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IF WJ5 KNEW.
If we knew what forms were waiting
For the shade that we should fling,
If wc knew what lips were parching
Foi the water we should firing,
W«wk with willing hard* ,
We would haste with eager footsteps,
Bearing eups of cooling water.
Planting rows of shading palms.
If we knew when friends around us
Clasely pres> to say •‘good-five,’’
Which among the lips that kiss us.
First should neath the daisies lie,
We would clasp our arms unmet them,
Looking on them through our tears:
Tender words of love eternal
YY T e would whisper in their ears,
f wc knew what lives were darkened
By some thoughtless word of ours,
Which had ever lain among them
Like the frost among the flowers,
Oh! with what sincere repining*.
With what anguish of regret,
While our eyes were overflowing,
We would say “Forgive! Forget!"
If wc knew. Alas, and do wc
Ever care to seek or know
Whether hitter herbs or flowers
In our neighbor's garden grow?
.God forgive us! lest hereafter
Our hearts break to hear Him say:
Careless child, I never knew you:
From my presence thee ttway.
ALL EOB FUN.
The first “wail ot despair” must have
been when Jonah was .-.wallowed.
The owner of a race horse often finds it
difficult to keep up with his “running ex ’
peases. ”
Said Isaac’s father: “Ify >u are irood to
day you may carry up some wood, but if
you are bad, you must carry it up txi. ”
Once when a certain little irTrl visited
her grandfather’s, she was obliged to sleep
in a tied with two of her cousins. The three
children made the bed crowded. In the
nn rning she related a dream, which had
(stopped short iu the most interesting part.
“Why didn't you dream the rest?” asked
her grandfather. “Oh. " said the little girl,
“1 guess it was because I hadn't room.”
'‘.n Loudon til., t recycle is used by milk
men,” we are told. In this country they
use the plain, simple pump. America lias
a great deal to learn before i; equals Eng
land in some partieiiiars,
“Where i-- myall'll!?’’ inquires a poet in
GooiiaH’s San. T in toone she is reclining
on a lounge, reading a -i nsational novel,
while her motner is Irving slapjacks for
supper in the kitchen. Foci's ' angels 'are
usually tlii- class of girl-.
The latest mechanical device is a machine
for melting snow, which, it is ■ laimed, will
dissolve snow as rapidly us fifteen men can
scoop the snow into it. Anyone that ever
saw a hungry tramp eat baked beans can
form some idea of the rapidity of its work.
A bright child, on a certain occasion,
was introduced to a geh! Ionian who had
been so unfortunate a- to suffer from the
small-pox. After the company had retired,
she said: “Papa, who did you say thai
.moth-eaten gentleman was?”
A cowardly man once kicked a news¬
boy for asking him to buy a paper. The
.,lad .waited til! anothc newsboy had ap
-.proached the same man, and then shouted,
in the hearing of ah bystanders: “It’s no
use to try him, Jim; be can’t read.”
• • Johnny informed bis father that the
way to keep the house warm was to
the cellar “coaled.”
“Annie, you should not heat your
doll with that stick. Y'ou will make
all the sawdust coins out of it,” said
a mother to her little girl, who had
laid her doll down and was beating
it with a cricket-bat. “I don’t care
if all the sawdust does e®me out of
her,” replied Annie; “I don’t want
people to say that my children turn¬
ed out had because I humored them
too much.”
A man in Eastern Arkansaw was
arrested on a charge of marrying a
girl who was engaged to some one
cls 3 . “Your honor,” said a lawyer,
when the bridegroom had been ar>
raigtied, “this man has not violated
the law, and I therefore demand his
release.” “Wasn’t the gal engaged
to John Jackson?” “Yes sir.”—
“Th^n Bill Simmons must be held.”
“Under what law your
“Under the law of removing
gaged property. Take him to jail,
Mr. Constable.”
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Wrightsville, Ga., Thursday, February 25, 1S8S.
PAINTED BLA3K.
COL. BLANTON DUNCAN'S
OF THE NEGRO.
Courier-Journal.
lit NTixoTox, Miss,, Feb.
Col. Blanton Duncan, o f this city,
has addressed an open letter to Jno.
