some disturb
ance in tlie sheet; and glad ut
all hazards to escape from her own
harrassing thoughts, Claia threw
open die window and thiust out her
head
There was a little crowd at the cor
ner of the street, and she could dis
tinctly hear the jeering voice of the
little street Arabs crying out, “It’s
only a drunken man! He 10, mister,
you’l find your hat in the gutter! Ca“’t
you tel! where you live? Go and ask
an officer.”
Clara’s head turned cold as ice.
Could it be possible? Was this poor,
staggering creature, whose uncertain
step afforded amusement to ° mob of
hoys, her noble husband ? Had lie so
far forgotten himself and her’? And
if so, at whosi door lay the fault?
Nearer anti nearer came the little
crowd. Clara drew in her head, and
closed the window. She could not
bear to have the dreadful probability
confirms' . She stopped her ears ;
she tiurried tier face in the pillows oi
the sofa.
“W hv, Clara, little wife, what’s the
matter 1”
It was Chailey’s voice—not the
maudlin accents of semi-intoxication,
hut the fu'l deep tones of the man
sh“ felt she could vat honor, as well
as love and obey. She looked up
with a little hysterical laugh.
“Olt, Charley, I was so frighten-d 1
A drunken man in the street, you
know—”
llow tlic Utilized Him
“Your husband is sick a good deal
of late, isn’t lie?” remarked a south
ern Illiuois woman to another, one
day this week,
“Ye3” answered th wife, “he’s got
tuk down mighty harl with them ’ere
agorehak‘B agin.”
“I shud think it ’ud bo sorter dis
tressing’ like to have him ’round tho
house,” remarked the other sympathz
ingly, “spec’ly when yer bouse-cloat.-
ic. ”
“Wal se it wud be,” replied the
wife in self consoling tones, “but when
he’s git inter one of his chills and
I want the rag carpet eliuk, lie’s a
powerful smart hand to Hitch into it.”
Then the other woman wended her
way home, envying her neighbor the
knack she had of utilizing her hus
band.— Chicago Eoenina Journal.
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I'll Pay you I’or Tlittl.
A hen trod wn a duck’s foot. She did
not mean to do it, and it did not hurt
much. But the duck said, I’ll pay
you for that!” So the duck fl wat
the hen ; but as she did so her wing
struck an old goose who stood close
by.
“I’ll pay you for that !” cried the
gr.ose, and she flew at the duek ! but
as she did so her foot tore the fur off.
a oat who was just then in the yard
“I’ll pay you for that l” stied the
cat, and she flew at the goose ! but
as she (lid *o her tail brushed the eye
of a sheep who was near.
“I’ll pay you for that !” cried the
6heep, and he tan at the ca’.j: out as
he did so his foot hit tho foot of,a
dog, who lay in tiie sun.
“i’ll pay you for that? cried he, and
fie ran at the sheep ; but as he did so
his leg struck an old eow who stood
by the gate. “I’ll pay you for that!’’
cried si o and she tail at tiie dog ;
but as she did so her horn grazed the
skin of a horse who stood by a tree.
“P;l pay you tor ;hat” cried tie
hOi’se, and ne ran at the cow. What a
run there wag ! The horse fl -w at the
cow, aud the cow at-the clog, aad the
dog at the she *p, and tlm sheep at
the cat, and the cit at the goose, end
the goose at the duck, and the duck
at the tien. What a noise they
made to be sure!
“Hi, hi! What is all this?” cried
tie man who had the care of then) ;
“I cannot have this noise. You may
gtay here,” he said to the hen. But
he drove the duck to tie pood, and
the goose to the field, aud tb cat to
’he barn, an 1 the sheep to her fold,
and the dog to the houso, and the
cow to the yard, aud the horse to his
stall.
“i’H pay you lot that!” sail the
1 man.- A wmry
trclibidiep bilttbnus oil Tom
periiiioo.
