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The Sweetwater enterprise. (Sweetwater, Tenn.) 1869-187?, 1871-04-27
Stick to One Thinn

"Unstable as water, thou shalt not AZ.
cei' Is the language Of the Bible. Who
ever expects to succeed in any underta-
KING must enter into it with hearty and
earnest will to do his best. When n
trade or profession is chosen, obstacles
be they large or small, must not be al
lowed to stand in the way Of mastering
that trade Or profession. However
much we may deprecate the old-time
custom of indenturing apprentices, the
system, in its practical result, operated
almost always for the lasting good of the
apprentice. Generally it insured to him
good trade and o wholesome discip-
line, fitting him for success in business,
At the present time very many young
men undertake to acquire o trade, and
after brief trial abandon it, because
there are unpleasant duties to be per,
formed and obstacles to be overcome.
They consider themselves accountable to
no one, and 60 and come at the biddings
OF caprice, or an unsettled, uneasy mind.
The result Of this is to send out into the
world young men who have nO4 half
learned their trades, Of unstable charac-
ter, who drift from post to pillar, and
who succeed in nothing but strewing
along the highways of life melancholy
wrecks Of men.
Weearnestly entreat every young man,
after he has chosen his vocation, to stick.
to it don't leave it because hard blows
are TO be struck or disagreeable work to
be performed. The men who have
worked their way up to wealth and use
falness do not belong to the shiftless,
and unstable class, but may be rsckoned
among those who took off their coats,
rolled up their sleeves, conquered their
prejudices against hbOF, and maafany
bore the heat and burden of the daF.
Whether upon the old worn out farm
where our fathers toled, diligently stri-
wing to bring back the soil to produc-
tiveness, in the machine shop or factory,
or thousand other business places that
invite honest toll and skill, let our motto.
ever be: Perseverance and industry.
The training Of the nursery was good IN
its place, but it won't answer all the de-
mands in active life. This is not baby
world we must expect to be jostlsd and
Knocked about in the stern conflict, get,
run over if we are not on the lookout
and prepared to meet the duties of life
with the purpose not to shirk them. but.
to fulfill them.
young man with good trade or,
honorable profession, is not obliged TO
ask many favors. He will hew his way
to success, while the unstable and shift
less will grow tired, despair and fail.
The Sweetwater enterprise. (Sweetwater, Tenn.) 1869-187?, 1871-04-27
VOLUME vi. /
Number ga
The Country Cousin.

The New York Standard has an article
descriptive of "The Country Cousin, /"
which without being a perfect likeness, is
certainly not carieature. We copy, as
follows
Adam and Eve we're the original coun.
try cousins brought forth by this planet,
and an inquisitiVe and pryiug spirit sim
liar to theirs has always found its AvOrite
home among potatoes and corn. fields.
These credulous and curious suburban
relatives Of ours seem to have garnered
immense stories of inquisitiveness from the
very nature Of their rural occupations.
While eating their bread in the sweat OF
their faces, they have apparently had
abundant opportunity for specuiating
about the tree Of knowledge Of good and
evil, and for wondering whether the va.
riety Of apple which it produces is palat-
able.
The external aspect and the internal
idiOsyncrasies Of the country cousin ara
not unfamiliar to the cynic metropolitan
but they are never altogether without in.
terest for him. He is recognizable at n
glance at the theater, in church, on the
street, in the stage, wandering through tho
public institutiOns-in short, wherever ho
may feel inclined to put his head. The
dust from his native turnpike 10 on his
heels, and the green stain of his inexotio
meadows clings to bis uppers. An ingen.
uous wonder, that there is no mistake In,
marks his countenance rs he Wanders nm
and down the strange-peopled streets, and
an artleSs amazement hints at the rugve3
Eden he has left behind him. lie usually
shows lamentable aptitude for rushin1
headlOng into places Of proletaTian smuSe.
ment, where his more refined m metropolitan
cousins know uBdsr what circumstances TO
exclude themselves. KeEo lays its hand
upon him, and the basement concert saloon
marks him for its own. The gift enter
prise sWindle possessivs swindle possesses
for him charm which his modicum OF
moral courage does not permit him to re.
sist, aud in innumerable cases the mock
auction lays him PROSTATE.
But our country cousin, in displaying
q weakness which our metropolitan expeo
rience enables US to adroitly conceal, still
puts forth iudubituble claims to our 70.
sPect. Who can drive bargain or clinch
a contract with more astuteness than he :
What feeble and undermined offspring Of
the city can hope to make more viSor-
GUS and convincing application of the
knock-dOwn argoment when necessary,
Brawn has logic of its own, as we'll as
brain, and when the country cousin con-
celves that he is being got the best of, his
broad shoulders and athletic arms are yery
apt to supply the place of reasoning pow
ers, which, without being very artful in
their mode of work, may yet be able to
see their way clearly to conclusion. Our
gentle rural Kindred have generally fair
business habits, and it is only when an un.
familiar mode Of pleasure takes advantage
Of their passions and their inexperience
that they go very widely aStray.
The Sweetwater enterprise. (Sweetwater, Tenn.) 1869-187?, 1871-04-27
WOman'S Love.