W. Daniel, the new United
Senator from Virginia, In which he
discusses at length the future of the
negro in the United States. lie re
fere to the civil, political and milita
ry history of Virginia,"and oxpres>
ses the hope that Senator Daniel
will ewsidet the’needs of the South
apart from the party view, lie as¬
serts that the question which pre¬
dominates and darkly overshadows
the future, not only of the South,
but of the entire country, is the so.
cial, moral’ and pulitical condition
of the negro race in connection with
the white race, lie terms it a “ca
lamitous danger which threatens di
rect destruction;” esserts that there
is no precedent in history of an
ferior and superior i ace living to
gotlier in equality; says it is an
omal v which must hear most hitter
fruits. lie proceeds as follows:
“Senator Sherman and other great
Northern leaders, have ami Minced
that they intend to make their bat
tie-cry henceforward—reduction
the Southern strength in
and in the electoral vote, to accord
with the number of negro votes
which arc yearly counted out and
disfranchised. T hey state the open
secret that, in hundreds of
in Southern States, there has
been a fair count and a fair election
within the past ten years. That
means agitation and fanaticism in
tlic north, and excitement, and in
eitement to bloodshed and violence
thrnughont the South.
“To abstract from the
vote by legal . enactment, that they
shall not have the negro counted
in, would require a constitutional
amendment, which the Southern
Btates, if so inclined, could easily
defeat.
“The allotment of equality and
the franchise of the negio was never
legally accomplished. It was done
by the world, and by the declaration
of carpet-hag Legislatures—not
pressing the sentiment of of the over
thrown Confederate people. It is
no more legal to-day than an enact'
ment which, through the same in
strumeutalitv, should have
red the title of the lands of
defeated whites to their .former
slaves; and yet we are powerless to
set that outrage aside.
.The Southern negro race, twenty
years ago, was scaicely more fitted
for self-government, to appreciate
the duties of citizenship—the purity
of the ballot—than were the kanga
roos of Australian the denizens () f
Central Africa. In two decades
there has been no progress mentally,
morally or otherwise. To-day they
arc a mass of paupers, not one .u a
hundred rising above the common
herd, and if left to themselves
ten ysars, as uredly would
to the status of their savage ances
tors.
tol. ,, , Duncan then , goes on to say
’
that , . lias , taken , generations .
it ten itu
del’ , the , most f . avorable ,, circumstan
to make , the , N .. orthern , what ,
ces negro '
. , . . P , .
ie is— linmcasuia > y a ica< o *' s
. out em not iu am 1,1 ' H ,l
♦ or owing to his vastly superior
numbers and the different cirettm.
stances, cannot he brought up to the
in 300 years, if ever
lie proceeds to *’.vc van.ous rea
sons for his belief, Among them
arc the following: Hat
er whites have neither thc means nor
the inclination to cultivate the minds
a„J .rorels of the that
rru: , -, . .
Oofl against aL.tU II that ej e'eatloa
alone do tl.em no good, and
will only result in making
lous leaders of the brighter
among them; that, as mongrels im
herit the vices of both races, by
growth of any large proportion
mulattoes, the offspring of biuttish
whites and dissolutes negresecs,
the situation would be so much the
worse; that the blacks cherish race
hatred, and would be ready, if able,
to light the fires of a San Domingo
holocaust; that they love whisky,
and care nothing for honor, virtue,
or religion; that they eannot appre
oiate kindness, and- are best ruled
when treated like dogs. Col. Dun
can then adds:
“What should the real
do when Radicalism proposes to re¬
duce .Southern political strength?
Meet, them more than half way, and
suggest a return to the only legal
status of 1800, when Southern citi
zenship was confined to the white
race, Accept the proposition
Northern men and let the Southern
people resume their legal rights and
restore the franchise whore it he
longed before the revolutionary
methods struck clown sovereign
States. Reduce the vole ami strength
simply to the representation
whites. Let the South voluntarily
place it beyond peradventure that
its voice shape political contests, and
let the North, with its intelligence
a,ld manhood, act, as it will then do,
" hen fanaticisms and falsehood shall
have bist *D power, to keep the
^ 1110,1 intact, and its people harmo¬
nious and in concord. The South in
national councils, after performing
! '"*?h abnegation, would have tenf aid
influence. Our statesmen would
wield a magic wand,
“What is the excuse m Southern
localities for unfair elections? That,
'be negro is a brute, unfitted to rule
or to select the servants of the ] ICO
H 1 ’! and it granted the power, would
not only the property and
0,lt Lilt* civilization of communi
hut banish perforce in time the
whites unfortunate .enough to be
,lu ‘ re resident,unless massacueshould
preferred.”
Mr. Duncan then quotes from Rev.
!'• Dicker, of Jackson, Miss., as
to the social and moral status of the
.Southern negro, which he pictures
as of the lowest and most degraded
character; affirms) that there lias
* H ‘ 0U 1,0 improvement in their men
tal an ' 1 moral con(lit ' io »; ,hal tlle >'
will steal from each other.
