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CALHOUN WEEKLY TIMES.
BY D. B. FREEMAN.
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P J. KIKEIt Ac SON,
attorneys at law,
Will practice in all the Courts of the Cher
ckee Circuit; Supreme Court of Georgia, and
♦he United States District Court at Atlanta,
Ga. Office : Sutheast corner of thq, Court
House, Calhoun, Ga. __
TAAIN & MILNER,
1 attorneys at law,
CALHOUN, GA.
Will practice in all the Superior Courts of
of Cherokee Georgia, the Supreme Court of
♦ he State and the United States District and
Circuit courts, at Atlanta.
JD. TINSLEY,
' Watch-Maker & Jeweler,
CALHOUN , GA.
All styles of Clocks, Watches and Jewelry
neatly repaired and warranted.
DENTIST.
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tural Warehouse.
jyjISS C. A. HUDGINS,
Milliner & Mantua-Maker,
Court House St., Calhoun, Ga.
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HEALER IN
GENERAL MERCHANDISE,
RAILROAD STREET,
Calhoun , Ga.
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CALHOUN, GA.
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notice. Call and examine before buying
elsewhere.
DR. H. K. MAIN, M. D.,
PRACTICING PHYSICIAN,
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QJtalSr (Sign of the Big Book & Watch.)
WE sup ly Blank Books, .School Bocks
and b >oks of all kinds ; also, pens,
iuks, pper , and everything in in the line
of
Stationery, at Atlanta Prices.
A good lot of JEWELRY always on hand.
Watch, Clock and Gun repairing done
cheaply and warranted.
Country produce taken in exchange
for goods. IRW IN & CO.
J. W. MARSHALL,
RAILROAD ST., OLD STAND OF
A. W BALLEW.
Keeps constantly on hand a superior stock of
Family & Fancy Groceries,
Also a fine assortment of Saddles, Bridles,
Staple Hardware, &c, to which especial at
tention is called. Everything in my line
sold at prices that absolutely defy competi
tion.
CHEAP GOODS.
RICHARDS & ESPY,
(OLD STAND OF Z. TANARUS, OKAY.)
Dealers in
Confectioneries,
Crackers,
Fancy Groceries, &c.
Tobacco, cigars and snuff a specialty.—
Highest market price paid for country pro
duce of all kinds. Give them a call and
will give you a bargain. mar3l-3m
Squire Wadley ) Petition lor divorce in
vs. V Gordon Superior Court,
Amanda Wadley. j September term, 1875.
I he defendant is hereby notified that the
above stated case will be tried at the Sep
tember term, 1875, of Cordon Superior
' ouH - HANKS & DIVINGS,
jun9-God. Plaintiff's Attorneys.
A YOUNG LADY'S SOLILOQUY.
Useless, aimless, drifting through life,
What was I born for ? “For somebody’s
wife,”
I am'told bv mother. Well, that being true,
“Somebody” keeps himself strangely from
view ;
And if naught but marriage will settle my
fate,
I believe I shall die in an unsettled state,
For, though I’m not ugly—pray, what wo
man is ?
You might easily find a more beautiful
pliiz ;
And then, for and manners, ’tis
. plain
He who seeks for perfection will seek here
in vain.
Nay, in spite of these drawbacks, my heart
is perverse,
And I should not fed grateful “for better or
worse”
To take the first booby that graciously came
And offered those treasures—his home and
his name
I think, then, my chances of marriage are
small;
But why should I think of such chances at
all?
My brothers are, all of them,younger than I,
Yet they thrive in the world, and why not
let me try ?
I know that in business I’m not an adept,
Because from such matters most strictly I’m
kept;
Bat—this is the question that puzzles my
mind—
Wny am I not trained up to work of some
kind ?
Uselessly, aimlfssly, drifting through life,
Why should I wait to be “ somebody’s
wife ?”
Jo.sk Billings on Marriage.
History holds its tung as tu who the
pair wuz who first put on the silken
harness, and promised to work kind to
it thru thick and thin, up hill an down,
and on the level, rain or shine, survive
or perish, sink or swim, drown or flote.
But whoever tha wuz, tha must have
made a good thing of it, or so many of
their posterity would not have har
nessed up since and drove out.
There is a grate moral grip to marri
age —it is the morter that holds them
together.
But thare aint but darn phiew foaks
who put thare money in matrimony who
could set down and give a good written
opinyun whi on arth tha come to did it.