A virtuOus woman is the very embod-
iment and persouihcation of love. The
true beginning and end of all that is
pure and worthy of womanhood, is love-
Love may be made to constitute all wo-
mans happiness; but if the heavenly
passion I've perverted, it proves the source
OF I'LL her Sorrows. Very beautiful in
deed is principal of love in woman it
constitutes roseate atmosphere sin
which she lives, and moves, and has her
beinG" it forms halo of celestian
purity TO surround her. Its light shines
il the glance OF her eyes-beams in the
smile upon her hps-and makes the mu-
sic OF her soitest tones for the melody
Of woman's voice is but prolonged
echo of the spirit Of love. 1t is impossi-
BILE to think Of the bonefcent yet unob-
trusive influence of q yirtuous woman,
without experiencing sense Of most
exalted admiration. Behold her as the
obedient daughter-how much she will
endure, through what trials she will
pass, and how goading must become the
parental tyranny ere she will allow her
spirit to rebel against the authors of her
being! Behold her when loving some
object worthy her devotion-mark her
unvarying constancy-the resolution
uniting with tenderness in the nature of
her afection-the tenacity with which
she clings to him whom she knows to be
deserving OF her lovel Again, behold
her as the wife jealolssly welcoming her
husband home-feeding her spirit with
the memory of his looks and smiles whan
he is absent-and with all the sublimest
elements of an ever enduring constancy
and faith appealing to his soul And,
lastly, contemplate her as the mother,
pressing her own born-babe to her bo-
som-studying to trace in its little coun-
tenance the hneaments of its sire-and
fondly making imagination continue the
work in this respect beyond the point
where verismilitude has stopped. Yes /;
woman, when imbued with pure and
virtuous love, is an angel-creature; and
well may poets strike their Tyres to sing
her praise-well might the warriors of
old have dared deeds. of high emprize
for the need of her smile-wen may the
student trim his lamp to write essays
upon her manifold good qualitiesl All
these tributes and all this homage does
she deserve, Last at the eToss. and ear
liest at the grave Of our Savior, she tea
ches to the sincere christian some of the
sweetest and most honest morals Of his
faith and thus is the name of woman
hallowed by religion likewise as well as
sanctifed BY love.
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"YOu Pay Your Money and you Take
Your Choice"

The following note appeared in the
Memphis Appeal few weeks ago:
New York, April 3, 1S71.-Inasmuch
as 1 advanced the sum Of 81, ,25O, from
my own personal means, to pay for the
"large life size portrait" ofW. G. Brown
low, of Tennessee, now on exhibition in
the State Capitol, at Nashville; and,
whereas, many representative men of the
Radical party promised to help foot this
bill, and have utterly failed to contribute
u single dollar toward it, 1 now offer the
said portrait for SALE Persons who wish
to make an offer for the same, will adj
dress me as below. All correspondence
conidentially treated. if desired. "Pa-
triOtism" of this kind has played out
with me. 1t does not support ones
family, unless he holds q public office.
Most respectfully,
GEo. r. RUTTER,
Postoffice box 1882.
MIR. Minor Meriwether, "being great
admirer Of the great Union-saver, offers
Mr.. Rutter twelve and one-half cents for
the portrait. Rutter confesses that this
is the most liberal among the numerous
offers he has received, but in o note to
the Appeal, dated the 18th instant, he
says
"A question of delivery has arisen
which may involve delay. Some time
since l wrote the heads Of the State De-
partmont at Nashville, accompanied by
an order on them, to turn this piece of
art over to an auction and commission
house, instructing them to dispose of it
and remit the proceeds to ME. The Lii
brarian, Mr.. W. H. Wharton, at Nash
vile, refuses to turn over. Having been
swindled out of all the money had by
these Radical jackGls and political vul-
lures, l should be obliged to some Mem
phis lawyer if he would suggest some
course by which the Librarian could be
made to deliver"
The Union and American says, Rutter
paid his money for this portrait-or
rather L6paid it out of the school fund.-"
which really belonged to the Bank of
Tennessee or the people Of the State
and although he claims that he has never
been reimbursed, as promised he should
be by the Radical leaders who were Just
before this contribution was made to the
art gallery in the capitol, manipulating
the "school fund" so as to get their fin
gers upon it, it appears he is not to be
allowed his choice in regard to the dis
posal OF the portrait 1t was probably
the remembrance of this portrait that
induced Brownlow to say in calling the
attention of the Legislature to the di-
rection the "school fund" had taken,
that she intended no reflection upon the
bank" of which Rutter was President,
and subsequently in u letter to Rutter
that "he did not blame him, as
he (Rutter) had done what any Banker
would have done"
The Sweetwater enterprise. (Sweetwater, Tenn.) 1869-187?, 1871-04-27
The Ku-Klnx War.

