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CALHOUN TIMES
I>. It. FREEMAN, Proprietor. *
CIRCULATES EXTENSIVELY IN
Gordon and Adjoining Counties.
Office: Wall St., Southwest of Court House.
RATES OF SUBSCRIPTION.
One Year qq
Six Months ] qq
Taitroiul SdmtuU.
Western & Atlantic Railroad
AND ITS CONNECTIONS.
4 ‘ KEXXESA W lto VTE”
The following takes effect may 23d, 1875
NORTHWARD. No. 1.
Leave Atlanta 4.10 p.m
Arrive Cartersville 0.14 u
Kingston 6.42 “
“ Dalton 8.24 “
“ Chattanooga 10.25 “
No. 3
Leave Atlanta 7JX a.m
Arrive Cartersviile 9.22 ~
“ Kingston 9.50
“ Dalton 11.54 “
Chattaiooga 1.56 p.m
No. 11.
Leave Atlanta 3,80 p.m
Arrive Cartersville 7.19 “
“ Kingston 8.21 “
“ Dalton 11.18 “
SOUTHWARD. No. 2.
Leave Chattanooga...., 4.00 p.m
Arrive Dalton 5.41 “
“ Kingston 7,28 “
“ Cartersville 8.12 “
“ Atlanta 10.15 “
e No. 4.
1 erv< Chattanooga 5.00 a.m
A riive Dalton 7.01 “
“ Kingston 9.07 “
“ Cartersville: 9.42 “
“ Atlanta 12 06 p.m
No. 12.
I >ate Dalton 1.00 a.m
Ari e Kingston 4.19 ‘*
Cartersville 5 18 “
“ Atlanta 9.20 “
nil nan Palace Gars run on Nos. 1 and 2
be. f’ee i N* w Orleans and Baltimore.
i oilman Palace Cars run on Nos. 1 and 4
bet een Atlanta and Nashville.
) .dim in Palace Cars run on Nos. 2 and 3
brt vccr Louisville and Atlanta.
No change of cars between Now Or
leans, .\ ibile, Montgomery, Atlanta and
Bal more, and only one change to New
Yore. *
P isseng >rs leaving Atlanta at 4 10 p. m.,
arri.e in New York the second afternoon
tlior after at 4.00.
E cursn n tickets to the Virginia springs
and various summer resorts will be on sale
in N w Orleans, Mobile, Montgomery, Oo
luml-us, Mac >n, Savannah, Augusta and At
lanta, at gi eatly reduced rates, first of
Juno
Pa "ties desiring a whole car through to
the \ irginia S 'rings or Baltimore, should
addis ss tlie un lersigned.
I’n ties contemplating travel should send
f*ir a copy cf the Kennesaw Route Gazette,
conta ning scholulos, etc.
Una . Ask for Ticket- *’a “ Kennesaw
Olttv ”
B. W. WRENN,
G. P. & T. A., Atlanta, Ga.
Change of Schedule.
THE GEORGIA AND MACON AND
AUGUST A RAILROADS.
ON VND AFTER SUNDAY, JUNE 28th,
DW, the Passenger Trains on the Georgia
..ml Macon ami Augusta Railroads will run
as foil, ws:
GEORGIA RAILROAD.
Day Paste tgr Train Will
L ave Augusta at 8:15 a m
L ave Atlanta at 7:00 a m
A ri\ 1 i:i Augusta at 3:80 p m
A rh e in Atlanta at 5: La p in
JS>agt Vttssengcr Train.
I e.v. e Augusta at 8:15 p m
I on e Atlanta at 100 0-p m
\n ve in Augusta at 8:15 a rn
Anive in Atlant t, at 0:22 a rn
vIACON AND AUGUSTA RAILROAD.
Macau Passenger Train.
1 enve Augusta at 0n...10:45 a in
i eave Cauiak at 2:15 p ni
Arrive at Matron at 0:40 p m
Leave Macon at 6:30 a rn
Arrive at Camak at 10:45 a in
Arrive at Augusta at 2:00 p m
BERZF.I 1.4 PASSENGER TRAIN.
Leave Augusta at 4;15 p m
Leave Berzelia at 8:50 a m
Arrive n 4ugusts, at 9:05 a in
Arrive in Berzelia at 5:50 p m
Passengers from Athens, Washington, At
lanta. or my point on the Georgia Rail
road and Branches, by taking the Day Pas
senger Train, will make cLme connection
at Camak with trams for Macon and all
points beyond.
