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-TS J. KIKER & SON,
attorneys at law,
Will practice in all the Courts of the Cher
ckee Circuit; Supreme Court ol Georgia, and
the United States District Court at Atlanta,
Ga. Office: Sutheast corner of the Court
House, Calhoun, Ga.
pUITTMILNER,
r attorneys at law,
OALHOUti, QA
Will practice in all the Superior Courts of
of Cherokee Georgia, the Supreme Court of
the State and the United States District and
Circuit ourts, at Atlanta.
AN KIN & NEEL,
attorneys at law,
CALHOUN, GA.
sM’jU Office : Court House Street.
D. TINSLEY,
Watch-Maker & Jeweler,
CAhOUN, OA .
All styles of Clocks, Watches and Jewelry
Neatly repaired and warranted.
THORNTON, D. D. S..
DENTIST.
Office over Geo. W. Wells & Co.’s Agricul
tural Warehouse.
lyjdSS C. A. HUDGINS,
♦lilliner & Mantua-MakeF*
Court House St., Calhoun*Ga.
Patterns of the latest styles and fashion
ladies just received. Gutting and
done to order.
MUSIC! MUSIC!
A 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,
$4.00 ; use of instrument, 50 ennts. Recep
tion days, Tuesdays and Thursdays.
ZT GRAY,
• CALHOUN. GA„
Is prepared to furnish the public with
buggies and Wagons, bran new and warrant
ed. Repairing of nil kinds done at short
notice. Would call attention to the celc
fclted “Fish Brothers’ Wagon which he fut
tii-hes. Call and examine before buying
elsewhere.
SEW GROCERY STORE.
J. W. Marshall,
RAILROAD ST., OLD STAND OF
A. W. BALLEW.
Fresh goods, bought for
CASH, AND WILL BE SOLD
FOR CASH AT THE VERY
LOWEST PRICES.
Would respectfully ask his numerous
friends in Gordon county to come in and
see him before making purchases elsewhere.
1 PROPOSE TO OPEN ON
Monday, January 10th, 1875,
CALHOUN MALE AND FEMALE
HIGH SCHOOL.
Assisted by Mrs. M. E. FIELD, a known
nnd experienced instructress. The school
will be uivided into three grades, the Pri
mary. Intermediate and Academic. The
PRIMARY DEPARTMENT
w ill embrace the following studies:
Holmes’ Speller and Reader:, Nos. 1,
2,3 and 4, Maury’s Geography,
No. 1, Primary Arithmetic and
Practical Lessonsin Penmanship, S2OOO
INTERMEDIATE.
English Grammar, Geography, Mau
ry’s Intermediate Arithmetic,
First Lessons in English Compo
sition, Penmanship, and Algebra
through Simple Equations, with
Reading, Elocution and Spelling, S3OOO
ACADEMIC.
Philosophy. Natural and Moral Ohcm
i’try. Rhetoric, Algebra, Geome
try, and such studios ns nre usu
ally taught in high schools with
Latin, Greek and French S4O 00
Fine \rt and Instrumental Music at Pro
fessor’s charges.
The scholastic year will be divided into
two terms of 24 and 16 weeks each.
TUITION FEES.
Primary Department, Ist term sl2 00
intermediate “ “ “ 18 00
Academic “ “ 24 00
n JL’d p ntal expenses per term 1 00
tuition paid quarterly in advance.
. I ' s desired that patrons send in prompt
-• 'he first week, that all may be present at
formation of classes. We earnestly so
,lCll 'he patronage of the vicinity and coun
find hope by arduous effort to merit your
c <tntin ue q support.
W, C. HOLMES, A M. Principal.
Mas. M. E; FHSLD Assistant.
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VOL. V.
AT REST.
BY WILLIAM M. CARLKTON.
Rest, weary hands,
Under the silent sands—
Toil is no more thy share;
Banished from thee are pain and care;
Under the friendly sands,
Rest folded hands!
Sleep, azure eyes,
Under the changing skies,
Ne’er shall the glistening tear
Tell of a sorrow hovering near,
Under the changing skies,
Sleep, tearless eyes!
Lie, weary form.
