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Newspaper Page Textthe mercury. Watered ns seoond-class matter nt tee Sau- dersville Postoffloe, April 27, 1880. RE MERCURY. gandersy1 lie* Washington Couuty, Ga. rUDLTSIIKD BT JERNIGAN & SCARBOROUGH. A. J. JERNIGAN, Propkietok. DEVOTED TO LITERATURE, AGRICULTURE AND GENERAL INTELLIGENCE. $1.50 PER ANNUM. Subscription. .$1.50 per Fear. VOL. I. SANDERSVILLE, GA., TUESDAY, AUGUST 31, i860. NO. 22. THE MERCERY PUBLISHED EVERY TUESM1 NOTICE. jgy— ail communications Intended far I paper most be noootnpanled With name oi the writer, not necessarily far | cation, but as n guarantee of good f We ore in no way responsible lot the' cr opinions of correspondents. G. W. H. WHITAKER, DENTIST, SanderBvillo, Gn, Terms Cash. Offloe nt his residenoe on Harris Street. April 3, 1880. B. D. EVANS, Attorney atLaw, April 3, 1880. Snndersvillo, Ga. DR, WM. RAWLINGS, Physician & Surgeon, Sandorsville, Gn. Offloe at Ssndomiilo Hotel. April 10, 1880. E. A. SULLIVAN, NOTARY PUBLIC, Sandorsville, Ga. Specinl attention given to collection oi claims- . , _ Ofllon in tho Court-House. 0. H. ROGERS, Attorney at Law, Sundoraville, Ga. Prompt ad out ion given to all business. Offlco in northwest room oi Court-Hcnso. May 4, 1880. C. C. BROWN, Attorney at Law, Snndersvillo, Gn. Will prnotioo in the Stale and United States Courts. Olllne in Cuurt-llouso. H. N. HCLLIFIELD, Physician & Surgeon, Sandorsville, Ga. Offloe next door to Mrs. Hay no’s millinery store ‘'on Mari is Street. DR. J. B. ROBERTS, Physician & Surgeon, Snndersvillo, Ga. May ho cons-ilteil nt his oflleo on Haynes struct, in ihc Mis >nio I an'go building, tram 0 n m to 1 P m, and Irom 3 to {pm; daring other lioi'u i, lit hi« resifteneo, on Ohuich street, wimn not pii.|c8»ioiiiilly eugagod. Apr-1 3 IflNO. Watches, Clocks AND JEWELBY REPAIRED BT JERNIGAN. POSTOFFICE HOURS. 7:00 to 11:30 a. ra, 1:30 to 6:00 p. m. E. A. Sullivan, P. M. Subscribe for the MERCURY Only $1.60 por annum. PUBUSUED BV JERNIGAN & SCARBOROUGH. BUY YOUR Spectacles, Spectacles At the Pasture Bars. Returning lonely irom the field She met mo at the posture bars; The moon was like a golden shield, The firmament was lit with stars. As morning dawn her loco was mild, As evening, so her limpid eyes; God never gave a sweeter child For weary man to idolize. So winsome soomed her artless mirth, Her solt oeioss and ardent kiss, I thought ot all delights ot earth The angola surely eovet this. I know they mean to do no ill, But whom they love they lure away; Good angels love her as you will, But leave her with me while I stay. Just as she is, tor I would set The hand oi time behind an hour, II that would stay a little yet The bud Irom blowing to the flower. And when at length wo homeward went Tho fragrant azure shone so clear, The great iamiliar firmament I thought bad never seemed so near. So near, tbo moon above tho trees An airy globo ol silver swung, And In tho dewy tops oi those The stars in mellow dusters hung. So near that I could searoo forego The thought that one who longing waits Might hear them singing sweet and low Aoross tho golden portolod gates. —J. P. Irvin*. number of useful and pretty things lor them, and if any misfortune should hap pen to Jane they would only be too glad ;o help her.” . who do you suppose would help you If you needed help?” said Mr. Jarvis, for want of a better question. Mrs. Jarvis 1 eyes sparkled angrily as site answered: ‘Nobody. If you should lose your property to-day I should be a beggar, without a claim on any one for help. You have always held yoUr purse strings so tightly that It has been hard enough to ask for my own necessities, leaving others out altogether. Many a time a dollar or two would have enabled me to do some poor man or woman untold good, but altUough you have always said that all your property was mine, I never could and cannot now command a dollar of it.” Lucky you couldn’t, if you wanted to spend It on beggars.” "Donald, you know that I would spend money as wisely as you do. Who was it that, only last week, gave a poor lame beggar five dollars to pay his fare to Burton, and then saw him ‘throw his crutches aside and make for the nearest saloon P Your wife could not do worse if trusted with a few d illars. You say that the money is all mine, ^et you for his master before the emancipation LClDfl freed him, came to Jarvis mills, friend- Tronble With the Obelisk. FARM, GARDEN AND HOUSEHOLD. less and penniless, the heart of the pro Diietor swelled with indignation at such injustice. He was eloquent on the sub ject, at homo and abroad, and won dered how any one could be so cruel and selfish as to commit such an outrage against justice. He had ealled him a robber many a time, but now Donald Jarvis looked to himself very much like the old slaveholders ! Massa Brown had taken the proceeds ofCuffee’s labor for his own without a " thank you ” for it. True, when Cuffee eat he had given him food, whan he was sick he had liven