Pullman’s (First-Class) Palace sleepin
Cars on all Night Passenger Trains on
Georgia Railroad.
S. K. JOHNSON, Superintendent.
/S’u;.eri utendent’s Office Georgia and Macon
and Augusta Railroads, Augusta, June
2, mo, ; ™
r- 111 ■JiMJU.n J— ■ WIIIIW 111 inißHM WWmii ■■** '' TTWril
professional & §sitwss fflartts.
| J K. MAIN, M, L>.
PRACTICING
Ila ing permanently located in ( alboun,
offer his professional services to the pub
lic. vVill attend all calls when not profes
sion lly engaged. Office at the Calhoun
Hot, 1.
i? pecial IST otice.
MISS HUDGINS can now befound at
MRS. MILLS’
furnishing establishment,
•and Broad Street, Rome, Ga., where she is
Prepared to do Mantua making and Cutting
all its branches. Call and see.
Rrs, Mills is receiving a full stock of
lU| llinery and fancy notions, styles
*4t, straw and velvet hats,
,u *d wraps in endless variety. Everything
Accessary kept for ladies’ outfit. [sep29-7m.
.Attention !
T ! IE undersigned have located themselves
| ilt the Mims Tan-yard, on the Love’s
;’ rul go road, 3£ miles from Calhoun, for
le Purpose of carrying on
the TANNING BUSBIES-.
Tl
l( y are prepared to receive hides to tan
j’. 1 shares, or will exchange leather ior
11 They bind themselves to prepare
11 her in workmanlike style*
IVM. HUNTER & SON.
14, 1875.’2m,
Two Dollars a Year.
YOU. VI.
gftisrtUanfoas. .
CHEAPEST AND BEST!
HOWARD
imUDUC (Blls\T!
MANUFACTURED NEAR KINGSTON,
BARTOW COUNTV, CDfOftOM.
Equal to the best imported Portland Cement.
Send for Circular. Try this before
buying elsewhere.
Refers hy permission to Mr. A. J. West,
President of Cherokee Iron Company, Polk
county, Georgia, who lias built a splendid
daiu across Cedar Creek, using this cement,
and pronouncing it tlie best he ever used.
Also refer to Messrs. Smitl , .Son & Bro., J.
E. Veal, F. I. Stone. J. J. Cohen and Major
Tom Berry, Rome, Georgia, Major 11. Bry
an, of Savannah. T. C. Douglas, Superin
tendent of Masonry, East River Bridge,
New York, Gen. Wm. Mcßae, Superintend
ent W. & A. Railroad, Capt. J. Postell, C.
E. Address
G, 11. WARING, Kingston, Ga
octl3l y.
Hygienic Institute l
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if you have Rheumatism,
Scrofula, Dyspepsia, Bron
chitis, Catarrh, Diarrhoea,
Dysentery, Piles, Neuralgia,
Paralysis, Disease of the
Kidneys, Genitals or Skin.
Chill aid Fever, or other
Malarial Affections ; if you
would be purified from all
Poisons,whether from Drugs
or Disease; if you would
J'lIP 1/ * 1 Lave Beauty, Health and
I t sm !Si Long Life go to the Pygien-
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Great Remedies,the Turkish
Bath, the “ Water-cure Pro
cesses,” tie “ Movement
cure,” Electricity and other
Hygienic agents. Success
is wonderful—curing all cu
rable cases. If not able to
go and take board, send full
account of your case, and
get directions for treatment
at home. Terms reasona
ble. Location, corner Loyd
and Wall streets, opposite
P I fT>|| | Passenger Depot, Atlanta,
*• ** * ! Jno. Stain-back Wilson,
Ph.ysic i an -i n -Ch a rj? e.
Awarded the Highest Medal at Vienna
E. & H. T ANTHONY & .CO.,
stil Broadway, New Yorlt.
(Opp. Metropolitan Hotel.)
Manufacturers, Importers & Deal
ers in
CHROMOS AND FRAMES,
Stereoscopes and Views,
Albums, Graphoscopes an ! suitable views,
Photographic Materials,
We are Headquarters fo” everything in the
way of
Stereoscopticons and Magic
Lanterns.
