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qcaist .4XP^ f r F'^’’ , nhamcter Sk ;t<;i os from . rro*it* t,,r Lf,st . HU Shop Iwo Dol- jjcst i« su .... lam tor* * *>• THE WEEKLY LEDGER: GAFFNEY, S. C., FEBRUARY 27, 1896. Biought run •<V- J \Vi : 'V r \ if it ever eonies to pr.vs that yo.i ouc-ht run short on material for poet? ami preaelier.H and jihiloso- ophers and po!- iticians — all yen have ;rut to do is to back your cart down into Hoc k y Creek, and load Wup and drive m; out. And then ^ f y for quaint and IjjlIS'V incurious jx'o- ple—.plaic, old f ; diic.i.. American peo ple, "ho worship God, and love their country, ar.cl serve their dry and .'gen eration as they blame please—I will hack the Koeky Creek settlement against the wdiole entire discovered world, ami land n:y money us easy a-: pickin it up iu the big road. Over the Last Ditch. Old man tdlas Gillum-Cnclc Cilas, as most every i ody was wont to call him —isdeadani "oae now, hut he wa.s a man that lu-d some quaint and jic- curious way. of hi? own. In a yen-- erahvay l't wa • a miphty 'rood i ,an. a good neiprd'or and a r-ood citzen. lie had come down from a long 1 line of God-fcarin, debt-jayin, drain-drinhin, dtoocrat.e i>co;)ie. Hi 1 had lived and Dared and had his washin done in the amesettl. ment somethin better 1’::m jOyears, and no man. livin or dead, rver hmi anythin:: serious to say toochin t’neie Filar, exeeptin that he ns rather pro tirious anti dead set on his way . But tin rc: w i one par tie] an pint in thatpr. d old i..: ::'s life which I put into tell yon ;u'.. ICv. ry year th-i lard sent, ft..- nr r than GOyia. ; Incle Ski had dug a ditch and cleared up a »w preaud. That was always the frstt’ iup- with him right after Christ- rou. Th t;l! me that when lie was iwmyand in Ids prime he use to s.or.ie- l»cs liteii in and clear up v. lade acre? )f had, • 1 r.;ayh ' dig a ditch half a jBe I >rg one Kpcll. I5ut in his old s he : > he would whittle hh w!. (I n i- : >!( a! le. F nsetimes v onld take in just a little skirt of iv grant'd and dig a. little ditch sonie- rhercs a ! out tha jdaoe. He always hael pro o; i a laud than lie needed <..i the bti, jou understand. Hut that was |o!y one of them peeurious ways that r r.e! ' Si!:: ; had. 11 - had w< ut mi 1 a.r- m a little ar.d ditelilu a little ev ry year fer r,i:.ty odd y<ar:;. and eons: quential- Jj- he wr." dead sot in that way. And after Cir l inms he use to say lie never ^could fsol pi.:::; nature.! : 1 i.: ait till ho tended to his rcglnr Inman: i. Two or three weeh.s ago it so came to peas that I vert by the Gillm . pir.e*, a.ml 1 t"o.: r.otiea that I reli- .^..a ; v.i ■; still doi:. bin;lnss"> at the old s.tand. Down in the woods paster he had ehr.' d up a little new g ourd not much bigger than a. garde a spot, and out in the orchard he bad dug a little ditch to dri er., the water into tin* big road. It wculdr.t be no w-ye. strung tonic jf that good old ina..i k- ; uidc ids larst clear;n and dug 1.1-; last ditch, says l to myself as I rid on towards home. And then about the next news we got from I’nele flilas a funeral was goiu, mi over to his bouse. I!” had cre ed over the last ditch and went to the other lard of light and sum hire and flowers. "ight on to town and wanted to work jp a fight with Mart Mayo. ^ on can’t throw no blame on me or that, Andy,” says old man Mart, 'i on lining on the trouble yourself, which I can prove it by the Stribblin Hoys. Aon lowed I was the mostablcst iar in the settlement, which everybody ■mows that without any tellin from you, and I didn’t deny it. Then yon wanted me to give you the best one in my shop, and I give it to you prompt ?nd cheerful as I could.” So Andy had to stand up to the rack 'ind take his medicine like a man. And it was six mouths before he could swap off tlie horse he rid from Murder i>cek bridge back home that day. BEADS AN OLD PAPER. Arp 13 Groatly Surprised When He Roads About Warei. Rut on Looking at Rates Discovers Ho Is Perusing “News" Printed a Hun dred Years Ago — Keculls Old