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CALHOUN WEEKLY TIMES.
BY D. B. FREEMAN.
CALHOUN TIMES
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rT .1, KIKER Sb SON,
U ATTORNEYS AT LAW,
Will practice in all the Courts of the Cher
okee Circuit; Supreme Court ol Georgia, and
the United States District Court at Atlanta,
Ga. Office: Sutheast corner of tlie Court
House, Calhoun, Ga.
W AIN & MILNEK,
attorneys at law,
oaliioun, GA.
Will practice in all the Superior Courts of
of Cherokee Georgia, the Supreme Court of
the State and the United States District and
Circuit ourts, at Atlanta.
J I>. TINSLEY, ~
Watcli-Maker & Jeweler,
CALHOUN, GA.
All styles of Clocks, Watches and Jewelry
neatly repaired and warranted.
K'ufe waldo Thornton,
D. D. S.
DENTIST.
Office over Geo. W. Wells & Co.’s Agricul
tural Warehouse.
J 11. ARTHUR,
DEALER IN
0E X Ell AL MERCII ANDISE,
RAILROAD STREET,
Calhoun , Ga.
| J K. MAIN, M, I>.
PRACTICING PHYSICIAN,
Having permanently located in Calhoun,
oilers his professional services to the pub
lic. Will attend all calls when not profes
sionally engaged. Office at the Calhoun
Hotel.
T. M. 3S5Xi i XJi3:^ ,,
LIVTRY & SALK STABLE.
%-C. A52
Good Saddle and Buggy Horses
and New Vehicles.
Horses and mules for sale.
Stock fed and cared for.
Charges will be reasonable.
Will pay the cash for corn in the ear and
fodder in the bundle. febo-tf.
Attention !
riiHE undersigned have located themselves
l at the Mims Tan-yard, on the Love’s
Bridge road, 3.} miles from for
the purpose of carrying on
THE TANNING BUSINESS.
They are prepared to receive hides to tan
on shares, or will exchange leather jor
hides. They bind themselves to prepare
leather in workmanlike style.
\VM. HUNTER & SON.
September 14, 1575.’2m.
Boaz & Barrett
Are Agents for
FISK’S PATENT
METALIO BURIAL CASES.
Also WOODEN CASES with R sewood
fi lisli, Will keep on hand a full range of
sizes.
Executor’s Sale.
pY virtue of an order from the Court of
D Ordinary of Gordon county, wiil be sold
on the first Tuesday in December next, at
the Court Houce door in said county, be
tween the legal hours of sale, the tract or
Parcel of lands in said county, which sai<l
lhomas Is Scott owned at the time ot his
death, viz; east half of lot number 57, in
the 6th district and 3d section, containing
eighty acres, more or less; said land sold
lki the property of Thomas D. Scott, tor the
benefit of his heirs and creditors. Terms,
one fourth cash, one fourth twelve months
offer date, one fourth two years after elate,
and the other fourth three years after date,
wioh interest from date if not punctually
paid, with good security, and the adminis
trator will give bond for title until the pur
chase money is paid.
B. F. MOSTELLER,
Executt r of T D Scott.
nov3 30d—printer's fees 7
7'pwA WEEK guaranteed to Male and Fe
\ 7 /male Agents, in their locality. Gosts
dP ' * NOTHING to try it. Particulars
fee. 0. VICKERY & CO., Augusta Me.
Hailmul .
Western & Atlantic Railroad
AND ITS CONNECTIONS.
‘ 1 KENNESAIV HO LIE”
The following takes effect inay 23d, 1875
NORTHWARD. No. 1.
Leave Atlanta 4.10 p.m
Arrive CartersviUe 6.14 ,l
Kingston 6.42 “
“ Dalton 8.24 “
“ Chattanooga 10.25 “
No. 3
Leave Atlanta 7.00 a.m
Arrive Cartcrsviile 9.22 ~
“ Kingston 9.56
“ Dalton H.r,4
Chattanooga 1.56 p.m
No. 11.
