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i/so fine assortment of Saddles, Bridles,
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Suture Wadley 1 Petition tor divorce in
vg. I Gordon Superior Court,
Amanda Wadley. ] September terra, 18<5.
i*he defendant is hereby notified that the
above stated case will be tried at the Sep
tember term, 1875, of Gordon Superior
CouH. HANKS & BIVINGS,
jun9-60d. Plaintiff’s Attorneys.
HARD TIMES.
i* • *
Sadly the times are out of gear,
And cash it is hard to get;
Labor is idle and living fear,
Rut what is the use to fret ?
The days will brighten by-and-by ;
Hard times will pass away ;
We’ll all pull through, if we but try
To bear them while they stay.
Money is king—but why despair,
If this royal car breaks down ?
We only add to human care
If we idly fret and frown.
The days will brighten by-and-by ;
Hard times will pass away ;
We’ll all pull through, if we but try
To bear them while they stay.
Let us be hopofcl—come what may—
Each cheering his neighbor yet,
Till time shall show a clear way,
And our troubles we forget.
The days will brighten by-and-by,
Hard times will depart;
We’ll all pull through, if we but try
To keep ourselves in heart.
A Shadow in Married Life.
It is one of the sorrowful facts of h u
man life which cannot be denied, even
by the most sanguine observer, that
marriage, with all its holy and sacred
meanings, does not always yield the
permanent happiness which ought to
flow from a fountain so pure in its es
sential nature, and so rich in its capa -
bilities. Of course, where this union
is not based upon thj deep and sincere
attachment and general congeniality of
the parties, it is not surprising that it
should gradually become a heavy and
oppressive load, that only legaljrestraint
or public sentiment can preserve ; but
there are other cases where married life
seems to open most auspiciously, and
the brilliancy of its prospects is un
clouded by a single fear, which yet fail
sadly to fufilll their bright promises in
after life.
It would be futile to attempt to trace
the many causes which combine to
shadow these radiant hopes ; meddling
friends are all too ready to pronounce
upon them, and to cast blame upon hus
band or wife, without fathoming the in
tricate nature of the subject they thus
rudely handle. There is, however, one
source of matrimonial disappointment
which is seldom thought of, and which
is yet, perhaps, f esponsible for more of
it than we imagipe. It is the dividing
line by which custom separates husband
and wife so exclusively, as to the em
ployments of life. All human ties, to
be enduring, must be based on some
common ground of sympathy. Similar
pursuits, aims, desires and hopes draw
men and women together in the various
bonda of social relations, and are the
foundations and conservers of the best
friendships. In proportion to the de
gree of sympathy thus engendered, will
naturally.be the strength of the attach
ment ; withdraw them all, and affection,
deprived of jts nourishing influences,
must decay and die. The love which is
the root of every happy marriage, is no
exception to this rule. It must have
food for its sustenance and develop
ment. There must be full and stead
fast sympathy in all which is near and
dear to the heart of each, if it is to en
dure and grow.
It may seem at the first suf
ficient sources of this sympathy exist
in every true marriage, and that the
congeniality of character and sentiment
that sufficed to draw the young couple
together will suffice to keep them so. —
But that this is not the case the sequel
often proves. The exclusive division
of labor which marriage so frequently
induces, will, without the most tender
and delicate assiduity, have a tendency
to draw those apart who might, under
other circumstances become more close
ly allied. Husband and wife have gen
erally ?£ our modern civilization too lit
tle in common for the perfect develop
ment of their union. The man is im
mersed in his business, the woman in
her household cares. It is fortunate if
the same exclusiveness is not carried in
to their leisure hours; if he be not de
voted to bis political party or his club,
and she to the claim3 of fashionable
life. Their minds consequently run in
different channels, and their conversa
tion is apt to turn upon subjects which
are not of paramount interest to either.
It is an almost inevitable consequence
that if this is left to take its course,
there will be a gradual, perhaps imper
ceptible, but certain weaning away from
each other.
Tfc is true that a measuro of these cir
cumstances is necessary and right; it is
only the unnecessary exaggeration' of
them that we condemn. Naturally, the
wife is the queen of the home, while
the husband’s duties lie chiefly outside.
