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WHY SHE DID NOT 00.
Many shook their heads prophetically
at Harry Mcßride’s wedding, declaring
that Mina was entirely too young and
trifling for their bachelor friend; but
the first twelve months of their married
life parsed away without a cloud to dim
the brightness of their horizon ; and
so the many who had censured his
choice at first began to look upon the
fair girl with approbation, as she had
proven herself as worthy as they could
have desired.
But “ Fair weather doss not last for
ever, either by land or sea,” and so a
sma.l cloud appeared, when least ex
pected, which for a while threatened to
overshadow the happiness of both.
One morning at breakfast Mina an
nounced her intention of spending the
season at Newport.
“ I am very sorry, my dear, but it
will be impossible,” said Harry kindly.
“ I don’t see why,” pouted the little
lady; you never denied me anything
before, and I have made my arrange
ments to go with Mrs. Winterville and
party, and I can’t 4 back out ” very well
now,” and she gazed at her husband so
reproachfully out of her bronze brown
eyes, that he would have given most
anything to have been able to gratify
her whim. He did not answer for a
moment, and Mina sat tapping her foot
imr atiently.
“ It grieves me beyond expression to
refuse you, darling; but I have been
very unfortunate in business lately, al
though I have not mentioned it before
for fear of worrying you; and were I
to grant your request it would greatly
embarrass me, and I should not be able
to meet my expenseshe said at last
“Oh, pshaw !” exclaimed his wife
pettishly. “ Mrs. Winterville says her
husband made all sorts of excuses, and
declared she would break him up, etc.,
but that onlv made her the more deter*
mined, and she just purchased anv
number of beautiful things, and had
the bills sent in , and she says it’s a
fashion that you men have of trying to
get out of anything.”
Harry vas pained and surprised at
her wilfulness, of which she had never
made an exhibition before; “ but I
guess she will give up the idea after
thinking it over,” he thought as he
wended his way up the street. When
he returned at noon he found her as
firm in her resolve to go as ever, and
was wounded grievously by her selfish
ness. In ihe first place she was too
careless to secure the full importance of
her husband’s words ; in the second she
considered it an act of weakness to give
up her plans for any excuse of his, aud
so the cloud grew bigger, and Harry
went back to the store with a frown on
his fine thoughtful face, and a sorrow
that weighed like lead upon his heart.
Mrs. Mcßride immediately began
preparations on an extensive scale, and
it was quite evident that she did not
want to be “ out done ” by Mrs. Win*
terville, in the matter of apparel.
The day for thoir departure was set
as early as possible, in order to secure
comfortable quarters for the summer,
and Mina was as busy as a bee till the
appointed time arrived ; and she
already dressed in her pretty traveling
suit.
Harry knew that she was intending
to leave that afternoon, but had said no
adieu, nor offered to escort her to the
depot.; which, indifferent as she ap
peared, wounded the little wife’s feel
ings considerably.
“ He has been the dearest, kindest
husband in the world,” her brewn eyes
filling with tears at this sudden cold
ness, when she saw so many tokens of
his love scattered throughout the house ;
here a handsomely bourd volume, which
she valued highly, and which they had
read together in the old courting days;
there a choice gem of art that he had
obtained at great trouble and expense,
because she expressed a wish to have
it. There stood the beautiful rosewood
piano, so si’ent for weeks, she having
no time to sing or play for Harry ; al
though she knew he missed the music
of which he was so passionately fond,
but she excused this little neglect of
her husband’s pleasure by declaring that
she was too tired to sing, and did not
feel like playing, and that he need not
expect her to amuse him as she did be
fore they were married.
So Harry began to spend his evenings
away up street, finding the club or a
friend’s parlor more pleasant than his
own home.
All this come to Mina’s mind as she
stood before the mirror arranging her
hat, the carriage being at the gate wait
ing for her.
