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A WEEKLY PATER,
Published Wednesday *
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Watkinsville, Oconee Co., Georgia.
W. G. SULLIVAN,
EMTOS ATI) PROPRIETOR
One TERMS:
year, in advance .51 00
Six months. 60
WAIFS AND WHIMS.
“I AM always cool,” was the boastful
remark of Robinson; “I never forget
myself.” And with one voice the boys
all said, “ No, we never knew you to.”
“Brother,” the said the Dean of East
minster to Dean of Westminster,
“ what does the prayer-book meau by
* whirled without end?’” “Eternally,
gyrated, I suppose,” was the response."
“I wish I was worth a million of dol¬
lars,” said a gentleman. “ What good
would it do you, for yon don’t spend
your present income ?” inquired a friend.
“ Oh, I could be economical on a -Targe
scale.
“ What’s the matter?” askB the wife
of Deputy X. on turning over and seeing
her husband sitting bolt upright in bed.
“Can’t you sleep?’ “No, hang it. I
slept all through the tariff discussions
to-day.”
“ Brother,” said the Dean of East
minster to the Dean of YVestminster
“what does the prayer book mean by
‘ whirled without end?’ ”
“Eternally gyrated, I suppose,” was
the response.
“ Do you play eucher?” the sad pas¬
senger asked the man from Whitehall.
“ No,” "cards replied the man, “ I only know
two in the deck, the jack of queens
and the spades of diamonds.” They
didn’t play.
Did you sell anything? ” asked the
proprietor of his clerk, as the door closed
on the retreating form of a shopper.
“ Well,” said the clerk. “ I wanted him
to take these 1 oots, and, you see, they
are half-soled.”
The fear of infection caused some
clothing, persons at and Memphis the to burn all their
deceased cholera even patient prayer-book consigned' of a
was
to the flames; but six $10 bills fouefi
on his person were religiously preserved.
Epitaph iu one of the cemeteries:
Here Lies
Mmft. Bertrand,
Wife of
This M. Bertrand, marble-cutter.
monument is a specimen of his work.
Cost, 1,500 francs.
The editor, of the Dayton Record
found $4,000 in greenbacks in a field
while bunting, but,as ill-luck would have
it there were four other men with him,
and one of them was the owner of the
money. Ohio editors never have a fair
show.
A little fellow of five going along
the street with a dinner-pail is stopped
by a kind-hearted gentleman, who says:
'* Where are you goiog, my little man?”
“To school.” “And what do you do at
school? You learn to read?” “No.”
To write?” “ No. J* tt To count? ’ “No.”
“ What do you do? ti I wait for school
o let out.”
After a telegraph pole had fallen on
a Savannah negro’s head he threw up
his hands and shouted: “ Don’t hit me
again wid your club, Mr. Policeman. It
wasn’t me that stole der chichens. It
was Deacon what hit Henry.” him and Then he looked,
saw walked off, saying;
“Golly, ’spected dat I’se in luck dis mornin’. 1
de policeman had me shuah
dat time.”
A few years ago the State’s Attorney
in a northern county in Vermont, al¬
though a fond man of great legal ability,
was very of the bottle. On one
occasion an important criminal case
was callel on by the e!erk. but the attor¬
ney. with owl-];ke gravity, kept his
chair. “ Mr. Attorney, is the' State
“ ready Yes—hie—no—Your to proceed!” said the judge,
mered the lawyer, Honor,” stam¬
“ the State is not—in
a state to try this case today; t’ueState,
Your Honor, is—drunk.”.
When nn/i H/nv in Wn-jl, V
SayB thelxmdon LanC't: The part
which the skin plays in the regulation of
The O'dily heat is not adequately estimated.
nnd envelope vital function of complicated structure
which covers the
body, and which nature has destined to
perform a large share of the labor of
health preserving, is practically thrown
out of me by our habit of loading it
with clothes. It.is needless to com
plicate matters by allowing it to be
choked and encumbered with dirt. If
the skin of an animal be coated with an
impervious varnish, death must ensue,
A covering oi dirt is only less inimical
to life. Me are not speaking of dirt
such as offends the sense of decency, but
of those accumulations of exuded matter
with which the skin must become loaded
if habitually covered and not thoroughly
cleansed. the cold bath is not a cleans
ing agent. A man may bathe daily and
use his bath towel even roughly, but
remain aa cirty to all practical intents
ss though he cscuewed cleanliness; in
deed the physical evil of dirt is more
l,lte * y PD8UP ’. because if wholly
excrementilious neglected, the skin would by cast off its
matter desquamation periodic per
spirations with of
cuticle. Nothing hut a frequent wash
ing in water, the of skin, at leas, d equal lempera
ture with a soap can ensure
a free and healthy surface. The feet
require especial c re, and it is too much
the practic to neglect them. The omia
sion of daily washings with soap, and
the wearing of foot coverings so tight as
to compress the Wood vessels and retard
the circulation of bi nd through the ;x
tremities aje the jnost common causes
of cold feet. The remedy is obvious:
dress ioo ieiy end wash freqdetitiy.
