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BY D. B. FREEMAN.
Soft Sawdfcr ttml Human Natm*.
BY THOMAB CHANDLER HALIBURTON.
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In the course of ft journey which Mr.
Slick performs in company with the
Reporter of his humors, the latter asks
him how, in a country so poor as
Novia Scotia, he contrives to sell so
many clocks. „“Mr. Slipk pausejl,”
Continues the author, ‘‘as if consider,
ing the propriety of answering the
question, and, looking me in the face,
said, in a confidential tone: “Why, I
don’t care if I do tell you, for the mar
ket is glutted, and I shall quit the cir
cuit. It is done f>v a knowledge of
syft sawder and human natur. But
here is Deacon Flint’s,” said he; “I
have but one clock left, and 1 guess I
will sell it to him.”
“At the gate of a most comfortable
looking farm house stood Deacon Flint,
a respectable old man, who had under
stood the value of time better than
most of his neighbors, if one might
judge from the appearance of every-,
thing about*him. After the usual sal
utation, an invitation to alight was ac
cepted by Mr. Slick, who said ‘he wish
ed to take leave of Mrs. Flint before
he left Colchester.’ We had hardly
entered the house before the clock ma
ker pointed to the view from the win
dow, and, addressing himself to me,
Said; ‘lf l was to tc 11 them in Con*,
neciicut there was such a, farm at this
away down east here in Nova ' cotia.
they wouldn’t believe mo—why, there
ain’t such a location in all New Eng-
land. The deacoD has a hundred acres
Of dike’—‘Seventy,’ said the deacon,
'only seventy.’ ‘Well, seventy ; but
then there is your fine deep bottom ;
why, I coul i run a ramrod into
Theft there i* that water privilege,
Worth three or four thousand dollars,
twice a good as what Governor Cass
paid fifteen thousand for. I wonder,
deacon, you don’t, put up a Carding mill
on it; the same works Would carry a
turning-lathe,, a shingle machine, a cir
cular saw, grind bark, arid’—‘Too old,’
said the deacon, “too old for all those
speculations.’ ‘.Old 1’ repeated the clock
mak r, ‘not you ; why you are worth
half a dozen of the young men we see
nowaday?.’ The deacon was pleased.
“Your beasts, dear me, your beasts
must be put in and have a feed ;” spy
ing which; life weht‘ but to order them
to be taken to the stable. As the old
gentleman closed the door after him,
Mr. Slick drew near to me, and said in
an undertone : “That is what I call
mft mwder . An Englishman would
pass that man as a sheep passes a hog
in a pasture. —without lookiug him.
Now, I find”—Here his lectuoe on soft
sawder was out short by the entrance
of Mrs. Flint. “Jist come to say good
bye, Mrs, Flirtt.” “What! have you
sold all of your clocks?” “Y&s, and
very low, too, for money is scarce, and
I wish to close the consarn ; no, I am
wrong in saying all, for I have just one
left. Neighbor Steel’s wife asxed td
have the refusal of it, but 1 guess I
won’t sell it. I had but two of them,
this one and the teller ot it, that I sold
Governor Lincoln. General Green,
Secretary of States for Maine, said he’d
give me fifty dollars for this here one—
it has composition wheels, and patent
axles; it is a beautiful article—-a leal
first chop—no mistake, genuine super
fine; but I guess I’ll take it back ; and
besides, Squire Hawk might think it
hard that I did not give him the offer.”
“Dear me,” said Mrs. Flint, “I should
lixe to see it; where is it ?” “It is in
a chest of mine over the way at Tom
Tape’s store ; I guess he can ship it on
toEastport” “That’s a good man,”
said Mrs. Flint, “jist let’s look at it.”
Mr. Slick, willing to oblige, yielded to
these entreaties, and soon produced the
clock—a gaudy, highly varnishtd,
trumphery looking affair. He placed it
on the chimney piece, where its beau
ties were pointed cut, and duly appre
ciated by Mrs. Flint, those admiration
was about ending in a proposal, when
Mr. Flint returned from g ving his di
rections about the care of the horses.