But somehow she could not fix it to
suit h r, her fingers trembled so, and
she thought how lonely the house would
seem to Harry when he came home
weary and careworn that night. At the
very last moment, she revo ved ii- her
mind the propriety of the step she was
about taking. She acknowledged that
as long as she had done her duty, he
had always done his; that as long as
she had made herself and home agrees
able, he had never forsaken it for the
society of strangers. Then she pictured
the little table for one alone, and Harry
coming in silent and gloomy, with no
one to speak to but old black Hannah,
the maid of all work ; and her woman’s
heart began to grow very humble.
“Just as Lief !”—Shortly after the
dinner bell rang, he came up the walk,
laid dovn upon the steps and put his
head in at the dining room door :
“Mizz —, mother says won’t you give
her a good plate full of your nice soup
for dinner, and lend me your little tin
bucket to fetch it home in and she’s
not feeling powerful well any how to
day ?”
“ Bud, please go back and ask your
CALHOUN, GA., WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 13, 1875.
ma if she wants her soup highly seasoned
and crackers broken up in it, and celery
salt shook in, and a silver spoon with her
full name engraved on it thrown in V* re
plied the lady of the house.
“Bud” left in double-quick time, and
soon he was back in position :
“Mizz—, mother says she believes,as if
taint much trouble to you, she’d just
as lief as not !”
The old lady got the soup in the tin
bucket unseasoned with further sarcasm.
Our Young 3len.
Labor is not disgraceful; honest in
dustry has always been honorable, and
rarely lost its reward. Yes even in the
South, wher* prejudice and ignorance
have seconded the libellers of our good
name, by making the vain popinjay ex
ception the pretext for scandalizing the
sentiment of an entire people, the very
men who are ever prating of ihe foolish
pride ofthe Southern youth,are trumpet
ing, in and out of season,that they were
the “ architects of their own fortunes.”
The very demand they make upon the
good opinion of society, the very eager
ness they display in declaring themselves
“ self-made men,” prove the falsity of
the charge, and that it is the malevo
lence of a small ambition which can only
magnify itself by the leveling process.
Men do not seek dishonor, nor publish
their own disgrace. They know that
labor is honored by us, and jvould only
claim a little more than their own
share.
No, young men ! be not discouraged
by these censorious croakers, who, to
overwhelm you with their importance,
would dishearten you by parading the
imaginary difficulties which they sur
mounted by their natural superiority in
vim and intellect!
If they, though lacking, if any faith
is to be put in their statements, your
advantages, unsustained, nay, despised
by the wealthy and refined, have been
so successful that they can speak con
tempt nously ot 41 society ,” what may you
not accomplish by prompt attention to
your business, whether it be with the
head or hands !
If then, you would make money, that
which will make for you all that the
world has to give or sell, turn a deaf
ear to the canting growlers, and go to
work. Do not, to avoid being called
“ apprentice,” or for fear of soiling
your hand3, go about begging the work
of some fourth rate chop boy; the stores
are filled with burdensome pensioners;
to distribute the patronage, labor and
pay are now divided until the one just
saves from arrest for vagrancy, and the
ether from actual starvation. If even
the negro mechanic can make from two
to four dollars per day, why should you
not with your advantages, if you con
tinue to improve them, make as much
and more in three or four years ? You
are not to go at it as if it were a self
sacrificing drudgery, which would ex
clude you from worthy associations.
You are to begin with the determinas
tion of learning thoroughly and making
yourself an honor to your calling. 4 Do
that, and your calling will honor you.
Professions do not honor men, the men
honor the professions; the law cannot
make a gentlemen of the blackguard or
blackleg, nor medicine a physician of a
fool, nor tae ministry-a saint of a rascal.
Be not deceived with the hope that
some special dispensation of Providence
will vacate a soft place for you, or mir
aculously open some genteel enterprise
peculiarly suited to your taste and habits,
while you are lounging about the street
practicing “ gush,” and learning the
ropes of the “ red curtains ” Silly
girls, whose company would prove a tax
to any man of sense, may admire, they
may be effected by the story of hard
times, and touched by the delicate soft*
ness of your bleached hands and taper
ing fingers ; but, as sure as you live,the
woman worth having had rather greet
you as an enterprising, intelligent,thriv
ing mechanic, with heart to love, brains
to think, hands to work and the means
in the pocket to make the fireside ever
pleasant and attractive.