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... « k hear the
o. ten remark made that
men are the creatures of circumstance,
u is equally true that they are masters
of circumstance, if they wiil only cope
with it. tor one to be wholly the slave
oi circumstance is assurance that he is
either worthless or an iuibicile. It is
rooid ,*? our a "■’ desiinie,!. i, erial out It of is which we may
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The Watkinsville Advance.
VOLUME I.
The Ice Period.
Professor Paige, of Illinois, has lust
declared in a lecture hi* belief—a grow¬ ice
period ing belief which he had asserts—that ground the great
the rocks into
soil has been ascribed to a time too re¬
mote in the planet’s history. The almost
universally-accepted that the ice opinion had been had been
great caps formed
by a climate rendered extremely cold
through changed cosmic relations. Jt
was known that the eccentricity of the
earth’s path periods around the sun was subject
at long to considerable change,
resulting planet in removal, at miles times, further of the
some 15,000000
than it now is from the sun. The earth’s
extraordinary alterations, aphelion, added to such
are attributable to the pro¬
cession of the equinox, was thought to
have produced the great ice eras of the
past. From such postulates it has been
held by divers savants that man has in
habited the globe about 2,000,000 years,
an opinion harmony from which Paige dissents as
not in with the drift of con¬
in temporaneous thought. During winter,
the Northern Hemisphere, we are
26,000,000 miles nearer the sun than
during summer, which tends to equalize
our climate, rendering winter much
milder and summer less intense than
they versed. would be were the conditions re¬
In the Southern Hemisphere
the opposite is true. These people, be¬
ing nearer the sun in summer and further
oft in winter, have cold winters and hot
summers. At the South Pole the ice is
vastly Pole, in excess of the ice at the North
and attracts therefore, the. waters
of the ocean, changing the equilibrium
of the earth’s centre, moving the equator
southward, Pole and drawing the waters of
the North toward the South Pole.
This explains the evident subsidence of
waters in the Northern, and the com¬
parative absence of dry land in the
Southern Hemisphere. If the ice ages
can be traced to such causes, a glacial
jieriod is approaching the Southern
Hemisphere, and will, it is estimated,
reach its maximum about 5,000 years
hence. The last ice era in the Northern
Hemisphere was probably not far from
150 centuries ago. Paige maintains that,
if these views be correct, the ice period
will recur in about 10,000 years in the
Northern Hemisphere. Granting the
hypothesis, the time of conceded man’s existence
on the far globe shorter must be to have
been than has been supposed
—not more, in all likelihood, than from
50,000 to 100,000 years. While the
question is of great importance scientif¬
ically, the human family has greater
interest in knowing how long it is to re¬
main on the planet; but even this is of
small concern to individuals.
Naming the Baby.
[Little Rock Gazette. J
•'My wife hez ies’ presented me wid
de fines’ boy in dis country,” said Black
Bill, entering a magistrate’s oflice,
taking off his hat and slinging perspira
tion from his brow with a crooked fore
finger. “ Yes, gen’elmen,” he Weuton,
“do fines’ chile I eber seed. An’ i’ge
jes’got a twentv-dollar gold piece right
heah to gin ter de man what can guess
what I hez named him. Ter keepyer
from spreadin’ I’ll ober de dat whole hit’s universe
ob names, state a Bible
name.”
“Abraham,” guessed some one.
“Norsah.”
“ Paul.”
“ Nor sah.”
“Job.”
“Guess again.”
“Nicodemus.” ^eep
'* er cominV ^*
u Abemleich. n
“ Try me agin.”
The euessing ceased after a time, and
finally Bill remarked:
“ J’se named dat boy Judas Escarut.”
“ What!” said the magistrate. “Ju
das betrayed our Savior.”
“Can’t help hit. Dat’s de boy’s
name . Judas hez been slishted. No
body hez ebc-r had de immoral courage
to name a chile fur dat man. But dat
ain’t de main reason why I names him
Judas, i’se chile got de Bible ter ’stein me
in gibin de dat name.”
“'How does the Bibie sustain vou in
desiring to perpetuate that name?”
asked the magistrate.
“ Hits dis fack: Chris’ in remarkin’
0 f Judas, said, dat hit would hah bin
better fur dat man ef he hadn’t bin
born.”
r Well.”
£ An considerin’ how manv moufs is
opened at de doo’ when I goes home wid
aside of meat, it would hab bin better
f ur dat boy ob mine ef he had neber
seen de about/ daylight. I knows what I’ze
talkin’ 1 takes de Scrintur frum
dereferences, in de futur’, ef I finds
dat de boy hez made auy improvement
on hissef, den I’il change his name ter
Jin,. 1 ’
A Story of Brick Pomeroy.
