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VOLUME XXL
ATHEXS, GEORGIA, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 5, 1874
NUMBER 18.
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PROFESSIONAL AND BUSINESS CARDS.
const. ’ A. **. KK'VI V. I HOWELL COBB, J It.
Soi’.l!, ERWIN A- C0HII,
\ttdrnkys at law.
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Au..ri>ry-at-I.«r. Athens. «
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Street, Athens, (ia.
■tills II. CHRISTY,
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ail Dealer in
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el Street, Athens, (la.
LWIORY STEER,
LAWYER. ATHENS, OA.
irtleneral nf Western Circuit, will attend
f Clarke. Walton, tiwinnclt, Hal!, Banks.
Mali,
■ 1 ;ic
shat
Frankli
emieti to collcctiiij
White,
, Bakun
and other cla
March 18, 1S73.
j/ - EM AS, Attorney at Law.
I IV. ’ FRANKLIN, N. C.
I'nPt'ro* in :»ll the Courts of Western North Caro
tin tho Federal Courts. Claims collected in
of the State. ar I *•—Iv
DI'WARII r. harden,
|JU ’Lat.Ju.ls. I . S. Courts Nchraska and Utah,
aud t.oi. Judo, of Brooks County Court)
Attorney «t I.aw,
* 1 y Quitman, ltn.uhr Com.tu, tin.
F. d'KEI.LEY'S
. PHOTOGRAPH GALLERY.
ict " iBiants'Shoe store, Broad street, Athens,
’*'*• *rp3.
ID r.tami*.
I I Attorney at Law,
CAHNKSYILLK, OA.
Will^ive prompt attention to all business entrusted
>• lie will attend the Courts of lleihc-rsharn,
din and Hull. sep!7—ly.
• TKKPLKS. • R. p. HOWELL.
PEEPLES & HOWELL,
ATFOHNEYS at law,
ViO and Kimball House,
ATLANTA, GA,
I DR ACT ICK in the Statound Federal Courts, and
|* attend regularly all the Courts in Atlanta, inelud-
>npretne Court of the State, and will argue
[*<>n briefs for absent parties, on reasonable
tn the Courts of tho counties con-
to Atlanta hy Railroad, sepll
IF I SHOULD DIE TO-NIGHT.
If I should dio to-uight.
My friends would look upon my quiet face,
Before they laid it in its resting place.
And deem that death had left it almost fair.
And, laying snow-white flowers against mv
hair,
Would smooth it down with tearful tenderness,
And fold my hands with lingering caress.
Poor hands, so empty and so cold to-night!
If 1 should dio to-night,
My friends would call : mind, with loving
thought,
Somo kindly deed the icy hand had wrought;
Some gentle word the frozen lips had said :
Errands on which the \. tiling feet had sped ;
The memory of my selfishness and prido,
My hasty words would all bo put aside.
And so i should be loved aud mourned to
night.
If] should die to-night.
Even hearts estranged would turn onco more
to me.
Recalling other days remorsefully :
The eyes that chill me with averted glance,
Would look upon.me as of yore, perchance,
And soften in the old familiar way,
For who could war with dumb, unconscious
clay ?
So I might rest, forgi n all, to-night.
L’Inconnfe.
-M. W. RIDEN,
attorney at law.
S. Claim Agent and Notary Politic
'Ll IXESVILLE, GEORGIA.
r 'h!ico.ii Wilson itrcct, below King «t liro’n
U'ruim I'.*, 1ST:?.
B - Ks Tr.&. MADISON BEL
KSTES .V HELL,
Icir\.,y r T ( )KXEYS AT> EVW.
I ' ( UA k •‘>’•7LIE GEORGIA.
I\\ jirarticin theeounticscotnpo.ing the West-
I and Dawson anil Forsyth counties
libt'.u * Ut Uircnit. They will also practice in
lr. ‘ E e [ u ‘‘ Cuurt of Oe-jrgia, and in the United State.-
at Atlanta. may 14
I JAS. L. LONG, M. D.
* hrgeon, Accoucheur and Physician,
i Otfic. at Mr. 7'Ao.na* Sheaf,' .Store,)
ood Hope District, Walton co., Qa.
,J f«i his
•'••ouiiiiing eountr}-
Fiofeesion,! services to the citiseus of the
aug27
Uvery, Feed & Sale Stable,
ATHENS, GEORGIA.
itfn K & REAVES, PROPRIETORS,
ill b«found «t their old stand, roar Franklin
ah. oa9 «= Dutlding, Thomas streot. Keep always
hu°k K °?, ^ Jni o “* s and careful drivers.
>i,..u < ’a r e‘l far when entrusted to oar care.
. J on hsnd for sale at all times. dec2S—1»
k ALTON HOTEL,
fh 3E , MONROE. GA.
! '■‘utijcril.cr would te
The Transil of Venus.
