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“Ups" «nd;S''Downs. , ‘
What legions of friends always bless us
When gulden success light* our way !
How they smile vhen tiiey softly address
So cordial, good humored and gay.
But oh! when the sun Of prosperity they frown
Hath set—then how quickly severity,
And erv oitt in tones of
Kick the mar, don’t you see he is down !
tV hat though when you knew not a sor
row, dav,
Your heart was as open as wauted to
And your friends, when they
borrow. ask them lo
You’d oblige and never pay
What though not a soul you e’er slighted,
as you meandered about through the
town. .
Your friends become very near sighted,
And don't seein to see you when down
When you’re up. yon are highly exalted,
And traders all sing out your praise;
When you are down you have greatly de¬
faulted.
And they really don’t fancy your ways.
Your Style was tip-top whenyoil'd ntou
ey, sucker and clown.
So sings every
But now 'tis exceedingly because funny,
Things are altered you
down.
Oh, give me the heart that forever,
Is free from the world’s selfish rust,
And the soul whose high noble endeavor
Is to raise fallen man from the dust;
And when in adversity’s ocean
A victim is likely to drown,
All hail to the friend whose devotion
Will lift up a mall when he’s down.
OTHER WORLDS.
The Problem of a “Sweet By and
By" Discussed by Dr. Newman in
the Central Methodist Church.
‘Does death end all ? Is there no
sweet by and by ?’ asked the Rev’
Dr. Newman in the Central Meth¬
odist Church, New York, last Sun¬
day. The subject of the discourse
\vas ‘other Worlds' and the speak¬
er had selected for a test—‘In my
Father's house are many mansions;
if it wei’e not so I would have told
you. I go to prepare a place for
you.’—St. John xvi., 2.
Are there no other worlds inhab¬
ited by intelligent creatures? con¬
tinued the Doctor. 1 1 this soul
earth, which is but a ffrdin of sand
compared to the immensity of the
universe, the only inhabited plan¬
et? If il is, how ecu emptibly sm all is
the intelligent univeise of Jehovah.
Christ taught the contrary. Mod¬
ern astronomy has revealed, to us
the wonders of the sidereal heav¬
ens, the vastness of the planets,
the bewildering velocity and their
Countless numbers. Do eternal si
leiice, solitude and desolation reign
in all those heavenly bodies ? There
are day and night, spring and sum¬
mer, light and atmosphere, and are
there no inhabitants adapted to
BUch conditions. It is not to be
inferred that, all planets at’e inhab¬
ited, for the discoveries of modern
astronomy prove that some are not
ih a condition to sustain the higher
orders of life But the inference
is «k fair one, based on the last anal
ysits of science, on analogy and rev¬
elation, that there are innumerable
worlds inhabited by those who in
the beauty of their perfeitioa and
the loftiness of their intelligence
exclaim, with the angels, ‘Great
and marvelous are thy works, Lord
God Almighty’ To some new and
glorious planet the good of earth
are transferred in the hour and ar¬
ticle of death. Do you ask where
is heaven? Asironomers have
sought for the centre of motioni
As our earth has a centre of gravi¬
tation this principle is applicable to
the whole universe. The sun is
the centre of our system. Our sys¬
tem revolves about another centre,
and there must be somewhere ih
the universe a common centre
around which other systems re¬
volve. That may be the abode of
the glorious God. The astrono¬
mers have ascertained that Alcyone
is the most beautiful star of the
Pleiades and is the centre of our
astronomical motion, and it has
been shown that all tha stars are
moving around that point as their
common centre of gravity, which
but confirms a great central posi¬
tion, where is the august throne of
the Supreme Ruler of the universe,
from which He surveys, as from the
capital of His empire, the move¬
ments and glories of His creation.
That may be the heaven of heavens
and the abode of the blessed, and
at that point there is rest—the on¬
ly point of reBt in the universe.
What is the threefold ground of
our hope of ft future existence f The
dictates of nature the approval of
reason and the teachings of reve
lation. Has God marked man with
a desire to live forever and not
made provision for his gratifiction ?
BELIEF IN A FUTURE STATB.