There is a rumor in circulation t* the
effect that Brick i omeroy has made a
lucky hit and secured about $100,000,
and those who tell the story claim they
got it from good authority. The story
is very romantic. Last summer, readers
of his Demur-rat will rememlier, there
was published the of in that Pomeroy, paper reciting an article the
from pen
terrible sufferings of an Ammosa (Col.)
man, who, though wealthy, had been
turned out oi doors by his iamily, to
whom he had deeded his property on
condition that they would support him
in his old age. According to the arti
cle the ungrateful family, by false
swearing, caused the old man to be in
carcerated in an a-ylum for the insane,
and then proceeded to enjoy themselves
upon his savings. This is where Pome
roy’s tale ends, and where Dame Humor
takes it up. it is said that on his recent
v iHit t0 p lorado - i'omeroy gave atten
tion . to the ca«e and nucceedtd not onlv
in getting the poor old man out of the
a ylurn but;n ilia putting him Jt spin then in po*.
ses«i n of propirly. is aid
, hi* gratitude tlte old has
that in man
• deeded the his pro|ieHy conditions .iver to Pomeroy brat
upon same as it was
giieii to his faintly. It is a fact
: Pomeroy ha* a remarkable jeople of faculty his of
satisfying ignorant great
n*»» and it R not improbable tlmt this
, yarn may |w true.- In Ktpubii
m,
WATKINSVILLE, GEORGIA, JUNE ft, 1880.
esii.v a Winns.
Only The a woman the stui'.&xeci winds arul old!
prey of and the prey of the cold!
Cheeks that are shrunken,
Eyes that are sunken,
Lips that forsaken nre ever o’er bold,
Only a woman for the bronze and poor, churchtJoor.
Asking alias at
Hnrk to the o rgan! Roll upon roll
The waves of tne music go over her soul!
.Silks rustle past her
Thicker and faster;
Theg rent bell ceaseth its toll,
Fain would she enter, but not for the poor
.Swiugeth wide open the bronze church door.
Cnly a woman—wailing alone,
Icily cold, What on an ice cola throne.
do they care for her?
Giving Mumbling bread a prayer for her;
not but a stone.
Under old lace their hiw^hty hearts beat,
Mocking the woes of their km in the street.
Only Hope a woman? In the old day
caroled to her happiest lays;
Somebody Somebody missed her,
kissed lier,
Somebody Somebody faced crowned her with life, praise;
up tire battles of
Strong for her sake, who was mother and wife.
Somebody Light his lies heart with where a tress of death her hair shadows
on the are;
Somebody waits for her.
Giving Ojiening del ght the for gates for her,
Only despair.
a woman - nevermore poor—
Dead iu the snow at the bronze church door.
A “ MAI. AY "-SIAN I It'll..
BY H. I.. W.
He Yvas a littie Chinese man,
And she from Erin’s Isle—
He had a pigtail thick and lonu.
Which made sly Bridget smile.
He wore a shirt of cotton blue,
And shoes with wooden bottom;
Such brogans she had never seen—
She wondered where he got ’em.
One day in fun poor Bridget clipped
Chin-Chin his pigtail oil',
And then she laughed in simple glee—
At. his bare poll did scofl'.
“ Yese talk about yerc Flowery Land
Like some rich China Astor;
Ye’re As not so rich Tony wid Uasfor.” all yez junks
our own
Like a strutting rooster Chin-Chin raved,
And fierce liegan to crow,
But Bridget took Chin-Chin iu hand
And laid this Shang-hi low.
CHAKUE'N STORY.
I was sitting iu the twilight,
With my Charlie on my knees —
(Little Teasing, two-year-old, forever
“Talk a ’tory lo me, pease.”)
“ Now,” f said, “ talk ‘me a 'tory,' ”
“ Well,*' did reflectively, “ HI 'menee;
Mamina, I see a kitty.
Great—big- kitty one the fence.”
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•esssssf- And “ Now, tell another.” .........
“Well,” say:
.^t-bi^ST'thefenee.” (all smite) “ now 1 will’mence.
■
gwept Aren’t they, the dour?” A forehead; Hober look
Then across hn sudden pretty
courage took.
’r'iendid,"mammal 'iter mT’n.enre.
Mamma, i—did -see—a—eiiunt,
fireat-bigeifum.onthefencei”
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TfJM 10“ tUnNIHWAIIb mRNTHWAIT’q LUOK. I IIPK
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Mr. Cornthwait returned sadly to his
home in the upper portion of the city
late one Saturday evening, inwardly
berating it. his He luck, as he was plea-ed to
term was fortunately tne posses
sor of a good, cheerful little wife, who
tr ied by every means in her power to
smooth the many obstacles from her
husband’s path, and when Tom’s luck
was especially down on him, would by
her own sunny example infuse fresh
spirit into him, and start him out for a
new If struggle with life, fully invigorated,
any one had asked Tom what his
means of gaining a livelihood were, it
would have puzzled him to have told.
