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Gi:o. W. Bowen, John C. I'iuntup,
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GEO EG lA,Gordon County .
TO all whom it may concern. Jas. I.
laghram and S. li Inghram having
in proper from applied to mo for per-,
manent letters of administration on the
estate of A Inghram late ot said coun
ty this is to cite all and singular the
creditors and next of Kin ot A. In- 1
<>hram to be aud appear at mv office
within the time al’owed and show' cause
if any they can why permanent, admin
istration should not be granted to Jas. I.
Inghram &. S. B. Ingh-am on A. Ins
ghram’s estate.
Witness my hand anti official signa"
tore this Ju!y 1, 1876.
L. W. NEEL, Ordinary.
CALHOUN, GA., SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 80, 1876.
A MYSTERIOUS VISIT.
BY MARK TWAIN.
The firs- notice that was taken of me
when I “settled down” recently was by a
gentlemen who said he was an assessor
and connected with the United State In
teral Revenue Department. I
said I had never heard of his branch
of business before, but I was very glad
to see him, all the same; would he sit
down ? He sat down. I did not know
anything particular to say, and yet I
Kelt that people who have arrived at the
dignity of keeping house must be easy
and sociable in company. So, in de
fault of anything else to say, I asked
him if Le was opening his shop iu our
neighborhood.
He said he was. [I did r.ol wish to
appear igrorant, but I had hoped
he would mention what he had for
sale]
I ventured, however, to ask him
“ how was trade and he said “So
so.”
I then said we would drop in and if
we liked his house as well as anyother
we would give bin; our custom.
He said he thought we would like
his establishment well enouan to confine
ourselves to it—said he never saw any
body who would go and hunt up anoth
er man iD his lineafter trading with hint
once.
That sounded pretty complacent, but
barring that natural exp essiou of vil
lainy which we all have the man looked
honest enough.
I do not know how it came about ex
actly, but gradually we appeared to
melt down and run together, conver
sauonally speaking, and then everything
went along as comfo tably as clock
work.
We talked, and talked, and talked
•>t least I did. And we laughed, and
!au<ihed, and laughed —at least he did.
B t al! the time i had my native shrewd
ness turned on, “lull heap,” as the en
gineers say. I was determined to find
out all about bis business, in spite of
his obscure answers —and L was deter
mined 1 would have it out ot him with
out his suspecting what I was at. 1
meant to trap him with a deep, deep
ruse. I would icll him all about my
own business, and he would naturally
so warm to me duriug this seductive
hurst of confidence that he w ould for
get, himself and tell me all about bis
affairs before he suspected what I was
about. I thought to myself, my son,
you little know what an old fox you
are dealing with. I said :
“Now, yon never would guess what
I made lecturing, this winter and last
fall.”
“No — don’t believe I could to save
me. Lem me see —lemme see. About
twe thousand dollars maybe? But no
—no sii, I know you couldn’t have made
that much. Say seventeen h ndred may
be?”
“Ha-ha? I know you couldn't. My
lecturing receipt for last srring and
this winter were fourteen thousand, sev
en hundred dollars. What do you thing
of that ?”
“Why, it is amazing—perfectly—
perfectly amazing. 1 will make a note
et’ it. And you *ay even this wasn’t
all ?”
“Ah ! Why, bless you, there was my
income from the Buffula Express for
four months —about —well what should
you say to about eight thousand dullars
for instance ?”
“Say? Why, I should say I should
like to see myself rolling in just such
another ocean of affluence. Eiabt thou
sand ! I’ll mak a note of it. Why,man !
—and on top of all this I’m to un*
derstand that you had still mors
income ?”
“Ha ha ha! Why, you’re only in
the suberbs of it so to speak. There’s
my book, “The Innocents Abroad”—
price, $3 50 to $5, according to the
binding Listen to me. During the
last four months anda half, saving noth
ing of sales before that—but ju.-t simply
during the four months and a half end
ing March 15, 18T0, we’ve sold ninety
five thourand copies of that book !