Do not depend on marrying a fortune;
they are very scarce, aud not always de
sirable; nine out of ten are deceived in
such alliances. On the other hand, do
not go it blind, and marry just because
you love ; love cannot live on kisses ;
its mateiial nature has more to do with
its existence than you imagine ; it re
quires something besides lip diet
Make up your minds, then, at once —
learn how to work. —Savannah Adver
tiser.
Washington's Communion.
Major Popharn, an officer of the revo
lution, wrote a letter in,which he says :
“ It was my good fortune to have at
tended St. Paul’s church in this city,
with the General, during the whole pe
riod of his residence in New York, as
President of the United States. The
pew of Chief Justice Morris was Dext
to that of the President, close to where
I constantly sat in Judge Morris pew ;
and I am confident as a memory labor
ing under the pressure of four-score
years and seven can make me, that the
President had more than once —I be
litve I may say often —attended at the
sacramental table, at which I had the
privilege and happiness to kneel with
him. And lam aided in my recollec
tions by my oldest daughter, who dis
tinctly recollects her grandmamma(Mr3.
Morris), often mentioning that lact with
pleasure. Indeed, lam further con
firmed in my assurances by the perfect
recollection of the President’s uniform
deportment during Divine service in
the church. The st ady seriousness of
his manner, the solemn, audible, but
subdued tone of voice in which he read
and repeated the responses, the Chris
tian humility which overspread and
adorned the native dignity of the savior
of his country, at once exhibited him a
pattern to all who had the honor of ac
cess to him. It was my good fortune,dear
Madam, to have had frequent inter
course with him. It is my pride and
beast to have seen him in various situa
tions—in the flush of victory, on the
field and in the tect, in the c.iurch and
at the altar —always himself, ever the
same.”
ObservaToas by Piaster Bonk
f^pisi^cr.
The reason why the 4th ot July is so
short is because they signed the Declar
ation of Independence all in one day. If
they had only went slow,and been three
or foui days about it, then we would
have a long null r.t the fire-works and
plenty of time to make things lively the
most of the week.
When your mother sends you to the
grocery, with a basket of eggs, in a bur
ry, and you get into a soft game of mar
bles on the way, and win a god many,
and don’t come home for two hours,
that’s forgetfulness. But your mother
don’t forget jou when you cone back.
There i3 a boy lives in the Fourth
Ward has got feet so egregious t ig that
he can’t play hopscotch, but then no
hair pin can throw him in a fair rassel
and a hard wind could blow him over
in a storm.
When you slide down on the long
banisters ofthe front hall stairs, and go
on down to the bottom so fast that it
burns you clean through your trousers,
thai/s friction.
Some Saturday when you are in the
kitchen, and the hired girl has just
shined up the knives, when she turns
her back you mustn’t dip them one at a
time into the vinegar jug, because if
you do the chemistry will turn them
bla k, and then you will have to .go
carelessly down to tne back fence to get
out of the way of some hot water or
something.
When you see a boy with a splinter
new overcoat as fits him, and is real tai
lor-made, and you haven’t got any over
coat yourself, and its a awful cold day,
and yuu want his’n, that’s envy. But
you can’t help it when you ain’t a Chris
tian.
Your father would never spend
twelve and: liars fora, big dictionary for
you in a hundred years, but if you was
to win one in a hard spelling mutch he
would make you study it at night until
you nearly went crazy. That’s always
the way.
When your mother is frying dough
nuts and you are hungry, it don’t make
any difference how her hair is combed,
or if it is ombed at all or not; just
tall her she looks so handsome witn her
hair done up in that way, and she will
feed you on doughnuts until you swell
up like a toad.
When a sack of peanuts ge's bursted
on a dray and spilt out on the street,and
your rockets don’t hold many be
cause they are nearly full of other
things a newspaper would be a good
thing to have, and would be useful.
Why is the world like your father ?
This is a hard conundrum, which you
might as well give up. Because the
world is round always, like a ball; but
your father is round only on Saturday
afternoon, early just when you don't
want him, and when the circus in the
stable has just only commenced.—Lou
isville Courier-Journal.
