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The Grenada gazette. (Grenada, Miss.) 1885-18??, 1886-02-13
EARLY TEENS.
Youthful Years the Most Important fine
of Ones Life.

of Ones Life.
What do you think is the most i'm
portant time of lifeP Boys will prob
ably answer: When we go to bust
ness, or to college. Girls will say:
When VIC 60 out into society, or get
married. But l think it is when you
are going into your teens. "
After the melted iron is poured into
the mold, it is left for a while that it
may take shape. But the first few mo-
ments are the most important; for then
the surface of the great iron globule,
which comes into contact with the
damp sand of the mold, is cooled, and
the shape is set. The time after that
serves to harden the metal, not to
change its form. Life in this world is
the mold in which our souls are shaped
for eternity; and the first years after
we have begun to think for ourselves,
to feel the pressure Of right and wrong,
to determine duty or indulgence
these first years have more to do with
the making of us than all the rest.
Have you been in the Adirondack
woods hunting and fishing9 If so, you
remember that your guide, when he
came to the rapids in the stream, did not
dash carelessly down it. He stopped
the cranky little craft, balanced the
boat, got a sure grip on his paddle,
then let her drift slowly toward the
center of the narrow sluice until the
skiff's nose was in the smooth water
which shows that there tits deepest.
Then, with eye and nerve and muscle
all working together, he kept her head
on, just so, and you shot down the
rock-strewn stream as swiftly and as
safely as "a water-snakc. Ask your
guide why he was SO careful at the be-
ginning, and he will tell you that if he
starts the boat right he can keep her
right; but the twisting waters would be
too much for him if he did not have her
safely in hand at the word Cor
Boys and girls entering your teens,
you are at the head of life's rapids.
Your craft is already catching the drift
Of strong desires, ambitions, passions.
You feel them. They almost alright
You sometimes. Have no anxiety ex-
cept to aim at the very center of what
is right, and the purposes which are
deepest and purest. Knit the nerves of
your strong resolution. Vow to your
self, and to God, who will help you.
Then away down iife's stream! 1t will
be cxhilarating, grand, all true life is.
But take care! For your souls sake,
don't drift in among the rocks and
whirlpools without the grip. N.
LadloW, D. d., in s. s. Times.
The Grenada gazette. (Grenada, Miss.) 1885-18??, 1886-02-13

much more palatable, but he didn't
grumble. While he was eating on in
silence, Mr. Benlow said; ''How is Car
10 to-day"
Every SICK" replied Mrs. Benlow;
land I don't see how wa are going To
work the tread-mill for the ~churning."
.'Why, said Mr.. Bcnlow, ''we'Il let
Tommy run eight or ten miles on it.
1t will do him good and improve his
wind"
So after breakfast Tommy walked on
the treadmill until he thought he would
drop.
"We'Il make a cowboy of you before
long" said Nj. Benlow, as he entered
with a smile to see how the butter was
progressing; $50 cheer up, and don't
feel homesick, for l have something for
you to do that you may enjoy"
"What is ity" asked Tommy.
at is to break a pair Of yearlings to
the yoke. W. will yoke them and hitch
them to a sled, and you can drive aS
fast as you like"
"That will be fine,' said Tommy.
So after dinner the steers were
brought forth, and yoked and hitched
to the sled. upon which Tommy stood
as a circus-rider stands on a horse. and
started them.
"We'Ll make a cowboy of You yet"
rang out on his ears as the yearlings
started off at full speed. First they
darted in one direction, then in m
other. First Tommy was in the snow,
and then back on the sled, for the year.
lings jerked il in every direction, and
pranced on their hind-legs, and
whisked his hat off with their tails. and
tried to jump fences and drag the sled
after them. Tommy thought there was
more snow inside of his clothing than
there was IN the ground, and when he
was completely upset-in more ways
than one-by the y~earlings, he sat
down in the snow and cried, while the
yearlings seem to melt out Of sight over
the rim of the horizon.
The Benlow boys, who followed,
caught the runaways and drove them
home.
At four the next morning Tommy
Miggs was altogether too sore to arise
at milking-time. He was also too sor
to go down to his breakfast. That
night, to make a long story short, he
was back home, and has not been away
since. 1t makes him very angry when
called Texas Bill, because he has given
up his dreams of cowboy life. Tommy
is now studying bookkeeping, with a
view to entering his fathers store. He
wouldn't be a cowboy if he could; and
now the wax doll goes ~unscalped, the
toy babies unmurdered, and the cats
and dogs in his vicinity unlassoed.-R.
K. MunhiHrieh, IN Ha,per's Young
Pe0Dle.
The Grenada gazette. (Grenada, Miss.) 1885-18??, 1886-02-13
HORSE.STEAlING.
The Extent to Which 1t Prevailed Near
Sa cramentO in 1851.

