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m L Hi m 5^1%** ism < IT - >ir,,i?, ,=ai TWO DOLL AHR PER ANNUM. GOT) A. 1ST* ID OU? COUNTRY. ALWAYS IN ADVANCE. VOLUME 8. SATURDAY MORNING, FEBRUARY 13, 1875. NUMBER 52* * I Have No Wife. UT AN OLD MKMIM'.l! OF THE BACHELORSOLUD. I haTe.no wijfa I Young girls aro fair, ~ But how.it i?, I cannot toll, No'tooncr hre they weil than their Enchantments bid them ull farewell. The girlB, God bless them, make us yearn ( ; To risk all odds and ttiko a 'vifo? To cling to one ni d not to turn Ten thousand in the dance tf lifo. I havo no wife ! W ho'd have this noso Forever tied !o one lone flower, E'en though that flower should be a rose, J Pluck'd with light hand from fairy bower Oh 1 better far tho bright bouquet Of floWers of every ?lime and hue By turns to charm the mind away, And fragrance in the heart renew. I have fto wife! I now can chango From grave to gay, from light to sad, | And in my freedom wide can range? l Frei foi* a While, and then be glad. . I now can heed a sircn'B tongue. And now that, eyes glance not in vain; Make lovo apaoo, and being 'fluug,' Get up and try my luck again. > .1 ; i .? . .... i'J it ' . '?*. 1 I .' * t 1 have no wifo; and I can dream Of girls who'ro worth their weight in gold; . Can baak'my heart In love's broad beam, And dance to think it yet unsold. Or I can gaze upon a brow ?Which mind (and beauty both enhance; Go o the shrine and talto thy vow, And thank the fates I havo a chance. 1 have no Wife and like a wave, Can float to any land Cut up and kiss, or gently lave, The FWcctcPt flowers that are at hand A pilgrim, I can bend before E Tho shrine which heart and mind approve Or, Persian like, 1 can adoro . Each star that gems tho heaven of love -".it I have ho wife ! Tn Heaven, they say, Buch things as weddings are not known, Unyoked the blissful spirit a stray. O'er fields where care no shadu has thrown; Then why not havo a heaven below, And let fair Hymen hence bo bo sent ? 2t would be fine; but as things go, Unwodded folks won't be couteut? i???.'?IIWI A COMMONPLACE ROMANCE. BY BELLE FAIR IE. 'But what is your objectiou, my flear V f 'Simply thot I do not love him.' 'Hal ha! ha!' tho little matron's laugh rang out, like a chime of fairy bellB, making the French roses in her bonnet tremble,' the dainty plumes flutter, and all tho beads and bugles that went to make her costume a la mode Blinke*, as if in accordance with her glee. 'Pardon, my dear child,' she added, ns^I flushed up in rather indig tonnt surprise, 'but I really canuot help laughing, the absurdity is so extreme] Refuse a bon jp'arli because you do not love him!' As I reviewed our relative positions, I felt compelled to acknowledge that Eva's view of tho case was the most sensible one. Why.should I not follow her example, and marry a fortune ? Her husband was old euough to be her father, and Mr. Grovillc?the gontleman whoso cause sho Tfospleadiug?was a man in his prime. Then, too, my life ^ob so dreary and entirely ploasuroless; - and nt eighteen, one rebels at such an existence more than when some little of the bloom has been brushed from lifo. "Why should I cast aside the chance te escape? And, when onco I began to consider tho Bubjeof, good reasons why I should conBidor it favorably came to me by the score; and when Eva Phidor drove aw?yy iu . her softly ctishionod phncton, with its snowy ponies, she had my consent to bring Mr. Grevillo to call on mo. ?'Dear Fannie : Will you bo at home this evening, at eight V I had replied to Eva Phidor's pen oiled card of inquiry in tho nffirumtivo, and having made my toilot--whioh seme remnant of sensibility pre/euled my making any more elaborate than usual?i'?eated myself in tho protty French parlor,, with its intonsoly artili eial attrroundings, and thought seriously of the future I hod resolved to shnpo for myself. Rut my wayward thoughts strayed rcbclliously to tho past, and the vision of an old farm-house, in Jersey, usurped tho placo of the Parisian man siou which my nicrceuary heart co veted. An unpretending old Btono house? its gray walls half-hidden by clinging ivy and swiet-F.ccuted honeysuckle? came to me with intoxicatiug sweetness; and through tho suit haze of a Septem her evening, Harry Staunton came striding toward me, bis brown curls tossed by the wind all about his hand some, sun-browued faco. Harry was very handsome, and his big brown eyes were very truthful and earnest, aud shadowed in them every, emotion of his heart. I knew he was very fond of mc, but that was a privil ego a rcmoto cou;m:was cutitlcd to, aud ho had madcmy vlsii ttf auht'Stauuton unexceptionably pleasant: but when, that evening, as we strolled down tho moonlit walk to a sheltered rustic scat ?my favorite haunt?ho asked mc to be his wife, I gave him au unequivocal N?. Life must surely hold something better lor me, so 1 reasoned to myself, iu my girlish egotism, as T laughed at poor Harry's grieved lace. 1 laughed then, but 1 felt strangely like crying now. 