Newspaper Page Text
VEGETAL
her own words.
Bai/huohe, Md., Feb. 13,1
3fn.11.R- Sterns;
. < , Sir. e rover 1 ferra J hnvo cot r. poro •r.
1 iI. and HMi oiny j. i.-n,, b t t •
v 1 ‘ .i*e. f.’i'W 1 hnvel.e .<i c.t you*- \* .
i'i <> 2 t!y Wi.-i wlnin.; k .or a lung tij.io, ,‘ :i
; D ' . ■;:. yo.i -Ve, et.no,; nd 1 vetit.-u
r®; j bottleo< Vo.-.ot ne; ;nd liter I }
’ I , I, f .\t 6 v i*H 1 tl'lfl. i'Rditl o.'i lid
}•;; .| • I I .-'r: tr.no ctLer bott.o, j rid y>. I
• i . i;k(").i
J- n *' , "i! i ve.y riifferer in. y p..y atcui.oii to it
Itii- fc'3B\Vep.t Baltimore Street
VtCefc i ME
SAFE AND SURE.
Mr., n- R- ‘> TEVrrS: .
■ -s r \ • -.no was recommended to n\<
V “in ••••- < ;■* .“U-M.in.H CM irirnd, I oor.
~ < j ; y .St t t* l me i \vr s n liering b'or
"i ntl i.^vo -,n ] otr t on, : • porir
iv >.. w. k m:u wrtv*'. r h bits*. Its \ •
‘ -i tKI cur. t.\e pr;p. tic-, co;. * •
, ‘ j,. t ; v • et*. t j ysitem irciu t o ti.- t <!<:<
..,'i : its i .-i i ufc n>H l rnp;u yki cto..
- i-.urt* B’ a ••*.•. I be th inj y ■ I Ae. n
S . I!’ vo CO’ i.esit tod to {. iv * , -ft.lK* I
. , :i3Pod ir..t ■’j e>u*nt., .*.** bein* .i. i
£M( i *.cul -n pron.otinc le. 'rt ind it- t
i n , • ied yu • ’>/ new li o. nd tnen y. V.
, , t ■ 'ii .<■ • o tie 1 '• ; *.nd vii iontf l.s
,inl W H. CLARK.
li?j ...oi.i jiey Street, i> i.
Kja I ti" 2 * S 8 M'ii w**
THE BEST SFRiiXG IViLDiCII'.E.
CHA R LEB’IQ VV X.
H.Stevens :
p., ; r S*r litis is to < erti'y thrt I hnve used yom
Prep ”inmy u ivily for fe\> v' a :
unti tii.nlc i ..t ir ro.ui. -r ( uuke.obb Uui
ji c u’ii ti- tie t.ioi t.. uuot t,-ex el.eo ;. nd
bixHi p i ttrni sprinK m a., in© itisthu o. i trnis
lh vt ever u.r i, nd ; .i.-.ve esed aimoit evoryt-i in ,'
1 can n . y rt.- oiuinend :t to any on© m net. and u>
atb a medu iue.
Yours respectfully,
Jirs. A. A. Ld.No.vl OKK, 19 Russell Street.
VEOETINE
WHAT IS NEEDED.
Boston, Foa. 13. 1671.
E. It. Sty.venr, F.SQ.:
Dear Six—Abm t one yo ir sin'-e I found in* . :
in nooblo ontl ton Utnn i.eoe.;d debi.ity. \ -
line w.i hiroiife.y recimmumiiod to meby .•> ji icn.i
who had lie* 11 much benetited by ita use. 1 pwu u;- i
the article, atid, alter umuk rover..l Lctties, w > rt -
stored to lie i t.i, and dia< ontiuuetl it.-* x.. e. i it • i
quite contidex t that theio im> ii.cC.v ;ne stipc-iior to
it tor those coiopiainta -or whnlx it is et-j*e i;>..y j
jnred, and wot.id lieer ully re. ommeno it t t. oa©
wno iel tnat thsjt need -omething to restore u.©ii. io
oeiievt health. Hespc* t u!’y yours,
U. L. PETTINGILL,
F.riu or S M. I'etteneiSl & Cos.,
No. 10 bu.to Street, Boston.
