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W. M. TAIUM, Editor and Proprietor.
VOLUME IV.
Railroads.
Chickasaw Route,
BKJPMSS & CHARLESTON ii g.
TWO PASSENP,FR TRAINS DAILY
TO
MEM HA IS, TENN.
X-v Chattanooga 8 80 a iu... ..3 45 p m
fcwwensoii 10 10 a m 520 p m
A , rr Decatur 135 pm §Ol , m
.< ,n ! h . v r> 40 pin 12 05 am
<< brand .I unction... 712 pra 143 a m
Memphis 930 pm 400 am
Oloso connection is made at Memr.hß
with the Memphis & Little Rock
Railroad /or all points in
. ARKANSAS AND TEXAS.
fno lima by this line from Chattanoo
ga to Memphis, Little Rock, and pouts
beyond, is Sve horns quicker than bv any
otuer line.
Through rassenger Coiciies and Baggage
Cars from
CHATTANOOGA to LITTLE ROOK
Without Chfnge.
No Other Line Offers these
A dvantar/es.
@“£MIGRANT TICKETS SOW BILLING AT
THE LOWEST RATES
For further information call on or
write to J. M. SUTTON,
Passenger Agt,, Chickasaw Route,
P. O. Bos 224 Ohattouooga, Tenr.
Time Card,
Taking effect January 15th, 18S2.
SOUTH BOUND.
No. 1. Mad.
Arrive. Depart.
'Uha.tnnooga am 8 25
Wauhatchle 84T do 8 41
Morgauville B£9 do 900
'Trenton 916 do 9 17
Rising Fawn 937 do 938
Attalla 12 20 do 12 35
Birmingham 251 do 301
Tuscaloosa 523 do 525
Meridian 10 00 do
Cilarle* 1?. Wallace, 11. (ollbran,
Superintendent, Geu’l Dess. Ag’t.
Millie. CMttaoia & St. Louis R’y.
AHEAD OF ALL COS’PETITORS.
BUSIN ESS M KN. TOURI ST ' O C f-R T jl* Q T F
EMIGRANTS, EAMILIMS, nL.ifIUTIDLn
The l!o( Knnteto L< nisville, Cincinnati, Jndi
anapolis, Chicago, and the North, is via Mei-li
ville.
Ttie He.l Rn..te to 8. Louis an! the West is
via Meßeniie.
Th'* Steal Ritnie to West Tennessee amt Ken
tucky. Otississipi, Arkansas and Texas joints if.
' ia MeSvensle,
%
DON’T FJKGBT IT.
—By thsa L'qc you secure ths—
risximuni ('<■■■ lor, Sa I islaction j
II i y !U i I fill <>f Expense. Anxiety,
iu 111 5 !?| U !?! Bother, Fatigue.
B to buy your ticte’s over rue
N. C. & St. L. R’y.
THE INEXPERIENCED TRAV
ELER need not go amiss; taw chan es
are necessary, and such as ate unavoida
ble are made in Union Depota.
Through Sleepers
BETWEEN —
Atlanta and Nashville, Atlanta and Lou
isville,, Nashville and Sh Louie, via C. ■
lumbua, Nashville and Louisville, Nash
ville and Memphis, Martin and St. Louie,
Union City and St. Louis, M. Ket zieano
Lit’l** R >ck, where connection is made
with Through Sleepers to all Texas p’onts.
Call on or address
A. B. Wrenn Atlanta, Ga.
J. H. Peebles,T. A. Chattanooga, Tenn.
W. T. Rogfus P. A. Ch&tanooga, Teurt.
W. L Dan ley, G. P. and T. A ,
Nashville, Tenn.
Rising Fawn Lidge, No. 293, meets
first and third Saturday nights of each
month. .T. W. Russey, W. M.
S. H. Thurmon, Sec’ty.
Trenton Lodge, No. 179, meets once a
a month cn Friday .nigut, on or before
the full mion.
