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The Boy with the Hickory Shirt.
A fig f° r your upper-ten boys,
With their canes and cigurs and eye
glasses;
Their dandified airs and soft eyes,
Winking down on each girl that passes ;
They may guzzle clambake and cham
pagne,
And pride in their very high birth ;
Bat give me the lad that goes plain,
The boy with the hickory shirt.
lie is round as a barrel, and brown
As the peach in the mid-autumn sun ;
from the sole of his foot to his crown,
lie is brimful of frolic and fun,
yot afraid of hard work or of cold,
H• is fearless and rough, without hurt ;
His honor’s as good as pure as gold—
The boy with the hickory shirt.
To say his big heart cannot beat
With kindness for parents and brothers,
Would picture his traits incomplete,
If his sisters shared not with the others'.
In fact, he’s a broth of a blade ;
I can’t fathom how much he is worth ;
But the poor girl’s fortune is made,
That gets Jim with the hickory shirt:
A Hen Dream.
IIV .JOHN <i. WHITTJHH,
Thu waves are glad in the breeze tirid dt'M 1 ,
The rocks are fringed witli foam';’
1 walk once more a haunted shore,'
A si ranger, yet at home—
A land of dreams 1 roam !
l s this the wind, the soft sea wind it
That attired thy locks of brown?
Are these the rocks whose mosses kAV'I
The trail of thy light gown
Where boy and girl sat down 7
1 see the gray fort’s broken Wall,
The boats that rock below ;
And, out at sea, the passing sails
Wc saw so long atro,
Rose-red in the morning’s glow;
The freshness of the early time
On every breeze is blown ;
As gltul the sea, as blue the . ky—
The change is ours alone ;
The saddest is my own !
A stranger now, a world-worn man 1
Is he who bears my name;
But thou methinks, whose mortal .lire
Immortal youth became,
Art evermore the same.
Tliou art not here, thou art not there";
Thy place I cannot see;
1 only know that where thou art.
The blessed angels be,
An 1 heaven is glad for thee.
rorgive me if the evil years
Have left on me their sign ;
Wash out, 0 soul so beautiful,
The many stains of mine.
In tears of love divine !
Oh, turn to me that dearest fued
Of all thy sea-born town,
The wedded roses of thy lips,
Thy loose hair ripp’.ing dowtl
In waves of golden brown !
Look forth onie more through ty’a'ce d'rAl
time,
And let thy sweet shade fall
In temlerest grace of soul and form
On memory’s frescoed wall,
A shadow and yet all!
Draw near, more near, forever deaf !
Where'er 1 rest or roam,
Or in the crowded city streets
Or by the blown sea-foam,
The thought of thee is home !
Hocking the Buby*
George Washington Fenton dfove
the oxen at Armstrong’s mill. He Vhas~
a lank, cadaverous looking individual,
and he maintained the dignity of labor
hy as little familiarity with it Us potesff/fe.
He had, however, and extensive family,
Smd as they would eat, he had to shift
somehow to feed them. When the
lacteal fluid was surreptitiously abstract
id from the neighbor’s kine, or when a
farmer went to harvest his sweet pota
iocs, he found himself minus of tubers,
the Fentons were making cottage cheese
or leeding on roasted Carolinas. One
bright, cold day, Mr. Walker slaughter
'd a fat pig, and hung it up in the
smoke house. Next morning It Was
gone. Walker and his son John found
Feu ton at home, aud, in his wifYs ab
sence, rocking the cradle and singing,
“Hush aby baby.” The object of the
visit being made known, Fenton, with a
hemorrhage of words protested his inno
cence, and bade him search the house.
“ l would accompany you,” he added in
; i hushed voice, fearing to disturb the
baby, “ but if the little one awakes he
will howl like a trooper.” Walker would
not search without his presence. “John
can rock the cradle until we return,”,
said he. John seated himself at the
cradle and rocked diligently. After a
thorough but fruitless search, Walker
returned and found John still rocking
and the babe still sleeping. Fenton
thanked the latter profusely for his set
vice as nurse, and his neighbors depart-,
ed. When alone Fenton executed a
war dance by way of rejoicing. He
had stolen the pig, and expecting the
call had the porker in the cradle as a
substitute for baby, covering it up very
mceiy indeed. John had quietly rock
ed the object of their search while his
father was seeking for it. In. the mean,
time, the Fentons hath roast* ported and 1
sauce for dinner..
“ Gr suxf sffxwjsy what’are you'dbihg
per# v axxdaiured'his honor, as Thomas'
Hougluerty, a man of seventy-five, was
banded out. II is gray looks w-uved on
the morning bree:ae ) .ad'hi3' trembling
kgs could hardly sustain bis* body.—
“ they say I was druwty” answered-the
old man, mournfully “ WVdJ,*- V don’t
care if you were,” contiinred^ie-honor.
