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CALHOUN WEEKLY TIMES.
by and. b. freeman.
C ALHOUN TIMES
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Y J. KIKER & SON,
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 the Court
House, Calhoun. Ga.
j,Y\l\ & MI LNEII,
ATTORNEYS AT LAW,
CALHOUN, 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 .curls, at Atlanta.
J I). TINSLEY,”
Watch-Maker & Jeweler,
CALHOUN, GA.
All styles of Clocks, Watches and Jewelry
really repaired and warranted.
lIUFE WALDO IHORXTON,
V D. D. S.
DENTIST.
Office over Geo. W. Wells & Co.'s Agricul
tural Warehouse.
j H. ARTHUR,
DEALER IN
GEXERA.L MERCHANDISE,
RAILROAD STREET,
Calhoun , Ga.
IL MAIN, M, I>.
PRACTICING PHYSICIAN,
Having permanently located in Calhoun,
offers his professional services to the pub
lic. Will attend all calls when not profes
sionally encaged. Office at the Calhoun
Hotel.
*27. mTeIiIjIS’
IIIERV & SILC STABLE.
Good Saddle and Buggy Horses
and New Vehicles.
Horses and mules for sale.
Stock fed and cared for.
Charges will be reasonable.
Will p;y the cash for corn in the ear and
fodder in the bundle. febS-tf.
-Ajfctention !
TtHE undersigned have located themselves
I at the Mims Tan-yard, on the Love's
Bridge road, 8} miles from Galh uun, for
the purpose of carrying on
THE TANNING BUSINESS.
They are prepared to receive hides to tan
on shares, or will exchange leather .or
hides. They bind themselves to prepare
leather in workmanlike stvle.
WI. HUNTER A SON.
September 14, 2875.’2m.
I3oaz & Barrett
Are Agents for
FISK’S PATENT
METALIC BURIAL CASES.
Also WOODEN CASES with R sewood
f tisk, Will keep on hand a full range of
sizes.
Executor's Sale .
BY virtue of an order from the Court of
Ordinary of Gordon county, will be sold
on ti e first Tuesday in l>ecember next, at
Court Houre door in said county, be
tween the ltg-al hours of sale, the tract or
pi*reel of lands in said county, which said
Thomas B Scott owned at the time of h s
jeath, \ix; east half of lot number 57. in
the 6th district and 3d section, containing
tighty acres, more or less; said land sold
as the property of Thomas D. Scott, for the
benefit of his heirs and creditors. Terms,
one fourth cash, one fourth twelve months
after date, one fourth two years after date,
and the other fourth three years after date,
w ioh interest from date if not punctually
paid, with good security, and the adminis
trator will give bond for title until the pur
chase monev is paid.
B. F. MOSTELLER,
Execute r of T I) Scott.
nov3 30d—print er's fees 7
da J at home, h .tuples
vl toX/ worth $1 free. Stinson &
’ J ** Forland, Maine.
Railroad >rhrdutr.
Western & Atlantic Railroad
AND ITS CONNECTIONS.
‘ ‘ KEXXESA If ROUTE ”
The following takes effect mav 1875
northward. * jo.i.
Leave Atlanta 4.10 v.h
Arrive Cartersville 6.14 *•
Kingston 6.42 “
“ Dalton 5.24 “
“ Chattanooga 10.25 **
No. 3
Leave Atlanta 7.(* A . M
Arrive Carte; sviile 9.22 ~
“ Kingston 9.5 t; -<
“ Dalton 11.54 **
Chattanooga 1.56 p.m
No. 11.
Leave Atlanta 8.80 p.m
Arrive Cartersville 7.19 “
“ Kingston 41
44 Dalton _ll.]S 44
SOUTHWARD. No. 2.
Leave Chattanooga 4.00 p m
Arrive Dalton 5.41
“ Kingston 72s 44
44 Cartersville gjo 44
44 Atlanta 10.15 44
No. 4.
Leave Chattanooga sxlo a.m
Arrive Dalton 7,01 .<
44 Kingston 9,07 44
44 Cartersville 9,42
“ Atlanta 12 06 p.ra
No. 12.