W. N Jacoway. W. M.
G. M. Crabtree, Sec’tv.
Trenton Chapter No. 60, R. A. M..
meets on the third Wednesday night of
each month,
W. A. B. Tatum, H. P,
W. N. Jacoway, S.-c’ty.
Court of O dinarv meets on first Mon
day of each month.
G. M. Crabtree Ordinary.
S. H. Thurman, Circuit Court Clerk
W. F. Majors, Sheriffj
Joseph Coleman, Tax Receive-.
D. E Tatum, Tax Collector.
Joseph Kiser, Coroner.
RISING FAWN. DADE COUNTY, GEORGIA, THURSDAY, MAY 25, 1882.
TOPICS OF THE DAY.
Reports from Dakota indicate a large
jield of wheat.
■ —o—
Mark Twain is writing a book about
the Mississippi River.
Russia has lost $110,000,000 by the
anti-Jewish movement.
Ralph Waldo Emerson’s estate is
estimated to bo worth SIOO,OOO.
Petitions for the pardon of Sergeant
Mason contain an aggregate of 550,000
names.
The army-worm is operating in por
tions of Illinois doing serious damage
to wheat.
The formal opening of Garfield House,
for working girls, iu London, was a
notable event.
Mr. Gladstone condemns the revised
edition of the New Testament. He does
anything and everything to make the
Irish dislike him.
Is Shipherd afraid or is the Commit
tee on Foreign Relations afraid? The
investigation into the Peruvian affair is
long-drawn and decidedly dry.
Number thirteen, to which so much
evil superstition is attached, lias been
reclaimed to respectability by the sur
vival of thirteen of the crew of the
Jeannette expedition.
Prosperous America must give place
to Australia, whose colonies ai - e the
richest, per capita, in the world. Among
their possessions are 80,000,000 sheep, to
a population of only 3,000,000 souls.
The Supreme Court of Indiana has
rendered a decision to the effect that
railroad ticket scalpers may sell special
tickets whether they are half fare, or ex
cursion, or special in any other respect.
The 27th of June is the day upon
which the people of lowa will vote on the
amendment to tlieir State Constitution
forbidding the sale of all intoxicants.
The fight is said to be already waxing
warm.
It does seem strange that the assas
sins of Cavendislnand Burke cannot be
ferreted out. Perhaps England had
better send for Pinkerton. What they
need over there is a detective that can
detect.
Chicago has sent a petition cQntaining
over 1,500 names to Rev. Moody, now in
England, begging him to return to that
city and hold a series of revival meetings.
Mr. Moody can find no better field for
missionary work.
There is one thing about it, Ship
herd is getting himself disliked by Re
publicans, and we observe that he is
denounced as a “lying old fraud” in
many quarters. Some years ago Ship
herd was a popular minister.
We hear of a musical prodigy in
Toronto —a girl, only fourteen years old,
whose playing of the violin is regarded
as wonderful, even by so accomplished a
judge as Remenyi. Her name is Norah
Clench, and she is the child of a violin
maker.
The last report of the Philadelphia
Home for Inebriates says that “ the free
lunch system is responsible for more
drunkards than almost anything else.”
Men will stand round and eat free lunch
until they get so drunk they can’t see.
Take out the free-lunch counter.
Miss Marie C. Ladreyt, a teacher in
the State Normal School at Farmingham,
Mass., has won the Perire prize in Paris
of SI,OOO for an essay on education.
Like a myriad of others on the same
subject, it doubtless perished with the
occasion for which it was written,
Archibald Forbes, the well-known
English war correspondent, being a
widower with three children, has permit-,
ted his heart to be touched by the
daughter of a retired Quartermaster
General’s daughter, and now thinks
there is no country so attractive as
America.
A news item says “a Burlington (Vt.),
man who got a divorce from his wife, a
while ago, employs her as his hired girl.
She has more money and better clothes
ihan when she was his wife.” We do
not doubt it at all. If you ever noticed
it, a man invariably gives the hired gill
more money than he does his wife.