ia -
Horse and cattle stealing is the prin-
cipal crime Of this country. The eX-
treme facility with which animals
roaming in large, unfenced, natural
pastures may be caught and carried to
markets which continually demand
large supplies, and the readiness with
which, after disposing Of them, the
feion may escape. and leave no clue by
which to trace him to his lurking place,
or tasten suspicion upon him, en-
couragcs hundreds to engage in the
pursuit of 4 livelihood by this illicit
means. Law is daily scizing and pun
ishing numbers, but this operates so
fecbly in many portions of the country.
remote from the seats of justice, that
lynch law has been summoned to re-
press the o%hense, and proven as it
should, valuable in putting an end to
crime. The best and surcst and the
very readiest method of checking it
would be to give justices of the peace,
with a jury, jurisdiction of the otIensc.
Animals are now stolen
in this ncighborhood. sent TO Stockton
or some other distant poin! and there
sold. Procuring fresh supplies in
that vicinity, the thief hurries to this
market, of which he is 4 frequent Wis
jtOr, and where. mules are now urgently
wanted for companies starting to
SCOTS river and the klamath. sells the
drove he has brought with him and de-
parts like II shadow. His companions
and compeers in this trade fill every
avenue and inform him of every
whisper that is in circulation concern
ing him or the animals he last disposed
of, enabling him, if so many be re-
claimed so as to create suspicion, to es-
cape and secrete himself until inquiry
blows over and the charge becomes stale
and forgotten-that is, for a month or
two--dispatching his animals through
the hand of some trusty friend of well
whitew ashed reputation, into town for
sale. But the owner and purchaser
both departed, his fcats are lost sight
of in new thefts. He may return with
iingIing Spanish spurs and leather leg
gings, and flourish about the horse
markets as boldly and honorably as
before, The establishment 81 the tele-
graph between II principal towns, by
starting lightning against horse speed,
and preparing the police everywhere to
salute and arrest the offender as he err
tered the town, would etiectually stop
the wholesale cattle lifting which now .
distinguishes California above all other
regions for cattle stealing Orer{uUd.
The Grenada gazette. (Grenada, Miss.) 1885-18??, 1886-02-13
OUR BOYS AND GIRLS.
THE ALLEY CAR

I'm a poor little ally cat;
know what Is mean by ''scat;"
know when a stone comes whirling, n.y.
ing,
Who it is aimed at.
know my paws are black
And leave II dirty truck,
That dingy streaks of SCOT AND ashss
Are on my breast and back.
Butt hate the CRIME and wet,
Like cozy places, yet
No little gel in the world is willing
10 keep me for a pet.
suppose 1t ia because
They don't like broken paws,
And think because I'm fierce and hungry
There's danger from my claws.
But small as I am and young,
No pussy ever sung
A sweeter purr-song, or could polish
Cleaner with her red tongue,
Oh! II some little lady who
Loves kittens only knew,
She might DO glad, perhaps, to find me-
And glad to keep me, too.
Clara Dotv Gates, IN Vide AWaie.
The Grenada gazette. (Grenada, Miss.) 1885-18??, 1886-02-13

