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BY U. B. FREEMAN.
CALHOUN TIMES
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"i’roftsssitmat & SnsinMS (Cants.
in J. KIKEIt SI SON,
* attorneys at law.
Will practice in all the Courts of thf Cher
ikee Circuit; Supreme Court ol Georgia, and
the United States District Court at Atlanta,
On. Office: Sutheast corner of the Court
House, Calhoun, Ga.
y AIN & M I I-NEK,
ATTORNEYS AT LAW,
CALHOUN, GA.
Will practice in all the Superior Courts of
of CW’-okee Ge rgia, the Supreme Court of‘
die State and the United States District and
Circuit ourts, at Atlanta.
J I>. TINSLEY,
Watch-Maker & Jeweler,
CALIIOUN , GA.
All styles of Clocks, Watches and Jewelry
neatly repaired and warranted.
DUFE WALDO IHOKNTON,
XV D. D. S.
DENTIST.
Office over Geo. W. Wells & Co.’s Agricul
tural Warehouse.
J U. ARTHUR,
DEALER IN
GENERAL MERCHANDISE,
RAILROAD STREET,
Calhoun, Ga.
II K. MAIN, M, D.
PRACTICING PHYSICIAN,
Having permanently located in Calhoun,
offers his professional services to the pub
lic. Will attend all calls when not profes
sionally engaged. Office at the Calhoun
Hotel.
T. M. EJIiLIS’ "
LIVERY & SALE STABLE.
£3l\.
Good Saddle an<l Buggy Horsey
and New Vehicles.
Rorses and mules for sale.
Stock fed and cared for.
Charges will be reasonable
WrT p.y the cash for corn in he ear and
odaer in the bundle. feb3-tL
-A.ttenti.on !
THE undersigned have located themselves
l at t>ie Mims Tan-yard, on the Love’s
bridge road, 3| miles from Calhoun, for
the purpose of carrying on
THE TANNINS BUSINESS.
' Th y are prepared to receive hides to tan
on shares, or will exchange leather or
hides. They bind themselves to prepare
bather in workmanlike -tyle
WM. HUNTER & SUN.
September 14, L s 7s.’2m.
Doaz & Barrett
FISK’S PATENT
Metaliu BURIAL CASES.
Also WOODEN CASES with it sewood
", l! - l > Will keep on hand a full range of
s tzes.
j Executor’s Sale .
E v 'rtuc of an order from the Court of
D Ordinary of Gordon county, will be sold.
u J e first Tuesday n December next, at
tll(1 Lourt Houc e door in said county, be
' Vll Hie kgal hours of sale, the tract or
P trcel of lands in said county, which said
( !j omas Scott owned at the time of h s
1 “ath, vi z ; eaßt } ia jf 0 f ’ o t. number 57, in
l ."‘ b'* l district, and 3d section, containing
- j*y acres, more or less; said land sold
j” die property of Thomas D. Scott, for the
J of his heirs and creditors. Terms,
,'ourth cash, one fourth twelve months
1 ] r date, one fourth two years after date,
111 the other fourth three years after date,
1 interest from date if not punctually
4 " > w 'th good security, and the adminis
l,nr will give bond for title until the pur
-I,lse money is paid.
B. F. MOSTELLER,
Execute r of T D scott.
T| ov3 30d—printers fees 7
►VD dlflAP 01 ’ < la y at home. Samples
tpj tON /If worth $1 free. SUdsoh &
(vtVf; o Portland, Maine.
Western & Atlantic Railroad
AND ITS CONNECTION’S.
4 4 KENNESA TV RO ITE.”
The following takes effect may 23d, 1875
NORTHWARD. No. 1.
Leave Atlanta 4.10 p.m
Arrive Cartersville 6.14 ‘‘
•* Kingston 6.42 “
“ Dalton 8.24 “
“ Chattanooga 10.25 “
No. 3
Leave Atlanta 7.0( a.m
Arrive Cartersviile 9.22 ~
44 Kingston 9.50
“ Dalton 11.54 “
Chattanooga 1.56 p.m
No. 11.
