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Maihimirilk SUeaiwe A WEEKLY PATER, Published Wednesday * - - AT— 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. 7 ’ • ----- ... « 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 r f n “K'f^by which surely not al i our course 0 ur U r T ,u !d h .o a akr u* the mIrvch a | . c . b t t superior Itincis Mdirti nt 10 , ob *' y the V nly uni th,i y ‘r true iu- 1 1 »r«f Th* nob^st . f V-i „ 1 ‘‘ mmd . W,U| pir l. - . .* , . .. * r w *F*d every mmi s bero who ae* ( r 1 • ' '« it. Ji t, (ms, al I,y , ** all ’ rw * tt#r ""l co»e at 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.” .......... ............... •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” ^......-• “ TfJM 10“ tUnNIHWAIIb mRNTHWAIT’q LUOK. I IIPK -- 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. 'um.r “ „ ch,ldr . ... ® n , -h„ i interested . , , ' ^ ! t L ,''" ' 1 VT m * * and has recentlybeen , w rented * of the n 'Lr/ ^ V °< v'r ’. '“I '"" &t vm. !" 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 Z^ 5 irt t nt ' ""1 „ dini n?uiahH hiinilf 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 ....... , „ , ___ •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. ----- — ------- 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 ------------— 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. --- - 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. -------—-- 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. --------- 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. A WEEKLY PAPER, PBSLISHRD AT \Vatkin8vil!e, Oconee Co., Georgia. RATES OF ADVERTISING : One equare, lirst insertion. 2- S3SS3gg33SSSS3 Hitch subsequent insertion One square, one month..... to One square, ti ree months. OI One square, six months ... -A One square, one year........ S One-fourth column, one month.................... CM Oue-four;h column, throe mout hs.................. CO Oflf-fourth co'umn, six months..................... Os One-fourth column, one year........................ w Half column, one mouth................................ OO Hn>f co'umn, three moMths........................... K> Unit column, six mouths................................ o lln f column, one year................................... 5» MIIF.lt 4X TERMS FOR MORE ft PICE 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.” ______ _____ 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*