The deacon praised the clock ; he, too.
thought it a handsome one ; bu. the'
deacon was a prudent man ; he had a
watch, he was sorry, but lie had no oc
casion for a clock. ‘.T guess you’re in
the wrong iurrow this time, deacon ; it
ain’t for sale,” said Mr. Slick ; “and if
it was, I reckon neighbor Steele’s wife
would have it, for she gives mo no
peace about it.” Mrs. Flint said that
Mr. Steele had euough to do, poor man,
to pay his, interest, without buying
docks for his wife
“It’s no consarn of mine,” said Mr.
Slick, “as long as he pays me, what h*
has to do ; but I guess I don’t want to
sell it; and, besides, it comes too high;
that clock can’t be made at Rhode Is
land under forty dollars. Why, it
ain’t possible !” said the clockmaker, in
apparent surprise, lookiug at his watch ;
“why, as I’m alive, it is four o’clock,
and if I haven’t been two hours here
—how on earth shall I reach River
Philip to-night ? I’ll tell you what,
Mrs. Flint, I’ll leave the dock in your
care till I return on my way to the
States—l’ll set it agoing, and put it to
the right time.” As soon as this oper
ation was performed, he deliveied the
key to the deacon with a sort of serio
comic injunction to wind up the dock
every Saturday night, which Mrs. Ffit
paid she wou and taka care should be
done, and promised to remind her
band of it, in case he should chance to
forget it.
“That,” said the clockmaker, as soon
as we were monnted, “that I eall hu
man natur / Now, that clock is sold
for forty dollars—it cost me just six
Culljotm {Times
dollars and fifty cents. Mrs. Flint will
never let Mrs. Stele have the refusal
—nor will the deacon learn until I call
for the clock, that having once indulged
in the use of a superfluity, it is diffi
cult to give it up. We can do without
any article of luxury we have never
had, but when once obtained, it ia not
in human natur to surrender involunta
rily. Of fifteen thousand sold by my
self and partners in this province,
twelve thousand were left in this mans
ner, and only ten clocks were ever re
turned—when we called for them they
invariably bought them. We trust to
soft sawder to get them into the house
and to human natur that they never
come out of it.”
The Futiire ot Parties.
There is a great deal of discussion
nowadays about the future of parties.
The inaugural address was such a po’it
ical bombshell as caused u grievous lam
entation among politicians of both
sides. The evident invention and ex-,
pectation of the President that his
Southern policy shall divide the Dem
ocrats of the South and draw into the
Republican ranks a considerable part
of the intelligent and property-owning
class there caused alarm in the Demo
cratic camp ; the more because they
were conscious that if the new South
ern policy were carried out with tact,
and kindly good faith gratitude' to the
.Pr-Mudeut vvouid combine wth other
causes to make a very serious break in
their ranks, and also because they saw
that iocal rivalries were already under
mining their party organization iu al
most every Southern State.
Indeed, the publication of the inaug
ural address produced at once precisely
this effect. In Washington Senators
like Bayard, Randolph, Kernan, Gor*
don, Lamar, Hill, Garland and many
others at ouce declared that they, would
suppoi t 'Mr. Hayes in the fulfillment of
all be had promised; and these men,
Demociats all of them, but lovers of
country above party, by their firm atti
tude broke down the Republican plot
to defeat the President’s Cabiuet nom
inations. All over the county the ad
dress was welcomed by the best Demo
crats as heartily as by the host Repub
licans ; both saw in it a happy promise
of national regeneration, and the sore
ness over the manner iu which Mr. H.
was made j President gave way to the
hope that his rule would be beneficent
for the country.
