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DUBLIN, GEORGIA, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 10, 1870.
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MY
MARY
She bloomed in the country,
Where sunny summer flings
Her rosy anrts about, the earth.
And brightest blessings brings.
Health was her sole inheritance,
And grace her only dower ;
I never dreamed the wildwooil
Contained so sweet a flower.
Far distant from the city,
And inland from the sea,
My Mary bloomed in goodness,
As pure as pure could be.
She caught her dewy freshness
From hill and mountain bower,
1 never dreamed the wildwood
Contained so sweet a flower.
The raiubow must have lent her
Some of its airy grace;
The Wild rose parted with a blush
That nestled on her face.
Tllclsunbcums got entangled in
The long waves of her hair,
Or she had never grown to be
So modest4iud so fair.
The early birds have taught her
Their joyous matin song.
And some-of their soft innocence,
She’s been with them so long.
And for her now, if need be
I’d part with wealth and power ;
I never dreamed the wild wood
Contained so sweet a flower,
WHY THE SEA IS SALTY.
Once niton a time, but. it was long
|rc- were two brothers—one
h itnd one poor. Now, on
Christmas eve the poor one hadn’t so
much as a crumb in the bouse, either
meat or bread, so lie went to his
brother tb a.sk him for something to
keep Chriatmas with, in God's mum.
It was not the first time his brother
was forced to help him, and you may
fancy be wasn't very glad to see bis
face, bn! be said:
‘•If you will do wlmt I ask you to
do, I’ll give.yon a whole flitch of ba
con.'''
So flic poor brother said he
would do anything, and was full of
thanks; •
‘•Well, here is the flitch.” said the
rich brother, ‘’and now go straight
to hell.”
“What I have given my word to
do I must stick to,” said (he other;
so lie took the fli.eli and set. off. He
walked the whol^day, and at dusk
lie came to a place where ho saw a
very bright light.
“Maybe this is the place,” said the
man to himself. So lie turned agide
and t he first thing lie saw was an old,
old man, with a. long white beard,
who stood in an but-honse hewing
woftd for the Christinas tire.
“Good even,” said the man with
the flitch.
“The same to you; whither are yon
going so late?” said the man. •
“Oh! Pm going to hell if I only
knew the right way,” answered the
poor man. - _
“Well, von arc not far wrong, for
this is hell,” answered the old man;
“when you get inside they all will be
for buying your flitch, for meat is
source in hell; hut. mind you, don’t
sell it unless yon can gct-tlie hand
queru which stands behind the door
for it. When von come out Twill
teach yon how to handle the quern,
for its good to grind almost cvcry-
So the man with, the flitch thank
ed the other for his good advice, and
gave a groat knock at the devil’s
door.
When he got in, everything went
as the old man had said. AH the
devils, great and small, came swurrn-
ing up to him like ants around an
anthill, and each tried to out bid the
other for the flitch.
“Well!” said the man, “by rights
my,old dame aud I ought to have
this flitch for our Christmas dinner,
but since you have all set vour hearts
on it, I suppose I must give it'up to
you; but if I sell it at all, I’ll have
for it that quern bohind the door
yonder.”
At first the devil wonldn’t hear of
such a bargain, and chaffered and
haggled with the man; hut he stuck
to what he had said, and at last the
devil had to part with his quern.
When the man got out into the vard
lie asked the old woodcutter how he
was to handle the quern, and after
he hud hom'd how to use it, ho thank
ed the old man and went home
fast he could, but still the clock lmd
struck twelve on Christmas eve be
fore he had reached his own door.
“Where in the world have yon
been?” said his old dame
“here have I sat hour after .hour
waiting and watching, without even
two sticks to lay together under the
Christmas broso.”
“Oh!” said the mao, “I could not
get. had; before, for i had to go
long way, first for ono thing and
flicn for another, but now you shall
see what you shall sec.”
So lie put. the quern on the table
and bade it it first, to grind out lights
•then a table cloth, then meat, then
ale, and so on till they liud gotevery
thing that was nice for ;i Christ
mas fare. He had only to speak the
word, and the quern ground out what
he wanted. The old duffle stood by
blessing her stars, and kept oil ask
ing where he had got this wonderful
quern, but lie wouldn’t tell her.
