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CONYERS, GA. % SATURDAY," MARCH 2. 1878.
P08T1IY.
THE LESSON OF LIFE,
Yv e meet, we love, we part,
Ne’er to meet again;
There’er tears, a broken heart,
But grief is vain.
We plan, attempt and fail j
We cry out in our pain,
but we stifle back the wail,
For regrets a-e vain.
We trust and are deceived ;
Ask bread and get a stone ;
We love and are bereaved,
And go through life alone !
Tor brighter, fairer flowers,
We long and wish and sigh,
f?ee not the beauty of oure
Till they from us fly.
We dream that the world is bright;
There’s ho more sighs and fears! ;
We dream there is no more night
Atd wake in the vale of tears.
We dream of strong arms round us,
Hushing the cry and moan;
We wake from the dreams that bound us
And we are alone - alone !
We laugh with an aching brow,
We smile with a heart of pain ;
We live, though we know not how,
And life itself seems vain.
Thus meeting, loving, parting,
Trusting and being deceived,
Hiding from others the smarting
We feel when we are bereaved.
None taking thought of bis brother,
Each striving for the highest place,
And pushing and jostling the other,
That he may be first in the race,
Breaming and longing and tfighirig,
Wearying Of Anguish and strife,
Weeping o’er loved ones dying,
Such is the lesson of life !
mm
Yotmg lady—‘Oh, l am so glad you
like birds. What kind do you admire V
Old gentleman—‘Well, I think goose,
with plenty of stuffing, is about as nice
as atiV*’
In choosing a wife, says the Plifeilo
logical Journal, be governed by her chin.
The worst of that is, that after having
chosen a wife one is apt to keep on being
governed in the same wfry,
“Keep your dog away from me ?” said
a dandy to a butcher’s boy. “ Darn the
dog ; he’s fiUvnys alter puppies*’ said the
boy.
“My wife,’ said a wag the other clay,
“ came near calling me honey last night.’
“Indeed* how was that?”
“Why, she called me old Bees Wax,’
What substitutes can there be for the
endearments of one’s sister ?’ exclaimed
Mary. “The endearment of some other
fellow’s sister/ replied John.
The most expensive railroad car in the
world, cosl’mg, $36,000 was completed
last autumn by the Pullman company,
and has since been in use in various parts
of the country by tourists able to pay for
iis luxuries. It is s French flat in rairna
ture.
An out of town couple applied to a
Pits!burg drug store for soda water.
•‘What syrup ?’ propounded tfie clerk.
“Sytup— syrup," repented the bucolic
fop, with an incredulous s aie* and then
leaning forward he impressivuly added :
“Stranger, money is object to me to-day;
kin put in them ’
you sugar
Bismarck, it is said, is not at all alarm*
ed at the English cry of war against
Russia, and has the general continentil
for a mere mairtirne power. In regard
to the menace of the English fleet, he
observed : “When have fish ever been
seen to make war on t-orseS ?”
A bright and a lovely little boy, son
of Mr. Hardy 0- Blalock, of Thomas
county, killed last week by the discharge
of a pistol in the hands of a colored girl.
The sad affair was probably an accident,
but it is another fearful warning against
the use of firearms.
The recent visit to Miliedgeville of
Gov. Colquitt and Mr. Baud, Supei intern*
dent of the Public Works, has resulted
in a determination to have some repairs
made at the executive mansion. The
fincing enclosing the mansion is decayed
and unsightly. This will be replaced nn«
der the direction of the Mayor ot the
city.
As to what men are considered most
marriageable by the feminine sex, Jennie
June says: “A poet, if he is presentable,
stands perhaps first on the list, women
putting a much higher pecuniary estimate
on poets than editors are apt to on their
productions. Editors are also in demand,
and literary men of any stripe fetch a
a pretty good price, some women having
a sort of reverenced mixed with their
curiosity concerning the fourth estate/
XVf ’ :T a GOOD WIFE ItS WORTH.
A L tacky farmer furnishes the fol
lowing evidence of th e money value of a
wife. The companionship ol such wife
a
was even more precious than her industry
and economy :
I have been farming twenty-two years.