If he attempts to shape his course as
to please both wings of his own pfifty
he must necessarily fail, auddad, not in
making the party harmonious, but in
fulfilling his pledges to the country. —
The promises off his inaugural address
are at irreconcilable variance with the
spirit, the purposes and the interests of
one large part of the Republican party
and oi a great many of its influential
leaders. These not only do not believe
iu his policy ; they detest it with all
their hearts, because if it should suc
ceed it would blast their hopes and
defeat their plans and aims. If, for in
stance, he me*ns to restore the two
Southern States to local self-govern
ment and bring the country back under
the shelter of the Constitution, how
can he hope in doing so to conciliate
or secure the sincere support of those
Republican leaders —the Blaines, Lo
gans, Butlers and others like them—
who live by the “bloody shirt,” aud all
whose future plans look to a perpetua
tion of the “solid South” issue ? If he
means to reform the civil service how
can he look for the co-operation of the
machine politicians in his party?— N.
Y. Herald.
Obeying Orders.
A certain General, supposing his fa
vorite horse dead, ordered a soldier to go
and skin him.
“What! is Silvertail dead?” asked
Pat
“What is that to you ?” replied the
officer. “Do as I bid you, ard ask no
questions.”
Pa; went about hs business, and in
an hour or two he returned
“Weil, Pat. where have you been alt'
this-time?” asked the General.
“Skinning your horse, your hon
_ __ n
or.
“Does it take nearly two hours to
perform such an operation ?”
“No, your honor : but then you see
it took about half un hour to catch
him.”
“Catch him ! was he alive ?”
“Yes, your honor, and I could not
skin him alive, you know.”
“Skin him a ive ! did you kill him ?
*‘l*6 W 6 Tuire l did, yer honor ! and
sure you know I must obey orders with
out asking any questions.”
“’Tis better to have loved and lost
than never to have loved at all.” Of
course it is, but that is not one of the
saddest things that enters into a young
man’s life by any means. When he
has wasted the midnight oil and ink
aud paper in getting up a paragraph for
the local, then waited anxiously till
Saturday to see it in print, and after
reading the paper all through finds it
turns up missing—then, ah ! then
comes in the terrible reaction, and he
could wish that he or the editor were
dead, it matters not which.
An Indianapolis girl hung up her
stocking, and the boys, for fun, threw
in a reaper and mower, and two barrel
organs. Their motto was: “Though
lost to view, to memory dear.”
CALHOUN, GA„ SATURDAY, APRIL 21. 1877.
thi' Mother of Washington*.
George W. P. Curtis, in describing
the beautiful simplicity and dignity of
Washington’s mother, lelates the fol
lowing incident in regard to a brilliant
ball given in honor of the victorious
General at Fredericksburg :
“The town was crowded with the of
ficers of the French and American ar
mies, and with gentlemen from all the
country around, who hastened to wel
come the conqueror of Cornwallis. The
citizens made arrangements for a splen
did ball, to which the mother of VVash
ington was specially invited. She ob
served that, although her dancing days
were pretty well over, she should fee)
happy in contributing to t lie general
festivity.” The foreign officers were
anxious to see the mother of their
chief. They had heard indistinct ru
mors respecting her remarkable life
and character, and, forming their judg
meats from European examples, they
were prepared to expect in the mother
that glare and show which would have
attached to the parents of the great in
the Old World. How were they sur
prised when the matron, leaning on the
arm of her son, entered the room ? She
was arrayed in the very plain yet be
coming garb worn by the Virginia lady
of the olden time. Her address, al
ways dignified and imposing, was cour.
teous though reserVed. >Shq received
the ’complimentary attentions which
were profusely paid her wi h ut evi c
ing ti:> a igh !■<;■.-1 eievatiou, and at an
early hour, wishing the company much
enjoyment of their pleasures, observing
that it was time for old people to be at
home, retired. The fo r eign officers
were amazed to behold one whom so
many causes contributed to elevate, pre
serving the even tenor of her life, while
such a blaze cf glory shone upon her
name and offspring. The European
world furnished no examples of such
magnanimity. Names of ancient lore
were heard to escape from their lips,
and they observed that “if .such were
the matrons of America, it was not
wonderful the sons were illustrious”
Mary Washington died at the age of
eighty-seven, soon after the death of
her illustrious son. Mrs. Hale sttes
that “on the 7th of May, 1833, at
Fredericksburg, the corner-srone of her
monument was laid by Andrew Jackson,
then President of the United States;”
lie closed his remarks with these
words :
“Fellow citizens, at yodr lequest and
in your name, I now deposit this plate
in the spot destined for it, and when
the American pilgrim shall in after
age 9 come up to this high and holy
place and lay his hand upon this sacred
column, may he recall the virtues of
her who sleeps beneath, and depart
with his affections purified and his pie
ty strengthened, while he invokes bless
ings upon the mother of Washington.”