This is a grate proof that it is one of
them natral kind of axidents that must
hapi&n, jist as birds fly out of the nest
when tha have feathers enuff, without
being able to tell why.
Sum marry for butv, and never dis
cover their mistake ; this is lucky.
Sum marry for money, and don’t see
it.
Sum marry for pedigree, and feel big
for six months, and then very sensibly
come to the conclusion that pedigree is
no better than skim milk.
Sum marry bekawse tha have been
histed somewhere else; this is a cross
match, a bay and a sorrel; pride may
make it endurable.
Sum marry for love, without a cent
in their pocket, nor a friend in the
world, nor a drop of pedigree. This
looks desperate, hut it is the strength of
the game.
If marrying for love ain’t a success,
then matrimony is a ded beet.
Sum marry bekawse they think wim
min will be scarce next year, and live
tew wonder how the crop holds out.
Sum marry to get rid of themselves,
and discover that the game was one
that two could play at, and neither win.
Sum marry the second time to get
even, and find it a gamblin game —the
more they put down the less they take
up.
Sum marry to be happy, and missing
it, wonder where all the happiness goes
to when it dies.
Sum marry they can’t tell why, and
live they can’t tell how.
Almost everybody gets married, and
it is a good joke. Sum think it over
carefully fust, and then set down and
marry.
Both ways are right if they hit the
mark.
Sum marry rakes to convert them.—
This is a little risky, and takes a smart
missionary to do it.
Sum marry coquetts. This is like
buying a poor farm heavily mortgaged,
and working the balance of your days
to clear off the moitgages.
Married life has its chances, and this
is just what gives it its flavor. —
Everybody loves to pho 1 with chances,
because Sverybody expects to wiu. But
1 am authorized to state that everybody
don’t win.
But, after all, married life is fully as
certain as the dry goods bizness.
No man can swear exactly where he
will fetch up when he touches calico.
Kno man kan tell jist what calico has
made up its mind to do next.
Calico don’t even no herself.
Dry goods of all kinds is the child of
circumstances.
Sum never marry, but this is just as
risky; the disease is just the same with
another name to it.
The man who stands on the banks
shivering, and dassent, is more apt to
ketch cold than him who pitches his
hed fust in the river.
Marry young iz mi motto.
I have tried it and 1 know what I am
talking about.
If anybody asks you why you got
married, say you don’t recollect.
Marriage is a safe way to gamble if
yu win, yu win a pile, an if yu looze,
yu don’t looze anything only the priv
ilege of living dismally alone, and soak
ing your own feet.
There is but one good excuse for a
marriage late in life, and that is a sec
ond marriage.
_4 ♦ ►
Anger is a short madness, which
casts the judgment and the graces into
disarray, and makes us commit such fol
lies as amaze us, when the paroxysm has
passed by. With some it is constitu
tional, with others a morbid habit, the
offspring of bad education
CALHOUN, GA., WEDNESDAY, JULY r 14. 1875.
Absence of Mind.
We heaartily concur with the Phila
delphia Ledger in its assertion that
among the bad habits which are usually
classed with the minor faults of man
kind, is that of absence of mind. Says
the writer: “We have all laughed at
the blunders of the absent-minded,
their irrelevant remarks, their ludicrous
mistakes, their forgetfullness of the or
dinary proprieties of life. Often, how
ever, serious results ensue through these
seemingly trival oversights; property
is wasted, friends estranged-, losses in
curred, health and even life sacrificed.
In times of strong excitement or peril
of any kind, nothing is so valuable as
presence of mind. It is not exactly
courage, or fortitude, or sagacity, or
judgement, but rather the calm and
well poised ability to marshall all these
forces into action just where and when
they are most needed. How many lives
have been saved and disasters averted
by this simple endowment! How
much of the heroism which we delight
to honor may be traced to this potent
source !
It is precisely this attribute of which
the absent minded man is destitute.—
Whatever be his knowledge, or wisdom,
or skill, however excellent his motives
and intention, however great his capacs
ities, he has not that control over them
that ensures the rigtful action of each
in its own time and place. He is con
tinually off guaid, surprised, confused,
unprepared. His mind may be of the
finest order, but it is not at its post of
command, and his powers are scattered
and lost like soldiers without a leader.
It is not only in times of emergency
that this presence of mind is essential.
