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About Upson enterprise. (Thomaston, Ga.) 1878-1879 | View Entire Issue (April 23, 1878)
then fee I JNO. F MEANS, Editor and Proprietor. W ritten for THE UPSON ENTERPRISE. THE UPSON PTY 4 "THE NOBLEST MOTIVE IS THE PUBLIC GOOD."---Virgil THOMASTON, GA., TUESDAY MORNING APRIL 23, 1878 VOL, I. NO. 8. THE UPSON ENTERPRISE Contrasted Marriages Deeming a change of climate es- This was a joyous day to them. Mrs lilial, 1 have for a few months Hansel partook of the youthful flowo abandoned my superb city residence tor an humbler home in the rural dis- SQUARES L 1 4 Squares, 1 Column, 1, Column, 1 Column. 500 10 00 15 00 1M. $2 50 500 700 10 00 12 00 2000 2500 3 M.|6 M.|12M $7 00 1000 15 00 2000 30 00 3600 4000 1000 15 00 20 00 $1500 25 00 30 00 By REV. W. C. CARTER. O 3000 390 0 40 00 0 50 00 65 00 7000 THOMASTON, GA 80 00 13000 9 I and will practice in the various State ,j,1 Courts. 7 Office first door TAREE the Webb House. - meh12-1y ALL . - —a • —* . W. X. BEALL Attorney and Counsellor at Law, THOMASTON, GA. till practice in the various Courts of State of Georgia. Office in the Court-house—down stairs. mehb-ly ' JULIUS E. F. MATTHEWS, ATTORNEY AT LAW Thomaston, Ga. Office up-sairs Cheney Building J. A. COTTEN ATT0RNEY AT LAW, Thomaston, Ga. Will practice in all courts in the State.I Prompt attention given toall business en- trusted to him. mch5,-ly A. C. GREENE ATI0RNEY AT LAAV THOMASTON, GEORGIA. Collections a specialty. Office in Johnson’s Building, mch5,-ly J. S. POPE ATTORNEY AT ZEBULON GA. Prompt attention given to busidess JhW F. REDDING, ATT0RXEY LAW a Will practice fit all the courts of the State. mch5,-y HUNT & TAYLOR, ATTORNEYS AT LA17 Will practice in the counties comprising the Flint Judicial Circuit, anil in the Su- preme Cotirt of the State Office over Drug Store of J. W. Hightower, inchb-ly Wm. S. Whitake ATTORNEY AT LAW CARNESVILLE, GA. W ill practice in the counties of the Flint Circuit and the Supreme Court of the State. Joseph J. ROGERS, ATTORNEY AT LAM Barnesville, Ga. All business promptly attended to CABANISS & PEEPLES, ATTORNEYSATL Forsyth, Georgia. W ill practice in all the counties of the Flint Circuit, mch5,-1y B. L. BERNER. BERNER & TURNER, Attorneys At Law FORSYTH, : GA. spirits that characterized the bride groom and bride. That was a merry residence, my business would be seri- Iaccrued from the great cow case. Hop ously injured. This loss of patron- kin age I can not willingly forego con it that moment, was paying off scious as 1 am of my dependence up-’ in old mortgage with his fees. When Poddery came in he said tricts. Should I find it necessary to day. All were glad that Miss Alma prolong my stay, I sincerely hope had married a man in every respect that my absence may cause you no her equal. Friends congratulated on my profession tor a subsistance." that things had now readied a crisis "Walter," said Alma, "it would be : MeGltic’s clear duty was to throw TV hat sa Blind Word May If you have nothing else to your fellow-travelers as you ner with them along this busy l»o. jour- thor- kind CHAPTER IX. Mr. Giles arose, opened the doors, and prepared for the reception of customers. He waited longer than usual for his breakfast, for lie sup- posed that Rufus would Noon came, night was fast ing. "Strange conduct to me,’ return.-— aproach- exclaim- ed Mr. Giles'; and lie hastily wrote a note and dispatched it to Mr. Rufus Adair. In about an hour a servant returned bearing a note from Dr. Adair stating that Rufus Augustus Coriolanus had not been home. Mr. Giles was surprised; "But," said lie, "he must surely be in the city; I have never known him to remain absent so On the receipt of the note from Mr. Giles, and Mi tlie Dr.’s fears were aroused Tom ! Adair was in tears, Tom! have my .ready,” shouted tlie Dr. Tom obeyed witli great celerity. "I'll go up in town and ascertain something of him 1 have never known Rufus Augustus Coriolanus to act so before! I am fearful some one lias knocked him over, and that is the last of him." "I'll accompany you, Mr. Adair,” Isaid his wife, and they were soon on their way to tlie firm of Adair & Har- per. I“Halloo, Giles! how is this! What lias become of Rufus Augustus Cori olanus ?" "I have not seen him. Dr., since last night at about 9 o’clock: Immediate ly after my return from tlie party, Rufus'gave me tlie keys that I had placed in Ids possession and said that lie was going home." "And you have not seen 1dm since ?" "I have not," replied Mr. Giles: him." "This is strange!" The Dr. inquired of every one he met, but no one had seen Rufus since - As the Dr and Mrs. Adair were returning home that evening, having abandoned the idea of further search, lie broke tlie deep silence that perva- ded their hearts. "Wife, this isi pearance to me. olicitude. them, and more than one prayer went words. They are often surely needed when you do not guess it: they do good that you never know of. The kind word, the look of interest and As my travels may be extended. 