Leave Atlanta 3,30 p.m
Arrive Cartersville 7.19 “
“ Kingston 8.21 “
“ Dalton lUB “
SOUTHWARD. No. 2.
Leave Chattanooga 4.00 p.m
Arrive Dalton 5.41 “
“ .Kingston 7 § 28 “
“ Cartersville 8.12 “
“ Atlanta 10.15 “
No. 4.
Leave Chattanooga 5.()() a.m
Arrive Dalton 7.01 “
“ Kingston 9.07 “
“ Cartersville 9.42 “
“ Atlanta 12 06 p.m
No. 12.
Leave Dalton 1.00 a.m
Arrive Kingston 4.19 *•
“ Cartersville 5.18 “
“ Atlanta 9.20 “
Pullman Palace Oars run on Nos. I and 2
between New Orleans and Baltimore.
Pullman Palace Cars run on Nos. 1 and 4
between Atlanta and Nashville.
Pullman Palace Cars run on Nos. 2 and 3
bit ween Louisville and Atlanta.
No change of cars between New Or
leans, Mobile, Montgomery, Atlanta and
Baltimore, and only one change to New
York.
Passengers leaving Atlanta at 4.10 r. m.,
arrive in New York the second afternoon
thereafter at 4.00.
Excursion tickets to the Virginia springs
and various summer resorts will be on sale
in New Orleans, Mobile, Montgomery, Co
lumbus, Macon, Savannah, Augusta and At
lanta, at greatly reduced rates, first of
June.
Parties desiring a whole car through to
the Virginia Springs or Baltimore, should
address the undersigned.
Parties contemplating travel should send
for a copy of the Kennesaw Route Gazette,
containing schedules, etc.
Ask for Tickets via “ Kennesaw
Route.”
B. W. WRENN,
G. P. & T. A., Atlanta, Ga.
Change of Schedule.
ON THE GEORGIA AND MACON AND
AUGUSTA RAILROADS.
ON AND AFTER SUNDAY, JUNE 28th,
1874, the Passenger Trains on the Georgia
and Macon and Augusta Railroads will run
as follows :
GEORGIA RAILROAD.
Day Passenger Train Will
Leave Augusta at 8:45 a m
Leave Atlanta at 7:00 a m
Arrive in Augusta at 3:30 p in
Arrive in Atlanta at 5:45 p m
Niggt Passenger Train.
Leave Augusta at 8:15 p m
Leave Atlanta at 10:30 p m
Arrive in Augusta at 8:15 a m
Arrive in Atlanta at 6:22 a m
MACON AND AUGUSTA RAILROAD.
Macon Passenger Train.
Leave Augusta at 0n...10:45 a m
Leave Camak at 2:15 p m
Arrive at Macon at 6:40 p m
Leave Macon at 6:30 a m
Arrive at Camak at 10:45 a m
Arrive at Augusta at ~..2:00 p m
BERZELL4 PASSENGER TRAIN.
Leave Augusta at 4;15 p m
Leave Bcrzelia at 8:30 a m
Arrive in Augusta at 9:55 a m
Arrive in Bcrzelia at 5:50 p m
Passengers from Athens, Washington, At
lanta, or any point on the Georgia Rail
road and Branches, by taking the Day Pas
senger Train, will make close connection
at Camak with trains fo*- Macon and all
points beyond.
Pullman's (First-Class) Palace sleepin
Cars on all Night Passenger Trains on h
Georgia Railroad.
S. K. JOHNSON, Superintendent.
Superintendent's Office Georgia and Macon
and Augusta Railroads, Augusta, Jure
29, 1874,
Awarded the Highest Medal at Vienna.
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51)I Broadway, New York.
(Opp. Metropolitan Hotel.)
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Being manufacturers of the
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out this advertisement for refer
ence sep29~9m
Special Notice.
MISS IIUDGINS can now befound at
MRS. MILLS’
FURNISHING ESTABLISHMENT,
51 Broad Street, Rome, Ga., where she is
prepared to do Mantua making and tutting
in all its branches. Call and see.