Miss Emma Jane Bonner, only daugh
ter of Robert Bonner, the great ad
mirer of fine horses and proprietor of
the oldest story paper in the world, the
New York Ledger, was married a few'
days ago to Mr. Francis Forbes. Emma
is a child of romance, and will doubtless
now give us new editions in serial form.
In a note to the Cincinnati Commer
cial. under date of May 11. Professor'
“Faitfjfal to the Riglit, Fearless gainst Wrong.”
Vonnor predicted as follows: “ I expect
a sharp period, with frosts, about the
7th or Bth of June, iu Southern sections,
and a second ono during the last week of
the month.” Wall, we shall see what
we shall see, but we do hope the man is
out of his head.
It is remarked that President Arthur
. 3 the first President since Buchanan to
attend horse races. General Grant,
though very fond of horses, did not at
tend the races, even at Long Branch,
during liis Presidency. Buchanan,
Pierce, Tyler and Van Buren wero very
fond of horse racing, aud attended all
the great races iu Virginia and Maryland
during their terms of office.
A late magazine article on dress re
form says a good thing :
“It is the women that the men admire, and
the clothes for their sakes; but never the
women for the sake of their clothes. No ono
ever saw men in rows in front of shop windows
admiring the dresses on stands.”
Husbands, show this paragraph to
your wives, but at the same time, express
a willingness to purchase an occasional
calico dress if it is really impossible to
do without it. There are men mean
enough to refuse to do even that.
Making the execution of the Presi
dent’s assassin private will be bad for the
railroads, but it will be good for the
people and good for public decency.
The proposition of an Ohio man to take
forty car-loads of people from one section
of the State to witness the execution is
monstrous. The simple fact is, a public
execution would draw no less than a
million people together, and the result
in several particulars might be most
disastrous.
At all events James Gordon Bennett,
proprietor of the New York Herald, has
done one handsome thing in connection
with the futile and disastrous Jeannette
Arctic Expedition. He has presented to
Airs. DeLong, the widow of Lieutenant
De Long, who lost his life in the expedi
tion, a check for $50,000. Iu this con
nection a cgtemporary fittingly remarks
that “it the Lieutenant nna men in u>,
service of the Government his widow
would have received a pension of about
fifty dollars a month.”
Astronomers in Egypt who viewed
the orb of day during its total eclipse
on the 17th, report a “fine comet ” near
that body. Its position was determined
by photography. The spectroscopic
and ocular observations just before and
after the period of totality gave most
valuable results. The darkening of lines
observed by the French astronomers
indicated a lunar atmosphere. The spec
trum of corona was successfully photo
graphed for the first time.
Another electric railway, which is the
second there, has just been constructed
iu Berlin, and formally opened. It has
a grade of 1 in 30, which is, perhaps the
steepest incline in the country. The
motive power is led to the cars by two
thin wire ropes, about twenty-five cen
timetres apart, aud attached to the tele
graph poles. These wires are capable
of propelling ono small eight-wheeled
carriage. Compared with the first line,
the system used in this, while more
complex, secures greater economy in the
use of the current.
The locomotive aud one car of a train
on the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad
passed over a little child who was sitting
between the rails a few days ago. Then
the train was stopped, aud the conductor
crawled under the car to collect the frag
ments. To the astonishment of every
body, be presently emerged with the
child in his arms unjured, except for a
slight bruise on the forehead, where the
pilot of the locomotive had struck him.
All the trainmen and passengers insisted
on hugging the little fellow before
surrendering him to his father who
stood by.
News from Dallas, Texas, tells a story
that runs up into millions. Two men
have fallen heirs to a fortune of thirty
three million dollars, held in trust for
them by the German Government, and
one of the lucky individuals is M. Bros
shis, Superintendent of the Dallas Car
Factory. The other is Samuel B. Ed
mundson, of Pennsylvania. The latter
is also heir to the property on which the
navy-yard, in Washington City, is built.
