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ZT— 1
Tjs J. KIKEII & SON,
• attorneys at law,*
Will practice in all the Courts of the Cher'
okce Circuit; Supreme Court ot Georgia, and
the United States District Court at Atlanta,
G.i. Office : Suthpast corner of the Court
House, Calhoun, Ga.
attorneys at law,
CALHOUN, GA ,
Will practice in all the Superior Courts of
of Cherokee Georgia, Court of
jjje StateTnd th@ United States District and
Circuit Jourts,*ht Atlanta.
IVANKIN & NEEL,
ATTORNEYS at law,
CALHOUN, GA.
I| Office :, Court House Street.
j D. TINSLEY,
Watch-Maker & Jeweler,
CALOUff, QA .
All Styles of Clocks, Watches and Jewelry
ready repaired and warranted.
jjiiTiLloAlSSu v. s..
dentist.
1 Office over Geo. W. Wells & Co.’s Agricul
i u „1 Warehouse. ♦
*ll7 M. BOSWELL,
PHOTOGRAPHER,
Calhoun, Ga.
1 ’ c'pcci fully call Abe attention of those
ilcmi ing good pictures to the tact that they
cjd be supplied at my gallery.
’yjLSS C. aTIiUDGINsT"
Milliner & Mantua-Maker,
Court House St., CallioitnOci
Patterns b’f the latest styles and fashion
for ladies just received. Gutting and
Miking done to order.
J~ 11. ARTHUR,
DEALER IN
GENERAL MERCHANDISE,
RAILROAD STREET,
Calhoun , Ga.
MUSIC! MUSIC! _ .
A large variety of new and select music
direct from Philadelphia, kept constantly on
lund and for sale by Mrs. J. L. Farrott•
She also gives notice that she will in.stiuct
in music at her residence. Terms, per month,
$1.00; use of instrument, 50 ennts. Recep
tion days, Tuesdays and Thursdays.
ZT. GRAY,
. CALHOUN, GA„
Is prepared to furnish the public with
liturgies and Wagons, bran new and warrant
'd. Repairing of all kinds done at shott
-) o ,ice. Would cxll attention to the cele
„cd “Fish Brothers’ Wagon which he fui
in hes. Call and examine before buying
(Jsewhere.
NEW GROCERY STORE.
j, W.Marsliall,
tip
FRESH GOODS, BOUGHT FOR
CASH, AND WILL BE SOLD
FOR CASH ATTHE VERY
LOWEST PRICES.
Would respectfully ask his numerous
Mends in Gordon county to come in and
sec him before making purchases elsewhere.
Fall and W inter Goods !
MRS. ANNIE HALL
H is now in store her fall and winter stock
of iashionable Millinery and Straw Goods,
consisting in part of Bonnets, Ladies and
Children’s Hats, White Goods, Ladies Un
derwear, Ribbons, Laces, Flowers, &C , with
an endless variety of
trimmings of all kinds.
Cutting, fitting and making dresses a spe
cialty. AH work done tfitbf care, neatness
and dispatch. Prices reasonable. Give me
call. MRS. ANNIE HALL.
Boaz db Barrett
Are Agents Kf
FISK’S PATE NT
metalic burial cases.
Also WOODEN CASES with Bcscuood
utsh, Willkeep on band a fnll range of
"sizes;
CaHjonti iDcchlij (Times.
YOU. Y.
THE COVER ED BRIDGE.
BY Til* LATE DAJ'ID BARKER.
Tell the fainting soul and tlie weary form-
There’s a world of the purest bliss
That s linked, as the soul and form is linked,
By a covered bridge with tins.
Yet, to reach that realm on the other shore
Wemustpasß through a transient gloom,
And must walk unseen, unhelped and
Through that coverd bridge.
•
But we will pass over on equal terms,
For the universal toll
Is the outer garb which the hand of God
Has-flung aronud the soul.
Though the Cye is dim and the bridge is
dark,
And the river it spans is wide,
Yet faith points through to a shining mount
That looms on the other side. * %
To enable our feet in the next day’s march
To climb up that golden ridge
We must all lie down for one night’s rest
Inside of the covered bridge.
