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New Series.
AROUND THE CORNER.
How do the horses come round at The Corner?
When eyes are all straining
To see which is gaining,
And far-distant humming
Grows louder and clearer, —Wows stronger and
nearer.
“They’re off!” “They’re coming!”
“Who leads ?” “Black and red!”—“No ! Green
by a head 1"
“The Earl!” “No, the Lady!’’—“Typhoeus looks
shady I”
“Orion ! Orion, —To lire or to die on 1”
“Twenty pounds to a crown— On the little Blue
Gown.”
“I’ll venture my whole in—That colt by Tom
Bowline 1”
“Paul Jones 1” “Roiscrucian 1”
“Green Sleeve !” “Restitution 1”
“Le Sarrazin !” “Pace !”
“It’s Mercury’s race!”
The* on they come lashing, and slashing, and
dashing,
Their colors all flashing like lightning gleams
gashing
The darkness, where, clashing, the thunder is
crashing!
With whipping and thrashing,
With crowding and smashing,
With pressing and stirring,
With lifting and spurring,
With pulling and striving,
With pushing and drivir g,
With kicking and sporting,
With neighing and sno.ting,
W r ith frisking and whisking,
With racing and chasing,
With straining and gaining,
With longing and thronging,
With plunging and lunging.
With fretting and sweating,
With bustling, and hustling, andjustling,
With surging, and urging, and scourging,
With rushing, and brushing, and crushing,
With scattering, and pattering, and clatter
ing,
With hurrying, and scurrying, and flurrying, and
worrying,
With sliding, and gliding, and riding, and strid
ing,
With crying, and flying, and shying and ply
ing,
With tying, and vying, and trying, and hie
ingl
Till lapidly spinning.
The ranks quickly thinning,
The crowd is beginning,
To see which is winning :—•
Some faces grow brighter—and some grow for
lorner:
And that's how the horses come round at Tue
Corner!
Fun.
A. REYIEAV
Of Dr. Dick’s Essay on the Natural
Attributes of the Deity.
By a Member of the Literary Club.
[Published by request.]
In assuming the difficult and responsible
position as critic, even on the lightest works
of fiction, I, at any time, teel serious appre
hensions as to my ability to render anything
like a clear and just view of the work under
consideration; but, in the present instance,
I feel wholly and utterly incompetent to the
lofty task before me, and were I to give way
to my impulses I would fold my hands and
close my eyes and from the depths of my
sou! exclaim “Impossible!” But this
might be justly reckoued ingratitude to
those who were kind enough to honor me
with the appointment; hence I have de
cided to offer some remarks upon the mat
ter to which we have just listened, not
properly styled a criticism, because not after
the manner of critics. Such an attempt
would be presumption unheard of and could
but end in failure, signal as deserving.
The first thiug that elicits our attention
in reviewing as a whole the section with
which we have just been favored is the terse
aud familiar style with which the author
introduces the most profound truths to the
reader. Carefully avoiding the technicali
ties with which philosophers usually per
plex the student, he confines himself to
the simplest language, enforcing his propo
sitions clearly and logically, and in a way
to be comprehended by the unpracticed
leader as well as appreciated by the deepest
thinkers, strenuously refusing to emvelope
I.is sublime metaphysical truths in the
misty clouds of the transeendalistand steering
clear of the dogmatical assumptions of the
materialist, this Christian philosopher, ad
hering to the principals so firmly established
in his profound and comprehensive mind,
presents for our consideration God as re
vealed in Jtlis w( rks, or the natural attrib
utes of the Deity. The object of the au
thor seems to have been to bring about a
more intimate relation between the creature
and Creator by acquainting man with his
God through the medium of His works, and
also to direct the mind to steer salely be
tween a blind fanatical religion on the one
hand and a gross infidelity on the other
hand. This he has most happily effected in
combining the religion of-Aiature and the re
ligion of Christ, showing that they are not
contradictions, but exist in the glorious
ELBERTON, GA., WEDNESDAY, APRIL 9,1873
perfection of complete harmony. The- re
ligion of nature he regards as the corner
stone, the ground work, of the whole super
structure of the Christian religion; and,
taking this view of it, draws the conclusion
that the Christian revelation should not
supercede the religion of nature, but only
carry it foward to perfection. He shows,
in a series of impressive truths presented
in the form of interrogatories, that the
Christian revelation does not annul the nat
ural relations which subsist between man
and the Deity, proving thus the perpetuity
of these relations which it should be our
delight and grateful confidence to contem
plate as eternal and unchangeable.
