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VOL. VI.
Just Received.
JaYNE’S Pills,
“ Alterative,
“ Hair Tonic,
“ Counter Irritant,
“ Balsam Carminative,
“ Vermitnae,
Ague Mixture,
Expectorant,
BRINOLIS Lemon Sugar,
LIPMAN’S Sarsaparilla witn Som<J Po
tassium, Railway's Sarsaparilian Resolvent
R. R. Relief. Railway's Pills .Ayers Sarsa
parilla an<l Clierrv Pectoral, Harter s Iron
Tonic, Harter’s Lung Balsam, Harter si ills,
Wilhofts' Antiperiodic, Cholagogue. Farni
er's. Holton’s. Galligliau’s, Uesblers, >l|al
lenger’s, and Harter’s Fever and Ague Fills.
Parker’s Nerve and Bone, Mustang', Arabian.
and McLean's Volcanic Oil Liniments.
WALKER’S Vinegar,
Hogtetter’s,
Plantation,
Tutt’s,
Brady’s,
Hoofland’s German,
Curacoa,
and Engitsli Female Bitters.
PAPER,
PENS,
INK.
BLANK Books,
PENCILS, Etc.
Perfumery of all Kinds.
Toilet and SUNDRY SOAPS.
HAVE ON HAND,
PURE Medicine,
PAINTS,
VARNISHES,
LIQUORS,
•OILS,
TOBACCO and CIGARS.
Come, you shall not leave dissatis
fied as to prices or articles.
UgL. Prescriptions carefully com
pounded, at the Drug Store of
j. ,t McDonald.
PRESERVESIGHT!
THE CELEBRATED
SCHAIFHAUSEN SPECTACLE
AND
EYE GLASSES,
Manufactured at
SCHAFFHAUSKN, .Switzerland.
Tlie superiority of these Great Eye Pre
servers consists in the careful Mathematical
Accuracy in the construction of the Lenses,
being manufactured ot the Best White Flint
Glass, the exifet Shape of tile Eye. thus obvi
ating all Glimmeiing and Waveritig of the
Sight, Dizziness, ami all the other Train of
Evils produced by the use of inferior specta
cles.
Every one whose sight is failing under
stands its value. By buying imperfect spec
tacles you help to destroy it.
BUY THE BEST!
Buy the Schaffhausen Spectacles
and preserve the Ryes which are
priceless.
Imported only by
COOPER \ BRO.
Philadelphia.
For sale by T. S. POWELL, Trustee,'
Druggist, Bookseller and Stationer,
Cuthbert, Ga.
J7&3~ These Spectacles are never sold by
Peddlers.
LEAR AND
Harmless as Water.
TV. TTAN’S
CRYSTAL DISCOVERY OF THE
Ha ir.
A perfijitly clear preparation ill one bottle,
ns easily applied ns water, tor resioring to
gray lmir its natural Color aiid y.n.t 'll p
pearanee, to eradicate and prevent <!u\druti'.
to promote the growth of the hair ad slop
its falling out. It is entirely Immtle.-s. and
perfectly free from any poisonous subset' tv.
and will therefore take the place of all the
dirty and unplea.-a t preparaitons n,oy iu nsv
Numerous testimonials have hei u si nt us
from many Os our most prominent, cit ix< ps.—
In every tiling iti which the articles no tv* in
use are ohject.ioiiahfe-, CRYSTAL DISt'OV
ERY, is perfect. It is v. arranted to conuiia
neither Sugar of Lend. Sulphur or Nitrate -of
silver, it does not soil the clothes or scalp, is
agreeably perfumed, and makes one of the
best dressings for the Hair in use It restores
the color of the Hair *• more perfect, and u..i
formly than any other preparation,'’ and al
ways does so in from three to ten days, vir
tually feeding the roots of the Hair with all
the nourishing qualities nedfissory to its
growth and healthy condition ; it restores
the decayed and induce anew growth ol the
Hair more positively than anything else.—
The application Os this wonderful discovery
also produces a pleasant and cooling effeet on
the scalp end gives the Hair a pleasing and
elegant appearance.
Call at your druggist, for it and take no oth
er If he has not got it let him mder it.
Price $1 per bottle.
ARTHUR NATTANB,
Inventor and Proprietor. Washington. D. C.
JOHNSTON, HOLLOWAY, & CO.,
General Agents, Philadelphia
JOHN F. HENRY and F. C WELLS &
CO., New York, and to be had of wholesale
druggists, everywhere.
WAREHOUSE NOTICE.
