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Lift Him Up.
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somebody’s darling,”
That man so degraded and vile,
\nd the heart of someone that loved him
Was made glad by his smile.
Those lips that now breatho but cursing,
\ mother’s kiss once pressed,
\ n d the hair once soft and golden,
\ sister’s hand caressed.
Those eyes now blear and soulless,
Once lighted with love’s bright glow,
\ D (I the fire of the soul within them
Burned witti thoughts that angels know.
hot your teardrops fall, of pity,
Upon those darkened leaves,
Resting here" Possible all things,”
All “to him that believes.”
The Man in the Iron Mask.
No prisoner has ever occasioned so
. much wunder, or led to as many ques
f tious as the famous “ man in the iron
mask.” He appeared in several pris
ons in France during the reign of Lou
is XIV., being first seen in 167 ft He
was always guarded with the greatest
care, and treated in a style which in
duced many to believe that he was a
royal or princely personage. lie wore
a mask of iron, and it was commonly
said that the portion about the mouth
was contrived with springs, so that he
could eat or drink without removing it.
It was believed to have been rivited up
on his head, and that he was compelled
to sleep in it.
When questions were asked, it was
answered, “Itis a secret of state, and
esn never be revealed.” People would
often stand at a distance, looking up to
the window of the apartment in which
this tnan was an unwilling inmate, and
would listen to the strange stories that
were told of him. which, I need not
say, were generally without foundation.
Some said that he was connected with
the royal family of France ; some that
he was the Duke of Monmouth, of En
gland, who had risen in rebellion against
his king ; others that he was the son of
Oliver Cromwell or an Armenian patri
arch.
Once, when moved from one prison
I to another the man wore a black mask
of velvet and oilcloth was thrown over
him, so that he could hold no commu
nication with his carriers or with the
outside world. In this journey, for
Want of air, he nearly expired. Elev*
enyears of his captivity he spent on
the Isle of St. Margaret, on the south
ern coast of France* His lonely cham
ber overlooked the sea, and was lighted
by one grated window.
While here one day he scratched
some sentences on a metal plate with
the point of a knife, and threw it from
the window upon the beach. A fish"
erman, who could not read, carried the
plate to St Mars, the keeper of the
castle, who was at first considerably
alarmed, but ascertaining that the man
could not read, and that he knew notic
ing of what had been written, he felt
easier
V hen St. Mars was appointed Gov
ernor ot the Bastile, the terrible prison
°i l’aris, the man in the iron mask went
with hiui. Here, as at the other pris
°ns, he appeared to the people outside
as the same mysterious hero. He was
still lond of music, but he did not play
upon the guitar so often as formerly, for
he was growing old. He died in the
year 1703.
it was finally discovered that the
1 Man in the Iron Mask ” was not very
romantic or celebrated after all. He
® as an Italian named Matthioli, a man
°f noble family, educated for the law.
Being ambitious, he entered a se
cret plan to sell Casal, an Italian city,
to Louis XI V , which would open the
Lor to his occupation of the Milan ter
ritories.
The imprudent Matthioli could not
keep the secret; for a sum of money
c.e sold it to some agents of the Span
ish government, and thus he exaspera
ted whose trickery was now ex-
for this act he was enticed
into Trance, arrested and imprisoned
for life. t
, fho splendid reign of Louis XIV.,
rs considered by the French a bright
P :i o r e in their history, but it was noted
or kingly tyranny, vainglory and gross
immortalities. Abuse of power and
Wicknedness in high places so debased
a proud people that they fell more and
Ul °re into corruption, and suffered the
consequences in the sorrows and hor
rors of the French revolution. The
■ Q oiilar imprisonments of Matthioli,
Was only one of the many cruelties
practiced by the self-willed monarch,
wuo one day exclaimed, c * The state ! 1
the state !”
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V Beautiful Sentiment. —Sorrow
, or® us and makes the mind genial.
pu jn sorrow we love and trust our
riends more tenderly, and the dead be
stUlcs ‘Larer to us. And just as the
‘ ar - so there are blessed faces that look
yj* 10 ou r grief, though before their
UreS WCrC >rom our reco^ec_
n / 11 valuable library of Cardinal Bar
ute Prefect of Propaganda in
Vo l e - vv ’hich consisted of six thousand
0 f chiefly to the history
fromd °* c ni * Sß ion, has been rescued
p 0 p Q 10 auctioneer’s hammer by the
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VOL. V.