Belief in a future tate is bound¬
ed by no clime, limited by no age,
compared to no people, but is the
universal sentiment of mankind. It
is an old saying that conscience
makes cowards of us all. A dis :
tin-bed conscience is not confined
to luckless wights .but is the expe¬
rience of your N eros, Richards and
Napoleons. Infidels would have us
believe that what we call a troubled
conscience is an educated some*
thing confined to Christian lands*.
Hume said he could explain his
qualms of conscience by a shock
which he had sustained in his youth.
But a troubled conscience is older
era.
tell us that Nero heard groans from
the grave of his murdered mother.
Conscience forebodes future pun*
ishment and anticipates future re¬
ward. Shakespeare represents
eleven several ghosts, saying to
King Richard, asleep in his tent,
‘Let me sit heavy on thy soul to¬
morrow.’ Reason approves that
involution is always equal to evo¬
lution, that you cannot getout of a
thing that whieliyon do not put into
a thing. There is no music in the
harp without the harper. You may
destroy the harp and the harper
will survive. There are in man
thought and eloquence, love and
hate, hope and fear, remorse and
repose. These are not material,
but belong to a spiritual nature,
which oonstitutes the harper. Reve°
lation riot only declares the fact of
a future state of existence, but lias
demonstrated the same by inter¬
communication between this World
and the next. Not lest than four
men have been to that country and
returned to us. Two had lived
hire, and :.ftar ail absence of from
nine hundred to fifteen hundred
years they returned ti ui. An
other had. always lived tliefe, and
having lived with us a score or
more of years returned to his native
land; and the fourth, who was born
here, went there and returned to
us again. Do you object to the
smallness of the number of visitors?
Bill four are as good as forty thou
sand for all practical purposes. —
Moses and Elias, St. Paul and
Christ are the competent witnesses
that there is a ‘sweet by and bv.’
Beoause we cannot go and return,
is no proof that they did not go
and return. Superior advantages
are not proof that they were not en¬
joyed. Others may yet go and
again return. Who knows? The
Master said: ‘If I go away I will
come again and receive ye unto
myself, that where I am ye may
be also.’
Vermont Equity.
There was a certain Vermont
farmer named Brown, who owned
a large sheep farm, and who, once
on a time, finding himself in difficul¬
ties, came down to Boston and
consulted his brother-in-law, who
was a lawyer, as to ways and meaus
*of raising money. The lawyer, who
was a keen man of business, aud had
money to spare, agreed to lend the
farmer such sums as he required
provided the latter would give him
a first mortgage on the sheep farm.
The farmer assented to this, the
mortgage was duly made out and
rocorded. and the farmer returned
home to Vermont with money in his
pocket.
Time went on and the farmer
paid interest promptly, the same
passing through the hands of oue
John Smith, who was it man of mark
in the farmer's neighborhood, and
had accordingly beau deputed to
collect the interest and forward |he
same to him.
At length, however, Farmer
Brown, finding little market for hie
wool, and having invested in certain
worthless outlying farms, again fell
into difficulties, and this time
sought the advice and assistance of
his neighbor, ,he Smith, who, after
looking over Brown matter, agreed to
advance certain sums and
FORT VALLEY, GEORGIA, FRIDAY, MARCH 25, 1881.
take security, by mortgage
the farmer’s carts, wagons, horses;
sheep-shears, and other personal
property, the farm itself being al¬
ready mortgaged to the Boston law¬
yer.
But BroWu still failed to pros
per, and at length coulJ pay inter
est neither to the lawyer nor to
SmLIi. Then it was agreed that
his ass.-ts should be fairly divided
between the two mortgages, and
Squire Joyce, a Justice of the Peace
in the neighborhood, who was a
member of the same church as
Smith, wa 3 selected to act as ref
eree. The parties met at the
Squire’s office, and each spoke for
himselt, the lawyer first. Said he:
‘I have a first mortgage on the farm
duly executed aud recorded, and of
course, the farm must belong to
me.’
‘Not much!’ said Smith. ‘I have
a mortgage later than yours, on
the personal properly, and if that
isn’t enough to cover my debt, I
shall grab the farm too. My equity
is superior to yours. Isn’t that so,
Squire?’
The Squire hemmed and hawed
and finally said to the lawyer: ‘You
consented to Smith’s mortgage,
didn’t you?’
