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DAVIS & ROBINSON, Editors and Proprietors.' VARIETY IS THE SPICE OF LIFE, THAT GIVES IT ALL ITS FLAVOR. TERMS$t.50 per Annum, fax Advance. : i VOL: L TUESDAY MORNING, APRIL 21, 1874. NO. 18. - U ; -I OXFORD, GKANYILLE COUNTY, 1ST. 6;, 7m Atj .&3 Garden ; Gate.7 Somebody came to the garden gate While a soft hand trimmed the flowers. And a blackbird 'piped to his listening . ' f mate ; vw-.-; - - ' In a language as rich as ours. ; .. : . Somebody blushed at the garden gate , A blush it! was fair to see . ' And the slyjsun peered as he fain would ' wait. 1 .: , . .. .1 . . . And the blackbird paused on the tree. . i ' . . . Somebody soke at the garden gate, As the shadows began to fall ; , : And the roses looked up, though the hour wa3late,"7 ; L' , And the peach' blushed on the wall. " A sweet heajl fell, at the garden gate, On an arm that was strong and true, ' Aiid a chimtj of lips was heard to state What worths refused to do. ! : - ; 7hcTig2its cf Thee. : : It may not be so, my dearest one, i . That we slialr never meet again : 1CI ill ill j u;ut x iivuu. utcc uitU) And there thine image will remain. : - ; . .. . - ; - ' ' " ! "When I am far away from thee, And other.jfriends around thee glide, iiav. iiL iiidii ever 1 11111 k ui nn - And wish me once more by thy side? The sweetestj hours I ever knew, j Were those, dear one, I spent with thee Fond memory, to her promise true. Will often brins: them back to me. Then how can I regretthe day, Sweet qiie when first we fondly met ? Each flower that blooms along my way, Forbids that I should e'er forget. THE FIRM, THE HTJLS. BY BART. Though jsimple and unassuming in liis rnaniidr the mule is a creat ure or nfni convictions. Once having fully made up his mind neither moral suasion nor brute . force can prevail over Ms innate sense of the eternal fitness of things. Neither prayers, tears nor blasphemy can move him. Alas! I fear he hath no music in his soul- and can't be moved even by the concord of sweet sounds, j ) As a saddle steed- he is not exactly a firsrdass article,5 being in potjitof temper; uncertain. However, when he makesjuj& n tainty is at Ian end. There is not a " i .i J nil. Z a case on record ot an unsuccess- X 1 ax-T 'a! j.1 aX?T 1x1 iui aiLeiiipi uu mo part ui u ncuiuij mule to throw his rider. ' ' ' ; Whilst 'sitting on the fence su perintending some farm operations yesterday, I observed a youiig Af rican , astride of a. ,mule coming down -J the lane. The boy was giving vent to the vacancy of his ! soul in song. The. music charm ed me. It was of that kind we used to liear at corn-liuckings in those big bid days wljien. our pock ets Were heavier and our hearts were liefer than now. "The darkies don't smg at corh-shuck-in now-a-days. The piles of corp ain't big enough to make much fiiss lover and hence they sins: low. When the boy got hear me ne was ovenaKen ny a sngm 5 April shower p not enough,' how- everj to dampen his spirits for he I pitched his! tune a note higher and came lossmff on his wav reioicmsr. . . . i - f ". 1 . U .1. i I hoisted nlyjbrellai'shit&d; my shank to the soft side of the rail - " :.l . : J u . i. . .... i aua resumeu a usienmg attituae. But" the singing had suddenly stopped.' Looking : up the lane I perceived that the mule had stof ped too: With dangling legs the darkey gently furged him on but he didn't quit standing still. At first there deemed to he a slight gleam of hope in the breast of that hoy and he ! stU used gentle per- suasion buiinallythat little gleam of hope glittered with1 a parting lustre on the unhappv youth and . suddenly expired, leaving him ut terly bereft I suggested that the mule was -probably- waiting -for the music and Ithat if he would sing again-the animal would go ; but the thermometer of song had4 suddenly dropped Lin : that boys throat several degrees below zero. Unlike the fair one who said "I'm saddest when I sing," he evidently couldn't sing because he was sorry, and was ; doubtless sorry, because he couldn't singi Presently the shower passed away and I let down my "umbrella: I i This proce eding on my part seemed to make an impression on the" mule, and it then occurred to me that the um brella had been the 'cause of all the mischief, for now he proceed ed cautiously orr his journey. Just as lie got "opposite me I? had oc casion to remove my hat to get at my bandana that was deposited in the crown; . :.' Tliat mule had all along been loolcu g with suspicion upon me and when my innocent old bandana c ime out of the hat he was pretty well satisfied that he had found a mares nest. By a slight effort he- curved himself gracetully upward, i a shiver passed through his frame alas ! the best of friends must partand right then