The first four years I was unmarried. I
began fanning with two hundred and fifty
aeres in the Blue Grass region. I ha l
il.ed n
cattle, bogs, sheep, and horses—prin
eipaliv the two firsf named—and lived, I
thought, tolerably economically, spent
none ol the money for tobacco* in any
way, never betting a cent or dissipating
in any way, and yet, at the end of tire
lour years, I had made little or no clear
money. I then married a J oun S' l tdy
. ,
y r°r: 0i ag ?’ °" 6 ’ rho b ? d «"
i at any iot.se-»ot to any kind, ex
cept ranking a port,on of her own clothes,
bhe llad acver made a shir*, drawers,
pants, or waistcoat, or ever sewed a
stitch on a coat, and yet before we had
been married a year she had made tor
me every one of , the , articles . , of „
named, and knit numbers ot pairs of
* oc ^ °’ m ■ in< ‘ mended divers
articles . for
me, not excepting an old bat
or two* She bad also made butter, sold
eggs, chickens, and other fowls, and veg*
etables to the amount of near $000 in
cash at the end of the yeat, whereas du¬
ring the four years that I was single, I
had never sold five cents’ worth; besides
making me purely happ.y ntld contented
with, and at my own home. And so far
as to making money, we have made
money clear of expenses every year since
we were married, in everything that we
have undertaken on the farm, and she
has made from $d50 to $500 every year,
except one, during the time, selling the
butter, eggs, and marketing of
kinds. My yearly expenses for fine
clothing, etc.; before I was married,
were more than after I was married*
combined with the expenses of my wife
and children; and our farm has increased
from two hundred and fifty to six hun
dred and twenty acres; and I believe
that if I bad not married it would have
increased but little if any. I have never
been absent from home six nights,
'
my wife was at our home, since we were
married, and her cheeks ki3S as sweetly
to me as they did the morning after we
were married.
Life in Dreary Iceland, —Men and
women, masters and servants, all inhabit
the same loom, while the cleanliness is
not much attended to ; but poor as they
are and accustomed to great privations,
they set an example of cheerful content
meat. The beauty o' the young girls is
remarkable; their fair hair falls in long
plaits, par, ia ly covered by a black cloih
coil, daintiW worn on one side of the
head, flushed at the top with a tassel of
colored silk run through a silver or steel
buckle, which floats on the shoulder. It
reminds the traveler of the Greeek head
dress, but the blue eyes, with their sw T eet,
benevolent expression, soon recall to
their mind their Danish origin. The
dress is made of the cloth woven in the
country, and on festive days the bodice
is gayly adorned with silver braid and
velvet, while the bfit and sleeves are or¬
namented with. Silver devices, beautifully
chased and often ot great va ue. On
wet and cold days the shawl becomes a
useful mantilla, completely enveloping
the head, and defending the wearer from
the ’effects of the frequent storms.—
Chambers' Journal.
A novel attempt at sui fide was that of
woman who knocked a whole in a window
pane and sawed her neck over the rag¬
ged glass.
He w ho does not give back to his fields
as much as he takes from them sells the
fertility of his crop—and the fertility of
the soil is the farmers capita!.
The sweetest bedfellow is conscience.
Ah ! it is a charming thing to feel her at
one’s heart—to hear her evening song
and her morning hymn.
At a Dubuque wedding the other day.
among the wedding presents ostentatious
ly displayed was a $100 bill, a present
from the doting father to his dat ling
daughter. After the guests had depar¬
ted the eld man coolly rolled up the bill
and put it m his vest pocket, and that
was the end of it.
“What is life insurance ?’ exclaimed a
bold agent in a street car to a victim of a
Jiurstead company. “I can answer that/
replied the victim; “it is the art of keep*,
ing a man poor all through life that he
may die rich.’
Charlotte (N. C ) Observer: Farm¬
ers finding now no further need for their
private fences, the stock law being iu ex¬
istence, are bauling them to town and
selling them far fire wood.
AN IMPORTANT HOG PRODUCT.
