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VOLUME XL
PERRY, GEORGIA, THURSDAY,'JULY 14, !SSi.
NUMBER 97, J
I read a piece the other day in the
Eutonton Messenger arguing
6!nte education ana tree school from"
the pen of Bev. I. B- Br .inhani, and it
can’t be answeaed, to my opinion'. It’s
solid as a rock. One of his reasons that
strnch me most forcibly was that it
weakened the bond between parent
and child, and made the child feel in
dependent and weaned, away his tever-
euee and respect, it’s just like a boy
having a fortune left him by a grand
father or a rich old ancle, and he get£
proud and vain, and before he gets to*
be twenty-one his father and mother
realize that the legacy was a curse in-
slead of a blessing. Thank gobdnfes.
there are no rich nudes and grahdfa^
ers in my family, for X want my ct
dren to look np to ihe and their mother -
eras long as we live, and besides I
don’t believe mnch in legacies to chil
dren nohow.
has been a round of pleasures? Her
gay spirits might revolt at the dark,
downward«path of low hhmiBty sudden
ly peinied^oqp^fore her,-'and might
cling to^SN- sunny regions in which
they**- ^latfierto revelled . Besides,
ruin i-j^ 'jshionable life is accompanied
by .-riany galling mortifications, to
which, in othar ranks it is a stranger.—
In short, I could not meef Leslie the
next morning without trepidation- He
hathmadff the disclosure. ’
‘ ; And how did she-jbelir it?”
“Like an angel! It seemed rather to
be a relief to her mind,
apd went about with ^ nagganfeotmte-
nance, and a breaking heart. TTis fife
was but a protracted agony; and what
rendered it more insupportable was the
necessity of keeping np a smile in the
presence of his wife; for . he could not
bring himself to overwhelm ter with
the news. She saw, however, with the
quick eyes of affection tiiat all was not
well with him. She marked his altered
looks and stifled sighs, and was not to
be deceived by his sickly and vapid at
tempts at cheerfulness. She tasked
all her sprightly powers and tender
blandishments to win him back to hap
piness, bat she only drove the arrow
for she threw
her arms around my neck and asked if
that was all that had lately made me
unhappy.—But, poor girl,” added he,
“she cannot realize the change we must
.undergo. She had no idea of poverty
bnt in the abstract; she has only read
of it in poetry, where it is allied tolove.
She feels as yet no privation; she suf
fers no loss of accustomed convenien-
cies nor elegancies. When we come
psoricaHy to experience'its sordid cares
itf f wants, its -peity humiliations
— 5 Cbe the real triaL”
"s- ’d I, “now tnat you have
got e severest task, that of
bra to her, the sooner you let
the to the secret the better.
Tke*__»^ 3 may be mortifying, but
then it is a single misery.
They are never much
j account- until they earn their own
! money, and even a selfish boy is not
going to entertain a secret longing-for
the old man’s death, if . the old
hasn’t got a passel of money to leave'
behind him for a division. So lets
take the back track a while imd con
sider.
Bzli, Aim.
out for yon. I’ve set out a a table un
der a beantifal tree behind the cottage,
and I’ve been gathering some of the
most delicious sirawbernes, for I know
yon are fond of them—and we have
such excellent cream—and everything
is so sweet and still here. Oh!”
she, putting her arm within his, and
looking np brightly in his face, “Oh!
we shall be so happy!”
Poor Leslie was overcome.' He
caught her to his bosom—he folded
his arms round her—he kissed her
again and again—he could not speak,
I’avite the patronage of lb ^ '
j of Perry and' vicinity -
fliey propose to keep constant!Mp band
■well selected stock of-auch goods as
Je-to be fonffd iu a .
1- * First Class Retail ' f
Faney & Family Grocf
* * *
By reasonable .profits and r^nt,
no’[uias^to accommodate then,
ere, -they hope toVecevie a she.