How to tell a Lady.
Two ladies may get into a street car,
and although we never saw either of
them before, we shall select you the
true lady. She does not titter when a
gentlemen, handing up her fare, knocks
off his hat or pitches it away over his
nose ; nor does she receive her “change,”
after this (to him) inconvenient act of
gallantry, in grim silence. She wears
no flowered brocade to be trodden under
feet, nor ball room jewelry, nor rose
tinted gloves ; but the lace frill around
her face is scrupulously fresh, and the
strings under her chin have been handled
only by dainty fingers. She makes no
parade of a watch if she wears one; nor
does she draw off her dark neatly fitting
glove, to display ostentatious rings. Still,
we notice, nestling in the straw beneath
us, such a trim little boot, not paper
soled but of anti-consumption thickness;
the bonnet upon her hand is of p'uin
straw, simply trimmed, for your true
lady never wears a dress “hat” in an
omnibus. She is quite as civil to the
poorest as to the richest person who sits
beside her, as equally regardful of their
rights. If she attracts attention, it is
by the unconscious grace ot her persen
and manner, not by the ostentation of
her dress. We are quite sorry when
she pulls the strap and disappears.
Andrew Johnson's Estate.
The Knoxville (Tenn.)Chronic'e says:
“ From those conversant with ex-
President Johnson’s private affairs we
learn that it is not known as yet that he
made a will previous to his death, or
rather that any such document is now in
existence. It is believed that he wrete
more than one, but it does not appear
that any one of them is in force. It is
known that he incurred a heavy loss
from the failure of Jay Cook,anJ it is
probable that this change in his estate
was made previous to that time,and it is
probable that he never made a will after
wards. owing to the uncertainty as to
what his actual losses would be. those
who have the custody af the property
and papers know nothing of the existence
of an insurance policy cn Mr. John
son’s estate is not large, yet sufficient to
keep his surviving family above want. —
His manner of living was simple and
economical, and his family, no doubt
learned the same lesson from him that
he practiced all through life.
Ten Jliisutes to Live,
On board an English steamer, a little
ragged boy, about nine years old, was
discovered the fourth day out from Liv
erpool to New York, and carried before
the first mate, whose duty it was to deal
with such cases.
When questioned as to his object in
being stowed away, and who brought
him on board.the boy, who had a blight
sunny face, and eyes that looked like
the very mirror of truth, replied that
his step-father did it because he could
not afford to Leap him. and was not able
to pay his passage t-q, Halifax, where he
had an aunt who was well off, and to
whose home be was going.
The mate did not believe the story
in spite ofthe winning faee and truth
ful accents of the boy. He had seen
too much of the stowaways to be de
ceived by them, be said ; and it was his
firm conviction the b>>y had been
brought on board and provided with
food by some of the sailors. The fellow
was very roughly handled in conse
quence.
Pay by day be was questioned and
requestioned, but with the same result,
tie did not know a sailor on board, and
Im lather alone had secreted him there
arid gave him the food he ate.
At last the mate,wearied by the boy’s
persistence in she same story, and per
haps a little anxious to inculpate the
sailors, seised him one day, and drag
ging him to the foredeck, toM him that
unless he told the truth in ten minutes
from that time. he would hang him
from the yardarm. He then made him
sit down under it on the deck. All
around him were the passengers and
sailors of the mid-day watch, and in
front of him stood the inexorable mate
with his chronometer in his hand and
the officers ofthe ship by his side.
It was the finest sight, said our in
formant, that I ever beheld, to see the
pale, proud, sorrowful face of that noble
boy, his head erect, his beautiful eyes
bright through the tears that suffused
them When eight minutes had fled,
the mate told him he had but two min
utes to live, and advised him to speak
the truth and save his life ; but he re
marked with utmost simplicity and sin
cerity, by asking the mate if he might
pray.
The mate said nothing,but noded his
head and turned pale as a ghost, and
shook with trembling like a reed shaken
by the wind. And then aM eyes turned
upon him, the brave, noble little fellow
this poor boy whom society owned
not, and whose own step-father could
not care for him—there he knelt with
clasped hands and eyes turned up to
heaven, while he repeated audibly the
Lord’s prayer, and prayed the Lord Je
sus to take him home to Heaven.