Leave Dalton 1.00 A.*
Arrive Kingston 4.19 4 -
44 Cartersville 5.18 44
44 Atlanta 9.20 44
Pullman Palace Gars run on Nos. 1 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
bttweer 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 p. m.,
arrive in New Y ork 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.
Egg*. Ask for Tickets via 44 Kennesaw
Route.' 7
B. W. WRENN,
G. P. k T. A., Atlanta, Ga,
Change of Schedule.
ON THE GEORGIA AND MA IN AND
AUGUSTA RAILROADCi.
ON AND AFTER SUNDAY, JUNE 28th,
1874. the Pasenger Trains on the Georgia
and Maeon 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, 8:80 p in
Arrive in Atlanta at....*. 5:45 p m
Ntggl 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 Ailanta at 6:22 a ni
MACON AND AUGUSTA RAILROAD.
Mason Passenger Train.
Leave Augusta at 0n...10:45 a 1#
Leave Camak at 2:35 p m
Arrive at Macon at 6:40 p in
Leave Macon at _6:3G a m
Arrive at Camak at 10:45 a m
Arrive at Augusta at 2:00 p in
BERZELI.4 PASSENGER TRAIN.
Leave Augusta at 4:15 p m
Leave Berzelia at 8:30 a m
Arrive n Augusta at, s. 9:55 a m
Arrive in Berzelia 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 trams for Macon and all
points beyond. *
Pullman s (First-Class) Palace sleepin
Cars on all Night Passenger Trains on L
Geotgia Railroad.
*B. K. JOHNSON. Superintendent .
superintendent's Office Georgia and Macon
and Augusta Railroads, Augusta. Jure
29, 1874,
Awarded the Highest Medal at Vienna.
E. k H. T ANTHONY & CO.,
591 Broadway. Now York.
(Opp. Metropolitan Hotel.)
Manufacturers. Importers A Deal
ers in
CHROMOS AND FRAMES.
Stereoscopes and Views,
Albums, Graphoscopes an 1 suitable views.
Photographic Materials,
We are Headquarters fo r everything in the
way of
Stereoscopticons and Magic
Lanterns,
Being manufacturers of the
Mirro-Scientific Lantern ,
Stereo-Panopticon ,
University - Stereoscopt icon.
Advertiser s Stereoscoplicon ,
A rt opt Icon ,
School 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.
All3' enterprising man can make money
with a magic lantern.
JfcsTf'ut out this advertisement for refer
ence sep-29-9 m
Special IS otice.
MISS HUDGINS can now befound at
MBS. MILLS'
FURNISHING ESTABLISHMENT,
51 Broad Street, Borne, Ga . where she is
prepared to do Mantua making and Cutting
in all its branches. Call and see.
Mrs. Mills is receiving a full stock of
millinery and fancy notions, latest styles
felt, straw and velvet hats, cloaks *acks
and wraps in endless variety. Everything
necessary kept for ladies’ outfit. [sep29-7m.
CALHOUN. GA., WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 17, 1875*
THE WORTH OF WOMAN.
Honored be woman 1 she beams on the sight.
Graceful and lair, like a being of light ;
F -alters arouno her. wherever -he 5.. vs.
Roses of bliss o er our thorn-covered wavs;
Roses of Paradise, sent lrcm above,
To be gathered and twined in a garden of
love.
Man of passion, stormy ocean. *
Tossed by su.ges mountain high.
Count the hurricane’s commotion.
Springs at reason’s feeole cry.
Lou * the temj-est roars around him,
Louder still it roars witnin,
Flashing lights of hope confound him.
Stuns him lift’s incessant din.
Woman invites him, w : th bliss in her smile,
To eea se from his toil and be happy awhile;
W hispering wooingly— comet© my bower.
Go not in search of the phantom of powtr;
Honor and wealth arg illusory —cornel
Happiness dwells in the temples of Home.
Man, with fury stern and savage,
Persecutes his brother man,
Reckless it he bless or ravage.