Every hour of our lives must depend
upon it for value and efficiency. If a
man should be a prosperous farmer, a
skillful mechanic, or a successful mer
chant: if be would be a kind neighbor,
a faithful friend or a loyal citizen : if
he would be a good aud true husband,
or father, or brother : his mind must be
present in each of these relations, not
absent. It must assume its rightful
dignity of command over each phase of
his life in turn, and not become absorb
ed in one to the exclusion of the rest,
nor flutter in every chance wind. This
is the chief cause of absent-mindedness.
The thoughts are suffered to linger
about some favorite topic or to wander
aimlessly, and of course the matter in
hand cannot be thoroughly performed.
If we cannot or do not direct our whole
attention to the object on which we are
engaged and banish all others, we can
not do justice to it or to our powers.—
It is the mixing up of different things
and the confusion of mind thus created
that are largely responsible for much of
the inferior work in the world, and many
of its failures and disappoirtments.
Much of this absence of mind might
be avoided if concentration of thought
upon one subject at a time were made
a promineut part of education. Chil
dren should be accustomed to think
earnestly for short periods, and then to
dismiss the subject from their minds.—
Weariness, listlessless, and half-hearted
attention should always be prevented.
It is far better for a child to play with
his whole soul than to stud} with a
fragment of it. If he be thus trained
in his youth, if work and play and study,
each in their turn, absorb him for the
time, there will be but little danger of
his growing up to be an absent-minded
man. Those in mature life who have
unfortunately acquired this pernicious
habit, may, by a similar process of self
culture, gradually overcome it. No one
who indulges in it can make the most of
his powers in any direction or give out
to the world his full value ; and cer
tainly no one in our present varied and
complex civilization can fulfil his mani
fold relations in life unless he resolute
ly brings all the powers of his mind to
bear upon each one of them in its own
appointed season”— Scientific Ameri
can.
Think of It.
“ There are no business men in the
world so subject to the sponging pro
cess as publishers of newspapers. It
really seems that public corporations,
public enterprises, societies and associa
tions in general, and many persons have
a funny potion about printers. They
think we ought to print, puff, and pub
lish all for nothing ; that is, free gratis.
In other words, they seem astonished if
we ask half price only for an obituary
notice, card of thauks, tribute of re
spect, a personal communication or any
thing else that only interests a few per
sons and not the general reader. And
those who patronize the office the least
ask the free publication oftener than
those who give a liberal patronage and
desire to see the newspaper a perma
nent institution of the town. What
would be thought of any respectable
size town without its newspaper? Yet
many act as if they didn’t care wheth
er they had a paper in their town or
not, some by withholding their patron
age, others by sponging, either on the
publisher or subscriber. Too many fa
vors asked. They forget that it takes
money to pay the compositors—to buy
ink, “type and paper, and lastly they
forget even to thauk you for gratuitous
ly serving them or the public.
A woman called at a book store the
other day, and said she would like to
take a look at some chromos, as she want
ed to find something to please Harvey,
who had worked on the farm all sum
mer and should be rewarded. “ Any
thing religious ?” asked the clerk, as he
ran over a lot of chromos and engrav
ings. “ Wa’al, no, w not exactly relig
ious,” she answered. “ Some of it
might be solemn like, but down in a cor
ner there ought to be a dog fight or a
man falling off a baru, or something to
kinder interest the yuuug rniud.”
A Just Retribution.
The other day a well-dressed stranger,
with a hand-valise called into a fire-in
surance office and inquired if the agent
was in. The agent catne forward, rub
bing his hands, and the stranger ask
ed :
“Do you take life-insurance risks
here ?”
“ Yes, sir ; glad to see you, sir. Sit
down, sir,” replied the agent.
“ What do you think of life insu
rance, anyway ?” inquired the stranger,
as he sat down and took off his hat.
“ It’s a national blessing sir—an in
stitution which is looked upon with
sovereign favor by every enlightened
man and woman in America.”
“ That’s what I always thought,” an
swered the man. “ Does your company
pay its losses promptly ?”
“ Yes, sir—yes, sir. If yon were in
sured with me, and should die to-night,
I’d hand your wife a check within a
week.”
“ Couldn’t ask for anything better
than that.”
“ No,sir —no, sir. The motto of our
comyany is, ‘ Prompt pay and honorable
dealings.”
“ How much will a $5,000 policy
cost?” inquired the stranger, after a
long pause.
“ You are —let’s see—about thirty
five. A policy on you would cost sllO
the first year.”