Ninety-five thousand! Think of it!
Average four dollars a copy, say. It’s
nearly four hundred thousand dollars, I
get half !
“The suffering Moses ! Ull set that
down. Fourteen seven fifty—eight—
two nundred. Total say—well, ’pon
tuy word, the grand total is about two
hundred and —and—and thirteeen or
fourteen thousand dollars. Is that possi
ble?”
“Possible ! If there thcre’s any mis
take it’s the other way ! Two hundred
and fourteen thonsar and, cash, is my
income for this year if I know how to
cipher.”
Then the gentleman got up to go. It
came over me most uncomfortably that
maybe I had made bit revelations for
nothing, besides being flattered into
stretching them considerably by the
stranger’s astonished exclamations. But
no ; at the last moment tire man baud'
td me a large envelope and said it con
tained his advertisement, and that I
would find out ail his business in it ;
and that he would he happy to have.my
custom —would in fact be proud to have
the custom of a man of such prodicious
income; and that ho used to think that
there were several wealthy men in Buffalo
but when they came Io trade with him
he discovered that they barely had
enough to Uve on ; and that in truth it
had been such aweary, weaiy age since
he had seen i rich man face to face and
talked with him,and touching hint with
his hands, that he he could hardly re
frain from embracing me—in fact ; would
Truth Conquers All Things.”
esteem it a great favor if I would let
him embrace me.
This so pleased me that I did not try
to resist, but allowed this simple heart
ed stranger to throw his arms about me
and weep a few' tranquiiizing tears down
the back of my neck. Then he went his
way.
As soon as he was gone I opened his
advertisement I studied it attentively
for four minutes. I then called up the
cook and said :
“Hold me while I faint. Let Marie
turn the cakes.”
By-and-by, when I came to, I sent
down to the rum mill on the corner and
hired an artist by the week to sit up
nights and curse that stranger, and give
me a lift occasionally in the dav time
when I came to a hard place.
Ah, what a mbcreaat he was! IJis
“advertisement” was nothing in the
world but a wicked taX/return—a string
of impertinent questions about my pii
vate affairs, occupying die best part of
four foolscap pages of fine print—ques
tions, I may remark gotten up with such
marvelous ingenuity that the oldest man
in the wo - Id couldn’t understand what
the most of them were driving at —ques-
tions, too, that w'eie calculated to make
a man report about four times his actu
al income to keep from swearing to a lie
I looked for a loop-hole, but there di
not appear to be any. Inquiry No. 1
covered my case as generously and as
ample as an umbrella could cover an
ant-hill:
“ W hat were your profits in 18G9
from any trade, business or vocation,
wherever carried on ?”
And that inquiry was backed up by
thirteen others of an equally searching
nature, the most modest of which re
quired information as to whether I had
committed imv burglary or highway
robbery, or by any arson or other secret
source of emolument had acquired prop
erty which was not enumerated in mv
statement of income as set opposite to
inquiry No. i.
It was plain that that stranger had
enabled me to make an ass of myself
It was very, very plain, and I went out
and hired another artist. By working
Oi< my vanity the stranger had seduced
me into declaring an income of $215,000
By law SI,OOO of this was exempt from
income tax —the only relief I could
see, and it was only a drop in the ocean.
At the legal five per cent. I must pay
over to the government the appalling
sum of ten thousand six hundred and
fifty duilais income tax.
[l may remark, in this place, that I
diu not do it.l
I aul acquainted with a very Ofulent
uiaii w hose house is a palace,whose table is
regal, v hose outlays are enormous, yet
a man who has no income a3 I have of
ten noticed by the revenue re°
turns; and to him I went for advice in
my distress. He took my dreadful ex
hibit of receipts, he pat on his glasses,
he took his pen, and presto ! I was a
pauper ! It was the neatest thing that
ever was. He did it simply by deftly
manipulating the bill of “Deductions.”
lie set down my state, nati nal ami
municipal taxes” at so much; my “losses
by shipwreck, fire, etc,” —at so much ;
my “losses on sales of real estate—on
“live stock sold”—on “rayments for
rent of homestead”—on “repairs inter
est”—on “previously taxed salary as an
officer of the Un’ted States army, navy,
revenue service.” and other things He
got astonishing “deductions” out of each
and every one of these matters —each
and every one of them. And when he
was done he handed me the paper, and
I saw at a glance that during the year
1869 my income, in the way of profits,
had been one thousand tioo hundred
and fifty dollars and forty cents.