Action—ac.ion—still his plan.
Now creating, now destroying,
Ceaseless wishes tear lus breast;
Ever seeking, ne’er enjoying
Still to be—but never blest.
Woman con ten din silent repose
Enjoys :n its beauty life's flower as it blows.
And w..ters and lends it with innocent heart,
Fai richer than man with his treasures of art.
And wiser by far in the circle confined
Than he with his science, and fiignts of the
mind.
Coldly to himself sufficing,
Ma_ disdains the gentler arts,
Knoweth not the bliss arising,
From the inP rvhange of hearts.
Slowly through this bosom stealing.
Flows the genial '■•urrent on
Till by age's frost congealing
L is hardened into stone.
She, like the harp that instinctively rings,
As the night breath tog zephv-i soft sighs on
the strings.
Responds on each impulse with ready reply,
B hether sorrow or plea, ure her sympathy
+ ry ;
And tear drops and smiles on her counte
nance play
Like sunshine and showers of a morning in
May.
Through the range of man's dominion.
Terror is the ruing word.
And the standard of opinion.
As the temper of the sword
Strife exults, and pity, blushing,
From the scene despairing files,
Where to battle, madly rushing.
Brother upon brother dies.
Woman commands with a milder control
She rules by enchan'ment the realm of the
soul;
As she glances around in the light of he”
smile.
The war of the pa sions is hashed for & while,
And discord content from his fuiy 10 cease,
Reposes entranced on the pillcw of peuc .
*• Sara h
Outside papers must quit publishing
ficticious items about Dtroit or s me
one wtii get hurt. \ ester day sifter no n
a woman With a black belt and a pair
of spectacles on entered tbe editorial
rooms of this paper, b and iing a Chicago
da ly in her hand, and she waited up
to a stoop'shouldered c msumptive toiler
who bad dropped in to see a New York
exchange, and grimly asked :
“ Who’s Sarah ?”
He replied he had never heard of her.
wheD she unfolded the paper and point
ed to tbe following :
“ There is an old woman in Detroit
named Sarah who has worn one pair of
stockings right straight along fur six
teen weeks ”
“ It’s a lie,” said the old lady, 44 and
you’ve <r t to take it back, or —or —or
—ni—:”
She finished by sliding her hand
along bis shoulder until the got hold of
bis necktie.
“ I havn’t nothing to do with th t,”
he gurgled, as he tried to pail away,
“ that's a Chicago paper.”
“ I know it, but it's a lie, and I can
prove it.”
“ I know you can, madam, if it was
reant for you l I don't beleive you'd
go eight weeks without changing
stockings ”
“ Nor even six l” she exclaimed.press
ing against Lis Adam's apple with her
thumb. “ tad I can prove that I change
as often as any one else.”
“ I don't think it means you,” he
said getting his left eye on the itom.
“ Yes it does,” she foamed. “ Aia’ f
my name Sarah, and ain't I oidish.tud
ain’t Ia woman ? Oh l such lies make
my bio >d bile 3”
“ Well, you v ant to go for someone
in Chicago It has nothing to do with
this paper.”
“ Haim, eh ? I know better 3 You
are ail linked in together, and I presume
you read that yesterday and lafed, snd
lafed. and lafed, and thought Sarah was
an old fool 3”
“ I never saw it before.”
“ But Sarah is no fool,’ she resumed,
towering above him. “ You just mark
this, you long eared grave stone you :
If thars another article in the papers
about Sarah you’ll never know waat
broke your neck 3”
And she iaid her fist down cn tbe ta
ble, flourished under his nose,and went
out saying :
“ S xteen weeks 3 Think of the
baseness of it ” —Detroit Free Press.
One Winston was (and probably is
now) a negro preacher in Virginia, and
bis idea;- of theology and human nature
were often very original as the foil ,-w.ug
anecdote may prove.
A gentleman thus accosted tbe old
gentleman one Sunday :
“ Wiston, I understand you believe
every woman has sevea devils. How
can you prove it ?”
u Wei , sar, did you never read in de
Bible bow seven debbles were cast out’n
Mary Magdalen ?”
