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FORTY YEARS AGO.
Sunset shadows softly linger
On my lonely cottage wall,
Tracing like an angel’s finger,
Pictured scenes now past recall.
Life is almost at its closing,
Sunset shadows come and go,
From the land my time enclosing
With its forty years ago.
As I traveled in life’s morning
How the years flew swiftly by ;
lime seemed all too short—adorning
Future years with cloudless sky.
Up the hill I journeyed clearer
Grew each hope with rosy glow ;
Now I see them so much nearer
Since those lorty years ogo.
Now my life is slowly waning;
Strange that I can watch in fleet—
Give earth’s part to earth, retaining
Things that seemed as bitter sweet.
Strange that as 1 travel slowly
Down life’s hill 1 surely know
Why my faith has grown more holy
Through those forty years ago.
I am old ! the shades of even
Gather over earth and sea,
I am old ! the lights from heaven
Shed their welcomed boa ins on me.
Earth—life is a journey ending
Where the waters softly flow ;
Spirit voices whisper blending,
Of the fort years ago
COURTSHIP AFTER MARRIAGE.
“ Now this is what I call comfort,”
said Madge Harley, as the sat down at
her neighbor’s lire one evening ; “ here
you are at your sewing, and your kettle
steaming on the hob, and the tea things
on the table, expecting every minute to
bear your husband’s step, and see his
kind face look in at the door. Ah ! if
my husband was but like yours, Janet.”
“ He is like mine in many of his
ways,” said Janet,smiling, “and if you
will allow me to speak plainly lie would
be still more like him if you would take
more pains to make him comfortable.”
“ What do you mean?” cried Madge,
“Our house is as clean as yours; 1
mend his clothes, and cook his dinners
as carefully as any woman in the parish,
and yet he never stays at home of an
evening, while you sit here by your fire
night after night, as happy as can be.”
“ As happy as can be on earth,” said
her friend, gravely; “ yes. and shall 1
tell you the secret of it, Madge ?”
“ I wish you would,” said Madge,with
a deep sigh, “ it’s misery to live as I
do now.”
“ Well, then,” said Janet, speaking
distinctly and slowly, “ I let my husband
know that I love him still, and that I
learn every day to love him more. Love
is the chain that binds him to his home.
The world may call it folly, but the
world is not my law-giver.”
‘ And do you really think,” exclaim
ed Madge in surprise, “ that husbands
care for that sort of thing ?”
“ For love, do you mean ?” asked
Janet.
“Yes; they don’t feel at all as wedo
and it don’t take many years of married
life to make them think of a wife as <
sort of maid-of-a'l-work.”
“ A libel,Madgi,” said Mrs. Matson,
laughing; “ I won’t allow you to sit in
William’s chair and talk so.”
“ No,because your husband is differ
ent and values his wife’s love, while
John unly cares for me as his house
keeper.”
“ I don’t think that,” said Janet, “al
though I kuow that he said to my hus
band the other day that courting time
was the happiest time of a mau’s life.
William reminded him that there was a
greater happiness than that, even on
earth, if men but give their hearts to
Christ. I know John did not alter his
opinion, but went away thinking of
his courting time as a joy too great to
be exceeded.”
“ Dear fe’low !” cried Madge, smiling
through her tears; “I do believe he was
happy then. 1 remember I used to
listen for his step as I sat with my dear
mother by the fire, longing for the hap
piness of seeing him.”
“ Just so,” said Janet; “do you ever
feel like that now ?”
“ Well, no, not exactly.”
“ And why not ?”
“ Oh, I don’t know.” said Madge,
“ married people give up that sort of
thing.”
“ Love, do you mean ?” said Janet.
“ No, but what the people call being
sentimental,” said Mrs. Harley.
“ Louging to see your husband is a
proper sentiment,” said Janet.
“Hut some people'are ridiculously
foolish before others,” reasoned Madge.
“ That proves they want sense. 1
am not likely to approve of that, as
William would soon tell you; all I want
is that wives should let their husbands
know they are still loved.”
Her friend looked up.
“ Oh, Madge, what are you saying?
Have you then married with the notion
that it is not good for John to believe
you love him ?”
“No, but it is not wise to show that
you care too much for them.”