Safe from affliction’s storth,
Never again shall pain
Crush thee within its iron chain,
Sheltered from every storm,
Lie, painless form I
Rest, true, kind heart,
Far from all griefs apart,—
That which hath laden thee,
Lightens at last, and thou art free,
Far from ill apart,
Rest, sweet, kind heart!
Fly, unbound soill,
Home to thy heavenly goal,—
Find there to lose no more.
The well-loved ones that went beforß,
Home to thy cherished goal,
Fly, blessed soul!
CRAZY ZADOC.
BY MRS. ANTOINETTE E. M’LEAN.
“ Mamma ! Look at that man com
ing down the hill 1” and Sybil dragged
her mother to the window.
Mrs. Sabins looked, and her cheek
blanched. She glanced around the room
at her little ones, and her thoughts rea
soned rapidly. The man coming down
the hill, some quarter of a mile distant,
was Crazy Zadoc. His strides were
long and full of fierce energy, while in
his hand he carried, as a st iff, a huge
stick, longer than himself. Zadoc had
been stopping for two weeks in the fam
ily of farmer Sabins, but that morning
he had not breakfasted with them as
usual, and Mrs. Sabins, without know
ing the cause of his absence, had put
aside his breakfast, and was keeping it
warm until he should come in. But
that glimpse of him coming down the
hill, at an hour when he knew all the
men would be in the field, filled her
mind with forebodings. Something
had gone amiss, and he was coming to
wreak his vengeance on her and the
Jittle ones. It was impossible to sum
mon help in time from the field, it was
useless endeavoring to shut up the wide,
rambling house so that he could not
get in ; and even an attempt at such a
thing would only incite £he maniac to
greater fury. Lifting a silent prayer to
God for wisdom and fortitude, she drew
her little ones around her, took her
sewing, and sat down,with all the win
dows and doors wide open.
Sybil was very much frightened at
the sight of Zadoc, but her mother’s
calmness reassured her, and thinking
there could be no danger, she soon as
sumed her usual manner, though she
was still afraid. Nearer and nearer
came the dreaded visitor, fiercer and
longer seemed his strides, and now he
was out of sight by the gate. A mo
ment more and he would burst upon
them in all his fury. The mother
drew her thread, but scarcely saw the
hem ; a step was on the door sill; an
other second and the white head of the
venerable pastor darkened the door*
way. Truly God had sent him at the
auspicious moment, for he had scarcely
taketi his seat when Zadoc stood in the
door. The sight of the pastor startled
the maniac, and diverted him from his
fury. The pastor rose and gave him a
cordial salutation, and, after a little,Mrs.
Sabins remarked:
“ You were not at breakfast, Zadoc ;
but I kept yours warm for you,” point
ing to the covered dishes on the hearth.
“ Will you have it, now ?”
Zadoc gave a fierce snort, half of an
ger, half of pleasure. “ Did not you
have me sent off? Your husband told
me, before breakfast, that he guessed I
had worked for him long enough ”
“ I did not hear -anything about it,”
said Mrs. Sabins, the covered dishes
confirming her words ; “but if you have
not had your breakfast, you had better
have it now.”
“ Yes, I’ll have some,” said Zadoc,
with a fierce energy, “ but I’ll have
none of that trash. I want something
fresh. A slice of fried ham, a couple
of fried eggs, and some fresh boiled po
tatoes ”
“Very well,” said Mrs. Sabins, cheer
fully, “ you shall have them;” and,
laying aside her sewing, commenced to
replenish the fire.
“Ha! ha! ha!” laughed Zadoc,
“ that will do ! I don’t want you to
get me a breakfast; I have had my
breakfast, but if vou will give me a
bowl of bread and milk, I would like
it.” , .
The bread and milk was set before
him, but while he ate it, he poured out
his vials on the head of the pastor.
“ You preach, and preach,’ said he,
“ but souls go stumbling over you into
hell.” . „
“You should advise with me, Zadoc,
said the pastor, meekly. “ I would be
glad to do better.”
Zadoc was by this time quite mollifi*
ed, and though he had come into that
house with the fury of a lion, he went
out as gentle as a lamb.