Oh yes 3 I’ve read that.”
“ Did you ebber hear of ’em bmn
cast out of and odder woman, sar ? ’
“No, I never did.”
“W ell, deD, all de odder trot ’em
yet,"
Guodj Men.
Good people are bores rot truly
I good, such, for instance, as wear out
their lives in newspaper offices that oth
people m-jy be edified j but your nambly
pambly long-faced good people, who,
from some unaccountable dispensation
ot Providence, never fail to have a pro
nounced stoop in their sh- ulders and a
shambling gait. Have you observed
tb:A when the faces af an assemblage is
wreathed in smiles at some little harm
less bit of pleasantry, there is alwavs
one face which bears no smile, but ratt
er that fearful horror of expression
which must have glowed in the coucte
nrnces of tbe eariv martyrs when the
kindling wood beg-an to ignite. S leh
people are bore*, and now it shall not be
sail that Round About has attacked
goodness iu any w r ord or line. Such is
not the fact. T~ue goodness, like true
inwardness, which is much tbe same
thing, is always sure of recognition in
this world, and nowhere more readily
than iu these columns. It is not nee
essary to define a good man. Every
person whose business or pleasure has
ever carried them into the sacred pre
cincts cf an editorial room knows what
a man of that nature is. Let him tel!
his wife and thus g-ve the informal on
that genera] impetus which will lead to
its early and widespread dissemination
But tbe goody man is another man. He
looks good, but he must be taken a= re
gards looks, with due grains of allow
ance. True enough, he swings the
scalping knife of morality, or the tom
ahawk of orthodoxy with a sublimity of
unci( n which often deceives the care
less observer, but watch him when th
contribution plate comes around :
‘•what the goody man gives is nothing
to no nobody.” That's bis stumbling
bbek ; the meek face the rapid rolling
tear, the general air of solemnity are
things very easily Effected, but it re
quire genius to be able to so dispose
the crimps and folds of a twenty-five
cent piece of fractional currency as to
make it so closely resemble a five dollai
note as to blind the eyes of the bad
boys who remember “ the goodv's’
fearful groans when a gaase of base ball
was proposed on the village greeD.
Yet he does this and even more.he goes
through life under a mask, leaves be
hind him the n> Arils of the ma-ses—
who seldom thiuk—an apparent odor of
sancity ; has an elegant funeral ovation,
goes out t. the cemetery at the he-d of
a grand train of carriages, having nude
hrs way through the w?rld on a pious
face and a few judici usly applied
gr its. As to what becomes f him
then Round About is rot pre-nared to
say , as his jurisdict ion is only so exten
sive with the boundaries of the w<-rld.
Asa piece of partiotr advice: girls,don’t
marry a go >dv man ; he is the most un- j
comfort able piece of furniture to have \
ab. at the house.— Courier-Journal.
The First Priafed Bools.
It Is a remarkable and most interest
ing fact that the very first use to which
the discover, of printing was applied
was the pn daeti >n of the Bible. This
wa accomplished at Men* z between the
years 1440 and 1445. Gu ten burg was
the invent r of the art, and Faust, a
goldsmith furnished tbe necessary funds.
Hal it been a single page, or au entire
sheet, which was then produced, there
night have been less occasion to have
noticed it ; but there was s teething in
the whole character of the affair which,
ir not unprecedented, rendered it singu
lar in the usual current of human events.
The Bible was in two volumes, which
have been justly praised f r tbe strength
an and beauty of the paper, the exactness
of the register, and the lustre of the
ink. Ti e wnk cotained twelve hun
dred and eighty—two pagas, and being
the first ever printed,of* course involved,
a long period of time, snd an immense
amount ol mental and mechanical labor;
an and yet for a long time after it had been
finished and off tied for sale n t a being,
save the arthts themselves, knew how
it was accomplßhed. Of the first print
ed Bible eighteen copies are known to
be in existence, f-ur of which are print
ed on vellum. Two of these are in E g
.and, one being iu the Grenville c llec
ti: n, one in the Royal Library of Ber
bin, and one iu the Royal Librarv of
Paris. Of the f urte.n ren ainiog c pi s
ten are in England—there Ling a copy
in the libraries l Oxford, Edinburg and
London, and several in tbe collections of
different n blemen. The Tehutu copy
Las been sold as high as £1.300.