Being manufacturers of the
Micro-Scientific Lantern ,
Stereo-Pa n opt icon ,
University Stereoscopticon ,
Advertiser s Stereoscopticon ,
A rtopticon,
Schorl Ijantern, Family Lantern ,
People's Lantern.
Each style being the best of its class in the
market.
Catalogues of Lanterns and Slides with
directions for using sent on application.
Any enterprising man can make money
with a magic lantern.
Cut out this advertisement for refer
ence sep29-9m
Brick-Layer & Contractor.
milE undersigned most respectfully begs
i leave to inform the citizens of Calhoun
and surrounding country that, having pro
cured the aid of Mr. Hilburn as a number
one bricklayer and Barrey u Fallon as :i
number one rock-mason, is prepared to do
all work in t is line in the most satisfactory
manner and on moderate terms. The pat
ronage of the public generally solicited.
HENRY M. BILLHIMER.
Calhoun, Ga., November 9, 1875.
All orders addressed to me as above will
receive prompt attention. novlO-ly
■3?. m. jejxjXjlst .
LIVERY & SALIS STABLE.
Good Saddle and Buggy Horse?
and New Vehicles.
Horses and mules for sale.
Stock fed and cared for.
Charges will be reasonable
Will p y the cash for corn in the car and
°odder in the bundle. feb3-tL
FIFED. Dld FLOWER.
GARDENOIiti UOI'REE, HEDGE,&c
We oiler oul usual large and e.4uplete as
sortment, embracing the most desirable va
rieties and of best quality, and mail price
list to any address on receipt of stamp.
St eds of all kinds by t acket, ounce, urn i,
and quart, can be sent by mail to any post
office in the United States.
EDWARD J. EVANS & CO.,
Nurserymen and /Seedsmen.
Jam 3m, . .York, Pa.
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CALHOUN, GA., WEDNESDAY", FEBRUARY" 9,187 G.
THE IIUSKERS.
BY J. G. WHITTIER.
Heap high the farmer’s wintry board!
Heap high the Golden Corn !
No richer gift lias autumn poured
From out her lavish horn.
Lff other lands exulting glean
The apple from the pine,
j The orange from its glossy green,
The cluster from the vine—
We better love the hardy gift
Our rugged vales bestow,
To cUhpr us xvdjfiu.the worm Uaall drift *
Uurliarvost fields with snow.
When springtime came with flower and bud,
Ard grasses green and young,
And merry bob’links in the wood,
Libe mad musicians sung.
We dropped the seed o’er hill and plain,
Beneath the sun o May,
And Lightened from our sprouting grain
The robber crows away,*
All through ,the Liug brigl t days of June
Its leaves grew thin and fair,
And waved in hot mid-summer’s noon
Its soft and yellow hair.
And now with autumn’s moonlit eyes,
Its harvest time has come,
We pluck away the frosted leaves,
And bear the treasure home
There, richer than the fabled gift,
Of gulden showers of old,
Fair hands tlie broken grain shall sift,
And knead its meal of gold.
Let vapid idiers 101 l in silk
Around their costly board—
Give us the bowl of samp and milk
By homespun beauties poured.
Wbere’r tlie wide old kitchen hearth
Sends up his smoky curls,
Who will not thank the kindly earth,
And bless our corn-led girls !
Let earth withhold her goodly root,
Let mildew bligh' the rye,
Give to the worm the orchard’s fruit,
The wheat-field to the fly !
But let the good old crop adorn
Tli hills our fathers trod;
Still 1 -t us for His Golden Corn
Send up our thanks to God !
Two sjtre-s*ielaa*cs.
Two pictures have i seen in my life
real, living pictures that I cannot for
get.
W hen a little girl, orce playing with
a neighbor’s children, I ran around the
house and confronted a group that I
Lave but to shut my eyes and see again.
Our neighbor, a weil-lo'do farmer,
hearty and bluff, leaning over his front
yard fence, talking with a thin-faced,
pooily-clad woman, who nervously
twists a coarse white handkerchief in
her hands ns she talks, v bile beside her
stands a lad pernaps 12 years old,bright
eyed. but looking furtively about and
digging his bare toes 4 into the warm
sand. Back of them all was the jm-.-.t
©
square farmhouse, with the old lilac
trees in lull bloom about the door. As
I came upon them, the woman was say
ing : “Of course I expect he will have
to work, and L think he will be willing
a
to.
I d’d not hear another word for my
little playmates came trooping after
me.