Russia is the great bristle-producing
country of the world. The best of these,
-tilt bristles used for sewing with waxed
threads, are said to come from Muscovy,
where the swine roam half wild in the in
terminable forest, or else are fed on the
refuse rf the half wild cattle killed for
their hides and tallow. In the Wes%
where vast numbers of improved swine
are yearly killed for their various meat
products, the hair and bristles, however,
is saved from each hog, and these, of
course, are an interior quality, for the
finer the hog the poorer and in less qi lan
Hty are the bristles furnished. So, in all
warm countries the bristles are soft and
cf inferior quality*
Nevertheless, 'bristles ate amon* the
most important of animal fibres ; said to
he next to silk and the wool the most
important, The avarage quantity ex
ported from Russia is ov*-r 4,0 10,000
pounds annually, and of a value of about
$5,000,000. The very best Russian
bristles are wor.h *125 ptr pound, and
this down to 27 cents. France
supplies ■ annually nearly 2,000.000
pounds of bristles ; Germany and Bel*
gium are also large exporters of this
product. French bristles, whether pro¬
duced in France, or only cleansed there,
bear the highest reputition in the market
of the world. They are white soft, firm
to the touch, yet exceedingy elastic, and
used principally for the brushes of the
artist, and the pencils of the painter and
decorator. The average quantity of
bristles imported into h ngland is about
2 : 5000,060 pounds, valued at over $2,.
o supplying $1,400,*
o sishes over 59 per
cent, of the latter quantity. While
neither England nor the United States
furnish first-class brisUes, yet these two
countries hold the monopoly of the trade,
Porn. avion of the Earth — A recent
IieI § ian publication shows that actor 1
P°P'd af ‘ on Bie earth is about a thou
san ^ udHiontS about equally divided be
tv * eeD ma!es and females. Every year
abeul 33 ‘ 000 ’ 0()0 dk * 5 eve5 7 01,334;
fcour ’ 3,780; every minute, 60.
Therefore, there is a death every second.
In civilized countries there are more
births than deaths ; but the whole con-'
sidered, the number of the former is
about equal to that of the latter. More
people are born and die in the night time
than in the day, and generally speaking,
low-sized mon die before those of tall
statue. Eight thousand and sixty four
languages are spoken in the world—587
in Eu!ope, 896 in Asia* 276 in Africa
and 1,264 in America.
Too Generous.— The Indianapolis
Sun makes the following pit hy argument
against the system now anthofized by
law, under which National Banks are per¬
mitted to usurp the privilege of the gov¬
ernment:
“Deposit $1000,000 in U. S. Bonds*
receive interest, $6,009 in gold on the
whole amount, you then get permission
to issue $9,0000 in currency, your entire
investment being $100,000. Deduct
$90,000 which you are permitted L> issue
n curr ncy, you have actually only in¬
vested $10,000, for which you receive
$6,COO interest from ihe government.
Every honest citizens can see the outrage
committed on the people.”
The Boston Traveler is very mad be¬
cause one of its neighbors remaked that.
“President Haves has taken the negro
out ot politics,” and expresses the fervent
desire that the Uni .ed States army shall
be used to put the negro again in politics,
giving him the control of the Southern
States jointly with Pie carpet-bag thieves.
The Traveller is necessarily doomed to
disappointment. Grant himself, if elec¬
ted in 1880, could never set up the negro
and carpet-bag rule in the Southern
States, and the Traveller may as well
smother its poignant grief and “let the
dead past bury its dead,” The people
ol the United States will never consent
1° have a putrid corpse thrust under
their noses, even if the Boston, Traveller
likes the odor,
The Washington correspondent of the
Chicago Inter-Ocean telegraphs that pa
per that “there are at least three mem*
bers of the Cabinet who will not consent
to any further trial of the pacification
policy.” McCrary and John Sherman
are doubtless tw r o of these fellows,* and
they had better resign at once, for it is
to late to try and inaugurate a
new era of carpet-baggery and thieving,
A Canadian physician has invented an
article of castor oil that be says children
for. It is so pleasant to the taste that
gentle innocents do not know how it
loaded.