“Now, the thousand dollars is exempt
bylaw. W hat you want to do is to
go and sw:ar this document in and pay
tay ou the two huudred and fifty dol
lars.”
“Do you do always work up the “de"
duetion’ a ! tcr this fashion in your ease.
Birr
“Well, I should say so ! If it was
not for those eleven saving clauses un
der the head of “Deductions” I shold
be boggard to suppo t this hateful and
wicked, this extortionate and tyrannical
covern merit.
This gentleman stand* away up among
the very best of the solid men of Buffalo
the men of moral'weight, ot commer
cial integrity, of unimpeachable social
srotlcssne-s —and so 1 bowed to his ex
ample l went down to the revenue
office, and under the accusing eyes o?
my old visitor, I stood up and sw'ore to
lie after lie, fraud after fraud, villainy
alter villainy, till mv immortal soul was
coated inches and inches thick with per
jury, and my self-respect gone forever
and ever.
But what of it ? It is nothing more
than thousand of the highest, and most
respected, honored and courted men
in America do every year. And so I
don’t care. lam not ashamed. I shall
simply, for the present, talk little and
wear fireproof gloves lest I fall into cer
tain habits irrevocably.
pin the court room ; a lawyer to his
client “I’m sorry, poor fellow, but not
withstanding my eloquence you have
been sentens to prison for three months.”
“Oh, don’t let that worry v“u,” was the
answer. I’m tot
borhood where I live they will think
i ve gone to the country, and that will
give am social status.
“Yes,” says the Detroit Free Press,
“The soldiers should be concentrated in
the South. If they fool around out
West any longer the Indians might hurt
some of them
.Sere Black ou Hayes.
Hon. Jere Black, in a recent letter
addressed to Mr. Garfield, in reply to
his speech in Congress in reply to Mr.
Lamar, of Mississippi, shows what it
takes to make a reformer, and demon
strates very clct.rly that Governor Hayes
is not the man, nor his party the sort of
support a leformer should have. Mr.
Black said :
You would have us believe that Hayes
if elected will reform abuses and give
us a pure administration. Your state
ment, and that of other gentlemen
equally reliable, make it certain that
Mr. Hayes bears an irreproachable
character in all his private relation*.—
I do not doubt his possession of that
negative honesty which it is a disgrace
to want I accord him those tame house
hold virtues which entitle him to the
respect of his neighbors and the confi
dence of his family ; but be can no
more stem the t rrent of Republ can
corruption than he can swim against
the rapids of Niagara. His whole his
tory shows that he would not even make
an effort to do so. He has been most
pily called “ a man of tried subservien
cy”
A reformer in these times must be
made of stern material. He must have
no connection with, and be under no
obligation to, the authors of the abuses
which need reform. Above all things,
he must not have consented expressly
or impliedly to the commission of the
public wron.-s which his duties as a re
former wou’d require him to punish.
When he comes to oppose wicked
ness in high places the consciousness
that he himself is in parti delicto wid
make even a strong man as neverless as
infancy
To show how hard it would be for a
man Mr Hayes to resist the worst or*
der of his party, I must cite p
erse directly in point, and certainly
within your recollection as we!j
mine
In the case of Millegan, you made
an eloquent and powerful speech before
the Supreme Gourt for those fiee prin
ciples which I at the same time,su r port
ed in my weaker way. You showed the
indestructible right oi every citixen to
a legal 1 r al; you proved that Magna
Charta di J not perish on the battle
field ; you demonstated by irresista ble
that the Constitution was as supreme
after the wa- as it was before; you
spurned with luftly contempt the brutal
idea that- victory of the forces called
out to defi nd it ; and you closed with
that grand peroratiou on the Goddess of
Liberty, which, if spoker at Athens in
the best day of her “fierce Democratic”
would have “shook the arsenal and*ful
minated over Greece.” These were not
the words of a paid advocate,for you
had volunteered in the case; nor the
sudden emotions of a neophyte, for you
had read and pondered the subject well
You spoke the deliberate conclusions of
vour mind, and there is no doubt that
in your hearts you believe them to be
true to this day.