Days. He Used Up Henry clay. “It’s no use in taJkin, llufe, I’m gwinc to quit lyin,” says old man Mart lo me the next time I saw him after he sent Andy Lucas back home in such i a tremendous big hurry. “Lv n don't ; :lo me no parbiclar good, llufo, and it niought maybe do somebody harm. I have now told my last lie end look out and quit. You can set that down in your notebook, and if I don’t stand up to it I hope I will never live to vote j another democratic ticket. “Did I ever tell you about the time ! f wiped the ea-th up with Henry Clay i in n political argyfication?” says Mart, i in the very next breath. “It was back' ! there in Georgy, Rufe, and in my young ! days, when I was a whole team and the dog under the wagon and a tar- bucket throwed in for good measure, j And in regards to politics, L wore the bell and toted the spurs over any man | that trod shoe leather in them parts. “You will recollect, llufe, that Henry ( lay was then the biggest man amongst, j the whigs, and he had ccmc down into our beat to make a speech and hold ,i big political rallifications which a' that time all the whigs in the settle ment coidd set on tlxTbutt, cut of one log and hit not full. Most everybody in that country—even to the women : and children—was Andy Jackson dem ocrats, and at the meet in that day it was left for me to tote the democratic end of the chunk. And by the shades of Washington, when I got through with Henry there want so much as a greasy spot to tell w hore he had stood. 1 smote him under the fifth rib, an,l Pasted him gwir.e and a cotnin, till he jest naturally had to give up the fight and quit. Tut the bastin went on so thick and so regular—hot stuff and a heap of it—liil finally at last, by bokoes, he bad to mount his nag and leave t he grounds. “The next day I got a letter from Henry, in which lie told me if I would but only quit the democratic party and come over on the right side he would put me through for vice president in the followin campaign. Hut in re- ‘•pondin Pack with my answer i writ ami told him I would not leave the old family lick log for all the fat jobs in the Mew Nifed States.” So after that it in my private opinion (hat Mart Mayo will keep on tellin lies until a tombstone takes the job off of ids hand: . As a great and gifted liar he can now beat the finest tombstone in creation. The nations seem to be having an awful time. I was just glancing over a New York paper and read that the Hussians were defeated at Glatus in a great battle on the 4th with a loss of several thousand killed and wounded. And the French army defeated the Austrians on the Gth at. Multcn with a loss of 3,000 killed and wounded. And tW'oSpanish frigates bound from Havana having on board $3,300,000 w ere captured by four British frigates. And on the 5th Holland was evacu ated by the English troops under the duke of York. And on the 7th Prince William at tacked the Dutch and French forces at Col horn and killed 200 Dutch and a French general. And that there is now an awful bat tle going on at Zurich and the arch duke’s forces numbered 20,000 men and the army of Prince Comic 0,000 men. Put w hen I looked at the date of the paper I saw that it wans January 4, 1800 —that relieved my mind, of course. The paper was the Ulster County Gazette and was handed me by a lady cousin of my wife, whose father, long since dead, had preserved it because it contained an account of Gen. Washington’s death and the funeral ceremonies. The paper has broad black lines between the columns. One page is covered with the address of the house and of the sen ate to President John Adam;, aunounc- I ii.g the death of Gen. Washington, and ! also Mr. Adams’ response to each ! house. It recites how Mr. Marshall : with deep sorrow on Ire. countenance and in a low, pathof le vo:<-: rc eand ad dressed the house. After closing address he moved the resolutions that had been prepared by Henry Lee, the father of our To’-ert Ik, | ami which contained C-e memor able name that he gave to Wa;h- | ingtor: “First in v. -m. fir: ', in peace and j first in l.ke heart:; of his count rj men.” John Adams’ response is very impres- ! ve. “I have seen him.” he paid, “in the days of adversity, in re: nrs of Im- deep est and most trying prrp ! '--:<tics. I have at ter: (led kin: in his h'.ghrrt ele vation and most prosper:-:! ; felicity. and alwavs with -Cm:: .u loin. mod.