‘Never! 1 said the lawyer.
‘That makes no difference,’ inter¬
rupts! Smith. ‘I did it for you!’
‘Jes’ so, jes‘ so, 1 said the Squire’
‘I remember. Tiie whole business
was mighty simple. You jest con¬
sented, as this Boston man’s attor¬
ney, to Brown's making a mortgage
to you.*
‘But what of it. 1 cried the lawyer.
‘He couldn't give any blinding as¬
sent to make this mortgage better
than mine. 1
‘Perhaps not in said the
Squire, ‘but in equity, in equity,
my dear sir ; we go by equity here
in Vermont. 1
‘Yes, I call it inequity,f said the
lawyer, sotto voce.
‘Besides, 1 said the Squire, ‘lam
inclined to believe that it was the
intention as between Smith and
Brown that the mortgage ot the
carts and fixings should iuclude the
farm too—though the writings
don't jest say so. Wasn't that so,
Smi h?‘
‘Certain! 1 said Smith.
‘But that makes no difference,‘
cried the lawyer, ‘you must go by
the record. I’ve authority on that
point 1 , aud he produced a ba g full
of hooks.
‘Young man! 1 cried Justice J oyce
severely. ‘I'd have you know that
this Court isn't hide-bound by pre¬
cedents. 1 sit here to do equity as
I understand it. .Equitas non se
quitur legem. Ahem !‘
‘That's so in Vermont, by jin go!
cried the lawyer, waxing wroth.
‘Order in the court! cried the
Squire. ‘Besides, I mean to make
it a rule in my court tha the last
mortgage shall always have prior¬
ity. It’s so with wills, why not
with mortgages? Answer that, you
Boston chap. 1
The lawyer was dumbfounded.
‘I find on the whole case, 1 said
Squire Joyce, summing up. ‘that
the farm aud personalty must be
sold and Smiths debts paid, no mat¬
ter what becomes of this Boston
man. And Smith, as you say you
have au interest in the wheelrights
and blacksmiths shops up to the
village, and Brown owe s a running
account at both places, you just
bring in those bills and mebbe— I
don't say certain, but mebbe—we
ca i fix those up if there's any bal¬
ance. 1
The lawyer took his books back
to Boston a wiser man. Smith
grabbed the farm and sheared the
sheep and said tauntingly to the
lawyer, ‘What are you going lo do
about it?*—Springfield (Mass.) Re¬
publican.
A boy was sent out collecting the
other day. and when he returned in
the evening and handed in his bill
unpaid, be said: ‘‘fbe people
around this town like me first-rate.
They Were so anxious to see me of¬
ten that every man I went to told
me to call again,'
Adulteration of Food- A Chicago
Chemist Shows utf AFetaful
State of Things
TheCommittee on Epidemic Dis
•asas in the House will report fa
vorably the bill authorizing a com
mission of three experts to inquire
'“to the adulteration of food in th 0
United States. Some, of the ie
P orts °f the committee present a
f ear ful state of things^ and are cals
culated to prevent oaPfeful people
f r0D u eating anything except corn
biteitd and egg a, A Chicago chem
writes:
F T have entirely abandoned
the use of vinegar generally sold
in our markets, believing it to be
unfit for use and dangerous. I know
that sulphuric acid is largely used
in its manufacture. 2. I never
use the pickles^geflefdlly sold in our
markets. I think the yellow pick
leB are quito as dangerous as the
green, I know that lead is largely
used in their manufacture; verdi¬
gris is used in making the gree'u.-—
3. I have examined a large number
of specimens of oiemaiigarine, and
ahd havej found in them organic
substances in the form of muselular
and connective tissues, various fun¬
gi, and living organisms, which
have resisted the action of boiling
acetic acid; also eggs resembling
those_of the tape worn). I ave
them preserved to be shown to any¬
one desiring*to see them. The
French patent under} which the
olemargarine is made requires the
use of the stomachs of pigs or sheep.
This is probably the way the egas
get in, I have specimens of lean
meat taken from olemargarine.—
There can be no question that im¬
mense amounts of olemargarine are
sold as pure butter. I regard it as
a dangerous article, and would on uo
account permit its use in my family.