Fie himself had said that he believed he
had done everything under the sun,
except, He always possibly, work in a water factory.
went into every undertaking
with a zeal that knew no abatement—
for sometimes as long as two weeks to
getber; would and then something or other
come up which looked to him as
though the ardor there would were “millions in it,” and
forthwith be transfer
red to the new scheme, and the former
one be put behind him to join the long
array cf the ghosts of those which had
preceded Tom it. thorough good feilow
was a in
every said—and regard—at least who so knew his friends Tom all
his friend. every No one said war
one ever a hard
word about him; new acquaintances,
after the second or third meeting, called
him Tom, and he seemed hurt if any one
addressed him as Mr. Cornthwait.
On the particular evening in question,
Tom was grieviously disappointed. He
bad for the past few days been endeav
oring to find a purchaser for a sheep
ranch of four sections of land on the
Brazos River, in Tekas, with the promise
of a large commission in the event of
the consummation of the sale. Tom’s
acquaintances, them all fig fcAmBnot wae iegi»ii K but anjong
thusi»tic5>n “ 5 e who was en
theteuMedt •cideAallf of slmcpirais
ing, *ut Kfe hadAmd <» hfcr M a
men whd idea df entering'up
on that industry, and him he sought.
Tom painted the ranch in the most
glowing colors, assured the prospective
wool-grower whole that the gnwinrwwi hi|»i- thFre
rious the ygar round, and
was no necessity for sheds in winter, the
price of labor was merely aominal. a
railroad had been surveyed through the
southeast corner of the southern section,
and to sum up in a few word*, it was
almost a criminal act to allow the op
pirtunity sheep to purchase him. such The a paradise
for to escape gentle
man seemed as eager to purchase as Tom
was tt> #*U, and hardly made an effort
to fedoc- the terms from the original
figures at which Tom had offered it. In
fact, it was just ifhat he was looking for,
and he would have purchased it at once,
or after the examination of the title bad
l>een made, were it not for the fa<;t
lie wu waiting to hear from another
party, who was about buying from him
a large Farm in the mtenor of Ihe &tate,
the preliminaries,of concWed, which were nearly
or not quite and would bo so
to a certainty on Haturdsy piter.usl# n^xt, and he
teg ed Tom almost to offer it
to no one c f e Indore, that time, lom
was in ecstacies, and looked upon the
close of a bargain ss a b,regime ormolu
sion. He was radiaat as>he want hotu*
that nig it, and he and Bessie sat down
1 and expended a large sham of the pom
mhision on the spot-Ri tl efr minds.
1 They put down * new parlor carpet,
and put the shabby parlor carpet in the
kitchen; had new dining-room chairs.
Bessie had a new black silk and Tom,
like the “cherub,” an entire new suit of
clothing, the including children boots and hat, and
two were arrayed gor¬
geously.
The fateful Saturday arrived, ‘and
Tom, with heart elate, went to meet
the eager purchaser, but found in his
stead a short note saying that he had
been called to Chicago on business, and
would not be able to return before the
lapse farm had of a month, and as the sale of his
not as yet been completed, he
felt that he had no right to keep any
other purchaser for the sheep ranch,
who might arise, out of that property.
Poor Tom 1 as he said afterward, “ he
nearly fainted away and stepped in it.”
And that is why Tom was berating his
luck on the Saturday night in question.
He knew that Bessie would sympathize
and condole with him, but that would
not buy carpets and clothing, and fill
the coal bin, and all the rest of it.
Bessie’s face was at the window, and be¬
fore Tom could get his latch-key out of
his pocket the door was opened, and he
was being hugged in the most affectionate
way. said
“Tom,” life of Bessie, “you could is not
for the you guess who in the
house this minute! Uncle George 1 and
he has asked me ever so many questions
about you, and he has come home to
stay, and lie is so brown I did not know
him; and, in fact, why should I, when I
have not seen him for twelve years?” all
in a breath.
Tom was ever so glad that some one
was there so that he would not have to
tell Bessie of his failure to secure the
large introduced commission at once, and went in
to be to Uncle George, rvho
was the only Tom brother had of Bessie’s mother,
and whom never seen.
He had served in the late war, and
after passing through many vicissitudes,
had drifted to California, and from
there to Australia, where fortune had
been favorable to him, and he had come
to the land of his birth to spend the re
mainderof his days. Tom found him
a hale, bluff gentleman of about fifty,
wonderfully well informed, and per
adventures fectly willing had to talk of all the many
last enterprise he which passed through. The
had engaged his
tariffs^" Uncle George had all the points about
the business at his tongue’s end, and
sooke U^nTs in the most enthusiastic manner
[d ed ° m and ha,,p,nW * ° f thC
Although u I t u have enough, i and i more
than enough, money for my needs, l
And a 8 "?'’ 1 as c0 " to aenl my 10 living }} T ? a ''f in 0 of this i'RencHS. city, I
always mj &estr-l fee! as can’t though get I had good a weightjou big lung
a
full of air, as I can when I am out with
the sheep.”
