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"MAKlM,TREASON ODIOUS."
CLOSING^ SCENE8 OF THE GREAT CIVIL
[B'rom Charleston Ninys, Juno SO,1800.]
On the morning of the 23d of May, ]
a bitterer trial was in store for the I
proud spirit?a trial sevorer, proba
bly, than has ever in modern times
been inflicted upon any one who bas
enjoyed such eminence. This morn
ing Jefferson Davis was shackled.
It was while all the swarming
camps of the armies of tbe Potomac,
Uie Tennessee and Georgia?over two
hundred thousand bronzed and lau
reled veterans?were preparing for
f.tlje.Grand Eeyiow of tjjo uoxt morn
ing, in which, passing in endless suc
cession before tho mansion of the
President, the conquering military
power of the nation was to lay down
Us arms at the feet of tho civil au
thority, that tho following scene was
pn acted at Fort Monroe :
Capt. Jerome E. Titlow, of the 3d
Pennsylvania Artillery, entered the
prisoner's pell, followed by the black
smith of the fort and his assistant,
the latter carrying in his hands some
heavy and harshly rattling shackles.
As they entered, Mr. Davis was re
plining on his bed, feverish and wea
ry after a sleepless night, the food
placed near him the preceding day
still lying untouched on his tin plate
near his bedside.
*'Well 1" said Mr. Davis as they eD.
tered, slightly raising his head.
"I have an unpleasant duty to per
form, sir," said Capt. Titlow; and as
he spoke, the senior blacksmith took
the shackles from his assistant.
Davis leaped instantly from his re
cumbent attitude, a flush passing over!
his face for a moment, and then his
countenance growing as livid and
rigid as death.
He gasped for breath, clutching
his throat with the thin Angers of his
right hand, and then recovering bim
pelf slowly, while his wasted figure
towered up to its full height?now
appearing to swell with indignation
dnd then to shrink with terror as he I
* gTttnced from the captaThVfdce to" the'
shackles?he said slowly and with a ]
laboring chest:
"My God I You cannot have been
sent to iron me?"
"Such are my orders, sir," replied
the officer, beckoning the blacksmith
to approach/ who stepped forward,
unlocking tho padlock and preparing
the fetters to dp their office. These
fetters were of heavy iron, probably
five-eighths of an inch in thickness,
and connected together by a chain of |
like weight. I believe they are now
ja the possession of Major-General
Miles, and will form an interesting
relic.
"This is too monstrous," groaned
the prisoner, glaring hurriedly around
the room, as if for some weapon, or
means of self-destruction. "I de
mand, Captain, that you let me see
the commanding officer. Can he pre
tend that such shackles are required
to secure the safe custody of a weak
old man, so guarded and in such a
fort as this?"
"It would serve no purpose," re
plied Capt. Titlow ; "his orders are
from Washington, as mino are from
him."
"But he can telegraph," interposed
Mr. Davis, eagerly : "there must be
some mistake. No such outrage as
you threaten me with is recorded in
t-he history of nations. Beg him to
telegraph and delay until ho an-|
Bwers."
"My orders are peremptory," said
tho officer, Maud admit of no delay.
For your own sake, lot me advise you
to submit with patience. As a sol
dier, Mr. Davis, you know I must ex
ecute orders."
"These are not orders for a sol
dier," shouted the prisoner, losing all
control of himsolf. "They are orders
for a jailor?-a hangman, which no
soldier j wearing a .nwqrd should ac
cept I I tell you the world will ring
with this 'disgrace. The war is over;
tue South is Conquered ; I* have no
l6nger%ahy country but America, and
it1 in 'for the honor of America, as for
my own honor and life, that I plead
against this degradation. Kill me!
kill me!" ho cried, passionately,
throwing bis arms wide open and ex
posing hi? breast, "rather than inflict
pn me, and on my people through me,
this insult worse than death."