Tho current year will ‘ ecome a notablo one
in tho annals *<f science, because of the pbenom-
er.on occurring on the Oth of Decembor, which
is known to astronomer.- as the transit of Ve
nus. More than one hundred years have elaps
ed since tho last occasion of this transit. An
other will transpire in IS-tl, for according to
the respective motions of Venus and tho earth
these transits, when they do happen, occur in
couples and at short in' Is, but there will
then bo no otiior transit until tho year 2004.
The phenomenon alluded to is the passage
of the planet Venus between, tho earth and I
tho sun. in such a position with regard to tho j
earth’s orbit, that Venus is seen to move like j
a round black spot over tho sun’s surface, j
The importance of this phenomenon in ascion-
tilic point of view, may be judged from the
fact that it affords astronomers tho best means
of measuring the distance of tlio heavenly
bodies, and of obtaining their weights and di
mensions.
The observations of I~*>'* have formed the
basis of all the accepted . . ■ of modern as
tronomy, so far as tire computation of distance
is concerned. Of these data it is that we have
all learned from our early years that tho sun
is distant from the earth more than ninety
million of miles, that Mercury, tho planot near
est to the sun, is .‘55.800,000 miles away from
it: that the distance of Venus from tho sun is
more than (53,000,000 of miles and so on.
But it is a singular fact, that notwithstand
ing tho earn with which the observations were
raado in 17(50, and the frequency with which
tlieso observations and the calculations based
upon them passed under the examination of
the most distinguished astronomers, it was
discovered only a few years back, that certain
errors had crept into the reckonings, by which
the sun's distance was overestimated by about
four million of miles. Thus error has necessa
rily affected all tho other computations, so that
for nearly a century, as one writer has put tho
matter, tho distance of all tlio heavenly bodies
was over-rated by ovrr four per cent, and their
weights by more than twel ve per cent., and
these inaccuracies will be ; aid in tho best
authorities on the subject, except those that
have passed through recont additions.
Tho discovery of such errors, under the so-
vero process by which modern research is con
ducted, lias led to increased anxiety on tho
part of the scientific world to secure thd most
perfect accuracy in every detail connected wUh
tho next transit. It will therefore bo watched
with the greatest caro by astronomers all over
tho world, their observations will afterwards.be
compared, and the results finally given to tho
world, will, it is hoped satisfactorily settle the
questions involved. The rr rreneo of a tran
sit in 1882 will afiiird an opportunity of devo
ting renewed attention to any point or points
that may bo left in ’doubt by tlio transit of
1874; and in the present state of scientific
knowledge, wo may expect a much nearer
approach to positive jiccuracy than was possi
ble in tho last century#
The points of chief importance in making
observations of transits, uro tho moments of
ingress and egress of the planet—that is, when
its black shadow first appears in contact with
tho luminary; again when tlio whole of tho
dark surface is fully p-mected, and lastly,
when tho planet reaches ■ sun’s opposite
margin, begins to' disappear, and finally van
ishes. All these points noted and timed by
difl'ercut observers all over the globe as far as
practicable, andafterwardscomparedone with
the other, give tho data for a perfect record
of tho transit, and for tho important results
already mentioned.
The transit noxt December will be invisible
in those parts of tho earth where its pbuuamo-
na could bo most easily observed. It will,
however, bo visible in Northern India, China,
Japan, and other points in Asia, Australia aud
New Zealand, tho Mauritius, aud other out-
of-the-way places, and to.n. ..icso points ex
peditions will be sont by tuo Governments of
tho United States, Great Brittain and other
nations. Tho reason of this great variety of
stations, apart from tho fundamental necessity
that observations should bo takeu at parts of
tbo earth as widely difierout as possible, is
that tho stato of the weather and condition of
tho atmosphere at some of the places may noY
allow of a clear view of tho passage of the
planet over the sun’s disc; and therefore, if
observation should altogether fail at some
points, it will undoubtedly be successful at
others.
A Comedy of Errors.
A good many years ago, in a Vermont coun
try village, lived two gentlemen who looked
very much alike. One was a minister and the
other a violin player, whose gift and skill were
at that day in much request. This position of
things gave rise to the following ‘ comedy of
errors
As the minister was one day leisuroly walk
ing tho streets, a couple of negroes approach
ed him. One of them remarked to the other:
‘ Dat’s him, for I'se seen him often.’
‘ Well, speak to him ’den,’ says tho other.
‘ No, Pete, yon speak to him.’
Noticing that they wished to hold somo in-
tcreo irse with him, the dominie turned round
and said:
• Do you wish to speak to me?’
‘ Yes, sar; we want to know if you bo par
ticularly engaged next Monday evening?’
‘ No, T believe not,' replied Mr. N-, tho idea
of a wedding fee presenting itself, which was
not to bo slighted on account of the color of
the parties; ‘ what is it you want?’
’ Me want you, if you are 'customed to ’fici-
ate for colored persons who are willing to pay
next Monday evening, to tlio red houso near
tho toll-gate.’
