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CALHOUN WEEKLY TIMES. BY D. B. FREEMAN. CALHOUN TIMES Bates of Subscription. Ofce Year $2.00 sl* Months 1.00 ten copies one year •. 15.00 Rates of Advertising. tsr For each square of ten lines or less for the first insertion, sl, and for each sub sequent insertion, fifty cents. •No.Sq’rs 1 Mo. | 8 Mos. | 6 Moe. | 1 year. sLod $7.00 I $12.00 | $20.00 Four “ G.OO 10.00 | 18.00 35.00 (column 9.00 15.00 I 25.00 40.0 C “ 15.00 25.00 40.00 G 5.00 “ 25.00 40-00 1 65.00 115.00 gfcjy Ten lines of solid brevier, or its equivalent in space, make a square. Rates of Legal Advertising. Sheriff’s Sales, each levy $4 00 Citation for letters of Administration and Guardianship 4 00 Application for dismission from Admin istration, Guardianship and Exec* utorship 5 00 Application for leave to sell land, one square 4 00 Each additional square 2 00 Land Sales, one square 4 00 Each additional square 3 00 Application for Homestead 2 00 Notice to Debtors and Creditors 4 00 & gnjgintM ©avfe. 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. Office over Geo. W. Wells & Co.’s Agricul tural Warehouse. jyjISS C. A. HUDGINS, Milliner & Mantua-Maker, Court House St., Calhoun, Ga. Patterns of the latest styles and fashion for ladies just received. Gutting and making done to order. J H. ARTHUR HEALER IN GENERAL MERCHANDISE, RAILROAD STREET, Calhoun , Ga. T. GRAY, CALHOUN, GA. Is prepared to furnish the public with Ruggies and Wagons, bran new and warrant ed. Repairing of all kinds done at short notice. Call and examine before buying elsewhere. DR. H. K. MAIN, M. D., PRACTICING PHYSICIAN, Having permanently located in Calhoun, offers his professional services to the pub lic. Will attend all calls when not profes sionally engaged. Office at the Calhoun Hotel. Books, Stationery and Jewelry. *2mi IRWIN & CO. 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, Jj| * ► Youu looking-glass will tell you:whut none uf your liieuds will.