It was leased to the Government for
ninety-nine years by his great-grand
father, aud the lease has just expired.
This is probably th# last we shall ever
bear of this fairy tale.
They have a peculiar kind of justice
in Massachusetts. No sooner do we
hear of the discharge of a ruffian who
had carnally assaulted a defenseless
woman whom he had chanced to meet
on the highway, at X o’clock in the
morning—the dismiss>al being upon the
ground that the worn an had no busiuess
being out at that hour of the night—
than we learn th; and a Justice lined a
father $; and costs for slapping his
fifteen-yar-old daughter. The charge
was assllt and battery. Although it
does not appear that the girl sustained
any injdy, or anything more than felt
tiie sting of the blow, it was held that
the father overstepped the bounds of
|la w and older. Thus it appears that in
Massachusetts it is a greater crime for a
fathei to jorrect his daughter than lor a
ruffian t> carnally assault the same
person.
A correspondent in the St. Louis
Republican gives tho following explana
tion of t!ie betrayal of Jesse James by
the Ford Brothers :
One ant a half miles oast of Richmond,
Mo., is tli house of tho Ford boys. It is dif
ficult of access ; deep ravines wind through and
about the 'arm—just the location to hide away
from the hmnts of men, and to plot deep aud
damning conspiracy. For two years Mr. How
ard (Jesse James) has como and gone at his
own sweet Will, aud yet the neighbors dreamed
not that tee prince of brigands was so near.
Tho Fords yore not neighborly, but hob would
often bo seen ou the streets with strangers.
Ho was a piiet, genteel young man with no
habits thaUeould be objectionable. Jim Cum
mings was 4 cousin of the Fords, while Wood
Hite was a Iplative of James. The taking off of
Cummings vaa tho act of either Hite or Jesse.
Little and lob Ford, it is now almost fully es
tablished, atarged Kite witl#the deed. A quar
rel ensued,and he shot Little through the leg ;
iu turn, Ford put a bullet through the brain of
Hite. Knowing full well that Josse would re
taliate for his cousin’s death, Little lost no
time in confiuinicating with the Governor. A
midnight rifid ou tho Ford Mansion soon after
by officers of the law failed to bag the game.
The Fords eorvplained at Kansas Ulty or the
uniranantable proceedings, but wero quickly
silenced when informed that they had slain and
buried Hite. The secrets of the banditti were
now no longer hidden, and so the Fords felt it *
was sauvequi petit. Then tho sister, who was
the sole woman of tho household, hurried to
Jefferson City and did a tale unfold, an l the
fate of Jesse James was sealed. The Fords,
guaranteed immunity, went systematically to
work the capture or death of their chief. With
a plausible story of tho treacln-ry of Little,
which had pkced them in jeopardy at home,
they were received into the family of James.
Then the traitors waited and watched aud
struck down the man they dare not capture.
Mrs. May Shannon, who accompanied
Mrs. Sergeant Mason when she went to
see the President iu behalf of her hus
band, writes as follows of the incidents
attending! the interview :
Mrs. Mafcon seemed to wander along r.s if
“ffep ■*"’ it* ixrt' '••.noii-t hall, desert -L” 81u>
vo. .'.a'A .'.s; i ' In those attractions. Her
spirit was Lr, away in the prisoner’s eel], and
the burden 3 her heart’s song, like Grechen’s,
seemed tol<- m J
“ M ace is gone, my heart
I liu- linn never, never moroj^r
Having sent in our cards, wo took a seat in
the largo ante-room by a good fire. Threaten
ing clouds obscured tho sun and cast a ;
all seemed dark aud cheerless within. We were
quietly wa.ting for •.< coming interview, which
would be the harbinger of good or evil to the
ssd heart. At the expiration of half an hour
the messeuger came in and announced that
“ The President desired to see us.” We were
shown tr „ia private parlor and had to wait
but a few moments when i | entered from the
opposite door. The American people can well
be proud of their President for his gentle and
courtly manners. I doubt if any present
Monarch could enter tho drawing-room with
such unassuming ’Ve as President Arthur
did when be came to take by the band the wife
of the poor soldier. I presented Mrs. Mason
to the President. He shook bands with her.
