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o 0 X1£j 3 51 4**<) JOURNAL AND MESSENGER. THE FAMILY JOURNAL—NEWS—POLITICS- .LITERATURE—AGRICULTURE—DOMESTIC NEWS,JEtc.—PRICE $2.00 PER ANNUM. GEORGIA TEL APH BUILDING ESTABLISHED 1826. MACON, FRIDAY. MARCH 3, 1882. - VOLUME LVI-NO 9 n j'iCE. When I an dead, with mockery of praise Thou shall not rex the stillness of my sleep; Leave me to long tranquillity ana deep* Wlio, through such weary nights and lonesome days. Such lonesome stretch of uneompanlonedways. Have come at length my quiet rest to keep Where nettles thrive, and careless brambles And things'that lovo the dark their dull brood raise. After my restless years I would have rest— Long rest after so many restless years— iVace after strife-a dreamless sleep and blest, Unmockcd by Hope, set free from hauut- Slnce ttm ohfpeln might waken at thytread. Come thou not nigh when I am lying dead. —Louise Chandler Moulton in Our Continent. KITTY. [From the Springfield Republican.] September 'SI—A brief ride along the beach and a very humble entry into a crowded reception-room were my first im pressions. Porters were hurrying trunks, and elevators rumbled confusingly. Im portant old students who stood about did not help uie much. There were a few girls in the corner, though, who seemed to feel as small as myself, aud I picked up my basket and went across to them for sympathy. Ithiuklam going to like. 1 must say my mom is bare, and looks out on nothing but the piers along the bay. Beyond are only leagues of distant air tremulous over the hot country. Bight near, a tuft of long-bearded grass bends forward and shakes .tself In the wind, aud miles away a palmetto is cut upon the sky like my cameo. Uutrightat my band are great inside blinds to shut this out; by and by, though, I shall have them open, and the winter moonlight will strike across my little book-shelves gloriously. October 5.—A dull rain just drips, drips from the eloude. My bare floor is tracked up; a little brook is running across it from the umbrella, and there Is not a bit of home in the institution table and chairs. They look as indifferent as the professonf down-stairs. Thepaintiug hall is high and still and cold. In the best light a girl is copying a copy of “The lauding of William of Orange.” Original designs of lace and wall papers hang about; the mechanical models are disposed like platters ou the table—there is no inspira tion to be had. At home I hold clearly the thing I would paiDt. The other day I took up my brushes and worked; the next day aud auothet I did the same, but nothing came of it, and the day fails and who can work in the gloom and the cool- uess? Sly lessons are easy and I have nothing to read. So I lie ou the bed and stare out of the window, or run about with my chum. Aud by aud by the bell rings.' October 12.—I am beginning to think of how people will like me. My bit of morn ing sky, ill done as the sketch was, is talked of. This morning one of-the first young ladies here stopped me on the stairs to kiss me, silly to tell of but^wry nice to have happen to tanned me, tffth a nose as homely as Petrea’s. Last night chum And 1 got an excuse to walk down Market street, slipping along the wet pavements in the light of the great squares of color spread Horn the windows. We bought lovely, fruit. I am sorry I spent my money; though 1 never buy many things most girls always keep on hand I do not refuse what they offer—and If I take I must give. 1 am ashamed to gi^e so sel dom. Mother has now sent me enough to buy her new gloves. Aud what have I spent it for? for something to cat, and to give away with a deceitful look of liberal ity. Aud what does it amount to? Not that 1 do not have good times here. There seems to be no loom for anything else and 1 have to drag myself to the books. To-morrow I must be studying by suu up. Mother’s letter came just now. My poor dear, hard-worked mother! I can see her bring in the milk in heavy palls, and at night the children lying awake in the trundle-bed to talkof me. And I am now improving; I am too proud to have poor relations, but a pony in some things. Borne sc; it, of course, and I have the bilternessjof losing the respect of others as well as my own. October 14.—To-day the drawing teach ■ . cr complimented me befere the class and L that copy of the Northern birch has the •a. best mark. So I am getting on and am W popular after all. October 16.—Last bight I rose in the tile prayer-meeting to say I was unhap- , v jf>y and desired to be different. 1 can not - * ''say why, for I am not altered. The eam- lftpst prayers affected me, 1 think, and the , r Sudden, fatal desire of a new sensation, another sort of popularity—urged me. 1 C- felt in no respect different when 1 sat w down, and by the time the meeting closed I had gone so far back into my old self tbatl replied to their kind talk with real liyprocrisy, to keep up their idea of a seek er. If 1 had bad the courage to go on— ■when I was up—and tell them what one girl is! October 10.—I have been to chnrcb and been “forward” again: Since I came back, one of the devoted ladies has ad vised me to d duty do and not expect a sudden, distinct conversion. She said she was sure of me. Poor lady! She thinks she perfectly knows my case. I wonder if a religious life can tie proof over lies? I wonder if what I read in “The Scarlet Letter” once, “Be true! Be true! Let the world knew your worst!” can be slipped by? October 20.—A week has gone and i am more wicked than at its beginning. 1 have added to what I was by becoming a complete hypocrite). And yet 1' started iu good faith last Monday. Heaven knows my restless heart wished peace, And I can never pray more heartily than I did then for help I shall always re member that 1 fell better for a while af ter the prayer, too. I think the trouble began by hearing one of my false recita tions praised. One of the girls told me, in her impulsive way, how much 1 had been admired, particularly of late. “She never did see how I could be so clever.” And I smiled and liked to hear it, thoagh my lips were begging her si'euce. It end ed by my helping her to algebra with a great air, though I was indebted to a key for the examples. When she went away every bit of feeling was out of my heart. Then I idled away the precious hours be tween breakfast and French over peanuts and a story, and when the bell rang a “pony” was a necessity. So I scratched off a lew rules to read from under my shawl. In Miss Day’s room are cards In scribed, “Idle words! Idle words!” And the like hung over her walls. Reminds of duty, I suppose. What a cantiast to my ever-slipping thought and speech. The deeds we do, the words we speak Intc still Air they seem to fleet, But they shall ever iait; At the great judgment they And we shall meet. October 27.—I have been to the window to breathe the soit warm night, and to watch the Josephine come in from the bar under the awfully white sheen of the xnocn. “It is always in our power to act honorably." Had not I best turn my en ergy about higher marks into another -channel? Can not I help this soul of mine, which is going down so fast? November 5.