‘‘That is Polly C —-—said one,
“s’ e wants to put out her boy to father
this summer.”
And we ran off together. But by
and by I saw the woman pass down the
mad alone ; and as she walked she
wiped her e es. In my little heart 1
pitied her, though but little I could
fathom her sorrow.
I know the lived with the farmer for
a time. Plenty of work no doubt he
had. Ido not think they were ever re
ady unkind to him. But, oh ! I pray
my boy may never be pat out to work
while a tender lad.
Let us have a kind word, a sympa
thizing and encouraging word for the
working-boys on the farm. Lift us re
member they have souls and hearts as
well as our own boys.
The second picture is this : An old,
old man, wi h long, thin, gray hair,
standing beside a fence, holding it with
trembling hands, as though to keep
himself from failing. Beside him a
middle-aged woman, dressed in black,
with her hand on the old man’s arm,
looking with tearful eyes into hi
face. My eyes fill with tears
as I see them. I cannot bear to look,
and I run into the house, for I know
the woman in widow’s weeds is telling
the old man, her father, that he must go
to the almshouse.
X kno ? but little about either the
man or his daughter. The old man is
the relative of uiy landlord. “Uncle,”
they call him. And they tell me that
once he had quite a little property of
his own. 11 is wife died. lie had one
son and one daughter. The daughter
lived many miles away, was a widow,
and worked hard to support herself
The son was married, and to him the
old man gave up hi? little property, ex
peeling to be cared for the rest of his
life. God t.ltne knows where the blame
lies; but the s<-n and the father quar
reled, for tiie old man left and came to
his other friends, thinking, childishly,
he could yet earn his living. But the
winter was coming. There would be
no more work the old man could do, and,
well, he must go to the aim-house. And
this bright October morning, with tire
leaves of trees scattering over them as
they taik, she is telling him. Poor old
man ! he looks as though she had cut
him to the heart.
I rush into the house to my room,
catch up my baby daughter, and cry
cut: ‘‘o my Live, how mauy hard
things there are in this world 1 God
help us ail !” She pats my cheeks with
her little hands and coos as il
there were no sorrow to come to her.—
Thank God ! none never did, fur my lit
tle daughter is in Heaven. — Vara in
Arthur’s Magazin•.
•‘Truth Conquers All Things.”
Tlie First Han Who Advertised.
Ilis name was Hippoflam. His un
cle left him some money, and he started
in the grocery and provision business.
The canvassers came around there from
the daily papers, and said lie had the
best location in town, the nicest stock,
and all that and thsn went bang at niui
for an advertisement He had read in
the papers that John Jacob Aster A. T
Stewart, John Smith, Daniel Pratt, and
hosts of others, had once been poor
and had madt l their starfc4>y advertising.
’ lie benevedit all, dough head that he
was, aitd he advertised four squares in
the Torchlight, six squares in the Bad
ger, half a column in the Moonshine,
anu slipped a five dollar bill to the re
porters and told ’em to say a good word
for him. The reporters did, and when
the people saw from the advertisements
that Hipp flam had started into busi
ness with a fresh, large stock, they
rushed f> r his store. Then his troubles
commenced lie had to hire an extra
clerk and a cash boy. He couldn’t
find time to sit down on a candle box.
thrust his feet upon the stove, and gos
sip about’politicsand 'he Louisiana ques
tion. Every day or two he had to wri e
■or telegraph for new goods, ordering
more coffee, tea, sugar, or spices ; and
when the goods came he had to open
them and retail them out.
As day after day went by, people be
gan to notice that Hippoflam was grow
ing thin and pale. He looked careworn
and harassed, as if driven He kept
advertising, and people kept patroniz
ing him. Other grocers could get time
to go off on excursions, and to sit and tv n
for hours at a time, and play checkers
and dominoes, but Hi* poflam could nut
get an hour to himself, except time to
sleep. By an Iby he had to open an
account with yet another bank, get more
clerks and cash boys; and it came to
pass* that he kept a carriage, built a fine
house, w re broadcloth, and was elected
mayor of the town.