Leave Atlanta 3,30 p.m
Arrive Cartersville 7.19 “
“ Kingston 8.21 “
“ Dalton H.lB “
SOUTHWARD. No. 2.
Leave Chattanooga 4.00 p.m
Arrive Dalton 5.41
“ Kingston 728 “
“ Cartersville 8.12 “
“ Atlanta 10 15 “
No. 4.
Leave Chattanooga 5.00 a.m
Arrive Dalton 7.01 “
44 Kingston 9.07 “
“ Cartersville 9.42 “
“ Atlanta 12 06 p.m
No. 12.
Leave Dalton.... 1.00 a.m
Arrive Kingston 4.19 *•
“ Cartersville sis “
44 Atlanta 9.20 44
Pullman Palace Gars run on Nos. 1 and 2
between New Orleans and Baltimore.
Bull in an Palace Cars run on Nos. 1 and 4
between Atla ta and Nashville.
Pullman Palace Cars run on Nos. 2 and 3
bitweer 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 1o the Virginia springs
and various summer resosts will be on sale
in New Orleans, Mobile, Montgomery, Co
lumbus, Macon, Savannah, Augusta and At
laata, at greatly reduced rates, firsi of
June.
Parties desiring a whole car through to
the Virginia Springs or Baltimore, should
address the undersigned.
Parties contemplating travel should send
f>r a copy of the Kennesaw Route Gazette,
containing schedules, etc.
Ask for Tickets v ; a “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 3:80 p m
Arrive in Atlanta, at 5:45 p m
Niggt Passenger Train.
Leave Augusta at 8:15 p m
Leave Atlanta at 10:80 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 0:40 p m
Leave Macon at 6:30 a m
Arrive at Camak at 10:45 a m
Arrive at Hugusta at 2:00 p m
BERZELL4 PASSENGER TRAIN.
Leave Augusta at 4:15 p m
Leave Berzelia at 8:30 a ru
Arrive n Augusta'at 9:55 a 111
Arrive in Berzelia at 5:5(1 p ui
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 for Macon and all
points beyond.
Pullman's (First-Class) Palace deepiu
Cars on all Nigh Passenger Trains on h
Geoigia Railroad.
S. K. JOHNSON, Superintendent,
Nik erintendenCs Office Georgia and Macon
and Augusta Railroads, Augusta, Jure
29, 1874,
Awarded the Highest Medal at Vienna.
E. & H. T ANTHONY & CO.,
391 Broadway, Xew York.
(Opp. Metropolitan Hotel.)
Manufacturers, Imnorters Sc Deal
ers in
CHROKOS AND FRAMES.
Stereoscopes and Views,
Albums, Graphoscopes an suitable views,
Photographic Materials,
We are Headquarters fo ■ everything in the
way of
Stereoscopticons cud Maple
La uterus.
Being manufacturers of the
Micro- Sciontijic Lanlorn ,
Stereo-Panopticon,
l n iversify Stereoscoptieon .
Advcitiser s Ster concepticon,
A rtopticon,
Schojl Lantern, Family Lantern,
Peoples Lantern.
Each style being the best of its class in the
market.
Catalogues of Lanterns and Slides with
directions for using sent on application.
An\ enterprising man can make money
with a magic lantern.
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ence ""©a sep29-9in
Special Notice.
MISS HUDGINS can now befound at
MRS. MILLS’
FURNISHING ESTABLISHMENT,
51 Broad Street, Rome, 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 -ticks
and wraps in endless variety. Everything
necessary kept for ladies’ outfit. [eep29-7m.
CALHOUN, GA., WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 24, 1875.
TWENTY YEARS AGO.
How wondrous are the changes, Jim,
Since twenty years ago,
When gals wore woollen dresses, Jim,
And boys wore pants of tow ;
When shoss were made of calf-skin,
And socks of home-spun wool,
And children did a half-day’s work
Before the hour of school.