Mrs. Mills is receiving a full stock of
millinery and fancy notions, latest stjles
felt, straw ud velvet hats, cloaks, sacks
and wraps in endless variety. Everything
necessary kept for ladies’ outfit, [sep‘29 *m.
CALHOUN, GA., WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 10, 1875.
BEFORE THE LEAVES FALL.
1 wonder if oak and maple,
Willow and elm and all,
Are stirred at heart by tho coming
Of the day their leaves must fall,
Do they think of tiie yellow whirlwind
Or of the.crimson spray.
That shall be when chill November
Beais all the leaves away ?
“If die we must,” the leaflets
Seem one by one to .-ay,
“ We will wear the color of all the earth,
Until we pass away ;
No eyes shall see us falter;
And before we lay it do vn,
We’ll wear, in the sight of the earth,
The year’s most kingly crown.”
So the trees of the stately forest,
Ami the trees by the trodden way,
You are kindling into glory
This soft autumnal day,
And we who gaze remember ~
That more than all they lost,
To hearts an l trees together,
May come through ripening frost.
What the War Cost the South.
A corespondent of the New York
Evening Post, who has a turn for sta
tistics,gives some highly interesting facts
and figures conneced w th the losses of
the South sustained by the war, showing
the diminution of assessed personal prop
erty between 1860 and 1870 by reason
of the einancipa\ion of the blacks.
Alabama with two hundred and sev
enty .seven millions of personal estate
in 1860, returns but thirtv -eight mil
lions in 1870 —a decrease of two hun
dred and thirty-nine millions. Arkan
sas is reduced from one hundred and
sixteen to thirty one millions in this re
spect. Mississippi returned three hun
dred and fifty one millions in 1860,
against only fifty nine millions in 1870
—a decrease of two hundred and nine
ty two millions. South Carolina presents
even a greater difference, returning
three hundred and fifty nine millions of
assessed personalty in 1860, and eixty
four millions in 1870, being a loss of
two hundred and ninety five millions
Georgia, in 1360, returned a larger
amount of assessed personal estate tha
any other State in the Union, namely,
four hundred and thirty-eight millions.
In 1870 this total was changed to eigh
ty-three millions, a loss of three hundred
and forty-five millions. Missouri,though
a slave State, lias suffered comparative
ly little. Iler personalty, as assessed in
1860, was one hundred and thirteen
millions. In 1870 it was increased to
one hundred and thirty-seven.
Taking the aggregate estimated true
wealth of ail the slaveholding States in
1860, it presents a total of six thou
sand seven hundred and forty-six mil
lions of dollars. In 1870 the same ag
gregate falls to five thousand four hun
dred and sixty-two million, showing a
loss of twelve hundred and eighty fur
millions. The nonslaveholding States,
on the contrary, show an immense in
crease during the same period. In
1860 their aggregate estimated tiue
wealth was nine thousand three hun
dred snd forty millions, and. in 1870,
twenty four thousand three hundred
and sixty millions —being an increase
of fifteen thousand and twenty millions.
If we look at the wealth of the late
slave States in 1850, there appears a
great increase from that period to 1860
The'total in 1850 was twenty-nine hun
dred and forty-seven millions, and, in
1860, six thousand seven hundred for
ty-six millions showing an increase of
thirty-seven hundred and ninety-nine
million, or one hundred and twenty
eight per cent. Had the war not taken
place the same ratio of increase would
have fixed the wealth of the Southern
States in 1870 at fifteen thousand three
hundred and eighty-one millions, or
more than two and a quarter times what
it actually proved to be And yet. with
even all these enormous losses,the South
would now be happier and more pros
perous than at any time in her history
but for the corrupt and tyrannous rule
with which she has been cursed since
olio war. But peace has come at last,
and the next decade will show a glorious
outcome.