**Do your duty, blacksmith," said
{he officer, walking toward the em
brasure as if not caring to witness
tho performance. "It only gives in
creased pain on all sides to protract
fhis interview."
At ib"cso words the blacksmith ad
vanced with the shackles, and seeing
that the prisoner had one foot upon
the chair npar his bedside, his right
hand resting on the hack of it, the
brawny mechanic made an attempt to
slip one of the shackles over the an
kle so raised ; but, as if with tho ve
hemence and strength which, frenzy
can impart, even to the weakest inva
lid, Mr. Davis suddenly seized his
assailant and hurled him half way
? ? i <? i .>
across the room.
On this, Cup I. Titlqw turned and,
?seeing that D'avjs had backed against
the wall for further resistance, began
to remonstrate, pointing out in brief,
clear language, that this course was
madness, and that orders must bo
enforced at any cost. "Why compol
me," he added, uto add the further
indignity of personal violence to the
necessity of your being ironed?"
"I am n prisoner of war," flcrpcly
retorted Davis ; I have been a soldier
in the armies of America and know
how to die. Only kill me, and my
last breath shall be a blessing on
your head. But while I have life and
strength to resist, for myself and my
people, this thing shall not be done."
Hereupon Capt. Titlow called in a
sergeant and file of soldiers from the
next room, and the sergeant ndvauced
to seize tho prisoner. Immediately
Mr. Davis flew on him, seized his
musket and attempted to wrench it
from his gVQsp.
Of courso such a scene could have
bnt one issue. There was a short,
passionate scuffle. In a moment Mr.
Davis was flung upon his bed, and
before his four powerful assailants re
moved their hands from him, the
blacksmith and his assitant had done
their work?one securing the rivet on
the right ankle, while the other turn
ed the key in the padlock on tho left.
This done, Mr. Davis lay for a mo
ment as if in a stupor. Then slowly
raising himself and turning round, he
dropped his shackled*feet to the floor.
The harsh clank of the striking chains
seems firs', to havejrecalled him to
his situation, and dropping his face
into his hands, he burst into a pas
sionate flood of sobbing, rocking to
and fro, and muttering at brief inter
vals : "Oh, the shame, the shame I"
It may hfero he stated, though out
of its duo order?that we may get
rid of an unpleasant subject?tbat
Mr. Davis, some months later, when
frequent visits had made him more
free to converse, geve me a curious
explanation of the last feature in this
incident.
He had been speaking of suicide,
and denounced it as the worst form
of cowadice and folly. "Life is not
like a commission that wc enn resign
when we arc disgusted with the ser
vice. Taking it by your own hand
is a confession of judgment to all that
your worst enemies can allege. It
has often flashed across me a tempt
ing remedy for neuralgic torture ; but
thank God 1 I never sought my own
death but once, and then when com
pletely frenzied, and not master of
my actions. When they camo to
iron me that day, as a last resource
of desperation, I seized a soldier's
musket and attempted to wrench it
from his hands, hoping that in the
scuffle and surprise, some one of his
comrades would shoot or bayonet
me."
Blood.
Mr. James Gedpatb announces that
"he who will not draw the sword
shall perish by the sword." The ex
perience of tho world is tho reverse
of this proposition, but Mr. Redpath
is trying very hard to excite the
Southern negroes to an armed rebel
lion, "general massacre," or some
thing of the sort, and ho is too much
of a cowardly whelp to personally in
augurate such an "effort" in behalf
of tho "poor black roau." Mr. Red
path has a very gory name, but his
war talk is only on paper. If he
really wants to disorganize things,
perhaps it would be well for him to
join a "circle" of the Russian Nibil
hists and go to butchering tho Mus
covite aristocracy.
Rev. James M. Pullman, of New
York, soicl in a recent sermon on
"Matrimony," that the theory that a
reformed sinner wopld make a better
husband than a man who had not
needed reformation was one that had
been upheld by preachers, lecturers
and writers; but he was not afraid
to brand tho theory as a lie?a lie
from top to bottom, from circamfer
i once to cen Ire.
