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No Work, No Pay.

Mr.. Dibrell of Tennessee has in
PRODUCED a bill in the House of
Representative which prohibits
Senators and Representatives from
receiving pay for any absence, un
less in cases of extreme illness of
themselves or their families. 1t is
probable that no member of either
house pays the penalty of absen-
teeism, because each individual is
interested III having the largest lib
erty, and politics are thrown aside
when personal convenience and
profit are involved.
There were one hundred and
twenty absentees on the highest
test vote in the House a few day 8
ago, or about two-fiths of the whole
number. The fact that many of
them were paired in no way relieves
the responsibility of the absentees,
because neither law nor the rules
authorize an abuse which has taken
large proportions, and at this very
time leaves the House at the mercy
of the minority for a quorum to do
business.
A rule requiring the names of alb
sentees to be read every morning,
as the first part of the journal,
would soon attract the attention OF
their constituents and put an end
to a practice which has become a
serious impediment to the public
business, and is a gross wrong to
faithful members who never shirk
duty, nor resort to misrepresenta
ton to escape the penalty of absen-
teeism without excuse.-[ New York
Sun.
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FATHER AND TWO SONS
Marry a Blushing Mother and Tive
Blooming Daughters.
Little Rock Gazette.

Lltltc hOOk dhLelUes
Mr.. j. L. Holcomb, a gentleman
of Kentucky, but who has been in
Crittenden county, this State, for
several months, tells us of rather
remarkable, though hardly unprece
denied, matrimonial affair which
occurred in that county recently.
Out from the line Of the railroad
and aside from almost any other
well defined mark of civilization
marks so n-delineated, in fact, that
they as a half-worn date on an an
cient coin-there lived old man
Rosebury and his two sons, twins.
The age of the old man is rather
doubtful, but it is believed by his
near neignDors, the nearest Of whom
are within stones throw, that is,
if the stone be thrown a mile and a
half, that he is about fifty. The
sons being twins, are about the
same age, twenty seven. The near
est human habitation was a house
occupied by Mrs. Glenn and two
daughters, though, pity to say, the
daughters were not twins at the
time of their birth and have not yet
succeeded in attaining that point
Mr.. Rosebury fell deeply IN love
with Mrs. Glenn, and the Two sons,
Robert and John, fell equally as
much so with the two daughters,
Mary and Rachel. The most mag
Unable wholesale lovemaking en-
sued. The old man and widow
seemed devoted to each other, and
the young people were sufficiently
so to marry, which they all did on
the same day. After the ceremony
the six happy souls and the six
bodies repaired to the residence Of
the husbands. Everything went
smoothly. The old man was very
kind to his newly-made daughters,
particular so to Rachel, the wife of
his son John. The kindness in
creased, and the other matrimonial
lists marveled, one to another. The
old man even disregarded the wishes
of his wife, and Rachel snuffed her |
Grecian nose at her Roman nosed |
husband. One morning, about two |
weeks after the marriage, the family
of several divisions discovered that
the old man and Rachel had gone. |
and not being able to find
them, but learning from a ferryman
that they had crossed the river into
Tennessee, the family returned
Pretty soon an intimacy sprang up
between Robert, Mary's husband,
and the old lady. The old lady was
wise, and had had such broad eXpe
rience, that Robert never grew tired
of profiting by her counsel. Anoth
er disaster. Robert and the old
lady ran away, leaving John and
Mary, who, seeing, as they were
not blind, that they were left alone,
clasped themselves in loving EN-
brace, for it seemed that they had
loved each other from the FIRST
Did they stay on the farm2 No,
sir. There is a mortgage on it.
They packed up, and, according to
the ferryman, went over into Ten
nessee.
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Use the Newspapers.

