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professional & business Cards.
J. KIKEII & SON,
ATTORNEYS at law,
frill practice in all the Courts of the Cher*
Circuit; Supreme Court ot Georgia, and
the United States District Court at Atlanta,
(; i oihce: Sut Least corner of the Court
House, Calhoun, Ga.
iy\!N & MtLNER,
ATTORNEYS at law,
CALHOUN, GA
U"dl practice in all the Superior Courts of
0 f Cherokee Ge rgisi. the Supreme Court of
nnd the United States District and
Circuit ottfts, at Atlanta.
TANARUS) AN KIN A NEEL,
attorneys at law,
CALHOUN, GA.
oft Offer : Court House Street,
j U. TINSLEY,
Watch-Maker & Jeweler,
CAL J cry, GA .
All styles of Clocks, Watches and Jewelry
neatly repaired and warranted.
j|! tE WALDO THORNTON, D. D. S..
dentist.
Office over Geo. W. Wells & Co.’s Agricul
tural Warehouse.
]yj LSS C. A HUDGINS,
lilliuer & Mantua-Makcr,
Court House St., Calhoun *Ga.
Patterns of the latest styles and fashion
ladies just received. Gutting and
done to order.
MUSIC! MUSIC!
\ large variety of new and select music
direct from Philadelphia kept constantly on
hand and for sale by Mrs. J. E. Parrott.
She also gives notice that she will instruct
in music at her residence. Terms, per month,
St.oo; use of instrument, 50 ennts. Recep
tion days, Tuesdays and Thursdays.
7 T GRAY,
L. CALHOUN, GA„
D prepared to furnish the public with
lluigies and Wagons, bran new and warnant
•il. Repairing of all kinds done at shoit
notice. Would c ill attention to the cole
rat'd “Fish Brothers’ Wagon which he fia
ni h*-s. Call and examine before buying
elsewhere.
> T E\V GROCERY STORE.
W. Marsliall,
RAILROAD ST., OLD STAND OF
A. W. BC.LLEW.
FRESH GOODS, "BOUGHT FOR
CASH, AND WILL BE SOLD
FOR (NASH AT THE VERY
LOWEST PRICES.
WonU respectfully ask his numerous
friends in (Jordon county to come in and
set* him before making purchases elsewhere.
I PROPOSE TO OPEN ON
Monday, January 10th, 18i 4,
CALHOUN MALE AND FEMALE
HIGH SCHOOL.
Assisted by Mrs. M. E. FIELD, a known
ami experienced instructress. The school
will he Divided into three grades, the Pri
tnftry. Intermediate and Academic. The
PRIMARY DEPARTMENT
will embrace the following studies:
Holmes’ Speller and Reader:, Nos. 1,
2 3 and 4, Maury’s Geography,
No. 1. Primary Arithmetic and
Practical Lessons in Penmanship, S2OOO
INTERMEDIATE.
English Grammar, Geography, Mau
ry’s Intermediate Arithmetic,
First Lessons in English Compo-
MfioiV, Penmanship, and Algebra
through Simple Equations, with
Rea ling, Elocution and Spelling, $->OOO
ACADEMIC.
•’I 'insoi hy. Natural and Moral Ohem
istry. Rhetoric, Algebra, Geome
try. and such studies as are usu
ally taught in high schools with
Latin, Greek and French S4O 00
Fine Vrts and Instrumental Music at Pro
p's charges.
'he scholastic year will be divided into
t i n>s of 24 and 16 weeks each.
TUITION FEES.
i,ai lment, Ist term sl2 00
I'a.e •• “ “ 18 00
, ln i,. “ “ “ 24 00
i‘.il ■ .p. uses p*r term 100
, . paid quarterly in advance.
lesired that patrons send in prompt
first week, that all may be present at'
* .nation of classes. We earnestly so
nage of the vicinity and coun
*in' by arduous effort to merit your
ntinu"! support..
W, C. HOLMES, A. M.. Irincipal.-
Mas. M. E. FLEJLD. Aasis ant.
nov26-tf
VOL. V.
WAITING NOR TIIE STRING.
As breezes stir the morning,
A silence reigns in air j
Steel blue the heavens above ine:
Moveless the trees, and bare.