Our informant adds that there then j
occurred a scene of Pentecost. Sobs
broke from the strong, hard hearts, as
the mate sprang forward to the boy and
clasped him, and blessed him, and told
him how sincerely he believed his story,
and how glad he was that he had been
brave enougn to face death and be will
ing to sacrifice his life for the truth of
his word.
A Itaiii in the Dead Sea.
Mr. C. A Kingsbury writes as follows,
in the Forest and Stream, of a bath in
the Dead Sea : “ Reaching at last this
most remarkable of all seas and lakes on
the globe, we prepared to take a bath,
and such a bath I can hardly ever expect
to take again. I had previously bathed
in other seas, lakes and rivers, but never
did I enjoy such a bath as this. The
specific gravity of the water is such
from its holding in solution so large
a proportion of salt (261 percent.) that
one floats upon the sea, and being a good
swimmer I at once struck out into deep
water. I soon found that I could not
only swim and float with wonderful ease
but I could actually walk in the water,
sinking only to the armpits. Discovering
this fact, I made for the shore, and
taking Dr. C., one of our party, who
could not swim, by the hand, led him
iuto the sea where the water was
many fathoms deep. At first he was
quite reluctant to follow me but he soon
gained confidence on finding there was
no danger of sinking,and he enjoyed the
novel bath as much as if he had been
an expert swimmer. Should the bather
allow the water to get into his eyes or
mouth he would suffer considerable
abatement in his enjoyment on account
of its extremely bitter and irritating
nature. No fish can live in th's sea at
certain seasons of the year. The water
was as clear as ordinary sea water, its
temperature was agreeable, and has an
oily feeling, and altogether its action on
/he surface of the body was such ns to
develop those pleasurable sensations per
taining to the sense of touch, accompa
nied by the most delightful exhilaration.
Of all the baths in the world give me a
bath in the Dead Sea.
A Great Diamond Found. —The
finding of a 150 carat diamond iu the
South Africa diggings is reported to
day. The value of the diamond dis
covered may be judged from the fact
that the great Brittish crown jewel, the
Kohinarr, weighed but 186 carats be
fore it was recut in 1851 The Orloff
diamond, the great Russian jewd,weighs
185 carats, and is as big as a pigeon’s
egg. The great Austrian diamond
weighs 139 carats, and is of an inferior
form and color, and held to be worth,
on these accounts, only 8500,000. The
biggest diamond known, is said to be
long to the Sultan of Matan, on the Is
land of Borneo, and to weigh 3G7 car
ats, and valued at 2,500.000, The
South African diamond will rank fourth
or fifth among the precious stones of the
world, and the finder can now afford to
“ lay down fie shovel cd’ de hoe.”
Wiiat You Rfa4.
A little boy was rccentlj r arraigned
at the criminal court lor stealing some
object wliieh a boy would hardly be
thought to covet. He was a bright, in
telligent child, and .awakened the inter
est of all who saw him. On question
ing him closely, it was found that he
had been a dilligent reader of the lives
of* pirates, thieves and highwaymen,and
and all manner of outlaws, and a burn
ing admiration was kindled in his breast.
In his longing to imitate them, he bad
been lead to steal, merely for the sake
ot stealing. It was a good day for him
when the law laid its hands upon him,and
taught him that the way of the trans
gressor is hard.
Boys, if you wish to grow up outlaws,
shunned, hunted down by society, make
a study of such books. The exploits of
thieves have a great fascination for
youth ; but many a lad hs been led by
them first to admire, and then to imitate
their career.
A milkman’s boy once attempted to
murder an old housekeeper, with no ap
parent motive. Ilis mind had become
so Siled with the tales of crime he had
read that he could dot rest until he had
put into practice the information he
had gained.
How much better to have the life in
fluenced by great and noble characters,
whose lives you may read. Benjamin
Franklin says that a book, by Cotton
Mather, ail tattered, gave him a, turn
for thinking so as to influence all his after
life. No doubt that little book tended
largely to make him the great man he
afterward became.