1 up to the Great White Throne that have had an eye to my necessities. Heaven’s blessings might rest on have provided myself with such means | those two who had but recently pledg- as the length of my tour would nat- ed their faith at the hymeneal altar, urally suggest; for it would be mor- Mrs. Hansel was in a feeble state of tifying in the extreme to find myself health at this time. It was hoped a source of pleasure to me to spend himself upon his country and to stamp my life in the quiet village where it out his fiend who was pursuing him! began. There are friends here that I witli malignant fury. After talkingi shall ever cherish ; but where duty it over for an hour Poddery took out| calls I am not unwilling to go. Your the papers in another suit in which keeps a heart from withering the • happiness is mine!” Walter felt McGlue accused Rollins of breach of proud of his wife, the peace in permitting his cow to As soon as Mrs. Hansel’s estate wake Mrs. McGlues baby in the very ympathy ; they may drop of dew that could be wound up, Walter and Al- crisis of the mumps, by its ‘mooing, ma returned to N and made it and still another in which McGlue their home. claimed compensation for Ilie brick in the garb of a beggar among the that her system might recuperate dur- Thc succeeding year was one of which he heaved at the cow, and for T4 . . 21 : . great success to Walter. He was con- the manual labor expended in the pyramids of Egypt oi the snows of mg the winter months, but not so. sulted in the most intricate cases, and ’ effort. the Alps, or coursing along the banks ; She accompanied W alter and Alma his decisions were generally correct.! He was as great a lover of truth as Glue for corruptin the illustrious Chief Justice Hale.— little touch that relaxes a chored strained almost breaking. A poor girl said not long ago to a lady of true, but unostentatious benev- olence; Do you know that you sav ed my life once—just by two or three kind words? It was the first time I saw you. I was standing in a drug store when you came in. I was so of the Nile. Moreover your own on their first visit to his mother good judgement will concur witli Their visit proved to be an enjoyable in depreciating the improvi- occasion. Mrs. Gray was delighted mine dence Waller wasan honest lawyer and pos Hollins retaliate by arresting Me- wretched and hopeless I had gone to ig the morals of buy morphine to end my misery I Hollins’ boy, Jim, by the use of pro- could get no work and I felt to weak fane and scandalous language while of any one, who, having tlie witli Mr circumnavigation of the globe in view, would be so reckless as to at tempt it unassisted. I hope that tlie small sum which I have appropriated to tlie defraying of my expenses will be regarded by yourself as moderate peculiar to myself. It will lie seen that I have allowed considerable margin for the practice of beneficence; but tlie charitable al ways find expression for their benev- I hope that I may not be forced to call upon you to duplicate this amount. As I am not permanently located, I defer giving you my address at pres ¬ "Well," said tlie Dr., “Rufus is gone !” Tlie paper fell from his hands, and it was some time before he could explain the matter to Mrs. Adair.— After two or three attempts lie gave her to understand that Rufus had ta ken tlie money out of tlie safe and run away. This intelligence was too 1uch for tlie weak nerves of Mrs. Adair. She tainted! "Rufus!" said tlie poor woman as consciousness re turned. She was lobe pitied, for her sorrow was deep and of that nature for which there is but one solace and that All trouble ‘S. Adair knew not. She had gone to her Maker witli her 8—had never cast her cares upon Him—lienee, mourned as one who has no hope. Her conscience condemned her. Tlie Dr. more speedily recovered. He arose and paced the hall with evi- dently little relief. The spirit of the Adair I that lie had sinned, heinously sinned, i mysterious disap- I FeTE:4 •• - 1 41 T C* , ;1 W ife, said the Dr., “I have never Giles may know T, 1 1, 13, 1 - discharged mv duty toward -—and more about this than he acknowl edges. I'll have him arrested." Having turned his