Brealiiag Down.
Men often have their bands full; are
overcrowded with business and drive
hurriedly al>ng at it, they are not over
worked. W e cannot alwavs tell when
a man is over-worked. A man dots not
always know it himself, no more than
he knows the strain on the main spring
of h.swatch that will brtak it But
tber comes a time wh&n it will break
—a click, a snap and the watch stops.
Men break down in this way They go
on, day after day, the pressure bearing
harder each successive day. until the vi
tal f>jrce gives out, and the machine
stops. It is a great pity that the indi
cations of this state of things cannot be
sccd beforehand, and if seen regarded.
It is one cf the lost things men will ad
mit to themselves, much less to others
They flatter themselves that it is ouly a
little weariness of the wbieh will
pass off with a few hours rest, when, in
fact, every nerve and p wer are exhaust
ed and the system is driven to work bv
mere force oi the will. When the oil
on the shaft, or in the oil box is exhaust
ed, every revolution of the wheel wears
the revolving part, and will soon ruin it.
The same is true of the human body.
For when it is overtaxed, every effort
wears to destroy it
1 uriou* Calculation.
Tbe simple interest of one cent, at
six per cent, per annum, from the com
mencement of the Christian era to the
c-i se of the present year. 1865, would
be but the trifling sum cf eleven dollars,
seventeer 1 cents and eight mills ; but
if the same principal, at the same rate
and time,had been allowed to accumulate
at compound interest, it woold require
tbe enormous sum of 84,840,000,000,-
000 of globes of solid gold, each equal
to the earth in magnitude, to pay the
interest ; and if the sum were equally
divided among the inhabitants of the
earth, now estimated to be one thousand
millions, every man, woman and child
would receive 84.340 golden worlds for
an inheritance. Were all these globes
placed side by side in a direct line it
would take lightning itself, that can
girdle the earth in the wink of an eye.
73,003 years to travel from end to end.
Ard if a Parrott gun were discharged
at one extremity while a man was
stationed at the other—light traveling
i92,000 miles in a second; the initial
velocity of a cannon ball being about
1.500 per second, and in this case sup
p se to continue at the saaie rate ; and
fund moving through the atmosphere
1,120 feet ia a second—he would see
the flash alter wa>ting 110,0 )0 years
the ball would reach him in 74,000,000,-
D'OO of years ; but he would not hear
the report till the end of a 1.000 000,-
000 of centmieN. Again, if all these
masses of gold were fusel into one
prodigious ball having the sun for its
center, it would reach cut into space, in
all directions, one thousand seven
hundred and thirty millions of miles,
almost reaching the orbit of Hersehel
and L ran us ; and, if tbe interest were
century, it would entirely fill up tbe
solar system, and even encroach five
hundred million of miles of the domain
of the void beyond tbe planet Neptune,
whose orbit.at the distance of two thou
sand eight hundred and fifty millions of
miles from the sun, encircles out whole
system of worlds.
A Dreaiu That Parted }laa and
WiTe.
Bundy has been married two weeks
aDd has ief* his wife. Bundy is a little
man, and his wife weighs two hundred
and id ty pounds, and was tne reiict
ot the iate Peter Potts. About ten
days ait r marriage Bundy was sur
prised on awaking in the morning, to
find his better half sitting up iu bed
crying as if her heart would breas.
Astonished, he asked the cause of her
sorrow, but receiving nc reply he began
to surmise that there must be some
secret on her mind that she with
held from him, that was the cause oi
her anguish, he remuiked to M rs.