The Ku-Klux war upon the South, is
still boing vigorously pressed in and out
of Congress by the friends Of the admin
istration. While this is going on, Radi-
calism ignores the Ku-Klux operation,
which was performed ON three of the
cadets at West Point few lmonths ago.
The outrage was Of such enornlity that
the House Of Representatives felt COM
PEELED to notice it. An investigation
was had and the House ordered that the
Secretary of War should have the guilty
parties tried by courtmartial This, how
ever, has not been DONE No steps have
been taken leading to that result That
Ku-Klux outrage still goes unpunished.
The guilty parties are known and one
of them is the son of President Grant
If the whole South is to be punished for
the injury done to negroes by few dis
guised outlaws, does not even-handed
Justice demand that the son Of the Presi-
dent OF the United States should be pun
ished for aiding and abetting in the Ku-
Kluxing Of three white young men?
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The Union and American says that
the New York Tribune makes the asser-
ton, that Georgia and Louisiana were
carried for Seymour and Blair in 1868,
by general notice given to the blacks,
wherever the Democrats were strong en-
ough to enforce their threats, IF you
dare so to the polls and there present
Republican ballots, you shall not go
home alivep" The Tribune used to be d
tolerably fair paper, but it is becoming
very reckless Of late. 1t surely does not
expect any man with the brains of q
goose to believe such presentation as
this.
Geese are geese, and goose is goose.
See the pint,
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Hon. George II. Pendleton. declined.

The Washington Patriot says ave
learn that Hon. Geo. H. Pendleton has
finally declined to permit his name to be
used as a candidate for Governor before
the approaching Democratic Convention
in Ohio. This decision has been reach
ed after much deliberation, and is under
stood to have been made for reasons
wholly. personal. The impression now
seems to obtain, that Gen. George w.
McCool1, well known as an able and faith
fuladyocate of Democratic principles, will
receive the nomination" The Cincinnati
Enquirer, supports Gen. McCook.
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Soothing EniStle.

The recipient of the following sooth-
ing epistle from his eloping spouse, con-
tidently appeals to a sympathising pub
lie for commiseration i'll his bereavement
DEAR HUBBY You're. played out.
l like Dr. so well that 1 prefer going
with him-you good-for-nothing, degen-
Grated cuss- It's none of your business
where we've gone to. 1t won't d. you a
bit of good for you to follow us, for /
wouldn't live another day with you to
save your life. You made mistake in
thinking loved you. 1 never did.
married you for convenience sake. /
take the baby along, and I'll take care
of it. You can sue for o divorce, get
married as soon as you please. The We
man who gets you next will have heal
thy old prize. Goodbye Be virtuous
and you'll be happy.
YoUR LATE WIFE.
The Sweetwater enterprise. (Sweetwater, Tenn.) 1869-187?, 1871-04-27