Yet when the reconstruction law was
proposed you suffered y urself to be
whipped in, surrendered your con
science to your party,and voted against
your recorded conviction,for a measured
that nullified every provision of the
Constitution, whereby ten millions of
people were deprived of rights which
you knew to be sacred and inaliena
ble.
If this was the casewhat subserviency
may not be expected from Mr
Hayes, when the party lash comes to be
laid on his back? Yo“ are his superior
in every quality that holds a man true
to public duty. You have been care
fully sh cied in the morality of the new
testament, you have lived in the full
blaze of the gospel, you are gifted with
a logical acumen which few can boast,
and vith moral courage far above the
average. If you fell down before the
Moloch of Abolitionism and gave up all
principle at once, what act ol worship
will Hayes deny to that grim idol?
O
Tlse Railroad Guide.
Yesterday forenoon a young Rian,
whose business it was to sell railroad
guides to any one who buy, found a Jef
ferson avenue clothing dealer sitting in
an armed chair in front of his door,and
after a kindly salute the agent
bonded out one of his guides and then
said:
“There is the handiest little book in
the vvt r’.d. it contains name, table
and route of every railroad iu this coun
try.”
“I never buy no sich kind ob books,”
replied the dealer as he glanced through
it.
“But you want that pamphlet, my
dear sir. You look like a man who trav„
eis around considerably and no traveler
can get along without one of these
guides.
“1 d< i/t care to guide on railroads,”
said tlv de lei, shaking his head and
turning away.
“Hold on, now just look through it
once. Suppose, for instance, that you
want to go to New Orleans.”
“I goes.”
“Well, suppose you want to goto Oma
ha.”
“Den I don’* goes.”
“Suppose you had to go; wouldn’t
yon have to look at a railroad time ta/
ble then.
“No, sir. I should go down py der
depot, £,et on the train, puy some ap
pies of der poy, and I should step off
in Chicago like some grease !”
The agent had no further argument
to advance. — Detroit Free Press.
Russia is anxious for war.
Iu Idvance.
Mu ii ago mo nt of luoks.
There are four kinds of domestic ducks
that claim our attention, viz : Ayles
bury, Boucn, Cayuga and Pekin ; each
having its admirers. Ido not purpose
to discuss their comparative merits here,
•but will simply state that, for good
reasons, I prefer them in the order nam
ed. I have omitted Muscovys, because I
have little to say of them. Their ugli
ness is beyond endurance, and l advise
all who are unacquainted with them
never to seek an introduction.
It is a mistaken idea that a pond or
stream is absolutely necssary to success
in raising ducks,Tor, although it is ben
eficial, it is net a necessity. Those who
have a fondness for ducks can succeed
with them without i. bountiful supply
of water, yet they will not thrive in
confinement. If one has only a small
yard he should not keep more than a
pair or a trio, hut a dozen or more can
be kept with profit if they have the
range of pasture or meadow.
Bucks are great foragers, and should
have good range. It is not enough to
give them a pen extending into a pond
or stream. They should he free to roam
over fields, where they may be seen at
early dawn seeking worms and insects,
their favorite diet. When this can be
allowed them, they should never be fed
in the morning. Peed only once a day,
at night, then they will be sure to re
turn for their evening meal, and may be
penred up so as to secure their eggs
which are deposited at about day
break.