Bundy that as they were married she
should tell him the cause of her giief.
so, if passible, he could avert it, and
aittT considerable coaxing, be elicited
the io lowing from her :
“Last night I dreamed I was single,
and as I walked through a well lighted
street 1 came to a store where a sign
in front advertised husbands for sale.
Thinking it curious, I entered, and
ranging along the wall on e ther side
where men with prices affixed to them.
Buch beautiful men ; some for sl.-
Übs, some f" r v 509, and so on to $l5O.
And as I bad not that amount 1 could
not purchase.”
Thinking to console her, B placed
his arm lovingly around her and asked :
“And did you see any man there like
me?”
“ Oh, yes, ' she replied, drawing
away from him,* 4 lots of them; they
were tied up iu bunches, like asparagus,
and sold at ten cents per bunch.”
Bundy got up and went to see his
lawyer if he had sufficient ground for a
divorce.
Newspaper Advertising;.
Newspaper advertising is now recog
r ized, by business men having faith in
their own wares, as the most effect! e
means of securing for their goods a
wide recognition of heir merits.
Newsp :per advertising compels inqui
ry, and when the srticie offered is of
p ■ and quality, and at a fair price, the
natural result is increased sales.
Newspaper adverting is a permanent
addition to the reputation of the goods
advertised, because it is always at vtork
in their iaterest
Newspaper advertising is the most en
ergetic and vigiiaut salesmen ; address
ins thousands each day. always in the
advertiser’? interest, and ceaselessly at
work seeking customers from ail classes
Newspaper advertising promotes tr.’de.
for even in the dullest times advertisers
secure y far the largest share of what
is being and >ne
While the advertiser eats and sleeps,
printers, steam engines and printing
presses are at work far him. trains bear
ing his words to 'housaodsof towns.and
hundreds of thousands of readers, all
glancing with more or less interest at
the message prepared for the”i in the
solitude of bis office. No preacher ev
er sp ke to so large an audience, or with
so little effort or so eloquently, as you
may lo with the newspaper man’s assist
ance. — Savannah Xetct.
■ ♦
A Mutual Misunderstanding.—
Two colored citizens, Saturday, bad a
little trouble on the post office corner :
*• Sir, I stigmatize you as a fabeboed
fieri” exclaimed the first.
“ And you, sir. is a canterin' hipel
crite f’ replied tht second.
** Ah 1 talk away !” growled the first.
** but my character is above disproach.”
** And your influence don’t detach
from my reputation ODe lowa 1” growled
tbe other.
And thus they psrtcd.
From the Southern R atehman.
One cf the causes of the lack of pros
perity. said a gentleman at Jackson
Court, is the fact that so many persons
are dodgiDg honest labor. They will
became book agents, map agents, insur
ance agents, lightning-rod peddlers—
anything and everything to dodge hon
est work. The result is, every man
( who is engaged in honest labor finds he
is taxed to support nine or ten idlers 3
The couotry can never prosper while
this is the case.
Our friend was right If we would
see prosperity return we must induce
everybody to go to work. There are
thousands of white people as well as De
grees. who are idle, or as well be so as
pretending to make a precarious living
by dodging labor. We have too much
and too many of everybody’ else and
not enough farmers. In this country,
farming is the true source of prosperity
—it is not only the most prosperous,
but the most useful, and, therefore, tbe
most honorable calling. Why stout,
healthy, able-bodied young men should
seek other avocations, or remain in su
pine idleness, while there is such a sure
road open to wealth.prosperity and com
parative happiness as the cultivation of
the soil offers, we cannot imagine, unless
they have been taught to believe that
labor is not only a curse, but a degrada
tion—neither of which propositions are
true —us Adam was pat to work in the
garden of Eden before he fell from hi
first estate, and our blessed Savior, while
on earth. “ wrought at his Fathers call
ing.” Man was a laborer in the nor -
mal state, and agriculture and horticul
ture was the occupation of the father of
mankind.
Circumstances Alter Cfi-es.
The other day, while a *\ icksburger
was riding toward Jackson in his bug
gy, he saw a l.tng-haired young man eit
ting on a roadside fence! 1 here was
such an air of utter desolation about
tbe countryman that the Yicksburger
drew rein and inquired :
“For God's sake 3 what ails you.
young man ?”