Then Sybil heard her mother thank
God for the opportune visit of her pas
tor, and knew that her mother had in
deed been in fear for her life aod that
of ber children.
“ I fear Zadoc is getting dangerous.
said the pastor. ... • i
“ I have been afraid of him. said
Mrs. Sabins. “He begged to bring his
? 1 oe-maker’s bench here and make shoes
1 cr the family. You know he is an old
CALHOUN, GA., WEDNESDAY, MARCH 10. 1875.
friend of my husband’s ; he consented;
but I have been so afraid that in a freak
he might do something terrible, that I
have had the workmen hide his shoe
knives at night, and replace them early
in the morning. He has lost all his
former skill at shoe-making, however,
and has been two weeks making one
fair of shoes ; to, with my fear of him,
and his incapacity, it seems my hus
band sent him off, but I knew nothing
of it until now.” .
“ Can you tell me how Zadoc lost his
reason ? Were any of his family in
sane ?” asked the pastor.
“ I nave never heard of any insanity
in the family, but Zadoc is a man of
intense feeling. He has bfeeri fiotlsljr
reared, and made a profession of relig
ion ; but wishing to peifect himself in
his trade, he went to a town where he
fell in with the readers of Voltaire and
Tom Paine, and was gradually led to
peruse that style of books. Being un
able to refute their arguments, he be
came a prey to mental conflict. On the
one side was all the reading and in
struction of his childhood, his belief in
a God, and the Bible as his revealed
word; on the other side were these bold
assaults on his citadel, as if it were
built on quick sand.
“He thought and thought, until he
found that hours of lime would pass
unheeded in his mental conflicts. A
bird would fly past, a butterfly would
flutter into his room, and his thoughts
would float off in his mental conflicts.
‘ Whence came they?’ ‘ Who made
them ?’ ‘ Could it be there was no
God ?’ Probably he had never before
so much as heard that there were in the
world those who professed to doubt that
which all his life he had been reared to
believe, and being young, he became be
wildered, until, fearing the loss of his
reason. he ceased to read infidel litera- i
ture, arid Eventually dame home, but
his reason had received a shock from
which it is feared it will never recov
er.
“He married, his friends hoping
marriage would be so full of cares and
interests as to produce a re-action, but,
his wife and child haunted him with
thoughts of horror. lie dearly loved
them, yet he louged to slay them. At
length his wife became aware of his
temptation, and in her fear left him.—
He became a wanderer, and sought her
everywhere, a' med to destroy her, and
once passed the very schooLroom doer
where slid Was teaching, when she
saw him and knew him, but he passed
Oil.”
Thus far Mrs. Sabins told the histo
ry of Zadoc, w ho, in a few months, was
confined to his house by friends.—
Then he was transferred to Jefferson
County Poor House, in the State of
New York. There he crouched, cross
legged in his cell, until he grew in that
position. Sullenly he would hang his
head, never looking up, except one
should say, “ See, Zadoc, here is your
wife a side-long, upward glance would
show him the falsehood, when no per
suasion would induce him again to look
up. To one person, only, was he ap
proachable, and that was to Mr. Sabins.
His own family visited him in vain, un
less accompanied by Mr. Sabins.
One day Sybil went with her father
to see Zadoc. Zadoc was instantly all
animation. Talked of sleigh rides, of
parties, of the girls, of meetings, and
finally burst forth in a full, rich voice,
that rang strangely through the hall and
dingy maoiac cells, with 5
“ Alas, alid did tfiy Saviotir bleed,
And did myJSoverGign die!
Would he devote that sacred head,
For such a worm as I!”
When he had sung thus far, he
burst into a silly glee, rounding off in a
wild laugh; and, “Those were good
times, were’nt they ?”