The monument is inscribed, “Mary, the
Mother of Washington.”
The tmpnrtarbablc Passenger*.
A train boy, on an Illinois road,
foui and rather a tough customer in an
old gentleman of composed mein, who
received all shots as if he were bullet
proof. The boy bombarded him with
papers, and pamphlets, and car. dies, and
bound books, and nuts, and fruits of
one kind and another. But it was no
good. Had the elderly party been
lined inside with brass he could not
have shown gieater indifference. The
boy fretted under his treatment, as was
plain to be seen, tie had passed the
cigars some thirty times, and without
success, when he said, in a tone of des
peration :
“Try some cigars, and if they don’t
kill you in a inoptli I’ll give tou the
money back.”
The man was somewhat amuseebby
that, but he had the boy. He said :
“If I am dead how can you give me
the money ?”
“I’ll give it to your family, then.”
“But l ain’t got no family.”
“■Well, I’ll give it to the family next
door,” persisted the boy.
“But thete ain’t no family next door,”
St 1 the man. with the smile lengthen..
•n„ ills face.
“Oh, there'll he one move in whan
they hear you are dead,” was the quick
reply.
The elderly passenger shut up like a
borrowed knife.
Slander.
Never use a lady’s name at an im
proper time, or in mixed company.
Never make assertions about her that
you think untrue, or allusions which
you think that 9he herself would blush
to hear When you meet with men
who do net scruple to use women’s
names in a reckless manner, shun them;
they are the very worst members of the
community ; men lost to every sense of
honor, every feeling of humanity.—
Many a good and worthy woman’s
character has been forever ruined and
her heart Droken by some villian, and
repeated where it should not have been,,
and in presence of those whoso little
judgment could not deter them from
circulating tho fool and bragging re
port. A slauder is soon propagated,
aud the smallest thing derogatory to a
woman’s character will fly on the. wings
of the wind and magnify as it circu.,
lates. uutil its monstrous weight crush
es the poor, unconscious victim. Re
spect the name of woman. Your moth
er and sisters are women, and as you
would have their fair name untarnished,
and their lives unembittered by the
slanderer's bitter tongue, heed the ill
your words may bring upon the mother,
the sister'or the wife of Some, fellow
creature.
A New Game.
A man came into a restaurant last
night, and mounting a high stool lean
ed over the counter and ordered a por
ter-house steak with eggs on the side,
and some ale and oysters to begin on.
In about half &□ hour he had finished
his repast and was beginning to delib
erate on what kind of desert be would
wind up on, when a man walked in,
and, tapping him on the shoulder, re
marked :
“Is your name Billy Hicks?”
“Yes, that’s my name,” said the man
on £he stool, as the hand stole down
to his hip pocket, fumbling for the
handle of a barker-; “what do yo
want ?”
“We had a little trouble once before
in White Pine, and now I guess I’ve
got you dead to rights,” continued the
new-comer, pulling out a Urge-sized
six-shooter
“If you’ll just step into the street
and pace off your distance, I’m your
man,” said the feeder, who had just fin
ished his pic, and, whipping out a re
volver, he sprang off nis perch and
rushed after the other into the street.
The frightened restaurant man got
down behind the counter and bent his
ear to listen to the shots and the rush
of the mob ; but he didu’t hear any
thing unusual, and in about five min
utes he recolh cted that there was $2 .50
owing on the meal. Then he Went out
on the sidewalk to inve>tigate.
“Was there a row out there a few
minutes ago ?” lie inquired of a star
gazer on the sidewalk.
“Didn’t see any. I’ve been here for
the last half hour cr so.”
“See two fellows with ulsters and re
volvers come out ?”