vehicle, the Dr. hastened to the proper authorities and procured a warrant for tlie ar rest of Mr. Giles, "This is an unlooked for event,” said Mr. Giles, as the officer said, "You are under arrest, Mr. Giles." "For what?" “It is thought that you know some- tiling of Rufus Adair.” his voice - faltered—he could proceed |no further—and they both burst into ed to tlie Dr." Thorough search was made through-| out tlie the house, but no clue to Ru- fus was found. Tlie only thing that indicated his departure was his pistol, was missing. But near tlie door of tlie large safe in which the firm had always deposited their money was found a valuable paper—evidently in| tlie wrong place. "Here is a paper,” said tlie officer, tears. "This," continued Hie Dr., af ter his emotion had somewhat subsid- ed, and lie had recovered the power of speech—"this could be borne better were 1 not conscious of culpable neg lect in liis moral training. I have neglected him; I have been immor al—I have ruined my son !” Only those who have experienced similar afflictions can form an ade quate idea of the grief that filled tlie the bosom of tlie Dr. and Mrs. Adair. Had they trained Rufus in the path of rectitude, had their examples been holy, it is more than probable that he would have never brought this great sorrow upon them; and now since it is come, there guilt rendersit almost intolerable. That was a wretched night to flic Dr. and Mrs. Adair. There was no sleep for them. Rufus was constant- at the same time placing it in the ly before them, and tlie consciousness hands of tlie Dr. (that they were particops criminis witli "Bring me the keys, said tlie Dr. him intensified their grief. They were brought the safe unlock- After tlie Dr. had sufficiently ed, and tlie startling fact revealed covered he adopted such means as that tlie firm had been fobbed! Of suited in tlie speedy release of an how much? There was no one who nocent person, Mr. Giles. Tlie amount sessed all the excellences found in a lie was striving to eject the cow. Hanseland the maturity of first-class jurist, but none of the de- soon as McGlue entered bail lie told her Christian character. They felt feets. Once conscious of rectitude, tlie squire that he would call in the that the recent marriage had united nothing could deter him from the morning to enter suit against Hollins them TAN le the 1 Taes or most vigorous prosecution, and tlie | for permitting his cow to butt down them, they recalled the days O minutest investigation. Such was McGluc's pig pen. Hollins overheard "auld lang sync and talked of the his ardor of soul, his brilliant intellect, bright future. his unerring judgment, his burning him, and at once made an affidavit —what with care, and sleeplessness, and want < f food—to t v any longer. My old acquaintances. I had known in better times, would not notice me in my poverty and faded clothes. I could not bring myself to beg. I had made up my mind the night before. and I had a letter in my pocket to stating that tlie shock of tlie encoun- mail to my brother in New Orleans- ter witli the pig-pen had given the a good-bye letter. I sold my shawl cow tlie brain fever, and so deranged to get money to buy morphine to p ut her mind and unstrung her nervous me to sleep forever. When you came system that she was now in the habit in the store, you dropped your glove, of coming homeward, up the hill, tail and I picked it up. You thanked me foremost, in such a manner as to ex- pleasantly, and look at me as if I Iso increased as to enable him to un- |cite general derision, were a human being. I must have Tlie two suitors left tlie squire's shown my misery in my face for you " told your little girl to give me a flow-J& Mrs. Hansel remained but one week, eloquence, and universal philanthro Her rapidly declining health induced PV that, the trangressor of the laws 1 e of his country and the law of God a more speedy return Ilian was antic ipated. Walter and Alma accompa nied her. As Mr. Gray had some legal busi ness that demanded his attention, he left Alma and her mother, but prom ised to return in a week. During ids absence Mrs. Hansel |was exhibited in true colors and sel-i dom went unpunished. In a few years Walter's fortune was dertake another profession. He had been reared on the farm. suddenly Wor e - .. He liked office together. As they passed thru the honest toil and tlie hard-earned | tlie doorway Rollins jostled McGluc’s er, and when 1 put the rose up to my savings common to tlie industrious, elbow. McGlue jogged back again eves to hide the tears. vou asked me. intelligent and frugal farmer. Some and Rollins struck him. They clinch- three years after his marriage, Wal- ed * * It was an awful con- mil medical | ter and Alma were livingin a beauti- bat, and each was taken home on a to hide tlie teat re re and returned Giles.;home feeling that life was to him a "How much money have we on burden and destitute of pleasure. hand, Mr. Giles ?" “Something over twenty three thousand dollars, I think, Dr., tlie will practice in all the Courts, and give ! ecal attedtion to the collection of Trims. Refer to Wm, II. lead. Banker T tn -Ga., Duthas & Allen. Cotton books will give vou the exact amount . 