One summer day, Zadoc, and the oth
er maniacs and imbeciles Were placed
under the trees around the almshouse,
for the benefit of the sunshine and
fresh air. Some wc r e fastened to the
trees, but Zadoc was left unfastened,
because of his inability to bend his
legs, but at night when they went to
put them in their cells, Zadoc was mis
sing. This almshouse stands on the
banks of Black River, and here it is
wide but smooth. On looking across
the river, there sat Zadoc, he having
hopped to the river bank, hopped in,
and swam over. It was a mile to the
bridge on one side of the river, and a
mile to Zadoc on the other side, and
two miles back again, a four-mile trip
to bring home the escaped maniac.—
When they reachcilhim, he was full of
glee, but very quietly was helped into
the wagon, and rode home with as much
good-will as any other man. This trip
filled him with delight, and seemed
such a benefit that he was indulged in
bnths. and finally an old friend being
placed in charge of the almshouse, his
case received special attention, and his
health improved.
Year and years rolled on. The Fam
ily relations of Zadoc grew old and
died, but, despite his unfavorable sur
roundings, Zadoc lived on. One day,
his keeper sent h'm to see his old town,
and the excitement was as great as if
Rip Van Winkle had survived his
twentv years’ sleep, and re appeared to
his friends. This quaint, strange, gray
headed man, with his questions respect
ing by gone generations, was almost as
much an event as if one had risen from
j the dead. He came like a ghost, and
returned to bis poor house cell like a
ghost to his tomb, where, at last ac
counts, he still lives, an old man of
some four-score years ; in the wisdom of
God, spared for some wise purpose,
though his manhood is a wreck, and
his life scarcely more than that of an
animate corpse. A living sermon, per
chance, on the necessity for faith in
God to the life of the soul, the intel
lect, and all that in man makes life
here worth having, or . even the fife
hereafter.
A wrecked life, standing like a half
sunken ship, to warn all behblddrfc
against the rock of infidelity, on which
his soul was stranded. Here was a no
ble soul, that set out in life, a believer
in God, a lover of Christ, a wafiil
hearted friend, a dutiful son, an affec
tionate husband and father, but ono
by one, the strong bands parted, until
all were lost from him, and he from all,
while the waves of time beat upon the
poor drift, showing just enough to sug
gest what it once was or might have
been, warning all beholders to hold fast
the anchor of Faith in God, and in the
Bible as Ills revealed will to man.
A HOTEL IN ONE CHAPTER*
Some six or seven years ago, by one
of the current accidents of social inter
course, there came together, and got in
terested in each other, in an Atlantic
city, a young man and a young woman.
The man was educated in profess
ional life, of good social rank, and gen
erally esteemed of more than average
ability. Those who thought best of
him believed he was sure, sooner or la
ter, to do great things.
In the meantime, he had the misfor
tune to be poor. The young woman
was the daughter of a rich manufacturer.
She had been brought up to attach at
least its proper value to money, and, in
fact, to attach too much credit to its
possession.
She had too much innate refinement
to be purse-proud ; but living always
with those who, possibly for lack of any~
thing better, pique themselves on their !
possessions, is not likely to have a whole- j
some effect on impressionable youth.— :
l>e this as it may, an affection sprang '
up between these two people, avowed in i
time on both sides, cemented by every
reciprocal pledge of fidelity.
The matter became known, after a
space, to the lady’s family, aod then be
gan tbe peculiar phase of the story that j
lias now reached its climax. An expla
nation having bedorne necessary, the lov
er was confronted with tbe. statement
from his peifidious adored one that he
had totally misconceived her feelings
and intentions. There was much talk, i
but this was the fi st and end of it. The ;
invention was as puluble as its purpose. |
Astonished as was the poor fellow, he i
was equally helpless. Either the girl’s
own pride or the stress of family influ
ence, had led her to adopt a course,
which however painful or however wick
ed, presented the advantage of admit -,
ting of no appeal. Bewildered, humil- ;
ialed and stricken to the heart, the suit
or accented the situation like a brave, if
notalso likeasensativeman. Adieux were
exchanged in the guise of friendliness,
but when the discarded admirer went
away he made up his uiiud that he had
gone away forever. The play and the
reality are in precise accord here, and
they coutinue Woddct fully so to tbe end.