that darkey and the mule parted com pany. : , . v"-" : - :- " ' The boy gathered himself up and with a feeling of unalloyed grief gazed upon his companion as he trotted down the lane. A sense of utter . helplessness seemed to come over him as he reflected on his inability to do the subject jus tice in words, so he silently, slunk awayj Such is life ! Only a little while: ago this youth was soaring aloft on the wings of imagination and pouring forth his soul in song. A few moments afterward he was groveling in the dirt, his joy all gone and his soul drawn back in to his body, even ts a snail hauls in his horns and retires into his shell.; ': v . The sound of the dinner-horn was wafted across the furrowed field, pleasantly reminding me of "home, sweet home," but even that music found no echo now- in the bosom of that silent youth as he plodded on in the footsteps of the retreating mule". Deeply imf pressed with the apparent uncerr tainty of human events I deposited unlucky, bandana in my, hat, n .n n -1 aismountett irom tne ience ana forthwith pursued the direction indicated by the echoing horn. By Way of parting, salute let me I say to you, gentle reader, in all your undertakings may you come out like that summons to dinner out of the big end of the horn ! Women are now being employ ed by the Austrian Government in the post-ohice department. Some of the Cleveland women will" not crusade until they are properly arrayed, and are having "praying costumes", made. In Sanony a fellow is required to court his girl by daylight, with the old woman sitting between thenVahd she allows no winking or nodding, ' - A voung lady had coquetted until the victim was completely exhausted. lie rose to go away. She whispered, as she accompa nied Tiim to the door, l shall be at home; next Sunday evening.' So shall I;' he replied. I A-Toimff-lavQloacteterlnbt before". But while we regard is charged with keeping her light burning lnlthe parlor until yery late on Saturday night, in order to harrow the sensitive feeling3 of an envious h eighbor intor the be lief that she has really got -a beau. is uncertain - at what place deathfawaitsthee ; wait thou for it at every place, The Nineteenth Century. BY JAMES A. ROBINSOir. It la a lamentable 'fact that the present age and time is fast be coming one oi corruption, vice ana dissipation.; The rising! genera tion as a class are endeavoring tp trample down the ruts of public opinion and follow the foolish and extravagant fashions ' of wealtU and wickedness. Truth and hon- or nave , been lorgotten by a,large number of our public men in their wild and frantic rush after money and notoriety. Look at the repref sentative men of to-day and comr pare them with the pure ahd spotj less patriots of the past, j .What a contrast ! Look at the murdersj suicides, incendiaries and ' every imaginable crime that 'fills the journals of the present age. '"' .The American people are fast follow j ing the path of past nations, wThose; highest ambition was the accumur lafeon of wealth and show to thJ world a dazzling picture of ex travagant fashions. This thing alone has caused Empires to crumj ble in the dust and Republics to fall from honor to degredation and ruin. .- When men forget their1 country's cause and sell their prinj ciples for the hope of individual gain, the day is near when that country.must bend the pliant khed and worship at the shrine of shamej corruption and tyranny: : : . j i From time immemorial: ages have rolled oh in the rear of ages nations have traveled : in j the footprints of nations and borne a-j way the generations of men. Amid the ruins of the past and the revcj lutions of empires, the changing scenes have passed each other inj quck succession, as governments have had their rise, their glory; and decline. All produced by the; same cause. The gulph of untold centuries is thickly strewn" with! the miserable victims who have made wealth , then? , only bbj ect during their entire existence. j And could the world's history bo written from the beginning,' of men .who have made vice a pro fession in order to obtain means td gratify their selfish appetites and; wicked desires, it would be a darH and dismal record with not a single drop of virtue to adorn its blood stained pages. j . In the records of the distant past we read" in sacred history of a character who betrayed the Sori of Gk)d for thirty pieces of silver We hear of a rich man who threwj his Heaven away in preference to his! wealth. L JProfane history pointy to; similar characters, j Wealth rightly administered and correct ly distributed i3 a glorions blessing to mankind. But when we hug it to our bosoms and turn j our, ears away from, the pitiful cry of chari ty calling for assistance, it is a curse " Could the selfish misers, who have crushed the hearts .and ruined the. homes of poor widows andorphans, hi their '.'