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"VOL. 27. YORKYILLE, S. O., THURSDAY, MAY 5, 1881. NO. 18.
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LET'S SIT DOWN AND TALK TOGETHER
BY THOMAS MACKKLLAR.
Let's sit down and talk together
Of the things of olden dav.
When we, like lambkins loosed from tether,
Gaily tripped along the way.
Time has touched us both with lightness,
Leaving furrows here and there,
And tinging with peculiar brightness
Silver threads among our hair.
? Let's sit down and talk together;
Many years away have past,
And fair and foul has been the weather
Since we saw each other last.
Many whom we loved are living
In a better world than this;
And some among us still are giving
Toil and thought for present bliss.
Let's sit down and talk together;
Though the flowers of youth are cieau,
The ferns still grow among the heather,
And for us their fragrance shed.
Life has a thousand blessings in it,
Even for the aged man;
And God has hid in every minute
Something we may wisely scan.
Let's sit down and talk together;
Boys we were?we now are men ;
We rheet awhile, but know not whether
We shall meet to talk again.
Parting time has come; how fleetly
Speed the moments, when their wings
Are fanned by breathings issuing sweetly
From a tongue that never stings!
She Seller.
THE WIFE'S WAGES.
"Well, Nettie, what do you want?" said
Mr. Jarvis to his wife, who stood looking rather
anxiously at him, after he had paid the
factory hands their week's wages.
"Why, Donald," said she, "I thought as I
had worked for you all the week, I would
come for my wages, too! You pay Jane S2
a week, surely 1 earn that, and I would like
very much to have it as my own."
"Pshaw, Nettie, how ridiculous you talk.
You know that all I have belongs to you and
the children?and don't I furnish the house
and everything ? What under the sun would
you do with the money if you had it ?"
"I know, Donald, that you buy the necessaries
for us all, and I am willing that you
should do so still, but I should like a little
money of my very own. We have been mar
ried fifteen years, and in all that time I do
not seem to have earned a dollar. As far as
money is concerned I might as well be a
slave. I cannot buy a quart of berries, nor a
book, without asking you for the money, and
1 should like to be a little more independent."
Mr. Jarvis, proprietor of Jarvis' mills,
worth thousands and thousands of dollars,
laughed derisively.
"You're a tine one to talk of independence,"
he said. "If you would start out to make
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jTWUV UWU living JUu \t ivuvM ... ...? r
house soon enough, for what could you do to
earn a living ? The girls in the factory
know how to do their work, and they earn
their wages. Wheu I have paid them my
duty is done, but I have to board and clothe
you, and take care of you when you are sick.
If I had to do that for the girls I would
have precious little money left, I can tell
you."
"Donald, I gave up my good trade when I
married you. For 6ve years I had supported
myself by it, and many a time since have
I envied myself the purse of those days. As
for my not earning anything now, I leave it
for you to say whether it would be possible
to hire another to take my place ; and how
much do you suppose it would cost to do
without me a year ? I know the girls have
little after paying their expenses, but they enjoy
that little so much. Allie Watson sup
ports herself and her mother with her wages,
and they both dress better than I do. Jennie
Hart is helping her father pay off the mortgage
on his farm, and she is so happy that
she can do so. Even Jane, the kitchen girl,
has more freedom than I, for out of her own
- money she i3 laying by presents for her relatives,
and will send them, as much to her own
pleasure as theirs. Yesterday an Indian wo-1
man was at the house with such handsome I
bead work to sell, and, although I wanted |
some money so much, I had rfot a dollar ! I |
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leit line urjrmg wueii uauc uiuuguc iu u?i i
week's wages and bought half a dozen arti
cles that I wanted so much. You often say
that all you have is mine, but five dollars
would have given me more pleasure yesterday
than your huudreds of thousands of dollars
worth of property did."
"No doubt of that, Mrs. Jarvis. You
have no idea of the value of money, and
would have enjoyed buying a lot of bead
trash that would not be worth a cent to anybody.
Jane needs a guardian if she fools
away her money like that. She will be in
the county poor house yet if she dod't look
out. It's very lucky, indeed, that men do
hold the money, for there's not one woman
in a huudred who knows how to use it!"
"For shame, Donald Jarvis ! You know
better. Look at Jerry and Milly Greg, will
you, and say that he makes the best use of
his money. She is at home with her parents
every uight, making her wages go as far as
possible toward making them comfortable, I
while he is carousing in the village, wasting
his time and money, and making a brute of
himself besides. And why does Mrs. Sartau
come to receive her husbaud's wages herself?
Simply because he cannot get by the saloon ;
with money in his pocket, and if she did not;
get the money they would all go hungry to
r bed after his wages were j>aid. And I believe
that every woman that earns money :
here spends it as wisely as the average man, i
aud I have yet to hear of one of them being
in debt."
Mr. Jarvis knew that he could not gainsay 1
a word his wife had said, for they were all i
true. Luckily he thought of Jane.
"Well, how mucj) do you suppose Jane
will have left at the end of the year ? If she ;
would get sick how long could she pay for
such care as you have?"
"It is not likely she will lay up many dol-1
lurs out of a hundred a year ; but she is lay- i
ing up something better, I think. Last win-;
tar she seut her mother a warm shawl and a
p lir of shoes, and to her brother and sister,
.new school books, aud the warm, loving let-!
ters they send her do her more good than
twice the amount of money in the bank
would. This year she is laying by a number
ot useful and pretty things for them, and if
any misfortune should happeu to Jane they
would only be too glad to help her."