THE HACHOJLOR’S .SURPRISE*
A chill December evening, with the
rain and snow forming a 'disagreeable
sort of conglomeration on the sidewalks,
thfe gaslights at corner flickering
sullenly .through * the mist, and the
wind taking one viciously as one came
round the corner. Not a pleasant even
ing to assume possession of anew home
but necessity knows no law,, and Mr.
Barkdale put up his night key into the
red brick tioupe in the middle of the
block, fciriberety hoping that his new
landlady woultj. have common sense to
light a fire in the grate. *
“It is you, sir?” Mr. Hinman quoth
beamingly. “There’s a good fire,’ and
it’s all right.”
“All right, eh ?” said the bachelor,
feeling the blue tip of his frosted nose
to see whether it had escaj ed being fro
zen off entirely. ‘.‘Well, lam glad to
hear that. Have the trunks come ?”
“Oh, yes, sir, and the other things.”
“What other things it” demanded
Mir. Barkdale.
“But Mrs. Hinman pursed up her
lips. “I was’nt to tell, sir please.”
“Rather an ecceutrie old lady,”
thought Mr. Barkdale, pushing past her
to the third story front room which he
had solemnly engaged the day before.
It had been rather a dark and dingy
little de.n by tfte light of the moon ; but
now softened by/he coral shine of a
well filled grate, it wore quite another
and a brighter aspect.
‘’Velvet paper on the walls, gilt pan
eling; red carpel, and it Sleepy Hollow
chair,” thought Mr. Barkdale glancing
around. “Not so comfortable after all.
When I get my things unpacked,it will
seem quitew homelike.”
He sat down his valise in the corner,
deliberately opened it, took out a pair
of slippers, and invested his tired feet
therein. Next he laid off his overcoat.
“Now for a cigar,” thought he.
But the layered weed was yet in his
hand, when there was a bustle, and a
flutter, and a whisper, and a merry
noise on the landing outside, and the
door flow open as if by magic, to admit
half-a-dozen blooming, laughing girls.
Mr. Barkdale dropped his cigar and
retreated a step or two.
“Don’t be alarmed, ” said the tallest
and prettiest of the bevy ; “It’s only a
surprise.”
“A verj’ agreeable one I’am sure,”
said our friend, recovering bis presence
of mind.
“There’s no mistake, I hope,” said a
yellow tressed blonde. “Your name is
not Greenfield ?”
“No mistake at all, I assure , you,”
sai 1 Mr. Barkdale. “Of course it is
not Greenfield. Sit down ladies.”
And he pushed forward the Sleepy
Hollow chair, a camp stool and two
rheumatic reception chairs, wh'ch were
all the accommodations presented by
his apartment.
But instead of accepting his coutersv,
the girls fluttered out again, giggling,
and in a second, before, he could realize
this strange condition of affairs, they
were back again, bearing benches, and
a table cloth, dishes, bouquets, a pyra>
mid of maccaronies, piled up plates of
sandwiches, of frosted cake, anda mys
terious something like unto an ice cream
freezer; *
The golden tressed girl clapped her
hands. *
“You need’nt think we are. doing all
this for you, sir,” she said.
“Oh,” said Mr' Barkdale, bashfully,
“I—I—? had’nt any such impression.”
“It’s all a surprise designed-*ior Kate’s
cousin.”
“Is it ?” said Mr. Barkdale, more in
the dark than ever.
“And how do yiti suppose we found
it all out?” demanded the tall girl with
the black eyes and scarlet feather in her
hat. *
“I haven’t the least idea ” .
“We found your letter to Kate, and
we girls read it,and we iesolved to take
you and her by surprise. She is 10 be
here in half an hour. Barbara— that is
Barbara Morris iu the blue merino
dress,” with a tixtU of her long , lashes
toward the gofdeii haired girl, “pretends
that she has tfioted here, and Kate is to
come and spend the evening with Bar
bara. Won’t it be a joke.
“Stupendous !” said our hero, gradu
ally begiuning to couipreheud the iact
that he was mistakeu for someone ehte.
“What will Kate say when she sees
you here ?” ejaculated another maid
merrily. ,
“Ala, what indeed? ’ said Mr. Bark
dale, wonderidg Iu what words he could
betft explain matters.
“Of course we shall look the other
way while you are kissing and hugging
her,” said Miss Barbary demurely.
“Yery considerate of you, I am sure,”
observed Mr. Barkdale.
