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CALHOUN WEEKLY TIMES. BY D. B. FREEMAN. CALHOUN TIMES Office: Wall St., Southwest of Court House. Kates of Subscription. Ohe Year §2.00 Six Months ...1.00 Ten copies one year 15.00 Kates of Advertising. 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. | 0 Moe I 1 year. Two ~ $4.00 £7.00 | wna Four “ 0.00 10.00 | 18.00 35.00 | column 9.00 15.00 25.00 40.00 | “ 15.00 25.00 40.00 05.00 [ “ 25.00 40-00 65.00 115.00 bor* Ten lines of solid brevier, or its equivalent in space, make a square. Kates of Legal Advertising. Sheriff’s Sales, each levy §4 00 Citation for letters of Administration and Guardianship 4 00 Application for dismission from Admin istration, Guardianship and Exec* utorship 5 00 Application for leave to sell land, one square 4 00 Each additional square 2 00 hand Sales, one square 4 00 Each additional square 3 00 Application for Homestead 2 00 Notice to Debtors and Creditors 4 00 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. E. & It. T ANTHONY & CO.. 51)I Broadway, New York. (Opp. Metropolitan Hotel.) Manufacturers, Jmporters & Deal ers in CHROMOS AND FRAMES, Stereoscopes and Views, Albums, Graphoscopes an 1 suitable views, Photographic Materials, We are Headquarters for everything in the way of Stereoscopt icons and Magic Lanterns. Being manufacturers of the Micro-Scientific Lantern, Stereo-Panopticon, University ■ Stereoscopt icon, A dveitisers Stereoscopt icon, Artopticon, Scliojl Lantern , Family Lantern, People's Lantern. Each style being the best of its class in the market. Catalogues of Lanterns and Slides with directions for using sent on application. Any enterprising man can make money with a magic lantern. 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.