“ A man of seventy-Svc Ivas* special
rights and privileges which!' [ for one
b hall respect. You can go, olcPman —
ko you suppose that I'd* send an old 1
pioneer like you up there to taclrfe
corn-beef and mush ? No, 3rr.' If
you ve got any home go there; if you ’
Aren’t come up and stay all night with
me
I here is no use in manuring land
grow weeds; in buying tools to rut
Ul ‘der the stone wall; in erecting build*'
ln tv s to rot away for the want of paint
ar *d care; in buying animals and leav
'rY them to the. unhindered actio." of
disease,
Calljoun llkeldi) Cintcs.
YOL. Y.
HOY. JOSEPH E. BROWN.
A Letter on the Present Political Situa
tion-Civil Rights.
Penfi eld, Green County, Ga., )
August 31, 1874. [
Gov. Joseph E. Brown, Atlanta , Ga :
Dear Sir :—ln this hour of politi
cal trouble we would counsel your wis
dom and political experience. In our
opinion the passage by Congress of tho
civil rights bill would inaugurate a feel
ing of antagonism between the white
and black races, that could never be
reconciled. To us it does appear im
possible for any Northern gentleman to
identify himself with any party who
seek to impose this measure upon our
people. Hut trusting in your profound
judgment and practical common sense,
vte acfvistJ With yoY We are Govern
or iv, . . . , , • v
Yotifft, very respectfully,
James 11. McWhorter,
IP L. McWrictftTEß.
Atlanta, Ga., September 2, iS74.
Mi -ssrs. James 11. Me Whortcr and R
L. Me Whorter , Barfield Ga i
Gentlemen r In iq yotfr let
ter in rereref/ce to the political situa
tion, ?u which' I understand you to ask
triy opinion of the civil rights bill,
pending before Coiigrqs.Sj I have to state
that I am not engaged in political strife,
nor do. I intend to be in future. I
shall, howev.cr, maintain the position of
an independent citizen, and I shall hot
hesitate to express any political opin
ions v/liich I may entertain, and to act
land vote in such manner aSj in my
i j'udgment, will best promote the inter
-1 est of the State of Georgia', and 1 of the
! whole ttaople of the union.
As you' arc aware, I was one of the
first public rfien in Georgia to take po
sition in favor of acquiescence in the
reconstruction uVeasure adopted by Con
gress. I did this because 1 clearly
; foresaw that tlie South, a3 the con'cAier
i ed section, wc’uTd be compelled id submit
to these measures; and if a.cqbiescen'ce
was refused, that more rigorous mCas
j urea st,iVf ( would be en'forceef. Bui, I
thought by acquiescing at once and
! raisin# no issues With the colored peo
ple of. the State, we would retain* their
! confidence ar.d keep* them' out of the
j hands' of carpi; t-bag"gety and designing
men who would 3 come among them, for
. the purpose of misleading them' and
■exciting their prejudices against our
, native,white population, who are in’ fact
' their best friends. . ~
Eiiph' of you took the ( sam‘e position
which T felt it. my duty to, take upon
these issues', and we passed through a
period of persecution and ostracism.'sel
dom endured by those who have in view
nothin" But the best interests of the
State ill the course they pursue, and
d'H'o labor day arid night to cave those
wlio .revile them frojn a fate, such as tlie.
white people of Souih Carolina and
Lbuisiana, who followed’ the advice of
uliwYse leaders, and made no effort to
control tlie deliberations of their con
% *$ • IJ-S I* l* 4 l •’ } 11 * a I 1 i!i)
, ventions are now compelled tc en
diiYe. , i h ] .i
The result of our labors, and of those
wllb co-operated' with' us in and out of
tl!e convention, gave to Georgia 1 a con
stitution under whipli'she is now living
and prospering, and to her native origi
nal citizens th'e control of the manage
ment of fheif otfn afiaifs.
In the other Southern Slates, where
tftie whole mass of the white people, fob
lowing the advice of their excited lead
ers, gave up their constitutional con
ventions to negroes and carpet baggers,
and made no effort to control them, con
stitutions have been fixed upon them
which*rest the government in the hands
of their 1 former slaves, under the gui--
dunce and direction of Northern men
who, bankrupt in’ character and fortune
at home, came to tlVe South, and lairing
advantage'of the fully of our people,
vtho vfare acting bpon their passions and
prejudices, and not upon their judg
ment and common sense, alienated the
negroes fiom their white neighbors and
friends and obtained complete control
over them.
It was the thirty to forty thousand
white men in Georgia who acted with
us, subordinating passion and prejudice
to judgment and reason, and who, con
trary to the advice of honored leaders,
voted in the election for delegates to
the Convention and sent such men as
McCay, Saffold, Miller, Parrott, Tram
mell, Waddell, McWhorter, Bell, An
gier, Bigby, Bowers, Flynn, Foster, Ir
win, Maddox, Shropshire, and a num
ber of others, all able, honored white
citizens of Georgia, who, with the aid
of some influences outside, controlled
the couueels-of the Convention, and se
cured* our present' Constitution ; who
saved* Georgia from thersad fate of some
offber Southern sisters.