“ Say I and him ; ao not talk of hus
bands in general, but yours in particu
lar.”
“ He thinks quite enough of himself
already, I assure you.”
“ My dear Madge,” said Janet, smil
ing, “ would it do you any harm to re
ceive a little more attention from your
husband ?”
“Ofcourse not. I wish he’d try,”
and Mrs Harley laughed at the idea.
“Then you don’t think enough of
yourself already ? and nothing would
make you vaiu, I suppose ?”
kludge colored and all the more
when she fouud tnat William Matson
had come in quietly and was now stand
ing behind Janet’s chair. This, of
course, put an end to the conversation.
Madge retired to her own home to think
of Janet's words, and to confess seciet
ly that they were wise.
Hours passed before John Harley re
turned home. Ho was a man of good
CALHOUN, GA., TUESDAY, OCTOBER 5, 1875.
abilities, and well to do in the world >
and having married Madge because he
truly loved be had expected to have a hap
py home. But partly because he was re
served and sensitive, and partly because
Madge feared to make him vain, they
had grown cold toward each other, so
cold that John began to think the ale
house a more comfortable place than
his own fireside.
That night the rain fell in torrents
and the winds howled, and it was not
until the midnight hour had arrived
that Harley left the public house and
hastened toward his cottage; he was
wet through when he at length crossed
the threshold ; he was as he gruffly
muttered, “ used to that,” but he was
not “ used ” to the tone or look with
which his wife drew near to welcome
him, nor to find dry clothes by the crack
ling fire, and slippers on the hearth ;
nor to hear no reproach for late hours,
and dirty foot-marks as he sat in his
arm-chair. Some change had come to
Madge, he was very sure. She wore a
dress he had bought her years ago, with
a neat linen collar around the neck,and
hud a cap, trimmed with white ribbons
on her head.
“ You are smart Madge,” he exclaim
ed at last when he had stared at her
some time in silence. “ Who has been
here worth dressing for to-night ?”
“No one, unlii you came,” said
Madge half laughing.
“t ? Nonsense ; you didn’t dress for
me !” cried John.
“ You won’t lelieve it, perhaps, but
I did. I have been talking with Mrs.
M itsou this evening, and she gave me
some very good advice. So now,
John, what will you have for your
supper?”
John,who was wont to steal to the shelf
at night and content himself with what
lie could find, thought Madge’s offer too
excellent to be refused, and very soon
i large bowl of chocolate was steaming
on the table. And then she sat down,
for a wonder, by his side, and listened,
and looked pleased, when at last as if
he could not help it, he suid :
“ Dear old Madge!’’
That was enough; her elbow somehow
found its way then to the arm of the
great chair, and she sat looking quietly
at the fire. After a while John spoke
again.
“ Madge dear, do you remember the
old days when we used to sit side by side
in your mother’s kitcheu ?’’’
“ Yes.”
“ I was a younger man, then, Madge,
and as they told me handsome; now I
am growing older, plainer, duller. Then
you —you loved me ; do you love me
still?”
She looked up into his face, and her
eyes answered him. It was like going
back to the old days to feel his arm
around her as her head lay on his shoul
der, and to hear once again the kind
words meant for her ears alone. She
never once asked if this would make
him vain. She knew at once that it
was making him a wiser, more thought
ful, more earnest hearted man. And
when, after a happy silence, he took
down the big Bible and read a chapter,
as he had been wont to read to her
mother in former times, she bowed her
head and prayed.
Yes prayed—for pardon through the
blood of Jesus Christ —for strength to
fulfill every duty in the future —for the
all-powerful influence of the Spirit, for
blessings on her husband evermore.
She prayed—and not in vain.
How 1© Calculate Interest, and
Wliat it Will 2>o.
The following rules are so simple and
so true, according to all business usages,
that every banker, broker, merchant or
clerk, should cost them up for reference.
There being no such thing as a fraction
in it, there is scarcely any liability to
error or mistake. By no other arith
metical process can the desired infor
mation be obtained by so few figures :
Six per cent. —Multiply any given
number of dollars by the number of
days of interest aesiied; separate the
right hand figure and divide by six ;
the result is the true interest on such
sum for such number of days at six per
cent.