'In a deep reverie ! Who is the happy subject of it, Fannie ?' Eva Phidor's laughiug tones roused mo from my reverie with an unpleasant shock; and followiug giugnrly in her footsteps, came Mr. Greville. I oan describe him . in a single word?prim. There was no originality about liim. I have oitcutimes secu models in the show winders of fashionable tailoring establish meuts that had quite as much exprcs bion and '^*nnnnt- '"^^^'?"?^y, ? His clothes were of the fiucst mater inl, cut in the latest style; his linen spot leas, and aggressively shiniug; inded, prim propriety was evident from the top of his bald head to the toe of his patent leather boot. He glanced at me with satisfied appro val, as I rose, iu blushing coufusion, to greet him. An hour after he was introduced to me, he alluded to Mrs. Phidor's kind ncsa iu his behalf, and seemed to cou eider his right and proprietorship of me quite a matter of course. 'My dear Fannie,' Eva whispered to me, as they were leaviug, 'that blusliin g confusion displayed at meeting has won the day for you.' Again the hot, indignant blood mounted to my cheeks, but I repressed the indignant dental that rose to my lips. I had consented to barter myself fur wealth; I had no right to shrink from a merceuary construction beiug put on my actious. * Mr. Greville was a model lover; he was attentive and not exacting. I could lind no fault with the prim propriety of his conduct in every respect. Our engagement was to be a shoit one. In six months wo were to b married. 1 often heard Mr. Greville speak of tho smart Yankee clerk he had iu his office. One afternoon we were to tnko a drirc together, whena mcssongor from his ofllco was announced. 'Will you allow my clerk to come in here for a moment, Miss Fannie V said my proper lover. I had scarcely bowed my consent, when a familiar tread echoed on the stairs, and as I turned in surprise to the door, Harry Sfaunton presented him self to my astonished gaze. 'Harry !' [ 'Fannie!' - Mr. Grevillc's surprised glanco ro called my confused thoughts, and I then explained to him that this Yankee clerk of his whs a distant cousin of mine. Harry and I oftou met after this, and somehow I found out that, after all, I had something more than mere cousinly regard for him?I ibuud . him such a , delightful contrast to my affianced bus band. Not until my wedding-day was only a month distant, did Harry forget tho respect due his employer, and make love to me again; and ho would not havo done so then, as lie has often since told ine, but he hated to see dear oki Mr. Greville sacrificed to mo. And I ?well I told htm I did care for him a great deal, but I was bound in honor to Mr. Greville, but that I would ask him to release nie. I was quite prepared to go through a scene with the man who, in one short month, I had promised to marry, when iu response to a uotc from mc, he came to me aud I confessed the true state of my afTectious. Imagine my surprise, and I must con (ess to a little disappoint moot, when he received the Information with a smile of ineffable relief. 'To be cqualiy candid with you, Miss Faunie,' be said, rubbing his hands together cheerfully, 'I really?well, I am indeed obliged to you. 1 don't mean that 1 am obliged to you cither?that is hardly the proper expression; but 1 think wu will boih be happier apart I have my own set bachelor ways, aud I have bcon grieving at the thought of substituting new ones.' A few more polite speeches and ho was gone, and 1?minus a considerable portion of my girlish egotism?am the happy wife of Harry sta?nt?h, and would not exchange places with an em press. One Cause of Southern Poverty. First, then, T assign as one of the rea sons of our continued poverty and want of progress the fact, that we do not pro duee enough of what we cat or weir, and Ouy teo much on a credit. To present an elaborate argument iu defence of this po.