The color of the egg varies considera
bly. The first eggs of the season laid
by Cayugas are generally almost black,
and the color of the others is pale green,
but they soon lose their shades and are
a cream white in color; although 1
have known Rouens to lay greenish col
ored eggs through the season. This di
versity ot shade cannot he accounted
for. The size of the egg is doub e that
o‘‘ a hen’s egg, very sure to be fertile,
and they bear transportation splendidly.
I have frequently sent them a distance
of five hundred to fifteen hundred miles,
and from ninety to one hundred per
cent, hatched j but only from two io
four ducks are allowed with one drake.
Prehaps that number may be increas.
ed to six or eight, but I have never
risked it.
I have tried to hatch ducks’ eggs
under ducks, but have always failed
consequently I place them under hens
and put several broods together. After
they are hatched, ducklings should be
kept in a dry yard containing a good
shelter. Never allow them free use of
streams or ponds till they are six
weeks old. If it is nesessary to feed
them never feed raw mush
Ground worms are especially ben
eficial to ducklings, and should be sup
plied them every day if possib e ; if uot
animal food should be given them in
some shape. Beef livet or other cheap
meat may be cooked and choped for
them and feed stirred in the broth while
it is boiling hut. Thus nothing is lost.
Never feed whole or uncocked grain to
ducklings till they are well fledged;
then alternated with cracked corn
whole corn or other grain, once a day,
but continue the soft food- If whole
grain is fed them when young, frothy
substance appears in their eyes the beak
becomes sore, and death soon follows.
You can get along without a bountiful
supply of water, but not without animal
food aud soft food. —Poultry Bulletin.
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Burlington Ilawkeye : A woman out
in Ottumwa fell out of a second story
window of a hotel, and lit on her head
on the sidewalk below. They picked
her up. and in due time she recovered
her consciousness, “Oh my hat my
hat ,” she sobbed, “ I can never get that
feather to look like anything again.
Oh, why didn’t I die ? Why didn't you
let me die ?” And they all went out
and left her to her anguish.
The Freedman’s Saving Bank.
Among the many injuries that have
been inflicted by the Republican Admin
istration upon the negroes the basest,
meanest, the most cot temptible, is its
management of the Freedmans. Saving
Bank. Conceited an 1 carrieu into for*
mation by those who were too good to
be kept in the party, its whole design
was to furnish means for saving from
unscrupulous hands the moneys which
might be received from the newly eman
cipated. They were like children in
our hands, unaccustomed to the free use
even of their limbs,and of business meth
od as utterly ignorant as the babe ia the
ciadle They were emancipated, ar and
money was their due, and then our
Government came forward and consent
ed to act as their trustees, and see that
they should not be robbed. It was well
done. But when Grant came into pow
er all this was altered. The speulating
hands of his followers could not be kept
from this prolific field. The depositors
were ignoiant and he’pless and cuaid
be robbed with impunity. And they
were robbed, ruthlessly, despicably rob
bed, and now they asked not to relax
their confidence in those who have plun
dered- them.
The of Daniel Webster, now ;
eighty.five year old is s ill alive, and
living with Mr. Robert Edgar,a relative
iu the city of New York. -
The first kiss of love, although it sets
a man’s sou) riding bare buck through
hi3 system, cannot be c mpared with
the ccstaey which she feels when, for
the first time she welts him over the
manly brow with a crimping iron.
Hates ot* Advertising.
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NO.<>
The First American Flu-
At the last meeting of the Pennsylva
nia Historical Society Mr Wm. J. (’
by read a paper on “The First Star
Spangled Banner Made in America an i
“Who Made it.” ” lie discover*! i ;
fracing the history of this national em
blem, that the first instances when th
“Stars” aud “Stripes” were unfurled
were at the siege of Fort Schuyl ,
August 17. 1777, and upon an ucca
.-ion just about one year prior to th:
time. The brig Nancy was charter
by the Continental Congress to proc* e
military stores in the West Indies dur
ing the latter part of 1775 While at
Porto llico, in Jul of the enstiri fir
year, the information came that thee 1
onies had declared their independen; i
and with this informa'ion came th
description of the flag. that, had bme
accepted as a natioual banner. A youu
man, Captain Thomas Mandevilfe set t
work to make one, and successfully ac
c'omplished it. The flag was unfurled
and saluted with thirteen guns When
the brig Nancy was upon her return
voyage she was hemmed in by Brito f
vessels off Cape May. H r officer
succeeded in removing all muniti
to the store, and when the last boat p
off, a young man in it, John Hancock
jumped into the ocean, swam to th
vessel, ran up the shrouds of the mast
and securing the flag, brought to shore,
through a fire from the British inen-oF
war.