WE respectfully offer our names to ou
numerous Planting friends and Cotton
Dealers of Midule and Southwest Georgia n9
COTTON FACTORS
—AND—
COMISSION MERCHANTS.
In entering upon this business a-' successors
of Jonathan Coitus & Son, we do so with the
firm determination of doing our whole duty,
and flatter ou.selves that we are fully com
petent for the successful pr sedition of this
important trust, and hope by strict attention
to business, and courtesy to our patrons, to
merit their < onfideuce and support.
COLLINS, FLANDERS & CO..
sep6-3m Cotton Factors, Macon, Ga.
ARB TOE ABOUT TO PMT ?
IF SO, BUY
MAXWELL & CLARKE’S
FASHION PURE LEAD
Unequalled for durability, - whiteness, body
and fineness.
For sale by our agent,
j. j. McDonald
Cuthbert Ga.
aug23-8w
Bagging and Ties,
FOR SALE BY
FORT & QUARTERMAN.
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Go Feel What I Have Felt
[A young lady in New York was
in the habit of writing on the sub
ject of intemperance. Her writing
was full of pathos, and evinced such
deep emotion of soul that a friend
accused her ol' being a maniac on
the subject of intemperance, where
upon she wrote the fallowing lines :J
Gu feel what I have felt
Go bear what I have borne—
Sink ’neath a blow a father dealt,
And the cold world's proud scorn';
Then suffer on from year to year—
Thy sole relief the scorching tear.
Go kneel ns I Lave knelt,
Implore, beseech and pray—
Strive the besotted heart to melt.
The downward course to : tuy—
Be dashed with bitter curse aside,
Your prayers burlesqued, your tears defiled.
Go weep us I have wept
O’er a loved father's fall,
See every promised blessing swept—
Youth's sweetness turiiqp to gall;
Lite’s fading flowers strewed all the way,
That brought me up to woman’s day.
Go see what 1 have seen.
Behold the strong man bow —
With gniis ling teeth—lips bathed in blo'od—
And cold and livid brow ;
Gocatch bis writhing glance and see
There mirrored his soul’s misery .
Go to thy mother’s side,
And her crushed bosom cheor,
Thine own deep anguish hide,
Wipe from her cheek t:ie bitter tear ;
'Mark her worn frame-and withering brow;
The gray that streaks her dark hair now ;
With fading trameand trembling limb,
And trace the ruin back to him
Whose plighted faith iu early youth
Prom i-ud eternal love and truth ;
But who, foresworn, had yielded up
That promise to the maddening cup.
And lead her down through love and iigh..
And all that made her p.otui.-e bright—
Amt chained her there 'mid want and strife,
That lowly thing a drunkard's wife—
And stamped on childhood's brow, so mild,
t hat withering blight—the dtu kard'schi and.
Go hear, and feel, and see, and know,
All that my soul has felt and known— •
Then look upon the wine cup’s glow ;
See iffif*s beauty can atone —
Think if its flavor you Can try,
When all proclaim 'tis drink and die?
Tell me I hate the bowl ?
Hate is a feeble word !
I loathe—abhor—my very soul
With strong disgust is stirred—
When I see. or bear, or tell
Os that dark beverage of Hell. t
JusticJe to Georgia.— The New
York Sun pays the following trutb
| ful tribute to our State:
Governor Brown, of Georgia,
thinks Georgia good for 50,000 ma
joritv for Horace Greeley and Grata
Brown The GrantiteS think so
too, and are beginning to harro v up
blood-freezing reminiscences of
Georgia’s treatment of Bullock and
other patriots. The objects of these
tales of horror appear to be to jus
tify some sort of bayonet interven
tion in the coming election. But
facts are against the Grantites. The
prodigious strides in prosperity
which Georgia has taken since the
expulsion of the robber, Bullock,
and against them, and the harmony
of whites and colored is proof of
the falsity of these stories. The fact
that Georgia stands in the first rank
of cotton manufacturing States is
proof of that prosperity which is
incompatible with anarchy. Private
advices from the State go to show'
that the issues of the war are dead
there and that the colored vote is
being courted alike by both Demo
crats and Gruutites, with fair chan
ces of success for the former.
The Cincinnati Commercial seems
sad. It says: “If the Republican
managers in Georgia had been hon
est, that State would have been re
liably I Republican for many years.
The State has been lost to the party
by the most rampant rascality.’'
MlMiritNi
More Dangerous thaii
Gsißipowder.