"Well, who do you suppose would help
you if you needed help ?" said Mr. Jarvis,
for want of a better question. Mrs. Jarvis'
eyes sparkled angrily as she answered :
"Nobody. If you should lose your property
to-day I should be a beggar, without a
claim on anv one for help. You have always
held your purse strings so tightly that it has
been hard enough to ask for my own necessities,
leaving others out altogether. Many
a time a dollar or two would have enabled
me to do some poor man or woman untold
goo 1, hut although you have always said that
all your property was mine, I never could
and cannot now command a dollar of it."
"Lucky you couldn't, if you wanted to
spend it on beggars."
"Donald, you know that I would spend
money as wisely as you do. Who was it
that, only last week gave a poor, lame beggar
five dollars to pay his fare to Burton,
and then saw him throw his crutches aside
and make for the nearest saloon ? Your wife
could not do worse if trusted with a few dol
lars. You say that the money is all mine,
yet you spend it as you please, while I cannot
spend a dollar without asking you for it
| and telling what I want it for. Any beggar
can get it in the same way. Christmas you
bought presents for us and expected us to be
grateful for them ; a shawl for me of the very
color that I cannot wear, a set of furs for
j Lucy that she did not need, a drum for Robj
in that has been a nuisance ever since, and a
j lot of worthless toys that were broken up in
a week. There were forty or fifty dollais of
my money just the same as thrown away, yet
when I ask you to trust me with two dollars
a week you cannot imagine what use I have
for it, and fear it will be wasted. I am sure
I could not speud fifty dollars more foolishly
if I tried to."
"Well," snapped the proprietor, "I guess it
is my own money, and I can spend it as I
please. I guess you'll know it, too, when
you get another present."
"Oh, it is your money, then. I understood
you to say that it was all mine, and pretended
to protest against your spending it so foolishly.
If it is vour own. of course you have
j a right.to spend it as you please, but it seems
to me that a woman who left parents, and
brothers and sisters, and her friends, to make
a home for you among strangers, a woman
who has given her whole life to you for fifteen
years, might be looked upon with as
much favor as you give beggars, who are very
likely to be imposter3. I know that you seldom
turn them off without help. Perhaps I
would be more successful if I appealed to
you as a beggar; I might say: Kind sir,
please allow me out of your abundant means a
small pittance for my comfort. It is true I
have enough to eat, and do not suffer for
clothing, but, although I work for my master
from morning to night, and if his children
happen to be sick, from night until morning
again, yet he does not pay me as much as he
does his cook, and I am often greatly distressed
for want of a trifling sum which he would
not mind giving to a perfect stranger. The
other day while he was from home, I had to
go to the next station to see a dear friend who
was ill, and not having a dollar of my own,
I was obliged to borrow the money from his
cook. I was so mortified 1' And not long
since the berry-woman came with such nice
berries to sell, and my little girl who was
not well wanted some very badly, but I had
not even five cents to pay for a handful for
her. Yesterday a friend came to ask me to
assist in a work of charity. It was a worthy
object, and I longed so much to give her a
little money for so good a purpose, but though
the wife of a rich man, I had no money. Of
course I might ask my husband for money,
and if I told him about what I wanted with
it, and he approved of my purpose and was
in a good humor, he would give it to me;
but, sir, it is terribly slavish to have to do so,
even if I could run to him every time I wanted
anything. People say I am a fortunate
woman because I am rich, hut I often envy
11 ^ * ^ ~ oo?<n onrl
Uie IUCLU.'-y gHJS men auunj IU earn uuu
spend their own money. And sometimes I
get so wild thinking of my helplessness that if
it were not for my children I would just drop
into the river and end it all."
"Nettie! Nettie Jarvis! What are you
saying?" cried the startled husband, at last,
for the far away look in her eyes, as if she
did not see him, hut was looking to some
higher power to help her, touched bis pride,
if it did not his heart, for he had a good deal
of pride in a selfish sort of way. He was
proud to be able to support his family as well
as he did. He was proud that when his children
needed new shoes he could tell his wife
to take them to Crispin's aud get what they
needed. He did it with a flourish. He was
uot one of those stiugy kind?he liked to
spend money ; and when Nettie who was once
the most spirited young lady of his acquaintance,
came meekly to him for a dress or cloak,
he was sometimes tempted to refuse her money
just to show her how helpless she was without
him. Ves, he was proud of his family, and
wauted them to feel how much they depended
upon him. He would have felt aggravated
if any one had left his wife a legacy, thus allowing
her to be independent in her purse.
The idea of her earning money, as his other
work-folks did, never entered his mind. He
"supported herthat was his idea of their
relations! He never had happened to think
that it was very good of her to take his money
and spend it for the good of himself and children.
He never had thought that any other
woman would have wanted big pay for doing
it. He had even thought himself very generous
for allowing her money to get things to
make the family comfortable. Things began
to look differently to him just now. Could it
be that he was not generous, not even just-to
his wife ? Had he paid her so poorly for her
fifteen years of faithful labor for him, that ifshe
had been obliged to begin the world for
herself that day, it would have been as a penniless
woman, notwithstanding the houses, the
lands and mills that he had so often told her
were all hers ; for he knew, as every one else
did, that not one dollar of all he had would
the law allow her to call her own.