Stipposif the w hole white population
jof South Carolina immediately after
tthe passage of the Sherman Bil l , had*
proclaimed' to ohe- world that they ae
opieseed. imthe measure, and each had*
"one to "work to nfluence and’com
! trol as many colored men as* passi
ble, making no issue with them'bct in-'
forming them that their* rigßr to vote
was conceded'; aud'sepipose-ettery white
voter in the State had ‘gone to the polls
and voted for delegates to the Conven
tion ; who believes that they could* not
have carried colored'*votes enough, with
their own to havfc controlled 1 the Con-*
ventffonv and maae tbeip’Const ltufcion as
good'as thbt of Georgia ? Thfe could
h'ave bheu done by them if they had
acted promptly; in-defiance of all the'
oirp&ybffggsrs • could-have
rnafid. ,
If r.o issue Bui been maud wicn the
colored people, probably each white
vote in the State could have influenced
and controlled one colored vote, some
could have controlled a much laiger
number. But if only one in-orery five
had controlled colored ' vote, wouki
Calhoun, ga., av ednesday, September i. is7i;
have given the white people the control
of the Convention, and as a consequence
would have given them a good Consti
tution. The property, intellect and iu
telhgeuce of any State cau govern it,
when it unites in a determined effort to
do so. And if they n.d made no issue
with the government; or the colored
people, on their light to vote, there
were strong reasons why their former
owners could have exercised more in
fluence sod control over the colored peo
ple, than the employer can usually ex
ercise over the employed, o#in‘" lo tbe
kind relations which 1 had fq/merly ezr
fsfed between them, and the depend
ence upon the white people which the
colored people had habitually £elt du
ring tlicir pa9t lives.
But so 3oon .as the whole mass of
the white people proclaimed their eteg
f\nt hostility to the reconstruction acts,
aoci declared that they would never
Submit to negro suffrage, they drove
the negfocp jroifi' them, and, as any
face who did n’o£ feel competent to con
trol their own affairs, would have done
under like circumstances, they natural
-14 looked around for somebody to lead
them, and at this critical moment the
carpet-baggers came among them, an
nouncing that their mission was. to see
that the acts of Congress were carried
into effect, and the right o* suffrage se
cured to the colored race. Having no
• ,| j ’ ,1; o
one else to lean upon, their former own
era and neighb rs having, as they con
sidered it, turned: against them, the col
ored people became willing subjects of
those who dame to them' With flattering
pifon¥ise£, and were soon bound to them
by ties too strong to be easily broken
But th’e reconstruction contest is in
the past, and to-day we see the whole
people of Georgia coming up to the po
sition of acquiescence which wo took in
1‘80?, and indeed going far beyond ib
\V v e then acquiesced in the fWrteehth
amendment and the Sherman oil?. They
have since acquiesced in tlicse pleasures
With the fifteenth amendment added,
which might have been avoided if the ;
Whole South had promptly acquiesced'
in' the fourteenth' amendment and the
fedonst'ruction act known as the Sher j
nVan bill.
But at this period we are met with a
much more dangerous issue than ariy
that was presented in 1867, and it be
comes us to meet it fairly' aud sqdarely,
and to do all in our power to avert
the enactment of a measure which will
be productive of the most ruinous
consequences throughout the entire
South’. ,
It was a* hard enough fate upon us
for our conquerors to abolish slavery,
and wrest from us without a dollar of
compensation the billions of dollars in
vested iii that pioperty which had de
jeerrded from’ generation to geneiation,
as the patrimony ot several agefi ; and
then to compel us to stand uflon terms
of legal eqUality with our former slaves,
and meet them as equals at the ballot
box. This, however, the conqueror
dictated, and compelled submission to
his dictation ; and those who were uiost
fiery and denunciatory in their warfare,
lagaihst it accomplished'nothing of good
ifor our people. , j
All parties have now united id acqui
escence in these measures, and all t e
States have been readmitted into the
union', as the Northern Stales must now
admit upon terms oi legal eqbr.iity.—
Here then' the reconstruction measures
should cease, arid all parties should agree
that the war is at an end; that wc have
suffered 1 its disastrous consequences, and
that no further wrongs should'be in
flicted upon us. ,
At this stage, hewever , with a view,
no doubt, to the next Presidential'cam
paign, and for the purpose of* making
the dolored vutersmore enthusiastic iii'
their support of the Republican party,
certain leaders of that powerful organ
ization bring forward what is termed
tlie civil rights bill, which is now pend
ing on the calendar of Congress, and
which, in fact, is intended, not as a
civil rujhts bill, but as a social rights
measure, for the purpose of compelling
social equality between the white and
colored people of the South. This can
never be done, aud if attempted should
not, and will not, be submitted to, be
the consequences what they may. God
has created the two races different, with
different tastes, capacity and instincts
for social enjoyment, and no human leg
islation can ever compel them to unite
as social equals.