A lecture was de ivered at the Cathe
dral last evening by the Archbishop of
Baltimore at the request of the Ro
man Catholic total abstinence societies,
on “The Virtue of Temperance.” The
Ci ngregadou packed the seating and
standing c pacify of the edifice. Del
egation of total abstinence societies
from several of the Catholic patishes
were present in regalia and a number
of c’etgymen occupiod seats in the
sanctuary-
The lec'urer eloquently depicted
the evi : s and horrors of intemperance
and portrayed the diunkard through
his \arious cours-s of misfortune,
povetty an 1 crime. The poverty of
the inehrialo squat) lerer was charac
terized as of the most contemptible
ort. Ad utkard lowers himself be
low t' 6 brute who slakes his thirst,
while the former maddeus his blood
with strong driuk. Insanity is one of
the greate.iis resulting from iniouj
perance. The report of an insane
institution shows that one-half the
inmates owe l their insaiuity to strong
drink. In Massachusetts to show the
need of an insane asylum it was said
that 32,000 persons in that State alone
were driven to insaui'y by alchohoh'c
intemperance. The drunkatd is too
often Die slave of blasphemy lustful
brutality at home and neglectful of
the payment of his debts. Intetnper_
once has filled prisons and penitenti
aries and the worst crimes were the
offs ping of the madderning drink.—
The worst crime of Be ahazz tr was
reserved until he was in a state of in
toxication. Alchoh'd has slain more
than ti e sword of theconqueror or the
greatest pes ilence. Their choice was
to he teraperernce or intemperance,
honor or dishonor, life or death. The
Archbishop exhorted his hearers to
the practice of temperance.
If they find that indulging in a lit
tle leads to excess, then the oniy
r rmedy was total abstinence, “for he
who loveth the danger shall perish
Iherein ” The solicitation ot fiieuds
should not shake thorn from their
purpose. They should guard against
certain quack medicines called “flit
ters,” an insidious means of distribut
ing alcohol —“using the livery of
Heaven to serve the devil in.”
Temperance should be advocated by
work and example, and by asking
and inducing others to join temper
ance societies. He exhorted parents
to set the example of temperance aud
yirtore for their children, who under
such influences will be a credit to the
American republic, and of whom they
may he equally as proud as was that
Roman mother of the Gracchi, who,
whtn asked for her jewels presented
Iter children.— Baltimore Sm.
A Gambler’* Varying I.iick.
A gam 1 ler told this story to aCinein
nati reporter : “There used to be on
actor here who was a great gambler.
His name was Johnny Mortimer. Ho
was a member of the stock company
at Pike’s iu 1862. He was a magnifi
cent dresstr. and prided himself ot>
being the boat dressed oan in town.
Oae December night I saw him, after
the play was over, come into a house
at the corner of Vine and Fifty. He
was dteßsed to perfection—overcoat,
shining plug, cane, watch, big chain
—everything gorgeous aud tho best.
There were no players.aud the game
was idle, but he made them open up
for him. He bought S2O worth of
ctiips, and lost. He changed in S2O
more, and lost. He lost all his mn -
ey and then offered his clothes. He
was all owed 820 for his overcoat,
and lost than. He passed ov r Ins
coat oud got $lO worth of chips, awl
iost. He played in his watch and
chain, his vest, his hat, his cane —even
his shoes ani panta'oons—and got
desperate He asked me to go and
got something for him to drink to
keep him warm and get an old barrel
for him to walk home in. He then
{offered his necktie m his last chance
land was allowed fifty cents fbr it.
I His five chips won, and he sti tu k a
■ streak; won his cloths back and came
near breaking the bank.”
It is stated that at the WhiteHous G
thev.sing good •id-fashion hymns on
Sabbath eveniugs.- This i all right
and iu tk'S one teel kindly toward the
President and family. But the New
York Sun comes along and flings a
brick through the window by saying
that they never sing “When I cau
read my title clear.”
VOL. XIV. —NO 3.
A C:j; erf ill Woman.*
Wha' a blessing to a household is
a merry, ehearful wo matt—into whose
spirits are not affected by wotdays, Or
littiedisapp'iintments, or whose mills
of human kindness does not sour in
Ihe sunshine of prosperity: Suoh a
woman in the darkest hours brightens
| the house like a piece of sunshiny
weather. The maggetism of her smil
es and electrical brightness of her
looks and movements infect every ono
The children go to school with a senso
of something *o he achieved ; her hus
band goes into the world in a eonquer
er’s spit it. No matter how people an
noy and worry him all day, far off
her presence shines, and he whisper#
to himself, “At home I aha) find rest.”