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States Ii a
- Washington just is-
an interesting table of
? population of the earth, taken chief
ly from the work on that subject issued
this year at Gotha, by Drs. Behm and
Wagner, and founded on the most re
cent authorities. By this statement the
aggregate population of the earth is
given at 1,391,032,000, Asia being the
most populous section and containing
798,000,000, while Europe has 1300,-
500,000, Africa 203,000,000, America,
84,500,000, Australia and Polynesia 5,-
500,000. In Europe the leading na
tions are credited with the following
numbers ; liusia, 71 millions; the Ger
man Empire, 41 millions ; France, 86
millions; Austro-Ilungary, 36 millions;
Great Britain and Ireland, 32 millions;
Italy, nearly 27 millions; Spain 16}
millions, and Turkey neaily 16 millions.
The other countries do not exceed five
millions each. In Asia China, which is
by far the most populous nation of the
earth, is credited with 425 millions ;
Hindoostan, with 240 millions; Japan,
33 millions ; the East India Islands,
30} millions; Burmah, Siam and farth
er India, nearly 26 millions; Turkey,
13} millions, and Russia, nearly 11 mil
lions. The Australian population is
given at 1,674,500, and the Polynesia
Islands at 2,763,500, New Guinea and
New Zealand being included in the lat
ter. In Africa the chief divisions are
West Soudan and the Central African
region, with 89 millions; the Central
Soudan region, 39 millions; South Af
rica, 20’} millions ; the Gaila country
and the region east of the White Nile.
15 millions; Samaull, 8 millions;
Egypt, 8} millions, and Morocco, 6
millions. In America, two-thirds the
population arc North of the Isthmus,
where the United States has nearly 30
Millions, Mexico, over 9 millions, and
the British Provinces, 4 millions. The
total population of North America is
given at nearly 52 millions, and of
South America 25} millions, of which
Brazil contains 10 millions. The West
India Islands have over 4 millions, and
the Central American States not quite
3 millions.
According to these tables London,
with 3,254,260 inhabitahts, is the most
populous city in the world, whilst Phil
adelphia, with 074,022 inhabitants (in
1870) is the eighteenth city in point of
population. These eighteen cities, in
their order, are the following : London.
3,254,260; Sutchan, (China) 2,000,-
000; Paris, 1,851,792 ; Pekin, 1,300,
000 ; Tschant-schau-fu, 8,000,000;
Ilangtschau-fu, 1,000,000 ; Siangtan,
1,000,000 ; Singsau-fu, 1,000,000 ; Can
ton, 1,005,000 ; New York, 942,292 ;
Tientain, 900,000 ; Vienna, 834,284 ;
Berlin, 826.241 ; Hangkau, 800,000 ;
Tsceingtu-fu, 800,000; Tokio,
674,447 ;and Philadelphia, 674,022.
Os cities smaller than Philadelphia,
the ones are : St. Petersburg, 677,963 ;
Bombay, 644,405 ; Moscow, 011,960;
Constantinople, 600,000 ; Glasgow, 547,
538; Liverpool, 463,405, and Rio de
Janeiro, 420,000.
THE GAUL’S REVENGE*
A Horrible Story.
A terrible story comes to us from
Persia. In one of the districts a la
boring man had been sentenced to be
bastinadoed for some offense, receiving
150 blows on the soles of his feet. As
he sank down on his knees after the
sentence had been carried out, and it
was believed that his injuries were of a
serious character* he called the judge
to his side, intimating that he had a
terrible secret to reveal. As he could
only speak in a whisper, the judge
placed his lips to the ear of the faint
ing man, when the latter seized it with
his teeth, and in his agony bit it com
pletely off. In Persia the loss of an
ear, no matter under what circumstan*
ces. is considered a lasting disgrace, and
the judge so felt it. He at once gave
orders to have the prisoner carefully
cared for, assuring the physicians that
if they did not save his life their own
should pay the penalty, and they suc
ceeded. When the prisoner was fully
recovered he was sentenced to have his
teeth pulled out one by one, in pres
ence of the mob, and this frightful sen
tence was carried out, two days being
exhausted in the work. No pains were
taken with the horrible job, and the
jaws were broken and crushed until the
whole lower part of the man’s face was
a mangled mass, and his sufferings were
so great that many of the men fainted
in witnessing the operation. Two days
after the little life in the man was
beaten out of the soles of his feet, and
the judge, having fully satisfied h’s
thirst for vengeance, committed suicide.