The writer then takes up the suc¬
cessive Northern influences exercised
on the negro in the South by design¬
ing men for political influence—first
Kt T uUic:u D lhun as Democrats.
TUew mon ’ hc asserts > at
noU ,m « t0 P°wor; live in con
cu,)ina . g° Wlll > negressrs, and openly
defy the law. After further quoting
* lonl ^-v. Mr. Fucker to the effect
l hat negro parents arc willing pur
vo y ol ' s > a,| d 'hat even white men
lIu ‘ rc have ,K ' cn known to barter
i[wxv mu!alto daughter '<> white men.
Mr Duncan adds:
“The Mormon question has agita
tetl tI,e of tilc < ' ,iri8tian a " 1
l * 10 mora ' lst as l * ,e foulest in the
, nio "’ 1 ,Hi Mormo,ls have inte1 '
lect > Vacation, refinement, wealth,
a,,,i J' 1 ' 1 Momionism, in its extent
and iet ." c0 comparison P J am | <lan to S er the » is mighty bllt a , gulf iv "
1,1
of iniquity and immortality and
ful consequences which impend over
from the negro problem, „
Mr. Duncan trankly admits , . that ,
lie , cannot suggest a remey, and asks ,
'
the people , ot the^iorth T to put them- ,
st .] vus j n t |, e place of the Southern
whites, and says ■> that it will take all
the wi “ dom a1 " 1 l ,aUiotism of thc
"tUion’H leg.sUtore lo avert the
da,, ^ r '
A Warning S to Fai mers. ®
1 he Southern Lean Association . is
loaning considerable money in this
section. This.means that the borrow
..,-t see,, 3 give way { u, „.l,e,'»
.
man wl.« is so I,art ,,,'eWd ,»
pro.niso L it, had better tale
Greeley , , s advice , . and i it “go n- YV est.’ . „
The only hope left is to
and one of thc borrowers, who
faulted in his interest, did that
other day.—Cor. Augusta
Strange Freak of a Lunatic.
On a Sunday afternoon recently a
man supposed to be a lunatic, indulg¬
ed in a curious freak at Wicked
'f> 1 1 Oft ls,<o m Mi e. JO emu Ige e river, eight
Oiiles north of Macon.
Monday afternoon at 4 o’clock J.
F. Bird, a young farmer who lives
Iieai' Wicked Shoals, took his shot
gun and went to the river to limit
ducks.; .When he reached the bank
ho was startled by a man in themjd
dle.ofc, lie ; rivet - , Who seemed'about
■to di’yjWH* ; Before Mr. Bird could
Id*- -ussi.dwfioei •rtwf*p|W»i*ntlv
drowning man swam to the hank,
drew himself out af tlic water, and
hurriedly approaching Mr. Bird seiz
ed the shot-gun.
“Give me the gun,” he exclaimed,
“two men are lumting'mc with load¬
ed pistols, and 1 must protect my¬
self.”
Mr. Bird refused to surrender his
gun, and after a desperate struggle,
succeeded in wrenching it, from the
man. He tin'll attempted to quiet
his dripping, shivering assailant, and
partially succeeded.
Mr. Bird recognized the man as
John Simmons, a neighbor, Sim
nions had on his clothes, hut was
hatless 1 He had an empty pistol in
one pocket, and an empty whiskey
flask in another, lie was evidently
crazy.
“What is the matter with you?”
asked Mr. Bird.
“I am a hunted man,” replied Sim¬
mons. “I left Macon after the
Saturday night. When I reached
tlic shoals 1 felt warm and jumped
into tlic river to take a bath. While
swimming about I found an island.
1 landed on it, and in a big hole un¬
der a tree, I found a barroom. Throe
men were in it. One was the bar¬
keeper. I bought a flask of wfijsky
and went out. The two men follow¬
ed me and wanted me to give them
a drink. 1 refused and they drew
their pistels and tried to kill me. 1
ran to the river and jumped in and
remained in the water until 1 saw
you.”
Mr. Bird, believing that lie had a
lunatic to deal with, told Simmo .IS
that lie would protect him from the
two men, and finally induced him to
give up his pistol and empty flask.
After a prolonged parley Simmer s
was induced to go to Mr. Bird’s
house. There he was undressed and
put to bed,, and medical treatment
was given him. Yesterday morning
lie appeared to be regaining his
mind.