How fast he thought, standing there at the
office window, looking down at the little
houses where the mill hands lived. Could it
be possible that his wife envied them anything
? He had felt deeply the wrongs of the j
slaves, whose labors had been appropriated by
their masters, and when a negro who had
worked twenty years for his master before the
emancipation freed him, came to Jams' mills,
friendless and penniless, the heart of the proprietor
swelled with indignation at such in-o
justice. He was eloquent on the subject, at j
home and abroad, and wondered how any one
could be so cruel and selfish as to commit !
such au outrage against justice. He had
called him a robber many a time, but now
Donald Jarvis looked to himself very much
like the old slaveholders ! Massa Brown had
taken the proceeds of CufTee's labor for his
own without even a "thank you" for it. True,
when Cuffee ate he had given him food, when
he was sick he had given him medicine, and
he had clothed him, too, just as he had thought
best. Mr. Jarvis had married a lovely, con
scientious woman, and for fifteen years had
appropriated her labors. Her recompense
had been food and clothes, such as he thought
best for her. A little better than CufTee's,
perhaps, but the similarity of the case did not
please him. He had expected his wife to be
very grateful for what he had done for her,
but now he wondered that she had not rebell
ed long ago. Had his life been a mistake?
Had his wife no more money or liberty than
Cuffee had in bondage ? Was Donald Jarvis
no better than Massa Brown ?
His brain seemed to be in a muddle, and
he looked so strangely that his wife, anxious
to break the spell, took his arm saying, "Let
us go home, dear, tea must be waiting for us."
He put on his hat in a dreamy way and they
walked home in silence. The children ran
joyously to meet them. The yard was so
| fresh and green, and the flowers so many
and bright that he wondered he had never
thanked Nettie for them all. Hitherto he
! had looked upon them as his, but now he
felt his interest in them was only a few dollars,
that would not have amounted to anything
but for his wife's care. His children
were tidy and sweet, and everything around
and in the house had that cheery look that
rested him so after the hard, dull day at the
mill. They sat again at the table, which had
been a source of pleasure and comfort to him
for so many years, and he wondered how he
could have enjoyed it so long without ever
thanking the woman who had provided it.
True,she had used his money in bringing it
all about, but how else could his money be
of use to him ? Who else could have turned
it into just what he needed day after day for
years ? And he began to have an undefined
feeling that it took more than money to make
a home. He glanced at his wife's face as he
buttered his last slice of bread.
It was not that of the fair, rosy bride
whom he had brought to the mill years before,
but at that moment he realized it was
far ^raore dear to him, for he knew that she
%ad given the bloom and freshness of her j
youth to make his home what it was. His
daughter had her rose leaf cheeks, his sons
her youthful vivacity, all had her cheerful,
winsome ways, and comforted him now as she
had in those days when, hardly knowing
what care meant, she had lived for him alone.
And a new thought came to him, "Who
"AmfArfinrt Tier nnw when she had so
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much care? Was not that what he promised
to do when he brought her from her old
home ?" He sighed as he thought how far
he had drifted from her while in bondage
equal to Cuffee's. Nay, he felt that her chains
were far more binding than any which had
ever held the negro, and that his obligations
to her were so much greater.
Something called the children out of doors,
and Mr. Jarvis took his easy chair. His
wife came and stood beside him. "I fear
you are not well, Donald ; are you displeased
with me?"
He drew her into his arms and told her
how her words had showed him what manner
of man he was, and there were words
spoken that need not be written, but from
that day forth a different man was proprietor
of the Jarvis mill, and there was a brighter
light in Mrs. Jarvis' eyes, for, at least she had
[ something of her own, nor has she regretted
that she "applied for wages."
fjpSttUanftrosi
THE STORY OF A POST ROUTE.
fLetter to the New York Times.J
Washington, April 21.?A case that illustrates
the boldness of the fraud systematically
practiced during the last four years in
the management of the star postal routes is
furnished by the route known as No. 10,104,
and running from Mineral Park, Arizdna, to
Pioche, Nevada, a distance of 232 miles.
This route was let on July 1, 1878, to Minter,
.Feck <? U()., at $Z,yUO per annum mr a weeaijservice.
In August or September, 1878, the
route was sub let by the contractors to Isaac
Jennings, of St. Thomas, Lincoln county,
Nevada, at $4,700 per annum, or $1,800
more than the contract price. Soon after receiving
the sub-contract Jennings was requested
to get up a petition for tri weekly service,
but refused to do so on the ground that the
proposed increase was wholly unnecessary.
Notwithstanding his refusal, however, to make
a movement to secure increased service, he
was surprised to receive from Washington a
sub-contract calliug for tri-weekly trips, and
raising the pay to $12,600 per annum. This
is explained by the fact that in April 1879,
the original contractors, through their influence
with the postoflice department, secured j
an increase to tri weekly service, and had the
pay raised to $22,300 per annum. Thus it
will be noticed that Jennings, who was performing
this service, received of this increase
only $12,600, leaviug $9,700 to be divided
among the principals.
In July, 1879, or about three months after
the first increase was made, the service was
still further increased without any solicita- |
tion from Jennings, and without his knowledge,
to seven trips per week, and the yearly
pay was raised at the same time to $52,000.
When this last increase was made, Jennings
was ordered to put ou daily service, at the
rate of $28,000 per annum, thus leaving
$24,000 per annum to be divided among the
principals. -Before the route was increased
to daily service the contract was transferred
from Minter, Peck & Co., to J. W. Dorsey.
When the change was made Jennings was not
informed of the fact that the department, in
addition to directing increased trips, had
also expedited the service.
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ADOUL tnree muuuis unci uic uausici iu
Dorsey, Jennings was informed by M. C.
Riedell that the schedule time had been shortened
to sixty hours. Riedell was the clerk
and agent of Dorsey, and in order the more
effectually to carry out the fraudulent purposes
of the Ring, Dorsey made a contract
with Riedell at the full contract price named
above and filed this agreement at the department.