Eight per cent —Multiply any given
amount for the number of days for
which it is desired to ascert -in the in
terest and divide by forty-five, and the
result will be th interest of such sum
for the time required, at eight per cent.
Ten per cent. —Multiply the same as
above, and divide by thirty-six, and the
result will be the amount of interest at
ten per cent.
What it will do—lf a mechanic or
clerk saves only 2f cents per dsy, from
the time he is twerry-one until he is
threescore and ten, the aggregate, with
interest, will amount to $2,900 ; and a
daily saving of 27} cents reaches the
important sum of $29,000. A sixpence
saved daily will provide a fund of $7,000
sufficient to purchase a good farm.—
There are few employees who cannot
save daily, by abstaining from the use
of cigars, tobacco, liquor, etc,, twice or
teu times the amount of the six per
ceut. piece. Every person should pro
vide for old age, and the man in busi
uess who can lay by a dollar a day wilt
eventually find himself possessed of
over SIOO,OOO.
Haifa century ago, a family lived
in Louisiana, in which were two sisters,
very young. The pareuts died and left
them helpless. They were adopted by
different families, became permanently
separated and went to other parishes.
Both married young and finally be
came neighbors in the same parish,whore
they resided in the same neighborhood
and visited each other for about thirty
five years before discovering they were
sisters. The discovery took place last
year, and was celebrated with a family
dinner.
Fit ting a Boy i’or lliiniiood.
One of the ways of fitting a boy
for the career of manhood, and of in
suring his success in it, i3 to enlist his
young, eager, and irrepressible activities
in something practical. The restless
energy which bursts out isto all kinds
ot mischievous pranks, if it has no oth
er outlets, is iust what he will need in
the hare work of life’ It does not want
curbing, but directing. Responsibility
is an excellent baladce wheel.
Give the boy this balance wheel.—
Give him an interest in your own busi
ness, if possible—in your farm or in
your store; let him have a share in the
labor and the profits; or, if the other
shows a decided taste for some other
employment encourage it. Give him
every opportunity to etudy agriculture,
engineering or art. Let him feel that
he is going to be a man, and is prepar
ing for man’s work and position. Make
him your friend and companion. \Ye
know of no better means of Snaking a
boy manly, and of keeping him “ out of
mischief,” than such a course.
The history of bad boys and bad men
is, in a largo majority of cases, written
in these words: “ They had not the
proper training and incentive.” Many
ire the grison occupants of to-day who
can blame parents for the lack of prop
er government and disoretinn in direct
ing their children’s minds and forming
their habits. And many a child, now
a bright promising boy, will look out
through the grated window of a few
years hence, less a victim to his own
bod heart than to his bringing up.
Take warning in time, O anxious pa
rent, to give your boys every incentive
to industry and good habits, even to
early enlisting them as par-tiers in your
business, whatever they may be ; and
O boys, take warning in the sad, solemn
histories of those youths who hive per*
ished before you, by bad associations
and indifference to the future !
Pure Expression.
Every word that falls from the lips
of mothers and sisters, especially, should
be pure and concise and simple; not
pearls, such as fall from the lips of a
princess, but sweet, good words, that
little children can gather without fear
of soil, or after shame or blame, or any
regrets to pain through all their life.
Children should be taught the frequent
use of good, strong, expressive words—
words that mean exactly what they
should express in their proper places.
If a child, or young person has a
loose, flung together way of stringing
words when he should be made to “ try
again,” and see if he can not do better.
It is painful to listen to many girls’
talk. They begin with “ My goodness ! ,!
and interlaid it with “ ohs !” and “ sakes
alive !” aad “so sweet!” and “so queen
ly !” and so many phrases, that one is
tempted to believe they have had no
training at all, or else their mothers
were very foolish women There is
nothing more distinguished than the
twaddle of ill-bred girls ; one is pro
voked often into taking a paper and
reading, and letting them ripple and
gurgle on, like brooks flow, they know
not whither.
My heart warms w T ith lovt, for sensi
ble girls and pure boys, and, after all,
if our girls and boys is not this, I fear
it is our own fault, for this great trust
rests in the hearts and hands of the wo
men of our land. If we have a noble
useful purpose in life we shall infuse
the right spirit into those around us.
