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CALHOUN WEEKLY TIMES. UY D; 13. FREEMAN. CALHOUN TIMES Rates of Subscription. o*e Year Six Months ltatcs of Advertising. For each square of ten lines or lesS for the first insertion, sl, and for each sub sequent insertion, fifty cents. T r7T'l Mo. I 3 Mob. | 6 Mos. | 1 year fWS sYdb $ 7 - 00 I sl 2 -00 Four “ 10.00 18.00 35.0 b 4 column 0.00 15.00 | 25. W 40.00 l C 15.00 25.00 40.00 60.00 \ u 25.00 40-00 1 65.00 115.00 Ten lines of solid brevier, or its equivalent in space, make a square. Rates of Legal Advertising. 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D. S.. DENTIST. Office over Geo. W. Wells & Co.’s Agricul tural Warehouse. li/TISS C. A. HUDGINS, Milliner & Mantua-Maker, Court House St., Calhoun* Gb. Patterns of the latest styles and fashion for ladies just received. Gutting ami making done to order. . j“7Tauthur DEALER IN GENERAL MERCHANDISE, RAILROAD STREET, Calhoun , Ga. rj T. OKAY, 11 • CALHOUN, GA. Is prepared to furnish the public with Buggies and Wagons, bran new and warrant ed ° Repairing of all kinds done at short notice. Call and examine before buying elsewhere. dr7rTkTmain, m. and., 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. IRWIN & CO. yfcjidr (Sign of the Big Book & Watch.) WE sup ly Blank Books, School Books and b)oks of all kinds; also, pens, inks, paper , 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 sr?? 8 ® for goods. IRWIN & CO, J. W. MARSHALL, RAILROAD ST., OLD STAND OF A. W BALLEW. Keeps constantly on hand a superior stock of Family & Fancy Groceries, i/so fine assortment of Saddles, Bridles, Staple Hardware, &c, to which especial at tention is called. Everything in my ine ibid at prices that absolutely defy competi tion. T. JVLm 3EIT ■TiIS^ LIVERI I MLR STABLE. Good Saddle and BH&gy Horses and New Vehicles. Horses and mules for sale. Stock fed and cared for. Charges will be reasonable. Will pay the cash for corn in flie ear and fodder in the bundle. febo-tf. 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. m • -■■■ The burden which was thoughtless ly taken up must be patiently borne. • ~ r , 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. - . 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.