him medicine, and he had olothed iim, too, just as he himself thought host. Mr. Jarvis had married a loving, conscientious woman, and for fifteen years had appropriated her labors. Her recompense had been food and olothes, such as he thought best lor her. A lit tle better than Guffee’s, perhaps, but the similarity of the oases did not please him. He had expected ills wife to be very grateful for what he had done for her, out now he wondered that she had not rebelled long ago. Had his life been a mistake P Had his wife no more money or liberty than Coffee had in oondage. Was Donald Jarv is no better than Massa Brown P Commander Gorrlnge, in charge of the vessel which brought Cleopatra's needle from Alexandria, Egypt, to New York, had considerable trouble in get ting away with the khedlve’s present: “1 would rather,” he said, when pressed for a description of the fight he was l'lgs on Dairy Farms. A dairyman writes thnt he finds there no more profitable stock to keep on _ dairy farm than good pigs. He keeps two pure Berkshire brood sows and one for a description of the fight compelled to make at Alexandria before and after the removal of the monolith from its long occupied site, "drop a curtain over that entire affair. I hate to think thnt there are in this world so boar, and raises four litters each year. id the The litters avera . eight each, am figs are sold when they are between bur many picayune and disagreeable people as those wtto our and five months old to make room for the new litters. They then weigh from 120 to 150 pounds dressed, and sell for seven cents a pound. Last year bis spend it ns you please, while • - cannot spend a dollar without asking you for it for. His brain seemed to be in a muddle, Lram THE WIFE’S WAGES. Well, Ncttlo, what do youwantP” said Mr. Jarvis to his wife, who stood looking inther noxiously at him alter he had paid the factory hands their week’s wages. “ Why, Donald said she," I thought ns I had worked for you all tho week I would come for my wages, too! You pay Jane two dollars a week, surely I rain that, nnd I would like very much to have it as my own.” ‘Pshaw, Nettie, how ridiculously you talk! You know that all I have belongs to you and the children—and don't I furnish the house and every thing? What under the sun would you do with money if you had itP” it, and telling what l want it for. Any beggar can get it the same way 1 Christ mas you bought presents for us and ex pected us to do very grateful for them. A shawi for roe ot the very color that I cannot wear, a set of furs for Luoy that she did not need, a drum for Robin that has been n nuisance ever sinco, and a lot of worthless toys that were all broken up in a week. There was forty or fifty dollars of my momy just the same as thrown away, yet when I ask you to trust me with two dollars n woek you cannot imagine what use I have for It, and fear it will be wasted. I am and he looked sostrkngoly that his wife, anxious to break the spell, took his arm, saying “ Let us go home, dear, toa must be waiting for us.” He took off his hat in a dreamy way and they walked home in silence. The children ran joy- to meet them. Tho yard was so fresh and green, and tho Mowers so many and bright, that he wondered he had never thanked Nettle for them all. Hitherto he had looked upen them as his, but now ho felt that his interest in them was only n lew dollars, that would not have amounted to anything without his wife's care. His children were tidy and sweet, and everything opposed my work in Alex andria. I desire, however,” he added, " to give to tho American consular agent at Alexandria—Constantine M. Salvago, a Greek merchant of that city—the credit and praise that is due to him for his share in the enterprise. But for his influence among the merchants of Al exandria, which was constantly ex erted in my behnlf, I fear we would have had much more serious trouble than befell us.” " What was the nature or form of the opposition t> your removal of the obe lisk?” asked the reporter. “ Oh, it took a dozen different forms,” replied the lieutenant. “The Egyp tians thomselvcs were, I thick, well ileased with tho gift of the khedlve to he great country of the United States, , po< i brought him in pver $250, and thej not oost $50 outside of the skimmei milk and the buttermilk whioh they consumed. He has tried several kinds, Chester Whites, Yorkshires, Suffolk*, rado Berkshire!, and pure ones, and _inds the pure Berkshire and the half breed of this breed and Chester White the best feeders. The meat of these t>ro kinds will sell more readily than any others, being lean and fat mixed, while Essex, Suffolk and Yorkshire are all too fat for sale in the summer timo. He euros the bams and the sides for bacon, and finds it is more profitable than selling the carcasses, tie don't think anything on a dairy farm pays so well as goon pigs properly managed. for which country they have unquali fied and unbounded respect and sure I could not spend fifty