But they should each maintain sedu
lously the deepest interest in the other’s
work, confiding to each other the de*-
tails, consulting each other on the plans,
and, as far as may be practicable, assist
ing’each other in the work itself. In
this way, the separating effect of differ
ent occupations will be obviated, sympa
thy increased, interests blended, and
husband and wife drawn ever closer to
one another, through a knowledge and
appreciation of each other’s difficulties
and labors. Besides this, such a course
will greatly improve the results which
each can accomplish. The ready insigut
and quick perception which a sympa
thetic wife would bring to bear upon
her husband’s plans, might save him
from many a rash speculation and un*
fortunate enterprise, while his judgment
and counsel might be of equal value to
her in the guidance of her household.
Oiie subject especially, has a pre-em
inent claim upon their mutual regard,
the training *nd development of thei
children. Children need, lor their wel
fare, both a father’s a mother s care
each supplies to them what the other
lacks. Yet how often do we see this
whole burden resting solely upon the
mother ! How many lathers are there
who think cheir entire duty to their chil
CALHOUN, GA., WEDNESDAY, JULY 21, 1875.
dren accomplished when they provide
the necessary means for their mainte
nance ! They scarcely take time to be
come acquainted with their o,w ,sril
dren, much less study their tempera
ments, ascertain their needs and gain
their confidence. Surely if there is
anything which ought to draw father
and mother into bonds of the closest;
intimacy with each othef, wfiicn sfiould
command their pnited interests and sym
pathy, and employ the combined powers
of both in their fullest exercise.it is the
care and education of the offspring that
are entrusted to their mutual guardian
ship.
At this time when those who would
assail the sacred institution of marri
age are eagerly pointing to the unhap
piness and alienation which too fre
quently attend it as proofs of its decay,
it behooves those who would protect
and uphold it to purify its sources, and
ennoble its character. Only as love,
true, pure and earnest, is its founda
tion, only as mutual sympathy, confi
dence and respect are its guiding prin
ciples, only as noble aims, purposes and
aspirations vitalize and animate it, can
it firmly resist attacks and preserve its
position as the corner stone of the social
edifice.
Needle Work.
Needle-work is thus gracefully eqlo
giZed by Nathaniel Hawthorne, In the
“ Marble Faun ,
There is something exquisitely pleas
ant and touching—at least, of a very
sweet, soft and winning effect in this
peculiarity of needle work,, disjtipguish*
ing men from women. Cur own sex is
incapable of any such by-play aside
from the main business of life ; but wo
men, be they of what earthly rank they
may, however gifted with intellect or
genius, or endowed with aitful beauty,
—have always some little handiwork
ready to fill uy the tiny gap of every
vacant moment. A needle is familiar to
the fingers of them all. A queen, no
doubt, plies it on occasions : the woman
poet can use it as adroitly as the pen;
the woman’s eye that has discovered a
new star, turns from lis glory to send
the polished little instrument gleaming
along the hem of her kerchief, or to
darn a casual flaw in her dress. And
they have the advantage of us in this
respect. The slender thread o,i silk or
cotton keeps them united with the small
familiar, gentle interests of life, the con
tinually operating influences do more
for the health of the character, and car
ry off what would otherwise be a dan
gerous accumulation of morbid sensi
bility. A vast deal of human sympathy
runs along this electric line, stretching
from the throne to the wicket chair of
the humblest seamstress, and keeping
high and low In a species of common
union with their kindred beings. Me
thinks it is a token of healthy and gen
tle characteristics when women of ac
complishments and high thoughts love
to sew, especially as they are never more
at home with their own hearts than
when so occupied.
Spread Eagle Oratory.