— Exchange. *
There was an old couple at tha cen
tral depot yestetday waiting to go
through to the west, and they seemed lov
ing enough until the old man went out
and returned smoking a five-cent cigar
and with his hat slanting ovor his left
ear. The wife looked at him twice be
fore she could racognice him, and then
opened her mouth and said ; “ W hat and I
tell ye, Philetus Remington* before we
left New Jersey ? Didn’t I say you’d go
and make a fool of yourself the first
chance you got ?” He tried to pacify
her by saying that the ciger only cost
flve-cents, but she shouted : “ You
teased till I let you git your boots
blacked; then you wanted soda water ;
then you bought apples on the train ; and
here’s another five-cents thrown away!
it all counts up, and if you don’t die in
the poor-house then my name liain t
Sary ! ” — Detroit Free Press.
Susan B. Anthony avers that she
is fifty-five.
filings Butternuts.
Two thirds ov all the toil and anxie
ty ov this life, iz to supply ourselfs
with the luxuries—the necessitys are
almost az easy to git az the air we
breathe.
Civilty iz like letting a man light hiz
cigar bi yours, itinkreases him and dont
diminish yu.
Genuine kriticism konsists in giving
good reazons whi you like and whi you
dislike things—but generally, kriticism
iz mere arbitrary kondemnashun or
fullsum praze.
Wit seldom makes the possessor ov it
beloved, it iz a dangerest gift, and
those who haz it will use it alike on
friend or foe.
The man who at all time§ controls his
wants no doubt iz happy, but sho me
this kind of a man, will yu ?
Kontentment has bin so much praized
bi every boddy that I hev cum to the
konclusion that there ain’t no such thing
in the world.
There is fully four lies to one truth,
and i expekt this proporshun will be
kept up az long az mankind last.
Cunning men, sooner or later, git
kaught in the very traps they set for
Others.
I not only beleaf in the natural de
pravity ov the race, but i beleaf that
most people make it the studdv ov their
lives how they can bekum more so.
Good clothes art bekuming to every
boddy, and they are ail there iz ov sum
pholks.
Ekonemy kan bo very well defined bi
calling it good common sense.
Old aunts who have got munny to
leave by and by are admired more while
they liv, and often dispised more after
they are ded, than any of the relicks l
kno ov.
Ekonemy is a rare virtew, and haz
done more to grease life’s pathway with
comforts and satisfackfihuns than wit,
humor, and fame combined.
Abuv all things learn yure child to
be honest and industrious. If theze
two things don’t enable him to make a
figure in this life, Tic iz only a ci
pher, and never waz intended for a fig
ger.
Learning pays a better interest than
munny duz ; besides the principal kan
never be impaired.
Thinking iz a trade, and he who kan
set down and think never need be
out ova job that iz almost sure to pay
Well.
When a man habi’t nothing to do,
then the devil begins to hang around
hiui, and whisper in hiz ear. The dev
il kant phool with a bizzy man enny
more than a lazy loafer kan with a hun
ny bee.
We owe our enemys more than we
do our friends. It is they who keep
our wits bright, and our tools in or
der.
It waz a wize phellow who put on
hiz spektakles when he et strawberrys
to make them look larger. This is a
hint to make the most ov the good
things we have in this world.