“She’s the sweetest girl in New
York” exclaimed the tall'damsel, en
thusiastically. <C I am one of her dear
CALHOUN, GA., WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 23,1874.
est friends. We work our sewing ma
chines side by side at Madam Grillard’s
Hain’t she ever written to you about
Alice Moor ?” '
“I —I don’t just at this m.ment re
call that she has.”
“Oh, well, it doesn’t matter,” said
Alice, “Just you sit down and be a good
boy while we fix the tables. Aren’t
those roses beautiful ? My goodness
gracious, how astonished Kate will
be !” *
“She can’t be more so than I am,”£aid
Mr. Barkdale, siuking into Ui‘e Sleepy
Hollow chair, and passing his handker
chief vaguely across his forehead.-r
--“ Well. it’s a mere matter cf fate ; I
can’t see how lam to explain. La
dies—”
“Hush-sh-sh-sh,” cried the six pretty
girls, all in a hissing chords; Kate’s
coming; Bessie has brought her. Hush
sh-sh ! Don’t say a word,Mr. Greenfield.
The golden haired girl’s band was clasp
ed promptly over his mouth. Alice
Moor grasped his p.rm spasmodically,
and the other four danced a sort of be
witching little feminine war dance about
him, while a seventh girl entered—a
pretty Madonna faced little creature like
a dove.
“Come and % kiss him, Kate,” cried all
the others. “Now don’t be ridiculous,
for we shan’t take any"inotice. Here he
is!”
“Kiss who,” cried Kate, standing still
and staring all around her. “Girls,
what on earth do you mean ?”
“You provoking thing !” said Barba
ry, stamping her little foot. “Do you
suppose we are all fools ? Why,of course,
we know all about him ! It’s Mr. Green
field—your cousin,Kate —the young M
D.”
Kate looked aroiind iu bewilderment
‘ Where 7”
, “Why here 1”
“N thing,of the sort!” said Miss
ate demurely.
Our hero stood up feeling himself
growing uncomfortably warm and red
“Ladies,” he said, “there is some mis
take here, I said at the outsflt that my
name was not Greenfield.
“Then !” cried the girls at once.
“There !” echoed Kate defiantly.
“Didn’t we tell you?” cried the
girls.
“Didn’t I tell you?” retorted Kate.
“Be kind enough to let us know what
your name is, sir.”
“Cephas Barkdale!” said the
wretched victim of a misunderstanding.
“But,” said Miss Moor, “you said it
was Nott Greenfield.”
“Of course I did I” said the puzzled
bachelor. “It isn’t Greenfield, and it
never will be unless I have it changed ;
by act of Legislature.” „
“O h-h ! ’ cried tlie r girls. “Dear,
dear, to be sure ! And we thought you
were Kate’s lover l —and his name is
N-o-doubble-t —Nott Greenfield.”
“Do hold your tongues, you ridiculous
things!” said Kate, half vexed, half
laughing. “What must Mr. Barkdaie
think of us ?”
“I think you are .very nice,” said
Mr Barkdale, gaßaiffty.
Miss Baibary had in the meantime
taken a slip of paper out of her pocket.
She uttered a hysterical shriek.
“It’s all my fault!” she exclaimed.
“It was No. 39 instead of No. 3G—and
the tail of the horrid figures turned the
wrong cud up—that’s ali. And the
and the flowers and everything.”
“ Stop, ladies, if you please,” said
Mr. Barkdale, courteously. “Be
cause the surprise come to the
wrong place is no reason why the right
person should noi enjoy it. Allow ins
to give up this room to your use this
evening. I will just step across the street
and seud Mr. Greenfield over.”
“But you must return with him,”
said the girls.
And Mr. Barkdale was not, allowed
to depart until he had-promised.
Mr. Nott Greenfield —a good lookiug
medical student—who had the “sky
parlor” directly opposite —came prompt
ly on mention of the name of Kate Kill
'ford, and did the polite thing in intro
ducing Mr. Barkdale; and Barkdale
ate of the sandwiches, and enjoyed the
cake and cream, and coaxed Miss Bar
bary to pin a little pink rosebud in the
buttonhole of his coat, and enjoyed him
self prodigimsly.
“I’d like to be surprised like this ev
ery night in the year !” said he.
“O, you greedy creature?” said Miss
Barbara.