We have rarely seed anything in the
way of high pressure, spread eagle ora*
tory superior to the following passage
from a speech of Mr. Cunningham, a
member of the Indiana Legislature,
from Fountain county.* The subj’ect
under debate was a motion to indefinite
ly postpone a gfavel road bill:
The American people, and we are
proud to call ourselves that, are rocked
in the bosom of tvfo mighty oceans,
whose granite-bound shores are whitened
by the floating commerce of the com
mercial world, reaching from the ice*
fettered lakes of the north to. the febrile
waves of the Australian seas, compris
ing the vast interim ot five millions of
acres, .whose alluvial plains, rorhahtic
mountains and mystic rivers rival with
the wildest Utopian' dreams that eyer
gathered around the inspired bard as
ffs walked the amaranthine promenades
of Hesperian gardens. Is proud Co
lumbia, the land of the free and the
home of the brave, too free and inde
pendent to indorse such a nuisance as
this ? Freedom from such oppression as
this is the munificent heritage bequeath
ed the valoroUs of the immortal
Washington. I represent a free ajid
idlieHigefiC people, proud to know that
they live in a country indented by in
numerable bays and gulfs, whose restless
tide is ever kissed back by the pebbled
beach, interspersed by limpid rivers and
lakes, the means by which commerce
and civilization have been promoted to
their present exalted status. America
has been and ever wiU be the most al
luring and delightful retreat known to
the migratory world, if we are not over
run with these unjust and (oppressive
corporations which are ever robbing
the honest yeomanry of our country. —
Will this do the gentleman ? Is he now
satisfied?
Never allow yourself to speak evil
of another, without the most ample ev
idence of their guilt. Mankind, in
their ’best estate, are liable to err.—
There is enough, therefore, to be said
of the real defects of ourselves, as” well
others, without attributing evil conduct
to people of which they are not guilty.
You should be slow to believe reports
detrimental to the good your
neighbor, and still slower in spreading
them to the worid.
Modest appearance, good nature,
prudence, and benevolence in little
things, make a gentleman.
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The burden which was thoughtless
ly taken up must be patiently borne.
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The tears of the congregation are the
minister's best plaudits
The Fourth Courtship.
Women often wait for a husband that
is pretty until they wait too long. It
also happens to men sometimes. So it
was with Mr. Griffith. When he was
young he was in love with a beautiful
girl, but when he became a man he
thought he could get someone richer
and prettier also j and while he was
thus thinking the opportunity was lost
—she had married another.
And now, reader imagine that you
are standing behind the door of the
dining-room, listening to Mr. Griffith
and his housekeeper’s conversation.
“ You ought to have a husband,
Lou.”
“And I thick, Mr. Griffith, you ought
to have a wife.”
“That’s so, Lou ; but pshaw,*l don’t
believe in the women, as they are now
a-days. But when I think of it, they
were not much better when I was
young.”
“Why so ?”
“ Ah, you've never heard of my three
courtships. I thought everybody knew
all about them.”
“Well, upon my word, I don’t know r
anything about them ; but I should, in
deed, like to know. Ah ha, so you have
been in love, too, have you ?”
“Yes, Louisa, indeed I have, twice,
even three times. The first is not worth
mentioning, but the second is. Well, I
clerked in a large grocery store, and set
my cap for the owner’s daughter. She
was very pretty and .very rich, Well,
to be short, I loved her dearly. I vis
ited her several times, hut every time
she was visited by another youug man
whose name tfa3 Fritz. I don’t know
which one of us she liked best. You
know how very slow I am about every
thing, and so I am in love matters. —
This won’t do in love matters in this
country, so let me tell you what hair
pened. OneJ morning I thought I’d
make a sure thing of it; so I dressed
up in my very best clothes, put my
stove-pipe hat on one-sided, and off I
went. No sooner had I opened the hall
door, than there came Fritz running
down stairs, half losing his breath.—
He f;an against me, at the same time
knocking tny fine hat off, which he acci.
dently stepped upon, and exclaimed:
‘ You’ll please excuse me, but I am so
glad that I can’t help my foolishness.—
Say, what do you think ? I’ve won
her ! , How c}o you like that, sir?’ I
didn’t say anything, but went home,
and never mentioned the hat.”
“ That was the second ; tell me now
about the third,” said Louisa.
“ Well, I was then forty years old; 1
had been out traveling, and was just
stopping at a small town iu France,
when I noticed the smallest feet I ever
saw on a woman; they were not hidden
by a long dress, but neatly covered with
snow white stockings and slippers. In
fact, she was a perfect beauty. She
had a basket on her arm which con
tained flowers, I stepped up *to her
and asked her how she sold them. She
told me, and I bought all she had. I
continued buying from her for three
Weeks, one day I bought ajl she
had to sell. I took my flowers and left,
when suddenly she came running to me
Baying : ‘ Thank you, sir—l am very
much obliged to you!' ‘ For what V
said I. ‘Oh, sir, I can’t thank you
enough, you have done me such a favor.’