The gins took music lessons, Jim,
Upon the spinning wheel,
And practiced late and early, Jim,
On the spindle swift and reel;
The boys would ride bare-back to mill,
A dozen miles or so,
Aud hurry off' before ’twa: day,
Some twenty years ago.
The people rode to meeting, Jim,
In sleds instead of sleighs ;
Aud wagons rode as easy, Jim,
As buggies no v-a days ;
And oxen answered well for teams,
though now they’d be too slow,
For people lived not half so fast,
Some twenty years ago.
O, well do I remember, Jim,
That Wilson’s patent stove,
That father bought and paid for, Jim,
In cloth our gals had wove ;
And how the neighbors ondered, Jim
When we got the thi g to go !
They said ’twould burst and kill us all,
Some twenty years ago.
Yes. everything is different Jim,
From what it used to was;
For men arr always tampering, Jim,
"With God’s great natural laws ;
But what on earth we’re coming to—
Does anybody know ?
For everything has ch nged so much
Since twenty years ago.
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The Lord Will Provide.
Some time ago, there was living in.
the city of Boston a poor woman with
a number of children, who was soen
tirely destitute that she had no further
means of supplying herse'f or her linns
iiy with bread. To such a state of des
tit tion was she driven, that she was
one Sabbath day severely tempted to
take her own life. She overcame the
temptation sufficiently to attend divine
service in the house of God. it so
happened, providentially, that the sub
ject of the minister that afternoon was
the unfailing providence of God. It
was a word in season. livery sentence
of it reached the heart of the poor de
spairing woman. She resolved still to
put her trust in that God who notices
the sparrows and numbers our hairs ;
and that very afternoon help came from
an unexpected quarter.
Her iittle girl attended the Sunday
school, and while reciting her lesson,
this particular Sunday, her teacher no
ticed that her arui was badly burned.
Finding that it needed attention, aud
learning from her where her mother
lived, she went to the house at the close
of the services. There she learned
their dreadful destitution, and was looked
upc n indeed as an angel of met cy, di
rectly sent from God, while she relieved
their present necessities, and pr noised
to see them r rovided for in future.
“The biros without barn or storehouse are
fed ;
From them let us liarn to trust for our
bread ;
His saints what is fitting shall ne’er be de
nied ;
So long as ’tis written, “ The Lord will pro
vide.’ ”
Purity of Character.
Over 'he outer coat of the plum and
apricot there grows a bloom more beau
ful than the fruit itself—a soft, delicate
powder that oveispreads its rich colors.
Now if you hand over that, and it is
once gone, it is gone forever—it only
appears once. The flower that hangs
iti morning impended with dew—arr iv
ed with jewels—once shake it so that
the b eaus roll ofl.and you may sprinkle
water over it ns long as you please, yet
it can never he made again what it was
when the dew fell gently on it from
heaven.
On a frosty morning y< u may see the
pane of glass covered with 1,.m1-c t>. s.
mountains, Ink sand trees. Mended into
a beautiful fantastic pic ore Now lay
your hand upon the glass and by the
least scratch of your fio.ers. or by the
"armth of the pa in, all the delicate
tracery will be obliterated
80 there is in v nth a beauty and
purpose of i-hnrHOter, w hich when once
touched and defiled can n ver lie re
stored—a fringe more delicate than
frost work, which when torn and broken
will never be repaired When a young
lad or girl leaves the parents’ home with
the 11 • ssine of a mother’s 'ears still w> t
upon the check if early purity of char
acter be once lost, it is a loss that can
never be made up again. Such is the
consequence of crime.
Tlie Brazen Table.
The dining tables in Turkey consist
of a disk of brass, brightly polished,
upon which the meats are arranged in
porcelain dishes Thiee or lour persons
can easily be accommodated around one
of them Table linen is a luxu y ust
kiiown in the Fast i Iny eat without
table cloth or napkin, but give you, to
dry your fingers,liule squares of muslin,
fringed with gold, and closely fcseui
bling what the English called “ d'olevs,”
a precaution by no means unnecessary,
b cause you use, at ‘hese .reports, n>
knives or forks except tlnrse known to
father Adam. The various dishes suc
ceed each other rapidly ; the custom i 1
to take, with the fingers, two mouthfuls
from each dish. They consist of mor
sels of mutton, dismembered fowls, fish
dressed in oil, cucumbers iu various
fashions, balls of rice wrapped in vine
leaves, and pancake with honey, the
whole sprinkled with rose wate', slight
lv dashed with mint and aromatic herbs.