*• Nothing, for God’s sake 3’’ was the
meek reply.
“ But is any one dead ?’*
“Hai.’t heard of anybody hut old
Matthews, and he went off two months
ago.”
“ Are you sick ?”
“ I feel kinder Lad.”
“ Well, you look bad. In fact, you
are the worst looking man I’ve seen
since the close of the war.”
“I was all right till a month ago,”
said the young man looking still more
solemn.
44 What happened then ?”
44 Woman went back on me!”
44 L>id, eh ? were you engaged ?”
44 I'd hung around there for a year
or so, and we’d hugged and loved and
hooked fingers. If that isn't being en
gaged, then I don’t know.”
44 And she backed out?”
Yes ”
44 Well, I’ve been through the mill
myself I hud a woman go back on me
in that way three months ago, aod didn’t
lose a bit of sleep over it.”
44 You didn't ?”
“ No, sir.”
44 But then,” sighed tbe young man,
as he hitched along on the rail, 44 the
woman you loved didn’t own sixteen
mules, and have a clean hundred bales
of cotton to sell 3” —Vicksburg Herald.
I iio 11 and Strength.
A good story is told of Mrs. M., a
witty and welßknown lady of Philadel
phia. When the late war first brake out
her sympathies, althcugh undoubtedly
infavor of the union, were Dot man
ifested with quite as much show as a
great many of her neighbors, and for a
time she was spoken of as disloyal. Id
those days a person's loyalty was often
measured by the noise and show made,
and those who believed more in deeds
tr.an in words were often unpop*ular.
One morning Mrs. M. went to the
market to leave her order, and while
there bad ample opportunity to see that
display went a good ways on the road of
loyalty. Everything was received with
fi :g*. and re-chrfitened, “Union” this
and “ Uniou ” that
The butter dealer with whom she
traded, was loud in his protestations of
loyalty, and had a small flag wherever
one eou’d be displayed—a dozen or
more to each tub of butter.
44 Ah 3 good morning Mrs. M., glad
to see you. I have s .me excellent but
te? ; let me sell you some.”
14 The real union, eh?” she asked
smiling.
“ Yes, the very best of anion butter.”
44 Well, in that ease i guess I won’t
have any ”
44 What 3 why not pray ?” asked the
man in astonishment.
“ Well. I will tell you why ; in union
you say, there is strength ; that is your
loudest boast, I believe. I don’t wish
any strong butter,” and, turning, she
left the chopfallen dealer to converse
with himself awhile.
A Good story is told of a country
merchant whe agreed to take a farmer’s
oats at forty cents a bushel if the latter
would let him tramp the measure
The farmer agreed to it. The buyer
paid for sixty pushels, and the Dext day
he went after them. The farmer filled
the half bushel, and then the merchant
got in tramped them down—whereupon
the farmer poured the compressed oats
ioto the bag. Tbe merchant protested,
and demanned that the measure should
be filled up after tranq ing. The farmer
informed him that there was no agree*
ment of that sort, but that he might
tramp down the oats to his heart s con
tent after they were measured.
VOL. VI.—NO. 17.
A ( AP*Slip]iiug Hatch.
A tar-heel convent ionist k nows a thing:
or two besides making const i tut ions. He
can beat ail creation shelliog corn. The
other evening a si rolling peddler had a
I newly-paten ted com-shelier hawking it
about llaleigh, and was showing a crowd
l on street how fast it could shell,
when an old member from t ie tnountai
stepped up. dressed i'd blue jean*, and
! a c °b P‘P e bis mouth, aud said to the
1 peddler :
I can heat that thing corn
1 myself”
“ Well, sir, said the peddler, u I’ll
I g’*? you a machine for nothing if jou'il
do it.”
