Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1872-02-16

Wen Farmer Smith has lost his wheat, his sheds
and mammoth barn;
His little boy, with enc small match, burnt up
the whole concern;
III tell yon, wife, he'll feel It sore; man on
money bent
Can't stand up under such a load, when not in
sured a cent.
I don't know as pity him; call it great sin
To hoard the harvests Of three years in spacious
I can't feel pity for man who double-locks his
door,
And stops his ears to all the cries that come up
from the poor.
I like to see economy-I like 20 see men save,
And lay up something for their kin when they
But you and 1 know very well, from what we
There is a line which, when It's crossed, man
gets to be mean.
When wheat was sixteen shillines-a price that
paid US we'll
Smith said, "I1l wait for twenty, 1 vow, before
I'll SELL"
Then, when itreached that figure, he said to me
one noon,
az guess III hold it longer; twill DO three dollars
s0On."
He held it, and he ran in debt for things to wear
and eat;
When merchants dunned him he would say,
''Wait till sell my wheat"
uIN Il
And he began to borrow to pay accounts long
due.
When Smith goes off to buy thing he spins
arOundsthe town,
And tries with all his might and main the price
TO banter down;
When he has anything to sell, tits priceless in
And ne must baye the highest mark-the lowest
when he buys.
Wife, If you take berry and dry it in the sun,
twill shriyel up till it takes two to make the
size of one.
So may man, in grasping grain, 50 shrlvel up
That twill meier expand again while life's years
DER him roll
God bless the men, where'er they are, in country
or in town,
Who do not think it lifes great work to crowd
their neighbors down;
This world would be the better, this life would
If every man who tolls to live would let his
brother live.
Out on the Granny White pike yesterday
morning there were found tWenty-four
chicken heads, whereupon a gentleman in
that neighbOrhood went to his chicken coop
and learned why this was thus. Somebody
onfhe night previous had made a raid on
his premises and carried off all the fowls he
had, and which he had paid forty cents
piece for only few mornings before.
A gnger-cake festival was one of the
novelties on South Market street yesterday.
There was full cotton board present, and
the lunch was enjoyed hugely by those who
couldn't see anything ahead in futures.
The letter-carriers had full hands yester-
day, and valentines were trumps.
FVba larcro oi1a1 oirart1ar rrsv,
which are now all the rage, suggests the
will not hereafter be concealed. Upward
is the motto adopted by the advocates of
hoops.
Our old friend, famlliarly known as Nj
Lord PalmerstOn, who, by the way, is de-
cidedly cOckneyish at times, one morning
not long ago oversight himself, and going
into the dining room of his boarding house,
his breakfast was spread before him by
negro boy who had just been employed that
day, and unknown to lis 'ighness. "Our"
Lord very soon discovered that the meats
were cold, and in that style peculiar to his
irritable nature when he becomes Texed, he
sang out: "Boy, take this ash to the kitch-
en- and 'eat it." The boy did as directed,
and returned soon afterwards, smacking his
lips. Lord P. questioned him about his
ash, aud learned that instead of heating it
as was intended by that emphatic order, the
boy had put the wrong construction upon
his language, and sure enough had deyour-
ed the contents of the dish. 1t is needless
to remark that Mi Lord left that house, per-
fectly disguised with waters who could not
understand a gentleman's order.
We interviewed one of our well known
artists yesterday in regard to the general
dizziness experienced by the profession, and
out Of curiosity wanted to know why it was
that the portraits Of females were so few in
comparison with the other sex, remarking
at the same time that in the early history of
the country, the first pictures that usually
adorned the mansions of the long ago, were
those of the wife and mother. His reply
was short and to the point. "Ohw said he,
''the country is greatly demoralized since
that period. Men now are much more
speculative. No sooner married, than they
begin to look forward to the happy moment
which will smile on a second marriage, and
they don't want any such incumbrances.'
That artist is disposed to be uncharitable to
the male persuasion of the present day.
A rural editor in Missouri being requested
to attach few lines of poetry to the mar
riage notice of friend, fixed it up this
way:
Not bell was heard, nor a sorrowful note,
As the crowd to Elder Taylor's hurried,
Not sigh went out from single throat
Ger the spot where our hero was married.
At the bottom of similar half column
appears this:
Slowly but sadly we turned away,
Not one of us feeling sOrTy;
But we wished him good luck on the coming
day,
And lett him alone in his glory.
The Comptroller received four wolf scalps
yesterday from Dyer county.