* “It's all ono where I got it; you
see the quern is a good one, and the
mill stream never freezes, that’
enough.”
So lie ground meat and drink and
dainties enough to last till Tweltli
Day, and on the third day he asked
his friends and kin to his house and
gave a great feast. Now, when his
brother saw all that, was on the table
and all that was behind in the lai
dor, ho grew spiteful and wild, for
lie couldn’t bear that his brother
should have anything.
“’Twos on Christmas eve,” lie
said to the rest, “he was in such
straits lie came and asked for a mbr
sel of food !n God’s name, and now
lie gives a feast, as if lie were Count
or King;” .and lie turned to his
brother and said ; •
But whence, in. hell's namo, have
you got all this wealth?”
^Vorn behind the door,” answer
ed the owner of the quern, for lie
didn’t care to let the cat out of the
hag. But later in the evening, when
lie had got a drop too much, lie
could hot keep Ins secret any longer,
and bronght / out the qu<Trh and said
“There,.von see what lias gotten
me all this wealth;” and so lie made
the quern grind all kinds of things.
When' his brother saw it lie set his
heart on. having the qneVii. and after
a deal of coaxing he got it; hut lie
had to pay SHOO for it, and his broth
or bargained to keep it until buy
harvest, for he thought, if I keep it
till then I can make if grind meat
and drink that will last, for years.
So you may fancy the quern didn’t
grow rusty for want of work, and
when hay harvest came the rich
brother got it, hut the-other took
care not to teach him how to handle
it.
It was evening when the rich
brother got the quern home, and
next morning he toJd his wife to go
out into the hay .field and toss while
the mowers cut the grass, and lie
would stay at home and got the
dinner ready. So, when dinner time
drew near he put the quern on the
kitchen table and said:
“Grind herrings and broth, and
grind them good and fast.”
So the quern began to grind her
rings and broth ; first of all the dish
es full, then all the tubs full, and so
on till the kitchen floor was quite
covered. Then the man twisted and
twirled at the quern to get it to stop,
but for all his twisting and fingering
the quern went on grinding, and in
a little while the broth rose so high
that the man was like to drown. So
lie threw open the kitchen door and
rdn into the parlor; but it wasn’t long
before the quern had ground the par
lor full too, and it was only at the
risk of his life that the man could
get hold of the latch of the house
door through the stream of broth.
When he got the door open he
ran out and set off down the road,
with the stream of broth and her
rings at his heels, roaring likea wa
terfall over the whole farm.
Now, his old dame, who was m
the field tossing, hay, tlio’t it a long
time to dinner, aud at last she said:
“Well, the master doesn’t call us
homo we may as well. go; maybe ho
finds it hard work to boil the broth
and will be glad of my help.”
The men were williug enough, so
thoy sauntered homewards; but just
as they.gota little way up the hill
what slio’d they meet but herrings,
and broth, and bread, all running,
and dashing and splashing together
in a stream, and the master himself
running before them for his life, and
as ho passed them ho bawled out,
“Would to heaven each of you had a
hundred throats; hut take careyou’ro
not drowned in the broth.”
Away he wont, as though the evil
one wore at his heels, to his brother’s
house, and bogged him for God’s
sake to take back the quern that in
stunt; for, said lie:
“If it grinds only ono hour longer,
the whole parish will be swallowed
up by herrings and broth.”
But his brother would not. hear of
taking it back till the other paid
him down $800 more.
So the poor brother got both the
money and the quern, and it wasn’t
long before ho sot up a farm-house
far liner than the one in which his
brother lived, and with the quern lie
ground so much gold that he cover
ed it with plates of gold; and as the
farm lay by- the seaside the golden
house gleamed and glistened far over
the sea. All who sailed hv pu t ashore
to see the rich man in his golden
house, and to see the wonderful
quern,' the fame of which spread far
and wide till there was nobody who
hadn’t heard tell of it.-
So one day there came a skipper
who wanted to see the" quern, and
the first thing ho asked was if it.
could grind salt.
“Grind salt!” said the owner, “I
should just think it could. It can
grind anything.”