The South as a Manufacturer*
Southern cities are gradually learning
that they cannot thrive by commerce
alone, and that their sons and daugh
ters cannot get employment unless they
take hold themselves and work in cot*
ton and other mills, as is done in the
North and East. If they need produ
cers, they must become producers them
selves. A Mr. Faulkner, of Tennessee,
showed the people a good example the
other day by bnilding a small factory
and putting his own sons and daughters
to work therein. The idea of Southern
girls going to work in cotton mills and
other manufacturing establishments may
seem startling, but this gentleman said
at Memphis that he had no doubt that
that county alone Jwould furnish one
thousand females, now out of employ
ment, who would rejoice to know that
they could get work that would pay
them a reasonable compensation. The
Appeal, we see, is appealing to its read
ers to act in aiding to build mills to
give bread to the poverty -stricken wo
men of that city. Chattanooga, in Ten
nessee, is making active movements in
manufactures. Now as it is, it already
has three large manufacturing establish
ments, with an aggregate capital of sl-,
470,000; an iron company, with a ca
pacity to turn out annually 24.000 tons
of pig iron ; the Vulcan works, manu
facturing bar and strap iron, and a
foundry and machine shop for engines,
boilers, locomotives, etc. Besides, there
are numerous smaller establishments,
and more being started. But many
more such establishments are needed all
over the South, merely to keep them
from doing nothing. There is no scar
city of labor there —there is only a scar
city of cecupntion. There are hun
dreds of laborers who are willing and
anxious to work if they could only get
remunerative wages. —Ncic York Bul
letin.
A Worciietter boy was engaged in
nocturnal cherry-stealing a short time
ago and was observed by the owner of
the fruit who unnoticed ly the young
robber, placed a large stuffed dog at the
foot of the tree and retired to watch the
result of the strategy. The boy descen
ding observed the dog and then the fun
commenced ; he whistled, coaxed threat
ened unavaiiingiy, the animal never
moving, and finally the youth accepting
the inevitable, settled down to passing
the night in the tree. After some hours
had passed wearily enough to the lad,
morning dawned and the proprietor of
the tree coming from the house, asked
how he came to be in the tree, to which
the boy answered that Ife took to it to
save himself from the dog, who had
chased him quite a distance. It isn’t
healthy for a smaller boy to say stuffed
dog to that youth now.
WEDNESDAY; AUGUST 12. 1874.
Ifints on Advertising.
No business man can achieve
success without advertising. Fine
stores, good merchandize and low prices,
will always attract a certain auiount of
custom ; but these alone are only par
tial means to an end. Buyers must be
reached, their attention attracted, their
interests excited and their necessities
appealel to, if you would have a lively
market. Various devices are employed
to effect this. But above and beyond
them all is newspaper advertising. The
daily and weekly journals go to the
homes and places of business of every
body. They lie in wait for Customers
by the fireside, in the office the public
conveyances, and wherever men resort
and sooner or later the pe v 9is f ".it ad
vertiser in them reaps his 'evvard. If
he has goods of use or ornerent to sell,
he familiarizes the reader with <*•
To-day to-moirow or next -aek, his
wares are sure to be wanted, and the
purchaser naturally goes to Mm who
makes his business a houav a ole word
through the newspaper. IT ref re ad
vertising to be successful m;- „ be per
sistent and continuous. If .oj are on
ly able to spend 850 or sloo a year in
advertising you had better devote one
half this sum to a regular advertise
ment or card as large or smrlUas it will
pay for, and the balance to special ad
vertising, or “ local notices ” at the
opening of your “ season,” or when you
have special advantages to offer your
customers. The standing advertisement
which you keep in the paper all the
year round keeps you before the atten
tion of the leaders of'a paper, for all
that time, far better than the sign over
your store attracts the atterJon of pas
sers-by, and when they want anything
in your line they are apt to remember
you from having seen your name in
their paper. Ten chances to one, there
fore, they will come to you and make
their purchases, because having seen
your name so often it begets in them a
certain amount of familiarly with it
that is sure to give you the preference
in their minds over a stranger, that
they have seldom or never heard of.—
The best rule for the advertiser is, a
certain amount of advertising all the
time, and twice that amount iu your
particular season.
The Cat.
The cat is called a domestic animal—
but I never have bin able tew tell
wherefor.
You kant trust one enny more than
you kan a case of the gout. There is
only one mortal thing that you kan trust
a cat with, and cum out even, and that
is a bar of hard soap.
They are as meek as Moses, but as
fullof deviltry as Judas Iscraft.
They will harvest a dozen young
chickens for you,and then steel into your
sitting room as softly as an undertaker,
and lay themselves down on the rug at
your feet, full of injured innocence, and
chickens, and dream of their childhood
days.
All there iz about a cat that is do~
mestik, that I knowov, iz that you kant
looze one.
You kant looze a cat—they are az
bad to looze az a bad reputation iz.