The Sunflower as aa Article of
toimuerce.
To this plant many useful qualities
are attributed, some of which are the
following: It is, in its growing state,
antiuiiasmatic, and absorbs or scatters
t he malarious poison arising from swamps
or marshes, insomuch that the inhabi
tants of houses well surrounded by sun
flowers are said to escape fever and ague,
and similar diseases prevalent in such
localities where sunflowers are not culti
vated. In France a medicine prepared
from some portion of the sunflower is
extensively used for the cure of diseases
produced by malaria. The seed of the
sunflower supplies a large amount of oil
suitable to be used for lubricating ma
chinery. The seed, when ripe, also
furnishes very good fuod for horses and
cattle, as a substitute for grain, and the
stalk of th plant is said to make good
coarse fodder and to furnish an excel
lent material from which to manufac
ture coarse paper. The yield of the
sunflower (when cultivated) is very
large to the acre, both as regards seed
and stalk. Attention was beginning to
be attracted to the cultivation of this
plant in Maryland before the commence
ment of the late war, since .vhieh but
lit;to has been heard in regard tu the
subject.
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FooSitig with si Whirlwind.
A farmer, who lives about five miDs
west of Fairbault, Minn., named Sam
uel Johnso , was goiug along the road
lately, when suddeuly a little whirlwind,
which described a circle apparently not
not more than three feet in diameter,
appeared in the road in front of him. It
took up the dust pretty lively and bnz
zed like a swarm of bees but Mr. John
suu kept on bis way directly toward it,
thinhig it had no great amount of power.
In fact he did not think it worth his
while to step one side and let it whirl
whir past, but kept straight ou and
met it square in the road. W hen they
came together the whirlwind seemed to
drop everything else and took hold of
Mr, Johnson, and in less time than it
takes to tell it Mr. Johnson had lost his
bat and his shirt, and wfft pitched about
twenty lect into the gutter, feeling as
though bad been shocked by a battery.
Mr. Johnson will never fool with a whirl
wind again.
Recent Discoveries.
In the Popular Science Monthly for
May is an article, the second of a series
by Professor Albrecht Nueller, which
proves most conclusively, from the ex
amination of remains found in till up
per layers of the Diluvium, or Drift,
that the human beings who inhabited
the earth during this period were sunk
in barbarism, some of them probably be
ing cannibals. During the age of rein
deers, as one of these divisions of the
Diluvium is called, men lived in caves
or out of doors in stations at the foot of
sheltering cliffs. That the climate of
Southern Europe was very severe is
proved by the remnants of Northern
fanna found there. Not a trace of the
use of the metals during this period
haa been discovered. Knives, axes,
and spear heads were made of stone —
often of flint. Pottery was in use, but
it wasioughly made by hand and un
burnt, One of the most interesting
collections of relics of this period was
found in the Department of Dordogne,
France. To it succeeded the age of
polished stone, the third of the prehis
toric eras, the mammoth age being the
first. To this belong the famous pile
dwellings found in the beds of the Swiss
lakes. Now are found polished axes of
various hard stones, sometimes very in
geniously fixed into bone, wood or horn
handles. Evidences of the domestica
tion of animals, that great indication of
the approach of civilization, now appear
for the first time. No trace of writing,
drawing or s ulpture is to be found. —
To this age belong the famous cromlechs
or funeral piles which are found inßrit
tainy. Southern France, Great Britain,
the East [tidies and several other coun
tries, those of Britriny being the larg
est. These eonsist of two immense
blocks of stone placed on end, upon
which a third is laid, forming a table.
How the men of this age, destitute of
steam ar any of the mechanical arts, as
they are supposed to have been, put
these in their places, will forever remain
a nipstery. Next come the bronze and
iron age, during which men learned the
use of metals ad which extend ti, and
in some countries overlap, the begin
ning of the historic period. Our Ger
man scientist suggests that the present
be called the age of paper, probably
from the übibuitous newspaper. Upon
second thought, and iu view of the pres
ent prospects iu Europe, he concludes
that the age of steel would be a more
appropriate name.
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An ©lvslsrasile iSlotijee.