ALL HAVE 03TAINED RELIEF.
South Beuwxck, Mb., Jan. IT, 1572.
H. R. Stevens, Ks^.
Dear Sir—l have had dyspepslx in iti wort form
for t':e last ten years, and have taken hunUiods o i
dwilars’worm of mediciuea witliout obt...uin,< any
relief. In September last 1 couimein til t .k.xirf t.e
Vemetine, sin. e which time n y health lias stead, y
improved. My ton<i dio; ts well, and 1 have Kaiued
li.tet'ii pounds oi flesu. There ro several ot iers in
t :is place taking Vegetlne, ami all Have obtained
reiiet. Yours truly, THOMaS E. MOOKK,
Overseer oi Card Room, Portsmouth Co.’s Mills.
VECETSNE
Prepared by
11. R. STEVENS, Boston, 3lass.
Venetine ! P'. ,J u -' 'i
Ttijb. cja-i'suiiME
DE. C. MeLANE’S
Celebrated American
WORM SPECIFIC
OR
VERMIFUGE.
SYMPTOMS OF WORMS.
I'HE countenance is pale and lcad
en-colored, with occasional flushes,
or a circumscribed spot on one or both
cheeks; the eyes become dull; the
pupils dilate; an azure semicircle
runs along the lower cyc-lid; the
nose is irritated, swells, and sometimes
bleeds; a swelling of the upper lip;
occasional headache, with humming
orthrobbmg of the cars; an unusual
secretion of saliva; slimy or furred
tongue ; breath ve;y foul, particularly
in the morning; appetite variable,
sometimes voracious, with a gnawing
sensation of the stomach, at others,
entirely gone; fleeting pains in the
stomach ; occasional nausea and vom
iting ; violent pains throughout the
abdomen; bowels irregular, at times
costive; stools slimy, not unfrequent
!y tinged with blood; belly swollen
and hard ; urine turbid ; respiration
occasionally difficult, and accompa
nied by hiccough; cough sometimes
dry and convulsive; uneasy and dis
turbed sleep, with grinding of the
teeth ; temper variable, but generally
irritable, &c.
Whenever the above symptoms
are found to exist,
DR. C. McLANE’S VERMIFUGE
will certainly effect a cure.
IT DOES NOT CONTAIN MERCURY
in any form ; it is an innocent prepa
ration, not capable of doing the slightest
injury to the most tender infant.
The genuine Dr. McLane’s Ver
mifuge bears the signatures of C.
McLane and Fleming Bros, on the
wrapper. — ;0;
dr. C. McLANE’S
liver pills
are not recommended as a remedy “for
aT the ills that flesh is heir to,” but in
affections of the liver, and in all Bilious
oaiplaints, Dyspepsia and Sick Head
, e > or diseases of that character, they
Maud without a rival.
AGUE ANI) fever.
No better cathartic can be used prepar
atory to, or after taking Quinine.
as a simple purgative they are un
rqualed. l b '
beware or imitations.
D’ e genuine are never sugar coated.
* c, i box has a red wax seal on the
’ with the impression Dr. McLane’s
Lvek I‘ili.s.
bach wrapper hears the signatures of
I . ane and Fleming Bros.
C m S T u ß on having the genuine Dr.
• •"cLane’s Liver Bills, prepared by
e r ?"'£ ros„ of Pittsburgh, Pa., the
n rket being full of imitations of the
j * 1 ' ill cLane, spelled differently but
Facts for young hen.
Actual Business, Students on
j n w. ''“ an ge, The Business World
I.7, 'mature, at MOORE’S BUSINESS
ATLANTA. GA. The
, *nd business School in the country.
glttOKT?
U . BLACKWELL’S
T mm
tobacco
BY J. I). 110YL& CO.
A Sprig >< Swoetbrier.