4. Enormous amounts of the meats
of diseased animals are sold in
Chicago. I have made a large
number of examinations. I have
been informed of several casts of
poiSoniDg in this city from the use
of canned meats. I do’not dare to
use the syrups commonly sold in
our markets, and I use but little
sugar, as I believe .them nearly all
adulterod. In regard to glucose,
I am informed, and believe that
seven-eights of all the sugar sold
in Chicago is made of, or adultera.
led with glucose. As hoHr manu
factured and used, 1 know that rria
ny of our eminent physicians be¬
lieve it dangerous and productive
of disease of the kidneys The'
manufacture of glucose in this
country is enormous, fluid large
factories are being built to increase
its manufacture.
Two Different Men
The Boston Transcript thus ut¬
ters the respect which all decent
people reel for ‘the man with the
bundle'—and deserved contempt
for the other kind of man. Tho
writer saw a pleasant faced custom¬
er tt a shop-counter, just closing a
bargain for a costly and beautiful
writing case.
‘To what address shall we send
this ?* said the clerk, with a tone in¬
dicating extreme respect.
‘Nowhere, 1 responded the purcha
ser; ‘I always carry my own bun¬
dles ‘
‘Yes, sir; but this is heavy, and
it will be a pleasure for us to send
it.‘
‘Young man,' said the other, 'I
always love to take something home
at night to show my wife aud chil¬
dren that I haven't forgotton them
while at my business, and I
wouldn't give apin to make auybody
a present unless I carried it into
the house myself. I want to see
‘am take it.'
‘Yes, sir, but this is heavy.'
‘No matter, I'm strong,* and out
he went, with such a glow on his
face that one could imagine it
lighted up the now dim sidewalk
rods ahead, as a locomotive reflec¬
tor illuminates the track.
, Another welP-known street face
passed him tt the door coming in.
Purchasing a congress knife the new
comer said in a short and dictatori¬
al tone:
•Send it to my hottBe (No. fifteen
hundred and something, Washing¬
ton street,) immediately; I shall
want it as soon as I get home.’
‘Two different men,’ suggested
we, as the clerk closed the door af
ter him.
-Very,’ was the reply. ‘The man
witll the bundle is Mr.-, the
honest owner of hundreds of thous
a nds, and there never was a sub*
scription that didn’t get his name
f or something handsome. The
other man failed last week—all
there was of him to fail—aad isn't
worth his salt: but he had rather
take tho commercial disgrace of
failure at any time than the social
disgrace of being seen in the streets
with a bundle.’
Two very different men, indeed!
Well take off our hat the next
time we meet Mr. on tae
sidewalk. Long may he live and
carry bundles to make people hap
py-
A Truthful Kan.
A ftat-fooled, old t&shioned Wes¬
tern Merchant, hailing from a coun¬
try store in Michigan, was buying
stock in New York, and the firm
took advantage of the occasion to
make inquiries concerning some of
their customers around him. When
they asked about Smith, of Nash¬
ville, he replied:
‘Smith! Yes, he’s in trade yet,
but he’s just married a second wife,
aud she’s going through his wealth
like saltpeter. He’ll .fail in les’n
six months.’
‘How about Jones, of your town?
‘Jones! Well, Jones is pegging
along after the old style, and he’s
bought him a bicycle, and every
body says he’ll go to the wall in
a year.’
‘And Brown & Son—are they all
right?’
‘Brown & Son? Wall, they may
keep along till spring, but I doubt
it. Old Brown has got so nigh
sighted that he can’t tell a sheep
pelt front a coon skin and the boy
is dead stuck on a widow woman
who never wears anything less than
$0 stockings.’
‘But Davis is doing a good trade,
isn’t he?'
‘Davis ! Wall, pooty fair, but he
w-ju’l last. He rented the upper
part of his store to a Chicago milli¬
ner, and she broke up two families
an<|3,iicd a preacher. Everybody
blames Davis, and bis sales last
week only footed u p a pound of sal
erattis and a washboarJ.’
‘Well, you are the only otharens
omor out there, aud of course, you
are all right.’