dollars more ' 'ea to.” "I know, Donald, that you buy'the vlllint hook, money 1! you tor the ta to be a little necessaries for us all, and I nm wi that you should do so still, but I shou like a little money otmy voryown. We have boon married fifteen years, and in all that time I do not seem to havo earned a dollar. As far as money is con cerned I might ns well be a slave. V a quart o' without askin . nnd I should more Independent.” Mr. Jarvis, proprietor of Jarvis mills, worth thousands of dollars, laughed de rislvoly. „ ,, , ’• You're n fine one to talk of inde pcndcnco," he said. “ If you should start out to mako your own living, you’d fetch up in the poorhouso soon enough, for what could you do to earn a living? The girls in the factory know how to do their work, and they earn their wages. When I havo paid them my duty is done, but I havo to board and clothe you, and take care of you when you are sick. If I had to do that for the girls, they would have precious little money lelt, 1 can tell you." "Donald, I gave up a good trade when I married you. For live years had supported myself by it, and many time since have I envied myself the purse of those days. As for my not earning anything now, I leave it to you to sny whether it would bo possible to foolishly if 1 trier "Well,” snapped the proprietor, guess it is my own money, and I can spend it as I please. I guess you’ll know it, too, when 70U get another present.” "Oh, it is your monoy then. I under stood you to say it was all mine, nnd in tended to protest against your spending it so foolishly. If it is your own, of course, you have a right to spend it as you Dlense, but it seems to me that n woman who left parents and brothors nnd sis ters, and all her friends, to make a home for you among strangers, a woman who lias given her whole life to you for fif teen years, might be looked upon with as much favor ns you.glvo to beggars, who are very likely to be impostors. ] know thnt you seldom turn them oil without help. Perhaps I would be more successful if I appealed to you as a beggar. I might say, kind sir, please allow to mo out of vour abundant means a small pittance for my comfort . It is truo that I have enough to eat, al though I work for my master from morning till night, and if his children happen to bo siok, from night until nround and in th 3 house had that oheerv ' rd, admira tion, but the population of Alexandria consists in a very limited degree of Egyp tians. It is made up of Greeks and Eng lishmen. Italians and Frenohmen, and Syrian Jews. The latter were most bit ter in their objection to tho removal of tho needle.” "For what reason P”asked the reporter. " Ah,” replied Commander Gorringe, that is just what I would like toknow. For no reason apparently beyond the reason entertained by the famous dog who made a resting-place in the manger. I really do not know why it was, but Slow to Hot® Chickens Fit to Kst. Don’t imagino that it makes no dif ference how your ohiokens have boon brought up. Don’t suppose that they will be good anyhow. Chickens have been oarofully dressed, deliciously stuffed, B.nd yet they were not fit to ent. There was a flavor about them that no soda rinsings could cleanse and no sea soning oonceal. These were chickens that had picked up tneir living nround styes and other unclean p tacos A & eken may be spoiled in drosslng it to If kill' morning again, yet lie does not pay me as much as ho dc hire another to take my place; nnd how much do you suppose it would cost you FROM JERNIGAN. {®“Nono gonuino without our Trade M a On baud and for snlo, Spectacles Hose Glasses, Etc. Music, Music. JERNIGAN VIOLINS, ACCORDEONS, BOWS, STRINGS, to do without mo a ycarP I know tho girls have but llttlo left after paying their expenses, but they enjoy that little so much. Allio Watson supports her self and her mother with her wages, and they both dress better than I do. Jennio Hart is helping her lather pay off the e on his farm, and she is so happy Uiut she can do so. Even Jane, the tci " 1 ...... Jitchen girl, 1ms more freedom than I for out of her own money she is lay ing by presents for her relatives, and will send them Christmas, as much to her own pleasure as theirs. Yesterday an Indian woman was at the hou e with such handsome bead work to soil, and, although I wanted some money so much, I had not a dollar! I felt like crying when Jane brought in her week’s wages and bought half a dozen artioles that I wanted so much. You often say that all you have is mine, but live dollars would have given mo more pleasure yes terday than your hundreds of thousands * v jjj nf nvnnOVr.U flin. of dollars worth of property did. “No doubt of that, Mrs. Jarvis. You have no idea of the value of money, and would have enjoyed buying a lot of bead • ■ —.. be worth a cent to ROSIN BOXES, ETC. Machine Needles, kail OIL and SHUTTLES I'or nil kinds of Machines, lor solo. I will also order parts ot Maohines that get broke, and now pieces nro wauted. A. J. JERNIGAN. A