* Oh, ves. It's not my practice to refuse any
one on such occasions. At what hoar (lo you
wish rao to como ?'
‘ Early candle-light, massa, if yon please.—
We’ve not liad anything of the kind in a good
while.’
‘ Very well. I’ll be thero,’replied the dom
inie as he turned upon his heel, thinking that
tho remark that they had had nothing of the
kind in a good while, meant th at no wedding
hau transpired among them in some time.
True to his appointment, do minie N. was at
the h.-uso designated in good season. Tho
door opeued into the principal room of the
house, around which sat some twenty or thirty
J of Africa’s sable children, dressed in tlieir beat.
According to tho directions Ubov had received
from one of their number, they all rose at his
entrance. He look a proffered seat, which was
behind a little desk at one end of the room, for
a moment, and then remarked, if tlio parties
are all ready they had better immediately take
tlieir places.
In a moment all was bustlo and confusion.
\\ bile some removed the chairs from the room
eight couple formed as if for a quadrille. The
dominie stared round In amazement, when he
who had been spokesman in on< caging him at
tho village n few days before, coming up to
him, his month grinning from ear toear, said :
‘ Massa Fuse, haben’t you bro ugbt your fid
dle with you ? Wo haben’t got-ono here.’
‘Fuse! Fiddle! What do yc >u mean ?’ ox-
claimcd the domiuio, tho whole affair begin
ning to dawn on his already q uick inind.—
‘ Isn't it to ho a wedding ?’
‘ O, no, Massa Fuse; wo should hab the
dorainio hero fust, if wo hab a wedding.'
Tho dominie saw at a glance that ho had
been sold, and simply giving h ! .s name and oc
cupation, which had about tho same effect on
the darkies as if a bombshell had suddenly
dropped among them, ho rushed from the
houso.—liri'/ht Side..
thinness of flesh, pinched features, and that
characteristic nervousness which marks the
American from people of other laDds,.aud
which is popularly attributed to tho climate,
and overstraining of tbo powers of mind and
body, are largoly due to an intemperato in
dulgence in ice-water. Enlarging upon this
topic with a warmth of eloquence in curious
contrast with the coolness of the evil attacked,
the Commercial concludes with this fervent ap
peal to its fellow-countrymen—or rather coun
trywomen: <«
“ In view of the great evils of ieo-water in
temperance—tho great damago it doos to the
individual and to society, tho teeth that it
cracks, tho stomachs it impairs, tho domestic
strifes it engenders, the quarrels between hus
bands and wives it begets, and tho divorces it
procures, the social contentious, and wrang-
liugs, and hatred* and envies and jealousies
that it originates—in view of all those and
numorous other attendant evils, wo appeal to
tho good women who have devoted a half year
to tho suppression of whiskey-drinking, to
mako an effort to suppress tho still greater ovil
which is fast converting us into a generation
of dyspeptics and diminishing the vital energy
(Sfrthe American people.’
Tho more liquids used tho greater must bo
tho amount of urination, but this detracts a
proportional amount of albumen from the sys
tem, and it is the albumen in the food that
strengthens us. Drinking water largely di
minishes tho strength in two ways, and yet
many are under tho impression that the more
water swallowed tho more thoroughly is the
system ‘ washed out.* Thus, the less we drink
at meals, tho hotter for us. If tbo amo^p
wore limited to a single cup of hot tea or hot
milk and water at each meal, an Immeasura
ble good would result to all. Many person 8
havo fallen into tho practico of drinking sev
eral glasses of cold wator or several cups of
hot tea at meals, out of more habit; all such
will bo greatly benefited by breaking it up at
onco; it may bo well to drink a little at each
meal, and, perhaps, it will bo found that in all
cases it is better to take a single cup of hot
tea at each meal than a glass of cold water,
however pure.
A Slight Mistake.
Tho following anecdote which is said to have
appeared in the newspapers many years ago,
is said to have been founded on an actual oc
currence. Although it may not L' lustrato tho
democratic simplicity of the people of Vermont
to-day, it is nevertheless a good story, and
good also for many years’ longer life in the
newspapers:
’ Hallo, you man with tho pail am 1 frock, can
you inform me whether hi3 Honor tho Gov
ernor of Vermont lives here ?’ said a British
officer, as ho brought his fiery horse to a stand
in front of Governor Chittenden’s d welling.
* Ho does,’ was the response of th a man, still
wending his way to the pig-sty.
‘ Is his Honor at homo?' contlmac d the man
of spurs.
• Most certainly,’ replied frock.
‘Take my horse by the bit, then,’ said tho
officer. ‘ I have business to tran sact with your
master.'