1 tors- F Forsyth, Ga. mch5,-tf 1e SARTINS. I T. 11. MILLS, JR. MARTIN & MILLS, TORNEYS AT LAW, GRIFFIN, GA Nill prietiee in all the State Courts of orein and the United States Courts. Office, front room, up-stairs, Bingham building. mch5,-6m There it stood on the books as Mr. Giles had stated—but not one cent in tlie safe. Mr. Giles was left in the hands of tlie officer, and tlie Dr. and Mrs. Adair returned home. Previous to his receipt of tlie note from Mr. Giles. DR. G. W. T. H ANNAH in tlie Dr. had just dispatched a servant to the office for the mail; and when the Dr. returned home there were THOMASTON, GA. iOffers his services to the public and ever be pleased to wait on his patrons. J. W. M. I). many letters awaiting perusal. Tlie majority of these were business let ters, and tlie Dr. did not have any de- sire to read; "Yet," said lie. it can not make matters worse.” Tlie sec ond letter lie read was mailed at a SUGGS & PATTERSON, THOMASTON, GA. R Tender the public their profession- services, mch6-y ;country post office not more than DR I R.J. C. DRAKE twelve miles from the town of N "Who is it that knows me in that place?" said the Dr. "Read it,” said liis wife. The Dr. opened the letter and read DR. W. MI. BULLARG as follows: o "DR. ADAIR — DRAKE & BULLARD, You may be surprised somewhat render the public their professional ser- when this letter reaches you and gir- alls and will give prompt attention toles you intelligence of rather a byste- -CRIS, More than a week had elapsed, af ter tlie reception of Mr. Gray's letter, before Alma decided as to tlie nature of her reply. She had ever regard- ed Mr. Gray as her friend, but had never thought of addressing him by a more endearing appellation. She was alone in her own boudoir, and thoughts were of Walter Gray and his letter. “I'll answer it.” said Alma. This was not a hasty decis- ion; she had repeatedly revolved the matter of his letter in her mind, for she was not insensible to the issues involved. We do not intend to place he letter before the reader. It was faultless as to style and characteristic of Alma. She felt that she loved Walter, and that lie was worthy of her affections. There was in her case, then, no valid reason why she should hesitate to unite her destiny witli his. The let ter was answered, and such was tlie nature of the response that Walter now claimed as his own the young, the beautiful, and tlie accomplished Alma. More than two months elapsed be fore the celebration of their nuptials. aid was summoned. Sensible of the ful cottage about four miles from tlie shutter and put to bed. A week latei- rapid approach of death she gave to city of N .: friends brought them together and Alma her parting admonition. Many "Here" said Alma, "I can raise poul- made up tlie quarrel, and the suits >., : try, cultivate flowers, and study hor- were all withdrawn. A fortnight af- doubtless, would have been her words , ticulture on a more extensive scale.” terward. Poddery distrained McGlue. of comfort and Christian advice, but , "Yes," said Walter, "our home lias ; for his fees, and left him an empty the destroyer was upon her, and the its conveniences. We are further house. On tlie same day Hopkins of my lips, that had so often breathed bene-: from the dust and turmoil of the city. | sold Rollins out, cow and all, and lie re. — 2 41- ,, I had to begin the world clear over dictions, were hushed, and tlie spirit was gone, for God had taken it. "Meet me in heaven" were Mrs. IIansel’s last words—seareelvaudible; but Alma heard and stooped to press a last kiss; then kneeling by the side of her lifeless mother burst into a flood of irrepressible grief! "There is a time to weep.” This was a bitter cup to Alma—the sever-; est of her afflictions : yet she sought and obtained help of Him whom no emergency may perplex. A large concourse of people attend- ed her remains to their last resting place. Down, down, in the dark. clods rattled above her head and shut out tlie warm sunshine from her face. Alma’s heart sank within her, and her| own sweet spirit seeme say tlie strength of its "Gone!" said Alma, was lowered to its last and the poor girl sank burden of her grief! “ Yes, tlie best earthly as the coffin beneath tin Gone !” i 10 - certain expenses attached to a city—life not common to one spent in tlie country.” "Our rural retreat will lie so pleas- ant," said Alma. “I think tlie mead ow and tlie woods, tlie lakes and hills more attractive than what one usual- lay sees in the city.” "Perhaps so," replied Walter.