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'quire Wadley j Petition tor divorce in
vs. I Gordon Superior Court,
; unda Wadley. j September term, 1875,
, Ue defendant is hereby notified that the
stated case will be tried at the Sep
( '“her term, 1875, of Cordon Superior
vourt - HANKS k BIVINGS,
Plaintiff’s Attorneys.
REFLECTIONS WITH ADVICE ,
’Tis Sunday ; the morning is clear ;
AVith anger 1717 bosom is tossed :
In tbe new fangled laundry machines
My shirts all their buttons have lo3t.
I rave, and I stamp, and I swear,
Yet my rage will not be repressed ;
Last night I went out and the tailor
Hadn’t finished my*- new velvet vest.
My temples are throbbing with strife,
My heart is excessively sad,
My coat is fearfully dusty,
And my “ nine ” is shockingly bad.
I see Benedicts go joyfully out
In Sun lay suits fully equipped,
I see my sui.s more hole-y’n righteous,
F’or my trousers are fearfully ripped.
Now l! baches” do take good advice,
Don’t persist in a bachelor’s life,
But go and court some damsel fair,
And make her your nice little wife. .
Give up clubs, billiards, etc., for her—
’Twill lighten your burdens of care.
She’ll button your collars when they wo’nt
And keep your clothes in repair.
Don’t Call a Tlan a Liar.
Never tell a man that he is a liar un
less you are certain you can lick him,
for as a general rule, when you say that
it means fight.
I have arrived at this conclusion
through sad experience. I know it is
not safe to give the lie to a muscular
Christian.
I did ince. lam sorry for it now,as
I never grieved for anything else in the
whole course of my life.
We were standing on the sidewalk in
front of the club,when I made the state
ment. We were talking politics, and
men who talk politics and get hot over
it, are—to put it mildly—lunatic,or else
want an office ; or else have some friends
who want an office.
This man made an assertion, touching
the fair fame of my candidate. It is
probable that if it had been as true as it
was false, I should have taken the same
course, b> cause, you understand, a man
who talks politics has no sense anyhow.
I think I said this before, but it is all
the same I want to make it strong,
and get you to understand bow I came to
get my ornamental eyes.
I mildly suggested that a man who
would make such a statement as that,
was lost to all sense of shame,and would
be guilty of the basest crimes in the
calender.
He disagreed with mo on that point.
As for himself he never made a state
ment except upon the most ample proof.
My candidate was the meanest villain
living.
I told him he lied.
1 have been kicked by a mule, have
fallen out of a second story window on
a hard pavement, eaten green persim
mons, heard Miss Blow read poetry for
two hours and a half, skated and seen
stars by the million,rode a sharp backed
horse of the mustang parentage,an adept
in the art of ‘‘bucking,” suffered grief
of various kinds, and still clung to life
—but all these are feathers in the bal
ance as compared with the result of that
one little word, “ liar.”
Immediately after saying it I sat
down, not in the way people usually sit
' dow T n. I sat down on the rim of my car,
about ten feet from the spot where I
had been standing when I made use of
the expression quoted above. lam not
used to sitting in that position, and do
not think it agrees with my constitu
tion.
I have heard of people who “got up on
their ear and walked off.” I wish I
knew how to do it, I would have pro
pelled myself away from that spot if I
had possjssed this happy faculty. I
proceeded to get myself perpendicidar,
intending to use the locomotion which
nature had given mo, but when I came
right side up something heavy ran
against my nose. As I felt very tired
I sat down on my other ear. 1 like a
change ; it is entirely too monotonous
doing the same thing over and over
again. * .; ......
Somebody took my large friend away,
and I was quite pleased when he was
gone. 1 have concluded to look twice
at a man before I give him the “ lie ”
again. My eye is in mourning, my nose
is swelled into the size of a citron with
4he color of a bluish rose, and my store
clothes look as if they had been run
through a patent sausage machine.
—
A Short Story for Parents.