“But there was one time I seriously
meditated throwing myself out of the
window,” said he “when you told me
that I was to kiss Kate.”
“Dear, dear,” said Barbara, ironical
ly ; “that would have been dreadful,
would’nt it ?” , .
“But the awkwardness of tfie thing.”
“I dare say you never kissed a pretty
girl,” pouted the blonde.
“I never did,” said the bacholor grow
ing bold ; “but I will now, if you say
so.
“But I don’t say so,” said Barbara
coloring and laughing. “Behave your
self, sir !”
Mr. Barkdale went home with the
fair Barbara, and they grew to be very
great friends, and where’s the use try
ing toi conceal how it ended ? They were
married at the year’s end, with all six
surprisers for bridesmaids. Kate Kill
ford included. Mr. Nott Greenfield pro
poses to follow the example as soon as
he gets his diploma.
Cure for a Cold.—A hot lemon*
ade is one of the best remedies in the
ftorld for a cold It acts prom tty aud
effectively, and has no unpleasant afte*
effects. One lemon properly squeezed,
efut in slices, put with sugar and cover
with half pint boiling Wafer. Drink
just before going to bed, and do not
expose yourself on the following day.
This remedy will ward off an attack of
the chills and fever if used promlly.
An African Dandy.
Who would suppose that a wild Afri
can, whose only dress is a piece of skin,
would trouble himself about fashions?
To be sure, he feels no interest in the
style of coats or hats, but he is just as
much absorbed in the great business of
adorning himself although he followed
the fashions of Paris. Carious styles he
has too, as a German traveler has lately
told us.
To begin with, the hair is the object
of his greatest care. Its training be
gins in the cradle,— or would if he had
a cradle, —when it is tortured into some
extraordinary form, and kept there by
means of gumarabic and ashes, till after
long years it will retain the shape of it
self. Sometime! 1 it Hke a cockscomb
and sometimes like a fan. One poor
baby’s hair will be trained, so that in
time it will stand up in rolls over the
head, like the.ridges on a melon, while
aupther’s is taught to stand out like the
ravs of the sun. as usually represented
in.pictures. With some Africans, part
of it hangs down in long regular braids
or twists, and. the rest is laid up ir
monstrous puffs on each side of the
head. But the drollest one of all is
made to look like the glory around the
head of a saint—in pictures. The hair
is taken in single lucks, stretched out to
its greatest length, and fastened at the
end to a hoop. She hoop is held in
place by strong wires, and its edge or
namented with small shells. The effect
is yery comical.
Id the most of these wonderful ar
rangements the hair is parted in the
middle (I wonder i p our young gentle
men imported that style froin° Africa),
and is kept in place by plenty of gum
and ashes, or clay.
All this elaborate hair dressing is on
the heads of men. The women of the
country wear their hair in the simplest
manner, perhaps for the reason that the
wife does the cooking, cultivates the
land, adorns her husband with paint,
and dresses his hair, which must be i
enough to keep her time well occu*
pied;
His hair once dressed, this African
dandy turns his mind to further decor
at on of his body! First he rubs his
shining skin wuh a mixture of grease
and ashes, or powdered jyood of a red
color, puts on his scanty garment, made
of the skin of some animal, or of bark,
occasionally trimmed with the long
black tail of a monkey or other Snimal,
and then he is ready for his ornaments
Across his forehead, just under the
edge of hair, like a fringe, he hangs a
string of teeth; Thsjr may be teeth of
dogs or otheranimals, or, if he is a great
warrior, of his human victims.
Next he adorns his breast with an
ornament made of ivory, cut to resem
ble lions’ teeth, and spread out in star*
shape. Around his neck he hangs sev
eral necklaces made ot strips 'ofskin cut
from the hippopotamus, and finishes up
with paiDt in various styles; dots, or
stripes, or zigzags, squares like a chekc
er board, or mumbled all over.— St.
Nicholas for December.
One of the Smith Family.-
M. S. S. Smith, of Wauma tosa Wis- I
consin—and no relation, by the way, of
Yolney Yoltaire Smith, of Arkansas—
has supposed good sense and education .
enough to be the principal of an acade
my. A bachelor at forty, frigid and
lonely, he knew nothing about that
fuller crimson that is declared to come
to the robin’s breast in the spring, nor
of the crest the wanton lapwig gets,
fresher and £tirer than the o'd one.