Pio-nio.
Willow Township, Orangeburoj Co.,
May IGth, 1879.
Editor Orangefyurg Democrat:
It was my fortune on last Saturday
to attend a Picrnjo at Bethel Church,
gotten up by a few sisters of said
churcb. It was given to the Sunday
Softool now going on there. The
Sunday School at Willow Swamp, her
sister church was invited to partici
pate, and I think from the number of
vehicles coming from that direction,
that it was well represented. I ar
rived there about 1Q A. M., and soon
after the pastor, who attends both
churches. He, I understood, was to
deliver an address to the schools.
By 11 o?clock the church was fulj to
overflowing, the appointed time for
tho address. However, a few min
utes before that time, the .Superin
tendent rose and said he would be
glad if all scholars would) repair to a
certain place about a hundred yards
distant, for the purpose of forming,
preparatory for the march. And
right here, I will say by way of ex
planation, that roarohing may be un
common in some neighborhoods, but
it is invariably a part of tho pro
gramme in this. They wero all ar
ranged by twos, and commenced the
march for the elm roh, at the same
time a portion of the best singers
generally march in front, the music
begins as they move off. And I tell
you, Bethel can boast of some splen
did singers, and some that enjoy it
themselves; and you know that any
thing that one can do, and likes it,
it is well done. I was impressed
with the music, and don't think I
ever heard better. And, oh t what a
beautiful sight to see the long rows
of little ones moving on after each
other, singing at the top of their
voices, for their teachers had told
them they must all sing and sing lond,
and I am pertain every one tried to
do his best in that dircotion. The
church was reached, and the music
ceased. Next was to bo a dialogue,
spoken by four little boys and three
little girls. Subject, a welcome to
their pastor. And at closing ask
ing him to make them, a speech.
They acted their different parts well,
though tho crowd was so large I
wasn't sufficiently near to hear all.
Well, in reply to the little opes, the
pastor arose and addressed the Sun
day Schools and all present with an
appropriate address. Ho made some
excuses that he was indisposed, and
not prepared as he should have been,
etc., but I think he did extremely
well. It is true, it wasn't long, but
very suitable.
Well, I suppose by this time, it was
1 o'clock, and one more march had
yet to be made, and that was to the
table. After the conclusion of the
address, all the owners of baskets re
paired to the table. It had been
erected early in the morning under
the shade of some oak trees. Thither
they went to fix up and arrange the
eatables thereon. |t did not take
them long, and that last march was
taken. I cannot do justice in a de
scription of tho variety of good things,
and a plenty it seemed to me to feed
twico the number of people assembled*
They cry hard times around here, but
if you could have seen that table, you
would have been ready to exclaim
that the people havo brought all they
have, or else, have no right to com
plain of hard times. I do not mean
to cast any reflection on what any
body has, or has not, but I say that
if a good workman had not been at
tho helm while constructing that ta
ble, and built it strong, down to the
ground it would have gone. Mr. ?.,
tho builder, knew what was in store
for that table. I don't think I can
get any farther than the table just
now, so I will only add, I am satis
fied every one did ample justice to
the viands it contained. And in con
clusion, the day was a pleasant one
to all, I think, and will bo long re
membered as one spent profitably
also. Respncfully, &c,
E. W. B.
A Now York correspondent says of
tho Texas Legislature: Tho clerk
seemed to mo to run tho machine, as
he has a good deal to say at differ
ent times. One thing in particular
amused me; he was calling the rol|,
and not liking the way the members
answered, or failed to answer, as thoy
lay back sprawling, with their feet
on the desk, ho cried out: "You fel
lers better pay attention 5 thoro won't
be a quorum if you don't look out."
AMMONIA, PIIOSIIATE OF LjMB, POTASH.
?o?