Germqn chemist has /urnished an exceedingly cheap and Biraple plan of testing the amount of water in mila. A11 that is required is a small quantity (say an ounce) of gypsum. This is mtxed with the milk to the consistency Qf a stiff paste, and then allowed to stand. With a milk of 1.030 specific gravity, and a temperature of sixty de grees Fahrenheit, the mixture will harden in ten hours; if twenty-five per cent, of water is present, it will harden in two hours; if fifty per cent., in an • a nd a half; if seventy-live percent., thirty minntoa trash that wouldn’t . anvbody. Jane needs a guardian if she fools away her money like that. She will be in the poorhouse yet if she don t look out. It’s lucky that men do hold the money, for there’s not one woman in a hundred who knows how to use it! “For shame, Donald Jarvis! You know better! Look nt Jerry and Milly Creg, will you, and say that he makes the best use of his money. She is at home with her parents every night, making her wages go as far as possible toward making them comfortable, while he is carousing in the village, wasting his time and money, and making a brute of himself besides. And why does Mrs. Barton come to receive her husband’s wages herself; simply because he can- notget by the saloon with money in his Docket, and if she did not get the money they would all go hungry to bed theday after liis wages are paid. And I believe that every woman who earns money ere spends it as wisely as the average of men, and.I have yet to hear of one of th AU’ b Jarvis n Sow that he could not gainsay aword his wife had.said, for they were all true ° f “Weil, how much do you suppose Tune will have left when New Year oomesP If she should get sick how long she pay for care such as you baveP" ocs his cook, and I am often grently distressed for want of a trifling sum which he would not mind S lving to a poilect stranger! Tho othor ay while ho was from nomo, I had to go to the noxt station to bco a dear friend who was ill, nnd, not having a dollar of my own, I was obliged to bor row Iho money from liis cook. I was so mortified! And not long since the berry woman came with such nice berries to sell, and my littlo girl, who was not well, wanted somo very badly, but I had not oven five cents to pay for a handful for her. Yesterday a friend eaino to ask me to assist in a work of charity. It was a worthy object, and I longed so much to give her a little money for so good a purpose, but though the wifo ot a rich man 1 had no money. Of course I might ask my husband lor money and if I told him all about wlint I wanted with it, nnd ho approved of my purpose, and was in a good humor, be would give it to me; but, sir, it is ter ribly slavish to have to do so, oven if I could run to him every time I wanted anything. L’eoplo say I am a fortunate woman because my husband Is rich, but I often envy tho factory girh their ability to earn and spend their own money. And sometimes I get so wild thinking about my helplessness that if it was not for my children I think I should just drop into the river and end it all.” “Nettie! Nettie Jarvis! What are you saying P” cried the startled hus band at last, for the far away look in her eyes as if she did not sco him, but was looking to somo higher power to help her, touched his pride, if it did not his heart, for he had a good deal of pride in a selfish sort of way. He was proud to bo able to support his family as well as he did. He was proud to think he did it himself. He was proud that when his children needed new shoes he could tell his wife to take thorn to Crispin’s and get what t‘:ey needed. He did it witli a flourish. He was not one of the stingy kind—he liked to spend money; and when Nettie, who was once the most spirited young lady of his ac quaintance, came meekly to him for a dress or cloak,he was some times tempted to refuse her money just to show her how helpless she was without him. Yes, ho was proud of his family, and wanted them to feel how much they deponded upon him. He would have felt aggravated if any one had left his wife a legacy, thus allowing her to bo independent of his purse. The idea ol her earning money, as his other work- folks did, never entered his mind. He “ supported her,” that was his idea of their t elations 1 He never had happened to think that it was very good of her to take his money and spend it for the good of himself and children. He never had thought that any other woman look that rested him so after the bar . dull day at the mill. They sat again nt the table, which had been a source rf comfort and pleasure to him so many years, and ho .wondered how ho could have enjoyed it bo long without even thanking the woman who had provided it. Truo she had used his money in bringing it nil about, but how else could his money bo of use to IrmP Who else could have turned it into just what lie needed day niter day for years? And he began to have an undefined feeling that It took more thnn money to muke n home, He glanced