Y'ou may send one out ov the State,
done up in a meal bag and marked C.
0. D., and the next morning you will
find him ot her (according tew sex,) in
the same spot alongside ov the stove,
ready to be stepped on.
Cats have got too good ears for me
lody and often make the night atinos
phere melodious with their opera mu
sik.
But the most wonderful thing about
a cat that has been discovered yet is
their fear of death.
Yu kant induce one, by any ordinary
means to accept of death—they actual
ly scorn to die.
Yu may kill one, az yu have a mind
to, and they will begin life any way in a
few minetts, w ith a more flatering pros
pektus.
Dogs I love ; they carry their kriden
shuls iu their faces, and kant hide them,
but the bulk of a cat’s reputashun lays
buried in their sturnuk, az unknown to
themselves az tew enny boddy else.
There iz only one thing about a cat
that I like and that iz, they are very
cheap—a little money, well invested,
will go a great way in cats.
Cats are very plenty in this woild
just now. I counted eighteen from my
boarding house window one moonlite
night last summer, ‘«nd it wan’t a fust
rate night for cats neither. —Josh Bil
lings.
An Enterprising Agent. —An
agent with a satchel under his arm en
tered one of our banking houses the
other day, and presenting himself before
the book-keeper, he thus began :
“ Pardon me, sir, for intruding, but I
wish to show you my world-renowned
salve which has attracted milch atten
tion from the crowned heads of Europe
for the marvelous manner in which it
cures corns,warts, sore eyes, boils, and
will make the beard grow in forty eight
hours—try a box sir?”
Book-keeper—“No sir; I have a
beard and none of the other complaints.”
Agent—“But, dear sir, it makes a fine
grease for carriages.”
B.—“ I can’t afford to keep a car
riage, so get out.”
A.— ‘ Only one word now : this salve
can be used for a subtitute for butter, be
ing harmless,warranted not to injure the
most delicate constitution. How many
boxes, sir ?”
Exit agent in a very rapid-transit
manner closely followed by a paper
weight and several words of comfort
from his friend the keeper of books.
It must be aggravating for the felons
o f Santa Barbara, Cal., to be made to
work on anew prison for their own
ucurccratiou.
A Faithful Shepherd Boy.
Gerhardt was a German shepherd
boy, and a noble fellow he was too, al
though he was very, very poor.
One day while he was watching his
flock, which was feeding in a valley on
the borders of a forest, a hunter ca ae
out of the woods, and asked, “ How far
is it to the nearest village ?”
“ Six miles, sir,” replied the boy ;
“ but it is only a sheep track, and very
easily missed. ’
The hunter glanced at the crooked
track, and said : “My lad, lam hun
gry, tired and thirsty. I have lost my
companies. and missed my way. Leave
your sheep, and show me the road. I
will pay you well.”
“ I cannot leave my sheep, sir,” re
joined Gerhardt *• They would stray
into the forest, and be eaten by wolves,
or stolen by robbers. ’
11. what of that?” queried the
“ They arc not your sheep—
T> loss of one or more wouldn’t be
much to your master, and I'll give you
move money that; you have earned in
a whole year.”
“ I cannot go, sir !” replied Gerhardt
very firmly. My master pays me for
my time, and he trusts me with his
sheep ; if I were to sell my time, which
does not belong to me, and the sheep
should get lost, it would be the same as
if I stole them.
“ Well,” said the hunter, “ will you
trust me with your sheep while you go
to the village, and get some food, and
drink, and a guide ? I will take good
care of them for you.”
The boy shook his head. “ The
sheep,” said he “do not know your
voice—” Gerhardt stopped speaking.
“ And what ? Can’t you trust me ?
Do I look like a dishonest man ?” asked
the hunter angrily.
( * Sir,” said the boy, “ you tried to
make me false to my trust, and wanted
me to break my word with my master,
How do I know you would keep your
word with me?”
The hunter laUghed, for he felt that
the boy had cornered him. He said,
“ I see, my lad, that you tire a good,
faithful boy. I will not forget you. —
Show me the road, and I will try to
make it out myself.”