A bright little girl was playing cro
quet, and knocking her ball with the
intention of placing it in position so
that she could pass through the wicket
when her time to play should come
again, was somewhat displeased to see
it roll too far, so that she was still out
of position. Without uttering a word of
complaint,she walked quietly to the ball,
and with her foot rolled it to the place
where she had endeavored to have it.
stop. Another in the game kindly re
proved her; told her that it wa
wrong, and that if she learned to do
things which were wrong in small
things, like a game of pleasure, she
would be more likely to do so in large
things when she should be thrown into
the great stiuggles of life. To this she
readily responded, “ NY by, I saw grand
ma place her ball before the wicket the
same way a while ago.” And no argu
ment could convince her but that it was
right to thus take advantage of her
playmates, because she “saw grandma
Ho tlie same thing. ' I bus an innocent
little girl chanced to be an observer of
an act by one to whom she looked for
an example, and thus a little mind was
poisoned which was as pure perhaps as
the fresh-fallen snow. And thus seed
is often sown in a child which must
sprout and Lear fruit, and “ Oh ! what
shall the harvest be?” How careful
, wo should be to avoid the appearance of
evil, and remember that in the smallest
deed the eye of some person looking to
us for an example may be upon us.
CALHOUN, GA., WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 1, 1875.
Small IVaists and Consumption.
The desideratum of small waists has
been the premature death of thousands
upon thousands of the fairest zuid most
promising young ladies, before they had
time to learn the danger they were in
viting by following the example of those
who teach by their practice that they
prefer conformity to the requirements
of a perverted taste to exemption from
the penalty of being out of shape,in the
sense of those who exercise no judgment
in regard-to this important matter. Fa
vored, as many robust women are, with
a fine organization in other respects,
they can live out a long life in compar
ative health and comfort, but they are
few compared with the vast number
who fall short and die before they have
attained all they might have had on
earth. The first or topmost rib on ei
ther side, just under the collar bone, is
short thin and sharp on its inner curva
ture. It has no motion, being a brace
between the and >rsal column and the
breast bone. It is immovable for the
purpose of protecting large arteries and
veins, belonging to the arms on either
side of the neck. In cases where the
chest has been manipulated until the
lungs can’t expand downward they are
forced above that rib. Rising and fall
ing above and below that rib level, the
lobe chafes and frets against the resist
ing curvature. It is inflamed at last
and the organ becomes diseased. If
that chafing is not reieived, but in res
piration the serious covering of the
lung is irritated comit ually, the inflam
mation is apt to extend quite into the
body of the organ, increased and intens
ified by exciting emotions, laborious
pursuits, or unfavorable exposures. Fi
lially, the mucous lining of the air cells
within the lung sympathises and becomes
inflamed also. In this condition we
may trace the commencement of pulmo
nary consumption. It would be denom
inated sporadic and widely different
from pulmonary disease by inheritance.
Consumption is not only developed by
tight lacing, but a multiplication of
causes, where the original conformation
of the individual was favorable for a
comparative long life, is beyond ques
tion. Medication cannot stay the on
ward march of disorganization where ul
cerations cat the tissues. , Once destroy
ed, they can never be reproduced.
Therefore, if prevention is better than
cure, less expensive and always more
agreeabk, why not profit by these sug
gestions ? No compression of the base
of the chest of men being induced by
tight dressing, a change of upper sur
face of the lung rarely occurs to them.
Great men, giants in any department
of busy life—those who make the world
conscious of their influenee—those who
quicken thought or revolutionize public
sentiment, and leave the impress of their
genius in the history of the age in
which they flourished, were not the sons
of gaunt mothers whose waists resembled
the middle of an hour-glass.— J. V.
Smith's Ways of Women.
Japanese Dcvolion.
A writer says: Every Japanese,
with the exception of the more bigoted
members of the Buddhist sects Nichiren
and Ikko, has in his house a katnidana
or shrine, in which are worshiped the
Penates. It contains various tablets
covered with paper, on which are print
ed the titles of the gods of Ise and oth.
ers in whom the householder places his
trust. Before those tablets are offered
up at the new year and on the 2d, 15th
and 18th of the month, saki, rice and
the leafy twigs of the c.eyera japonica-
Every evening a lighted wick floating
in a saucer of oil is placed in the shrine.