But in his forty-first year he fell in love
with a school-girl who was yet in her
teens, and who was foolish enough or
romantic to oticourage all advances un
til her parents noticed the flirtation and
embargoed the flirt. At this Smith cut
his throat. The gash was deep and dan
gerous,but not fatal. Therefore the story
is a bloody one A year later he had a
relapse. This time it was a young wid
ow, who humored, teased and finally
jilted him. He promptly got out his
razor again and slashed at his jugular.
The result was a second scar, crossing
the old one like the ends of a sawbuck.
Another year passed and a month ago
Smith fell in love for the third time and
last time It was a teacher in his acad
emy aud she really intended to marry
him. Th.e wedding day was appointed
and nearly reached, changed
her toind because somebody told her of
Smith’s previous love affairs. She could
not marry a man who had loved two
women before her, and so eloped with a
fellow who was too young to have ever
seriously loved anybody. Smith’s heart
was broken this time beyond repair. He
still owned the razor of bloody memo
ry. His grief wfis deeper than on the
previous occasions, and so was the gash.
Smith is dead.
Use Yonr Influence.
Y'oung women, you don’t know how
mueh influence you have over young
men. If vou would labor earnestly, we
should not have so mntij dissipated
voung men in our land. Do not let them
till a drunkard’s grave. I supp >se you
will say “I am not to blame, I don’t
believe we have anything to do with
young men’s getting drunk.” Think a
moment. Did ycu ever do anything to
prevent them ? Did you ever go with a
young man when he had been drinking
a little ? “I believe so.” Well did you
think as much of him as you did before
he fcrank? “No.” You should have said
to him : If you drink, I will not go
with yoa any more.” Y"ou might have
saved him from a drunkard s grave. W i’l
you say that young man who is attentive
to you that you do not mean to go with
any young man who drinks one drop of
liquor? He may shun you for a few
days, but he will think of it, and will
make up his mind that you are right;
for what woman wants a drunken hu? 1 *
band ?
Jones’ Experience with Grasshoppers.
Jones was a farm r in Kansas.
His crops looked fine, and he chuck
j led to himself as he thought of the piles
i of “rags,” embellished with Chase’s pho
tographs, he would have' in his pockets
when his wheat was sold. Jones read
in the newspapers about the grasshop
pers in his State. After he had read
an account one evening he remarked :
“ Grasshoppers be blamed ! The idea
of a little thing like a hoppergrass do
ing all this damage ! Why those fel
lows must be looney !”
Pretty soon the ruino • came that the
hoppers had got into his oWn cqpntj :
but still Mr. Jones was skeptical.
• One day when he was in kitchen
taking a drink of water, he heard some
thing drop on the floorr. He looked
around and there was a grasshopper sit
ting on the floor quietly chewing a nail
head
Mr. Jones said nothing; but he kept i
■ up a deal of thinking
Next day he went into his wheat !
field and found it alive wbh ’hoppers. '
This looked to him as if grasshoppers
were a reality, anyhow
So they came—thicker and faster—
came into Jones’ house; they ate all
the nails out of the w atherboarding,
and the boardsrdropped off on the ground;
they chawed his chimney down flush
with the roof; they ate his cook stove;
they even ate his cellar out, so that he
could not even find the hole it come out
of.
H° had a wagon painted green. The
’hoppers thought it was something good
to eat, and so they got the wagon ipside
of themselves also.
JoneS’saw this destruct'on. He was
heard to remark :
“Oh, the dickens! won’t I believe
the newspape.s after this,” and with
these remarks he started on a run for
the depot. He took the first train !
East, and now believes that such things I
as grasshoppers exist.— Danbury News.
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Surveyors Saved by a Horse.
Some years since, a paity of survey- j
ors had just finished their day’s work in !
the northwestern part of Illinois, when
a violeut snowstorm catne on. They
started for their camp, which was in a
forest of about 80 acres in a large prai
rie, nearly 29 miles from any other
trees. The wind was blowing very i
hard, and the snow drifting so as to !
nearly blind them. ~ j,
IV hen they thought they had nearly
reached their camp, they all at once
came upon footsteps in the snow. These
they looked at with care, and found, to
their dismay, that they were their own
traeks. It was now plain that they
were lost on the great prairie, and if
they had to pass the night there, in the
cold and snow, the chance was that not
one of them would be alive in themorn
ing. VV hile they were shivering with
tear and cold, .the chief men caught
sight of one of their horses, & gray po
ny known as “Old Jack.”