Some advertisers think that be-
cause an advertisement which APP
pears to-day is not followed to
morrow by an appreciative increase
of sales the advertisement has done
no good and the theory of advertis-
ing is false. Though it is perhaps
impossible to insert a notice that
will not be read-let any didymus
put a three line card, "Wanted-A
Dog" in the obscurest corner of
this-it is not expected that the
moment 4 person casts his eye
upon an advertisers store, he
may not, at the time, need any ar
tlcle in the merchants line, or he
NAV deal with another house. But
if the representation is attractive
he will almost inevitably, whenever
he needs anything of the kind an
nounced, turn to the paper where
he saw the card and give the adver-
wiser a trial. The merchant should
regard his outlay for advertising as
he would that for painting his
building or putting up his sign
board-as a necessary charge upon
the whole years business, the et-
feet of which is not to be perceived
Immediately. Men do not SOW
wheat one day and harvest it the
next.
The merchant may keep a steady
clienteLs of satisfied customers, but
the chances are that some of these
will be detached by seeing the ad
vantages of other dealers persist
emily advocated. He will certainly
not attract, new patrons. They
will go elsewhere. just as they
would seek another store than hi
if, on coming to his door, the,
found it locked and the shutters
up.-GAuousta News.
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A Little Too Honest.

The Chattanooga Commercial
and Knoxville Republican, two Of
the extreme Radical prints in East
Tennessee, oppose the 50-4 com
promise, because they want TO pay
the full amount Of the State debt.
We are not that honest. If our
creditors, owing 10 our financial de-
preston, and inability 10 pay the
full amount, say 10 us they will
take half the amount due, we are
willing TO accept their proposition,
and say "thankY, gentlemen" in
the bargain. These hig Isaacs Of
the Republican party, that want 10
be so honest, for political effect In
the future, would take an elephant
before a man could say Jack Rob
inson, provided he had chance.
The Knoxville Chronicle, the or
gan Of the Republican party In the
State, favOrs the 504 compromise.
-TCleveland Banner.
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Thinking.

Thinking is not dreaming. The
world is full of dreamers. A few
men do most of the thinking
Thinking is manufacturing. 1t is
taking mental tools and hammering,
and filing, and molding, and shap-
ing, until ideas have grown into full
ly developed realities of the brain,
with dimensions and clearly marked
outlines. The rerson there are not
more thinkers is because thinking
is work. 1t wears away every It's
sue and muscle. 1t is tiresome. 1t
requires time and purpose. Men
can dream while they sleep; to work
they must be awake. Dreaming is
tearing away the foodgate and al
lowing the flood to pour through; if
anything remains it is only drift
wood that may chance to hang on
the way. Minds fill with drift-wood
because they are not thinking.
Thinking is measuring chances,
weighing principles, delving for
hidden treasures, watching the
ton of law; it is process ofcreeplng
upon things and taking them by sur
prise before they can get away. A
thinker is a hunter. He must live
alone. He must be satisfied with
small daily fare, and often see his
game fly before he has time to shoot.
He must have courage to free
chasms and dark places and climb
steep mountains. He must love
solitude on an outpost hidden in
the rocks.
And here is the reason this age
is not prolific of good thinkers. 1t
is an age of company, of travel, of
theater-going, of corporations and
speculation. Men live in crowds.
1t is a day of double houses. Too
much man and not enough God.
Communion with nature is shut out.
There are no sparks because the
flint and steel are not in contact.
Everybody wants to ride. Going
to the spring for water is out of
fashion. The spring must come up
the hill. We want to turn the fau
Get and have things run out to our
hand; and the faucet must be on
castors, that it may be convenient.
For these reasons most people are
only sponges; they live wholly by
absorption and are like the thing
they touch last. They wait for
things to "turn up" but the only
thing they find turning up, especi-
ally for them, is little sod in lone
corner of the grave yard, and they
are at last laid away, while the great
multitude, having never missed
them, ask in wonder, "When did he
die2'
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Femme Faneies.

In the midst of life we may be
called upon by female book agent
Why is it that a man never gets
tired doing for some one else's Sis
ter?
If you desire to make friend of
her for life, pretend to mistake her
for her daughter.
Hanging is capital punishment
when you're hanging on
some good looking girls arm.
1t is better to dwell upon a house
top than IN a tent with a woman who
wants a new spring bonnet.
1t was of dear girl who dotted
on onion salad that it was written,
"She carried her ruling passion
strong in breath. = Puck.
"Give me your hand" said the
school-master, sternly. Sand my
heart, too" she replied meekly.
Being pretty, her soft answer turned
away his wrath.
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A SUBSCRIBERS soLI1ooUY.