“ That’s reasonable enough.”
“Yes, that’s what we call low ; but
ours is a strong company, does a safe
business, and invests only in first-class
securities. If you are thinking of ta
king out a policy, let me tell you that
ours is the safest, and that even the
agents of rival companies will admit
the truth of what I say.”
“ And when I die my wife will get
her money without any trouble ?”
“ I’ll guarantee that, my dear sir.”
“ And I’ll get a dividend every
year ?”
“Yes; this is a mutual company,
and part of the profits come back to
tho policy-holders.”
“ And it won’t cost but me but sllO
for a policy of $5,000 ?”
“ That’s is the figure, and it’s as low
as you can get safe insurance anywhere.
Let me write you a policy—you’ll nev
er regret it.”
“ Them’s the blanks, I s’pose ?” said
th* stranger, pointing to the blanks.
“ Yes,” said the agent as he hauled
one up to him, and took up a pen.—
“ What do yiu say—shall I fill out the
application ?”
“ No, I guess I won’t take one to
day,” said the stranger, as he unlocked
his valise ; “ but if you want something
that will take that wart off your nose
inside a week, I’ve got it right here.—
It’s good for corns, bunions, the tooth
ache, earathe, sprains —”
The patent medicine man left.
Genuine Love in a Cottage.
A recently married couple in Detroit
have been acting Tennyson’s ballad.—
She wanted to go to housekeeping in her
own house, and she pictured her house
in their pleasant love talks. He could
not see it. She refused to set the day
until he agreed to the house, and he ar
gued that a couple of years of boarding
house life would be more economical,
and that his business and finances need
ed great economy. He pleaded poverty
and could not be brought to say “house
keeping” once. So she gave up her
sweet dream, and proved her love by
marrying him and going to a boarding
house. The couple stowed themselves
in a third story back room until they
could start upon the wedding tour he
had promised to give her, and which
she had tried to get him to give up and
put the money in furniture. But he
was stubborn, and would not relinquish
the trip. They took it and returned.—
The third-storjf back-roim had become
a palace in their estimation, and she re
joiced in the prospect of getting into it
and making it a home. Arrived in the
city, the husband proposed that they
spend the night with a friend of his be
fore settling into boarding house life.—
She consented, and they were driven to
a very sweet looking house of a cottage
style. It was just the house she had
pictured in her romantic days of love’s
young dream. The couple dismissed
the hack, a servant answered the door
oell aud ushered them into a bright
parlor. It was the parlor of her dream,
and her favorite ornaments and books
were all there. The people of the house
did not come, at which she wondered a
little, and at length he proposed they
go up stairs to find them. They went,
and there was the chamber of her
dream, and now she began to take in
the whole situation.
There was but one word more to say
and he said it.
“All this is mine and thine.”
He had bought and furnished the
house, and Lad arranged everything for
her reception on their return from the
wedding tour. He had tried her and
found true affection in her heart, and
thfre is no doubt there is love in that
cottage.
In Scotland they have narrow, open
ditches which they call sheep chains.— _
A man was riding a donkey across a
sheep pasture, but when the animal
came to a sheep drain he would not go
over it. So the man rode him back a
short distance, turned him round, and
appHed the whip, thinking, of course,
that the donkey, when going at the top
of his speed, would jump the drain be
fore he knew it. But not so. When
the donkey got to the drain he stopped
all of a sudden, and the man went over
Mr. Neddy’s head. No sooner had be
touched the ground than he got up,
aud looking the beast in the face said :
“ Verra weel pitched; but then boo are
ye gaun tae get ower yersel’ ?”
A Gunning Expedient.
There is a story among the Hindoos
that a thief, having been detected and
condemned to die, happily hit upon an
expedient which gave him hope of life.
He sent for his gaoler, and told him he
had a secret of great importance he de
sired to impart to the king, and when
this had been done, he would be pre
pa’ ed to die. After receiving this piece
of intelligence, the king at once ordered
the culprit to be conducted to his pres
ence, and demanded of him to know his
secret*
The thief replied that he knew the
secret of causiug a tree to grow which
would bear fruit of pure gold. The
experiment might be easily tried, and
his majesty would not lose the opportu
nity, so, accompanied by his prime min
ister, his courtiers and his chief priest,
he went with the thief to a spot select
ed near the city wall, where the latter
performed a series of solemn incanta
tions. This done, the condemned man
produced a piece of gold, and declared
if it should be planted, it would pro
duce a tree every branch of which
would bear gold.