Gerhardt host offered the humble
Contents of his script to the hungry
man, who, coarse as it was, ate it glad
ly. Presently his attendants came up,
and then Gerhardt, to his surprise,
found that the hunter was the Grand
Duke, who owned all the country
around. The Duke was so pleased with
the boy’s honesty that he sent for him
shortly after, and had him educated.—
In after years Gerhardt became a very
rich and powerful man, but he remain
ed h nest and true to his dying day.
The Little Courtesies of Life.
The little things of life have far more
effect upon character, reputation, friend
ship and fortune than the heartless and
supeificial ave apt to imagine. They
are few indeed 1 however rough by na
ture, who arc not touched and softened
by kindness and courtesy. A civil
word, a friendly remark, a generous
compliment, and affable bow of fecog
tion —all have an influence, while sur
liness, incivility, harshness, and ill tem
per, naturally enough, produce an effect
exactly the reverse. The American
people, as a whole, are perhaps not re"
markable for courtesy. They are so ac
tively engaged in the bustle of life, in
onward movements of commerce and
trade, that they have little leisure to
cultivate and practice these polished re
finements, which are the testiltsof ed
ucation, of travel, and of enlarged in
tercourse with society. Nevertheless,
we are not a discourteous people, and in
the great cities the proprieties of man
ners and the civil ties of form are at
tended to with a tiomaiendablc degree
of exactness.
Still, we are bound to confess that we
are deficient in many of the little cour
tesies of life —courtesies that are ad
mirably calculated to sweeten the in
tercourse of society, the intercourse of
friendly feeling, and the general com
munion that takes place from day to
day, between neighbors and compan*
ions. The excuse with many is, that
they have not the time to practice the
civilities to which we refer, that they
are too much engaged in more impor
tant matters. Thus a friendly visit will
not be repaid, a polite note will be left
unanswered, a neighborly call will be
met with a cold look of indifference,
and a cordial grasp of the hand will be
responded to with reluctance, if not
surprise. All this may seem nothing,
and yet the effect upon the mind and
the heart is chilling and painful.
How To Pull Teeth. —A peculiar
dental operation has come under our ob
servation. A certain citizen had an up
per tooth which was loose and trouble
some, so he resolved to extract it by
fastening a string to it; but after a tri
al, finding the operation painful, he
hadn’t the tjrit to bear it. He thought
if the tooth could be extracted by some
sudden mode, the pain would be but
transite ; and after deliberation he hit
upon an ingenious plan to jerk it out in
a jiffy. Procuring a heavy fiat iron he
tied it to the other end of the cord at
tached to his tooth, then shutting both
eyes he let the iron “drop,” which de
scended plumb centre on his pet corn.
After hopping about the room, wildly,
on one foot, groaning for very anguish
of spirit and reciting choice passages
from piofane history, he finally calmed
down sufficiently to hull the flat
iron over the fence, and swathe his sore
toe in camphor and cotton. But he
pulled the tooth, and with it a piece of
gum the size of a beefsteak. And the
> man lived.
Alabama is calling attention to her
uewly discovered eoal beds.
' Pot the Right Men ia the Right Placse.
1 In view of the coining elections, it
behooves every honest, true citizen to
consider well upon whom he will be
stow his suffrage. Men cannot be too
careful in regard to whom they place in
official position, no matter how small
that position may be. We should look
to the general standingof a man, wheth
er his past career has been one of evl!
or of good works; whether bis under
standing of the position to which he as
pires is adequate to the performance of
his official duties ; whether his honesty
and integrity may be relied upon ; in
short, whether he would be “ the right
man in the right place/* Should be care
fully cbnsidered before voting for a man
to occupy any position, either in county.
State, or general government.
2Sow, let the people gird on the armor
of principle and caie, and search out
men who are in every respect fitted to
hold office ; and when such a man is
found, let every honest citizen who has
auy inteiest in the good management of
public affairs work for his electiou in all
honorable ways.
If this be done, a great change will
be seen all over the country. We will
see, instead of a broken commerce, our
fair land with abundant means, and
controlled by men ot true worth. We
will see, instead of an over-taxed, dis
couraged and oppressed people, a people
energetic and prosperous. We will see,
instead of the “ carpet-baggers ” and
“ scalawags/' disgracing and ruining
the couutry, intelligent, industrious men,
working for the good of the whole
people, and not their own selfish inter
ests.