The anxious moment had at last arrived ; her
pent-up feelings could no longer be restrained.
She broke forth iu sobs : the I’resideut looked
on with compassion. When she raised her
eyes she full faith in him, for his coun
tenance inspired confidence. She then made a
pathetic appeal for her poor husband’s release
from prison. The President told her that he
appreciated her feelings, that ho knew all the
details of the case, that he would bring the
matter bv ore the Cabinet, aud that he would
do all ia Li-, power. He said she need not dis
tress herself to tell him any of the details, and
she might feel assured that he deeply sympa
thized with her. Ho again shook hands with
her, speaking in the kindest manner.
Inveidive Genius West and East.
We have always maintained the super
iority of the West over the East in
most of the essentials ; but there is one
branch of progress wherein the East
still takes the lead. In certain lines of
invents u the people of Massachusetts
far out trip tho people of Michigan. Up
to a very recent date it has been a sad
drawli; kto tho comfort of prison offi
cial; in punishing convicts that tlio latter
couid v, be kept for any length of time
on .-c No matter liow high their
hands were fastened, the ungrateful
wretch s would manage somehow, by
stretching their arms or some other por
tion.; of their •anatomy, to get their heels
on tU ground, and thereby defraud their
tortn' . of lawful enjoyment. and the
pleasaui emotions excited by the observ
ance of human misery.
But, tho inventive genius of tho Yan
kee h.t' come to the rescue of the abused
prison official. Some sharp-witted fel
low iu the Reform School at Westboro,
n husetts, hit not long since upon
the device of placing sharp
point and tacks under the lieels of con
victs when suspended by the wrists.
They me quite willing now to stand oil
tiptoe instead of meanly settling back
upon their lieels ; and tho keepers are
correspondingly happy A Michigan
man would never have thought of this.
The recent investigation at lonia showed
that the authorities there were mere
slavish imitators of tho authorities in
Eastern prisons. They had the strap
and the “paddle,” and they fed their
ootiv'-ts uport rotton meat, just as the
Eastern torturers of convicts have done
for years. But they hadn’t a spark of
originality.— Detroit Free Press. *
It was in Paris, and they were having
their midday breakfast. One of the
guests arose, aud, with wine-glass
I Tu hand, said : “I drink to the health of
the groom. May lie see many days like
this.” The intention was good, but the
bride looked as if something had dis
pleased her.
TERMS—$lO‘> pr Annum Blric ly in Advance
Preaching by Weight.
The question is agitated among church
going people, ‘ ‘ Why are so many learned
ministers poor preachers ?” The trouble
is that many of the learned ones are
content to load themselves with mighty
stores of knowledge, never thinking of
liow they are to benefit their fellow men
by giving it out. Unfortunately, some
of our most learned clergymen are the
driest of preachers. To learn or prac
tice the ordinary arts of oratory does not
seem to have occurred to these good
men. The art of pleasing their audi
ences is something to which they can not
, conveniently descend. Perhaps they de
spise it because there are so many
empty-headed men who have succeeded
in holding their congregations spell
bound. They may think that to interest
an audience is an evidence of sensation
alism. Therefore, they are content to
plod on in the delivery of matter which
is really valuable, but which loses its
value because uttered in Buch a lifeless
fashion.
Ono of our most learned preachers
used to have a habit of meandering
along in a sing-song monotone for the
first fifteen minutes of his discourse.
The effect on strangers was to weary
them or put them to sleep, under tho
impression that the whole discourse was
to be delivered in this style. Oti tlioso
who were accustomed to hearing him it
was different. They knew he would have
something of interest for them, and
waited for it. After a while he would
wake up to a most earnest style of de
livery and continue in it to the end of
his sermon. \
Some great scholars are so pompous
that they can not preach as if to ordi
nary mortals. Some preach fairly well,
but, because they are such great men,
do not stop short of an hour and a half.