with patches Of Indian dress and fire.
arms.
While | stood looking at the horrors
the wounded bear rose up with a fierce
yrowl and attacked the oorpses. His
hurts drove him mad, and he wanted
revenge on the dead. l saw aim put a
I paw on the breast of an In ,ian, seize
the throat in his teeth, and Mt one sim
Gle wrench he tore the head from the
body. He seized another by the leg
Just above the knee, and | heard the
bones crush like glass as his teeth shut.
1 He ierked and twisted two or three
times, and the leg was tori OF.
1t was the frenzy OF death. As tho
bear biz ami tore at one OF tue corpses
he suddenly tottercd, braced his legs
, and then sank down and rolled over,
and soon breathcd his last. | was so
%spellbound that it was two OF three
minutes before / could move. The
spectacle was even more horrible when
l stepped out and secured a stronger
light, and directly my nerves were so
unstrung of what had occurred that |
rushed out of the cave in the open air.
As l gained the outside it struck me
that the Indians had doubtless left one
of their number to watch the horses.
As | went down the ravinc | deter
mined, if this WAS the case, to attack
him. with the hope of wiping out the
whole party.
When | crept out of the ravine
another bloody spectacle awaited me.
The Indian ponies had been hobbled to
prevent them from wandering away,
and none of the party had been left il
charge. The grizzlies had come upol
the horses first, and every n Of them
wa dead on the lass and horribly mG-
tilated. They had not been killed to
satisfy hunger, but to CRAFTY a ferocious
within.
After u few hours, during which
time | returned to my own camp, to
find everything safe, | re-entercd the
cave and scared the firearms Of the
dead redskins, The stuff at their camp
fire consisted of blankets, robes. am
munition and powder. While none of
the party were in war-paint, there vas
nothing to prove that they were out on
a hunt. They had, perhaps, detected
from some mArch to discover what had
caused the smoke.
Four weeks later, when a party OF
hunters from Boise City, headed by
Captain Hall. stumbled in on me, l
turned over to them, as relics of the
singular t~hree-cornered fight, the fire
arms, bows and arrows, the claws of
the grizzlies. two full suits of buckskin,
three scalps Of white men, and enough
pipes. beads, knifes. charms and
feathers to start a museum. These
relies are still on exhibition in the
Sheriff. office at Boise, and bear wit
ness that I have given you a truthful
narratiye.-N. Y. Sun.
The Grenada gazette. (Grenada, Miss.) 1885-18??, 1886-02-13
REST AWHILE.

] will DO still to-day and rest,
will be still and let life drift;
! am so tired thar it is best
Neither my hands nor eyes to lift
] am so tired-it is no use,
Ny will can not my need obey;
OAare, / ASK q few hours truce,
pray thee let me rest to-day.
And so, shut upin restful gloom,
let my hands drop listlessly;
Within my dim and silent room
| would not move, or hear, or see.
Oblivion dropped on me her balm,
l fell On siumber deep and sweet,
And when | woke was strong and calm,
And full Of rest from head to feet.
So. toilerin life's weary ways,
Pity thyself, for thou must tire;
Both body, mind and heart nave days
They can not answer their desire.
Birds in all seasons do not sing,
Flowers have their time to bloom and fall;
There is not any living thing
Can anSwerto n cease!ess call.
Sometimes, tired head, seek slumber deep;
Tired hands, no burden Try to lift:
Tired heart, thy watch let others keep,
Pity thysclf and let life drift.
A few hours rest perchance may bring
Relief from WEAKNESS and pain;
And thou from iistless languorS spring,
kAnd gladly lift thy work again.
-LdTptT'S Ue5h.lv.
The Grenada gazette. (Grenada, Miss.) 1885-18??, 1886-02-13

There are Ill breweries in Mime.
sofa, the largest of which is situated in
Minneapolis, and produced last year
$1,000 barrels. Two Of these brewerlea
ave run by Scandinavian and the 10.
maindnr hv f3srmana.-H, Rnui flLahs.
The Grenada gazette. (Grenada, Miss.) 1885-18??, 1886-02-13
Musical Accomplishment.