Then the chief said: “If any one
can show us the way to cauip, out of
this blinding snow, Old Jack can do it.
I will take off his bridle and let him
loose, and we can fdlow him. I th'nk
he will show us our way back to camp.’
The horse, as soon as he found him
self free, threw hig head and tail in the
air, as if proud of the trust that had
been put upo" him. Then he snuffed
the breeze aud gave a loud snort, which
seemed to say, “Come on boys ! Follow
me. I’ll lead you out of this scrape.”
He tjien turned in anew direction, and
trotted along, but not so fast that the
men eould not follow him. They had
not gone more than a mile when they
saw the cheerful blaze of their camp
fires and*they gave a loud huzza at the
sight, and for Old Jack.
--
Oat-of-door Exercise.
Our eyes have just now fallen upon
a passage in Mr. Greeley’s last letter
from Europe, in which he speaks of the
appearance of the English women, and
commends, with a little more than his
usual ardor and expression, their per
fection of figure. lie attributes this,
and very justly, to the English ladies’
habit of out j of-door exercise. We had
thought that this fact was well known ;
that it was' known years ago, and that
our fair countrywomen would catch a
hint from it that would throw color
into their cheeks and fullness into their
forms. And yet, sadly enough, our la
dies still coop themselves in their heat-*
ed rooms, until their faces aie like lilies,
and their figures—like My-stems. W 6
have alluded to the matter now, riot for
the sake of pointing a satire surely, but
for the sake of asking those one or two
hundred thousand ladies, who exery*
month light our path with their looks,
if they do indeed prize a little unnatu
ral peat i mss hue and delicacy af com
plexion, beyond the ruddy flush of
health (“the very tempter a kiss!”) and
that full development of figure, which
all the poets, from Homer down, have
made one of the chiefest beauties of a
woman? If not, let them make them
selves horsewomen ; or bating that, let
them mirke acquaintance with the sun
rise ; let them pick flowers with the
dew upon them ; let them study music
of nature’s own orchestra. Vulgarity is
not essential to health, and a lithe, clas
sic figure does not grow in hot-houses
For ourselves, we incline heartily to the
belief, that 7f American women have a
wish to add to tie rssppct, the admira
tion, the love, and (if need be) the fear
of men, they will find an easier road to
ward that gain, in a little vigorous out
of-door exercise, and a uniform attention
to the great essentials of health, than in
any new-fangled costumes or loudly-ap
plauded ‘rights.”
Envy is a consuming fire and h; t* a:
harbors it is like one who tries to cast
fire brands at those who are beyond
their reach.
Haw to get RiHij
Several of the richest men in this
country have given iu sententious lau
guage, the secret of their worldly suc
cess and fortune. “There is no secrH
about it,” said Commodore Vanderbilt;
-‘all you have to do is to tend to your
-busyiess and go ahead—except one
thing,” added the Commodore, “and that
is to never tell what you are going to do
till you have done it.” Asa Packer re
cently gave his idea of the way to get
rich iu the remark : ‘‘Economy and safe
investment are about the best means of
attaining financial prosperity. George
I Law, also, who is a tolerable rich ojen
! remarked in conversation : ‘There is
; nothing so easy as making money wheu
you have uiouey to make it with ; the
only thing is to see the crisis and take
it in at its flood; and, when furthei
pressed to tell the secret of his own suc
cess,lie quickly responded : ‘■Determin
ation to work, and working,” A. T.
Stewart told an anxious inquirer that
he “considered honesty and truth great
aids in the gaining of fortune.” To
these observations we add that of Roths
child, the founder of the worltl-renowti
ed house of Rothschild & Cos., ascribed
his success to the following : “Never
have anything to do with an unlucky
man .Be cautlotts &M bold. Make a
bargain at ouce.”