Yet unto me the stillness
This burden seems to bring—
“ Patience ! the earth is waiting,
Waiting for the spring.”
Strong ash and sturdy chestnut,
Rough oak and poplar high,
Stretch out their sapless branches
Against the wintry sky.
Even the guilty aspen
Hath ceased her quivering,
As though she too were waiting,
Waiting for the spring.
I strain mine ears to listen
If happy where 1 stand,
But one stray note of music
May sound in all the laud.
Why art thou mute, 0 blackbird ?.
0 thrush L why dost sing ?
Ah !• surety they are Waiting,
Waiting for the spring.
O heart! thy days are darksome ;
0 heart! thy nights are drear;
But soon shall streams of sunshine
Proclaim the turning year.
Soon shall the trees be leafy,
Soon every bird shall sing;
Let them be silent waiting ;
Waiting for the spring.
HOW DICK WENT TO THE FICSH.
“ Where in the world is that boy ?”
Mrs. Frye took her hands from the suds
and went to the barn.
“ Dick, what are you doing V ’
“ Making a box for the cat. Going
to sell her, and get mouey to go to the
picnic, Friday/’
Thankful that he was iu no worse
mischief, his mother went back to her
washing, and sighed to think how poor
they were Dick kept busy at his
work, making his box like the cattle
cars he had seen on the freight trains,
opeu at the sides and on top, with only
narrow bars nailed across. Part of an
old barrel-hoop served for a handle, and
it was with no little satisfaction that he
held it up to view.
“ There, Tabitha Maria, how do you
like your new quarters? Not much
loom to turn round, is there ? But
you’ve plenty of good air—needn’t be
afraid of smothering. O, ho !” he con
tinued, as a head with a pair of fright
ened eyes we* e thrust through the
bars, “ this’ll never do. You re not
such a beauty that your looks will help
me any.” Down went the box, while
another shingle was added to pussy’s
prison. “ Le’tue see/' he mused, crowd
ing back poor Tabitha’B head, “ you’re
worth about a quarter ; then if these
hens will lay a little extra this week,
I’m all right.”
Dick sallied forth into the July sun
shine, but found that cats were a drug
in the market; everybody owned one;
so he came homo tired and discouraged,
and let pussy out.
Mrs. Frye was washing the dinner
dishes.
“ I say. mother, I’m going a-fish
ing.”
1 Well, don’t tumble overboard,” she
said, anxiously.
For more than an hour Dick sat on
the wharf, patiently w. tehing his line,
but the fishes seemed to be taking an af
ternoon nap.
“1 don’t blame ’em,” he muttered.
“ I’m most melted here in the sun. —
My! Mere comes the parson !”
“ Fishing. Richard ?” Mr King nev
er called him Dick.
“ Yes, sir ; but they don’t bite.”
“Ah ! Simon Peter bad that same
trouble once. Out all night and caught
nothing.”
The minister had the queerest way
of talking about men in the Bible,
just as if he were acquainted with
them.
lt was a little strange,” he contin
ued, “ that Christ should ask him to
push out into deep water j the last place
to find fish, is’nt it ?”
“ Yes sir j they keep in near the
shore most always.”
“It wasn’t a favorable time, either.
If ever you go to the Sea of Galilee, I
advise you not to try to fish :n the fore
noon. By the way, I suppose you will
go to the picnic ?”
a lf I can earn the money. That s
what I want these fish for —to sell.”
“ Peter found some money in a fish s
mouth once.”
Dick opened his eyes. “ I never
heard of that.”
“ Didn’t you ? Read the seventeenth
chapter of Matthew, when you go homo.
And if I were in your place, I would
ask Jesus to help in this matter.
“ Ask Him how to earn money ?” said
Dick aghast.
“ Certainly. Why not ? You don’t
see the wav clear yourself, and He is
the Sight.* Just the time to go to the
Lord, when we need Him, and men
cannot help us. Do you not want a
ticket given you, Richard ? You know
the Supeiintendent has a few for those
who cannot afford to buy.
“No sir j” replied Dick, with em
phasis.
u J3 o yg w ho help themselves always
make the smartest men,” said Mr. K.