Then there is the shrine, a wooden
cupboard, in which are deposited the
monumental tablets of ancestors and
deceased members of the family. Fresh
flowers are offered from time to time,
and the first portion of rice boiled for
daily household use, besides the portion
of any fruiter cooked fruit which the
deceased are known to be fond of. The
tomb of a parent or other member of the
family is visited every month on the
date of the death. The home of the
spirits of- the dead is in the household
shrine; but they arc present wherever
they are worshiped, being gods, and.
tbererefore übiquitous. The origin of
the worship of ancestors is carried back
to the mythical period. It is the duty
of the subject to be diligent in worship
ing his ancestors, whose minister he
should consider himself to be. Devo
tion to their memory is the mainrpring
of all virtues. No ono who discharges
his duty to them will ever be disrespect
ful to the gods or to his living parents.
Ho will also be faithful to his Prince,
loyal to his friends and kind and gen
tle with his wife and children. The es
sence of this devotion is, iq truth, filial
p ie, y- '
Happiest I*eriod # of Life.
lam sure there is only one answer.
I am doing my duty to day is the best
day I ever had. Yesterday had a hap
piness of its own, and up to this morn
ing was the best day of all. I would
not, however, live it over again. 1
string it. as anew bead, on the chaplet
of praise, and turn to work and higher
thoughts of this present time. 01 all
the many days of my life, give me to
day. This should be our feelings al
ways from the cradle to the hour when
we are told to conic up higher. Child
hood is the best for childreu ; manhood
the best for meD, and old age for the
silver, haired. We will all join in a
chorus of a common thanksgiving to
God, and when asked “Which is the
happiest period ?” will say childhood,
manhood, and old age alike—“Oh, Fath.
cr, it is now !”
A Butcher, on being asked what
was the best thing for an empty stomach
said “Fillet o' veal.”
To Hake a Married Couple Ifup
py-
Men and women expect to be happy
when they wed each other ; and why
not marry wisely ? The man should
always be a little bigger than his wife,
and a little older a little braver, a little
stronger, a little wiser, and a little more
in love with her than she is with him.
The woman should always be a little
younger, and a little prettier, and a lit
tle more considerate than her husband.
He should bestow upon her all the
wordly goods, and she should take good
care of them. He may owe her every
care and tenderness that affection can
promjt; but pecuniary indebtedness to
her will become a burdeu. Better live
on a crust he earns than a fortune she
has brought him. Neither must be
jealous, nor give the other cause for
jealousy. Neither must encourage sen
timental friendships for the opposite sex
Perfect confidence in each other, aud
reticence concerning the mutual affairs,
even to members of their own families
is a first necessity. A wife should dress
herself becomingly whenever she expects
to meet her husband’s eye. The man
should not grow slovenly even at hpine.
Fault-finding, long arguments, or scold
ings, end happiness that begins
in kisses and lovemaking. Sisters and
brothers may quarrel and “make-up.”
Lovers are lovers no longer after such
disturbances occur, and married people
who are not lovers are bound by red
hot chains. If a man admires his wife
most in a striped calico she is silly not
to wear it. If she likes him most in
black cloth he is a fool if he neglects to
indulge in it. They should contrive to
please each other, even if they please
nobody else, for their mutual happiness
can only be the result of their mutual
love, and that love will never fail to ex
alt its object.
Is There a God ?
How eloquently does Chateaubriand
reply to this inquiry :
There is a God ! The herbs of the
valley and the cedars of the mountain
bless Him; the insects sport in his
beams; the elephant salutes Him with
the rising orb of the day; the thun
der proclaims Him in the heavens; the
ocean declares His immensity ; man
alone has said “There is no God !” Unite
in thought at the same instant the most
beautiful object in nature; suppose you
see at once all the hours of the day and
all the seasons of the year ; a morning
of spring and a morning of autumn ; a
night bespangled vith stars and anight
covered with clouds ; meadows ennobled
with flowers and forests heavy with
snow ; fields gil led by tints of autumn ;
then alone yon will have a just concep
tion of the universe. While you are
gazing on the sun which is plunging
under the vault of the west, another ob
server admires him emerging from the
gilded gates of the east. By what in
conceivable magic docs this aged star,
which is sinking fatigued in the shade
of the evening, reappear at the same in
stant, fresh and humid with the rosy
hues of morning ? At every instant of
the day the glorious orb is at once ris
ing, resplendent at noon-day .and setting
in the west; or rather our senses de
ceive us, west, or north, or south the
world. Everything reduces itself to a
single point, from whence the king of
day sends forth at once a tripple light
in one substance. The bright splendor
is perhaps that which nature can pre
sent that is most beautiful; for while it
gives us an idea ol the perpetual mag
nificence and resistless power of God, it
exhibits at the same time a shining
image of the glorious Trinity.
t A (Glass of liramly.