For drink there is water, sherbert. and
syrup of cherries. The meal ended, the
disk is removed and water brought for
washing the fingers. Then come coffee,
and pipes, which hosts and guest enjoy
as they recline among the cushions of a
divan.
Economy.
hi is a very homely word, and ter
ribly distasteful to many It telis of
sell denial and t ; e curtailment of useless
expenditures, rebukes the indulgence of
pet luxuries and habits ; is the synonym
of au old coat and shabby hat; is death
to fine cigars and generous wines ; dam
ages theatres, circuses and expensive
tailors and ij antau makers hugely ;
plays the vengeance with excursions to
the springs, ce ebraduns, centennial 0
otherwise; hurts the market for wood
cock, frogs and mushrooms; gives fine
jewelers and caipet mongers the dol -
drums; make magnificent turnouts an i
fancy horses an impossibility ; lowers
the price of rent by inducing bumbler
tastes; encourages home industry and
the musical hum of the house-.wife's
spinning ; puts to practical use the ac
complishments of the boarding school
misses ; in short, strips life of much of
its romance, but at the saute time it ren
tiers it more natural, truthful aud hon
orable.
How many thousands dig and delve
and stint and scrimp, aud almost starve
their families to maintain what they
fancy to be a res ectable appearance in
society, (shoddy at best) while the
wholesome application of the magical
word economy, if t did deprive them
of some show luxuries, and subtract
from the iaise grandeur of their position.
Would vet leave them comfortable aud
happy.
To illustrate the true sense of the
word, eminent statesmen aud practical
humanitarians have written many vol
uiucs, and indeed, it embraces in a nut->
shell almost the entire duty of individ>
uals, communities and nations.
To conomize means to husband and
save, that distress may be ;elieved and
th hungry fed; that the burden of tax
ation may be lifted from the shoulders
of the toiling producer ; that God’s min
isters may be maintained and uiissiona
ries sent abroad to evangelize the world;
that something may be laid up for a
rainy day or extreme old age; that the
life policy may not lapse, and helpless
wives and children to be left unprovided
for hereafter ; and lust, hut not lea.>t,
that honest debts may be duly paid,
without the wretched, and too often
fraudulent interventi n of a homestead
or bankrupt law.
This is one great lesson which should
be impressed upon the South, without
ceasing, hue upon line, precept upon
precept, here a it tie and there a little,
in business walks, in the field, the halls
ol legislation, the family, the sanctuary,
everywhere.
Economy is the only redemption of
our peonle Irom want vassaliage, aud if
rigidly persisted in, united with reason
will inevitably prove the pari ace \ for all
our ills and tro ibh s.
We have “ rung the changes ” time
and again upon this topic through the
columns of the Te’egraph. aud are “en.
listed for war” in its support Never
can we recovci from the ravages of a
conflict unparralleled in annuls< 1 nations,
or hope for material prosperity again
until wholesome economy shall pervade
au the classes of the community, and
even control the legislation and official- 1
of the country — Telegraph and Messen
ger.
A Child’s Answer.
“Fa pa, what is a defiato V” Thus
asked ittle Troup ll of” his father.
“To tell you my son, we will have
cue. Let us taik about this question:
Which is better, a cow or a horse?
Mamma aud two siMv ta will -ay the cow
is the best 1 and the rest will say the
horse is the bot. Now we will have a
and bate. Sister H. shall be judge.