""tronage. _
jgp f-otry, Georgia—meh!7t2.
i have often had- occasion to remark
fortitnoe with which woman sus-
•tnj the most" overwhelming reverses
irtune. These disasters which
,.ak down the spirit of a man, and
prostrate him in the dust, seem to call
forth all the energies of the softer sex,
and give such intrepidity and elevation
to their character, that at times it ap
proaches to sublimity. Nothing can be
more touching than to behold a soft
and tender female, who had been all
weakness and dependence, and alive to
every trivial roughness, while treading
the prosperous paths of life, suddenly
rising in mental force to beetle com
forter and supporter cf hernusband
under misfortun'e, and abiding, with
"unshrinking firmness,the bitterest blast
of adversity.
As the' vine which has long twined its
grfeefnl foliage about the oak, and
been lifted by it into sunshine, will,
when the hardy pjb*fc-is rived by the
1 li-nililoi Knit i4-
[Detroit Free Presa]
1 A day or two ago soon after the’
I hour of noon, an individual who seem
ed to be laboring nnder considerable
excitement entered a grocery store on
Michigan avenue and asked for a pri
vate word with the proprietor. When
the request was exanted he explained;
“I believe myself to be an injured
I husband, and I want to verify my sus
piciona by watching a house on the oth
er street. This I can best do from the
rear of your store. Have you any oM
jeetions to my taking a seat bask there
by the other Jtndow?”
The grocer granted the favor, arid
walked back and
and soon
r over, whereas you otherwise suffer it,in
j anticipation, every hour in the day. It
c is not poverty so much as pretense, that
- harasses a ruined man—the struggle
between a proud mind and an empty
L purse—the keeping np a hollow show
t that must soon come to an end. Have
. the courage to appear poor, and you
. disarm poverty of its sharpest sting.”
> On tl-is point I found Leslie perfectly
t prepared. He had no false pride him-
. self, and as to his wife, she was only
r anxious tc conform to their altered for-
j tunes.
Some days afterwards he called upon
' Tin the evening. He had disposed
is dwelling house, and taken a
.1 cottage in the eounrry, a few
—from town. He bad been busied
all day iD sending out furniture. The
new establishment required few arti
cles. and" those of the simplest kind.
Ail the splendid furniture of his late
residence Lad been sold excepting Ms
wife’s harp. That, he said, was too
closely associated with the idea-of her
self; it belonged to the little story of
their love; for some ot the- sweetest
moments of their courtship were those
when he had leaned over that instru
ment and listened to the melting tones
of her voice. I could not but smile at
that instance of romantic gallantry in a
doating husband.
He was now going out to the cottage
where his wife had been all day super
intending its arrangement. My feel-'
ings had become strongly interested in
ihe progress of this family story, and
as it was a fine evening, I offered to ac
company him.
He was wearied with the fatigues of
the day, and as we walked out fell into
a fit of gloomy musing,
“Poor Mary I” at length broke with a
heavy sigh, from his lips.
“And what of her,” asked I, “has
anything happened to fler?”
“.What,” said he, darting an imps- ;
tient glance, “is it nothing to be re
duced to this paltry situation—to be ■
caged in a miserable cottage—to be ■
olliged to toil almost in the menial cor
ners of her wretched habitation?’
“Has she
TARVER & 00
gence may break upon her iu a more
startling manner than if imparted by
yourself; for the accent ^ those we
love soften t^e-"%e.rb’A " —^Bg-
sides, yon "*
comforts u
merely tbs ' I,
only bond
er—an u.
and fee.
that sen? _
yonrmiui ”
reserve;‘it --.g
when ever g§
aie conceal
“Oh, but,
blow I am to ^ ^ jjllr :w.. , ^
pc-cts—liow I am to strike her \cry soul
to' tlie earth by telling her that her hus
band is a beggar;—that she is to fore
go all the elegancies of life—all the
pleasures of society— to shrink with me
into indigence and ubscudty! To fell
her that I have dragged her down from
the sphere in which she might have
continued to move in constant bright
ness—the light of every eye—the admi
ration of every heart! How can she
bear poverty? She has been biought
up in all the refinements of opulence.