—1 saw a pair of sarcastic eyes to-day when Mr. Fennell andl were going through the|play at rehearsal. I was indignant, for I am not at ail in love* And yet I cam enough for him to be will ing] to lie for his good opinion. I have bought a white fan aud kids, and a gold cross for my chain—on credit. ’ The bill JS $10. And I have written home that 1 broke two pants in a great window, and must have some new Books. Dispicable! But I must have the things, lor the enter tainment must be as good as we can make it, aud every one of the managers is very stylish. I have no silk or elegant white, but I have sent home for my garnet. November 8.—I have been made a member of an exclusive society of five. Spending money is all its object, and I wish I possessed the boiduess to decline the honor, but I have my position to look after, and the members lead the school. November 12.—The eventful evening is over, and I have had praise enough to satisfy even my thirsty soul.. My voice was clear aud ray acting successful. My garnet came. My hair was elegantly combed bv an obliging friend. Mr. Fen nell sent a bouquet mooned and cressetcd with camellias, and I think I took a place among the belles. Quite a change from my unnoticed condition a month ago. November 20.—I am enjoying myself as well as any girl who has ever been here, 1 know. The days are a delight. The routine of dressing, and of going out to recitations, of running up to the obser vatory witL lessons to be learned, iiad lost its boredom. Up in my sky-parlor I watch the limitless sand and heat, and feel the profound hush with a growing apprecia tion of how precious the world is. Even the old rooms in the hall brighten up when the sun shimmers through the branches during 4 o’clock hour. It is sweet to see it opposite, as I sit and half hear the drone of the prolessor’s talk and theyoung ladies’ blunders. It’s delicious, but it’s not ju«t the thing, for my thoughts are anywhere but on tho subject. Last Monday Ben Fennell escorted me from Mrs. Andrew Neill’s. We stopped for cream, and walked on the beach, and I was Dot surprised when he told me his liking. But I knew he did not like me half well enough. I intended to make it more than a mere flirtation, and I cast about for something to te IL - fin J -—‘- 1 iromises Kate laughed t little. “She’s said something about you and Mr. Fennell.” I whs nearly crying by this time, but it cased me to speak of it. 1 looked up at her. She has a sweet face and glorious eyes, greatly admired by overy one. Somehow she looked helpful, too, just then. I felt as if every man’s hand was against me, I told her, and I might as well have the game a3 the name, you know— “Yes, I know,” she interrupted, “I have felt just so. It’s a false way to think. But excuse me, maybe the memory of half-defying the opinion of the faculty stings a little too.” My face must have been fiery, for she added: “1 do hope you’re not hurt, I shall not go on if you do not look up. I know how slight your flirtation very likely is. I can g uess how Independence aud a good time ave led you on from one imprudence to another. But if pcoplo see you defy them, they will speak a harsh judgement. What they say can cut bitterly, you see.” “Is it their business to watch me, to get something to put me down for?” I said hotly. “No, I do not thiok it is,” said Kate, “but you know we all do a great deal that isn’t precisely our business, aud we must leave a good margin in life for remarks— not kindly criticism, but unkind, making much of little things. Trying, of course, but we must look for it. It must be a bit of original sin, or restless liking to med dle. “But,” I told her, “there is no pleasing people.” “That’s a question,” said she, “wo can give them as littio as possible to talk about. One has to sailer some—at least I did—before independence is toned down. But character is too sacred for a wrong thought, I have wanted to be at your elbow lately.” As we went back beside the great lawn. Beu Fennell met us aud touched bis hat, I have not seen him since. My canvas—a bit of stainless sky to which contrast with the angles of a tent gave violet tinges—won me the medal in the painting hall. As I was wandering smong tne racks of charcoals and crayons Dr. Sterne came over to me and present ed the photographer who took tho class pictures. “You found that sky here,’ 1 -said my stout, bald-bcaded visitor, with comrad- erie in his glance. Yes, I told him, it was the view from my window. No, I should not see it in mid-winter. I should not return. “That is no matter,” bending over me and speaking thickly and quickly. “You have learned nothing here. You must go to Now Orleans to au art school.” But, I said desperately, I could not go. The money was gone. Oar farm would not crop enough to find me iu further money. I must go back and teach. “So,” said he, “that is a pity. In time H But he did not finish, and turned off chewing the tips of bis gray mustache. So! Failure at all points, and myself to thank for it. He was mistaken, though, I have learned to be afraid of myself. I have that to carry back to the Brazos. HOME AND FAEM. '^'a-i-^J&Mr. Fennell is fine looking,” said ong stoty of uubappiuess. My affair with Fred I made a perfect love story; and insinuated that my engagement made me miserable. Why, he could not get mo to say. He looked sober to find that I was engaged. But we walked on in silence too long. So I quietly spoke again of how much this had troubled me, aud howl dreaded going heme to meet my sweetheart. I describ ed our place. I need not say it was as little as possible like reality. I warmed to the subject, and developed a talent for “making up” as I went along. I did not know I could do so much; but my auditor was interested, aud I suppose that is the test. November 23.—The first cool Sunday. Morning prayer-meeting, and churcii aud Sunday-school have been disposed of, and I have been stretched across the bed’s foot with a novel eversince dinner. Sun days are depressing.' There is such a subdued spirit about everything that even the walls and the great green doors in the balls catch the infection. It is a bore to even put my bead out of the door of my room. I know well enough that the long hall is empty or that vanishing Sunday dresses are flitting up the winding stairs. My chum sits ou the floor before her tiunk taking an inventory of her finery—her usual Sunday occupation. Of late it is very strictly attended to, as she corres ponds witli somebody, and comes from entertainments iu the glory of an escort. Poor thing! with her great yellow curls, and heavily trimmed, illy fitting clothes! Monday noon—Ben Fennell has a broth er here to-day, and I was introduced on the street. I wish I had uot been., His dark eyes looked at me so reflectively that I am rather startled. He looks far too knowing, and I am afraid I shall not come off with Ben’s respect, as I hope to. This gentleman saw through a good many tilings Ben is blind to, as he quietly ate his dinner with his eyes on his plate. We bad dinner at a restauraut, and a right nice one too; butjl had to run a gauntlet to get away to it. The whole affair was so stiff that I felt hardly paid tor my trouble, Ben’s brother was so old and cool, and Ben himself a bit flustered. I dressed as well as I could and looked nicely when I started. Put my hat mashed my hair, and my collar