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Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1873-07-03
Without an Enemv,

We believe in the man or woman
who has 'enemies." This does not
sound sound, but it is sound. Your
milk -and-water people, who content
themselves with simply doing no harm,
at the same time never do any good
They are mere negatives. Your man
Of force, who does not wait for stone
to get out of his heaven-appointed way,
but manfully rolls it over, may unin-
tentionally hurt somebody's toes in the
act but thousands who will have to
travel that way will thank him for
clearing it. The man or woman who
has no enemies is generally sleek,
creeping, cowardly creature, caring for
no one but himself-smirking and
creeping his unchallenged way to the
obscurity he merits. He adds nothing
to the common stock-does no good in
the world, and is lowered into his six
feet of earth without one sincere re-
gret from any one.
Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1873-07-03

it furnished wood for the cross of
Christ; the one which marks the had
dock with a thumb-and-fnger mark,
because Saint Peter held him by the
right hand, and took the tribute money
from the fsh's mouth with the left,
and a thousand other similar fancies,
known to more ambitious poets than
those of the cave and hut and hearth
stone, as we'll as to these. We do not
know enough of our Tupi to guess
whether thedemand of the night-haWk
for his shirt resembles his natural cry,
and Prof. Hartt does not inform US.
Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1873-07-03
9loIetry.
ON THE BEACH.

The moonlight slanted Ger the beach
And leapt across the glancing waves;
1t made lhe night too pure for speech,
And saddened with sense of graves.
We had been rambling al the day
Breathing the sea-air, she and I,
And as the sunlight left the bay
We climbed the rocks to see it die.
Then waited for the rising moon
To cast the glamour other light
On cliffs too commonplace by noon,
And the long sea-line left and right.
So all our walk to silencs grew,
Unbroken by word o: sign,
Till nearer to my side she drew,
And laid her little hand in mine.
The stars came out and in the west
The last faint glow of glory died,
And night, in jeweled sables dressed,
Came on us sitting side by side.
Then when the moon with rounded light
Stepped queenly o er shorizon,
Along the coast-line str hing white,
With arms entwined, We wandered on.
And many creek and winding cove,
And charming prospect did we miss,
Our eyes and thoughts were all for love,
And lips were surely made to kiss
Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1873-07-03
30. why didn't I have common sense

~, why didn't have common sense
enough to go and get a nurse? Isup-
pose there is no danger Of the baby
bursting his lungs, but [ think if there
was such contingency this baby is in
a fair way of meeting it. Well roal
away my young friend, I can stand ii
as long as you cam"
Vain boast! as futile as vain, as Mr.
Verley soon discovered. The baby not
only cried, but screamed, it kicked, il
onlydoubled itself over more ways than
contortionist's widest dreams could
imagine, and became apparently fran
tic with passion. The perspiration
broke in huge drops on Joseph's brow,
his face flushed, and still the cars
thundered on.
"What's to become Of me?" holding
on to the struggling infant by the sash
that encircled it's little waist, and
watching it's purple face with species
of old defectation. 81 don't wonder
that Harold died. [ shall die in a
week if this goes on. And it seemed
so easy for Barbara Smith to take care
of her little brothers and sisters. II
Barbara Smith was only here"
| And Verley pulled the baby into d
sitting posture with a jerk.
"PH," quoth Mr.. Verley, ''I'll take
the back express at four o'clock in the
morning and 60 straight there. All:
you stop, you little hypocrite, but ii
won't do any good; Pm not to be caught
twice in the same trap"
Barbara Smith was watering he1
tube roses in the bright sunshine, when
he arrived with his valise and baby.
"Dear me, Mr.. Verley," she ejacu-
lated, blushing celestial rosy red
''Why, what sweet baby"
eyes, very SWEET he responded
drily. "It's my niece that I was to
meet at Speedville."
"Why, I thought she was young
lady,"
$50 did I, but it seems she is not.
Barbara, what do you suppose brought
me back?" he added speaking very fast
for fear the baby would cry.
81 don't know" faltered Barbara,
crimsoning still more; ''perhaps you
forgot something"
eyes, I did"
"What is it." said Barbara, little
disappointed.
81 forgot to ask you if you would
marry me-"
"Dear me, was that alp" said the
young lady demurely.
"Isn't that enough? Say, Barbara,
will you ?"
s'I'll think of it." answered Barbara.
"No, but tell me now. Quick, the
babys waking up.
"Well, then-yes."
Barbara had taken the little thing
in her arms and disappeared before she
had time to utter her waking yell.
A week afterwards Mr.. Verley took
the 1890 train with wife and niece,
the happiest of ofreclaimed old bachelors
and it was all the unconscious baby's
work.
Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1873-07-03
Salvation N ear.