-ration could rev r honor and envy r to her univei him r: The order of the funeral proerr Ion, th° r I ante guns, the mour: fill m.i lody of 1 h« music, the stately • irgs of the geneial’s horse ( a;.:-:-’'- e - i with raddle, holsters and r.sines of all the pail psloi. fully set. forth served pa per. in this o Only a few r "■ fonstitutien : 1 l ■ Pennsylvania reb'-xHion t ow 1 find in t’ds pr; of it and how • John .’ inerw gi* upon Fu* at;:-; ■ cannot refrain from lament arts and iniumnies of faeU signing men have exr’trd l : on a second time hi Ik t Le l-.nev eonvert! to ’■ ursl The Rest ia Gi-i Sho?. But new when if e.tmis to quaint and penurious ways, old man Mart Mayo is the ganehyest most strong st card in the whole pack. Mart is a rat ur:.!-i.orn liar. Toinc tii.m: it raley : ns to me like he couldn’t tell the tiuth with a dead rest. And the roair.est wonderment to me is that Mart knows ho is. a liarar.d don’t even try to lie out of that. V, her you cucst oatc’.-. lilm at it and p.n h.v.i dow n i,i a close corner he will own up to it like a man. Hvory row and then he will pass a. good resolution with hkn- relf. and swear by t';-- II'. in and the dead that he is going '(7quit lyin. Bui he don’t take out and quit, and some times I doukt right serious if he can quit. If it ever eomsp to pass that you mought eros , Mun' rore k bridge down on the oh! Jackson Trail reed yu'i will remember a man by the nair.e of Mart Mayo, and th“ way in which he got the best of Andy Lucas. Old n an Mart was gain to town one day, ridln his mule in a sweep:n gallop, and down there ar the bridge he net up with Andy Luca:, and twit of the Stribblin beys. “We have jest been tnlkin about you. Mart, as the slickest and most ablest liar in the settlement,” says Andy when Mart rid u; , “ai d now we want you to give us the very brs! on" in your shop.” “Taint no time for givin now, boys,” says Mai t. “ami as for you, Andy Lucas, you would l«-tt r make your horse swap ends and burn the wind forborne. Your w ife IiIls fell in a fit and she is now at jj^of death. I no now goin after i*tor.” jthat Mart he struck off iow ardu In a gallop, whilst Andy he kd his hor c life a top, put the Mo him and lit out for home. It Pninc miles fro-o there t > tie- T.uens Bto and Andy rl i !.-> hone at ■nob .i rhst. nnd furious lick till kc wan hell- used end stove up lienor-forwards for ever. And by gracious, when Andy got home bin wife was out In the garden pickin vegetables for dimer, sound and well ns ever red r.iv.gln “Mollie Put the Kettle On" at the top of her voice. Well, naturally of course Andy he Was mad then. He was i.o foamlu pad till he borrowed a horse and went Vivo Dollars for n I'Ijr. Everybody don't know why it is that j Andy Lu -os never did wade in very deep in regards to the. church and re- Pgion. But me. and him have always been ; s 1 hick as thieves at a circus, and he baa told me a heap of things “jest between us gals,” as he is wont to put : >t- ) “Way back there in my young and galiin days, you underatan, Bufe, i come durn nigh gift in forever weare-d off from temlin church,*’ says Andy to ! tried the dcc.t j me, in tellin of the story “It was in the heat and burden of summer time and the weather was sea,unions hot. A big distracted meetin was goin on over at Bark Log, and on Sunday I climbed info my storebought clothe* and went to church with Miss Pinky Ann New ton. Well, Mi us Pinky she was dressed clean out of sight that day, and I was | pultin on a whole uasslc of dog my- sclf. After the sermont the preacher | he called for money. “All them that will give five dollars fer the good work raise up your hands,’ ; says he, and he pulled three or four of I the amen corner