Prof. C. F. Chandler, in the
American Chemist, says : It is not
possible to make gasolene, naptha or
benzine safe by any addition that
can be made to it. Nor is any oil
safe that can be set on fire at the
ordinary temperature of the air
Special lamps, some of them of
very elegant design, have been in
troduced for burning the liquid gas
(naptha). They are all provided
with a reservoir for the dangerous
fluid and a burner by. which it is
vaporized and burns like gas.
The apathy of the public in regard
to this matter is beyond any com
prehension. These facts are well
known in almost every community,
and yet though it is now twelve or
thirteen years since this class of oils
came into general use, we have as
yet no adequate legislation for the
protection of life or property. Noth
ing but the most stringent laws,
making it a State prison*offense to
mix naptha and illuminating oil, or
to sell any product of petroleum
as an illuminating oil or fluid to be
used in lamps or to be burned, ex
cept in air gas machines, that will
evolve an inflammable vapor below
lOOFali., will be effectual in reme
dying the’evil. In case of an ac
cident from the sale of oil below the
standard, the seller should he com
pelled to pay all damages to prop
erty, audit a life is sacrificed, should
he punished for manslaughter. It
should be made extremely hazard
ous to sell such oils.
Naptha, under watever name it
passes, is, in one respect, more dan
gerous than gunpowder. Gunpow
der never explodes unless fire is
brought to it. Naptha, on the oth
er hand, sends out its inflammable
vapor and brings lire from a dis
tance. Gunpowder is thus a passive
agent, while naptha is an ective
one; aftd when introduced under
the treacherous disguise of safe oil,
it is not to be wondered that fright
ful accidents occur.
In this connection the “vapor
stoves demand some consideration.
These stoves are supplied with nap
tha, sold under various names, from
a reservoir at one side, the supply
being regulated by a stop cock.
The naptha flows into a tube or
chamber, which is maintained at a
high temperature by the combustion,
here it is vaporized to escape through
suitable orifices and burn. These
stoves are arranged for cooking, as
well as for heating appaftments.
These contrivances are till, with
out exception, highly dangerous.
They are all supplied with benzine
or naptha, which is always liable to
fire and to produce explosive va
pors.
A keg of gunpowder in a buil
ding is not as .dangerous as one. of
these stoves.
Suspended Insurance Compa
nies..—The Andes Insurance compa
ny, at, Cincinnati, has gone into the
bauds of a receiver. The Superin
tendent of Insurance in Ohio shows
that it has a define ncy of over $200,-
000. The company has an agency
in New York. The American In
surance Company of Jersey City
has suspended, by order of the sher
iff, who will sell, as advertised the
effects' thereof.
The avaricious man is like the
barren sandy ground of the desert,
which sucks in all the rain and
dews with greediness, but yields no
•fruitful herbs or plants for the
benefit of others.—Zeno. .
Good Manners. —Young folks
should be mannerly. . llow to be so
is the question ? Many a good girl
and boy. feel that they can’t behave
themselves in the presence of com
pany. Tnere is but one way to
get over this feeling, and acquire
easy and graceful manners; that is,
to do the best they can all the time
at home, as well as abroad. Good
manners are not learned by arbitra
ry teaching so much, as acquired by
habit. They grow upon us by use.
We must be courteous, agreeable,
civil, kind, gentlemanly and wo
manly at home, and then it will be
come a kind of second nature to be
so everywhere. A course, rough
maoner at home begets a habit of
roughness, which we cannot layoff
if we try when we go among stran
gers The most agreeable people
we have ever known in company,
are those who are perfectly agreea
ble at home. Home is the school
for all good things, especially" for
good manners.
Not “ The Girl op the Pep.iod.”
—The youug lady who rises early,
rolls up her sleeves, and walks into
the kitchen to get breakfast, or as
sist in doing so, and afterwards
with cheerfulness and sunny smiles,
puts the house in order without the
assistance of her mother, is worth a
thousand parlor beauties,, who from
want of exercise, almost.die of lazi
ness. The former will make a good
wife and render home paradise ;
the latter is a useless piece of fur
niture, and will, to the annoyance
of the household, go whining to
her grave. *
Rush op Freights. —The Mont
gomery Advertiser says that since
the opening of the “ South and
North Alabama Railroad with Lou
isville there has been an unprecedent
ed flow of freight A and through
Montgomery 7 , for New Orleans, Mo
bile, Columbus, Ga., West Point,
Greenville, Eufaula, Southwestern
Georgia, etc. We learn that not
less than five hundred and fifty-five
loaded cars were received here in
one day for these respective points.”