Years rolled by, and the affluent man
ufacturer, who had thought himselt lav
away beyond the caprice of fortune, by
a series of unlucky chances became some
what embarrassed. Tight money mar
kets, the failure of correspondent , the
encroachments of competitors,a reduced
demand in his special trade, each, or all,
increased this embairassmcnt until at
last, in advanced age, and living in a
most expensive manner, he found him
self on the brink of failure and ruin*
Peudingthis,the‘whirlings of tiine” had
been at work in good earnest The man
who had been so dexterously—or shame
lessly—cozened out of his bride, partly
by the force of his natural genius, partly
by good fortune, had risen to wealth and
power.
Bv one of those strange chances which
it is the fashioo, to say, happen only on
the stage, or in sensation romance but
which do in sooth often come to pass in
real life, the key, so to speak, to the
manufacturer's position fell into this gen
tleman’s hands. Notes to a large amount
made by the former Croesus’ potential
influence with the corporations and in
dividuals with whom his affairs were
most blended, were at the control of the
lover of five years ago. By a natural
process again, it fell out that the old
position was resumed, but this time un
der happier auspices. It was natural
tbat the younger man should hail with
joy the chance to recover his lost love.
An engagement was soon made, then, on
terms easy to imagine, and this time
without any lying or equivocation.
The relative situation had changed,
and there was room both for a happy re
vival of the past and political silence
concerning it. Oa the bridal day the
groom presented himself, and then,, in
the presence of the bride’s family and
friends, came the climax. It is not to
be justified, and yet none can say it was
not a righteous retribution. To be brief,
the bridegroom, in the drama and the
reality, are in the same exact accordance
up to the catastrophe.
On tbe morning of the day fixed for
the wedding, and at an hour fixed for
signing necessary papers, the bridegroom
proceeded calmly to tell the whole truth
of his relations with the young lady and
her family. Having recited the nature
of his provocation, he wound up by an
nouncing that of his revenge. This con
sisted in his utter refusal ever to wed
the woman be once had loved, and to
whom he had thus been for a second
time affianced. The indignation and
cxci'ement that followed need not be
described. The act wa cruel, unmanly;
but it must be remembered that for
years the iron had been cutting into
the perpetrator’s soul. In the play, the
girl, who, throughout everything, ten
derly loved the man whom she once be
. and so taught to betray herself,
marries him after all, when she is just
l djing ofa broken heart. In the drama
; ol real life, the action has proceeded on
' iy as far as wc have related.
** I Miifet Die Sometime.’’
Some years ago Mr. S , beibg"de
sirous of obtaining a sum of money ap
plied to a friend of his, an old and pru
dent German, to endorse his note, as
suring him that ic would be promptly
met at maturity, aod that he should be
caused no uneasiness on account of it.
The German accepted his statement
without distrust, and signed his name,
little thinking that he was doing more
than satisfying a meaningless require
ment. The note soon passed into other
t.ands; but when it became due the
original maker was either too poor or
too dishonest to pay it. Great was the
consequent astonishment of the Ger
man at the discovery that the endorse
ment of a note was something beyond
the c npty form he had supposed it to
be, aod Mr. B-—-, the innocent hold
er, expected him to pay a Sum for which
he had received no equivalent. Re
luctant to part with his hard-earned
capital, and indignant at the deceit
practiced upon him he at once went to
consult an eminent lawyer, to whom he 1
expressed his wrongs, and in whose
hands he placed his cause, determined
to resist the collection of the note to
the utmost extremity of the law.—
Judge promised to investigate the
case, and instructed him to call upon
him again in a few days.
At the appointed time our German
made his appearance, and was gi eeted in
a peering tone by his counsel.
“ My good sir,” said the Judge, “the
note is worthless; you cannot be com
pelled tc pay it.” And then he went
on to show that for the lack of some
technicallity demanded by the law of the
State, the promise was not tvorth the
taper on which it was written.
The German’s face lighted up with
satisfaction.
“ What is that you say? Ino have
to pay the note ?” he eagerly asked.
“ No said the Judge.
“ And Mr. S , he no pay the
note ?”
“ No,” said tho lawyer again, ‘ the
note is legally void ”
For a moment the look of triumph at
having escaped pecuniary loss could be
read on the foreigner’s wrinkled fea
tures. But it was almost instantly suc
ceeded by a more sober expression.
“ You say Mr. B he no get his
money ?”
“ No,” repeated the J udge.