Next in order do we notice the author’s
conception of divine harmony and perfec
tion that pervades the character of the Deity,
warning us against the unreasonable dispo
sition of mind to magnify one of the divine
attributes at the expense of another. God
is infinite; fierce all of his attributes are
equal. Omnipotence does not exceed
boundless benificence; infinite knowledge
cannot surpass omnipresence; nor can His
eternity outlive His infinite wisdom—ad
mitting by these perfections of no parallel.
Eternal ! Distinct! Entire ! One ! How
forcibly, then, are we reminded by this that
we are not to live in a state of disobedience
aud transgression, trusting to divine mercy,
for justice is commensurate with mercy. —
God is perfect.
The religion of nature that the author
under consideration regards so high—what
is it ? It is the recognition and acknowl
edgment of Deity in all his works ; every
attribute of the divine character is display
in Ilis creation. llis Eternity, Omnipo
tence, Omnipresence, Infiufce Wisdom,
Knowledge, and Beuifieence— for every at
tribute of the divine mind was called into
requisition to accomplish the vast design of
creation.
His eternity: this embraces tie incon
’overtible conclusion that he who created
all things must of necessity Himself been
uncreated, self-existent, eternal. That there
was a creator is proven by all things, as n
is impossible for all we behold to exist with
out a cause, and the cause of all things mu-t
necessarily have been superior tt) the effect
produced ; for had the cause been inade
quite to the effect, it is palpably true the
effect could never have been produced.—
Thus vve Darn, first, that there is a Tfcea
tor, and, secondly, that this Creator is
eternal, by a survey of His works.
Next we notice His omnipresence. This
we recognize in the regularity and harmony
that pervades all things, as we are forced
to conclude that the presence of a superior
bemg, cognizant at every moment of the
transactions of our globe, is necesshry to the
fulfillment of the perfect system of order
that prevails; for were the superintending
presence ot this superior being for a
moment withdrawn, anarchy would reign
where order abounds. His wisdom,
knowledge and omnipotence is displayed in
every atom ot creation, and, taking in re
view the whole in its completeness and the
relation of one part to another, are we con
vinced that these divine atiributes are croon
ed by one of equal merit —benevolence.
Few authors of a philosophic 1 character
have been more universally read and ad
mired than the one now under review, be
cause few indeed have beeD able to clothe
the deep things of science in such plain
and beautiful language. Simplicity and ele
gance murks his entire writing, besides are
we impressed by the earnestness of his ap
peals, which do not so effect man’s sympa
thies as convince his reason. Dealing with
man as a rational, intelligent creature, he
directs his attention to the wonders aud
beauties that him, and encour
ages him to a diligent study of these, as
suring him that one of the sublime employ
ments of the saints in glory will consist in
contemplating the perfections of Deity, the
full display of which will be exhibited in a
future world, and reminding us, in one part
of his essay, that the Saviour himself has
said, l *This is life eternal, to know Thee, the
true and living God,” as well as “Jesus
Christ, whom he has sent.” Then we are
to study and contemplate God as displayed
aud manifested in His works. “Lilt up
your eyes on high, and behold who hath
created these orbs; who bringeth forth
their host by number and callcth them all
by names ! The everlasting God ; the Lord
by the greatness of His might, for that He
is strong in power. He hath made the earth
by His power; He hath established the
world by His wisdom; He hath stretched
out the heavens by His understanding.”
These writers, say our author, lead us di
rectly fo the source whence our most ample
conception of Deity are derived, that, from
a contemplation of the effects, we may learn
the greatness of the cause.