10 pay, or not to pay that is tho Question
Whether tits better for me to refuse
To take local paper, and deprive
My family from reading the news,
Or pay up promptly what the printer asks,
And, by such payment, cheer hima No pay
no paper
Then no more shall be posted on the news,
And local haps through the town,
And divers topics-'tis contamination
That long have feared. To pay, OF stop!
To stopl perchanee to lose-aye, there's the
rub;
For in that stop no interest do take
In any of tn affairs which move the town,
And such a shutting of all that's good
Must make me pause. There's the respect
Which every editor maintains for those
Who come down with the cash and meier delay
To settle up that ''littIe BILL For who
would bear
The pointed squibs and pungent paragraphs
Which far too oft reflect upon the man
Who fails to settle his subscription bill?
I'll haste me now unto the editor
And, with my purse plethoric in my hand.
VIII settle up in full, one year from date
By paying to him from my ready cash
The sum of two dollars in advance.
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A Hundred Years Hence.

Man for the future can but reas
on from the past. In a hundred
years he has seen or heard of many
changes on the wondrous globe he
calls his home. Great souls have
come and gone; great souls will
come again. Intellect has quick
ened the means of his locomotion,
lessened the AdamIte course of toll /;
intellect will do so still. So he
reasons, and so his logic rests upon
the past. One hundred years ago
the world travelled in numbering
coaches and sailed to sea in slow
going ships. To-day the iron horse
goes tearing through the land, and
steamers bridge the widest oceans.
Months have changed to weeks and
hours. One hundred years ago
the traveller between New York and
the Illinois wilds would have made
up his mind to a three weeks trip
in numbering wagons, sleepy ferries
and uncomfortable stages. In this
year of grace, 1879, two days and
one night, passed in ease and COM
fort see him safely at his journeys
end. When his majesty's troops
sailed from the shores of England
to give these colonists a lesson,
they were fortunate if three weeks
tossing on the broad Atlantic
brought them within sight of New
foundland. To-day an eight-day
passage is a matter of course. Who
knows what is to be? Already whis-
perings fill the. air with wondrous
motors. The busy brains of men
work. "Across the ocean in fifty
hours $50 reads the latest tale-a
life boat raised by gas and sailed by
steam
A hundred years hence! Who
that is born to day will live to see
it? And what, if he does, shall he
sea daily balloon to London and
an afternoon trip to Florida2 VIII
the docks, now echoing to the hiss
of steam, be filled by strange, un-
earthly shapes, with wings and
fans, and gaudy bags of gas? Will
freight trains, drawn by noiseless
power, pass swiftly beneath the sea,
and parcels dart like lightning
around the world2 Stranger things
than these have happened within a
hundred years, and some may live
to see still greater wonders.
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Laughter and Tears.

This language is one known to al
| the children of men. We may trav
ell this wide world over; we may &C
through the land and across the
seas, and when we have gone round
our earth we shall find many Ian.
guages that fall as upon deaf ears,
but this is one to, and in which, all
may respond. Though one is for
veal and the other for woe, these
two are closely united, so that we
may call them one. We have seen
the child in its most joyous mood
when the wise mother shook her
head, seeing the cloud that must
gather and spend itself in tears. In
cases of disobedience we have seen
smiling faces follow seasons of pun
ishment and pain. A friend once
told me when his daughter had
grown to womanhood she asked
why, when a child, she felt so hap
Ply after punishment. 1t would
seem that in one extreme our hearts
are prepared for the other. The
heart estranged sheds tears; the
heart restored laughs with joy.
This Language is one that
through life will abide with us, be
that life of but one year or of three
score years and ten. When our
babe is first brought to us, and in
our joy we think a part of heaven
has come down, we know that from
the Great Giver he has brought
sunshine, and we also know that
with the sunshine he has brought
clouds: when sunshine and clouds
shall dispense them selves there
shall be joy and sorrow.
He has come from a land all I'M
known to us. If the little lips
could speak perhaps we could I'M
but this language is one
of our own, and with this he comes.
For this first lesson he has caught
the smile from his mothers face,
and he laughs, he knows not why;
a frown is there and he cries, he
knows not why; but well the moth
er knows not many days will come
and 90 when this heart shall know
its own bitterness, and smiles and
tears will come from a full heart
April showers will come, and la
ter will come the great thunder
storms that threaten to destroy.
To some of US come seasons when
truly it seems a time for weeping,
when the sunshine seems so far off
we can almost forget his face, but
to the most of US it is a river-nOw
a ripple of laughter, now a torrent
of tears forming great waters, but
who shall say that for us the laugh
ter was better than the tears? and
who shall say that the banks were
not made greener and the waters
purer because of these tears.
Ii in this life those are united it
is only in this life. In our later
years we shall know more of tears
than of laughter; but in these last
days we can assure ourselves that
we are nearing the joy that cometh
in the morning. Coming to the
borderland Of this life, eager to
see first our Fathers face, we know
when we shall see it there will be
only JOY, and that henceforth and
forever He shall wipe away all
tears from our eyes!- Mrs. Robert
Mckenzie, in the Interior.
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jenkins Goes to a Picnic.