From farmers who live near Wick
ed Shoals it was learned that Sim
mons must have remaied in the river
from early Sunday morning until
the hour at which Mr. Bird found
him. At intervals throughout Sun
day ami Sunday night people living
near the shoals heard pistol-shots.—
These, it is supposed, were tired by
Simmons.
A gentlemen who knows Simmons
weH, says that lie was not a drink
mg man, and that while he had an
empty flask it did not necessarily
follow that he had been crazed by
drink. The gentleman could assign
no cause for Simmon’s lunacy.
Simmons is a young man. His
home is near Forsyth.
Taking the greatest depth of the
ocoan as five miles and the height of
the highest mountain as five miles
above the level of the sea, and
m ^ , nn . S ^ , the , globe tlself has
a diameter of 8 000 miles, the
»’ arat, . Ve of a11 l J JC . 8Un
ore forced on our attention, but is
better seen if wc take a circle sixty
^ ^ havir , ”, r OH its
.
M " ‘ l ‘ L P KNhlon 0 onc ,l ‘® ’’ 01
* *'° W f«V n ■!""'«•'»" «t
groove on its surface one six-tieth ot
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a lr f ” ! k
«*
ocean deep on the surface of
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] August Neiiporelyozkonszis, Wilk’esbarn’, a Pole,
! „„ t a marriage lu-nseat
■ theotlwr day.
Ternis—$1.00 per annum.
A Brave Boy.
There was a very exciting time at
the Lyon district school-house, hear
Lander, in Wyoming Territory, one
day recently, 'the noon rt-cess had
just begun, lin'd the children were
busy getting down theirdinner pails
a ,id baskets. Suddenly, with a shrill
outcly,.,oue of the girls-dropped hgr
basket, from which a big rattlesnake
rolled upon the floor. ■ Then the
teacher, a young woman, who was
not atjal! fond of the drepd tuid'ang*
concealed in the jaws of Ur? reptile,
sought refuge on thq^ topYit H’uvfsk.
and the hoys and girls got as far
away from the rattlesnake as they
could.
In such cases there is apt to be at
least one person who is hold enough
to face the present danger, and
this ease the hero was one of
school-bovs. The lad leaped out at
a window, found a large cudgel big
enough to swing with effect, and re
entered quickly.) 1 j *•*. £ The children on
the desks were in momentary tear of
attack . , by the , snake, , winch , . , lay ,
an :' in
the , middle or the room, . a tight
in ,°
coil, ready , tor , deadly , work. , All that
, . , ■ * .. , .....“PI*"- ,
ed. Us bead-like eyes danced m
ger, ami T its . tongue dashed , , . and , out
° in
in a way that sent the cold shivers
down the teacher's hack. While
things were in this state, the bo -
ran up, and just as the rattlesnake
thrust its head from the floor to find
out what its antagonist was about,
the boy hurled the cudgel.
The stroke, was at the right time,
ITio blow fell upon the proper pi ace.
After that the snake was unable to
make a long leap, and when a farm
er, hearing the outcrys, ran in, ox
whip in had, the creature was soon
cut to pieces.
• --
A Sense of Honor.
There is little doubt tint the thing
which most needs to he taught this
generation of Americans hv minis,
tors of the gospel, by lo li clerical
and lay instructors of youth, by all
who have public interest or private
authority, is a sense of honor! Ii
must be shown and insisted upon
that every position in life where out
person is employed by another to do
a certain work, imposes an obliga¬
tion to fulfil the duties of the place
with an honorable and disinterested
r f anl tI,u ,,,U ‘ l ' , ; sts oi ' llib cm
ployer. It must he shown that this
view of employment applies to the
cook, the errandboy, the cashier, the
legislator, the governor, the presi¬
dent. This is a trite, and apparently
simple, and somewhat stupid view
of the opportunities of a “smart” and
ambitious American of our day. But
unless this commonplace view of re
sponsihility is laid hold of by increas¬
ing numbers in the future of our
country, we will not say that our so¬
ciety will go to pieces, but wc say
that our calamities will increase, and
thatwe will get into troubles, and
not soon out of them, compared with
which the dangers and distresses of
the past will seem almost insignifi¬
cant.—The Century.
A singular occurrence is reported
at Hamburg, Erie county, N. Y. Car
...... 1 atridge, whose . parents live at
lie
Blasdvd, , , was playing . . “blind , man , s
buff” with companions and suddenly
cried out, “1 cannot see.” As she
was blindfolded her first exclamation
treated , . toke, . , but, her . evident
was as a
tej . ror sQ01J conv j nced her p,avn.ates !