So they discussed the question for
the cow and for the horse with a great
many arguments, and fi sally the judge
die id < and for the c vv,
i roupie began to understand what a
debate was. aud had become o much
interested that he insisted on having: one
more and let him be judge
Then they chose this question : |
** W hich is better,swimming or living ?’’
One advocated flying on the ground
that a poison flying through the air
would have a beaut Dd view of the earth,
its eit-ies. villages, rivers, lakes forests
and mountains
Another advocated swimming (and
t is was a knowing one, l was a
known fact that 1 roupie liked ri ht
well to pile up the nickles),on th? ground
that el! the gold aud silver that was
sunk in the sea could he brought up aiH
enjoyed it a person had the power to
swim equal to the power to walk.
Ftnaiiy the judge was called on to
decide.
A ith a serious and tender look on
his bright young face and an argument
that the side hud not thought of,Troupie
said :
“ Well, flying gets it. Because if 1
could fly, l could go strait up to God
and live with him forever.”
An exchauge puts the case very clear
iy when it says: “If the publisher of
this journal was to offer to put one of
your cards in every copy of the paper sent
cut, you would jump at the chance, for
tin U:zh half or tnree fourths of them
woui i drop out and be lost and only
the first one opening the piper would {
be likely to see the enclosed card, you
would reason that if only one in a bun
dred were preserved and examined, it
would prob ibly pay. Well, your card
handsomely inserted in the paper s that
it could no' fall out, and where it will
be const m :ly before ach reader, and be
ready for frequent and future reference,
and read by ten persons for every one
who would read the card, and v ould
cost much less than the printing of the
cards This is a hint for advertisers to
act upon.
Making Towns Attractive.
Mr. Henry C. Bowe 1 delivered a
brief, practical, and suggestive address
at the lute Vv oodstock Fair, in Connect
icut.
\\ hether our homes are in the oitv
or country jt is our duty to make them
as inviting as possible. A good school
in the neighborhood of the farm, where
the children of the farm rs around may
ie.ivn those lessons which vv li serve them
iti iuture life, is one of the most attract
ivesights ever seen. In cither vi y
or country the education of the young
iu ali ages has been considered a matter
of prime importance. This is one of
the best ways by which we can beauti*
fy our homes and make them attractive
Improve and elevate the taste and other
improvements will folio#. Ihe lecturer
goes on to say :
“ The time is coming and is not far
distau*, when the people in all these
towns aud villages will organize and go
sy-tematically and joyfully to work in
making public improvements. Those
places which move soonest will reap the
earliest and greatest renown ; for thev
will gain iu population the refined,'the
most enterprising, and wealthy, and
make permanently secure \heir prosper
ity. Beal estate will increase in value,
tuxes will decrease because of the in
creased va ue of property atid of popula
tion, and cveryb dy will bo made happi
er and better by the change. It is time
to think of ,hc improvement of your pubs
he streets aud highways. It is ttme to
think- of sidew 4ks and shade-trees
along your highways, of public parks
and fountains, of bath-houses ami boats
houses, of flowers and shrubbery, of
grading and leveling, of doing afl in
your powei to make all these beautiful
hills and valleys bud and blossom 41 s the
rose, and be more and more your pride
and joy. In this good work you must
be united, harmonious, and preserving,
and the blessed yearly investment of
time and money you will make will pay
you a dividend every day the year round
and all your life long, and thousands
will share in your investment when
y u are dead aud forgotten. Let every
man, woman and child and > something in
th’.s matter, and do P promptly. You
can tit least plant an elm or a rose-bush
every year and jou will not have lived
ntirely in vain. A single word more
under this head. I hope the time will
speedily come whcsi it will be cilicd a
punishable off nee for any man to make
the public highway a depository for all
hi- old broken carts, and stone hears,
and old rubbish from his garret and
bu'ui, fr* m cellar atgl door-vard. Such
action is harmful, demoralizing, and a
public nuisance, and : t should be most
rigidly forbidden and prevented. You
have the power thus to do, and I hope
you will have the disposition te enforce
■if. It is lir the public good that thi
should be done, and that is reason
enough And hereafter, if a man wants
a nuisance, let, him have it in his own
dour yari, where he can see it, ponder
over it. smell it every day, all b him
self. Those to ans aud villages will most
pr > per which fastest multiply, their lo
cal attractions You will all, of course,
vote for sehools.chnrches and workshops,
and this is right ; but you must march
onward beyond these points as fast as
you can with proper regard to other
duties Look out for the public iusti
tutions, arid endow them Look out for
your public street and highways, and
improve them. Make your town, your
village, and your home more and more
beautiful every year. Your heats will
be made better, aud your souls will be
richer for s>> doing
Offensive People.