Dr. Dick has written a great deal upon
the subject which lay so near his heart and
which above all matters seem so deeply to
interest and occupy his thoughts. His
“Philosophy of the Future State” is a work
of superior merit, and will be justly appre
ciated by all who regard heaven as a place
—not a visionary dream-land, a state of
mythical joy, of which the soul is only half
conscious, as many persons esteem their fu
ture abode. But Dr. Dick shows in his
philosophy that heaven, which will be the
abode of the righteous, “will abound in
everything that can please the eye or charm
the.fancy, and will, of course, piesent a
boundless field for the most sublime investi
gations of the intellect.” In this way he
leads us to an increased desire for the ac
quisition of knowledge, showing that it will
enhance our pleasures iu the world to
come.
Dr. Dick was not only a deep and zealous
Christian, as his writings go to prove, but
was a man of scientific and highly cultivated
intellect. In his preface to the work from
which the section read this evening was
culled, he says : “It is presumed that no
Christian reader will imagine that the views
illustrated in this work are intended to be
instituted for the revelation of the Bible. —
The object of this volume is to illustrate
the harmony that subsists between the sys
tem of 1 evolution,- and to show that the
manifestations of God iu the material uni
verse ought to be blended with our views of
the facts and doctrines recorded in the vol
ume of inspiration.” This object the au
thor has most happily accomplished ; and
his many writings stand as an everlasting
monument of his talent* and piety, turning
mankind in the path of virtue and encour
aging all to persevere in the acquisition of
knowledge—whose lin it is nowhere and
whose boundary is eternity.
A Young Student’s Essay. —The fol
lowing article, iu the “Wise Fool’s Solilo
quy,” aud read in Louisville, Ivy., at the
Male ,High School exhibits a f'uud of lo c ic ;
nothing.
As I had nothing to writo about, I
thought I would write about nothing.
At first glance it seems almost impossible
to say something about nothing. Nothing
means not anything. God made the
world and all that is iu it out ot noth
ing.
What is dearer to any person than home?
Nothing. What is dearer to a school-boy,
after 2 o’clock, than a dinner? Nothing.—
What is dearer to the girl of the period
than a bustle? Nothing. What does
any one love better than his life ? Noth
ing.
Thus we might ask a thousand questions,
and co every one we would receive the same
answer, nothing.
Therefore we see that many persons like
“nothing” better than anything else.
I believe I have said all I know about
nothing, and therefore I will say uothing
more.
Yours, respectfully,
“Nemo.”
Does Advertising Pay. —There is no
instance on record of a well sustained sys
tem ol judicious advertising failing of suc
cess.
“My SU3CGSS is owing to my liberality in
advertising.”—Bonner.
“Advertising has furnished me with a
competence.”—Amos Lawrence.
“ladveitised my productions and made
money.” —Nicholas Longworth.
“Constant and persistent advertising is
a sure prelude to wealth.”—Stephen Gi
rard.
“He who invests one dollar in business
should invest one dollar in advertising that
business.”—A. T. Stewart.
“Without the aid of advertising I could
have done nothing in my speculations. I
have the most complete fhith in printer’s
ink. Advertising is the royal road to busi
ness.”—Barnum.
A Montgomery county farmer recklessly
publishes the following challenge: “I will
bet 842.25 that my hired man can take lon
ger to go to the harvest field, get back to
dinner quicker, eat more, do less, and bare
down harder on a panel fence; than any
other hired man within fifteeu miles of the
flag-staff in Norristown.”
A Sacramento lawyer remarked to the
Court: “It is my candid opinion, Judge you
are an old fool.” The Judge allowed his
mildly-beaming eye to fall upon the lawyer
a brief moment; then, in a voice husky with
suppressed tobacco juice and emotion said ;
“It is my candid opinion, sir, that you are
fined one hundred dollars.”
The boy who undertook to ride a horse
radish is now practicing on a saddle of mut
ton.
Vol I—No. 50.
COTTON PLANTING.