TWO DOLLARS Per Annum,
THE DRAINS OF CRIMINALS.
The subject is an important one, both
from a phsyiclogical and psychological
point of view, and it is to be hoped that
more extended and more precise inquiries
wnl be made upon it, for the results which
Dr. Benedict has obtained, though vei v
important are not sufficiently numerous
to warrant any large induction. Up to
the presseut time Dr. Benedict has ex¬
amined, the brains of 16 criminals, all of
which, on comparison with the healthy
bram, he finds to be abnormal. Not on¬
ly has he lound that these brains deviate
from the normal type, and approach to¬
ward that of lower animals, but he has
been able to classify them, and with
them the skulls in which they were con
tained, in three categories. These con
s'sts in: First absence of symetry be*
twe- n the two halves of the brain; - se
cond, an excessive obliquity of the an te
vior part of the brain or skull—in fact a
continuation upward of what we term a
sloping froehead ; third, a distinct lessen¬
ing of the posterior part of the skull in
its long diameter, and with it a diminu¬
tion in size of the posterior cerebral
obes, so that, as in the' lower animals,
they are not large enough to hide the
cerebullum. Iu all these peculiarities
the criminal’s brain and skull are distinct
ly of a lower type than those of normal
men, and the interesting question arises,
how 1ar are the evil acts of the ciimirlaj
to be attributed to this retrograde devel¬
opment? Dr. Watts can pardon the vi.
cious propensities of “bears and lions,”
on the ground that “God had made
them so.” If he had foreseen these new
inquiries he might have felt less hopeful
when he bade his little readers not to
“let their angry passions rise.” The re¬
sults of Dr, Benedict’s researches, if con*
firmed by further examinations, will do
much to many beliefs now firmly 'fixed.—
Medical Examiner,
ask the old woman.
A gentleman traveling out West re¬
lates the following t
Riding- horseback just at night, through
the woods in Signor county, Mich.. I
came into the clearing, in the middle of
which stood a log house with its own
er sitting in the door smoking his pipe.
Stopping my horse before him the fol¬
lowing conversation ensued ;
“Good evening, sir/ said I.
“Good evening,’
“Can I get a glass of milk to drink?’
“Well, I don't know. Ask the old wo
man,”
By this time his wife was standing by
his side.
“Oh, yes,’ said she ; of course you can.*
While drinking it I asked .*
“Do yon think we are going to have
a storm V
“Well, I really don’t know. Ask the
old woman—she can tel].’
“I guess we shall get one right away/
said she*
Again 1 asked i
“How much laud have you got Cleav¬
ed here V •
“Well, I really don’t know. Ask the
old woman—she knows.’
“ About nineteen acres/ she replied.
Just then a tronp of children came run
ning and shouting around the corner or
the shanty,
“All these your children ?’ said I.
“Don't know. Ask the old woman—
she knows.’
“I did not wait to hear hey reply but
drew up the reins and left immediately.’
JUST SO.
Recently while walking through Do
gan Square a melancholy individual with
an umbrella, and a waft on his nose, ap¬
proached and said :
“Stranger, do I look’s though I be¬
longed to the whisky ring ?’’
We thought not.
“Do I look’s though I stole little Char
ley Ross ?”
We said “No.”
“Do I look’s though I busted up Hell
Gate ?”
He didn’t.
“Then, stranger, gaze on these pen¬
sive eyes* and tell me—oh, tell me truly
—what’s the state of your financial cou
dition V*
We told him.
“Do you think ten Cents*d break you?”
We thought it would,
“Then, stranger,” said he, as he wiped
a tear from his left eye, “go back to your
mucilage and shear, for I recognize in
you a brother editor /—JDetroitl Free
Frees.
The rising youth feels the need of an
invention that will instantaneously ab¬
sorb a lighted cigar, and save him the
trouble and danger of putting it in his
coat pocket when he unexpectedly meets
either of his parents.
NO. 10.
MiSGtUaiNEOUS ITEMS.