“ But, Richard, don’t let yourself out
to Satan’s service. I dare say he has
plenty of odd jobs to be done this week,
waiting for just such boys as you; but
don’t be fooled by him. If you feel
that the Lord cannot furnish you with
the right kind of work, think of 1 eter.
Good-bye, my boy !”
“Hi !” thought Dick, wish I was
your boy !”
“ Mother. I’m going blackheirying.
Where can I find a pail ? Quick, the
boys are waiting!’'
Dick rushes into the room where his
mother stood ironing, flew to the little
cupboard, and began rumaging among
the dishes.
CALHOUN, GA., WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 17, 1875.
“ Joe Shaw says they are thicker
than hops. Hurrah for the picnic !”
and he was off again, swinging the pail
ahote his head.
When they reached the spot there
were only a few stunted bushes by the
roadside. The other boys began clam
bering over a stone wall, but Dick stop
ped short.
“ Where are you going!” he asked.
“ But isn’t this Squire Dean’s
place ?”
“Of course, you greeny. What of
that? We shan’t get caught, for the
folks are away this afternoon.”
“ But it’s stealing just the same if we
get found out.”
‘How Jongsince you turned deacon ?”
sneered Joe Shaw; at which the others
began to laugh.
“ Nice little boy, so he is ! Goes to
Sabbath School!” mocked the boys
Dick was so busy thiuking he scarce
ly noticed them.
“ A Satan’s job, as sure’s I’m alive,”
he said to himself, wheeling about and
running swiftly down the hill, beyond
the sound of his tormentors. Heated
and panting, he threw himself under a
tree.
“ There, old fellow, you didn’t catch
me this time !” and he shook h’s fist at
the invisible foe.
Thursday evening came, and Dio’->
had earned thirty-five cents selling eggs
and running on errands, but fifteen
more were needed before he could
go to the picnic. It did seem a little
too bad.
The talk Monday afternoon down on
the wharf had given him some new
ideas.
He wondered if Jesus really did
think about him except on Sundays.—
Some how he had felt differently since
beginning to pray every day instead of
once a week.
“ Do you s’pose I should have stolen
those berries, if I hadn’t asked him
that morning to keep me from doing
wicked things ?” he queried. “ I’d
like to see Mr. King again. Guess I’ll
walk up that way; maybe I’ll meet
him.”
A distant whistle announced the com
ing of a train. Dick always made it a
point to be at the deoot at such times,
for people often wanted a boy to carry
bundles.
A lady stepped from the cars laden
with a traveling bag, shawl, umbrella
and numerous packages.
“ Ah !” cried Dick, following her in
to the ladies’ room, “ here’s a first-class
job,” and he chuckled with delight
“ Have a carriage, ma’am ?” he ask
ed politely.
“Yes; is there one here ?”
“ No, ma'am there never is at this
station. But I’ll take your things up
for you. Cheap, too,” he added, seeing
she hesitated.
The lady smiled. “ I wasn’t think
ing of that. I was wondering if I
could walk as far as my brother’s. I’m
very tired. Do you know where Mr.
King lives ?”
“ What! the minister ? Guess Ido
—its only up there,” pointing to the
house.
“ O, well, if you’ll take my baggage
I’ll go, then.”
“ Two four five yes, that’s
right,” she remarked, as Dick placed
the bundles on tbe hall table. “ How
much is it ?”
“ Ten cents, if you please.”
“ There’s twenty five, just half what
a hackman would have charged me.”
Dick’s face was radiant.
“ Does that make you eno.ugh, Rich
ard ?” inquired Mr. King, who was
standing near.
“ More, sir.” Something in his
throat made it difficult to say much.
“ Ah ! yes —Bible pay —good meas
ure—pressed down —running over. —
You’ve found him a good master this
week. Better take him for life, my
boy.”
Friday dawned clear and beautiful,
and there was no happier boy at the
picnic than Richard Frye, because he
had tried to help himself in the right
way.
One of the Sorrows of Life.
Many a volume has been written
about the love of parents, the love of
mothers, its enthusiasms of hope and
fancy, its adorations of the unworthy,
its agony for the lost; but Ido not re
member that any one has ventured to
touch on a still more terrible view of
the subject, the disappointments, for
example, with which such a woman as
I have attempted to set before the
reader —a woman lull of high aspira
tions, noble generosities, and, perhaps,
an unwarrantable personal pride, all in
tensified by the homely circumstances
of life around her—sometimes looks up
on the absolutely commonplace people
whom she has brought into the world.