' As_a preparation for success in life,
next to good health and a souud comti
tution, nothing is more valuable than
the faculty of saving. Asa writer iu
the Spectator lately said,'there is no
greater blessing for p opTe of modern#
ineins than the possession of a year’s
expenditures and few liiing'i
which arc harder to r.ttaiu or are rarely
fjund. John Jacob Astor said it was
easier to make a fortune after having
saved the first thousand dollars, than to
amass lhat fcam H the and so a
year’s income once obtained a founda r
tion stone of confidence and capital, on
which one may erect one of the loftiest
and most abitious edifices. A man with
a year's income “laid away,” as the
Scotch say, is twice the man with double
his income and no store, not onlv
because he is not ih debt, but because
lie can afford to try life in his own way,
instead of the ways other people are
willing to open out to him, because lie
inot afraid of an experiment, because,
in fact, he can Use the great secret Of
all success. .lie can wait.
Hand Shaking-.
How did the people get n;to the hab
it of shaking hands? The answer is nut
lar to seek. In early and barbarous
times when every savage or semi-savage
Was bis own law giver, judge soldier
and policeman, he had to*watch over his
own safety in default of*all other protec
tion, two I riends and acquaintances, or
two strangers desiring to become friends
and acquaintances, when they chanced
offered each to the other the
1 Lglit baud the hand alike of dcfenceuud
offence the hand that wields the sword,
the dagger, the club, the -tomihawk or
other weapons of war. Each did this to
show the hand was empty, and that
neither war nor treachery was intended.
A man cannot well stab another while
he is shaking hands with him unless he
is a double dyed traitor and vidian and
strives to aim n cowardly blow with the
"left while giving tfic right and pretend
ing to be on good terms with his vic
tim.
I he custom of hand shaking prevails
more or less among all civilized nations,
and is the tacit avowal of friendship
and good will—just as a kiss is of a
warm passion. Ladies, as every one
must have remarked, seldom or never
shake hands with the cordiality of a
gentleman, unless it be with each othbr.
The reason is obvious: It is for them
to receive homage—not ’to give it.
They cannot be expect'd to show to
persons of the other sex a warmth of
greeting which might be misinterpreted,
unless such persons are very closely re*
luted to them by family or affection, in
which case hand sh/king is uot needed,
and the lips do a much more agreeable
duty.
The ffftltfi of Swearing.'
The meanest, most useless most
contemptible vice that ever grew rank 1
in the hothouse of the devil is profane
swearing. We protest against it not as
preachers and church members object
to sin on professional grounds but as
Members of society, os decent men. On
boat o , in cars, in places of business, on
the open concert doors and ev
erywhere else rings the incessant oath
of the habitual swearer. Young men
just lea ning to curse appear to think
there is something manly and brave
about it; while old swearers interlard
the commonest remarks they make with
cold-blooded blasphemies and a variety
of diabolical curses. No man or woman
of any refinement or decency at all can
be otherwise than lacerated and shocked
by these brutal and vuilger verbal mis
sills every day ; and no fellow who is
shamefully guilty of projecting them
can do otherwise than sink beneath the
contempt of such men and women with
every vile epithet they hear him utter.
Public profanity ought to be an indict
able offense with a penalty of ten days
in jail for every oath.
As Irishman went a fishing and
among other things he hauled in a
large siied turtle- To enjoy the sur
priso of the servant girl he put it in her
room. Next morn’Thg the first that i
bounced into the breakf r-m w
Biddy with the exclamation, "B< job-]
t rs I've gut the d*vil. —s*-\VhAdovil?
enquired her master. “Why, the bull
bed-bug that’s been ating the children
fbr-the last two months.’’
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Winter Rooms. , *
The glories of Autumn are ; cc 5
chill Winter compels us to seek on* aa
joyuient within doors. If we can find
there the greenery of Summer, ami tfw>
splendor of Autumn, rubbed indeed of
their dreariness will rho the
Winter days With just a little fore
sight and a few hours of pleasant to#,
this is within the reach of almost dter/
family. Scarcely any house bt|fr harat
least one sunny Southern room;,f|||
sho dd be the family room. Here should
be giitliesni the bonk*, 1 the pictures, the
pleasant furniture, and every thirn* that
will make the apartment attractive to
visitorvand enjoyable to its Oocuptt is.