How can she bear neglect? She has
been the idol of society. Oh, it will
friend, but there .is the board and
clothes and school books whist is
live times as much. It takes too much
education anyhow nowadays, and too
much of everything.
Thoma stifle limes.
Hades, preached from velvet-covered
desks, to satin robed sleepy - sinners,
may do very well, bnt when one of
yonr old fashioned, big longed, back-
woods exborters wants to make hair
stand straight up on a sinner’s head, he
will yell “hell-fire,” whether it is in the
new version or not. Yon see there is
something startling abont -the expres
sion. It makes the hardest sinner feel
uncomfortably warm. Now one might
threaten the erring with Hade3 from
firstly to sevinteentlily, end not cause
one irreverent bov to stop pinninn luck-
Gta&fflH* ME .CHANTS.
GUTTER^aDxl GftEESE specialities:
jo, 60, ^’Poplar Street,
* _ *•* •
MAcbsff, rt A
Too much bouse
and furniture, too much dining and
writings ana banquets and horses and
carriages and riding and sleeping and
dressing—too many yards of calico in a
dress and too much sowing on it and
trimming and flouncing and tucking
and lace rigging in general Children's I
clothes used to be changed twice a j
week, but I know some poor mothers j
who change ’em now three times a day I
and can hardly pay tMr washing bills.
The dear little darlings innst be kept
so sweet. It's the strangest thing in
the world that when poor folks get!
rich they want to do more for their
cMldren than anybody else. A man I
who never had but three or four months I
chance in an old field school and rose j
above all obstacles and acquired riches j
and honor and fame, is very apt to
dress Ms children in fine clothes and j
keep them at school or college all their J J
yonng life- Its the nature of folks to 1
go to extremes and a big bile of money j
will malm a fool of most anybody on j
short acquaintance.
It’s not been proven yet that a liber- \
'I the agitated stranger
| took a seat on a box of codfish and be
gan watch. His presence had been al
most forgotten when he returned to
j ihe front of the store with hasty steps
and quivering voice and said.-
“Great heaven! but I’ll kill her. Yes;
J I’ll shoot her through the heart!”
J “Your wife?”
j Yes, my idolized Mary! I can no lon
ger doubt her guilt, and Til be a mar-
1 derer in less than ten inmates!” -
1 The grocer tried to detain Mm, but
I he broke away and rnshed around the
I comer. Not bearing anything fur-*
tber of him for half on - hour the gro-'
cer began to investigate, and he dis
covered that fourteen rolls of butter, 8
crock.of lard, two hams and other staff
j had left the back end of the store by
way of the window at which the watch
ful husband was stationed;
TUTTLE & WALTON,
thumleibolt. cling arahnd it with its ca
ressing tendrils, and bind np its shat
tered bonghs; so is it beautiful?^ order
ed by Providence, that woman, who is
the mere dependent- and ornament of
| man in Ms happier hours, should be Mr.
stay and solace when smitten with sud
den calamity; winding herself into the
ragged recesses of his nature, tenderly
snpporting the drooping head, and
binding np the broken heart.
I was once congratulating a friend
who Lad around him a blooming fami
ly knit together in the strongest affec
tion. “I can wish you no- better lot,”
said he, with enthusiasm, “than to
have a wife and children. If yon are-
prosperous, there they are to comfort
you.” And indeed, I have observed
that a married man tailing into misfor
tune is more apt to.retrieve his situa
tion in the -’frorld than a single one;
partly because be is more stimulated to
exertion by the necessities of the help
less and Beloved beings who depend
upon him for subsistence; but cMefiy ■
because Ms spirits are soothed and re- ,
lieved by domestic endearments, and ,
With the soothing symphony of hades
sounding iu her ears, sister Brown
A HEW ; KlKD OF WATCH, CASE.
fiat it his beni improved and bronght within the
r»ca of every one; old in principle because the
invention was made and the first patent tak*m
neariy twenty years ago, and cates made at
u« tune and worn ever since, are nearly as good
**ww, Bead die* following, which is only one of
hundreds, yonr jewelers can teDof* gimifav»
dm*:
.. x Mansfield, Pa. ? May 28,1878.