"And that, knowing the time, that now it IS
high time to awake out of sleep, for now is
salvation nearer than when we believed.''-
Rom. Xiii : IL,
"Knowing the time," how short, how
uncertain it is, the Christian is here
urged to watchfulness, and to the faith
| full performance of duty; but while
urging the common topic of the short
ness of time, the apostle does not urge
it in a common manner; on the cor
trary, instead of pointing to the az
proach of death, he holds out the pros
pect of eternal life; instead of remind
ing the believer that the end is at hand,
that the night is close upon us, he tells
him that the darkness is passing away,
and ''the day is at hand;" instead Of
saying that the close of all is near, he
proclaims that salvation is near-nearer
every day to us-"nearer than when
we believed"
Thus the weary traveller counts the
stages of his journey home. Thus the
exile counts the years that remain to
fulfil his time of banishment. Thus
the watcher reckons the hours that
must pass till the sun shall rise.
And thus the child, at distance
from, his home, longs for the day that
will restore him to his fathers house,
to his fathers arms.
But where there is not the spirit of
traveller going home, of an exile long
ing for his fatherland, of a watcher
looking out for the morning, or of
loving child desiring the father''s house
the light of time is dreaded as bring
ing to aclose the present state of things,
which is all that is thought of as an
object of interest to the mind.
"Things seen and temporal are a..
lone cared for: "things unseen" awaken
no longings and stir up no efforts, even
though they are much greater than
things seen, as eternity isgreater than
time.
Lord, do Thou awaken us i'll time to
the true value of time, and to the just
consideration of that which is, and of
that which shall be!
"Onc sweetly solemn Thought
Come to me o'er and o'er;
am nearer home to-day
Than ever have been before.
Nearer my Fathers house, ....-
Where the many mansions be;
Nearer the great white throne,
Nearer the crystal sea. ..- r..
Nearer the bound of life, 5s..
" Where we lay our burdens down;
Iarer leaving the cross,
~-er gaining the crown.
aslkly between. .s
1ss&deep aud unknown streain
That leads at last to the light. srs
Jesus perfect my trust, .t.'.
Strengthen the hand of my f,ithj
Let me feel Thee near whefI stand
On the edge of the shore of death.
Feel Thee near when my feet 10.
ARD slipping over the brink;
For il may be Pm nearer homo
Nearer now than think l''.
Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1873-07-03
UNFoRTUNATE.-That Danbury dys-

UNFoRTUNATE.-That Danbury dys-
depsia curer says in his bunch of items:
Another match broken up. This be-
tween a clerk in a we'll known dry
goods store and lady on Essex street.
1t was so warm on Friday evening,
that she had the parlor window up,
and he stood on the lawn, and they
were cooing to each other, and he was
just reaching up for another kiss when
the sash came down like flash, and
knocked off the peak of his nose and
scalped his chin, and he hoped around
so madly, and howled so dreadfully,
that the old gentleman thought he
was drunk, and had him kicked out of
the yard with great deal of ostenta-
ton. Monday morning he went West.
Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1873-07-03

BT"Punch" thinks that some peo-
pie are never contented. After having
all their limbs broken, their heads
smashed, and their brains knocked out
they will actually 60 to law and try tc
get further damages. =
Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1873-07-03

BaA ten-year old boy boasting to
schoolmate of his fathers accom-
plishments said: "My father can do
most anything. Heis notary public,
and he's pothecary, and he can pull
teeth, and he's horse doctor, and he
can mend wagons, and he can play the
fiddle, and he's a jackass at all trades" +"
Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1873-07-03

est OF novelists, drew her little girl to
her heart with the last energy Of ex-
piring nature, "and clasping this frail
spar to her bosom, drifted out upon
the unknown sea that rolls round all
the world"
Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1873-07-03

Bg~The latest method of spending
the honeymoon is reported from Italy.
An American recently met an old
school-fellow whom he had not seen
for years. "You here?" eyes, my
dear fellow, | have just been married,
and am come to pass the honeymoon
in Italy," ''And your wife," "My
wife? Oh! | left her in, New York;
Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1873-07-03
nsspmWill Won keen an eve on !