\ Vh ? not the business .n this
country, uncle? said Tom. There
»re plenty do of places fully here where I think
a man can as well as he could
m Australia. II 1 only had the means,
and knew the busines as well as you do,
I think I should I would embark in it
to-morrow. It is rather a singular thing
that you should be here to-night, am)
t ^ le au i>j ect for of sheep raising should
come have been up, it much is something interested which I
very in for
‘ h « tw “ weeks, and I will tell you
how u it occurred ”
And Tom told Uncle George how near
“chad come to selling the ranch in
lexa«, and how he and Bemie had a)
ready in imagination drawn largely on
the commission fraud, and all about it.
Uncle George laughed heartily, and
at the same time looked a little thought
He told them, after a visit of a few
days, during which time he had a pre
occupied way, and an air of general un
easiness, that business would keep him
a wa /, fr ? m ,J 1 ? r a few weeks, but
that , he should look , upon their house as
11,8 “®! ne untu ho lound another, arid
went his way, not, however, before tak
,D g { JpeH J ! ®J 181(16an »L , ^ t a V” . y, k "8 lt a her: Bhatn i ln
™™ , a ? ia ? rly | ® heat . lon J
out o£ his commission in that way, but
you can have the parlor carpet all the
(,a ® e,
And 1 , he tucked . , . the ., neates. ... misp little
wad of green paper in her hand that
ban been there for many a day. When
he was fairly gone, Bessie took a look at
it, and was fairly astonished at the
amount.
ion ?i. 1D ^eiwjantinie, had immersed
nimseif .. m another grand scheme. Home
of his numerous friends had incorpor
ated the CrniaOi & Midas mining com
I'any, and iom was endeavoring to sel
some of the stock at bottom prices,
t “ erel< ’ rp —
’U stock, when Tom i believed in any
thi:Dg himself, he had a wa y of making
A ft too, e < “!5 and ed a* . t ” a «’ consequence ncer “*ng It his believe sales
of stock were very much larger than he
e *P® p te<l, ana the amount of ins own
certificates was something handsome,
income from them, however was
not large, .as yet, as the shaft had not
been sunk deep enough, and the reduc
tion works were not erected.
About the time that the mill stock”
was all sola, and lom was wondering
where next he should employ his talents,
Vacle Ueorge, without a word of warn
,n B> P ut ln a « appearance at the house,
. the of the first
ww ““ring course even
‘ n g he said to lom:
By the way, A om, did youi'Chicago
Hlan .«y« r con ‘ e back and buy that
ranctl f
it had been *o lone since Tom had
thought of the ranch that he had to col
iect his thoughts before he could answer,
“ Not yet.”
“ Well,” raid Uncle George, “ if the
gentleman from Texas is still in town,
you caw go to him ami willing aay thftt /ivc vou
know of a party who is to
him—say half of what your Chicago
manwastopay, and cash down. j- m
eorry your commission will not be as
| Hr w as you bad first hoped, but still it
will amount to something.
Tom wa* In a dazed sort of condition,
but. all tlm swjie, found tbr* Texas gen
tleman, made him the offer, which was
accepted on the spot, and went home
that night to report to Uncla George.
*' Very, good," said Uucle George,
“I’ll take it myself. The fact of rbe
business is, when 1 went away from here
1 went down ift Texas to look at the
Krazos River ranch, and a good deal to
my surprise l found it very nearly as l
of represuited, nice and it has all the elements
a the very of sheep farm about it, and
in course a year or two we can
make a jolly nice place of it. I say we,
you know for I am not going there
alone; and I think, Tom, there is the
making of a splendid sheep farmer in
you. According to your own story,
you have not amounted to much at
anything else, and you know that we
are all created to fill some special mis
sion, that sheep and the only inference to draw is
have tried about farming everything is yours, else.” for you
Tom was delighted, ot course, and
wherever he was, Bessie tvas satisfied to
be. All this was five years ago, and to
day Tom Cornthwait is one of the most
prosperous Uncle George men iu Texas, and he and
terms with much are larger partners ranch on for, equal
a ; as
singular as it may seem, Tom got a let
ter one day from one of his New Y’ork
friends to infirm him that “they had
struck it rich on the Midas, and not to
sell under any circumstances.”
Tom had entirely forgotten his cer
tificates, but looked them up, and im
iu mediately forwardad them to a broker
New York, who sold them for him on
the top of the market, and with tlio
proceeds purchased a half interest in
the ranch of Uncle George, so as to feel
as if lie were not there on sufferance.
“ Not that it makes any difference, you
know, Tom, for wbem 1 go under the
daisies everything I have goes to Bessie
and the children.”
When the Midas “ petered out,” and
the friends in New York heard that
Cornthv alt had sold out at the top fig
urea and invested in a sheep ranch in.
Texas, he and was talked of for Congress,
only made the remaik:
"Just like Tom Corn wait’s luck!”
--
Robinson Crusoe’s Land.
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, -h„ i interested .
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* and has recentlybeen , w rented * of the n
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!" V, y f- ,; 1 ' J . by 1 Defoe twenty-first in his
’ mmo a , n is
I^'hv S galla'nUyin^^kmi^K Th ^Ueut^ulnt ofvufraSiem
WHH HO HOVC'rulv AamnaLi WOUIldrd nt Nachnd that
h be n wuu was compelled I, to quit * a the 11 army, and .