One Of our exchanges says the word
Radical" is derived from the Latin
"}adiy," " which means root. The Radi-
Gals are therefore hooters" Their ma
ture has an element Of swinishness-for
swine are born to root. Indeed the
Grst real Radical, the fret Rooter, be-
longed to The genus swine. 10 that
first Rooter can be traced the lofty an
cestry If our modern Radicals, They
should be proud of the pedigree. They
are born with the grand propensity to
root they must root, they cannot help
but root. 1t is the law of their being.
Rooters were very Objectionable to the
Jews of old. Moses, who was doubtless
a Democrat, forbade his people to have
any thing to do with the ancient four
footed Radicals He called them foul,
unclean beasts. 1t is also a notable fact,
that once on time some demons, when
driven out of man, begged permission
to enter come bristling Rooters who hap
pened to be roofing near by. There
must be something in the Rooters very
attractive to evil spirits. 1t would be q
curious chapter to trace the history of
Rooters from the original Radicals of the
beast kind to the latest modern develop
ment.
Well ; all over the land these Radicals
are roofing ng-rooting up the soil of the
republic, roofing out the old, time-hon-
ored principles, roofing up law, right and
justice, roofing ont all that is good, root
ing deeper and deeper around the foun-
dations Of government until the fair fab
ric of freedom seems ready to fall.
o, for the day when these Rooters
shall themselves be rooted out of this
fair land
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MY FRIEND.

[Tho following touching poem wa
written in the prison dead-house ut CAM
Chase, by Col. w. S. h A fellow pris
oner was engaged to o beautiful lady
she proved faithless, and her letter came
breaking the troth. Soon after he died
and this was Col. HIS reply j
Your letter came, but came too late,
For Heaven had claimed its own;
All! sudden change, from prison bars
Unto the Great White Throne!
And yet 1 think lie would have stayed
For one more day of pain,
Could he have read those tardy words
Which you have sent IN ram.
Why did YOU wait, fair lady,
Through so many a weary hour?
Had you other lovers with you
In that silkeu, dainty bower2
Did others bow befo,eNour charms,
| Aud twino bright garlaDds there?
And yet | wten in all that throng
His spirit had no peer,
wish that You were by me now,
As [ draw the sheet aside,
Tosee how pure the look he wore
Awhile before he died.
Yet the sorrow that you gave him
Still had left its weary trace,
And meek and sanity sadness
Dwells upon his pallid face. =
"Her love-" he said, "could change for me
The winters cold to spring"
All, trust of thoughtless maiden's love,
Thou art bitter thing!
For when these valleys fair, in May,
Once more with bloom shall wave,
The Northern violets shall blow
Above his humble grave.
Your dole of scanty words had been
But one more pang to bear;
Though, to the last, he kissed with love,
This tress of your soft hair,
L did not put it ,chere he said,
For, when the angels come,
l would not have them find the sign
Of falsehood in the tomb.
I've read the letter, and 1 know
The wiles that you have wrought
To win that noble heart of his,
And gained it-fearful thought -
What lavish wealth men sometimes give
For tlihe, light and SMALL
What manly forms are often held
In Folly's fimsy thrall
You shall not pity him, for now
He's past your hope and fear;
Although wish that you could stand
With me beside his bier.
Still, l forgive you; Heaven knows
For mercy you'll have need,
Since God his awful judgment sends
On each unworthy deed.
Tonight, the cold witSls whistle by, .--
As L my yigils keep
Within the prison dead-house, where
Few mourners come to weep.
A rude plank coffin holds him now,
Yet Death gives always grace;
And [ would rather see him thus
Than clasped in your embrace.
Tonight, your rooms are very gay,
With wit, and wine, and song
And you are smiling, just as if
You never did wrong,
Your hand 80 fair, that none would think
1t penned these words of pain
Your skin, so white, would God, your soul
Were half so free OF stain
I'd rather be this dear, dear friend,
Than you in all your glee
For you are held in grievous bonds,
While he's forever free.
Whom serve We in this life, we serve
In that which is to come,
He chose his way you, yours let God
Pronounce the tftino doom
The Sweetwater enterprise. (Sweetwater, Tenn.) 1869-187?, 1871-04-27
Beats Greeley all Hollow.

The New York Star exposes all pro
fame persons connected with the New
York Press. OF Sam Glenn, the Her
AIDS religious editor, it says: "Sam
Glenn is one of the best known men in
the profession. Sans forte is strength
and if our pious readers would like to
know where his strength mainly lies, we
advise them to give him call some Sat
urday morning when the religious ex-
changes are misplaced, He beats Gree
ley all hollow.
The Sweetwater enterprise. (Sweetwater, Tenn.) 1869-187?, 1871-04-27

A music teacher once wrote that "the
art of playing the violin requires the
incest perception and the most sense of
any art in the known world" Where
upon Western editor comments thus
"The art of publishing a newspaper and
making it pay, and at the same time ma
king it please everybody, beats fddlin'
higher than kite"
The Sweetwater enterprise. (Sweetwater, Tenn.) 1869-187?, 1871-04-27

The question Of "woman's rights" is
to be tested in the courts of Connecticut.
Miss Watrous Muther and Miss Smith,
OF East Haddam, with eighteen other
women, applied to be made voters, but
they were refused. Notwithstanding
the refusal, the two mentioned tried to
vote at the late election in that State,
and, their votes being refused, they will
appeal to the courts, and claim the right
under the fifteenth amendment Miss
Mather is a Republican and Miss Smith
Democrat,
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A COWardly Party.