Of course a man couldu’t go on in
this way many years without breaking
down in health, and the day came at
las. when Hippoflam had the dyspepsia,
thi jaundice, heart disease, rheumatism
yn d several other complainf-s. The
shadow of death hung over him, whi'e
the grocers that hadn’t advertised at all
grew fat and portly and had double
chins on ’em. They had time to go
fishing, were never tired out looking
over their bank accounts, and it wasn’t
once a year that they had to/irder any
thing more tnun a box of herrings
Broken down in health, feeling mad
at all the world, and finding himself a
victim of newspapers, Hippoflam one
day drew all his money out of the bank,
passed it over to a lunatic asylum, set
his store on fire, blew up his mansion
with a keg of powder, and then hanged
himself to a peaehtree in the back yard.
Ihe coroner cut him down, the jury
sit on him, and the verdict was : Ad
vertising killed him, and we hereby
warn ah business men to let his fate be
an awful example against patronizing
newspapers.— M. Quad.
Jnmping at the First €h Alice.
A maiden o~ce said, “I’ll not mate
with.a man who has not fortune great
So she pouted and waited, and scorned
to be mated. She’s a maiden yet age
48. — New York Cowme'rcial Adver
tiser. A maiden once thought, “I can
not be bought— I’ll marry a man who
is poor.” but the man he drank beer
died driving a “ keer,” an 1 twelve or
phans went out from her door. ’Tis
better to wait and be aged 43 than to
marry the average man; for there’s
(rouble ahead for the maiden who’ll
wed toe very first person she cm
Louisville Courier Journal. A maiden
once cried, “ Now whatever betide, I’ll
marry a man who is wise,” but his wise
views asserted, she pouted and flirted ;
each sickened full soon of the prize.—
Scan mag was the case ; ’twas an “aw
fui disgrace,” sa:d the judge, in decree
ing divorces; aud the woman’s a fool
who in a general rule will adopt in de
ciding her course.— St. Louis Repub
lican. But most of the girls (don
their frizzes and curls) make their
minds up quite early in life to-take any
one who'll let himself be “ done,” the
point is, to be so .*e ones wife. And
tho’ poor silly chaps who are caught in
their traps will out., when it is too late,
that a girl who was charming can be an
alarmingly terrible, ill-tempered mate.
Only this much is certain, once back of
the curtain, the young man who inar
lies will find that the fellow who weds
will deserve ail begets—and gets all
he deserve-, of its kind lnte
r A romantic young lady, with
bright fancies laden, once said, “ For
love 1 Will marry ; so she wedded a man
as good as a clam, who treated her like
the old Harry. Then one day she got
mad. and she said that “ by dad, you
may live without me if you can,” and
she packed up hei box, pull-backs and
striped socks, and ran off with a much
richer man.
A case of chronic laziness is report
ed at Washington . A young man ap.
pointed to a clerkship in the Treasury-
Department was conducted to his desk
aud informed what his duties wore. —
The chief of the Department discover
ed him a short time after comfortably
reposing in his seat, wit his lent char
acteristically resting uu the desk. 4 i. cl
lc,” said tbs chief; “don't v u expect
to do any work ?” “ \\ oi k be hanged !
oxclaimed the youth : “ I had to work
hard enough to get here. ’
Troubles of a Newly Wedded
Fair.
The Troy Press tells an amusing sto
ry of the vexatious disappointments
which befell a recently married pair.—
It reads thus :—“ George W. Pratt, of
Pittsford. Monroe county, and his wife
were made one just before Christmas,
and like most other people started on a
wedding trip. Port Henry was their
destination, and they reached Saratoga
in safety. Here the groom found it
necessary to ‘see a man’ just opposite to
the depot and he left his blooming bride
in the car. He ‘would be back in a
minute,’ but while he was looking
through the bottom of a tumbler, the
traiu started off and left him. The
bride continued her journey aloue,
while the groom went dashing around
Saratoga like a madman to get some
body to stop that train and bring back
his bride. He finally burst into tears
and fell prostrate on the street. Con
stable Gilbert volunteered to assist the
man in his trouble. A dispatch was
sent to Port Henry for the bride. Site,
sensible woman that she was, got on the
down train to come after her husband.
The up and down tiain met at Saratoga.