came unfastened and had to be horribly righted with a crooked pin, and I was a dowdy when I sat down to the table. I think I must have glowered, for Ben said I was solemn. He would have been so himself, I fancy, with his hair out of crisp and a great pin sticking into bis neck. It is all past and gone, however, and I am breathing free over regular polygons in the silence of my own room. I can’t imagine how 1 am going to fix my attention on the horrid old thing, but it has had to be done sometimes when it was harder to do. Thank heaven! I shall consign it to an uninterrupted rest in a fortnight. It rests me to thins of it. I was stopped by Miss Bayne’s soft rap, frightening me sufficiently. I still think she came to be sure I was in, though book was her errand. She has gone," aud was as lively and condescending as I ever saw her. But her manner was too ob structed. There was nothiug lying about to betray me. I presume, thougb^be knows the whole aflair. My bill at the restaurant is $20.50—I do not see how mother can possibly pay it. I shall ask them to wait for part of it until next term. I can tell mother that new books, enforced contributions, and flees for damages have run it up. November 28.—I am too unhappy for anything but scribbling my vexation. The drawing teacher told Miss Wheeler before breakfast that 1 kissed Ben Fen nell last night in the hall. There-was an entertainment in town; of course I went and had a very good time and truth to tell he did kiss me when we parted; but I had just promised to be Mrs. Ben Fennell some day.' Being “talked about” is a new thing to me and it nearly kills me. I have not deserved scorn. I presume I have been silly though. That is the bitterest thing about it. I have never broken rules to go driving or to spend long afternoons down the bay or do anything peculiar to the “fast” set here. I know I have whis pered at lectures and flirted continually, but it has been mostly under the teacher’s eyes. i smile to thiuk I am fretting. This will soon fade, and I have many triumphs. My rank will be the highest, and I am getting attention from people. The pro fessors say the kindest things. Won’t all this weigh down a bit of trouble? Bnt I never merit the praise, and _ know it. If I did my duly I should speak out when the averages are • read in my class and confess my trickeries. There would still be some bard work at the bot tom. I should not be quite at zero, shall never respect myself until I am brave enough for such things, and “Too soon, too soon, the neon will bo the aiter- noon; too soon to-day he yesterday.” Afternoon—I have had a walk with Kate Erakine. It was so pleasant at noon that I asked her to walk. We went along by the gardens and tamarisks. Shadows must tall, I Fuppose, for presently we met that drawing teacher. I bowed very slightly, indeed, and felt so vexed—so vexed I showed iL Kale broko in upon my palnfal thinking. Ob, nothing was the matter, I told her, and we went on but her face betrayed her struggle, and soon her great eyes met mine keenly, “You have heard something unpleas< ant?” - . “Tea, I have,” I broke out, “Miss Tracy is making remarks and I think a teacher may be in better business.” Kate; “you have a nice escort, Kitty. Did you know him before you came? ’ I wanted to say yes badly, but I did not feel just like lying to her. So I shook my head carelessly. Whan we reached our floor I followed her into her room. I sat rocking and fanning vacantly, but the sight of Ban passing by the house again, inspired me to obey a sudden impulse. “Kale,” I broke out, with a great gasp, “I am not a bit what you think me. I am in trouble. Not about Ben Fennell; I don’t mean that. But I have gone wrong about other things from the com mencement of this term.” Kate was arranging her paints. “Did your profession of religion have anything to do with it?” she asked. “Yes, a great deal,” I had to say. “I never felt converted. I might have been if I had kept right, but I didn’t dare be honest. I have beeu a hypocrite ever since. You can not like me any more, but it is a right pleasure to tell what a whited sepulchre I am, I have kept it hidden so long.” 1 went and flung myself on the window seat face downward, for I could not endure oven her sweet eyes* She sat very still at first. I expect she was perfectly astonished, for she has always seemed to think right well of me. But before I had Cone—and my word* were a torrent—she was beside me with her arm around me. “Ob, pray Kate,” said I as I was leav ing, “do advise me. I may go wrong about things again. I am in such a tan gle I can not do right,” “lie true,” she said, with her dear arm around me. “I am sure your heart will tell you best what truth in all things will be. Nothing but the deepest truth will do now. I pity you, Kitty dear, and 1 do not like you a particle less. No, I love you more.” It was very kind of her, wasn’t it? And I expected she would nearly turn me out of her room. November 29—I have decided, and the evil one is so ever present with me that I am going to act with resolution now. I am going to send a note to Ben Fennell. I suppose he will ask for an interview; and if he comes I am going to put right some things. He would find them out some time anyway, if he ever inquires about me of a mutual acquaintance, and we have a few. Ho had best hear the truth from my lips. He can not believe me quite so hardened. And I must tell him above all, because it is right he should know. I must “Be true!” And when I have sinned I must try to bring a sacri fice. Heaveu knows it is a sacrifice, for the thought of what he will thiuk nearly kills me. I went about the rest of the day in. a perfect maze of trouble. ( felt so stunned by what I had started to do that I rose iu geology and read a page of “Bataille de? Dames” which I had fetched to the class instead of the text-book. I behaved every where as if berell ol what wit I was bless ed with. And when I went to Miss Bayne for the reception room I could hardly talk. 1 don’t think I should have been any worse if I had been about to be banged. But time is relentless, and supper came and ended, and I brusded my hair and put on my best dress and started. My hand gets nervous at the mere remem brance of the way I felt. It was dread ful. Ben was there waiting. I knew he stood by the table and spoke to me, but I was too frightened to see him distinctly. My appearance seemed to startle him, for he fairly shouted out, “What is the matter, Kitty?” as if I bad gone deaf. I know it my face betrayed much I must have look ed stricken. He asked me what I could possibly mean by my note, and I saw there was no use putting oil'what must bo told. So I shut my eyes with a horrible fneliug of desperation and went straight into Qie middle of my reasons. Nearly the first thing I blundered out was bow sorry I was about Inviting him up in vacation while my home was so different from the pleasant place I had led him to expect. I told him ho had very likely never visited at such a poor little place as our house. And I told him I had heard bis family were aristocratic, but 1 bad de ceived him ir. saying mine were so. Tho distinguished people of whom I bad so often spoken lived in the town indeed but they never vis'ted ui. My parents were