“ But,” he added, “this must be put
into the ground by a hand that has nev
er been stained by a dishonest act. My
hand is not clean, therefore I pass it to
your majesty.”
The king took the piece of gold, b
hesitated. Finally he said : “I remem
ber in my younger days, that I often
filched mcney from my father’s treasu
ry, which was not mine. I have re
pented the siD; but yet I hardly dare
say my hand is clean. I pass it to my
prime minister.
The latter, after a brief consideration,
answered : “ It were a pity to break the
charm through a possible blunder. I
receive taxes from the people, and as I
am exposed to many temptations, how
can I be sure that I have remained per
fectly honest? I must give it to the
Governor of our citadel.”
“ No, no,” replied the Governor,
drawing back. Remember that I nave
the serving out ot pay and provisions to
the soldiers. Let the high priest plant
it.”
And the priest said : “ You forget
that I have the collecting of tithes and
the disbursements for sacrifice.”
At length the thief exclaimed ;
“ Your majesty, I think it were better
for society that all five of us should be
banged, since it appears that not an hon
est man can be found among us.”
In spite of the lamentable exposure,
the king laughed ; and so pieased was
he with the thief’s cunning expedient,
that he granted him a pardon,
#—
A Pennsylvania Woman.
A correspondent of a Cincinnati pa
per tells rather an extravagant story of
the exploits of a widow of his acquain
tance. It runs thus:
We dwell in a branch of the beauti
ful Clinton Valley in Fayette county,
Pennsylvania. Just to the east of us
are the Chestnut Ridge Mountains, as
rough and rocky as mountains general*,
ly are. Well, upon the top of the moun
tain dwells a widow, yet in the prime of
life, who is now wealthy, and owns the
best mountain form in Fayette county.
Years ago, when quite young, she mar
ried a young man who owned this farm
and a team, and nothing more. The
land was uncleaned, exceedingly rocky,
and full of ravines. In a few months
after being married the husband died,
his wife nothing but his land, cabin
and team. Thrown upon her own re j
sources, the widow went to work fell
ing timber, making cross ties and haul
ing them to the railroad at Connellsville,
a distance of ten miles, and all without
the assistance of any one. This being
before the panicky times, she made mon
ey sufficient to give her a good start in
life. Disliking to drive a team or at
tend to horses, as soon as she considered
herself able, she hired a driver, but
continued making the ties with her
own hands, and between times amused
herself with blasting rocks and rolling
them into the ravines, thus killing two
birds with one stone, clearing the land,
and filling up the ravines. Thus, by
industry, economy and perseverance,
she, in a very few years amassed a con
siderable fortune, cleared seventy-five
acres of rough land, filling up and lev
eling over ravines, and fitting them for
agricultural purposes. It was indeed
an interesting sight to see her sitting
on top of a lock with a drill in one hand
and a sledge in the other piercing the
very heart of a rock, and blowing it to
atoms,|and afterwards rolling it piece by
piece into the ravine. This lady has
now a grand house, luxuriantly furnish
ed ; a first class piano, from which she
brings forth the sweetest music, and
fifty thousand in the bank. She has
had scores of offers, but she refuses
them all, preferring to pass the remain
der of her life in single blessedness
rather than undergo the pangs of bury
ing another husband.
m
Bachelors are always in a state of
unrest. If indoors, after dinner there
is a sense of solitariness, inducing a
sadness, if not actual melancholy, with
all its depressing influences; and many
hours in the course of the year are
spt?no in gloomy inactivity, which is ad
verse to a good digestion and a vigorous
and healthy circulation. His own
house being so uninviting, the bachelor
is incliued to seek diversion outside, in
suppers with friends and scenes of dis
sipation. On the other hand, marriage
lengthens a man’s life, by making home
inviting; by the softening influences
which it has upon the Character and the
affections ; by the cultivation of all the
better feelings of our nature, and in
that proportion saving him from dissi*
patiou.
Health Notes.
Persons who work hard under twenty
years of age should be allowed ten
hours’ rest in bed. The health of girls
is sometimes ruined by over-pushing
mothers.
Always air your room from the out
side air if possible. Windows are
made to open, doors made to shut—the
truth of which seems extremely diffi
cult of apprehension. Every room
must be aired from without— every pas
sage from within.