Bg~"Will you keep an eye on my
horse, my son, while | step in and get
drink" Stranger goes in and gets
his drink; comes out and finds his
missing. "Where is my horse, boy"
"He runned away, sir" ''Didn't | tell
you to take care of him, you young
scamp" "No, sir you told me to keep
an eye on him, and so did, till he got
clear out of sight"
Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1873-07-03

BEThe poorest education that
teaches self-control is better than the
best that neglects it.
Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1873-07-03

~Agassiz says that the evening
hours are the best for sleep. They
are also the best for sitting up with a
nice girl.
Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1873-07-03

BHAn unpopular "ism" with everv-
body-the rheumatism,
Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1873-07-03
A Cholera Remedy.

The New York Journal Of Commerce
publishes the following receipt for a
cholera mixture, of which it says:
owe have seen it in constant use for
nearly two score years, and found it to
be the best remedy for. .looseness of the
bowels ever yet devised. It is to be
commended for several reasons. It is
not to be mixed with liquor, and there
fore will not be used as a alcoholic bev-
erage; it's ingredients are well-known
among all the common people, and it
will have no prejudice to combat
Each of the materials is in equal pro-
portion to the others, and it may there
fore be compounded without profess
sional skill; and, as the dose is so very
small, it may be carried in tiny phial
in the waistcoat pocket, and be always
on hand. It is:
Tinct. opii.,
Capsici,
Rhei CO.,
Menth pip,
Campho.
"Mix the above i'll equal parts; dose,
ten to thirty drops. In plain terms,
take equal parts tincture of opium, red
pepper, rhubarb, peppermint and cam
phor, and mix them for use. In case
of hiarrhea, take dose of ten or twen-
ty drops in three or four teaspoonfuls
of water. No one who has this by him,
and takes it in time, will ever have the
cholera. Even when no cholera is an
ticipated, it is an excellent remedy for
ordinary summer complaint"
Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1873-07-03

sAnd that, knowing the time, that now il is
high time to awake out of sleep, for now is our
salvation nearer than when we believed.''-
Rom. xiii IL,
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1873-03-29

A VIRGINIA FaImerS' Club, discussing
the proper manner of preparing tobacco
beds for sowing, agreed that as n matter
of economy burning should be dispensed
with, except on such land actually re-
quired it; not that burning was of no use,
but not necessary, and by emitting it
much wood and labor would be saved.
The following plan, without burning, has
long been successfully practiced by
members of the club: Select place in
woods of original growth, as far as pos
sible from arabic lands and old plant
beds; grub, and clean off all leaves and
trash; then coulter the bed deep and
well, turning as little of the surface soil
as possible. Sow ], goo pounds of guano
per acre, and rake it in, leaving the sur
face of the bed level. Sow the seed, one
pipeful to every ten square yards, tread
them in and cover well, first with stable
manure, then with brush. Would resow
the first of March, and hasten the plants,
ii necessary, by frequent applications of
fertilizers. WOn,d not select very moist
places for plant beds. relying on deep cul-
iivation for moisture. To prevent fly,
would use kerosene, mixed with lime and
guano Fly would not iniurc plants while
in a rapidly growing condition.
We may remark That in the West, where
gUano is practically unattainable on ac-
count of its cost, the pulverized manure
of poultry of pigeons will answer the
purpose as well.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1873-03-29
Spencer's Success.