Don’t hurt anybody ! Why, I know
a person —yonder he is now—a speci
men of manly eleganc 1 ? —a portly six
footer, lie has the bearingjof a prince;
he is one of our merchant princes.
His face wears the hue of youth, and,
now, at the age of fifty odd, lie has the
quick, clastic steps of your young men
of twenty-five and none more full of
wit and mirth than he; and I know he
never dines without a terrapin, with
plenty of champagne ; and more than
that he was never known to be drunk.
So here is a living exemplar and dis
proof of the temperance twaddle about
the dangerous nature of an occasional
glass and the destructive effect of a
temperate use of good liquors.
Now. it happened that the specimen
of safe brandy drinking was a relation
of ours. He died in the year or two
after that with a chronic disease—a com
mon end of those who are never drunk
nor ever out of liquor. He left his
widow a splendid mansion up town,
bes'des a large fortune to eachof his chil
dren ; for he had ships on every sea
and credit at every counter, but which
he never had occasion to use. For
months before he died of inanition.
Tins is not half, reader; he had been a
steady drinker, a daily driuker for 23
years.
He left a legacy to which he did
not mention. Scrofula had been eating
up one daughter for the last fifteen
years ; another is in the mad-house ; the
third and fourth were unhealthy beau
ties. There was a kind ol’grandeur in
that beauty; but they blighted,
paled, and faded into heaven we trust
in their sweetest teens ; another is tot
tering on the verge of the grave, and to
only one of them is left all the senses
and each ot them is as weak as wa
ter.
The doctor who talks about “guzzling
iiquor every day being healthy,” is a per
fect disgrace to the medical name, and
ought to be turned out to break rock
for turnpikes, for the term of his nat
ural life, at a shilling a day and find
himselt.— Hall's Journal of Health.
Questions for Christians.
1. The building in which the
Churches worship, of which you are a
meniDer, cost a large sum of money be
fore it was fitted to accommodate a con
gregation When would that church
edifice been built if the other members
of the Church had taken no more inter
est in the matter than you have taken,
or had left the contributions necessary to
meet the expense just where you have
left them.
2. In older to maintain public wor
ship and secure the observance of the
ordinance of the gospel,the church elect
ed a postor, and pledged themselves to
support him. If all the members of the
Church, according to their means, had
paid into the treasury as you have paid,
according to your means, what kind of
a support would the pastor have re
ceived ?
3. In carrying on the public wor
ship of God, certain incidental expenses
must necessarily he incurred, such as
lighting, warming, cleaning and repair
ing. If all the church had acted as you
have done, how would the church have
been lighted, warmed, cleaned or re
paired ?
4. To keep up a high degree of spir
ituality, and promote brotherly love,the
Church, of which you are a member,
appointed a weekly prayer-meeting. If
all the members had attended as you
have attended, how long would that
prayer-meeting have been kept up ?
5. 'I he Church of Christ is engaged
in an active struggle with the powers of
darkness at home and in foreign lands.
To wage the war with any reasonable
prospect of success, prayer must be of
fered, money contributed, men raised
up and sent into the field of conflict.
If all professing Christians were to pray
for and contribute to this object, as you
pray for and contribute to it —if the
world is to be converted by human agen
cy, when would it be converted ?
The Wheelbarrow.
It takes a great man to do a little
thing sometimes. Who dQ you think
invented that veiy simple thing called
a wheelbarrow ? Why, no less a man
than Leonardo da Vinci.
And who was he ?
He was a musician, poet, painter,
architect, sculptor, physiologist, engin
eer, natural historian, botanist and in
ventor, all in one. He wasn’t “ Jack at
all trades and master of none,” either.