Let it always 4)3 borne ifftnirid that
cold air is not necessarily pure, nor is
warm necessarily impure.
In all ordinary ailments and acci
dents, secure quiet of body , composure
of mind, pure air, pure water and sim
ple food at regular intervals—being a
little hungry till the time.
Children should be compelled to be
cut of doors for the greater part of day
light, from after brerkfast till half an
hour before sundown.
We do not advise a warm bath of
tener than once a week. But we must
consult nature and facts.
Each man should bathe in a manner
which from observation and personal
experiment, does him most. good. In
matters of health and disease, each
must be his own rule. Immense mis
chief is daily done by ignoring this
principle which is at once the dictate of
a sound policy and of common sense.
The more sick people can sleep, the
sooner they will get well. Sleeping in
the daytime, if before noon, enables
them to sleep better the following night.
A teaspoonful of blood from the nose
has prevented many a fatal attack of
apoplexy; hence a nose-bleeding is
sometimes the safety valve of life.
Multitudes bring on themselves the
horrors of a life long dyspepsia, by
drinking large quantities of cold water
at their meals.
Infants and animals never have dys
pepsia if left alone, for Nature is the
wise apportioner.
Thus it is with sleep. Nature her
self, sleepless, wakes us up the moment
we have had enough, if wo are not
tampered with.
Swallowing ice freely in small lumps
is the chief treatment in inflammation
af the stomach.
Fun is worth more than physic, and
whoever invents or discovers anew
source of supply deserves the name of
a public benefactor; and whoever can
write an article the most laughter-pro
moting, and at the same time harmless,
is worthy of our gratitude and respect.
To Cook a Husband.
Many good husbands are spoiled in
the cooking. Some women go about it
as if they were bladders, and blow them
up ; others keep them constantly in hot
water, while others freeze them by con
jugal coolness; some smother them in
hatred, contention and variance, and
some keep them in pickle all their
lives. These women always serve them
up with tongue sauce. Nowit cannot
be supposed that husbands will be ten
der and good when managed in this
way; but on the contrary, very deli
cious when managed as follows : Get a
large jar, called the jar of faithfulness
(which all good wives keep on hand),
place your husband in it and set him
near the fire of conjugal love; let the
fire be pretty hot, but especially let it
be clear, and above all let the heat be
constant. Cover him with affection,
kindness and subjection, garnished with
modest, becoming familiarity, and spiced
with pleasantry ; and, if you add kisses
and other confectioneries, let them be
accompanied with a sufficient portion of
secrecy, mixed with prudence and mod
eration. We would advise all good
wives to try this recipet and realize
what an admirable dish a husband
makes when properly cooked.
Dr. Guthrie on Strong Drink.
I have heard the wail of children
crying for bread, and their mother had
none to give them. I have seen the
babe pulling the breasts as dry as if the
starved mother Jjad been dead. I have
known a father turn a step-daughter to
the street at night, bidding the sobbing
girl who bloomed into womanhood, seek
her living there as ethers did. I have
bent over the foul pallet of a dying lad
to hear him whisper, and his father and
mother, who were sitting half drunk by
the fireside, had pulled the blankets off
his bod} to sell them for drink. I have
seen the children blanched like plants
growing in a cellar—for weeks they
never breathed a mouthful of fresh air
for want of clothes to cover nakedness;
and they lived in continual terror of a
drunken father or mother coming home
to beat ‘hem. Ido not recollect ever
seeing a mother in these wretched
dwellings handling her infant, or hear
ing the little one crow or laugh. These
are some of drink’s doings, but nobody
can know of the misery suffered amid
these scenes of wretchedness, woe, want
and sin.
Where faith and love have been
once kindled, and beamed upwards into
a holy flame, they are there forever. —
What has once been, is always. The
spirit brings forth nothing in vain.—
What belongs to eternitv cannot le
measured by a longer or a shorter time,
nor classified as pastor future ; in this
sense, how long, and always, are the
same.
A thick-headed squire, being worsted
by Sydney Smith in an argument, took
his revenge by exclaiming: “If I had a
son that was an idiot, by Jove, I’d make
him a parson !” “ Very probable, re
plied Sydney, “ but I see your father
was of u different mind.”
VOL. V.— JsO. 50,
A Wife’s Devotion.