This may impress the weary hearers
with a sense of greatness, but at the
same time oppresses them with the
ponderousness of it.
Learning and good oratory are not
necessarily out of harmony with each
other. There is no reason whj a learned
person should not add to lus ot!*r ac
complishments the art of imparting liis
wisdom to others iu the most graceful,
attractive, and convincing way.—Phila
delphia Times.
The Yonug Writer’s First Production.
Probably every one who has attempted
authorship will confirm Longfellow’s
experience on the appearance of his
first effusion in print. Nothing, he tells
us, which he since published gave him
such exquisite pleasure as he experienced
on opening the paper to which he had
timidly sent his manuscript, aud to find
it there in actual type, to be read by the
multitude. This feeling comes but once,
but the memory of it lasts a lifetime. It
can never be forgotten. What anticipa
j tions it arouses—what a sense of iuv
i portance it gives ! How little does tho
j young author suspect the cold indiffer-
I ence with which it is read, possibly not
read, by those who take the paper! As
the song says, ‘ ‘ It’s all the w r orld to
him,” and why not all to the world?
It would be aud is cruel to spoil the 1
delightful sensations of initial author
ship. They may be false* they certainly
are fleeting, but the enjoyment, while it
lasts, is an intoxication of delight, as
first pleasant sensations are apt to be.
The hint comes soon enough to the
writer to discover how really unimpor
j tant the event was. If he persists in
j writing he will come to be as indifferent
jto his appearance in type as the w r orld is.
j if a newspaper writer, he will weary of
the eternal grind, and forget what he
l has written the day before in studying
what to write for the day after.
But no success, either as a newspaper
writer or book-maker, either as poet or
essayist, however flattering, will ever
give to the author the sensation of his
first appearance in print. It is, after it
passes, a lost sensation, ramore to be
repeated than love’s young ureai#, with
freshness and fervor. It is an illusion
too exquisite to be duplicated in one’s el
perience.
It is our advice, then, to youDgwriters,
after they have succeded in getting into
print once, to stop then and there, and
cherish the sensation as long as possible
—that is to say, as long as they can
help it—and not repeat it to satiety, or
until the spirit is jaded, aud the writer
ready to cry out, with the Preacher, “ all
is vanity and vexation of spirit.”—Cin
cinnati Commercal.
s
Of Mr. Longfellow’s method when
Professor of Modern Literature at Har
vard, Dr. Edward E. Hale, one of liis
pupils, has given this account: “As it
liappened, the regular recitation rooms
of the college were all in use, and wo
met him in a sort of parlor, carpeted,
liung with pictures, and otherwise hand
somely furnished, which was, I believe,
called the “corporation room.” We sat
round a mahogany table, which was re
ported to be meant for the dinners of the
trustees, and the whole affair had the as
pect of a friendly gathering in a private
house, in which the study of German
was the amusement of the occasion. Ho
began with familiar ballads, read them
to us, and made us read them to him.
Of course we soon committed them to
memory without meaning to, and I
think this was probably part of his
theory. At the same time we wero
learning the paradigms by rote. His
regular duty was Sic oversight of five or
more instructors who were teaching
French, German, Italian, Spanish and
Portuguese to two or three hundred un
j der-graduates. We never knew when he
l migiit look in on a recitation and vir
i tually conduct it. We were delighted to
j have him come. We all knew he was a
j poet, and were proud to have him in tho
college, but at the same time we re
i spected him as a man of affairs. ’’
NUMBER 25.
GEMS OF THOUGHT.
Luck ia the dream of a simpleton.
True nobility is exempt from fear.
Virtue is the politeness of the soul.
History is philosophy teaching by
examples.
Good order is the foundation of all
good things.
To be proud of learning is the great
est ignorance.
Conversation is the vent of character
as well as thought.