at his wife’s face ns ho buttered his last slice of bread. It was not that of the fair, rosy brido whom I10 had brought to the mills years before, but at that moment ho realized that it was far dearer to him, for he knew that she hnd given the bloom nnd freshness of her youth to make ills liome what il was. His daughters had her rose-leaf cheeks, his sons nor youth ful vitality, all hnd her cheerful, wiu- some ways, and comforted him now ns she had in thoso days when, hardly knowing what care moant, she had lived for him alone. And a new thought came to him “ W ho was comforting her now when she hnd so much cnreP" Was not that what he promised to do when lie brought hor from her old homoP Hu there was certainly at first a very gen- ‘ * the for- ernl opposition on the part of tl eigners at Alexandria (who, by tho way, jay no taxes, being under consular urisdiction) to any disturbance of tho obelisk. All of a sudden they wore oy seized with tho deepest and liveliest in cook. If killed with a full crop, and nllowod to lie for hours before il is drawn" or relieved of its internal organs, it gets an unpleasant flavor. Fowls should be caught nnd shut up without food for twelve hours before tlioy are beheaded. Then the crop nnd intestines will be ompty. nnd the tnsk of licking nnd dressing it will bo greatly OHscncd. Old fowls are not necessarily A Harvest Seat. With beauty crowned, the bearded grata Bosks in the harvest sun; The nurture needed lor ite growth From conntlees son roes woe. The oool winds hies the golden beads, The skies bend sort and Mae; And while men sleep, oeleetlal hands Shake down the balmy dew. And day by day, in rain 08d shina. Its story sweet is told Oi Him whose tender love and ears The helpless world Infold. For the old Judean miraole Koch year is wrooght again; With His own hand the Master given Bread to the sons ot men. -'I Wl And never, while the rainbow spans The storm-cloud's misty tratl, Shall seed-time with its promise oeaee, Nor harvest-blaming fall! -Mary K. 81*1 gM. ITEMS OF INTEREST, terest in the ancient monument, whioh tough—only cook them long enough. • - -7-Tc ‘ for years had stood neglected in tho out skirts ot the city near the Ramloh depot. The ‘young bloods,’ swore that the obelisk should not be removed. I was told by a friend that a sort of soulety had been formod for the purpose of op- osing tho removal by force. I imagine, _owever, that there was never very much backbone to that society. At all events, I told my informant that in my humble opinion it would bo poor policy and exceedingly dangerous for those young gentlemen of Alexandria to at tempt force, and thoy. on refleotion, seemed to arrive at the same conclu siou." “ Were there any threats of personal violence against yourself?” asked tho roportcr. Commander Gorringe shrugged his shoulders and answered with a doubtful sort of a “ no." Ho admitted, how ever, that while walking in the " bourso” one morning he was loudly hissed. “ What did you doP" asked the re porter. “I deliberately retraced my steps," was tho reply, “and tho hissing j£ P fordblo detention of tho obelisk having been decided to bo nt too great a risk, tho foreign population of Alexandria noxt attempted to clog his work with legal barriers. A'.l sorts of injunctions nnd stop papers were issued by the mixed courts of tho city. One mr.n made affidavit—or whatever is the Egyptian equivalent of that process— that tho removal of tho obelisk would seriously endanger tho stability of his house. It being shown that the gentle man’s house was not nearer than 212 yards from tho base of the monument, his complaint was thrown out of court sighed as he thought how far ho hnd . ftp- ■ * “ *- - drifted from her while holding her in a bondage equal to Cuffee’s. Nay, ho felt that her claims were far moro binding limn any which had ever held the negro, nnd that his obligations to her were so much tho greater. Something called the children out doors, nnd Mr. Jarvis took liis easy chair. His wifo came and stood beside him. “ I fenr you are not well, Donald or aro you displcnsod with me?" He drew her into Ills arms and told her how her words had showed him what manner of man he was, and thoro were words spoken that need not be written, but from that day forth a dif ferent man was tho proprietor of tho Jarvis mills, and there was a brighter light in Mrs. Jarvis’ eyes, for at la3tshe had somethin? of her own, nor has sho regretted that she “ applied for wages.” “It is not likely she will lay up many dollars out of a hundred ayearjbutshe win a? nn something better, 1 turn** in laving up something better, l tninK. Last winter she sent her mother a warm shawl and a pair of shoes, and to her brother and sister money to buy new school books, and the warm, loving let- tors they send her do her more, good They aro moro tender twenty-four hours after tboy aro killed than if eaten imme diately. TrenspUntlnn by Night. A gentleman anxious to ascortniu tho effect of transplanting by