The \\ ashiufifton Star says ; “ Cha
pink pa lu-ta, or ‘ Red Hud/ the only
woman accompanying the Sioux delega
tion, is rather comely in appearance and
is about twenty-five years of age. She
is the wife of Bad Wound, to fthom
she is very much attached, as the fol,
lowing incident will show. The Indi
an agents were restricted in the number
of chiefs they were to bring to Wash
ington, and were forbidden by the
Commissioner of Indian Affairs to bring
any women. The latter, however, were
as anxious to come as the braves, and
when told of the oroer of the Commis
sioner there was weeping and wail
ing among the dusky maidens of the
forest, Cna-pink pa*lu-ta quietly made
up her mind that she would go at all
hazards, and several hours after the de
parture of the wagon containing her
hus! and for the railroad, she mounted
a swift horse and with her raven tress
es streaming in the wind went flying
across the couutiy in pursuit of the
party. She came up to them when
near the station, and leaping from her
steed which she turned adrift, mounted
the wagon and clinging to her husband
with tears and entreaties besought him
to allow her to accompuny|him. lie en
deavored to persuade her to return, and
some of the braves were inclined to
use violence to compel her to do so.
She firmly declined, however, to trust
her husband to the seductions of Wash
ington society unattended, and even the
efforts ot Agent Saville to induce her
to return were wholly unavailing. She
seems to greatly enjoy her visit to the
pale faces, and keeps an eye on “ the
old man” at all times, invariably accom
panying him in his walks about town-.
This incident serves to illustrate Bry
ant’s couplet, slightly modified :
“ Skins may differ, but affection
Dwells in red and white the same.”
—
Cliiuese Proverbs.
Prosperity is a blessing to the good,
but a curse to the evil.
Better be upright with poverty than
wicked with plenty.
If you love your son, give him plen
ty of the cudgel; if you hate him,cram
him with dainties.
A|word once spoken, a dozen horses
canmt overtake it and bring it back.
They who respect themselves will be
honored ; but they who do not caro
about their character will be despised.
It is foolish to b)rrow trouble from
to-morrow.
When doing what is right the heart
is easy, and becomes better every day ;
but when practicing deceit the mind la
bors, and every day gets worse.
Those who touch Vermillion become
red, and those who touch ink become
black ; so people take their character
from their bad or good companions.
A gem unc it is of no use; so a man
untaught of what worth is he?
He who labors with the mind gov
erns others; he who labors with the
body is governed by otheis.
Girls do not always know their pow
er. It is far greater than they think ;
and, were they true and brave enough
to exert it, they might almost, in a gen
eration, revolutionize society about
them. Exert your power for good up
on the young men who are privileged
to enjoy your society. Gentle and
good, be also brave and true. Try to.
exhibit the ideal of a woman—a pure
and good woman—whose life is mighty
as well as beautiful in its maidenly dig
nity and attractive loveliness. Do not
let it even seem that dress and frivolity
constitute your only thoughts; but let
the elevation of your character and the
usefulness of your life lift up the man
that walks by your side. Some of you
are intimate associations, which, under
exchanged promises, look forward to a
nearer and more enduring relarion. In
these hours do nothing to lower, but
everything to refine and enDoble each
other's character.
■<■■-
Children may teach us one blessed,
one enviable art —the art of being easily,
happy. Kind nature has given to them
that useful power of accommodation to
circumstances which compensates for
many external disadvantages, and it is
only by judicious management that it
is lost. Give him but a moderate por
tion of food and kindness, and the
peasant’s child is happier than the
duke’s; free from artificial wants, unsa
tiated by indulgence, all nature minis
ters to his pleasure ; he can carve felic
ity from a bit of hazel twig, or fish for
it successfully in a mud puddle.
‘‘ Sir,” said a little blustering man to
a religious opponent. “ to what sect do
you suppose I belong?” “Well, I
don’t exactly know,” replied his oppo
nent, “but to judge from your size, ap
pearance and constant buzzing, I should
think you belonged to the class general
ly called insect.”
Tub last best fruit which comes to
late perfection, even in the kindliest
soul, is tenderness toward the hard, for
bearance toward the un forbearing,
warmth of heart toward the cold, phi
lanthropy toward the misanthropic.
Friendship requires actions; love
reqvires not so much proofs as expres
sions of love. Love demands little
else than the power to feel and to re
quire love.
hen ill news comes too late to bo
serviceable to your noighbor, keep it to
yourself,
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Youu looking-glass will tell you:whut
none uf your liieuds will.