Day before yesterday Mrs. Bliss, of
Mullet street, found a euchre deck in
hei boy’s pocket, and when she took
him by the hair of the head he cainly
said :
“ Hold on mother —it isn’t your
pLy” . . j
“ I’ll play you I” she hissed tighten
ing her grip “How came you by these
here cards ?”
“ Mother, you shouldn’t trump me
this way !’’ he exclaimed.
“ Trumps ! trumps ! What do yon
know about trumps ?” „
“ Why, mother, any fool knows that
the right and left bower will take an
ace every time ”
“It will eh ?” she hissed as she
walked him around.
“Of course it will; if diamonds are
trumps, for instance, and I hold the
right and left bower —”
“ Bowers ! bowers ! I’ll bower you to
death young man !” she said as she
walked him the other way.
“ Or,suppose that spades were trumps,
you held the nine spot and king and
turned up the ace, and what would you
do ?” he earnestly inquired.
“ Oh I’ll eho v you what I’d do !” she
growled as she got a lett-hander ou his
ear. “ I’ll teach you a lesson you’ll
never forget!”
“ That wouldn’t be Hoyle, mother,
you could pick up the ace and make a
point every ”
But she threw him over h er.knee and
played a lone hand.
Meant 1© l>e Sure.
At midnight the other night a police
man saw a Labrossee street man knock
at his door, heard a window raise and a
female voice called out :
“ That’s you. is it ?”
“Yes, darling,” was the answer.
“ Are you drunk ?”
“ No —haven’t tasted a drop.”
“ Not even beer?”
“ No, not even beer.”
“ Perfectly sober, are you?”
“ Justus sober as a preacher.”
She leaned out the window, peered
down into his upturned face, and then
she said :
“You’ll swear it?”
“ I’ll swear to it on a stack of Bibles
ten feet high ”
“ Well, I’d open the door. You seem
to be all right, but I’ll have a club
handy, and if you have lied to me the
coroner will call it a case of justifiable
homicide !”—Detroit Free Press.
A Felonotjs Goat.—She testified
before the magistrate that “ dot pilly
gotes shoost vas a—a —veil, I vas vash
ing py some elodings of a pig tub, und
them gotes coom up pehind und—veil, ,
shoge, I don’t ken told you how dot
vas. I feel me someding pehind my
pack, und shump over der tub und
sthand me on my head up mitdot tub’s i
bottom up,und der clodiugs sphilt shoost
like me.und deui gotes vink at me mit von
eyes und vag be tails in mine face, und
valk out py his pehind legs like a man,
und I can’t sit me down cood any more
already.” The goat was fined one
(s)ceut which he left behind.
The Corpus oi'Dur Kitrhcii.
Oh, woman ! heaven’s last, best gift
to the kitchen, must; you and your
daughters still continue to marshal
families the saleratus way to dyspepsia ?
Can you never learn that the gridiron
and the clear, glowing bed of coals,
whereupon St. Lawrence himself would
have deemed it a luxury to be broiled,
better befit the lordly stead,unmacerat
with factory lard, and will sooner
woo it to turn pale pink,
delicate amber, and tender
brown (with a sensitive elevation at the
corners, forming a central chalice for
the reception and preservation of its
I own juices) than the frying pan, ac
cursed of goods an abhorred of men ?
Know you not that by tuinly slicing
potatoes —not left over from yesterday’s
noonday dinner, in to cold water, wiping
the same dry towel, dustmg them with
pepper and salt, frying them in boiling
lard, and as soon as they put on the
rich, golden brown hue of a Cuban belle
removing and draining them, you can
compass that which, at Saratoga, has
brought fame and fortune to the artistic
restaurateur ? Is it uoc in you to pour
boiling water on your coffee, and to set
the pot over a shovelful of embers in the
hearth box, where it will just simmer
and not boil ? Can your finer female
sense not oomperhend the difference
between fanning a smokeless fire with a
generous slice of Dread till the surface
of the latter turns delicately golden,
then brushing the same with fresh but
ter, and burniug bread on the top of a
stove, then swobbing it in melted, ran
cid elec-margarine? Alas! if experience
can be relied on, we fear not. Priscilla
is joined to her saleratus and frying pan;
1 e-t li-e-r alone.