‘How V said I. *Oh, sir by buying my
Sowers, you see, sir, I had a sweet
heart, and his mother wouldn’t let me
marry him until I had one hundred
dollars cash, and now, thank goodness,
I hare it. So to-morrow, I mean to
get —’ ‘ Hush !’ I exclaimed t at the top
of my voice; but she wouldn’t hush un
til she had finished telling me how the
wedding was to come off. At last she
hushed her talking, when I went home
and afterwards lefc the town.”
“ But, Mr. Griffith', c?o felt me ajpout
the lirst courtship.”
“ My first sweetheart. JoVed another,
aT£o. I could have wedded her if I had
not been so slow and bashful, but she
was engaged to this other man, and so
she married him. I have had awful
bad luck with women, and never will
have anything more to do with them.”
“But she was engaged wasn’t she ?”
“ Engaged! pooh f I believe they
are dIT engaged ! Anyhow, she was the
daughter of a large plantation owner.
Her name tfak Lilly Fones, ancf I telf
you she was a perfect little beauty.”
“ Fones! Lilly Fones ! Oh, my God !
lam she. I was once the happy Lilly
Fones, but now—(she burst into tears)
—I am only Mrs. Rammed.”
“ Too bad, Mrs. Rummel. But what
became of your husband ?”
“H e i® dead.”
“ And just think, you have been my
housekeeper five years now, and I never
knew this before. But I guess things
will turn outright at last.”
And they surely did.
Louisa is no longer Mrs. Rummel,but
the honored wife of Captain Griffith.
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Here is one of Thaekery’s pleasant
touches : “ It is night now, and here is
home. Gathered under the quiet roof,
elders and children lie alike at rest. In
the midst of a great calm the stars look
out from the heavens. The silence Is
peopled with the past —sorrowful re
morse for sins and shortcomings, mem
ories of joys and griefs out of their
graves, both now calm and sad. Eyes
that have long since cersecf to shine, as
I shut qffne, look at me. The town
and the fair landscape sleep under the
starlight, wreathed with the autumn
mists! , Twinkling among the houses, a
light keeps watch here and there in
what may be a sick chamber or two
The clock tolls sweetly in the silent air.
Here is pight and rest. An awful
sense makes the heart swell and the
head bow as I pass through the sleep
ing house to my bed, and feel as though
a hushed blessing were upon it.
Would Be Married.
A short time since the officers sta
tioned at Fort Point were attracted by
the presence of a small crowd of peo.
pie who collected at the wharf near the
Presidio. When they came to the
wharf they discovered, that the immor
tal passion was the cause of the assem
blage, and that two young and ardent
beings, who believed that “love is life’s
end,” were'determined to be’knotted
together with the matrimonial rope, in
spite of cruel laws and unfeeling offici
als. The maiden fair beyond compare
was Under age, with auburn hair. He*
lover made application at the City Hall
for a marriage license. ,
“ How old is the lady ?” inquired the
polite clerk,
“ It’s none of your bu ,” the ap
plicant was about to remark, but he
changed his mind, and answered, “just
sixteen years old.”
“ Ah !” returned the clerk, “ a most
delicious charming age. And do her
parents yet proudly gaze upon this their
beauteous offspring ?”
“ Which ?” grimly growled the lov
er. > i
“ Are her father and mother living ?
I mean,” said the clerk.
“Oh ! you bet! Healthy !”
“ Then,” replied the clerk, sinking
his fascinating smile, and resuming the
more serious air of an official; “ then
you can’t have a license ; the girl is not
of age and cannot bo married without
the consent of her parents.”
“ Can’t have a license ?” slowly re
marked the anxious lover.
“No sir; it’s against the law to grant
one under such circumstances.”
The young man turned and'walked
from the office ; but as he reached the
door he wheeled about and shaking a
handful of gold at the cleak, and said,
“ Say, I bet you a hundred we get mar
ried before to-morrow night.”
“ Never gamble,” responded the clerk
with dignity, and then, “good morniDg,
sir.”