poor. He listened, and then asked what mo tive I had in telling him this. 1 looked up then aud met his blue eyes. 1 could see that every bit of respect for me was gone. Because it was right he should know it, I said, and I was as calm as he then. I did not desire him to believe himself escorting a girl ot high family when he might be balf-asbamed to own my acquaintance, if ho could see how small our means were. And why had I deceived him? he asked again, as indifferently as if my state of mind were a new aud amusing experience. I hesitated, but I could not say I did not know. I told him that I supposed it was to make him like me. Ihnjoyed his admiration so much that I bad tried to increase it by such fictions. “And how is that rich young man just back rrom Germany?” he asked, with a cruel laugh. “I expect he is as visionary as the rest of this, isn't he?” “Yes,” I was forced to say. “I am not engaged to any one at home. Tbero such a person and he has liked me a little; but his family is an old one and he would never think of marrying me.” He appeared to be reflecting a few min utes aud then he said be hoped I would consider myself released, and walked out. Blood and refuse meat rubbed upon the trunks of trees will keep away mice and rabbits. Chester whites are the favorites in Pennsylvania; tho farmers ara claiming that they are better adapted to tbeir sec tion.' The best bams are produced by the Berkshires, bat the Essex is said to give a greater amount of side meat in propor tion. The dead bark from the trunks and lar ger limbs of trees is best removed during a thaw. A wash of whale oil or soft soap applied with a brush gives a smooth, healthy appearance. Nest of tho tent caterpillar, fall web- worm, and other insects that feed aud nest together, should be carefully removed from the trees and destroyed. Lime, wood ashes, and old iron placed around the roots of declining fruit trees have a very beneficial effect. These fer tilizers restore the trees to a healthy con dition, and also greatly improve tho fruit iu quality aud quantity. A clover field is tho place to pasture hogs. They come up in the fall in good prime condition for getting hardened id with corn. There are three classes of Yorkshhes— the large, middle, and small. They are all good, and are long established breeds, pure white in color. It is said that corn makes harder fat than when ground, and meal makes difference from both. It seems carious, but hog-raisers affirm it. The Essex hog is coal black without any white. The Berkshire is also black, but has a spot on the forehead aud on the end of the tail, with white feet. Young pigs will drink cows’ milk very soon after they find out where the feed trough is. It should be supplied to them in plenty when the litter is large. If a good brood sow is rightly kept the pigs from her will more than pay Tor her keeping by the sale of some over and above those intended to be kept. A small, early maturing hog is much more valuable than a largo one, a3 ut> more food will be required to raise two good quick-growing ones than it will for a large but slow all-lard. In planting new orchards for profit, se lect such varieties as are in demand, or if for family use, such as will give a good succession from early summer to late win ter. Order trees for spring planting at once. Ii trees arrive iu frozen condition, bury them entire in the earth until spring. An excellent compost for putting around the roots of newly-planted fruit trees may be made as follows: Two loads ol swamp muck, one load of rotten stable manure, one barrel of tine bone dust, one barrel of of air-slacked lime and a barrel of wood ashes. These may be well mixed in a Leap and covered with a few Inches of eartb, and after two weeks turned over and thoroughly mixed and more eartb may be added if thought too rich. This will make a good supply for 100 acres. Mr. Daniel Bennett of the New Orleans Picayune, says he never saw better hay anywhere than that made of crab-grass this season on the pine land along the rail road line to St. Louis. Colonel C. P. Rarasdill, a Virginia lar- mer, was dangerously wounded recently by a bull witbhorns, and would have beeu killed but for the timely interference of a brave daughter. A patent has been granted for a plan of making live hedges by cutting tho roots of the plants on one side, and tipping them over at an angle of 45 degrees in tho lino of the hedge. A California farmer sows his grain rid ing In a two horse wagon, driving tho team and sowing the grain from a box by bis side, and coveting witli a harrow at tached to the rear of the wagon. If a man wants quiet aud amiable cows, horses or other stock, he should handle them gently when quite young, and never tease. The man or boy who does the lat ter lays up wrath against the day of wratb. The opinion has generally prevailed that a little bran mixed with meal would produce more pork tban cleat meal, but in some experiments lately triedit was found that clear meal made more pork tban a mixture of bran and meal. what too small, tban that which is devo ted to the reckless cultivation of an ex cessive area. While either extreme is unwise, it is better to fall below a right estimate of the possibilities of the availa ble force with the advantages of thorough fertilization from the compost beds, and thorough culture, than to take on so many acres that both the land and tho crop are injuriously treated. Proper at tention to preparation aud cultivation, will cause one acre to produce perhaps more than two under less favorable treat ment. In the former case the farmer is not only gathering an ample har vest, but is makiug the land more valuable intrinsically; in the latter, labor is strained to its utmost tension, horses are overworked, and the land itself impaired by slovenly preparation and cul ture. The poorest lands, with a clay foundation, may he permanently enriched to tho highest degree by the application of domestic manures for a succession of years;' aud it is equally true that good land may he impoverished by its improvi dent culture. The making, or the de struction of soil, should be taken into ac count in all estimates of the results of farming. When the agriculturists of the Southern States awake to the importance of limit ing the area foi cultivation so that time may be allowed tor such details as con- cermthe real improvement of their lands, they will not only liavo the satisfaction ol more extensive harvests, hut ot seeiDgthe real fertility of their fields enhanced. Then, by reasonable industry, they will be enabled to keep their farms in condi tion for present profitable use, and like wise as productive heritages for their chil dren. Each farmer must be the judge of the number ot acres his force can culti vate well, keeping in view the work necessary for preparing and apply ing domestic manures, and for mak ing such ditches as are required to prevent the washing away of the soil. It will be a glorious period for Southern agriculture when the policy - herein commended is universally enforced, and wo long for the coming or that day. If this generation and the next can not repair the ruin which was wrought by our fathers, in the reckless cultivation ol their lands with slave labor, it is Impossible to stay the woric of destruction, and preserve and im prove that which escaped as our heritage. Let this subject be seriously and wisely considered, and acted upon, by every tiller of the soil!