— "But the city has its advantages; medical*aid is more available, and; church privileges superior. But here we have fields of wheat—line cattle.I again. Both of them think they will be calmer when they have another cow ease. Tlie New York Herald is now fair ly crammed with adversisements. It amounts to a positive pressure upon 11 and poultry in abundance, glad you are so well pleased your country residence.” 1 am witli AYRE €EA T COT CASE The facts in the case of McGlue vs. Rollins were these; Rollins' cow, it seems, while feed- ing on the common, got through a place alleged by the defendant to have been purposely left open in the fence of McGluc’s garden. She did some damage, but was driven out, !and when McGlue remonstrated witli IRollins about tlie predatory and in- condiary tendencies of his cow,Roll- friend that ins replied with defamatory and un ¬ gone lips that breathed so man for the now bereaved Alma were nd the parliamentary language. Thereupon prayers; McGlue went up and sued him for and swore to push tlie case "gone death. d hushed in tlie stillness of to tlie last extremity. McGluc’s law And the sweet voice mild ca deuce told of tlie pure heart that gave| it inspiration was gone"! Slowly the sun retired to his noc turnal couch, and wrapped himself in the sombre clouds that draped his throne. Alma watched his declension| with more than usual interest. Long streams of light embellished the thin skirt of clouds hanging low in the West, and tlie distant hill-tops rejoiced in the effulgence of his glory. "Brighter," said Alma, “is tlie re- splendent throne of the King of kings"! And she thought of that; glorious home to which her mother had gone. “And God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes,” mur- mured tlie stricken Alina, as witli face | uplifted she seemed to piece the veil and catch a glimpse of the celestial; city. Her face was radiant; “And there shall be no more death, neither yer, Poddery, went right to work’ and when Rollins heard about it lie got his lawyer’ Hopkins, to bring a coun ter suit for conspiracy to entrap the cow. McGlue then told Poddery to open out a second suit, for damages done Rollin's cow, and Rollins also made a fresh start in another against Mc- Glue, in which lie claimed fifteen dol lars for tlie ruin of his cows horn by McGrue’s grape arbor. This seemed to McGlue so audacious that he or dered Poddery to include in his claim tlie market price of four cabbages and a bunch of parsley, that tlie cow ate. He said he would have let them go on as of no account if Rollins hadn’t proved himself such a conscienceless scoundrel. But this last movement exasperated Rollins to such a degree that lie Went sorrow, nor crying, be any more pain; either shall there over and got old Mi and a smile, such make an affidavit tha Muldooney to she saw Mc- in angel might envy, played upon her featur And I saw no temple therein : for the Lord God Almighty and the Lamb are the temple of it." "And tlie gates of it shall not be shut at all by day: for there shall be no night there." Tlie poor girl cried, aloud to God because of His peace| that dwelt in her soul. “And there shall be no night there ; and they need no candle, neither light of the sun; for tlie Lord God giveth them light: and they shall reign forever and ev- The sun went down; thick dark- ness covered earth; but, in that hour of sore affliction Alina was calm : for it was witli Iter as if an angel had push- ed back the curtains of the celestial city and overwhelmed her soul with tlie unspeakable glory of His King dom. Friends gave such condolence as mortal can afford, and Alma was glad that she had their sympathies and prayers; but in Him whose ways are inscrutable, and whose tender mer cies are over all his creatures she sought and found a sure support. Walter anturned, but not until af- ter tlie death and burial of Mrs. Han sel. So unexpected an event filled liis heart with sorrow for lie had learned to love her. But his grief was mod erate, yet he entered deeply into tlie affliction that had visited them, and felt that the ties