He was a real master of many arts, and
a practical worker besides.
When did ho live ?
Somewhere about the time that Co
s discovered America.
And where was he bora ?
In the beautiful city of Florence in
Italy.
Perhaps some of you may feel a little
better acquainted with him when I tell
you that it was Leonardo da Viuci who
painted one of the grandest pictures in
the world—“ The Last Supper,”—a
picture that has been copied many times,
and engraved in several styles, so that
almost every one has an idea of the ar
rangement and position at the table of
the figures of Our Lord and his disci
ples; though I am told that without see
ing the painting itself, no one can form
a notion of how grand and beautiful it
is.
And only tc think of the thousands
of poor, hard-working Americans who
own, in their wheelbarrows, an origi
nal “ work ” of Leonardo da Vinci!—
St. Nicholas
A Lesson isi I‘rominciatioit.
How many can pronounce the words
in the following “test” correctly ? It
was first published by the Teachers of
Toledo :
1. A courier from St. Lours, an Itali
ian with italics, began an address or re
citation as to the mischievous national
finances.
2. His dolorous progress was demon
strated by a demonstration, and the
preface to his profile gave
his ophonents an irreparable and lamen
table wound.
3. He was deaf and isolated the envel
ope on the furniture at the depot was
a cover for leisure and the reticence
from the first grasp of the dancing leg
islature of France.
4. The lilation of the chasm or
through made the servile satyr and
vii file optimist vehemently panegyrise
the lenient God.
5. He was an aspirant after the
vagaries of the exorcists and an in
exorab’e coadjutor of the irrefragible
yet exquisite Farrago, on the subsis
tenfe of the despicable finale and the
recognition of the recognizance.
A Young Statesman.
The other day when a Vicksburg boy
ha I trouble with a neighbor’s boy and
came out first-best, he realized that
something must be done at home, and
he slid into the house and said :
“Mother you know how good and kind
you have been to Mrs. B, next door?”
“Yes, I have tried to be a good neigh
bor to her.”
“Well, do you know that she says you
clean your teeth with a w hitewash brush
and that father ought to have a pensiou
for living with you ?” ,
He slid out, and when Mrs. B reached
the gate, oa her way to the house to
ask why her boy must be p* unded up
in that way, she heard a shrill voice
calling out :
“Nile wretch you, don’t you enter
that gate or you’ll get scalded 1”
She returned home, and the young
statesman dropped down under a shade
tree, kicked up his heels and softly
chuckled :
“That settles her, and now I want to
catch her Tom again for just fourteen
seconds !”
Sure Sign* of Marriage.
A cynical bachelor is responsible for
the following directions how to tell the
married;
If you see a lady and gentleman disa
gree upon trifling occasions, or correct
ing each other in company, you may be
assured that they have tied the matri
monial noose.
If you see a silent pair in a car or
stage lolling carelessly, one at each win
dow, without seeming to know they have
a companion, the sign is infallible.
If you see a lady drop a glove, and a
gentleman by the side of her kindly tell
ing her to pick it up, you need not hesi
tate in forming your opinion, or—
If you meet a couple in the fields, the
gentleman twenty paces in advance of the
lady, who, perhaps, is getting over a
stile with difficulty, is picking her way
through a muddy patch, or—
If you see a lady whose beauty and
accomplishments attract the attention of
every gentleman in the room but one,
you can have no.difficulty in determining
their relationship to each other —the
one is her husband.
If you see a gentleman particularly
courteous, obliging and good natured
relaxing in f o smiles, saying sharp things
and toying with every pretty woman in
the room excepting one, to whom he
appears particularly cold and formal, and
is unreasonably cross-who that “one” is
nobody can be at loss to discover.
If you see an old couple jarring, check
ing, and thwarting each ocher, differing
in opinion before the opinion is express
ed, eteranlly anticipating and breaking
the thread of each other’s discourse,
yet using kind words like honey bubbles
floating on vinegar,which are soon over
whelmed by a preponderance of the fluid
they are to all intents man and wile ; it
is impossible to be mistaken.
The rules above quoted are laid down
are in fallible in just interpretation'-they
may be resorted to with confidence ; thhy
are upon unerring principles, and deduc
ed from everyday experience.