Without a second bidding, tho man did as
requested, and tho officer alighted and made
his way to tho door, ar.d gave tho panel several
hearty raps with the butt of his whip, for F>o it
known that in those days of republican siiyi-
plicity, knockers ar.d bells, like .servants, were
in but little use, The good dame answered
the summons in person ; and having seated
tho officer and ascertained his desire to see the
Governor, departed to inform her bu.sband of
the guest’s arrival; but on ascertain ing that
t’m officer had made a hitching-pos t of her
husband, she immediately informed t dm that
her husband was: engaged in the y; ird, and
could not very well wait upon* him and his
horse at the sa.de time. Tho prcdi.ca moot of
tho officer can ho better imagined, than de
scribed. •*
Shad-Fishing in Florida.
A Florida correspondent says: “ One lively
feature of St. John's river is tho shad-fishing,
which begins about tho 1st of December and
is over by tho 1st of April or May. Tho shads
are caught in nets, drifting with the tido.—
Somo of these nets are of very great length,
spanning the river from shore to shore; and if
these fish are on their way up the river, some
of them are pretty sure of having their gills
entangled in tho meshes ; and it must be un
derstood that shad are caught only on ono side
of tho net—tho lower side^-as the fish ascend
tho river; rarely that a straggler happens to
take a whirl round and is caught in tlio upper
side of tho not. Tbe two great fishing centres
on tho St. John's are Mayport, near tho mouth,
and Yellow BlufiT, about nine miles up the
river. Yellow Bluff has by far tlio larger
amount of business, shipping annually about
fifteen or twenty thousand dollars’ worth of
shad to Savannah, and tlicnco to northern
ports Lot it not, however, bo supposed that
it is an easy matter to engage in this business,
which is profitable enough to tho principals,
who hire men to catch tho fish, and pockot tlio
biggest profits. At Yellow Springs there are
two of these shad-kings, having their plat
forms, their boats, tlieir ice-houses, and their
agents in Savannah. Nevertheless, an experi
enced fisherman can some days mako a hundred
or even two hundred dollars; but tho worst of
all weather is precisely tho best for shad-fish
ing. When the wind howls furiously aud the
rain beats down piteously is the time the shad
are taken in largo numbers. Comos fair weath
er, tho nets will bo seen on the largo reols or
strang upon tho racks, and repairing goes on
quietly aud industriously, in tho midst of hosts
of sand flies, even though tho month bo .Jan
uary or February. A net costs about a hun
dred dollars, and a good Connecticut built boat
about as much more. It requires two men iu
a boat for sbad-fishing—ouo to pay out or haul
in the net, and tho other to mauago tho boat.
I would say to him who in imagination might
bo captivated with this occupation^-’ Don’t
engage in it.' It is when the piercing cold
northwest wind drives furiously over tho
drenching waters, be it night or day, that the
rugged fisherman must bo on duty—all night,
all day. It is when tho thilndor and lightning,
and pouring rain rendor all nature fearful; it
is when the storm is dreadful; it is when the
gale sweeps everything from tho river but tho
sbad-boats that tho shads are ascending the
stream in great schools, that tho fisherman
must be out in his oiled suit, that the game
must bo caught, or caught not at all.’
THE FARMER FEEDETH ALL.
BY C1IAS. G. LEI.AND. r
We commend to tho attention of our read
ers tho following beautiful and truthful piece
of poetry, on tho abovo subject. Let none
condemn tbo Grangers for their konost efforts
to dignify their noblest of all pursuits :
My lord rides through the palace gate,
My lady sweeps along in state,
Tho sage thinks long on many a thing,
And tho maiden muses on marrying :
Tho minstrel harpoth merrily,
Tho sailor ploughs tho foaming sea,
Tho huntsman kills the good red door.
And tho soldier wars without e’en fear ;
But fall to each whato’er befall,
Tho farmer he must feed them all.
i -- •espeotfully inform travelers
Ae •V.a.'m lc K°o«raUy that he has taken charge
I' 01 * 1 ’ ,ni1 vrHl »pare no p» ,ffs to make
'• 111. i. 0 ““T favor him with their patron-
c **»rgci „ m b , reM0nBb , 0- j aD 28 5m
R. B. ADAIR,D.D.S.
OiJlZiLh GAINESVILLE, OA.
Pablio §qu»t«. — — *>
feoot
A. A. EDGE,
Shoe and Harness
..Mrs. Speaker Blaine had a difficulty with
Mrs. Senator Sprague, about a cook. Meeting
at a dinner-table, with only the Hon. Zach.
Chandler between them, Mrs. Sprague, leaning
forward, said, • I am sorry, Mrs. Blaine, that
we bavo anything disagreeable between us.’
TboHou. Zach. was considerably embarrassed,
never having heard tbe interesting Btory of the
cook.
maker,
‘"I* WATKINSVILLE, OA.