Evils ol‘ Gossip,
I have known a country society which
withered away all to nothing under the
dry rot of gossip only. Friendshi* s
once as firm as granite, dissolved to
jelly, and then run away to water, only
because of this; love that promised a
future as enduring as heaven, and as
stable as truth, evaporated into a morn
ing mist that turned to a day’s long
tears, only becau e of this; a father
and a son were set foot to foot with (ho
fiery breath of anger that would never
cool again between them only because
of this; and a husband and his young
wife, each straining at the hated leash,
which in the beginning had been the
golden bondage of a God-blessed love,
sat mournfully by the side of the grave
where all their love and joy lay buried,
and only because of this. I have seen
faith transformed to mean doubt, hope
give place to gr in despair and charity
take on itself the features of black ma
levolence, all because of the spe’l of
words ©f scandal, and the magic mut
terings of gossip.
Great crimes work great wrongs, and
the deeper tragedies of human life
spring from its larger passions; but
woeful and most melancholy are the
uncatalogued tragedies that issue from
gossip and detraction; most mournlul
the shipwreck often made of noble na
tures and lovely lives by the bitter winds
and dead salt waters of slander So
easy to say, yet so hard to disprove —
throwing on the innocent, and punish
ing them as guilty if unable to pluck
out the strings they never see, and to
silence words they never hear. Gossip
and slander are the deadliest and crud
est weapons man has for his brother’s
hurt. All the Year Round.
“ The Campaign.”
i M. Quad whites ;
i I think the campaign has opened. 1
am no politician myself, but I think so
i because a drunken man run against me
last night and yelled :
“ ’Rah for Thompson !”
And he had scarcely staggered out of
sight when another intoxicated individ-
I ual came running around the corner
and hoarsely inquired :
“ Where’s that reptile that called our
candidate a horse-thief?”
Late in the even ng several men halt
ed in front of my house ard thus ad
dressed me as I slumbered :
“Come down here.you old grey-head
ed heathen, and give us money to buy
powder !”
I didn’t go down and they unhinged
and cairied off my gate, and broke down
two shade-trees.
As 1 said at the start, I don’t keep
myself posted on politic , but I am con
vinced that the campaign has opened ;
(his is the way, if 1 remember rightly,
that all campaigns have been opened for
the last fifteen years.
This morning, while I was selecting
a roast at the butcher’s, a man with red
eyes and wicked face came up, slapped
me on the back, and as he twisted
aiound, so as to give me the full force
of his tan-yard breath, he remarked :
44 Gimme your hand—less holler for
Johnson.”
Ue seized my hand and shook me
arouud, and continued :
44 [ kin lick any human being that
says a word against Johnson.”
“ Who’s Johnson ?” I asked for real
ly I did not remember ever hearing or
reading of him.
44 Who’s Johnson !” he exclaimed,
gazing at me in astonishment and indig
nation; “why, he’s lived in your own
ward for ten years !”
“ I never met him.”
44 Never did ? why, he keeps the big
gest and best saloon in the ward T
44 Ah !”
He looked at me for a moment in a
puzzled way, not underfunding what
41 ah !” meant, and then he pulled off
bis coat and exclaimed :
“ See here, maybe you are going to
cut Johnson and vote for Spicer?”
“ Maybe I am.”
“ You are, eh ?” he yelled. “ You
are going to cut Johnson off the regular
ticket and vote for that long haired SpL
cer ?”
A policeman took the man away just
as he was preparing to demonstrate the
freedom of the American ballot-box,and
I got my roast and went into the groce
ry. Old Mr. Lovejov and Mr.
Bully for your tin-pan.
Arnold happened in at the same time.
I knew they differed in politics, but also
knew that both were good men,and had
been friends for twenty years.
“ Going to be a hot campaign, I
■guess,” remarked Mr. Arnold, as he
hunted for a match to light his pipe.
“ Oh, I duuno,” replied Mr. Lovejoy,
44 I think we’ll scoop you Ugh and dry
without much effort.”
“You will, eh? I’ll wager that you
are the sickest man in the country be
fore snow flits.”
“ Guess not,” said Mr. Lovejoy in a
nettled tone ; “ the people are tired of
being robbed and plundered and bur
dened and roasted at the stake, as it
were, and they are ris ng in their might
to huiTthe villainous party from power.”
“ What party do you refer to ?” de
manded Mr. Arnold.
“ You, sir,” replied Mr. Lovejoy.