An Afl'ociiouate Brother.
A couple of enterprising men, doing
the clothing business of Atlanta, are
interviwed by a customer in search of a
coat. The senior member of the firm
handles the new-comer, and soon finds
“ a first fit ” In answer to she price,
the response is,
“ Eighteen dollars.”
“ Well, sir, I like your coat very
much, but I don’t like the price.”
“Well, mine frent, ze price is noth
ing,"so you like ze coat. We let you
lake’em at fitteen dollars.”
The customer still complains of the
price, saying that fifteen dollars was too
much. This was too heavy for the
dealer, so, taking his c stonier to the
extreme end of the store, and drawing
him into a dark corner, he whispers in
his ear :
“ Mine frent, I let you have zat coat
for twelve dollars and a half.”
“ Well, sir,” said the customer, “I
like your coat very much, and am satis
fied with the price, yet I would like to
to know why this mysterious perform
ance ?”
“ V r oll, mine front, you see dot leetle
man dare, he was mine broder. He
got ze heart disease, and, so help me
gracious ! if he was to hear me tell you
I’ll take twelve dollars and a half for
zat coat, he drop ded mit his track.”
Fife.
It was a sad cynic who said that
youth passes its time in wishing that it
could, and age regretting that it didn’t.
But it is true that all through the first
half of our lives we ..re thiuking what
we will do when once we get fairly
started, and we go on pleasibg ourselves
wiih these dreams until, all of a sudden,
we wake up to the fact that we have
begun to go down the hill, and that
now the time to hope and plan is past,
and the time to remember and regret
•has come. We often hear of the iron
ies of life. The saddest irony is its
brevity—our days are but a span, our
life is but “ a sleep and a forgetting.”
If it were possible to realize in the be
ginning that threescore years and ten
are not a hundred, and to say to our
selves calmly, “ Such and such things
are, in so brief space unattainable—let
us content ourselves with striving for
what we can reasonably hope to win,”
we might live our short span more ra
tionally ; then would the rich man begin
in season to dispense and enjoy his
riches, remembering that out of his life
he can carry nothing with him—then
would the philanthropist limit his
schemes to his possibilities; then, above
all, would those who love each other be
ware that they gave no space to estrange
ment or faultfinding, since our life of so
few days is all too brief for hi terness.
A Banks county girl says the rea
son the hoys are ‘kicked’ so often by tho
girls is because so many of them have
kicked’ out of the plow handles, laid by
the shovel and the hoe, and are trying
to make inferior doctors, lawyers,prcach- '
hers and school teachers, and others sit
under shade trees in lordly style and I
squirt tobacco juice freely,but absolute- <
ly do nothing usful. Go to work bon- <
estly says this irate maiden, and you i
will not only have no cause to complain 1
of being ‘kicked,’ but many find wor- i
thy wives who will make you helpmeets t
for your benefit and who will seek to ‘
make you happy. ,
The monthly report from the Treas- j
ury Department shows that during July
of the present year the total importa- <
tions into this country of foreign com
modities amounted in value to $42,425,-
412, the importation for the same month
in 1874 amounting to $48,458,618 ]
The domestic exports for July amount- i
ed to $47,820,125, being nearlys3,ooo,- .
000 in excess of those of the correspon- <
ding month last year. Of these exports
however,there was this year $6,312,611
in specie and bullion, against $3,777, i
366 in 1874.
VOL. VI. —NO. n.
Ashamed (o Swear Alone.
by that the most blasphemous
' ™ ths ar e always in a crowd f The pro
l fane swearer would not dare to go into
his private chamber and utter those hor
i rid imprecations. No, no, he wants
. them to be heard and laughed at. It is
the greatest of cowardice to swear in o>
, crowd ; what you would not do in se
cret. “I will give you ten dollars,”
said a man to a profane swearer, “if
you will go into the village graveyard
at 12 o clock to-night, and swear tho
same oaths you have just uttered, when
you are alone with God.” “ Agreed,”
said the man, “ au easy way to make ten
dollars. “ Wei), come to-morrow and
say you have done it, and the money is
yours. ’ The time passed on ; midnight
came. The mau went into the grave
yard. It was a night of great darkness.