"J. C. 11." IN KFPL.Y TO "J. W. 8.'' AND
"LONG OBAgGfc.?
Editor Orangeburq D,pmocrat:
I have selected the above subject
to convince **J. W. S." and "Long
Orange" that J. never intended to per
manently improve my land and make
payiug crops with 15 bushels per
acre of cotton seed. He who attempts
it even with $0 bushels will pay dear
ly for Ins whistle. Wo admit that
ammonia is the most important in
gredient in all manurial substance,
but if not backed by phospate of limp
and potash, we cannot make crops.
Jn proof of this, I refer the parties to
the experiments of M. Villo, which
they will find in the book containing
Mr. Dixon's letters. Thoy nrq vqry
satisfactory. Ammonia is a stimu
lant. To prove this drop a tea spoon
of guano on good stable manure 6
inches from a hill of corn, examine
in June, and you will find a cluster
of roots running in every direction
in quest of other food. That it is a
solvent wo infer frqrp, our compost
heaps, promoting decomposition.
Scientific men advise qs to compost
cotton seed or stable manure with
bone in order that the ammonia may
aid in making good plaint food out of
the bone. Dr. Pendlcton, president
of the Agricultural College of Geor
gia, tells us that ammonia unlocks
the natural stores of potash apd oth
er undeveloped minerals of the soil,
and thus renders them available.
Besides }ts stimulating and solvent
effect it furnishes food chiefly con
cerned in building up the stalk.
Thirty pounds of ammonia make your
stalk 4 feet high, 15 lbs, make mine
2 feet. I would state here is the on
ly difference between "J. C. II." and
"J,. W. S." in the amount of am
monia. We agree in the application
of other plant food and cultivation.
I say to "J. W. S." and his ener
getic and ambitious brother farmers,
that there is great danger to their
over grown cotton^fljiajn drought.
That 10 days drought, when severe,
will cause their huge stalks to cust
fruit, when 20 days drought will only
stock mine with bolls. Mr. David
pixon says (hat the largest weed
nevor producos the greatest yield.
Our worthy president says apply 12
bushels with 100 pounds of dissolved
bone and 4 loads of rotted straw.
That you will not get a large weed
but the cotton. Last year he gather
ed 40 bales from 88 acres. Agricul
tural chemists ugree that we can
raise weed at the expense of the
fiuit, Friend *tj. W5. &<t" I have
practiced with your doses for 15 or
20 years, I understand their effect.
Two years ago I changed prescrip
tions with good results both years.
Come over next August and see the
effects. I have a number of experi
ments on foot which I hope may in
terest you. Mr. Editor, I have taken
up so much space with ammonia that
I will have to postpone for a future
lettor what I have to say about phos
phate of lime and potash. To friend
"Long Orange," I would say that I
am unable to locate you, but I know
you are a friend. You have troubled
yourself to give me the yield of the
Stewart farm (sandy land like mine)
by liberal manuring; you are appre
hensive that I am starving m\ land,
and will be compelled to sell to ward
off starvation from self and family,
and unable to get more than $10 per
acre. Come over next week, and lot
me alleyicto your fears by showing
you the contents of corn crib and
smoke house and several acres of half
starved oats, which, according to the
judgment of men of ago and experi
ence promises to yield only 75 bush
ol8 per acre. J. C. II.
Civil Rights in Georg!?.
In a case before Judge Krskine, of
the United States Supreme Court, at
Savannah, Ga., where a colored wo
man was ordered from the "white"
deck pf a steamer to a place below,
where accommodations were provided
for her class* and failing to comply,
way put off the boat and afterwards
instituted suit for damages, Judge
Ei shine has decided that common
crrriers have the right to provide
different accommodations for differ
ent classes of passengers, and to as
sign each ola?? to its quarters. Judge
Woods, of the United States Circuit
Court at Atlanta, has also recently
decided in a school question that
equality does noi mean identity, and
that separate accommodations may
be provided and insisted upon.