THE seating of Spencer as United
States Senator from Alabama, is over
Swallowed by the more gigantic outrage
on Louisiana. but it is nevertheless a
wrong of sufficient magnitude to show
tlfat the Republican majority in Congress
will do such things when there is no
other motive but just to keep their
hands in" If the Legislature of Alabama
had met and organized according to law,
precedent and usage, there would have
been no chance for Spencer's reelection.
Defeated in an attempt to steal march
in the organization of the two Houses by
the arbitrary arrest and deportation of
conservative members, his partisans met
and set up separate Legislature of their
own in United States Courtroom, and
then and there, without any quorum
present, elected him to the Senate.
Another body constituted with a lawful
quorum met in the Capitol, and received
the recognition of the Governor. More
over, it bad custody OF the election
returns, canvassed them and proclaimed
the election Of the present Governor,
Lewis. As soon as he was fairly indicted
into office, he refused to recognize the
Legislature which had been recognized
by his predecessor, but gave his counte-
nance and sufp port to the seeding Spencer
faction. and issued certificate Of cleo
ton to Spencer himself. The means bv
which Spencer tried to have himself
sworn in without objection were as ex-
traordinary as those by which he obtained
his certificate; and yet the majority of
the Senate refused to look behind that
document. Had it been procured and
presented by Democrat under such cir
cumstances, presidents for going behind
the Governors certificate would have
been as plenty as blaCkbcrries, and there
would have been another loud call for
the reconstruction of Alabama AS Mr..
Spencer's politics were regular, the ma
jority could see no irregularity in his
credentials. The moral of the decision
is, that any kind Of Assembly assuming
to be a Legislature is competent to elect
Radical Senator, and that any kind of
prima fo,cje fraud is sufficient to seat a
Radical claimant. Missouri RapuJiicqn.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1873-03-29
A New DEPARTURE IN MEDICINE.

A NEW DEPARTURE IN MEDICINE
There are new departures" in medicine,
as well as in politics. The latest and most
successful of these is the bold movement
of DR.. Joseph Walker, of California,
who has actually had the effrontery to
produce IA Vegetable Tonic and Restora-
tive, without any alcoholic basis, which
is curing disorders of the stomach, liver,
bowels, nerves and pulmonary organs,
with a rapidly that fairly entities him to
the anathemas of the Old School of Ply
sicians, and the praise and confidence of
the New! His CALIFORNIA VINEGAR BIT
TIERS may be safely pronounced the most
popular remedy of the age. When it is
considered that this now famous specific
was introduced some two years ago, its
present sale, which is at the rate of
5000 GOO bottles per annum, can only be
ascribed to its intrinsic merits. 1t is be-
lieved that the history of patent medi-
cines' affords no example of a success so
rapid and complete. The community in
sists that this success is thoroughly de-
served, and we have no inclination to
dispute its dictum. The Voice of the
People, if not exactly that of Omnipo-
tence, is generally the voice of Common
Sense, and as they have had ample time
to take sober second thought on the
subject, it may be assumed that in this
instance, their opinion is creditable to
their sapacity.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1873-03-29
Complete Drainage of Dwelling
Houses.

Where the geological character of the
ground is such that nature has not made
ample provision for removing the sur
plus water at all seasons Of the year, a
builder capHot expect to have the advan-
tages of dry cellar and a dry yard, I'M
less system of complete drainage is COM
menced below the foundation of the low
est stones or bricks Of the cellar wall.
Many builders have made the grave mis-
take of deferiing all provision for drain
age until after the superstructurc was fin
ishe,i
We have in mind an instance in which
beautiful suburban villa was erected
where the ground was wet only at certain
seasons of the year, and provision for
draining the cellar was made by laying a
stone drain from the center of the cellar
beneath II side wall down the sloDc of the
yard to the brook. The bottom of the
cellar was covered with cement, so that
The surface sloped a trifie from every side
to the middle, where there WAS a hole
through a fiat stone that covered the up
per end of the Drain. 4 few pailsful Of
water could be dashed over the cellar
bottom, and with Il scrub broom the floor
could be cleaned in Il few minutes. All
the water and filth would flow readily to
the drain and disappear. At first the ar
rangement was thought to be admirable
came on, and the earth was saturated
with water, it oOzed through the walls on
every side, and spread over the entire
cellar bottom on lis way to the outlet at
the center of the cellar This proved TO
be disagreeahlc feature in "a cellar that
as at first deemed To be about as com
plete as 4 cellar could be.
The mistake consisted, first, in not ex-
tending IL drain around the outside of the
excavation for the cellar before the foun-
datiOn wall WAS laid; aud second in
grading the cellar bottom 10 slope towards
Il common center, rather Than grading to
slope u triile towards The walls on every
side.
Very few builders, either in the coun-
try or city, can be induced to Introduce "a
proper system of drainage beneath end
around IA dwelling or a large barn. For
this reason, the proprietor himself, or
some competent representative, should
supervise this important part OF the build
inr Us soon rs the excavation for the Gel
lar IS completed. il deep ditch should
first be sunk go that water will flow read
lily away from the cellar 10 some distant
point where it will mingle with some
stream. Before any part of the founda-
ton wall is laid, let II channel be sunk
about three inches deep around the outer
edge Of the excavation, partially beneath
the bank of earth for receiving the water
that would otherwise come in contact
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1873-03-29
The Outrage in Louisiana.