Those who urge this meat are in €fon :
gress with a view of* bring-ing dp the
colored voters" to a more enthusiastic
support* of their party are putting them
selves in a position to db the greatest
possible injury to the colored race.— r
Suppose this bill should pass' at 1 the
next Congress; what will b 6 the result?
The Legislature of eaefh'South' tt b'Slate
as'sootras it is" called* together', vfill at
once repeal all laws*' by Which public
scbOo!d*afe maintained ai tlie public ex
pterrse I ,’ax'd* leave’’ each man to educate
h<s owiWcb’Mlen as best he can. This
wiJHftttve the colored people who are
without property to grope their way in
ignorance with no means of educating
their offspring, and‘it will necessarily
lea7fe a great many white people in the
same unfortunate situation. But b'tf
th*?3 as it may; wb will never* submit’ t 6
where ouT ch?hii*en'shfiH
be compelled'to ufiitO with those of t’re
colored TaCfi, upon terms of sOciiil eqiial-
I bkte’bben President of l thb Board
of'Ecfica'tiou in Atlanta, siUtib thb or
ganization of our systeui whhcb ;, i3' now
wbrktng most admirably ; * wLi'ch
v?% have separate schools:'open tfi
and to colored children, aud
child belonging-to either race caii find
its way intti a good school, if the parent
thinksqjfopbr to send it. These schools
are maintained by taxation of the whole
people, and the buiden falls mainly-up*
on those who have most wealth, an 1
who often have no children to educate.
I am proud of the system, and of the
great benefits which resulting from
if. And I feel as our white people gen
erally do, that since the colored people
are made citizens, if th y act in their
proper social Sphere, it is our ddty, as
well as our plea'stfre, lo aic( tl:em. in the
education of their children, pit I do
not hetfltate to say that I should favor
We Ittimcdiate repeal of all laws on this
subject, and the disbanding of the I
schqolfi, as .spot: as the civil rights biil
shall become a law.; . .
It cannot be said that we violate any
provisjon of the Constitution of the
United States, when we repeal our
school laws, as that Constitution re
quires no State to maintain any public
school ; and we make no discrimination
on account of race, color, or previous
condition of servitude, when We re
fuse to maintain any public, pchool, at
ti.’.e,public expense, for the children of
cither races. , i
JA * ! i| I 1; , j !
. But this is not a 11. The attempt to
force equality between the races, on
railroad car3,_ steamboats, and especially
in hotels and churches, will produce
constant strife, and very frequent .blood
shed, that will probably soon to a
war of races, and produce a horrible
State of things, throughout the entire
South, terminating in general anarchy
which will end in the extermination of
the negro race. Much as I deprecate
and oppose all mob law, and desire the
faithful execution of the laws, I cannot
doubLthatin the excited state of the
popular mind, which would follow the
attempt to enforce such a measure, it
would soon be found that white juries
would not Convict white men for killing
negroes Who Undertook to intrude them
selves Upon them, as social equals.
And if the Government of the Uni
ted States attempted to force,,the white
people of the South into submission to
qegto Social equality, they would find
that the white troops who .nrigh't be
called into the field again3f, up, to figiit
for such negro eqUal'ity, wogld general
ly lay down their arms before they
perform the task. In, a word, if
they drove us to sdbrmgsfon at the
point of the bayonet, the Jbaypnet would
generally have to be in the hand of the
npgVq, .and our people have to
defend themselves against it as best
they, could. The result would not be
doubtful. All prosperity would be de
stroyed, and general ijojifusion, bunk
jruptcy ;ind ruin would prevail until the
I struggle'between the races terminated,
| which would, as I have already said, in
the end result in the extinction of the
1 ,•
weaker rape. ~, .
But I do. not care to pursue this
.theme. ( f i lie consequence of this meas
ure,would be too horrible for contem
plation. and we can only hope that the
evil will be averted by the good practi
cal common se- se of the American peo
pie ; and that the political organization
.ypbich attempts to force this state of
jtbingfe upon the country, or any section
of it,'will meet with overwhelming de
teat in pvery issue. .
I have jiff hesitation, therefore, in
agreeing’ with you, that the passage by
.Congress of the Civil rights bill would
inaugurajttj a feeling of' antagonism be
tween the wh|te and black races that
could never be reconciled, and in say
ing, most unequivocally that no South
ern gentleman, I care not whether he
be Republican qr Democrat, ought in
my opinion, to identify hi,mself or c n
tinue longer to act with, the party,,, wh,p
seek' to iuipose this measure upon our
j{ieo]3le. .j _ Ui , ii- |. if ;
In my judgment, there are but two
, . , .j.j y" . °v- , iiii .i
coutingeucics which can avert the evil ;
one is the ovenvhelmin’g defeat' of t*he
Republican party, in the elections this
fall, upon this issue. They are deter
mined to make the issue as already an
nounced, by some of their leaders upon
the stump; and my sincere hope is,
that every State, county, city, town,
village and hamlet, throughout the en
tire union, where an election may be
held, Mi!! give the Democratic party a#
overwhelming majority. Tc this end,
I shall cheerfully contribute my humble
mite. This would check the passage of
this most iniquitous measure, and re
lieve the country of the horrors conse
quent upon its passage.