’Me! Wall, I’m all right just
now, tut things may chinge. My
wife belongs to three literary socie
ties and is Lie big toad at church
festivals, while I’ve bought a 2:40
trotter and learned to play old
sledge. You needn’t be surprised
any day to hear that I’ve been bust¬
ed from garret to cellar so clean
that creditors can’t find enough dry
wipe a biby’s lose ou ’
REMARKABLE^’lNSTANdE OF,
GRATITUDE.
An old aly, ninety years of age,
very wealthy and full of wit, died
recently at Fontain bleau, in France
Her will contained this provision f
‘I leave to my physician, whose en¬
lightened care and wise prescrip
tions have made me live so long, all
that is contained in the old oaken
chest in my boudoir. The key o f
the chest will be found under the
mattress of my bed.’ The, heirs
were much disturbed, for t hey fore
saw a material diminution I of their
share of the property. The fortu
nate and expectant physician a^
length arrived. Ths notary deliv¬
ered to him the key of the chest. It
was opened and found to contain
solely all the drugs anl potions,
still intact, which the worthy phy¬
sician bad given his patie nt for
twenty years bock!
— »-»-—.
Prof. Vennor predticts that the
spring will be ‘fairly early, ho t and
dry,' and that the midsum mer will
be ‘cool and wet.’ He thinks there
will be a good deal of sickness.—
Vennor bag sustained bis reputa¬
tion as a weather seer pretty well
thus far.
‘Ewe get out!’ as the farmer said
o the Jamb in his earn.
The Winter at the West
A letter from a Now York paper
gives a fearful account of the sever¬
ities of the winter in the Northwest.
Up in Minnesota and Dakota there
has been an almost continuous
snow blockade for three months
past, with deeper snowdrifts than
were ever known before. The pain
ful impression seems to exist that
when the snow has disappeared it
will be found that there lias been a
great I 0 E 8 of life. It is claimed
many remote settlements have
been literally buried under the aval¬
of snow, and the inhabitants
perished from cold and huuger.
is said that in the cattle ranges
the Missouri river and the
Rjcky Mountains over 400,000
ot. cattle have perished, in¬
a lots of 810,000,000. In
the country between the Platte and
the Niobrara rivers the loss of slock
severe weather has been from
to 40 per cent. The cattle were
killed during the terrible
that have repeatedly
over tliesej sections, but many
from want of food. The
in these regions have now
their eyes the new danger
floods from the melting of the
quantity of snow
has fallen
From an Unexpected Source
The Detroit Post says that a cir¬
clown in Yiiginia look occa
the other day. at the close of
performance, to speak plain)
very searching words, which
the sober attention of ma
more than those who heard them
In his painted fade and mottled
garments he said: ‘We have taken
.in §600 hero tosday: more money
I venture to say, than any minister
of the goBpel would receive for a
whole year's services. A large
portion of this money was given by
church members and a large por¬
tion of this audience is made up of
members of the church. And yet,
when your preacher asks you to aid
hini in supporting the gospel, you
are too poofr to give anything. But
you come liei-e and pay dollars to
hear me talk nonsense. I am a
fool because I am paid for it- I
make my living by it. You profess
to be wise, aud yet you support
me in my folly. But perhaps, you
say you did not come to see the cir¬
cus but the animals. If you came
simply to see the animals, why did
you not simply look at them and
leave? Now, is not this a pretty
place for Christians to be in? Do
you not feel ashamed of yourselvos?
You ought to blush in such a place
as this.’
A Little Advice
I want to give you throe or four
r ules. One is, always to look at
‘die person you speak to. When
you are addressed, look straight at
the person who speaks to you. Do
not forget this.
Another is, speak your words
plainly. Do not mutter or mum¬
ble. If your words are worth say¬
ing, they are worth pronouncing
distinctly and clearly.
Another is, do not say disagree¬
able things. If you have nothing
pleasing to say, keep silent.
A fourth is—and oh 1 children 1
remember it all your lives—think
three times before you speak once.
Have yon something to do that
yon find hard, and would prefer
not to do? Then listen. Do the
hard thing first and get over with it.
