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Show A REMARKABLE HISTORY. We have been permitted to make the following copy from the note book of an old citizen, and wo would like to see the record equaled by a me-1 chanic i who has led an active life: April -L'", ISi-G.-I am forty six jean, old to-day; WR8 born on the 13th day of April, 1S30, in New Kent county, Va.; left my maternal home at the age of 14; have since that time hired in Richmond, Va.( Micanopy Kla., New York, Columbus and Cincinnati, Cin-cinnati, O., Charleston and Columbia S. C, in Savannah, Cuthbert aud Atlanta, Cia in the latter about twenty yeaia. During my life I have foremanized (hreo years, superintended superin-tended four years and conducted business bus-iness for six years. I have bad ten partners in business. To the best of t my recollection. I n vt-r borrowed a dollai in my life, individually; never whb sued, individually, and for tho last fifteen ye.irs have not been asked the third time for money duo any one. I have not been in good health since I was sixteen years of age, yet have not been in bed for tweulv-five days in my li'e, to tho best of my judgment, nor paid out (or myself $50 in doctors' fees. Have never been out ol employment a day, when I desired it; aud never had to ask lor employment where I wag known. Have had two wives and five children. Have a wife a wife and three children now living; jumed the church iu Atlanta in 18(32, and have ever since tried to do my duty to my God and my fcllowmeu. May my record never be worse, and may my life bo spared to see my little ones raised up in the fear of God, is my earnest desire and prayer to night. Atlanta (Ua.) Cm-stitution. Cm-stitution. A Match Broken Off. a match has been broken oS on Calumet avenue ave-nue between the male and female scions of two prominent families who, it hud been thought, would have been an excellent marriage, since Bhe was A Match Broken Off. a match has been broken oS on Calumet avenue ave-nue between the male and female scions of two prominent families who, it hud been thought, would have been an excellent marriage, since Bhe was young and handsome and he wui old and rich. It appears, however, that they had an irreconcilable quarrel on a very vital subject. He was a very precise man, who used to say that , time was money, and procrastination was the thief of time, and so on, and when they were discussing their married life sho said: "Next Easter you'll give me the loveliest hat and dress in Chicago, won't you, pretty?" Ue said he would. "And," she continued, con-tinued, "you'll take a pew in the very front of the most fashionable church?' "I will," ho said. "And," she said, "we'll always go to church nice and late, won't we?" ' N'ice and early, my love," be said, corect-ingher. corect-ingher. ' No; I mean nice and la'.e, of course," she answered. "But, my dear," ht remonstrated, "time is money," as Solomon says. If X were to be seen going to church late, people woul i think I was slothful in business, serving the b.iuk. Why do you wish to cultivate the unlovely habil of unpunclualily?" "Oh' because," sho replied, "when you go to church late, every ono turns round to look at you and see what you have on. Do you think I am a heathen aud don't want to go to church properly?" Alas! to be wroth with one wo love doth work liks madness in the brain; and the match ia oil. Chicago Tribune. |