that bound him and Alma were being daily strengthened. He thought of his owngood mother, and how much she would be missed were tlie Lord to call Iter lienee! "Alma," said Walter one evening about a week from liis return, "I can Glue milking the cow, while it was in| his lot, in tlie wash boiler. Armed| witli this affidavit. Hopkins had Mc- Glue arrested, and lie was held in se curity to answer a charge of petit larcency. McGlue was furious. He got Pod- bery to open out a new suit based up on tlie facts that Rollin,s cow had scar ed one of his children into fits, injur ing the child’s constitution and involv-: ing large expenditures for medical at tendance. But just astlie constable was going out to serve tlie notice, Rollins came in and swore out a fresh process against McGlue for damages donet >| th" cow by Mi-Glues setter pup biting her in the near hind leg just above the ankle. Poddery then told McGlue that the! time had come for decisive action that unless justice was a mockery and ! human rights a hollow sham, lie must settle this mini Rollins at once. So McGlue ordered a new suit against Rollins for destruction of his proper ty. in permitting the cow to rub the whitewash off the corner of McGlues smoke-house, and McGlue said lie would carry the case to the supreme Rollins met this assault by putting in a demand for compensation for the hair lost by his cow by coming into collision with Mi-Glues smoke-house kins lie added a sworn item in which he showed that the digestion of tlie cow had been permanently ruined by the door-knob of the smoke-house, which was so loose that it came off wlieii the cow nibbled it, and was swallowed. When McGlue called to ask Poddery not think of making this my perma- .what should be done now, that emi nent home. You ing myself. Wer doubtles if I loved flowers, and said if I would come some time to your house, you would give me some roses. Then the clerk brought your parcel, and you said good morning to me and went out. I went, too 1 did not buy the morphine. 1 bought some bread in stead. and then I went ty mo pool room and ate the bread, and smelt flower and took courage to live on. Only a few kind words and a rose, and yet they saved a girl from throw ing away her young life—saved it for future work and usefulness and happi- Sometimes a kind word saves more than life—it saves a shout! It puts on the brakes when the human locomo- ; live has got upon a down grade, and is rushing to destruction. Tlie youth- the columns of that paper, and yet we ful debauchee, on the very know for a certainty that no where are tlie times harder or more dull.— The Herald of last Sunday consist of nobody “because nobody cares for ,.. Ihim," the girl, who because of some three separate sheet containing twen- thoughtlessly imprudent act, finds ty pages, or one hundred and twenty | that the black bar of scandal and sus picion lias dropped down to shut her columns of close type. The adver tisements occupy sixty-five columns, and are three thousand one hundred and thirty in number, representing every class of society and every branch of industry and mercantile en terprise. Very properly "pointing from tlie fold of the virtuous, and to isend tier in her despair and human yearning for companionship into the haunts of vice, such unfortunates as witli pride” to tins array of adver- tising, the New York paper would fain believe it to lie a gratifying; sympton of a rapidly increasing Spring business, and we are told that| an old merchant when ask for the se cret of his great success in life replied:| “Advertising. If you want to get on| in business This has b come a cardinal and well established maxim in the thrifrey-wise trade cen tre of the Eastand West. We have no ticed also that the most sagacious merchants in that part of the Union advertise, if anything, more freely and liberally when times are dull Ilian when they are brisk. This is founded upon the shrew and rational idea that when purchasers are lag gard they most require stirring up| and that the only way to create tlie. necessary agitation is through the medium of a widely circulated public press. There is another reason why. merchants and others should pro- claim in the papers what they have to| sell and that is the inevitable disper sion thereby of the very dullness com plained of. We venture to say that| frequent telling live advertising will; wake lip tlie sleepy community, and; all who practice tins true business precept will infallibly reap the re-| these may often be rescued by that lit tle talisman—the kind words. The little word laden with sympathy, the kind word