“ Then I will pay the note,” was the
German’s prompt, and earnest rejoin,
dor; “I will pay the note. I must die
souidiime.”
“ I must die sometime !” Reader,
how many actions of your life, and mine
even where earthly law is on our side,
would be greatly modified, if we could
remember the thought senlentiously ex
pressed by the German. In the light
of the last hour of life, wc may have
occasion to regret many a deed of
thoughtless selfishness, none of Chris
tian kindliness.
- - ~
A Soft Answer*
The husband was quick of temper,
and often inconsiderate. They had
been married not yet a year, when one
day iu a fit of very hasty wrath, he
said :
“I want no correction from you. If
you are not satisfied with my conduct,
you can return to your own home
whence I look you, and find happiness
with your kind.”
“If I leave yotl,” returned the un
happy wife, “ will you give me back that
which I brought you ?”
“ Every dollar. I covet not your
wealth. You shall have it all back.”
“Ah!” she answered, I mean not
the wealth of gold. I thought not of
dres es . I meant mv maiden heart—my
first and only love—my buoyant hopes
—a fid the promised blessing of my wo
manhood. Can you give these back to
me ?”
A moment of thoflght —of con
vulsion—and then, taking hef to his
arms:
“ No, no my wife, cannot do that,
but I will do more ; I will keep them
henceforth unsullied and unpained. I
will cherish your blessing as my own,
and never again, God helping me, will
I forget the pledge I gave at the holy
altar when you gave your peace and
happiness into my keeping.”
How t r ue it is that “ a soft answer
turneih away wrath,” and how many,
oh, how many, of the bitter strifes of
life might be avoided by remembering
and acting in accordance with this
rule.
Tbe Yankees and Ihe Bear*
Two Yankees strolling in the woods
without any arms in their possession,
observed a bear climbing a tree, with
its paws clasped around the trunk. One
of them ran forward and caught the
bear’s piws one in each hand. He then
called out to his comrade:
“Jonathan, run home and bring me
something to kill this varmint with,
and mind you don’t stay, or I’m gone
up.”
Jonathan ran off, but staid a long
lime. During the interval, the bear
made several desperate attempts to bite
tbe hand of him that held it. At
length Jonathan came back
“ Hullo, what kept you so long?”
“ Well, I’ll tell you. Whec I got
home breakfast was ready, so I staid to
eat.”
“ Well,” said his comrade “come now
hold the critter till I kill it.”
Jonathan seized the bear’s paWs, and
held the animal.
'• Well, Jonathan; have you hold of
him ?”
“ I guess I have.”
“ Very well, then hold fast; Dm off
for dinner.”
A Green Bay woman who weighs
380 pounds, insists that she is some
lody’s darling.
Courting and Divorce.
Ao old story contains a lesson which
married couples have not yet learned.
| When Jonathan Trumbull was Gov j
crnor of Connecticut, a gentleman call—
-led at his house one day requesting a
private interview. He said : “ I have
called upon a very unpleasant errand,
sir and want your advice. My wife
and I do not live happily together, and
I am thinking of getting a divorce.—
What do you advise me to do ?”
The Governor sat a few moments in
thought ; then turning to his visitor
said, “ How did you treat Mrs. W.
when you were courting her ? and how
did you feel towards her at the time of
your marriage ?”
Squire W. replied, “ I treated her as
kindly as I could, for I loved her dearly
at that time.”
“ Well,-sir,” said the Governor, “Go
home aiid court her now just as you
did then, and love her as when you
married her. Do this in fear of God
for one year, and then tell me the re
sult.”
The Governor then said : “ Let us
pray.”
They bowed in prayer and separated.
When a year passed away Squire W.
called again to see the Governor, and
said : “ I have called to thank you for
the good advice you gave me, and to
tell you that my wife and I are as hap
py as when first we were married. I
cannot be grateful enough for your good
counsel ”
“ I am glad to hear it Mr. W.,” said
the Governor, “ and I hope you will
continue to court your wife as long as
you live.”