George Law read the story of a poor
boy,who from small beginnings amassed
a large fortune, and it made him restless
until he, too, could begin to lay the
foundation of a fortune. By steady,
patient industry, he became at last the
millionaire of his boyhood’s dream.
There is something higher yec than
mere money-making. Study the lives
of those who have been the benefactors
of the world, and try to imitate their
example.
Tao True I
An exchange says we are fast becom
ing a nation of schemers to live without
work !
Our boys are not learning trades, our
farmers’ sons are crowding into the cit
ies, looking for clerkships and places in
postoffices; hardly one American girl
in a thousand will do housework for
wages, however urgent the need. So
we are sending to Europe for workmen
aud buying of her artisans millions of
dollars worth that wo ought to make
ourselves.
Though our crop of rascals is heavy,
we do not grow our own hemp ; though
we are overrun with lads that need flag
ellation, we import our wiilows.
Our women (unless deceived) wcarJ
European fabrics; our men dress in
foreign clothes; the toys that amuse
our younger children have reached us
from over the sea,
Hence it is that we plunge ourselves
deeper and deeper into debt to the old
world.
We are like the farmer who hires his
neighbor’s son’s to cut his wood, feed
his stock, and run his errands, while
his sons lounge at the grog shops and
play billiards, and then wonders why,
in spite of his efforts, he sinks deeper
into debt, t il the sheriff cleans him out,
and he starts West to begin again.
We must turn over anew leaf.
Our boys and girls must be taught to
labor by learning to do it efficiently.
We must turn out fewer professionals
and more artisans as well as food grow
ers.
We must grow and fabricate two
millions per annum that we import, and
reduce the foieign debt that we have
successfully augmented, year by year.
We must qualify our boys to erect
and run factories, rolling mills, tanne
ries, machine shops, &c. ; to open and
work mines, fashion and improve imple
ments, and double the present produce
of their fathers’ farms.
So shall we stem the tide of debt
that sets steadily against our shores.and
cease to be visited and annoyed by hard
times.
Light From Cuba. —A dispatch
from Cuba lets in the first gleam of
light from that unhappy island. It
reports that the property holders of
the island, we suppose those still hold
fealty to Spain, are uniting in a pro
test against the further continuance
of hostilities, as fruitless of everything
hut mischief and ruin. They are thor
oughly wearied of the war, and though
their protest may be unheeded by the
home government, yet the moral effect
of such a movement must be decisive
in na great time. The Spanish Gov
ernment has failed with a strong back
ing of loyal property-h ilders, and may
wel! dispair when all voluntary co-oper
ation is withdrawn.
An eminent lawyer of Boston tells the
following joke : A flashily dressid young
sprig entered Ben Butler's office and
was requested by Benjamin to be seated.
The request was complied with, and the
yonug man was asked to state his bus
iness. “ Well Mr. B what would be
the first thing for me to do iu order to
learn the profession ?” Benjamin fixed
his weather eye upon the nobby-dressed
yonug man and surveyed him from his
flashy necktie to his highly polished
boots, and exclaimed : ‘ The first thing
you had better do would be to go and
roll in a barnyard.” An answer came
quickly as the suggestion in the follow
ing terse language: “If I should come and
J study two years in your office, wouldn’t
it do just as well ?”
VOL. VI.—NO. 12.
How to Make Marriage Beauii*
ini.