If this-sbould fail, and I trust it may
not, the only remaining hope is in the
exercise of the veto power by the Pres
ident of the United States: I* kiibw
nothing of the intention of tilfe
dent on this question ; ’out I trdst a
senSe of patriotic duty triiiy* compel‘Hitn,
if the measure shoiild ever c'un’e Ke
fbre hiurfor action; to safe the conn
try fhbay afc'&rchv and ruin, by the use
of this'grhat conservative power, which
is wisely placed 1 in’ Ills' hinds; by the
Constitution. ,
If it should comc’tb tK&t point; a’tid
General Grant should veto th 6 meas
ure, and throw the vast weight' of 0 his
executivb pbwer and personal influence,
in tlie scale of peace and harmony; lie
would be entitled" to, and I believe
would reebivb the thahPV and the ap
plause of’ the entire white population of
the'South,' and of a vast majority of
the people of the union.
I have n'6 wish to thrust my opinions
before the public on any political i.-yiue;
blit, on account of the mdgrutude of
this'question', 1 and the fearful results*
which may follow, I thlnx" it the duty
of every citizen to spbalf out’ and state
his position, in terms’ two urYqiiivocul
to be misunderstood. I therefore au
thorize you,’to make suph use of this j
letter,' as you may think proper. Very i
respectfully, your ojoedient seiyant.
Joseph E. Brown.
T’lady asked a veteran which rifle
carried the maximum distance. The
ld vhap answered, “ The iultinie uiumd’ 1
How site was Quieted.’
A few evening ago, in Detroit Mich.,
a woman about thirty years old was ar
! rested in the westeftt district for dis
turbing the peace, and the event almost
! distracted her, although', slie seen
■ the inside of a cell before., , She ii bcga,n
howling and weepitig as cooq as she
was 'ocked up, and Bijah, the janitor
of the Ninth avenue sta ion, felt his
heart getting tender. He offered her
a harvest apple, but she merely stopped
long’enough to see what it was,aud then
went on crying out:
“I am dying, I know I m.",;, , , llv .
Ho besought her to live for the cate
of her husband who is away on the
lakes, but she said she would bo cold
in death before morning if not set at
liberty. He showed her tho almanac,
aud tiicd to induce her to peruse it,
and settle her mind, but she tried to
pull his hair through the bars, and
raised her voice until it could be heard
two blocks away. Ilq, began reading
the almanac out loud, but she urowpec
his voice and ho had to give it up—
Then he went out and brought some
pepperment drops and handed them to
her saying that it was a burning shame
to arrest a lady like her for merely hit
ting another woman on the ear with a
> shovel. She was quiet, for a few min
utes, and fhen broke ,oujt qgain, and
rqqi of the station, seemed to bq raising
u,p. Bijah offpre*! jier # pound of gum
diops, anew bonnet.;a fiiik dress,
hqusq. and hg, and jjfso,UO[o if
she would only be quiet, but she danced
up and down yellqd ; , •
: “ L’epiqi'e put or ,I s ( hall di-ah !” ,
j/p locked :dl the doors and
op the front steps, to let hqr ezhaps,t
herself, but after an hour and ten min-,
utes, there being no cessation', ,he ran
ih with an axe on his shoulder and
tljfeatened to cu't her head right off if
she didn’t ston. ~
“.t won’t !.1 jvon’t ! I jvop’t!” she
shouted, ,dancin.q ijip and dowp, ap.d ta
king a fresh .start., He drummed ,pp
the coal scuttle to t drown her voice bp,t
the voice drowned the scuttle. He put
the hose on tl]e pep_stock and thrptqn
ed to drown, hqr, but she pitched her
voice opdf newjjiey. TJie old man was
in despair. The u,ien,up stairs couldn’t
sleep, qnd people out of doors
thought that a panther had been caged.
As thq ofucer rubbed his bald Imad and,
looked aropnd his eye lighted on an old
paper, and his mouth extended from ear
to ear. Hq carried it in, turned up the
gas. ana shouted
“ Have you read the Beecher scandal
y et? j -jil. i
I“. Read what?” slip, sud
denly ceasing to
. “The Beechei-Tiltnj: master.” lie con
tjinued, this ere tiling what everybody
:s talking about ?” . t t.
I No—where ,is, it/’, she asked, and
r j j J :.w 7
ho passed in ,th 4 e paper, ,tel|ipg her that
if she would be good’ he’d hunt up the
rest of the statement ip another paper ;
and from that moment until daylight
the woman nev,cr, uttered a word px
cept once, wfiep asked |f thpre
weren’t seven or eight more papers with
s’.atemeuts in.
sYv *fr . .
The Newspaper and the Advertiser.