laden with interest—they are worth more than long-winded moral lectures, than tracts or ser- mons. Why lie so eliary of them? Why not scatter them freely as flowers along life's stony highway? They may soften many a bruised foot. And they cost so little. Good Words A bout Women. "There are but two fine tilings in tlie world," says Malherbe ;—"women and roses.” Lessing exclaims: Women is tlie masterpiece of tlie universe. Bourbon says: The pearl is tlie im age of purity, but women is purer than the pearl. Thackery writes: A good women is tlie loveliest flower that blooms un- Balzac Even the errors of wo- man spring from her faith in the good. Voltaire declares: All the reason- ing of men are not worth one senti- ment of woman. ward of their enterprise contemporary puts tlie thus: "Every man. in a Lamartine asserts: Woman have more heart and imagination han men. Otway exclaims: Oh! woman! lovely woman! Nature made thee to A Mobile! case pithily tempermen. i\- business without you. I of them might add there is noth We had been brutes who does not take the trouble to tell . _ ,, the public what he has for sale, will ing so true as a good womans love; nothing so sublime or so constant as soon find that the public does no take tlie trouble to inquire for itself He will find—as some are finding to . ,.. day whether they confess it or not— out her love and gentle influence, that his retience is practically putting man would soon be heathenized, and his life turned into a hell. W e rare not how base a man may be, not to |her undying affection for tlie man of her choice. Without woman—witli up his blinds for him: ami that his clerks might as well go fishing as fumble over goods that they do not sell. Neither need such reticent mer chant wonder greatly why people pass his store and go in next door. For human nature lias much of the bull in it, and run after a highly col- ored announcement, as the taurine will after a red flag. Only the kind., 15 of red flag it does not run after, wortli blank. X. what depths of sin anil shame he may have descended, he will never get so low that a woman’s love will not cause him to to ponder and think, anil in many instances her influence will lead him into the paths that are right. Oh! woman! thou art a glorous gift to man, and without thee life is a speaking of, is which is apt to fol low two long and too persistent fold ing of one's hands in one's lap." A Good Sermon By A Clown. The following sermon, was preach- The Chornicle and Constitutional- ed by a clown, in a circus that was ist has always been a great medium for communicating to the public, not only the news of the day, but the mer cantile movement in all its ramifica- tions. We are duly thankful for the handsome patronage we have ever received at the hands of an enlighted community,and therefore what we say now is not in a spirit of fault- finding, but for the common weal.— The prosperity of tlie people is our prosperity. We are bound up with them in a common cause. Therefore we feel it a duty to admonish our mercantile and other friends that the best way to dispel much of the inevit- able dulness of trade is to stop croak ing, and tlie surest way of securing business is to let the public know exhibiting in one of our country towns in this State. There is a good deal of bitter truth in it. through these columns, what von have to dispose of. What i found. after long experience in tlie East and West, to be the sum of wisdom pros- perity, must be relatively true when aplied to the South. Let our patrons try it, and we feel confident that they is for so express- nent lawyer was out, buying a house I to make this any and lot with the fees that Lad already Chronicle and Constitutionalist. will reap an abundant reward. six hundred dollars here to-day, more, 1 vetnnre to say, than any minister of tlie Gospel in this town will receive for a whole years service. A large portion of this money was given by the church members, as a large por tion of this audience is composed of members of the church. Yet when your preacher asks you for money to aid the supporting of the Gospel you say you are too poor to give anything. Yet you come here to hear me talk nonsense. 1 am a fool because I am paid for it. Yon profess to be wise, and you support me in my folly. But, perhaps pou say you did not come to see the circus, but the animals; why did you not look at them and go away? Why did you stay here to hear my nonsense ? Now, isn’t this a nice place for christians to be in? Don’t you feel ashamed of yourselves? You might to blush to be caught in such a place as this." 7 P