“ Then,sir, you are a dotard and a
liar !” shouted Mr. Arnold.
“ 1.11 knock you down,” said Mr.
Lovejoy ; and then they struck and
kicked and fell over a barrel, and were
separated only to avow eternal enmity.
From now until the campaign is over
I shall see such sights every day. As
I come up home men will demand mon
ey of me to orink the health of this oi
that candidate ; men will seize me and
rush me into a saloon, and oblige me to
swallow some villainous drink to show
that i favor their candidate ; men will
throw brickbats at me if I come up the
back streets to avoid them If l ride
on the street car L shall hear men abuse
and malign every candidate on my par
ty ticket; if I ride ir. the omnibus I
shall hear men relate villainous lies
about every candidate on the other tick
et.
The chances are that my butcher and
grocer and tailor will fall out with me
because I don't hurrah for their candi
dates, or because l can’t see that Saun
ders is a liar, hypocrite, horse thief,
burglar, and jail-breaker, while Morton
has to wear an overcoat to hide his an
gelic wings.
During the day I shall hear all those
things down town, and when I come
home to rest, and just as I am enjoying
my first nap someone will ring my bell
and want to know if I am ou this or
that ward or city committee. In less
than half an hour someone voting on
the other ticket will heave a rock against
the door from across the street to
remind me of the error of my ways. At
midnight parties will come along and
hurrah for someone, and at daylight
the man who has been “ laying wires ”
all night will wink at me as he goe3
along home. If I take any part in this
campaign l must fold tickets and lay
plans on Sundays, remain up most of
the night, drink with every man who
asks me, treat every loafer encountered,
iie about men whose characters are
above reproach, and praise men who are
not fit to associate with heathens.
I sometimes think I won't have any
thing to do with polities.
A Man in New York says that he
sees nothing new in the way of fashion.
Ilis wife’s dresses were always “ pull
back” to him
Treating tlxe Girls.
People have noticed that one of the
handsomest young men in Burlington
has suddenly grown bald and dissipation
is attributed as the cause Ah, no ;he
went to a church sociable the other
week, took three charming girls out to
the refreshment table, let them eat ah
they wanted, and then found he had
left his pbeketbook at home, and a deaf
min tha r he had never seen before at
the cashier’s desk. The young man
with his face aflame,bent down and said
sol tly :
“ I .am ashamed to say I have no
change with ”
44 Hev?” shouted the cashier.
“ 1 regret to say,” the young man
repeated on a little louder key, 44 that f
have unfortunately come away without
any change to ’
“ Change two ?” ehiped the deaf man.
“ Oh. yes, I can chauge a five if you
want it.”
“ No,” the young man explained in a
terrible penetrating whisper, for half a
dozen people were crowding up behind
him, impatient to pay their bills and get
away, 44 1 don’t want any change, be
cause— —”
“ Oh, don’t want any change?” the
deaf man cried, gleefully. 44 Bleeged
to ye, ’bleeged to ye. ’Tain’t often we
get such generous donations. Push
over your bill.”
44 No, no,” the young man explained
“ I have no funds ”
“ Oh, yes, p'enty of fun,” the deaf
man replied, growing tired of the con
versation and noticing the long line of
people walking with money in their
hands ; 44 but I ! averi’t got time to talk
about it now. Please settle and move
on.”
“ But,” the young man gasped out “I
have no money ”
44 Go Monday?” queried the deaf
cashier. 4 ‘ I don’t care when you go.
You must pay, and let these other peo
ple come.”
44 I have no money !” the mortified
young man shouted, ready to sink into
the earth, while the people all around
him, and especially the three girls he
had treated, were giggling and chuck
ling audibly.
“Owe money!” the cashier said. —
‘ 4 Of course you do ; §3.75.”
44 1 can’t pay ”’ the youth screamed,
and by turning his pocket inside out
and yelling his poverty to the heavens
he finally made the deaf man under
stand. And then he had to shriek his
full name three times, white his ears
fairly rang with the half stifled laughter
that was breaking all around him ; and
he had to scream out where he worked,
and roar when he would pay, and he
couldn’t get the deaf man to understand
him until some of the church members
came up to see what the uproar was,
and, recognizing their young friend,
made it all right with the cashier. And
the young man went out into the night
and clubbed himself, and sheared his
looks away, until he was as bald as an
ocr or
Her First Itoisu.