She, too, has had her dreams about
them while they were children, and all
things seemed possible —while they
were youths, with still some grace and
freshness of the morning veiling their
unheroic oiwlines. Rut a woman ot
seventy can cherish no fond delusions
about her middle-aged sons and daugh
ters, who are to all intents and purposes,
as old as she is. What a dismal sense
of failure must come into such a wo
man’s heart while she looks at them !
Perhaps this is one reason why grand
fathers and grandmothers throw them
selves so eageily into the new genera
tion, by means of which human nature
can go on deceiving itself. Heavens !
What a difference between the ordina
ry man or woman of fifty and the ideal
creature which he or she appeared to
the mother’s eyes at fifteen ! The old
people gaze and gaze to see our old fea
tures in us ;• and who can express the
blank of that disappointment, the cruel
mortification of those old hopes which
never find expression in any words ?
JLs Oliphant.
A HISTORIC CLOCK.
The First One Made in Pennsylvania.
It is proposed by some gentlemen of
Holmesburg, says the Doylestown In
telligencer, in connection with the trus
tees of the Holme school property, to
have the old clock which has lain in
the garrett of the building for many
years as worthless rubbish, cleaned and
repaired and placed in its former posi
tion to give the passing to the school
and neighborhood. The history of this
clock is an interesting one, and oa ac
count thereof it should be preserved
for the centennial, if for no other pur
pose, as the first clock made in Penn
sylvania.
Edward Duffield, the maker, eame
from England before the Revolutionary
war, and set up the business of repair
ing and cleaning watches at the corner
of Second and Arch streets, Philadel
phia. Being an ingenious mechanic,
he early attracted the atteution of Ben
jamin Franklin, who was a frequent
visitor to his shop. Franklin noticed
the interruption by frequent callers to
ascertain the time of day, and suggest
ed to his friend Duffield to construct a
clock with two dials, one on Second and
one on Arch street, promising to aid in
the undertaking.
Mr. Duffield embraced the idea, and
the clock vras made ard satisfactorily
placed in position, and for many years
served to give the citizens the correct
time. General Washington, when a
resident in Philadelphia, was a frequent
caller to regulate his w 7 atch by this
clock. When Mr. Duffield quit the
business he retired to his farm near the
Holme school and took the clock with
him. About the year 1705 anew
school house was built, and Edward
Duffield Jr., one of the trustees pre
sented to it the clock, which was
placed in the attic where the scholars
and those in the vicinity could see the
time of day.
The clock kept excellent time until
about 1856, when it was taken down
and put away as rubbish. During its
ticking time many noted persons watch
ed passing hours on its dial while enjoy
ing the advantages of the school, among
others, Commodore Stephen Decateur
(whose father lived in Byberry), then a
boy attending school, and boarding
with Benjamin Johnson near by. A
•list of the teachers in the school, from
the donation of the property by John-
Holme, Esq , Surveyor General under
Penn, to the present time, would be in
teresting.
A Comfortable Shs-e.
A Swiss philosopher has taken up a
subject that concerns very closely the
comfort of the human race, and especi
ally the civilized portion of it. They,
indeed, suffer the most from ill-fitcing
shoes. The Indian is not troubled by his
moccasins, nor the Oriental by his san
dal ; it is the tight-fitting shoe of the
European aud American that claims a
place among the instruments of torture.
Some advance has been made in the art
of shoemaking, and prominent among
the improvements is one known in this
city as the “box toed” shoe which re
lieves the toe from the pressure ol‘a new
pair of shoes. The researches of the
Swiss philosopher, Dr. Herman Meper,
of Zurich, suggests some valuable con
siderations well worth the attention of
the intelligent artificers who makes boots
and shoes. lie asserts that a shoemaker
ought not only to produce a shoe that
does not pinch, but a shoe so construct
ed that it will give to a foot distorted
by the pinching it has born already a
fair ch-auce of returning to its right
shape and full possession of its power as
a means of carrying the budv onward.—
He says that in measuring a foot for a
shoe or boot, the first thing to be con
sidered is the place of the great toe. —
Upon this toe, in walking, the weight
of the whole body turns at every step
in a natural foot; therefore it is iu a
straight line with the heel. A central
straight line drawn from the point of
the great toe to the middle of its root,
if continued, would pass very exactly to
the middle of the heel. But, by the
misfitting boot usually worn, the point
of the toe is pressed inward, the root
outward. No or model of a foot al
ready injured by wearing ill-fitting
boots or shoes should ever be made the
exact size of such a foot.