Fop Btittqr qn Worse.
The old map B,endigo keeps a pro'
ty sharp eyo op bis daughter Mary,
and many a \vould:bc lover h^s taken
a walk after a few minutes' conversa
tion with the hortj-heartpd parent.
The old chap is stuck this tirue, how
over, and tho cards are ont for a wed
ding. After the, lucky young man
had been oparking Mary for six long
months, the old gentleman stepped, in
as usuaj, requested a private confab,
and led off with :
"You seom like a nice young man,
and perhnpa you are in love with
Mary?"
"Yes, I am," was tho iionest reply.
'.'Haven't said anything to her yet,
have you ?"
'.'.WeU, no ; but I think she recipro
cates my affection."
"Does, eh ? Well, let mo tell you
something. Her mother died, a luna- .
tic, and there is no doubt that Mary
has inherited her insanity."
*'l'm willing to take the chances,"
replied ths lover.
"Yes, but you see Mary has a ter
rible temper. She has twice drawn
a knife on me with intent to commit
murder."
"I'm used to that?got a sister just
like her," was the answer.
"And you should know that I have
sworn a solemn oath not to, give
Mary a cent of my property," contin
ued the father.
"Well, I'd rathor start in poor and
build up. There's more romance }n
it."
The old rn.an had one more shot in,
his carbine, and he said :
"Perhaps I ought to tell you that
Mary'o mother ran away from my
homo wjth a butcher, and that all her
relaliqns. died in the poor house.
These things may be thrown up in
after years, and I now warn you."
"Bendigo," replied tho lover, "I've
heard all this before, and also that
you were on trial for forgery, had to
jump Chicago for bigamy, and served
a year in State prison for c.atllc steal
ing. I'm going to marry into your
I family to give you a decent reputa
tion. There?no thanks?good-bye !"
Mr. Bendigo looked after the young
man with his mouth wide open, and
when ho could get his jaws together
he said: "Some knave has gone and
given me away on my dodge 1"
He Cut Off his Tail.
Our old partner, Jarnos T. Wells,
Esq., who was a good and faithful
soldier of tlm Confederacy, in conver
sation yesterday related such a good
j[oke, showing the reckleaa humor of
our novo while in prison, that we
must needs tell on him. Our friend
iwus wounded at Gettysburg, captured
and confined at LVint Lookout. Tues
day he paraded with the survivors,
.and, after donning his blue and gold
badge, bethought him of a souvenir of
his prison life to wear also on the oc
casion. T.Uif-i consisted,(if a curious
ly knit watch chain, made of black
horse hair, which he accordingly at
tached to his hunting lever in lieu of
his gold chain. And the way in
which he obtained the material to
construct the chain is the fun of the
thing. One day at Point Lookout
the Provost Marshal hitched his
horse in tho grounds, and Coporal
Wells, tired of the inertia of prison
life and with an ingenious and fertile
mind, slipped up on the gaily capari
soned slced and scissored his beautt- J
ful black tail off to the stump and
quickly secreted it until the affair
quieted down, when he begun adding
to his prison comforts by knitting
and selling elegant horse hair chains,
He retained one for his own uso, and
his relation of tho affair would make
a horse laugh.? Columbia Register.
God'o Alarm Clock.
Conscience is God's alarm clock.
God has wound it up so that it may
warn us whenever we uro tempted to
do that which is wrong. It gives the
alarm. It seems to say, "Take care.
God bless you. Stop." JJow impor
tant it is to have a conscience that
will always warn us of the danger of
sin! But, if we desire such a con
science, wo must be willing to listen
to it. It wc stop when it says stop,
if wo do what it tells us to do, then
we shall hear it. But if we get into
the habit of not heeding its warning,
and not doing what it tells us to do,
then, by and by, wo shall cease to
hear it. Our conscience will sleep,
its voice of warning will be hushed,
and we shall then bo like a ship at
sea that has no compass to point out
the right way.