There is no past so long as books
shall live !— Bulwtr.
Misfortunes are in morals what bit
ters are in medicines.
If the memory of an injury is cher
ished it is not forgiven.
One trouble sometimes makes us for
get a thousand mercies.
Letters which are warmly sealed are
often but coldly opened.
* The more virtuous a man is the more
virtue does he Bee in others.
What the child admired, the youth
endeavored and the man acquired.
Hard workers are usually honest. In
dustry lifts them above temptation.
Recollect that trifles make perfec
tion, aud that perfection is no trifle.
Liberty is no negation. It is a sub
stantive, tangible reality. — Garfield.
It Is often the case that men, for the
sake of getting a living, forget to live.
Cold natures have only recollections ;
tender natures liavo no remembrances.
Friends, if we lie honest with ourselves.
Wo shall he honest with each other.
— MacDonald.
The virtue of prosperity is temper
ance ; the virtue of adversity is forti
tude.
Blest is lie whose heart is the home
of the great dead, and their great
thoughts.
The power to do great things gener
ally arises from the willingness to do
small things.
You can not dream yourself into a
character; you must hammer and forge
yourself ono.
He who obeys with modesty appears
worthy of some day or other being al
lowed to command.
There is many a man whose tongue
might govern multitudes, if he could
only govern his tongue.
Elegance of language may not be tho
power of every one, but simplicity and
straightforwardness are.
By example we become teachers. ’Tis
not what we wear on our backs, but
what we wear in our brains.
Knowledge dwells in heads replete
with thoughts of other men; wisdom, in
minds attentive to their own.
There is not so contemptible a plant
or animal that does not confound the
most enlarged understanding.
A man who habitually makes mean re
marks about tlio other sex is a safe man
to habitually keep away from.
YVe judge ourselves by what we feel
capable of doing, while others judge us
by what we have already done.
Each man is a hero and an oracle to
somebody, and to that person, whatever
he says, has an enhanced value.
One of the mistakes in the conduct of
human life is to suppose that other
men’s opinions are to make us happy.
Fob to cast away a virtuous friend I
call as bad as to cast away one own’a
life, which one love’s best.— Sophocles.
Treason doth nevar prosper; what’s the reason?
Why, if it prosper, none dare call it treason.
— Harrington.
gjTRUE politeness is perfect ease and
freedom. It simply consists in treating
others just as you love to be treated
yourself.
Happy then iB he who has laid up in
youth, and held fast in all fortune, a
genuine and passionate love for reading.
—Pufus Choate.
Rows in the Garden.
Works on gardening give plans for
laying out tlie ground* l —certain beds to
be put in one place, with paths here anti
there. This is all well in order to make
the most of a small piece of ground.
, With the fanner’s garden the case is
i different, as there are few farms where a
| square rod or two more or less in the
garden is of importance. In such a
garden there should be very few beds,
but all tire larger vegetables should be
placed in long, straight rows, in order
that the working may be done, so far as
practicable with a horse cultivator. The
permanent beds, such as those of rhu
barb and asparagus, should be near one
i another and at one side of the land t® be
; occupied by the annual crops. In sow
| ing or planting it, the cultivator used
upon the farm is also to do work in the
! garden; this isto be borne in mind in
laying out the rows, which should be at
such distances as will allow of the pass
age of the implement. In going to or
j coming from farm work, the cultivator
may often take a few turns in the gar
den. Those who have never tried horse
power in the garden will be surprised
at the great help it is in keeping it in
proper order, and it will go far to do
away with the complaint that the gar
den “ takes too much time.” — American
I Agriculturist.
Tommy was a little rogae, whom his
mother hail hard work to manage. Their
i house in the country was raised a few
feet from the ground, and Tommy, to
escape a well-deserved whipping, ran
from his mother and crept under the
house. Presently the father came home,
and, hearing where the boy had taken
refuge, crept under to bring him out.
As he approached on his hands and
knees, Tommy asked, “Is she after
: you, too ? ”