..How unutterable the insmiftr
that may follow us, if we wall: tho earth; not
in a solitary abstraction and exclusiveness, but
feeling that each baman being is a brother
“ The Grent Auierican Evil.” ,
A Western paper (tb e Cincinnati Commercial)
has discovered the G reat American E vil, It
is ico-wator. Wo 'have come to use ice in
everything during tho hot season. A glass of
water is not con? idered fit to drink unless its
temperature ha’s been reduced neai rly to the
freezing point with ice. Even tea, which our
grand-motlie*.g took piping hot, mu it now be
cooled until it makes tho tooth ebatte r. Wines
and champagnes must bo subject ltd to tho
same, process before they are taken into the
str, m ach ; and any bar in the city tb at did n ot
'xeep a liberal supply of ice, to bo gr ated inter
mixed drinks and whiskey straight, would soon
bo without customers. «
It is a universal evil. Everybody takes it,
if not in fluid, then in solid form. Ice oream,
and orange, and lomon and other ices, made
palatable by the confectioner, are literally
shovelled into tbe American stomach. A man
does not feci comfortable when tbe therm omo-
ter is fooling among the nineties unless he
keeps bis stomach at the temperature c>f an
iceberg. Now, tbo testimony of medical men
touching the effect of this tremendous ice-drift
into the American stomaoh is that it cra cks
the enamel of the teeth, a circumstance wl lich
accounts for* the number and profleienej • of
American dentists, weak eiw the coats of the
stomach, dsstrpys its digestive powers, and
produces Irritability of temper among m en,
and noend of domestic infelicity. Dyspept da,
bur acknowledged natio nal disorder, and Aho
long train of physical ilja that attend it, witU
" Pompeii.
Ono of tho most interesting features of tho
excavations ip this buried city is tho discovery
of many homely domestic articles of which wo
bavo counterparts. 11 is astonishing how many
things in common use now were in uso then.
Hero you will seo almost every kitchen utensil,
portable cooking stoves, jolly-cako and butter-
moulds in tho imitatiou of birds and flowers,
pots, kettles, crocks, dishes, cups and saucers,
spoous, knives aud forks, dippers, skimmers,
sauco-paus, frying-pans, lamp stands, flesh-
hooks, braziers for charcoal. In a word, pret
ty much every kitchen, dining-room or chain
bor article fouud in modern uso entered into
tbo economy of tho daily life of Roman an
tiquity.
All the articles of a lady’s toilet, including
jewelry of all kinds, gold aud silver ornaments,
corals and precious stones, were found in
houses in Pompeii. Taken from the rotail
shops were steelyards, balances, weights, and
measures. From a doctor's offico was recov
ered a full set of surgical instruments, includ
ing “ pulikins’’ for extracting teeth, and tre
pans for drilling holos in the skull. There is
any number of shoemaker, tailor, carpenter,
and blacksmith tools, and indeed, implements
of almost every present mechanical operation
Taken altogether, tho collection of articles
taken from,the dead city is a surprising rove-
iatio^to every one, showing that tho ancients
invented and perfected ten thousand imple
ments and articles of common life which wo
8till,nse with little improvement thereon, and
without giving them credit therefor.
Smith bammereth cherry red the sword.
Priest preachoth pure tho Holy Word,
Dame Alice worketh broider well.
Clerk Richard tales of love can tell;
The tap-wife sells her foaming beer,
Dan Fisher fisheth all iu the more,
And courtiers ruffle, strut and shiuo,
While pages bring tho guscon wine ;
But fall to each whato’er befall.
The Farmer ho must feed them all,
Man builds his castles fair and high,
Wherever river runneth by.
Great citios rise in every land,
Great churches show tlio builder's hand,
Great arches, monuments and towers.
Fair palaces and pleasing bowers ;
Great work is done, be’t here or there,
And well man workoth everywhere ;
But’work or rest whato’er befall,
Tho Farmer he must feed them all.
ease contracted by dissipation, soon prostrat
ed the young man, and ho diod before he could
reform. The painter hung his portrait oppo
site that of tho beautiful boy; and when visi
tors asked him why ho allowed such a hideous
looking face to bo there, ho told thorn tho
story, saying as ho closed :
“ Between tho angel and the demon there is
only twenty years of vice.”
The lesson of this tale is the tale itself. You
who read it can tell what it is. Think of it
often and heed it always.
DREAMING AND WORKING.
1 It is better to sit down dreaming
Of things that would make life sweet,
Than to follow a mocking phantom,
And find iu the end defeat.
Better to dream forever,
Though dreams are but dreams at best,
Than to wreck a lifo for a shadow—
Better to dream and rest.’’
But better than idle dreaming,
Is work for tho true and right;
Botter than rest in torpor.
Is mettle, aud nerve, and might.
Bettor than dull inaction.
And waiting for things to ho,
Is hearty and bravo endeavor,
Till worthy reward you seo!
“ But what if you work forever,
Till timo for the work is done,
And never attain your hoping.
Or find your reward begun f”
He wins who has honest courago
To fight to the battle’s close,
For, dying in truest service,
Tho truest reward he knows !
There may bo a timo for dreaining-
Tbcro’s always a timo for work !