Miss Birdie McCiinnis is considerable
ofan amateur singer in her W estima-
ton. 1t is u fact that she has a very
good voice, but she is obliged to catch
her breath very often, being rather
sh0rt-winded.
What do you think about her sing
ing?' asked her brother of q stranger
who did not know that Hostetter wns
related to the fair singer.
81 like her singing very WE'LL" was
the reply. ''She has undoubtedly the
finest asthma | ever heard on the
stage. -Sif1ingS.
The Grenada gazette. (Grenada, Miss.) 1885-18??, 1886-02-13
"A VassalbOrOugh Quaker sold

"A Vassalborough Quaker sold q
man a pair of cattle, and told him they
never troubled him by breaking down
fences or walls. The next day after
buying them the purchaser found them
in a neighbours garden. They had
broken owe the wall, and were tramp
ing down the vegetables and eating the
corn. ''Look here!'' said he to tho
Quaker, II thought you said those cat
tie never troubled you by being
breachy." Friend said the Quaker,
81 allow such things to trouble
me-"
The Grenada gazette. (Grenada, Miss.) 1885-18??, 1886-02-13

--John Stewart, Of Braddock, Pa,
while walking in q grove recently,
found a solid silver cup, with a dia-
mond set in the bottom Of ii. II bears
the date 1595.-PiAsbargh Post.
The Grenada gazette. (Grenada, Miss.) 1885-18??, 1886-02-13

"A hieh-school roy at Lawrence,
Mass, went home delighted with the
idea Of . military drill ahaut to be in
PRODUCED into the school. II tel! YOU"
said be pityingiy to his sjslQ:. ~ ppyu
X pc- . boy, - casaB ltaafalsnA
The Grenada gazette. (Grenada, Miss.) 1885-18??, 1886-02-13

--La NatNve claims that q machine
Of ons-hoTse power would keep 1900.
nnn ,raAohAs onins.
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1886-08-21
Told by Great Men Who Would
Not Lie.

The following photographic items
are vouched for by the editors in the
sections whence they eminate: 1t is
so dry in Wheeler county Texas, that
the people have to sprinkle the water
before it is wet enough to drink. In
Limestone, KY, the water is so hard
that the inhabitants use plates of it
for window glass. The drouth in
Arizona is so severe that the water in
a mint julep rustles like a bunch of
dried leaves. The intensedry wealth
er in Sangamon county, ILL.,, has
made it possible for the citizens to
wipe their hands and faces on a sheet
of water. The ducks which frequent
a water course in the drouth section
of the Mississippi have been laying
hard boiled eggs for the last three
weeks. There is a stream in North
Carolina so clear that stranger walk
ed right into it and was drowned be-
fore he knew the stream was there.
The drinking water in Philadelphia
in the summer is so thick that it is
customary to slice it up with a knife
and serve it with ice.
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1886-08-21
The Dude Farmer.
(aug)

The Forked Deer Blade has dis
covered an interesting though not an
admirable specimen of humanity.
Here is the Blades description of the
creature:
The model farmerlives not away
towards the setting sun. Not long
ago he was seen in field blowing;
mule was attached to the front end
of the plow-beam, at the front end of
that mule was little negro boy lead
ing him, and at the rear end of the
pillow was the dude farmer. With
one dainty gloved hand he held the
plow-handle, while with the other he
held an umbrella to protect his lilly
white complexion from being tanned
by the cruel rays of the red hot sun.
The next morning the young man
had sufficiently recovered from the
exertion of the previous day to 60
squirrel hunting. The hunter wore
kid gloves and carried an umbrella,
his negro boy walked behind with
the gun. When squirrel was found
the hunter handed the umbrella and
the gloves to the boy, who handed
the gun to the hunter. But the squir-
rels were not frightened.
This is no fancy sketch, but a
fact.
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1886-08-21
Prof. Cook Heard From.