After making the nominal contract
with Riedell, Dorsey made an actual contract
with Jennings for both tri weekly and daily
service, specifying that he should be paid
$12,600 for the tri-weekly and $28,000 for
the daily service, tfhich was $9,700 per annum
below the sura fixed by the department
for the tri weekly service, and $24,000 below
that fixed for the daily service. Jenuings
acted in perfect good faith, and was ignorant
of the transactions between Dorsey aud his
clerk.
The agreement made between Dorsey and
Jennings was forwarded by the latter to Rep
resentative Daggett, of Nevada, with the request
that it be filed with the postoffice department.
Mr. Daggett, immediately upon
receipt of the agreement, left it with J. L.
French, chief clerk of the contract office, requesting
him to place it on file. For the service
of the first quarter under the tri-weekly
contract Jennings received his full pay according
to the terms of the contract. At the
'expiration of the next quarter, however, he
not only failed to receive the pay due, but
he received notice irom the department that
fines had been imposed for failure to perform
service, and that instead of the government
owing him $7,000 he was debtor to the Government
by reason of the fines imposed, iu the
sum of $700. These fines, it seems, were imposed
because of Jenuings' failure to perform
the service on the expedited schedule, of which
he had no notice until informed by Riedell,
as above explained. Not comprehending
this method of doing business, and by the
1 ?iitlunli fKirnntonorl liim
large jjctjuinui j ium huivu ?i>v>.i.v..vv. , (
Jennings at once proceeded to Washington.
Before leaving the West he obtained a number
of signatures to a protest against the
j frequency of the expedition of the service
! ordered by the department. There was no
j necessity, whatever for the increase, as the !
j route was through the wilderness, and the j
I number of letters carried over it at any time .
i did not average three per week.
Arriving at Washington, Rif dell ascer- j
tained that Jennings intended to file this
j protest with the department, and, in order to j
prevent such damaging testimony being made j
'part of the public records, he gave Jennings !
?3,500 not to place the protest on file. In
the meantime, however, Riedell received |
from the Government full pay, less the penal- j
I ties, all of which were charged to Jennings, j
For the two following quarters Jennings was j
paid only ?330, his principal claiming that \
i the balance was consumed by fines. Jenj
nings having been thus exhausted, the route i
was sold by the owners toSaulsbury, Gilmore !
&, Co. Jennings remained in Washington j
with the expectation that he would obtain ,
justice from the postal authorities, not supposing,
of course, that the very persons from ,
whom he expected protection and redress
were parties to the practices by which he had
been defrauded. He had no rights whatever
which the postoffice officials were bound to respect,
for the reason that he was unknown to
them, his agreement never having been placed
on the files of the department. The contract
between Jenningsand Riedell, which Mr. Daggett
left with Chief Clerk French, was not
placed on the files of the department until
March, 1881, and then only upon the per
emptory demand of Mr. Daggett and the twc
senators from Nevada, whom he made acquainted
with the injustice done him.
A TEMPERANCE COUNTY.
No county in Georgia had more still houses
and barrooms to the number of inhabitants
than Carroll twenty years ago. Drinking
[ places were not only to be found in the little
town, but also at the cross roads and country
places throughout the county. No more
unfavorable place could have been selected
than this county. It was settled by a class
of citizens who regarded plenty of corn whisky
and peach brandy as essential to good
living. Liquor was sold without scruple and
drank without stint. Many of the people
spent all their means beyond a bare living,
for strong drink. Education and churches
were neglected. Ignorance and vice prevailed
to such an alarming extent that the
very name of the county became a by-word
and reproach in the State ; it was called the
"free State of Carroll." The better citizens,
going from the coufity, were ashamed to
acknowledge where they were from. The
county of Carroll was once synonymous with
still houses, chicken fighting, horse swapping,
pony-clubs, one-ox-carts, poverty, piney woods
nrwt irrnnronnp
The first move toward prohibition in this
county was made at Bowden. In the very
act by which the town was incorporated was
a clause prohibiting the sale of whisky in so
many miles of the place.
In 1863, Dr. \V. W. Pitts moved to Carrollton,
the county seat, and begau at once
the abolishing of the whisky traffic by law.
He stood well nigh alone for several years.
With an energy that never tired, and a deter
mination that never faltered, he worked on.
He was foiled frequently by the liquor men,
but he never gave up the struggle. Other
men moved into the town, and united their
intelligence with his. They managed the
prohibition movement with great prudence
and tact. They did not organize for one
yeur. After an election at which they were
defeated by the liquor men, they did not
abandon their hopes ; but began to work for
another election. By keeping organized all
the time, they conserved their forces, and
though they did not succeed for several
years, they were all the time educating public
opinion. Thus they prepared to hold the
field when they won it.
In Carrollton the temperance men worked
twelve years without success. In 1875, a bill
was passed by the Legislature prohibiting
the sale of liquor in the town.
In spite of opposition and abuse, the temperance
men succeeded, and with results that
are marvellous.
1. The trade of the town has been more
than doubled. Before the liquor traffic was
abolished the trade of the place was about
$'200,000 a year, now it is $500,000 a year.
There are thirty stores in town, and I do not
know of a single merchant among them who
would not vote against the liquor traffic on
purely business grounds. Mr. John W.
Stewart, who has made a fortune here, says,
as a business man, that he would not have
liquor back for any consideration. Some of
our leading merchants were opposed to prohibition
at. first because thev feared that it
would injure their trade. They are unanimously
in favor of it now. The $30,000 that
was spent here for whisky prior to 1875 is
now spent in building houses, improving
stock, draining lands, and paying taxes. The
farmers are nearly all out of debt. Many of
the men who were spending all of their money
for whisky have quit drinking and are making
a support for their families.