ihave a enstomer who has carried one of Boss’
Awent cases SI teen years and I knew it two years
oqore.be and jt now appeals good for .fen
B.E.OBNET.
tenmber that Jas. EosaJ is ihe only patent ease
<“ Plates of solid gold (one outside and
*m a ar e ’ °° Teiin S eveiy ?arc exposed- to near or
2* pyat advantage of these plates over Hec-
is apparent to every one. Boss* is the
o&T patent case with which there is given a written
’ 3IaDt » of which the following is a fac-simile:
bis self-respect kept alive by finding
that though all abroad is darkness and
humiliation, yet there is still a little
world of love at home, of wMch te is
the monarch.
Whereas, a single man
is apt to run to waste and self-neglect;
to fancy himself lonely and abandoned,
and his heart to fall to ruin, like some
deserted mansion, for want of an Inhab
itant.
These observations call to mind a lit-
tle domestic story of wMch I was once
a witness.
Witnout bemg irreverent—or pro
fane—we think it wonld be the correct
tiling for a-preacher to gdve his eongre-
notwith-
then repined at the
change?” . -
“Bepined! she has been nothing but
sweetness and good humor. Indeed,
she seems in better spirits than I have
ever known her; she has been -to me all
love, and tenderness and comfort!”
“Admirable girl!” exclaimed 1: "you
call yourself poor, my friend; yon never
were so rich—you never knew the.
boundless treasures of excellence yon
possessed in that woman.”
“Oh, but -my friend, if this first
meeting at the cottage were over. I
think I could then be comfortable. Bnt
this is her first day of real experience;
she has been introduced in an humble
gation “liell” occasionally,
standing the fact that the word has been
abolished in the new revision and hades
substituted therefor.
My intimate friend, Leslie
had married a beautiful and accom
plished girl, who had been brought np.
in the midst of'a fashionable life. She
had it is trne, no fortune, but that of
my friend was ample; and be delighted
in the anticipation of indulging her in
every elegant pursuit, and administer
ing to those delicate tastes- and fancies
a kind of witchery about
‘Herlife,” he said, "‘shall be_
come drones in the bee luve. What
would they bring on the blocs? Who
wants ’em? Who bids? Twenty boys
just from college wants an occupation
that will insure a living. Here are
merchants and master mechanics aid
architects and planters—all want labor
and skilled workmen, and niry bid is
made. They dont want college boys.
Why, six months’ schooling" has made
as great men as six years. A years
schooling will lay the foundation for
any boy. It will lay it broad a»-d deep,
and he can build on it ail his life if he
wants. There is too much attention
being paid to education. It is'not as
big a thing os some of otrr people think.
We are spoiling hundreds of young
men who would have mad A good, use
ful working; boys in the fields and in
the workshops, and the first tMnrg we
UBOPE!
the sex.-
like a fa
The very difference in their charac
ters prodneed a harmonious combina
tion; he was of a romantic and some
what serious cast; she was all life and
gladness. -I have -often noticed the
mote rapture with which hq would gaze
upon her in company of wMch her^
sprightly powers made her the delight;
i and how, in the midst- of applause, her ;
eye would still turn to Mm, as if there
alnnft she sought Xavor and exeeptance. :
• When leaning on his arm; her slender
form contrasted finely with Ira inH
manly person. The fond confiding air
with wMch she looked up to Mm seem
ed to call, forth a flush of triumphant
pride and cherishing tenderness, as if
he doaied on Ms lovely burden for its
very helplessness. Never did a couple (
set forward on the flowery path of ear- .
ly and well-suited marriage with a fair- .
1 er prospect of felicity. ;
; It was the misfortune of my friend,
1 however, to have embarked Ms proper- .
i ^ large speculations, - and he n&d
I not been married many months when i
“I feel much encouraged. The more* •
my Administration is looked into the*
worse it appears. Mark me, you’ll see
the American people calling me out
one of these days for a second term,”
and Butherfcrd drove another wrought
nail clear up fo the headpnto the new
plank with which he was mending a
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