.thirst ' for wealth, re-appear on earth before the ; general : resurrectibn, : they would flood the world with blind ing tears ' of remorse and regret for tlie villainous crimes they "com mitted " against their fellow creatures.,"-" - !.' 'V ' I When we.learnto look -upon virtue, honor, industry and intelli gence as something higher and more noble; than wealth, we. will start, on the right . road, to reform, wealth as the only attraction of manthe wm gs of mercy, and hu manity will continue to droop and countless crimes still be committed by the . covetous hand " of f ambi tious mciii CS As a sreneral rule, a fash- ionable beau like a how Xn me sky, can't make both ends meet. "HAEHTS UP WITH HES." We old fellows have all been there and we can remember all about it. We loved her- guess we did !r and we knew she loved in return. But one day she gave Sam Tomp kins a smile, or she let Tom Wat kins walk home with her under an umbrella, or she did some simple thing, and" we got huffy. We loved her all the time, but we sat down and wrote her a letter gating it at midnightsaying that we wanted all those" letters . and that ring - and , that photograph back. We hoped she wouldn't return 'em but we felt a mali cious ! pleasure- in punishing her. The letter was sent, or handed to her personally, - and we met her jvith a cold '-good, morning" as she came to school, but ; bestowed our best smile on Lavina Wedge, 1 lie homliest girl in the town. : Our heart ached when we look ed across the' desks and saw her slyly reading the letter and : try ing to keep back the tears; but we went over to the third girl be hind to borrow.a geography, aud to the second girl in front to bor row a grammar, and we were en tirely! unconscious of the presence 6f the rl ,we . loved. We stood beside her in the class as stiff as a pole, never letting on that' we saw her, and J the mutual agreement that i if one 'missed the other should do the same, in order to keep together" was broken. We tried to feel maliciously glad when we went to' the head and left her near the foot, hut we couldn't do it, j It went on this way for three Or four days. Once - in a while we caught sher looking at us with a sad, sweet smile, as if she were some poor orphan with; ho friend in the world.; and her note said that she couldn't part with the let ters and keepsakes. W-e held out bravely until it began to hurt us the most, and then we got ready to "make up" It couldn't be done suddenly, that would be acknowl edging our WTong. We waited un til noon-time,- and then as she ate her dinner in her seat we , began looking for a lost book. We thought it was under Hhe seat next to hers,, and while we were looking for it she spoke, we heard, but pretended not- to, and she spoke again. Then we ' coldly re plied, but sat down near by and asked " if "she had - those letters with her.' V She said no, and we moved nearer. She said it wasn't her fault, and we said it wasn't burs, and somehow our fingers touched. : , - v; ; " Jo. one knewi what a burden of anxiety was rolled ; away in five minutes, and how much - clearer the afternoon ;sun shone for . it. She seemed dearer than ever be fore: and iwhen the, brown eyes clear the tears away and the mer ry dimples' came " bacli, we won dered how we could have been such an unfeeling wretch : . and yet it was the same thing oyer in less than six weeks. - .-. ; ) Ah, me ! Those lovers who have nad a smooth path and married ivithout r having , quarrels and inake-ups and jealousies will nev er know what true love is. ' ; r 1,; you lady thus 'describes her feeling, and courts sympathy: My heart is sick, my heart is sad- ' " I But oh ! the cause I dare not tell S ? I am. not grieved, I am not glad, ; '2-i I I am not ill, I am not well. . " I'm not myself I not the same , r ? ? I am, indeed, I know not what, , 1 -. I'm changed in allv except in name . Oh ! when shall 1 be, changed in that ? r)Those real gem3 of thought that shine like stars in the nisht, were not . struck out at a heat, as sparla . from a blacksmith's anvil Are, but fashioned " and polished ,iiu uuuciii, uuu- u weary, unu nn achinfr head an heart. ' - . : .' Fcrtsae. - - ' ; BY JAES A DAVIS. This is the only thing in the great drama of,life that will cause a man to consider himself above Uhose of inferior circumstances. . If we have been bTessed with an immense- fortune, should this prevent us to hold ' ourselves ' aloof from those, wrhose characters are spot less, for the simple reason that they, are poor ? This little word is J regarded by some as a low calling. ' In the future is contained a mystery, which no human tongue can solve. ' We know nothing