2. The argument that men would drink
anyhow does not hold good but with very
few. Perhaps there are in every town some
few men who have drank so long that they
are slaves to the hnbit. Such men would
send off' and get whisky, and drink anyhow.
But we have learned that, with nearly all
the people, whisky is like watermelons?the
supply creates the demand. Do away with
the supply and there will be no demand, as
a general thing. By prohibiting the sale of
liquor in the towns of Georgia we will soon
have a generation of young men who will
have no desire for it whatever.
3. We have two drug stores here; but not
a particle of liquor is sold in either of them.
The leading druggist here told me that he
kept alcohol in the store; but he used it
only for tinctures. * An attempt was made by
one of the druggists to sell bitters; but the
grand jury soou found so many true bills
against bim that he promised the people of
the town if they would ask the judge to be as
merciful in bis lines as possible, he would
never sell another bottle of bitters or a drop
P ? 1- ! _ 1
oi wnisay.
4. In ft mornl point of view, the results of
this movement in our town have been pefectly
remarkable. The solicitor of this judicial
circuit says there is less crime in this county
than any other county in this circuit. Most
of the people have joined the church. Profanity
is nlraost unknown. On the train that
comes daily into G'arrollton, not an officer or
trainband on it ever swears an oath.
The soberness and quiet which prevail
here, even on election days and court weeks,
strike visitors as being wonderful. At a barbacue
here last year, though there were together
about four thousand people, Col.
Thomas Hardeman, who spoke on the occasion,
said that he never saw a drunken man.
He regarded it as something almost new under
the sun. A committee of good men revised
the jury-box, leaving out the names of
those who habitually drank whisky. The
county has been elecling, for the past twelve
years, Dr. D. B. Julian, ordinary, who will
not grant license to sell liquor anywhere in
the county, for love, or threats, or money.
He has done a grand work for the county,
and so could every ordiuary if he would.
The prohibition movement in this county
is a grand success. Three fourths of the
white people in Carrollton are opposed to the
sale of whisky and nearly the same proportion
in the county.? Christian Statesman.
Sleep.?There is no fact more clearly established
in the physiology of man than this,
that the brain expends its energies and itself
during the hours of wakefulness, and that
these are recuperated duriug sleep. If the
recuperation does not equal the expenditure,
the brain withers. This is insanity. Thus it
is that in early English history persons who
were condemned to death by being prevented
from sleeping always died raving maniacs.
Thus it is that those who are starved to death
become insane. The brain is not nourished
and they cannot sleep. The practical infer
encos are tuese:
Those who thiuk most, who do most brain
work, require most sleep.
That time "saved" from necessary sleep is
infallibly destructive to mind, body and estate.
Give yourself, your children, your servants;
give all who are under you, the fullest amount
of sleep they will take, by compelling them
to go to bed at some regular, early hour, and
to rise in the morning the moment they awake
of themselves, and within a fortnight nature,
with almost the regularity of the rising sun,
will unloose the bonds of sleep the moment
enough repose has been secured for the wants
of the system. This is the only safe and sufficient
rule, and as to the question how much
sleep any one requires, each must be a rule
for himself; great nature will never fail to
write it out to the observer, under the regulaI
tions just given.
m
[ TKE USE AND ABUSE OF FUN.
What should we be without the gift to
1 brighten our existence on our earthly pil
griraage ? A love of fun is most often found
accompanied by a cheerful and lively disposition.
We can imagine no drearier state
than that of an individual who, during the
' whole of his lifetime, can obtain no fun or
pleasure, in the slightest degree, in his daily
intercourse with his fellow-creatures. But it
is a well-known fact that even of the best of
things one can have too much. Even fun has
its limits, and a more wearisome thing can
scarcely be imagined than an individual who,
at the most inappropriate times, cannot re
frain from turning the most commonplace of
conversation into fun and ridicule.
This is certainly a great tailing; out or
course there is a graver aspect under which it
can be regarded, viz., the love of ill-natured
fun. A laugh raised at the expense of a
well-meaning person is highly injudicious,
and in many cases rarely forgotten. The
turning into ridicule of another person's
words and ideas is a most uncharitable and
hurtful habit, which, when long forgotten by
the speaker, rankles in the mind of the victim.
There is nothing more disagreeable to
a very sensitive nature than the fear of being
made fun of and turned into ridicule, and
the very slightest inclination towards this unchristian-like
habit will cause the victim of it
such pain and shrinking that a less sensitive
mind would scarcely deem possible. We
should be especially careful of these sensitive
ones, especially as one can never tell the
harm a careless word leveled in mere jest
may do. It rankles in the miud of the sensitive
one, and gives a pernicious precedent to
the hearers of it. After all, this is a failing
which happily is not general, and brings its
own punishment; for those few who find real
pleasure in giving pain to others by ill natural
and personal fun are rarely well spoken
of, even by those who profess to see no
harm in it. A sarcastic person may have
many admirers, but nu real friends, as directly
personal intercourse with them ceases, and
when one's back is turned, then one trembles
for one's own character. But this is a spiteful
and uncharitable fun, only resorted to by
those who, disgusted with and weary of the
world, can find consolation in the endeavor to
convert others to their opinion.