W u^peace^f
p arts alter a fie r the peace ,01 NikoJhourir iNikolhourg.
r
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i fight^^ ) conBl) | C))()U ChamSny „ Vil i or ,p, lT g , th „ R pri .„
at ^bamp^ny^ „ 1871 1871 emh emi
business so successfully that in?'was en
a)l j , .fiort time aso " to mimlmm
H ( eamer aE1) ( carrv ()V(!r ,, B mall colonv
0 f Hirricultui-ints and stockmen (<> hm
. j , of which he had obtained l«rm
’from a
j the republic There he
ra j seH ,. a ttle and vetretables wherewith
.'j . .u,, whaliuv shins with fresh
and eoverns his suhipets in
"" !a ” Ln'd Mwia?nir
, h „' S coD. Ur morSs
a pai„archal r control over thete their morals
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•liMlirlnK 11 Senutor by Iffn I/ookn.
i WiiHhingtoncojrwpon.j^ttt Kkiimoud £>4»pntct>,j
South Judge Mackey (Republican) from
lery Carolina, was sitting in the gal
of the Semite, when a sharp-faced,
razor-strapping him: “Mister, looking fellow said to
that infernal can Hamburg you point out to
me Butler, of South Carolina?” murderer,
tainly,” “Cer
said the polite Judge; “ and I
will point out, also, other notables of
the Senate. Don’t you see that hand
some Henator with light, curly hair?
imaded, Well, that is Conkling; and the gray
Blaine; bright-looking Heuator man near him is
that large is Judge
Gen. Davis, of Illinois; and over there is
John B. Gordon talking to Lamar,
Don’t you see that bald-headed man?”
pointing to Senator Edmunds; “well,
that of is Butler,of Houtli Carolina.” The
eyes our Yankee friend was lighted
up with indignation as he replied,
“ Yes, I could have picked him out of
a thousand’’—adding a good deal that
geished was not complimentary Vermonter. to the distin
Senator The other day
Edmunds came over to the Dem
oeratic side, when Mr. Vest said; “Ed
munds, Hampton has a good joke on
you,” forced and the gallant Carolinan was
to tell the whole story. Benator
Edmundslanghed heartilyand remarked
that it was a compliment to lie taken for
so handsome a man as Genera) Butler,
flie fiat, however, is that Mr. Ed
rounds’ face skrongly indicates justice
and wisdom, with no trace of mercy in
it unless wh« n he is talking to Mr.
Thurman or some personal favorite, and
then it is as genial and pleasant as po.,si
file.
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Many newspapers throughout the
country contain letters advising the
tiie people to go to farming, which is one of
mont romantic ol occupations-in
newspapers. have Poets, about and even editors,
written the beauties of
farming, pie but they are usually the peo
who never go to fighting Ultesf pip, gapes, wee^
roup, chinch bugs, potato
vils, club foot, sorrel, Hungarian crass,
lightning-rod drought, mildew, peddlers, tramps, frost,
agents aud the thousands
of other farm pests.—Aw; York fferaUL
_ „
. , ... ., tucht .. ..
k? j!:,,” vei V 1 ; , w ! €m f f la nr - P'teto inouLht bin,
f r n nnii mokl Cls nark . * bt < ‘ U>tr>l be
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A MAN gets into trouble by marrying
two wives. If he uuirrien only one Iw
mit 7 have troubb; and #ome men have
w ’""’ trinulatum by simpl v promising
to marry one. I rouble anyhow.
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Thk conductor who cun keep himself
unsjsHteil will grow rich,
NUMBER 14.
The Worthless Young Man.
iriiiudeipiiin Tim«.»,t
No man is responsible for tie circura
stances of his birth. If he is burn iu a
rickety discarded tenement housrand cradled in a
discredit. soap-box, If it is nothing to his
he is born with a golden
spoon iu his mouth and brought up
among all that is elegant, he cannot help
it. It is customary to speak of the dirty
and poor and uneducated as the lower
nnd the dangerous classes. The po p e
who have money and fine clothes, and
nice houses, with good things on their
tables, are sometimes alluded to ss the
upper classes. If those who have these
desirab'e tilings make a wise use of
them, it is well. If they neglect their
Opportunitie s in this direction, they are
no better members of society than the
poor fellows. In fact, they are not as
good, it has for right they fail in giving of society what
a to expect them,
It often happens that one of the most
unfortunate of men is he who was born
among all they wealthy had. Wealth people whose money was
in supposed to go
hand in hand with culture, but there
are cases in which the two are not on
speaking have his terms. A boy is allowed to
own way while a child. When
he goes to school he is a bully and a
tyrant. Priding himself on the wealth
and position of his parents, he domi
neers over the other hoys and refuses to
obey his teachers. Unhappily there are
teachers base enough to tody to such a
He boy and to fail to compel him to learn,
grows up without habits of dili
genee. He has no application, nor can
lie give thoughtful attention to any
thing he should study. Relying on the
power of his father’s money, he expects
to get through the world without niak
ing any special exertion. According to
his way cf thinking, learning is a thing
for poor men's sons. For ihe sake of
making a tolerably friends decent appearance
among his he must pass certain
examinations at school and college. By
coaching paying tutors him this for special services in
is managed without
much difficulty. The preparation of
those parts of examination which are
wr jtten is a matter of regular business
on the part of poverty-stricken students
who have needof a lew dollars. When
these are purchased they answer as well
in some quarters as if honestly made by
pecuniarily a vagrant, as he is socially,
t, Wenfhe tl e ., o!ice W()U |,l bid him move on.