—Southern Cultivator. fly witb^ wine ■ ckv $13,000 lit HO its EFLESH Now Quartered at the Park, Catlap Ike Oat* ot Idleness. You can find lovorsof fine horseflesh anywhere. The good old family horse with clumsy legs and steady gait, upon whose broad, safe back the children clamber, al ways bolds a soft, warm place in the affec tions of the household; but it is your trim-limbed raoer that commands your ar dent admiration. Upon his lithe figure you build a tower of homage. Ashe springs forward to the race or as he passes proudly in review, held in check by the cunning band of the trainer, there is a majesty iu his steps, a grace in his motion, that lifts him far above the old family horse and for the nonce supplants that old stand-by iu your affections. Our reporter was thus led into this train of reflection by a visit to our park, where are quartered a number of tine raoereupon whom is lavished a world of care. Horse men ail the country know of thegreatvalne of our traok, and in a tew years all the not ed horses on the turf will come to Macon. Tho track has a peculiar fitness for young horses. There are finer tracks for racing in the conntry,being of harder surface, but thoy uro death td colts aud tender-legged horses. Oar track has a soft, springy sur face, and for training horses cannot be ex celled in the world. It is, by reason of its soft surface, about four seconds longer to tho mile than the hard tracks of the North. Its famo is traveling fast, and some day we will see the nobility of horsehood making Macon winter headquarters. Tosterday afternoon our reporter visited the stalls, situated on the right hand aide of tho track. In the large lot whioh en closes the stables a frisky young colt was disporting himself in the 6unahinc, now nibbling at a pile of straw, now snddeuly scampering off as if he had just bethought himself of a good joke and wanted to get in a quiet corner to enjoy it. He looked very ordinary, thia colt, but a thousand dollar bill couldn’t buy him. And be seemed to be fully oonsoious of the high estimate his owner plaoed upon him. And there was a certain brightness of eye, a ctoar-cutncss of limb, and an elegance of contour that gave the beholder to under stand at once that he had good blood iu hie veins and his pedigree .was chock fall ol names that marked bright pages in the stud book. ... , One of tho gentlest of the horseB is a black mcro named Black Cat, and her keeper says she is not afraid of anything on earth, and when a lady mounts her back her gate i3 so even and steady that it is like riding in ft cradle. There is nothing strikingly handsome about Black Gat, ex cept her figure. The color is a dingy black, and but for the fact thatshe is worth her weight in dollars, would fail to raise more than an ordinary exclamation of ad miration in tho boholoer. Looking out from a window of one of the stalls was the head of a horse for whom her owner refuses ten thousand dollars every day. This is Mattie Graham, a bay mare belonging to Mr. J. Batchelor, of Kentncky. Mattie’s record is 229K» bnt she can boat that time any day. A single glance at bor is conclusive that she belongs to a noblo lino of raoer*. The long body and spare legs are evidence indisputable. Tho famous horse, George Wilkes, has three representative in the stalls. The first is a bay mare, Rosa Wilkes, whose time is 2:25>4. Shads well known all over the South ern turf and has a good record. Her sis- tsr, Bonnie Wilkes, is equally as handsome and her record is brighter. Her time is 2:40. Aliie Wilkes, is a bay horse,with 2:37 as best time. All these horses are splendid animals, and are owned by Col. W.F. An derson, of Macon. They are kept in good oondition, and are ready for races at any Adjoining tho stall of the Blaok Cat is Tom Montague, by Longfellow. His hide is like a.mirror and his form is perfection. A sight of him ns ho daintily erunohes his oats is a rare treat. Being a running hor e, no record of his time is given. These two horses are the property of Mr. J. S. Camp bell, and it would take a pile of money to buy them. Mr. Hughes, tho trainer, has some seven or eight roadsters and a valuable colt, men tion of which was made n few days ago, This oolt cost his owner $1,290, and imme diately after $1,5C0 was offered for him by a well-known lover of horse flesh of our City, Summing up the cost of the sixteen horses now at tho park, we find that $25,- 000 would not cover tho right figures. For fifteen or twenty minutes after breakfast each morning ihe»o horses are taken ont on the track and given an airing. They trot four or five miles, and then are rnbbed down and put away. In the after noon they are walked about an honr, ara the rest of tho day they havo to nibble Mia be looked at. It is worth the while of Ml who love horses, particularly fine horses, to go down to the park while the weather is on it* good behavior and ses these animals. It is quite unfortunate that no spring meeting of our jookey olub is given. Bata prominent horseman said yesterday timt next spring the races would oome off if no lived, and we guess he meant it. The spring races in this country com mence in Louisville, on May 7th. Then follows a series of races over the entire West and North. WbatlMls Learning. Mill Arp- I’ve never seen anybody yet that didn’t know something that I didn't, and there is many au old farmer who knows things that wise meu, like professors in colleges, don’t. They learn from observation and experience. Some folks go through a long life and observe little or nothing, and most of the boys never stop to think but ieara all they know from books. Nature is the next study. Dr. Jtnner was a close observer. He was the first man to find out that the cuckoo never builded a nest but always laid her egg* in other birds’ nests. Do the boys know that when a horse crops grass he eats hack to him, but a cow eats outward-from her because she has no front teeth in her upper jaw and has to gum it. Do they kn that some kind of snakes lay eggs and soi don’t but give birth to tbeir young, know that a cane gets its full growth year, whether it is large or the limb of a tree never gets any jj|ber from the ground, no matter how kflfh the tree grows. The hoys have aeejjfiany a white horse, but did they ever^pa-white colt? Do they know how cjprue twig is that bears the peaches, anjJKw old the vine that lias the grapes jHg on to it ? Do they know that a hjCnne winds with the course of the sunffEbut a beau vine always winds the oijvway? What tim ber will bear the tmm. weight, what is the most elastic; whajffffill last longest in wa ter and what oiJBTf water; what is the best time to c^Saown trees for tire wood; how many 1iMfis of oaks can you count up that grow hMhis region, and what are they snecTy good for; bow does a bird noving a leather or flapping a oes a suake climb a tree or a Tat is the difference between and a hog’s track, and how p. buck shed Us horus and what of them; which ought to be t, the throat of a chimney or the d ought it to be wider at the top _ 1. Books are a wonderful help, but