Rich and Raoy.
The following letter to a New Yonfe!
firm, |s fu|| pf fun and explains itself:
Hig,h Pojnt, N. c, May 1.
Jesars. John Smith $ Co.:
Gents?Replying to yours of the
18th ult., I have to say, that for the
prospect of having claims placed in
my hands to co^lectj in tb|s vicinity,
and nothing more, I do not feel will
ing to report the "standing" of the
party mentioned, or of any one else.
I do not wish to ho misunderstood as
saying that I do not waut paying
business, but I do know that a law
yer would starve as quick on com
missions and fees on collections as
he would on corn cob soup in Janu
ary.
X have had some experience in col
lecting since the war, or rather in
trying ^o collect, I have offered to
comp, claims by taking old clothes,
frozen cabbages, circus tickets, pa
tent medicine, whetstones, powder
horns, old Hour barrels, gourds.,
jay birds, owls, or almost anything,
and yet I have a number of those old
claims op hand unsettled. If I were
to depend on collecting claims for
my living, my bean broJk w;ould get
so thin that it would rattle in me like
pot liquor in a poor dog.
I don't like to shoot at long taw,
but if you, are inclined to pay any
thing qei;tai,n, for the desired reports,
I'm your man ; say ten dollars cash,
(hen I'm in, or If money is scarce, I
would take shoes, large N,os., say
10s, lls, and 12s, to the amount of
ten dollars at wholesale prices.
It's hard times here,?the niggers
and the Democrats have pulled and
worried each other till this country
smells like cheese. How in the
world would you collect money put
of a people who plow little speckled
bulls on hill sides. If you were to
see a nigger plowing his garden with
a sow, you would not wonder why 1
don't want claims to collect in this
vicinity. Respectfully^
J. R, Buij.a.
Teachers' Convention.
Editor Orangeburg Democrat:
I have been pained to see that the
valuable suggestion which you made
some time ago in the Democrat, that
a Teachers' Convention be bald in
the County, has met with so few re
sponses. I think it shows a great
apathy on the part of both teachers
and people on the vital subject of ed
ucation. \ am not acpustomed to
write for the public eye, but I am so
enlisted is the cause of education
that I cannot, consistent with my
feelings, keep silent any longer. Qur
worthy School Commissioner has
touched the key-note, which, I trust,
will resound through every dark
I avenue and corner of the county. By
all means let us have a Convention
at as early a ?i?y as possible. I hope
that the gentlemen whom Mr. Con- !
nor has named to arrange the timo
and place will see fit to serve, and,
that they will act promptly.
Tkacuee.
How to Break off Bad Habits.
Understand the reason, a,od all the
reason, why the Ipibit is injurious.
Study the subject until there is no
lingering doubt in your mind. Avoid
the place;;, tho persons, and the
thought that leads to. temptation.
Frequent the places, associate with
the persons, indulge in the thoughts
that lead away from the temptation.
Keep busy ; idleness is the strength
of bad habits. Do not give up the
struggle when you bu}ve broken your
resolution once, twice, a thousand
times. That only shows how much
need there is for you to strive. When
you have broken the resolution, just
think the matter over, und endeavor
to understood why it is you failed,
so that you may be on your guard,
against a recurrence of the same cir
cumstances. Do not think that it is
an easy folly to expect to break off*
a bad habit in a day, which may have
been gathering for long years.
Tin: Democrats organised the pre
sent popular branch of Congress by
four majority. Recently, on Q dis
tinct partizan issue made by the
President with Congress on the ques
tion of military intorfprpn,pp with
elections, the House gave thirty ma
jority in favor of the bill over the
veto. It is worthy of note that all
shades of political opinion not under
tho whip of the stalwart sectionalists
are against tho disturbing issue the
President has wantonly forced upon
the country.