shabbily clad, instead of being
SM >tHpiHC(l t by the V6ry perHoniwhoaHBO- IT* *
eiate with him. Never having improved
his mind during the period assigned for
hi “ educati(m > he i‘ HS now neither ambi
tion nor capacity for improvement, ile
his mental faculties to run U>
1 ir w ' ckH t,,,, companionship of
uncultured and the unworthy,
Hojnetimes , 1() bang nh()lll these #tab]e(i are the an{) rough HO metimes persons
they are the indolent representatives of
wealthy fo idl< families. It does to not stray take long into
mischief. f H , n . < Ile young is to man lazy to work, and
l°°* H with disdain on all who toil for
living. Were such a young person
bther willing to concentrate bis uselul mental and
resources on some purpose
i‘° might be of considerable use to the
world - Ue might devote himself to in
venting somethin!?, aitrf if not immedi
ately l' r,, i UHblp - hfi a «ord to wait
awhile for tho n , HU | t . Thousands of
poor young men have planned and pef
fected inveiitioiis under pressure of ad
ver^e pecuniary circumstanccH. Tbey
had ambition, which he Flaw not. He
will never step out of his beaten path,
which is that of a lounver. lie has
lounged ever since he knowhow, and
will continue to do so as long as his
profitless life shall last. The world’s
work may go on for all he cares, but he
will do none of it. There is little hope
for the youth who reaches maturity as a
lounger. thing him The only way tuke to him make hand any
of is to in
while very young.
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Baling a Mad Dog.
[tondosT.u«*r ap i,.]
^ Never the ancient adage 'there
was
is no accounting for tastes,” more
quaintly illustrated than by a surprising
story which reaches us from Neustadt,
in Bohemia. One I’eschka, an innkeeper
of that town, was bitten some weeks ago
by his own house-dog. Unwilling to
slay the animal on bare suspicion of its
sanity, he consigned it to the town
grave-digger, enjoining it until that functionary
to take care of further orders
respecting its ultimate fate should be
imparted to him. A few days later,
however, I’eschka was attacked by by
drophohia, of which horrible malady he
died in excruciating agony. Tee sanitary
authoritiesof Neustadtforthwith applied
committed to the grave-digger his custody, for the mad dog
have him lo destroyed. Their intending astonish- to
meet may bo more readily conceived
than described when the sexton calmly
observed, “The mad dog? I have eaten
him!” “You have eaten the mad dog?”
incredulously stricken sanitary exclaimed official. “ Better a horror
that
than he should eat me!” rejoined the
philosophical grave-digger. It would
appear not had only swallowed that this man of strange
appetites and digested
the rabid animal, but that it had agreed
with him; for, as- the -story runs, lie is
still in the enjoyment of robust health,
and pursues his professional avocations
with unabated vigor.
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A tramp was put to work cutting the
fa* in a graveyard at Decatur, Ala.
He soon abandorel the job, and de
tinted that a young woman in one of the
graves had warnedhim not to disturb
the grass ov«t her. What convinced
U ‘ 8 l^r' bor ^ 1 ">*»’” truthfulness
wan the fou-t ihat he gave the name of
the grave’s occupant, though there was
^ couvwy the informaiion,
and Jm was a stronger in tliore parts.
A prt alliaatortllTmgiiig to a New
y ork ..hynicinn |,i« was frosen with the wa
and Was found bv
b ruhhiug^"with i» owner “ as stiff a* a potter ” but by
alcohol and wrapping in
warm clothe* the “poker" was alligator made
flexible, or in ather words, the
revived and was saved from premature
burial
She Matlunsrillc Jwinmce.
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THOUGHTS FOR SUNDAY.
in Be life, not sunshine despondent; happiness there is enough
and to sup¬
ply each mortal with a full share.
Friendship is like our shadow. It
keeps the very close to us it while leaves we walk the in¬ in
sunlight. But shade. us
stant wo cross into the
Those who soonest yield to the inex¬
orable demands of adversity are gener¬
ally those who,' in prosperity, exacted
the most of their fellow men.
Put pleasures arc lik<* popples spread —
You seize tho flower, Jls bloom w shed:
Or like the snow falls on the river*
A moment white, then lost forever.
Individual pride rests, not si much
upon wliat tho person is, lias been or
has accomplished, as upon what be
fondly imagines ho will be, or Will, at
some future time, accomplish
There nre times in the lives of all
when germs of thought come up in
the mind unthought and unstudied.