If to be a good man and a successful
man is offensive to the world at large,
to be praiv dis exasperating. No great
er u ikindm -s can Ic done to any man
than to praise him much. People gen
eiaily will stand a moderate compliment
paid to a neighbor, while they are left
to qualify it, or admit as a matter of
gen. ri-s-.ty or courtesy ; but praise per
sis!, and in will ruin the reputation of any
body. There is nothing so offensive to
the average human being than persistent
laudation best'wed upon another. To
bear a man warmly praised i- sufficient
usually to make us hate him ; and i is
only necessary to have the prai.-o re
pealed often enough to ui k a us desire
to shoot him. Praise ts one of the arv
tides we w aid like to have distributed
a little—not that we want it, but the
object of it is not the best uom —if we
know ourselves Virtue is a good thing,
temperance is a good thing, gutius is
not a bud thing altogether; hut no man
is to be mentioned so many as ten times
as having either of them in possession
without making his name a stench and
au offense to the nostrils of a sensitive
world. The tine wty of* getting along
well in the world is n >t to make one’s
self offensive to cue's friends by excel
lence of character and habits of life, bv
success, or by doing anything praise
worthy. Lit us strike the average as
nearly as possible. Let us be good lei*
lows rather than good men, and choke
the first man who dares asciibe to us a
single virtue. Let us all keep down
and out of sight. All tliat. we do for
ourselves, aud all that we di for man
kind, only feeds hell with
and so betrays the baseues-i of human
natuie that vve may well blush to think
that we are members of the human
race. — Dr. J. G. Holland , m Scribner.
It will certaiuly shorten your life,
Garry, it' you continue to smoke so
much.” 1 don’t know that,” replied
thr gentleman, “ there’s my father who
smokes every ble-sed da., aud now he’s
seventy yeais age.” “ Well,” was the
reply, “if he hadn’t smoked he might
have been eighty.”
Furrugut When a Boy .
Would you like to know how I was
enabled to serve my country ? It was
all owing to a resolution I formed when
I was ten years of age. My father was
sent down to New Orleans with the
little navy we tbeu had, to look after
the treason of Burr. I accompanied
him a> a cabin boy. I had some quali
ties which I thought made a man of
me. I could swear like an old sailor ;
could drink as stiff a glass of grog if
I had doubled Cape Horn, and could
suiuke like a locomotive. I was great
at cards, aud fond of gambling in every
shape. At the close of the dinner one
day, my father turned everybody out of
the cabin, au ■ said to me :
“ David, what do you mean to be V*
“ 1 mean to follow the sea.”
“ Follow the sea! Yes, be a poor,
miserable, drunken sailor before the
mast, kicked and cuffed about the world,
an i die iu some fever hospital iu a for
eign clime ”
“ No,” I said, “ I’ll tread the quarter
deck and command, as you do.”
“ No, David; no boy ever trod the
quarter dock with yicli principles as
you have, and such habits as you exhib
it. You'il have to change your whole
course of life if you ever be ouie a
man ”
My father left me and went on deck.
I was stunned by the rebuke, and over
wheltned with mortification. “ A poor,
miserable, drunken sailor before the
mast, kicked and culled about the world,
aud to die in some fever hospital !
That’s my fate is is it ? I’ll change my
life, and change it at once. I’ll never
utter another oath; I’ll never drink
another drop of intoxicating liquor ; I’ll
never gamble.” And, as God is my
witness I have kept those three vows to
this hour. — Lite of Fair a gut.
Where the Jlonej Goes.
The small profits realized by our
farmers from their agricultural opera
tions has been, and is, a subject of dis
cussion among our citizens generally.