And that which awaits his doing,
No man of us all should shirk:
For better than dreamful fancies
Aro purposes true aud grand.
And best of all noblo Manhood
Abides in the willing hand 1
.A good mother was trying tooxplain to
her young hopeful tho other day about fighting
against tho dovil. After tolling tho littlo fol
low who he was and-how hard ho was tc suc
cessfully resist, he> turned round and said :
“Mamma,I'd bo scared of theold devil, but if
I was to come across one of his little devils
I'd knock the stuffing out of him.’’
m
Drinking Hater.
Dr. Hall is opposed to tho immoderate use
of water for a drink. He says:
The longer one pots off drinking water in the
m orning, especially in snmmer, the less will he
require daring the day; if much is drank da
ring the forenoon tbe thirst often increases and
a very unpleasant fullness is observed, in ad
dition ro a motalic taste in the month.
The less water a man drinks the better^ for
Mm, beyond a moderate amount. The more
water a man drinks tbe more strengib|be has
to expend in getting rid of it, for all tbe fluids
taken into the eyetem mast be carried ont—
and as there is but little nourishment in wa
ter, tea, coffee, beer and the like, more etrpngth
is expended in conveying them ont of tbe sys
tem than they impart to it. The more a man
drinks the more he mast perspire, either by
lungs or through the skin; tbe more he per
spires tbe more carbon is taken from the sys
tem; bat this carbon is necessary for nutri
tion, hence tho les3 a man is nourished the
les3 strength he has.
.The Angel Turned Demon.
Many years ago a celebrated Italian artist
was walkiug along iu tho streets of his native
city, perplexed anddespondiug in consequence
of somo irritating circumstances of misfortune,
when ho beheld a littlo boy of s3£ta surprising
beauty, that ho forgot his own trouble aud
gloom iu looking upon tho almost angol face
before him.
“ That face I must havo,” said the artist,
for my stpdio. Will you como to my room
and sit for a picture, my littlo man ?”
Tho littlo boy was glad to go and see tho
pictures and curious things in tho artist’s
room; and was still more pleased when ho
saw what seemed to bo another boy that look
ed just liko himself smiling from tho artist’s
canvass.
Tho artist took great pleasure in looking at
that sweet ffico. When ho was troubled, irri
tated or perplexed, ho lifted bis eyes to that
lovely imago on tho wall, and its beautiful
features and expression calmed his hoart and
mado him happy again. Many visitors to his
studio wished to purchase that beautiful face ;
but though poor, and often in need of monfey
to purchaso food and clothes, ho would not
sell his good angel, as he called this portrait.
So tho years went on. Oftentimes as ho
looked at tho face on tho glowing canvass, he
wondered what had become of that boy.
How I should liko to see how he looked
now ! I wonder if I should know him ? Is
ho a good man and true or wickod and aban
doned? Or has ho died and gone to a bettor
land ?”
Ono day tho artist was strolling down ono
of tho fino walks of tho city, when he beheld
a man whoso faco and mien were so vicious,
so almost fiond-liko, that ho involuntarily
stopped and gazed at him.
“ What a spectacle 1 I should liko to paint
that figure and hang it in my studio opposite
tlio angel boy,’’ said the artist to himself.
Tho young man askod tho painter for alms,
for ho was a beggar as well as a thief.
“ Como to iny room, and let me paint your
portrait, aud I will give you all you ask,” said
tho artist.
The young man followed the painter and sat
for a sketch. When it was finished aud ho
had received a few coins for his trouble, he
turned to go ; but his eyo rested upon the
picture of the boy—ho looked at it. turned
palo and hurst into tears.
“ What troubles you, young man ♦** said
the painter. It was long before tho young
man could speak ; ho sobbed aloud and seem
ed piercod with agony.
At last he pointed to tho pictnre on the
wall, and with broken tones that seemed to
como from a broken hoart, said:
“ Twenty years ago you asked me to sit for
a picture, and that angol face is the portrait.
Behold mo now a mined man ; so bloated, so
hideous, that wornon aud children turn away
their faces from me; so fiend-like that yoq
want my picture to show how ugly a man can
look. Ah! I see now what vice afi d crime
have done for me.”
The artist was amazed. He coaid scarcely
believe bis own eyes and ears.
“ How did this happen f ” he asked. +
Tho yonng man told his sad and dreadfiil
story; how boing.an only son and very beau
tifal, his parents petted and spoiled him; how
he went with bad boys and learned all their
.. A recent writer says au effeminate man is
a weak poultice. He is a cross between table
beer and ginger-pop, with tho cork out; a fresh
water mermaid found in a cow-pasture, with
her hands filled with dandelions. Ho is a tea-
cupful of syllabub ; a kitten in trowsers ; a sick
monkey with a blonde moustache. He is a
vino without any tendrils; a fly drowned in
oil; a paper kite in a doad calm. He lives
liko a buttorfly—nobody can tell why. IIo is
as harmless as a penny-worth of sugar-candy,
and as useful a3 a shirt-button without a hole.