“Yes, they was talkin’ about swap
pin’ guns, and they’re over across the
way now, takin’ a drink.”
The res aurant man went back to
clear up the dirty dishes and reflect on
his damphoolishness.— Virginia Chron
icle.
An Irishman’s Will.
In the name of God, amen ! I, Tim
othy Doolan, of Barrydownderry, in the
County Clare, farmer, sics, wake
on my legs, but of sound h ad and
warm heart —Glory he to God !—do
make this my first and last will and old
ould and new testament. First, I give
my sowl to God, when it plaze him to
take it—shure no thanks to me. for I
can’t help it then—and my body to be
buried in the ground-at BarrydoWoder
ry Compel, where all my kith and kin
that have gone before me and hose who
live after, belonging to me, are buried,
pace to their ashes, and may the sod
rest lightly over their bones. Bury
me near godfather and my mother, who
lie separated all together at the other
end of the chaoel jard. I kve the bit
of ground containing eight acres—rale
old Irish acres—to my eldest son, Tim,
after the death of his mother, if she
lives to survive him. My daughter
Mary and her husband, Paddy O’Rea
gel, are to have the black sow that’s go
ing to have twelve black bonifs Ted
dy. my second boy, that was killed in
the war in Ameriky, might have got
his pick of poultry, but as he has gone
I’ll lave them to his wife, who died a
week before him; I bequeath to all
mankind fresh air of heaven, all fishes
of the sea they can take, and all the
birds of the air they can shoot. I lave
to them all the sun, moon and stars. I
lave to Peter Raffery a pint of potheen
I can’t finish, and may God be merejf
ful to him.
The Colored Witness.
Yesterday an old negro who had
been subpoenaed in the case of Rice,
who was on trial for m irder, did not
put in an appearanco at the appoin ed
time, and an officer was sent after him.
In about three hours the old fellow was
brought into court, and his domical ap
pearance caused a smile to spread over
the audience, lie looked tor all the
worli ’like a Louisiana Returning Board
struck by lightning, lie Was brought
up to the rail, an i, holding his h t in
his hand, stood trembling from head to
foot.
The Court—Can you give any expla
nation of your absence from he Court
room ?
Witness—’Fore God, Judge, I didn’t
get no su penya.
Ihe Court—Did the Sheriff serve
the papers ?
\A itness —Well, ye see, Judge, when
ebber I’se been su-pe-nyed dey alters
gib me a paper Dis time de Sheriff
reads de paper, hut didn’t gib it up
Guess I knows de law of su-pe-nyas
The Cos rt —T he law does not require
the subpoena to he delivered.
Witness—Fore de Lord, Judge, I
s posed it did. Never meant no disre<
s pecf for de Court. Down in Louisi
ana de Sheriff alwa s handed me da
su-pe.-nya pussonly ’Fo~e de Lord,
Judge, I’m tellin’ you de truff.
‘ he Court— What were you doing all
this time ?
V\ itness—Judge, I wouldn’t tell ye
a lie for £2O. [ was playin’ poker, t
had four queens wid de ace high, and
§l6 in de I was jus’ a-goin’ to
quit then de Sheriff come iu. ’Fore
de Lord, Judge, I was jus’ thinkin’
about cornin’ up
A general laugh went up the Judge’s
face relaxed iuto a smile, arid, after giv
ing the witness a sparp reprimand, he
i£fe.bim.uff without the Bn&. Vhyniia
a.
K-ery woman i* in .the . wrong until
she eries; and then she & in the right,
directly.
The Negro Must Take n Back
Neat.