True to his purpose, the would be
Benedick formed his plan. He secured
a surf boat and four brawny-armed
oarsmen and the point of meeting was
designed as the Presidio wharf. There
it was that the defenders of our soil and
flag discovered the girl of sixteen, the
determined youth, who had run away
with her, the four brawny-armed
men, and a parson. The wedding par
ty tumbled on board, the oars were
shipped, and the boat bore away the
blushing bride' and her promised hus
band, amid the cheers of the army.—
Half an hour after those on the shore
saw tbe boat under Angel Island, the
men resting on their oars. Two figures
rose from the stern sheets, one tall and
manly, the other slight. Then, in a
rather uncertain ( way, another figure
evated itself from the a'ft thwart, and
produced something which looked like
a prayer book, faced the couple. After
a few moments of some ceremonial, du
ring which the two bowed their heads
as if in affirmative response to some
question, the tall and manly form threw
his arms about the slight one, only six
teen years of age, and appeared to give
the wedding kiss. The crew cheered,
the parson with the, Uncertain legs top
pled over into the bottom of the boat,
and the ceremony was over. The boat
did not return to the Presidio, but went
off in the direction of the Alamedia
shore. The bachelor officers on the
wharf watched the retreating barge un
til it wa3 nearly out of sight, and then
with sighs turned back to their quar
ters. —San Francisco Call.
Dress* iu Church.
Apparently the ladies who listen to
the sermons of the Bev. Mr. Talmage
have not learned that black is the most
fashionable color fof church wear for he
declares that: t>
There seems to be in the church a
great strife raging. It is an Auster
litz of ribbons. The carnage of color
is seen all over our religious assembla
ges. Along on the outskirts of the
Sabbath audiences you see here and
there a picket of fashion, but down in
the middle of the church are the solid
columns blazing away through the ser
vice. Five hundred “ broken and con
trite hearts,” covered up in rainbows
and spangles. Followers of the “
and lowly Nazarene ” all a jingle and a
flash. Furthermore, he says : We want
a great ecclesiastical reformation in
this matter of "Sabbath accoutrment.
Shoo these religion peacocks out of the
house of God. By your example make
subdued and modest costume more pop
ular than® gaudy apparel. Do not put
on so much dry goods on your baek that
you cannot climb into, glory. \ f ou can
not steal into the harbor of heaven with
such a rigging as that. They would
level 'heir guns on you as being a block,
ade runner. Coming up to the celestial
door, the gatekeeper would cry, “ Halt!
you cannot go in with such regimen
tals.” And as you answered. “ I got
those jewels from Tiffany, and that
dress from Arnold and Constable, and
those shoes from Burt’s,” the gatekeep
er would say to one of the attendants :
“ Take this soul down to one of the out
houses, and tear off those puffs and ruf
fles and knifeplaitings and Hamburg
embroideries, and put on her more ap
propriate Sunday attire; for, going in
as she now is, all Heaven would burst
a-laughing !”
Words from the mouth die in the.
ears, but words from the heart enter aud
stay iu the heart.
Tije worth of a thing, is best known
by the want of it.
An obedient wife commands her hus
band.
tin Temple ol* Diana.
Ephesus, one of the twelve lonian
cities of Asia Minor, was famous in an
tiquity as containing one of the seven
Wonders of the world, the great temple
of Artemis, or Diana. From very ear
ly times Ephesus was a sacred city; the
fable ascribed its foundation to the Am
azons*, .and tfie Amazonian legend is
connected with Artemis. The first
lonian colonists iu Lydia found the
worship of the goddess already estab
lished here in a primitive temple,which
V7 is soon superseded by a magnificent
structure. This Grecian temple was
seven times restored at the expense of
all.the.Qreek communities in Asia Mi
nor. In the year 31)6 B. C., it was
burned to the ground, but again rebuilt
in a style of far greater spier -\ar than
before, the work extending over 200
years. Th-s later temple v. jg 'f> feet
long and 220 feet wide. “The founda
tions were sunk deep in marshy ground,
as a precaution against earthquakes.—
There were two rows of columns at the
sides, but the front and back pouicos
consisted of eight rows of columns,
placed four deep. Outside, at the en
trance to the temple, stood a basin of
porphyry, fifteen feet in diameter, for
the worshipers to lave and purify them
selves in. The internal decoration was
of the most sumptuous kind. The ce
dar roof was supported on pillars of
jasper, the doors were of cypress. The
altar was the work of the praxiteles,
and it was surrounded by many statutes,
one of them of gold. The image of
the goddess herself was roughly hewed
out of wood, black with age ar and greasy
with the oil with which it was customa
ry to anoint it. When the Apostle
Paul visited Ephesus in the middle of
the first century the worship of Diana
still flourished there, and the temple re
tained all its original splendor. Pil
grims to the venerated abode of the
goddess used to buy little models of the
temple in silver., or precious stones, as
mementoes of their visit, and as amu
lets to insure to them the protection of
the Ephesian Diana. The Goths sack
ed the city and burned the temple about
two hundred years later, and in the
reign of Theodosius I, toward the end
of the fourth century, the furious zeal
of the iconoclasts, or image-breakers,
completed the destruction. The ancient
city almost entirely disappeared before
the modern era, the very site of the
temple being lost,
Sponging on Newspapers.