“ Good as wheat,” said conventboist,
and he marched over the pie for a red'
| ®ob, made a boy take it to the fire and
burn it a little, and then squaring him
seKon the sidewalk, he seized the red
cob with the regular o and plantation grip
in one hand while be he’d the ear of
corn between both ,egs wi-h the other,
ard waited for the word “Go” from a
little man in tkg crowd, who held a
watch to time them.
“Go cried the fellow, and they
went. ’
But the little peddler was so excited
in the start that his shellor got choked,
and while he was scuffling to uneboke
it, the old member coolly got up, and
pitching his half-shelled ear into the
pile, said to the peddler:
” lain t got time to shell against that
th'ng, mister it would make me slow
motioned for life, and be stepped away
lively, the crowd shouting and the ped
dier mad Raleigh Correspondence of
I kl'sburg He raid.
Ihvspcpsia.
The most universal cause of dyspepsia
5? eating too often too fast and too much.
The general rules ehoul j be :
l Eat thrice a day.
- Not an atom between meals.
3 Nothing after two o’clxk but a
a piece of cold butter and one cup of
hot drii*k.
4 Spend half an hour at least in
ing each meal.
5 Out up all meats and hard food in
pea-sized pieces.
6 Never eat enn-ug' to cause the
slightest uncomfortable sensation after
wards.
7 Never work or study hard with
in half an hour of eating.
1 he most universal and infallible in
dication that a person is becoming dys
peptic is some uncomfortable sensation
coming on uniformly after each meal,
whether it be in the stomach, throat or
anywhere else. The furmation of wind
in the stomach indicated by eructation,
belching or otherwise, demonstrates that
dyspepsia is fixing itself in the system.
I hen there is only one course to pursue,
and that is infallible: eat less and less
at each meal until no wind is generated
and do other uncomfortable sensation is
experienced in any part of the body.
No medicine ever cured confirmed dys
pepsia ; eating plain food regularly and
living out of doors industriously, will
cure most cases.— Dr. Halls Journal.
Wanted to be Eaten Ur.—Two
peasants, husband and wife, named Ilet
ty, live at Plesissur-Marne, near Paris!
They have a little boy, aged six years,
to whom they are uniformly brutal
The other day the child became weary
of life from being beaten so often, and,
descending into the court-yard, where
there was a ferocious bull dog chained,he
approached the animal resolutely, and
said :
“ Tom, do you want to eat me up ?”
The dog looked up and growled, but
did not move towa-d him.
* Tom. said the little one, {; yon
must eat me because papa beats me too
much ; and then I promise you I am
good to eat and he threw a pebble
at the dog, who, springing fiercely at the
poor little boy, threw him down and
fastened his sharp teeth iu his shonlder.
At this instant a neighbor jumped
through the window, and, driving the
ball dog away, saved tbe child.
The Fit. —The fly is an innocent
looking bug as he squats on the sleeping
baby’s face, spits on bis hands, and their
wipes them on his wings, preparatory
to taking a walk around on said face,
till the paby whoop? like a muledriver,
and the mother walks after that fly with
a rag ; then be goes and sits down on
the picture of Martha Washington an<l
shakes hands with a few dozen friends,
and Martha assumes the appearance of a
freckle school girl. The fly likes to
promenade on a man’s nose, and he
walks around into the nostrils with as
much assurance as an old tourist will
penetrate the Cave of the Winds, at
Niagara ; but his greatest recreation
is to buckle on his skates and slide back
and foith over the skat'iDg rink of a
baH-beaded man.
The Otiier Sjpe —The other <W
an engineer on the Central Branch road
had to stop his train near the junction
and pall a drunk man from the track.tbe
fellow having laid down and fallen
asleep.
“ You fool, you r* shouted the en
gineer, - c upp> se you had been run over
by the train !”
fool, you!” stammered
tne inebriate,” s’posiu’ I’d (hie) run
over yonr blamed old (hie) cars I”
A poultry raiser says : I have tried
several remedies for gapes, but have
found none so effectual as asafeetida.
lut a few grains into the watering
trough and let the chickens have no'
other water, and they will mn be trou
bled with gapes. I have found it to be a
eveutive as well as a cur.