-itiou would require a volume. One or two practical facts will suffice to ^^fr1?,r|ffT W*,^"""' TapSlSfij That every farmer will give when apply ing the idea 4u hisow.i case will corrob orate llic^c lac's. In 1S59, the South produced over five million bales of cotton, of four hundred pounds each, which sold at average o f eleven cents per potfud realizing Ujs.s than $200,01)0,000. Iu 18G1), the cotton crop of the South was lets than three and a half millions of bales, four hundred pounds each, and sold for tin average of twenty two cents per pound, realizing over 8^00,000,000. The cotton crop of 1ST.'! reached cou sidcrubly beyond four millions of bales, und sold lor le=s than $275,000,000. Aud this has been the history of our crops annually in the past; have we any reason to anticipate that similar effects will not follow the same coarse in the future? Then if the all cotton policy or a large cotton crop h as actually tend cd to impoverish us as a people, wh > will usscrt that the same policy will not have similar effects upon iudi.'iduals ? On paper it can be easily proven, that cotton, ai a crop, will pay better than any or all other products I Jut these figures are far more unreliable than ih oft-abused labor of tho country. There is no question but ihat individual lar niers, having lands peculiarly adapted to the grow th of cotton, can net more money growing cotton and buying their bread stuffs and provender than by ctllti vatitig a diversity of crops. Hut it is an egregious error to think, that be cause A, B, or C, can do so, therefore every Southern farmer can pursue tho same course, anticipating the same result. Through a scries of years, regardless of the juice ofcoUon, (I reit erat here what I have often asserted before iu these pages), on iiiuely-tiino out ol every bundled Southern farms, it is cheaper tu grow oats for plough animals than to haul corn from the nearest depot, bC cause oats will follow cotton with no cost but the seed and harvesting, both of which can be paid lor every winter in tho mutton that can be fatted on the growing crops; it is cheaper to raise all the pork the farmer's family can cou Mime annually than to buy bacon at ten cents per pound; it is cheaper to grow a pound of wool, up to a certain number j of pounds, than tho same number of pounds of cotton; aud it is cheaper to grow anything that can possibly be grown upon tho farm than to buy it on a audit. Few farmers understand properly what is meant by 'buying on a credit.' They kncjiv they get the article and pay more f'ory't thanmFthey 'pa'd the cash, b?t tlicy-jiiovpr onco calculate tho prom iuui or jiM-ccu'.igc thoy aro paying for this privifjCge of getting time or'ere lit.' Let tnc illustrate. The average fanner may ruis.f' meat enough to do him till the 1st April. By that time ho has to buy, but j haying no cash, though good credit, httj 'goes to the store' and buys bacon at ; 15 cents per pound, payable 1st November following, lie learns the cash .mice is 12jj cents per pound, but neccsndy compels him to buy on a credit. I?^.- ths pays 2i cents per pouud for the privilege of buyiug on a credit, or one-six lb the price to bo paid, which is simply ?> 1GH per cent, per annum for the use id" noney. But he buys in April, and has So pay 1st November, only eight months' credit, and thus pays twenty jilic\ per cent. jicr annum lor the uro of mdiVcyWhat (armor can afford to do thii and live';' What is app li cable to bacon is equally so to com, hay, flour, implements, mules, au 1 every article the ''inner buys ou a credit. It is estimated that the average iu crease of (lie ngiicultural wealth of the United StVes is about four per.cent, per annum. The avcrago increase of agricultural* wealth in any S >u theru State, nun. ally, since the war has not been one pofr cent. Indeed, some of the StaUs have travelled the other road, and are now but in the wilderness ol debt; and there 13 no more potent cause for this conditlou of things than that of buying ou a* credit the necessaries of lilo to enable tljoui to grow cotton, and this, too, vary "equently at a cost that cx eeeds its Market value. There is an infatuation about this /cultivation of cotton tbatT.nounts loan hallucination. w'i' 'UllllWlTliOTtf**^,1 cured lo so fur i d is pel It ^Tlo induce tnc fctrnTiieru' rafj mcr to live more within himself and less ' at the mercy of the Shy locks of the land 7 . Cot.. i>. Wv.vtt Aikkx. in It urn I Carolinian fur February. A Pleasant Old .Man. The lato Alvah Crocker, member oT Congress from Massachusetts, married some two years ag i a v i." / v ? t t ; t -i d lovely girl. He was seventy one years old at the time, 1 luring the holidays he went home, and while there cau'ht cold and died. A correspondent .