In “Thoughts for the Month,” that ster
ling agricultural paper, the Southern Culti
vator, for April, gives the following on cot
ton planting :
The yield of a crop is very largely depen
dent upon the “stand” secured. Again,
success often depends upon getting a stand
at a particular time. A difference of a few
days or a week, in time of planting, often
makes a wonderful difference of results; es
pecially is this true in the case of cotton,
and as this crop will be planted during the
present month, we venture a few suggestions
as to time aud mode of planting, lor the ben
efit of young farmers more especially. First
time for plantiug cotton. The earlier the
better. Plant just as soon as the danger of
frost is over. Our observation is, that tak
ing the average of seasons, early planted cot
ton, fruits better than late planted. A cer
tain degree of maturity (which age Uone
can give,) is a condition precedent to fruit
ing. A stalk must be formed before the
fruit can be. At first the forces of the
plaut are all directed to making weed—af
terwards these are diverted into fruit mak
ing channels. But uature will have its
course and time must be given for the first
to complete its work, ere the ride turns.
Certain peculiarities of our climate must
also be considered in this connection, drought
rarely fails to oceur in July or August,—
The result is a suspension of vegetable ac
tivity—growth aud fruiting are both arrest
ed, Previous to this, the conditions for
making fruit are generally favorable. With
au early start therefore a good “bottom”
crop is almost certain—much more so than
either a “middle” or “top” crop. As young
plants are not so much affected by drought
as old ones, a very late planted crop, may
sometimes pass unchecked through a
drought and make a good late crop, but the
chances are inferior to Close of an early plan
ted one. *
MODE OF PLANTING.
Two dangers to be avoided, lack of suffi
cient mo : sture to make the seed germinate
—and formation of a crust which may pre
vent the young plant from getting above the
surface. April is often very dry — and un
less the seed are planted immediately after
a shower, they frequently fail to come up
well. The old plan of opening a furrow
with plough, sowing seed and listing on
them with two furrows and afterwards
knocking off the top of list with a board,
just as the seed are ready to come up, is oue
of the surest methods of securing a stand in
dry weather. The objection to it is the
large amount ot time and labor involved.—
As formerly practised it required 4 hands
and 3 mules to each row. One to open fur
row, one to drop the seed and two to cover.
Few can afford to adopt such an expensive
process. The “Cotton Planter” who opens
the furrow drops the seed, and covers them,
makes one hand ana one mule do the work
of four hands and three mules under the
old plan described above. But whilst thus
saving labor, it does not insure against
drought.
To remedy this defect we made the sug
gestion iu a former number, and repeat it
here, to cut off the top of the bed with a
drag or smoother just in advance of the
“Planter” so as to have a moist fresh surf
ace iu which to plant. Seed will rarely fail
to come up if thus planted—and the increase
of labor required will be quite small. A
smoother 5 feet wide will dress off two beds
at a time, and not weighted, can be drawn
by one horse. The whole labor therefore
under this plan would be one hand and a
half and one horse and a half to each row.
A suggestion in this connection was made
by a correspondent last year which struck
us so favorably, we beg to repeat it here.—
It is, where the top of the bed is not cut off,
*to place a board behind the plough hoe,
that is between the plough hoe and the helve,
having the point of the former project just
enough beyond the board to open a furrow
of desired depth. This arrangement not
only secures uniformity and guage of depth,
(veiy important matters) but frees the top
of the bed from clods and removes the crust
if one has formed. It also throws on each
side the dry top earth and leaves fresh moist
earth with which to cover the seed.
ROLLING THE SEED.
For reasons discussed above, it is highly
desirable that cotton should come up quick
ly, after being planted—otherwise the
ground might dry off too soon for it to ap
pear above the surface until it rains again.
Wetting the seed and keeping them in
moderate bulk for a day and then rolling
them facilitates greatly their germination.—
Rolling is so easily done with the “barrel
roller,” described in former volumes of the
Cultivator, that no one need be deterred
from doing it by the labor required. In ad
dition to making the seed come up before
Cash Rates of Advertising-.
lyr. 6 mos. 3 mos. 1 mo.II time
1 column, $l5O S9O S6O $35 r $25
1 “ 80 60 40 23 16
5 Inches, 50 35 25 12 6
3 “ 35 25 15 7 4
2 “ 25) 15 10 5 3
1 inch 1 time, $1.50.
the ground can dry oft, rolling economises
the seed and insures regularity of distribu
tion. The addition of some fertilizer, whilst
the rolling is being done, is also of great val
ue, in giving an impetus to the young plant.