As he entered the graveyard not a sound
was heard ’ all was still as death Then
came the gentleman’s words to his mind
with power—“ Alone with God !" rang
in his ears Afraid to take another step
he fell down on his knees and cried,
’* God be merciful to me a sinner.”
—►
Where does the sin of intemperance
begin . At what point does guilt origi..
nate ? What amount of liking for strong
drink is necessary in order to its
deservedly called an appetite? No an
swer can be given that can satisfy the
tender conscience, or guide in safety tho
conscience that is weak ; no answer suf
ficiently explicit to mark the poiut of
danger, and to arrest the drinker before
that point is reached. Tilt further one
advances along the line the speed be
comes increasingly accelerated, for it is
a downward progress, aud in tho case of
many who stop far short of the lowest
depths, the habitual use of strong drink
entails a weakening of moral strength
and a waste of mental power, which
from their gradual insidious develop
ment are never fully realized. The
Te> minus ad quo , let us again remark is
absolute sobriety, and the Terminus a,l
quern is confirmed intemperance. Tho
path at the outset is pleasant and tempt
ing but there are no waymarks whereby
your exact position tnay at any time bo
determined; and the wilderness be
comes more wide, the path more strange
ly fasciuating, and the way back more
encompassed with difficulty the farther
you proceed.— From Prize Essay, lu
Rev. James Smith.
Tlie First Finger Ring.
An amusing myth is told of the ori
gin of the finger ring. When Jove re
leased _ Prometheus from the bonds
by which he had been confined, he
condemned him, as a sort of penance—
pernaps somewhat after the fashion of a
modern ticket*of leave—to wear upon
his fingei, as a ring, a link of the iron
chain that had bound him to the Cau
casian rock itself. In this way, so tho
fable goes, the custom of the finger ring
originated. Ihere is every reason to
believe that this use of the engraved
stone began with the Greeks, and from
them was copied by their servile imitators
the Romans. It is every way u conven
ient and natural one and our grandfath
ers custom of wearing their seals at tho
iob, as it was called or hanging from the
side pocket, was a recurrence to old As
syrian usages, which did long hold its
ground
—
Calling The Roll in Heaven.
An incident is related by a chaplain
who was in the army during one of our
hard fought battles :
Ihirhospitals had been filling up fasfc
as the wounded men had been brought
to the rear. Among them was a young
man mortally wounded and unable to
speak. It was midnight, and many a
.oved one from our homes lay sleeping
ou the battle field—that sleep tha*t
knows no waking until Jesus shall call
them.
The surgeons hastened to his side
and asked what he wanted. “
said he, “ they are calling the roll °in
Heaven, and I was answering to my
name.” He turned his head and was
gone—gone to join the great army
whose uniform is washed white with
the blood of the Lamb.
Reader, in the great roll call of eter
uity your name will be heard, can your
answer “here?” Are you one of the
so diets of Christ, the great captain of
salvation ?
— . —
Not Used to Kindness.— ] s this
the post office ?” inquired a stranger
the other day as he approached the
stamp clerk s window. “It j s / Waa
the reply “ And you have stamps
here? “ Yes sir ” Will you please
be so kind as to sell me one ?” “I will "
“ I m very sjrry to have to bother you ”
continued the stranger while the clerk
was tearing off the stamp, “ but I want
to send a letter and I hope you will ex
y Tb .*V' f the
clerk. les, I believe it is all rn-ht,”
sa.d thegranger. “ I’m a thousand
times obliged for jour courtesy,and now
L want to beg one more favor P-m T
mail this Jctter here?” “Why of course.”
Can I . Ilr-re give me your hand
young man! I've lived around ani
about for forty years, and I’ve seen Hrd
tunes. lam t used to this sort
ness, and it goes right to my Jeart!”
And it couldn’t be said th/v be was
drunk.
. A f °nd parent whqbought a cow for
summer to anticipation of
the delight that the product would
cause his little daughter, was somewhat
chagrined w?*n Miss Pert, looking
upon a pane of nectar, exclaimed : “ Olf
the horrid yellow scum, it isn’t half so
good as the nice blue milk we get in
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