W indow gardening hnsbrco7V§ Well
nigh universal, end those who ha\t c-. -ee
tasted its delights will be plow twrefifo
quis li them. T iic gel an i a ms, and fu o
sias and heliotropes transferred from
their bed in the open air to the su.m/
window 7 shelf, will be green for wf!
winter. Hyacinth bulbs will aenfl up
their bright lances and disclose odorous
spikes of filling the room with
beauty and fragrance. The ivy,
maurandia, money wort,yn*d Windowing
Jew ask only a Jitfcto earth or a cup of
water to give us delicate t-aecry cf foli
age tho whole’season. If we but bids
a slip of each in w bottle of water lml
suspend it en the back of
frames, presently (ho green leaves will
peep out and entwine themselves loving,
ly around the frame.
Hanging baskets of wire covered with
gayly tinted tissue paper, or vfith bits
of gray or brown moss, or ttlth talc'd
raveling* of warm rich hue,,may hoi?
tin can* otherwise uaelces, from whfch
with only water and a swoefc potato In
them abundance of trailing vine*/will
twine themselves whither a thread ahaffr
lead them.
Of ornaments ftoif. Autumn 1
leaves there is no end. Harps, anchor* *
crosses, cut from pasteboard and eovlred
with loaves of crjmson and rnssef, and
brown and gold hanging on the trails,
will perpetu>to tho memory and the
beauty of the lovely October. Cornices
may be mr.de of them; they may be
tastefully arranged upou and to
the window panes as‘to the .effect
in the stained glasa, or arranged in bou
quets and placed in vaae3 on brackets.
lime srent iu making home thus
tractue is most wisely inreetbd. Foogh
manners,.ill fcempg, carelessness, with
the ills that usually follow in their train,
cannot find a congenial restihg place-in an
apartment which refinement and tasto
have, made their os. Boys will not
leave their home thus bvautified by the
hand of a loving mother ol si.Merf rr.d
filled with the charm of thair gracious
and sunny presence for the gilded .
loons where pleasure allures but to de
stroy. There cannotj.be for the young
or the old a stronger safeguard l
vice than* cozy, hrppy, virtipttKud
beautiful home. . „
Auihors and Tenters.
N. P. Willis set a high raid!* or / *
piactical knowledge of printing for au- #
thors. lie was himself one pf the
brotherhood, and of the subject
as follower
If there were an apprenticeship to
authorship, it would consist in the •.
thor’s spending a year at the case. Not
alone to learn the importance of clear
pennmanship, of how to prepare copy
and become familiar with the signs,
marks and abbreviations used in proof
reading, though these are matters .an
acquaintance with which would save
much time and vexation, and , rrevent
serious blunders. The chief advance*
would be to the author himself. There
is no mch effectual analysis */ it yle a
the process of typesetting. As he take*
up letter by letter, of a long or com
pi^x sentence, the compositor becomes
most critically aware of' where the sen
tence might have been shortened to
save his labor. lie detects repetition
becomes impa'ient of redundancies, ret’
ognires the careless or inappropriate use
of expletives.and soon puts an admiring
value on clearness and brevity. We
venture to say phat it would the
whole character of American literature,
if authors were compelled, before legal!"
ly receiving a copyright, to have given
one year at the compositor’s We
have said nothing of the nice irt of*
punctuation, which is also acquired in *
tho*printing offices and by which a sty!©*
is made as much more tasteful a* *
champagne by* effervescing.” ♦
. t .
A New York paper has discovered
that “an infinitely suddivided dritura
ton of the lung (fa long win led f< sis
an unfailing remedy for th§ human asth
“a* We bawe previously been of this
opinion ourselves, bat now we incline -
to thin if, that the inner cellc&sr proves*
of the tueoracic membrane of a rugged
Durham bnll, taken out put to *oak
with a cartilag n ms depisit of the sub— ...
maxillary morter, will be more effectual
in all cases where the asthma docs not
settle down and become epine&eect Un*
der the pericardium. v
A Leavenworth editor has a gore
ear. The~low stage of water in the j
river renders it difficult for him N
it all over, at once ; after washing it,
however, as best as he can, he applies
twenty pounds of motton talker;
it in army blankets; props it up with
oak timbers and keeps righ^along with
his ink-slinging. 7
Laug h 1 others preg sure to *
Ik* hughir'_ at •-•©> r w'Hst ft ri
diculous in them tith f'has t- eu
ic ojt lot - . r
A 'NEIGHBOR I*s Hut .vju ply DC v4:o'
lives near to Us, but he who does a
Neighborly turn, as well as he to whom
we can do the same.