When the skipper heard that he
said he must have the quern, cost
wlmt. it would; for if ho only had it
lie thought he should he rid of his
long voyages across stormy seas for a
lading of salt,; Well, at first the
man wouldn’t hear of parting with
the quern, hut the skipper begged
and prayed so hard that at last ho let
him have it; but he lmd to pav many
thousands of • dollars for it. Now,
when the skipper had got, the quern
>n his hack lie soon-made off with it
for lie was afraid lest the man should
change his mind; so lie had uo time
to ask how to handle the quern, but
got on board his ship as fast, as he
could and sot sail. WJion ho had
sailed a good way off ho brought tho
quern on- deck and said :
“Grind salt, and grind both good
and fast.”
Well,'the quern began to g ind
salt so that it poured out, like water,
and when the skipper got the ship
full lie wished to stop the quern, but
whichever way he turned it, was no
good, the quern kept grinding on
and the heap of salt grow higher and
higher, and at last down sunk the
ship.
There lies the quern at tlie bottom
of the sea and grinds away at this
very day; and that is the reason why
the sea is suit. v
j YtILL ARP’S SUNDAY CHAT.
In Which Ho Becomes Somewhat
Domestic in His Views.
Atlanta Constitution.
It’s a hard winter, shore. Maybe
it’s because we havenb got. used to
country life—living five miles from a
bottle of paregoric, or a gallon of
kcroseno, or a plug of tobacco, or a
spool of thread, or a pound of soda-r-
with nothing to varygato tho monot
ony but a passing drove of mules
every day or two—no visitors, no
poddlers, no sowing machino agonts,
no sunshine, uo nothing, but to sit
by tho fire and read, and fool blue,
und look out of the window, anti
amuse the children. There are no
brick sidewalks nor paved stroots to
walk on,; and the big road to town
has lost its .bottom and reminds One
of the way old father Bunyan’s pi I
grim traveled when trying to reach
the promised land. I had hoped tho
grand jury would present it as an
unabated .liuisuncc, hub tluy were so
busy presontin tho governor and
Murphy and other fnrrin matters,
they overlooked our home concerns!
Maybe they’ll attend to etn when
thoy get through with the cipher dis
patches.
Everywhere is mud, and liiiro, and
slush. When it aint freozin its
tliawin or ruiniti, and the children
and dogs track mud all over tho
house. We cant keep cm in and wo
cant aeqnemout,. Tho hoys have
got traps 3ot in the swamp, and are
obliged to go to cm every fifteen
minutes, and if they catch a bird its
as big a thing as kill in atuolofant.
They built a brick furnace in the
back yard, and have been cook in on
it for two days, baking lioecakos and
fry in eggs, aud hoilin coffofs and
their afflicted mother has mighty
near surrendered pfor -she cant keep*
a sjtiHot, nor a spoon, not* a knife,
nor a plate in the kitchen, and so
she tried to kick the furnace over,
and now goes about limpid with a
sore too. Some of the older ones
have found a elmlk quarry in a ditch
and taken a notion to drawin and
sculpture, and made pictures of dogs
and ehiekhns, and snakes all round
the house on tho outside; and while
the good mother Was a cook in the
two youngest ones chalked over tho
inside as good as they could. The
mantel-piece, and jams, arid doors,
and bedsteads, and sewin machine,
and window-glass wore all ring-stroa
ked and striped, and as I eonldotit
do justice to the subject myself. I
waited for reinforcements. When
the maternal ancestor appeared,
was n peopin through the crack of
the door. Hlie paused upon the
threshold like an actor plaviri high
tragedy in a theater. “Merciful
fathers!” then a long and solem pans.
“Was there over such a set upon the
face of the earth? What shall I do?
Aint it enough to run anybody dis
tracted? Hero I’ve worked and
worked to make this old house look
decent, and nqw look at it! I've a
good mind to wring your little necks
for you. Did ever a mother have
such a time as I have—cant leave ino
one miunit that they aint into inis
your old tom cat,” said I; “Ourl had
him fuston'ed up in that, nail kog
that’s got a hen’s nest, in it.” “Why,
Carl, what upon oarth did von put
the cat iii there for?” “Why, main-
ma, bo's a sot.tin, and I wantod him
to lay somo littlo kittens; Mo and
Jessio wants some kittons.”