a m\ u ought not to be satisfied to go through life and be always on the borrow from otlilr people’s braius. He ought to find out if me things himself, and leave a little to raslcrity inpayment tor all that he has leftned from others. I was down in the piney woods not long ago and saw thousands of little salamander hills «4png- side the road, and asked a good maoy people abont them, but nobody I asked bad ever seen one or knew anything about them except one man, and he sala they were like a large rat with a short tail and had a pouch or pocket on each side the neck to carry roots and bugs aud nuts in. I thought that every boy in that country would have dug alter them just for sport, like we used to dig after a mole or a bum ble bee’s nest. But there are bigger things lor boys nowadays, I reckon. They don’t seem to have near as much time as we used to—time to play bull pen and cat and town-ball and shinuy and go a seining aud ccon hunting and set traps and coops for partridges and break the colts and mix up a good deal ox work with a little study besides. A boy is a young gentleman about five years sooner tban he used to be, and 1 think the legis lature ought to change the law and set ’em free and let ’em vote at sixteen instead of twenty-one. Well, they do let ’em work the roads at sixteen, and that is about the only playing they do generally, which is all right, I reckon. IntroducluK » Bill lu the Club Legis lature. Sacramento Record Union, The regular Speaker of the House is a man of considerable ability and not at all green in legislative ways. A few days ago, however, he was obliged to go borne on account of sickness in bis family, and a chronic obstructor of business named Parr was elected speaker pro Um. A bill was introduced to prevent stock and poul try from running at large. Member from Beaver—“Mr. Speaker,I want to introduce a pound btll.” The Speaker—“All right. If it’s a good bill, there won’t be no objection. Pass it right up.” The bill was accordingly “passed right up,” and the Speaker, putting on his spectacles, read it over very carefully, the reading occupying about tea min utes. “All right,” he said, finally. “I guess it’s a good bill. Mr. Clerk, read it to the House.” The bill provided that cattle, horses, goats and poultry shoula be impounded when caught run ning loose. Alter the reading the author did not know what motion to make, and it was laid down again for awhile, when some one rose up with, “I move we sus pend the rules and pass the bill.” At this the man who had fought the introduction of rules sprang up with: “You’ve agreed to have rules, and now you’ve got to stick to ’em. I move we don’t suspend a rule.” “Can’t we suspend part of the rule ?” queried another. “That is just enough to let the bill pass, and let the rest stand in case we needed ’em.” At this there was not a smile auywhere, and a wrangle began as to what particular rules it would be necessary to suspend in order to insure tbe passage of the bill. As the bill seemed to be in a fair way to pass, some one asked how a policeman or a sheriff could catch poultry, and it was referred to the judiciary committee to see if such a law would hold water. The chaplain- pronounced the benediction and the House adjourned. Spital, “toundel in 1197 by Walter Brune and Koala, bis wife"— at a period still more remote, the burial place of Ro man London. On tbe east sido of this Priory “Iieth a large field,” Stow tells us, Senator Logan’s brother Cornelius is anxious to draw a prize in tho shape ol tha Chilian mission. PEKSOXAL. —Father SI)echfiy is inNewOilesns,and Is being handsomely entertained. ..w., —Congressman Allen, ot Missouri, who ‘of old time called Loleswortb, now ‘i» thought to be dying, is estimated to be wortii Splttledeld, which about the year 1570 ' 1 ' was broken up for clay to make brick. In tlie digging thereof many earthen pots called urn a;, were found, full of asbes and burned bones of men, to wit, of tbe Ro mans that inhabited there; for it was the custom of the Romans to burn tbeir dead, " ‘tbeir asbes In au urn, and then % same with certain ceremonies in eld appointed for that purpose near There hath also been found,” Stow, “in the same field, divers cof- of stone containing the bones ot men.” one o£ tlie bouses In Spltal-square Pope’s iriend, Lord Bolingbroke, where 8L John’s sell (Greet Dryden’s Iriend before) With ypen arms received cne poet more. Each a Blacker Villain Than the Other.—Daring tbe wild-cat days in the West a Brooklyn man, who died not long since, was in business, in a Michigan town and formed a close friendship with tbe cashier of one of tbe private banks. One evening th; cashier admitted that he was laying plans to rob the bank of all its funds and skip into Canada, and bis iriend permitted himself to be drawn into the plot. They were to skip together and share alike, and a certain day was mentioned for the affair to come off. The Brooklyn man sold out his store at a big sacrifice and went to Detroit, where the cashier was t# Join him with tbe stolen funds. The hour came and the cashier came, but he bad no sparkle in his eye. “Busted—busted all to blazes!” he groaned, in explanation. “Didn't you get the money 7" “Not a cent!” “How’s4hat?” “Why, tbe president skipped out Sun day night, the secretary followed him Monday morning, aud tbe whole board of directors disappeared tbat night. On Tuesday morning there wasn’t au infer nal dollar bill left to steal!” •‘There wasn’t?” “Not a one! Just think of the mean ness of the whole board Jumping in and stealing the cashier blind as a bat! Where will human meanness end ?” —Gen. RoseDcrans denies tbat part of Blaine's eulogy In regard to troublo in tha Army of the Cumberland. —Professor Proctor denies that he ever predicted the end of the world by reason of a comet's contact with the sun. —Major Ben i’erley Poore has com pleted hts “Life of General Burnside," which will bo published iu Providence. —Mr. William H. Vanderbilt has said that ho intended to koep Maud S. is private Ufa until her record ot £10)£ Is beaten. —It is now claimed tbat Daniel Draw- baugh, an obscure artisan of Eberly’s Mills, Pa., Is the inventor of the telephone. —Mr. Saulsbury gives signs of a refusal return to tho Senate from Delaware at the close of his present, and second, term. •Tho Prince of Wales dances deux temps because he can’t dance anything else, and all Great Britain Is trying to dance deux temps. —Don Oarlos has written to Senor No- cedal, his representative In Madrid, that he docs not intend to go to Borne, as he docs not wish to cause the Pope any inconvenience. —The Rev. A. H. Knight, pastor of tha colored Methodist churrh at Mitchell, Ind., has been suspended. Ills wifo found poison in her tea. and her husband Is accused of putting It there. —In 1844 “Long John” Wentworth published In tho Chicago Democrat the tenets of the XauYuo Mormons' faith, and there waa nothing in them recognizlngor countenancing polygamy. —Ex-President Woolsey, of Yalo Col lege, has been presented by sixty professor* w tli a gold medal In recognition of faithful sendees for half a century. Hols nowin his eightieth year. —General Grant will go to bis .cottage at Long Branch early in June, and hi* presence there, tho hotel keepers