Bthry of a Mulei
There is a bad little boy over in Win
thrope. Like other bad boys, and good
boys too, for that matter, he has a weak
ness for noise. Fire crackers are his
delight. He was indulging in the very
laborious work of firing and listening to
these the other day. He concluded to
wind up with a great fusilade, and lit
an entire package and threw them into
the street. The bunch fell in front ot
Jim Snowball’s mule, and the mule was
constitutionally hungry. It swallowed
the package before they had time to go
off. The mule went off about three rods
and stopped. Things seemed to be on
anew turn inside. His stomach had nev
er given him trouble before. Fie began
to taste the smell of sulphur. He laid
hb larboard ear around his ribs and
heard something. It was them crackers
having fun. The mule looked * down
the Ilock Island track, and saw it was
cledi, and started. A negro met him as
he turned south down the county road,
headed for Sugar Lake white with pers
piraiiun, and streams of smoke shooting
out of his mouth and nostrils. The
whistle of a locomotive was nothing to
the he-hawing that rung through the
Sycamore forest. Jim found his mule
the next day, sticking half-way through
a farm house near Sugar Lake, still
smoking. The man had got his family
out and housed ’em up in the trees. —
Jim then let his mule cool off and then
Hauled him home on an ox wagon The
man is going to move his house farther
back off the road, and his wife and chil
dren will be baptized when the weather
gets warmer.— Exchange.
Family Receipts.
1. For repairing family jars. Mutu
al love well stirred with forbearance,
mixed with readiness to forgive, and
general good temper, is an admirable ce
ment. It is well to let the family jars
be shelved at once.
2. Preserving. The temper is best
kept by using as little vinegar as possi
ble. The heart by usiag abundantly of
the oil of grace. Treasures, by laying
them up where neither moth nor rust
doth corrupt.
3. Creams. The milk of true faith,
if it stands long enough, yields the
cream of assurance; if flavored with
the essence of love, is a delicious dish.
4. Stews. Those are best avoided by
leaving our troubles with him who sent
them.
5. Pickles. These persons get into
them most who meddle with other peo
ple’s business, or Who aet on the rule of
policy rather than that of truth and un
swerving honesty.
The Power os' the Newspaper
Press. —ln an age like the present,
when the opinions and even beliefs of
the masses are, to a great extent, form
ed, and are always more or less influ
enced by reading, especially the news
papers of the day, it is hardly possi
ble to estimate the importance of the
press, and its power of working good or
evil to society. In monarchical coun
tries the press is called the fourth es
tate ” as governing the people next to,
or in common with “ Kings, Lords and
Cotmnous,” In some respects the pre:,s,
even in those countries, is more power
ful than all the other “ estates ” com
bined, but in this land of ours, where
almost every one reads the papers, and
where very many read little or nothing
else, the press wields, beyond ail com
parison, the mightiest power.
Hadn’t Got Used to It.—A curi
ous incident recently occurred on a
Western railroad train. 4s the cars
were moving away from the Terre Haute
depot, a pretty young woman came from
the ladies car, and rushiDg into the
smoking car, frantically appealed to ev
erybody to stop the train. Catching
sight df the conductor, she exclaimed,
piteously:
“ Mr. Conducter, do please stop the
train ! I’ve left my baby !”
The train was stopped, and baby re
covered amid the hearty cheers of the
j eople on the platform and passengers,
tnd while the young mother laughed
: nd cried, and hugged her little one” she
tried to explain how the baby was sue)
a “new one that she h idn’t got u<ed t>
1 it yet.”
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NO. 32.
MfSl’E LLANROiif**
A hater of tobacco told Aunt Chloo
that she could never enter the kingdom
of heaven with the unclean breath of H
smoker. She auswered, “ Why, I spectS
I shall leave my breff behiud me wheff
I go dat.”
General Schcnck’s new work oH
“ Draw Poker ” is enjoying great popu
larity in the West. It is used almost
exclusively by the coilrts In administer
ing the oath to witnesses arid Swearing
in the jurymen.— Brooklyn Argus.
A letter passed through the .Detroit
Post-office other day, bearing the
following superscription : “To the Fat
Kuss what eddits the Pontyac Weekly
Gazette, and send me a dunnin letter
in a envelope he stole; Pontyac, Mich
igtin.”