Everybody knows that the negro, left
to himself, would not get the mastery
until he had acquired some of the qual
ifications for it. Even where he had a
uumercial majority of the population
and was perfectly free to vote as he
pleased, he would naturally take a su
bordinate position so long as he had
neither money, nor education, nor hab
its of thrift and foresight, nor compre
hension of the art of government
And it is proper that he should. Uni
versal uffrage would be an absurdity,
except upon the theory that it general,
ly results in the advancement of the
intelligent and respectable. A majori
ty of the voters, whether virtuous or
not. are supposed to understand that
self-interest requires th m to intrust
the Government onL to those who are
able to control it. But the Grant pol
icy was based upon a differeut princi
ple. It asained that the great secret of
reconstruction was to take the negro
out of the cotton-field and put him in
the State-house, send him a company of
soldiers to hold him fast in his seat,
and trust to luck for the rest. The
natural results have followed. Ihe ne
gro has learned nothing good in his el
evation, and is no better able to carry
on ** State Government to-day than he
was six years ago.
The ouiy way to reform Southern so
ciety is to stand aside and leave the vo
ters free and unembarrassed. Then if
these communities ai e not utterly cor.
rupt, all things will soon find their nat
ural level, and the rule of the majority
will act as it acts elsewhere.— N~. Y.
Tribune.
gentling Portraits by Telegraph.
It has often been said that the sci
ence of telegraphy is as yet in its in
fancy. What it will be when it reach,
es the age of maturity it would be dif.
ficalt to say with certainty, but some
idea may be formed from an extraordi
nary discovery just made in Paris. It
appears that some inven'or has found
out the means of sending portraits by
telegraph. The modus operands has
not yet been disclosed, but experiments
have been made, and—if we believo
the papers—with complete success.—
The portrait of a Lyons official was
torwarded from Paris by the new tele
graphic apparatus, ana at once recog'
oized. In return the Lyons police tel
egraphed to Paris the portrait, acom
panied by the usual description, of a
clerk who had just absconded with his
master’s money, and the Paris police,
thanks to the telegraphic portrait, were
enabled to arrest the thief on his alight
ing from the train of the Lyons rail
way station. The facts are published
on the best authority, and incredible
as they may seem, are no doubt authen
tic So far the ingenious discovery is
only being employed for the detection
of criminals, but it is evident that the
police authorities will not be able to
monopolize it, and that it will be turn
ed to account by society at large under
the various trying circumstances of life,
and most especially in the cases of de
serted wives and husbands, missing
heirs, disconsolate lovers, and similar
interested beings. —London Standard.
There Was a sudden sensation in a
western church on a late Sunday. It
appears that a young lady member of
the choir became so anxious to exam
ine a certain exasperatingly pretty bon
net in a pew hack under the organ loft,
that she lost her balance, and turned a
somersault down upon the unsuspecting
congregation. The minister had only
reached ‘-tenthly,” when he was shock
ed by a dissolving view of striped
stockings ; and the millionaire under
neath had just selected his smallest
coin for the heathen, when a pair of
two inch heels took him in the back
like the fast dying lick of a piiedriver
W hen the dust cleared away the church
was found to be empty, and since then
the flock have meekly, but firmly, in
formed the vestry that unless the choir
is fenced in, or a net stretched over th?
heads of the congregation, as required
by law they will ttay away from the
sanctuary.
Two young ladies wore once singing
a duet in a concert room. A stranger,
who had heard better performances,
turned to his neighbor, saying : “Does
not the lady in white sing wretchedly ?”
“Excuse me, sir,” reolied he, “ I
scarcely feel at liberty to express my
sentiments ; she is my lister.” ‘ I
beg your pardon, sir,” answered he, in
much confusion, “I mean the lauy in
blue.” “You are perfectly rh'ht there,”
replied the neighbor, “1 have often
told her so myself; she is my wife.”
Nature never takes back her gifts
Clouds may pass between you and the
sun, but the sun is there, and will shine
forth again. It may be stormy night,
and the stars are hidden, but they shine
on permanent and pure behind the
driving rain, and will again look out
upon you with their calm eyes and sav,
from their inaccessible and infinite
height. “Be patient, little child ! be pa
tient and wait till all De storms and
darkness shall have passed away/'
I*n the Servian military bands the
base-drum is placed upon a two-wheel,
ed cart, a id is drawn by a trained dog,
while the drummer pounds it.
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VOL. VII. —NO 33
ESTABLISHED 1865.
GILMORE &
Attorneys at Law,
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