Prof Cook lately wrote: "Having
studied man and his relations fifty
years, and having read DR.. E. b.
Foote'S plain Home Talk say,
disinterestedly and emphatically, that
it is worth its weight in gold; nay,
gold cannot measure its value to hui
manity. 1t is such book as only
such healthy, well-balanced mag
nifcent brain can produce. DIR. Foote
is one of the few doctors who, in his
writings and practice, seeks.to cure,
not kill to save and prolong life, not
obstruct, poison or destroyit; to teach
people the structure, functions, facts,
forces and relations of the human
brain and body, teach them the sig.
nificance of life and how to make il
healthy and happy also how to make
the most of it.
Its information, instruction and
advices in regard to parentage, mar
riage, social and sectual functions and
relations; its factsandlaws of mental
magnetic and temperamental adapta
ton in marriage and parentage thai
children may be healthy, happy anC
viable, etc., etc, make it more valua
BILE to suffering humanity than my
poor words can express. What a vas
amount of saving information for thu
people; a large book of 900 pages fol
only $3.50. PROF. J. III. Cook.
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1886-08-21
COURTS.

NHANCERY-Sits list Monday in May and
u November; E. D. Hancock, Judge; J.
C. Biles, Clerk.
NIRCUIT-Sits Tuesday after 4th Monday
v in January, May, and September; 3d.
Williams, Judge; A. ]. Curl, Clerk.
NOUNTY-Sits by quorum LIST Monday in
v every month; full court every quarter;
]. R. Parker, Esq, Chairman A. Fl. Gross,
Clerk.
U Maxwell, Sheriff. Jno. L. Jaco, Register;
Jas. R. Gardner, Trustee and Tax Collec-
tor; Geo. 7. Puryis, Ranger; Mat. ones,
Jailer; Sam O'Neal, County Superintendent
of Public Instruction
MUNICIPAL OFFICERS-Mayor Jesse
M Walling; Aldermen-Wm. Biles, c.
R. Morford, VIC. Womack, G. W: Hood
enpyl, D. F. Wallace, W. W. Fairbanks
Recorder-D. F. Wallace; Street Commis'
sioners-Geo. W. Hoodenpyl, VIM. Biles,
w. w. Fairbanks. Treasurer-C. r. Nor
ford.
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1886-08-21
CHURCIIES.

Southern Methodist-Rev. A. I Crawford
castor; services every Sunday morning and
night. Sunday.school at 81 A. NJ. Prayer
meeting Wednesday night
Observation-Disclosures every Sunday. Prayer
meeting Wednesday night.
Presbyterian-Rev Z. NJ. Mcconnell, pas,
tor; services, morning and night, second and
fourth Sundays in each month prayer meet,
ing every Wednesday night. Sunday-school
every Sunday morning at 81 o'clock. -
Cumberland Presbyterian-Rev. u. 1;
Stainback pastor; services every Sunday. and
at night; prayermeeting Wednesday night
Sunday school $50 a. M. .,
Baptist-Sunday-school at 81 "a. M
Prayer meeting every Tuesday night.
First Baptist, colored-Rev. A, O'Neal;
pastor Services every Sunday afternoon and
night. Sunday-school $3.50 a. III.
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1886-08-21
A Deeply Interested Father.

Soon after the SIS first baby was
born, Mrs. s. went up stairs one
evening and entered the room where
her darling lay asleep. There she
found her husband standing by the
side of the crib, and gazing earnestly
at the child. AS she stood still for a
moment, touched by the sight, the
tears filled her eyes, and she thought:
ooh, how dearly Charlie loves the
boyw
Imagine the shock to her feelings
when he suddenly turned towards
her, and exclaimed:
"My dear, it is incomprehensible tC
me how they can get up such a Grill
as that for two dollars and half"
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1886-08-21
Courts.

