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HIKER SON, attorneys at law, Will practice in all the Courts of the Cher, fkee Circuit; Supreme Court ol Georgia, and the United States District Court at Atlanta, Oa. Office : Suthcast corner of the Court House, Calhoun, Ga. |^\INcY>IIINUK, attorneys at law, CALHOUN, GA. Will practice in all the Superior Courts of of Cherokee Georgia, tile Supreme Court of ihe State and the United States District and Circuit Courts, at Atlanta. T I>. TINSLEY, t) . Watch-Maker & Jeweler, CALHOUN, GA. All styles of Clocks, Watches and Jewelry neatly repaired and warranted. ~j|UEE WALDO THORNTON, D. D. S.. DENTIST. Office over Geo. W. Wells k Co.’s Agricul tural Warehouse. C. A. HUDGINS, Milliner & Mantua-Maker, Court House St., Callioun^Oa. Patterns of the latest styles and fashion for ladies just received. Gutting and making done to order. J 11. ARTHUR DEALER IN 0 IiNERAL MERCHANT ISE, RAILROAD STREET, Calhoun , Ga. y TANARUS, GRAY, 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. DR. H. K. MAIN, fit!. D., PRACTICING PHYSICIAN, Having permanently located in Calhoun, offers his professional services to the pub lic. Will attend all calls when not profes sionally engaged. Office at the Calhoun Hotel. ■J. w 7 MARSHALL^ RAILROAD ST., OLD STAMP OF A. W BALLEW. cops constantly on hand a superior stock of family & Fancy Groceries, Uso a fine assortment of Saddles, Bridles, itaple Hardware, &c, to which especial at trition is called. Everything in my line •old at prices that absolutely defy competi tion. Books, Stationery and Jewelry. /7 rm IRWIN & CO. v.li W F (Sign of the Big Book k Watcli.) I\ F sup ly Blank Books, Nchool Bocks M and b >oks of all kinds; also, pens, iaks, 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 Cucaply and warranted. tIGV, Country produce taken in exchange f uv goods. IRW IN & GO. BARBER SHOP ! /••// essex choice. H' t I NG opened a Barber Shop between the Caw. ..,„ j[ o tol and W. k A. Rail -1 i. i earnestly the custom of the public,pledging an lionesi *,.. „^ r tri p lor . it the good will of one. Single shave A ’s cts.; hair-cutting, 25ets.; h — 2 sh-i- a P (;r week, §I.OO, hair-cutting and <mpooing included. Other prices low in accordance. july2B tf. '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.