-Vzi unpublished Po m bp Thomas Moore
Sweet rnrc< uid lillies,
Eueh Chloe and Phillis
> the poets of old have been settled
to be,
They’ve so rifled of flowers
The groves meads, and bowers,
Inere scarce is one left fora poet like me,
lot is the dear creature resembles a
flower,
1 ts a spring of s veetbrier, where blos
som. the rose—
An emblem at once of their sweetness
and p iwor,
Lor it scratches your face while it tick
les your nose.
With a maid young and coy
If you wish for to toy
She dis mills with a frown what would
give her heart ease;
H bile a widow of mettle
Res mbles a nettle ;
The closer you p ess her, the less you
displease,
\ et the whole of the sex most resembles
iny flower
Ihe spring of s vee: brier, where blos
soms the r se—
An emblem at onee of her sweetness
and power.
For it scratches your face while it lick
• les your nose.
By all bards tis agreed
An old man’s a dry weed,
bo forgets while she blossoms that
lif s but a span :
And the o ly hand of Time
Having w .sled her prime,
She resolves, when too late, to take pity
on man,
\et maidens, wives and widows reseiu
b es my flower,
the spring of sweethrier, where blos
soms he rose—
An bin-a at once of the r sweetness
: nd power,
For it scratches vour face while it tick
les your nose.
Plotting Against The Georgia
in > rats.
Macon Telegraph and Messenger’s Wash
inf on Correspondent.
I hear some whispe;s now a-days of
coming events in Georgia, politics. All
the scalawags and carpet-baggers who
hang around here and claim that State
as their home, are howling for Toombs
f r r>v<*r**or on an ‘-independent” or
“people’s” ticket. They say he will
ran and be elected by a large majority
One of the most 1 o orious of the breed
and a mulatto office holder here who
once figured in Georgia politscs, has, 1
hear, been in consn tation 1 itely with a
member of the Georgia delegation, pre- !
sumedlj on this subject. It is very
certain that the b i sis of e-hat is intend
ed to be a formidable antagonism to
the democracy of G /orgis is being for
mulated here, and that it will make is
biggest bid for, and base most of its
hopes on, the negro vote. Look out for
the first sijns of this in certain newspa
pers in Georgia, which will presently
b'ossom with fat pos ' “oo and other
department printing. Tf-tlrs don t
happen, depend on it there has been a
hitch in the arrangements somewhere.
Let the people of Georg’a make up their
minds now to fight and stamp out next
year one of the most infamous and un
holy conspiracies to deliver them into
. he power of radical party that was ev
er devised
rough Story From Germany.
A gentleman writing to a German
journa', rela'es the following curious
occurrence :
“I was alone with my laborers in a
field where potatoes were being harvest
ed. My watch dog was alone with me.
I saw him seize a mouse, swallow it,
and then lie down at my feet. I went
home to dinner, and while seated at
tl e table was asked what was the mat
ter with the dog. He was turning
round and moaning, and something was
hanging from his side. I took him up
in my anus and found it was a mouse
which had just been killed. At first I
hought. it had merely stuck in the long
hair, but on examining closer I saw
hat only one-half the mouse protruded
rom the dog’s body. V 5 hen the aper
ure was cleared it was found to be an
inch in depth. The dog had no front
•eeth, had swallowed the mouse, and
•he little animal had at once began to
, n .iw its way out. it was at first stop
ped by one of the ribs, and had actu
,lly burrowed out between the rib and
<kin. The dog killed the mouse when
it put its head out by munching it with
its jaws The dog died the next day.’
Her Grnmlftitber Whipped
Washington.
Louisville, Ky., February B.
Mrs. Eliza Langborn died yesterday in
this city, aged eighty-one years. She
belonged to families well known in the
history of Virginia and Kentucky. Her
grandfather, William Payne, bid a per
sonal difficulty with General Washing
ton, during which Payne knocked the
father of his country down in the Alex
andria (Va.) Court House yard.
DAWSON, GEORGIA, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 2 ), 1879.
General Sherman's Opinion ol
Georgia.
The "‘General” of the Army rep'ie3
to a letter addressed to him by Captain
LI. lh Howell as follows :
St. Augustine, Fla , Feb 4,1870.