. There is one more abuse of fun which is
necessary just to touch upon, and which,
while the love of pure and holy things exists,
can never become a habit?I mean the dan
ger that one has to guard against of speaking
in fun of sacred and holy things, or in any
way bringing them into ridicule. It may be
that, to a really witty person, the inclination
to this irreverent practice has to be more
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oai v^iunj 5uuiuuu vu...i ...v^w .. . sense
of wit is less keen. If a witty speech
or joke is on our lips which would turn into
the slightest fuu or ridicule things only to be
spoken or thought of with reverence, let the
words remain unspoken, let the witty sen|
tence be wasted, rather than be uttered to
fall perhaps on some untutored aud wavering
. mind, and prove a stumbling block in that
mind for years and years after the words
were uttered and forgotten. So much for the
abuse of this gift. When rightly used it is
an undeniable blessing to those who, with a
constant and ever-ready source of cheerfulness
and fun, cun make lighter daily trials
and difficulties, and even afford to help a less
hopeful brother or sister on their earthly
journey.?Harper's Bazar. '
A FABLE?HOW THE COON PRESIDED,
Once upon a time there was a general assemblage
of fowls and animals, called together
to discuss the question of reform. The tiger
shed tears over the wickedness of the
rabbits, the hyena wept at the rapacity of the
vultures and the wild cat pressed his paws to
his aching heart and sighed over the villainies
perpetrated by the rats and mice. A venerable
old coon was made chairman of the meeting,
and after clearing his voice he began :
"My friends, there is a great need of re"
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lorm. w e are arming aown 10 perumou ai
race-horse speed. Speak, brothers, and let us
have a full aud frank expression."
"I am for-reform," said the tiger as he rose
up. "I see the coons out every night, stealing
corn and raising old Ned generally, and I
hope they may be brought to see the error of
their ways."
"Reform is my watch-word," began the
buffalo as he secured the floor, and I hope the
tigers will commence the good work in their
midst. The tiger who just addressed you has
the blood of my slain calf still on his lips."
"It is my opinion," began a veteran old
hyena, "that reform is most needed among
the vultures. They have become so bold that
I hardly stand a show nowadays to find a car
cass for myself."
"And since men have ta':en to carrying
guns and swords I hesitate to attack them,"
said a wolf. "I move you, Mr. Chairman,
that it is the sense of this meeting that men
no longer go armed."
"Hear what I have to say," pleaded the
wild cat. "I move that the panther be censured
for eating flesh."
"And my friend the cow should be forced
to let grass alone," observed an elephant."
"In order to get the sense of the meeting
I move that we no longer eat flesh," observed
a deer.
"I move to amend by substituting the word
'grass,'" promptly responded a wolf.
Amendments and resolutions were coming
in like the Pacific Express, when the old
coon in the chair called for order and said :
"My friends, let us begin our reform by
routing out the serpents."
"No! no!" now protested a fox," I lease my
cave to a family of serpents at excellent cash
figures. Let's drive the worms out of the
country."
"But we feed on worms," chirped a hundred
birds. "Drive them out and we'd
starve !"
Thus they continued, eacli one anxious to
preserve whatever was good for himself and
sacrifice whatever was good for his neighbor,
until the coon cut the discussion short by
saying :
"Order! order! Now then any bird or
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towi wno is willing 10 Degin inis reionn campaign
by sacrificing personal gains please
stand up."
Everything continued to sit.
"Well, then, any one willing to begin the
reform at home and under his own hat please
stand up."
No one stood up.
"I think we have bitten off more than we
can chew," said the coon as he laid down his
gavel. "This is a very wicked world, and
there is a great need of reform, but when tigers
set out to reform hyenas and wild cats
find fault with the doings of wolves it's time
to dismiss the meeting."
moral.
Charity may begin next door, but reform
should commence at home.
? A
Historic Sword.?The sword General
Johnstone JoDes will wear at Yorktown is a
valuable relic and has an interesting history.
It was worn by his great grandfather, Major
Cadwallader Jones, during the war of the
revolution. He wore it as Major in Baylor's
regiment and as aid to General LaFayette at
the battle of Brandywine, and at the surrender
at Yorktown', and in other battles in
which he participated. The blade in the
sword was presented General LaFayette. It
is a genuine Toledo, and can be bent point to
hilt. A tradition exists that this blade is one
of a lot of Toledoes presented by Charles III
King of Spain, to George Washington, hac
by him distributed as presents among hit
general officers. The sword was also worr
by General Jones' father, Cadwallader Jones
the third of that name in the direct line o:
descent, as Colonel of the Twelfth South Caro
lina Regiment in the late war. The Majoi
Cadwallader Jones who served on LaFayette's
staff, was the grandson of the Peter Jones
who founded the city of Petersburg, Va
Another Cadwallader Jones, it is also said,
carried the sword in the war of 1812, and yel
another in the war with Mexico, 1847-48, sc
the good blade has a history.?Raleigh Ob
server, April 24th.
THE NIAGARA SUSPENSION BRIDGE.
In 1848, Charles Ellet, a brilliant rather
than a profound, engineer, built the first
suspension bridge over the Niagara, on the
site of the present railroad bridge. The
bridge was for carriages and foot passengers.
The towers were of wood, and the roadway
was only about six feet in width. Just wide
enough for one team. Mr. Ellet in the beginning
had offered a reward of $5 to the first
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The next windy day a large number of boys
assembled on the bank with kites, and before
night one of them, Homan J. Walsh, then a
boy .13 years of age, landed his kite on the
Canada side and received the promised reward.
By means of this string larger cords,
theu ropes and then iron cables, small at first,
but increasing in size, were drawn across, until
the large cables were thus stretched.