think, can be diplo matically utilized for one of the magnetic ma tures of the season. Wbat Gnltenn RstCMag. Wilming'on (S. CJStar. It la. to bo remarked that the mills of the Stalwarts grind slowly, but they grind awfully sure. * A MAC OX BOX Write* Bom* Good Words Aboot HI* Boyhood’s Homo. Mr. John T. Waterman, whose boyhood days were spect in Macon, has these kind words for us in the last issue of the Athens Banner. Tbe rrtiele was prompted by the perusal of our interview with Mr. Henry Horne the other day Thera is no paper that we read with more interest than the Maoon Tcleohzpb akd Mxssexoeb, and there is no city whose progress we watch with closer ntU ntion or more gratification than tbe beautiful Cen tral City of Georgia. This is partly due to tbe fact that for maoy years Maoon was oar home. Here the haloyon days of onr childhood and yonth were spent—perhaps tbe happiest period of life. But there is another reason and that is that Msoon’s progress upward in financial prosperity ami commercial importanoe is such aa cannot fail to he gratifying to ail who know the splendid old city and it* cbaractoristius. With a steady, step, she marohes onward. Without tbe rapid growth which some cities have attained, ortho self-assertion of others, she has taken on growth as rapidly as is compatible with a truly healthy condition; and she has never taken a step backward. Unpretentious, yet deserving, srodest, bold in genuine progress, Macon maintains a queenly posi tion among Southern oitie3, and is the worthy home of some of the best people that ever breathed the air of heaven. We rejoice from day to day to note in the columns of the Tslxobapb and Mksskxoeb the steady, increasing advancement of our old home. What it has done in the past seems but a foreshadowing of what it will do in the future. Macon will never have more good fortune than it deserves. Conkling Given « Lift, Anyhow. Cincinnati Enquirer. If the President has not succeeded In captur ing Oaakling for tho Supremo Court he hasat least given his law business a boom. Vhio in tho Shads. Atlanta Constitution. Tlie fact that whale* are caught browsing off the Georgia coast shows wliat a prosperous and progressive Stale wo havo. For Instance, no whales are ever caught on the coast ol Ohio. Happy Family. . Maltimore Gazette. If Grant aud Blaine, Carl Schurzand Chap lain Newman, Conkling and anybody, can be reconciled In harmonious union, then all hu man experience Is at fault and not worth much in estimating coming events. Neat Bat Not Gandy. Detroit Poet. The London Telegraph considers the execu tion of Gulteau as "a forfeit too insigiiiflc-ant for the loss of such a man a* George Garfield." The Telegraph apparently looks upon George Garfield and James A. iv'asliiufton as two of our best men. Fewer Acre*—Belter Cnltitation. In tho presence of wiser methods of culture than those which were common under the regime of slavery, the habit of attempting to cultivate too many acres stills prevails to a great extent. Those who have abandoned it are experiencing the benefits of this feature of reform, and we hope the day is not distant when tho3e who yet cling to tho practice will discover its folly. It should be the policy of every one to adjust the number of acres to the availa ble force of tho farm, so that, by reason*- ble industry, the whole may he culti vated well. This will certainly result, relatively, in larger and more excellent products, than a greater area Imperfectly cultivated. There is something more to be done tban the mere planting, plowing and hoe ing oi the crop, in order to successful ag riculture. Tho preparation of the land by ditching, breaking up, and fertilizing, is not only essential, but should be pro vided for in the calculation ot the work of each year. Tho farmer who collects the materials and makes the composts for his own fields, is not only rendored secure against tbe possible frauds of the vendeis of fertilizers, bnt adds to his soil tbat which is enduring in its influence and sat isfying in iu results. When an acreage which requires tbe constant work of all available labor, for cultivation and har vesting, is set apart for the year, the very essential items bf making and applying home manures is sure to be overlooked. Tbe common practice of paying high prices for commercial fertilizers oruncer tain character, and sprinkling them in hills or rows, is by no means an equiva lent for the use of domestic manures. One stimulates for a season—the other be- ■ comes a real addition to tbe soil. $1,500 P« yesrean be easily made a. Time spent in the actual and perma- home working for E. G. Rideout « go., nent improvement of the land is more 110 Barclay street, New York, bind lor »wisely spent, even with an acreage some- 1 tbeir catalogue and full jArticu an. Rpltal Sqaara. Eilgravla. Further eastward, but still only a step from the commercial din ot Bishopgate- street Without, Where Spitalflcld with real India vies,” are to be found some sombre-looking red brick bouses, built about tbe time of the early Georges. This place is called Spital- square, but how it came to be christened so it is difflcnlt to imagine. Two streets meet at right angles, and In a corner of one of these streets there is a garden. We suspect this garden of having seen bet ter days. It looks as though it had been put into that corner in disgrace, ont of a more dignified position in the center of the square, which at some period it possibly occupied. In size it is modest, and if the two overgrown ahrubs and the dwarf tree did not Happen to be on friendly terms, entwining their branches like an embrace, they would have killed each other long ago. All day long—we cannot answer for the night—an elderly gentleman walks up and down. There is an expression of great responsibility on hit face. Is he the custodian of the gar den, or of the square, or of both? He limits his patrol to the space in front of the garden railings. But from this poiut be commands a view of the entrance to the “square,” which is fiercely guarded by posts with iron spikes. Sometimes he grows thoughtful, when be stops and leans upon bis stick. He has somewhat the ap- pearauc^ of % Cbtlset pentioner, In his long coat and electro-plated buttons. Per- baps this is his native place; and this garden is the one green spot in Spital- lelds which remains to remind him of hit youth. Two centuries back presents this tqusre as an open plot of ground, with a pulpit standmg in the north east corner, and near to it a bouse for the accommodation of the Lord Mayor and corporation during the preaching of tbe Spital sermons. At a more remote time an open area, part of tbe burial-ground immediately adjacent . . * . T»_l J e-f VI fr MAC OX COMMBBCMAL COLLEGE. Several Be*aon* For Locating It at Bacon. Professor McKay in seeking a point for the looation of an institution of high grade, came to the conclusion that Macon was the moat suitable looation for the col lege because it is the “Central City,” and one of the healthiest in the State, having easy railroad and other communication with all parts of this and neighboring States. It is rapidly growing in popula tion, wealth and commercial importance, and presents attractions to the business men of the State and elsewhere