-ays that the only speech of any inonent It'1 in the house was a great ?-ueeess. This occured during the back pay debate. I t seems that at the close of the session of Congress that raised the sabinot of Congressmen he went b un.! an 1 w is afflicted with serious illness. II? was sick for a long time, an 1 s> missed all th*J spicy newspaper artic'.-s upon tho subject of the back p ty tili ;v who ha 1 not returned their extra pay to the treas ury. When Alvih got well he found no end of letters addreSiod to liiui, call iug him a thief aud the like. All of his woes Crocker recited iu his speech to Congress. His funny twang ami strong ucecnt, combined with a real hu mor collected a large erowil of moiilbcrs about, who cheered and laughed at the old man iu his first speech at if ho was one tho lir.t speakers of tho House. Ho will be missed by those who love his genial ways and droll manner of talk ing. Short Weight. Tho American CS rocer has opened a vigorous warfare upon tho system of swindling known as short weights, au d which consists of putting less into a package I hail tho marks on the outside represent .1 he Ullitlitatcd public have a little idea ol the extent to which this is done. Everything that is put iu packages is cut short?so short, in the ease of dys tcrs, that ouo packer, in No.v York con losses that it is quito common to put up sis, fiive or oven four ounces for a pound. Ail canned go ids arc put up iu the Ktine way aud the publio get about hall the quantity of goods they bargain aud pay for, and tako tho bal auco in water. A faithful friend is the medicine of Fight it Out Like Psi and Ma Do A story is (old ot':i daughter of n proiniucnt person now iu the lecture field, which is peculiarly suggestive of unconscious wisdom. A gentleman wus invited to tho lecturer's Iiousj to tea. Immediately on being seated at the La hie the little girl astonished tho Family circle and the guest by the abrupt quos tie u. ?Whore is your wile'i" Now the gentleman having been re cently separated from the partner of his life, was taken so completely by sur prise that he 'stammered forth tha truth. 'I don't know.' 'Don't know,' replied tho infant terri ble, 'why don't you know ?' Finding that the child persisted in her interrogatories despite the mild re proof of her parents, he concluded to make u clean breast of the matter and have it over at once. So ho said, with a calmness which was the result of in ward expletives : 'Well we don't live together, wo think as we can't agree we had better u ?t.' -lie stifled a groan as the child began again, and darted an exasperated look at her parents. Hut the little torment would not be quiit until s!i3 exclaimed: 'Don't agree Then why dou't you light it out as pa an 1 in i d > ?' 'Vengcuco is mine.' laughlingl/ retor ted the visitor,'afteripa' and 'ma* ex changed looks ol holy borrow followed by tho inevitable roar. The man that laughs heartily iss n doctor without a diploma. His fac? does more good in a sickroom than a bushel, of powders or a gallon of bitter. t-v r Uli"-'iti*' !fc?iiH?BBB?l^tvs ?''Li^vii sec him. 'Hetruauus atsWfeivoiy 1go" half way out to meet his grasp, while they turh involuntarily from the clam my touch of the dyspeptic who speaks in the groaning key. S ieh a one laughs ytiu out of jour !::u'ts, while you never dream of being offended with him; and you ucver know what a pleasant world you live in until he points out the sun ny streaks on its pathway. ? - ? -esrs A n odd cqnestri.iu wager has been wou by a H uogariuu officer lie under look tv ride hi- horse from Yion.ii to Paris?as the crow {lies, .n distance of over five huudrod miles ? within a fort night. Ile accomplished the task with two hours and a quarter to spare, al though he hud been delayed some hours by an accident to his horse. Th>> most expensively dressed man I saw, writes a captain in the British na vy, was an African chief on the Quid ! Coast. His wives hud aunoiutel him thorougly with palm oil, aud then now I de red him from head to foot with g?jd dust. You never saw iu your life a man got up