Chancery. Hon. E. D, Hancock, Chan.
cellor; NJ. L. Nearn, Clerk and Master.
Meets Wednesday after I'd Monday in April
and October.
CircuH.-Hon. j. j. Williams, Judge; A.
B. Woodland, Attorney General; A. II.
Woodlee, Clerk. Meets Tuesday after Sd
Monday in May, and Tuesday after 4th
Monday in October.
County Court. c. Garretson, Chairman;
T. B. Roddy, Clerk. Sits by quorum Isl
Monday in every month, full court every
quarter.
Other County Officials. T. B. Lockhart,
Sheriff: Jacob Fehr, Trustee; j. W. Lock
hart, Register; Robert White, Superintend
ent; Henry Overturf, Surveyor; A. H.
Weodlee, Ranger.
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1886-08-21
IN MOURNING.
A Colored Gentleman Who is Deter.
mined to Dress Fashlonablv.

Arkansaw Traveller.
"Guinea Niger Dave" who works
on the Caggleton plantation, came to
town the other day, wearing Grape on
his hat.
"Sorry to see you in mourning,
Dave" said a merchant. "Who has
died at your house"
"Wall, ssah, nobody"
"Some of your kinspeople, 1 sup
pose"
"Yas, mer Gran'fodder."
"Why, your grandfather? 1 had
no idea that he was living.
"He amt libbin', sab. Eff he wuz
l wouldn't be in mournin' fur him
case he wuk dead"
81 mean that l didn't know that
he was living until recently"
"He want. De OLE pusson died
fore I wuz bornd, sab.
"Dled before you were b0rn"
"Dat.s whut l jackerlated.
"Then why do you mourn for him
now"
"Wall, boss, eff l haster tell yer, l
haster. Er a while back thar come
er powerful sprinklin' o. sickness in
my neighborheod, an it tuck de Mig
gers off mighty fas' an arter while
nearly all de niggers wuz a WARM
mournin' on der hats. Itkepa gittin'
wus til / wuz err bout de only pusson
whut wuz lef out. Den / thought
ter merse'f 'Look-a-heah, dis amt
gwine ter do. Woan do fur err spec
tablepusson es yerse'f ter be lef' in
dis sorter lurch, so jes' den, ez luck
would hab it, l happen ter recerlecl1
dat mer gran'fodder wuz dead, dat de
ole pusson want no mo-, so / jest got
me er black rag an tied it on mer ole
hat. Oh, when it come ter state
questions O. dis soft, boss, Pse pufiect-
ly to home. De niggers O. de COM
munity whar l lib needn't try ter
beat me fur it KANT be did,"
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1886-08-21
Cure for Piles.

Piles are frequently preceded by a
sense of weight in the back, loins and
lower part of the abdomen, causing
the patient to suppose he has some af-
lection of the kidneys or neighboring
organs. At times, symptoms of indi-
gestion are present., flatulency, UNI
easiness of the stomach, etc. A mois-
ture like perspiration, producing a
very disagraeeable itching, after get
ting warm, is a common attendant.
Blind, Bleeding, and Itching Piles
yield at once to theapplication of DR.
Bosanko's Pile remedy, which acts
directly upon the parts affected, alb.
sorbing the Tumors, allaying the in
tense itching, and effecting a perma
nent cure. Price so cents. Address
The DR.. Bosanko Medicine Co.. Piqua
o. Sold by w. H. Fleming.
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1886-08-21
Wild Cherry and Tar.

Everybody knows the virtues OF
Wild Cherry and Tar as a relief and
cure for any affection of the Throat
and Lungs. Combined with these
two ingredients are few simple heal
ing remedies in the composition OF
DIR. Bosanko's Cough and LungSprup,
making it just the article you should
always have in the house, for Coughs,
Colds, Group and Bronchitis. Price
so cents and $1.0O. Samples free.
Sold by w. HI. Fleming. 3