Would it not be belt- »* to experience
these results than what uas been siuce
the war ? Look at it, good people, and
calculate the benefits which will arise
from putting good ’ .u in positions of
trust and honor. No one will help you
unless you first show a spirit to help
yourselves. Give the worn-.out politi
cal hacks the go-by. Throw aside all
petty party prejudices, work to the
front, and try to bring about a change
from what has been—a change for the
better. There is sufficient room for
grand itnprovement.
Good Congressmen, good legislators,
good Governors, good county officers, are
calculated to make a good government
and a prosperous people. Then push
ahead with the battle cry, “ Our coun
try’s highest good,” fighting for the
right, and success will attend you, and
anew era will dawn in old Georgia.—
Norcross Advance.
American r tea.
Georgia is going to try her hand once
more at tea growing. Those who have
investigated the subject assure us that
the obstacle to the commerce in the
Southern States is the want of experi
ence, but chiefly of cheap labor. The
tea tree of China has been grown by
several persons in Georgia, from the
Piedmont region to the sea-coast. The
shrub is a hardy and vigorous evergreen,
and thrives as well with us as it does in
China or Japan. It grows from three
to five feet high—a neat, compact, lau
rel-leaved shrub, with pretty, white
flowers in spring, and is quite orna
mental. It is perfectly hardy, and will
stand any exposure td that climate, as
has been tested in Athens, and many
other localities in Georgia. We are
told it would be an easy matter for any
family that has a home and a few feet
of ground, to produce their own tea
and a little to sell. Its general intro
duction for home use would most likely
lead to its production for market. There
would be many things for the people to
learn before they are able to manufact
ure the article as we get it from China;
but, it is said, a very good tea, and free
from adulteration, can be made by sim
ply picking and drying the leaves in
the same manner that sago leaves are
cured. One of these days, when cheap
labor will no longer be an aspiration,
but a fact, our countrymen may get all
the tea they want without going to Chi
na or Japan for it. —New York Bulle
tin.
A Woman True.
Place her among flowers, foster her
as a tender plant, and she is a thing of
fancy, waywardness and folly—annoyed
by a dewdrop, fretted by the touch of
a butterfly’s wing, and ready to faint at
the sound of a beetle; and she is over
powered by the perfume of a rosebud.
But let a real calamity come, rouse her
affections, enkindle the fires of her
heart, and mark her then ; how her
heart strengthens itself —how strong is
her heart; place her in the heat of the
battle—give her a child, a bird—any
thing to protect —and see her in a rel
ative instance, lifting her white arms as
a shield, as her own blood crimsons the
upturned forehead, praying for life to
protect the helpless. Transplant her in
the dark places of earth, call forth her
energies to action, and her breath be
comes a healing, her presence a bles
sing. She disputes inch by inch the
strides of stalking pestilence, when man
the strong and brave, pale and affrigthed,
shrinks away. Misfortune haunts her
not, she wears away a life of silent en
durance goes forward with less timidity
than to her bridal. In prosperity she
is a budfull of odors, waiting but sos
the winds of adversity to scatter them
abroad—pure gold, valuable but untried
in the iurnace. In short woman is a
miracle—a mystery, the center from
which radiates the great charm of exist'
cnce.
ABOtT 60.000,€00 bm-he's of grain
of all kinds, corn rye and barley, were
used in the manufacture of whisky, ale
beer, etc , last year. The total product
was about 1,5000,000,000 bushels.
A Chicago man is to start a condensed
egg factory.
ADVERTISING R VTES.
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MISCELLANEOUS.
Tight-lacing is again coming intd
fashiuif. THn is good news for short
armed lovers.
White servants will be employed at
the new United States Hotel, Saratoga*
much to the disgust of “ colored ge’m
mens.”
An lowa circus drew a big crowd by
advertising that Schuyler Colfax would
enter the ring on a bet of SSOO that he
could iido the trick mule.
Young gentlemen having wedding
presents to jnake will be interested in the
fact that alligators can be bought at
Perry, Ga., for $1 apiece.
A lecturer aptly demonstrates the tho
ory that heat generates tnoli. n by point
ing to a boy who accidently sat down
on a piece of lighted punk.
A parson onCe prefaced his sermon
with “ my friends let us say a few
before wc begin.” This is about equal
to the chap who took a short nap before
he went to sleep.
Success in life is very api to make us
forget the time when we were not much.