Coal is not. as is generally imagin
•cd, a modern forui of fuel. The Chi
nese, forerunners in most discoveries,
knew 7 its value centuries ago. It is known
to have been in use in the days of Julius
Caesar and the Roman Empire, aud
From the twelfth century to the present
day the trade in coal has undergone pro
gressive development As long as Ed
ward the Sixth reign, toward the mid
dle of the sixteenth century coal was
shipped from England to Diance, and a
letter of that date speaks of “that thinge
that France ean lyve no more without,
than the fvshe without water ; that is
to say Newcastle coals; which without
they can nether make steele worke, nor
metal worke, nor wyre worke, not gold
suiythe worke, nor gonnes, nor no man
ner of thinges that passethjjthe fier.”
The following is intended for those
who wish to exercise their mathematic
al bump. It is said to be 1 a hard nut to
crack :
In one of the smaller New England
towns an agaot was appointed to sell al
coholic liquors,at a salery of twenty-five
dollars per annum ; he was furnished
with a stock of liquors valued at
$57,54, and with $32.19 in cash to com
mence business; during the year he
purchased liquors to the amount of
$59.91, and received for liquors sold,
$lO2. 98. At the end of the year he
had liquors on hand valued at s3l 37.
Did he owe the* towm or did the towm
owe him ? and fiow much ?•
Mexican Lis.
In the beautiful land of Mexico—
the land that lives ouly ou the memo
rics of the past —half way between the
Bay of Campeachy and the e y of
Mexico, which iu olden Spain was
styled “ The Venice of th • VV\> era
World,” are now to be fo md the 1 i ins
only of the once powerful Republic of
Tlascala. Not many leagues •' ay
the Kingdom of the powerful Montezu
ma. Thousands ef people worshipped
aud dreaded him. At the r*- :i • s’
part of his kingdom, his subjects were
filled with awe at accounts of his great
ness.
The Republic of Tlascala, being
composed of a warlike and valorous peo
ple, it had, in early years, asserted its
independence, and, although lying in
the heart of a country whose numerous
and petty kings were governed by one
monarch— Montezuma—it had for years
maintained its rights to self-govern
ment, and had won the fear and admi
ration of all that fierce and warlike peo
ple.
Nature had much assisted them in
asserting and maintaining their own
rights, having given as she hud to
Switzerland a mountain wall of protec
tion, which fortified three sides of their
country. Several leagues of the re
raaining boundary lay open to the ap
proach of the much dreaded Aztecs.—
Straightway this little nation set to
work,, nothing daunted at tire prodigi
ousness of the task, and built a wall
nine feet high and twenty feet thick,
for a distance <f two miles, thus com
pleting the breastwork nature had
thrown up for their benefit.
Seventy-four years ago, at the head
of a conquering army, Napoleon cheer
ed his troops onward to the combat by
the cry of Soldiers of France, firnr
centuries look down upon you !” This
was the battle fought at the foot of the
mighty Egyptian Pyramids, and the
victory was part of the realization of
the boyish dreams of the “ Little Cap
tain.”
Here, on another continent thousands
of miles away, in the heart of the Tlas
calan Republic, lies another pyramid,
one of the world’s unknown wonders.
Mighty battles have been fought at its
base. Terrible massacres have bathed
its winding stairway in human blood.—
Strange and awful processions have
wound around it from base to apex, a
worshipping multitude have knelt while
sacrifices most revolting have been made
on the altars of its summit to the ”Un
known God, the Cause of Causes.”
The great pyramid of Egypt, Cheops,
covers an area of eleven acres, and rises
to the height of 486 feet. The Mexi
can pyramid’s base covers forty-four
acres, and its sides rise to the height of
177 feet, while the platform on its
summit is mire than an acre in- extent.