So day by day she literally renews
bis strength and energy, aud if you
know a mur with a beaming face, a
k.nd heart, and a prosperous business
is nine cases out of ten you will find
be has a wife of this kiud.
A Powerful Tempkbxnce Sehxox.
—Neither love, nor self-respect, nor
the roy 1 purpis pledge, noranyither
creature, coul l keep Aquilla Toland
from getting drunk. Last Chrisrnns
he signed the pledge and promised
his wife to keep it at all hazards. Ha
resisted temptation for several weeks,
and when his wife and child left
Decatur, 111, on a short visit to rela
tives in a town in Ohio, ho renewed
his vow, swearing ho would keep it
or die. On Friday of last week he
shot himself, after writing to his dear
Lydia these huet :‘T have failed to
keep my pledge, and, oh, you don’c
know how hard I have tried; and
now I have concluded not to disgrace
you any further, and the horrible
wtiy I rid you and dear Bessie is very
repulsive to me, ss 1 know it is to
you and all my relatives - But my
conclusion is final; so farewell" While
I was in town this week aud a part
of last I was very drunk every day,
and, although it is a fearfully humiliat.-
ing ackiiowledgracut to make, I con
sider it the most manly way.’ Ha
charged bis wife to pay all his bar
bills and debts except one—-$l9O to
B!&k, lost at pro! while the knight of
the royal purplo ribbon was vety
drunk.
Going lo “Stick.”
Three or four days ago a genflemc.
passing tip Griswold street washated
by a very courteous, but very hard up
tramp, who said ; “Will you give n.
money enough to enable mo tn pur
chase 5 dish of fried oysters ?”
“Fried oysters! Great lands! Bit
you are mighty particular for a p m
nilessmarij” exclaimed thopedestr
“So I am—so I am. I was brought i
that way, sir. I'm out of money, hm -
gry us a wlf, and want tried oytr .<
and their appropriate surroundings.
flo didu’t get them. Next day lo
wa* encountered on the postolil
s eps, looking more hungry than the
day before, aud the gentleman iuquu.r
ed :
“Have you concluded to come down
to beef and potatoes yet?”
“No, sir—l still stick for fried oy ,-
ters,” was the reply.
At dark that night the high-tom I
tramp encountered the same man in
grocery on Woodward avenue, awl
without watting to be questioned l.
began
“I still call for fried oysters.”
“And you haven’t got ’em?”
“No, sir.”
“And you are about asnear atarv <1
as you want to be?”
“Nearer, sir. In fact, I am aim r.
to die 1 1 was born a gentleman, I'., t
naturally high-toned, and I want ••
die decently. We will skip over tier
subject of fried oysters and I will >-ic
you to lend me a pairo? red woolen.
Ail Eggs-lrawrdiiiury Feel.
A few days ago n party of young
gentlemen in this place in ordei to
get up some amusement, propos' and to
buy two dozen eggs for a certain
fellow if he would agree to such them.
He said he would endeavor to amnsa
j them, a* it had been several div-t
S since he hail had a “square maH”', t
'••ggs. The b- ya “get ’em up.” -n 1
the egg sucker buckled down to lo*
task. After he had disposed of <wu>
or three eggs someone iem:i v t
that one of the shells cortf une l ,
little “chick” but H didn’t ha-.e any
; effect on the sucker and he cmtin
| ued to dispose of the eggs until
sucked the two dozen, and then t.i.-fc
i m“> two eggs ni' re in order to u.*k
| up lor that which he left stick ng on
! the insice of the shells—making
twenty-six in all that he euckob Tlnr
biyssay that the champion
| ei’s stomach and dn’t seem to “uii u" ut
ail, and they are coufi lent that li.
could have devoured two or thre-doz
en more if they could have mu- ei eJ
|up the nickels to “get ’em up” again.
What an awful thiDg it would he for
this fellow to come in contract with a
hen’s neit fall of eggg ! —II; vki.sciU*
JJispifch. •