If you have done wrong, go and
confess. If your lesson is tough,
master it. If the garden is to be
weeded, Weed it first aud play af¬
terward Do things you don’t like
to do first and then with a clear
conscience do the rest,
The Milwaukee Sun, referring to
a railroad accident, said: ‘AMissou
ri girl had an ear torn off; and the
wreck was scattered along tho track
for half a mile ’ If that girl recov¬
ers damages corresponding in size
to her left ear, which was ‘scattered
along the tr ick for half a mile,’ the
railroad company will have to ap
lopoint aeceivei-
Vol.-io No. 36
DO YOU INTEND TO HE NO¬
BODY.
TO TOCNG MEN.
My friend, I want, to tell you the
safe way to become nobody, and
less than nothing to your home, to
your copntry. It is easy to become
nobody. the drinking
1. Go to saloon,
hotel or tavern. Spend your leiss
ure time there. Letitheyour re¬
sort—the place where you are sure
to be found.
2. Be sure to bo very moderate
in what you drink. At times do
not take anything. Never ‘ touch
anything stronger than cider, lager
beer or some other light drink.
3. To fill up time, be free aud
easy, pluy domiuose, checkers, or
something eiso to kill time.
4. Never read anything useful;
never touch a serious book. If you
do read anything, let it be dime
novels, books that run down relig¬
ion, something spicy. stomach
5. Mind and keep your
full of food and drink, your head
empty, your time cousumed with
games of chauce, and in a few years
you will be nobody, unless you turn
out a drunkard, a professional which gam¬
bler or a jail bird, either ot
is worse than nothing or nobody.
My young friend, pursue this
course, and you will be rude in man*
ners, coarse in conversation, p;o
fane in language, indecent in con¬
duct, aud an outcast from good so¬
ciety, possessed of neither con¬
science, taste nor a sense of pro¬
priety—in short, a nobody.
There are numbers of young men
hanging about saloons just ready to
graduate to be uobudies.
Beauty Before Age.
An amusing incident occurred on
a Cleveland street car the other
day. A woman of fifty, made up
to look about twenty-five years old,
got aboard at a crossing to find ev
ery seat occupied. She stood for a
moment and_then selecting a poor¬
ly dressed man about forty-five years
of age she observed:
‘Are there any gentlemen on tho
car ?’
‘Indeed, I dunho,' he replied, aa
he looked up and down, ‘If thero
hain’t, and you are going clear
through, I'll hunt up one for you at
the end of tlie line.’
There was an embarrassing si¬
lence for a moment, and then a
light broko in on him all of a sud¬
den, and ho rose and said :
•You can have this scat, madam.
I am always perfectly willing to
stand up and give my seat to any¬
body older than myself.’
That decided her. She gave him
a look which ho will not forget to
his dying day, and grabbing tlie
strap, she refused to sit down, oven
when five seats had become vacant.
Free of charge—an empty gun.
Au ex-press p ackage—the girl who
has jilted you.
What word may bo pronounced
puicker by adding a syllable to it?
Quick.
A study in oil—the attempt to
get a sardine out whole.
It is a poor speller who docs not
have au i to business.
As with a woman, so with 3
horse. His back hair is his mane
trouble.
A New York engraver• recently
made this mistake: ‘Mr. and Mr's.
--request youf presents at
the marriage of Iboir daughter. 1
Said a stump orator: ‘I know
uo North, no South, uo East, no
West.’ ‘Yes, 1 said au opposing man,
‘domed it you know anything called else.'
A new style of stocking is
Voltairo. Sock-rates would have
been a better name, and we never
did like a stocking with a tairo at
the end of it.
Scone in a restaurant: Man with
his co.it off struggling with u pieco
of steak, calls oat to the proprietor:
•Say, don't the horns go with this
ere meat? 1
‘Yes,‘ said an affectionate mother 1
‘the firs- year of ■ my daughter's
marriage I thought her husband
was an angel, and I‘ui sure that ev
ery yoar since l.‘ve wished ho was
one. 1
A fashion paper says, ‘tialhorod
waists arc much worn. 1 If tho men,
would gather tho waists carefully,
and not squeeze so like blazes, they
would not bo worn so much.
‘Holo on dur,‘ said a oolured man
hailing an acquaintance. ‘Dog s ye
cross do street ebory time yer seo
me ter keep from payin' dat bill
No: I doesn't. ‘What fur, dea?
Tor keep from boiu‘ asked fur it.