THE Louisiana troubles have assumed
serious aspect. To understand them
thoroughly, and place the blame on the
shoulders which ought to bear it, it is
necessary to reiterate two or three propo-
sitions concerning whose soundness every
intelligent man is well informed, and
which no honest man of whatever party
disputes.
At the general election in November
last Gov. McEHery and his associates on
the State ticket received large majority
of the votes. The same is tue in regard
to most of the members Of that Legisla-
tGre which supports the claims of Nc
Emery.
On the other hand, Kellogg and those
who ran on the ticket with him, together
with that body which in his interest pre-
tends TO call itself Legislature, were
not elected by the people, but were de-
feated by large ma jorities.
These last so-called officials are q bogus
cabal, and owe their present positions
and the power to plunge the State into
civil war solely TO the judicial ursurpa-
tons of Durell, the United States Dis
trict Judge, whose proceedings in this
affair have, after "A thorough Investigation
by the Committee on Privileges ana Elec-
tlons in the Senate, whereof Senator
Morton is Chairman and Senator Carpen-
ter is "A leading member, beer unanimous
ly declared Illegal, unwarranted, and
gross violations Of the Federal Constitu.
ton and the Constitution of Louisiana
Though members of this committee made
four reports every one of them enunciat-
ed this fundamental proposition in the
most explicit terms.
From these premises it logically fol
lows that the real Government of Louis-
ana is that whereof McEnery is the head,
while that represented by Kellogg is as
sheer n usurpation as it would have been
for Francis Herman and the defeated
Democratic and Liberal candidates for
our Legislature to have got an injunction
from some court in December, and by aid
of the militia taken possession of the
Capitol NJ Albany on New Years day,
and kept John A. Dix and the Senate and
Assembly now sitting there out of IT.
And why do Kellogg ard these Louisi-
ana usurpcrs dare TO still cling TO the
power they obtained through the nur-
chased DEGREES of the degraded scoundreI
Durell, and to carry that unfortunate
State once more to the brink if not over
the precipice of disastrous outbreak
There is but one answer to this question.
From the outset Gen. Grant has aided
and abetted the usurpation. He instantly
recognized the al interim Governor,
Pincnback, who was to hold on to the
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1873-03-29
How POmerOy Satisfied Senator Davis.

When, one day, weary with the cares
of state, the Senator from Kentucky was
snoozing in his chair his name was called
to vote. A neiehbor punched his ribs
and said, wake up, Mr.. Davis; your
name is called" Half unconsciously the
Kentuckian rose and asked the Vice
President what they were voting on. The
Vice President explained that it was a
railroad bill in Kansas. "Well," said Mr.
Davis, in that shrill voice and pointed
manner of his, "what l want to know,
before vote, is the amount of stealage in
this BILL"
Whereupon the great and good Pomeroy
arose, his face beaming all over with the
smiles only clear conscience can pro
duce, and said:
eff the Senator from Kentucky will
permit me will, explain. have thorough
Iy investigated this bill, sir, and assure
you if there is any stealing in it cannot
find it."
"All right, Mr.. President" responded
Senator Davis, eff the Senator from Kan
sas can't find any stealage I'm satisfied
there is none there" Laughter. For
neY's Chronicle