A WORD ABO?ff flBftfAHtf.
gEfl,PEpTrSTJLLY BJ^-pATE^ TO THOSE
??H0NEVEBPAYT|f$5 p^NT??.
The Gainesville Eagle is the last
to let fly a few sbarp pointed and
well-timed arrows at bores and dead
beats who are always to be found
wherever a newspaper is published.
The following is to the point, and.
we move its unanimous adoption by
the press of the country :
There is not perhaps in the whole
range of business professions or calU
ings, one that is so little understood,
and about which there are as many
erroneous ideas as that of the con-,
duct, privileges, purposes and rights
of a newspaper. From it people ex
pect more, and propose to pay less,
than they would dare to ask from
auy other business in the world.
A. great many very good people
seem to forget that newspapers are
businesss enterprises. They ignore,
the fact that a newspaper man is,
flesh and blood, and that he must cat,
drink, wear, live, move and have
being as any other human biped.
They seem to forget that he has like
passions, like necessities, like cares,
troubles and anxieties with other
men. Hence, when he differs with,
them, when he oxpicssea an opinion,
in opposition to their own, with
warmth and vigor, they are ready to,
denounce him, and seem as much as
tonished as if an angel had flown
down from the outposts of heaven,
and pelted them with a brickbat. Ha
is expected to be above and beyond
the small weaknesses of humanity,
and soar around in, the elysian fields,
of grandiloquent genius, or leisurely
browse in the vernal pastures of pure
\yisdom., ond see everything as eve
rybody else sees it, and reconcile tho,
vast differences of opinion of imperi
ous thousands.
But it is not in this alone that tho,
world mistakes us. Very many, very
good people, good honest souls, who,
would never think of asking their,
grocer to give them a dime's wortlictf*
cheese, will ask a newspaper imui to.
sacrifice hid space^pay his printers,
to set u,n, the -type!, and wear out hi a
ma'.erial to do /them a service, and,
expect him to iiequicsce as a matter
of course. is astouishing howy
many people have axes to grind,
whjeh from' their standpoint are,
"masters of'public interest," and woe.
to the podr editor who cannot see it
in that light.
There (are two or three things,
which many good honest people need
to be educated to understand. One
is that editors are human. They are
liable to be mistaken, and are entit
led to the same charity as other, pep-.,
pie who may do likewise. Seeond,
that they cannot live on wind and
sleep on fences, and roust be paid for
their stock in trade, the came as at
merchant or any tohpr business man.
'J. hink, that a newspaper does not be
long to the world at large, but to its
owner a and conductors, and that it,
cannot be made a sluicebox through
which to flow all the surplus bile of
community or the trashy off slough-,
ing of the brain of every nineuhi-.
poop who itches to ape his name int
print.
The Sort ot Girl to Get.
The true girl has to be sought for.
She does not parade herself as^shpw
goods. She is not fashionable. Gene-,
rnUy she is not rich. ph 1 what
a heart she haa_wJion you find her 1
so,.large and purp, and womanly.
When you sce^it you wondor if those
showy things outside are wornem. If,
you gain her lovo youj: t\\^.th$usapdg,
are millions. She'll not ask you, for
a carriage or a first-class house.
She'll wear simple dresses, and turn
thorn when necessary, with no vulgar
magnificat t,o.frown upon her econo
my. She'll Ifenp everything neat and
nico in your sky parlor, and givo you
such a welcome when you come homo
that you'll think your parlor higher
than ever. She'll entertain truo
friends on a dollar, and astonish you
with the new thougWhow little happi
ness debouch) on money. She'll make
you love home, unless you are a brute,
and teach you how to pity, while you
scorn, a poor, fashionable society that
thinks itself rich and trieo to think
itself happy. Now, do not, I pray you,
say any more, "I can't afford to mar
ry." Go, find the true woman, and
you can. Throw away that cigar,
burn up that switch cane, be sensible
yourself, and seek your wife in & sen
sible way.