brethren to that ex- : tent. “Now, all of them that are willin to put two dollars out at interest on the Lord's side, please raise your hands,” ■ says he. “Now, mind you, Bufe, me and ?Ji.ss ! Pinky A .n had waded in tolerable dost to tlu* amen corner in ordorment to see and lie. seen. And about that time a I blamed old lly lit on my nose and tickled so I couldn’t stand it. Somethin jest naturally had to be did, and when J raised my hand to bresh off the fly the preacher thanked the Lord and slapped r:e down for two dollars. “And do you know, Bufe, he sized my pile to a nat’s heel? I had two dollars, sni-.-jth and even, in halves ar.d quar ters, and 1 had put it down there in my flanks where it would rattle as I w alked, and by gatlins be cleaned me up. You know good and well I didn’t have no money to put out at interest, but there I was, weedin of a wide row with Miss Pinky Ann, and everybody lookin atus, and I couldn’t see no way to snake out. So I went down into my pocket, rich and reckless like, and settled up like a man, which at the same time it was like payin taxes or sheddin eye teeth. Henceforwards after that, i have r.i- w ays took a back seat in church, w here I can bresh the flies off without huyin ’em at the rate of two dollars a head.” May the God of the hopeless and the helpless bless these quaint nnd ])<*curi- ous |H*ople. The world needs them in its business. Bcvus Sanders. \ a j etc. I ford j tried ! rebellion in Theda !: land, 1 • know- that the fjr.akcr : rc of nuli' M- Hon. This is a very funny i a; i r to cor. from New York. One i rdvortin for sale one-Li::!f of h’s .-aw:. :!! and negro wench. AnoHr-r man nuvcrtk Ids goods in rhyme— “My friend and Duyrs c-'- r.'.il rM 11 will i a y you vr.:! to j Ivc me > all; HU Favorite, Weary Baggies—Ever read any r? Howells’ stories? Wandering Willie—Naw. Never heard tell of him afore. Weary Baggies—Why, he’s the great novelist of all time. His hero is always | a feller what does nothin’.—Judge. . , . , , _ f|, f yy , . . THE imOTIIER IN BLACK. uud his brothe*’ loin, of Home, and big •jib Wright, afterwards n judge in Al bany, used to poke fun rt us democrats because ge couldn’t get up more run- j away niggers in our paper They swore by their paper and Henry Clay and Toombs anil Stephens nnd we sworc«by ours and Howell Cobb and Charles J. McDonald and Walter Colquitt. Judge Clark can describe all tics more graph- : ically than lean. I read his last inter- ! American gentlemen of African de- view with Wa'lacc Bead with much in- ^cent. '1 hey form a large proportion Sam Jones Spoaks cf tho Ameri can of African Descant. Chameter Tells More Than Color—Negroes Are Not All Good, Neither Are White People—Tho Cartersvlllo Col ored Delegation. terest, and hope that ne may continue to be just sick enough to give us a chap ter once a week for weeks to come. It will rest him from his judicial labors and I know w ill do him good to talk, for an old man’s capital stock is his treasured memories. What will be come of Georgia history when he is dead? What is the measure of a man’s rge, anyhow, if it is not what lie has of southern citizensip. 1 w as born, bred and buttered among the colored people of the south. I have studied them, I have watched them, I have been pro foundly interested in them. They have many traits of character peculiar to their race that are admirable and noble. For fortitude ami forgiveness, for kind ness and generosity, they are not ex celled by any race known to men. That garnered up and distributed to bis fe*- j many of them are lazy and chshonest low men? i read last week about that • nnd shiftless goes without saving, i hat old man in Henry county, who recently died at the age of 129. Hut that was ail many of them are frugal and studious and honest 1 verily believe. that was to be said. He lived and he died. In fact, that is all that can be raid of most of r.s, and it is enough it we are g:>o(l citizens, good parents, good husoands and have lived up to our best capacities. Nevertheless we cannot but admire those who have left I dress rather than a white one. Character tells more than color. Black is as good as white when it comes to color. I know men of great preten tions who prefer a black lujrse to a white one. Many ladies of the Four Hundred of the cities choose a black a noble record. The world needs beae.m lights and heroes—and has had them in every age. I remember a monument up in a Georgia graveyard that bar; in- veribed upon it. “He began life a j/oor , boy and died a citizen of huge estate. | This is his best eulogy.” And it war,- - i nothing else that was g 00 "' could 1m i f-.