^ ^ ^ rca „ be ,„ Slicken
blind. Her parents consulted modi
f bu 1 here lo
be no a,d f * ° r tl,C ^
1 here are almost . always-sonic lo\s,
wet places on the farm which cannot
l, 0 a ralnel | ta dry
| -.i r:r 1 too
t
'tie soil. All suck spot, ah.«M
drained out in August, or some
\ «I . >nng • ♦»,„ tuc d diy .. v fall fall season season.
j places, if ptopeily dtuiued,
j fan, tbo 111081 a,Kl il P roduct,lve is l,al to l ,ai addin 'D _°f j"
h e 4 K
■ s ° imidi to your productive land.
Leuat. ApvKvnuioHts whfiifttre
The fate* of regula¬
ted by law, are payable in ad¬
vance.
Bills time for advcftising.iireduc after first insef- at
any the
tn'ni, unless otherwise arrang¬
ed.
50c; Tkwms: B mouths, 1 year, 25c. $1 *6months,
Southern Lumber.
The 'Northwestern Lufnberrtian ex¬
presses the opinion that the present
years will be a much better one for
the lumber business than last year
was. T here arc indications of great¬
er activity in building, and an in¬
creased demand will be followed
doubtless by better prices, r.
There is one thing to which ,tho
Lumbciman calls attention that is
deserving more than passing notice
from South-si n producers. It isdhe
growing demand for the yellow pino
of ?l>n South for qar building pur¬
poses. The Lumberman says that
“the trade is greatly hampered by
the failure of saw mill men to prop¬
erly manufacture what is needed. To
be saleable car sills must be cutevry
accurately to odd dimensions.” Those
who supply the ear builders say til at
they could find a profitable sale for
much larger quantity of Southern
yellow pine for car building purpos*
os if they could get just what they
want,
... 1 Southern sawmill . hav6
no men
the reputation , of .. , being . intelligent .
aiul , shrewd. , , „„ 1 hey not , ... likely , to ,
are
’
■ . connected , with . , their , .
miss any points .
Urimm It is prc.bai.te that if they
do , not . fully e „ meet . the demand , , upon
them tor .. all ,, the different ..... , kinds • , of -
lumber, with which they lielpto sup¬
ply the market, it is because the
prices of certain kinds are not suffi¬
ciently high to he an inducement to
give attention to them.
Southern forests are constantly in¬
creasing in value, and the time is not
far distant when timber lands of
Georgia, that arc now being sold for
dollar or two an acre, will com
inand very large prices. The atten¬
tion of the country is being directed
more and more to the South for its
lumber supply, and a few year#
hence those who are fortunate
enough to own large tracts of pine
land will be rated among the wealthy
nun.
-o
A Bloomfield (Ivy.) fanner, while
moving out to Kansas a few day«
ago, chartered a box ear into which
he put eight horses, with his two
sons and a dog to look after them.
The boys had comfortable quarters
in one end of the car, and, as there
was plenty of room, the thrifty old
farmer put m two beehives. As they
were jolting along the bees got
warmed up and came out to inquire
what it all nie/it. The response of
tlic hoys and the dog was as lively
as possible. All made for the door,
the hoys yelling to stop the train
and fighting the bees with their hats.
Tlic dog was first out, yelping and
howling, and the others came tumb
Dig, after. By the time theconduc
to1 *1 |0 Bain stopped and help
arrived, the bees were out in full
force and furiously mad. It was on*
ly after a pitched battle the hives
were removed and the horses saved.
Sonic of the bees got into the pas
scn o CT c(>iudu ' H > wlloro lhe v n,ad »
-
an< * wa,IU ^ ol l jas *
but after a hard fight they
were
Printer’s Ink.
Don’t expect an advertisement to
bear fruit iu on night.
A newspaper is an index of a town.
Merchant, , . the , index? . ,
is vour name :n
Bread is the st iff of life, and ad¬
vertising is the staff of business.’
Y’ou can’t eat enough in a week to
last a year, and you can’t advertise
°" ... » ,Uu ...
A ll.mg wortli doing . . . h do- .
is wor
^ th V* worth adve.Ua.ug
People who advertise only once in
three months forget that most folks
cannot remember any longer than
,
*
<1oi.e...m« ... -id ortisintr • u. J. i n U tue«l
is . like teaung out the dam because
T *»-*«
| L-™"‘ “yT"’*'
stole J*-T 111 an e i I, f Doation, oeatio, sur- „„
roHndwd b attractive signs, is a su
per j or advertisement; for the experi*
mice of most enterprising better spend merchants
i» that it pays to less i«
1,1,1 amDuoio oii adtcilising.