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CALHOUN WEEKLY TIMES. BY D. B. FREEMAN. CALHOUN TIMES Office: Wall St., Southwest of Court House. Rates of Subscription* One Year......... f $2.00 Six .Months 1.00 Tea copies one year 15 00 Rates of Advertising, ggff" For each square of ten lines or less for the first insertion, sl, and for each sub sequent insertion, fifty cents. No.Sq’rs | 1 .Mo. | 3 Mos. | 6 Moe I 1 year. Two $4.00 $7.00 "| $12.00 S2OOO Four “ 6.00 10.00 | 18.00 35.00 [column 9.00 15.00 25.00 40.00 l “ 15.00 25.00 40.00 65.00 1 25.00 40 00 65.00 1 15.00 Ten lines of solid brevier, or its equivalent in space, make a square. Rates of Legal Advertising. 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I>UFE WAbDO a liOitNTON, \ Li. D. S. DENTIST. Office over Geo. W. Wells & Co.’s Agricul tural Warehouse. Y H. AfiTHUB, U o DEALER IN Q ENERA.L MERCHANDISE, RAILROAD STREET, Calhoun , Ca. JJ K. MAIN, M. D, PRACTICING PHYSICIAN, Having permanently located in Calhoun, offers hi 3 professional services to the pub lic. Will attend all calls when not profes sionally engaged. Office at the Calhoun Hotel. J. ~\V. MARSHALL, RAILROAD ST., OLD STAND OF A. W BALLEW. ceps constantly on hand a superior stock of Family & Fancy Groceries, Vlso a fine assortment of Saddles, Bridles, itaple Hardware, &c, to which especial af oul ion is called. Everything in my line :old at prices that absolutely defy competi tion. T. Ti/JLm E3LLX3ST LIVERY ft SALK STABLE. Good Saddle and Baggy Horses and New Vehicles. Horses and mules for pale. Stock fed and cared for. Charges will be reasonable. Will py the cash for corn in the ear and Todder in the bundle. febu-tf. AGENTS WANTED for the CENTENNIAL GAZETTEER UNITED STATES. A book for every American. Sells every where at sight. Farmers, Teachers, Siu lents, Lawyers, Merchants. (School Direc tors, Manufacturers, Mechanics, (Shippers, Salesmen, men oflearning, and men wtio can only read, old and young, ail want it for everyday reference and use. (Shows the grand result of the FIRST 100 YEARSt&REPUBLIC Everybody buys it, and Agents make from SIOO to .v .00 a month Send for circular Address J. 0. McOURDY & CO., Publish er", Philadelphia, Pa.; Cincinnati, Ohio; Chicago, 111.; or Si. Louis, Mo. apr27-26t. "ARTIN MEMKO. JOSEPH MENKO. W. W. lilasingame, WITH * M. Menko & Bro., Wholesale and Retail Dealers in CLOTHING, DRY GOODS, AND Furnishing Goods, Ao. 25 Whitehall Street, Two Doors from Alabama, ATLANTA, GA. Liberal inducements offered merchants. sep29-lm. ,-ob Printing neatly and cheaply ex ecuted at thia office. 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. - 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. -a-*-*— 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 Boston/ 7