Ho is as lazy as a slug, aud has no more hope
than a last year’s summer fly. no goes through
life on tiptoe, and dies like cologne v atcr spilt
over tho ground.
“ Forbid him Not.”
BY MRS. J. X. H’CONAUGHY.
“ And we forbade him, because he followeth
not us.’’—Mark 9; 38.
This is tho spirit of too many of us when
good is dono by parties wo cannot cordially
ondorso. Theory of ‘fanatical’ has clogged
tho chariot-wboels many a timo. Parents aro
evon afraid to have their children converted
out of tho circlo of their own denomination.!
Zeal in Christ's sorvice ia sure to rauso the
opposition of thoso who have ‘ but a name to
live,’ far nore than smoothly uttored falso doc- N
trino. They would agree with tho man who
thought his minister hast gone mad, for he did
nothing but preach and.pray.
If good is dono by others, wo should hood
our Savior’s words—* Forbid them not.’ Their
zeal is far more acceptable in His sight than
our decorous luko r warmness. No state is more
abhorrent to tho Master than that which ho
characterizes as ‘ neither cold nor hot'.’
Truo grace in tho heart makes the head
lowly. Tho more positive wo are in otir judg
ment of others, aud the more confident wo foel
that wo aro right and that they aro all wren?;
tho more ground have wo for fear and trem
bling for our own souls. It is most unprofita
ble for a Christiau to spend his timo and.
thoughts speculating whother this or that per
son will got to heaven. As ouo replied to a
friend who asked him such a question with
reforeuco to an acquaintance,
‘ You and I can got to heaven without know
ing that.’
Tho more eminent a person becomes in.piety
and usefulness, the more of tho spirit of bro
therly love will he pos.sess. *
When one asked Whitfield whether bo sup
posed they should ever seo Mr. Wesloy in hea
ven, ho mado answer,
* I fear not, for Wesloy will be so much nearer
tbo throne of God than we, I fear wo may
never get sight of him.'
Wayside Gatherings.
bad habits and vices and came to love them ;
bow, having plenty of money, he was enticed
to wicked places until all was lost; and then
unable to work, and ashamed to beg, ho be
gun to steal, and was caaght and imprisoned
A bad habit to get into—A coat that is not
paid for.
..First law of gravity—never laugh at your
owu jokes.
. .Colorado calls for more women. It has
scarcely a single oue.
..The girls of an Illinois seminary amuso
themselves by spitting at a mark.
..Who is tho laziest man ? The furniture
dealer; he koops chairs and lounges about all
tho timo.
. .Pittsburg typographical error : • Tho Le
gislature pasted tho bill over the Governor’s
head’
..Why did he hato it so? A certain mem
ber of Congress has given a New England col
lege do loss than 1840 patent offico reports.
. .Tho Newburvport Herald knows a bache
lor who says ho always looks to the hymenial
department of that paper for tho news of the
weak.
..A Detroit father keeps his boy in nights
by varnishing a ebaimand sitting him dawn.
It’s a novel plan, but awful tough on the
trowsers.
..When tho wifo is detected showing unu
sual affection for her husband, it may fairly bo
expected that she will appear before long in a
now bonnet.
. .A Tenuosseo man wroto his will on a pa
per collar, and it passed through the Probate
Court as well as any otbor will though a little
unhandy about filing.
. .An Illinois editor returns thanks for
centipede sont to him by mail from Texas, ‘ it
being,’ he says, * tho first cent of any kind that
we’vo rocoived for soveral weeks.’
.A New York paper gravely observes that
the suicide of a farmer, which it notices,
singularly strange, inasmuch as ho has not
been in the habit of doing such things.'
.. A painter being asked to estimate the cost
of painting a certain houso, drew forth a pen
cil and paper, aud made tbe following calcU'
lation; * A nought is a nought; three into
five twice you can’t—I’ll paiut your house for
fifty dollars.’
..An old clergyman spy ing a boy creeping
through a fence exclaimed: • What 1 crawling
through a fence! Pigs do that.’ ‘Yes,’re
torted the boy, ' and old hogs go along, the
street.'
. -The best fowls to raise the wind—The fan
tailed variety.
. .The glass of fashion—Tho eye-glass.
..A lady under great affliction which she did
not£car iu any very angelic way, once said
toiierfriend: ‘Oh.mydear, what should I have
done in all this without religion ?' * I'm sure
I cannot tell,' was the answor; 1 but you could
not have done mnch worse than you have with
religion.'
..‘Sir,’ said a pompous personage, who
once undertook to bully an editor, ‘ do yon
know that I take year paper V * l’va no doubt
you do take it,' replied the man of tbe quill,
* for sevoraN of my honest subscribers have
been complaining latejy about their papers
being (pissing in tbe morning.’