The first American flag, however ae '
cording to the design anu approval of
congress, was made by Mrs. EiizabeH
Ross. Three of her daughters still la
in our vicinity to confirm this fact
founding their belief, not on what the
saw, for it was many years before wer.
born, but upon what, their mother had
often told them. A niece of this F!v
Mrs. Margaret Boggs, aged ninety five
years, now lives in Germantown, and i
conversant with the fact. The fact is
,not generally known that to PhiladeU
phia nut only belongs the honor of fling
ing the first star spangled banner to the
breeze, but to a Philadelphia lady
belongs the honor of having “made
it.”
The house in which it was made still
stands —No 239, Arch street (the old
number being 89), the lest of an old
row. It is related that when congress
had decided upon tha design, Colonel
George Boss and Gen Washington vis
ited Mrs. Ross and ask :d her to make
it. She said : “I do not know whether
I can but I’ll try ” And immediately
suggested to the gentlemen that the
was wrong, in that the sts r was six
cornered, and not five-cornered as they
should be. This was corrected ; she
made the flag. Congress accepted it.
and for half dozen years this lady fur
mshed the governmant with all its no
tional flags, having, of course, u
large assistance. This lady was also the
wife of Claypole, one of the lineal de
scendants of Oliver Cromwell.
No Lager in Town.—A laughable
incident is told of a German and his
wife who visited Ocean Grove the oth
or day. Going into the ice cream gar
den the man asked for beer for two,
“Zwei glass peer.”
‘Eh r
Zwei gksspeer,” (with more eirqiha
sis.)
“What is i\ you want ?”
“Peer! peer! peer! Zwei g!ae
ft c
es.
The clerk failed to comprehend, aril
began to experiment by placing two
plates of ice cream before the pair.
Ugh ! Take away dat shtoof ! Wo
vant peer— lager I”
“Oh ! Lagerbeer, eh ?”
“Taw—yaw! Dot is richt. Zwei
gl ass.”
. “We haven’t any —we don’t keep
it.’
“You no keep him ? Yell 1 Veil ’
vere can ve findt soom—eh, —eh mine
frent ?”
‘•Nowhe.e. You can’t get any in the
place.”
‘•Can’t get any peer —do lager ?
Mein Got in Himmel ! Dot vas awful
places ! Yat dime leafs de ncxdt drain
eh;?”
If a man will always bo true
himself, he never can be false to oil: -
us.
The Germans who are Democrats
number 180.000. 20,000 in Indiana,
00,000 in Ohio, 50,000 is W isconsin
and 60,000 Illinois.
A Large Hearted Judge.—A
justice of the peace out in lowa bat a
good sized heart, judging from a recent
decision promulgated in his court. Jr
appear* that a stern parent attuip.o
to invade the sacred precincts of his
parlor at a time when his presence'
could be dispensed with. An assiu.-t
and battery su,t grew out of thj affair,
and the follow,ug is the decision of the
justice.
It pears that this young fellow was
courtin’ the plaintiff's g:d in if*
parlor, and that plaintiff intruded and
was put out by defendant. Court it.' ;
a necessity, and must not be inf rfeivu
with. Therefore, the laws of lowa v. i;i
hold that a parent has no legal b.
a room where courtin’ is afoot ; > t>,
defendant is discharged, an ilb pi a j u
tiff mu&t pay the costs.”
Great suffering is being expoiieoceJ
at Pureto Principe.
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The Indi ns at Spotted Tail agency
ha\e signed ihe treaty.
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