Almost anybody can send a boy oq an
errand, but only the wealthy have leisure
to spare to wait for him to get back.
Taxes were paid in Great Britain Jflst
year on one million three hundred and
ninetysmne thousand three hundred and
thirty dogs.
1 aik about female curiosity— -it’s all
one-sided. Let one man stop on the
street to spell out a sign on the top of a
high building, and every other raothet’s
son that goes by will stand still and stare
for ten minutes trying to make out what
the first idiot is looking at.
“Ten dimes makes one dollar,” said
the schoolmaster. “Now, go on, sir*
Ten dollars make one—what?” ‘They
make one mighty glad these times,” re*
plied the boy, and the teacher, who
hadn t got his last month’s salary yet,
core tided that the boy was about right*
“Charles, my dear,” said his loving
wire, “I thought you said the dodo bird
was extinct.” ^ is/’ hje replied.
,v ell, but Charley, some one sent in a
bill to you to-day* and it says, ‘To one
julep, do do. To three smashes, do do.
To twenty bfaces, do do.’ Charley,
please do not buy any dodos; they mast
be horrid things.”—[N. Y. Herald.
The Rev. John Brown, of Hadding¬
ton, was in the habit of proposing on
festive occasions a certain young lady a*
his toast. Having abandoned the pfdcs
tice he was asked for a reason, “Because,*
said he “I have toasted her for sixteen
ycaiS without making her BroWn, and
so I have resolved to toast hsr no riloPe. i
It is stated that a good many people
of north Georgia are emigrating to Tex¬
as rather than pay the revenue Oil Whig.,
key. We should imagine that it would
be easier to settle the whiskey tax in
Georgia than to pay a doctors bill in
I exas. But some folks thing one way
and some another.
To estimate weight of cattle measures
from root of tad to top of shoulders and
round the body behind the forelegs. Mul-.~
tiply the square of the girth in inches by
the length iu inches and divide the sum
by 7.238 and multiply the quotent by 14,
and you will get the weight in pounds.
A young widow whose aged husband
had died becomingly appealed two
months afterward at the Paris Mairie to
to announce her forthcoming marriasre to
her cousin. “Pardon me, madam,” ob
served the clerk, « but the la.w pererap*
tori ally forbids a woman to marry within
ten months of her husbands death.” ‘Yes*
truly.’’ replied she, ** but are not those
eight months of paralysis to be taken in-i
to consideration ?’*
A bill to tax male dogs $10 and female
dogs $20 has been introduced into the
Connecticut Legislature. It is to -
hoped that frotiiekody w
equal rights of the
discrimination heiv .HERE!
not meddle as
of professional advocates olequa.
the field whose business it is to deno*
the base and hollow-heaited tvranL
the Connecticut Legislature*
As an incentive to the colored people*
and some white also, we take pleasure *
noticing the fact that Thos. Bush, 30 that
dustrioUs and frugal colored man, li
in Duncanville District, made last/^ea*
an am pie provision crop besides a good
cotton crop. Among his hogs killed for
this year’s meat one weighed 247 pounds
and another 342 pounds. Let the color¬
ed people* and everybody^else, follow his,
example and the country will ife better
offiu the future.
In a i-ecent sermon the Rev. Dr. Chd^
pin told his hearers that the thought ot‘
endless punishment was ‘repugnant to all/
Very well j but is this in itself a suffi¬
cient reason for rejecting it ? So is the
thought of physical suffering repugnant
to all ; so is the thought of the grave re j
pugnant to all. Yet pain and death are
facts of human experience ; and the Rev*
Dr. Chapin has to take them into account
in constructing his theory*
Rachel H. Whipp has gone to the Ohio
State prisQn for seven years. She mar
t ied an aged and wealthy Widower in
Medina in the expectation that he would
soon die and leave hel* higjmoperty ; but
he continued in robust health, and threat
end to make a will giving her no more thart
the la fv compelled him to. One ni^ht h e
awoke to find a noosb around his neek
and bis wife pulling at the rope, which
ran through a staple iu the wall of the
room. She intended to hang him and
make suicide* people believe he had "committed '