Its walls are composed of layers of
brick and clay.
In olden times, when busy people
thronged this land, this was the great
“ TeocaMi ”or temple. On its sum
mit altars were reared, where worship
in the awful Hintzilopotonli was offer
ed.
A stairway round the outside of the
building, leading from its foot to the
apex ; and on the great feast days an
imposing procession of priests, carrying
in their ranks the prisoners to be sacri
ficed in honor of the day, marched up
the pyramid’s side. A brilliant spec
tacle it was, as, clad in their scarlet
robes, and bearing gorgeous banners
made of the feathers of their tropical
birds, they ascend the stairway in full
view of the people, singing meanwhile
chants to the “ God of War ” and the
“ God of Air.”
The victims, who for many a inortfh
have lived on the best and most fatten*
ing of food the land contained, and dai
ly trained for this ordeal, are brought
forth. One by one they are laid on the
altar. A dexterous movement makes
the keen knife glisten in the air a
minute, and then a deep gash in the
side is made, the heart is torn out reek
ing with blood and quivering with life,
and the body is quickly borne away to
grace some lordly mansion.
So on and on, through the long list
of captives taken in war, or the best
and ! most beautiful of their yeung
men and maidens, these human butch
ers slay.
After an attack on the City of Mex
ico, and a defeat terrib!efor its slauirh
rers and the prisoners taken. Her
nando Cortez, with a handful of follows
ers, resting on the hills above, looked
down upon a scene like this.
Comrade alter comrade was led forth
and slain to appease the bloodthirstv,
and their hearts hung in the noonday
sun, wlie'e they will blacken and d : e,
until another day of sacrifice chronicles
another dreadful holocaust.
This truth.'is confessed; that man’s worst
foe is man :
He, he alone. No tenant of the wood
Preys on his kind and laps his brother’s
blood,
His fellow leads where hidden pitfalls lie,
And drinks with ecstaey his dying sigh.
The remains of the pyramids are
found all through the country of Mexi
co, and even across the Gult into Yu
catan. Most of them aresokd through
out ; but in some, rooms have been dis
covered, though whether they were in
tended for tombs, or as Che “ llolv of
Holies ”to the outer temple on their
summits, no one can tell.
The only voice that comes to us from
their strong depths is that which shows
their kinship with the ruined palaces
that are found in the surrounding coun
try. This is an impress of a hand laid
flat against a surface. It is as lanze as
life, it is stained red as blood, and ap
pears on the walls of temple, pyramid
and palace.
Not long ago, on the Northern fron
tier of Washington Territory, the im-
p?ession of the wale led hand was
found ; and occasionally, among some of
our Indians, on tents and buffalo robes,
has been the same mysterious sign.—
Mysterious I say, because no Indian
knows its meaning—using it only as a
talisman
We call tins anew world. What do
we know f its age ?
I here are lecords in existence hand
ed down from the uncien: Cit” of
Mexico, in which are the accounts of
tribes, who centuries before, coming
from the North, built and founded a
Kingdom in that island. Where does
the North lie ? Why is there no voice
to break the silence of ages, and teil
where this strange but uncivilized pop
ple came from. Only the red hand
beckons scholar and investigator back
ward to the contemplation of a time
and people whose mouuments, whose
majestic and beautiful palaces vie well
with the architectural beauties of the
Old World, and lill us with w< nderand
a restless longing for a better knowl
edge of a race which inhabited our
country long ages ago.
An English Workhouse Scene.
By and by we came to the ward where
the children were kept, and on entering
which, we saw, in the first place, seve
al unlovely and unwholesome little chil
dren lazily playing tog ther in a court
yard And here a singular incommodity
bef 11 one member of our party. Among
the children was a wretched, pale, half
torpid little thing (about six years old,
peihtrs, but l know not whether boy or
girl), with a humosj in its eyes and face
which, the Governor said, was the scur
vy. and which appeared to bedim its
powers of vision, so that it toddled about
gropingly as if in quest of it did not
precisely know what. This child, this
sickly, wretched, humor-eaten infant,
the otfspring of unspeakable sin aird sor
row, whom it must have required sever
al generations of guilty progenitors to
render so pitiable an object as we beheld
it—immediately took an unaccountable
fancy to the gentleman just hinted at.