Captain E. P Howell, Editor Con
stitution, Atlanta, Georgia — My Dear
>ir : Your most accep able letter of
February Ist, reached me here yester
day, an I 1 avail myself of the i.rst mo
ment of leisure to reply.
My opportunities of studying the
physical features of Georgia have been
even larger than you mention. In !8-
43-4 1 went from Augus a to Marietta
in a stage (when Atlanta had no exis
tence) ; thence to Be.fonate, Alabama,
on horseback, returning afterwards all
the way on horseback to Augusta, by
a different road ; again, in 1864, I con
ducted, as all the world knows, a vast
army fiom Chatianooga to Atlanta and
Savannah, and just now have passed
over the same district in railway car.—
Considering the lrstory of this period
of time (35 y°ars) the development of
Ihe country has been great, but not
comparable with ('a ifornia, lowa, Wis
consin or Kan as, in all which States I
ha.e had similar chances for observa
tion The reason why Georgia has n t
kept pace with the States I have named
is beyond question that emigration
would not go where slavery existed.
Now that this cause is removed there is
no longer any reason why Georgia, es
pecially the northern part, should not
rapid y regain her prominence among
the great States of the Union. I know
that no se ticn is more favored in cli
mate, health, soil, minerals, water, and
everything which man needs for his
material wants, and to contribute to
his physical and intel'ectual develop
ment. Your railroads, already fini li
ed, giving vour people cheap supplies,
and the means of sending in every sec
tion their surplus products of the soil
or of manufactures. Y T ou have im
mense beds of iron an 1 coal, besides
inexh ustable qoanti iesof timber, oak,
hickory, beech, poplar, pine, etc , so
nocessarv : n modern factories an ' which
are becoming scarce in other section! < f
our busy country.
North Georgia is especi dly a ’apted
to fruit orchards, to uard ns and small
l "
farms: and all you need to make it
teem with prosperity is more people
from that class of Northern farmers and
m ion heturers, and that other large
class of Euro ■■ enr grants, which has
converted the great Northwest from a
wilderness into comfortable homes for
its millions of co iten ed peop e.
1 have crossed this continent ilia <y
times, be almost every possible
route, and feel certain that at this ti lie
no sing e region hold out as strong in
ducements for indus rious emigrants as
that from Lynchburg, Va , to Hunts
ville, Ala , right and left, embracing
t..e mount ranges aud intervening
valleys, especia ly East Tennessee,
North Georgia and Alabama. I hope
I will not give offVnse in saying that
the present population Las not done
full justice io this naturally beautiful
and most favored region of our country,
and that two or three millions of people
could be diverted from the great West
to this region with profit and advantage
to all concerned. This whole region,
though called “southern, ’ is, intact,
“Northern ’ —viz : it is a wheat-growing
country : lias a climate in no sense top
ical or Son; hern, but was designed by
nature for small farms aud not for large
plantations. In the region I have
named, North Georgia forms a most im
portant part: and your city, At.anta,
is its natural center or capital. It is
admirably situated, a thousand feet
above the sea, healthy, with abundance
of the purest water, and with granite,
limestone, sandstone and clay conven
ient to build a second London. In
1864 my army, composed of near a
hundred thousand men, all accustomed
to a Northern climate, were grouped
about Atlanta from June to November,
without tents, aud were as vigorous,
healthy and strong as thougb they were
in Ohio or New York. Indeed, the
whole country from the Tennessee to
the Ocinulgee is famous for health,
pure w ater, abundant timber, and with
a large proportion of good soil, especi
ally in the valleys, and all you need is
more people of the i ight sort.