night instead of by day, made an experiment, with tho following result: He transplanted ten eherry trees while in bloom, com mencing at lour o’clock in the after noon. Those transplanted during day light shed their blossoms, producing little or no fruit, whilo those trans planted in the dark maintained their condition fully. Ho did tho same with ten dwarf treeB after the fruit was one- third grown. Those transplanted dur ing theday shed their fruit; those trans planted during tho night perfected the orop and showed no injury from having been romovod. With each of these trees he romoved some earth with tho roots. The incident is fully vouched for. nnd if a few similar experiments produce a like result, it will be a strong argument to horticulturists, eto., to do much work nt night. Prai>«K*tln«r It is always very desirable, with thoso who have a very few choice roses, :ivo War cry of the Arab—Up and Bz* douln. There is not much danger when It rains “cats and dogs,” but when it Spitz dogs, look out. A Russian physicist maintains that the qu'.. tlty of water on the earth's surface L diminishing. Enormous natural caverns, one 600 feet long, have lately been found neur Wells, Somerset, England. American oysters aro now taken to Europe not only for immediate con sumption but .for laying down oyster beds. A young lady suggested to her fattier tho other day that they save all their old ico and give it to the poor.—Nsm York Berahl. Of 100 patonts issued from the govern ment office in Washington ninety-eight never pay back the amount of the fee to the owners. to have some extra ones, either to gi rde a friend or to enlarge tho flower garden. tii Tho next step taken to impede the pro- * " " for Story of a Wonderful Cure. The papers have been commenting on the “ summer stories ” published in dif ferent parts of the country, but the fol lowing from the Catholic Mirror, pub- M gross of the removal came in the form of a sort of combination which seemed to havo been formed for. the solo and express purpose of cheating tho Ameri can commander. It was with the ut most difficulty that ho could make the slightest purchase without being cheated defrauded. “ I really do not know,” fished %t Baltimore, corpses anything that has yet appeared: Mr. James Pat terson, of this city, has a little daughter Katie, who is now nearly ton years old. Somo fivo years ago she began to have a slight occasional pain in one oi her knees, which became a trifle enlarged, and her parents took her to one of the leading physicians of Baltimore, who made light of tho trouble, nnd gavo some medicines that did the child no good. The enlargement increased, and wlum the father took her to another doctor, who also stands high in his pro fession, he pronounced it a case of white swelling, and he treated her for it. But he did not succeed in curing her. Finally, she was placed in the care of an eminent surgeon, who has since died. He, too, failed. The swelling re mained, and the tendons of the leg got drawn up so that the child could not put her foot down flat on the ground. Her father had great faith in the apparitions at Knock. Ho wroto to Ireland tosjme friends for some of tho mortar irom the chapel there, but before it arrived an acquaintance gave iful of water ia would have wished big’pay for doing it. thought hf limself very : her money to get ifo; To d > this, sileot ripened shootB, well- brunchcd, near tho ground (preferring those limbs that, if cut off, would make a nice bushy plant), and with a sharp knife hack or notch the under side, so that, when bent, it will come in eon tact with tho soil. These notoho should be iivoorsixin number, through to tlio heart or pitch. Now bend the limb down, and with the knifo slit tho limbs one nnd one-half inch up toward the end of tho top, just below the notches, and bo careful not to break tho limb. Cover two inches in tho sandy soil nnd lay a brick or stono over it to keep it down. Keep the soil moist, and by spring tho roots will havo formed, often lour and fivo inohes long, when it can bo easily removed. The most difficult roses root easily this way —American Cultivator. said Commander Gorringe, “ why I nm rehearsing all this that is I assure you I would muc get all about it.” “But the opposition to your work did not continue to the last, did itP asked the reporter. “In some quarters—ye3," was the re ply, “ but not as a common thing.” “ When you first removed tho stone from tho perpendicular, was there any demonstration of disapproval?” "Therewas an immense crowd as sembled, but the intense and universal curiosity with which the process was regarded seemed to procludo ail other feelings. You remember wo made the first attempt to lower tho obeiisk on De cember 3, two days bofore it aotually was lowered. Well, on that occasion the Russian admiral sent a guard of sol diers to see that the work was not inter fered with. Hence, you see, he feared trouble if nobody else did.” Lemon Pudding —The peels of t wo largo lemons giatcd on sugar, or bpiled ana beaten in a mortar, half a pound of sugar, the juice ofn largo lemon, half a pound of butter, ten eggs, leaving out half of the whites. Beat all together, and putting a puff caste in the bottom of your plate, bake it. Gingkiuikead Nuts.