It prowled about him like a pet kitten,
rubbing against his legs, following ev
erywhere at his heels, pulling at' his
coat tails, and, at last, exerting all the
speed that its poor limbs were capable
of, got directly before him, and held
forth its arms, mutely insisted upon be
ing taken up. It said not a word, being,
perhaps, underwitted and incapable ot
prattle. But it smiled up in his face—
a sort of woful gleam was that smile,
through the sickly blotciies that covered
its features, and found means to express
such a confidence that it was going to
be fondled and made much of, that there
was no possibi ity in a human heart dis
appointing its expectations. It was as
if God had promised this favoi on behalf
of that individual, and he was bound to
fulfil the c'ontiact or else no longer call
himself a man among men. Neverthe
less, it could be no easy thing for him
to do, he being a person burdened with
more than an Englishman s customary
reserve —shy of actual contact with hu
man beings, afflicted with a peculiar dis
taste for whatever was ugly, aud, fur
thermore, accustomed to that habit of
observation from an insulated stand
point which is said (bat, I hope, erro
neously) to have the teudency of put
. ting ice in the blood.
So I watched the struggle in his rniud
with a good deal of int. rest, and am se
riously of the opinion that he did a he
roic act, and effected more than he
dreamed of trwards his final salvation
when he took up the loathsome child
and caressed it as tenderly as if he had
been its father. To be sure, we all smil
ed at him at the time, but, doubtless,
would have acted pretty much the same
in a similar stress of circumstances.—
The child, at any rate, appeared to be
satisfied with his behavior ; for when he
had held it a considerable time and set
it down it still favored him with its com
pany, keeping fast hold of his forefinger
till we reached the coufinesof the place.
And ou our return through the court
yard, after visiting another part of the
establishment, heie again was this little
wretchedness waiting for its victim with
a smile of joyful yet dull recognition
about its scabby mouth and rheumy eyes.
No doubt the child s mission in refer
ence to our friend, was, to remind him
that he was responsible in his degree
for all the sufferings and misdemeanors
of the world in which he lived, and was
entitled to look upon a particle of its=
dark calamity as it it were none of his
conce n; the offspring of a brother’s
iniquity being his own blood relation,
and the guilt likewise a burden on him
unless he expiated it by better deeds.—
Hawthorne.
L:fepatn#e as a Profession.
The following extract is from an able
article in the Public Ledger on “ Lit
erature as a Profession ” Those who in
tend to embark on that unce r tain sea
should read :
The true conclusion to be reached on
this subject is, [that the man of genuine,
or whoever considers himself su’dY.
must either make up his mind to pov
erty, choose it, and like it, and take the
chances of any other poor man, with
no self enthronement or over delicate
sensitiveness, or he . must have some
other pursuit which will appeal to the
sense of the immediately useful in the
community. His living occupation
must be his first thought, and his in
tellectual occupation a side pursuit—
whether followed as a recreation or live
as a life in the clouds, above the toss
exhalations of bread and butter.
There are many honorable instances, in
all conditions of liffi, of men who have
led such double live3. They have not
been above the daily prosaic necessities
of existence in their working hours, aud
in their leisure moments have won them
selves fame. 1
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NO. 29.
Eight Cares.
M hat a pity ’tip that young married
folks will not emulate the exam le of
Japanese housekeepers I They
bled very little with fiotrdeboid cures.—
A lew mats, a ebest of drawers for cloth
ing, two or three quilts for a bed on the
floor, some simple kitchen utensils, aud
their houses are furnished.
'ihey have never known the use of
bedstead, a chair, or a A* v
derstand these articles; and yet, t j lcse
people have all the virtues of civjjj z .,.
tiou and not quite all its vices. They
are polite, generous, hospitable, p c j orm
their religious duties with ex eu ,pj arv
piety, and if cleanliness be next t 0 ITo q‘„
hne.-s, they are much more [j iafl
we are, for they are the people
en the earth, according to the geueral
testimony of travelers.