“Well, it does look like everything
was born to trouble, as*tho sparks fly
upward. The old spotted smv has
eaten half of her pigs, and tho pota
toes are rotting, arid Daisy has gone
dry, and wo will have no more butter
till spring. William, liadent von
bettor , buy a lottory ticket ? Who
knows hut wo might draw.tho capital
prize?: I toll you I’m getting awful
tirod of being poor.” “Blessed are
the itiouk,”' 'said I, “for they shall
inherit the, earth.” “240 acres is us
much of the oarth as I want,”
said Mrs.' . Arp, “and more,
too. I ! d rjitlior have a few,carpets;
and .sumo-nice clothes, und a carriage
and horsos, and two or throe old-
fashioned darkies to do the work and
look after tho children—that's wlmt
I want.” “Blessed uro the poor In
spirit,” said I, “for theirs is the
kingdom of heaven.” “Well, I’m
poor enough in spirit; goodness
knows,” said sho, “and when every
thing is quiet, arid the ‘children
asleep, there’s a. comfort in rouding
about blessings in tfio distaneo ; hut
you might as well preach serenity to
a man going over Niagara Falls as to
talk of meekness to a mother that’s
raisin those kind of children.” “Its
in the stock,’’ said I; “the Arps al
ways was mighty hard to raise, and
you’ve got along with om so far titna-
zinly well. Thereaint, uunther.ontan
in the world could have done it,”
This last remark made everything
calm and Boroon, and “tliores no loss
on our side.” Yoiirs,
Bill Atrr.
A rash cow, on a farm about four
miles from Columbus, on Sunday
last, put its tongue through a crack
in a stable in search of food. A
vicious horse in the aforesaid stable
mniediately seized thatcow’s tongue
between his teeth and bit off about
three inches of it. The cow is in a
critical condition, und no doubt now
wishes she, had kept her tongue be
tween her own teeth. A town cow—
ono of tlioso from Augusta, for in
stance—would never have been caught
up in that way.
A writer, describing a bevy of i
girls, says: “each face was a picture.”
Painted by her own hands, wo* pre
sume.—Norristown Herald.
chief and its been the samo tiling
over and aver, and over with all of
cm for the lust*29 years. I’d rather
beeiran old maid a thousand times
over.’ I wish there wasont a child in
the world—yes I do!” (Looks at em
mournfully for a minnit.) “Come
here, Jessie, von little pale-faced
darling. Mamina aint mad with
yon; no,, you're just the sweetest
thing in tljc world; aud poor little
Carl’s broken finger makes my hoart
ache every time I look at it. He
did have tho sweetest little hand be
fore that boy mashed it all to pieces
with his nmal: aud there’s that great
scar on his head, where the brick fell
on him, and another oyjr his eye,
where he fell on the hatchet. I won
der if I ever will raise you poor little
things ; you look like little orphans ;
tuko your chalk und mark some more
if you want to.” When 1 came in
she was a helpin om make a bob-tail
dog on tho closet-door. “I’ve found
It is well known that very largo-
grained gunpowder is now*used in
tho hoavioat rifled camion, as such
guns undergo much less strain from
powder of this kind, which biirns
slowly, than would ho the caso 'with
a more suddonly-cxplosivo agent.
Hence has arisen a maxim among
modern artillery officers; Tho largor
the gun, the larger the grains of pow
der. In England, tho inch -ami -a-
liulf oubos, formerly employed in tho
oiglmy-ton grin at Woolwich have gi
ven place to six-sided prisms, about
an inch thick at tho base. A charge
of folTr hundred und sixty pounds of
this prismatic powder 1ms boon fired
from that gun with less strain upon
it than was formerly exerted by
charges of the other kind a hundred
pounds lighter. Tho idea of the
prisms eanio from Germany.
There is something singularly re
markable in tho fact that there is a
citizen of Connecticut who is said to
bo well educated, win) has seen most
of the world that is worth Hefting,
having spent upwards of forfy-oigiit
yours in China and Japan, and lias
secured a professorship in Yale Col
lege, and yet, in spite of all this,
persists in parting his name in the
middle!
London, Fcbnmry-3.—The Brit
ish Medical Journal publishes the
following: “Tho Vienna Medico-chi
rurgical Centoal Blatt, of January
24, stutes that the origin of tho pes
tilence in Russia is as follows: A
Cossack returning from war to Wet-
lianka brought his lady love a shawl
which was ♦ probably a part of his
spoil. Tho girl wore it two days and
sickened with all the symptoms of
the plague and died. During the
following four days the other mem
bers of her family sickened and died.