-id of him. There was no iie on that tombstone. Yesterday I received a copy ; of a Selma paper that was published | July 21, 1S<"»1, and it had all pager; cov ered with a thrilling account of the j first great batik* of the end war. It I v. an a, sad reminder cf thor-* terrible j limes that, followed swiftly after and j involved a -nation in '.orrow a.: ! misery. To-day 1 ree-owd from Mr. Tovle, of tho 0:1 City Derrick, a copy cf Josh BiJlh almanac publk h: d in 1 570. I* mat!.* r: ■ omiloard ; i:::le again to read it. Boor Jo-di, goo.i : vial Josh, has d -d inis .ifc, hut he nerved uswei! in his wav nr. ! it was a rood wav. I old time Cr.lvir.i. t preachers ored iH .guuors. After all, it is not so much color as it is the character, and the history behind the color. Ben lly it is said that neither black nor w hite is color at all. If that be true then the inulattces ar_ the only colored people in the south, for they ere neither black nor w hite,. They are the result of the mixture of the races and the mixture of tin* lower elements in each race. God made the negroes black and the Caucasian white. 1 be lieve He made tlu* negro to remain black and the Caucasian to remain w hite. 1 believe that a mixture of the blood '; against the lav s of nature, and no one but a dupe or a devil would favor the mixing of that w hich nature has made separate. The negro has many commendable virtues and trait;. lie w ill forgive an enemy or an injury, but he n-ver for gets a friend. As a citizen of Georgia and of the town of Cartersville, Ga., I have my white neighbors and my col- “Brother Jones, will you hear us, niggers on the question of your movingj from our town?” I replied: “I will hear you, sir, glad ly.” “Well,” he said, “Brother Joner*, wo riggers don’t want you to leave Carters ville. You are gone most of the time, anyway, but we can’t afford for you to lake Miss Laura, your wife, out of this tow n. She has been like an angel of mercy to us poor niggers w hen we were sick or destitute. If you will go, please don’t take her away. We all love you and don’t w ant you to go. Bemember this fact in your home life, that you have been away from home for more than a dozen years nearly all the time. You have left your wife and little children here alone, and yet you know . Brother Jones, that not a thing on you:' place has ever been touched and not a hair of your wife and children’s heads has been harmed. And we nig gers would not only not harm or hurt any one of your loved ones, but we would lie. around your fence at night with our old muskets and guard your loved ones from danger if we thought danger were coming to them.” His speech broke me down utterly; and I am now in Cartersville, and ex pect to live here lill I die, and my bones shall be buried among her dead. The general condition of the colored brother in the south is improving year after year. More of them are owner; of property, more of them are edu cated, more of them are. self- ii r>«r*-i nir.g and more of them are good citizens to day than ever before, and if we treat them kindly and justly they are go al citizens and will never be cthenvixe in our southland. They treat us, I dare say, as well as we have ever treated them. Tam P. Jo:;::s. 1 will cox- that In ;r relations and :un .giv into t-f ,... Mr. ecu. I v •:! f: art .'.* i:r in. itc< ! < ! 