—One quart oi molasses, three pints of ilour, one pint corn meal, ono pound of butter, half a pound of coarse brown sugar, an ounce of allspice, a teaspoonful of cloves, a teaspoonful of cinnamon, and two ounces of ginger. Put the molasses in a mug. A Lad’s Suicide. A lad of fouitcen who had been ex- He had generous for allowing her t things to make the Family comfortable Things began to look differently to him just now. Could it be that he was not generous, not even just to his wife! Had he paid her so poorly for her fifteen years ot faithful labor for him thatii she had been oblige.d to begin the world for herself that day it would have been as a penniless woman, notwithstanding the houses, the lands and mills that he had so olten told her were all hers; lor he knew, as everv one else did, that not one dollar of all he had would the law allow her to call her own. How fast he thought, standing there at the office window looking down at the little houses where the mill hands lived. Could it be possible that his wife envied them anything? Could it be that he was not ns good a man as he thought? He had felt deeply tne wrongs ran him about a tablespoon which some of the mortar had been dissolved. That was about t wo months ago. The same evening he took tne child in his lap, rubbed some of the water on her knee in the sign of the cross, saying somo prayers at the same time, and then gave her tho rest of the water to drink. He then went to his work a3 a watchman, and when he re turned home the next morning ho was met by his daughter, who greeted him with the words: “ Papa, my knee is as well as ever it was.” And sure enough the swelling had disappeared, the sinews had grown soft, ar.d the little girl could walk as well with one foot as with the other. The cure is perfect. Since that day there has been no phin, and it is now impossible to tell which knee was affected. pelled from a school in a German city for immoral conduct recently commit- then add to it the butler and sugar * ‘ ilii ng The German sculptor, Muller, whose magnificent statue of “Prometheus of the slaves, whose labors had been al ters tney sena uni money j n the propriated by their masters, and when &«onld th This scar 8h“ is laying by 11 negro, who had worked twenty years bank would. This Bound ” has just been bought for sixty thousand marks by the government ana ~ rli placed in the Berlin national gallery, was, when a poor boy, a cook in a Mu nich hotel. Some twenty stallions and six or eight mare colts have been shipped from Nor mandy to Bloomington, 111. Three of the horses weighed 2,016 pounds each, and the rsst averaged about 1,900. They are to be brooded with common Western Stock. ted suicide by hanging himseif toa tree. Upon his corpse was found the follow ing remarkable letter addressed to bis parents: “The tortureB of Tantalus were as nought in comparison to those I now suffer. In my mind’s eye I see you melted to tears »nd stricken down by the terrible blow I am about to in flict upon you; and yet 1 cannot do otherwise than execute my resolve. Driven from school 1 dare not again look you in the face for I should read my shame in your glances. Deeply-be- loved parents bo consoled. Look back to the past and remember how many sleepless nights I havo caused you, how many tears I have made you shed. Standing on the brink of the grave, I confess myself to have been unworthy oi your lovo. Nor do I believe that I should ever have become better: no, I should have sunk deeper and deeper, and have laid even heavier burdens of sorrow upon your shoulders. Believe me, it is better thus. Adopt a little boy, call him Arnold, bring him up carefully so that he may be -tne staff oi your old age. Had I lived what should 1 have become? A morally and physi cally degraded creature, unfit to live upon the face of the earth! Adieu t have on the lire a saucepan of bo water, in which set the mug and its contents. Let it stand until the butter and sugar are dissolved. In the mean time mix the spices, all pounded, with tho flour and meal. Afterward knead tiio whole together, and cut into cakes not larger in circumference than a silver half dollar. Bake them about a quarter of an hour, but be careful not to lot them burn. Rolls.