When the former came into the station
the bridegroom boarded it and was
whirled away northward just as the down
train drew up to the station having on
board the wife. The situation is now
reversed, and Mr. Gilbert felt embar
rassed with anew bride on his hands
instead of a groom. More dispatches
to Port Henry followed. The wife
took tho next train north at the same
time her husband took the next train
south where he was. Half way be*
'ween Saratoga and Port Henry the
trains pass, one standing on a siding
the other not stopping. At this par
ticular point the husband and wife
passed ‘unbeknownst’ to each other.—
When the groom reached Saratoga he
found his wife had left for tlie north on
the last train, and ditto wife when she
reache i Port Henry. Finally an order
was sent to Port henry peremptorily
requiring the wife to stay where she
was till the husband should come. By
obeying this order the two got together
at last and everybody was happy, inclu
ding Officer Gilbert.”
The Yens* we Celebrate.
It seems to have escaped the notice
of most persons who are smitten with
the 1 centennial” fever,thaUhe year 1770
witnessed the advancement of several
other important interests beside that oi
American liberty.
It was. in that year that Cook re-'
turned from his voyage around
world, liis was the first attempt ever
made to aeoouq iish such ati uuderta
king by sailing from west to east, in de
fiance oi thctr .de winds. In the same
year Gatterer’s scheme of a descriptive
geography appeared and gave a strung
impulse to research its kindred depart—
uiout of study. An effort was made in
this work to mark out the natural b.-mu
daries of the various countries , to group
the peculiar features of each country
under their proper head ; to trace the
courses of the rivers, and promulgate
a more distinct notion of the system of
water sheds ; and to unite in one com
preheusive plan the teachings of Strabo
concerning the countries ot the earth,
the ethnological investigations oi Tacit
us, and Fliney’s discoveries in natural his
tory. Ac the same time Thornburg,un
daunted by the many dangers which
then attended such an undertaking, col
lected the materials for compiling a vo
cabulary of the same ; Blunenbach is
sued his work on ethnology, in which
he divided the human ace into live
great types whose features are fhmiliar
to every school child ol to-day ;'.\he
G ulf stream was first systemicaliy exam
uned with the aid of the thermometer,
and a foundation thus laid for the scien
tific study ot ocean currents ; and final
ly Laplace, by discovering the attention
exerted on a comet by he planet Jupi
ter, won for his name an enduing place
in the annuls of astronomical research.
These are bat a part oi’ the large num
ber of important events bearing date
one hundred years ago. *At the time of
their occurrence some Were looked at as
kance, and others treated with positive
contempt by “ the public” of that day.
Who can predict the great results that
may be developed, by the time aim (her
century shall Lave rolleu away, from the
grrms of trnth set afloat here and
there by the culture of die year 1876
The Bog aad ilie Baker.
Sir Waiter Scott tells of one of his
dogs that it one day furiously attacked
the baker, and waf with great diiiicuity
called off. But as the dog observed the
baker coming every day to leave bread
for the family he began to regard him in
a favorable light,and in time the dog and
the b iker became great friends. One
day Sir Walter was telinsg somebody
how the dog hadattackeu tire baker.an u
immediately after he began the story the
dog skulked in to the corner of the room
turned his face to the wall, hung down
his ears tmd lowered his tail, and dis
played every sign of being ash jrued of
himself. When Sir Waiter ca me to the
end of the story, and said. ' ‘But Tray
didn’t bite the baker,” the dog turned
round iu a moment, jump* and frisked
about, and was evidently quite restored
to bis own good opinion. 'Jo try the
dog Scott repeated the story in a differ
ent tone f voice, and iu the midst
even oi other conversation ; but it was
always the same, Directly he began the
Jog crept into the corner, but when he
came to “but fray didn’t bite the ba
ker,” he always capered back again in
triamph.— Correspondence Animal
World.
Joaquin Miller's St niggle* sli
Eugland.
Joaquin Miller tells an interviewer
an interes ing story regarding his strug
gle for recognition in London. When
lie arrived there he got lodg-ngs in an
attic and began writing little squills
and sending them to the papers. “But
they never published anything and 1
never got an answer. Well, I tugged
along, nut altogether hopelessly, and be
gan arranging my poems Mutable for
publication in book form, and t > seek
: tor a publisher. I worked hard all the
forenoon, and in the afternoon walked
against a publisher, but always got beat
en. Then at night would come home
with a heart so heavy and so utterly
desolate that I was sure l never could
look up again. Time after time I have
stood before the melancholy old fireplace
with my poems in my hand ready to
fling them into the flames, and the re
solve on n.y heart to fling myself over
a brdge and make a hole in the Thames.