I am satisfied, from my recent visit,
that Northern professional men, manu
facturers, mechanics, and farmers may |
come to Atlanta, Rome and Chattanoo
ga with a certainty of fair dealing and
fair encouragement. Though I was
personally regarded as the bete noir of
the late war in your region, the author
of all your woes, yet I admit that I
have just passed over the very gtaund
desolated by the civil war, and have
received everywhere nothing but kind
and courteous treatment from the high
est to (he lowest, and I he ml of no vi
olence to others for opinion’s sake
Some Union men spoke to me of social
ostracism, but I saw nothing of it, and
even if it does exist it must disappear
with the present generatian. Our Whole
frame-work of government and history
is founded on the personal and political
equality of citizens, and philosophy
teaches that s icial distinctions can only
rest on personal merit and correspond
ing inttdligence, and if any part of a
community clings :o distinctions found
ed on past conditions, it will grow less
and less with lime, and finally disap
pear. Any attempt to build up an ar
istocracy or .a privileged class at the
Southt on the fact that their fathers or
grandfathers one owned slaves, will re
sult in a ridiculous failure and subject
the authors to the laughter of mankind
I refer to this subject incidentally be
cause o hers have argued the case with
me, but wheth r attempted elsewhere
iu the South, I am certain it will not be
attempted in Georgia.
Therefore, I shall believe and uiain
ta n that North Geor ;ia is now in a
condition to Invite emigration from the
Northern States of our union and Eu
rope and all parties concerne 1 should
advertise widely the great inducements
your region holds out to the industrious
an<y ugal of all lands : agents -hould b ■
appointed in New Ykir; to advise, and
others at Knoxville, Chattanooga, Rome,
Atlanta, etc , to receive immigrants and
to point them on arrival w! e/e cheap
lands may be had with reasonable credit,
whoi— "oiir auies mav open coal and
iron mines, where mills may be
erected to g ind wheat and corn, spin
cotton, and manuf cture the thousands
and one things you now buy from abroad;
an I more especially to make known that
you are prepared to welcome and pat
ronize men who will settle in your re
gion and form a part of your community.
Your growth and development since
the war have been good, very good—
better th n I was prepared to see ; but
compare it with Sn Francisco Denver,
Portland, Oregon, Leavenworth, Chica
go, Bt. Louis, or hundreds of places 1
could mention, less favored in loea ion
and climate than Ailan’a. These p! 'ces
have been notoriously open to the whole
world, and all men have felt perfectly
at liberty to go there with their families,
with their acquired wealth and with
their personal energy. You must guar
antee the same, not superficially or self
ishly but with that sin erely an I frank-
ness w’liieh carry conviction
Personally 1 would not like to check
the flow of emigration w --t ward, b"-
cause of tli vast natural importance of
that region, but 1 do believe that every
patriot should do what he can to benefit
every part of our whole country, and I
am sure that good will result from turn
ing a parts of this great tide of huui in
life ana energy southward alo <g the
valleys of the Allega iy mountains, es
pecially of East Tennessee, Northern
Georgia and A1 Lama, and if I can aid
you in this goo 1 work I assure you that
1 will do so with infinite pleasure.
Excuse me if I ask you as an editor
to let up somewhat on the favorite hob
by of “carpet-baggers.” I know that
you personally apply the term only to
political adventurers, but others, your
readers, constru it otherwise I have
resided in San Francisco, Leavenworth
and Saint Louis, and of the men who
have built up these great cities, I asser
that not one in fifty was a native of the
p! ic". All, or substantially all, were
carpet-baggers, i. e.. immigran s from
all par sof the word, many of th m
from the South.
Our Supreme * 'ourt, Congress, and
our most prominent and intellectual
men, now hail from localities of their
own adoption, not of their birth
Let the emigran' go to Georgia feel
and rea ize that nis business ands cial
position result from his own industry,
his merits and his virtues, ind not from
the accidental place of his birth, and
soon the great advantages of climate,
soil, minera's, timber, etc , etc., will
fill up your country, and make Atlanta
one of the most prosperous, beau iful
and attractive cities, not alone of the
South, but of the whole continent, an
end which Id -sire quite as much as
yon do.
Our nation has passed its infancy
with the usual diseases peeu iar to that
period of life, and now, in its second
century, it enters its epoch of manhood.
In this you, a younger man. have more
at stake than I. I beg of you to look
ahead and not behind, and to encourage
by word and example every effort to
make Georgia the contented home of
three or four millions of industrious
and virtuous people.
For your personal courtesy to me on
my recent visit I give you hearty
thanks, and will, on my return to
Washington, be most happy to bear
! from you further on this and kindred
‘ Subjects. With respect, your friend,
W. T. Shkhman.
Til IS FROST KING.