of the evils that await us, and there fore we : should prepare to meet them with stout hearts. , ?.; We should greet the poorest with a smile; of compassion as the wheels of time are speeding their moments ; away perhaps l we . will be overtaken by some terrible dis aster, and be deprived of the posi-; tion'we how possess, to 'seek, the quiet and solitude of the lowest. We then will have to remain in our bw state with no one to sym pathize with us. : ' 1 ; 5 On the other hand, j if we have always been agreeable to all classes" there will be friends ready to help us out of difiiculties and once : promote us to distinction. : O . life will be one happiness and blk: and when the messenger of death lays his cold and icy fingers, upc our brow, we will be prepared f a home eternal in the heavq. We advance a word of ad the youth of our day and . tion ; f we presume you are aware that those upon whom , machinerv of sravernment. nc rest, w7!!! eventually rr0 view. Have you .bee n. preparations for that which surely . come ? If you h would be proud to conje by close application to ext that have gone, he garded the spirit ; of emulation, a : will soon gain the goal (f. all should strive) ; honor. Faper. ; Faicn Gleaning. jr Silver grey is the fashionable color for April costumes. Striped grenadine t I1! fashionable for the c .uiL0 , months. - . , Pockets , are noY.' made on the outside of dresses inhe shape c a small bag; ", . . fc Small leather, fans are . said tc be taking the, place of the gigan tic wind sails' of last summer. " - Gentlemen who follow the fash ions will w'ear full-legged pants and single-breasted Test3 thisEcr- 80n.-v ' ... - ; . . The babies sashes; are .bccomin0 wider, and by. and by 'tv;ili be difficult to tell which is sash and which is baby. ' ' Sniali silk hows are now v, in the ; hair on the' left si cl n also at the back of the head the cunning little curb. The. most; becoming blac! vails are dotted with jet be and edged ,Kwith a frin cf v heavy. enough,to" hold it i n place. The shape is the mask lately worn. : In flower trimmings, tho la Ilea have hawthorne, health, trailing arbutus; daisies, " primrc. c:, vrcctl violets, rriwinkle,mo3cc.:, clover, red .and ;white lilac, and elder with its6tarry white blossoms an d dark berries1 : Eoses ' are me. o fashionable than ever.5 2? A man's smiles should be like fruit on a high limb. . People lightly value what they get with out pain. , If diamonds could be picked up among the pebbles of our brooks, wTho would wear them as ornaments? ; Tho Kitchen. FZT7 PZJLZ1T POLLY PEPPER. f. Editors I see you call on tho ladie to contribute to. yo'ir dear littlel'Torch'long may it shine' -sofj . concluded I would "send a few gpine knots to add to tho Vlagt," as.they are very useful to us 'housekeepers iu starting a fire-4ah ! rather : to my old man. I efee 'you have ah article evciry weeon the farm, ; though not a worddo I find about tlio kitchen th housekeepers parlor." . Now I propose, 31r. Editors, by your kindypermissioii, to take the v ' namejt depart'menC WUe the buck- ' ..ro fryin kettl on the firridr' hums a m , . :.d tlie to chop dot you a zephyrs rfume of ;ugh my cf tho lit- "old an" has.c a stick of w few ihuc. are Wafting ti b. blooning : flower wTindw, and the tje hds, as-the v tncir morn- ::i the fresh ling carols are bori, mt - a a morning ; ho "sits upon ::co raid looks at, Jnst like 'em. :t for hours at a the laborers toil. as "lh the t 1 is a delightful -1 o It's, eo nice to set be- :r husband a warm supper j rctuni3 from his seat f:nce, and rco him enjoy it, ;:."!:es aro done -and bo am.' I v.. 3 nur--k . acrab, iiinv fellows,-..-lit the fol- ,y.rc v i a 1 a lato compooition of a . i ui" who doubtless aspires to j liiicton cf a Mark Twain ;: tjrns are of two kinds, veget-j :id animal. Vegetable corn' in row3 and and animal f:ows on toes. There are sey jpds of corn ; there is unicorn 'Hern, corn dodgers, .field ::tl too corn, which is tho' o:t feel mc t. It is raid I , Ue gophers like corn ; but ft : having ccnis do not like Jh iar" it they can .help it. j) have kernels and some :I3 have corns. -Vegetabld : Stows on cars, hut animal K rows on the feet at the other the body. - Another kind is acoru. The corn 13 a a. article, indeed. Try' it Many, a man-when ho : n vdshe3 it wa3 an acorn. j iaive corns sometimes I a doctor, and if the doo- elf is corned, he won't I do so well as if he isn't. I -: cr eays that corns am nrrv- jl hJ tight boots or shoes, IJ probably the reason .:u 13 ugnt tney say ho I If a i'armer manage. can get a good deal of a good hut I run V -A O icre, laiow a one ceni that . croc :ihl3 farm. c: cgctabl'j com likea limal j o -: :hkA 'k; J (:;.' BY j
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