But 1 was generally too tired to make
the effort to do either, and would go to
bed, have a good rest, get up in the
morning refreshed and hopeful, only to
go over the sam 1 old discouraging round
again. I became ter ibly pu died for
money, and had to pawn my watch and
rings. I scot to my brother to get help
but never could get a publisher. No
help cauie. I resolved to see my poems
in type, and issued fifty copies under
the title of the ‘ Pacific Poems,’ issued
from the Chiswick Pre-son New Year’s
of 1873. Then I sent a copy to the
leading newspapers and reviews, and—
well l locked the p >ems and ciiticisms
in my leathern bag, and received the
publisher as courteously as I knew how.
1 had got fame, and thanks to nobody, I
have had “my price for work ever s nee.
Then the Savage club took me up. I
met noble Tom Hood who gave me a
letter to Prod Lyckyer, Brother-in-law
to Bean Stanley, and he made me at
home ki London/ Everybody seemed
to want to take me by the hand that
they might lead me up higher. From
the Savage I was sent to the" Whitefri
ar’s, from that to St. Albans, from that
to the Garrick, then to the Pre-ltapha
lites, then to.the Anthcuasum, and was
made an honorary member of all. Then
the Songs of the Sierras’ was issued by
Longmans & Cos., and everything seem
ed in a dizzy whirl.
The Man Who Couldn’t he Fool
ed.
Some years ago the manager of a
well regulated theatre somewhere along
the lino of the Erie canal engaged a
young lady as asu pern urn ary, It so
happened that the young lady officiated
as a “hand” on board a canal boat, a
fact which she was anxious to* conceal.
She evinced much anxiety to master the
details of her newly chosen profession,
and exhibited more than ordinary tal
ent. She was duly promoted and in
due time became a general favorite with
both manager and the public. One
night when she was to appear in a fa
vorite part, a couple of boatmen found
their way into the pit near the foot
lights, anxious to see the famous come
dienne. The liouse was crowded, and
after the subsidence of the applause
which greeted her appearance,'one-of
the boatmen slapped his companion on
the shoulder and exclcimed, lold
enough to be heard over half the
liouse.
“Bill I know that gal!”
“Pshaw !” said Bill, “shut up !”
“ But I’m sure I do, Bill. It’s Sal
Flukins as sure as your’e born. She’s
old Flukin’s daughter, that used to run
the Injured Polly, and she used to sail
with him.”
“ Tom !” said Bill, “your’e a fool;
and if you don’t stop your infernal clack
you’ll get put out. Sal Flukins ! You
must know a sight if you think that’s
her.”
Tom was silenced, but not convinced,
lie watched the actress in all her mo
tions with intense interest, and ere long
broke out again :
“ a tell ye, Bill, that’s her ; I know
Tis. You just wait; I’ll fix her. Keen
your eye on me ”
Sure enough he did fix her. Watch
ing h]s opportunity when the actress
was deeply absorbed in her part, he
sang out in a voice which rang through
the galleries :
‘‘Low bridge !”
From the force of habit the actress
instantly and involuntarily ducked her
head to avoid the anticipated collision.
Down came the house with a perfect
thunder of applause at' the “palpable
hit,” high above which Tom’s voice
could be heard :
“Didn't I tell ye, old boy, ’twasher?
You couldn’t fool tire.”
These old men keep toying wall the
female heart. An old rascal weighing
duO pounds, and pretending to boa
wealthy planter of Central Auveiica.
has just married and deserted a lovitg
boarding house keeper in Lowell. Mass
The w man that pit:- her faith in the
man who has parsed the golden period
of thiry five, deserves to be hunted
-own by Central A tne mean planters
and th o injured old girl shall not be
comforted by any tears of ours.
0 Mr. Lincoln used to tell of a con
vert *d Con I'.-derate, who was so over
joyed at receiving his pardon that he
xelaiin* and : “ Thank you, Mr. President
thank you! Mow I'm as good a Luion
man as any of you—emphatically one
or you again But didn’t Simi vtsjl
Jackson give us lu.il in the Vaiiey_F ;
In advance.