The disease spread rapidly but the
local authorities did not pay any
attention to it till liulf the inhabi
tants of thevllago had died, and
those remaining alive wore unable to
btiyy tho victims.”
No mutter how good nattired u
man may be, lie will invariuhly get
mad when ho discovers that there is
no towel in tho room and is com pol
led to dry his face op tin hod quilt.
A Warning to Newspaper Stop
pers.
■ y . A certain man got, mad at-the edi
tor and slopped Ins paper. The next,
week he sold all his corn at four
coats below tho market priori; then
his properly Was sold for taxes he-
cuuso Iii' only hoard ol tho con vent ion
tlireo days after iI lmd adjouruiM; he
lost, ton dollars betting on Mollie
.McCarty t-wo days after Ton Broook
hud won tho raco; lie was arrested
and fined eight d-.lluis lor hunting
on Sunday , and ho paid $300 for a
lot of forged notes I hat lmd been ad
vertised two woeks, and the public
cautioned not to negotiate them. Ho
thou paid a big Irishman, with a leg
likea derrick, to kick him all tho
way to tho newspaper office! wlioii ho
paid four years subscription in ad
vance, and made the editor sign arid
swear to au agreement to knock him
down and rob, him if'ho over ordered
Ins papor stopped again.—Truthful
Rwhuiir/e.’.
Tlie Democratic Stntosineii^Uoin-
ing South. j ..I
Philadelphia Times. ;
Siiuuol J. TiMon evidently clops
not mean to let Souafcor ^hurman
get ahead of him in the affections of
the solid south. Some time, ago tljc
library societies at Chapel jlill uni
versity, North Carolina, engaged Mr.
Thurman as their orator for next
Juno.* Now the boys at Trinity'col
lege, also in the land of tar-heels,
have prevailed upon Mr. Tildon to
orimment theircoiiiiiio’neemclrit. Sen
ator Bayard, who has a son at tho
university of Virginia-, wUl hold forth
there, doubtless, arid from the way
tilings look at this inohiont the coriri-
t-ry liidj fair to witness the sublime?
spectacle of a whole army of demo-
ora tie statesmen flocking toward tho
cotton fields at the close of t'lio pres
ent academic yoiir.
Her Grandfather Whipped Wash
ington.
Lqwsvjllk, Ky., February 8.—
Mrs. Eliza Lunghorii died yesterday
in this city, aged eighty-onp years.
She belonged to families woll-known
in the history of Virginia and Ken
tucky. Iler grandfather, William
Payne, hud ajicrsonul difficulty with
Geiioial Washington, during which
Puyno knocked the father of his
country down in the Alexandria, Vu.,
coni't-houso yard.
The pastors’ association, of Merit-
phis, through a committee, beg tlmt
there shall bo no Mardi Gras this
season. Thoy say: “Wo have recent
ly bqen the recipients of the world’s
sympathy and charity. More recent^
ly still, wo have had to appeal to the
sympathies and ask tho aid of oiii-
logislatnrc for relief. ,Now, it seems,
to us tlmt self-respect and due regard!
for the opinions of-our follow-citizonsi,
abroad, should prevent the usual,
carnival of February. Tlioro is too'
much want of the needs ariesof life
—too much apprehension of epidem
ics; thero are too many unemployed
persons-*—too njiiny nowly-mndo
graves—t o o many , widows and
orphans—too many broken hearts,,
for any such merry-making as Mardi:
Gras.” •
The state of Maryland 1ms just
built a work-house for tramps, near
Baltimore, at a cost of $324,000, ujw
on a plot of ground 500 feet long ondi.
300 wido, surrounded by u liigh.w.all..
Tho interior is made up of work
shops und cells. Tho statiijo for
commitment reads: “It shall 1$ tho,
duty of every justice of poaco of' tUe -
state to euutfo to’ bo arrested and, mi
duo proof, to commit any vagrant,
or habitually disorderly person, not
insane, to this institution for a pc,
riod of not less than two or more tlmi)
six months.” It is expeoted tlmt
this will very soon rid the state of
Maryland of the tramp nuisance.
The natives of Afghanistan find
fault with the British troops, because
they fight on Sunday instead of hold
ing religious services.—Free Press.