He went abroad last night
On a fierce and wild t’oray,
And treasurers bright, in his frosty
High ,
From lie hillsides b re away.
Ear li mourns to-day in gloom—
For a crushing li nd was laid
On le if and bloom, and r ire perfume,
Iu woodland, glen and dala.
lie tore the garland down,
That the glowing autumn twined,
And hi -f ided crown of russe brown
In her golden emple shrined.
Frost King, our hearts stilJ yearn
F( r the v.inquis ed summer hours,
And sadly turn from by blackened
urn
Of blighted buds and flowers
Boys and Pistols.
“I never could understand," the dea
con said, “why a boy shoti and carry a
pistol. A pistol is a very peculiar fire
arm; it is made for very.peculiar pur
poses It is quite natural for some boys
to want rifles or shot-guns, with which
they may kill game; hut a pistol is
intended to kill human being, and this
is about a'l it is good for. There are
very few boys in this country who could
shoot a bird or a rabbit with a pistol,
a id any one who should go out hunting
with a pistol would be laughed at.
This being the case, why should a boy
want a pistol ? What human beings
would he like to kill. It is useless to
say that he may need his pistol for pur
poses of defense Not one boy in a
thousand is ever placed in such a posi
tion that he need to defend himself with
a pistol But it often has happened
that boys who carried loaded pistols
thought that it won and be a manly thing,
under certain circumstances, to use
them, and vet, when the time came, and
they kil ed somebody, they only brought
down miser / on th niseives and their
families And this too, in many cases
where, if no one present had had a pis
tol, the affair w'ould have passed off
hannless'y, and been soon forgotten.
But the way in which boys genera y
take human life with pisto s is some ac
cidenta’ way, as they do not kill high
waymen and robbers, but they kII
their schoo mates, or their brothers, or
'heir sisters, or in many cases, tlieui
se ves There is no schoo! where boys
are taught to properly hand e and car
ry "nt led pisto s, so they usually have
to earn these things by long practice.
And whi e they arc learning it is very
;ike y that someone will be shot. I
saw in a newspaper, not long ago, ac
counts of three fatal accidents, all of
which happened on the same day, from
care ess use of firearms. And one of
thesp dreadful mishaps was occasioned
by a ad who carried a loaded pis ol in
his overcoat pocket, and who carelessly
threw down the coat.”
How Monkeys are Captured.
Monkeys are pre ty common, yet as
all tli • families are remarkably cun
ning, has it ever occurred <o the reader
ho v they are taken ? PitfaTs will take
a lion, and the famished monarch will
after a few days starvation, dart into a
cage containing food, and thus be se
cured. B'U ow are monkeys causrbt ?
The ape family resembles man. Their
vices are human. They love liquor
and fall. In Darfour and Senar the
natives make a fermented beer, of which
the monkeys are passionately fond
Aware of this the natives go to the parts
of the forest frequented by the monk
eys, and set on the ground calabashes
full of tho enticing liquor As soon as
the monkey sees and tastes it, he ut
ters loud cries of joy that soon attracts
his emnndes. Then an orgle be ins,
and in a short time they show all de
grees of intoxication Then the negroes
appear. The few who came too late to
(ret fuddled escape The drinkers are
too far gone to distrus* them, but ap
parently take them lor larger species of
their ow i genus. The negroes take
some tin and these be ;in to weep and
covet them with m ludlin kisses. \Yhen
a negro takes one by the hand to load
him oT, the nearest monkey will cling
to the one who thus finds a s ipport aud
endeavor to go on also Another will
grasp at him, and so on until the negro
leads a staggeri ig line of ten or a doz
en t'psev monkeys. When finally
brought to the village they are secure
ly caged up an 1 gradually sobered
down ; but for two or three days a
gradual diminishing supply of liquor is
given them, so as to reconcile them by
degrees to their state of captivity.
A bad boy becomes a bad man
about as easily, and almost as inev
itably, as a tadpole l>ccotiie3 a frog.
When in Home don’t do as the
Homans do. A large share >f the
native population of that city are
professional beggars.