We have certainly much t n ] enrn fj 0 _
fore our houses can be as immaculately
neat as theirs are. Their habit of dof
fing stieet bouts aud assuming shppeis
before entering a room does much to
wards keeping houses cleauer than our
own. A poor Japanese housewife really
enjoys more ease, after her simple du
ties are done, than any of our wealthiest
dames who are weighed down with the
cares of an extravagant t stablishment.
And as for young people just enter
ing life—compare their lot with that of
the people under discussion, and. if an
ease-loving person, you will render a
verdict in favor ot Japanese housekeejr
led sitch double lives. They have not
been above the daily prosaio necessities
oi existence in their working hours,
and in their leisure moments have wo&
themselves fame.
Living to Eat, and Eating to Live.
Eatiag is a necessity of life, but the
spectacle presented at some tables when
the family has assembled for a meaf
might well suggest the question. Bo
these pe >p!e know why they eat? To
1 e suie no little knowledge is requisite
if we would supply the wants of nature
in the proper manner; but is there any
ha dship in informing one’s self with re
spect to so important a matter as the
preservation of a strong, healthy body ?
Is health, and its accessory ability to
perform 1 fe’s duties well, a minor con
sideration, quite inferior to a knowledge
of arithmetic, or geography, or of the
mechanics of music? An eminent En
glish observer has said hu*v “ a man
must live forty years before lie knows’
how to eat, I rue enough according
to the prevalent mode of gatherm o ' the
knowledge of what is fit or unfit fJr OUT
stomachs as we go along i n life, thus
making our system a sort- of experi
mental laboratory for the analysis of all
sorts of so-called pabulum. And how
few survive forty years of constant ex
periment with their alimentary func
tion !
riie masses are yet q.uite ignorant of
the philosophy of nutrition, and riot iiv
their ignorance. The housewife may
be skilled in the preparation of tooth
some dishes, but very rarelv knows
what is suitable or unsuitable among
her materials for the uses of the body
If the article “ tastes good,” that qual—
ity is generally a sufficient warrant for
its appropriation. —Annual of
Oijif and Physiognomy*.
Chinese Private Life. ~
TTere are some hints which may be
useful to some of our cooks : “ they
have a large screen before'tke door-way,
vhich gives privacy sufficient for their
need The window seshes are closed 1
either by a sort of jalousie or thin
matting. They do not surround their
domesticities with the same mystery
and secret precautions with which we
envelop these proceedings in Europe.
Human nature, they argue, has to
sleep, and here is the mat upon which
it stretches itself. Why conceal it ?
It also wants to eat, and it satisfies its-
Bp petite no matter how many eyes ere
gazing. 1 ell a Ch nose cook you are
hungry; and he will immediately fetch
his fire, his cooking utensils, his pro
visions, and cook under your very nose.
He has no idea of concealing his oper->
itions in some far away back region
yclept kitchen. He squats down any-!
where, makes a fire on or in anything,
a basin, dish, pan or pot; there ftr So
limit to his invention. He will Sook in
the middle of the street, or in the cen
tre of his guests in a restaurant. Up
on one occasion, when on board a junk,
I observed a man cooking his own and
his neighbor’s food together in a tub,
and an earthenware saucer containing
the charcoal. Wonderful creatures
they are, these despised Chinese, withr
a deftness of finger and ingenuity of
patience unsurpassed by any nati< n un
der the nan—Temple Bar.
A. Receipt to Clean Harness.—
r I he following receipt has bee# gWeti’
by a gentleman who obtained- it from *
french soldier, who was in our army
during the war ; After your harness
has been washed, instead of using oil,
eastde soap and warm water, put the
soap in the warm water and use tb*
soap to rub the harness- as you- would
oil. It makes the leather very soft
and pliable, and is much cleaner that*
oil.
do cure a colt of pulling at the hal<*
ter, place a stiff spring pole in front of
him, hut out of sight behind his man*
ger. . i ass the halter strap through a
hole in the partition,, and tie to °tne
spiing pole. If ail is properly adjusted,-
the coit will try his entire strength
without breaking loose, and will be aptf
to go oack to his manger a great deal
quicker than he backed away from is.
Pruning m*y he done in mii'd
but for large limbs it will he better tc-*
wait until towards spring. Cover larg'h
wounds with gum-shellao varnish, me’t
ed grafting wax, or paint