1.0 and You can always f:r.d rue i y i > s'-.a A few reds from the hou;-v divine.” it is not clear whii-'i half of the mill was for sale i.or whether the half or whole of tlu* wench was to go nor w hat church the* other man’s star-;- was near to. I like to peruse there ancient docu ments. They are so like bb-torv re peating itself, though they remind in of the wonderful progress that has been made in sell nee and invention. This paper has its head lines of latest news from London, which is (kited 1.on- don, October 20, and reached New York the 1st of January. Those old time papers rvoui to have come to me lately in unusual minkts. I have ono dated 1773—li.e Baltimore Advertiser—in which Gen. Washington advertises 2G.G00 acres - J land for lease at two shillings six pence a year for each hundred acres leased, the lessee to keep his lease <en yean? .ir.d plant 50 good app'e tries and sow dow n five acres in grass meadow on cu-i: hundvril acres. He describes the land as situ ated on the Ohio and Kznrawha rivers and being very rich. There is also an “ad.” in this paper of “five horses ami a negro man strayed from the sub scriber last night,’’ etc. The old ante bellum papers in Georgia away back- in the forties used to say r;r. away in- . toad of strayed when applied lo ne groes. The Federal Union was the democratic organ and the Ronthern Be- eordcr was the organ of the wlrgs - Imtli published in Milledg-vilie once a week—and ri'.mly every voter t ok one or the other ard swore by it The Be- torder bad about a column and a half of runaway negroes in every issue and every “ad.” had ilu* little black cut of a negro trotting along with one foot up nnd sticking -mt behind him and a stick' on his tdnuld'*! with his bundle of clothing suspende! from Its rear end. The little “nd«.” were verv brief, nnd the cuts down (be column were so thick they nearly touched each • ther. But the Federal Union never had more than a quarter of a column, for the demccrats were poor an ! didn’t have many negroes to run away and so the whig boys of our town, like ■; ••• :■!, "M v ' girl : : id 1 k in j uhlic on (.:;.* in mlthimtie a*..! )gra.] -iy. it would s: y me l:a.:*J< to the <■! ! Gw him tt . v. ,::: a we i - j ■; t: nl i * haul our : . i cr:mir.( neen nta ov.tilccra on k;tf xi that v. , : ’ dad with i ! i:: s ar! or. ( cod g; a..how Jim Hunlxp :*i d Jim Al -xamkr and Jim V. k .1 and Jim iibio ;,!.d ,Um i/m- ton and ::!l the (.thei- Jims and come o'-.' i boys used to en*.ort on that r.tag ; nd maker i! fairly t • ! • with their mu c liar t loqusnc ! 1 thou -V *t was fine ard «ul lime at u It v as. Ot.- tin o when I was in 1 ove lay Nr.ix.e is Norval,’! rix. did ;•;.!• ndid and called ma Nerval fora long fin::* aft: rv 1 would like to luar Cel. Bob -.owiy six-ak, but 1 (ion’t I bin!: “t!:e o!vl ( n lucket” lit:; him. II- ought ehoana Marco Toxa.ix:; ;:;.d lay to ! : ,!: mn ir.alea.l (’i aw- at. I would like t » r.ee old fa- t!ur .'.dair aittixy up there playing ■ielioolniaxter and shcotiag his Cjii- gra;xs t:round like sparks from an old- Ut .e bla.ekMv.ith shop. What would Atlax.ta do without George.’ 1 would like to bear t'ol. Nat li. rmuor.il s; out a little of tl:at Latin Hint he w rit- ;, to the young doc tow os the y g roduate. A nan told me that Nat got a college profes: or to write that speech, but be eouldn’t translate it to save bis life. The man liiid, I krow. i’ll bet he is Hie only lawyer in Georg a that can write a Latin speech. I would like io luar Capt. Evan Howell shake the floor '’.nd bringdown the house with: "Make woy for Pl.erty,” lie cried, “.Make way for liberty,” and died. Then there is the burial of Sir John Moore that is not down on the 1 st. IVhat u world of fond memories there an* around these old school days. I think I will go down nnd join the leterans in recalling them. We are not all dead ye*.—Bill Arp. ir Atlanta Covstitution. UstractlRx I'rcr-IouH Metala. Cliioriile of cyanogen in a gaseous or liquid state is claimed by an English chemist, ns an excellent solvent for the precious metal.