According to the declaration of Mr..
Farnsworth, Radical member of the
House of Representatives in Congress,
from Illinois, the radical party is afraid
or too cowardly to bring before the Su-
preme Court many laws which have been
passed by that party in Congress.
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Outrage Against the Israalitns.

From Vienna and London comes intel
ligence of outrage against the Israelites
in the East. We fear that the Russo
Greek Church needs little more of the
spirit of Christian tolerance, with more
careful and constant teaching from the
word of the Sermon on the Mount.
The Sweetwater enterprise. (Sweetwater, Tenn.) 1869-187?, 1871-04-27
SS4.094,OOO. in Taxes.

The New York Tribune announces
that the government wrung from the
people $84, 1894, 900 in taxes, in 1870, in
excess of the amounts paid in 1868 and
1869 and yet the Radicals are boasting
of the manner in which they have re-
duced taxation.
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Removal of Gen. Fry.

1t is charged in Washington that the
removal of Gen. Fry from the position
of Supervisor of Kentucky, was brought
about by Col. VIM. B. Stokes, of this
State The Kentucky Radicals are very
much incensed at the removal and are
protesting against it.
The Sweetwater enterprise. (Sweetwater, Tenn.) 1869-187?, 1871-04-27

@{aint going to live long, mother"
said o woe-begone looking yoangster.
one day, to his matern& parent Why
not, pray2 "Raeanse my pantaloons
is all tored ant behind" was the crush
ing reply.
The Sweetwater enterprise. (Sweetwater, Tenn.) 1869-187?, 1871-04-27

A Western Journal recently published
this extraordinary notice: Married Of.
the residence Of thA bridss father, by.
the Rev. A. Nj. lyons John p. Ellis,
Esq, aR OF this city That is what is
called in euchre, going it alone.
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.
A Mnnt.

The PHILADELPHIA Press, says an ex-
change wants the gambling houses of
that and Ill other cities broken up.
Neither House OF Congress is included.
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Now it Makes no Difference.

The Radical New York Times says
when the Democrats were in power sit
damaged a mans character to be sus-
pected ofselling his vote. Now it makes
no difference.
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Has Grant Under His Thumb,

Gov. Geary, of Pennsylvania, says
Senator Cameron, the most corrupt poll
tician of the times, has Grant under his
thumb.
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The Author of the Income Tax.

A large number of the Nothern Radi-
Gals have been very much put out be-
cause Congress did not repeal the income
tax, and in their desperation they charge
Senator Sherman with being the author
OF the tax ; but it hasa higher paternity.
1t owes its existence to tEas "great
statesman" Ulysses S. Grant. When
the old war tax expired, it was he who
said, 81 also suggest the. renewal of the
tax on incomes, but at reduced rate of
three per cent" Message of ofDecember
1863. Through this brilliant sugges-
ton it was enacted, and now barely sus-
tains the army of officials employed to
collect it, and yields nothing to tho pub
lie treasury.
The Sweetwater enterprise. (Sweetwater, Tenn.) 1869-187?, 1871-04-27

A little four-year-old remarked to her
mamma on going to bed, I'm not afraid
u the dark"
"No, OF course you are not" replied
her mamma, "for it can't hurt you"
%Rlt, mamma, I was little afraid
once, when I went into the pantry to get
q cookie"
"What were you afraid OFF" asked her
mamma.
Il was afraid I couldn't find the cook
ies."
The Sweetwater enterprise. (Sweetwater, Tenn.) 1869-187?, 1871-04-27

In Macon, Ga, butter is reported at
sixty conts q pound money scarce, and
times dull.
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THE ENTERPRISE.
Sweetwater. Thursday, Apr.27, 1871.
Prefer the BaYOnet.

What the Radical party most fears is
the free, untrammeled ballot of the peu-
pie. They prefer the bayonet.