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BY U. B. FREEMAN. CALHOUN TIMES Office: Wall St., Southwest of Court House. Rates of Subscription. One Year $2.00 Six Months 1.00 Ten copies one year 15 00 Rates 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 j 1 Mo. | 3 Mos. | b Moe I 1 year. TwtT S4JJO $7.00 $12.00 $20.00 Four “ 6.00 10.00 18.00 35.00 \ column 9.00 15.00 25.00 40.00 j “ 15.00 25.00 40.00 65.00 1 “ 25.00 40-00 65.00 115.00 ES?” Ten lines of solid brevier, or its equivalent in space, make a square. Rates of Legal Advertising. Sheriff’s Sales, each levy $4 00 Citation for letters of Administration and Guardianship 4 00 Applicat ion 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 Land Sales, one square 4 00 Each additional square 3 00 Application for Homestead 2 00 Noticedo Debtors and Creditors 4 00 iiMWi'ii'rnrniTr-fi r 1 "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. fc&rCutout this advertisement for refer 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. us-.ce.p-rt mammmmeaaßmtmmammm 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.