Peruvian guano is the best for this purpose.
It may be mixed with some plaster—say two
of guano to one of plaster, and just as much
used as will adhere to the aeed. The addi
tion of superphosphate would be desirable,
were it not for the danger of killing the seed
thereby. Quite small quantities of an acid
phosphate in coutact with cotton seed, will
entirely' destroy their germinating power.—
Bear that in mind. Pure Peruvian guano
used in rolling will not kill cotton seed, but
superphosphate will.
■*<•
HOW TO PIK OUT A DOG.
Dogs are gitting dredful skase, aud if you
don’t pik out putty soon, it will be forever
too late.
I hav written during my younger days,
when I knu a good deal more i do now,
or ever shall kno agin, an essa onto dogs,
and in that essa klaimeu that the best kind
ova dog for all purposes for a man tew hav
was a wooden dog.
The experience ov years don’t seem tew
change mi opinyun, and i now, az theu, rek
ommend the wooden dog.
Dogs, as a general thing, are ornamental,
and the wooden dog kan be made hily so,
after any pattern or design that a kultiva
ted taste may suggest.
If the woodeadog iz made with the bark
on, so much the better; for wo are told by
those who study sich things that dogs which
bai k never bight.
Wooden dogs never stra away three or
four times a year, like flesh and blood dogs
do, and don’t kost 5 or 10 dollars reward
each time tow make them cum bak hum
agin.
Wooden dogs don’t have the old hydro
phobiskiousness ; neither are they running
round and round, and round and round, af
ter themseifs, trieing tew ketch up with a
wicked flea, who iz bizzily engaged kuawiug
away at the dog’s—continuashun.
Thare ain’t uo better watch dog in the
world than the wooden one. Yu set them
to watching ennythiug, they will watch it
for 3 years, and they ain’t krazy, and want
tew jump thru a window in a rninnit, if they
just happen tew hear a boy out in the street
whissling “Yankee Doodle,” or “Sally Cum
Up.”
Wooden dogs wont stretch themselves out
in front of the fire-place, taking up all the
hot room, nor they wont fly at a harmless
beggar man, who only wants a krust, and
tare him all tew little bits in a minuit.
If you want to pik out a good dog, pik
out a wooden one ; they range in price all
the way from ten cents tew a dollar, accord
ing tew the lumber in them ; old age don’t
make them kross and useless, aod if they do
happen to lose a head, or a leg, in sum
scrimmage, a dose of Spaldiag’s glu, taken
at night, just before they retire, will fetch
them all strait in the morning.
Josh Billings.
The Natural Bridge Hoax.—The
Rockbridge Citizen says ; “The New York
Herald telegraphs to know if the Natural
Bridge is still burning. We refer him to
Edmunds, (the editor of the Collegian, who
started the grand hoax.) The Gazetto
says:
“It would afford much pleasant reading
to report the expressions of the parties ‘sold’
by the Collegian. Some ladies wept for the
bridge. Some citizens sighed in secret sor
row and slept a night in woeful delusion.—
Several farmers declared they knew ‘some
thing was going wrong,’ for they had smelt
a Btrange smell for a day or two. A debat
ing society in Collierstown was speechless
with astonishment i.t the news. At the
churches in toe rural districts it required a
couple of hymns aud a personal invitation
from the deacons to get the people to break
off discussing the bridge and come in. Ma
ny regretted it was such a good ploughing
season, as they were auxious to use a herse
in seeing what was left of the bridge. The
sheriff turned some parties back who had
set out to see for themselves.”
The most original spelling we have ever
seen is the following. It beats phonetics:
80 you be—a tub. 80 oh ! pea—a top. Be
80—bat. See 80—cat. Pea 80—pat. Are
80—rat. See oh ! double you —cow. See
you bee—cub. See a bee—cab. Be you
double tea —butt. See a double ell—call.
A parent in West Chester, who has fif
teen daughters, has poisoned his dog, taken
the locks off the doors and hung rope lad
ders over his door-yard fence by the dozen,
and still his provision bill is as large as
ever.
When is The Gazette the sharpest?
When it’s filed.