aa offering most desirable openings for investment; thus creating employment for young meu, to which gradnation in this college is an important introduction. Besides this, it is unquestionably tbe ed ucational centra of Georgia. Its universi ty, male and female colleges, public and private schools, with this commercial and business institute, cover all the area of classical, intellectual, mathematical, artis tic and commercial training, and give this city unqualified rank among the foremost and most privileged communities in tbe country. The social advantages to be gained in a refined and cultivated com munity liko Macon are an important con sideration in selecting a place of education for young men. Again Prof. McKay presents the follow^ lowing practical view of his understanding: We differ from the usual mode of conduct ing business colleges and institutes, in that we attach little or no value to the practice of devoting a considerable portion of time to so-called “Actual Business” exchangee and fanoy imitation markets. Wo regard all such arrangements as suitable only for the play-ground, and a useless waste of time whioh oonld be more profitably em ployed in hard study at tbe desk. As we would not exi>ect to advance tlie practical training of a builder by exercis ing him with a box of toy bricks, so we oould not hope to educate a merchant or banker by any such means as ticketed swatches of cloth, or flash currency. This class of knowledge can only be acquired in aotual and not in artilici il business, as the sense of personal respoati lility and the conviction that serious results must follow what we do, are the only safe influences to regulate and balance the judgment and furnish tho menial and moral discipline neoessary for training a reliable man of business. Gordon S«wi. Goboon, March L—Dr. H. W. Bridger, who has been attending leotnres at the At lanta medical oolege, has returned to ns a full-fledged physician. Tbe sad news came yesterday that Ham' ilton McCook, Jr., a railroad employe, whose family resides near here, had the misfortune to get his foot crashed by the train. Ihe kind-hearted superintendent, Mr. Rogers, sent a ticket up,- with the re quest that Hamilton’s mother oome im mediately. Sickness prevented, and his father left for Savannah last night. At last aooounts the injured foot had been am putatedaud the young man was speeoh- less.. A negro woman died suddenly last night in the neighborhood of the car shed. The regular passenger ooach on the Mil' ledgevilie road has undergone repairs, and this morning it came out as bright as a new dollar. Without exception, a cleverer set of men rever ran a train thau this road has in its employ. Miss Mamie Smith, who has been siok to the Priory and Hospital of St. Mary’s several days, is recovering H. She Meanest no* T«l. Montgomery Advertiser. Gnltean'g stock In trade Is his autograph. Selling these autographs Is his only way of making money whereby to save bis nock. In that autograph he has a sacred right of property which JshouUl not be violated. A man from Toronto, grudging the poor wretch a paltry two dollars, its price, wrote to him, proffering aid and asking it it would be accept able. To this Guitcau replied tn a letter, to which he, of course, signed his nam*. The happy possessor of tho autograph paid fora stamp and tho troubleof writing* letter, ts now congratulated on hts shrewd device. The To ronto man must be an emigrant Connecticut peddler of the old school. How I* Tblf. Colonel T Griffin Xetes. Hvcktos. O.. February 2i, 1882. Editor Xeue: Will you please tell me why theta are so. many more “Colonels” in the South than In the North, while the proportion ol troops in the latter section was much larger? anxious uquiaxB. Oh, yes! Nothing easier. The number of colonels in each section is really about the same, only down here they are more conspicu ous. You see, Sherman's army shelled this country, thus leaving the kernels exposed. Any further information in regard to climate and soil will be chocrfully furnished. There are 254 entries for the St. Louis races. Terrapin sell for as much as $00 a dozen tn New York. “Opera houses” are going up in most ot the Colorado towns. Florists have put up the price of sun flowers from SO to 81.50 each. A New York man bought $10,500 worth ot land at Tampa, Florida, the whelo sum to be paid in whisky. The Bible has been translated into 226 languages and dialects, and in the last eight yean 110,000,000 copies have been circulated. It is proposed that the government shall devote S25.000 to the erection. In the principal cities of the country, of.time-balls, which shall be lowered at 12, meridian, every day. Quite a bobbery was kicked up in the Connecticut Legislature by the Introduction of a bill permitting school committees tn order instruction upon the effect of intoxicating bev erages. In Canada last year 2.400,000 letters were registered. Ninety-three of these letter* were reported to bo lost or tampered with, but all but one of them were rccov. M l or accounted for. This comes close upon a perfect postal record. Texas is a progressive Slate, aud while San Antonio Is suffering from a lack of hotel accommodation, Austin is talking of convert ing one of the largest hotels into a temporary sutchousc. Sin inmates of a house of ill-fame in Providence. R. I., were Saturday poisoned by arsenic put Into the coffee by the housekeeper, Dora Avery or Iligbce, who has escaped. Mrs. Turner, the keeper of the house, and one of tho girls remain in a dangerous condition. Tho other cases are more hopeluL At last the final report of the commis sioners o! the Farts Exhibition of 1878 Is pre sented, and the French government ts shown a very prcUy little bill to foot In almost every item the expenses were more and the receipts less than the estimates, and the totals are. re spectively, 55,752,000 and 24,350,000 francs, leav ing a deficit of 31,425,000 francs, where but a third of tbat sum was expected. —Hoiston, on the extension, is to be the great country resort for a number of our maiues* meu and working people Already Sots are being bargained lor, and the pros pect is that quite a nice little settlement will soon spring up, whioh will eventually levelop into a town. When tbe new rood •a completed an accommodation or 'goober” train will inn twice a day for the convenience of these out-of-town residents. They will oome into work early and go home at aix o'clock in the evening, in conversation with a gentleman who live* near Hoiston, he told ns that lots could be bought for about fifty dollars an acre, and cheap cottages could be put up out there for about fifty dollars a room, rhe working man, at these figures, will be able to boy a lot, and his home will cost him bnt little. We rather like this soontry^ life idea, and will probably Rive,«fter a while, oome actual figures of living in liotatoa and doing businera in town. —Messrs. T. J. Caret*rphen & Co. offer a large assortment of heavy groceries for sale cheap in another column. These gen tlemen buy their goods in large quantities, and hence are enabled lo give their qnatona- ers inside figures ou any good* in tbeir tine. They are oonttddht of tbeir ability in meet competition and only aak a trial, * I.TOSSS? *