CUTHBERT, GEORGIA, FRIDAY, NOVEM BER 8, 1872.
A Quaker Printer’s Prov
erbs..
Never sendest thou an article for
publication without giving tfcte edi
tor thy name, for thy name often
times secures publication to worth
less articles.
Thou shoujdst not rap at the
door of a printing office, for he that
answereth the rap sneeretb in his
sleeves and loseth time.
Never do thou loaf about, ask
questions or knock down type, or
the boys will love you like they do
shade trees—when thou leaveth.
Thou shouldst never read the
copy on the printer’s case, or the
sharp and hooked container there
of, or he may knock thee down.
Never inquire thou of the editor
for the news, for behold, it is his
business-at the appointed time to
give it to thee without asking.
It is not right that thou shouldst
ask him who is the author of an ar
ticle, for it is his duty to keep such
things unto himself.
When thou dost enter his office,
take heed unto thyseif that thou
dost not look at what may be lay
ing open and concerneth thee not,
for that is not meet in the sight of
good breeding.
Neither examine thou the proof
sheet, fur it is not ready to meet
thine eye that thou mayest under
stand..
Prefer thine own town paper so
any other, and subscribe for it im
mediately.
Pay for it in advance, and it shall
be well with thee and thine.
Tiie Great Lakes. —The follow
ing, statistics in regard to the five
great lakes in North America are
not generally known :
Lake Superior is the largest body
offiesh water in the world. Its
greatest lemAth is 355 miles, its
greatest breaerth 160 miles, and its
area is given as 32,000 square miles.
Its average depth is variously giv
en at 688 and 1,000 feet. It is 600 ;
feet above the level of the sea, 22
feet higher than Lake Michigan,
And 50 feet higher than Erie.
Lake Michigan is 320 miles long,
108 miles, in the widest, and the
mean depth of it is 900 feet. In its
greatest length it is longer than
Lake Superior, being 390 miles.—
It has an era of 23,000 square miles.
The greatest length*6f Lake Hu
ron is 200 miles; the greatest width
100 miles, the mean depth GOO feet,
and the area 20,000 square miles.
Lake Erie’s greatest length is
250 miles, its width 50 miles, the
mean depth of its waters 84 feet,
making it by far the most shallow
of all the live lakes, and it has a su
perficial area of iibout 6,000 square
miles.
The greatest length of Lake On
tario is 180 miles, the greatest
breadth 05 miles, the mean depth
260 feet, and the area 9,000 sqnai e
miles.
The length of all the lakes is
more than 1,500 miles.
Eight Children at a Birth.-
On the 21st of August, Mrs., Brad
lee, of Trumbull county, Ohio, gave
birth to eight children^—three boys
and five girls. They, are all.living
and are healthy, but quite small.
Mr. Bradlee was married six years
ago to Eunice Mowery, who weighed
two hundred and seventy-three
pounds on the day of her marriage.
e has given birth to two pg ir.
of twins, and now eight more, mak
ing twelve children in six years.
Mrs. Bradlee was triplet - her mol h
er and father both being twins, aud
her grand-mother the mother of five
pairs of twins. — Cincinnati Lan<'.et
Observer.
Amusing Sport. —An eccentric
young man who resides at a pala
tial boarding house on Ontqi io
street, Cleveland, lias invented a
very ingenious method of amusing
himself by keeping a hair album.—
Every" hair he finds in his victuals
is placed in the album, and the in
cidents attending the discovery,
with the name of the dish it v/as.
found in, are Entered opposite the
hair, together with a supposition as
to whom it belonged, aud whet he ir
it was false or real, and other in ter
esting particulars. Refilled forty"-
five pages of the album in two
brief weeks, thus improving tb.e
spare moments so many devote no
idleness.
Girls in the Garden. — If there
is any one thing more beau tiful
than another in a garden of flow ers,
that thing is a beautiful girl, "with
a sun bonnet on her head so wide
and capacious that you have to get
right square before her and pretty
near her, to see the glowing cheeks
that are sui’e to be there, if she is
at all accustomed to garden walks
and works. Physically, there nan
be nothing better for daughl ers,
and, indeed, for many wives, than
to take sole charge of a small flow
er garden.
The Next Legislature of Sou th
Carolina. — It is judged from the
returns received of the recent elec
tion iu South Carolina that the mjxt
State Senate will be composed of 21
Radical Republicans, 4 Bolters, a ml
8 Conservatives. The House w'ill
stand as follows: Radical Republi
cans 78, Bolters 21, and Consorvv:
20.