*;, tho strength not to xeccd one-half to one per cent. The ores are toasted, if neei x-snry, placed in a vnt and covered with a solution of pot iiim cyanide. Chloride is then pa- d info the lat until the chloro- eyaiiogen is formed, the solution ob taining tbe gold is drawn off, nnd tho metal recovered by any convenient process. Solutions of the cyanogen from one-twentieth to onc-tcnth per I would not repeat. With this delega- ?ent. give perfect results in sonr.e tion of white people came a delegation eases, but in others it may be advisable of colored people. The spokesman of all social ways I will choose my white neighbor as a r.-.atti r of preference. But w!: t; it eons s t i other features in life 1 find the broth-, r in black comes in as a great factor in our home life, lie makes a goed hostler, kc makes a good g-ardener, he mckisa gaud blacksmith, he makes a good ti id hand. His wife is one of the best and most faithful cooks. Her affection for the wife of the home and the. caildrcn of the home nnd her thou:-::ad little runnife-stations of it are as charming as a fairy tale. There is no kindness in their power which they will not show you. llowc.er much thought and care and trouble the brother in black may be giving others, I vc leone his presence anil ask that lie remain among us, for he is endeared tome by a hundred ties as sacred to my heart and memory as the relies and heirlooms of my father’s home. Old Uncle Levi, the man servant at my home, has been with me perhaps more than a dozen years. We can in trust all things to his lx eping. Honest, faithful, true. It would seem like the loss of one of our family were he to die or leave our home. He calls it his homo. It is bis home as long ns Ir* shall live. Perhaps nearly 70 years of age now, he knows it not, but labors on. My boy Bob, who loves a banjo and loves the good old man,was out in the kitchen a few nights ago playingon his banjo. My wife walked out to the kitchen door and looked in. Directly she came Lack splitting her sides laughing. * “What do you reckon, husband?” she said. “What do you suppose I saw a few min utes ago, husbaud?” I said: “What is it that tickles you so?” “Why,” she said, “I stepped out to the kitchen a few moments ago, and Bob was sitting in then*, playing his banjo, and old Uncle Levi was dancing a jig as grace fully as you ever saw.” I asked Uncle Levi the next day. Raid I: “Uncle Levi, you art* a good old deacon in your church, and they tell me you were dancing a jig last night in the kitchen while Bob was playing bis banjo.” “Oh, sir,” he said, “I don’t think the Lord will punish mo for having a little fun with the children.” He is a remnant of the old-time darkey who never can lx* excelled in devotion and fidelity to those whom they serve. I might name others on our place that it would bring tears to us to see them go away. They belong to the household. They have endeared them selves to us all by their kindness and service. Perhaps one-tbird of the population of my town is composed of colored peo ple. They are orderly, quiet people. 1 don’t believe, there are liett* r citizens in any state in this union, at, a class, than the colored people of my town. They are not all good. Neither are the white people all good. A good old Yankee asked me some time ago if the negro differed from the white man iu bus Instinct. I replied: No. He dif fers mostly in his out st inets. Some one asked me sometime ago did 1 be lieve the negroes would all steal. I told him no; I didn’t believe the white lolks even, would nil steal. I like the brother in black r.nd I wish him well. Some months ago then* oc curred at my home an touching an in cident as lie longs to my past. Wifi* nnd I witnout conference with others de cided to change our home and move to Marietta, Ga. The trade had. bent consummated for our home at Mariet ta, and when my reighbon: fo.tnd it out they gathered at my bona* one. night and protested with words ot kindness, and many things they said NAPOLEON IM THE FIELD. His Iload'-iuartcr Arrangements Were Well Financ'd. The admirable celerity and norarxey of Napoleon’s movements in the l’u*M