Maria Ann recently resolved to
60 to a picnic. Maria Ann is my
Internationally she had deter
mined to go alone, so far as L was
concerned on that picnic eXcur-
sion; but when L heard about it /
determined to assist. She pretend
ed that she was very glad, but /
don't believe that she was.
cit will do you good to get away
from your work a day, poor fel
low !'sbe said ;"and we shall so much
enjoy a cool morning ride In the
cars, and a dinner in the grove"
On the morning OF that day, Ma
ria Ann got up at five o'clock
About three minutes later she dis
turbed my peaceful slumbers, and
told me to come to breakfast. /
told her 1 wasn't hungry; but it
made no difference, had TO get up.
L had no idea the sun began bust
ness so early in the morning; but
there he was.
"Now," said Maria Ann, "we
must fly around, for the train leaves
at half past six. Eat all the break
fast you can for you won't get any
thing more before noon"
/ could not eat anything at that
time in the morning, and it was
well l could not, for l had all j
could do. There was ice to be
pounded to go around the pail of
lee cream, and the sandwiches to be
cut, and / thought / never should
get the legs of the chickens placed
so that / could get the cover on the
basket. Maria flew around and
picked up groceries for me TO pack,
giving directions to the girl about
taking care of the house, and put
ting on her dress all at once
There is a deal of energy. in that
women, perhaps triae too much.
At twenty minutes past six l
stood on the front steps, with a
basket on one arm and Maria's wa
terproof on the other, pail in each
hand and a bottle of vinegar in my
pocket. There was a camp-chair
hanging on me somewhere, but /
have forgotten just where.
snow" said Maria Ann, eve
must run"
"Maria Ann" said /, "that is an
unreasonable idea? How do you
suppose 1 can run with all this
freightT
"You must, you brute! You al
ways try to tease me. If you do
not want a scene on the street you
will start, too" So ran.
| had one comfort, at least, she
fell down and broke her parasoL-
She called me a brute, because j
laughed. She drove me all the way
to the depot on a brisk trOt, and we
got on the cars, but neither Of us
could get seat, and l could not
find a place where could lay down
the things, so L stood there and
held them.
"Maria," said /, in winning ac-
cents, show is this for a cool morn
ing rider
Said she, "You are a brute, Mr.
Jenkins"
Said L, "My love, you have made
that observation before"
kept my courage up, yet
knew there would be an hour OF
wrath when we got home. While
we we're getting out of the train
| l broke the bottle in my pocket
an4 consequently / had one boot
half full of vinegar all day. Thai
kept me pretty quiet, and Marii
ran of with o big whiskered music
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Had a Spell.
Little Rock Chaotic.

Little hock dhzetto.
Last night a burly man from Tex
as stood in front Of a saloon, talking
in the peculiar Texan manner.
81 am about TO have a Texas &C."
he said, "and if do it will be bad
for this town. It's a kinder chill
that comes creepin' over me and L
Immediately want TO thrash some
thing. Now, if l was TO go in that
saloon with one Of those fits on me,
bar tender and everybody else would
run out. l am "A terror"
"How offend do you have such
spellsY" asked a Little Rock man.
about twice n month. Every
Off month i have a bad one. This
is my off month and / feel IL comm
on me. The least little thing insults
me, and I'd jump on the governor
quicker than / would a hack driver.
Why, II the governor Of this State
was TO come up now j couldn't keep
my hands of him"
'I'm the governor of this State"
said a man who recently identified
himself in the work Of cleaning out
the town branch.
"You are mistaken" said the Tex.
an, cycling him. The governor is
out of town."
81 was out Of town, but have 70.
turned. / can prove this by my pd-
vate secretary" turning to a man
just off the chain-gang.
ale don tell nothing but the
truth" said the secretary giving his
pants a hitch.
"Governor, and secretary and l
may add gentlemen, and would add
ladies, but see none present IL is
with pleasure that i announce the
fact that the spell is leaving me"
He would have made long speech,
but the secretary brought a bucket
of slop from the saloon and poured
1t on him, shutting his mouth and
completely dissipating the spell.
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the ground of hard tunes.