A Texas correspondent of the
Southern Farmer says : “ Cori i this
seasou will sell in Texas at 25 to 50
cents; beef two and a half to four
cents; pork five to six cents, and
other articles in proportion,”
Newspapers.
Their value is by no means ap
preciated, but the rapidity with
which people are waking up to
their necessity and usefulness is one
of thti i ligniticam signs of the times.
Few families are now content with
a sing !e newspaper. The thirst for
knowledge is not easily satiated,
and boo ks, though useful—yea, ab
solutely necessary in their place,
fail to ni eet the demands of youth
or age. The village newspaper, is
eagerly s ought, and its contents as
eagerly devoured. Then comes
the denia nd tor. the county news,
state r e ws, national and foreign
news. N r ext to the political come
the litera ry, and then the scientific
journals. Lastly, and above all,
come th e moral and religious jour
nals. This variety is demanded to
satisfy the cravings of the active
mind.
Newsp a pers are also valuable to
material ] prosperity. They adver
tise the village, county or locality.
They* sprt ad before the reader a
map on v.h ich may be traced char
acter, design, progress. If a stran
ger calls at a hotel he first inquires
for the vi'dage newspaper; if a
friend conn is from a distance, the
very next t! ling after a family greet
ing, he in qu ires for your village or
county newspaper, and you feel
discomfited if you are unable to find
a late copy, and confounded if you
are compelled to say you do not
take it.
The news paper is just as necessa
ry to fit a m an for his true position
in life as so od or raiment. Show
us a ragged , barefooted boy, rather
than an ignorant one. It is head
will cover h is feet in after life if he
is well sup) .lied with newspapers.—
Show us th e child that is eager for
newspape rs. He will make a man
of mark in after life if you gratify
that desire for knowledge. Other
things be in g equal, it is a rule that
never fai ls. Give the children news
papers.
Ciiurcii Attire, etc. —Avery
impertinent paper on church mat
ters is the (Jhicago Pulpit. It says,
for instr.nc e, consciences are much
more readihy put at ease in the mat
ter of cL'iur ch-going than they once
were. Mr ?. Jones loses sight of
hers in the fact that her old bonnet
will 1c ok shabby beside Mrs.
Smith’s it lew one, although Mrs.
Jones’s bonnet was very pretty and
becoming the Sunday before.—
Her daughter Arabella does not at
tend the uvening service unless in
vited by Llr. Augustus, for the rea
son that Mr. Augustus’ coat is al
ways of “ Jegant fit,” and his gloves
a “ deli gh.tful color,” and he holds
the hymn-book in “such a, graceful
way,” a mi, vice versa, Augustus in
vites ra be I,la because she is “ styl
ish” and “.fashionable,” and the
other fellows of his set will envy
him. ’if you do not believe this,
stand at your window some fair
Sabbath morning while, the church
bells aro ranging, .and watch the pass
ing crowd.. Thete is the same piti
ful mockery from beginning to end.
The color of the dress, the multitu
dinous trimmings, the hump at the
back where the waist terminates—
all the deformities ol fashion in
silks and laces are imitated by the
poorer class in cheaper materials,
and Bridget drapes her shawl in ex
actly the same way* as does her
mistress. Join the crowd, and you
will hear, as you pass along, that
“ Mrs. I>. has anew silk of the
loveliest shade that is made”—but
you hurry on, and hear that “Miss
G. has worn the same dress all the
season ; ” that “ Mr. P. has anew
diamond pin;” that “he is paying
attention to Miss M.; and that
Miss !>I. is not stylish,” anil so pn
ad infinitum , were you not at the
church door.
Beggars in China. —Beggars in
China prepare themselves for their
work by no small amount of suffer
ing, if we may believe a corres
pondent. He says four, men were
seen one day crawling on their
hands and knees, having lost their
legs a few inches below the knee.
They asserted that their eight legs
had been burned off in a lire.—
But it was ascertained that in the
southern part of the province of
Suntung, beggars had their legs
taken off .by a professional beggar
surgeon; his plan being to tie a
piece of thin string around the mid
dle of the calf, drawing it closer
day by day, till mortification of the
lower limb ensues. After a while
the bone is exposed, sawn through,
the wound closes up, and the beg
gars set forth, amid the congratula
tions" of their friends, as in a fair
way to obtain a beggar’s fortune.
Numbers, however, sink under the
tortures of the tedious operation.