You knew at once from her general
appearance, says a writer it) the Roches
tar Chronicle, and the manner in which
she smiled and ti e giggle which she
giggled, and the way.that she talked,
that this was the first time she had ever
had a beau. She was,in fact very much
excited, and like a person stricken with
the first ohock of nuuib palsy, didn’t
know exactly how to use her tongue.
The blood rushed to her lead until
there was a tremendous buzzing in her
ears, and she recognized all of her ac
quaintances, old and young, and called
them by name in a loud tone of voice,
and wore at the same time a very tri
umphant expression of countenance. It
was a moment of intense ecstacy(to her)
—a moment long looked for ever since
she got into her teens; and all the he
roes and heroines of all the dime novels
she had ever read went trooping across
her vision like a row of bees in swarm
ing time. Apples and peaches and
hollyhocks and mushrooms and pump
kins, and hedge fence, as they hung on
trees or blossomed on stalks,or grew in
the grass, or tore her new dress as she
swept by them borne almost from her
feet by an electric force—all passed as
an abeessory panorama of bliss on her
way to the circus, that glorious, grand,
never to be forgotten not nd :y of her ex
perience. Did she enjoy the shock ?
Did she remember how the elephant
stood on his hind feet? Did she follow
the flight of the unsurpassed,unrivalled,
wonderful, astonishing, most daring
bareback rider in the world, as he dived
in a doubled up way through two hoops
and alighted on the horse again right side
up ? Was the music the most delight
ful she had •„ ver heard? Of course.
But somehow these things got all mixed
up in one glori< us whirl of delight, in
one glorious faefc that she had a beau —
a nice beau in black cloth and a red
n< cktie and a stove-pipe hat, and who
smoked a cigar and bought peanuts and
candy and lemonade every time tiie man
who sold it came around and whispered
his goods so softly that the noise of the
band and the best ten year-old joke of
the clown was drovned out of hearing
’entirely. Oh how her little heart went
pit a-pat and throbbyty thr< b and bob
byty-bob on her way home that glori
ous afternoon !
A MAN who was too mean to aJver
tise land he wanted to sell put a writ
ten notice in one of the hotels the other
day. A man who was inquiring for a
sn ail farm was referred to the written
notice, when he replied : “ 1 can’t buy
land at a fair price of any man who
does his advertising in that way. He’d
steal the fence, the pump-handle, and
the barn doors before he gave up poe
session.
Slow to Judge u Town.
The Jefferson City (Mo.) Journal tells
this :
About a week ago a gentleman from
Tennessee, representing a capital of
§20.000, in search of a location in which
to engage in business, gave us a card,
and after stating his mission “West ”
isked to look at our paper. We handed
liiui the morning Journal, and to our
surprise he did not stop to read our
newsy local “pickups,” or our attractive
editorial page but turned at once to our
advertising columns, and commenced
countingour advertisers and measuring
their space.
“ Well,” said he, glancing up from
the paper, 44 is that all ?Is that the busi
ness of tiiis town 1”
44 Oh, no ” said we “there is the Trib
une with a few advertisements that don’t
appear in the Journal.”
fie then counted two additional lo
cal business advertisements in the Trib
une and again looked up with the re
mark :
“And that’s all, is it ? Why you haven’t
got near as much of a town here as I
thought you had.”
And then we explained to him that
we have a great many business men who
do not advertise.
“ They are not business men to hurt
if they don’t advertise,” was his an
swer.
We could not contradict him and we
were powerless to vindicate the 44 claims
of the city.”
He left us saying that if he had time
he would look around, but this was no
place for him.
This is one instance, and a fact.
Innocence land Obstinacy.