Say what you will, it’s human nature
to favor those who favor you, and do it
honestly. A liberal advertiser, in a re
putable business is always a good fellow,
a mean man never advertises. When you
hear a man express contempt for the
newspapers,set him asa'foolv If you
want to t£st hiui A and phiye he lies, puff
hiiq, and lio.w, pijqased lie will be, and
pat Y9M bfck, ( |l is ( ,nothing
.that qr-.e,could dq. bju^.jjvhat,,could be
fof given ,an and,. fu r gqt tep sqqp e r tpaii a
little uncomplimyntqry news
paper. You may go on all jyjour ,)eif
saying good things every day abqut
some person without one word of credit;
but the first item of reprimand, and all
you have ever done is forgotten at once,
and you have a bitter and relentless en
emy from that time. Every person who
wants to purchase any kind of merchan
dise will read an advertisement of that
merchandise wherever it appears before
him. While wc believe that every per
son engaged- iit a respectable business
should advertise, We a’lsojbeHeve it t)o be
the duty of the publisher, every thing
being eqlual, to do what hte can; whenev
er tlie opportunity offers, to flavor those
whb favor him. For ourselves,- vve al
ways-stay by 4 our friends, and’ never yOt,
■heathenish,as it may seem, forgot an
enemy.— Western World.'
Rulis for Ladies*".’
1. Marry no profane man. because the
depravity of his heart will corrupt your
children and embitter ,youf exicteuce.
2. Marry not a gambler, a ( tippler, or
a haunter of the tavern; because lie
who has no regarjUfoT 1 himself will nev*
er have any' tbr bis wife.,
3. Matty not'a man who makes prom
ises'which lie never performs, because
you may never trust him,
4' Marty notj a min whose actions do
not correspond with his sentimenfs, be
cause the passions have dethroned rea
son, anchhe is’ptedared to commit'every
crime to whicti an evil nature, unre
strained," ear. ‘instigate him.' The state
of that man ‘ .rho regards not his' own
ideas of right or wrong is_ deplorable,
arid the less you have to do with hiqi
the better.
5- Marry not a man who is in the hafi
qf running after all girls in the
country, because his affections are con
tinually; Wavering, and therefore can
never be permanent.
6. Marry not a man who neglects his
business ; if he does so when single ht
will be worse when mariied.
It is astonishing the amount of noise
a red hailed Boy will get out of a whis
tlb.
JosH B'ilitifrs ou “ lHspepshy.^
j l Have becu .a ( prqctical dispeptik fur
| 27 fears and fcgr imnths, and it would
| have been munny in, my packet, if l
| haj been bora without enny stum
“ttck,., , v , ~ t
j , prayed upward of one thou
sand times to be on the inside like an
ostrich, or a traveling colporter.
I have seen traveling eolporters who
could eat as much as a goose.
I have seen a goose eat till they
couldu't stand up any more, and then
set down an ! eat sum, and then roll
over and eat sutn more.
I have tried living on filtered wafer
and going bare footed for the dispepshy,
and that didn’t hit the spot.
I have soaked at water-cure establish
nients until I wnz so limbei; tl\at L
kouldn’t get myself bak agin inside c
my Baldwin apparel.
I bought a saddle horse once, who
was got up exprcsly to kure the dispep
shy in 90 days or kill the horse.
He wuz warren ted to trot harder
than a trip hammer, pull wusser ou the
bits, stumble safer down hill than enny
other hoss on the foot-stool.
I rode the hoss untill i Was ova jelly,
and thou sold him bridle and, all for
sixty-eight dollars, and got sued by the
purchaser, and had to pay him 90 dol
lars and some scuts dauiuiage, because
thp.norsc had “ Nimshys,” a disease 1
kt:u noticing t ibouf.
, The hoss and fixings cost me 450 dol
fare in gold. , t , V,,
, I kontraked for eleven kords ofhicK
crj woqd, kfuss,grained, and as ,phull
ov wrinkles as an old ijuw’s l;iorn, and
sawed avyiy three months ~on. .j.t, .and
t|ie scorned to grow bigger every
da y- 'j *ijv j. * * ■ i . .I V
I finally gave away the saw,,and what
wood there, wazjeft, to tpve. uiy .lifie,and
sat down discouraged, a , square viclirn
to the everlasting dispepshy.i , <
I have lived at the sea side, and gam
boled iq the saline flood, until I waz az
a number qh,e sajt makrel.
,1 fyqve dwelt at Saratoga, and taken
thp \Y,atqr. like a mill-race, aud still had
the dlspepa^iy.
I have walked, 2 miles before break
fast, and then ett ov dry toast,
and half the yelk ova puljpt’s eg, aud
felt all the time az week az a kitten that
haz just cum out ova fitt.
,1 hav laid down more than 2 thou
sand times, and rolled over once a minnit
in all night long and got up in the mor.
jning likq a , corpse, and thare didn’t
ripither seem to all mb enny where in
parlioplai*.