—One cup of warm milk, ono teacup yeast, one and a half quarts flour, when this sponge is light, work in a well-beaten egg, two tablcspoon- 1 If y T English physician, "throw your on your back." And yet there are i pie who say that they eaa sneeze just h. well standing up. A man in Fannin county. Texas, re cently caught a deer in a fish net. It appear* that the animal waa ohaied by ' )gs and, jumping Into the it* — itangled in it and was captu TheAstor library at New Ye its books to be bound in Eni economy. The prioe of bindlt, dinary thick octavo volume morocco in New York is $1 60; In 1 don about $1. The suburban who talks most elo quently of crops, flocks or herds, is he ou feel like sneezing,” far. ►0| queniiy ui urupa, - who bos lived all his days between the u pent-up walls of a city until week be- * ore last. Fresh knowledge is whet gives a man tho itch. “ You see,” said a lively oil bachelor, on being advised to get married, "you see I can’t do it, bcoauso I could rot marry a woman I didn't respect, and it would be impossible for me to respect a woman that would consent to marry me.'" ({iieer Things About the Dismal Swamp. A Virginia paper tells some thlngz which are not generally known abxut tho dismal swamp. It is not a vast bog sunk low in tho ground, Into which the drainage of the surrounding country flows. On tho contrary, it is above the level ground some fifteen or twenty feet. as was demonstrated by aotoal suryejfs. Instead of being a receptacle into rivers and streams enter and flow, it is in reality an Immense reservoir that. In its vast sponge-like bulk, gathers the waters that fall from the heavens and pours them into tho fivo different rivers which flow onward to the sea. Any Id imagine thnt the dismal veritable charnel-house that spreads its miasmas throughout the country. On the contrary, it is the healthiest place on the American conti nent. The swamp is entirely of green timber. There is absolutely no decom posed wood; one sees trees lyinif around the forests and swamps. The two principal woods that grow in the Piece are the juniper and the cypress, which never rot. They fall prone on the ground like other trees, bnt instead of the wood decomposing it turns into peat, and lies indissoluble fry air or water for ages perfeotly sound. There is nothing in the swamp to create miasma; no rising of the tides and de composing of rank vegetables; no marshes exposed to the burning rays of the sun. All is fresh and sweet, and the air is laden with as sweet odors as the fragrant woods in May, when the frsg- rance of the flowers mingles with the pungent scent of the pine and dogwood. In the ante-bellum days all planters were anxious to hire their slaves to shingle- makers in the swamp on account of its healthfulness. Mr. Reddick, a well- known contractor, says he worked a m 1 gang of fifty hands for fifteen yearn in dis fuls of melted butter, one teaspoonful ida of salt, half a teacupful of soda dis solved in hot water, one lablespoonful of whito sugar, flour to make a soil dough; let it rise four or five hours be fore putting on the baking pan. Tomato Jam.—Take nice ripe toma toes, pare and slice, and to one pound bf tomatoes after they are cooked down considerable add one-half pound of brown sugar, one teaspoonful ol ground cloves, two tnblescoonfuls of allspice, one pint of strong vinegar, and stew two hours. It is considerably better than any catsup with corned beef. A remarkable occurrence lately took ' —alifo the'dismal, getting shingles, and in all that time there was not a single case ol the ague and fever. I have seen num erous affidavits of overseers and agents who have lived in the swamp their whole lifetime, and they never knew a death caused by miasma or a solitary instance of ague and fever. The air is pu to a faint wine hue by the . itenta medicinal drink as r, is as to be foundat the famous watering places oi ss. It is the Virginia mountain spas. It is often used by vessels going on a ioreign cruise on account of its healthful properties, and also because it keeps iresh and clear for years. It is a strong and invigora ting tonic, with pleasant taste. Why He Wouldn’t Go Fishing. Billy Manning could tell the funniest y - thing in the world, and never “ crack a place on the northern coast of California. A fore-and-aft schooner, while lying in a safe harbor, as was supposed, and hav ing no crew on board on account of the safety of the position, was boarded by Over $10,000,000 a year are expended in private horticulture } n Great Brjtairi and Ireland. mainsail. All were destroyed beyond the possibility of repair. smile.” On one occasion he overtook the writer on Fourth street, St. Louis. I hadn’t seen him for two years, but he came up and began to talk just as if we had been in company together ten min “ id he: ates before. Sai Some of the 1 told Mrs. Betsy Rice, of Lower Saucon township, Pa., is 107 yoars of age. She does not use spectacles, and is remarka bly active. tackle, they said. ‘ But how will you catch fish without tackle P’ 1 asked. ‘ Nothing easier,’ they replied. 4 Kero sene oll. r 4 How are you going to catch fish with kerosene oilP' 4 Go out in a boat; pour kerosene oil on the water; the fish come up and swallow it; it makes them siok; they go ashore to throw it up, and you hit’em in the bead Withaclub.’”— Ban ” ,n Frandaco Argus. v ^ '-‘H v.

Georgia Historic Newspapers

The Mercury. (Sandersville, Ga.) 1880-1???, August 31, 1880, Image 1