“ What sort of a sermon do you
likel”’ said Dr. Rush to Robert Mor
ris, one day. “ I like, sir,” said Mf.
Morris, “ that kind of preaching which
drives a man into the corner of the
pew, and makes him think the devil is
after him.”
Seven rifles used by Daniel Boone in
Indian fighting are kept as relics in
Kentucky. The owner of each points
to the notches on its stock, explains
that they are a record of the number
of savages shot with the and
repudiates the genuineness of the otb*
er six,
A little boy who was near’y starved
by a single uncle (his guardian), with
whom he lived, meeting a lank gray
hound one day in the street; was asked
by his guardian what made the dog so
thin. After reflect ng, the little boy
rep'ied, “I suppose he lives with his
unble.”
A widow, being cautioned by her
minister about flirting, said that she
knew it was wrong for matrons and
wives to flirt, but she had the Bible for
her authority. It said, “ Widows mite.’*
She was flirting awfully at the last ac
counts ) her pastor acknowledged that
“ widows might.”
Girls should bo warned of the dan*
ger they run in marrying railroad brake
men. An enthusiastic member of that
fraternity, on being awakened the oth
er night from a dream of an impending
crash by a train, foupd himself sitting
up in bed, holding his wife by the ears,
having nearly twisted her head off iu
his frantic efforts to “ down brakes.”
There is nothing So refreshing and
soul satisfying in this cold, wicked world
as the spectacle of a grateful woman.—
After she has knocked you down and
pounded you over the head five or six
times with the rolling pin, and get up
and Say you ate Softy,- and willing to
beg her p'ardon; the look of gratitude
that illuminates her heavenly counte
nance will do all but pay the doctor’s
bill.
A man called upon a lawyer the oth*
er day and began to state his case in a
rather abrupt manner. “ Sir, I have
come to you for advice j I’m a husband
in law.” “ A what ?” spuke out the
learned counsel. “ Husbatf i-iti-laW !”
“I have never seen that defined in do
mestic relations.” “ Don’t you know,
what a husband in-law is ? Sir, you’re
no lawyer j you’re an ignoramus !—I
3m i hUsband-in tiAW, but in
sir—my wife’s run off.”
A gentleman was looking into the
window of a toy store the other day
when two boys Faulted, and one remark
ed : “ Say, Jim, don’t you wish you
oad ten cents to buy a present for our
poor lame sister?” Jim replied that
he did. and the gentleman pulled out a
shinplaster, and said he was glad to be
able to assist them in such a praisewor*
thy enterprise. He met the same boys
half an hour afterward, arid each had
h's pocket stuffed full of pop-corn
balls.
Three Saginaw girls of the Methc
dist persuasion having met together
concluded to pray for the welfare of
their lovers, but the first one had not
got very far along in her petition when
it was discovered that they were all en
raged to the same man. The religious
xerciscs were at once terminated, ancf
an indignation meeting organized, the
result of which was that the gay de*
ceiver was obliged to leave town at a
few hours’ notice in order to escape the
vengeance of male relatives.
Young man, you feel a superiority (o '
the whole human race as yotf stand at
the altar With your fair young bride.—
You would not change places with the
President. Yet a few short years, a
few whiskings of broom-handles, an un
timely stoppage or two of wafted flat
irons, and your weary body wiM rest un
der the swaying willow, while some
youug gallant will bring your late af
flicted partner out to the cemetery on
one calm Sabbath evening and whisper
love in her ear, as together they strew
peanut shells over your grave. 4t Oh,
why should the spirit of fnoftal be
proud ?”
“My dear Amelia ” said tt f
falling upon his knees before his adorl
able, “ I have long wished for this op
portunily, but hardly dare speak now,
for fear you will reject me ; but I love
you—say, will you be mine ? You will
be to me everything desirable-—every
thing my heart could wish—your smiles
would shed —here he came to a pause.
Four smiles icould shed ,” and again
he came to a stop, for he could "not
think of a word suitable to be suppli
ed. “Never mind the Motf shed !”
excDimed Amelia’s younger brother,
who had slipped into the room unper
ceive.d, at this moment, “but mod with
your courting.”