I have reap v whole libarvs on the
stummuk and liver, and when f got thru,
t knu a great deal less what was the
matter ov rnejhan, when f
I have drank whiskee wjflp roots in
jit enuff to carry off any bridge or saw
mill dam in the couptjy.
I have worked, pi) 9 farm for my kit
tles and.Jboatjd,, pnd dieted on fried pork
and ri,,breajdjuqtil l;was pz thin az the
sermon ovq 7 day Baptist, preacher.
I hafe du;i thipgs and 10 thou
sad othep jtljings jpsf as, ridikilus, and I
have,gqt ,thp old disyepshy apt, just as
naturaj a ” d az thik az the pimples on a
four year old goose. ,
If you get a good holt ov the dispep
shy once,,you can’t never it en
tirely ; it will come around nnce in a
wbjlq li|we a ghost, and if it dont s<;are
yuso much az it did once, and make yu
think yu are going to die ,to-morrow, ft
will make fou feel just scyry.
Josii Billings.
Cannon Kingsley and a Hugo
I will relate a l'ttle anecdote of Can
non Kingsley which I heard at Colorado
-Springs the other day. Hejs pot only
a novelist, essayist, historian,, di-
A’ine. but a close, accurate naturalist—
ibis knowledge in t the latter direction
(extending intq the fields of protarry, ge
jology,.palr9oqtolQgy, Ac. On a recent
eveping he repd his leetire on “ West
minster Abbey,” po flic p'eop'e of Colo
rado Springs right pndor the shadow of
Pikes Peak —repeating thp suggestion
we have all heard, or heard of, that
eminent American* shall some day be
buried in' that stately fane. In the
midst of his lecture a bug of some speic.s
of coleoptera, new aim stfangc to the
eminer/t lecturer, alighted on his
manuscript and attracted his atten
tion at once. Mr. cat still a
moment or two, during which space the
.speaker, f‘ improved the occasion ” to
iStudy his peculiarities of forcT ari *l
'structure —perhaps determining in his
mind certain obscure or doubtful ques
tions*; but while th ( ese investigations
were’in’,progress, and’his language roll
in far’ right along to t):o dejight of ,his
'■© . O . ; r p i, 3 j; * ° s t 1 •
hearers, tup inject begrui to expand his
wings as if anxious to fiy away. The
revprend speaker sav/ the motion. and
deftly caugty the bug in hia hand, Go-*
ing on right with his lice of argument,
he continued his examination f *r several
moments, until, having settled e/ery
thing to his own s itjsfgetiqn, he let it
buzz away afiout itc own business— per
haps mentally repeating ,i tie pry ting in
junction of “ My L uncle Toby” to the
fly. To any or ( dinpry mam |hgpresence
of sqch ar. inirydpr w.ouf.i, have been
unwelcome, and hp, .would TIV” e ,been
brushed aside, bui’tjie great, lynglhh di
vine trained to such ciose of ob
servation and thought, copld qqt f forego
the opportunity, even in theujiijst of his
lecture, tp study the points' in new spe
cies of bug, f his mental discipline ena
bling him to earpy along in his mind J
two trains of idcaa,ut the same time.
“Ido not say .7 remarked Brown. J
‘ that Jones is a thief, but I do say that 1
if his farm joined mine I would not j
try to ke p sheep.”
It was (he opinion of p Western ed-.
itor that wood goes further when lelo
| out doors than when well housed. He
1 says some of his went half a mile.
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adulterated confectionery.”
\ •• I .**!• ... J R i A
A stouj ,old wuman ja Petroit got
mad ikt f dy, .becuusq.. a..,,phottgrpher
wouldi.’; let, her ftp |;cn 'A v bile slie
! had her picture taken.
| , _ i<;- • • - •*? ’* ‘ “
Keep doing.. !w;iys. tLyiiigr-roineui
boring that wishing. dßeaming. intend.'*!
ing. murmuring, talking, sighing and
repining are all idle and profitless em
ployments.
This brief chronicle was written. Id
the editor of the Philadelphia hedger:
“ ImfYoU—*Saturday. Two little,
and a pistol Now only one little bov
ami a 4>UtuJ.". \
. ‘‘l'L cqprsg, we. couldik& have him,
roamir.g.oirqgpd.Jiere aml putting qu
| O.ongres.sim!;?l.airs,” says a Nsvada pa-a
f per in .explaining how a hoYse thief
j cauie to his eud.
\ U< 1
[. A man v;l;o had yof missed an hour’s
working time iu,.tqu.years, .in the Le-,
high. Valley pumchino. phops in .Soutii,
B istou, stopped work. the. oliver day and
went to see a L ise ball match.
* * .4 ff a 4 . • .v i
0,. night beautiful, dorkr.hrowed.
night.!” soliloquised, a poet, .but, the
wintkow ?ash came down on the bridge
of his.p.oaw, just the sumo as if thovu,,
were po :ueli thing as poetry in this
world.