s> utterly regardless of ex pen so. Dyed feathers should never bo worn out doors in rainy weather. The color goes off on its owu aocouut, aud leave* stains on bonnet and basque that cuu not be cradiotatcdi The same miy be said of f ?ail er trimming, much of what is sold nowadays being twice dyed, aud very poorly too. A curious scientist has lately been making a calculation ? which is, that a man talks, on an average, til res hours a day, at tho rate oT about twenty nine aetavo pages an liour This would tnako eighty seven pagos a day, about six hundred a week, which would amount to fifty two-good siz ,d volumes every year! The contemplation of distress softens 'the mind of man, and makes tho ho irt hotter. It extinguishes the e.eds of envy and ill-will toward niaukiu I, cor rects the prido of prosperity, and beats down all that ticicences and insolence which uro apt to get the minds of the daring aud the fortune. The name of tho sherilf of White County, ill., is Hail Storms. His lath er was an oeontric gcutlctnan, an 1 he had three sons, whom he named respect ively Hail Storms, Kuiu Storms and Snow Storms. iltcnis. j_ Beauty is tho flowering of virtue. Rocklcs&youth makci rueful age. Sorrows best antidote is^mplbyrnont. Confidence is the companion of see cess. ?*?>' ' Silent deeds aro better than unpro [liable words. .t'-iA Indolence is the rait of mind aad tke inlet of vice. . ? , i As you so* in the Spring ja.,tfp? Autumu you'll reap. - Gccsc having feathers t? shed should not prepare to shod thorn now. if. Troubles arc liko dogs; the smaller they are the more they annoy you. Great works' aro performed mare through perseverance than strength; UJ Young folks grow mast when in lo'vol I It increases their sighs wonderfully, bus A good namo will wear out; a bad one may be turne. .1; a nickname lasts forofas. Surnames first began in Egypt. and Florid i has just seat oat fifty tons of sponges. New Haven has been shipping trees io Constantinople. A Sau Francisco bride received one m illion dollars from her father as a Wel ding present. ?? ? ? 1 What was never seen-1?The iniproi sion of a kiss undo by a printer on his girls sweet lips. Peru has moro dogs tiip.u any. ether country of its size. Hence tho Peruvian bark. " . . . . I . 1 A waggish editor says that thestggofe of one of the western cities are'tobt* ] 'i^hted with r0C^'"iea^^y^^^^^^BH over oucsix th of the babitA globe. . A Kreuch la ly, who held in her band a glass of cold water, caid: 'Oh! if it were ouly wickc 1 to drink this, hbif nice it would be V When we sec a young man thai spends all he earns we are inclined to suspect tint ho doos not always earn all he speuds l Two important objects?Tho diacov cry of what is true, and the practice of what is good, aro tho two most imps: tant objects of life. A Fitchburg (Mass.) druggist has di monstrated that it takes forty-eight thousand house fiios to weigh one pound. One of the latest discoveries in this excavation at Home is a magaifioent bast, in p in'eet coa lition?-hi E nproJi Flotiua, wile of Traj.in. * Hfl uaul. Warmth, rest, cleanlinesi aud pare air mere effectual as preventive^, aud of ten as curatives, of disease than all the medioines in the world. The making of doll' shoos has grown within the past six or eight years iato a business of sufficient importasea la 00 cupy several tuaanfaeteriee. The city of Liverpoel is staking dt> rang emeu ts to have a baadsamcly fay. nished mansion where gaaats eflkt eitrjr will be appropirately domiciled daring their sojouro there. The extravagances of young ra?S of tho present day seen ae nothing beeide old time wastefulness. During t) o reign i f Louis XIV, tho laces necessa ry for a gentleman's costume costs $13,? 000. Baby shows are bslievea to be aa American invention, but it waa left io Australia to get up a no<o shov? Eighty persons eompoted for the., prize offered for tho mo?t extraordinary promincnoe in form, size and color. A Boston lady recently met with a singular accident While walking in the street, a man came suddenly around a corner with a lighted cigar in hif mouth, and the cigar struck her in the eye, loiviug a mark wh'nh she will car ry all her lifo. At the Sontheim end of Lake Nyaasa, a missionary aud coinmercial settlement is to be established, bearing the narao ol Doctor Livingsf6ne. One special ob jeet designed }6 be accomplished by it is the suppression of the slavo trade in that part of Africa. /