The SiOv6 of flow ers.
The love of floweis seems a naturally
implanted passion ; without any alloy or
debasing object in its motive, the cottage
has its pink, its rose and its polyanthus
the villa its dahlia, its clematis and ge
ranium, We cherish them in youth,
we admire them in declining years; but
perhaps it is the early flowers of'spring
that always bring with them the great
est degree of pleasure ; and our affec
tions seem to expand at the sight of the
first blossom under the sunny walls, or
sheltered bank, however bumble its race
may be. In the long sombre months of
winter our love of nature, like the buds
of vegetation, seems close, and .torpid;
but, like them, it unfolds and reani
mates with the opening year, and we
welcome our long lost associates with a
cordiality that no other season can ex
cite, as friends in a foreign clime. The
violet of autumn is greeted with none
of the love with which we hail the
voilet of spring; it is unseasonable, per
haps-it brings with it rather a sort of
melancholy than a joy ; we view it with
a curiosity, not like the early rose.
With summer flowers we seem to live,
as with our neighbors, in harmony and
good order ; but spring flowers are cher
ished as private friendships.
The Accent*
An English cleigyman and a Low
land Scotchman visited one of the best
schools in Aberdeen. They were
strangers, but the master received them
civilly and inquired, “ Would you pre
fer that I should; speer these boys, or
that you should speer them yourselves ?”
The English clergyman having ascer*
tained that to speer, meant to, question,
desired the master to proceed. lie did
so with great success, and the boys an.
swered satifactorily numerous interrog
atories as to the exodus of the Isrealites
from Egypt. The clergyman then said
lie would be glad in his turn to speer
the boys, and at once began, “ Ho#did
T'haroah die ?” There was a dead si
lence. In the dilemma the Lowland
gent'eman interposed, “ I think sir, the
boys are not accusttomed to your Eng
lish accent; let me try what I can
make of them.” And he inquired in
broad Scotch, “ Iloodid Phawraoh dee?”
Again there was a dead silence ; upon
which the master said, “ I think, gentle
men, you can’t speer these boys; I’ll
show you how to do it!” And he pro
ceeded, “Fat cam to Phowroah at his
hinner end ?” The boys with on ; voi< c !
answered, “ lie was drooned ; ” and a
smart little fellow added ; “ Ony lassie
could hae told you that.”
The Life To Come.
What does a man take with him when
from the extreme verge of life he
launches into what lies beyond? It looks
as if he took nothing. Bo it the end
or be it anew beginning,it seems a total
breaking off from all that life hitherto
consisted in. This is what makes it
terrible.
But if we look at it truly, his past
life is just the one thing that a man
takes with him when hedio°. He takes
himself. And that self is the product
of all his past-experience and actions.
As an oak bears itself the result of every
shower that through long years has
freshened it,of every gale that'has tough
ened it or stripped its boughs, of sun
ghine that has parched it so a man, when
he stands at the end of life, is what he
has been made by all his joys, sufferings
and actions. That is what he takes to
another wprld. .The life to come, and
the life that now is, are parts of another.
They are related. . The strength we gain
by victories this year, and the weakness
into which we come by defeat, will boa
part of next year. So, there is not an
act, nor a word but casts its influence
into to-morrow that lies beyond death.
VOL. VI.—NO. if.
The Seven Age* of Alan.
There *are few persons who have not
read Shakspeare’s beautiful descriptitni
of “ The Seven Ages of Man.”' An
ancient Hebrew sage { Madrart Kohe
ioth, in “ Hurwits’s Hebrew tales,” has
given us his thoughts on the same sub-
J° ci \\ .. * v
I lie first commences in the f rs*
year of human existence, when the in
fant lies like a king on a soft couch,with
numerous attendants about him —all
ready to serve him, and eager to testily
their love and attachment by kisses and
embraces. .. ; . .i, t
“ The second commences, aboct the
age of .two of* three years, when'the dar.
ling child is permitted to crawl on the,
ground and like an unclean animal de
lights in the dirt and tilth. . > „
“ Then,at the age of ten the thought*
less boy, without reflecting on the past
or caring for the future, jumps and
skips about like the young kid on the
enameled green contented to enjoy the
present moment.