. .* jp' v . . it.- i ,
A pi quip youngster applying for the :
place of page, the mistress sail to him:
“ I. wish ,my servants, tu have plenty,,
but .don’t ujiow any waste.’' Page—,
‘‘.Oh, no.uigui I'd eat and drinx till
[ busted, rather than waste anything
~, JO
mum .
•* .. it <i 1 ■-<:!
■' Boar mg ho.w fluidly he talks,” said
Mrs. Partington recently ; at a temper-,
■ a.ice piqetiiig. . I.am always rejoiced
when he mounts thy nostrils, for his el-,
nquence warms every cartridge in my
body.” ,
J ' •: * J'-’ ■■*' .-' .. .j, | • 11^.1.
These Jincs are by a- realistic Sagi
naw (Michigan ) p^t: ?
“ Won’st the red Injun lie-c tcok their dc
ltghtai, ,
Fieh’jt, fit and bled. , 4 v. i
Njw mqsjt vf. tJiinhabitants it whites,
With nary red.”
•> I • A }* | ■•*i- • * . I '
An lowa paper reports thp following,
as ihe form of marriage in a tovvn iu_
that State : “ Join ybtr right- hauds.n—.
Bo you want on 9 another?’’
Jjotli amfwet;. d‘.Xes,’G “ Well, ,then,t
llpiye one another. You’re man and
It is said of Katie Jfting, the Phifa- ,
,delpl\ia ghost, that on one occasion a,
jyour.g man’ attempted to clasp Kqlie in
his
ed ayd slipped from hi§ embrace,li,ke ji {
and di.d not- appear again that
.'evening That’s right, Katie.
9l ’ A 1 .1
“Your hand writing is very bad,*n n .;
ideed, a,i gentleman to, a friend
inore Roasting then
‘you really opght to learn to write b.etr
ter.” “ Ay,.ay,” replied the young 4ap,
“ it is all. very well for you to toll pie,
that ; but if,l were to better, peo
ple would find out how I spell.”
i The poyriding of the fitqmach, fur f,,he. t
cure yf dyspepsia, wyis tfie, cause of a„
gyod jqke tbe,.ptbsr dsy % Two men.
we,re Scribing.what tlmy had dyne tq,
cure themselves. “ l)o you knead, y.oujf
jStouiach ?” “ I—l —couldn’t get .along,
Avithqgt it!’/ responded the other, in
(the last stage of astonishment.
1 . a , i > > i . • .ji
“ Bid I not give you a flogging, the
other day said a schoolmaster to ay
trembling boy. “ Yes, sir,” , firiswered
the boy. “ Well, what dp the Scrip
tures say on tho subject 7 ” “ I don't
know, sir,” said the ,qther, “ exoept it
is jn that which says, ‘ l.t is
more llcssed to give than to receive.' ”
%<* *.| I i t||
A well of the presri
remarks, in recent,,.issue,; }‘ It is not
our fault that we src t.red-l.eaded and
small, and'the next time qqe of,.those,
overgrown' ryt;al roosts ip a.ball-jaoom .
reaches down for our head, .and sug,
gests that so?ne one has a rosebud
out qf his button hole, tliere will bo
trouble.”
> •M • **,• •! i,w ,r
An, hishman found q governulepft:
blanket recently,,.and roJling ( jt up put
it under his arm and v/alked off, say'_
ing: “ Vis, that’s mine—U for
ricky and’S for McCarty. Bq.me SQwi.,.
but this learn jn ’ ,i? a foir.e thing, as uie,,
faythdr would say ; for if l li4dr| ( ’t ari r
edication, I wouldn’t have been afther
fiudin' me blanket.
NO. 8;
A writer in Les Mondes gqys that he
enabled to materially reduce the nutu- .
ber of inserts which prey up n thy
flowers and fruits of hia garden, by
covering .the jnside of an old tub with
liquid tar a,n,d at twilight putting it,
lighted lantern within, leaving the
whole out overnight. The bugs, at- 4
traded by the light, are caught ana
held fast by the tar.
Recently a swimming match
ranged to take place , at Easjtboupoe,,
England, between a fisheru*au and a
mastiff Bui there . w,as ,no race, be- j
cause f he do", iii.the water with
the his duty there was,
to sgve the latter’s life, and persisted in,
HVenaepvprs tp keep, t,he nian . afloat
by thrustjqg his head under Lis oppo
nent’s ehin. . , • . ,
, j i *’* f ' ' ,
Mr. 0. Mussev, £\ well to-do widower^, ,
of Decatur, cqunty, Illinois, had two
grown up Boqp. , Mrs Davis, a w-ell to-,
do widoyy, of ,Bec:ur county, Illinois, .
had two grown up daughters. Ting.
Mussers have just wiped out tjie entire
Davis family at one fell swoop, tho old
man marrying the old lady, an 1 the two
youg men marrying the two girls, and
they were ajll six abroad the orther day
on.a,gr •• and consolidated bridal tmr.—
It is seldom that the demon .of matri
mony sweeps oil whole families in that
way. — Coui irr JoKrtwl.