It is just so with a frog on a jump ; he
can't remember when he was a tadpoles
but other folks can.
Out in Wisconsin a horse kioked and
killed a book agent, whereupon the cit
izens made a donation party for thtf
horse, and he now has oats enough to
last him a full horse lifetime.
‘•Have you got a little Indian there?
said the engineer, as we passed a young
squaw with a pappoose, standing at q
depot on the Pacific Railroad. “ No,”
said she; “half Injun, half Injun
eer !”
A district schoolmaster in one of the
upper counties of Michigan, was asked
what algebra he preferred, and he fc
rcplied : “ Oh, I ain’t particular ; most
any kind that will just peel the hide
when you strike.”
“The love that a woman’s heart
needs is the lovo that is spoken in'
deeds,” says a modern poet. “ Espe
cially,” says Mary Jane, “deeds to it
handsome three story inaible front man
sion and a few choice corner lots.
North Platte, Neb., was once a vir«i
tuous and happy town ; tlot a swear waff
ever heard there, and the people just
spent their time in preparing for heav
en. Now all is changed. In an evil
moment a brass band was organized.
In Lock port a horse, owned by a far 1 *
mer three miles out of town, trotted
alone into a blacksmith shop, where he
had been shod the day before, lie was
lame, and on pulling off one of hi*
shoes if was found that a nail had bcert
driven so as to huit his foot.
A young lady entered a music shop,
and asked the voung man in attendance,
“ Have You ‘Happy Dreams ?’ ” —She
was astonished when he replied, “ No;
miss, I’m mostly troubled with the night
mare ” He didn’t know why she went
out. so hurriedly, afid filitmtned the doof
after her.
A lady in Beverly wishing to find the
railroad station, asked an Irishman i
he would please direct her. “ An’ bo
gorry I’ll do that same, inum; ye kape
on till yc come to the corner, an thin ye
twist an’ ye’ll be in full sight of, i£
sure.” We don’t know whether the la
dy twisted or not.
A wag, with the word “ tttfoa,”
brought a horse driven by a young man
to a dead stop. “ That’s a fine beast of
yours, says the wag.” “ Ycß, a pretty
good sort of an animal, but he has one
fault. He was once owned by a butch
er, and is sure to stop whenever he
hears a calf bleat.”
“ Missus Snowdrop,” said a gen tie
man of color the other afternoon dur
ing a shower to a lady of his acquaint
ance, “as de wedder is somewhat am
phibious, will you do me de honor tc f
step under my umbrellcr an form a
quorum ?” “ Tank you, Mister Kil*
lips, I will. In dis redder an umbreD
ler is radder cosmopolitan.”— Territori
al Enterprise.
There is a spring near Colusa, Cal.,
which emits carbonic acid gas of the
rankest power. The water is ico cold;
but bubbles and foams with the gas.— :
No living thing can be found within
one hundred yards of it. Birds tha?
fly over it drop dead. A lizard a few
feet above it was killed in two minUteS;
It would kill a man in twenty minutes;
One who stood over it five minutes Mk
a dull, heavy, aching sensation, and nirf
eyes began to swim.
“ Oh Lord thou knowest,” prayed a
Connecticut deacon, “That I am afflicted
with a most impious and depraved 6&r?'
Thou knowest that he will swear, lie and
steal and do all manner of sinful things.
Thou knowest that on the last Sabbath
day he was seen walking d own the prin
cipal street of the village, with hih
hands in hi? poekefcs whistlfhg the fol
lowing ungodly tune afid the congre
gation were astonished to heal Yankee
Doodle ” flow melodiously from the dea
con’s pursed-up lips.
A ySung man in one of the Penob
scot river towns in Maine recently, sup
posing himself to be on his death b and
quietly arranged his earthly affairs, so
far as he was able, and then astonished
his weeping friends by the choice of
auctioneer to conduct the funeral ser
vices. “ There’s Mr. down to
Bangor,” he said, “ he’s an easy, fluid
talker and I alters liked to hear hiui.
I’ve hr»d dealiu’s with him, an’ alkfs
1 found he set out things just about as
they was, lle’|the man I want to talk
to my funeral.” * But as the voung mart
recovered after all the auctioneer lost thrt 1
chauce to declare him “ mjiiu-.”