They are aware that five thousand bale
of the staple is produced anunlly, selling
at .sixty dollars p.r bale of five hundred
pounds for £300,900; they ell admit
that their profits are small, yet they
can’t uod r.-tand where the money goes.
This is probably a tough problem fur
someone, but like other pr oblems it
can be solved. Iu company with a very
prominent gentleman of our town we
have ascertained, by actual calculation,
from tl>e books of the A. & G F. II It.
at this point some figures which will aid
materially in letting the farmers know
where a large portion of their money
goes. Between September 1,1874.and
Sep*euiber 1, 1875, the road’s agent
has delivered at this point three thou
sand barrels of flour costing, at ten dol
l its per barrel, thirty thousand dollars;
three hundred and thirtv-three thou
sand pounds or bacon averaging the
price pud lor it at 121 cents per pound,
cost £ll U 52.74 ; three hundred head
of horses and mules together, at one
hundred and twenty dollars per head
cost £30,000. Add these amounts Uk
g ther and we have $227,752.74, £72,-
347 24 with whi th to pay for their
clothing, vehicles, fertilizers, plantation
tools, blacksmithing, and other incident
al expenses naturally incurred upon a
farm.
Neatness, Boys.
Why shouldn't boys be taught to be
neat as well as girls ; also to b; indus
trious ? Why should three of four
masculines sit all the long winter evo
niug idle, whi e the weaty wife aud
mother has never a leisure moment
she can call her own ? Mothers, if you
would have jour boys strong aud self
reli.nt, and at the same time neat,
c ireful, methodical men; and your
daughters strong-nerved, healthy, and
self sustaining women—train them up
together. Teach the boys to be handy
in the house, and let the girls lend a
hei| iug hand out and ors. Both will be
t obe ter for it. The girls should work
outdoors as much as poss ble. As I
ha-e watched the wooduirn at the foot
of some large tree, the thought has
emu to me, that here u where you cel
y->ur strength and courage in mastering
eb- taeles above yourself, and iu inhaling
the fre h air of heaven. If your might
te.-t implements were the mop and
•broom, and your breathing brought no
purer ;nr to the lungs than most kitch
en- and sleeping rooms contain, you
wood be as nervous and siel ly and timid
as the majority of women are. In
summer, when I find myself getting
nervous and fidgety, I fly to the garden
and find there a sure panacea for many of
the ills that poor uiornan is heir to.
A R arnias; 1© Koys.
A certain doctor, struck with the
large number of boys under fifteen
years of age whom he observed smok
ing, was led to inquire into the effect
oi the habit had upon the general health.
He took for Lis purpose thirty-eight
boys, ag<'d from nine to fifteen, and
carefully examined them. In twenty
seven of them he discovered injurious
traces of the habit. In twenty two
there were disorder of the circulation
and digestion, palpitation of the heart,
and a mote or less unliked taste for
drink. In twelve there was frequent
bleeding of the nose; they had dis
turbed sleep; and twelve had slight
ulceration of the Mucous membrane of
the mouth, which disappeared on ceas
ing from the use of tobacco for some
and ys. The doctor treated them all for
weakness, but with little effect until the
smoking was discontinued, when health
and strength were soon restored. Now,
this is no “old woman’s tale,” as these
facts are given on the authority of the
British Medical journal.
:VGL. VI.—NO. 18,
A ( hltiegc Fable.
A pri st,seeing a pitoj of old paper oa
the ground, told his pupil to pick it up,
which he did immediately.
“ What paper is it ?” asked the
priest.
“ said the pupil, “ what oneo
enveloped some perfume, Ims been
thrown away, but yet retains the odor.”
Going farther, the priest saw a piece
of string upon the ground, and again told
; hitu to take it up.
“ What string is it ?” he asked.
” It has a strong smell of fish, oaeo
tied with it.”