were due to the excellent nrrr.np;arai:n;.i by which they were made, libs two in separable companions were the grand marshal. Duroc, and Caulaiuccurt, ma - ler of the horse. The latter bad al ways the map of the country through which they were driving or riding rcadv for instant use. The scuts of the jmper carriage could be ecnvcitcd into a couch for the i mperor’s frequent, night journeys, but ordinarily TcrUoirr and Murat took turns at sitting at his side, while Caidair.courl rode i!.,: ;* be side the door. Behind, and as n ar the wheel:; ax. possible, rede seven adju tants, I t ordnance odiccrs and four pages, who must Ik* ivadj on the inrtar.l to receive and cany orders. Two of the officers must be familiar with ti: : speech of the country. Luutan, his Egyptian body sen. nf.rc, !c with them. There were also two n ;! lackey.-', each carrying maps, papers '..ril ing materials. Tin: evort pro-:, tee ted by a body of ::. nt* : d cha .x.curx. in case the ru.ai'yhtcd for any purpose four oi th .r* i.utly did lik;- wise, and, s u... I • him with fixe-1 bayonets, ox 1,undid ; i. .oi:; rx>k;t, d , ward to in • i.uur; ' ■: '> ■ . . !.: * c;;,. px. preserved this relative a; he tsov.<1. I.;..- r of ail can e the grooms with extra horses; f ir ;!. • ■ mpexu:'.; jiersor.al use ther:* were fan:.) . -.\n to nine. These were : u':; ta.ni.ally arrangements still in vog.::* during the Prussian cainpaigr. Yncri :ift'. r his distrust of those* about him y.a iu .'iv increased, until tow;:ad i. J of but career it became* aeule. and ti e:;, a;; a consequence, the unx.bi;-., of I were much ilimlni !:cd. Whenever there was m d haste the emperor found relay su. n. fro: i > i u o vary the strength.—Chicago Citron iclc. tho colored people, when it came his turn, said: saddle horses or : pared at intervals ten miles along hi? he often journeyed at the rate of M miles an hour for l;c,:;i.; at a tunc. Similar arrangements on a mu-h smaller seals were made for ;!n.- steiV. This body was under the ir.di:- < n ah’ • Bcrthier, and was -o Riur.czmif. ns to bo practically capable of subdivision into several. In 1 :i there •. ore 13 ad jutants, three head.; of d p -.a!:;t; with five adjutants, 31 r.taff idliee;.-; and 30 engineers. Under Ilu* eldi f of artil lery was a personal staff of IS officers, under the chief of engineers one of 19 and under the commissary g no cal on- of 43. Arriving at his night quart cc, :h - emperor found his office ready—a tent or room with five tables, one in (hecen ter for himself anil one at each corner for his private secretaries. On id uwa was a map oriented and dotted with colored pins, which marked the position of every body of his troops. For this campaign he had only one iu ixixt- ence, prepared long in advance by hi.; own orders. It is significant of the Prussian overconfidence and supinfRCss that they had none. As soon as po: - sible was an. nged the emperor's b-d- ebamber, across tlu door of which Bustan slept, and adjoining it was an other for the officers on duly. Dinner occupied less than 29 minutes, for in the field Napoleon ate little, and that rapidly. By seven in the evening be was asleep. At one in the morning tlie cr.mixxr Jer in chief arose, enter-d his office, w here the secretaries were already at work, found all reports from tb<* divisions ready at his hand, and then, p: ring the lloor, dictated Ids dispatches and the orders for the coming day. Th; re i an accepted tradition that he often simultaneously composed and uttered in alternate sentence* two different letters, so that two seeretari -s were busy at the same time in writingpa,<ors on different topics. The orders, when completed and revise-d, were handed to Bcrthier. By three in the morning they were on their wav. and renehod the separate corps fresh from headqunrtera just before the soldiers set out on their inarch. It was by such jierfect ma chinery that accuracy in both command and obedience was assured.—Prof. \Y. M. Sloane, in Century. —The virtuous home, is tho basis of all national prosperity.—An n.