The other evening a Detroit joker
slipped a little pink love letter into the
pocket of a staid old citizen as they were
riding on the street car. Of course the
old citizen’s wife made a dive for his
overcoat pockets as she passed through
the hull, and when she had digested
the love letter she determined to commit
suicide. While going up stairs after
her bonnet she got mad and changed
her mind. Walking into the room
where he sat before a cheerful fire, she
exclaimed :
44 Loves you better than her own life,
eh !”
44 Who—what !” he inquired.
“And she want3 to know how that
baldheaded wife of yours gets along,
eh!”
44 I really—l can’t .”
“And she wants §SO to buy her a set
of furs, does idle ?”
“Why,Mary—-why,what are you talk
ing about ?”
“Oh ! it3 come out —I’ve got the
proofs !” she shouted, making a dash
for his hair.
The woithy wan has sworn the most
solemn oaths to his innocence ; offered
t> let hot employ a detective to shadow
him ; accounted for every hour cf his
absence during the last year, and fur
nished fifty theories in regard to letter,
and yet the wife coldiy remarks that
s'te is slaying there sole’y on the child
ren’s account. — Detroit Free Press.
Mmv liar Room Liquors arc
Made.
There may be seen daily, on Chestnut
street, says the Philadelphia Bulletin, a
man dressed in faultless apparel, with a
great diamond upon his breast,'vainly
endeavoring to outglitter the magnifi
cent solitaire on his finger. In a Ger
man university h) learned chemistry,
and not even Leibig knows it better.—
His occupation is the mixing and the
adulteration of liquors. Give him a
dozen casks of deodorized alcohol, and
the next day the whole will represent
the name of a genuine wine or a popu
lar spirit. lie enters a wholesale drug
store, bearing a large basket upon his
arm. F.ve pounds of Iceland moss is
first weighed out to him. To raw li
quors this imparts a degree of smooth
ness and oleaginousness that gives to
imitation brandy the glibness of that
which is the most matured. An astrin
gent called catechu, that would almost
close the mouth of a glass inkstand, is
next in order. A couple of ounces of
strychnine, next called for, are quickly
conveyed to the vest pocket, and a pound
of white vitriol is as silently placed in
the bottom of the basket. The oil of
cognac, the sulphuric acid and other
articles that give fire and body to the
liquid poison, are always kept in store.
The mixer buys these tilings in various
quarters. They are staples of the art.
How Coffee Came to be L'sed.
It is somewhat singular to trace the
manner in which arose the use of the
common beverage of coffee, without
which few persons in an}' half or wholly
civilized country in the world, now make
a breakfast. At the time Columbus
discovered America it had never been
known or used. It only grew in Arabia
or upper Utopia. The discovery of its
use as a bevergo is ascribed to the
Superior of a morns.ery in Arabia, who,
desirous of preventing the monks from
sleeping at their nocturnal services, made
them drink an infusion of coffee, on the
reports of shepherds, who observed that
th. ir flecks were more lively after
browsing the fruit of that plant. Its
reputation spread through the adjacent
countries, and in about 200 years it had
reached Paris. A single plant brought
there in 1714, became the parent stock
of all the French coffee plantations in
the West Indies. The Dutch intro
duced it into Java and the East Indies,
and the French and Spanish all over
South America and the West Indies.
The extent of the consumption now can
hardly be realized. The United States
alone annually consume it at the cost,
on its landing, of from $15,000,000 to
$10,000,000.
VOL. VI. —NO. IG.
I*arity oi* Character.
o\er toe outer coat of the plum and
apricot tnere grows a bloom more beau
tii’ul than the fruit itself—a soft delih
cato powder that overspreads its ric
colors. Now if you strike your hand*
over t.tat, and it is once gone.it is go no
forever —it on'y appears once.'
Ihe flowei that hangs iu tlie momimr
impearled with dew— arrayed with
jewels—once shake it so that the beads
roll off, and you may sprinkle water
it as long as you please, yet it ean
never be made again what is was when
the dew fell gently on it from heaven.