This structure served as a most excellent
auxiliary in the construction of the present
bridge. This was built by America's great
engineer, John S. Roebling, and has always
been considered one of the greatest of his
works. It was commenced in 1852, and the
first locomotive crossed it in 1854. The iron
basket now hanging under the railroad track
near the American end of the bridge was first
used by Mr.' Ellet, and in it the first person
who ever erased the chasm alive, and of his
own will, was crossed over. There is an old
Indian tradition that a resisting chief was
once carried to the opposite side by a large
bald-headed eagle, who swooped down on the
great warrior, as he lay ambushed on the
ground and bore him oveV. Ladies have
crossed in this basket. The suspension bridge
by Brook's mouument was built in 1856 by
T. E. Serret. The ice jam in 1866 tore the
guys from the rocks to which they were fastened,
and before they were replaced a terriffic
gale broke the roadway, severed the suspenders,
and left the structure dangling in the
air. The new suspension bridge as it is called,
was built in 1868, the cables being carried
over in the winter on the ice bridge. Its
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a mile, from outside to outside of the towers,
and is the longest suspension bridge iu the
world.
Rich People of the Olden Times.?
That we have some very rich people in this
country there is no doubt, but where are
they, asks the Cincinnati Star, as compared
with the Roman aristocrats? Vanderbilt
may be able to give his check for $50,000,000,
hut when Cyrus returned from the conquest
of Asia he was rated at $500,000,000. Mrs.
Astor may give an entertainment at the exexpense
of $25,000, and Mrs. Mackey may
give dinner parties that cost $50,000, but
a festival given by Ptolemy Philadelphus
cost $2,239,000. Alexander's daily meal,
frugal as it was, cost $1,700; and money
was of so little account to Claudius that he
once swallowed a pearl that was worth $40,000.
James Gordon Bennett has been
known to give many thousand dollars to peo
pie for whom he had acquired a fancy, but
according to Tacitus, more than $97,000,000
was given away in a similar manner by Nero.
Queen3 of fashion in New York and San
Francisco have appeared at balls wearing
jewels estimated to have cost $200,000, which
pales into insignificance when compared with
the alleged fact that Lollia Taulina wore
jewels valued at $2,663,500, and that when
she wore these it was onlv on the occasion of
a plain citizen's supper. Over $5,000 was
spent in providing a funeral for an eccentric
New Yorker who left directions how the money
should be spent, but the obsequies of
Hephaestion cost $1,500,000. Americans
have died and left millions to their sons who
have squandered it all in a score of years,
but Antony "got away" with $735,000,000,
and Tiberus left the snug little sum of $118,000,000,
which Caligula squandered, to the
last penny, in less than one year. The late
lamented Sothern is said to have spent $100,000
in a year in good living, but it is said
that Pegelus, the siDger, spent money at the
rate of $40,000 a week. And then there was
a Darius and Heliogabalus and Lucullus and
Leutalus and?well, this will do for to day.
4 ?
Southern Cotton Mills.?The Manufacturer
and Industrial Gazette, of Springfield,
Massachusetts, gives some substantial reasons
why the Southern cotton factories, though
small and rather poorly equipped, are able to
earn a larger percentage of profit than the
immense mills of the North. They, have the
advautage of better location, and when they
have secured neat and improved machinery
will do an unrivaled business. Thay can save
freight, buy cheaper, and hire cheaper labor.
They save the "buyer's commission, warehouse
delivery, and cartage, sampling, classing,
pressing, shipping, discount on bills, no loss of
weight in sampling for mixed packages, fire
insurance before shipping, marine risks, and
freight and cartage to interior towns, which
amounts in all to $7.00 a bale. The Northern
mills also lose from receiving cotton poorly
ginned,containing a good deal of leaf and
sand, which is computed at 6 percent, of the
entire cotton crop. The difference between
the cost of a bale sent to Fall River, Massachusetts,
and a bale sent to Columbus, Georgia,
is $8.06, the former costing $51.71, and
the latter $43 65." This makes a tax of 18
per cent, which Fall River pays in competing
with Columbus. It is estimated that, if the
planters could manufacture their cotton near
home, they would save $50,000,000 in transportation.
A prominent manufacturer in
Mississippi says that that State can manufacture
cotton at a cost of from 15 to 20 percent,
cheaper than it can be made in New England.
In Georgia new mills are exempt from taxation
for ten years, and this exemption is extending
into other States. The water power
of the South is very fine, and the hours of labor
are longer in the course of a year, while
the saving of heat and light is considerable.
Western Agriculturist.
How a Rebel Major Got His Pardon.
A few days after the war had been declared
at an end, Maj. Drewry, went to Washington,
and, without the usual ceremony of sending
in his name, lest he should be refused an interview,
made his way into the presence of
Secretary Stanton. "Mr. Secretary," said he,
"I want my pardon as soon as possible. I've
fought against you as long as I could, and
.I've been whipped; and now I want to go
home and go to work. I've got hundreds of
acres of land that have been lying fallow for
the last four years, and I want to get seed
into every inch of it this spring, so I'll thank
you to give me my pardon and let me go."
He talked so fast that Mr. Stanton could not
get in a word ; but being amused and rather
pleased by Maj. Drewry's bluff manner, he
asked at last, "On what ground do you expect
to get a pardon ?" "On the ground, sir,
that I showed you how to build a navy.
, You sent your fleet of old wooden ships up to
1 Drewry's Bluff, and we knocked 'em all to
3 pieces and showed you that wooden ships
l wern't worth a d . And then you went
, to work and got you up a navy that was
f worth something, and it's on the ground that
my men proved your needs to you that I want
a pardon." The Secretary laughed and told
3 the honest rebel to call next day, as he would
, like to talk further with him. Next day
. Major Drewry got his pardon and, in return,
, gave Mr. Stanton a great deal of valuable
I; information concernining the South and
> its prospects. He went back to his pleasant
home on the James, and has ever since been
a wise, enterprising, prosperous citizen.?