Every man thinks a newspaper fair
game. If a society or any body of men
get up a concert or ball, or any other
form of entertainment, the object of
which is to put money in their pockets,
or if the proceeds are to be devoted to
i charitable purposes to add to their own
they become very indig
nant if the proprietors of a newspaper
do not assist them by a series of gratu
itious advertisements for several week3
before it takes place. These gentlemen
should remember that literary men in
this practical age, work for money as
well as fame— principally for the form
er, however, and the business manager
of a newspaper, if he wishes to keep on
the safe side of his lodger, conducts his
charge on the same principle as the head
of any business establishment. People
who are getting up a ball would feel
chary of' asking a present of a pair of
gloves from any merchant on that ac
count, yet asking and expecting to re
ceive a gratuitous advertisement is a
similar demand. The editor of the
Marlboro (Mass) Journal states the
case very plainly when he informs the
readers that, “ We have long ago adopt
ed tho plan of charging our regular
•reading notice price for all editorial an
nouncements of entertainments to which
an admission fee is affixed. We make
: no exception to this rule. In the way
p of new3 topics we freely .and gladly in
sert sketches of all entertainments after
they have become matters of history.—
It is only the preliminary work, look
ing to the drawing out of increased
patronage from the public, tor which
we expect compensation.” —Printers
Circular.
Ilis Choice.
A good story was told of a Chicago
(Jry, goods salesman, who b a d„ the repu
tation of being somewhat of a wag.—
He recently sold a bill of goods to a
country customer, who was believed to
be a little shaky, and was expected to
commit justifiable insolvency as soon
as he had disposed of his stock. As it
was the customer’s intention to pay a
small part of his accounts with notes
which might'prove worthless, the sales
man— so the story goes—added here
and there a litile to the price of the
goods, so that when the purchase of
some two thousand dollars worth had
been made, of which all but two 01
three hundred dollars had been paid in
cash, there was no possibility of the
firm losing anything, even should the
notes go to protest. The transaction
concluded, 'he customer besought the
salesman to give a present of some sort,
and the generous salesman accordingly
presented him with a valuable red silk
pocket handkerchiet.
“ That won’t do,” said the customer ;
■ “give me a nice silk dress for my wife,
or something of that sort.”
“ Can’t do it,” responded the sales
man ; “ but I’ll tell you what I’ll'do—
I’ll give you back your notes.”
“ No,” replied the customer, “ hold
on, I’ll take the handkerchief.”
A graceful compliance, ora coura
geous rejection, are the alternatives of
the great.
Adversity makps a mart wise, if not
rich.
VOL. V.—XO. s(>.
The Better Hair or a Great lau.
To promote her husbands interest,
'lrs. Benjamin Franklin tended his
shop, where she bought rags, sewed
pamphlets, folded newspapers, and sold
the few articles in which he dealt, such
jts inks, papers, lampblack and station
ery. At the same time she was an ex
cellent besides being
economical herself, her cardes*
disoiderlj husband to be economical
also.