On a fiosty morning you uiay see
the pane cf glass covered with landscapes,
mountains, lakes and trees, blended into
a beautiful, fantastic picture. Now lay
your hand upon the glass, and by the
least scratch of your fingers, or by the
warmth of the palm, all the delicate tra
cery will be obliterated.
there is in youth a beauty and
purity of character, which when once
touched and defiled,can never be restored
—a fringe more delicate than frost work,
which when torn ard broken’
will never be repared, When a young
lad or grl leaves the parents’ home
with the blessings of a mother,s tears
•itill wet upon the cheek, if early puritv
of character be once lost,it is a loss that,
can never be made up again. Such i?
tlie consequence of crime.
Bo Manly.
try to keep out of a man’s way
when you are owing him anything, un
less it is a thrashing. It is bad enough
in all conscience, to be in debt, but do
not make your condition worse by grow
ing meaner under its pressure. When
you absolutely cannot pay up at the ap
pointed time, don t. make him think you
aie sick. Don t skulk about in any way
street to avoid meeting your creditor ;
don t sneak around the first corner when
you catch sight of him before he has seen
you. All such conduct is unmanly.
No doubt you are averse to standing
lace to face with a man to whom you
arc debtor, payday past, and you are a
debtor still—it is mortifying, very,
out it is only one of the natuial con
sequences of borrowing and as you have
incurred the penalty, why meet it
like a man. Face your creditor, let
him know that you neither forget the
debt nor underrate his patience with
you. Say frankly that you are verv
sorry to see him so long out of his
money and that you will pay him up
as fast and as soon as you can.
Need of Itepose.
Repose, says a writer, is the secret of
power in persons, pictures, statues, ar
cnitccture,books and nature,as if it were
a means of retaining as well as disclosing
life, and health demands a frequent
pausing to restore the balance of the
system and keep up perfect circulation.
1 he night, if spent in healthy sleep af
ter proper evening hours, reduces the
world s chaos, and we are new every
morning. \Y ho docs not know the mag
ic of a brief pause in the midst of tho
worst confusion ? A calm of five min
utes will invito back to us our vagrant
ideas and powers. So the house should
be like a hush and a lullaby in this
headlong, whirling, noisy, furious and
distracted world of the nineteenth cen>
tury —a nook apart from the thorough
fares a grot cr bower under the sky,
where the beautiful spirits of the air
will hover and dance. Its atmosphere
should be a little oriental and cheering,
as if exhaled from poppies and balsams.
All the Man She Wants.—A
good story i& told of Commodore Nntt,
who, with Rarnum’s agent,called at one
of the Reach hotels one pleasant day in
August. The little man had been hoist
ing considerable nourishment in the form
of whisky, and a few more friendly cock
tails served to put him in a jovfui con
dition. On getting into a carriage to
leave,nearly all the guests of tho house
including a large number of ladies,wort
assembled on the piazza to see him off.
How is your wife ?” said a lady as she
stepped into the carriage. “ Rully I”
said the Commodore, with classic brev
ity. “ She hasn’t got much of a '.rat ,
has she ? ’ continued the lady jokingly.
“ Radies,” said the Commodore, politely
raising his hat, “she has got all tho
man the wants, which I suspect is more
than so'ue of you can say,” and replac
ing his bathe rode off amid the roars of
tbs assembled crowd.
Aew Fangru and Matches.— After
eating dinner at one of the hotels yes
terday a man purchased a cigar at tho
office, and reaching over'into a tooth
pick glass, be pulled up one of tlie little
splinters and scratched it on the wall.
Ho tried a second, thhd, fourth and
fifth, and finally becoming discour: tied
he Called a bell boy, handed him a nickel
and said :
Here, gu’n get me some old
fashioned matches, T aint used to the-e
new tangled nations.”— Detroit Free
Press.
A \ ery gen teel appearing young man
wearing kid gloves, and carrying a
little and flexible walking stick, thought
he would have a joke with a rusty and
venerable farmer on the fair grounds.
“Hall,’ said the dandy, “ are you
one of the judges on hugs V*
“• Waal yaas, walk right up and
let me look at you,” 'said the old far
mer.
That youth was soon lost amid the
crowd, and no other judges ou swine
saw him.
A harder subject to deal with than
even an old dock of cards, is a man who
don’t advertise.