Springfield Republican.
How Officials were Once Paid.?It is
not a generally known historical fact that
from 1777 to 1784 the territory now known as
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and that in 1785 the Tennesseans, becoming
dissatisfied with their government, organized
a State government under the name of
"Franklyn," which was maintained for some
years. The organization afterwards disbanded
and Territorial Tennessee was again annexed
to North Carolina. The following is
among the laws passed by the legislature of
the State of Franklyn. We copy as found
in a speech by Daniel Webster on the currency
in 1838:
"Be it enacted by the General Assembly of
the State of Franklyn, and it is hereby enacted
by the authority of the same: That
from the first day of January, 1779, the salaries
of the officers of this Commonwealth be
as follows, to wit:
"His Excellency the Governor, per annum,
1,000 deer skins;
"His Honor the Chief Justice, 500 deer
skins; or, 500 raccoon skins;
"The Treasurer of the State, 450 raccoon
skins;
"Each County Clerk, 300 beaver skins;
"Clerk of the House of Commons, 200
raccoon skins ;
"Members of Assembly, per diem, three
raccoon skins ;
"Justice's fee for signing a warant, one
muskrat skin;
"To the Constables for serving a warrant
one mink skin;
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ji/ULtireu iiiui ib law tun iuui uvi
October, 1779, UDder the great seal of tLo
State."
Journalism as a Business.?In'commenting
upon the failure of a newspaper manager,
the St. Louis Globe tells a plain truth
in the following words: "The business of
journalism will continue to be an inviting
field for experiments to those who have a
large amount of egolisra. A man who, having
edited a newspaper until he was forty,
should suddenly announce himself as a lawyer,
would be regarded as a fool by the legal
profession ; and yet we often hear of lawyers
of forty making sudden pretensions to journalism.
There is an idea that the business of
editing requires no apprenticeship ; that editors
come forth from law offices and colleges
fully armed for the profession, like Pallas
from the brow of Jove. It is a mistake ;
there is not in America to day a single journalist
of national reputation who has not devoted
more time and more hard work to his
profession than, with equal fitness and application,
would have made him a great lawyer
or a good doctor. And yet ninety out of every
hundred men you meet on the street will
hesitate about carrying a hod or making a
pair of shoes, whereas there will probably
not be one in the hundred who can't, according
to his own judgment, edit any newspaper
in the country better than it is edited, no
matter in what manner or by whom."
A Homely Woman's Charm.?Girls who
think that it is necessary to be beautiful in
order to be attractive, should get bravely
over that notion, A young woman's plainness?which,
by the way, saves her from a
great many annoyances and dangers?need
detract nothing from her loveliness if only
her disposition is amiable, her mind cultured,
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ner neari kiuu auu pure.
The story is told of a famous lady who
once reigned in Paris society, and that she
was so very ugly that her mother said one
day, ''My poor child, you are too ugly for
any one to fall in love with you."
From this time, Madame de'Circourt began
to be very kind to the pauper children of
the village, the servants of the household,
even the birds that hopped about the garden
walks. She was always distressed if she happened
to be unable to fender a service. This
good will toward everybody made ber the
idol of the city.- Though her complexion
was sallow, her gray eyes small and sunken,
yet she held in devotion to her the greatest
men of her time. Her unselfish interest in
others made her, it is said, perfectly irresistible.
Her life furnishes a valuable lesson.?
Methodist.
^ -?
a?" An American at Paris went to a restaurant
to get his dinner. Unacquainted
with the French language, yet unwilling to
show his ignorance, he pointed to the first
line on the bill of fare, and the polite waiter
brought him a plate of fragrant beef soup.
This was very well, and when it was dispatched
he pointed to the second line. The waiter
understood him perfectly and brought vegetable
soup. "Rather more soup than I
want," thought he, "but it is Paris fashion."
He duly pointed to the third line, and a plate
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the fourth, and wa9 furnished with a bowl of
preparation of arrow root. He tried the fifth
line, and was supplied with some gruel kept
for invalids. The bystanders now supposed
that they saw an unfortunate individual who
had lost all his teeth, and our friend, determined
to get as far from the soup as possible,
pointed in despair to the last line on the bill
of fare. The intelligent waiter, who saw at
once what he wanted, politely handed him?
a bunch of tooth picles. This was too much?
our countryman paid his bill and incontinently
left.
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Fruit for Healte.?Hon. George D.
Tillman, who is rarely indisposed, and never
sick, and the only man in the United States
who can brave the worst Northern winter,
without an overcoat or undervest, and who
sleeps with windows open while a blizzard is
blowing a night, relies on fruit for the preservation
of health. He always kept a basket
of apples in his room at Washington and
partook of them lavishly. Now and then he
resorted to leraon9. If he felt the first symptoms
of catarrh, he washed his head and the
back of his neck with whisky, several times
a day. If the cold descended to the throat
or chest, he took a teaspoonful of kerosene,
which acted like a charm. We give these
homely details to show that, in all probability,
malaria can be avoided by a simple diet
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ana ine use 01 aciu iruiia, huu no ua?o understood
that Mr. Tillman declares that kerosense
oil is just as potent an anti-malarikl as
quinine. No doubt there are many remedies
cheap and simple, and we.know of one gentleman
who avers that kerosene is more nearly
a cure of all disorders than any liquid or
drug in pharmacopoeia.?Augusta Chronicle.
When Boulton, the engineer, partner
of Watt, stood in the presence of George III.,
to open to him the mystery of the steam engine,
and the King asked him, as he might
a peddler, "What do you sell, sir?" Boulton
replied, "What Kings, sire, are all fond
of?power"