In tue first place, let people defer to
laws of health, oi sanity, of hereditary
soundness, let them obey restriction,con
sult wholesome seasons, respect the lim
its that have been set up by the com
mon sense of nature. M utual ignora neo
upon these points in filling marriage
with unnecessary evil, they not only
spoil the physical well- being of a fami
ly, but spoil its disposition. Let the
work in every house be reduced, by a
reduction of its ambitions, till all the
parlors, all the tables, all the clothes,ex
actly represent the current condition of
every family ; not a bracket nor a rib
bon for exaggeration, not a single room
for parade, neither sewing, washing,
eating, scouring, company giving, be
yond actual need, and all done by the
least elaborate methods- Then, in the
second place reduce to the lowest possi
ble point the disturbances which arise
from ignorance and vanity, from artifi
cial tra-ning; you simply liberate mar
riage for more effective discharge of its
spiritual purpose. The men and women
might still suspect that they were ill
mated, till life itself pronounced the
banns. Teach children that marriage
only prolongs their school hours into
the dignity of sterner discipline and
les3 perishable attainments. Warn
them against the affectation and extrav
agancies which undermine respect,
against physical errors which so sap the
will that it is humbled and enslaved by
annoyances which health and freshness
laugh at. And teach them simplicity,
make vulgar haoits and ambitions ap
pear odious to them, ply their imagina
tions with austere and noble forms,
tempt them to fall in love, first, with
spiritual beauty, whose service makes
them truly free; then they will be bet
ter prepared to discover that marriage
withholds felicity until it has been
learned.— John HWs, in O/d and JVew m
Chimneys.
Chimneys deserve a chapter to them
selves, they are so essential and so often
abused. Let them start from the cellar
bottom and run stiaight and smooth to
the very outlet. If you wish to be
exceptionally careful and correct, use
round pipe cement or earthen inclosed
by brick. When it is so well known how
often destructive fires are caused by de
fective flues, it is surprising that more
care is not taken in building chmneys.
They should pe intrusted to none but
workmen who are conscientious as well
as skilful, otherwise every brick must be
watched and every trowel full of mortar ;
for one defect ruins the whole, and fivo
minutes after the fault is committed it
can never be detected till revealed by
tne catastrophe- It the spaces between
the bricks were always filled with good
mortar, it would be better not to plaster
the inside of the flue3, as the mortar is
liable to cleave from the brick, ard,
hanging by one edge, form lodging
places for soot. As commonly built, it
is safer to plaster them within and with
out, especially without, for that can be
inspected. The style of the visible part
must depend upon the building. One
thing lay up in the recesses of your lofty
mind—a chimuey is most useful and
honorable, and you are in no account
to be ashamed of it. Don’t try to crowd
it into some out of the way corner, or
lean it off to one side to clear a cupola—
better burn up the cupola—or perch it
daintily on a slender ridge like a brick
martin box; let it go up strong, straight
and solid, asserting its right to be,
wherever it is needed, comely and
dignified and finished with an honest
stone cap. Ruins aie charming in the
right place, but a ta'tererd chimney
top on an otherwise well preserved house
is vastly more shabby than picturesque.
Gardner’s “ Homes and How to
Make Them.”
Did you ever l : e down on the top of a
mountain, whence you beheld a wide
landscape with its fields and cottages
spread in silent repose before your eyes 'i
1 n your bosom also perfect quiet reigned.
You forgot your cares, no sorrow weight
ed upon your spirits, no unpleasant re
membrance disturbed the calm, no in**
truding passion dared to break the holy
peace of your soul, and a voice within
whispered. “ Blessed were I, could
I remain forever thus !” What you then
felt was a fleeting foretaste of heaven,
which sometimes even passionate, unqui
et spirits are allowed to enjoy, in order
that they may look into themselves and
earnestly reflect how they might per
petuate this traquil and blessed state.
You ware happy because you had for
gotten yourself, because you was free
from earthly desires.
•
Wiiat Farmers Cannot Conceal.
—A poor farmer cannot conceal the fact
that he is a poor farmer. All his sur
roundings proclaim the verdict against
him—his horses, cattle.wagons, harness,
plows, fcnec3, fields, —even his wife and
children bear silent, but unmistakable
evidence against him. On the other
hand, all these things will testify favor
ably in behalf’ of the good farmer. Ev
ery passer by can read the evidence, for
and against. This fact alone ought to
stimulate every farmer to do his best,
for the sake of his character as well as
interest; fir he may rest assured that
every passer by will pronounce judg
ment according to the evidence.
A German chemist says he has made
a compound which, in the concentrated
form of a powder, possesses all the qual
ities of lager beer. One ounce of it put
into a gallon of water will produce a
beverage, that cannot be distinguished
from ordinary beer.