An agent in a Central Railroad
depot tells the Macon Telegraph
that last year the average weight to
the cotton bale at his station was
487 pouhds. This year, so far, it is
only 435 pounds—s 2 pounds short
last year’s average. Here is nearly
eleven per cent, short, and if this
deficit is general it becomes a vastly
| important element in figuring up
i cotton receipts tins year.
Women require more sleep, it
is said, than men. Blifkins disputes
this, as, he says, the last sound he
hears of nights is the voice of Mrs.
B. in her nocturnal lecture, and the
xiyst in the morning is her matuti
n,f L admonition.
Walker didn’t get a single vote in
Tatn: -$1 county. Smith received 834.
F!ec tE’ica! Experiment
xi ith a Dead Doily.
The professors and students of
the Medical College at Columbus
Ohio, p erformed some experiments
on. the body of John Barclay, bung
On Friu ay for the murder of Charles
F. Garn: ter. The body was stiipped
of its clothing, and at thirteen min
utes- to one o’clock, thirty seven
minutes after death, the students
began ope rations. The eleefrical in
strumen t used was one of the most
powerful known. Two currents of
electricity' were used, one placed at
the lower extremity of the body,
and the other drawn along the arm,
neck, fare and breast. The effect
was won derful; the eyes opened,
the face drew up as if in pain, the
mouth jerked to ono side, the arm
raised as if to strike, and the fist
clenched. The limbs also raised,
and the toes and fingers .worked,
and once the body also turned to
one side. The arms were next laid
bare and a current of electricity in
troduced. The whole system seem
ed to respond at once, and the move
ments of the body were at times
violent.
At four minutes to two o’clock
the electricity was appeal and
faint actions of the muscles could
even then be observed. The body
was afterwards left until ten ipin
utes after three, when the electricity
was again applied, and the muscles
of the body still responded as be
fore, but with less force. The
breast was then opened and a cur
rent passed into the h 2ai;t, but it
gave no response. It was carried
to the hands and feet a: id all respon
ded as before. The heart was then
taken out and found hard as muscle
and full of blood, the lungs not con
gested, the brain very Healthy and
free f'rytn any congestion whatever.
At eleven minutes after four o’clock
electricity was again applied and a
good response was-had ; at eighteen
minutes after five a faint response
was given, and at fifteen minutes to
six, five hours and thirty-five min
utes after death, the si congest cur
rent that could be applied failed to
move a muscle.
Drunk. —Young man, did you
ever stop to think how that word
sounds? Did you ever think what
misery- and woe y T ou brought upon
your friends, when you degraded
your manhood by getting drunk?
How it rings in the oars of a lov
ing wife ? How it makes the heart
of a fond mother bleed ? flow il
crushes but the hopes of a doting
father, and brings reproach anil
shame upon loving sisters? Drunk!
sec him as he leans against some
friendly house. He stands ready
to fall info hell, tin conscious as
to his approaching fate. The
wife, with tearful eyes and aching
heart, sits at the v/mdow to hear
her husband’s footsteps; alas, they
come not. ,He is drunk ! The hus
band, the parent is drunk, spending
his means of support tor liquor,
while Ins family is starving, for
bread, his children suffering for
clothing. Ilis friends, one by one,
are reluctantly leaving him to a
miserable fate.
Taking Cold.— ls a cold settles
on the outer covering of the lungs it
becomes pneumonia, inflammation
of the lungs, or lung fever, which in
many cases carries the strongest
mari to his grave within a week.
If cold falls upon the inner covering
of the lungs it is pleurisy, with its
knife-like pains and its very slow re
coveries. If a cold settles in the
joints, there is rheumatism with its
agonies of pains, and rheumatism of
the heart, which in an instant some-,
times snaps the cords of life with*
no friendly warning; It is of the
utmost practical importance, then,
in the wintry weather, to know not
so much how to cure a cold as t jo
avoid it. Colds always come fro-m
one cause, sometimes part of the
whole of the body being colder than
natural for a time. If a man will
keep his feet warm always and nev
er allow himself to be chilled, he
will never take cold in a lifetime,
and this can ouly be accomplished
by due care in ifann clothing and
the avoidance of drafts and undue
exposure. While multitudes of
•colds comes from cold feet, perhaps
the majority arise trorn persons
cooling off too quickly after be
coming a little warmer than is
natural from exercise or work, or
from confinement to a warm apart
ment. — Wood's Household Maga
zine.
Rewarding the Minister,— ln
a certain very hard district of the
far West a revivalist had been la
boring long with great zeal and el
oquence, with absolutely no results.