“ In the beginning,” said the pries*,,
“ man was pure and without blemish,
but by frequent contact with others, he
ha has brought himself happiness or
punnishment. Il one keeps the compa
ny of good and wise people, he be
comes wise and good ; but if he con
tracts friendship with foolish and wick
ed people, misfortunes and punishments
overcome him.—As with this paper, it
continues to be fragrant from once having
enveloped perfume ; as the string has
become stinking, having once touched
the fish. In our intercourse with men
insensibly we contract good and bad
habiis from them.”
Took Him In.
John Carter,colored, was captured in
an alley north of Vine street, at 3 o’clock
yesterday morning, by Officer A. P.
Jackson. Carter had a bag in his
hand.
“ What are you doing with that
hag 7" inquired the officer.
“ I isn’t doiu’ nothing with ir,
boss.”
Jackson (making an examinlion)
—“ Ah, ha, a rooster, a fat cne, too ;
still warm ; been choked to death/'
What docs this mean sir ?”
“ V by, boss, Is jes gwine to do
market.”
** Where did you get that fowl?”
“ W ell, boss, fore dark last night I
came along dis v ay and saw dat chicken
setting mighty lonely up dar on a rock,
and, 1 said to myself, ‘‘John.if dis here
rooster sets dar when I come alosg
again, I’m guine to get him, and here
1 is, boss, wid dat rooster.”
Officer Jackson took Carter under
his wing, and waltzed away with him
to the work-house.— Nashville Ameri
' can.
t- —
A Methodist preacher traveling in
the back settlements of a Western Stale
stopped at a cabin, where an old' lady
received and treated him very kindly,
giving him a warm supper, and asking
many questions': ‘-Stranger, where
mought you be from ?” Madam, I re
side in Shelby county, Kentucky.”
“ Wall, stranger, hope no offense, but
what mought you be doing up here f ”
“ Madam. I am looking for the lost sheep
of the tribe ot Israel.” “ John,” shout
ed the old lady, “ here's a stranger all
the way from Kentucky a hunting lost
stock, and I’ll just bet my life that old
curly haired black ram that came into
our yard last week was one of hisen ”
Have you ever watched an icicle as
it formed ? You noticed how it froze,
one drop at a time, until it was a foot
long or more. If the water was clean
the icicle remained clear, and sparkled
in the sun, hut if flic water was slight
ly muddy, the icic’e looked foul, and its
beauty spoiled. Just so our characters
are forming. One little thought or feel
ing at a time adds its influence. If ev
ery thought be pure and right, the soul
will be lovely,and will sparkle with hap
piness; but if impure and wrong thero
is wretchedness.
A gentleman arrived recently at Ash
land. Oregon, from Lost River, in tho
Kslamath Lake section, with tho largest
steer ever exhibited on the Pacific
Coast. He calls it the “ Lost River
Ranger.” '1 he animal is niucteen hands
high twenty feet from tip to tip, and is
estimated to weigh, when lat live thou
sand pounds. The owner intends taking
it to California this winter, where he
will fatten it and take it to the Centen
nial.
“Veil, you see my friedt, I goes into
beeziness mit anudder Teller, und dot
udder veller vurnish de capital und I
vurnish der beeziness experience; in I
purty soon, three—four years, dot beez
iness is voundt oop, und I got der cap
ita) und dot udder veller he got der ex
perience.”
An Americanized citizen was ca’lcd
on as a witness in a case before one of
the justices lately, and when the oath
was adminisleted he raised both hands
aid said : “ 1 shall spoke nodding
what ain t drew, if ever, I hope to die
so quick as a minute!”
—
“ Anyting pile you dere ?” iuquired
one Dutchman of another.whi*e engaged
in angling. ‘ No,Dotting at all.” “Veil/'
returned the other, “ nottiug pite me
too.”
u Piety,” remarked an Arkansas
preacher to his congregation the other
day, “ does not consist in Doise.” The
Lord can see you give to the needy just
as easily oa ho can hear you pray tho
roof off.”
It is hard to say who the happiest
mau is, but the happiest woman is sho
who is called up to decide the question
as to which is the cunningest of two of
the cunningest babies that ever lived.
-OMB men noted for their meanjbare
also noted for their meanness.