VOL. H--NO 50.
Kicked by a Mule.
Jake Johnson had a mule. There
was nothing remarkable in the mere fact
of his be ng the possessor of such an
animal, but there was something pecu
liar about this mule, lie—the animal
—could kick higher, hit harder, on the
slightest provocation, and act ugliei
than any mule on record.
One 'norning, riding his property to
market, Jake met Jim Boggs, against
whom he had an old, but concealed
grudge. He knew Boggs’ weaknes
lay in bragging and betting,
lie saluted accordingly :
“llow are you, Jim? Find m ruing
“Hearty, squire, ’ replied Jim. Fine
weather. Nice mule mule that you have
A'ill he do to bet on?”
Bet on? Guess he will that. I tell
you, Jim Boggs, he s the best mule in
this country. Paid five hundred do -
lars for him ”
Great smash! Is that so ?” ejacula
ted Jim.
Solid truth, every word of it. Tell
you confidential y, Jim, I’m taking him
down for betting purposes. I bet he
an kick a fly oft' from any man without
its hurting him.
Now, look here, squire,’ says Jim,
l am not a betting character, but I'l
bet you something on that myse f.
Jim, there’s no use, don tbet,l don’t
want to win your money.
Don’t be alarmed, squire, I’ll take
such bets as them every time
Well, if you are determined to bet, 1
will risk a small stake—say five dol
lars.
All right, squire, you’re my man.
But who'll he kick the fly off' There is
no one here but you and I. You try
it.
No, says Johnson, I have to be by
the mule's head to order him.
Oh! yass, says Jim. Then probably
I’m the man. \Y a’ll 111 do it, but
you are to bet ten against my five, if I
risk it.
Ail right, quoth the squire. Now,
there is a fly on your shoulder. Stand
still. And Johnson adjusted the
mule.
Whist, Jervey, said he.
The mule raised his heels with such
v locity and force that Boggs rose in
the air like a bird, and alighted on all
fours in a muddy ditch, hangup against
a rail fence.
Rising, in a towering rage, be ex
claimed : Yass, that is smart! I knew
your darned mule couldn't do it You
had that all put up. I wouldn’t be
. icked like that for fifty dollars. You
can just fork over them are stakes for
it any way.
Not so fast, .Tim, Jervey did just as
l said be could, that is, kick a fly off a
man without its hurting him. You
see, ihe mu e is nut injured by the op
eration. However, if you are not satis
fied, we will try it again as often as
you wish,
The deuce take you, growled Jim.
I’d rather have a barn fall on me at
once than have that critter kick me
again. Keep the stakes, but don’t say
anything about it.
And Boggs trudged on in bitterness
of soul, murmnring to liimse'f, “sold by
thunder! and kicked by a mu e.
Short Sermons.
A perfectly contented man is also
useless.
Try to see yourself through th
eyes of those around you.
Great power of acqusition is com
mon to millionaires and hogs.
The ideal saint of the joung mor
alist is cut from sappy timber.
Faiilith.it asks no questions kill
the soul and slides the intellect.
Happy is th ‘ man who has neigh
bors willing to forgive his mistakes
The vigorous idea keeps warm
though wrapped in a few words.
He who thinks poorly of himself
can not win the respect of his fellows.
Appear to be better than you are.
and aim to be wh it you appear to
be.
The trouble with many communists
is, that the dead men refuse to be
buried.
Only infidel wisdom is able to dis
tinguish the difference between some
men and beasts.
Many believe that to be a lie which
contradicts the testimony of his own
ignorance.
The gilded calf, having wealth
without soul, finds more worshipers
to-day than in the days of Moses.
He whose only claim to the tit 1 e
“gentleman” is in what he wears.
The Lord can easily have mon
faith in the religion that wears an old
coat to church than the man in the
coat can.
"Low beadsteads, that burglars
cannot crawl under.’’ are advertised
out West.
Am Inspired Orator.
On a certain occasion Prentiss visit
ed Boston and addressed its citizens in
Funnel I lull A gentleman who heard
him, then a venerable judge, told this
anecdote which illustrates the orator’s
power. Unable to procure a sea*, he
stood jammed by the crowd. As Mr.