His meetings were well attended by
rough characters from far and near,
who turned out “to hear the speech
es,” but the mourners seat was va
cant, the seekers bench seated • not
one. Finally, after many meetings,
the minister made his last appeal—
he waited, and pleaded, but no one
moved. Finally he said he would
have to abandon his effort—that
he had tried hard to produceconvic
tion, but no one has moved. He
has now made his last appeal and,
after a few" mild words, he sat down.
At this juncture a tall man of the
soil arose and said that the preacher
had been working hard, and had
labored faithfully with them. If
he hadn’t succeeded it wasn’t his
fault, and now, as a token .of their
appreciation and respect for him,
he moved that the congregation
give the preacher three cheers,
1 which was carried.
Secrets ot Health.
1. Keep warm.
2. Eat regularly and slowly.
3. Maintain regular bodily hab
its.
4. Take early and very light sup
pers.
5. Keep a clean skin.
6. Got plenty of sleep at night.
7. Keep cheerful and respectable
company.
8. Keep out of debt.
9. Don’t set your mind on things
you don’t need. *
10. Mind your own business.
11. Don’t sot yourself up to be a
sharper of any kind.
12. Subdue curiosity.
13. Avoid druggs.
• Benefit of Woman.— Did it
ever occur to.any of our readers
what a refining and polishing in
fluence the society of woman gives
to man l The association with
intelligence and educated famales
is ever observable to the man. The
common coarseness of many ; the
bashful awkwardness of others ; the
general tendency of man to satisfy
his passions— are all toned down
or obliterated, when they are con
tinually brought into society of wo
men. The gentle, kind and in-
sinuating way a good woman’s in
fluence .is thrown about the rude
and reckless male, is always
observable. She seems to reach
into his heart with fingers that very
soon, weed out every uncouth and
unseemly plant. She does this
apparently without an effort; she
gives .to man, fluence in con
versation, gentleness of manner,
complete ease in society and a love
of the arts, sciences and beauties
of nature; she throws about his
existence an atmosphere of love,
confidence, hope, trust, honor, fi
delity anil virtue ! Tfce rough ob
structions to be met with upon the
exterior of his character are very
soon cut away, and the scars healed
up from sight. The process of
change from a vicious, lonely life,
to one of female association and re
finement, and has often slow and
tedious; but the metamorphic
change is sure to take place under
the love, judgment and guidance,
of a true woman. If there is any
thing in man that may be called
metal, the beneficial influence of
woman’s assofciation will burnish
it to such a brightness that its kind
and quality will soon be deter
mined.
Things Worth Knowing, —Salt
stimulates digestion
Onions are the best vegetable
known to correct the blood.
Ice cream produces acute dyspep
sia in consumptive persons.
Cracised wheat, boiled or cooked
as rice, is a good diet for dyspep
tics.
Ice held in the mouth will quench
thirst in cholera, cholera morbus and
fever.
Asparagus, if freely eaten, is said
to be a valuable medical agent in
cases of rheumatism and gout.
T%e aching of a hollw tooth, the
nerve of which has come in contact
with the air may be immediately
relieved by applying to the cavity a
little cotton saturated with spirits of
nitre mi.xed with alum. .
By Fits and Starts — Spasmodic
efforts, amount to little or nothing.
It is steady application that accom
plishes. One may be easily fired up
to Go something, and as suddenly
cooled off. The team—of men or
ho,rses—that will pull together and
pull steadily, will do the work. But
’.hose who are always begining and
never finishing, have more of the
spasmodic than the persevering.
Moral; teach your children to do
one thing at a time, and to finish
what they begin.
When a shell is held up to the
ear, there is a peculiar vibratory
noise. Philosophically investigated,
the peculiar sound thus recognized
is a phenomenon that very much
perplexed learned gentlemen for a
long while. The experiment is easy
made by simply pressing a spiral
shell, common in collections, over
the cerebrum of either car. If a
large shell, the sound is very much
like that of a far-off cataract. Now,
what causes it ? Every muscle in
the body is always in a state of
tension. Some are more on the
stretch than others, particularly 7
those of the fingers. It is conceded
that the vibration of the fibres of
those in the fingers being communi
cated to the shell, it propagates and
intensifies it, as the hollow body of a
violin does the vibration of its
strings, and thus the acoustic nerve
receives the sonorous impressions.
Muscles of the teg below the knee
are said to vibrate in the same way,
and if conducted to the ear produce
the same result.