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How FratslJin Seearetl a Metd,
D.\ Franklin owed much of h's extra
ordinary success to his keen insight
into human nature, and asag&city that
quickly perceived the best tine* readitsf
method of obtaining a desired erd. To
be sure manyjofhis strategic movemen s
were not always commendable, but they
were more humorous than injurious, of
which iho following is a characteristic
specimen:
In the year 1772 Franklin visited
Boston, and on his return *o Phila
delphia, at every st6pping place he was
beset with officious inquiries for his
name, business etc., on which he deter
mined to be beforehand with such inter
rogatories in future At the next tavern
he register*d himself as Benjamin
Franklin, from Boston to Philadelphia,
a prnter not worth a dollar, eighteen
years of age, a siog'e man who is seek
ing liia fortune, etc., and his singular in
troduction checked all further inquiries
effectual’y rerulsed the daring propen
sities of Yadkee inquisitiveness. At ono
of the public houses the fireplace was
surrounded by men so closely packed
that our traveler couhl not approach
near enough to feel any of its agreeable
warmth, and being cold and chilled ho
called out:
‘‘Hostler, have you any oysters ?”
“Yes sir,.’ said the man. *
“Well, then, give my horse a peek.”
MY hat give your horse'oysters ?”
“Yes,” retorted Franklin, “give him
a peck of oysters ”
The hostler carried out the oysters
and many of the occupants of the fire
place went with him to witness the great
curiosity of a horse eating oysters.
Franklin seated himself comfortable oe
fore the fire and derived much satisfac
tion and enjoyment from tire funny ex
perience. Soon the mart came in and
the company with rueful faces expressed
most decided dissatisfaction at their
disappointment. fe.sci-.ji
“The horse would not eat the oysters,
sir,” and they had lost their cozy, com
fortable, warm scats.
“"Well, if the horse won’t eat them,
1 Tl eat them myself, and you may try
ltimwith a peck of oats. $ _ _ j
Women ol Utall.
A remarkable Memorial has been sent
to Congress, signed by 52,620 women of
Utah who say that none of their cigna
tares have been obtainde either by en
ticement or coercion, and that none un
der twelve years of age have been per
mitted to sign)? praying that the Anti.
Polygamy law ot 1562 may be repealed,
a .and also “the bill known as the Poland
bill, both being special and unconstitu'
tion measures, directed against the peo
ple of Utah, holding the peace and
happiness of our lives in constant jeop
ardy, by impcrriling- the safety of our
husbands and fathers, by daily and
hourly subjecting them to danger of ar
rest and imprisonment, which would de
prive us not only of tin ir society, but
also of their support and protection.”—
The petition continues:
“We, your memorialists, do humbly
pray that no bill or act shall have the
sanction of your honorable body,
that shall in any way conflict or
interfere with the belief in,
or practice of plural marri
age as it is practised by many of
the citizens of Utah, arid which most of
your petitioners have adopted as a por
tion of their religious faith in all sin
cerity, believing it to be a necessity not
only in remedying evils arid producing
good in our present existence, but that
without it, man cannot hercaftcr>ttain
to fullness of exaltation.”
Woes of a Husband.'
John Henry had been off on a Lusi
neps trip and got home at three iu the
morning. He found (lie doors all locked,
and tried to get in the back window, in
the course of which proceeding a police—
man nabbed him for a burglar.
- “Why, you big idiot,*l live here,”
sail the injured man.
“No you don’t cully ; that dog won’t
jump. I’ve had the nippers on you
afore./ You’re a cuDtiin cove, you
are.”
“But I teH you, you blasted fool that.s
my name, Henry, anb I live here.
Just ring the bedi and ask my wife.”
*so the guardian of the law ramg the
bell, purely as a matter of form, for he
knew his man. Mrs. Henry stuck her
nightcap/rnt of the window, and asked,
“Is that you, Charlie?”
‘ Who in the blue blazes is Charlie?”
th ught John Henry and while his
heart wa3 boiling over with jealousy
the policeman asked :
“Is your husband at home ma’am V*
“N) he’s out of town, and wou t be
home f.r several diyW and then slam
mod the sash J -wn in a hurry:
So the bewildered John went off to
the station h use, and found out next
morning that 1 Charlie ’ was a brother
frou the country who had come to make
a few days’ visit.
At the national sheep farm at liara
bouillet, France, there has been estab
lished a School ot Shepherds where
young men over fifteen years of age are
instructed in the science of sheep hus
baudry, the course is for two years, at
he end of which, if he passes the ex *
ami nation he receives a certificate of
• apacty. There are also prizes of §75
and §SO given to the most capable stu
dents. After graduation a student can
become a shepherd un his own account,
if he pussesses the means.
This only man not, spoiled by being
lit nud-d Daniel