“ The fourth stage begins about the
age of twenty, when the young mart
full of vanity and pride, begins to set
off his person with dress, and like a
young unbroken horse prances and gal
lops about in search of a wife. ~ .
“Then comes the matrimonial e!ate ;
when the poor man, like the patient ass,
is obliged, however reluctantly, to tod
and labor for a living
“Behold him now in the,flarctitalstate
when surrounded by helpless children
craving his suport and looking to him
for bread, he is as bold, as vigilant, and
as fawning too as the faithful, dog ; nrpr?
tectiug his his little flock, and snatching
at everything that comes in his way,
in order to provide for his offspring,
At last comes the final stage, when the
decrcpid old man, like the unwieldly
though sagacious elephant, becomes very
grave, sedate and distrustful. He also
then begins to hang down his head to
wardthe ground,as if snrveyingthe place
where all his vast schemes must termi
nate, ard where ambition and vanity
are finally humbled to the dust.”
A Aortlirrn <irl's Opinion of
Noulheru Girls.
Miss Constance Fenimore Wolston,
in writing to the Cleveland Herald, has
this to say of the Southern girls: Ycu
can tell a Southern girl at once. She
is rounder chan her Northern
indeed she is never thin or lank ; she.
walks with a languid step, and all her
movements are slow and- iudolent; she
is never alert. She has fine soft eyes
with a serene expression, very different
from the quick, keen eyes of tbe North ,
she has not (he beautiful York and New
England ; rather is she sallow, with a
few rose tints ; you might call her cream
color. She never looks anxious, no
matter what happens ; she does not
think she can help matters by her ad**
vice or interference, but sits back calmy
and leaves everything to “brother” or
“pa, pronouncing the latter word in a
way I defy a Northern girl to imitate.
The word might be used as a shibboleth
it is not exactly “pay,” but half way
between that and the sound of‘a”in“cat”
Our Southern girl dresses picturesquely
rather than trimly, and has brighter
colors and more floating ends and curls
about ber than a Northern belle allows.
She has pretty plump hands, but she is
not particular about the gloves that
cover them I mean particulai compared
with Fifth evenue rules. In short, sho
is a more voluminous sort of a girl in
every way,and cares less about “the
iashion.” She has one decided advan
tage over the Northern girls, however
that i3 her voice ; it is sweeter and low
er, a little trainante, perhaps, but essen
tially gentle and womanly.
Errors of Npeccli.
A pleasant letter writer comparing
the merits of the pen and the tongue as
the interpreters of the mind gives the
palm to the former as the most faithful
of the two, arguing that the tongue, be
ing seated in a moist and slippery place,
is apt to fall in her sudden extemporal
expressions, .while the ppn, having great
er advantage of premeditation, is not so
liable to err. The pen is no immacu
late servant; it does now and again be
tray its master and behave as if it were
an independent creature, but it is cer
tainly more obedient than the tongue.
I hat often resembles a timid racer, capa
ble of doing wonders at home, but when
called upon to exercise its powers 1.1
public, either in bringing its owner to
grief by bolting out of its course, or
stubbornly refusing to budge from its
post._ The gehteeian who rehearsed
his speech in a cabbage garden found
his tongue run glibly enough there, but
before a living audience all he could say
was, “ Gentleman, I gee are no cab
bage !” Christopher North declared that
no one hearing him in public could have
the slightest conception what a magnifi
cent speaker he found himself when
quite alone ; and no doubt the House of
Commons lost a fine oration when the
tongue of a member, well primed with
wine, refused to say more than,- ‘Sir I
am astonished !”
A Bogiister yife being caught by
ner husband with her arms about the
neck of the landlord, explained the sit
tuition m this way; “You see, my dear
I am determined to force that man to
reduce our rent, and we weak women,
you know, must fight with such weapons
as we have.”
Len mills make one cent,
r -i en cents one drink,
Light drinks one drunk,
One drunk three dams, . , ’
Three dams one fight, cracked skull,
or foot race. ..... ,
Ono fight five to fifty dollars, and a
bc ri.h in the calaboose.