An ignorant Irishman, seeing per
sons reading with spectacles, went
to buy 7 a pair to enable him to read,
lie tried several pairs, and told the
merchant he could* not read with
any of them. “ Can you read at
all ? ” asked the merchant. “ No,”
was the reply; “if I could, do you
think I would be such it fool as to
buy spectacles? ”
Look not upon the water mel
on when it is red, nor upon the
stewed cherry when it giveth its
color in the cup; at the last it bit
e h like a soft-shell crab, and sting
ctb like the cholera morbus.
NO 45.
Things a Farmer Must
«!o.
A farmer should never keep more
cattle, horses, sheep or hogs than he
can keep in good order, an animal in
high order the first of December is
already half wintered.
The farmer should never be so
immersed in political matters as to
forget to sow his wheat, dig his po
tatoes, and bank up his cellar; nor
should be so inattentive to them as
to remain ignorant of those great
questions of national and state pol
icy which will always agitate more
or less a free people.
A farmer should shun the doors
of a bank as he would an approach
of the plague of cholera; banks are
for men of speculation, and theirs
is a business with which farmers
should have little to do.
A farmer should never be ashamed
of his calling; we know that no man
can be entirely independent, yet the
farmer should remember that if any
one can'be said to possess that en
viable distinction, he is the man.
No farmer should allow the re
proach of neglecting education to
lie against himself or family ;if
knowledge is power the beginning
of it should be early and deeply laid
in the district school.
• A farmer should nevep use ar
dent spirits as a drink ; if, while un
dergoing severe fatigue, and the
hard labors of the summer, he would
enjoy robust health, let him be tem
perate in all things.— The Southern
Blunter and Farmer.
Home-Made Candy. —Use anew
tin-basin; put into it four tablespoons
ns of water, one pound of good coffee
sugar, one teaspoonful of good cream
tartar; boil, stirring constantly to
avoid burning. After it begins to
have a soapy appearance try it often
by dropping a little in cold water,
and if done it will at once become
brittle. Butter an earthen dish and
pour the hot candy into it, that it
may cool just enough to handle,
Flavor to taste with oil of perper
mint, wintor-greene, sarsafras or
lemon. . Two drops of oil will flavor
it strong. For variety, divide into
three or four parts and flavor dif
ferently by touching one kind of oil
to each. Work in the hands at
once ; the more it is pullod the whk
ter it will get.
“This is the rock of ages,” said
the father, after rocking two hours
and the baby being still awake. *
—No man can avoid his own
company, so he had better make it
as good as possible.
Most of the shades that cross
our path through life are caused by
standing in our own light.
The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad
is establishing their own eating
houses upon all their routes.
. prosperous merchant has for
his motto ; ’ early to bed and early
t ise; never get eight, and adver
tise.’’
—“Keep ’em alive, boys! Keep
em alive! said an old physician
iO his young brother practition
er. “Dead men pay no bills.”
A dog that picks cotton is one of
the curiosities of Carroll county
He ought to be allowed to vote
along with the other pickers.
Motner, I m afraid a fever
would go hard with me.” “ W"hy
my son ?” “’Cause, you see, moth
er, I’m so small that there wouldn’t
be room Tor it to turn”
Passengers who fail to procure
tickets before going on the ears of
the Western and Atlantic Railroad
will bo charged half a cent a mile
extra.
In the past three or four days
some two hundred hands have past
over the Atlanta and West Point
Radroad to work on the Southern
Pacific Railroad in Texas.
“ I to know,” said a credi
tor fiercely, “ when you are -going
to pay me what you owe me?”
“TV hen I’m going to pay ? Why
you’re a pretty fellow! Do you
take me for a prophet ?” 3
Nothing is more indicative of
the earnestness of life than the
sight of a well-developed male
creature spending eight hours a
day m trymg to wear out a dry
goods box with the seat of his pants.
. hoy makes a lazy man,
just as sure as a crooked
makes a crooked tree. Those whd
make our great and useful men
were trained in their boyhood lobe
industrious.
During the present year the Uni
ted States soldiers have killed as
many as seventeen hostile Indians.
Ihe number of whites killed by the
Indians in the same time is some
where between five and seven hun
dred.
Live as long as you may, the
first twenty years form the greater
part of your life. They seem to
appear so when they are passing,
they seem to have been so when we
look back to them, and they tako
no more room in our memory than
all the years that succeed them.
“Why don’t you limit your
self?” Baid a physician to an intem
perate person ; -‘set down a stake
that you will go so far and no far
ther. I So I did,’ said the toper
| “but I set it so far off that I al
ways get drunk beil-e i get to
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