Jot them down to read and remember
afterwards; they will benefit you.
Remember absent friends—tveld the
link of friendship all the firmer by
correspondence—for letters from those
we love are rays of sunshine, often
sheddinglight upon the darkened paths.
Let your thoughts be those that lead
upward and forward; tutor the mind to
constant Y r will aiming lie at lonely, s 1 If improvement. have
ou never neither
lime to bo lured by the thousand snares,
seemingly set for the weak and yielding.
Speak little, but speak the. truth;
spend often little, but heap pay time. cash. Little and
make* a in It is better
to go supperless to bed than run in debt
unless you are a popular preacher, and
then you can pass the hat around and
pay ®ff your church debt if not your
own.
Men of (oil—business men, when you
go home at night ieavo behind yon all
care and trouble resulting from contact
with the outer world—all losses or in¬
juries sustained tradesmen, in your business rela¬
tions with other and carry
into your home sunshine anil happi¬
ness, not clouds aud despondency.
Ip life ho a battle, how mad must he
be who fails to arm himself for the con¬
test! If lifo be a storm, how infatuated
is he who sleeps while his bark is driven
amid unknown waters! If life be a
pilgrimage, from the right how road, unwbe is seeks he who strays
nor to return
till the twilight shadows gather around
his pathway!
The happiness of life consists, like
the day, not in single flashes of light,
The but in one beautiful continuous period mild serenity,
most of the heart’s
existence is in this calm, equable light,
even though it be only moonshine or
twilight. for Now the mind alone can ob¬
tain us this heavenly cheerfulness
and peace.-- Richter.
Tib said the truth is not always to be
told; but do iv t forget idle silence is as
culpable as idle words; iherelore, do
not remain quiet when knowledge
within your possession wili clear away
clouds or doubts hovering over those
you are satisfied are mi are presented or
misunderstood.
Teach yonr children the beauties
and bright side enough ot li e, for the sorrows
come soon ; by your cheerful¬
ness look along and pleasantries the pathway teach for them dew- to
the
drojis on the Howe is as tney sparkle in
the morning sun—teach them to peer
through and brighter the golden shining mist for in the brightei
hue of future—teach gems rosy
the them that it jh
for youth and vigor to reject disport
deney and invite instead loro awl
mirth, and that their pathway t an be
made to lead through beautiful valleys
and by Hp rkliug rivulets, dotted here
and there with the sweetest flowers.
— Mullen.
\ Leudvilic Incident.
I LhiuJvIIU' Letter >n Chicago Timu *.!
There is one happy man in la-adville
to-day. The ragged, first of the week he came
to town diitv and penniless,
after a summer’* prospecting. He man
aged and, some way to in get the liquor, best however, humor,
fit not feeling be of big
in a of desperation went on a
drunk. He con.-ronen’.ly got arrested
and was fined, as drunk and disorderly,
#15 and cost-. Having no inonef to
pay the fine, he was sent to tho city jail,
and thence to the chain-gang, to work it
ou t on the streets of Eeadvillc. He
l ad served a part of h s time when he
received a call from a party of capital
ists from the Clarendon Hotel. Aclaim
j n which he owned au interest had
called struck it rich, and these gentlemen J.30,000 had
to offer him the sum of
for his share. It is needless to say that
the niter was accept*!. He signed pa
pers already prepare !, then and His there,
and received the mom v, paid fine,
visited the bath-house and clothing
store, and s’ent that night at the Ciar
endon. The next morning, clothed and
in bis right mind ho ordered a carriage,
visited the scene of his late humiliation,
and paid the fines of his former com
panions in misery, and tent them on
their way rejoicing. He is hsppv and
go are the capitalism, as they th ink the 7
strucu a splendid bargain, but the fact
does not yet disturb the serenity of the
man, who has come up out of the depths,
and leaped, as it were, tho in the twinkling
0 f an eye, from chain gang and
penury to a competen -y for all times to
come. “ Truth,” in Leudviile, is often
times “ strang r than fiction.”
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Aai'icn'riiHi' anden^UM®ment >'« receiving som“ pru
tec tion in this cmnn
t Delaware passed a Stae bounty
fo, growing sugar beets, and now the
v e w Jer-ev Legislature ", is nut behind in
,,r nrooer enoourage
t te this m si important calling.
u oultivst^on i,as naased an act to cicuar.-ge the
of fibrous plant*, For by a sysit (k m
iit , follow*• Jerrey^not uverv ton
J ; ut « stalks grown in New lew
chall fi lr ee feet long. |I5.00. I-or every
ton of marsh mallows not less than three
feet long, $5 00. For every ton of ramie
stalks not les< than two and one-half
feet bug ftO.off Per every ton of fiix
stalks, fur fibre, 17.00. I-\r every DwwMfil pound
of one-half cleaned flax of For first quality, ton of hemp
neuta. every pound elaaned
stalks, ffi.(K), For quality, every dwee cent*.—
Immp of best UulMin.
CVneinmifi Group*