. .That was rather a bright boy in one of tbe
Boston schools who, when tbe teacher asked
him tbe other day what ten ponnds of meat
weald come to at nine cents a pound, replied,
f it would probably come to tho swill-barrel or
grease pot in my father’s honse, if that was
all it cost.’
.. A boy of sixteen years of age left England
The Pharisees.
At the coming of our Lord the Pharisees
were tho most prominent and influential sect
or party of tho Jewish people. Respecting
their origin we havo no certain knowledge.
Thoy aro referred to by Josephus in connec
tion with the priesthood of Jonathan about
150 years before Christ, and it is not iiupro-
bablo that., they may havo taken their rise
soou after tho Babylonish captivity.
The word Pharisee signifies separatists, aud
seems to havo been cither chosen by them
selves or applied to them by others as a desig
nation of their austere and ascetic manner of.,
lifo. They affected great purity aud sanctity
of morals, and hold themselves quite aloof
from the mass of tho people. Their realTchar-
actor, however, was vain and hypocriticaly
in the last degree. While thoy mado an osten
tatious display of their pioty, at heart they
were grossly corrupt. They wore ambitious
of exercisiug a controlling influence both in
iburch and state, and they appear to havo
been regarded by tho mass of their country
men with great deference. The carefulness
with which thoy observed tho forms of thoir
religion gavo them a reputation for piety.
So far as related to tho teachings of tho Old
Testament Scriptutcs their doctrinal views
were in the main correct. Thoy have been
represented os holding that all things were
controlled hy fate, but they recognized the
freedom of tho will, and it is probabie that
what has been understood ns fato was simply
the Scripture doctrine of tho divine sovereign-
ty. It appears from tho Now Testament that
their views of tho resurrection and tho future
lifo wcreesseatially orthodox. - Their views of
tbe plan of salvation, or on the question. How
shall man be just with God ? were altogether
erroneous and grossly pernicious. It was oil
account of their falso notions on this subject,
not less thau the corruption of their moral
character, that they were led to reject Christ.
But in addition to tho law of Moses they
held to a multitude of precepts, which thoy
maintained" had como from him hy tradition.
They regarded them as no'less sacred than
the written law. This was ono groat causo of
their erroneous views aud of the corruption of
their character.
The Scribes were tho official or professional
leaders of tho soct of the Pharisees, not a dis
tinct body. Thoy wera doctors or teachers of
tbe law. They transcribed and expounded,
the Scriptures, aud taught tbe doctrine of tbo
Jowish religion. In addition’ to these duties
they conducted the schools for the instruction
of youth. Their profession of course gave
them great influence with tho people—an in
fluence which they exerted to tho utmost, es- ,
pecially during tho latter part of his ministry,
against Christ and his gospel.
From the Sandaj-SchoolTlBM*.
Praying and Saying onr Prayers.
It is said of Sir William Cecil, once Lord
Treasurer of England, that whon he . repaired
to his home be was wout to throw off his of- ■
ficial gown with tbe remark:
“ Lie there, Lord Treasurer.” ...
Ho desired to cast off tho cares and anxie
ties of bis official life, that he might oojoy a,
season of refreshing quiet and rest.
So the Christian should cone into the pres-
with tho worst criminals; came ont more do- Bight years ago with the loftiest aspirations
praved to commit worse crimes than befjro; “id bo ' ’Would make people open their
how every bod deed lm^ performed seemekto months. He is now a dentist iu New York.
drive him to commit a worse ’.one, till it seent * *rA y° nn ff man w * 10 was?crossed in love at
ed to him that he could not stop till it brougnl tempted suicide recently by taking a dose of
him to the jgallowa. ’ yeast powder. He immediately rose above his
It was a fearful tale and brought tears to troubles like a well-hred geutlemaa.
{he artist’s eyes. He besought the youpg —There temo way of fighting vrhat is wrong
man to stop, offered to help him, and tried to so likely to .qgucoed as. helping every thing
save him. But alas 1 it was too late, Dls- good and true-to grow.
ence of bis. Lord, leaving at the eburoh door
bis secular cares, his woAdly. pleasures, his ,
traffic and bis gain.
There is a story told of one who offered his
horse to his servant, on condition that he
would say the Lord’s Prayer, and think upon
nothing bat God. Tho proffer was accepted,
and he repeated the first potition, then paused »l
andsaid:
.“ But I must have the bridle, toe.”
“ Thou hast lost both a'ready,” replied the
master.
We may smile at the, man’s Ulsappoiiittfioat,
$tk sboald tWliorcf sencMtowii' 6li
to us on similar conditions, should We fare l
tort,
: It tojonly wiira the heart goes tfith the 1
that our prayers rise as the pleasant • perfumo
of frankincense to tho very throno of God. It
is only such prayers of tho saints that aro trea
sured up before Him, and that bring down a
blessing upon oiirselves and p’thers. There
a vast difference iu prayiDg and merely “ say
ing our prayers.” > ^ Lois,.
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