Prentiss began to speak the gentleman
took out bis watch to time him. As be
was replacing it in his fob something in
the or.tors manner and w rds arrested
his attention. He found it impossible
to take away his eyes or ears. lie for
got the presence of the crowd, bis own
fatigue, the passing of the time, ever
thing but the speaker. Mr. Prentiss
seemed.fatigued. So intense was the
sempathy of the venerable man with
him, that he found himself breathing
rapidly and painfully.
At last the orator, exclaiming, “My
powers fail!” sank exhausted into a
chair.
Not till then did the aged listener dis
covert hat his hand was still holding
his watch at the opening of its pocket.
He looked at, it. lie had stood in that
crowd listening for three hours and fif
een minutes. Near him stood an aged
Minister who, tremulous with excitement
exclaimed:
“ • ill any one doubt again that God
inspires man ?”
Columbus Enquirer: “Some days
ago a negro livi..g in Chattahoochee
eounty started for Columbus. On the
way be saw a chance to get a cow, as
he I bought, without being detcc ed.—
lie took advantage of the opportunity,
and drove her to this city. The cow
hud a very young calf, which he left
when he secured her. He offered her
for sale, and quic dy found a purchas
er. The gentleman purchasing had
him to drive her to his house, where
the colored man left her. Securing tl e
inone. he watched for a chance, and
turned her out. Asa matter of course,
the animal went home as last as possi
ble. The owner bad started after her.
and the purchaser in this city had done
likewise, and they met a few miles be
low the city. The matter was explain
<?d, the negro arrested, tr.ed and com
mitted to jail. He broke out a few
days since, and is now at large. It is
now a matter of doubt as to what he is
guilty of.
An Irishman driven to desperation
by the stringency of the money market
and the high price of provisions, pro
cured a pistol and took to the road.
Jeeting a traveler, be stopped him
witli :
Your money or your life !”
Seeing Put was green at the business,
the traveler said:
I’ll tell you wliat I I do, I'll give
you all in}' money for that pistol.
Agreed.
Pat received the money and banded
over the pistol.
Now, said the 'ravcler, band back
I bat money or I’ll blow your brains
out!”
Blaze away, my hearty, said Pat
never a dhrop of powder is there in it.
This prayer was found in the late
Dr. Bethune’s Bible at the time of his
death. Lord, pardon what I have been,
sanction what I am, and order what I
shall be, that Thine shall be the glory
md mine the eternal salvation.” These
words, from one of the ancient fathers,
Dr. Bethune wrote underneath, “are
proper for any believing sinner, in life
or in death ”
The Detroit “Free Press” in one
of is intervals of sadness, says that
everybody, even the driver of a race
horse, nowadays, is a “professor,” and
it wonders where all the “professors
come from And the “Free Press”
has struck a popular folly. The man
of education, even though he be a
specialist, does not require any props
for his name if that is anything.
A “respectable" fanner n *ar Spring
field, la., cheered and then inebriated
himself a little too much. He sold a
S3 Y) team of horses for $63. He
would have no doubt regretted the
transaction exceedingly, but fortu
nately some tramps robbed him of
'he SO3, and so he feels just as pleas
ed as if he had sold his team for a
thousand dollars.
A gentleman, having occasion in
praise a kind hearted Irishwoman for
her good deeds,said to her: “Well,
well, Kate, if there is a heaven in the
next world you wi.l get to it.” As
quick as lightuing came the reply, with
all tne heartiness of the race : “God
bless ye, Mr. P , an' sure if I do,
I’ll lave the gate'open forjou.”
Parties Holding Cotton
For the spring markets, or who contem
plate shipping for immediate sale, would
do well tc correspond with E. E.
Cheatham, care H. F. Grant, Suv.ui
hah, Ga , as he is prepared to offer ex
tra inducements, and will give prompt
a id personal attention to all consign
ments. All lie asks is a trial.
Young ladies at Racine, Wis., are
given to dressing in male attire and
protueuad.ng the streets.