Sometimes Franklin was cfothed from
iiead to foot in garments that his wife
had both woven and made; and for a
long time she performed all the work of
a servant. Nevertheless, she knew how
io be liberal at the proper times. Frank
lin tells us that lor some years after his
marriage his breakfast was composed of
bread and milk ; they ate out of a two
penny earthen vessel, with a pewter
spoon ; but one morning on going down
to breakfast, he found upou the table a
beautiful china bowl, from which his
bread and milk was .steaming, with a
silver spoon by .if3 side. : When he ex
pressed his astonishment' at this un
wonted splendor, Mrs. Franklin onlv
observed that she thought her husband
deserved a silver spoon and a china
bowl as much as any of his neighbors.
franklin prospered in his business
until he became the most famous editor
and the most flourishing printer in,
America, which gave him the pleasure*
of relieving bis wife from the cares of
business, and enabled him to provide
loi her a spacious and well-furnished
abode. She adorned a high station as
well as she bore a lowly one, and she
presided at her husband’s liberal table
as gtacefuliy as when he ate his break
last of bread and milk from a two-pen
ny bowl.
Thorough Workmen.
. ?.|! cre 110 more honorable positiQn
in life than that of a craftsman in a suc
cessful occupation. His horny hand is
a more;honorable badge ofpublic service
than the bejeweled digits of the dainty
clerk or man milliner. His labor-be--
grimmed faee or greasy working dread
are proofs of the exaltation of his rank;
among men. An honest, co'mpeteut
woiking man has peers, but no superi
ors. But to deserve all this honor he
must be competent—skilled it the mys
teries of the craft. And it is no use
for people to say that their superior in
telligence makes up for everything; for
a man with the wisdom of a Solomon
could not constitute himself a perfect
artisan without the practical experience
which makes a man such. Journey
men are turned out in multitudes day by
%., .who have hardly an idea of the first
principles of their trades; and manv
young men, hardly pf age, are
found bold enough to profess a thor
ough knowledge of two or more handi
crafts, any and all of which they really
knew little er nothing about. Ask em
ployers from whence they have their
most skilled laborers, and they wij} tqll
you that they oomo from those work
shops where lon§ apprenticeships served
to turn out thorough workmen ; where
engineering is not learned in a year—
shoemaking in a month—printing in a
few days. There are many reasons why
this whole subject of mechanical (ririn
ing should be pressed upon our young
men who expect to live by mechanical
labor. The great enemy of the working
man is the crowd of bad workers who
are admitted to his status without prop
er experience, for which he has paid
years of effort.”
Blessing* in Disguise.
Great griefs, Shakspeare tells us, are
as medicines for our lesser sorrows. The
remedy, it may be thought, is worse
than the disease. And yet it is not so
altogether, for the overwhelming art
girish which swallows up the minor
tribulations disciplines the mind ; an<J
when it has felt the shock of real ca--
lamity, it is less likely to bo disturbed
by petty annoyances. Of all schools,
that ot misfortune is the best for u
grumbler. If anything can make a
qlnet, considerate, dignified man' pfhim
it is affliction. It softens the hardest
nature, and teaches the selfish to sym
pathize with all who suffer. “He jests
at scars who never felt a wound,” but,
should a bullet cripple him, he will jest
at scars no more. A haughty, capri
cious, self-adorning beauty, if smitten
by small pox, and thereby rendered a
perfect fright,” would be considered
b) her friends an oHcct of commisera
tion. And yet, perhaps, she would be
a .h£)ppref, because a humbler, woman
tnan she could ever have been as a fas
cinating coquette. When wc pray to
be exempted from disaster, we often
pray unwisely j and when Heaven,turn
ing a deaf ear to our shallow petitions,
visits us with great sorrows, they arc
often, in reality, blessings in disg'uise.
—
. Pleasure is to women what the sun.
is to the flower ; if moderately used, it
beautifies, if refreshes, and it improves j
if immoderately, it withers, deteriorates
and destroys. But .the duties of do
mestic life, exercised as they must be in'
retirement, and calling forth all the son
sibilitis of the female heart, are, per
haps, as necessary to the full develop
ment ot her charms, as the shower are
to the rose, confirming its beauty and'
increasing its fragrance.
—< -*-■
Pride goes before and shame follows'
after.
Open confession is good for the soul.
Short reckonings mal e long friends
No man is a fool always, every one
sometimes.