Mr.. Kroeger's boy is more than q
10y and when he sets his heart on
having anything, he generally sue
ceeds in getting it; when his father
refused to comply with his request
he moved over by his mother and
said:
81 guess I'll tell ma what the
cook said to you last night"
Mrs. Kroeger's eyes flashed like
two balls of fire.
You're a nice man." she said
sareastlcally, "to come home and
pet me, and kiss me, and call me
your dew-gemmed tulip, and then
go and receive the caresses of the
cook. You miserable frog-eyed
runt, for two pins I'd go over there
and rake your eyes out"
"I-ah, "-stammered the lord
of the manor, when his wife broke
in:
go yee, III ah your and, turn
ing suddedly to the boy, demanded
an explanation.
"Wil you give me the twenty
five centsp'
Eyes"
"Give me the money first" said
the boy. "J'm opening the year on
c. o. D. principles"
He got the money and relieved
his mother by telling her:
''Last night cook came to papa,
and got pretty close to him
"Oh, you wretch p Kissed Mrs. K.
"And when she got beside him,
she smiled sweeLly and said, Mr..
Kroeger, the potatoes are getting
low, and you had better get another
sack"
The boy got out as soon as posi-
bic, while Kroeger lifted his paper
before his face to veil the smile
which made it look like calcium
light.
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He Thought it was Her Hand.

An Ohio merchant tells the fol-
lowing story about himself. Where
he lives is a secret, except that il is
not a mile and a half from the
Xenia court house:
''When l was about II years old
! made q trip to Cleveland in the
old fashioned stage coach, with its
spanking four horses. At Mount
Vernon, about 4 p. NJ, a pretty girl
came aboard. She sat on the back
seat, next TO an elderly farmer like
looking man. was on the middle
seat Immediately in front of her. L
soon struck up a pleasant chat with
her. She was a charming talker,
and almost as brilliant as she was
pretty. 1t looked as though we
were mutually pleased. When dark
came / concluded there would 10
no harm IN giving her hand a gen-
tie squeeze by way of a feeler. L
reached behind and got hold of the
hand. was a little startled at the
hardness, but it returned a vice like
pressure. / squoze again and it
squoze back. A sense of disappoint
ment would steal over me when in
my mind l would contrast the SEEM
ing toughness of her hand with the
tenderness and sweetness of her
voice. The contact did not seem
to arterialize my blood quite up TO
the point Of EXPLANATION. At last
she reached her destination and left
the coach. After we had started
again, that old rooster who sat be-
side her addressed me thusly:
"Young man, do you feel all rightp
You had a nice time Juggling at my
old paw for the last five miles; hope
you enjoyed it,
"The two young ladies on the
front seat gigled all the way to the
next station, and the gentlemen
passengers didn't forget to smile
when / looked up. l have been
more successful since in that line"
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New YorkTribune: The history of
epidemics shows that New Orleans,
Memphis, Vicksburg and other
towns which were severely scouaged
last summer may expect few spo-
radio cases this year. For their in
habitants to be seized with a panic
upon the appearance of such cases
would, however, be the height of
folly. The very severity of the pes
thence last year is an assurance that
there will be no repetition of its
horrors this season, unless it VIC
lates a law which it seems to have
made for itself and observed pretty
constantly thus far.
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PULASKI, TENN, THURSDAY, JULY 81 1879

ed lives simply by the recollection
of the time when they have knelt
twice day around their home altar
with loving band, and sent up the
incense of sweet, pure hearts.
These thoughts, and perhaps the
prayers of an old mother ascending,
have snatched many soul from de
struction and turned them home as
prodigal sons and daughters. No
home is furnished or complete I'M
til it has within its wall and hearts
a family altar.